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Obama Visiting Scenes of US High Crimes in Asia
Stephen Lendman
On Saturday, he left Washington on a weeklong visit to Vietnam and Japan, part of his Asia pivot strategy, challenging China where America doesn’t belong.
On Monday, he’ll meet with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi, discuss trade and other bilateral relations, deliver a demagogic address, while ignoring devastating US Southeast Asia bombing, its use of Agent Orange and other banned terror weapons, killing up to four million, mostly civilians - genocide by any standard.
Vietnamese can’t ever forgive or forget, still suffering from US aggression - part of their post-WW II 30-year liberating war, ending with America’s April 1975 humiliating departure.
US OAS Representative Calls Coup in Brazil an Exercise in Democracy
Stephen Lendman
Illegitimate US-supported putschists replaced democrats in
Brazil. Legitimate governance in Latin America’s most important country sustained a major made-in-the-USA body blow.
Obama’s rap sheet added another high crime, part of longstanding US policy to replace all sovereign independent governments with puppet ones Washington controls.
The whole world knows America’s dirty hands orchestrated what happened - illegitimately impeaching a democratically elected president, replacing her with a former, likely current, CIA asset with virtually no popular support.
NATO Announces War Policy Against Russia
Eric Zuesse
On May 18th, Britain’s Guardian headlined “West and Russia on course for war, says ex-Nato deputy commander” and reported that the former deputy commander of NATO, the former British general Sir Alexander Richard Shirreff (who was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 2011-2014), expressed outrage that Britain isn’t urgently preparing for war against Russia, and also reported that "He describes Russia as now the west’s most dangerous adversary and says Putin’s course can only be stopped if the west wakes up to the real possibility of war and takes urgent action. … In a chilling scenario, he predicts that Russia, in order to escape what it believes to be encirclement by Nato, will seize territory in eastern Ukraine.” (That’s the Donbass region, where there has been a civil war.)
Death Threats on Woman Wearing America Was Never Great Hat
Stephen Lendman
American exceptionalism, the “indispensable nation,” an “empire of liberty,” the “leader of the free world,” a “shining city on a hill,” and other patriotic slogans mask hard truths about the most ruthlessly dangerous regime in world history.
America is only beautiful for its privileged few alone. For most others it’s hell, increasingly getting worse, fundamental freedoms disappearing. A scoundrel media supported permanent state of war exists.
Trump’s phony campaign slogan about making America great again inspired 22-year-old Krystal Lake to order and wear a custom-made hat with the phrase: “America Was Never Great.”Its sordid history from inception proves it, today more than ever with megalomaniacal aims for world conquest and dominance.
U.S. NPR & OSCE: Russia Bombs Syria to Force Refugees into Europe
Eric Zuesse
The “Morning Edition” program of the U.S. National Public Radio network — which is America’s most-trusted American source of news as measured by “the ratio of people who trust a news outlet to those who distrust it” — included on May 20th a segment, “Russia's Involvement In Syria Worsens Migration Crisis, Zannier Says”, in which the interviewer, Renee Montagne, opened her interview of Lamberto Zannier, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), by saying:
“There is actually a theory out there to do with the migration crisis in Europe, that Russia may have purposely been bombing Syria with an air campaign in order to send more Syrian migrants into Europe, to destabilize Europe. Now, I’m wondering whether you think that’s far-fetched, but, at the same time, it sort of fits the picture of a Cold War?” He answered:“Yeah, certainly Russia dealing in Syria had a number of goals, … but then of course, the impact of the bombings on civilian infrastructure, hospitals etcetera, has created an additional wave of refugees. … It is very difficult to tell whether this was intended or not, but certainly it would fit the picture in a way.”
9/11 Families Attack Obama for Blocking JASTA, and Rub It In
Executive Intelligence Review
May 18, 2016 (EIRNS)--The {9/11 Families} and the {September 11 Advocates} issued a joint statement yesterday denoucing President Obama's decision that he would "kill" or veto
JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act), which would allow the 9/11 families to sue foreign states which funded and sponsored the 9/11 terrorists.
JASTA passed the U.S. Senate by acclamation May 17. The White House then announced Obama's intentions, and Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan stated that he had not made up his mind about the bill, preferring to send it to Committee, where most bills die. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is leading the drive for it. The {9/11 Families} and the {September 11 Advocates} responded with their own statement yesterday:
Likely Terrorist Attack Downed EgyptAir Flight 804
Stephen Lendman
At 11:09 PM local time Wednesday, Flight MS804 with 66 passengers and crew en route from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport to Cairo went missing over the Mediterranean Sea.
French President Francois Hollande said the plane “went down and is lost.” It’s too early to know if what happened was technical failure or terrorism, the latter most likely.
Radar contact was lost at 37,000 feet. According to Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, the aircraft “made abrupt turns, suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar.”
It plunged into the sea 20 minutes before its scheduled landing time. Search and rescue efforts are underway. The pilot reported no problems while in Greek airspace.
Obsessive NYT Anti-Putin Propaganda
Stephen Lendman
The Times’ consistent misreporting on Russia and its president makes yellow journalism look good by comparison.
On the one hand, its editors, correspondents and contributors support America’s imperial agenda, its endless wars of aggression, its partnership with the world’s most egregious rogue states - while ignoring their highest high crimes.
On the other, it bashes Putin’s forthright efforts for world peace and stability, his respect for international law, his wanting the made-in-the-USA scourge of terrorism eliminated. His agenda deserves high praise. Times reporting substitutes malicious misinformation and Big Lies for hard truths vital to explain.
America’s & NATO's Outrageous Behavior, Greatest Threat that Exists
Eric Zuesse
On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General — the very top person — laid out in preliminary form the case for war against Russia, which presumably will be presented in more detail at the NATO Summit to be held in Poland on 8-9 July this year.
As if that weren’t bad enough, there’s the matter reported by Bryan Cloughly at Strategic Culture, headlining on May 19th, “Surging Towards yet Another War”, where he pointed out that "The United States has no territorial rights of any sort, in the South China Sea which is 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometres) from its west coast. There is nothing in international law that justifies its unilateral military 'challenge' to China’s presence” there, in that area which is contested between five countries: China, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei. The American government, which has no authority to speak for the entire world regarding international law — of which the U.S. itself has been perhaps the most frequent violator during the past 16 years — isn’t “policeman of the world,” certainly not judge and jury and executioner (well, maybe executioner) of the world, but instead it’s merely an aspiring global thug: "The Pentagon declared on 10 May that China’s 'excessive maritime claims are inconsistent with international law as reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention in that they purport to restrict the navigation rights that the United States and all states are entitled to exercise’.” Cloughly points out that the U.S. “refuses to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention — while ordering every other country to abide by it.”
Racist Israeli Court Convicts Palestinian Boy of Attempted Murder
Stephen Lendman\
Ahmad Salih Manasra was aged-13 when accused of attempted murder involving an alleged stabbing attack.
Israel is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It states adulthood begins at age 18. “(C)hildren are entitled to special care and assistance…including appropriate legal protection.” Israel tries Palestinians aged 14 or older as adults, denying them legal protection international law requires.Ahmad was aged 13 at the time of the alleged attack - seriously injured after an Israeli driver ran him over with his car, unaccountable attempted murder, no charges filed.
Video footage went viral, showing him lying helpless on the ground in pain, an Israeli bystander shouting: “Die, you son of a whore.” Another urged police to kill him. Others spat on him.
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