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US Plan B for Syria is Plan A
Stephen Lendman
Obama wants Assad’s government forcefully toppled, using ISIS and other terrorists fighters as imperial foot soldiers.
Sham peace talks are cover, resumed today after pausing for two weeks, going nowhere. Washington knows Syrians won’t tolerate surrendering their sovereignty to a foreign power.
They reject US-led Western interference in their internal affairs. Convincing them militarily is Washington’s Plan B - also known as Plan A, an escalated version with heavier weapons, giving ISIS and other imported death squads greater support to counter Russia, claiming cold-blooded killers are “moderate rebels.”
Rwanda Genocide - The Israeli Connection
Gilad Atzmon
In 2006, Israel’s largest news site Ynet published a courageous article by nationalist Israeli writer Sever Plocker who admitted that “some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish.”
Like Yuri Slezkine, Plocker admits that the Stalin death machine was operated by Jews such as Genrikh Yagoda and Lazar Kaganovich. In 1934, at the peak of Stalin’s purge: “38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin.”
In recent years we have learned that a quarter of the International Brigade that fought Franco in Spain was Jewish, and the Lingua Franca of the Brigade was Yiddish. I have lost a few Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist friends trying to discuss that topic and to grasp the role of the Yiddish speaking combatants in the destruction of Catholic Spain in that bloody war. Showing far more integrity than our ‘allies’ on the Left, Zionist Plocker writes “I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.”
Trump Reinventing Himself As Populist Falls Flat
Stephen Lendman
Trump didn’t become super-rich by being anti-establishment and populist. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wants voters to believe otherwise.
He justifiably blasted Colorado’s rigged “ ‘election’ without voters,” party bosses handing Cruz all state delegates, shutting out the will of the people.
“Let me ask America a question,” he said. “How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family?” During years growing super-rich, Trump never spoke out publicly for the rights of ordinary people. Has he turned a new leaf? Don’t bet on it.
“I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people,” he blustered.
Erdogan’s War on Press, Academic, and Other Forms of Free Expression
Stephen Lendman
Erdogan rules despotically, a megalomaniacal tyrant, tolerating no dissent, targeting opponents and critics for elimination.
He’s waging war on his own people, supporting ISIS and other terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
The world community turns a blind eye to his high crimes, supporting them by complicity and silence.
His latest affront targeted Russia’s Sputnik News (SN) web site, blocking it, authorities saying they acted “(a)fter technical analysis and legal consideration” - failing to explain Erdogan’s war on fundamental international law affirmed rights.
Blocking came without advance notice, a rubber-stamp Turkish court to rule on what happened, justifying the unjustifiable.
Syrian Elections
Stephen Lendman
On May 7, 2012, first ever parliamentary elections were held - a milestone political event with independent and opposition candidates participating.
Despite ongoing war and turbulence, turnout was high. Voting went smoothly. Independent monitors supervising the process called it open, free and fair.
For Syrians, it was historic. Ba'ath party members won a 60% majority. Previously they held just over 50% control. With support from independent MPs, they comprise a 90% majority, expressing the will of the people. Opposition party members were also elected.
As expected, Washington, rogue partners and supportive media scoundrels called the elections illegitimate - recognizing ones won by pro-Western regimes alone.
Merkel OKs Prosecuting Journalist for Insulting Erdogan
Stephen Lendman
Merkel’s action is the latest example of how tyranny is replacing freedom in Western countries - fundamental rights being eliminated altogether.
Free expression is most important. Without it all other rights are endangered.
In response to German TV host Jan Bohmermann reading a satirical poem on ZDF television criticizing Erdogan, he filed a criminal complaint demanding prosecution for insulting a foreign head of state.
Under a long outdated 1880s law, it carries a three-to-five year prison term. Enforcing it is a flagrant free expression violation. Germany’s constitution guarantees it without making exception for when it’s offensive.
Turkey’s deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus outrageously accused Bohmermann of insulting 78 million Turks, ludicrously calling his criticism a “serious crime against humanity (exceeding) all limits of shamelessness.”
To the Peoples of the world: Please don’t kill our children
إلى شعوب العالم: نرجوكم لا تقتلوا أطفالنا
Khalid Amayreh
In the past few months, especially since the beginning of the current wave of Palestinian resistance against Israel’s enduring brutal military occupation, about six months ago, the Israeli army and other security forces adopted a decidedly murderous policy against Palestinians, especially children.
A shoot-to-kill policy was adopted by the Israeli political and military leadership, apparently for the purpose of terrorizing and “deterring” the Palestinian populace. Consequently, dozens of young Palestinians were needlessly murdered on the streets of the West Bank on the pretext that some of the victims may have put the life of Israeli soldiers at risk. In some incidents, soldiers fired additional bullets at the heads of the already completely “neutralized” Victims.
In the Israeli army lexicon, this is done for the purpose of verifying their death.
Syrian Democracy Mocks America’s Sham Process
Stephen Lendman
Assad is a reformer, not a dictator - what Western officials and media scoundrels disgracefully call him.
Bernie Sanders is no populist, democrat or peacemaker. He supports “overthrow(ing) (the) brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad” - a flagrant violation of international law, an appalling perversion of truth.
He endorses arming terrorists called “moderate rebels.” A Sanders administration will continue dirty business as usual, including US policy to replace all sovereign independent governments with puppet ones Washington controls. In 2012, Syrians overwhelmingly approved new constitutional provisions by an 89% majority. Democratic reforms are real.
Political pluralism was established for the first time. So were presidential term limits and press freedom.
Erdogan Hardening Dictatorial Rule
Stephen Lendman
Erdogan is one of the world’s most ruthless despots, Turkey a NATO member, a valued US ally.
Washington largely ignores his tyrannical rule, his abolition of press freedom, imprisoning critics, his war on Turkish, Syrian and Iraqi Kurds.
Turkish lawmakers have immunity from prosecution. Erdogan wants pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) members (the country’s third largest parliamentary bloc) stripped of their fundamental right for opposing ruthless regime policies.
Kurds are Turkey’s largest ethnic minority, representing up to 25% of the population, ruthlessly treated since the 1923 creation of the modern Turkish state - including massacres, extrajudicial executions, torture, forced displacements, arbitrary arrests, ravaged towns and villages, as well as disappeared journalists and regime critics.
America and Other Rogue Regimes Denounce Syrian Democratic Elections
Stephen Lendman
A separate article said they shame America’s sham process. Syrians decide who’ll govern. US voters have no say whatever.
State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner criticized Syria’s constitutionally required April 13 general elections irresponsibly - turning truth on its head, calling them “not legitimate in the sense that they don’t represent…the will of the Syrian people” - an utter perversion of truth. French President Francois Hollande called Thursday’s elections “provocative (and) totally unrealistic.”
A UK regime statement called legitimate Syrian elections shaming Britain’s sham process “divorced from reality,” adding they “cannot buy back legitimacy by putting up a flimsy facade of democracy.”
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