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Despotic Saudi Regime Lobbies to Chair Human Rights Council
by Stephen Lendman
It's one of the world's most repressive states - a blight on humanity, a cancer in a part of the world known for despotic regimes.
Its human rights record is horrific by any standard. Fundamental rights don't exist.
State terror is official policy. Democracy is strictly prohibited. Torture and physical abuse are commonplace. So are public whippings, beheadings and hangings.
Due process and judicial fairness don't exist. Thousands of political prisoners languish in its gulag under deplorable conditions. Abuse of power is extreme. So is massive corruption and lack of transparency. Inequality is institutionalized. Independent media don't exist. Nor do labor rights.
Islam is the state religion. No other is tolerated. All Saudis are required by law to be Muslims. Failure to comply is considered apostasy - a capital offense.
The Palestinian Nakba; A Nucleus of Nationwide Arab Nakba
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Each year on May 15th the Palestinians across the world commemorate “Al Nakba Day”. This year it is the 67th commemoration. Al Nakba means the catastrophe, and refers to the Zionist occupation of Palestine, the numerous massacres they perpetrated against Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing, the dispossession, the total destruction of hundreds of Palestinian communities, the forced expulsion, the supplanting of Zionist Jews in place of indigenous Palestinians and the creation of the terrorist entity of Israel that is still spreading havoc, death and destruction in the whole Middle East.
It is commonly believed that Al Nakba started in 1947 after WWII following the illegal UN partition of historic Palestine between Zionists and Palestinians. What is less widely known is the fact that the dispossession and the expulsion of Palestinian population had actually started in early 1920’s while Palestine was still under the Ottoman occupation. The World Zionist Organization started buying farm land from absentee Ottoman feudal lords, evicting Palestinian farmers from their villages, and replacing them with Jews imported from different parts of the world. This dispossession, expulsion, and supplanting intensified immediately after WWII in late 1947, and was launched into a full onslaught after the UN partition plan months before May 1948, and well before the involvement of Arab armies, and is still going on to this very day.
Raucous Swearing In of Israel's New Ruling Coalition
by Stephen Lendman
It's the most extremist in Israel's history. It's not a legitimate government of, by and for all Israelis equitably. It's polar opposite.
It's a racist, apartheid, fascist coalition headed by Netanyahu's Likud party in bed with fundamentalist religious zealots. It bested other parties with only 25% support.
So-called Israeli democracy is farcical, an illusion. None whatever exists. Palestinian MKs are impotent - potted plants with no policymaking say whatever, mocked, vilified and at times openly attacked. Netanyahu is a world-class thug - an unindicted war criminal belonging in prison for high crimes against peace.
America's top regional ally is a lawless, fascist police state. One rogue regime supports another - a criminal alliance against peace, stability, equity and justice.
Kiev Heads Closer to Resuming Full-Scale War on Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
Poroshenko awaits Obama's OK to launch it. He openly promised continued war until fascist opponents are crushed.
"We will fight to the last drop of blood," he blustered. He continues irresponsible ranting about nonexistent "Russian aggression."
Ukraine is a US-installed fascist police state. Fundamental democratic rights are prohibited - including a free and open media.
On Thursday, thuggish Ukrainian security forces shut down Odessa's Timer independent online news service. Its editor-in-chief, Yuri Tkachov, three journalists and web site administrator were arrested.
They'll likely be charged with "conspiracy to encroach on Ukraine's territorial integrity and inviolability" for reporting hard truths Kiev wants suppressed.
Israeli Defense Minister Threatens to Nuke Iran
by Stephen Lendman
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon is a holdover from Netanyahu's previous extremist coalition regime.
He's part of Israel's lunatic fringe running things. He addressed a Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) conference in Jerusalem titled Toward a New Law of War.
The organization includes anti-Palestinian Israeli lawyers advocating judicial action worldwide to absolve Israeli war crimes.
