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Police Brutality in America
by Stephen Lendman
Justice in America is a four-letter word. Killer cops mock it. Nearly always with impunity.
A badge lets them brutalize and kill. Blacks, Latinos and ethnic minorities suffer most. They're targets of choice.
The ACLU calls Ferguson, MO "Everytown, USA." Police brutality occurs multiple times daily across America.
In big cities. In small ones. In urban areas. In rural ones. Militarized policed make their own rules. They operate extrajudicially.
They kill with impunity. On August 9, officer Darren Wilson murdered 18-year-old Michael Brown. He executed him in cold blood.
Brown was unarmed. He posed no threat. He had no criminal record. An independent autopsy showed he was shot six times.
Israel Faces its Own Evil
By Gilad Atzmon
Earlier today, just a few hours before the ceasefire collapsed, sources in Jerusalem have disclosed that Israel and the US have agreed to gradually lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, starting with the land crossings and eventually opening up sea traffic. Hamas, so it seemed, has achieved all of its objectives in the latest round of violence. With sparse resources, limited fire power and obsolete ballistic technology, Hamas managed to bring Israel to its knees. Plainly, the war was unwinnable for the IDF. Israel invaded the Gaza strip without establishing its own military objectives. The Israeli Government sent its soldiers into the streets of Gaza without understanding its own military, political or diplomatic aims. Both the IDF and the Israeli government were attempting to appease Israeli popular demand for revenge. The Israeli people felt humiliated by the Palestinian rockets. These largely harmless homemade rockets interfered with Israeli escapist philosophy. The rockets’ flare reminded Israelis that there are another people who claim the land, and this people, the Palestinians, are named after the land. Once again polls confirmed that Israelis were bloodthirsty, they wanted to wipe out the Palestinians for good, and the populist Netanyahu government rushed to deliver.
Gaza Ceasefire Extended
by Stephen Lendman
Monday's ceasefire deadline was extended another 24 hours. It was set to expire at midnight local time.
Talks continue for a permanent ceasefire. Long denied justice for beleaguered Palestinians remains elusive.
It's hard knowing how another day, week or month will achieve what never before was possible.
Israel is a lawless, racist, apartheid rogue terror state. It's all take and no give. It wants its interests alone served. It wants fundamental Palestinian rights denied.
It wants Gazans isolated under siege. It wants brutalizing occupation continued.
It wants Palestinian self-determination avoided at all costs. It wants the right to keep stealing Palestinian land.
Kiev's War Without Mercy Continues
by Stephen Lendman
Kiev fascists are murdering their own Southeastern citizens in cold blood. They're doing it with full support and complicity from Washington.
Russia's RIA Novosti news service quoted Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Defense, Franz Klintsevich, saying:
Use of ballistic missiles against Lugansk civilians "suggests that the Ukrainian security forces have been granted carte blance from the Americans.""They do not care what Russia says, what the international community or even Europe says today."
"They got their carte blanche, and while it remains active they want to deal with the situation in Donetsk as quickly as possible."
Using ballistic missiles against civilian neighborhoods shows how far Kiev and Washington will go to solidify hardline neo-Nazi-infested fascist rule.
Ferguson Exposes the Reality Of Militarized, Racist Policing
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
This is a teachable moment for the nation that presents an opportunity to transform policing so it serves the people.
The killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, MO police officer, who was identified Friday as Darren Wilson, and the aftermath in which nonviolent protesters and reporters were met with a violent and militarized police force have exposed something that has been building for years. Many have written about the militarization of the police and the disproportionate impact they have on people of color, but now more Americans are seeing this reality and cannot escape it.
Michael Brown is one of four unarmed black men killed in the last month by police. On July 17, Eric Garner was killed by an illegal chokehold in New York. On August 5, John Crawford was shot in a store in Beavercreek, OH. Just after Brown’s death, on August 9 Ezell Ford, a young man with known mental illness, was shot in Los Angeles. These are four examples of many, according to a recent study, a black man is killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or vigilantes. The whole nation is experiencing these tragedies; reality is being forced upon us.
Russia: Waging Peace in Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
Throughout months of conflict in Southeastern Ukraine, Russia has gone all-out to resolve things diplomatically.
Yet Putin bashing never quits. He's viciously demonized. Truth is buried. Facts are conveniently twisted.
He's wrongfully accused of supplying weapons and fighters to aid Southeastern Ukrainian anti-government forces' liberating struggle. His spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, categorically denies Russia's involvement. "We have said repeatedly that no equipment is being supplied there," he said. No Russian troops are involved.
Promoting Confrontation with Russia
by Stephen Lendman
Washington's rage for war may end up targeting Russia next. Major media propaganda and disinformation seem inexorably heading in this direction.
Madness explains what's happening. Truth is systematically buried. It's turned on its head. Big Lies, distortions and deception substitute.
Western readers and viewers get a daily diet of outrageous managed news misinformation. America's so-called MSM are worst of all.
From The New York Times to Fox News, a systematic drumbeat of anti-Russian propaganda drowns out real news, information and analysis.
Winston Churchill once said "(a) lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Today it circulates instantly. Joseph Goebbels once said "(i)f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
FERGUSON, MISSOURI / THIS IS WHAT MARTIAL LAW LOOKS LIKE
Allen L Roland Ph.D
The police before a rally Wednesday in Ferguson, Mo., where an unarmed
teenager, Michael Brown, was shot by an officer last week.
Spurred on by 9/11 and the War on Terror, America has become a feared military force of terror but the prime target has always been the American public which is becoming increasingly aware of their Government sponsored militarized police who see and relate to them as Middle East terrorists until proven innocent such as in Ferguson, Missouri. The military-style occupation of Ferguson, Missouri has ripped aside the thin veneer of democracy to expose a budding police state. This is what martial law looks like: Allen L Roland, Ph.D
As I watch, with alarm, the rapidly growing American militarized Police State as well as George W Bush and Dick Cheney’s recent book tours ~ where they rationalize their illegal wars and economic rape of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as justify torture as a means to this criminal end ~ I am immediately reminded of Milton Mayer’s classic THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE (The Germans 1933 – 1945).
Netanyahu: Israel's Pinochet
by Stephen Lendman
Chileans old enough to remember won't ever forget September 11, 1973. A "Caravan of Death" followed Pinochet's power grab.
It included mass arrests, disappearances, torture and murder. All suspected regime opponents were targeted.
Victims were buried in unmarked graves. Some were mutilated before being executed. Death squads killed thousands.
Netanyahu treats Palestinians much the same way. Brutalizing occupation and war without mercy reflect official policy.
Netanyahu heads Israel's rogue government. He exceeds the worst of Ariel Sharon and previous hardline leaders.
MSM War on Gaza
by Stephen Lendman
Journalists daring to criticize Israel responsibility face likely dismissal and banishment from MSM employment.
Once again, Israel waged cold, calculated premeditated aggression against near defenseless Palestinians.
An Israeli Goliath mercilessly attacked a Palestinian David. It did so for unjustifiable reasons. Mass slaughter, destruction and human misery followed.
Non-combatant men, women and children suffered most. They were deliberately targeted. They comprised over 80% of deaths and injuries.
Israeli casualties hardly compare to around 2,000 mostly civilian Palestinian deaths, up to 10,000 injured, large parts of Gaza in ruins, hundreds of thousands forcibly displaced, and families losing all their possessions.
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