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NATO: An Instrument of US Imperial Policy
Stephen Lendman
US-dominated NATO threatens world peace. It’s for offense, not defense.
No threats exist except invented ones, lamely justifying the unjustifiable. Washington uses the alliance to advance its imperium, hanging a sword of Damocles over humanity.
Claiming NATO’s resolve is to confront a “resurgent Russia” masks its aim to be a world policeman, a global alliance operating on every continent, an enforcer of US foreign policy - an agenda of endless wars, elimination of all independent governments, puppet regimes replacing them, planet earth colonized. Obama’s Financial Times op-ed on the summit’s eve combined anti-Russia saber-rattling with willful deception.
EIR Featured Prominently in Washington Press Conference on South China Sea
Executive Intelligence Review
July 6, 2106 (EIRNS)- At a press conference in Washington today, held by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and the National Institute of South China Sea Studies and attended by some 70 plus Chinese and American journalists, three leading Chinese scholars and two American scholars, including EIR's Washington Bureau Chief Bill Jones, were featured. The interest in the topic was at its height with the imminent decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague on the Philippines' request for a decision on the matter. The decision by the arbitration court, which China refused to be a part of, and therefore, whose decision China will not abide by, is seen as a means for the U.S. to up the ante on its "freedom of navigation" gambit in the South China Sea, pushing the region closer to war.
Iran’s Legitimate Missile Program
Stephen Lendman
In a confidential report to Security Council members, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lied, saying:
“While it is for the Security Council to interpret its own resolutions, I am concerned that (Iran’s) ballistic missile launches are not consistent with the constructive spirit demonstrated by” last year’s nuclear deal.
“I am concerned by the ballistic missile launches conducted by Iran in March 2016. I call upon Iran to refrain from conducting such ballistic missile launches since they have the potential to increase tensions in the region. ”Fact: Iran’s missile program complies fully with 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) principles and Security Council Resolution 2231 - making the agreement binding international law, prohibiting any nation from unilaterally abrogating it.
Fact: None of its missiles, including ballistic ones, are designed to carry nuclear warheads. No evidence suggests otherwise
Fact: Iran’s program is solely for defense, not offense. The Islamic Republic hasn’t attacked another country throughout its history. It threatens none now.
“The New Immoral Age: How Technology Offers New Ways of Killing People and of Destroying the World.
Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
“It turns out … that I’m really good at killing people.”President Barack Obama (1961- ), (as reported in Reed Peeples, ‘A President and his Drones’, June 29, 2016, —a review of the book ‘Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone’, S. Shane, 2015) “We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.—Governments are only machines, created by the individuals of a nation for their own convenience; they are only delegated bodies, delegated by the individuals, and therefore they cannot possibly have larger moral rights of using force, or, indeed, larger moral rights of any kind, than the individuals who delegated them.
Sanders to Endorse Clinton, Betraying Loyal Supporters
Stephen Lendman
Sanders earlier said he’ll support Clinton if she’s nominated, a de facto endorsement by any standard.
Unnamed party insiders now say on July 12, at a New Hampshire campaign event, he’ll make it official - according to Reuters, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, CNN and other media sources.
He almost did Thursday, saying “(w)e have got to do everything that we can to defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. I don’t honestly know how we would survive four years of a Donald Trump as president.”
NATO Summit Closes By Condemning Russia
Eric Zuesse
The issues that were discussed at this year’s NATO Summit were mainly preparations for a possible war against Russia.
The two-day Summit in Warsaw Poland ended on Saturday July 9th, with a 139-part "Warsaw Summit Communiqué” which used the word “terrorism” 17 times, “jihad” and “jihadist” and “jihadism” 0 (zero) times, and “Russia” 58 times — never favorably, and often with overt hostility.
It also referred to “Ukraine” 34 times, and “Syria” 10 times. Ukraine, during a February 2014 coup (it has been referred to as having been a “coup” both by the leader of the private CIA firm Stratfor, and by the Establishment writer on international relations John Mearsheimer, among others) switched, immediately after the coup, from having been neutral between NATO and Russia, to being suddenly and consistently intensely hostile to Russia, and immediately applied to join NATO; Syria still remains strongly allied with Russia.
The Ukrainian government was referred to 100% favorably, and the Syrian government was referred to 100% unfavorably.
What Is NATO — Really?
Eric Zuesse
When NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the U.S. Marshall Plan, and the entire U.S. operation to unify the developed Atlantic countries of North America and Europe, for a coming Cold War allegedly against communism, but actually against Russia — the core country not only in the U.S.S.R. but also in Eastern Europe (the areas that Stalin’s forces had captured from Hitler’s forces).
NATO was founded with the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington DC on 4 April 1949, and its famous core is:
Article 5: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Dallas Cops Lethally Shot Because Black Lives Don’t Matter
Stephen Lendman
Unaccountable killer cops turning Black communities into battlegrounds made overnight Thursday’s incident inevitable.
It was just a matter of time - nor likely the last instance of justifiable public outrage exploding. People and communities take so much before reacting.
Until killer cops are held accountable for false arrests, extreme brutality, other forms of abuse and murdering Black youths, Dallas may prove a shot across the bow for what’s to come - a declaration of war against longstanding injustice.
This week’s headline-making police executions of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, MN respectively reflect daily incidents across America - cops brutalizing Blacks unaccountably, over 1,000 cop killings in 2015, disproportionately affecting unarmed Blacks.
State Department Intends Second Hillary Whitewash
Stephen Lendman
Hillary is criminally culpable for violating State Department rules and US statute laws, prohibiting documents and other information pertaining to national security and defense from being moved or removed from their “proper place of custody.”
FBI director James Comey obstructed justice, dismissively calling her criminality “extreme carelessness,” making him complicit in serious wrongdoing.
Ordinary Americans are held to one standard, privileged ones another, justice whatever powerful figures want it to be. Rule of law principles don’t matter.
Tony Blair’s Deputy Prime Minister Calls Iraq War Illegal
Stephen Lendman
John Prescott served from May 2, 1997 until June 27, 2007.
In a Sunday Mirror op-ed, he called John Chilcot’s report “a damning indictment on how the Blair Government handled the war,” adding he shares blame.
Apologizing to families of scores of British servicemen perishing in conflict dismissively ignored millions of Iraqi deaths from war, related violence, preventable diseases, starvation and overall deprivation - hundreds to thousands more dying monthly, a Western-instigated holocaust for power, privilege, dominance and all that oil. Prescott saying he now believes war on Iraq was illegal ignores fundamental international law principles proving it all along. No nation may attack another except in self-defense - Security Council members alone permitted to authorize it, not sitting governments.
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