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Sergey Lavrov on Russia’s Foreign Policy
Stephen Lendman
Lavrov is a world-class diplomat, a tireless pursuer of world peace and stability, Putin fortunate to have him as foreign minister.
They deserve joint Nobel Peace Prize recognition, an honor usually reserved for war criminals. Obama is Exhibit A.
On March 3, Russia in Global Affairs magazine published Lavrov’s thoughtful essay, titled “Russia’s Foreign Policy.”
“International relations have entered a very difficult period,” he said. Russia is “at the crossroads of key trends.” He explained Russian history and its “special role in European and global history,” an impressive scholarly account, rare for figures in his position, maybe unique in today’s world, showing he has special stature.
He’s no ordinary diplomat, shaming his Western counterparts, serving his country with distinction, a devoted advocate for peace, democratic values and rule of law principles.
Tourists Shunning Turkey
Stephen Lendman
Tourists are shunning Turkey for good reason. Russian sanctions following Erdogan’s ordering the downing of one of its warplanes in Syrian airspace last year proved costly.
Moscow banned charter flights. Russian travel agents suspended tours. Millions of Russian tourists aren’t coming. Nor are around a million visiting for business and other reasons.
Visa-free travel was cancelled. Loss of billions of dollars of trade and investment means harder times for Turkey’s economy, tourism accounting for 11%.
Car and suicide bombings in Ankara and Istanbul make tourists leery about coming.
Another Republican Scheme to Derail Trump
Stephen Lendman
He’s the most polarizing US political figure in memory, power brokers going all-out to undermine his Republican nomination and presidential bid.
No tricks too dirty are unacceptable. The New York Times is militantly anti-Trump, endorsing war goddess, Wall Street favorite Hillary Clinton, ignoring her longstanding criminal record.
On Saturday, it discussed one of apparently many schemes to derail Trump’s campaign - a 100-day plot to undermine him.
Beginning with Wisconsin’s April 5 primary, it’ll continue into summer, The Times reported - “a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort…cast(ing) Mr. Trump as a calamitous choice” for president.
Erdogan Repudiates Democracy, Freedom and Rule of Law
Stephen Lendman
Tyrants operate their own way, eliminating whatever interferes with their iron-fisted rule - Erdogan one of the region’s worst, a tinpot despot in a part of the world ruled by dictators.
Anyone supporting freedom fighting Kurds he calls “terrorists” are considered enemies of the state, subject to prosecution, imprisonment or assassination.
He’s waging no-holds-barred war on his Kurdish citizens, massacring civilians, burning hundreds to death vindictively, desperate people taking shelter in basements succumbing to his viciousness. US and other Western leaders ignore his worst crimes. EU ones cut a deal to turn Turkey into a refugee dumping ground, a giant concentration camp denying their fundamental rights - sealing their borders, expelling desperate people, turning their back on human need they bear responsibility for causing complicit with Washington.
John Kerry’s Upcoming Moscow Visit
Stephen Lendman
US hardliners irresponsibly call Russia America’s greatest threat. No evidence suggests it. Plenty shows Putin’s commitment to world peace and stability.
Kerry plans visiting with Russia’s leader, Sergey Lavrov and other government officials from March 22 - 25, a trip mainly for discussions on Syria.
On March 16, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “(w)e are just now working on the visit. Of course, the main topic” is Syria.
Washington wants its will imposed. Moscow supports Syrian sovereign independence. Expect no diplomatic breakthroughs in resolving irreconcilable differences during Kerry’s visit.
America’s Supremes Represent Privilege Exclusively
Stephen Lendman
Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is a well-known Washington establishment figure - currently US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit chief judge.
He’s a 1974 Harvard summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa, class valedictorian graduate, former president of its Board of Overseers, a Harvard Law School 1977 magna cum laude graduate, its Harvard Law Review articles editor. All High Court members, including the recently deceased Antonin Scalia, attended Harvard or Yale law schools. If Garland’s nomination is approved, tradition will remain unchanged.
America’s Genocidal Wars
Stephen Lendman
America’s pure evil is unequaled by any previous regime in history - inflicting more harm on more people over a longer duration.
None match US ruthlessness. Centuries of slaughter reduced its native population to a small fraction of its original numbers.
Five centuries of slavery were horrific. Black Africans were captured, branded, chained, force-marched, beaten, encaged, and stripped of their humanity.
Around 100 million human beings were sold like cattle. Millions perished during the Middle Passage, packed into filthy coffin-sized spaces, filled with human excrement, victims of dysentery, smallpox and other epidemic-level diseases, women raped and beaten, others flogged or clubbed.
How Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law — After the November Elections
Eric Zuesse
Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or any other of his three mega-trade-deals until after the November elections, because Senators and Representatives won’t vote for it until the voters have already voted for their re-election (so that they’ll then be free to vote against those voters’ interests). The previous congressional votes on these deals showed that congressional Republicans overwhelmingly favor them but many congressional Democrats oppose them. For example, in the crucial vote, in the Senate, only 37 of the 100 Senators voted against the enabling legislation (without which legislation they can’t pass), called “Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority,” which will enable the President to ram these treaties through Congress, and 30 of these Senators were Democrats, 5 (Collins, Cruz, Paul, Sessions, and Shelby) were Republicans, and 2 (Sanders and King) were independents. That’s both independents, 30 of the 44 Democrats, and only 5 of the 54 Republicans. So: these bills are overwhelmingly Republican trade bills, which were created by a ‘Democratic’ President.
Hillary Clinton: Wall Street Shill, Threat to World Peace
Stephen Lendman
A Trump presidency would be an anti-populist crapshoot on what outrageous domestic and geopolitical schemes he’d cook up following earlier ones.
A previous article said his only redeeming quality is he’s not Hillary Clinton - the most recklessly dangerous US presidential aspirant in memory, a menace risking global war and full-blown tyranny.
Her despicable record as first lady, US senator and secretary of state exposed her villainy - revealing a war-profiteers dream, a Wall Street favorite.
A previous article said she loves Goldman Sachs. A leaked transcript of her June 2013 speech to their officials revealed comments never heard on the stump.
She said productive work by ordinary Americans didn’t make the nation great. “(I)t’s due to (Wall Street) investing, credit and economic stewardship.”
George Soros’ Anti-Trump Campaign
Stephen Lendman
Soros represents pure evil, one of the world’s most infamous figures.
He’s a notorious international con man, known for profiting from human misery, supporting color revolutions and wars to serve his interests.
Moscow’s Prosecutor General calls his Open Society Institute and Open Society Institute Assistance Foundations “threat(s) to Russian national security and constitutional order.”
His groups are subversive, undermining fundamental freedoms, listed as undesirable foreign organizations in Russia for good reason. They’re prohibited from supporting political parties, free to engage in other activities.
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