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Palestinian Political Prisoner Marwan Barghouti Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Stephen Lendman
Barghouti is Palestine’s most prominent political figure, a courageous freedom fighter, an advocate of resisting illegal Israeli occupation, why he was targeted in the first place.
In May 2004, he was wrongfully convicted on phony terrorism charges - receiving five consecutive life sentences plus 40 years.
Rigged show trial proceedings denied judicial fairness. Barghouti remains wrongfully imprisoned, victimized by Israeli viciousness.
Earlier he called himself “a political leader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, elected by my people. Israel has no right to try me, to accuse me, to judge me."
"This is a violation of international law. I have a (legal) right to resist occupation."
Following his October 2002 indictment, he said “(t)he State of Israel is directly and indirectly criminally responsible for committing specific acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, including uprooting Palestinians by military attacks, arbitrary arrests and illegal imprisonment, administrative detention, attacks on women, children and the elderly, systematic and wanton destruction of property and homes, (and) systematic expropriation and dispossession…”
Clinton Chosen Democrat Party Nominee Last Year
Stephen Lendman
The Democrat party campaign was over before it began. On April 15, 2015, Clinton and Sanders both formally announced their candidacy to become party standard bearer this November.
Primaries and caucuses since last winter were largely theatrical noise, the process rigged to anoint Clinton - an unindicted neocon war criminal, racketeer, Wall Street tool she devil, a menace threatening world peace, a perfect choice for US president, following in the despicable tradition of husband Bill, George W. Bush and Obama.The possibility of her becoming America’s 45th president should scare everyone. Her finger on the nuclear trigger heightens the possibility of it being squeezed - the nation under her stewardship, if elected, transitioning from MAD to madness, humanity’s survival at risk.
Assad Deserves Universal Support Against US-Sponsored Terrorism
Stephen Lendman
Syria is Obama’s war, launched with imported terrorist foot soldiers to gain America another imperial trophy - while eliminating an Israeli rival and diminishing Russia’s regional influence.
Protecting Syria’s sovereign independence is crucial. If it goes, Iran is isolated. Its turn awaits.
It’s forthrightly aiding its Syrian ally, US imperialism their enemy, humanity’s scourge. America is the greatest threat to world peace, stability and security.
Addressing Syrian parliamentarians on Tuesday, Assad vowed to continue combating terrorism, an entire nation and its people at stake.
He explained Syria’s newly elected People’s Assembly is different from previous ones. Voters openly, freely and fairly elected representatives enduring years of war, violence and human misery - Syrians united against imperial forces wanting their country destroyed and partitioned.
Trump v. Clinton in November
Stephen Lendman
It’s all over but the postmortems. Trump and Clinton are their parties’ presumptive nominees. Choice for voters in November amounts to death by hanging or firing squad.
Democracy is pure fantasy. None whatever exists. Trump was the last GOP aspirant left standing after all others dropped out, an unlikely choice, a surprise winner, prevailing despite party bosses opposing him.
Democrat power brokers chose Clinton before primary/caucus season began. The race was over before it started.
Voters in November get to choose between a dirty business as usual billionaire racist, demagogue and a recklessly dangerous neocon racketeer, war criminal, Wall Street tool she devil - fascist rule prevailing either way.
Germany Preparing for War Against Russia
Eric Zuesse
According to a report issued on June 6th in German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), the German government is preparing to go to war against Russia, and has in draft-form a Bundeswehr report declaring Russia to be an enemy nation. DWN says: "The Russian secret services have apparently thoroughly studied the paper. In advance of the paper’s publication, a harsh note of protest has been sent to Berlin: The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma, Alexei Puschkow, has posted the Twitter message: 'The decision of the German government declaring Russia to be an enemy shows Merkel's subservience to the Obama administration.’"
Back on February 17th, DWN had reported that German Chancellor Merkel “will develop a new military doctrine” declaring, "The ‘annexation’ of Crimea by Russia is the basis for military action against Moscow.” Apparently, that prior report will soon be fulfilled.
Provocative NATO War Games in Poland
Stephen Lendman
US-dominated NATO is currently holding its largest war games since Soviet Russia dissolved in 1991 - provocative exercises in Poland, America on a slippery slope toward direct confrontation with Russia, pushing the envelope toward possible nuclear war.
So-called Anaconda 16 continues for 10 days through mid-June, involving over 30,000 combat troops from 24 NATO states and partners - led, of course, by America with nearly half the force contingent, continuing to prove it’s the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival.
