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HumanRights] Trains and madness
Mazin Qumsiyeh
12-year old Dima Al-Wawi was just released
When we watch the way the world currently works, we can get extremely depressed. Just the last few days we saw Israelis in their thousands celebrate the release of a murdering occupation soldier who was videotaped executing a wounded Palestinian.. While 12-year old Dima Al-Wawi was just released from 3 months of Israeli gulags, hundreds of Palestinian children are still imprisoned unjustly by an occupation that has gone on far too long. We noted the vote rigging and rigged “election process” that will ensure Americans have a choice between apartheid-supporting,war-mongering and corporate-backed liar (Hillary Clinton) and an apartheid-supporting, war-mongering, women-bashing, racist cheater (Donald Trump). Both of those very wealthy individuals would tighten the noose on Americans and Palestinians as they lick the boots of the Israel lobby.
Why Sanders Continues Campaigning
Eric Zuesse
There are two realistic scenarios for Bernie Sanders to win the U.S. Presidency.
One depends upon his receiving the Democratic Party’s nomination. The other doesn’t, but both are realistic.
HE STILL MIGHT WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
He still can win the Democratic Party’s nomination, under not just one but two possible scenarios:
(1): Clinton could be indicted for her having privatized her State Department emails.
Turkey Launches US-Approved Border Aggression on Syria
Stephen Lendman
On the phony pretext of combating ISIS Ankara actively supports, Turkish forces aggressively crossed into northern Syrian territory over the weekend.
Russia has evidence of their illegal operations. Sergey Lavrov called it Erdogan’s “creeping expansion.”
Interviewed on Russia’s REN TV on Sunday, he said “(a)ccording to our information, they are digging in a few hundred meters from the border inside Syria,” operating illegally, positioning heavy weapons.“While demanding that Kurdish positions are not reinforced in Syria, Turkey has started to declare it has a sovereign right to create safety zones on Syrian territory” - with full US-led NATO support and encouragement.
Earlier reports showed Erdogan wants control over border areas inside Syria nearly 100 km long and eight km deep, a flagrant violation of its sovereignty.
US Talks Peace in Syria While Waging War
Stephen Lendman
Ceasefire is more illusion than reality. John Kerry claims it saved “literally tens of thousands of lives…” Half a million Syrian deaths from over five years of US-sponsored conflict reveal the viciousness of Washington’s imperial agenda.
Syrians suffer from endless war, slaughter and destruction. Nothing in prospect suggests resolution. Rhetoric is no substitute for action.
As long as Washington wants puppet governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence, endless war will continue. Countless more victims will perish.
US-supported terrorists continue crossing from Turkey into Syria on a regular basis. According to Syria’s Peace Coordination Center, scores of militants trained and armed in Turkey. “entered Anadan in…northern Aleppo” on May 10 alone.
Putin Honored Memory of His Father in Immortal Regiment March
Stephen Lendman
Monday’s Moscow Victory Day commemoration was moving and impressive by any standard, honoring the memory of millions of Russians killed defending their homeland.
Putin showed his humanity. Holding a photo of his father wounded in battle, one of millions of heroic WW II Russian soldiers, he headed Monday’s Immortal Regiment march, walking “shoulder-to-shoulder alongside hundreds of thousands of (ordinary) Russians,” reported RT International.
Organizer Nikolai Zemtsov said the event “brought together people whose grandparents fought from 1941 - 1945. Thus, we are honoring the memory of heroes who earned this hard-won victory.”
Addressing crowds in Red Square, Putin honored millions of heroic Russians involved in defeating the scourge of Nazism. He urged unity in combatting terrorism.
Brazil’s Lower House Speaker Backtracks on Annulling Impeachment Vote
Stephen Lendman
A same day article explained US-manipulated dark forces wanting President Dilma Rousseff impeached without just cause hit a speed bump on Monday when lower house interim speaker Waldir Maranhao annulled the vote against her because of procedural irregularities.
Something is rotten in Brasilia. Overnight Monday, he about-faced, saying “I revoke my decision issued May 9, 2016, in which the lower house sessions were annulled.” Was he pressured, bribed or threatened?
He gave no change of heart reasons. Brazilian media reported his party members threatened to expel him if he didn’t reverse course. He also faces possible corruption charges, perhaps deciding supporting right-wing Brazilian lawmakers keeps him less vulnerable to indictment.
Neocons Want Iran Nuclear Deal Rescinded
Stephen Lendman
In a Monday Independent Journal op-ed, neocon House Speaker Paul Ryan claimed Obama “misled the American people on the Iran (nuclear) deal…Everything about (it) is starting to unravel.”
Nothing supports his baseless claims. Tehran’s best faith efforts along with four of the other P5 countries plus Germany may go for naught if neocons infesting Washington get their way.
Longstanding US policy toward Iran remains hostile - solely for its sovereign independence, unrelated to its nuclear program, well known to be peaceful without a military component or intention to have one.
Ryan and likeminded neocons want Iran kept isolated, the nuclear deal rescinded and regime change actively pursued. He opposes even modest changes in longstanding hostile policy.
U.S. & Russia Reaffirm Commitment to U.N. Peace Process in Syria, Despite Obama’s Opposition
Eric Zuesse
On May 9th, the U.S. and Russia issued a "Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the United States on Syria”, saying that, "The Russian Federation and United States are determined to redouble efforts to reach a political settlement of the Syrian conflict consistent with UNSCR 2254.”
UNSCR 2254, from the U.N. Security Council, on 18 December 2015, refers several times to, and endorses, “a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition in order to end the conflict in Syria,” and, in one passage, it “stresses that the Syrian people will decide the future of Syria." It goes on, to state that the Security Counci:l Expresses its support, in this regard, for a Syrian-led political process that is facilitated by the United Nations and, within a target of six months, establishes credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance and sets a schedule and process for drafting a new constitution, and further expresses its support for free and fair elections, pursuant to the new constitution, to be held within 18 months and administered under supervision of the United Nations, to the satisfaction of the governance and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability, with all Syrians, including members of the diaspora, eligible to participate.
Neoliberal Coup Attempt in Brazil Hits Speed Bump
Stephen Lendman
US-manipulated dark forces want democratically elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ousted, fascist leadership replacing her.
The scheme has nothing to do with corruption or other alleged wrongdoing - everything to do with manipulative power-grabbing, similar to what’s ongoing in Venezuela, fascists wanting social democracies eliminated.
Brazil’s lower house April vote to impeach Rousseff is in question after interim speaker Waldir Maranhao invalidated it because of procedural irregularities, saying lawmakers announcing their intentions ahead of voting constitutes “a clear offense to the wide right to defense that is consecrated in the constitution.”
France Imposes Widely Despised Anti-Labor Bill by Decree
Stephen Lendman
On top of punishing austerity, new rules imposed benefit business exclusively at the expense of worker rights.
They govern layoffs, cap damages for unfair dismissals, and increase the 35-hour workweek at the discretion of employers with minimal pay for overtime.
Since early March, students, other youths and workers rallied against labor law changes proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri.
President Francois Hollande talks like a leftist, governs like a fascist, entirely beholden to monied interests.
Facing rebellion in his ruling party ranks, he and Prime Minister Manuel Valls rammed through labor law changes by decree - using controversial Constitution Article 49.9 to bypass a parliamentary vote.
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