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Stephen Lendman
Syria is Obama’s war, naked aggression using imported death squads, orchestrated by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, following a similar strategy she devised to topple Gaddafi and rape Libya.
Russia’s intervention in Syria last September dramatically changed the dynamic on the ground. “(S)upport given…to the legitimate government of Syria helped prevent the disintegration of the Syrian state, its statehood, preserved power structures and prevented mass victims among the civilian population,” Putin explained.
With Russian aerial support, Syrian forces “liberated more than 400 villages and towns (and) eliminated thousands of terrorists.”Yet endless war continues because Washington and its rogue allies reject peaceful conflict resolution. They want Syria entirely ravaged and destroyed, transformed into a pro-Western puppet state, isolating Iran, next in line for regime change.
Syrian and Russian freedom fighters are true heroes, combating US-led pure evil. Senior Russian Lieutenant Alexander Prokhorenko stands out.
He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for exceptional courage and heroism. On March 17, he was killed in the line of duty, involving guiding Russian airstrikes in Homs governorate.
Stephen Lendman
During his UK visit, Obama’s London Telegraph op-ed was duplicitous like all his remarks. The headline alone gave it away this time, saying “(a)s your friend, let me say that the EU makes Britain even greater.”
Neoliberal Europe reveals otherwise, benefitting monied interests exclusively, harming most others, devastating least advantaged households throughout the EU.
Obama’s op-ed meddled unjustifiably in the affairs of another country. It made painful reading, ignoring issues mattering most to ordinary Brits, ones affecting their economic, financial and social welfare, suffering under force-fed neoliberal austerity.
Eric Zuesse
According to Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News), on April 23rd, U.S. President Barack Obama is “demanding the active deployment of the Bundeswehr [Germany’s armed forces, including their Army, Navy, and Air Force] to NATO’s eastern borders” at Poland and the Baltic republics, to join the quadrupling of America’s forces there, on and near those borders of Russia. (This is an extreme violation of what Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to when he ended the Soviet Union and its NATO-mirror organization the Warsaw Pact, but it’s actually culminating a process that began shortly after he agreed to America’s terms, which included that NATO “not move one inch to the east.”)
Eric Zuesse
This is the result of her action: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did it: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes/5509543?print=1
And this is what she says about it, in retrospect: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/15/hillary_clinton_is_lying_about_the_criminal_u_s_backed_coup_in_honduras_it_should_be_as_scandalous_as_libya/
If the Democratic Party, for which I have voted throughout my life, nominates Hillary Clinton for President, then I (being neither ignorant, nor stupid, nor psychopathic) will consider the Democratic Party, and the people who vote for it, as being now run by psychopaths, and as relying upon votes from individuals who are ignoramuses and/or idiots — I’ll never again support the national Democratic Party. I haven’t been, and will not be, a Republican (and anyone who is, after Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, is beneath even basic decency), but if Hillary becomes the Party’s nominee, then the Democratic Party is just as rotten, from its top on down, as the Republican Party is — and, with Hillary as its Presidential nominee, anyone who would be denying the fact of its rottenness, under such a circumstance, would necessarily be either ignorant, stupid, or psychopathic. That’s an undeniable scientific fact about the Party, if it runs a person such as that, as its Presidential nominee.
Stephen Lendman
Longstanding US/Israeli plans call for redrawing the Middle East map - including partitioning Iraq and Syria, installing pro-Western/Zionist puppet regimes.
Turkey wants a Syria buffer zone to annex border areas between both countries. Weeks earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blasted the idea, saying creating one would “violate every principle of international law and will lead to a substantial, qualitative escalation” of tensions.
In February, John Kerry told Senate Foreign Relations Committee members that establishing a buffer or safe zone in Syria would require up to 30,000 troops to enforce it, according to Pentagon estimates.
Last November, Trump endorsed the idea, saying “(b)uild a big, beautiful safe zone, and you have whatever it is so people can live, and they’ll be happier.”
