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Israel’s War on Al Jazeera
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
Owned and operated by the Qatari government, it functions much like Western media, featuring content the Al Thani monarchy wants aired.
It’s sympathy toward Palestinian suffering is why Israel wants it shut down. Earlier it considered declaring the news agency a hostile entity. Instead, it restricted its activities in the country.
It no longer renews visas for its staff or issues new ones. Its journalists are denied access to government briefings, limited access alone to political and military officials - only to spokespersons of the prime minister, foreign ministry and IDF. In August 2011, Al Jazeera (AJ) journalist Samer Allawi was arrested and detained for making contact with Hamas’ military wing.
Jerusalem is its headquarters in Israel, perhaps not much longer. According to Israeli communications director Ayoub Kara, “professional discussions” were initiated to draft legislation, shutting down the network.
72nd Anniversary of Hiroshima’s Gratuitous Mass Murder
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
War in the Pacific was won months before Franklin Roosevelt’s April 12, 1945 death.
He declined to accept the Japanese offer of surrender. So did Harry Truman when he became president.
War continued for months unnecessarily, countless more casualties inflicted, mainly Japanese civilians - notably from fire-bombing Toyko in March 1945, an estimated 100,000 perishing in the firestorm, many more injured, over a million left homeless.
Around the same time, five dozen other Japanese cities were fire-bombed. Most structures in the country were wooden and easily consumed.
The attacks amounting to war crimes achieved no strategic advantage. In early 1945, Japan offered to surrender. In February, Douglas McArthur sent Roosevelt a 40-page summary of its terms. They were nearly unconditional. The Japanese would accept an occupation, would cease hostilities, surrender its arms, remove all troops from occupied territories, submit to criminal war trials, and allow its industries to be regulated. In return, they asked only that their emperor be retained in an honorable capacity.
Roosevelt spurned the offer as did Truman. Hiroshima and Nagasaki followed on August 6 and 9 respectively.
Why China and Russia Agreed to Tough New Sanctions on North Korea
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
On Saturday, Security Council members imposed sanctions on North Korea for the seventh time since its first 2006 nuclear test.
New ones aim to deprive Pyongyang of around one-third of its export revenues, cutting them by about $1 billion.
They ban DPRK exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore, and seafood. They prohibit all new joint ventures, ban new investments in current ones, and prohibit sending more workers abroad for jobs. They tighten restrictions on technology to prevent Pyongyang from acquiring military related items. North Korean vessels caught violating SC resolutions will be banned from entering foreign ports.
Imposing sanctions is one thing, enforcing them another. North Korea is adept at exploiting loopholes in restrictions and minimizing them other ways.
US and China World’s Apart on North Korea
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
Following tough new Security Council sanctions on Pyongyang, China urged diplomatic outreach to resolve contentious Korean peninsula issues.
It called for mutual respect over Washington’s attempt to impose its will unilaterally. Without responsibly addressing the DPRK’s legitimate security concerns, resolving things will remain unattainable.
On the sidelines of the Asean ministerial meetings in Manila, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on Washington, Pyongyang and Seoul to exercise restraint, working cooperatively together to resolve divisive issues.
US Forces in Yemen
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
US special forces have been operating illegally in Yemen at least since spring 2016.
Along with Saudi terror-bombing and blockade, they’re supporting Al Qaeda terrorists, not combating them.
The campaign against Houthi rebels aims to restore puppet president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power - no matter the human cost.
Throughout his tenure, Obama waged drone war on Yemen, continuing what Bush/Cheney began - indiscriminately massacring defenseless victims, mostly civilians, Trump continuing what his predecessors began.
Humanitarian crisis conditions in Yemen are the gravest anywhere since WW II, the lives and welfare of millions endangered by malnutrition, famine, diseases, and US-orchestrated aggression - Saudi terror-bombing doing most of the dirty work.
