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Blackwater Convictions Ignore US High Crimes Against Iraq
by Stephen Lendman
On September 16, 2007, US hired Blackwater mercenaries murdered 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square.
Without provocation, they opened fire on cars carrying families.
They had little reason to think they'd be held accountable. Washington grants so-called private military contractors (PMCs) blanket immunity.
Paul Bremer's Order 17 authorized it. The exception proves the rule.
At the time of the slaughter, AFP said Blackwater personnel shot recklessly "at everything that moved with a machine gun and even with a grenade launcher (as well as from two hovering helicopters)."
Ed Miliband And The Jews
By Gilad Atzmon
Just a few month ago, in a speech in front of the Labour Friends Of Israel Lobby group, Ed Miliband - the Labour party’s current leader, produced one of the most embarrassing in the history of modern British politics:
“I want you to know”, Miliband told The Lobby, “that if I become Prime Minister in less than a year’s time, I will be proud to do so as a friend of Israel, a Jew and, most of all, someone who feels so proud to be part of the community gathered here today.” (http://press.labour.org.uk/post/89056233474/ed-miliband-speech-to-labour-friends-of-israel)
Famed German Author Gunter Grass Dies at Age 87
by Stephen Lendman
Famed German writer, author, playwright, sculptor, artist, and Nobel laureate Grass was considered Germany's most celebrated literary figure during his lifetime.
In 1999, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Committee members said his "frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history."
They credited his first novel, "The Tin Drum," with restoring honor to German literature "after decades of linguistic and moral destruction."
It "comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them," they said.
Conflict Rages in Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
It bears repeating what other articles stressed. Donbass is Obama's war - using Ukraine's military, Nazi-infested volunteer battalions and imported paramilitaries to do his dirty work.
Geneva, Minsk I and II ceasefire agreements failed. Fighting never stopped. After Minsk II, it slowed - giving Kiev time to regroup and rearm after being routed in battle.
US special forces and other combat troops are involved - on the pretext of training Ukrainian forces.
Provocative US military deployments and exercises close to Russia's borders raise the stakes for direct confrontation.
Since conflict began last spring, Washington supplied Kiev with heavy weapons, intelligence and other active support.
Famed Uruguayan Author/Political Critic Eduardo Galeano Dies at Age 74
by Stephen Lendman
A sad day - losing two literary giants at the same time, Galeano and Germany's Gunter Grass discussed in a separate article.
Galeano lost his struggle with lung cancer. His weekly publication Brecha confirmed his death.
He's considered one of Latin America's most distinguished authors. His works include 35 books.
Perhaps his most notable achievement was his Open Veins of Latin America - Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.
In 2009, it became a US bestseller after Hugo Chavez gave Obama a copy. Its message taught him nothing.
Its brilliance set a standard for historical Latin American scholarship.
Updating Israel's Political Persecution of Palestinian Lawmaker Khalida Jarrar
By Stephen Lendman
Israel considers belonging to the wrong political parties a crime. Free expression is criminalized when speaking forthrightly about ruthless persecution of Palestinian rights. Rogue states operate this way. Israel ranks with the worst - a fascist/racist/apartheid police state by any standard, guilty of the highest of high crimes since inception.
A previous article discussed Jarrar. She's a highly respected Palestinian Legislative Council member, a civil society leader, and PLC Prisoners Commission head. She chairs the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
On April 2, Israeli goon squad thugs abducted her pre-dawn. She's lawlessly administratively detained uncharged and untried.
Mandarin for the Warlords: The Harvard School of Empire Building
James Petras
Introduction
Harvard professor Joseph Nye, a former senior Pentagon functionary, is one of the longest serving and most influential advisers to US empire building officials. Nye has recently re-affirmed the primacy of the US as a world power in his latest book, Is the American Century Over? And his article, ‘The American Century will survive the Rise of China’ (Financial Times, 3/26/15, p. 7). These publications are in line with his earlier book, Bound to Lead, and his longstanding view that the US is not a declining world power, that it retains ‘supremacy’ even in the face of China’s rise to global power.
Nye’s views of US world supremacy have served to encourage Washington to wage multiple wars ; his sanguine view of US economic power has allowed policy-makers to ignore fundamental weaknesses in the US economy and to overestimate US power, based on what he dubs, ‘soft’ and ‘military’ power.
Obama's War on Yemen Risks Involving Iran
by Stephen Lendman
Is this what Washington and Israel intend or another example of the rule of untended consequences of reckless actions? What's ongoing in Yemen, Syria, Libya, Palestine and Ukraine dangerously resemble events preceding WW I.
One nation after another got involved to help both sides. Things spun out-of-control.
Deadly consequences followed. Before they ended, over 20 million died. Many more were maimed for life. An entire generation of youth was lost.
If Washington challenges Russia over Ukraine militarily, Syria directly by invading, or Iran over Yemen belligerently, all bets are off. The worst of outcomes may follow.
Saudi Terror-Bombing Massacres Dozens of Yemeni Schoolchildren
by Stephen Lendman
Saudi warplanes target US intelligence-designated sites. Civilian men, women and children are considered fair game. They suffer most in all wars.
Deliberately targeting them is longstanding US policy - a shocking war crime by any standard.
Tuesday was the latest example. Reports indicate Saudi warplanes struck a populated Ma'rib area. A local source said dozens of defenseless schoolchildren were massacred in cold blood.
The exact number of dead and wounded isn't known. The source indicated massive Saudi terror-bombing killed dozens.
Ukraine Blocks 10,000 Websites, Confiscates a Newspaper
Eric Zuesse
As I reported yesterday, the Security Bureau of Ukraine, on April 7th, had seized and disappeared two Odessa bloggers, who were trying to get an independent investigation, and ultimate prosecution, of the individuals who participated in the 2 May 2014 massacre of regime opponents, and who burned, shot, and clubbed to death perhaps over 200 in the Odessa Trade Unions Building — the event that precipitated the breakaway of Donbass from the rest of the former Ukraine, the country’s civil war.
And I also reported that April 7th saw the official announcement that, “The security service of Ukraine … has discontinued operation of a number of Internet sites that were used to perpetrate information campaigns of aggression on the part of the Russian Federation aimed at violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order and territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine.”
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