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Venezuela Plans to Double Oil Production
by Stephen Lendman
Venezuela has the world's largest proved oil reserves - and vast amounts more not officially recognized, mainly its Orinoco basin heavy oil.
It's why Washington wants regime change. It wants control over its vast treasure. It wants Venezuelans denied the vital benefits oil revenues provide.
In late May, Telesur reported on Venezuelan oil production "set to boom due to a massive ($14 billion) deal struck with Russia's Rosneft" - its leading extraction and refinement company.
It mostly involves Orinoco basin development in Venezuela's northeast believed to hold around 235 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the deal following a meeting with state-owned oil company PDVSA president Eulogio de Pino and Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin, saying:
"We had a tremendous meeting, and agreed to investments for over $14 billion to double oil production in the coming years."
Kiev Wants Foreign Troops Aiding Its War on Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
Kiev's junta is an illegitimate US-installed putschist regime infested with extremist Nazi lunatics.
Last April, it launched naked aggression on Donbass - with full US support and encouragement.
Dirty war without mercy continues. Kiev systematically breached three ceasefire agreements unilaterally.
It blames victims for its high crimes. It's murdered thousands of Donbass noncombatant men, women and children. It deliberately targets them.
Western leaders able to intervene responsibly turn a blind eye to its worst atrocities. In March, Ukraine's parliament passed legislation calling for international peacekeepers (foreign troops from countries it OKs) deployed in Donbass - to aid its lawless aggression.
FBI Misuse of Patriot Act Authority
by Stephen Lendman
America is a police state. The FBI is the nation's Gestapo. It's abuse of power and misconduct are longstanding.
It's an instrument for systematically violating civil liberties. It's a rogue agency operating unconstitutionally.
Bureau secrecy and cover-up make it impossible to know the full extent of its lawlessness. It operates with minimal oversight and accountability.
A new Justice Department Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report titled "A Review of the FBI's Use of Section 215 Orders: Assessment of Progress in Implementing Recommendations and Examination of Use in 2007 - through 2009."
Section 215 of the Patriot Act tramples on Bill of Rights protections. Its language is vague and deceptive. It's used to permit unconstitutional meta-data mining. It allows police state investigatory practices. It authorizes government access to "any tangible item" - including personal financial records and transactions, medical records, phone conversations, emails, other Internet use and whatever else Washington wants to monitor.
Confidential Document: Soros’s Plan for Ukraine
Eric Zuesse
A hacked document from the Ukrainian Government, in which George Soros, on 12 March 2015 (a month after the Hollande-Merkel Minsk II ceasefire agreement had been signed), advised Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko how to re-arm and resume the war against the Donbass region in Ukraine’s far east. (According to a Russian television report dated 14 April 2011
, Soros had been financing the political careers of the people who have now become the leading politicians in Ukraine, since at least 2008.)
The newly revealed document (hacked by “Cyber Berkut,” a reliable source) opened by acknowledging that Ukraine’s military had been twice defeated in their attempt to restore that region to Ukraine’s control (here was the first defeat; and here was the second), and that, both times when a ceasefire was established, it “recognized the facts on the ground” instead of requiring Donbass forces to move back to the earlier war-front demarcation lines. (And here was the final result.)
Unconstitutional Mass FBI Aerial Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman
Free and open societies don't spy on their citizens. They don't invent phony threats as justification.
America is a belligerent nation waging endless wars of aggression against invented enemies. Fear-mongering is rife. It's done to rape, ravage and destroy one country after another.
It's a tactic used to scare people to believe they're safer by sacrificing fundamental freedoms. Mass surveillance is a defining rogue state characteristic.
Post-9/11, government-usurped authority turned America into a police state. Big Brother watches everyone. Tuesday Senate passage of the USA Freedom Act (the renamed Patriot Act) changed little.
Government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens remains largely unchanged. The only good news is that USAF slightly rolled back its intrusiveness instead of giving spy agencies more powers.
Obama on Israel: Phony Criticism, Continuing Business As Usual
Stephen Lendman
Obama and Netanyahu's dislike of each other changes nothing about US/Israeli relations. They're rock solid as ever.
Not a single member of Congress dares criticize Israel's worst crimes - not Elizabeth Warren, not Bernie Sanders, no one.
Obama's criticism is muted, phony, duplicitous. He supports repeated Israeli naked aggression on Gaza, its lawless siege, its slow-motion genocide against 1.8 million people, its longstanding ethnic cleansing policy and theft of Palestinian land. He's silent about its impending demolition of Susiya village after Israel's High Court rejected a plea by its residents to save homes they've lived in for decades on their own land. Israel wants it for exclusive Jewish development. Other villages are demolished the same way. Hundreds of Palestinian families are left homeless so Israel can become more Jewish at their expense.
Another Western Big Lie Exposed
by Stephen Lendman
Some governments lie some of the time, some most of the time and some virtually every time on issues mattering most.
Nothing from Washington or other Western governments should ever be believed. Their Big Lies consistently drown out hard truths - the bigger the issue, the greater the lie.
Last July, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) crashed near Donetsk, Ukraine. It was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 283 passengers and 15 crew members perished.
At the time, Washington irresponsibly blamed Donbass self-defense forces - despite no evidence suggesting their culpability. US authorities claimed a Russian-supplied Buk surface-to-air missile fired from territory they controlled was responsible. Moscow blamed Ukraine. The Dutch Safety Board launched an investigation.
A preliminary September 9 report said MH17 "broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside" - without further explanation.
Dysfunctional Ukrainian Military
by Stephen Lendman
It operates like a slapdash Keystone cops bunch - its ranks filled with unhappy conscripts wanting no part of fighting their own people.
Corruption is rampant. Hundreds of millions of dollars disappear into the pockets of high-ranking military officials. Government corruption is worse - greater than what aroused anger against ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ordinary Ukrainians suffer enormously from impoverishment, unemployment, skyrocketing inflation, unaffordable goods and services, and hugely repressive regime practices. Documents obtained by Donbass military intelligence show "poor morale leads to alcohol abuse and violation of military discipline among (Ukrainian) soldiers, according to statistical data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (along with) the growth of crime committed against the civilian population."
Mass desertions continue - fed up Ukrainian soldiers going AWOL. They're underpaid, poorly fed and clothed, deplorably treated overall, and opposed to fighting their own people.
Mumia Update
by Stephen Lendman
Mumia Abu-Jamal is perhaps the world's best known political prisoner - framed for a Philadelphia police officer killing he had nothing to do with.
Authorities wanted him silenced. He once said "(t)he state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone." Comments like the following explain why he's a captive in prison hell - no longer on death row but being killed by neglect:
"Do you see law and order," he asked? "There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security." "It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to."
He calls television "the window of illusion." Corporate media "prime (the public) like pumps to support wars on rumors, innuendo, legends and lies."
Dark Vision- Shia Militias and the Battle for Ramadi - Brian Downing
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