Pages: << 1 ... 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 ... 1261 >>
US Demands Raped Cambodia Repay War Debt
Stephen Lendman
During its war on Southeast Asia, America raped and destroyed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Terror-bombing massacred civilians indiscriminately. A decade of merciless war took millions of lives, around eight million tons of ordnance used in Vietnam alone, threefold WW II’s tonnage - about 300 tons for every Vietnamese man, woman, child, infant, the elderly and infirm.
Herbicidal warfare was waged using deadly agent orange. Millions of gallons of dioxin-containing defoliant contaminated over five million acres. Exposure to minute amounts causes serious health problems or death.
Other terror-weapons were used, including napalm, white phosphorous, cluster bombs and depleted uranium.
UN Report Calls Israel an Apartheid State
Stephen Lendman
Titled “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” authors Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley discussed how Israel persecutes and dominates defenseless Palestinians.
Apartheid is a high crime against humanity, ongoing in Israel since its 1948 establishment, hardening over time, worst of all under Netanyahu’s coalition regime.
The authors state their “study was motivated by the desire to promote compliance with international human rights law, uphold and strengthen international criminal law, and ensure that the collective responsibilities of the United Nations and its Member States with regard to crimes against humanity are fulfilled.”
Harvard’s Fake Guide to Fake News Sites
Stephen Lendman
Is this what parents pay $63,000 annually for tuition, room, board and fees - so their children can be ill-served and ill-taught?
Following the 2014 Obama administration Kiev coup, replacing democracy with fascist dictatorship, Harvard expressed concern about nonexistent “Russian aggression.” Some faculty members called for US
military intervention.
Not a word about US-supported putschists seizing power. Nothing about the most brazen European coup since Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome.
No explanation about a scheme orchestrated in Washington. Silence about a major crisis in Europe’s heartland still ongoing. Trump inherited Obama’s mess, so far not indicating clearly where he stands on Ukraine.
Harvard is at it again. It’s University Library published a fake guide to “fake news, misinformation, and propaganda.”
It recommends using FactCheck.org, Politifact, Snopes.com, Washington Post Fact Checker, and other self-styled fact-checkers, biased against truth-telling on all major issues, acting as censors, trashing reliable alternative sources of news, information and analysis.
Trump’s Presidency Is Already Doomed
Eric Zuesse
If President Donald Trump doesn’t get an Obamacare replacement bill passed into law, then he’s not going to get anything significant done in domestic policy, because he had made this goal the centerpiece of his campaign. But it won’t happen; his Presidency (at least in domestic policy) is already dead.
Trumpcare — his promised replacement for Obamacare — is so blatantly atrocious that an excellent NBC News article on it, from March 8th, was headlined, and documented that — “Experts: The GOP Health Care Plan Just Won’t Work”. This was even before the Congressional Budget Office had priced out its costs to taxpayers (which still hasn’t yet been done but can only sink it even deeper when it finally is).
Already, by the time of Sunday, March 12th, Huffington Post bannered about it, “Tom Cotton Warns GOP Health Care Bill Could Put House Majority At Risk”, and subheaded with a quote from this Republican U.S. Senator saying to Republicans in the House: “Do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote.”
It was already a hot potato by that time. In fact, on March 10th, CNN had headlined “Nobody wants their name on the Republican health care bill” and opened: “The White House says don't call it ‘Trumpcare.’ Critics are labeling it ‘Ryancare’ and ‘Obamacare lite.’ Hospitals hate it, and insurers are pushing the panic button. The House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare is quickly becoming a bill that nobody wants to own.”
The Rising Tide of Militarism in the 21st Century: From Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump
James Petras
Introduction
US militarism expanded exponentially through the first two decades of the Twenty-First Century, and was embraced by both Democratic and Republican Presidents. The mass media’s hysteria towards President Trump’s increase in military spending deliberately ignores the vast expansion of militarism, in all its facets, under President Obama and his two predecessors, Presidents ‘Bill’ Clinton and George Bush, Jr.
We will proceed in this essay to compare and discuss the unbroken rise of militarism over the past seventeen years. We will then demonstrate that militarism is an essential structural feature of US imperialism’s insertion in the international system.
Russian Ambassador Met with Hillary’s Advisors
Stephen Lendman
Ambassadors to America and other countries routinely meet members of their political establishment and figures connected to it.
It’s part of the job. Russia’s ambassador to Washington met with numerous congressional members, including 30 Democrat senators in 2015 alone, discussing the Iran nuclear deal.
Criticizing Michael Flynn and Jeff Sessions for meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak is one among many ways of bashing Trump.
Interviewed on CNN Sunday, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained Kislyak was doing his job. He spoke with members of Trump’s campaign and future administration officials “about bilateral relations and…what was going on in the United States.”
Legislation to Stop Arming Terrorists Introduced in US Senate
Stephen Lendman
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard earlier said “(w)hen it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.”
In January, she called for ending Washington’s “regime change war in Syria now” - after spending a week-long visit to Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut, learning firsthand about ongoing horrors, devastating the lives and welfare of millions of Syrians, victims of US imperial viciousness.
Last December, her press release announced Stop Arming Terrorists legislation she introduced, saying it “would prohibit the US government from using American taxpayer dollars to provide funding, weapons, training, and intelligence support to groups like the Levant Front, Fursan al Ha and other allies of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda and ISIS, or to countries who are providing direct or indirect support to those same groups.”
On the House floor, she said “(u)nder US law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups.”
Depression-Level Unemployment in America
Stephen Lendman
Monthly Labor Department jobs reports are phony. Paul Craig Roberts calls them “a bad joke,” saying America’s economy is a “house of cards.” A day of reckoning awaits.
Job numbers are inflated, manufactured out of thin air, partly based on a so-called birth-death model, estimating net non-reported jobs from new businesses minus losses from others no longer operating.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) admits misreporting, saying “(t)he confidence level for the monthly change in total employment is on the order of plus or minus 430,000 jobs.”
Mark Twain’s maxim about lies, damn lies and statistics applies mostly to managed news misinformation.
US War on Humanity
Stephen Lendman
Endless US wars rage in multiple theaters, Trump continuing Bush/Cheney/Obama aggression against sovereign independent countries posing no threat to America or any other country.
Civilians are harmed most in all wars. America and Israel consider them legitimate targets, massacring them mercilessly, accountability not forthcoming.
The Pentagon admitted to killing 220 civilians in Iraq and Syria since bombings began in 2014 - a flagrant insult to many thousands indiscriminately massacred by US warplanes in both countries.
Iranians’ Opinions of ISIS, of U.S. Gov’t., & of U.S. People
Eric Zuesse
Iranians hold in extremely low regard: the U.S. government, ISIS, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and international terrorism, but their opinions of the American people are remarkably higher than their opinions of the American government — they don’t believe that America’s government represents the American people, at all. They think it represents instead the American aristocracy (which it does). And they detest ISIS and other terrorist and terrorist-supporting groups for the same reason they detest bin Laden: they don’t share the jihadists’ view of what Islam is. And yet, as Shiites, instead of (as the Sauds are) Sunnis, they also are more committed to their religion than they are to their country, whereas the citizens of the Sunni nations (especially Saudi Arabia), which is where the 9/11 terrorists and almost all other Islamic terrorists come from, view themselves more as citizens of their particular Sunni Sharia-law nation, than as being citizens of any particular nation.
<< 1 ... 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 ... 1261 >>