Stephen Lendman
Free expression in all forms is the most important democratic right, no matter how offensive to some people. Without it, all other freedoms are jeopardized.
Articles 1 through 19 of Germany’s constitution affirm basic rights afforded all Germans.
They include equality for all citizens, freedom of speech, assembly, the media, and religion. Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or political beliefs is prohibited.
Conscientious objection to compulsory military service is allowed. Article 18 states:
“Whoever abuses freedom of expression of opinion, in particular freedom of the press, freedom of teaching, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, privacy of posts and telecommunications, property, or the right of asylum in order to combat the free democratic basic order, shall forfeit these basic rights.”
Stephen Lendman
The Times consistently supports what demands condemnation, its discussion of US installed Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ouster the latest example.
He didn’t resign. He outlived his usefulness, didn’t performed as expected, and was sacked - parliament speaker Volodymyr Groysman replacing him.
He’s a US appointed oligarch president Petro Poroshenko favorite, part of Ukraine’s illegitimate regime, Nazis posing as democrats - The Times going along with the charade.
Fascist dictatorship, police state repression, massive corruption and naked aggression on its own people are airbrushed from its reports.
Anyone opposing regime policy risks arrest, prosecution, imprisonment or extrajudicial assassination.
Ukraine is a metastasizing cancer in Europe’s heartland, unsafe and unfit to live in, an untenable situation, millions of its citizens fleeing to Russia or intending to for a new life, free from intolerable governance. More on this below.
Stephen Lendman
America’s history shows trustworthiness isn’t its long suit, treaties and other deals agreed to systematically violated - culpability ignored or counterparties wrongfully blamed for its breaches.
After last year’s nuclear deal was consummated, Obama lied, saying “(h)istory shows that America must lead not just with our might, but with our principles. It shows we are stronger not when we are alone, but when we bring the world together.”
According to a complaint filed last August with the IAEA, Iran said Washington breached nuclear deal principles straightaway - three days after the deal was reached.
Stephen Lendman
Instead of news and analysis “fit to print,” The Times is a mouthpiece for wealth, power, privilege, suppressing hard truths, proliferating misinformation and Big Lies, ignoring America’s high crimes, causing so much harm to so many worldwide.
It supports endless US wars of aggression, attacks independent states opposed to its megalomaniacal rage for unchallenged dominance.
Russia bashing is Exhibit A, notably Vladimir Putin, the world’s preeminent peacemaker, forthrightly challenging America’s imperial agenda while seeking mutual cooperation at the same time on issues affecting all nations.
“Russian Forces Remain Heavily Involved in Syria, Despite Appearances,” The Times headlined - bashing its vital mission, confronting US aggression, waging real war on terrorism.
It cited unnamed Western “military analysts and diplomatic sources,” calling Russia’s vital mission “another more secretive, hybrid war of the sort that fits into Mr. Putin’s comfort zone.”
Regular Russian Defense Ministry reports explain its daily campaign, openness on its military activities unlike notorious US secrecy The Times ignores. Its reporting reads like administration, congressional or Pentagon press releases.With no corroborating proof, it claimed paramilitaries operate in Syria “much like what Russia used to fight in southeastern Ukraine” - one of many Big Lies The Times and other media scoundrels continue proliferating.
Stephen Lendman
Too big to fail or not ignores what’s most important. Predatory bankers make serial killers look good by comparison.
Their business model creates crises, facilitates grand theft, financial terrorism, and debt entrapment.
They steal material wealth, systematically scam investors, and strip mine economies for self-enrichment.
They demand they get paid first, holding nations hostage, turning crises into catastrophes - facilitating the greatest ever wealth transference in history to super-rich elites already with too much, at the same time creating mass impoverishment, high unemployment, neo-serfdom, and human wreckage.
They’re more dangerous than standing armies, waging war by other means, a malignancy ravaging societies and humanity. Economies become subordinate to financial oligarchs, getting things their way exclusively at the expense of the general welfare.
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