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Obama Won’t Meet with Erdogan in Washington
Stephen Lendman
They’re close allies, partnering in each other’s high crimes. They last met in Washington for a state visit in 2013. Not this time on the occasion of Erdogan attending a DC Nuclear Security Summit (NSS 2016) on March 31 and April 1. According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama declined to “join him for the inauguration of a Turkish-funded mosque in Maryland” or at the White House for a formal visit.
They last met at the G20 summit in Turkey last November and spoke by phone last month. Delegations from 51 nations will attend the summit.
Obama has only one scheduled face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Journal calling Erdogan a key US partner against ISIS is an utter perversion of truth. He partners with Washington in supporting the terrorist group.
Pakistan: March 23 Resolution - Forgotten Imperatives of a Progressive Nation
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
If you wish to view the screen of virtual reality of Pakistan’s politics - come and see the mirror - how Pakistan is being governed by the wrong people, with wrong thinking and doing the wrong things. Continued daily bloodbaths of the innocent civilians triggered by terrorism, overwhelming militarization of the public institutions, destroyed commerce and trades and non-productive economic culture have incapacitated the operational body of Pakistan. Its existence and freedom are challenged by its own political rulers. The thinking hubs of the nation must initiate planned steps and organize revulsionary collective ideas and ideals to deter threats to the national freedom, integrity and future of Pakistan. Those who embrace power through intrigues, gangesterism, political killings, military coups and backdoor conspiracies are not the legitimate rulers and answer to the aims of the peoples’ aspirations for a strong Pakistan. The priorities must be focused on developing a new system of economic and political governance by disconnecting the interdependence on foreign aid, debts and dictates. The nation has been dehumanized to its critical and painful juncture of very survival. Under the circumstances, what is there to celebrate a Pakistan Day of March 23? The symbolic Pakistan Day celebrations will remain devoid of much needed change and reformation goal of the institutionalized corrupt system of governance. Pakistan is in desperate need of political change and a new political system of governance to safeguard its national freedom and a sustainable future.
NYT Trump Interview
Stephen Lendman
Modesty isn’t a Trump attribute. He says he’ll be Republican nominee and “beat Hillary Clinton easily in” November.
In a wide-ranging NYT interview, he expressed views on numerous topics - far different from what US presidential aspirants usually say, making him appear anti-establishment.
Party bosses aren’t sure they can control him, why dark forces want him stopped, going all-out to undermine his campaign.
As president, he might halt buying oil from Saudi Arabia and other Arab states unless they commit ground forces to help wage US wars or “substantially reimburse” Washington for its regional combat operations, he said.
“If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don’t think it would be around,” he claimed.
U.S. Leaders Are Hucksters
Eric Zuesse,
Here is Bill Clinton, the U.S. President who served Wall Street by removing all regulations on derivatives-trading and by ending FDR’s Glass-Steagall Act separation of investment-banking from consumer-banking, now telling an audience, that his successor George W. Bush had done this, and that Bush’s successor Barack Obama has unfortunately continued it. He said this on March 21st when explaining why everyone should vote for his wife to undo the ”awful” and “trickle-down” legacy of George W. Bush and Barack Obama:
"If you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that when we were practicing trickle-down economics and no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her because she’s the only person who basically had good ideas, will tell you how she’s going to pay for them, can be commander in chief, and is a proven change maker with Republicans and Democrats and independents alike.”
Israel’s Brutal Military
Stephen Lendman
Israel’s military is like America’s, two of the world’s most ruthless. Both ignore international law. Rules of engagement are anything goes.
Premeditated wars of aggression are waged without mercy, civilians and nonmilitary related sites considered legitimate targets, populations under their control terrorized.
Mass slaughter and destruction are considered OK. America and Israel partner in each other’s high crimes. Who’ll dare intervene to stop them?
Who’ll enforce international law? Who’ll protect the rights of defenseless people?
Massacred and brutalized Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans, Yemenis, Somalis, Palestinians and others attest to the brutality of two rogue states, fascist regimes masquerading as democratic ones.The cold-blooded murder of a seriously wounded defenseless Palestinian by an Israeli soldier authorized to “shoot to kill” sparked widespread outrage.
