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New North Korea Missile Tests
Stephen Lendman
Likely in response to provocative joint US/South Korean military exercises, continuing through August 31, the DPRK test-fired three short-range missiles - the first tests in nearly a month.
Two reportedly flew about 250 km before splashing down in the Sea of Japan harmlessly at about 6:49 AM local time Saturday.
According to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, the third exploded shortly after launch. A White House statement said Trump was “briefed and we are monitoring the situation.”
None of the missiles threatened another nation. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it’s “keeping a tight surveillance over the North to cope with further provocations.”
Japan “confirmed that no ballistic missiles have fallen onto our country’s territory or” exclusive economic zone - “no direct impact on (the) country’s security.”
Last week in Tokyo, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford warned North Korea “that an attack on Japan is an attack on” America.
Tough New Illegal US Sanctions on Venezuela
Stephen Lendman
On Friday, the Trump administration escalated economic war on Venezuelan sovereign independence.
Since established in 1999, the nation’s Bolivarian social democracy was targeted for elimination. Washington wants fascist tyranny replacing it.
The geopolitical prize is gaining control of Venezuela’s huge oil resources, the world’s largest - the Trump administration waging political, economic and resource war to achieve its objective, maybe military intervention if current tactics fail.
Jeremy Corbyn on Venezuela
Stephen Lendman
Corbyn is a longtime champion of progressive politics, opposing dirty business as usual.
He wants humanity saved from the scourge of endless wars, urges challenging US-dominated NATO, backs nuclear disarmament, advocates social justice, and supports progressive movements in Latin America.
Earlier he called for ending US sanctions on Venezuela, stressing Latin America needs “solidarity…not dependence on the USA,” warning about Washington’s disturbing interference in the affairs of other countries.
“We send our message of solidarity all around the world to those who are going through difficult times,” including throughout Latin America, he said.
“We send them a message of support and solidarity, the march for social justice, the march for equality will continue, and will not be halted by anybody else.”
She’s Back: Hillary Blames Everyone But Herself
Stephen Lendman
She never went away, hanging around like a bad aftertaste.
Her new book due out in September is titled “What Happened” - well known to everyone paying attention.
Why she lost to Trump is absent from its pages, fabricated reasons substituting, blaming everyone but herself - the most ruthlessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history, a war goddess, Wall Street tool, RICO-level crook, partnered with husband Bill, a crime family since their Arkansas days.
It’s unclear what she was paid for her book. Earlier publisher deals were multi-million dollar ones. In 2000, she left the White House with a $4 million dollar advance on a new book, titled
“Hard Choices,” her contract guaranteeing $8 million for worthless rubbish.
At the same time, husband Bill got almost double for his book, a deal worth $15 million.
Hillary’s new book blames Russia and James Comey for losing to Trump, along with sexism, misogyny, and everyone assuming she’d win.
New US Sanctions on China and Russia
Stephen Lendman
Unilaterally imposed sanctions on any countries for any reasons are flagrantly illegal.
They’re hostile to international relations. They’re how hegemons operate - extrajudicially by their own rules alone.
On Tuesday, 16 Chinese and Russian entities and individuals were targeted, along with two Singapore-based companies for alleged involvement in trade with North Korea, sanctions expanded to include oil - what Security Council members excluded from their August 5 action.
Attempting to justify the unjustifiable, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said “(i)t is unacceptable for individuals and companies in China, Russia, and elsewhere to enable North Korea to generate income used to develop weapons of mass destruction and destabilize the region.”
US Threatens Pakistan
Stephen Lendman
All too often, Washington’s way of getting other countries to support its agenda is through bullying and threats.
Tactics include illegal sanctions, cutting off aid, restrictive trade policies, color revolutions and naked aggression - whatever it takes to force its will on other nations.
During his Monday night Afghan strategy address, announcing the escalation of an unwinnable war no matter now long it continues, Trump accused Pakistan of providing “safe havens” for terrorists, demanding its government cooperate with his agenda.
Putin/Netanyahu Meeting
Stephen Lendman
Netanyahu is frantic about Russia, Iran and Hezbollah allied with Syria effectively combating US and Israeli-supported terrorism.
They’re defeating his aim to eliminate a regional rival, isolate Iran, then target the Islamic Republic the same way.
Accompanied by Mossad director Yossie Cohen, national security advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, and environmental protection minister Zeev Elkin, Netanyahu lied, claiming “Iran is making enormous efforts to cement its presence in Syria. This poses a threat to Israel, to the Middle East and to the whole world.”
America, NATO, Israel and their rogue allies alone threaten “the whole world.”
Conflict in Syria Far From Resolved
Stephen Lendman
Russia’s intervention nearly two years ago significantly changed the dynamic on the ground - much of the country liberated from US-supported terrorists’ control, from ISIS, al-Nusra and other groups.
At the same time, US terror-bombing continues, notably in Raqqa, targeting residential areas, massacring civilians daily, likely thousands since the aerial campaign began in early June.
In the last 24 hours alone, local media sources and survivors reported US-led so-called coalition warplanes massacred 78 civilians in three Raqqa neighborhoods.
Homes and infrastructure were targeted, no ISIS or other terrorists at or around areas struck. The attack was cold-blooded murder like so many others in all US war theaters - Nuremberg-level high crimes.
The Nations that Accept Nazism Today
Eric Zuesse
The U.S. Government leads a global operation to make racist fascism ‘respectable’ again.
On 21 November 2014, in a vote at the United Nations on a Resolution opposing a resurgence of the racist-fascist ideology (opposing the ideology that’s commonly called “nazism”) which Resolution was titled “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-nazism and other practices that contribute to contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance”, 115 nations voted “Yes” to pass the Resolution, 3 voted “No” to reject it, and 55 voted “Abstain,” meaning they didn’t want to express a view on the resolution. An additional 19 didn’t vote at all on it (decided to absent themselves from that roll-call, for whatever reason — basically, not even saying whether they were neutral on it by voting “Abstain” — just said nothing at all on it).
Trump’s Afghan Strategy: Forever War and Occupation
Stephen Lendman
Trump’s Monday address on Afghanistan didn’t surprise. What a difference an election makes!
In 2013, he tweeted: “We should have a speedy withdrawal” from Afghanistan. “Why should we keep wasting our money - rebuild the US!”
In 2014, he denounced Obama for “keeping our soldiers in Afghanistan for at least another year. He is losing two wars simultaneously.”
In 2015, he called US Middle East wars a “mess…a terrible mistake. We made a terrible mistake getting involved there in the first place.”
“We had real brilliant thinkers that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. And it’s a mess. It’s a mess. And at this point, you probably have to (stay) because that thing will collapse about two seconds after they leave. Just as I said that Iraq was going to collapse after we leave.”
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