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San Bernardino Incident Has the Earmarks of a False Flag
by Stephen Lendman
Justifiable suspicions about what happened surfaced straightaway after the incident.
The alleged perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, appear to have been used as convenient patsies - the same way April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Dzhokhar were unjustly framed for a crime they didn’t commit.
False flag attacks are used to stoke fear, to enlist public support for planned domestic and foreign horrors, harming the welfare and security of millions at home and abroad - including waging endless imperial wars along with harsh crackdowns on fundamental freedoms.
Americans Fear Phantom Terrorist Threat
by Stephen Lendman
[image:595:]In his 1933 inaugural address, during the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Today it’s rogue US governance waging war on humanity at home and abroad - what too few people understand.
Americans are the world’s most over-entertained, uninformed people - largely mindless and indifferent about the horrors committed by their government, harming their well-being, security and futures, threatening world peace.
Instead of getting informed and acting responsibly to protect their welfare, they believe the Big Lies they’re told by official sources - disgracefully repeated by media scoundrels, mouthpieces for wealth and power exclusively.
The claim about waging endless wars to protect national security is a complete fabrication. America’s only threats are state-sponsored or ones it invents.
Fear-mongering gets most people to believe a phantom terrorist threat exists. State-sponsored false flags like 9/11 (the mother of them all), Paris in mid-November and most recently San Bernardino, make it easy to manipulate an uninformed public to support policies demanding condemnation.
As long as most people rely on television for so-called news and information, they’ll remain mindless that terrorists “R” us.
New York Times/CBS polling data show pre-Paris and San Bernardino, only 4% of Americans called terrorism the nation’s top problem. Now it’s 19%.
Chances of a significant terrorist attack on US soil (a real one, not a false flag) is near zero. Public opinion believes otherwise.
Asked in The Times/CBS poll “how likely is a terror attack in the US,” 44% said very, 35% somewhat, and only 17% not too likely or not at all.
These numbers are the highest registered since since the post-9/11 October 1, 2001 Times/CBS poll. Asked the same question about the likelihood of a terrorist attack in America, 53% of respondents said very, 35% somewhat, and only 10% not too likely or not at all.
Fear-mongering aided by false flags works. Instead of focusing on real issues like protracted Main Street Depression conditions, growing homeland tyranny, and the threat of possible nuclear war, most people nonsensically believe a phantom terrorist threat is likely or somewhat likely - not realizing they’ve been duped to support an agenda harming their welfare and security.
For the first time since 2006 (before the 2008 financial crisis, creating protracted Main Street Depression conditions), most Americans fear a terrorist attack on US soil - either homegrown (63%) or originating from abroad (59%), clear evidence of public ignorance and the power of propaganda to manipulate people effectively.
Nearly 70% of Americans consider ISIS a major threat. Only 11% say not at all - the public mindless about US responsibility for creating the terror group and others like it, used as imperial foot soldiers.
Only one-fourth of Americans think the fight against ISIS is going well or somewhat well - not realizing Washington supports what it claims to oppose, or understanding US imperial wars caused the greatest refugee crisis since WW II.
The public is evenly divided on whether to let displaced Syrians enter America - even after a careful vetting process to screen out threats.
Post-San Bernardino, Obama’s approval rating on combating terrorism sunk to 34%, a record low. 57% of Americans disapprove of how he’s handling the issue, a record high.
Two-thirds of Democrats support him, compared to 90% of Republicans and 60% of independents against. His overall approval rating is 44% - astonishing it’s not much lower given how gravely he’s affected the welfare of the vast majority of Americans.
Only 24% believe the country is headed in the right direction. The Times/CBS poll was conducted from December 4 - 8 among a random sample of 1,275 adults nationwide.
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Justice Denied Sole Dawabsha Family Survivor
by Stephen Lendman
Last July, extremist settlers set the Dawabsha family home ablaze. Husband and wife Saad and Riham were killed. So was their 18-month-old infant Ali.
Four-year-old Ahmed alone survived, still hospitalized months later, painfully recovering from third-degree burns - justice so far denied him and people of conscience everywhere for this brutal high crime.
Last September, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted knowing who killed Ahmed’s parents and infant brother. He refused to arrest them on the phony pretext of “protect(ing) the identity” of alleged intelligence sources - effectively saying it’s OK to murder Palestinians.
At the time, a senior IDF official said security agencies have “no doubt” that immolating Dawabsha family members “was an act of Jewish terrorism, and that’s unambiguous.”
Radicalizing the Oppressed, Humiliated and Marginalized: There Must be 50 Ways
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man (or nation) who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
So it seems that all the Republicans running for president (and their supporters) are ignorant about the root causes of “radicalization” and ‘terrorism”. These xenophobic (“the fear of foreigners”) politicians are, perhaps unwittingly, following the politics and punitive theologies of many other extremist right-wing notables from history, including Adolf Hitler.
