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Erdogan Repudiates Democracy, Freedom and Rule of Law
Stephen Lendman
Tyrants operate their own way, eliminating whatever interferes with their iron-fisted rule - Erdogan one of the region’s worst, a tinpot despot in a part of the world ruled by dictators.
Anyone supporting freedom fighting Kurds he calls “terrorists” are considered enemies of the state, subject to prosecution, imprisonment or assassination.
He’s waging no-holds-barred war on his Kurdish citizens, massacring civilians, burning hundreds to death vindictively, desperate people taking shelter in basements succumbing to his viciousness. US and other Western leaders ignore his worst crimes. EU ones cut a deal to turn Turkey into a refugee dumping ground, a giant concentration camp denying their fundamental rights - sealing their borders, expelling desperate people, turning their back on human need they bear responsibility for causing complicit with Washington.
John Kerry’s Upcoming Moscow Visit
Stephen Lendman
US hardliners irresponsibly call Russia America’s greatest threat. No evidence suggests it. Plenty shows Putin’s commitment to world peace and stability.
Kerry plans visiting with Russia’s leader, Sergey Lavrov and other government officials from March 22 - 25, a trip mainly for discussions on Syria.
On March 16, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “(w)e are just now working on the visit. Of course, the main topic” is Syria.
Washington wants its will imposed. Moscow supports Syrian sovereign independence. Expect no diplomatic breakthroughs in resolving irreconcilable differences during Kerry’s visit.
America’s Supremes Represent Privilege Exclusively
Stephen Lendman
Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is a well-known Washington establishment figure - currently US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit chief judge.
He’s a 1974 Harvard summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa, class valedictorian graduate, former president of its Board of Overseers, a Harvard Law School 1977 magna cum laude graduate, its Harvard Law Review articles editor. All High Court members, including the recently deceased Antonin Scalia, attended Harvard or Yale law schools. If Garland’s nomination is approved, tradition will remain unchanged.
America’s Genocidal Wars
Stephen Lendman
America’s pure evil is unequaled by any previous regime in history - inflicting more harm on more people over a longer duration.
None match US ruthlessness. Centuries of slaughter reduced its native population to a small fraction of its original numbers.
Five centuries of slavery were horrific. Black Africans were captured, branded, chained, force-marched, beaten, encaged, and stripped of their humanity.
Around 100 million human beings were sold like cattle. Millions perished during the Middle Passage, packed into filthy coffin-sized spaces, filled with human excrement, victims of dysentery, smallpox and other epidemic-level diseases, women raped and beaten, others flogged or clubbed.
How Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law — After the November Elections
Eric Zuesse
Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or any other of his three mega-trade-deals until after the November elections, because Senators and Representatives won’t vote for it until the voters have already voted for their re-election (so that they’ll then be free to vote against those voters’ interests). The previous congressional votes on these deals showed that congressional Republicans overwhelmingly favor them but many congressional Democrats oppose them. For example, in the crucial vote, in the Senate, only 37 of the 100 Senators voted against the enabling legislation (without which legislation they can’t pass), called “Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority,” which will enable the President to ram these treaties through Congress, and 30 of these Senators were Democrats, 5 (Collins, Cruz, Paul, Sessions, and Shelby) were Republicans, and 2 (Sanders and King) were independents. That’s both independents, 30 of the 44 Democrats, and only 5 of the 54 Republicans. So: these bills are overwhelmingly Republican trade bills, which were created by a ‘Democratic’ President.
Hillary Clinton: Wall Street Shill, Threat to World Peace
Stephen Lendman
A Trump presidency would be an anti-populist crapshoot on what outrageous domestic and geopolitical schemes he’d cook up following earlier ones.
A previous article said his only redeeming quality is he’s not Hillary Clinton - the most recklessly dangerous US presidential aspirant in memory, a menace risking global war and full-blown tyranny.
Her despicable record as first lady, US senator and secretary of state exposed her villainy - revealing a war-profiteers dream, a Wall Street favorite.
A previous article said she loves Goldman Sachs. A leaked transcript of her June 2013 speech to their officials revealed comments never heard on the stump.
She said productive work by ordinary Americans didn’t make the nation great. “(I)t’s due to (Wall Street) investing, credit and economic stewardship.”
George Soros’ Anti-Trump Campaign
Stephen Lendman
Soros represents pure evil, one of the world’s most infamous figures.
He’s a notorious international con man, known for profiting from human misery, supporting color revolutions and wars to serve his interests.
Moscow’s Prosecutor General calls his Open Society Institute and Open Society Institute Assistance Foundations “threat(s) to Russian national security and constitutional order.”
His groups are subversive, undermining fundamental freedoms, listed as undesirable foreign organizations in Russia for good reason. They’re prohibited from supporting political parties, free to engage in other activities.
Remembering Rachel Corrie’s Passion for Justice
Stephen Lendman
Rachel died as she lived, her short life snuffed out at age 23, her body put on the line against Israeli injustice toward Palestinians - risking death for supporting their fundamental rights, victimized by regime barbarism.
Thirteen years ago on March 16, a soldier-operated giant armored Caterpillar bulldozer used to smash Palestinian homes crushed her to death.
She tried stopping a Rafah refugee camp home demolition from proceeding. She tried reasoning with the driver, knelt meters away, blocking its path with her body - in clear view of its operator. It lurched forward. Activists screamed for it to stop to no avail. It crushed Rachel’s body the way it smashes homes, at times with defenseless victims inside.
Making sure she was dead, the soldier-operator ran over her twice, remaining unaccountable for premeditated murder to this day.
GOP Plot to Stop Trump
Stephen Lendman
Party bosses representing monied interests decide who holds high office in America. Elections are farcical when held. Voters have no say whatever.
On March 17, the Washington Post discussed GOP power brokers meeting secretly, discussing how to undermine Trump’s campaign - including a possible “third-party challenge.”
They’re not concerned about his agenda as Republican nominee or holder of the nation’s highest office, only about their ability to control him.
GW Bush was the ideal president - intellectually deficient, unable to reason analytically, closed-minded and simplistic, easily controllable, needing others around him to do his thinking and decision-making.
KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton
Stephen Lendman
The New York Times and KKK appear likeminded. Both endorse war goddess, Wall Street favorite Hillary Clinton for president - the most disdainful of world peace, equity and justice among a deplorable array of aspirants.
California KKK grand dragon Will Quigg switched his earlier support for Trump to Clinton, saying he likes her “hidden agenda.”
Interviewed by the London Telegraph, he said “(w)e want Hillary Clinton to win.”
“She is telling everybody one thing, but she has a hidden agenda. She’s telling everybody what they want to hear so she can get elected, because she’s Bill Clinton’s wife, she’s close to the Bushes.” “(O)nce she’s in the presidency, she’s going to come out and her true colours are going to show…She’s…our choice for the presidency.”
Last September, Quigg endorsed Trump, saying “(y)ou Sir are the only hope we have of getting WHITE AMERICA BACK! We all will be voting for you.”
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