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Congress Piling on Amendments to Anti-Iranian Nuclear Legislation
by Stephen Lendman
Democrat and Republican hardliners are toughening the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (INAR) Obama opposes it. A possible veto-proof majority looms. The legislation aims to undermine consummating a final deal by giving Congress vetting power over its terms.
Israel and its Lobby want them tougher than any responsible government would accept - their way to kill an equitable deal altogether.
Congress is on board to oblige. More than 50 amendments are being considered.
On April 14, Senate Foreign Relations Committee members will begin debating them. Obama wants no congressional action until a final deal is reached by end of June.
Comments on Major Geopolitical Events - Post-Cataract Surgery
by Stephen Lendman
Stephen Lendman
The eyes don't have it at the moment. Healing takes time. One eye done on Thursday. Another in two weeks. The toughest part of healing is rest time needed - being unable to write normally. I'll do what I can without overdoing it.
My doctor said I can use my eyes normally online. Easy for him to say. He's a surgeon, not a writer focused on a bright screen for clearness requiring sunglasses while writing until healed. Hopefully not for too long.
Major events remain ongoing. Obama's rape of Yemen continues. He got US government military and civilian personnel out safely.
He refuses to evacuate three to four thousand stranded US citizens. They're left on their own during terror-bombing - Obama's latest war using Saudi-led regional proxies doing his dirty work.
Empire of Chaos
Anthony Freda
Propaganda is designed to promote paranoia by attributing barbarism to the enemy and righteousness to your cause.
The barbaric beheading videos purported by Western media to be Isis recruitment propaganda have had quite the opposite effect. The videos have done nothing but foment worldwide hatred for the group and a blood lust for revenge.
Public support for new wars to stop these beheading madmen has never been greater.
Clearly, Isis has a terrible public relations department.
Arab Leaders are a Menace to Reality Check and People Are Dying
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The Arab masses are the targeted victims of the Western-led coalition’s atrocities and instigated sectarian rivalries with unthinkable consequences to the present and future generations. To enhance the foreign proxy wars, the Arab-Muslim leaders are tragically entrapped in a vicious cycle of self- geared disastrous wars against themselves. The tragic side of the folly reveals moral and intellectual decadence where once progressive culture and civilization evolved horizontally to inspire the Western civilizations. Is it a Divine punishment to the Arabs and Muslims for waging trivial wars against their own existence and future? In a broader context, the Arab-Muslim body appears to be on a death bed and the life-supporting oxygen is fast running out of stock.
Ukrainian Gov’t. Condemns Russia’s Celebration of Victory Against Nazis
Eric Zuesse
The Ukrainian Government said on April 7th that any country sending representatives to Russia’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of their victory against Adolf Hitler, will be blacklisted by Ukraine. That celebration will take place on May 9th.
According to the Russian news report, “Over the weekend, Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov noted that the leaders of at least 25 states from across the world will attend Moscow's celebrations. … The leaders of China, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Cuba and North Korea have confirmed their attendance. Meanwhile, the leaders of Germany, Britain, Poland, the Baltic States and the United States have confirmed that they won't be attending.”
How America Became an Oligarchy
by Ellen Brown
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners. — George Carlin, The American Dream
According to a new study from Princeton University, American democracy no longer exists. Using data from over 1,800 policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page concluded that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of – or even against – the will of the majority of voters. America’s political system has transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where power is wielded by wealthy elites.
The Washington Times Removes Legacy Article On Fox News Investigative Reporter Martin Burns
Award-Winning Journalist Martin Burns Was A Champion Against Child Abuse
“His death has been added to a growing list of prominent child justice campaigners who all died just ahead of a planned release of either, a documentary containing highly sensitive information, or a bid for new legislation to contain child trafficking and abuse.”[1]
Martin Burns was a courageous advocate journalist who campaigned mightily for the protection of vulnerable children, especially those caught within the system. His brand of investigative journalism was known for its fearlessness and ferocity. He left no stone unturned in his quest to know what was really happening to children who wound up in the custody of Child Protective Services.
The quote above comes from The Washington Times (TWT) article written about the Martin Burns’ story that was published on Friday, October 18, 2013 under the title Fight against child abuse loses another prominent voice. What is particularly suspicious is that every single post of this particular report on the internet has been scrubbed except the two versions that are found at State of the Nation.
The link below from the internet archive service known as Wayback Machine captured the front page of The Washington Times on October 18th, 2013.
US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Washington planned war on Yemen months ago - preemptive naked aggression by any standard with Saudi-led proxies doing Obama's dirty work.
Plus direct US involvement. Reports indicate one or more American warships shelled Yemeni targets. Israeli warplanes are involved.
Millions of Yemenis are experiencing the horrors of Obama's terror wars - including willfully targeting residential areas, hospitals, schools, power facilities, Yemen's largest food storage center and largest dairy plant, and other nonmilitary sites.
Noncombatant men, women and children are being murdered and maimed in cold blood. Bodies are piling up in streets.
Ukrainians Protest U.S. Police-State the Only Available Way
Eric Zuesse
The racist-fascist (or “nazi”) anti-Russian regime that the U.S. installed in a February 2014 coup does not permit protest (except from its small right: the few overt nazis demanding even more militancy); so, the only way that thousands of Ukrainians were safely able to express their loathing of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev on April 1st was by mooing as a non-verbal expression against the regime-controllers inside the compound, telling them, in effect, “We are not cattle.” However, at the end of the protest, someone managed to throw cow-dung at the compound.
Ukraine's Car-Production Plunges 96%; Many Banks Also Fail
Eric Zuesse
On Tuesday April 7th, Ukravtoprome (the Ukrainian Association of Automobile Manufacturers) reported that, in the three-month period January-March 2015, as compared to the same three months of 2014, production of passenger cars plunged 96%, commercial vehicles 23%, buses 43%, for an overall decline of 92%.
In March alone, as compared to March 2014, passenger-car production plunged 94.3%, commercial vehicles fell 31%. The figure for buses was not shown.
March figures were a considerable improvement over the month before: "compared to February, the number of cars produced has doubled.”
On April 2nd was reported that “Sales of new cars in Ukraine fell to the lowest in 15 years,” and that March’s sales-volume (number of cars sold) was 23% less than that in February. Furthermore, “The general decline in sales of vehicles in Ukraine in January-February 2015 compared to the same period in 2014 was 67%.”
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