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NYT Debate On If Banking Giants Still Too Big to Fail Ignores the Core Issue
Stephen Lendman
Too big to fail or not ignores what’s most important. Predatory bankers make serial killers look good by comparison.
Their business model creates crises, facilitates grand theft, financial terrorism, and debt entrapment.
They steal material wealth, systematically scam investors, and strip mine economies for self-enrichment.
They demand they get paid first, holding nations hostage, turning crises into catastrophes - facilitating the greatest ever wealth transference in history to super-rich elites already with too much, at the same time creating mass impoverishment, high unemployment, neo-serfdom, and human wreckage.
They’re more dangerous than standing armies, waging war by other means, a malignancy ravaging societies and humanity. Economies become subordinate to financial oligarchs, getting things their way exclusively at the expense of the general welfare.
US Supported Terrorists Plan Major Aleppo Offensive
Stephen Stephen
Washington allied with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other rogue partners continue arming and providing other material support for imported death squads - used to try toppling the legitimate, overwhelmingly popular Syrian government.
Peace talks mock legitimacy, cover for Obama’s real objective - regime change, destroying Syrian sovereignty, replacing it with US controlled puppet governance, tyranny by any standard. Death squad fighters continue pouring across Turkey’s border into Syria unimpeded - terrorists Washington calls “moderate rebels.”
Obama Claims Success in Combatting ISIS He Supports
Stephen Lendman
Obama is a notorious con man, a serial liar, a moral coward, a Wall Street tool, an anti-populist, a war criminal multiple times over - a typical US president, only worse.
His Wednesday address at CIA headquarters was predictable demagogic duplicity. He took credit for Russia’s war on terrorism, claiming “ISIL is on the defensive” thanks to US-led coalition efforts.
Its thousands of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq with so-called partners failed to hit ISIS targets, willfully avoided them, continues focusing on infrastructure and government sites in both countries.
America’s war on terrorism is entirely fabricated. Russia’s is devastatingly real, smashing ISIS and other terrorist groups, destroying their weapons, munitions, command and control areas, bunkers, other facilities and will to fight.
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.
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