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Peace Talks in Havana and Murder in Colombia: The Santos Regime’s Dual Strategy
James Petras
Introduction
There are many fabrications and false assumptions underlying the Colombia peace negotiations between the Santos regime and FARC – EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples Army). The first and most egregious is that Colombia is a democracy. The second is that the Santos regime pursues policies which enhance non-violent social and political activity conducive to integrating the armed insurgency into the political system.
There is sufficient evidence to call into question both assumptions. Over the past two decades and a half nearly three thousand trade union leaders and activists have been murdered; over 4.5 million peasants have been dispossessed and displaced by the military and paramilitary forces; and over nine thousand political prisoners are being held indefinitely for engaging in non-violent socio-political activity. In addition scores of human rights lawyers, activists and advocates have been assassinated.
HRW and AI Blast Israeli War Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
State-sponsored terrorism is official Israeli policy. High crimes against peace repeat with disturbing regularity.
Operation Protective Edge is the latest example. Cold, calculated, premeditated naked aggression against largely defenseless Gazan civilians.
One of the world's most powerful militaries against lightly armed self-defense forces. A ruthless killing machine. A mismatch writ large and then some.
Mass murdering civilians in cold blood is the highest of high crimes. Israeli wars without mercy consider them legitimate targets. Waged at its discretion. Based on Big Lies.
Committing slow-motion genocide against millions of Palestinians. Daily for decades. Denying free movement, free expression and public assembly.
Force-feeding economic strangulation, collective punishment, state terror, racist oppression, land theft, targeted assassinations, mass arrests, torture, lawless imprisonments, traumatizing neighborhood incursions, roadblocks, checkpoints, electric fences, separation walls, curfews, and numerous other human and civil rights abuses and indignities.
US Midterm Electoral Results
by Stephen Lendman
Ignore scoundrel media who won, who lost horserace rubbish. US electoral politics is too debauched to fix. Big money corrupts it.
Democracy is pure fantasy. None whatever exists. Most bums are reelected. New ones replace others.
Things change but stay the same. Special interests rule. People have no say. US-style democracy mocks the real thing. Key points bear stressing.
Fact: America's electoral process is farcical.
Fact: Kabuki theater.
Fact: Illegitimate by any democratic standard.
Blaming Victims: Official Israeli Policy
by Stephen Lendman
Decades of Israeli state terror takes its toll. Blow back follows. In various forms.
Victims enraged about Israeli ruthlessness react with just cause. Whatever ways they can.
Some peacefully. By protesting, marching and/or denouncing repressive treatment publicly.
Others violently. Perhaps out of longstanding pent up frustration. A ticking time bomb ready to explode.
On Wednesday, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said "(a) commercial vehicle hit and ran over pedestrians at a light rail station."
On the Green Line between West and East Jerusalem. Killing a policeman. Injuring 14 others.
After exiting his vehicle, border police shot alleged attacker Ibrahim Muhammad Daoud al-Akkari to death. No day in court. No due process. No judicial fairness.
NATO Wants More Troops to Counter Nonexistent Russian Threat
by Stephen Lendman
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg- "Washington's man at NATO"
New NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg mimics his predecessor. A convenient US stooge. A CIA asset.
Beholden to America's imperial interests. Mindless of rule of law principles. Repeating one Big Lie after another.
Wrongfully claiming Donbas democratic elections were unlawful. Shamelessly accusing Russia of threatening Ukraine's border.
Groundlessly saying it "continues to support, train and equip" Donbas self-defense forces. Ludicrously "call(ing) on Russia to make genuine efforts toward a peaceful solution."
No country anywhere did more for it responsibly since conflict erupted in Ukraine. None exerted more genuine efforts tirelessly.
Polar opposite Washington's rage for war. Along with its rogue NATO partners.
What Stoltenberg didn't explain. Washington's man at NATO. A convenient US stooge. Chosen for that reason. For sure not for world peace.
Kiev Reneges on Donbas Self-Rule Status
by Stephen Lendman
On September 9, Ukraine's parliament passed legislation granting Donbas self-rule special status.
At the time, state-controlled Ukrainian News Agency reported it as follows:
"The Verkhovna Rada has set special status for some districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions for the period of three years…"
"Respective draft law No. 5081 was registered by President Petro Poroshenko at the Verkhovna Rada on September 16."
"Under the document, bodies of local governments are allowed to create voluntary people's militia units to protect order on the territory of the said regions."
Lawless Israeli House Demolitions
by Stephen Lendman
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) helps rebuild homes.
It resists Israeli "land expropriation, settlement expansions, by-pass road construction, and policies of 'closure' and 'separation.' "
Opposes demolition of Palestinian homes and other property.
Destruction of agricultural land and crops. Militarized occupation harshness. Treating Palestinians like subhumans.
Since 1967, Israel demolished over 28,000 Palestinian homes. According to its Interior Ministry. Jerusalem Municipality. Civil Administration. UN bodies and agencies. Israeli human rights groups. International ones. ICAHD field monitoring. Various other sources.
Top Retired Israeli Security Officials Support Peace with Palestinians
by Stephen Lendman
Including 98 retired generals. Two former Mossad directors. Three retired national police chiefs - 103 in all.
Some reports said 105. Others 106. Key is scores of former high-ranking Israeli security officials embracing peace. Publicly.
Words mean nothing without meaningful action. Former officials can only influence public opinion.
Much more than letter-writing is needed. Sustained longterm commitment matters most.
A desire to end decades of conflict. The will to make it happen. Equitably. Polar opposite numerous phony Israeli peace plans.
If You Think You Had Enough of Jewish Left Just Follow This Story…
Reported by Gilad Atzmon
Natali Cohen Vaxberg, Israel’s leading kaka artist, Faces Charges After Pooping on the Israeli Flag
NBC reports today that “A left-wing artist who posted a video of herself defecating on an Israeli flag to protest the country’s treatment of Palestinians appeared in court on Monday facing charges of desecrating a national symbol.” In fact this uniquely revolting young woman spread her crap on the flags of every possible country. As we know, cosmopolitan Jews do not approve of national belonging. The video entitled “S*** instead of blood” was posted on Natali Cohen Vaxberg’s Facebook page on July 18 - and provoked outrage in Israel.
Before the Ebola Factor: Instability of Technological Infrastructure amidst Potential for Healing
by Jan Lundberg
Community resilience will be as important as personal health and natural immunity for preventing the worst Ebola scenarios or similar calamities. It is safe to count on some resilience in the face of Ebola, but this will ultimately be despite our vaunted technological prowess which, if enough damage has already resulted and ominous trends hold, has served overall to weaken our species. Ebola is certainly a wild card with death's face, but a disease-threat can also be mainly a symptom -- a symptom of our mistakes in the dominant culture, led by globalization for an unprecedented number of technologically dependent, overcrowded humans.
Introduction: Energy-industry infrastructure analysis as the origin of this exploration
What I have to say may, to some, appear fanciful or harsh. My analytical generalizations and criticisms are not conventional consensus. Nor do they lend themselves to tables or graphs, nor offer many research-citations.
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