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Obama Talks Peace, Wages Endless Wars of Aggression
by Stephen Lendman
Obama, John Kerry and other US officials rhetorically urge settling conflicts diplomatically in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Donbass, Palestine and elsewhere - while waging endless direct or proxy wars in multiple theaters with new ones in mind.
Syria is in the eye of the storm. In an interview with six Russian media outlets, Bashar al-Assad said defeating ISIS and other takfiri terrorism is the only way to end ongoing conflict and the human flood it creates.
As long as Washington, other Western countries and regional ones support terrorists, endless wars will continue. Syrians want resolution “through dialogue and political action,” he explained. They want peace, stability and national sovereignty respected. They deplore intervention by foreign powers.
Iceland Boycotts Israel
by Stephen Lendman
The whole world needs to follow Iceland’s lead. Its capital City of Reykjavik no longer will buy products made in Israel.
Its city council voted for boycott as long as it continues occupying Palestinian territory - a bold act deserving high praise, perhaps inspiring greater numbers of cities worldwide to follow suit, then maybe countries if enough effective popular resistance against its viciousness materializes.
Petitions in Britain and America to arrest Netanyahu attracted growing thousands of ordinary people - expressing justifiable anger against an apartheid state brutalizing Palestinians for not being Jewish.
Vladimir Putin’s Foreign-Policy Objectives, & His Desire for U.S. to Be an Ally
Eric Zuesse,
On September 4th, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin restated, as he has many times before, that he seeks a U.S.-Russian alliance to overcome the global Islamic jihad movement, in Syria, Iraq, and everywhere.
Then, on Tuesday September 8th, Yahoo News bannered, “Austria joins growing voices that say Assad must be part of Syrian solution,” and reported that Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said: “In my opinion the priority is the fight against terror. This will not be possible without powers such as Russia and Iran.” German Economic News noted then that, “Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo had already called on Monday for negotiations with Assad to end the war.”
However, the U.S. government is strongly opposed to accepting Putin’s offer of an alliance to overcome Islamic jihad.
Irresponsible US China Bashing
by Stephen Lendman
Washington targets all nations not in lockstep with its agenda politically, economically, and/or militarily - plotting coups, waging endless wars of aggression, imposing illegal sanctions, and bullying allies to go along with its reckless policies.
Chinese President Xi Jinping scheduled his first US state visit, beginning in Seattle on September 22, then to Washington, and concluding with his September 28 UN General Assembly address - if he comes as planned.
Unprecedented economic sanctions are being prepared against Chinese companies and individuals - for alleged, unproved government hacking.
Accusing Beijing of cyber-economic espionage is part of Washington’s growing hostility toward a formidable economic, political and military rival, especially allied with Russia and other BRICS countries, an important counterweight to US hegemonic ambitions.
America’s News Is Heavily Censored
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
On 7 September 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush blatantly lied to concoct a “new report” by the IAEA about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program, and the U.S. news-media reported the statement but hid that it was a lie. He said (and CNN and others quoted it): “a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need,” when he was asked at a press conference, “Mr. President, can you tell us what conclusive evidence of any nuclear — new evidence you have of nuclear weapons capabilities of Saddam Hussein?” Immediately, the IAEA said then that there was no such “new report,” and that the last they were able to find, there was nothing left of WMD in Iraq. The American news-media simply ignored the IAEA’s denial, and we invaded Iraq, almost six months after that boldfaced lie, a lie the press refused to expose, at all — ever. They still haven’t exposed it, even to the present day; and instead there remains a ‘debate’ as to whether George W. Bush lied or was instead merely misled by “defective U.S. intelligence.”
Jeremy Corbyn v. David Cameron
by Stephen Lendman
British monied interests hate Corbyn. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney disingenuously denigrated his policies, saying they’ll “hurt” poor and elderly Brits and harm the economy.
Carney represents entrenched interests, enriching the few at the expense of most others, an agenda systematically thirdworldizing Britain like similar harmful US policies. Corbyn supports lifting all boats equitably - few like him in Western societies, virtually none in Washington, for sure none able to make a difference. Question Time (Prime Minister’s Questions - PMQs) is a longstanding British tradition - held each Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is in session, giving MPs a chance to get answers to questions they pose.