How Mainstream U.S. ‘News’ Media Pump their Government’s Lies to Deceive the Public
Eric Zuesse
Now that finally the U.S. government has officially terminated its arming and training of the jihadist gangs that are fighting to overthrow and replace Syria’s government, the neoconservative mainstream U.S. ‘news’ media are disagreeing with each other over how to communicate this fact to the American people without contradicting, or otherwise violating, the false ‘history’ they’ve all been presenting and preserving, throughout the past five years, which has described the U.S. government as being opposed to the jihadists in Syria, instead of as the U.S. government’s arming and training jihadists to overthrow and replace Syria’s government. That’s a pretty blatant ‘historical’ lie, which they’ve all been maintaining, now, for five years; and, they’re at loggerheads over whether or how they’ll deal with it, now that the program (whose very existence they’ve helped the government to hide from the public) has been so publicly and suddenly ordered to end.
Sunday Coup Attempt in Venezuela?
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
Washington bears full responsibility for political and economic war on the country, along with months of street violence - wanting fascist tyranny replacing Bolivarian social democracy.
On Sunday, Venezuela’s military thwarted a terrorist attack on Fort Paramacay in Carbobo state, according to President Nicolas Maduro, saying:
“I cannot describe it in any other way. It is a terrorist attack against the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the Armed Forces has reacted in a united way, with morality, with decisiveness.”
The incident occurred two days after the Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly was inaugurated - tasked with revising or rewriting the country’s constitution. It’s primary aims are to restore order and preserve Bolivarian social democracy.
Deplorable Daily Media Message on Russia
by Stephen Lendman
Western media are virtually of one mind on Russia, irresponsibly claiming it’s a bad guy - America, Canada, EU countries, and Israel defenders of democratic values, polar opposite reality.
Intense anti-Russia propaganda persists relentlessly, disinformation and Big Lies drowning out hard truths.
The NYT is the leading proliferator of anti-Russia agitprop, a virtual daily media onslaught on the country.
On August 2, it praised neocon Vice President Pence. In Tallin, Estonia, he hyped a nonexistent Russian threat. In Tbilisi, Georgia, he blustered “(w)e are with you. We stand with you.”
He told Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian leaders America pledges to defend their countries against nonexistent Russian “force, threats, intimidation or malign influence,” adding:
“No threat looms larger in the Baltic States than the specter of aggression from your unpredictable neighbor to the east,” disgracefully denigrating Russia, irresponsibly claiming it intends to “redraw international borders by force, undermine the democracies of sovereign nations and divide the free nations of Europe one against another.”
Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Inaugurated
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
On Thursday, anti-Bolivarian Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz’s attempt to halt the swearing in of the democratically elected 545-seat body failed.
A court order she sought was denied - based on phony claims of unconstitutionality and voter fraud. She lied claiming “(t)he country is headed toward dictatorship.”
It’s the hemisphere’s model democracy, struggling in the face of US-orchestrated political and economic war, along with CIA-instigated street violence - classic Washington color revolution tactics used to topple independent governments.
On Friday, Constituent Assembly members were sworn in as scheduled. Thousands of Chavistas took to the streets supportively, welcoming the CA’s first working session.
Russia’s PM Unloads on Trump
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
Things are more dreadful today than any time in modern memory. A US president is held hostage by ruthless neocons infesting Congress and his administration.
He’s opposed by media scoundrels overwhelmingly against him, denigrating whatever he does or doesn’t do relentlessly - an assault on him to continue as long as he remains in office.
He has two choices - go along with the pure evil agenda of the Clintons, Bush/Cheney and Obama, their war on humanity at home and abroad, the interests of Wall Street and war-profiteers, or be removed from office by impeachment or more sinister means.
Odds favor his ouster anyway because he was supposed to lose, not win, last November. The wrong presidential aspirant sits in the oval office, unforgivable in Washington. Winning prevented neocon favorite Hillary’s triumph, the way things were supposed to turn out.
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