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US Talks Peace in Syria While Waging War
Stephen Lendman
Ceasefire is more illusion than reality. John Kerry claims it saved “literally tens of thousands of lives…” Half a million Syrian deaths from over five years of US-sponsored conflict reveal the viciousness of Washington’s imperial agenda.
Syrians suffer from endless war, slaughter and destruction. Nothing in prospect suggests resolution. Rhetoric is no substitute for action.
As long as Washington wants puppet governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence, endless war will continue. Countless more victims will perish.
US-supported terrorists continue crossing from Turkey into Syria on a regular basis. According to Syria’s Peace Coordination Center, scores of militants trained and armed in Turkey. “entered Anadan in…northern Aleppo” on May 10 alone.
Putin Honored Memory of His Father in Immortal Regiment March
Stephen Lendman
Monday’s Moscow Victory Day commemoration was moving and impressive by any standard, honoring the memory of millions of Russians killed defending their homeland.
Putin showed his humanity. Holding a photo of his father wounded in battle, one of millions of heroic WW II Russian soldiers, he headed Monday’s Immortal Regiment march, walking “shoulder-to-shoulder alongside hundreds of thousands of (ordinary) Russians,” reported RT International.
Organizer Nikolai Zemtsov said the event “brought together people whose grandparents fought from 1941 - 1945. Thus, we are honoring the memory of heroes who earned this hard-won victory.”
Addressing crowds in Red Square, Putin honored millions of heroic Russians involved in defeating the scourge of Nazism. He urged unity in combatting terrorism.
Brazil’s Lower House Speaker Backtracks on Annulling Impeachment Vote
Stephen Lendman
A same day article explained US-manipulated dark forces wanting President Dilma Rousseff impeached without just cause hit a speed bump on Monday when lower house interim speaker Waldir Maranhao annulled the vote against her because of procedural irregularities.
Something is rotten in Brasilia. Overnight Monday, he about-faced, saying “I revoke my decision issued May 9, 2016, in which the lower house sessions were annulled.” Was he pressured, bribed or threatened?
He gave no change of heart reasons. Brazilian media reported his party members threatened to expel him if he didn’t reverse course. He also faces possible corruption charges, perhaps deciding supporting right-wing Brazilian lawmakers keeps him less vulnerable to indictment.
Neocons Want Iran Nuclear Deal Rescinded
Stephen Lendman
In a Monday Independent Journal op-ed, neocon House Speaker Paul Ryan claimed Obama “misled the American people on the Iran (nuclear) deal…Everything about (it) is starting to unravel.”
Nothing supports his baseless claims. Tehran’s best faith efforts along with four of the other P5 countries plus Germany may go for naught if neocons infesting Washington get their way.
Longstanding US policy toward Iran remains hostile - solely for its sovereign independence, unrelated to its nuclear program, well known to be peaceful without a military component or intention to have one.
Ryan and likeminded neocons want Iran kept isolated, the nuclear deal rescinded and regime change actively pursued. He opposes even modest changes in longstanding hostile policy.
U.S. & Russia Reaffirm Commitment to U.N. Peace Process in Syria, Despite Obama’s Opposition
Eric Zuesse
On May 9th, the U.S. and Russia issued a "Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the United States on Syria”, saying that, "The Russian Federation and United States are determined to redouble efforts to reach a political settlement of the Syrian conflict consistent with UNSCR 2254.”
UNSCR 2254, from the U.N. Security Council, on 18 December 2015, refers several times to, and endorses, “a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition in order to end the conflict in Syria,” and, in one passage, it “stresses that the Syrian people will decide the future of Syria." It goes on, to state that the Security Counci:l Expresses its support, in this regard, for a Syrian-led political process that is facilitated by the United Nations and, within a target of six months, establishes credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance and sets a schedule and process for drafting a new constitution, and further expresses its support for free and fair elections, pursuant to the new constitution, to be held within 18 months and administered under supervision of the United Nations, to the satisfaction of the governance and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability, with all Syrians, including members of the diaspora, eligible to participate.
Neoliberal Coup Attempt in Brazil Hits Speed Bump
Stephen Lendman
US-manipulated dark forces want democratically elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ousted, fascist leadership replacing her.
The scheme has nothing to do with corruption or other alleged wrongdoing - everything to do with manipulative power-grabbing, similar to what’s ongoing in Venezuela, fascists wanting social democracies eliminated.
Brazil’s lower house April vote to impeach Rousseff is in question after interim speaker Waldir Maranhao invalidated it because of procedural irregularities, saying lawmakers announcing their intentions ahead of voting constitutes “a clear offense to the wide right to defense that is consecrated in the constitution.”
France Imposes Widely Despised Anti-Labor Bill by Decree
Stephen Lendman
On top of punishing austerity, new rules imposed benefit business exclusively at the expense of worker rights.
They govern layoffs, cap damages for unfair dismissals, and increase the 35-hour workweek at the discretion of employers with minimal pay for overtime.
Since early March, students, other youths and workers rallied against labor law changes proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri.
President Francois Hollande talks like a leftist, governs like a fascist, entirely beholden to monied interests.
Facing rebellion in his ruling party ranks, he and Prime Minister Manuel Valls rammed through labor law changes by decree - using controversial Constitution Article 49.9 to bypass a parliamentary vote.
Seymour Hersh Says He Doesn’t Know Whether Hillary Clinton Knew About the Sarin
Eric Zuesse
I spoke by phone with Seymour Hersh on May 9th to ask him whether he would say publicly, that Hillary Clinton knew that her testimony which was given under oath to Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo on 22 October 2015 was false:
Pompeo: Were you aware or are you aware of any U.S. efforts by the U.S. government in Libya to provide any weapons, directly or indirectly, or through a cutout, to any Syrian rebels or militias or opposition to Syrian forces? Clinton: No. Pompeo: Were you aware or are you aware of any efforts by the U.S. government in Libya to facilitate or support the provision of weapons to any opposition of Gadhafi’s forces, Libyan rebels or militias through a third party or country? Clinton: No.
Hersh said he wouldn’t, because he doesn’t know whether she knew.
Hitler the Ultra Zionist
Gilad Atzmon
In a bizarre effort to paper over the historical truth regarding Hitler and the Haavara Agreement, Professor Rainer Schulze of Essex University wrote an article totally lacking intellectual integrity. Schulze’s piece in the Independent, ‘Hitler and Zionism: Why the Haavara Agreement does not mean the Nazis were Zionists’, demonstrates that fear of Zionists and their extensive power extends beyond the Labour party. It is deeply entrenched within the British psyche and institutionally embedded in academia. Schulze article leads him to the conclusion that: “any claim that Nazis and Zionists ever shared a common goal is not only cynical and disingenuous, but a distortion of clearly established historical fact.” The German/British professor’s failure to apply elementary academic analytical skills to the issue results in faulty scholarship.
Israel Indicts Vanunu
Stephen Lendman
Israel finds ways of giving the term rogue state new meaning - former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu a victim of its viciousness.
He’s a heroic whistleblower - 30 years ago revealing Israel was and remains nuclear armed and dangerous.
He was kidnapped, beaten, drugged, secretly tried, and politically imprisoned for 18 years, mostly in harsh solitary confinement - for revealing what everyone has a right to know. Since release in 2004, he’s been constantly hounded and monitored, imprisoned without confinement, his fundamental freedoms denied, reimprisoned several times, virtually certain again after his latest indictment.
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