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Arab World: Authoritarianism is Menace to Peace and Conflict Management
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
Terror is the engine of war. And terror is what all sides in this conflict produce in overabundance …….We torture hostages in our black sites and choke them to death by stuffing rags down their throats. They torture hostages in squalid hovels and behead them. We organize Shiite death squads to kill Sunnis. They organize Sunni death squads to kill Shiites. We produce high-budget films such as “American Sniper” to glorify our war crimes. They produce inspirational videos to glorify their twisted version of jihad. The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight. …..“From violence, only violence is born,” Primo Levi wrote, “following a pendular action that, as time goes by, rather than dying down, becomes more frenzied.” (Chris Hedges, “The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get” Truthdig: 2/08/2015)
NYT Falsely Claims Russia Sending Troops to Syria
by Stephen Lendman
The New York Times is militantly anti-Russian, an over-the-top lying machine, featuring all propaganda all the time on major geopolitical issues, systematically suppressing hard truths.
Its latest misinformation piece falsely headlined “Russian Soldiers Join Syria Fight,” claiming Moscow “said Monday that its ‘volunteer’ ground forces would join the fight and NATO warned the Kremlin after at least one Russian warplane trespassed into Turkey’s airspace.”
More on the so-called air space violation below. The Times shamelessly accused Moscow of “saber-rattling,” challenging Obama’s Syria agenda, ignoring its lawlessness, saying “(a) Russian ground force could fundamentally alter the conflict.”
Putin categorically ruled out using ground troops in Syria. Russian upper house Federation Council foreign affairs committee chairman Konstantin Kosachev said “(w)e would not risk getting stuck in a long conflict and threaten the lives of our troops. The operation is aerial only. Certainly, in coordination with the ground operation of the Syrian army.”
Putin called for an international anti-terrorist coalition to fight its scourge, cooperatively with Syrian armed forces, boots on the ground directly engaging ISIS and other takfiri terrorists.
Accusing Moscow of using ground troops in Syria repeats the Big Lie about nonexistent “Russian aggression” in Ukraine.
America and Occupied Palestine: Free-Fire Zones
by Stephen Lendman
Cops in America are killing people at a record London Guardian pace, according to a http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/01/us-police-killings-this-year-black-americansinvestigation - revealing three fatalities from police violence on average daily, a rate if maintained to reach 1,100 by yearend.
US city streets are battlegrounds. African Americans suffer most proportionately compared to whites and Latinos, despite comprising only 13% of the population, an indictment of a racist rogue state, murdering its most vulnerable, helpless against killer cops.
Rarely ever is one held accountable for cold-blooded murder. A badge is a license to kill with impunity.
The Guardian said of the 547 Americans killed by cops this year through June, 478 died from gun-inflicted wounds, 13 from Taser shocks, 16 struck by police vehicles and 19 while in police custody, including Freddie Gray. Baltimore police severed 80% of his spine from his neck, according to an autopsy report.
So-called “justifiable homicides” are nearly always cold blooded murders. Federal, state and local authorities do nothing to stop it.
Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians “a Religious Duty”
by Stephen Lendman
Zionist zealot rabbi Meir Kahane’s pure evil lives, founder of the Arab-hating Jewish Defense League (JDL). Israel banned it in 1988, calling it a “threat to national security.”
Even the Islamophobic Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said its membership includes only “thugs and hooligans” - dedicated to hate-mongering and violence against Palestinians. Its poisonous ideology persists in Israel. Radicalized rabbis preach it. Nothing is done to stop them. Hate-mongering rabbis responded to questions including: “Am I allowed to kick the insurgent, hit him or shoot him in order to kill him after he has been arrested or is this prohibited?”
Obama Rejects Cooperation with Putin on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Washington so-called war on ISIS is a complete fabrication. Russia’s is the real thing. Its effectiveness is why Obama won’t cooperate with Putin - even though both leaders claim they share the same goal.
In over a year of daily Syria bombing, America’s vaunted military destroyed zero ISIS targets, nor those of other terrorist groups.
On Friday, Russia’s General Staff said its warplanes destroyed 456 ISIS targets since September 30, striking them with pinpoint accuracy. Its Main Operations Directorate chief Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov said:
“Most armed formations are demoralized. There is growing discontent with field commanders, and there is evidence of disobedience. Desertion is becoming widespread.”
