Stephen Lendman

Resolving internal conflict in Ukraine is unattainable because Washington wants war, not peace - using its installed puppet regime to do its dirty work, providing it with weapons, funding, training, direction and other material support.

Donbass freedom fighters want democracy, not fascist rule, not illegitimate putschists taking orders from Washington, controlling the lives and welfare, militantly anti-Russia, their one reliable ally.

Ukrainian forces are massed provocatively along areas bordering Crimea (Russian territory) and Donbass. Donetsk People’s Republic Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said (illegitimate) president Petro Poroshenko placed his armed forces on “heightened combat alert.”

He may attack “Donbass to distract attention from his” failed terrorist plot in Crimea. Russian security forces foiled it.

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Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay

The evil that men do lives after them.”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), ‘Julius Caesar’

“The Constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the Legislature…—No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
James Madison (1751-1836), in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1798, (and, in ‘Political Observations’, 1795)

“…War is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.” Barack H. Obama (1961- ), Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 2009

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Stephen Lendman

America is mired in protracted Main Street Depression because of a generation of bipartisan governance serving privileged interests at the expense of most others - Republicans and Democrats sharing guilt.

Neoliberal harshness became official US policy in the 1990s - during the Bill and Hillary co-presidency. Giving them a third term assures more of the same - the horror of deepening poverty, mass unemployment and underemployment, homelessness and hunger at record levels, the world’s richest country thirdworldized while monied interests never have things better.

Believe nothing Hillary says. She’s an exposed serial liar. She lied about wars of aggression she orchestrated against Libya and Syria.

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Stephen Lendman

US aggression using ISIS and other terrorists to do its dirty work so far left over half a million Syrians dead, millions injured, many permanently maimed, half the population internally or externally displaced, and no end of conflict in sight.

Syria is one of many US post-WW II great crimes, a nation being systematically raped and destroyed, imperial ruthlessness at its worst - dominance alone mattering, human lives and welfare of no consequence.

Is Western civilization too flawed to fix? It seems so from the despicable example America sets - humanity’s greatest scourge, perhaps its undoing entirely if not challenged and stopped. Daily horror stories from Syria alone explain. On August 13, Tass reported hundreds of civilians killed or injured in Aleppo in less than a fortnight of August fighting. Half are women and children.

“Hundreds of badly injured civilians are at hospitals throughout the city,” Tass reported. “They all are in desperate need for qualified medical assistance” - too little available under war zone conditions.

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Stephen Lendman

The outcome of war may hinge on its outcome. Prior to Obama’s aggression, Aleppo was Syria’s commercial hub and largest city. Much of it now lies in ruins, its population reduced to a small fraction of its pre-war size.

Syrian forces and Russian airpower continue battling for parts of the city controlled by US-supported terrorists.

According to Russian General Sergei Rudskoi, a “most alarming situation has developed on the southwestern approaches to Aleppo where terrorists (massed) about 7,000 gunmen” - equipped with “tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery and vehicles with armament mounted on them.”

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Stephen Lendman

In December 2001, the Bush administration issued its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), asserting the preemptive right to unilaterally declare and wage future wars using first strike nuclear weapons. It remains US policy.

Obama campaigned against militarism, promising all US combat troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq if elected. They’re still there and in lots more places deployed during his tenure.

His 2010 National Security Strategy reflected old wine in new bottles - dressed up language, no substantive change, same old dirty business as usual - including pledged first-strike use of nuclear weapons against any adversary, nuclear armed or not.

Obama’s 2015 National Security Strategy followed the same pattern, including what the late Gore Vidal called assuring “perpetual war for perpetual peace.”

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Stephen Lendman

The Times is more an instrument for justifying, supporting and facilitating America’s imperial project than a legitimate source of news, information and analysis.

It reached new lows in one-sided support for Hillary, the most ruthlessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history, while disgracefully carpet-bombing Trump with daily fabrications, exaggerations and hate-mongering.

It’s one thing to attack a presidential aspirant irresponsibly, quite another to serve as a virtual Pentagon press agent for war - practically promoting conflict with Russia, pushing Cold War II politics to turn hot.

Despite no evidence suggesting it, The Times baselessly blames Russia for hacking DNC emails, showing primary season was rigged for Hillary.

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Stephen Lendman

Bill and Hillary releasing their joint 2015 tax returns was an exercise in smoke screen deception.

While showing $10.6 million in joint income, down from $28 million in 2014, concealed was their real source of super-wealth - the Clinton Foundation, a tax-free international money-laundering scam masquerading as a charitable NGO.

Since its 2001 founding, it’s taken in around $2 billion from wealthy donors and foreign nations in return for favors dispensed worth much more to contributors.

Only 10% of funds received go for charitable purposes, the rest for other purposes including self-enrichment - what’s most important about their net worth left unexplained on their tax returns.

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POSTED BY: RICK WELLS

Posted by: bj (America-Wake-Up | November 3, 2013

BELOW ARE THREE NEWS ITEMS (You will never see in the lame stream media)

1. OBAMA TRANSFORMS US MILITARY
2. INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY OCTOBER 29, 2013 (OBAMA FIRES 197 SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDERS IN FIVE YEARS (37 Four Star Generals)
3. OBAMA FIRES 9 COMMANDING GENERALS IN 2013

Click here for the pdf version: or read below:

1. Are you one of the millions of Americans that are watching the final Transformation of America As Promised? and are sitting on the sidelines or worse yet don’t know what is really taking place IN YOUR COUNTRY. I did not take the below factual until I read in Investors Business Daily that 37 4 Star Generals have been relieved of duty during the Obama term…. I always thought that as long as the Armed Forces were Anti Obama that in spite of all the lies, misleading info, executive orders etc. we as Americans were holding one big Ace in the hole. Apparently BHO is far ahead of any thinking I might have had. I keep asking myself…… if he is leaving office in 3 years……. why does he want a Military who is stocked with an ideology of his …….. unless he can be confident that our own military leaders will not hesitate to use the military on fellow Americans??

I for one am really worried…… that most Americans don’t see what is taking place on many many fronts……. or just don’t care…..And it all has been happening on our watch fellow citizens…… It may already be to late……

Ron Gaynor

Change is coming, be prepared!

On October 12, 2013, ABC’s Dianne Sawyer brought us a video of a 9th, yes 9th, General fired from the military this week. It’s even reaching some of the more liberal stations and begging them to ask the question, “What is going on?” It seems President Obama is preparing what he calls “my military” for his version of the final solution. With all the documentation we have, it looks as though he is purging the military for the next step.

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