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Anti-Palestinian Viciousness Rages
by Stephen Lendman
Israel bears full responsibility for premeditated violence and brutality, unleashed without mercy against defenseless Palestinians - reminiscent of how Nazis persecuted Jews.
Decades of vicious Israeli persecution explains the root cause of ongoing turmoil. People take so much before reacting in self-defense.
The trigger for things exploding now is multifold, a combination of:
days of Israeli soldiers and police rampaging through the sacred Al Aqsa Mosque, brutalizing worshipers, forcibly removing them so extremist settlers could enter the compound where they don’t belong;
- longstanding repressive security force viciousness; and
vigilante settler thuggishness, near daily violence and vandalism against Palestinians ignored or supporting by Israeli soldiers and police: the most horrendous example was immolating three Dawabsha family members, Israel knowing the perpetrators, yet refusing to arrest them, while at the same time kidnapping Palestinians and charging them with offenses they didn’t commit or are too minor to matter.
The MH17 Big Lie: The Russians Did It
by Stephen Lendman
Downing was a classic false flag, the scheme likely cooked up in Washington, using its Kiev puppet regime to do its dirty work, then point fingers the wrong way.
The Russians DID NOT down MH17 - nor Donbass freedom fighters. No credible evidence suggests it. Only fools and liars believe it.
What could they possibly gain from downing a commercial airliner, unrelated to conflict on the ground, killing 298 passengers and crew members. Washington and/or Kiev had motive and opportunity, gaining plenty by pointing fingers the wrong way, supported by the usual scoundrel media chorus, featuring Big Lies and innuendos.
Opposite Views on Premeditated Israeli Violence
by Stephen Lendman
Marwan Barghouti is a political prisoner, unjustly convicted in a show trial, sentenced by Israel to multiple life sentences - not for involvement in crimes, for his activism and prominence.
He was Palestine’s most popular politician, a political leader Israel feared, a shoe-in for president if he ran in 2005. Israel wanted Abbas installed, a reliable longtime collaborator.
Barghouti strongly supports Palestinian sovereign independence, free from illegal Israeli occupation and urges legal action to end it.
He manages to get his writing published, including his secretly written book titled “One Thousand Nights in Solitude” detailing his harsh treatment - smuggled out of prison page by page.
London’s Guardian published his latest commentary, discussing ongoing Israeli-instigated violence. “There will be no peace until Israel’s occupation of Palestine ends,” he stressed! “The current escalation” began long ago. It’s been ongoing for decades, a repressive occupying power brutalizing a defenseless population.
US Resupplying ISIS in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Washington is resupplying ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria on the phony pretext of supporting so-called “moderates.” None exist. Virtually all anti-Assad forces are terrorists, imported cutthroat killers. More on what could be called Operation Airdrop below.
Russia’s devastating air campaign against ISIS continues, combined with Syrian ground forces on the move, liberating terrorist-held territory.
Their fighters are being battered and killed. Large-scale ground operations continue along with increasing numbers of precision Russian airstrikes.
On Monday, Syria’s General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said government control was reestablished over the Free Zone in Aleppo, as well as 13 towns, villages and other areas in Hama and Latakia provinces.
Exponentially Rising Global Terrorism
by Stephen Lendman
Washington’s war on terror is a war OF terror on humanity, largely responsible for exponentially rising incidents worldwide.
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) recorded around 18,000 in 2013, up 60% over the previous year - holding ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Taliban most responsible.
All are US creations. Washington’s so-called war to defeat terrorism increased it exponentially, what lunatics in Washington intended.
GTI reported 3,361 incidents in 2000, up dramatically to 11,133 in 2012 and 17,958 in 2013, likely 20,000 or more when final 2015 figures are published. US imperialism bears full responsibility for the exponentially rising numbers.
As long as US direct and proxy wars rage, expect terrorist incidents to keep rising annually. In 2013, 80% of terrorist fatalities occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Nigeria, said GTI.
Netanyahu’s Way to Restore Calm: More Violence
by Stephen Lendman
On Tuesday, Netanyahu vowed to use “all means” available against Palestinians - more intense state terror than already.
His promise “to bring quiet back to the citizens of Israel” is by escalating violence, including premeditated murder and mayhem.
More troops and militarized police will be deployed. Palestinian neighborhoods will be isolated and surrounded by security forces - with orders to shoot to kill.
More Palestinian homes will be demolished. Residency status for increased numbers East Jerusalem families will be revoked.
War on Jeremy Corbyn Rages
by Stephen Lendman
In politics, doing the right thing exacts a price. It’s no game for sissies. Most office holders are scoundrels. Exceptions like Corbyn prove the rule. More below on attempts to vilify him.
The late Gore Vidal once said “(a)ny American who is prepared to run for president (or any high office) should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.”
Author Richard Reeves once said “(a) lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.”
Famed journalist HL Mencken disqualified himself from politics, saying: “I am strongly in favor or common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible (for) any public office of trust…”
Daily Israeli War Crimes in Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is attacking defenseless Palestinians with lethal force and vicious propaganda - reflecting state terror fueled by longstanding racist hate, wanting maximum land for Jews only, and having Palestinians confined to isolated ghettoized bantustans, deprived of all rights and resources.
Israeli and Western media support this hideous agenda, long ago abandoning any sense of objectively, siding now with Netanyahu and likeminded fascists, terrorizing Palestinians unaccountably. Palestinian lives, safety, rights and welfare don’t matter. For nearly 70 years, Israel has waged a war of extermination and ethnic cleansing against millions of defenseless people, notably since occupation in June 1967.
CBS’ 60 Minutes Interviews America’s Liar-in-Chief
by Stephen Lendman
Obama is an unindicted war criminal, a shameless demagogue, a serial liar, a moral coward, a disgrace to the office he holds.
On Sunday, CBS correspondent Steve Kroft interviewed him on 60 Minutes - giving him a prominent propaganda platform, everything pre-scripted, largely asking softball questions instead of holding a rogue president’s feet to the fire responsibly.
Not a chance on mainstream television, a medium for the proliferation of Big Lies on issues mattering most, notably when government officials or retired generals and admirals are interviewed.
Were Deadly Ankara Blasts a False Flag?
by Stephen Lendman
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s repressive regime had motive and easy opportunity. We’ll likely never know for sure if he or his fascist cronies were responsible. Suspicions are warranted.
On Saturday, multiple deadly blasts rocked Ankara, targeting a Labor, Peace (and) Democracy rally, protesting Turkey’s war on Kurds - killing at least 95 people, injuring around 250 more, over 50 in intensive care with serious injuries. Some may not survive. Nine policemen were slightly injured, none killed. The blasts apparently didn’t target them. Angry activists on the scene shouted “police murderers.” Security forces forcibly removed them.
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