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Netanyahu's Apartheid Government
by Stephen Lendman
Amos Oz is a noted Israeli academic, author, journalist, and novelist. He's also a vocal Netanyahu critic. More on his recent comments below.
It's well known that Israel's government reflects militarized occupation, colonialism and apartheid. It's done to enforce harshness. It continues because it's profitable. Doing so breaches international law.
The 1973 International Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (the Apartheid Convention) called it state-sanctioned discriminatory "inhuman" racism.
It's "committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them."
Apartheid is an international crime. The above definition builds on the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
The 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court calls apartheid a crime under the Court’s jurisdiction. For 45 years, Israel flagrantly breached the law.
Islamofascist Rule in Egypt
by Stephen Lendman
Washington engineered Mubarak's ouster. He fell from grace. He became more liability than asset.
For years, State Department and Pentagon officials wanted him out. He opposed Bush's 2003 Iraq war and other US policies. He had to go.
Washington engineered Egyptian uprisings. Spontaneity was created and manipulated. Arab Spring is Western terminology. It's yet to bloom.
It was first used in March 2005. It suggested a beneficial Iraq war spinoff. Washington deplores emerging democracies. It prioritizes unchallenged control.
Regional uprisings achieved nothing. Daily life reflects poverty, unemployment, and despotism. Tens of oppressed millions suffer.
The U.S. military: Killing machine for the empire
by Larry Pinkney
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
—Howard Zinn“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
—Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]
Yet again the U.S. government and its corporate-stream media propaganda arm are obfuscating the narrative and distracting the populace of this nation around the issue of the role of women and gays in the U.S. military.
Israeli/Palestinian Peace Process Hypocrisy
by Stephen Lendman
On February 1, Hillary Clinton ended her tenure as Secretary of State. John Kerry was sworn in to replace her.
Two recent articles discussed him. One called him a reliable imperial warrior. The other said he's Israel's man at State.
He was chosen to further America's imperium. He'll do what he's told. He supports global wars. He endorses unchallenged US dominance. Hardline administration policies will continue seamlessly on his watch.
It Has Happened Here
Paul Craig Roberts
the police state is real
The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended “war on terror” and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that “it can’t happen here” when it already has.
Al Akahbar: Syria - Damascus Repels Another Rebel Attack
By Anas Zarza Al-Akahbar-English Posted by Michael Collins
Remember all those articles over the last few months - Syria to fall soon; what will post-Assad Syria look like? Soon, we were lead to believe, the demands of Former Secretary of State (and neo-colonialism) Hillary Clinton would come true. When didn't she say - "Assad must go!" Ironically, Assad is still around and Clinton is gone. That's one big step for mankind and an even bigger step backwards for the Syrian rebels, particularly the very Al Qaeda fighters operating under the name Al Nusra. They fight and win but rely on direct or indirect funding, weapons, and technical assistance from NATO and the Gulf plutocrats. In fact, we now know that Ms. Clinton and the disgraced General Petraeus were pushing for the United States to openly arm the rebels. Cooler heads prevailed. Weapons and other items were stalled. Assad's military made some changes. And now, voila!, the Syrian Arab Army is defending the capital. Was any of this dreadful, deadly conflict worth it?
-- Michael Collins
Does Netanyahu Want Regional War?
by Stephen Lendman
Israel and America are longstanding imperial partners. Washington OK's naked aggression on Syria. Doing so declared war. Admitting it may or may not follow later.
Events require close watching. Disturbing ones occur regularly. Late Sunday, Tyre, Lebanon was rocked. A suspicious explosion occurred.
Lebanon's Future TV said an "Israeli aircraft might have detonated an electronic transmission device. Hizbollah cordoned off the area."
Lebanon's NNA news agency said "Israeli aircraft did not leave Lebanese airspace over the South all through the day."
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said "Israeli jets continue to invade Lebanon's airspace every day. We must stand up against the Israeli attacks but not just with calls, statements and condemnation."
LOS ISRAELITAS SON LOS GRANDES PERDEDORES EN EL ACUERDO ENTRE IRÁN Y ARGENTINA
El análisis de James Petras
Los cancilleres de Irán, Ali Akbar Salehi y de Argentina Héctor Timerman,
durante la firma del acuerdo.
“Quiero mencionar rápidamente el acuerdo alcanzado entre Irán y Argentina, para formar una comisión investigadora sobre el asesinato de los judíos en el acto terrorista de 1994 (atentado contra la AMIA). Lo que es interesante marcar es que los sionistas en Argentina y el gobierno de Israel están en contra de esto. Ellos quieren manipular la acusación contra Irán para metas políticas, no quieren considerar si realmente los culpables son iraníes, quieren simplemente manipularlos para demonizar a Irán”, dijo el sociólogo norteamericano James Petras en su columna del lunes 28 en CX36 Radio Centenario (*). Agregó que ese acuerdo bilateral “tira afuera la intervención israelita que trata de utilizar el incidente para fomentar la agresividad contra Irán”. Petras analizó además los resultados de la cumbre de la CELAC; así como los de las reuniones de la CELAC con la UE, y del Foro Económico de Davos que sesionaron el domingo.
Israel Fuels Syrian Fire, Risking Regional Outburst
By Nicola Nasser**
The timing of the Israeli air raid early on January 30 on a Syrian target, that has yet to be identified, coincided with a hard to refute indications that the “regime change” in Syria by force, both by foreign military intervention and by internal armed rebellion, has failed, driving the Syrian opposition in exile to opt unwillingly for “negotiations” with the ruling regime, with the blessing of the U.S., EU and Arab League, concluding, in the words of a Deutsche Welle report on this February 2, that “nearly two years since the revolt began, (Syrian President Bashar Al-) Assad is still sitting comfortably in presidential chair.”
Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control - Part 1: Meet the Global Corporate “Supra-Government”
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
We live in a corporate culture, where most of us have worked or currently work for corporations, we spend our money at corporate venues, on corporate products, watch corporately-owned television shows and movies, listen to corporate-sponsored music; our modes of transportation, communication and recreation are corporately influenced or produced; our sports stadiums and movie theaters are named after car companies and global banks; our food is genetically altered by multinational conglomerates, our drinking water is brought to us by Coca-Cola, our news is brought to us by Pfizer, and our political leaders are brought to us by Exxon, Shell, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.
In this global corporate culture it is often difficult to take a step back and look at transnational corporations, beyond what they represent in our culture, and see that they are, in fact, totalitarian institutions with power being exercised from the top down, with no democratic accountability, legally bound to be interested only – and exclusively – in maximizing quarterly short-term profits, often to the detriment of the environment, labor, human rights, democracy, peace and the population as a whole.
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