Intelligence shows about 100 terrorists enter Turkey from Syria daily. They’re leaving front line positions through refugee routes, fleeing for their lives.
AIPAC’s War on Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
AIPAC is an unregistered foreign agent operating illegally. Just societies would shut it down, holding its officials fully accountable for lawbreaking.
Its agenda is pure evil, supporting Israel’s killing machine, a hate-mongering fascist rogue state, vilifying Palestinians as “terrorists,” blaming them for its own high crimes.
Washington backs what demands condemnation. One tyrannical regime supports another, a real axis of evil along with other rogue state partners. AIPAC calls heroic Palestinian self-defense against unrestrained Israeli brutality “incitement fueling terrorism.” Premeditated Israeli provocations responsible for ongoing violence is all their fault.
The Saudi Dynasty, Key U.S. Ally, Tops the World in Barbarism
Eric Zuesse
The richest person in the world isn’t anyone in the Forbes list, which excludes calculations for any heads-of-state, but is instead King Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose net worth is in the trillions of dollars. He virtually owns the Saudi Government, which owns the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, among other assets. Aramco alone is worth “anywhere between US$1.25 trillion[7] and US$7 trillion,[8] making it the world's most valuable company.” The company’s website says: “1980: Saudi Arabian government acquires 100 percent participation interest in Aramco,” most of which it had already owned. The Saud family’s partners since 1933 had been Chevron Corporation, or Standard Oil of California, which built Aramco. It was a Rockefeller company then; but no one can say who controls it today. As of 2013 (see p. 56 there), the only two investors that owned more than 0.002 or .02% of Chevron, each owned around 6% of it: Blackrock, Inc., and State Street Corp., and they essentially jointly controlled that company, regarding anything on which the two agreed.But the controlling stockholder of Blackrock in 2013 was PNC Financial Services, at 20.8%. PNC is jointly controlled by Wellington Management, Blackrock and the Vanguard Group, each at more than 5%. Wellington, the main stockholder, is jointly controlled by Blackrock, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Royce & Associates, T. Rowe Price, and Wellington Management itself. Some companies, such as Wellington Management, simply hide their owners. All of this is called ‘democracy.’ (Or, at least, it’s “capitalism” of the fascist sort.)
Israel’s Friday Bloodbath
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is more killing machine than nation - a ruthless Arab-hating monster.
On Friday, it continued murdering Palestinians in cold blood, another five lethally shot, the death toll now at 38 since October 1 alone, around 2,000 others injured, 300 on Friday alone, many thousands more from toxic tear gas.
Ruthless Israeli state terror rages daily, indiscriminately using live fire against defenseless Palestinians, wounding scores every day, killing others - brutalizing men, women and children, collectively punishing millions. One observer said Israel developed nuclear weapons to keep from being conquered and occupied. They’re willing to use them to remain free from foreign domination.
Venezuela Arrests Fugitive from Justice Manuel Rosales
by Stephen Lendman
Rosales is a US-born and educated fascist, parachuted into Venezuela by anti-Chavez US officials, a former Zulia state governor, overwhelmingly trounced by Chavez in the December 2006 presidential election - 62.8% to 36.9%.
He supported the aborted April 2002 two-day coup, signed the infamous (Pedro) Carmona Decree, naming himself head of state, abolishing democracy and Bolivarian fairness, dissolving Venezuela’s National Assembly and Supreme Court. He was Zulia governor at the time, over 400 miles away, yet was present in Caracas at the presidential palace during those tumultuous events, never explaining his involvement and support.
Fabricated Reports About Russia’s Syria Campaign
by Stephen Lendman
Two weeks of Russian airstrikes against ISIS and other terrorist targets already had a devastating impact on their operations, turning the tide of battle so far, enabling Syrian ground forces to recapture lost territory.
They’re on the move, advancing, taking the initiative, imported US-supported death squads on their heels, routed in some areas, in disarray, facing a formidable force against which they’re defenseless - no matter how many US weapons airdrops follow. Russia will target and destroy them, along with Syrian ground forces, finding abandoned weapons caches as they advance.
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