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Is Obama losing it?
Michael Collins
President Barack Obama's recent behavior is cause for concern. He never lived up to his progressive image but at least he wasn't Bush, we were told. That sterling quality may have persuaded the Nobel Prize judges in 2009 but it's meaningless now. Obama is staking out his own form of petulant, erratic, and paranoid behavior that stands on it's own as the basis for his failure to rise to the occasion of multiple crises. (Image)
Petulant
Obama's petulance was shown just this week when he cancelled a bilateral meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. The topic was world peace. The cancellation represents an insult to Putin and Russia since Obama will be in St. Petersburg, Russia for the G-20 economic summit, which Putin is attending. Why the petulance?
Obama is miffed that Russia gave whistleblower Edward Snowden temporary asylum, thus refusing Obama's demands that Snowden be shipped back to the United States to stand trial on charges of espionage. Think about it. A U.S. court grants a Russian whistleblower asylum and, after the decision, President Putin demands that Obama overrule the court, handcuff the whistleblower, and send him back to Russia. The howls of protest would be deafening. But, Obama had no problem making this request of Putin.
Obama Shoots Himself in the Foot
by Stephen Lendman
It's not the first time. It won't be the last. It didn't surprise.
Obama represents the worst of rogue state governance. He's a war criminal multiple times over. He heads a repressive police state apparatus.
He's ravaging one country after another. He's waging war on humanity. He's doing it at home and abroad. He risks global war.
At the same time, he finds new ways to humiliate himself. He further denigrates America in the process. He cancelled a long-planned Moscow summit with Vladimir Putin.
It was scheduled ahead of the September 5 and 6 St. Petersburg G20 summit. No longer. New York Times editors urged him not to go. They did so disgracefully. A separate article discussed it.
At issue is the brouhaha over Russia granting Edward Snowden asylum. It was done honorably by the book. It was right and proper to do.
Snowden's a world hero. He exposed lawless NSA spying. It's done globally. Everyone targeted is monitored all the time everywhere. Doing so is unconstitutional. It doesn't matter. Obama calls it OK.
Egypt Under Empire, Part 4: Dancing Between Dictatorship and Democracy
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall
US President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with Egyptian President Mubarak
America’s Mambo with Mubarak
America’s ruling elites – and those of the Western world more generally – are comfortable dealing with ruthless tyrants and dictators all over the world, partly because they’ve just had more practice with it than dealing with ‘democratic’ governments in so-called ‘Third World’ nations. This is especially true when it comes to the Arab world, where the West has only ever dealt with dictatorships, and often by arming them and supporting them to repress their own populations, and in return, they support US and Western geopolitical, strategic and economic interests in the region. America’s relationship with Egypt – and most notably with Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt from 1981 to 2011 – has been especially revealing of this imperial-proxy relationship between so-called ‘democracies’ and dictatorships.
New York Times Editors Support Police State Persecution
by Stephen Lendman
It doesn't surprise. Times editors, columnists and contributors reflect what famed investigative journalist/critic George Seldes (1890 - 1995) called "prostitutes of the press."
They feature managed news misinformation. They suppress what readers most need to know. They support wealth, power and privilege. They oppose popular interests.
They call imperial wars liberating ones. They say business does things better than government so let it. They claim America's beautiful. They say it's the best of all possible worlds.
They call beneficial social change heresy. They say patriotism requires supporting US policies right or wrong. They believe liberties are subverted for our own good.
No wonder they're losing subscribers. Readers wanting facts reject fiction. They reject managed news misinformation substituting for truth and full disclosure. They reject cover up and denial. They reject distortion. They reject wrongheaded views. They reject bald-faced lies. They reject supporting wrong over right.
Fake Terror Alert Extended
by Stephen Lendman
Announced embassy and consulate closures continue all week. Perhaps longer if ordered. Doing so facilitates deception.
It reflects duplicitous fearmongering. It's to fool people. It serves America's hidden agenda. It targets dissent. It subverts civil liberties.
It's to silence lawless NSA spying critics. On Sunday TV talk shows, Republicans and Democrats agreed. Terror threats justify NSA surveillance, they claim.
Suspect Turkish Court Rulings
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, a landmark case ended. It was politically charged. It was suspect from inception. Everyone tried claimed innocence. Of the 275 alleged coup plotters, most were convicted.
In 2007, proceedings began. Only 21 defendants were acquitted. Another 16 were freed. Consideration for time served brought release.
Three opposition MPs got 12 - 35 years in prison. Attorney Kemal Kerincsiz heads Turkey's Great Union of Jurists. He got life imprisonment for doing his job.
Kerry’s Success Worse than His Failure
By Nicola Nasser*
The critical issue of the ever expanding illegal Israeli colonial settlements on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in the West Bank (WB), which are peace killing in eastern Jerusalem in particular, will make or break the newly resumed Palestinian – Israeli negotiations.
On July 29, 2013, those negotiations were resumed in Washington, D.C.; they are scheduled to begin in earnest in mid-August. President Barak Obama hailed them as a “promising step forward.” However, in view of more than twenty years of failed U.S. – sponsored peace making, the new talks “promise” nothing more than being a new round of failure and “conflict management,” in spite of Obama’s belief that “peace is both possible and necessary.”
Lynne Stewart Petitions for Release
by Stephen Lendman
A personal note. Lynne's a friend. So is husband Ralph Poynter. Before her imprisonment, they came on my radio program. We discussed her case.
Ralph's been on several times since. He's invited back any time on short notice. Justice for Lynne matters most. She's one of America's best.
Her treatment reveals America's dark side. Cruel and unusual punishment is official policy. So is gross injustice.
Lynne's unjustly imprisoned. She committed no crimes. It's for doing her job. She did so honorably for 30 years. She's an internationally renown human rights defender.
She's dying. She has Stage Four cancer. It's spreading. It affects multiple parts of her body. It's killing her.
AIPAC Promotes War on Iran
by Stephen Lendman
AIPAC's a blight on humanity. It's an unregistered foreign agent. It operates illegally. It does so destructively. It promotes war. It deplores peace. It represents the worst of Israeli interests.
It controls US administrations and Congress. Edward Said called it "the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington."
In a matter of hours, he said, it can mobilize virtually unanimous Senate support for Israel. Deferentially, US politicians bow to its will. They do so disgracefully.
On June 14, Iranians elected Hassan Rohani. He's Iran's new president. He's head of state. He's a distinguished leader. He combines diplomacy, politics and scholarship.
FBI Lets Informants Commit Crimes
FBI Lets Informants Commit Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
Evidence mounts. America's a rogue police state. NSA is Stasi's new incarnation. Lawless spying is official policy. Virtually everyone's illegally monitored all the time everywhere.
Homeland Security and FBI operate like Gestapo. They menace freedom. They terrorize. They don't protect. They do so for wealth, power, privilege and unchallenged dominance.
FBI calls itself "an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities."
Its mission "is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners."
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