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U.S. Gov’t. Says It’s No Longer Against Al Qaeda
Eric Zuesse
"We're not focused on the former al-Nusra Front [Al Qaeda in Syria]. We're focused on Daesh [ISIS]. And that's what we're fighting and that's where therefore we look and where we target.” U.S.Defense Department press briefing, 16 August 2016
Basic to America’s war against terrorism was Al Qaeda as being the specific target, but, on August 16th, a U.S. Defense Department spokesperson said that Al Qaeda is no longer an enemy of the United States at all, and that only ISIS is America’s enemy in the war against terrorism. However, Congress never authorized anything but Al Qaeda to be the enemy in the war against terrorism. Consequently, President Obama is now violating the law by his no longer targeting Al Qaeda at all, and he is also ignoring the law by his targeting ISIS (as he has long been doing) without requesting a new authorization from Congress to do so — an authorization that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress would be virtually certain to grant immediately.
Neocon Washington Post Warns of Nonexistent Putin October Surprise
Stephen Lendman
US media scoundrels are irresponsibly anti-Russia, anti-Putin - the Washington Post among them, CIA-connected through its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
WaPo suggests Putin plans an October surprise despite no evidence linking Russia to numerous early accusations against it - fabricated stuff entirely for geopolitical reasons.
WaPo columnist Dana Milbank is more propagandist than journalist, without justification, saying “(t)he Russians have just given us an August glimpse of a potential October surprise.”
Like many others, he falsely blamed Moscow for hacking DNC emails and “targeting state voter-registration systems,” claiming it’s part of an “effort to boost Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy…leaking what they believe to be the most damaging documents at strategic points in the campaign.”
Clinton Plan to Destroy Russia
Eric Zuesse
Leaked emails are filling in the picture of a Bill-and-Hillary-Clinton plan to destroy Russia — a plan which had originated with U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, and which has been followed through both by his son George W. Bush, and by both of the Clintons, but which has only recently started to become documented by leaked publications of personal communications amongst the key operatives who were the insiders running this operation behind the scenes, and who include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Victoria Nuland, Jeffrey Feltman, Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman al-Saud, and the Emir of Qatar.
Clintons’ Body Count Mounts
Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed mysterious deaths associated with the Clintons, dating from when Bill was Arkansas attorney general in the 1970s.
Were they suicides as reported or murders? Cover-ups and lack of proper media investigative work conceal full knowledge of what happened.
Yet one thing seems clear. Anyone able to expose Clinton crime family wrongdoing not already made public runs the risk of dying under mysterious circumstances, indicating possible foul play. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is at risk, especially after saying he’ll release thousands of “significant” documents on Hillary before November’s election.
Militarism in Chicago
Stephen Lendman
US Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels perform stunt flying exhibitions in US air shows nationwide - their mission to promote militarism, imperial wars, and aid recruiting.
Annually they participate in Chicago’s Air and Water Show, coming this weekend along Lake Michigan’s lakefront close to where I live - assaulting city residents like myself with the roar and toxic pollution of low-flying warplanes, their din disturbingly audible indoors, much more so close to where they perform stunts - practicing this Friday, in action Saturday and Sunday, my most disliked weekend of the year.
This year, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II “advanced stealth” warplane will participate - a $2 trillion boondoggle in development, production, operations and maintenance, yet to achieve its performance objectives and perhaps never will.
Syria: Victim of US State Terror
Stephen Lendman
Syria is one of numerous US war theaters - naked aggression against sovereign independent countries to replace their ruling authorities with pro-Western puppet governance.
An emailer asked me when WW III might begin. It’s perhaps ongoing with no one noticing, I said - begun with US aggression on Afghanistan, the 9/11 mother of all false flags the pretext, or maybe when the Clintons raped Yugoslavia. Hillary urged husband Bill to wage war.
Things seem certain to become worse ahead - the ominous prospect of war on Russia, China and Iran, all longstanding US regime change targets, obstacles in the way of it achieving unchallenged global dominance.
NYT Editors Ignore Clinton Foundation Racketeering Practices
Stephen Lendman
More than any previous time in US history, America seems poised to anoint a known legally, ethically and morally tainted candidate to the nation’s highest office - testimony to its unprecedented evil, its threat to world peace and what remains of fundamental freedoms.
Hillary more than any previous presidential aspirant is unfit to serve - belonging in prison, not high office, racketeering one of her many high crimes.
Trump was right saying it’s hard knowing where the Clinton Foundation ended and the State Department began. As America’s chief foreign policy official, Hillary focused mainly on waging war and selling influence.
She and husband Bill became super-rich by corrupt pay-to-pay practices. Foreign regimes, corporate predators, and wealthy individuals had to donate plenty to their foundation to gain access to Hillary while at State.
It was “set up as a business to profit from public office,” said Trump - while masquerading as a charitable NGO, the Clintons stashing millions of dollars in tax havens, self-enriching by other dubious practices.
Impeaching Dilma Rousseff Democracy’s Death Blow in Brazil
Stephen Lendman
It’s all over but the vote-counting, scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday.
Washington conspired with fascists in Brazil at a time its economy is mired in Depression, using Rousseff’s low approval rating during hard times to falsely accuse her of budget-manipulating crimes she didn’t commit.
Impeachment is certain, pre-scripted, a coup d’etat by any standard. Enough Senate votes exist to oust her, a scandalous exercise in tyranny triumphing over democratic governance - ordinary Brazilians to be harmed most by punishing neoliberal harshness when vital aid is most needed. Rousseff is currently suspended from office, awaiting the outcome of Senate proceedings to remove her by impeachment.
On Monday, she addressed the body honorably, forthrightly and truthfully, saying “I am here to look directly in your eyes to say…I have nothing to hide. I did not commit the crimes that I am accused of.”
Russia a Threat to US Imperial Interests
Stephen Lendman
Had Putin not intervened responsibly against US-supported terrorists in Syria, all might have been lost, Iran awaiting the next onslaught.
Committed to defeating terrorism in Syria to prevent its spread to Russia’s heartland, Putin stepped up efforts responsibly, more strongly allied with Iran and yet to be determined aid from China, likely short of direct military involvement.
Russian warplanes and cruise missiles now attack terrorist positions in Syria from Iranian territory. Black Sea warships firepower destroyed “a command post and a terrorist base near the village of Dar Taaza as well as a production site of mortar ammunition and an arms depot in Aleppo province,” according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.
Its military might is a direct threat to America’s sought unchallenged regional dominance. So is Putin’s determination to defeat the scourge of US-supported terrorism.
Aleppo Boy Story: Stunt to Blame Russia, Urge Escalated War
Stephen Lendman
Little Omran Daqneesh is being used, the story about him gone viral - thinly veiled propaganda to blame Russia and Syria for Obama’s naked aggression against a nation threatening no others.
It’s a way to further demonize both countries and enlist public support for greater aggression than already. Ignored are tens of millions of corpses from endless US imperial wars, from the republic’s inception to today - nameless, faceless victims of America’s rage for global dominance, no matter the mounting body count to achieve it. Imperialism works this way, America its leading exponent. Media scoundrels support its viciousness instead of condemning it, the public carpet-bombed with misinformation and Big Lies, hard truths kept under wraps.
All wars are based on deception and lies. Hard truths expose them. Bread and circuses keep most people distracted.
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