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Escalated US Wars Ahead?
by Stephen Lendman
Obama is out-of-control. Deranged. Obsessed with war. His appetite for mass slaughter and destruction insatiable.
Monday's ceremonial nominal end to over 13 years of war in Afghanistan belies longstanding US plans.
Including permanent occupation. Thousands of US combat troops remaining. Drone wars continuing. Afghanistan a de facto US colony.
Obama lied saying "our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible end."
Fact: America planned naked aggression on Afghanistan long before 9/11.
Fact: Despite its government posing no threat to America.
Fact: Or its neighbors.
Fact: Or had anything to do with 9/11.
Thoughts on New Year's Eve
by Stephen Lendman
Heading into 2015, things look grim. Domestically and abroad. US presidents able to govern like despots. Unilaterally claim emergency powers.
Declare martial law. Suspend constitutional rights. Rule by diktat. With or without congressional and/or judicial authority.
Based on alleged national security threats. Real or contrived. Deploying US combat troops on US streets at their discretion.
Unheard of in so-called democracies. Wage naked aggression on their say. Order anyone killed anywhere for any reason.
Including US citizens. Or detain them indefinitely. With no formal charges filed. No trial. No habeas rights. No judicial fairness.
Presidents can exercise judge, jury and executioner authority. Targeting anyone they wish. Have Big Brother watch everyone. Wage war on freedom. Eliminate it altogether at their discretion. Based on so-called national security priorities.
Bahrain: Profile of a Police State
by Stephen Lendman
Monarchal despotism runs Bahrain. Democracy is verboten. None whatever exists. Nor human and civil rights.
Anyone criticizing Al Khalifa rule risks arrest, imprisonment, torture, even death.
Repression persists. New "Protecting Society from Terrorism Act" legislation the latest example.
Americans for Democracy for Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) expressed deep concerns.
The new measure updates a 2006 law. Clarifying Bahrain's definition of terrorism. Including provisions further undermining fundamental rights.
US Vetoes Palestinian Statehood Resolution
by Stephen Lendman
Voting came Tuesday night. It didn't surprise. More on the results below.
Washington one-sidedly supports Israel. Including decades of ruthless persecution. Institutionalized racism. Permanent occupation.
Denial of fundamental Palestinian rights. Land theft. Settlement construction on stolen Palestinian land.
Longstanding Israeli ethnic cleansing. Thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in its gulag. Naked aggression at its discretion. Slow-motion genocide.
Palestine's resolution was tepid at best. Way short of what's just. What Palestinians deserve. What international law mandates.
Comments on Palestine's UN Failure
by Stephen Lendman
Millions of Palestinians lack fundamental rights everyone deserves. Denied for decades. Subjugated by Israeli harshness. With no end whatever in sight.
Governed by longstanding Israeli collaborators. Serving repressively as its enforcer. Benefitting at the expense of their own people.
Submitting a pathetically weak statehood resolution for Security Council consideration. An embarrassment and then some. Falling way short of what Palestinians deserve. What international law mandates. Defeated by US pressure. Its veto power. Supporting virtually everything Israel wants. Two nations united against Palestinian liberation. Determined to prevent it.
The Renewed Push For Deeper North American Integration
By Dana Gabriel
The globalist plan to incrementally merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union has been ongoing for years. While at times, the agenda appears to have seemingly stalled, current efforts to expand the trilateral partnership show that it is alive and once again gaining steam. With NAFTA as the foundation, the renewed push for deeper North American integration continues on many different fronts.
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), recently issued the report, Made in North America: a new agenda to sharpen our competitive edge. The CCCE is one of Canada’s most influential corporate lobby groups, with many of their proposals shaping the country’s domestic and foreign policy priorities. Throughout the years, they have pushed for deeper continental integration. With the 2015 North American Leaders Summit in mind, the CCCE offered a series of recommendations aimed at further expanding the trilateral relationship in areas such as border management, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy and regulatory cooperation. The report stated, “We need trilateral agreement on future directions, a clear commitment from the three leaders, and a central agency in each government with the responsibility to coordinate effective and efficient implementation. By pursuing a strategic plan of intelligent change and reform, our three nations can lead the world economy for years to come.” The CCCE also acknowledged how their policy paper is intended to complement the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report, North America: Time for a New Focus, which was released several months ago.
Ukrainian Soldier Explains Why He Enjoys Killing Russians
Eric Zuesse
In an unusually lengthy video interview with a soldier for the Ukrainian Government, he states why he wants to kill as many residents in the (ethnically Russian) separatist area as possible. This soldier, named Nazar, was interviewed by Ukraine’s Channel 5 TV, the current Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s television station until he became President on May 25th. Poroshenko, as Ukraine’s President, no longer owns the station.
This interview was not aired, because the Ukrainian Government decided that it wasn’t appropriate for their purposes. Among other things, the soldier condemns Poroshenko for not being insufficiently devoted to the killing of Russians. However, this interview ended up being posted to the site liveleak, on December 31st. Here is an excerpt of the transcript:
Obama Says He Is Improving the World He asserts: “wherever we have been involved over the last several years, I think the outcome has been better because of American leadership.”
Eric Zuesse
U.S. President Barack Obama said in a December 30th Oval Office interview with Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio, that, “wherever we have been involved over the last several years, I think the outcome has been better because of American leadership.” This statement from him was part of his answer when Inskeep asked whether the President had regrets about “overthrowing the Gadhafi regime” in Libya.
Obama answered:
“We are hugely influential; we're the one indispensable nation. But when it comes to nation-building, when it comes to what is going to be a generational project in a place like Libya or a place like Syria or a place like Iraq, we can help, but we can't do it for them.” In other words: the Libyan people failed, and the Syrian people failed, and the Iraqi people failed, according to America’s President — but he himself and his predecessor Bush did not fail by bombing those countries under false pretenses as they did.
Holidays; Theirs & Ours
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Holidays, in general, reflect the cultural aspects of different groups of people. Religious holidays, in particular, provide an insight into the archetypal collective consciousness of a group of people. The archetypal collective consciousness is defined by psychologists, such as Carl Jung, as specific innate drives that affect peoples’ ideas and concepts on ethical, moral, religious and cultural levels, which in turn mold and determine their behaviors.
Thus, one can understand the behaviors of a certain group of people by studying their religious holidays.
There is no difference between today and tomorrow
Michael Collins
(12/31, Washington,DC) New Years is actually more of a con than Christmas. The real meaning of Christmas, the celebration of the birth of the prince of peace, is overwhelmed by the festival of retail madness required to support so many retail concerns. New Years somehow represents a real break between one chronological period and another. (Image: nImAdestiny)
Seriously, what difference does a day make, particularly this year.
Tomorrow, we will have the very same concerns as today. The effectiveness of addressing those concerns has nothing to do with the progression of the calendar. In essence, New Years is to the news media and liquor sales as Christmas is to retail.
The event does provide to reflect on how little progress is being made in the following areas:
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