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Turkey’s Erdogan Abolishes Constitutional Governance
Stephen Lendman
On Wednesday, Turkey’s fading democratic remnants died. Erdogan officially usurped dictatorial power.
He suspended constitutional law and parliamentary governance - 90-day emergency authority replacing it, likely to be extended indefinitely so he can ruthlessly eliminate all elements potentially challenging his absolute rule.
Interviewed by Qatar’s owned and operated Al Jazeera, he lied claiming circumventing constitutional governance “remain(s) inside a democratic parliamentary system,” adding:“(W)hatever is necessary for the nation’s peace and stability will be done,” suggesting reign of terror ruthlessness will continue.
“I don’t think we have come to the end of it yet,” he said. “(T)he declaration of the state of emergency has the sole purpose of taking the necessary measures in the face of the terrorist threat that our country is facing.”
Robotic Politics is Menace to Global Peace and Security
Mahboob A Khawaja, PhD.
Warmongering as an institution spells out history’s malicious mistakes, often irretrievable. America needs a visionary transformational leadership capable to restore democracy, people-oriented system of governance, political accountability and to avert fascism on a global scale. Should such a leader not be equipped with superb insight, originality and verve, to make the masses think about a new and an emerging global civil society away from the existing reactionary onslaught of blame-games and failed institutions, and invigorated by human rights principles and religious tolerance. Does America want another Clinton or Trump to slip toward a geopolitical morass? One wonders if American presidential elections are just a prototype of robotic political model full of incurable resentment and repeated historical ironies to dominate and control the world. Could the next American president envision an apocalyptic ending to humanity's stint on planet Earth?
Collective Punishment to Follow Tel Aviv Shootings
Stephen Lendman
Lawless collective punishment usually follows violent incidents involving Palestinians - most often state-sponsored, not their fault.
Wednesday evening Tel Aviv shootings were unusual, reports indicating four Israelis killed, 16 wounded at the Sarona open-air shopping center, according to Israeli emergency services.
Two armed men reportedly disguised as orthodox Jews opened fire indiscriminately. Suspects were arrested. One is hospitalized in moderate condition.Israel automatically calls these incidents “terrorist” attacks, using them to demonize all Palestinians, justifying unjustifiable collective punishment.
Netanyahu convened a Thursday security meeting, harsh recrimination sure to follow, nonviolent Palestinians to suffer unfairly for the crimes of two individuals.
Disturbing Reality in Syria
Stephen Lendman
Endless war continues with no prospect for peace because Washington rejects it - wanting overwhelmingly popular Bashar al-Assad forcibly ousted, knowing he won’t step down voluntarily nor should he.
International law supports him. Syrians alone may decide who’ll lead them, free from foreign interference. All armed opposition groups in Syria engaged in combat against government forces along with slaughtering defenseless civilians are terrorists.
Washington and its rogue allies support them - imported death squads unable to exist without foreign backing.
Chelsea Manning Seeks Overturn of Wrongful Conviction
Stephen Lendman
Manning was wrongfully imprisoned for courageously revealing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan Pentagon officials want suppressed.
Responsible parties got medals and promotions. Manning got prison. Show trial proceedings sentenced her to 35 years behind bars.
Rogue states honor their worst, persecute their best, Manning one of thousands of US political prisoners.
Lawyers representing her filed a motion before the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals, calling her 2013 conviction unconstitutional, arguing it should be overturned.
One count was based on allegedly violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), aimed at holding individuals involved in breaking into computer systems responsible, what Manning didn’t do.
She was convicted on 19 counts, including one under CFAA. In a 209-page filing, lawyers argued her punishment is grossly unfair and unprecedented.
Hatemongering Israeli Defense Minister Denigrates Palestine’s Poet Laureate
Stephen Lendman
Neocon lunatics run Israel, a crowd similar to America’s ruling authority under either right wing of its duopoly government.
Ultranationalist, hatemongering Israeli defense minister/former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is an embarrassment to legitimate governance. In Israel, he holds high office, an Arab-hating gangster with his finger on his nation’s nuclear trigger.
On Israeli Army Radio, he compared revered Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941 - 2008) with “glorification of the literary marvels of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kamph” - a shocking perversion of truth, typical of how Lieberman and likeminded Israeli extremists operate.
