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America: The World’s Greatest Threat
by Stephen Lendman
All US presidents at least since WW II were unindicted war criminals, Obama the latest in a long line of rogue leaders, reflecting America’s odious history, systematically pursuing empire, ravaging and destroying one country after another, remaining unaccountable for his high crimes.
Whoever succeeds him in 2017 will continue the same reckless policies, maybe overstepping enough to launch WW III, potential armageddon if occurs.
All presidential aspirants from both parties favor endless wars of conquest. Peace is anathema. Maintaining America’s menacing military global footprint is prioritized, its empire of bases, its alliances with other rogue states, its rage to dominate unchallenged - the greatest threat to world security and stability.
US Imperial Wars Responsible for Refugee Crisis
by Stephen Lendman
Human floods undertake hazardous journeys to new countries - seeking safe havens away from war-torn countries, desperate to get there and begin new lives.
Bipartisan US imperial policies bear full responsibility - endless wars of aggression, devastating targeted countries, displacing tens of millions. Complicit NATO partners and rogue Arab states share guilt.
As long as conflicts continue, human floods of desperate people will follow, internally or externally displaced, enduring enormous hardships, getting pathetically little aid when most needed.
Washington’s response to its culpability for the greatest refugee crisis since WW II is largely dismissive - ignoring its responsibility to help desperate people, paying lip service in addressing it with token amounts of aid, disgracefully little for emergency conditions, needing a large-scale Marshall Plan-type response, America, Canada and European countries contributing proportionately.
Obama and Putin to Meet at UN
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, September 28, both leaders will meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly’s 70th session, an array of world leaders to address the world body.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed it, saying “(a) meeting with Obama has been coordinated.” When asked what both leaders will discuss, he responded “I’ll give you three guesses.”
Restoring peace and stability to war-torn Syria and Donbass top Putin’s geopolitical agenda - along with enlisting world community support to combat ISIS and other takfiri terrorists in Syria and Iraq and the risk of their spread without a united effort to defeat them. Both leaders rarely speak, less often meet, the last time briefly in November 2014 at the Beijing, China-hosted APEC summit. No detailed meeting was held. Their longest discussion was a 15-minute encounter during June 2014 D-Day commemorations in Normandy.
Arab World and the Remaking of Global Politics
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Towards Understanding the Political Problems
And here is the dilemma we face as a civilization. We march collectively toward self-annihilation. Corporate capitalism, if left unchecked, will kill us. Yet we refuse, because we cannot think and no longer listen to those who do think, to see what is about to happen to us. We have created entertaining mechanisms to obscure and silence the harsh truths, from climate change to the collapse of globalization to our enslavement to corporate power that will mean our self-destruction. If we can do nothing else we must, even as individuals nurture the private dialogue and the solitude that make thought possible. It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
(Chris Hedges - Author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (“How to Think”, Common Dreams).
Are there any global leaders to extend moral and intellectual security to the beleaguered mankind? Global political affairs are fast becoming a theater of absurdity. In a rational spectrum, leaders are not leading; large segments of the global mankind are enduring unthinkable moral and intellectual sickness as political problems are pilling up to crush the human soul and body. All wars affect people. The global community wonders where to look for change and peacemaking that is nowhere visible on the political horizon.
Israel Imposes Lockdown on Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
Israel prevents free movement throughout the Occupied Territories at all times. Jews only roads prohibit Palestinians from using them.
Settlements are for exclusive Jewish use - no goyim allowed, especially Muslims. Zionism is apartheid on steroids - far exceeding South Africa’s harshness.
It's a sophisticated form social, economic, political and racial discrimination - combining suffocating strangulation with slow-motion genocide, incorporating colonialism’s worst policies. They include murder, extermination, enslavement, torture, arbitrary arrests, illegal imprisonments, denial of the right to life and liberty, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and other abusive acts imposed by Jews on Arabs.
US Cooperation with Russia on Syria?
by Stephen Lendman
Washington doesn’t negotiate. It demands. John Kerry saying he’s willing to engage with Russia and Assad on Syria is smoke screen deception. Claiming the need for a political solution belies America’s rage for war.
Washington undermined Geneva I and II talks despite Russia’s best efforts. Longstanding US plans call for regime change.
Days after 9/11, retired General Wesley Clark visited then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon "No one will tell us where or when to bomb", he was told. Military commanders said Iraq would be attacked.
On a second visit, Clark was told plans were to "destroy the governments in seven countries,” he explained. Besides ongoing war on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran would be targeted.
Obama’s Duplicitous Remarks Welcoming Pope Francis
by Stephen Lendman
In welcoming the pontiff on the White House south lawn, Obama ignored his earlier disturbing record.
Before becoming Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and a cardinal in 2001, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) fully supported Argentina's CIA/Henry Kissinger backed coup, followed by military dictatorship (March 1976 - December 1983) - a brutal period of dirty war (la guerra sucia), much like under Pinochet in Chile for nearly 17 years.
Thousands were disappeared (los desaparecidos), held in detention centers, tortured and killed. Anyone expressing dissent or considered an ideological or political threat was vulnerable.
Facade of Diplomacy Masks Same Old US Latin American Policy
by Stephen Lendman
Nothing ever changes in Washington except new faces continuing old policies dressed up at times to look different - same old, same old always.
Duopoly power is ruthless, predatory and merciless. Business as usual continues - worse than ever under a so-called “peace” president at war throughout his tenure against more nations than any of his predecessors, destabilizing others globally, pressuring, bullying or bludgeoning independent ones to obey Washington rules or else.
New York Times propaganda wants readers to believe otherwise - the myth of a kinder, gentler America. None exists - not now, earlier or ahead. Hegemons are unbending. They don’t change their stripes - just their strategies and tactics.
Mumia Denied Life-Saving Treatment
By Stephen Lendman
The state of Pennsylvania is slowly murdering longstanding political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal by willful neglect. He’s seriously ill with hepatitus C.
Untreated, it can cause chronic potentially fatal liver disease. Attorneys Bret Grote and Robert J. Boyle representing Mumia say it’s “the underlying cause of his health crisis,” including skin lesions, painful rashes, open wounds and severe swelling.
On August 2, they filed a lawsuit “seek(ing) injunctive relief for prison medical staff’s failure to treat” his active disease.
Syrian Refugees Call Israel Their Main Enemy
by Stephen Lendman
If views expressed by some Syrian refugees represent majority sentiment, Israel is the region’s main enemy. According to some polls, it’s the world’s most hated country along with America.
On September 12, Times of Israel contributor Rossella Tercatin said despite their hazardous journey and cruel treatment en route to a Milan, Italy refugee reception center, they “view Israel as their real enemy.”
One arrival named Adman said he respects all races and religions. “(W)e are all brothers, but Israel is the ultimate enemy…But I want to stress, Jews are not my enemy. Zionists are my enemy.”
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