by Stephen Lendman

On Saturday, Egyptian Judge Mahmud Kamel al-Rashidi acquitted Hosni Mubarak and seven top security commanders of murdering hundreds of 2011 Taahrir Square protesters.

Sowing chaos. Creating a security vacuum. During 18 revolutionary days. In clashes with police. From January 25 - February 11, 2011.

Despite clear evidence proving guilt. Because of what he called a technicality. A lack of jurisdiction. Mubarak's lengthy public service. His "constitutional legitimacy."

"To rule for or against him after he has become old will be left to history and the Judge of Judges, the Righteous and the Justice (God), who will question him about his rule."

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by Stephen Lendman

Doing so breaches August ceasefire terms. Not Israel's first violation. Nor its last.

It egregiously flouted all agreed on terms straightaway. Complicit PA officials remain silent. Dismissive of horrendous Gazan suffering.

Diverting half or more of October's so-called donor conference raised $5.4 billion. For unspecified budget purposes. Rife with corruption.

Giving Israel total authority over Gaza reconstruction. Controlling what enters or leaves. Palestinians have no say. Over virtually everything affecting their lives and welfare.

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by Stephen Lendman

Repeated administration/Pentagon Big Lies claim otherwise. Saying only non-lethal aid supplied.

Including communications equipment. Body armor. Night vision goggles. Humvees. Radar. Counter-mortar detection units. Binoculars. Small boats. Various other gear.

Kiev is infested with CIA, FBI, US special forces and various other so-called Washington advisors. Directly involved in aiding, abetting and directing Donbas fighting.

Pentagon spokesman Admiral John Kirby lied saying:

"Nothing has changed about the non-lethal assistance that we continue to flow to Ukrainian armed forces and security forces."

Washington "continue(s) to focus on non-lethal assistance…" False! More on this below.

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by Stephen Lendman

The latest incident involves Italian solidarity activist Prodo Corsi

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/002/2014/en/349188ef-e14a-418f-ac20-6c9e5c8d9f88/mde150022014en.pdf

A previous article discussed Amnesty International's (AI) report titled "Trigger-Happy: Israel's Use of Excessive Force in the West Bank." It begins saying:

"Out of nowhere many soldiers jumped out and ambushed Samir. They shot him first in the leg, yet he managed to run away towards the village."

"But how far can an injured child run? Twenty, maybe 30, metres? They could have easily arrested him, especially when he was injured, but instead they shot him in the back with live ammunition."

"To me, this is premeditated murder." Killing 16-year old Samir was no random incident. Israel's entire history reflects endless bloodshed. Crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. Ongoing for decades. Trigger-happy and then some. The latest incident involves Italian solidarity activist Prodo Corsi.

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Stephen Lendman

Israel is a serial lawbreaker. A state sponsor of terrorism. A criminal enterprise. "(A) state of child killers and land robbers," according to one European parliamentarian.

Multiple incidents occur daily. Including attacking Palestinians without just cause. Invading their communities.

Destroying their property. Kidnapping Palestinian men, women and children. Political arrests and imprisonments. Cold-blooded murder.

Some incidents are more outrageous than others. Many are crimes of war and against humanity. Ruthlessness defines Israeli policy.

America operates the same way. Both countries want a special Fourth Geneva Convention blocked. For good reason.

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By S. Brian Willson

“Enlightened and Christian Warfare in the 19th Century–Massacre of Indian Women and Children in Idaho” published in “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated,” August 1868.

The Defining and Enabling Experience of Our “Civilization”

As we again plan to celebrate what US “Americans”call Thanksgiving, let us pause for a moment of reflection. Let us recognize that accounts of the first Thanksgiving are mythological, and that the holiday is actually a grotesque celebration of our arrogant ethnocentrism built on genocide.

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by Stephen Lendman

Militarism, hubris and overreach define America. Wrecking it. Heading it for full-blown tyranny and ruin.

Permanent wars rage. With no end in sight. When no enemies exist. Except invented ones.

Waged by the most secretive intrusive government in US history. Its most repressive. Most ruthless.

Governed by diktat authority. Effective one-party rule. Federal courts and Congress rubber-stamping policies mattering most.

Including imperial adventurism. Corporate empowerment. Monied interests running things. Unprecedented concentrated wealth and power.

Big Brother surveillance. Police state lawlessness. Out-of-control state terror. Corporate controlled managed news misinformation.

Endemic corruption. Incestuous business/government ties. Flaunting the notion of government of, by and for everyone equitably and just.

Increasingly a nation of haves and have-nots. Rulers and serfs. Middle America disappearing in plain sight. Freedom an endangered species.

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by Stephen Lendman

Too few others in the land of plenty. Democracy in America is pure fantasy.

None whatever exists. Monied interests run things. Ordinary people don't matter.

The late Carroll Quigley wrote in his book titled, "Tragedy and Hope:"

"(T)he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."

"This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."

Benefitting handsomely at the expense of nations and popular interests. Wall Street crooks top the corporate pecking order.

Transforming America into an unprecedented money-making racket. Facilitated by complicit government officials. Making money the old-fashioned way.

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by Stephen Lendman

Decades of Arab-Israel discord produced seven full-scale wars, three major Gaza conflicts, two Intifadas, and daily state-sponsored violence throughout Occupied Palestine.

Palestinians live in terror. Unsure each day if they'll live or die. Remain free or be imprisoned. Victimized by Israeli ruthlessness.

Racism is longstanding. Israeli children are taught to hate Arabs. Textbooks justify waging war.

Arabs described as hostile, violent, deviant, cruel, immoral, bloodthirsty, vengeful and unfair. Jews called industrious, righteous, trustworthy and brave.

Eretz Yisrael their exclusive homeland. Based on biblical notions of original inhabitants. Israeli textbooks teaching about "a land without people for a people without land." Making the desert bloom.

Arabs are vilified for not being Jews. Tolerance isn't Israel's long suit. It's is a modern-day Sparta. Militarism reflects daily life. Taught young children from kindergarten.

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by Stephen Lendman

Israel has more crimes on its rap sheet than mere mortals can count. Going back well before its so-called War of Independence.

Continuing multiple times daily. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year. By rogue leaders and likeminded officials.

More extremist now than earlier. Mocking rule of law principles and then some. Committing slow-motion genocide against millions of Palestinians. Ludicrously claiming democratic credentials. Enacting one racist law after another. The latest by extremist cabinet ministers.

"(D)efining the identity of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and to anchor the values of the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the principles of the Declaration of the Independence."

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