Deconstructing Trump’s Acceptance Speech
Stephen Lendman
Claiming he “alone” can fix America’s ills, Trump displayed more bombast than charisma and forthrightness in accepting his party’s presidential nomination.
He’s part of the problem, not its solution. Politics in America serves its privileged class alone, harming most others, inflicting a devastating toll on humanity.
Positive change won’t follow no matter who succeeds Obama. Expect more of the same and likely worse.
Longstanding US policy reflects imperialism run amuck, duopoly war party politics running things, each wing following the same script, differing only in rhetoric and style.
Hillary’s Deplorable VP Choice
Stephen Lendman
Neither wing of America’s duopoly system has acceptable choices for any public office.
The horror of Clinton and Trump as standard bearers for their parties shows a debauched system too irreparable to fix. Their VP choices provide further evidence.
Trump running mate Mike Pence is a neocon Tea Party hardliner, an imperial war cheerleader, an evangelical supporter of Israel’s worst crimes, an anti-progressive. Clinton’s VP choice, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, is cut from the same mold - pro-war, pro-Wall Street, pro-corporate favoritism, pro-neoliberal harshness, pro-regressive trade deals like TPP, anti-labor rights, pro-serving wealth and power interests at the expense of most others.
Electoral Calculus Points to a Trump Landslide Victory
Posted on July 29, 2016 by State of the Nation
Clinton Can Only ‘Win’ By Stealing The Election
No matter how you slice and dice the electoral vote or the popular vote, Donald Trump is destined for an unprecedented landslide victory.
Trump will beat Clinton by ‘landslide proportions’
Shock poll: Nate Silver’s election forecast now has Trump winning
The following voting bloc analysis is really just common sense. However, the mainstream media will do everything in its power to distract the electorate from the obvious. Why is that?
Because the only way that Hillary Clinton can win this election is by outright theft and LOTs of election fraud. That is the only way for her to win—illegally.
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Is Openly Stealing The Election
Here are the major voting demographics:
First, not a single Republican or Conservative or Tea Partier or Right Winger or Christian will vote for Clinton. Yes, there will be a few who will go and accidentally “pull the wrong lever”, but this massive voting block, to the extent that they show up at the polls, will vote overwhelmingly for Trump.
The middle ground occupied by the Independents will vote Trump. Yes, a few will momentarily lose consciousness and accidentally vote Clinton, but the vast majority will vote for Trump.
The Berniacs, who were profoundly betrayed by the campaign fraud known as Bernie Sanders, are pissed. Extremely pissed! They will not vote for Clinton for numerous and obvious reasons. Many will not vote because of the naked betrayal they suffered at the hands of Sanders. However, the vast majority who do vote will unanimously vote for Donald Trump. He is a truly populist candidate just like the Bern pretended to be. The Berniacs represent a huge voting bloc that Clinton & Company majorly disrespected.
As for the Democratic side, the true liberals, real progressives, ultra-leftwingers and dyed-in-the-wool Democrats will not vote for Clinton. They will, by and large, stay home on election day. Those who are genuine old-school Democrats and principled citizens will not bring themselves to vote for an incorrigible warmonger, career criminal and pathological liar. None of them wants to be associated with a criminally insane psychopath.
Democrats Try Changing the Subject to Distract from Internal Dissension
Stephen Lendman
Republicans were touted as the divided party this year. It looks almost unified compared to dissension in Democrat ranks.
Hillary’s impending Tuesday night nomination created a firestorm of anger among Sanders’ delegates, along with rage over his sellout to what he campaigned against - proving he’s as dirty as all the rest.
Monday inside and outside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center was raucous and unruly - anti-Clinton delegates and tens of thousands in the streets protesting against her.
If this keep up throughout the convention, she’ll be greater damaged goods than already - unable to unify a a deeply divided party. What better strategy than to change the subject. What better target than Putin. He’s blamed for practically everything short of Philadelphia’s scorching heat.
A Romanian hacker with no connection to Russia, using the name Guccifer 2.0, hacked into a treasure trove of DNC emails, showing now defrocked former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged enough primaries and caucuses to assure Hillary’s nomination - handing the incriminating evidence to WikiLeaks for publication.
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