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Israeli Barbarism: Terrorizing Palestinian Children
by Stephen Lendman
Fascists run Israel. Palestinian children perhaps feel their brutalizing treatment most.
On February 10, Defence of Children International Palestine (DCIP) headlined "Palestinian children victims of Israeli abuse designed to coerce confessions."
Virtually always offenses weren't committed or were too minor to matter. Guilt by accusation is official Israeli policy.
Palestinian children are treated as mercilessly as adults. Most troubling are brutal beatings, other forms of torture and prolonged isolation in solitary confinement.
On average for interrogation purposes is 15 days, said DCIP. For one child it was nearly twice as long.
"Between 2012 and 2014, Israeli military, police and security agents held 54 Palestinian children in solitary confinement for interrogation purposes prior to charging them with any offense," DCIP explained.
Most abused children were between ages 12 and 17. The vast majority had to fend for themselves alone with no outside contacts.
Bashing Russia and Rebels for Kiev Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
rebel forces routing junta troops in Debaltsevo. Thousands forced to surrender
The same Big Lies repeat since conflict began last April. No letup whatever followed the latest attempt to resolve things diplomatically in Minsk on February 12.
Russia and rebels are consistently blamed for naked Kiev aggression, brutal atrocities, and post-Geneva/Minsk I and II violations.
Joe Biden spoke to Poroshenko following rebel forces routing junta troops in Debaltsevo. Thousands were forced to surrender.
Kiev abandoned them. Rebel forces won a strategic victory. German intelligence says Kiev's military is disintegrating. They're outmaneuvered, outsmarted, outfought and soundly defeated.
Biden and Poroshenko condemned Russia and rebels for junta crimes. A White House press secretary statement lied saying "if Russia continues to violate the Minsk agreements, including the most recent (one) signed on February 12, the costs to Russia will be high."
Arab Leaders Count Dead Bodies but Peacemaking is not the Aim
mahboob A. Khawaja
Arab People in Search of Peace and Competent Leaders
The Arab world is fast becoming landscape of extended graveyards, missing sense of humanity and futuristic impulse is nowhere to be seen. Do the oil producing leaders of transitory economic prosperity really care for the catastrophic present and what future will unleash to them? Subsequent to the 9/11, the Arab world in particular and the Muslim people in general are the victims of planned new age of confrontation and exploitation. Many misfortunes more horrifying than the outbursts of the US-led bogus War on Terrorism await to inflict pains, bloodbaths and destruction across the Muslim societies. More crusading armies vigorously bombarding the agriculturally fertile and culturally enriched Arab heartland – Iraq, Syria and soon to other neighboring lands. Like the 1258 Halku Khan’s Mongol ferocity of Baghdad and beyond, Arab leaders are not ashamed of the missing courage and leadership vision for political emancipation but uncertain and overwhelming authoritarianism making no sense to a rational critical mind for political change. They were never decolonized but remained faithful to imperial loyalty. Have the Arab rulers solved any of the important problems confronting the Arab masses over half of a century?
Is Tolerance of Dishonesty the Fundamental Problem in Our Culture?
Eric Zuesse
NBC-TV’s star news-anchor Brian Williams got caught repeatedly lying and fabricating his fake-‘courageous’ personal involvement in news stories that he had ‘reported.’ At LinkedIn, Rob Wyse headlined recently, "Brian Williams Essentially Lied on His Resume, Or Exaggerated The Truth,” and he noted there:
"Whether you call it a lie, or an exaggeration — it is a breach of trust. And that is what is looming over Brian Williams. A breach of his public trust. He is a trusted figure in our society. Perhaps the position of news anchor does not hold the same vaulted [he meant vaunted] esteem and prestige as in the days of Edward R. Murrow, or Walter Cronkite — but nonetheless, Williams is in a position of responsibility and trust. And when trust is broken, you almost never gain it back.”
Kiev Surrenders Debaltsevo: A Key Strategic Victory for Rebel Forces
by Stephen Lendman
A mass turnover of weapons by Ukrainian forces is underway in Debaltsevo.
Ukraine's Unian information agency announced it headlining "Ukraine withdrawing troops from Debaltseve."
Kiev's battalion commander Semen Semenchenko announced it on Facebook.
Saying "(a) planned and organized withdrawal of troops from Debaltseve is being carried out."