Donald Trump is the GOP candidate that is currently the most popular with Republican voters, but he is in a close tie with every other front-runner when it comes to ignorance about what motivates “terrorism”. Trump says: "…the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from [and why] we will have to [wait to] determine…until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
Chicago’s Mayor on the Hot Seat
by Stephen Lendman
Career Democrat party member, former congressman, Obama White House chief of staff, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in May 2011 - reelected last April for another four-year term.
He’s notoriously hard-line, neoliberal and pro-Israeli to a fault. The late Chicago-based Citizens Committee to Clean up the Courts chairman Sherman Skolnick called him the “acting deputy chief for North America of Mossad.”
His father, Benjamin, was involved in smuggling weapons to the Jewish Irgun underground terrorist group (co-led by future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin) in Palestine pre-1948.
Their elements were notoriously involved in bombing Jerusalem’s King David Hotel (July 1946 - slaughtering 92 Brits, Arabs and Jews, along with wounding 58 others), as well as the horrific Deir Yassin massacre (April 1948), randomly killing up to 120 defenseless Palestinians mercilessly, including women and children, dozens more in continued fighting - part of the future state of Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing master plan.
Saudi-Arabia Hosts Anti-Assad Terrorist Groups
by Stephen Lendman
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most tyrannical nations, a valued US ally involved in regional state-terror.
From December 8 - 10, it hosted a three-day conference on Syria, attended by terrorist groups allied with Washington, its NATO partners, Saudi rulers and other regional rogue states, wanting Assad ousted by force, ignoring his overwhelming popular support. It bears repeating what previous articles stressed. No so-called anti-Assad “moderates” exist, or too few to matter. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and other groups fighting his government are extremist terrorists - imported from scores of countries, US imperial foot soldiers against peace and stability.
Putin Countering America’s Counteroffensive in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Putin’s geopolitical agenda is carefully crafted, fully in accord with international law. It’s focused on protecting Russian interests, lawlessly targeted by America’s imperial agenda.
Its aim is replacing Putin with a pro-Western puppet, balkanizing Russia for easier control, stealing its resources and exploiting it people - the same ruthless agenda bipartisan US policymakers have in mind worldwide.
Putin intervened in Syria to combat ISIS and other terrorist groups, prevent their spread, especially to Central Asia and Russia - what Washington intends unless stopped.
He’s committed to stay the course until accomplishing his mission. With formidable Russian air power and sophisticated S-400 missile defense systems controlling Syrian airspace, he’ll tolerate no one interfering with his righteous mission.
Hillary Clinton: Wall Street ToolV
by Stephen Lendman
A Clinton presidency would be disastrous. Among an array of deplorable aspirants, she stands out as the worst of the bunch - the most dangerous, disreputable and duplicitous.
Her record as first lady, New York senator and secretary of state is well documented - unabashedly pro-war, pro-business, pro-Wall Street, pro-Israel’s killing machine, anti-populist, anti-democracy, anti-rule of law principles, and an agenda against a nation fit to live in.
Days earlier, she pledged to elevate Washington’s ties with Israel “to the next level,” saying, as president, she’ll work with Netanyahu on “very much strengthening and intensifying our relationship on military matters” - code language for closer US/Israeli partnership on regional wars, as well as supporting its genocidal state terror on defenseless Palestinians.
How the Richest Man in the World Rules the U.S. from Riyadh Saudi Arabia Leads the Jihadist Nations; U.S. Assists Them
Eric Zuesse
Did you know that Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States, the Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud (affectionately known in the U.S. as “Bandar Bush”), had donated millions to Al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks, according to the sworn court testimony of the man who had served as Al Qaeda’s bookkeeper and as the bagman who personally collected the mega-donations to Al Qaeda, all in cash?
How come you didn’t read about that in newspapers and magazines, and hear about it on TV ’news’-reports; and why was this stunning and crucially important testimony published only at small independent news-sites, such as here? (Evaluate it for yourself there, and figure out for yourself why the man there testifying is still kept hidden away in a U.S. super-max prison, and why his testimony has been hushed up. Even though American Presidents have changed, America’s international policies haven’t. Barack Obama protects George W. Bush, who previously had protected “Bandar Bush.” Obama, who publicly condemns torture, even privately protects Bush’s agents who perpetrated tortures.)
Washington Wants Its Empire of Bases Expanded
by Stephen Lendman
Well over 1,000 global bases in around two-thirds of the world’s nations aren’t enough for Pentagon commanders.
They’re exploiting the hyped threat of terrorism to say they want more. A feature December 10 NYT Times report headlined “As It Fights ISIS, Pentagon Seeks String of Bases Overseas.”
The Times ignored its bloated budget and current global empire of bases, used as launching pads for war, threatening world peace. Additional ones assure more conflicts, escalated current ones, and the horror of possible global war with nuclear weapons, humanity’s greatest threat.
The Times disgracefully supports Washington’s imperial agenda, its endless wars of aggression against invented enemies. America’s last ones were Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, none since. Pentagon commanders lied, proposing new bases in Africa, Southwest and Central Asia, as well as the Middle East to combat ISIS - America’s ally, not enemy. The Times didn’t explain.
Instead, it claimed the bases will “be used for collecting intelligence and carrying out strikes against the terrorist group’s far-flung affiliates.”
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