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Irreconcilable US/North Korea Differences
Stephen Lendman
The problem lies in Washington, not Pyongyang the way it’s been throughout the DPRK’s history.
America tolerates no sovereign independent states it doesn’t control - why it wages preemptive wars, stages color revolutions, and assassinates foreign leaders, its post-WW II agenda.
The only way to resolve contentious issues with Pyongyang is through face-to-face diplomacy.
Reported backchannel talks between US envoy for North Korea policy Joseph Yun and senior DPRK UN mission diplomat Pak Song-il in New York are better than nothing, but not good enough.
Former special envoy for earlier six-party talks with North Korea Joseph DeTrani said it’s time for formal negotiations to “get North Korea to halt all nuclear tests and missile launches and return to unconditional nuclear discussions and negotiations.”
Sanctions against Pyongyang, China and Russia are counterproductive, accomplishing nothing positive.
Trump’s Fascism versus Obama’s Fascism
Eric Zuesse
Barack Obama was the only U.S. President who at the United Nations defended nazism — racist fascism — and Holocaust-denial. It received almost no reporting by the press at the time (or subsequently). But his successor President Donald Trump could end up being removed from office because he said that racist fascists are just the same as are people who demonstrate publicly against them. Trump’s politically stupid (not to say callous) remark became viral, and apparently the press (which had ignored Obama’s defense of nazism at the U.N.) just won’t let go of Trump’s statement unless and until he becomes replaced by his even-more-far-right Vice President, Mike Pence.
Why is there this intense press-coverage of Trump’s support of racist fascism, when there wasn’t of Obama’s (which was actually far more meaningful)? The answer comes closer if we ponder first a different question: How could the Republican Party, which is right-wing at its core, condemn a Democratic Party President who goes out of his way at the U.N. to protect today’s nazis? That wouldn’t be politically practical for Republican politicians to complain about (a Democrat’s being too far to the right); so, they didn’t do it. Similarly, no Democrat will criticize a Republican for being too leftist. There may be a few exceptions, but that’s the general rule: Successful politicians don’t offend their base.
NYT War on Venezuela
Stephen Lendman
The Times and other media scoundrels waged managed news disinformation war on Venezuela since Hugo Chavez’s December 1998 landslide presidential victory.
They support monied interests, deplore popular ones, are disgracefully hostile to Bolivarian social democracy - polar opposite how America and other Western societies are run, serving privileged interests exclusively.
Chavez was repeatedly accused of being a strongman, populist demagogue and dictator, President Maduro vilified the same way.
Kushner/Netanyahu Meeting
Stephen Lendman
Prospects for resolving decades of Israeli/Palestinian conflict are nil - because Washington and Tel Aviv reject an equitable solution.
Peace and stability defeat their agenda. Endless violence and confrontation further it. Neither country negotiates. They demand.
Trump’s Zionist son-in-law/senior advisor/geopolitical know-nothing is back in Israel.
He arrived along with Zionist administration international negotiator Jason Greenblat and Deputy National Security Advisor Dina Powell - another futile trip to restart peace talks, dead-on-arrival each time initiated.
Russia’s New Ambassador to Washington
Stephen Lendman
It’s no easy job operating in hostile territory. Longtime diplomat Anatoly Antonov is up to the challenge.
The Kremlin’s web site announced his appointment, saying:
“Vladimir Putin issued an Executive Order appointing Anatoly Antonov Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America and, concurrently, Permanent Observer of the Russian Federation at the Organisation of American States in Washington, USA.”Antonov succeeds Sergey Kislyak, his tenure from July 2008 - July 2017. Envoys are tasked with understanding policies of the nations they’re assigned to, including as they unfold daily.
They provide relevant information to their governments back home.
Interfacing with host country officials is part of their job – including diplomats, legislators, and administration officials to the highest levels.
Deplorable US Mainstream Media
Stephen Lendman
Press agent journalism substitutes for the real thing. Truth-telling is a lost art, absent in Western reporting on issues mattering most.
The fourth estate was never more disreputable than now, a shameful disgrace to its profession - featuring disinformation, fake news and advocacy instead of what legitimate journalism is supposed to be.
Trump is wrong on most issues, on the mark about the media’s deplorable state, painful to follow, impossible to know anything about the state of the nation and world by following its reports - red meat for critics like myself to take them to task, the deplorable NYT my favorite target.
Defending itself from justifiable criticism, arguments by the Times ring hollow.
Claiming its columnists, correspondents and editors are journalists, not Trump’s enemies, is utter rubbish.
NPR Disinformation on Venezuela
Stephen Lendman
National Public Radio (NPR) operates like other media scoundrels - reporting disinformation, Big Lies and fake news on major issues, suppressing or sanitizing what listeners most need to know.
Corporate funders demand no less. So do dark forces in Washington.
NPR long ago betrayed the public trust. Established in 1971, it promised to be an alternative to commercial media, “promoting personal growth rather than corporate gain…speak(ing) with many voices, many dialects.”
Instead it’s a voice for wealth, power and privilege, polar opposite its public pledge.
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.”
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