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The Age of Imperial Wars
James Petras
Introduction
2015 has become a year of living dangerously.
Wars are spreading across the globe. Wars are escalating as new countries are bombed and the old are ravaged with ever greater intensity.
Countries, where relatively peaceful changes had taken place through recent elections, are now on the verge of civil wars.
These are wars without victors, but plenty of losers; wars that don’t end; wars where imperial occupations are faced with prolonged resistance.
There are never-ending torrents of war refugees flooding across borders. Desperate people are detained, degraded and criminalized for being the survivors and victims of imperial invasions.
Now major nuclear powers face off in Europe and Asia: NATO versus Russia, US-Japan versus China. Will these streams of blood and wars converge into one radiated wilderness drained of its precious life blood?
Sergey Lavrov’s Message to Washington
by Stephen Lendman
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is a world-class diplomat - shaming his US and EU counterparts. He represents a nation dedicated to world peace and stability. Claims otherwise are Big Lies.
Never before in history has the threat of humanity destroying nuclear war been greater. The UN Charter’s Preamble stating: “We the peoples of the United Nations (stand) determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of (devastating world) war did nothing to stop America’s endless aggression for unchallenged global dominance - heading recklessly toward WW III if not stopped.
On Sunday, Russia’s Rossiyskaya Gazeta and China’s Renmin Ribao published Lavrov’s article titled “Lessons of History and New Milestones.”
Repressive Israeli Administrative Detentions
by Stephen Lendman
Life threatening hunger strikes by Khader Adnan, Muhammad Allan and others reflect the longstanding struggle of persecuted Palestinians for justice - indefinitely detained solely for political reasons, no others despite Israeli claims otherwise.
Criminals deserve punishment - no one for their political views or right to express them. Israel uses administrative detentions as a repressive tool, enforcing occupation harshness.
Jews aren’t administratively detained (with rare exceptions short-term proving the rule), only Palestinians. They’re denied due process and judicial fairness, held indefinitely, at times longterm, and aren’t told why they’re imprisoned.
Kiev Mobilized for Full-Scale Aggression on Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
Obama’s war on Donbass using Ukrainian army foot soldiers, paramilitaries, foreign mercenaries, Nazi-infested death squads and others never stopped since initiated in April 2014.
Kiev flagrantly violated Geneva and two Minsk ceasefire agreements straightaway. Obama wants endless war. So do US-installed fascists violating human and civil rights brazenly, terrorizing Ukrainians opposing their ruthless rule. At an August 22 military ceremony in Chuguev, near Donbass, illegitimate oligarch president Petro Poroshenko boasted about using Minsk II to rearm and increase Ukraine’s military ranks to much greater size than last year - despite a bankrupt economy near collapse, using borrowed funds desperately needed for vital services going begging. More on this below.
The Latest Science on Global Warming
Eric Zuesse
Because of the prejudiced coverage of the global warming issue that’s common in much of the press, I have decided to present highlights from one of the most comprehensive articles that’s now being considered by one of the world’s top scientific journals on the topic: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. This is the latest scientific knowledge on the subject.
The paper is titled: “Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 ◦C global warming is highly dangerous,” by J. Hansen et al. (You can read it there.)
Black Monday
by Stephen Lendman
As this is written, US financial markets haven’t opened. Dow, S&P and Nasdaq futures indicate steep opening declines.
European bourses are down about 3% - following continued sharp Asian market sell-offs - in lockstep with what Reuters called “the Great fall of China.” The Shanghai Composite fell another 8.5% after last week’s steep declines. More on this below.
So far, it’s too soon to know if what’s happening is what the late longtime market expert/Progressive Radio News Hour guest Bob Chapman warned listeners and readers about in his twice-weekly International Forecaster reports.
“There is absolutely no way a financial crisis can be avoided,” he said. “Fragile isn’t the word,” for what’s happening. “The operative (word) is abject failure,” headed for eventual collapse.
Most Palestinians won't be sorry for Abbas's departure
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine
Palestinian Authority (PA) sources have been disseminating rumors indicating that Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has submitted his resignation as Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee.
It is uncertain whether these leaks contain any modicum of truth or are just balloon tests meant to gauge Palestinian public reactions to the possible resignation of the PA leader.
Abbas did on several occasions "threaten" to resign. According to sources close to him, Abbas, now 82 years of age, probably thought that the overall Palestinian scene would fall into shambles should he quit his post.
Gaza in Ruins a Year After Israeli Aggression
by Stephen Lendman
A year after Israel launched premeditated aggression on Gaza last July, the Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement said:
“(T)he Strip remains in ruins, light years away from the reconstruction many had hoped for.”
“Despite the growing recognition amongst the Israeli security establishment that Gaza’s rehabilitation is a precondition to regional stability and security, Israel continues to impose sweeping, arbitrary restrictions on travel and on movement of commercial goods. Today, access remains the exception, rather than the rule.” Unemployment exceeds 40% - for youths around 60%. “(N)o significant rebuilding is taking place and civilian infrastructure has not even been restored to its state prior to the operation. Poverty and aid dependence are rampant.” Widespread destruction was overwhelming.
U.S. Gov’t. Says: 'July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded for the globe’
Eric Zuesse
To global-warming-deniers such as the Koch brothers and Exxon/Mobil, the news that was reported on 20 August 2015 must be just a ‘coincidence,’ but the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported then that July 2015 was “the all-time highest monthly temperature” in this planet’s entire scientifically recorded record, which started in 1880.
Furthermore: "Global oceans record warm for July; January-July 2015 also record warm.”
The more detailed version of the report says: The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for July 2015 was the highest for July in the 136-year period of record, at 0.81°C (1.46°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F), surpassing the previous record set in 1998 by 0.08°C (0.14°F). As July is climatologically the warmest month of the year globally, this monthly global temperature of 16.61°C (61.86°F) was also the highest among all 1627 months in the record that began in January 1880. The July temperature is currently increasing at an average rate of 0.65°C (1.17°F) per century.
Pentagon Plans Escalated Drone Killings
by Stephen Lendman
Drones are instruments of state terror. Washington’s official narrative is pure rubbish - claiming terrorists alone are targeted, civilians aren’t killed, and drone warfare makes America safer.
Fact: Attacks are indiscriminate extrajudicial executions - in flagrant violation of core international law.
Fact: Few so-called “high value” targets are eliminated.
Fact: Large numbers of civilian men, women and children are murdered in cold blood. International law protecting them in combat theaters is ignored. Fact: Bodies of innocent victims are blasted into unrecognizable pieces or burned beyond recognition. Fact: Family members, bystanders and rescuers are killed or maimed by what’s called “double tapping” - striking the targeted area two or more times.
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