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by Stephen Lendman
Obama's legacy won't please him when independently written. He entered office promising "hope and change."
He delivered demagogic Big Lies, permanent wars on humanity, police state repression, and outlandish corporate favoritism at the expense of beneficial social change.
He appointed a rogue's gallery of scoundrels to top administration posts. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are unindicted war criminals.
They're arguably America's most venal ever Secretaries of State. Their rap sheets fill volumes. They're neocon extremists masquerading as democrats.
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
The Palestinian Authority (PA) was created more than 20 years ago in order to advance Palestinian national interests, extricate the Palestinian people from the clutches of the enduring Israeli occupation and expedite the establishment of a viable independent Palestinian state.
Now, it is amply clear that the PA has utterly failed to achieve any of its stated goals. Indeed, the PA has more or less become the main obstacle impeding the creation of a true Palestinian state.
Moreover, the nearly total subservience of the PA to Israel, has actually enabled the Jewish-Zionist entity to effectively liquidate the Palestinian question under the rubric of a fictitious "peace process" which we all know has a form but no substance.
Indeed, under the false umbrella of that sham process, Israel has nearly completely eradicated any remaining prospects for true Palestinian statehood. This was done by expanding Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank and confiscating hundreds of thousands of acres of Palestinian land, leaving no sufficient space for the creation a meaningful Palestinian entity worthy of the name.
by Stephen Lendman
Alternative sources alone provide reliable information on issues mattering most. Mostly individuals commenting online pro bono.
Speaking publicly in venues willing to host them. Expressing honest views when interviewed. Hard truths more important than ever to know.
Ideas and opinions Orwell called revolutionary in times of universal deceit. Imagine how he'd respond to today's horrors.
Fascist governments masquerade as democracies. US imperial wars rage without end - waged one after another or in multiples.
Against governments threatening no one. Western ones target them anyway.
Criminal gangs masquerade as political parties institute slow-motion tyranny at home. They threaten humanity's survival.
MSM television and print media support their worst policies - pretending they're beneficial, legal, the right thing to do.
by Stephen Lendman
No nation in world history matches US private and public corruption. Corporate giants have virtual license to steal.
Grand theft is core Wall Street operating policy. This writer's book titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America" discusses it. It's now in its second edition in China.
Goldman Sachs is like other Wall Street crime families. It profits hugely by swindling clients it calls "muppets." Small-time con artists rip off marks.
Goldman and other Wall Street crooks loot on a grand scale. GS chairman/CEO Lloyd Blankfein calls it "doing God's work." Which one he didn't say.
When corporate giants control federal, state and local government, anything goes is policy. Ordinary people lose out altogether.
by Stephen Lendman
How many simultaneous wars can America wage? How many more does Obama have in mind?
As long as neocon lunatics run Washington's asylum, expect wars without end to rage - against one country after another until perhaps all planet earth is turned to smoldering rubble.
On March 4, the Military Times headlined "Dempsey does not rule out US ground troops in Syria."
Saying Joint Chiefs chairman General Martin Dempsey told House Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee members US forces may be sent to Syria.
"If the commander on the ground approaches either me or the secretary of defense and believes that the introduction of special operations forces to accompany Iraqis or the new Syrian forces, or JTACS (joint tactical-air controllers), these skilled folks who can call in close-air support, if we believe that's necessary to achieve our objectives, we will make that recommendation," he said.
Eric Zuesse
He promised “universal coverage” but delivered a plan in which that was impossible. Consequently, whereas 85.4% of Americans had coverage in 2008, only 87.7% have coverage today, far short of the promised 100% — though 100% coverage is the norm in industrialized countries. The reason: Universal coverage requires that healthcare be treated as a right not a privilege, but doing that would cut billions from profits to healthcare stockholders, who include most of the aristocracy — and America is run for the aristocracy’s benefit, not for the public’s.
Obamacare started being available on 1 October 2013 and has now been available for 16 months. When candidate Obama was running for the Presidency, he promised “universal coverage,” which is what exists in virtually all other developed countries: 100%, everyone insured, no citizen lacking health insurance for ordinary and life-preserving needs. (Medicare-for-everybody would have been this.) Now that his Obamacare has been available for 16 months, is every American citizen health-insured; did he provide what he had promised? Is America no longer the lone outlier that has a lousy system of funding health care — overloading emergency-rooms, which is the costliest way to deal with healthcare (and one reason why all other advanced countries pay far less and yet obtain better healthcare results than the U.S. does)?
by Stephen Lendman
In Venezuela and throughout Latin America, Chavistas proclaim Yo soy Chavez (I am Chavez)! March 5 marked the second anniversary of his death.
Obama killed him - either by poisoning or infecting him with incurable cancer causing substances. Four major surgeries in 18 months couldn't save him.
He's gone. Chavismo lives! Bolivarian social justice he began is institutionalized. Venezuelans get vital benefits Americans can't imagine.
Constitutional provisions mandate them. America and Venezuela are constitutional worlds apart. More on this below.
On March 5, 2013, word came at 4:45PM. Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced it.
by Stephen Lendman
It's unprecedented in outrageous lies on Ukraine. Everything from calling US-installed Nazis democrats to phantom Russian hordes pouring across the border Wehrmacht-style.
US officials recite one Big Lie after another. Media scoundrels regurgitate them like gospel. Mindless Americans believe whoppers anyone paying minimal attention would reject.
Wars without end persist. Millions die. Survivors suffer horrifically. Ukraine is in the eye of the storm.
It's just a matter of time before full-scale conflict resumes. Perhaps with US combat troops involved and/or shock and awe terror-bombing. Maybe setting the entire continent ablaze.
LONDON — A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain’s top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster, at the heart of the British government. What happened next in the summer of 1984 helps to explain how shocking allegations of rape and murder against some of the country’s most powerful men went unchecked for decades.
Less than 24 hours after starting to inquire about the dossier presented to him by a senior Labour Party politician, the editor was confronted in his office by a furious member of parliament who threatened him and demanded the documents. “He was frothing at the mouth and really shouting and spitting in my face,” Don Hale told The Daily Beast. “He was straight at me like a raging lion; he was ready to knock me through the wall.”
Despite the MP’s explosive intervention, Hale refused to hand over the papers which appeared to show that Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher’s Home Secretary, was fully aware of a pedophile network that included top politicians.
Eric Zuesse
Obamacare started being available on 1 October 2013 and has now been available for 16 months. When candiate Obama was running for the Presidency, he promised “universal coverage,” which is what exists in virtually all other developed countries: 100%, everyone insured, no citizen lacking health insurance for ordinary and life-preserving needs. (Medicare-for-everybody would have been this.) Now that his Obamacare has been available for 16 months, is every American citizen health-insured; did he provide what he had promised? Is America no longer the lone outlier that has a lousy system of funding health care — overloading emergency-rooms, which is the costliest way to deal with healthcare (and one reason why all other advanced countries pay far less and yet obtain better results than the U.S. does)?
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