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EU Showdown: Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid
by Ellen Brown
Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long and are saying “no more.”
A return to the polls was triggered in December, when the Parliament rejected Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ pro-austerity candidate for president. In a general election, now set for January 25th, the EU-skeptic, anti-austerity, leftist Syriza party is likely to prevail. Syriza captured a 3% lead in the polls following mass public discontent over the harsh austerity measures Athens was forced to accept in return for a €240 billion bailout.
Austerity has plunged the economy into conditions worse than in the Great Depression. As Professor Bill Black observes, the question is not why the Greek people are rising up to reject the barbarous measures but what took them so long.
Israeli Persecution of Haneen Zoabi
by Stephen Lendman
Zoabi is the first ever elected female Israeli Arab citizen Knesset member representing an Arab party. A University of Haifa and Hebrew University graduate.
A former math teacher. Earlier worked as an Israeli Ministry of Education school inspector.
In 2001, she joined the Balad party. In 2003, she co-founded the Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel (I'Iam). Remaining general director until 2009.
Switching to politics. Winning a Knesset seat. One of three Balad won in 2009.
Zoabi rejects the notion of Israel as a Jewish state. Calling it "inherently racist."
Tricks Western ‘News’ Media Use to Deceive about Ukraine’s War
Eric Zuesse
Because of the ample video and other evidence that the Ukrainian Government is pursuing an ethnic-cleansing policy to get rid of the residents in the area of Ukraine that had voted 90% for the Democratically elected Ukrainian President that Obama’s State Department and CIA overthrew on 22 February 2014, Western ‘news’ media have had difficulty fooling their audiences into the idea that the regime that Obama installed in late February to take over the country is not racist-fascist, otherwise known as nazi, in its character and policies. The video and other evidences are simply too pervasive and numerous for them to deny, and so these media have taken increasingly to saying that the Ukrainian regime’s nazism is just the West’s tit against the evil Putin’s tat. However, they cannot show comparable video evidence of the pro-Russians bombing villages and cities, and machine-gunning busloads of escaping refugees in order to kill them and not merely expel them, and marching and chanting nazi slogans and flags and swastikas. So, here will be exposed an example of this deception-tactic, of this supposed tit-for-tat nazism, to make clear how this lying-technique is practiced by the BBC (and other ‘news’ media):
Appalling Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
by Stephen Lendman
Thousands of Palestinians languish in Israel's gulag. There for political reasons. Brutally treated. Denied fundamental rights.
The Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association estimates over 800,000 Palestinians incarcerated since June 1967. Around 20% of Palestine's population. About 40% of its male population. Including 10,000 women. About 8,000 children since 2000.
Held in about 17 prisons, interrogation and detention centers. All but one located inside Israel. Brazenly violating Fourth Geneva's Article 76. Prohibiting occupying powers from detaining people they control in their own countries. Military orders govern virtually all aspects of Palestinian life.
Nazism's Reemergence in Europe
by Stephen Lendman
Previous articles discussed it. This writer's edited and contributed to book titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III
Overt Nazis hold real power in Europe's heartland for the first time since WW II. Threatening Ukrainians. The entire continent. Eurasia. Perhaps beyond.
Russia's Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights Konstantin Dolgov expressed concern saying: "There is no doubt that if there is no adequate reaction to the raging neo-Nazism in Ukraine, and so far there is no such reaction, this infection would spread over the Ukrainian borders and spread to other countries in Europe and beyond."
Ukraine Says $450 Million Was Stolen from Its Military in 2014, President’s Aide Says Far Right Refuses to Obey the President
Eric Zuesse
Yury Biryukov, an aide to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, said on January 6th that during the year 2014, up to $450 million was stolen from Ukraine’s military. This amount happens to be precisely the same maximum amount of money that the U.S. Government, in legislation that was supported by more than 98% of U.S. Senators and Representatives and that was signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on December 18th, will donate to Ukraine’s military for this year, 2015. Biryukov, who spoke on Ukraine’s Channel 5 TV (which had formerly been owned by Poroshenko), said that the amount stolen in 2014 constituted “about 20 to 25 percent” of Ukraine’s military budget for 2014, which was a total of $1.8 billion. During 2015, that budget is scheduled to be $3.2 billion (in constant dollars), or a 78% increase, in order for the Government to prosecute its war against the Donbass region, where the residents had voted 90% for President Viktor Yanukovych, whom the Obama Administration overthrew in February 2014 in a coup that was disguised as being the result of popular demonstrations for democracy but were actually anti-corruption demonstrations — and corruption now is even higher than it was under President Yanukovych. Indeed, Biryakov admitted that in the Ministry of Defense there is now “total corruption.”
The Struggle for Palestine's Soul
by Stephen Lendman
International law is clear and unequivocal. Occupying powers have no sovereignty over territories they control.
They're obligated to protect the rights and welfare of people they administer. Respect all laws in force prior to their occupation.
Under no circumstances may they administer occupied territories for their own self-interest. Destroy or confiscate private property.
Annex territories by force. Transfer their population to territories they control. Dispossess people living there.
Fail to comply with all international humanitarian and human rights laws. A late December judicial ruling shows what Palestinians face.
US Coup in Ukraine: Oliver Stone's Documentary
by Stephen Lendman
Coups are a US specialty. Replacing legitimate governments with pro-Western stooge ones.
Ukraine is Exhibit A. The latest example. America's newest colony. For sure not the last. Washington tolerates no sovereign independent states.
Subservient ones only. Last February, longstanding US plans culminated with ousting Ukraine's democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovich.
This writer's edited and contributed to book "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III
Involuntary or Voluntary Neuroleptic Antipsychotic Psychiatric Drugs May Result in Permanent) Brain Damage
By David Oaks
Any serious debate in 2007 about the topic of involuntary psychiatric procedures ought to include the following fact:
For years, many studies have indicated that long-term high-dosage neuroleptic (also known as antipsychotic) psychiatric drugging may induce structural brain damage. This damage can include actual shrinkage of areas of the brain associated with higher-level functions, what makes us human.
In his commentary, "England's New Mental Health Act Represents Law Catching Up with Science," Anthony Maden demands that "ethical advocates of a change to capacity-based legislation are under an obligation to deal with the science."
However, I note that proponents of involuntary psychiatric procedures seldom explain clearly to colleagues, the public, patients or their families, the full implications of these procedures. It is undeniable that involuntary psychiatric procedures often involve psychiatric drugging, and that neuroleptic psychiatric drugs are often used in such circumstances.
US/Russia Reset? Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
On New Year's eve, Bloomberg's Josh Rogin headlined "Inside Obama's Secret Outreach to Russia."
Saying administration officials have been "working behind the scenes for months to forge a new working relationship with Russia…"
At this time Putin bashing remains intense. Blaming him wrongfully for US crimes.
Irresponsibly claiming he "has shown little interest in repairing relations with Washington or halting his aggression in neighboring Ukraine."
Putin wants cooperative relations with all nations. Stressing it many times forthrightly. "(O)n an equal basis," he said at his year-end press conference.
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