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Legacy of war
Robert J. Burrowes
ANZAC Day. On 25 April 1915
As the world continues to engage in various commemorations in relation to World War I, Australia approaches the centenary anniversary of a defining event in the nation's history: ANZAC Day. On 25 April 1915, and for many days after, Australia suffered savage losses at Gallipoli in Turkey.
Sometimes when we reflect on war, we talk about sacrifice for a good cause. Other times, we talk about the cost, in lives or liberties lost. Occasionally, we talk about the horror. Sometimes we talk about the gains, nationally or internationally, for freedom and democracy. And rarely, we analyse the causes of war and lament that one day we might end it.
Washington and Saudis Plan Escalated Aggression on Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
On Thursday, John Kerry met with Saudi officials in Riyadh. They planned escalated aggression on Yemen harming defenseless civilians most.
A so-called proposed 5-day humanitarian ceasefire is phony. Terror-bombing continues. US/Saudi enforced blockade prevents enough essentials to life from entering Yemen.
Suggesting a limited pause in fighting is willful deception. Washington wants all-out terror war against 25 million Yemenis.
It wants control regained over its former client state - no matter how much mass slaughter and destruction it takes to achieve it.
It bears repeating what other articles stressed. Yemen is Obama's war - using Saudis and other regional rogue states as US proxies.
Six weeks of terror-bombing achieved nothing strategically. Nor have thousands of imported takfiri terrorists been able to challenge Houthi rebels effectively.
Palestinian Authority Hypocrisy
by Stephen Lendman
On May 7, Netanyahu announced the most lunatic fringe coalition regime in Israel's history.
It includes racist hate-mongers, over-the-top fascists and religious fundamentalist zealots - an incendiary combination threatening regional peace and stability.
Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said "(t)he face of a new form of racist, discriminatory Israel has been revealed."
Netanyahu is "leading the charge to bury the two-state solution and impose a perpetual apartheid regime."
He formed a new government "of war which will be against peace and stability in our region."
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said Netanyahu must choose between peace and a two-state solution or a "policy of aggression and arbitrary violations against our people."
Omar Khadr: Free at Last?
by Stephen Lendman
Khadr is a Canadian citizen - one of America's youngest wrongfully charged war on terror victims at the time of his illegal arrest and detention.
On July 27, 2002, US forces abducted him in Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan. He was caught in a gun fight, shot twice in the chest and blinded in one eye.
At age 15, he was lawlessly detained, interrogated and brutally tortured at US Bagram and Guantanamo torture gulags.
He was tried before a US military commission the Supreme Court ruled lacks "the power to proceed because (its) structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld June 2006).
Social Transformation through Meditation
Roger Copple
Imagine watching TV without commercials. International democratic communism is my social ideal. It would be built from the ground-up, through an interdependent network of intentional (or tribal) communities in every country of the world.
Every self-determined commune would receive public funds to develop its own educational philosophy and curriculum for the children living in it. Every intentional community would grow most of its own organic food.
But to get from here to there, we have to do more than get our news about the world through alternative media. We have to do more than passionately share what we have learned with others. More important than being politically active is meditation. We can never have true outer peace unless we have inner peace.
Great scientific achievements have been made using the tool of thinking. But at higher levels of reality, all thinking obscures beauty; it prevents the experience of sacred serenity, boundless joy, and bliss in each Now moment. If we can just sit with choiceless, transpersonal, and nonconceptual awareness for a few minutes a day, without judging or evaluating the thoughts that pop up--a fountain of creativity can spring forth.
Appeals Court Strikes Down Bulk NSA Phone Spying
by Stephen Lendman
On June 11, 2013, the ACLU challenged "the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's mass collection of Americans' phone records (ACLU v. Clapper)."
It argued that doing so violates Fourth and First Amendment rights, saying:
"Because the NSA's aggregation of metadata constitutes an invasion of privacy and an unreasonable search, it is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment."
"The call-tracking program also violates the First Amendment, because it vacuums up sensitive information about associational and expressive activity."
NSA claims authorization under the Patriot Act's Section 215 - the so-called "business records" provision.
It permits warrantless searches without probable cause. It violates fundamental First Amendment rights. It does so by mandating secrecy.
Israel: Serial Terror-Bomber
By Stephen Lendman
Israel operates like America, other rogue NATO members and Saudi Arabia. It claims a divine right to terror-bomb other nations, groups and individuals at its discretion.
It calls naked aggression "self-defense." It calls justifiable resistance "terrorism." It willfully targets civilians. It invents reasons to justify its lawlessness. They ring hollow every time.
Since Obama launched lawless aggression against Syria in March 2011, Israel terror-bombed the country numerous times - always claiming military or national security justification.
Aggression is a war crime at all times under all circumstances. Israel is a serial offender.
Netanyahu Forms New Racist, Fascist Government
by Stephen Lendman
Weeks after Israeli's March 17 elections, Netanyahu and four other extremist political parties formed a new coalition government - barely with 61 of 120 Knesset seats.
Bar-Ilan University Professor Eytan Gilboa calls it "a big political mess…Nobody in his right mind believes that this will hold for even a short time."
Coalition partners include:
● Netanyahu's hard-right Likud (30 MKs)
● Naftali Bennett's pro-settler Habayit Hayehudi (8MKs);
● two far-right religious parties - Shas (7 MKs) and United Torah Judaism (6 MKs); and
● Moshe Kahlon's right-wing Kulanu party (10 MKs).
Yisrael Beiteinu party head Avigdor Lieberman refused to join Netanyahu's co alition. It's not extremist enough for him. It didn't annihilate Hamas.
Obama to Recognize Palestinian Statehood?
by Stephen Lendman
It's hard remembering how many times Obama pledged full support for Israel - at the same time spurning Palestinian rights. He's done nothing to help them throughout his tenure.
He partnered with Netanyahu's genocidal Gaza war last summer. He supported mass slaughtering noncombatant men, women and children.
He's waging multiple regional direct and proxy wars. He doesn't give a damn about Arab lives and welfare.
At the same time, when asked last March if he'd back Palestinian statehood, he said he wouldn't rule it out.
"We're going to do that evaluation," he added. "We're going to partly wait for an actual Israeli government to form."
So-called reassessment has nothing to do with compromising strong US/Israeli relations. Washington is fully committed to its security.
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen believes Washington may no longer veto Security Council resolutions condemning Israeli settlement construction.
UK Elections: Business as Usual Triumphs
by Stephen Lendman
May 7 general elections approach. Britain is like America. It's all over before polls open. Monied interests win every time.
Ordinary people lose out more than ever in modern memory. It shows in opinion polls.
Only 16% of voters trust politicians. Why anyone besides well-off Brits do they'll have to explain.
It doesn't matter who wins on Thursday. Torries and New Labour are even in polls. They're like Republicans and Democrats in America - two sides of the same coin, not a dime's worth of difference between them.
Neither major party is expected to win a majority. Expect coalition government with smaller parties to follow. They largely support the same regressive policies.
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