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Preserving Syrian Sovereignty Essential Says Putin
Stephen Lendman
Hezbollah leader Sayyad Hassan Nasrallah once called Syria the “linchpin of resistance” against US/NATO/Israeli regional imperialism.
If it falls, Iran’s turn awaits. “Palestine will be lost…” Lebanon’s sovereignty will be jeopardized. “(A) bleak future awaits the peoples of the region.”
Anglo-Zionism’s rage to dominate represents the greatest threat since the Nakba, he stressed, promising committed resistance against it.
From the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin expressed a similar sentiment, saying “(t)he most important thing is to avoid (Syria’s) breakup. And if the situation continues to develop as it does today, the collapse is inevitable, and this is the worst case scenario.”
Diversionary Congressional Gun Control Debate
Stephen Lendman
On Thursday, AP News said “Republican leaders had agreed to hold votes on Democrat-backed measures to expand background checks and prevent suspected terrorists from acquiring guns.”
They’re almost as easy to buy as toothpaste. America’s racist drug laws haven’t curbed their availability and easy access.
The nation awash in weapons reflects its longstanding culture of violence, mostly state-sponsored - waging wars in the name of peace every year since the republic’s inception, at home and/or abroad, largely against invented enemies, claiming countless millions of lives.
Paedophilia and Tribal Loyalty
Gilad Atzmon
The Holocaust Memorial Trust and the BOD have yet to disassociate themselves from Lord Janner and his alleged history of multiple child sex abuse. Seems that tribal loyalty is so firmly entrenched that it far surpasses ethics or compassion.
Now there is yet another case of tribal loyalty that is inconsistent with British values and law. This time a Jewish children’s summer camp is the chosen locale.
The Jewish Chronicle reports today the “owner of a (Jewish) children's summer camp, who is accused of failing to act when naked images of three- and four-year-old girls were found on his business partner's phone, has chosen not to give evidence.”
The prosecution claims that Tal Landsman, the owner of the Jewish camp, “willfully exposed children to harm by not immediately reporting his best friend Ben Lewis to the authorities.”
Landsman and Lewis were co-founders of LL Camps in Bushey, Hertfordshire. The camp was closed down in August 2015 after an employee who had seen the images reported Lewis to the police.
Kerry Meets with State Department Hawks on Syria
Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed dozens of unnamed State Department staffers urging stepped up US military action to oust Assad, greater naked aggression than already - wanting pro-Western puppet governance replacing sovereign Syrian independence.
John Kerry expressed sympathy with their position without publicly endorsing it. On Tuesday, he met with “eight mid level Foreign Service officers,” according to The New York Times - hawkish neocons among dozens publicly opposing Obama’s Syria policy.
Ad Hominem Campaigning
Stephen Lendman
Candidates attacking each other goes with the territory. Trump and Clinton appear heading for new mean-spirited lows.
The race for the White House promises perhaps to be the nastiest in memory - back-and-forth ad hominem bashing in lieu of straight talk on issues mattering most.
America is a hugely corrupted money-controlled one-party state with two wings, governance serving everyone equitably a nonstarter, democracy pure fantasy.
Voters in November get to choose between the most widely ever reviled presidential aspirants in US history - unfit for any public office. However things turn out, America’s deplorable state will worsen. Pure evil best describes it, humanity’s greatest threat. Endless wars will continue, wealth, power and privilege exclusively served, popular needs and interests be damned - likely more than ever before, nonbelievers facing police state harshness.
Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Anal Stage
Gilad Atzmon
Can you imagine the Archbishop of Canterbury using the word ‘asshole?’ Can you imagine a supreme Islamic cleric referring to an intellectual in this manner? Rabbi Michael Lerner, the man who used Muhammad Ali’s funeral as a Jewish propaganda podium, wrote to me yesterday:
“Wake up, asshole--you are spreading lies and deceit about me.”
The ‘progressive’ rabbi describes me as that place where the sun never shines. I asked the Rabbi for permission to reprint his entire e mail to me but for the obvious reason the rabbi who claims to ‘represent American Jews’ kept silent.
In my article ‘Rabbi Lerner - Master of Compassion or Master of Deceit?’ I exposed Rabbi Lerner as a con artist. I quoted Rabbi Lerner accurately and in context.
The Meaning of Brexit
Gilad Atzmon
The Political is Personal
Whatever the British people decide about the EU the people who dwell on this island have been pushed to think patriotically and nationalistically. The decision each of us make to vote for ‘remain’ or for ‘leave’ will be based on the realisation that this political decision will have a significant personal impact.
Party Politics is A Severe Form Of Detachment
Both major parties failed to assess the huge appeal of the ‘call to leave.’ This blindness proves that the estrangement between the British political universe and the public is complete. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Many of the Britain’s political leaders are public school graduates. They are foreign to the experience of most of the British people.
Pathways of transition to agroecological food systems
Adam Parsons
A new report by leading sustainability experts has reaffirmed the case for a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems – fundamental to which is a call for redistributing power back into the hands of those who feed the world.
An alternative vision of farming and food systems has long been upheld by civil society groups and small-scale producers around the world, based on the science of agroecology and the broader framework of food sovereignty. But while many reports and studies have shown how less intensive, diversified and sustainable farming methods can have far better outcomes than today’s corporate-dominated model of industrial agriculture, the question remains as to how we can make the shift towards agroecological systems on a global scale.
Brexit Fear-Mongering
Stephen Lendman
The European Union is fundamentally undemocratic, a flawed system, a sinking ship, a CIA creation.
Paul Craig Roberts explained, citing Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s September 2000 article, saying:
“DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe.”
CIA officials “work(ed) aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into a European state…The State Department played a role.” Controlling Europe was and remains a core element of US imperial policy.
Union undermines national sovereignty, making it subject to a higher authority, a deplorable state for any country - accepting vassalage over independence.
June 22: Operation Barbarossa’s 75th Anniversary
Stephen Lendman
On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched perhaps the largest ever invasion by one country against another.
Operation Barbarossa involved up to four million combat and support troops - Hitler’s fatal error, miscalculating, overreaching, hubris and arrogance defeating him.
Heroic Red Army efforts smashed the vaunted Wehrmacht, Soviet Russia, not America, most responsible for freeing Europe from the scourge of Nazism.
Addressing Russia’s lower house State Duma, Putin paid tribute to extraordinary Red Army heroism above and beyond the call of duty by any standard, saying:“This day in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the USSR, but Soviet soldiers defended the country to the death. We will always remember their sacrifice.”
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