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Expect Dirty Business as Usual Following Saudi King's Death
by Stephen Lendman
World headlines announced Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's death. At age 90. After being hospitalized on December 31. Suffering from pneumonia.
His half-brother Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud succeeds him. Aged 79. Reportedly suffering from dementia or Parkinson's disease.
Initially Reuters headlined "New king, same oil policy." Changed to "New Saudi king seen holding the line on OPEC policy to keep oil output high."
The Wall Street Journal headlined "Death of King Unlikely to Alter Saudi Oil Policy."
The Financial Times headlined "Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman bids to reassure markets."
AP headlined "Saudi King Abdullah, a Gradual Modernizer, Dead at 90."
Muslim extremism is the legitimate daughter of Arab dictatorships
By Khalid Amayreh,
Today, tyrannical Arab regimes are effectively presenting two stark choices to tens of millions of disillusioned Arab youths from Bahrain to Casablanca: Either they come to terms with the repressive but triumphant police-state fascism, or join the ranks of IS, al-Qaeda or similar violent groups. This is precisely the dilemma behind the outbreak of Islamist violence in the Middle East in recent years.
Arab masses had hoped that the so-called Arab Spring would bring about the long-awaited democratic transformation which most Arabs had been longing for ever since the end of the direct colonialist era in the 1940s and 1950s.
However, the free slaughter of revolutionary forces, as in the Rabaa Square in Cairo and in Syria, as well as the ostensible proclivity of most western countries to revert to the old days of embracing criminal Arab tyrants, convinced Arab youths of the utter futility of counting on western democracy for effecting reforms in the Arab region.
New Proposed Congressional Legislative Sanctions on Iran
by Stephen Lendman
Bipartisan Senate members drafted new legislation. Imposing new sanctions if Iran doesn't agree to US demands by June 30.
Regarding its legitimate nuclear program. With no military component. No evidence suggests one.
It's no different from similar programs in dozens of other countries.
Iran alone is unjustly accused of covert nuclear weapons capability development. A longstanding US/Israeli propagated Big Lie.
Washington and European partners imposed multiple rounds of sanctions. Congressional hardliners want more.
Senators Mark Kirk (R. IL) and Robert Menendez (D. NJ) drafted the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015.
Kiev State-Sponsored Murder in Donetsk
by Stephen Lendman
Since last April, Washington used its installed fascist puppet government as a weapon against Ukrainians wanting democratic rights.
By trashing fundamental rule of law principles. Waging war on freedom. Committing horrendous civil and human rights abuses.
Waging premeditated aggression against Donbas residents. Committing horrific atrocities throughout months of conflict.
Days earlier one in Kharkov. Ukraine's second largest city. An industrial hub. About 40 km from Russia's border.
Neo-Nazi national security head Aleksandr Turchinov announced "counterterrorism preparations" to prevent democratic initiatives from emerging.
2015 AND 2016 COLLAPSE TIMELINE
Posted on January 18, 2015 by State of the Nation 2014
Debt Default and Dollar Meltdown,Derivative Explosion and Deflation Implosion
are Timed According to a Controlling Calendar
The following essay is arguably the single most important article on the internet today. Now that may seem like a bit of a stretch; however, only by reading the entire piece will it be seen for its complete lack of hyperbole. Truly, the vital information and critical timelines contained therein are as immediately relevant as they are highly consequential.
The revealed history, the analysis of the present times, and the extraordinary predictions are as crucial as anything we have seen to date. What could possibly be more urgent to understand, and respond to, especially on the mundane level?
Where everyone has a different take on the immediate future, we strongly feel that this particular portrayal is as good as it gets. It brings together so many high integrity threads to form a veritable tapestry of truth and revelation.
Once again, 2015 AND 2016 COLLAPSE TIMELINE is by far the “single most important” post ever to appear on any of our websites. We trust that the reader will agree.
Editor
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Russia Responds to Obama's Bombastic State of the Union Address
by Stephen Lendman
Obama consistently turns truth on its head. On Tuesday, he said America's upholds "the principle that bigger nations can't bully the small…"
No nation bullies, pressures and bludgeons other nations to comply with its wishes more than America. At the same time wrongfully accusing Russia of aggression in Ukraine.
No evidence whatever suggests it. Plenty shows US dirty hands responsible for Ukrainian crisis conditions. Ongoing conflict. Fascism in Europe's heartland.
Ukraine Stiffs China for Billions It Owes
Eric Zuesse
China paid Ukraine $3B two years Ago for grain still not delivered, now demands refund. Another $3.6B that’s owed to China, will probably also default.
Russia’s RIA Novosti News Agency reported, on January 17th, that China is demanding refund of $1.5 billion in cash and of an additional $1.5 billion in Chinese goods that were paid in advance by China (in 2013), for a 2012 Chinese order of grain from Ukraine, which goods still have not been supplied to China.
According to RIAN, “State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (STATE FOOD) supplied grain in 2013, elsewhere, but not to China. The new Kiev authorities had an opportunity to fix the short-sighted actions ‘of the [previous] Yanukovych regime,’ and to present a positive economic image to the Chinese.” But it didn’t happen.
America's Abysmal State
by Stephen Lendman
America never was beautiful. Less than ever now during harder than ever hard times since the Great Depression.
Permanent wars on humanity at home and abroad. Bipartisan defense of wealth, power and privilege at the expense of beneficial social change.
Obama's State of the Union address combined demagogic rubbish, duplicitous boilerplate, pure fantasy, colossal arrogance, and a contemptible assertion of US supremacy.
"…America stands strong and united with our allies," he said. Leading "with persistent, steady resolve."
Israeli State Terror the Root Cause of Palestinian Blowback
by Stephen Lendman
Israeli state terror is longstanding. Palestinians are ruthlessly persecuted. Terrorized for praying to the wrong God.
Assaulted, beaten, arrested, imprisoned, tortured and murdered in cold blood. For daring to resist Israeli barbarism. Demanding fundamental rights everyone deserves.
Violence begets more of it. The latest incident won't be the last. Automatically called "terrorism."
Israeli media accounts didn't surprise. Omitting what most needs explaining.
YNet News headlined "12 stabbed in terror attack on Tel Aviv bus." A same day headline read "Netanyahu: Paris, Brussels, Tel Aviv - all victims of same terror."
The Jerusalem Post headlined "Terror attack in Tel Aviv: Palestinian seriously wounds 4 in stabbing rampage on bus."
An accompanying article headlined "Tel Aviv terrorist says he was motivated by Operation Protective Edge."
The closest Israeli media come to explaining blowback. Short of condemning decades of Israeli state-sponsored terror. What most needs highlighting.
Genocide in Donbas
by Stephen Lendman
Last April, Kiev launched premeditated naked aggression on Donbas. Mischaracterized as a "counterterrorism" operation. Fighting raged for months. Abated somewhat following agreed on September Minsk protocol terms. Never stopped. Illegitimate oligarch president Petro Poroshenko vowed to crush Donbas resistance. Intends full-scale war. Wants fascist tyranny replacing Donbas democracy.
Last May, the reliable Strategic Culture Foundation (SCF) called Kiev's war on Donbas a "genocide campaign." Believing at the time anti-junta resistance would spread across Ukraine.
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