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Iran Nuclear Deal Bashing
by Stephen Lendman
"Now the really hard part begins," said John Kerry. The hardest part is getting Washington to stick to agreed on terms.
It's believing America negotiates in good faith. It's thinking longstanding US imperial aims changed. It's imagining decades of anti-Iranian sentiment will fade.
Critics wasted little time. Netanyahu was most outspoken. He called the Geneva deal "a historic mistake. Israel is not obligated by this agreement," he stressed.
He lied calling Iran the "most dangerous regime in the world." America and Israel are by far. They prioritize war. They deplore peace. They threaten humanity's survival.
NSA Infects 50,000 Computer Systems Worldwide
by Stephen Lendman
Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported it, headlining "NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software."
It cited leaked Edward Snowden information. His revelations are the gift that keeps on giving. Activists representing him keep important information coming.
It's vital. Everyone needs to know. Unchecked NSA spying threatens fundamental freedoms. They're fast disappearing.
Their on the chopping block for elimination. Police state lawlessness runs America. It's too great a threat to ignore.
According to NRC, NSA hacked over 50,000 computer networks. It installed malware. It facilitates surveillance.
It's "designed to steal sensitive information." Snowden provided documents prove it. A 2012 management presentation showed NSA uses "Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) in more than 50,000 locations."
It secretly infiltrates computer systems through malware. Belgian telecom provider Belgacom was hacked.
Pakistan: How to Revisit Political Darkness?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Emerging naïve religious activism, daily sectarian bloodbaths and curfews depict lawlessness, degeneration and favorite perversion of the divided consciousness overwhelmed with sadism of underdeveloped sense of national unity and purpose. The Pakistani nation faces a crisis of identity and failed to understand who there were and where the history has pushed them to be? The political monsters called leaders with borrowed time and paid ballot boxes follow a foreign propelled agenda as pawns being used on a foreign dictated chess board to determine the future of Pakistan in chaos and more deaths, destruction of everything viewed as holistic and valuable. Pakistanis need no distance to travel searching for more enemies, they need to see the mirror, the enemies are within, not elsewhere. When people live in darkness for too long, they lose sense of rational thinking and direction. All and everything is fighting for survival of the fittest. No wonder, why educated and intellectually informed and conscientious Pakistan find no place to stand on their own in the political culture and reclaim lost human dignity and self respect as members of a valued Nation. The Law of Nature points out if you are respected within your family, you will be seen with dignity outside too. Are there any intelligent people left in the body of the nation to sort out what went wrong and why and how to change it into something normal and politically workable? Do contending sectarianism and widely pouring bloodshed of the innocent people make Pakistanis a better nation or a nation at the top of the cliff?
Israel's War on Palestinian Children
Israel's War on Palestinian Children
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is a serial human rights abuser. It's one of the world's worst. It's war on Palestinian children alone reflects it.
They're systematically abused unjustly. Up to 700 are arrested annually. Most are lawlessly charged with stone-throwing. Children young as five are terrorized. They're too young to know why.
They're abusively treated during arrests, transfers and interrogations. They're denied fundamental rights.
In 1991, Israel ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It didn't matter. It brazenly violates its provisions.
Article 37 states in part:
"No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
ACLU v. Clapper
by Stephen Lendman
Clapper
On June 5, London's Guardian headlined "NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily."
On June 6, a follow-up article headlined "NSA taps in to systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and others, secret files reveal."
Numerous reports followed based on information Edward Snowden revealed. He connected important dots for millions.
Institutionalized spying on Americans isn't new. It's longstanding. Little was revealed publicly. Too few people knew. It's far more invasive than most suspect. Core constitutional rights are violated.
On June 11, the ACLU filed suit. It challenged "the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's mass collection of Americans' phone records.
Deal in Geneva: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article asked if it matters? Longstanding hardline US/Israeli policy won't change.
Sanctions Iran most wants removed remain in place. Stiff new ones may follow later on. For now they're postponed.
America is duplicitous. It's deals aren't worth the paper they're written on. Will this one be different? Don't bet on it. Interpretations differ on what was agreed on. More on that below. Obama is no peacemaker. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He's done so from day one in office. He broke every major promise made. That's key.
He shows no signs of changing policy. He hasn't throughout his tenure. He remains hardline on Iran. His softer rhetoric reflects deception. Tehran got too little in exchange for major concessions.
The Decline of the US (and Everyone Else …)
James Petras
The world political economy is a mosaic of cross currents: Domestic decay and elite enrichment, new sources for greater profits and deepening political disenchantment, declining living standards for many and extravagant luxury for a few, military losses in some regions with imperial recovery in others. There are claims of a unipolar, a multi-polar and even a non-polar configuration of world power. Where, when, to what extent and under what contingencies do these claims have validity?
