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Shaky Syrian Peace Talks
by Stephen Lendman
Obama doesn't want talks for peace. He wants his rules imposed. He wants government by diktats. He wants unconditional surrender. He wants regime change.
He wants Syrians denied the right to decide who'll lead them. He wants war continued to depose Assad.
John Kerry is his front man. He matches the worst of Hillary Clinton. He represents lawless imperial arrogance. He pretends to want peace. He and Obama deplore it.
So-called talks are more sham than solution. It's not entirely clear who's coming. More on this below. Extremist elements want war, not peace.
America Needs Critical Thinking and Sense of Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
On January 16, 2014, CNN moderator Don Lemon asked Professor William Pollack
(Clinical Psychologist, Harvard University), why are we witnessing daily carnage of civilian bloodbaths – shootings in schools, shopping malls, movie theatres and street grocery stores? What has gone wrong with the American Society? The answer Professor Pollack offered tells a lot and perhaps not too many morally conscientious Americans could disagree with. America lives in a “disconnect” world being unaware of the surrounding real world. An imaginary world of self- indulgence in a prevalent culture of cell phones, text messages, footballs match shouting and excluded entirely from the mainstream of human realities. Another female commentator explains: we are waging wars on ourselves by disregarding the world around us. Once the cell phone is turned off, we are not sure, how to cope with the impinging real world except taking out guns, shooting at random and killing the innocent people. One wonders if this is what America has come to absorb - fair as foul and foul is fair – the traditional American moral and intellectual psyche wants practical and remedial answers which nobody seem to articulate. Are the American moral and intellectual values been replaced with self-generated violence, hatred of others and self- survival of the fittest? Questions and answers on the news media come and go but the societal reality remains the same.
How Israel Gets Away with Murder
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is above the law. It's exempt for observing rule of law principles. It's free to rampage extrajudicially.
It kills and kills again. It does so with impunity. It justifies lawlessness the old-fashioned way. It lies. It's standard Israeli practice.
It calls legitimate self-defense "terrorism." It calls acts of aggression "self-defense." It calls nonviolent Palestinian men, women, children, infants, the elderly and infirm existential threats.
Israel's only ones are those it invents. World leaders able to act responsibly do nothing. They support Israel's worst crimes. Doing so makes them complicit.
Promised Land Disenchantment
by Stephen Lendman
Many Israelis want out. Haaretz said "almost 40 percent of (them) are thinking of emigrating." Recent polling said they'd leave if financially able.
Israeli governance combines militarism, repression, corruption, and neoliberal harshness.
It's no fit place to live in. Many Jews vote with their feet and leave. Others prepare by securing foreign passports.
Many of Israel's best and brightest go. In 2012, over 14% of Israeli science and engineering doctorate holders lived abroad for three or more years. They left to work or study.
They're in no rush to return. Many never do. It's hard getting them back once they're gone.
Reactions to Obama's NSA Address
by Stephen Lendman
Hundreds of Stop Watching Us activists protested outside the Justice Department. They did so before he spoke.
They wore STOP SPYING glasses. They held signs saying "Stop Spying on Us." "Big Brother In Chief." "Obama = Tyranny."
CODEPINK members were there. On Thursday, co-founder Medea Benjamin said:
"Though President Obama is scheduled to lay out reforms for the NSA spying program, we have little reason to believe they will be sufficient of implemented."
"The intelligence agencies in the US are totally out of control - from mass dragnet spying, to killing by remote control…" and it's time for transparency and accountability."
Obama Defends the Indefensible
by Stephen Lendman
On Friday, Obama addressed sweeping NSA mass surveillance. He defended the worst of police state lawlessness.
He believes privacy invasion intrusiveness should comfort us. He lied claiming it makes us safer. How does destroying civil liberties protect them?
How does violating core Bill of Rights protections do it? How does trashing all rule of law principles?
How does turning America into a police state? How do sweeping surveillance practices greater than anything before possible?
How does letting NSA operate as a power unto itself? It's an unrestrained lawbreaker. Imagine Obama calling "(t)he folks at the NSA...our neighbors.
Rafik Hariri Murder Trial
by Stephen Lendman
On January 16, the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) convened. It did so in the Hague.
Nine years after Hariri's assassination, show trial proceedings began. Hezbollah members were wrongfully accused. More on this below.
A crime scene courtroom mockup was displayed. Hariri's killing took place on Beirut's waterfront. On February 14, 2005, his motorcade was targeted.
A powerful car bomb killed him. Around 20 others perished. Over 100 were injured. The blast left a 30-foot-wide/six-foot-deep crater.
On arrival at Beirut's American University Hospital, Hariri was pronounced dead. Fingers straightaway pointed the wrong way. Guilty parties were absolved. Innocent ones were accused.
The Ghost of Ariel Sharon
by Stephen Lendman
Previous articles discussed Sharonian evil. It's perhaps worse than ever without him. Multiple daily abuses explain best.
Palestinians are fair game. Most people can't imagine what they endure. Police state ruthlessness defines Israeli policies. Settler violence compounds it. More on this below.
Gazans continue suffocating under siege. Israeli air, ground and sea attacks compound it.
On January 16, Israeli warplanes bombed civilian targets. Northern Gaza was struck. Areas east and west of Gaza City were hit.
Medical sources said four children were injured. So was one woman. They were lucky to escape death. Israeli authorities repeat the Big Lie.
"Terror sites" were struck, they claim. Israel considers civilians legitimate targets. Nonviolent men, women and children are called terrorists.
Since New Year's day alone, Israel bombed Gaza several times. Artillery fired cross border. Most recently was on January 9. Three Palestinian civilians were injured. Israel remains unaccountable.
Constitutional Despotism in Egypt
by Stephen Lendman
Junta power runs Egypt. Democracy is verboten. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) rules.
Fascist generals control things. US-trained Abdul Fatah-al Sisi heads them. Interim civilian officials provide fig leaf cover.
A new constitution was drafted. It has no legitimacy whatever. More on its provisions below.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, a national referendum was held. Violence marred two days of voting.
Security forces killed 11 or more people. Dozens were injured. Numerous arrests were made. Police states operate this way. Egypt is one of the region's worst.
Israel Denies Palestinians All Rights
by Stephen Lendman
According to UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine Richard Falk, "Palestinians don't even have the right to have rights."
Militarized occupation denies them. Harshness exceeding the worst of South African apartheid describes their status. The UN and Human Rights Council do nothing to help.
According to Falk, they "failed to follow through in a way that is effective in bringing peace and justice to the peoples of Palestine, and until (they do, they have) no ethical or (other) basis for not trying (their) utmost to do so."
Palestinians are isolated on their own. In 1948, Israel stole 78% of their homeland. In 1967, it took the rest. Militarized occupation exists.
It's lawless. It's illegitimate. It continues because world leaders do nothing to stop it. They turn a blind eye to Israel's worst crimes.
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