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Iranian Nuclear Talks
by Stephen Lendman
On April 5, so-called P5+1 talks began. They picked up where previous ones left off. Countries involved include America, Britain, China, Russia, France and Germany. Almaty, Kazahhstan played host. It did so for the second time.
Iran participates in good faith. Saeed Jalili heads its negotiating delegation. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton represents P5+1 countries.
Defending IMF Financial Terrorism
by Stephen Lendman
On March 29, New York Times editors headlined "Strengthening the IMF." What demands abolition, they support. It doesn't surprise.
Longstanding Times policy supports wealth, power and privilege. Populist interests are spurned. Unmet human needs are ignored. Managed news misinformation is featured. Wrong over right is endorsed. It's been so from inception.
Times editors admit IMF policies aren't widely loved. It "forced countries in financial distress to adopt counterproductive austerity policies, and it failed to anticipate the financial crisis."
Anonymous launches cyber attack on Israel; major government websites down
Posted by Michael Collins
From Al Akahbar English, Beirut
Creative Commons
Published Sunday, April 7, 2013
Updated at 2:45pm: Dozens of Israeli websites were hacked in early hours Sunday, including pages of the prime minister's office and the Tel Aviv stock exchange, in the largest cyber offensive yet against the Jewish state.
The operation is being dubbed #OpIsrael and is said to be led by hacker group Anonymous, which says it aims to wage hacking operations against human rights violators. Several official websites were covered in photos of long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi, deceased Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, and slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh.
The names and email addresses of some 1,500 Mossad agents have also reportedly been made public in a Google Doc.
Permanent War: Longstanding US Policy
by Stephen Lendman
Wars define America. They reflect longstanding policy. They're permanent. They've been waged every year in the nation's history. They target enemies at home and abroad. When none exist, they're invented.
Peace is a non-starter. It's always been that way. It never had a chance. It doesn't now. It's systematically spurned.
America's culture reflects belligerence. It's glorified in the name of peace. It's normal and commonplace. Pacifism is considered sissy and unpatriotic. America the Beautiful never existed. It doesn't now.
Peace, human dignity, and democratic values are more illusion than reality. Enormous sums go for militarism and war. Unconscionable amounts are spent today. More on that below.
Pakistan in quest of Navigational Change
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
“the United States simply could not stand by as a nuclear-armed Pakistan descended into the abyss,” and that, “we need to think — now — about our feasible military options in Pakistan, should it really come to that….The most likely possible dangers are these: a complete collapse of Pakistani government rule that allows an extreme Islamist movement to fill the vacuum; a total loss of federal control over outlying provinces, which splinter along ethnic and tribal lines; or a struggle within the Pakistani military in which the minority sympathetic to the Taliban and Al Qaeda try to establish Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism.
(Andrew Gavin Marshall, “Imperial Eye on Pakistan-Pakistan in Pieces, Part 1” Global Research: 5.28.2011), quotes authors, Frederick Kagan and Michael O’Hanlon, Open-Ed. NYT, 11/2007, both strategists and scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution).
Another Dismal Jobs Report
by Stephen Lendman
Putting lipstick on this pig doesn't wash. One analyst said March data was miserable from every angle. Economist David Rosenberg called it "one soft US jobs report." It "quash(ed) the consensus view of economic re-acceleration."
It "adds validity to the view that the supply-side 'secular' non-inflationary growth potential (underwent) a profound decline this cycle." The inflationary consequences will show up later, he added.
BOJ Increases QE
by Stephen Lendman
On April 4, the Financial Times headlined "Bank of Japan follows the Fed, on steroids." Pedal-to-the-metal reflects new governor Haruhiko Kuroda's policy.
At a news conference he said:
"This is an entirely new dimension of monetary easing, both in terms of quantity and quality."
Embrace the Everyday People’s Stories & Reject the Top-Down Narrative of History
By Larry Pinkney
“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
–Amilcar Cabral“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”
–Frantz Fanon
In this year of 2013, it remains abundantly clear that the stories [i.e. the narrative] pertaining to the victories and intense past and present struggles of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people continue to be distorted, disfigured, and/or outright omitted by the national and global power elite – who are intent upon ramming their historical and contemporary narrative down our throats.
The War Against American Christians, Part I: Short History
By Dr. Elias Akleh
The American Christians have been for a long time the target of a covert religious war whose battle fields include their homes, their public schools, their churches, and their Sunday schools. They are subjected to massive well-planned scientifically-based brainwashing programs, whose goals are to distort and to weaken their Christian beliefs, and to divide them into smaller differentiated groups that can be easily manipulated, controlled and enslaved to blindly and loyally serve genocidal colonial agendas of Zionism and Israel under the fallacy of serving God’s chosen people. Groups such as Christian Zionists and Christians United for Israel are victims of such war. Such groups are the American Christian lost flocks.
Is terror an option for the occupied and oppressed Palestinians?
By Alan Hart
My answer is “No” but I think the question needs to be asked. It was provoked in my mind by a recent Ynet op-ed article by Ziv Lenchner, described as a left-leaning, Jewish Israeli artist. The headline over his piece was Israelis to Obama - we don’t care, don’t bother us.
Lenchner’s article, published on 28 March, took the discussion about what most Israeli Jews really want - disengagement from the occupied West Bank or annexation - beyond the answer given by Noam Sheizaf writing in Maariv on 4 December last year. The headline over his piece was We have become addicted to the status quo.
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