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Agent Orange Funding Opens Door To US Militarism And Covert Action In Vietnam
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Is the United States finally accepting responsibility for the devastating ongoing effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam, or is this funding just a way to get USAID in the door to meddle in the country’s affairs as part of Obama’s “Asian Pivot” strategy?
WASHINGTON --- The use of Agent Orange constitutes a war crime with devastating effects on the people in Vietnam not only during the war but even today. The U.S. military knew that its use of Agent Orange would be damaging, but, as an Air Force scientist wrote to Congress “because the material was to be used on the enemy, none of us were overly concerned.”
Ecocide was committed when “the U.S. military sprayed 79 million liters of herbicides and defoliants over about one-seventh of the land area of southern Vietnam.” The 2008-2009 President's Cancer Panel Report found that nearly five million Vietnamese were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in "400,000 deaths and disabilities and a half million children born with birth defects."
Secret US Intelligence on Yemen Compromised
by Stephen Lendman
On March 25, the Los Angeles Times said Houthi rebels obtained secret intelligence documents on so-called US Yemeni counterterrorism operations.
They included names and locations of confidential informants, as well as plans for further targeted drone strikes.
The Times said "US intelligence officials believe additional files were handed directly to Iranian advisors by Yemeni officials who have sided with the Houthi militias…"
Damage to US Yemeni intelligence is "severe," said the Times. "The US still plans to fly armed drones over Yemen from bases in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, but officials acknowledged that their ability to identify and find terrorism suspects has been severely hampered by the loss of the intelligence files and the power struggles within Yemen's security services," according to an unnamed source the Times quoted.
The American Government’s Biggest Lie Now Is About Ukraine
Eric Zuesse
The American Government’s biggest lie in 2002-2003 was about Saddam Hussein and Iraq. We’ve already seen what that lie produced. It cost the U.S. more than $3 trillion, produced ISIS, and caused death and destruction in Iraq that make Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship look benign by comparison. Are Americans still fooling themselves about that? (Some are; but most are not.)
The American Government’s biggest lie in 2014-2015 is instead about Vladimir Putin and Ukraine — and it’s even worse, and far more dangerous, because this one can very possibly lead to a nuclear war, one with Russia that’s totally unnecessary for America’s national-security, and that actually places all of our nation’s security at risk, for the shameful reasons of aristocrats (“oligarchs”) in both the U.S. and Ukraine — not for any real reasons of the American people, at all.
Netanyahu in, “Peace Process” Realistic?
By Khalid Amayreh
A Republican administration, Netanyahu calculates, probably correctly as well, wouldn't only curry favor with him but grovel at his feet.(Reuters)
The landslide victory scored by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud Party and its jingoistic allies this week underscores a long-known fact pertaining to the Israeli-Jewish society, namely that this society is consistently drifting toward fascism.
Hard-core Jewish extremists, along with the Likud, won enough seats in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to form a stable and strong government.
The Israeli left (Meretz), won no more than five seats out of 120, while the Joint Arab List, which represents the Arab community in Israel, won 13 seats. The Zionist Union, erroneously described by the media as a center-left Party, won 24 seats, leaving a fascist and quasi-fascist bloc led by Netanyahu in control of as many as 78 seats.
Britain Imprisons Migrants
by Stephen Lendman
Britain is like America - a fascist police state masquerading as a democracy. Tories and New Labour are two sides of the same coin. Lib Dems are no different.
They're allied with Washington's war machine. They serve powerful entrenched interests at the expense of all others.
They treat their most disadvantaged citizens disdainfully. Migrants seeking safe haven asylum are treated like criminals.
British media largely ignore what's ongoing. A March 3 London Independent report was a rare exception proving the rule.
Defrocked US General Blames Iran for US Crimes in Iraq
by Stephen Lendman
Petraeus
Blaming others for its own crimes is longstanding US policy. Lunatic active duty, retired and defrocked Pentagon generals lie like their government counterparts.
David Petraeus is one of the worst. On March 20, the neocon Washington Post headlined "Petraeus: The Islamic State isn't our biggest problem in Iraq."
He attended an annual University of Iraq Sulaimani Forum gathering of "Iraqi leaders, thinkers and academics…"
He commented on Obama's Iraq War III. He answered WaPo correspondent Liz Sly's questions on its prospects. More on this below.
He commanded US forces in Iraq during George Bush's so-called 2007-08 surge.
He was CENTCOM commander and head of US forces in Afghanistan. He served as CIA director. He fell from grace for incompetence. He failed in Iraq, Afghanistan and as CIA head.
Lurching Toward Armageddon
by Stephen Lendman
Neocon lunatic fringe elements infest Washington. They control US policy - notably on issues of war and peace.
They're using NATO and US installed Ukrainian Nazis to stoke direct confrontation with Russia.
Daily geopolitical events should scare everyone. Gunslinger NATO commander General Philip Breedlove rails about nonexistent "Russian aggression." He wants Minsk sabotaged. He wants war, not peace. He wants full US-led Western support given Ukraine to wage it.
Obama Risks WW III
by Stephen Lendman
WW I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. WW II for sure - fought to eliminate the scourge of fascism.
Its headquarters moved from Berlin to Washington. Never again became permanent wars of conquest - from Truman to Obama and whoever succeeds him.
One independent nation after another is targeted. Obama wages so many direct and proxy wars, it's hard keeping track.
America spends trillions of dollars for mass slaughter, destruction and human immiseration.
It threatens humanity's survival. Its combat forces operate in scores of countries worldwide.
Washington Declares Political and Economic War on Russia
by Stephen Lendman
Washington wants one of its main rivals marginalized, weakened, contained and isolated.
It wants its sovereign independence destroyed. It wants it made another vassal client state.
It wants control of its vast resources. It wants them plundered for profit. It wants ordinary Russians exploited as virtual serfs.
It risks nuclear war to achieve its imperial objectives. The threat of its outbreak was never greater.
Spy Master a Lethal Melanoma
SARTRE
The formation of a bureaucratic superstructure for national intelligence will put in motion a perverse organism. The significance lies not in the figurehead or even the process for the selection, but rests in the birthing of a Medusa. Little wisdom comes out of this modern daughter of Phorkys and Keto, the children of Gaia (Earth) and Okeanos (Ocean). This ugly creature will use the charms of seduction – national security – but will end up spreading a den of snakes. The globe will be her playpen and the seas will be her lake. No one or no place will fall outside her watch. She will run her hydra network through all those underling heads, but in the end her advice will revival that of Eve. The mother of all evil won’t be a gender bias for any director will impose paternity over the stream of information. The children of this fraudulent union will bear the price from her wrath. Overseas enemies will feel the force of her boot. And the only creature to resist her might may well be those who run under the radar screen.
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