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Putin and China Set the New Agenda -
Executive Intelligence Review
Aug. 10--Following the Aug. 9 St. Petersburg meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recip Erdogan, high-level delegations from both countries are meeting Aug. 11 in a trilateral (foreign, defense, and security (ministers) working meeting to set a collaborative course for ending the Syrian war. Russia and Turkey plan to expand bilateral trade to $100 billion per year, a three-fold increase over previous peaks. The North-South Corridor project will now engage Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran, and will fold into China's One Belt, One Road project.
The Russia-Turkey partnership will bring greater stability to the entire Caspian Sea, Balkan, Caucasus region, extending the zone of Eurasian security and prosperity further west.
The Pro-Nuclear War Party
David Swanson
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the following people and entities would like the United States to begin a nuclear war: Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, the U.K., France, Japan, South Korea, and Germany. If any of those people or entities believe they can prove a case of libel, it might be a huge one. (Are you listening, Rupert?)
According to Mr. Murdoch's newspaper, the White House has been discussing the possibility of declaring that the United States no longer has a policy of engaging in the first use of nuclear bombs. The trouble is that those individuals and nations named above object. They insist, we are told, that the United States should have the policy of beginning a nuclear war.
AP Smears Trump
Eric Zuesse
The Associated Press issued, on Wednesday August 17th, a news story of possible corruption implicating both the campaign manager of the Trump campaign (Paul Manafort) and the campaign manager of the Clinton campaign (Tony Podesta), but headlined their news report only with the Trump-campaign's connection, and included in the report’s lead-sentence, mention of only the Trump campaign, and buried until the news report’s 14th sentence, its first mention of the Clinton-campaign's connection in this reported affair.
Furthermore, the AP's ‘news’ article raised the question of whether a U.S. lobbying firms' "accepting money to advocate the interests of foreign governments — especially if those interests conflict with America’s” is ethical, and it also implied (but did not assert this outright) that “those interests conflict with America’s” interests in this particular case. However, the AP’s ‘news’ writers provided no evidence that this “conflict with America’s” interests was actually so — that there was actually any such “conflict.” Only the hint of it was provided by the AP’s ‘news’ writers.
”The Birthday”
”The Birthday”
Fidel Castro Ruz: my comments after his
It was published on August 12, 2016, the day before his 90th birthday. The translation is a bit choppy. Bear with it. Fidel’s thoughts come through clearly.
Fidel:
“I wish to express my deepest gratitude for the signs of respect, greetings and gifts I have received in these days, that give me strength to reciprocate through ideas trasmitiré militants of our Party and the relevant bodies.”
“Tomorrow I will fulfill 90 years. I was born in a territory called Biran in eastern Cuba. That name is known, although it has never appeared on a map.”
“Given their good behavior was known to close friends and, of course, for a place of political representatives and inspectors who were around any typical of countries around the world neocolonized commercial or productive activity.”
A Nonviolent Strategy to End War
Robert J. Burrowes
There is a long history of anti-war and peace activism. Much of this activism has focused on ending a particular war. Some of this activism has been directed at ending a particular aspect of war, such as the use of a type of weapon. Some of it has aimed to prevent a type of war, such as 'aggressive war' or nuclear war. For those activists who regard war as the scourge of human existence, however, 'the holy grail' has always been much deeper: to end war.
There is an important reason why those of us in the last category have not, so far, succeeded. In essence, this is because, whatever their merits, the analyses and strategies we have been using have been inadequate. This is, of course, only a friendly criticism of our efforts, including my own. I am also not suggesting that the task will be easy, even with a sound analysis and comprehensive strategy. But it will be far more likely.
US-Stoked Conflict in Ukraine
Stephen Lendman
Resolving internal conflict in Ukraine is unattainable because Washington wants war, not peace - using its installed puppet regime to do its dirty work, providing it with weapons, funding, training, direction and other material support.
Donbass freedom fighters want democracy, not fascist rule, not illegitimate putschists taking orders from Washington, controlling the lives and welfare, militantly anti-Russia, their one reliable ally.
Ukrainian forces are massed provocatively along areas bordering Crimea (Russian territory) and Donbass. Donetsk People’s Republic Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said (illegitimate) president Petro Poroshenko placed his armed forces on “heightened combat alert.”
He may attack “Donbass to distract attention from his” failed terrorist plot in Crimea. Russian security forces foiled it.
Barack Obama’s Meager Legacy of incomplete accomplishments and of provoked wars: What happened?
Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay
The evil that men do lives after them.”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), ‘Julius Caesar’
“The Constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the Legislature…—No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
James Madison (1751-1836), in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1798, (and, in ‘Political Observations’, 1795)
“…War is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.” Barack H. Obama (1961- ), Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 2009
Hillary’s Economic Plan: Continued New Millennium Disaster
Stephen Lendman
America is mired in protracted Main Street Depression because of a generation of bipartisan governance serving privileged interests at the expense of most others - Republicans and Democrats sharing guilt.
Neoliberal harshness became official US policy in the 1990s - during the Bill and Hillary co-presidency. Giving them a third term assures more of the same - the horror of deepening poverty, mass unemployment and underemployment, homelessness and hunger at record levels, the world’s richest country thirdworldized while monied interests never have things better.
Believe nothing Hillary says. She’s an exposed serial liar. She lied about wars of aggression she orchestrated against Libya and Syria.
Horror Stories from Obama’s War on Syria
Stephen Lendman
US aggression using ISIS and other terrorists to do its dirty work so far left over half a million Syrians dead, millions injured, many permanently maimed, half the population internally or externally displaced, and no end of conflict in sight.
Syria is one of many US post-WW II great crimes, a nation being systematically raped and destroyed, imperial ruthlessness at its worst - dominance alone mattering, human lives and welfare of no consequence.
Is Western civilization too flawed to fix? It seems so from the despicable example America sets - humanity’s greatest scourge, perhaps its undoing entirely if not challenged and stopped. Daily horror stories from Syria alone explain. On August 13, Tass reported hundreds of civilians killed or injured in Aleppo in less than a fortnight of August fighting. Half are women and children.
“Hundreds of badly injured civilians are at hospitals throughout the city,” Tass reported. “They all are in desperate need for qualified medical assistance” - too little available under war zone conditions.
The Strategic Battle of Aleppo
Stephen Lendman
The outcome of war may hinge on its outcome. Prior to Obama’s aggression, Aleppo was Syria’s commercial hub and largest city. Much of it now lies in ruins, its population reduced to a small fraction of its pre-war size.
Syrian forces and Russian airpower continue battling for parts of the city controlled by US-supported terrorists.
According to Russian General Sergei Rudskoi, a “most alarming situation has developed on the southwestern approaches to Aleppo where terrorists (massed) about 7,000 gunmen” - equipped with “tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery and vehicles with armament mounted on them.”
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