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Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered The Power of Israel over the United States
James Petras
There have been times when history has played tricks with man and...has magnified the features of essentially small persons into a parody of greatness. - Rabindranath Tagore(on Benito Mussolini)
Introduction
How is it that the ruler (Benjamin Netanyahu) of a puny country (Israel) of 8.2 million (6.2 million Jews) with the 37th biggest economy (GDP in current prices) in the world dictates war policy and secures the willing submission of the legislature of the largest economy and most powerful military empire in the world?
What significance does Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress have, beyond the fact that he uses it as a platform to attack the elected President of the US, to denounce US peace negotiations and to demand that Congress adopt policies designed to precipitate a war with Iran?
Rage Against Netanyahu
by Stephen Lendman
Israelis most often are as out-of-touch with reality as Americans - sleepwalking through their daily lives instead of becoming activist to improve them.
Saturday night was different - the exception proving the rule. Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied against Netanyahu's appalling leadership in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square under the banner "Israel Wants Change." The New York Times and Washington Post ignored it. The Wall Street Journal published a woefully short three-paragraph AP report.
WaPo apparently thought a Palestinian injuring five Israelis was more important than a major anti-Netanyahu mass protest.
Obama's Demagoguery in Selma
by Stephen Lendman
This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of Selma, AL's "bloody Sunday." The 1965 Voting Rights Act followed violent civil rights clashes.
Obama had the audacity to lead Saturday’s commemorative Edmund Pettus bridge march along with others very much deserving to be there.
Throughout his tenure, he's done more to harm blacks and other disadvantaged Americans than perhaps any post-Civil War president.
Black poverty, unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, hunger and deprivation are greater than any time in memory - worse than during Great Depression years.
Black youth unemployment tops 50%. In Obama's home city of Chicago, an Urban League report revealed a shocking 92% unemployment rate among black male teenagers.
The 'Democrat' Brzezinski Says Russia's Putin Wants to Invade NATO
Eric Zuesse
Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. President Obama’s friend and advisor on Russia, is a born Polish aristocrat who has hated Russia his whole life but who hid that hatred until after the communist Soviet Union collapsed and he then publicly came out as hating and fearing specifically Russia — the nation, its people, and their culture. In 1998, he wrote The Grand Chessboard, arguing for an unchallengeable U.S. empire over the whole world, and for the defeat of Russia as the prerequisite to enabling that stand-alone global American empire to reign over the planet.
He now has told the U.S. Congress (on February 6th but not reported until March 6th, when the German Economic News found the clip) that Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin “seized” Crimea and that Putin will probably try to do the same to Estonia and Latvia, unless the U.S. immediately supplies weapons and troops to those countries and to Ukraine. Here is his stunning testimony (click on the link under it, to hear it, but the key part is quoted in print below): http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/03/06/brzezinski-rede-vor-dem-us-kongress-russland-wird-angreifen/
Obama's Neocon Infested Administration
by Stephen Lendman
Obama's legacy won't please him when independently written. He entered office promising "hope and change."
He delivered demagogic Big Lies, permanent wars on humanity, police state repression, and outlandish corporate favoritism at the expense of beneficial social change.
He appointed a rogue's gallery of scoundrels to top administration posts. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are unindicted war criminals.
They're arguably America's most venal ever Secretaries of State. Their rap sheets fill volumes. They're neocon extremists masquerading as democrats.
The Palestinian Authority is betraying the Palestinian people
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
The Palestinian Authority (PA) was created more than 20 years ago in order to advance Palestinian national interests, extricate the Palestinian people from the clutches of the enduring Israeli occupation and expedite the establishment of a viable independent Palestinian state.
Now, it is amply clear that the PA has utterly failed to achieve any of its stated goals. Indeed, the PA has more or less become the main obstacle impeding the creation of a true Palestinian state.
Moreover, the nearly total subservience of the PA to Israel, has actually enabled the Jewish-Zionist entity to effectively liquidate the Palestinian question under the rubric of a fictitious "peace process" which we all know has a form but no substance.
Indeed, under the false umbrella of that sham process, Israel has nearly completely eradicated any remaining prospects for true Palestinian statehood. This was done by expanding Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank and confiscating hundreds of thousands of acres of Palestinian land, leaving no sufficient space for the creation a meaningful Palestinian entity worthy of the name.
Questions for NYT and Other Scoundrel Media Editors
by Stephen Lendman
Alternative sources alone provide reliable information on issues mattering most. Mostly individuals commenting online pro bono.
Speaking publicly in venues willing to host them. Expressing honest views when interviewed. Hard truths more important than ever to know.
Ideas and opinions Orwell called revolutionary in times of universal deceit. Imagine how he'd respond to today's horrors.
Fascist governments masquerade as democracies. US imperial wars rage without end - waged one after another or in multiples.
Against governments threatening no one. Western ones target them anyway.
Criminal gangs masquerade as political parties institute slow-motion tyranny at home. They threaten humanity's survival.
MSM television and print media support their worst policies - pretending they're beneficial, legal, the right thing to do.
Hawkish US Senator Charged with Corruption
by Stephen Lendman
No nation in world history matches US private and public corruption. Corporate giants have virtual license to steal.
Grand theft is core Wall Street operating policy. This writer's book titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America" discusses it. It's now in its second edition in China.
Goldman Sachs is like other Wall Street crime families. It profits hugely by swindling clients it calls "muppets." Small-time con artists rip off marks.
Goldman and other Wall Street crooks loot on a grand scale. GS chairman/CEO Lloyd Blankfein calls it "doing God's work." Which one he didn't say.
When corporate giants control federal, state and local government, anything goes is policy. Ordinary people lose out altogether.
Washington Prepares for Ground War in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
How many simultaneous wars can America wage? How many more does Obama have in mind?
As long as neocon lunatics run Washington's asylum, expect wars without end to rage - against one country after another until perhaps all planet earth is turned to smoldering rubble.
On March 4, the Military Times headlined "Dempsey does not rule out US ground troops in Syria."
Saying Joint Chiefs chairman General Martin Dempsey told House Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee members US forces may be sent to Syria.
"If the commander on the ground approaches either me or the secretary of defense and believes that the introduction of special operations forces to accompany Iraqis or the new Syrian forces, or JTACS (joint tactical-air controllers), these skilled folks who can call in close-air support, if we believe that's necessary to achieve our objectives, we will make that recommendation," he said.
Obama’s Biggest Lie About Obamacare
Eric Zuesse
He promised “universal coverage” but delivered a plan in which that was impossible. Consequently, whereas 85.4% of Americans had coverage in 2008, only 87.7% have coverage today, far short of the promised 100% — though 100% coverage is the norm in industrialized countries. The reason: Universal coverage requires that healthcare be treated as a right not a privilege, but doing that would cut billions from profits to healthcare stockholders, who include most of the aristocracy — and America is run for the aristocracy’s benefit, not for the public’s.
Obamacare started being available on 1 October 2013 and has now been available for 16 months. When candidate Obama was running for the Presidency, he promised “universal coverage,” which is what exists in virtually all other developed countries: 100%, everyone insured, no citizen lacking health insurance for ordinary and life-preserving needs. (Medicare-for-everybody would have been this.) Now that his Obamacare has been available for 16 months, is every American citizen health-insured; did he provide what he had promised? Is America no longer the lone outlier that has a lousy system of funding health care — overloading emergency-rooms, which is the costliest way to deal with healthcare (and one reason why all other advanced countries pay far less and yet obtain better healthcare results than the U.S. does)?
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