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Turkey Exploiting Syrian Refugee Adults and Children
Stephen Lendman
Erdogan’s rap sheet includes deplorable high crimes, including wars of aggression, support for ISIS and other terrorist groups, internal repression, and human exploitation, notably Syrian refugee adults and children, ruthlessly exploited for profit.
A new Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (B&HRRC) report discussed Turkish exploitation of Syrian children and adults - producing garments for large European retailers, H&M and Next specifically named.
Information discovered may be the tip of the iceberg, unknown numbers of European (and perhaps American) companies involved, wanting their illicit activities suppressed.
What do the Zapatistas and Bernie Sanders have in common? Hint: not a Revolution
Nina M. Lozano-Reich,
The day following the Iowa caucuses, a CNN headline reads, “Bernie Sanders Improbable Revolution.” Common Dreams writes, “Astounding the World in
Iowa, Sanders’ Revolution Marches on.” South Carolina Now’s headline reads, “For Sanders, Iowa is Chance to Turn Revolution into Reality.”
On January 01, 1994, the day of the signing of NAFTA, the Zapatistas
presented themselves to the world. The Zapatistas were, and continue today, to represent the embodiment of an anti-establishment, political revolution.
In Chiapas, Mexico, they trained in secret, for years, prior to the signage of NAFTA; they saw the writing of the wall. Today, forty-one years later, this revolutionary, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, anti-neoliberal economic policies movement has resulted in six autonomous “caracoles,” (independent land sites), wherein the indigenous peoples are a fully
functioning autonomous “Gobierno bueno” (good government) body, which practices direct democracy. “Caracoles,” in Spanish, means snails. Because revolution is slow, like a snail.
Assad’s Forces Rout American-Backed Jihadists at Golan Heights
Eric Zuesse
A major U.S.-backed assault to win Syria’s crucial Golan Heights, by jihadist rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Jabhat Al-Nusra (Syria’s branch of Al-Qaeda), and Harakat Ahrar Ash-Sham (the largest rebel group in Syria, though it’s ignored by Western news-media), was repelled on Saturday morning, January 30th, by the army of the non-sectarian Syrian government, the Syrian Arab Army, which are the forces of Syria’s non-sectarian Shiite President Bashar al-Assad and his ideologically non-sectarian Ba’ath Party, the only political force in Syria that insists upon separation of church and state. (The Ba’ath Party in Iraq was led by Saddam Hussein, which George W. Bush’s forces eliminated there. American regimes, both Republican and Democratic, are anti-Ba’athist, pro-jihadist.)
Pentagon Wants Fourfold Increase in US European Military Spending to Deter Nonexistent Russian Aggression
Stephen Lendman
America is unique among world powers, a hated and feared pariah, a neocon-infested gangster state, waging endless premeditated wars of aggression, threatening world peace.
US military spending already matches or exceeds budgets for all other nations combined, including foreign, homeland, numerous miscellaneous categories, unlimited black budgeting, frequent add-ons and unconstrained defense contractors’ cost overruns, amounting to trillions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse over time.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter wants billions more. His warrantless justification is nonexistent threats posed by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran - peaceful nations threatening no others, unlike America’s imperial aggression, raping and pillaging one country after another.
Putin Intends Defeating the Scourge of Terrorism
Stephen Lendman
His righteous mission deserves universal support. He’s committed for as long as it takes, wanting the terrorist scourge prevented from establishing a Central Asian foothold, especially kept out of Russia - a key US objective.
On Wednesday, Sergey Lavrov responded to unacceptable demands made by Syrian opposition delegates in Geneva, representing terrorist groups, ones Moscow is committed to defeat, saying: Russia’s aerial campaign will continue, intensified as needed. “I see no reason why the operation of our Air Force in Syria should be stopped as long as terrorists are not defeated yet.”
How Corruption Cripples America's Military
Eric Zuesse
America’s military budget is roughly 7.2 times that of Russia ($610 billion compared to $84.5 billion), but even Western news-accounts are saying that the weaponry produced in Russia is superior overall to the weaponry produced in the United States.
