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B’Tselem Researcher Persecuted by Israel
Stephen Lendman
Israel tolerates no criticism of its longstanding brutality against Palestinians, terrorizing and imprisoning thousands for political reasons, extrajudicially executing targeted individuals.
Israel arrested B’Tselem researcher Nasser Nawaj’ah days earlier. He committed no crimes. On Thursday, Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Yoed Hacohen ordered his immediate release.
Israel refused, continuing to illegally detain him. His lawyer Gaby Lasky filed an urgent motion under the Contempt of Court Ordinance against Samaria and Judea district police.
NYT Misreporting on Syria
Stephen Lendman
.The Times consistently suppresses what’s most important to report, notably on geopolitical issues. Managed news misinformation substitutes, willful deception.
On January 23, it discussed Washington’s (sinister) alliance with Saudi Arabia on Syria, a code-named Timber Sycamore - suppressing information on Obama’s war of aggression, launched for regime change, perpetuating the myth about nonexistent moderate Syrian rebels.
According to The Times, “the Saudis contribute both weapons and large sums of money, and the CIA takes the lead in training the rebels on AK-47 assault rifles and tank-destroying missiles” - without explaining so-called “rebels” are ISIS and other terrorist fighters.
The Times ludicrously called the kingdom “the spiritual anchor of the Sunni Muslim world.” Saudi Wahhabi fundamentalism is polar opposite what most Sunni Muslims practice and support - Islam’s most extremist form.
It’s ideologically over-the-top, supporting state-sponsored terrorism, regional violence and chaos, wanting nonbelievers eliminated.
Saudi money indeed fuels war on Syria and elsewhere regionally, along with plenty from America and rogue allies. CIA elements train ISIS and other terrorist fighters in using heavy and light weapons - made in America, other Western countries and Israel.
How the Supreme Court Could Legalize Direct Bribery: An Innocent Behind Bars, A Guilty Man Free
David Swanson
A recent bribery conviction may lead to the U.S. Supreme Court further corrupting the U.S. political system.
How does one even get convicted of bribery in a system that has legalized it to the extent that ours has? Look at Congress members' and other federal office holders' actions and their sources of funding. There is debate only over whether they are bribed to act or rewarded for having acted, but the correlation between action and funding is undisputed, and the sources of funding unrestricted. A headline like "Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department" raises a few eyebrows but no indictments.
Phony North Korean Threat to America
Stephen Lendman
Pyongyang long sought normalized relations with America and other Western nations. Washington wanting adversarial relations maintained prevents it.
A previous article explained why North Korea wants nukes. It fears America for good reason. It knows it wages endless imperial wars, raping one country after another.
Truman’s naked aggression turned most of North Korea to rubble. Millions died, mostly civilians. Pyongyang wants protection against a possible repeat of what happened earlier.
Muslim World: The Leaders Who Could Not Lead
Mahboob A Khawaja
Synoptic View of the Contemporary Muslim World
The entire Muslim world is engaged in self-destructive conflicts. Unwarranted wars and sectarian bloodbaths are the order of the day, so unparallel in contemporary history. You wonder, what are they fighting for? While the 21st century stands at the verge of knowledge-based global transformation, ignorant and arrogant leaders are perpetuating individualistic political absolutism and tyranny to divide the Muslims. Who are the real warriors fighting for human freedom and justice and who are the hired culprits to prolong proxy wars for other hegemonic powers? Both the US and Russia are competing for hegemonic strategic influence, increased sales of weaponry and to acquire direct control over the natural resources of Arab Middle East. West Europeans - the former lords of colonialism prefer their own strategic priorities wherever they could find a gap between the two competing superpowers. People are not the aim for mind control but victims of the interventionist policies and raging wars. Believe it or not, people are assumed as digits and numbers in police-run states as they could not challenge the Arab authoritarianism for decades. Unthinkable as it was that ideological adversaries like the US and Russia would collaborate to bomb the Arab people, their culture and habitats.
US Unleashing Deadly Virus in Donbass, Ukraine?
