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America’s Money Controlled Political Process
Stephen Lendman
From inception, America was never beautiful or democratic. Rich and powerful interests run things exclusively for their own benefit, ordinary people entirely shut out.
Secrecy and backroom deals substitute for a free, fair and open process. Candidates are pre-selected. Big money owns them. Rare exceptions prove the rule.
Duopoly power excludes independents. Key outcomes are predetermined. Horse race journalism substitutes for discussing issues mattering most.
Voter disenfranchisement is rife. Millions of Americans are denied because of past criminal records, including innocent people wrongfully imprisoned, others for political reasons or offenses too minor to matter.
Anti-Terrorism Operation Begun to Liberate Aleppo
Stephen Lendman
A major campaign to liberate parts of Aleppo still held by US supported terrorists began, a Syrian military source saying:
“The Syrian army has deployed 10,000 soldiers in Aleppo front to begin a large-scale military operation (aided by Russian air power) to push the Takfiris back from the remaining villages which are under the terrorists' control.”
“The Syrian army began the operation to recapture more regions in the Northern suburb of Aleppo on Thursday and pushed the al-Nusra terrorist to evacuate Mallah farms and retreat Eastward after heavy clashes which ended in significant casualties on the terrorist group.”
Is US Preparing for War on Russia?
Stephen Lendman
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and NATO commander US General Philip Breedlove call Russia America’s greatest existential threat - despite no evidence suggesting it, plenty showing it’s the world’s leading peacemaker.
Washington threatens world peace. It wants all sovereign independent governments replaced by US controlled vassal ones - part of its plan for unchallenged global dominance, by color revolutions or naked aggression.
Increasing numbers of US-led combat troops are being positioned close to Russia’s borders. Its warplanes fly near its airspace. Its warships sail close to its waters. Russia’s Defense Ministry accused US-led NATO of “creating a (Black Sea) naval battle group (near) its borders.
Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Resume in Geneva
Stephen Lendman
On Thursday, sham talks resumed going nowhere. On the one hand, pro-Western mediator Steffan de Mistura maintains the fiction of cessation of hostilities holding along with hope for diplomatic conflict resolution.
On the other, Washington, its rogue Western and regional allies, along with terrorist groups they support, insist on “political transition” (aka regime change), ignoring the will of the vast majority of Syrians.
They won’t tolerate anyone else leading them or let foreign parties dictate how and by whom Syria will be ruled. International law supports them.
US Plan B for Syria is Plan A
Stephen Lendman
Obama wants Assad’s government forcefully toppled, using ISIS and other terrorists fighters as imperial foot soldiers.
Sham peace talks are cover, resumed today after pausing for two weeks, going nowhere. Washington knows Syrians won’t tolerate surrendering their sovereignty to a foreign power.
They reject US-led Western interference in their internal affairs. Convincing them militarily is Washington’s Plan B - also known as Plan A, an escalated version with heavier weapons, giving ISIS and other imported death squads greater support to counter Russia, claiming cold-blooded killers are “moderate rebels.”
Rwanda Genocide - The Israeli Connection
Gilad Atzmon
In 2006, Israel’s largest news site Ynet published a courageous article by nationalist Israeli writer Sever Plocker who admitted that “some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish.”
Like Yuri Slezkine, Plocker admits that the Stalin death machine was operated by Jews such as Genrikh Yagoda and Lazar Kaganovich. In 1934, at the peak of Stalin’s purge: “38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin.”
In recent years we have learned that a quarter of the International Brigade that fought Franco in Spain was Jewish, and the Lingua Franca of the Brigade was Yiddish. I have lost a few Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist friends trying to discuss that topic and to grasp the role of the Yiddish speaking combatants in the destruction of Catholic Spain in that bloody war. Showing far more integrity than our ‘allies’ on the Left, Zionist Plocker writes “I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.”
Trump Reinventing Himself As Populist Falls Flat
Stephen Lendman
Trump didn’t become super-rich by being anti-establishment and populist. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wants voters to believe otherwise.
He justifiably blasted Colorado’s rigged “ ‘election’ without voters,” party bosses handing Cruz all state delegates, shutting out the will of the people.
“Let me ask America a question,” he said. “How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family?” During years growing super-rich, Trump never spoke out publicly for the rights of ordinary people. Has he turned a new leaf? Don’t bet on it.
“I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people,” he blustered.
Erdogan’s War on Press, Academic, and Other Forms of Free Expression
Stephen Lendman
Erdogan rules despotically, a megalomaniacal tyrant, tolerating no dissent, targeting opponents and critics for elimination.
He’s waging war on his own people, supporting ISIS and other terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
The world community turns a blind eye to his high crimes, supporting them by complicity and silence.
His latest affront targeted Russia’s Sputnik News (SN) web site, blocking it, authorities saying they acted “(a)fter technical analysis and legal consideration” - failing to explain Erdogan’s war on fundamental international law affirmed rights.
Blocking came without advance notice, a rubber-stamp Turkish court to rule on what happened, justifying the unjustifiable.
Syrian Elections
Stephen Lendman
On May 7, 2012, first ever parliamentary elections were held - a milestone political event with independent and opposition candidates participating.
Despite ongoing war and turbulence, turnout was high. Voting went smoothly. Independent monitors supervising the process called it open, free and fair.
For Syrians, it was historic. Ba'ath party members won a 60% majority. Previously they held just over 50% control. With support from independent MPs, they comprise a 90% majority, expressing the will of the people. Opposition party members were also elected.
As expected, Washington, rogue partners and supportive media scoundrels called the elections illegitimate - recognizing ones won by pro-Western regimes alone.
Merkel OKs Prosecuting Journalist for Insulting Erdogan
Stephen Lendman
Merkel’s action is the latest example of how tyranny is replacing freedom in Western countries - fundamental rights being eliminated altogether.
Free expression is most important. Without it all other rights are endangered.
In response to German TV host Jan Bohmermann reading a satirical poem on ZDF television criticizing Erdogan, he filed a criminal complaint demanding prosecution for insulting a foreign head of state.
Under a long outdated 1880s law, it carries a three-to-five year prison term. Enforcing it is a flagrant free expression violation. Germany’s constitution guarantees it without making exception for when it’s offensive.
Turkey’s deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus outrageously accused Bohmermann of insulting 78 million Turks, ludicrously calling his criticism a “serious crime against humanity (exceeding) all limits of shamelessness.”
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