It was business as usual for the self-styled world’s “most moral army,” responsible for around 210 extrajudicial assassinations of Palestinian civilians in the last six months alone.
The Owner of Rolling Stone Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
Eric Zuesse
His name is Jann Wenner, and he says he endorses her because, "Hillary Clinton is one of the most qualified candidates for the presidency in modern times.” He doesn’t explain what he means by that.
Here are her qualifications — it's her actual record, as the U.S. Secretary of State, and links are also provided there to her record as U.S. Senator before that. She was Senator for 8 years, and was Secretary of State for one 4-year term. (Prior to that, she was First Lady for 8 years, no government-decisionmaker.) Her opponent Bernie Sanders was U.S. Congressman for 18 years, and U.S. Senator for 10 years. (Prior to that, he was a political demonstrator and activist for many years, and was sent to jail in the early 1960s for leading a Chicago demonstration against racial segregation, and he was also the Mayor of Burlington Vermont, prior to being elected to Congress.)
Message from Palmyra
Stephen Lendman
Routing ISIS from Palmyra decisively is the most important strategic victory in the struggle to liberate Syria from foreign terrorist invaders since Obama launched naked aggression in March 2011.
He continues using them as imperial foot soldiers, death squad mercenaries, not Syrians waging civil conflict, the official Big Lie.
Triumph over the weekend highlighted the enormous contribution of Russian air power, logistical and other support.
Moscow backs its allies forthrightly. Washington uses other countries to further its imperial interests. The difference in approaches is stark.
Since Russia intervened on September 30, the tide of battle turned. ISIS and other terrorist groups suffered significant defeats. They continue losing ground to government forces.
Documented Link Between Turkey and ISIS
Stephen Lendman
Previous articles discussed Erdogan’s support for ISIS, giving its fighters safe haven on Turkish territory, allowing them free cross-border passage into Syria and return, providing them arms and other material support, selling their stolen oil.
An RT International documentary film crew discovered damning evidence found by Kurdish YPG fighters in northern Syria of Turkey’s involvement with ISIS in transporting, refining and selling stolen Syrian oil - Erdogan and other regime officials profiting hugely, separate evidence revealing it. Turkey claiming it’s combating ISIS, not supporting it, is contradicted by hard evidence proving otherwise.
Documents RT got from Kurdish fighters included “detailed invoices used by IS to calculate daily revenues from their oil fields and refineries, as well as the amount of oil extracted there,” it reported.
Clinton Email Revelation: Destroying Syria “Best Way to Help Israel”
Stephen Lendman
Ellen Brown’s important article on Clinton’s emails as secretary of state revealed raping Libya and killing Gaddafi had nothing to do with ousting a dictator. The official story is always cover for a diabolical hidden agenda.
ls provide a window into her soul, revealing a ruthless she-devil, too wicked to entrust with the power of the nation’s highest office, or any other public position.
Her orchestrated naked on Libya had everything to do with “money, banking and preventing African economic sovereignty,” Brown explained.
More was involved, discussed in my own articles in October 2011 and February 2016 (drawing on the earlier one), including replacing the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (a “state of masses,” sharing the nation’s oil wealth with the people by providing extraordinary social benefits) with Western controlled tyranny.
Russian Documentary Shows ISIS Documents of Turkey’s Assistance
Eric Zuesse
Russian Television is starting a series of documentaries showing captured ISIS documents, and Turkish-border-stamped passports of ISIS fighters. The initial news-report also refers to a ‘fatwa’ that allegedly allows infidels to be killed to supply fresh organs for transplantation into severely injured ISIS fighters.
Invoices are shown for records of Syrian oil trucked into Turkey for sale, which indicate "the name of the driver, the vehicle type driven, and the weight of the truck, both full and empty, as well as the agreed upon price and invoice number. One of the discovered invoices dated 11 January, 2016, says that IS had extracted some 1,925 barrels of oil from Kabibah oil field and sold it for $38,342.” Turkey then sells it for far more — the current market-price.
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