Bernie Sanders Again Insists That Saudi Arabia Should Kill More People
By David Swanson
Senator Bernie Sanders taped a PBS show at the University of Virginia on Monday. I had corresponded with the host Doug Blackmon beforehand, and offered him ideas for questions on military spending and war, questions like these:
1. People want to tax the rich and cut military spending, which is 54% of federal discretionary spending according to National Priorities Project, but you only ever mention taxing the rich. Why not do both? What -- give or take $100 billion -- is an appropriate level of military spending? 2. Do you agree with Eisenhower that military spending creates wars?
3. Can you possibly be serious about wanting to keep the wars going but have Saudi Arabia play a bigger role? Do you approve of Saudi Arabia dropping U.S. cluster bombs on Yemen?
The Russians Are Coming, Again
by Stephen Lendman
At an ongoing Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Vladimir Putin affirmed Russia’s support for Syria “against terrorist aggression. We assist it and will keep rendering necessary military-technical assistance,” he said.
He urged the international community to cooperate with Moscow and Syria in combating terrorism, adding:
“(W)ithout participation of the Syrian army…against the Islamic State, terrorists cannot be expelled from the country and the region as a whole. The…Syrian people cannot be protected against destruction, enslavement and barbarity.”
Putin urged cooperative international community efforts with Assad’s government, Kurdish militias, and moderate internal opposition elements against a common terrorist enemy.
Putin v. Obama on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Judge for yourself who’s right and wrong, whose policies are constructive, whose are destructive, who supports the Syrian people, who mass murders them, who causes human refugee floods fleeing war-torn countries for safe havens.
Putin forthrightly wants global peace and stability. Obama wages endless imperial wars - to benefit monied and rogue political interests exclusively, no matter the cost in human lives, unspeakable misery and loss of fundamental freedoms.
Putin believes nation-state sovereignty is inviolable. No country has the right to meddle in the internal affairs of others - to force them to bend to its will.
Obama intervenes lawlessly against one nation after another. Washington New World Order rules alone matter. Core international laws are obstacles to US hegemonic aims.
Big Community Rally on 9/24: Governor Jerry Brown to please sign ABX215
Legislation to allow dying people to end their lives with lethal, physician-supplied drugs was approved by the state Senate on Friday and sent to Gov. Brown.
The action represented a remarkable journey for the controversial legislation, which was inspired in part by the death of a young California woman who had moved to Oregon, which has a physician-assisted death law. The measure was derailed earlier in the year when it was abruptly pulled from consideration just hours before a key Capitol hearing.
Brown, a Democrat, a Catholic and a former Jesuit seminarian, has 12 days to sign, veto or allow the bill to become law without a signature.
Backers included AIDS care groups, the American Nurses Association of California and the California Primary Care Association. The original version of the bill was SB 128 by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis.
A 2005 Field Poll showed that more than two-thirds of Californians surveyed the notion that “incurably ill patents have the right to ask for and get life-ending medication.
Oregon’s death-with-dignity law was approved by voters there in 1997. Washington and Vermont have similar laws, and court decisions in Montana and New Mexico have “effectively authorized doctors to engage in the practice.” A 2005 Field Poll showed that more than two-thirds of Californians surveyed the notion that “incurably ill patents have the right to ask for and get life-ending medication,” and a similar number “would personally want to have this option if they themselves were terminally ill.”
Among the most vigorous opponents of the bill — ABx215 by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton — are the California Catholic Conference and the Alliance of Catholic Health Care, and a number of independent living centers cancer doctor associations. The oncologists – cancer doctors – opposed the bill because they claim erroneously that "it is contrary to a physician’s oath and primary responsibility to do no harm.”
Strong opposition to the bill from Catholic church, which considers suicide a mortal sin, and other groups, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Other foes included the National Right to Life Committee, the Medical Oncology Association and groups representing independent living centers for aged adults. Some Latinos in the Legislature, many of whom are Catholics, expressed reservations about the legislation.
The California Medical Association earlier withdrew its opposition to the legislation.
Is physician aid-in-dying (PAD) ethically permissible?
The ethics of physician aid-in-dying continue to be debated. Some argue that PAD is ethically permissible (see arguments in favor). Often this position is argued on the grounds that PAD may be a rational choice for a dying person who is choosing to escape unbearable suffering at the end of life. Furthermore, the physician's duty to alleviate suffering may, at times, justify providing aid-in-dying. These arguments rely on respect for individual autonomy, recognizing the right of competent people to choose the timing and manner of death in the face of a terminal illness.
What are the arguments in favor of physician aid-in-dying (PAD)?
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