Pages: << 1 ... 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 ... 1326 >>
Germany’s Merkel Now Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Agent
Eric Zuesse
On Wednesday, April 1st, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved a measure to bring fracking (the patents for which are owned mainly by “large American companies, including Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger”) into Germany. This is a prelude not only to U.S. President Obama’s secret Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) pact with Europe to subordinate national laws and regulations to trans-national mega-corporate panels that will be dominated by U.S. firms and that will override the participating nations’ environmental and labor regulations and consumer protections (and harm European economies generally), but it is also a major step toward removing Europe from Russia’s energy-market, and bringing U.S. and European oil companies to dominate there instead.
McCain Urges Preemptive Israeli Aggression on Iran
by Stephen Lendman
McCain is one of many neocon lunatics infesting Washington. He's viciously racist, militantly anti-Iranian, hawkishly over-the-top and dangerous.
He chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. He has considerable influence over US defense policy.
He wants war on Iran. He opposes resolving issues over its well-known peaceful nuclear program responsibly. More on this below.
He issued a lengthy statement on Lausanne talks full of Big Lies.
"…Congress…recognize(s) the threat of the Iranian nuclear program," he blustered.
Saudi-Led Invasion of Yemen Begins
by Stephen Lendman
When American or US proxy forces wage naked aggression against other countries it's called liberating them.
When nations being attacked defend themselves, they're called terror states.
On April 2, Reuters reported "dozens of unidentified troops land(ing) by sea in Aden…"
Perhaps ahead of mass Saudi-led invasion plans. Houthi political council member Daifullah Shami told Sputnik News foreign troops disembarked from Saudi and Egyptian vessels.
Ansar Allah movement member Ahmed al-Shami said:
"The number of troopers who landed in the Yemen port of Aden is unknown, but we are talking about dozens."
Saudis Bomb Russian Consulate in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
During US-led NATO's rape of Yugoslavia, China's Belgrade embassy was willfully bombed.
Claiming by mistake didn't wash. The Pentagon included China's embassy on its target list.
Yemen is Obama's war. Saudis and other regional states involved are US proxies.
Months of planning preceded air and naval strikes. Yemeni targets were carefully chosen - among them Russia's Aden consulate. Maybe its Sanaa embassy is next.
Bombing its Aden consulate is part of Washington's increasing confrontation with Moscow - a reckless agenda including vicious propaganda, US Ukraine policy, its growing Eastern European military footprint and saber rattling exercises close to Russia's borders.
Chasing the Dollar, Or Doing Our Own Thing
by Jan Lundberg
Introduction
I was thinking about a friend who got a decent job recently. In the minds of billions of people, it would seem to solve his problems for meeting his obligations. Though entry level, it’s a desirable job where the workplace is pleasant. I began to reflect on his being a proud member of the working class, and how his path (however reluctant or exhilarating) generally follows middle class aspiration. It is extremely unlikely that someone in his position manages to join the exalted, glitzy, rich, tiny segment of the population, to enjoy the dream of the very easy life -- not that his value-system pushes him in that questionable direction.
Unfortunately, he is probably boxed in at the lower middle of the social pyramid, because another, very different path for working people and even the rich is not so visible or tempting. Viewed by others without much respect, or with disinterest, an alternative-lifestyle movement nevertheless exists. It would mean, for my friend and his little family, to go live differently than the vast majority of working people and the idle rich in Europe. It may be communal, centered around permaculture, or it may be more individualistic whereby enlightenment and simple living are still chosen over the prevailing gold/no gold limitation. With the alternative path on hold or deemed remote by my friend, his prospects for embarking on doing his own thing someday, beyond perhaps being able to start his own restaurant, are statistically slim. An infusion of cash from winning the lottery is even more slim, but widely dreamt about to fit yearnings, needs, and common materialist fantasies.
America at War, Again
by Stephen Lendman
War is America's national pastime, not baseball. It's a longstanding sick addiction.
The business of America is waging permanent wars against one nation after another.
Nonexistent enemies are created. They're attacked, ravaged, destroyed, controlled and plundered.
They're ruled by US-installed puppets. Their people are ruthlessly exploited.
Governance of, by and for everyone equitably is strictly forbidden. Freedom is a four-letter word.
Longstanding US policy represents a shocking contempt for rule of law principles, democratic values, peace and stability.
Kiev's Ongoing Dirty War on Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
Fascists don't wage wars to quit. Kiev's dirty war of aggression on Donbass didn't stop.
It slowed to give junta forces time to regroup, rearm, and ready for resumed full-scale combat.
Minsk ceasefire terms proved worthless. Kiev violated them straightaway - like 2014 peace initiatives it spurned.
Virtually everything it agreed to it breached. Multiple violations continue daily.
Phony US Support for Ending Palestine's Occupation
by Stephen Lendman
Washington unequivocally supports Israel. Both countries partner in each other's high crimes.
They oppose granting Palestinians rights mattering most. Claims otherwise ring hollow.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough is a longtime Washington insider.
Earlier he was Obama's chief foreign policy advisor, his strategic communication National Security Council head, and his NSC chief of staff.
In 2004, he was a corporate lobbying group Center for American Progress senior fellow.
On March 23, he addressed J Street conference participants in Washington. It's a pro-Israeli front group. Executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami is a former Clinton administration deputy domestic policy adviser.
US-Created Violence and Chaos in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Yemen is one of many examples of what happens following lawless US intervention.
Obama waged drone war on Yemen throughout his tenure - indiscriminately killing many hundreds of defenseless victims, mostly civilians.
Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Palestine, Yemen is a cauldron of violence and instability threatening to spin entirely out-of-control.
In January, Houthi forces ousted US-backed Ab-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's regime. They took over the presidential palace. They extended control to other parts of the country. Last year, Obama ludicrously touted Yemen as a success story.
Californians Outraged As Oil Producers & Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/03/2015 23:10 -0400
California's oil and gas industry is estimated (with official data due to be released in coming days) to use more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day; so it is hardly surprising that, as Reuters reports, Californians are outraged after discovering that these firms are excluded from Governor Jerry Brown's mandatory water restrictions, "forcing ordinary Californians to shoulder the burden of the drought."
California should require oil producers to cut their water usage as part of the administration’s efforts to conserve water in the drought-ravaged state, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
Governor Jerry Brown ordered the first statewide mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday, directing cities and communities to cut their consumption by 25 percent. But the order does not require oil producers to cut their usage nor does it place a temporary halt on the water intensive practice of hydraulic fracturing.
California’s oil and gas industry uses more than 2 million gallons of fresh water a day to produce oil through well stimulation practices including fracking, acidizing and steam injection, according to estimates by environmentalists. The state is expected to release official numbers on the industry’s water consumption in the coming days.
“Governor Brown is forcing ordinary Californians to shoulder the burden of the drought by cutting their personal water use while giving the oil industry a continuing license to break the law and poison our water,” said Zack Malitz of environmental group Credo.
“Fracking and toxic injection wells may not be the largest uses of water in California, but they are undoubtedly some of the stupidest,” he said.
The industry has received scrutiny for how it disposes of undrinkable water produced during oil drilling. Last month the state ordered the operators of 12 wells to halt injections of the water out of fear that it could contaminate fresh drinking water supplies.
...
In an interview with the PBS Newshour on Wednesday, Brown indicated that curbing oil industry water use would not help a state so dependent on petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel.
“If we don’t take it out of our ground, we’ll take it out of someone else’s,” Brown said.
Suck it up, or well don't as the case may be, serfs.
<< 1 ... 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 ... 1326 >>