It conducts irresponsible law suits. It maintains close ties to Israel's security establishment. It's a de facto Mossad proxy. "I can still look at myself in the mirror," Ya'alon said trying to justify the unjustifiable - naked Israeli aggression on Gaza last summer, including willfully targeting civilians.
Ya'alon suggested premeditated war is morally right. He vilified BDS as "another tool" used against Israel by its enemies.
Saudi Arabia: Headed Toward Becoming Nuclear Armed and Dangerous?
by Stephen Lendman
Saudi Arabia is a radicalized Islamist police state threatening the entire region with terrorism and belligerence.
Reports indicate Riyadh wants or intends becoming nuclear armed - on the bogus pretext of countering Iran's known peaceful nuclear program.
Last November, BBC diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban said months earlier "a senior NATO decision maker told me that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery." They're paid for - ready to be shipped on request. A WikiLeaks reported State Department cable called it "logical for the Saudis to step in as the physical 'protector' of the Arab world by seeking nuclear weapons."
The Jewish Solidarity Spin
By Gilad Atzmon
Dear friends, this is pretty much a summery of my argument against Jewish power and the corrosive impact of Jewish left. If you are interested in my work or even oppose everything I do, I urge you to watch (or read) this talk.
In order to grasp the way in which contemporary solidarity terminology operates to deceive and derail the Palestinian cause, we will look at a few theoretical simulations that will help to clarify the corrosive nature that is the contemporary pro Palestinian discourse.
Nabil is a fictional 25-year-old Palestinian, 3rd generation refugee born and living in Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon. Nabil is unemployed. No prospect of a future for him. As a Palestinian refugee his chances of higher education or a decent job are non-existent. Nabil cannot even obtain a travel document. He is stranded in the camp.
Why Elites Love Drones
Robert J. Burrowes
I sometimes read that drone strikes are counterproductive to western security interests because each person killed by a drone results in more new 'terrorists'. See, for example, 'The more civilians US drones kill in the Mideast, the more radicals they create'. http://rt.com/op-edge/252705-drone-operation-us-strategy-military/
However, this analysis completely fails to understand what is driving elite military policy, carried out by the United States elite and key elite allies within NATO and elsewhere. In brief: drone strikes work precisely because they provoke violent responses which help elites to 'justify' their perpetual war to secure control of the world's diminishing supplies of fossil fuels, water and strategic minerals while tightening control of domestic populations through expansion of the security and surveillance state.
Netanyahu Appoints Hardline Peace Negotiator
by Stephen Lendman
Silvan Shalom
So-called Israeli/Palestinian peace talks are farcical when held - the greatest hoax in modern times, dead on arrival every time.
Netanyahu deplores peace. He opposes Palestinian self-determination. So does his new chief negotiator - hardline Likudnik Silvan Shalom.
He's interior minister and deputy prime minister. Appointing him peace negotiator underscores Netanyahu's contempt for Palestinian rights.
State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke downplayed what demands outrage saying "(w)e continue to believe that a two-state solution in vital." "It is not a secret that the new Israeli government includes cabinet members who do not necessarily believe in that premise." In 2012, Shalom said Likud officials "are all against a Palestinian state. There is no question about it."
Mazal Tov To Ludwig Watzal and The ‘Call For BDS’
By Gilad Atzmon
It is encouraging to read that Ludwig Watzal, my prime detractor in Germany, has now fully embraced my criticism of Jewish liberals and the Jewish Left. Watzal now admits that the BDS Movement has been hijacked by Liberal Zionists.
Just a few years ago, Watzal labelled me a racist and an ‘anti-Semite’ for suggesting in “The Wandering Who” that the Jewish Left operates as a controlled opposition apparatus. Watzal’s review of The Wandering Who complained that: “The book is very well written, which make its harmful and racist theses more dangerous.” His review also said, Atzmon’s “hatred is directed not only against the Zionists, but above all against Jewish Left, left anti-Zionists and those who oppose the Israeli government policy as Jews.”
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