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Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Calls America a Hemispheric Threat
by Stephen Lendman
The whole world knows America threatens humanity. Few public officials openly admit what's well known.
Hugo Chavez courageously spoke forthrightly about threatening US imperialism.
In 2006, he addressed General Assembly members the day after George Bush.
"The devil came here yesterday, and it smells of sulfur still today," he said.
"Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the President of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world."
He "came to share his nostrums to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world."
Few leaders have the courage to speak this forthrightly. Doing so made Chavez special.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino spoke candidly with Sputnik News.
Jerusalem on the Boil
by Stephen Lendman
London's Guardian published what US major media won't touch - a leaked EU report discussing a "vicious cycle of violence…increasingly threatening the viability of the two-state solution."
It blames collapsed peace talks, settlement construction in "sensitive" Jerusalem areas, Al-Aqsa Mosque provocations, home demolitions and dispossessing Palestinians from their land.
The report is prepared annually by EU nations' Jerusalem-based heads of mission. It suggests policy measures in light of Israeli actions.
Netanyahu pledged continued settlement construction and no Palestinian state on his watch if reelected.
How the U.S. Is Allied with ISIS & Al Qaeda
Eric Zuesse
The United States is allied with Sunni Moslem aristocracies (and therefore with Sunni-headed nations), against Shia Moslem aristocracies (and therefore also against Shia-headed nations). Sunni aristocracies provide the huge ($1 million and larger) financial donations that sustain ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other jihadist armed movements, commonly called “terrorists.”
Islamic terrorism is virtually entirely a phenomenon of Sunni Islam, and the U.S. is allied with the aristocracies that fund it.
The only major Shia organization that is even slightly comparable to those Sunni terrorist organizations is Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon and answers to Shia Iran; but, as wikipedia has noted:
"The Gulf Cooperation Council,[15] Canada,[16] and Israel[17] have classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, though in 2015 an assessment from the U.S. director of National Intelligence removed it from its list of terror threats.[18] The European Union and New Zealand have proscribed Hezbollah's military wing, but do not list Hezbollah as a whole as a terrorist organization.[19][20] "
From basic income to social dividends: sharing the value of common resources
By Rajesh Makwana
It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme poverty and protect the global commons.
Few debates highlight the many complex issues around how governments should share a nation’s wealth and resources as much as the current discourse on basic income. Also referred to as a citizen’s income, the policy generally refers to the unconditional and universal payment of a regular sum of money to a country’s residents, usually as a replacement for a range of existing state benefits such as pensions, child allowances, tax credits and unemployment payments. Unlike many other policies that challenge the status quo, the scheme commands substantial support across the political spectrum – from progressives who hope it can reduce inequality and improve social justice, to neoliberals seeking to further diminish the role of the state in delivering a full range of welfare services. The idea also has a long historical precedent, with Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mills, Martin Luther King and Milton Friedman featuring among the numerous prominent figures who have supported the idea, in one form or another, since the late 1800s.[1]
EUROPE: OLD FRIENDSHIPS, HESITANT ALLIANCES
Gaither Stewart
In the late 1950s many signs of the carpet bombing of Germany were still evident. Though the factories had been at work since soon after war’s end, the first wave of post-war, cheap and hurried housing construction was the rule. Germans were still rebuilding train stations, several of which I followed like an urban planner, including the Frankfurt/Main and Munich stations. The restoration of the great gothic cathedrals of Cologne and Ulm proceeded at snail’s pace.
Most urban areas of the cityscape still had gaping holes where important buildings had once stood. While one spoke widely of denazification, the general atmosphere in the country still smelled of war, unjustifiably accompanied by what seemed to be fervent positive hopes for the future. I think now that only foreigners perceived a certain bitter sweet romanticism in the general destruction; Germans were too busy rebuilding to romanticize their situation.
A Very Kosher Dishonesty (must read!!!)
By Paul Eisen
It’s now well known that the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) was pressured by Zionist lobbyists North West Friends of Israel (NWFOI) to cancel a concert by internationally acclaimed jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon. What is less well known is that the co-chair and spokesperson for NWFOI is one Anthony Dennison (Mr Dennison’s name and role in the organisation may be confirmed here). These machinations by the NWFOI and the leading role played by Mr Dennison were duly reported by the Jewish Chronicle
So far, so… well, if not exactly good, certainly understandable.
Netanyahu must first shun fascist Jewish parties before asking PA to disown Hamas
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem
Once again, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trying to hide his rejection of peace and justice by pointing an accusing finger at Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic liberation group.
A pathological liar in every sense of the word, Netanyahu has denied making a U-turn with regard to the stalled "peace process" with the Palestinians by saying he would never agree to the creation of a Palestinian state.
"I didn't retract any of the things I said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state. I said that the conditions for that, today, are not achievable," Netanyahu told Fox News channel's "The Kelly File."
Biden Congratulates Poroshenko for Violating Minsk
by Stephen Lendman
Obama continues using Kiev junta proxies to wage war on Donbass. He's gone all-out to sabotage multiple peace efforts spearheaded by Russia.
He didn't wage war to quit. He's supplying Kiev with heavy weapons, munitions and other US aid.
US combat forces are in Ukraine working directly with its military. CIA and FBI operatives infest Kiev.
On March 18, Joe Biden called Poroshenko. He congratulated him for violating Minsk.
It calls for granting Donbass special status autonomous rule. Draft Kiev legislation designates it "temporarily occupied territories."
A White House statement said Biden "welcomed the (parliament's) adoption of implementing measures relating to the law on special status for certain areas of eastern Ukraine…"
Israeli Election Postmortems
by Stephen Lendman
Propaganda works. Israelis got the best electoral results fear-mongering can sell.
They bought smoke and mirrors deception about nonexistent threats. They voted overwhelmingly for right-wing fascist governance.
All parties significant enough to matter represent ideological extremism. Israel's political system is like America's.
It's too broken to fix. It represents white supremacist Jewish interests exclusively.
Netanyahu's Likud and Isaac Herzog/Tzipi Livni's Zionist Union are two sides of the same coin. Rhetoric and style alone separate them.
Western Lunatics Risk Nuclear War
by Stephen Lendman
Washington's rage for world dominance may kill us all. Nazi lunatics they installed in Ukraine may set the whole continent ablaze.
They're furiously rearming, regrouping and mobilizing for greater war. They'll launch it any time at Washington's discretion.
Stop NATO's Rick Rozoff reports US-dominated NATO trains for air war in Europe.
US Army Europe's "Freedom Shock" can deploy troops, weapons and equipment anywhere in Europe quickly.
Training and other exercises can become real combat any time following Pentagon orders.
US-dominated NATO prepares for European war. Gunslinger generals may start WW III.
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