Stephen Lendman
Is Washington intending biological war on its area residents?
Chemical, biological and radiological warfare is longstanding US practice, used in direct and proxy wars, Syrians and Yemenis notably affected.
On January 22, the Donbass International News Agency (DINA) headlined “Deadly virus leaked from US laboratory - DPR Army and Intelligence,” saying:
“More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers have died and over 200 are hospitalized,” affected by a virus “immune to all medicines.”
Thousands of Ukrainian troops are stationed menacingly in areas bordering Donbass. Intermittent shelling continues, civilians largely threatened.
The lab in question is located in Shelkostantsiay, about 30 km from Kharvov near Donbass. “US military experts” operate there, said DINA.
Biden Threatens Escalated War on Syria
Stephen Lendman
On Friday, Biden and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met in Istanbul. The vice president is spending two days with him, Erdogan and other rogue regime officials.
Discussions focus on Obama’s war on Syria, Turkey a valued partner in high crimes against peace.
Biden warned of escalated military operations if peace talks fail. Chances for success are virtually nil. Terrorist groups mostly comprise Assad’s opposition.
They’ll keep fighting no matter what comes out of diplomatic talks. Biden’s comments revealed Washington’s rage for war, saying:
“We do know it would better if we can reach a political solution, but we are prepared…if that's not possible, to have a military” one - duplicitously claiming it’s to defeat ISIS, America’s creation and ally, what US officials and major media never explain.
Pentagon Frantic on How to Counter Successful Russian/Syrian Campaigns Against ISIS
Stephen Lendman
Russia’s effective aerial campaign, along with Syrian air and ground forces, are relentlessly pounding ISIS.
They’re inflicting heavy casualties, destroying their supply lines, disrupting their oil smuggling operations, regaining lost territory, defeating Obama’s scheme to transform Syria into another US vassal state, its sovereignty destroyed.
Syrian army troops have renewed vigor, on the offensive effectively. For the first time since Obama launched naked aggression in March 2011, Russia’s General Staff chief General Valery Gerasimov said his government’s airstrikes helped Syrian forces launch attacks in 10 directions at once.
“Currently, strategic initiative in almost all directions is in the hands of (Syrian) government forces,” he said. “They are actively fighting, so sooner or later Daesh's resistance (will) be broken.”
“At the moment, out of 15 fronts where fighting is taking place… offensives are carried out in 10. The Syrian army…has become different over (recent) months - a desire to advance, and self-confidence has appeared."
Since Russian aerial operations began on September 30, over 6,000 sorties were flown, thousands of terrorist targets destroyed, massive numbers of ISIS and other takfiris fleeing to Turkey and Iraq.
Amnesty International Blasts Erdogan’s Collective Punishment of Kurds
Stephen Lendman
On January 21, AI called for “end(ing) abusive operations under indefinite curfews” in Kurdish eastern and southeastern communities.
War without mercy raged since last summer. Arbitrary round-the-clock curfews imposed for over a month and other abusive practices “left residents without access to emergency health care, food, water and electricity for extended periods.”
Turkish forces target residential neighborhoods. Deaths and injuries mount, civilians mostly affected, indiscriminately killed and injured. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds are at risk. “According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, curfews have been imposed on at least 58 occasions in at least 19 different towns and districts across seven provinces of east and south-east Turkey since they were first introduced in August last year.”
US and UK: Merchants of Death and Destruction
Stephen Lendman
US and UK weapons makers thrive on sales to Saudi Arabia, a rogue state sponsor of regional terrorism, waging naked aggression on Yemen, a US-orchestrated war.
Washington is Riyadh’s leading arms supplier. In 2010, the Obama administration approved up to $60 billion in multi-year sales, the largest US weapons deal ever.
Naval and missile defense upgrades may be worth tens of billions more. In 2011, Riyadh said it plans on around $90 billion worth of US arms purchases in coming years.
It’s the world’s largest arms buyer, accounting for an estimated one in seven dollars spent in 2015. In 2014, Riyadh and the UAE imported more weapons and munitions than all Western European countries combined.
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