Compare the top-of-the-line fighter jets of the two countries: that's the F-35 fighter-jet produced by the U.S. corporation Lockheed Martin, versus the Su-35 fighter jet produced by the Russian government (its wholly owned Sukhoi Company). The F-35 costs around $100 million per plane. The Su-35 costs around $65 million per plane.
The weaponry-expert David Majumdar headlined on 15 September 2015, “America's F-35 Stealth Fighter vs. Russia's Su-35: Who Wins?” He concluded: "Basically, an F-35 pilot should avoid a close in fight at all costs. It is highly unlikely that a U.S. Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) would assign an air superiority mission to an F-35 unit if alternatives were available. But given the tiny fleet of [F-22] Raptors and dwindling F-15C fleet, it is possible that the JFACC could be forced to use the F-35 as an air superiority asset.”
In other words: the U.S. had stopped production of the better planes, the F-22 and the F-15C, which might stand a chance against the Su-35. The U.S. stopped production of those planes in order to replace them with the inferior and far costlier (and more profitable) F-35.
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II Boondoggle
Stephen Lendman
At an estimated lifetime development, production, operational and maintenance cost of $2 trillion or more (adjusted for inflation), the F-35 perhaps most of all symbolizes notorious Pentagon waste, fraud and abuse - ripping off taxpayers, using the nation’s resources irresponsibly, at the expense of vital homeland needs.
Pentagon hype calls the F-35 “a 5th Generation fighter, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, fully fused sensor information, network-enabled operations and advanced sustainment” - for Army, Navy and Marine Corps use, as well as for selected allies.
Why Are My Articles Re-Moved?
There are so many of my articles that have been Re-Moved from the sites, the wayback machine and google that I had to investigate.
Proof that the following articles were in fact Re-Moved from the sites, the wayback machine and google can be found in the Appendix Cases below.
Looking at each case you realize a human was not involved. Any followup google search a human would have certainly performed would yield results that were overlooked because of a variation in the title or the author name.
Therefore, we can conclude the articles that were Re-Moved was the work of a web spider, web robot, AKA a Web Crawler. Web Crawler (BOT) is a program or automated script, used by search engines to providing up-to-date data. According to a recent study by Incapsula, more than 61 percent of all Web traffic is now generated by bots, a 21 percent increase over 2012. Much of this increase is due to "good bots," certified agents such as search engines and Web performance tools.
I am reminded of the American science fiction crime drama Person of Interest. Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire software genius built a computer system for the government that used information gleaned from omnipresent advanced surveillance system dubbed "The Machine", which turns out to have evolved into a sentient Artificial Intelligence creature (AI).
NYT Endorses War Goddess/Wall Street Favorite Hillary Clinton for President
Stephen Lendman
The Times’ choice is unsurprising, a longstanding mouthpiece for wealth and power, supporting all US imperial wars, disdainful of peace, equity and justice.
Clinton arguably is the worst choice among a deplorable array of presidential aspirants - not a legitimate one in the bunch, none representing vital populist interests, all cut out of the same dirty cloth.
Don’t let their deceptive rhetoric fool you. Campaign promises are meaningless, made to be broken, Clinton perhaps the most duplicitous and dangerous - a neocon masquerading as democratic. She represents Wall Street, other corporate favorites and war-profiteers, supporting permanent US naked aggression, perhaps more than ever on her watch if elected, maybe WW III.
NYT Pushes John Kasich to Bash Trump
Stephen Lendman
Any Republican but Trump seems to be NYT editorial policy. It’s pushing Ohio Governor John Kasich, papering over his deplorable neocon/neoliberal record.
He’s like all the other presidential aspirants - pro-business, pro-war, anti-populist, anti-labor, anti-peace, equity and justice, supporting dirty business as usual.
According to Times editors, he’s “the only plausible choice for Republicans tired of the extremism and inexperience on display in this race.”
Admitting he’s “no moderate,” they claim he supports government improving the lives of ordinary people, as well as “protect(ing) the poor, the mentally ill and others…”
His deplorable record shows otherwise. As Ohio governor, he slashed funding for education, healthcare and aid to beleaguered cities.
Legislation he signed into law stripped public workers of collective bargaining rights. It banned strikes, eviscerated union power, and empowered government at the expense of workers.
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