Russia threatens no one, Putin the world’s preeminent peacemaker. US-led NATO exercises are occurring weeks before a July 8 - 9 Warsaw summit to approve increased numbers of combat troops deployed near Russia’s borders - in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Giant NATO Exercise Underway in Poland
Executive Intelligence Review
June 7, 2016 (EIRNS)--NATO's Exercise Anaconda 16 got underway yesterday, with an opening in Warsaw attended by both Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz and U.S. Ambassador Paul W. Jones. Activities in the exercise publicly announced so far, include a parachute drop of 1,130 paratroopers, a crossing of the Vistula River and a nighttime assault using 35 helicopters. All told, the exercise involves some 31,000 troops from 24 nations, including 14,000 from the US, 12,000 from Poland, and 800 from the UK, with 3,000 vehicles, and 105 airplanes and helicopters, along with 12 Navy ships. Most media coverage of the exercise notes that Anaconda will be the first time since 1941, when Adolph Hitler launched the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union, that German tanks will be moving eastward across Poland.
Pentagon Whitewashes Murders of Afghan Civilians
Stephen Lendman
US rules of engagement in all its war theaters consistently and repeatedly violate international and constitutional law - soldiers allowed to murder civilians with impunity.
One of many notorious examples occurred in February 2010 in Afghanistan. US Army rangers belligerently entered Khataba village in Paktia province - slaughtering five defenseless civilians in cold blood, including two pregnant women threatening no one.
FOIA documents obtained by The Intercept revealed no disciplinary action following the raid. The Defense Department outrageously called force used “necessary, proportional and applied at (the) appropriate time” - while admitting “tactical mistakes” were made, war crimes by any standard.
Absolving crimes of war and against humanity committed by US forces is longstanding Pentagon practice. Falsified accounts whitewash deplorable incidents.
German Intelligence Service to Become Branch of U.S. CIA
Eric Zuesse
(NOTE: The following news report was offered on the morning of June 7th as an exclusive, to the following newsmedia, all of whom ignored it; and so it’s now being distributed free-of-charge to all newsmedia, but the following were the newsmedia that had already declined it as an exclusive news report: The Daily Beast, Slate, The Intercept, Huffington Post, Salon, Common Dreams, Truthout, ProPublica, Harper’s, Atlantic, Foreign Policy, National Journal, AP, Globe and Mail, National Post, Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, The Economist, Daily Mail, London Times, London Review of Books, New Statesman, The Spectator, Bloomberg, NYT, McClatchy, CBS, CNN, Politico, The Nation, The National Interest, The New Republic, Reason, Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed, Newsweek, Time, USN&WR, Consortium News Service.)
According to a news report in the June 7th German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), headlined “Merkel entmachtet BND: USA kontrollieren Spionage in Deutschland" or “Merkel Ousts BND: US to Control German Espionage,” a new law will soon be passed in the German parliament and be approved by Chancellor Angela Merkel, which will make Germany’s version of the CIA, the Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND), nothing more than a branch of the CIA, to such an extreme degree, that even U.S. corporate espionage against German companies will become part of that ‘German’ operation. The independent capacities of the BND will become emasculated, no longer operational, under the new law.
Most European Nations Act More Like US Colonies Than Sovereign States
Stephen Lendman
Instead of declaring their independence, most European nations let Washington pressure, bully and bribe them to go along with its imperial agenda, harming their own national security.
Economic powerhouse Germany remains occupied since WW II ended, permitting numerous US bases on its territory, some jointly operated, harming its security, not protecting it.
Instead of normalizing relations with Russia, a reliable ally, Die Welt newspaper said a new Defense Ministry White Paper near completion lists it as one of Germany’s 10 major threats, despite no credible evidence suggesting it - plenty proving otherwise.
Other threats include international terrorism - without explaining it’s US created and Berlin supported. Terrorist groups can’t exist without state sponsors.
According to sources quoting what the report says, Russia is Germany’s key rival, using “hybrid instruments to blur the boundaries between war and peace…undermin(ing) other states.”
Moscow’s military strength (almost entirely on its own territory, solely for defense and fighting terrorism in Syria), technological capability, nonexistent “aggression,” reunification with Crimea, and ability to influence public opinion are contrived reasons for considering Moscow a key rival and threat, not a partner - despite Putin urging cooperative relations with all nations, the world’s preeminent peacemaker.
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