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Israel Part of US Anti-Syrian Coalition
by Stephen Lendman
It's unannounced. It's no secret. Israel is heavily involved. It's been so all along. It wants Assad ousted.
It bombs Syrian targets at its discretion. It supplies weapons to Islamic State terrorists and other extremist Takfiri fighters.
It treats their wounded in Israeli hospitals. It supplies other support overtly and covertly.
On Tuesday, Israel confirmed it shot down a Syrian Sukhoi 24 fighter jet aircraft. It used a surface-to-air missile against it.
It said it "infiltrated into Israeli airspace." It's unclear if Israel's claim is true. Crew members ejected.
They landed safely in Syrian territory. Reports indicate aircraft remains fell into Mediterranean Sea waters.
Syria was bombing areas around Quneitra. It's near Israeli-controlled Golan.
Reactions to Obama's Naked Aggression Against Syria
by Stephen Lendman
On Tuesday, Obama attacked another country lawlessly. Syria poses no threat to America.
Obama bombed multiple sites. He did so with no legal authority. He committed lawless aggression.
He's done it repeatedly throughout his tenure. It's the highest of high crimes against peace.
He violated international, constitutional and US statute laws. The 1996 US War Crimes Act calls them "grave breaches."
Obama's wars are Nuremberg-level crimes. They demand accountability. Expect none forthcoming.
His so-called coalition allies include a rogue's gallery of despotic regimes. He said he's "proud" to be allied with them.
Obama Launches Naked Aggression on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
It's no surprise. His intentions were clear for weeks. Naked aggression is longstanding US policy.
In his September 10 address, he said Washington was prepared to "conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes (against Islamic State terrorists) wherever they are."
"That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria as well as Iraq."
Last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said US Central Command has a plan to take "targeted actions against ISIS safe havens in Syria."
Dueling Ideologies: Lavrov v. Rasmussen
by Stephen Lendman
They're polar opposites. They represent good v. evil. They do so at the most perilous time in world history. When global war is possible.
Rasmussen is a convenient US stooge. He heads NATO's killing machine.
He steps down end of September. He won't be missed. He violates inviolable national sovereignty rights. He spurns rule of law principles.
On September 15, Wall Street Journal editors featured his shameless op-ed. More on this below.
Headlines in the World’s Only Great Newspaper: Starting This Past Weekend, Till Today
Eric Zuesse
Where can one go in order to find honestly reported news in the English language? I have long searched to find the answer to that question; and here is what I have discovered.
Newspapers and other 'news' media in the U.S. and throughout the world are so unreliable that I have long been searching in vain at www.onlinenewspapers.com/ to see even just one English-language newspaper about national and international affairs that is honest -- meaning, to me, reliable in truthfulness, and reporting all events that seem to me to be historically important, in order for anyone to be able to understand where the world is actually trending, and how it’s trending the way it is.
Then, I finally discovered one such newspaper, except that it's not in the English language; it's in German, but it can be read in English via the automatic translation feature in google chrome. So, I now introduce it to you here below, for your consideration to become your major news source, as it now will be mine.
China is exporting torture
Mary Shaw
Research by Amnesty International (AI) and the Omega Research Foundation has uncovered a "flourishing trade" in the "export of tools of torture by Chinese companies" which is fueling human rights violations worldwide.
A new report, titled China's Trade in Tools of Torture and Repression, alleges that more than 130 Chinese companies are currently involved in the "production and trade of potentially dangerous law enforcement equipment."
According to AI, "Some of the devices openly marketed by these companies - including electric shock stun batons, metal spiked batons, and weighted leg cuffs - are intrinsically cruel and inhumane and therefore should immediately be banned. Other equipment - that can have legitimate use in policing - such as tear gas and plastic projectiles or riot control vehicles - is being exported from China even when there is a substantial risk of serious human rights violations by the receiving law enforcement agencies."
The Hiroshima Myth and the Glorification of American Militarism
Gary G. Kohls, MD
August 6, 2014, was the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the whole truth of which has been heavily censored and mythologized ever since war-weary Americans celebrated V-J Day on August 15.
In the pitiful history lessons that were taught by my uninspired or bored history teachers (which seemed to be mainly ex-jocks whose real interest was coaching) came from patriotic and highly censored books where everything the British and US military ever did in the history of warfare was honorable and self-sacrificing and everything their opponents did was barbaric. Everybody in my graduating class of 26 swallowed the post-war propaganda in our history books. It was from these books that we learned about the “glorious” end of the war against Japan.
Telling It Like Is Is On Israel
by Stephen Lendman
It's high time growing numbers of critics speak out forthrightly. It's essential whatever the risks.
Israeli high crimes against peace are too egregious to ignore. It's vital to denounce them publicly.
It's essential to maintain a steady drumbeat of truth. It's crucial to enlist growing numbers to demand accountability.
Israel is a rogue terror state. It's been so from inception. It's entire history is blood-drenched.
It's so-called democracy is pure fantasy. Fascist hardliners run things. They govern lawlessly.
Netanyahu and key officials around him are world-class thugs. They have no legitimacy whatever.
They belong in prison, not high office. Why Israelis don't demand it, they'll have to explain.
Enlisting Support for Imperial War
by Stephen Lendman
America hasn't known peace throughout its sordid history. It's lawless. It's blood-drenched. It's unique. It's been this way from inception.
It glorifies war. It does so in the name of peace. It's part of the national culture. Obama is the latest in a long line of warrior presidents.
He exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He gave rogue leadership new meaning. He usurped the right to wage war at his discretion.
He's done so for over five and a half years lawlessly. Multiple direct and proxy wars rage. More are planned.
Peace and stability are convenient illusions. So is obeying rule of law principles.
Obama heads an administration Murder, Inc. agenda. He targets any nation, group or individual he chooses.
Wars or targeted killings are one Executive Order Away. Or presidential diktat. Enemies are invented to pursue administration policy.
ISIS/ISIL/the Islamic State (IS) is the latest example. In a September 4 London Times op-ed, Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron said:
"We will not waver in our determination to confront the Islamic State."
War and Peace: Arab Time Capsule and Its Butterfly Effect
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
President Obama’s War Agenda
Devoid of knowledge, paranoid and vengeful, President Obama’s raging statements and policy outlines of “an inclusive government in Iraq and to defeat the ISIL” are obsessed with fear of the unknown threatening American global hegemony and futuristic vulnerability to remain a superpower. President Obama is operating amid matrix of lies and political deceptions. The extension of aggressive war against ISIL in Iraq- Syria simply replaces the old rhetoric of anti-Al-Qaeda syndrome. The goal is to incapacitate the sustainability of the oil producing Arab countries to ensure complete interdependency on American weapon sales and military intervention. The overwhelmingly foreign policy views the Arab world as dormant, self-centered and unable to challenge the US ambitions and its geography open to further foreign occupation. Yemen, Iraq and Syria are the carved portraits of the US strategic policy of containment.
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