Bubbles and busts come and go - but let us talk of ‘beneficiaries’: Those who cause crashes, reap the greatest rewards while their victims have no say. The swindle economy and the criminal state prosper by promoting the perversion of culture and literacy. ‘Investigatory journalism’, or peephole reportage, is all the rage. The world of power spins out of control: As they decline, the leading powers declare “it’s our rule or everyone’s ruin!”
Global Configurations of Power
Power is a relationship between classes, states and military and ideological institutions. Any configuration of power is contingent on past and present struggles reflecting shifting correlations of forces. Structures and physical resources, concentrations of wealth, arms and the media matter greatly; they set the framework in which the principle power wielders are embedded. But strategies for retaining or gaining power depend on securing alliances, engaging in wars and negotiating peace. Above all, world power depends on the strength of domestic foundations. This requires a dynamic productive economy, an independent state free from prejudicial foreign entanglements and a leading class capable of harnessing global resources to ‘buy off’ domestic consent of the majority.
Life in Occupied Gaza
by Stephen Lendman
After Hamas won January 2006 elections, Israel imposed embargo conditions. In mid-2007, siege followed.
It has nothing to do with Israeli security. It's collective punishment. It's occupation harshness writ large. It's making an entire population suffer.
It's doing it maliciously. It reflects slow-motion genocide. It's lawless. It's ruthless. World leaders turn a blind eye. Doing so makes them complicit.
Gazan suffering continues. An Oxfam update calls conditions worse than ever. Gazans are trapped. They're largely isolated. More from Oxfam below.
Crisis conditions persist. Over 80% of the population depends on humanitarian aid. Blockade devastated Gaza's economy.
JFK: Paradox or Conspiracy?
By Robert Singer
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The assassination of the President of the United States on national television by the “lone” assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald—who according to authorities used an obsolete bolt-action WWI rifle that was not capable of firing bullets fast enough to wound John F. Kennedy—who is then assassinated the next day by another “lone” assassin, is so stupid that whoever is behind the assassination didn’t expect you to believe it.
Why would the conspirators, with the ability to plan and manage the JFK Assassination—involving the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, Police Departments and Coroners offices in two cities—come up with such a senseless plan riddled with mistakes, anomalies and discrepancies (Errant Data)? And then, to add a feather to your tin-foil hat, inexplicably allow that same Errant Data to be exposed in the media ad nauseam for everyone to question for the last 50 years.
- Does anyone have an explanation for why the conspirators would come up with such a convoluted plan, when a much simpler plan would accomplish the same goal? If the goal was to simply kill the president, why not have it done by a rogue agent from the CIA, FBI or Secret Service? Anyone of those could have quickly killed, JFK in the middle of the night, out of sight of any witnesses or, in those days, cameras.
- Does anyone have an explanation for why the conspirators would allow the mistakes, anomalies, discrepancies and the holes in the “official story” [Errant Data] to find it’s way into the official institutional record and then allow that same data to be aired on national television for all to question?
- Does anyone have an explanation for how trivial it would have been for the conspirators to change or falsify the alleged discrepancy or anomaly and avoid the stupid “mistakes?” Consider how easy it would be for these master criminals to just keep the Errant Data from being aired on national television, compared to the magnitude of the criminal acts they are alleged to have committed.
Put another way, isn’t it obvious that the JFK Assassination was a conspiracy to make you believe in a conspiracy:
The CIA killed JFK; the Mob killed JFK; the CIA and the Mob working together killed JFK; last but not least, Fidel Castro contracted with the KGB to have JFK killed.
All of the conspiracy theories, except mine, ha-ha (The 1961 JFK Speech that Kicked the American Dream into High Gear), are nonsense but that’s not the point.
Report: US Bullying at TPP Negotiations for Big Pharma Profits
from KBZeese, originally published on
popularresistance.org
Stanford McCoy of the US Trade Rep. His bullying tactics seek to prop up
inflated pharmaceutical profits at the expense of thousands of lives.
Outrageous US bullying by US Trade Representative Stan McCoy on intellectual property and health. McCoy puts profits of pharmaceuticals ahead of the lives of people.
“The world should stand up to the United States. US corporations are not more important than people’s lives.”
A key dispute in the TPP negotiations is the patents on pharmaceutical drugs and medical procedures. Long patents inflate the profits of the pharmaceutical industry by not allowing less expensive generic drugs on the market. This means that people around the world will not be able to afford critical, often life-saving, drugs and medical procedures. It also means that countries like Japan, Australia and New Zealand that have national health care systems will see the cost of healthcare rise to a breaking point, undermining some of the best health systems in the world.
In order for the US to get its way, Stan McCoy, Assistant US Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation, is chairing the meetings on intellectual properties and medicines. He has been using bullying tactics to force countries to agree to positions that will harm people in the countries negotiating the TPP, including the US.
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