"All the stories about (Ukraine) regaining control in Logvinovo have proved to be false."
Evidence About the Connection Between the Ukrainian Coup and Crimea's Breakaway
Eric Zuesse
Video - Truth about Maiden seen by Crimean Prosecutor, part 2. With english
subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXA9xPGhKo.
Little attention is generally paid to the connection between the February 2014 coup in Ukraine, and Crimea’s breakaway from Ukraine. The testimony that will here be cited helps fill this in. An attorney in the federal prosecutor’s office at the time of the coup refers to the longtime national socialist, Andriy Paribiy, as having been the key person behind the coup. In the new regime, Paribiy became appointed to become the chief of national security, and the top person overseeing the war against “ATO” 'Anti Terrorist Operation' to exterminate the residents in the formerly Ukrainian area, Donbass, the area which had voted 90% for the overthrown President Viktor Yanukovych, and which consequently rejected this new regime, which Washington violently imposed to replace him.
Breaking News: Vaccine Researcher Dr. Andrew Wakefield Set For Full Exoneration
Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s paper on the Autism- MMR vaccine connection as it appeared in The Lancet
British Court Throws Out Conviction of Autism/Vaccine MD: Andrew Wakefield’s Co-Author Completely Exonerated
Autism Action Network
In a stunning reversal, world renowned pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. John Walker-Smith won his appeal against the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council regulatory board that had ruled against both him and Andrew Wakefield for their roles in the 1998 Lancet MMR paper, which raised questions about a link to autism. The complete victory means that Walker-Smith has been returned to the status of a fully licensed physician in the UK, although he had already retired in 2001 — six years before the GMC trial even began.
Justice John Mitting ruled on the appeal by Walker-Smith, saying that the GMC “panel’s determination cannot stand. I therefore quash it.” He said that its conclusions were based on “inadequate and superficial reasoning and, in a number of instances, a wrong conclusion.” The verdict restores Walker-Smith’s name to the medical register and his reputation to the medical community. This conclusion is not surprising, as the GMC trial had no actual complainants, no harm came to the children who were studied, and parents supported Walker-Smith and Wakefield through the trial, reporting that their children had medically benefited from the treatment they received at the Royal Free Hospital.
Obama’s New National Security Strategy Is Rabidly Anti-Russian
Eric Zuesse
U.S. President Barack Obama’s just-issued National Security Strategy 2015 uses the term “aggression” precisely 18 times, all but one of which are either explicitly, or else possibly, referring to Russia, as allegedly doing the alleged “aggression” — never the U.S., and on only one occasion is he identifying North Korea with that term of opprobrium. Presumably, he thinks that Russia is by far the most “aggressive” country.
His new National Security Strategy is actually even obsessed with Russia, as being the virtually exclusive “aggressor” in the world. He especially alleges Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine, where Obama himself was the actual aggressor: Obama’s Ukrainian coup in February 2014 replaced a neutral Ukrainian President with an entire regime that is passionately anti-Russian; and many members of this regime are on record as aiming to wipe Russia entirely off the map — but Obama is not the “aggressor,” supposedly.
America's Interventionist Legacy: Failed States
by Stephen Lendman
Wherever America intervenes, failed states follow. Pro-Western stooge regimes replace sitting governments. They fail to provide essential functions, services and/or responsibilities required of sovereign independent ones. Failed state examples include Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Haiti, Honduras, Somalia, Yemen and Ukraine. Syria's government maintains power despite having lost control of much of its territory.
Wikipedia lists the following characteristics of failed states: "Loss of control of its territory, or the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force therein."
"Erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions."
"Inability to provide public services."
"Inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community."
How Stupid Do They Think We Are?
Eric Zuesse
Newsweek magazine headlined on February 5th, “‘Biggest NATO Reinforcement Since Cold War’ Sets Frontlines Against Russia,” and reported that, "According to general Charles Wald, former-deputy commander of U.S. European Command, … 'The question for Europe is: is Putin creeping further and further west?’” Wald is quoted as saying that the case of Ukraine especially worries him. This article continues: "'Is this a precursor to Russia moving into Moldova? Nagorno Karabakh has been bubbling up, and the Georgia issue is still unresolved. NATO has essentially set these [new military] bases in its frontline states,' Wald says, referring to the countries’ proximity to Russian territory.”
So: Russia is moving too close to NATO countries, according to the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department.
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