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Ignored Palestinian Persecution on Election Day in Israel
by Stephen Lendman
Previous articles stressed no matter who wins Israeli elections, Palestinians lose.
Nightmarish militarized occupation harshness continues. Israeli Arab citizens face apartheid conditions.
Western and Israeli media scoundrels ignore abuses demanding daily headlines. Arab political parties alone discuss them.
Gazan conditions are worst of all - devastated by last summer's Israeli aggression. A humanitarian disaster worsens daily.
Horserace journalism drowned out what's ongoing. He said, she said, who's ahead, who's behind discourse substituted for explaining it.
Netanyahu on the Ropes
by Stephen Lendman
On Tuesday, March 17, Israelis vote. Will they decide six years of Netanyahu are enough?
He was elected in March 2009. Earlier he served as prime minister from June 1996 - July 1999. At the time, he was Israel's youngest ever leader.
In 1993, he succeeded Yitzhak Sharmir to head Likud. He strongly opposed Oslo.
He served as Israeli embassy in Washington chief of mission, UN envoy, deputy foreign minister, foreign minister, and finance minister.
He's current Likud party chairman and Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs minister.
He's a former Boston Consulting Group Mitt Romney colleague. In 1978, he told local television viewers:
"The real core of the conflict is the unfortunate Arab refusal to accept the State of Israel."
He consistently blames Palestinians for Israeli crimes. He ludicrously claims to speak for Jews worldwide.
Defiant Netanyahu Pledges No Palestinian State if Reelected
by Stephen Lendman
Netanyahu exceeds Sharonian evil. He's Israel's worst ever prime minister. He's an unindicted hate-mongering war criminal.
He belongs in prison, not high office. He finds new ways to reveal his fascist credentials. He's over-the-top and then some.
He now pledges no Palestinian state on his watch if reelected. He outrageously claims ceding land ensures it taken over by Islamic extremists.
"I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state today, and evacuate areas, is giving radical Islam an area from which to attack the State of Israel," he blustered.
"This is the true reality that has been created in past years. Those that ignore it are burying their heads in the sand. The left does this, buries its head in the sand, time and again."
Israel's so-called "left" matches its hard right. They're indistinguishable - like Republicans and Democrats in America.
Obama’s War in our Hemisphere and Venezuela’s National Liberation Struggle
James Petras
Introduction
Why did Obama declare a ‘national emergency’, claim that Venezuela represents a threat to US national security and foreign policy, assume executive prerogatives and decree sanctions against top Venezuelan officials in charge of national security, at this time?
Venezuela’s Support of Latin America Integration is Obama’s Great Fear
To answer this question it is essential to begin by addressing Obama’s specious and unsubstantiated charges of a Venezuelan ‘threat to national security and foreign policy’.
First, the White House presents no evidence . . . because there is nothing to present! There are no Venezuelan missiles, fighter planes, warships, Special Forces, secret agents or military bases poised to attack US domestic facilities or its overseas installations.
America v. Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
America's rage for global dominance represents humanity's greatest threat. Never before has survival been more jeopardized.
US Imperial policies may kill us all. They may end life on earth. Endless wars of aggression are waged against one country after another.
Confronting Russia recklessly risks nuclear war. Media scoundrel complicity makes it more likely.
So do Ukrainian flashpoint conditions. Ceasefire agreed to in Minsk last month is shaky at best.
Multiple junta violations continue daily. Poroshenko said 11 EU nations intend sending Ukraine weapons and munitions.
Washington supplied them throughout months of conflict. Rearming shows Kiev wants war, not peace.
European parliamentarians adopting a resolution demanding an international investigation into Boris Nemtsov's death shows contempt for Russian sovereignty.
Does Obama Plan Cuba-Style Blockade on Venezuela?
by Stephen Lendman
Expect virtually anything from lunatics infesting Washington. Neocons dominate US policy.
Permanent wars rage against one country after another. US streets are battlegrounds. Virtually every day killer cops murder black youths with impunity.
Independent governments are targeted for regime change. Bush and Obama spent post-9/11 years unsuccessfully trying to end Venezuelan Bolivarian democracy.
Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez accused Washington of planning a "Cuban-style blockade."
Israeli Election-Diaspora Jews Vs. Israelis
By Gilad Atzmon
The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Netanyahu enjoys huge support amongst UK Jews.
Israeli polls predict that Netanyahu’s Likud party will be wiped out in the upcoming Israeli election, with only about 20 mandates out of 120; but British Jews are all for Netanyahu and his hawkish party.
An exclusive poll for the JC this weekend revealed that two thirds of British Jews who have a view on the Israeli election would vote for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Asked who they would support if they could vote in next week’s ballot, 67 per cent of those with an opinion said they would choose Mr. Netanyahu’s centre-right Likud. Just 22 per cent would vote for the Zionist Union, led by Labour leader Isaac Herzog.
Irresponsible Putin Rumors
by Stephen Lendman
Putin's public absence in recent days has rumor-mongers going wild. He's ill, say some.
Sensationalist reports suggest a coup not yet revealed. Chances for one are virtually nil.
His 88% approval rating makes him near-invulnerable. Who'd be fool enough to try unseating an icon?
Anyone trying would face a tsunami of popular wrath - maybe a public lynching.
Rumors at times have a way of surfacing when there's nothing better to report. In Putin's case, media scoundrels seek every opportunity to bash, discredit, criticize or tarnish him with a broad brush.
Violence Against Women: Why We Keep Getting it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes
With the passing of another International Women's Day, during which much attention around the world has again been focused on tackling violence against women, I would like to explain why none of the initiatives currently being proposed will achieve anything unless we acknowledge, and act on, the cause of this violence. So let me briefly explain the fundamental cause of violence in our world, including the cause of violence against women, and invite you to do something very personal and effective about it.
Perpetrators of violence learn their craft in childhood. If you inflict violence on a child, it learns to inflict violence on others. The terrorist suffered violence as a child. The individual who perpetrates violence in the home, in the schoolyard or on the street suffered violence as a child. The man who inflicts violence on women suffered violence as a child.
A Description of Life-Ending Nuclear War
by Stephen Lendman
Think nuclear war is nothing to worry about. Think again!
Nuclear incineration is no way to go. On February 26, the f the Atomic Scientists (BAS) headlined "What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?"
Saying "Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles are believed to carry a total of approximately 1,000 strategic nuclear warheads that can hit the US less than 30 minutes after being launched."
"Of this total, about 700 warheads are rated at 800 kilotons; that is, each has the explosive power of 800,000 tons of TNT."
It's hard imagining anything this destructive. It would incinerate New York or any other major city with unimaginable force.
The initial fireball would likely detonate more than one-mile high - for maximum blast wave damage.
"Within a few tenths of millionths of a second after detonation, the center of the warhead would reach a temperature of roughly 200 million degrees Fahrenheit (about 100 million degrees Celsius), or about four to five times the temperature at the center of the sun," explains BAS.
Superheated air would expand outward "at millions of miles per hour…creating a shockwave of vast size and power."
In one second, the fireball would be one-mile in diameter. Its initial millions of degrees temperature would be about 16,000 degrees Fahrenheit - about 4,000 degrees hotter than the sun's surface.
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