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US-Sponsored Genocide in Syria
Stephen Lendman
From the republic’s inception, America waged genocidal wars without mercy, rule of law principles discarded, conquest and dominance sought at any price.
At home, America’s native people were virtually exterminated, survivors consigned to concentration camp-like reservations, treated more like animals than people, impoverished, abused and denied their fundamental rights.
Abroad, one country after another was raped and destroyed, endless horrors continuing. Tens of millions of corpses attest to a ruthless state masquerading as democratic and peace-loving - an Orwellian world in fact, not fiction.
Cold hard reality exposes horrifying truths - a nation bent on world conquest and colonization, its resources looted, its people exploited, nonbelievers slaughtered, imprisoned, disappeared or otherwise eliminated.
America’s Next President to Be Its Most Widely Reviled on Entering Office
Stephen Lendman
Demagogic billionaire racist Trump v. legally challenged neocon she devil, war criminal, racketeer Clinton in November exposes the illusion of democracy in America - in name only, mocking the real thing.
Polls show most voters reject both duopoly power candidates, want an alternative choice, independent ones unable to unseat entrenched power - money-controlled duopoly governance with two neocon infested right wings.
A July Reuters/Ipsos poll showed “Americans demand for an alternative to the two main presidential candidates has surged since the last election, underscoring the unpopularity of” Trump and Clinton - deplorable choices, widely reviled.
Poll results showed over a fifth of voters won’t back either candidate, both with unfavorability ratings exceeding 50% - nearly half of their supporters wanting the opposition candidate stopped.
HillaryEd: Her Tuition Reform Scheme
Stephen Lendman
Education is a fundamental human right. In America, it’s commodified for profit.
Most college students become debt entrapped. For many it’s longterm or permanent, escape by default prohibited, a crushing burden to service and try repaying, state-approved usury by any standard.
College was once affordable, many state ones tuition-free. In 1952, when I entered Harvard College, full-year tuition was $600 - with room, board and fees, around twice this amount.
In 1956, I graduated debt free, later from graduate school owing around $200, easily repaid quickly once remuneratively employed. Today, Harvard’s tuition, room, board and fees cost $63,025, unaffordable for most students without financial help, most becoming debt entrapped.
NATO: An Instrument of US Imperial Policy
Stephen Lendman
US-dominated NATO threatens world peace. It’s for offense, not defense.
No threats exist except invented ones, lamely justifying the unjustifiable. Washington uses the alliance to advance its imperium, hanging a sword of Damocles over humanity.
Claiming NATO’s resolve is to confront a “resurgent Russia” masks its aim to be a world policeman, a global alliance operating on every continent, an enforcer of US foreign policy - an agenda of endless wars, elimination of all independent governments, puppet regimes replacing them, planet earth colonized. Obama’s Financial Times op-ed on the summit’s eve combined anti-Russia saber-rattling with willful deception.
EIR Featured Prominently in Washington Press Conference on South China Sea
Executive Intelligence Review
July 6, 2106 (EIRNS)- At a press conference in Washington today, held by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and the National Institute of South China Sea Studies and attended by some 70 plus Chinese and American journalists, three leading Chinese scholars and two American scholars, including EIR's Washington Bureau Chief Bill Jones, were featured. The interest in the topic was at its height with the imminent decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague on the Philippines' request for a decision on the matter. The decision by the arbitration court, which China refused to be a part of, and therefore, whose decision China will not abide by, is seen as a means for the U.S. to up the ante on its "freedom of navigation" gambit in the South China Sea, pushing the region closer to war.
Iran’s Legitimate Missile Program
Stephen Lendman
In a confidential report to Security Council members, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lied, saying:
“While it is for the Security Council to interpret its own resolutions, I am concerned that (Iran’s) ballistic missile launches are not consistent with the constructive spirit demonstrated by” last year’s nuclear deal.
“I am concerned by the ballistic missile launches conducted by Iran in March 2016. I call upon Iran to refrain from conducting such ballistic missile launches since they have the potential to increase tensions in the region. ”Fact: Iran’s missile program complies fully with 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) principles and Security Council Resolution 2231 - making the agreement binding international law, prohibiting any nation from unilaterally abrogating it.
Fact: None of its missiles, including ballistic ones, are designed to carry nuclear warheads. No evidence suggests otherwise
Fact: Iran’s program is solely for defense, not offense. The Islamic Republic hasn’t attacked another country throughout its history. It threatens none now.
“The New Immoral Age: How Technology Offers New Ways of Killing People and of Destroying the World.
Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
“It turns out … that I’m really good at killing people.”President Barack Obama (1961- ), (as reported in Reed Peeples, ‘A President and his Drones’, June 29, 2016, —a review of the book ‘Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone’, S. Shane, 2015) “We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.—Governments are only machines, created by the individuals of a nation for their own convenience; they are only delegated bodies, delegated by the individuals, and therefore they cannot possibly have larger moral rights of using force, or, indeed, larger moral rights of any kind, than the individuals who delegated them.
Sanders to Endorse Clinton, Betraying Loyal Supporters
Stephen Lendman
Sanders earlier said he’ll support Clinton if she’s nominated, a de facto endorsement by any standard.
Unnamed party insiders now say on July 12, at a New Hampshire campaign event, he’ll make it official - according to Reuters, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, CNN and other media sources.
He almost did Thursday, saying “(w)e have got to do everything that we can to defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. I don’t honestly know how we would survive four years of a Donald Trump as president.”
NATO Summit Closes By Condemning Russia
Eric Zuesse
The issues that were discussed at this year’s NATO Summit were mainly preparations for a possible war against Russia.
The two-day Summit in Warsaw Poland ended on Saturday July 9th, with a 139-part "Warsaw Summit Communiqué” which used the word “terrorism” 17 times, “jihad” and “jihadist” and “jihadism” 0 (zero) times, and “Russia” 58 times — never favorably, and often with overt hostility.
It also referred to “Ukraine” 34 times, and “Syria” 10 times. Ukraine, during a February 2014 coup (it has been referred to as having been a “coup” both by the leader of the private CIA firm Stratfor, and by the Establishment writer on international relations John Mearsheimer, among others) switched, immediately after the coup, from having been neutral between NATO and Russia, to being suddenly and consistently intensely hostile to Russia, and immediately applied to join NATO; Syria still remains strongly allied with Russia.
The Ukrainian government was referred to 100% favorably, and the Syrian government was referred to 100% unfavorably.
What Is NATO — Really?
Eric Zuesse
When NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the U.S. Marshall Plan, and the entire U.S. operation to unify the developed Atlantic countries of North America and Europe, for a coming Cold War allegedly against communism, but actually against Russia — the core country not only in the U.S.S.R. but also in Eastern Europe (the areas that Stalin’s forces had captured from Hitler’s forces).
NATO was founded with the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington DC on 4 April 1949, and its famous core is:
Article 5: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
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