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Assad Agrees to Snap Elections
by Stephen Lendman
He agreed to them earlier and again now, parliamentary and presidential ones, despite his overwhelming June 2014 reelection, a process independent monitors called open, free and fair.
Russian Communist party MP Alexander Yushchenko is visiting Syria “as part of a delegation of Russian parliamentarians with a humanitarian mission,” bringing food and medicines for children, according to Tass. Assad expressed willingness to hold snap elections with “all political forces that want Syria’s prosperity,” as well as consider constitutional changes, said Yushchenko - “after the victory over terrorism on the territory of Syria and the country’s liberation,” Assad explained.
Netanyahu Says He’ll “Live Forever by the Sword”
by Stephen Lendman
Let’s not mince words. Israel is racist, apartheid, fascist police state, Netanyahu heading one of the world’s most ruthless regimes - fully supported by Washington, partnering in each other’s high crimes against peace, fundamental human rights and equal justice for all.
On October 26, Haaretz headlined “Netanyahu: I Don’t Want a Binational State, but We Need to Control All of the Territory for the Foreseeable Future,” quoting him saying:
“I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword - yes,” he responded, explaining what’s already well known. Long ago he scoffed at the so-called peace process, calling it “a waste of time.”
NYT Big Lie Claims Russia Bombing Syrian Hospitals
by Stephen Lendman
On October 20, The Times tried justifying the Pentagon’s latest Afghan war crime, willfully bombing a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital without just cause - premeditated Times deception suggesting otherwise, ignoring indisputable facts.
The death toll keeps rising, 26 according to MSF as of October 23 - 37 others injured, many severely. Numbers of known fatalities “may not be final numbers,” said MSF.
“All that now remains of the three operating theaters, the ER and outpatient departments, and the intensive care unit are collapsed roofs, blackened walls, floors thick with dust, and twisted pieces of metal that were once beds or trolleys,” it explained painfully.
NYT Anti-Palestinian Propaganda
by Stephen Lendman
Other articles explained The Times features all propaganda, all the time on issues mattering most - not a dime’s worth of straight talk on major national and geopolitical topics, vital at a time America’s war on humanity threatens everyone.
A glaring example is its one-sided support for Israel, longstanding anti-Palestinian policy, blaming them for state-sponsored high crimes, ruthless genocide against an entire population. The latest Times propaganda piece headlined “Palestinian Anger in Jerusalem and West Bank Gets a Violent Soundtract” - ridiculing decades of horrific pain and suffering at the hands of a ruthless occupier, ignoring its vicious brutality.
How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero
by Ellen Brown
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
— Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1935
On November 3rd, the US government will again run out of money due to a debt ceiling artificially imposed by Congress. This is the third time in four years that a radical faction has taken the country to the brink of default to extort concessions that are at best only marginally related to the budget.
The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th amendment, which says the validity of the government’s debt shall not be questioned. The debt was incurred by Congress when it passed the budget, and the money has been borrowed and spent. Congress cannot now refuse to pay.
One good gimmick deserves another. The debt ceiling could be eliminated for good, by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money. Article 1, Section 8, provides: “The Congress shall have the power to coin money [and] regulate the value thereof . . . .” The president could pay the government’s bills by issuing some large denomination coins by executive order.
Obama Rejects Fighting Terrorism
by Stephen Lendman
His actions say it all. In over a year of bombing, US warplanes struck zero Syrian and Iraqi terrorist targets - none. It’s unsurprising he rejected Putin’s offer to cooperate in fighting ISIS and other terrorist groups.
America Needs A Social Revolution
By Timothy Gatto
I support Bernie Sanders. I may regret this decision, just as I regret the decision to vote for Obama in for his first term. I boycotted his re-election. . I could have voted Green but in South Carolina, I would just be wasting my time. I should have voted in the local elections, but I didn't. . I tried to run against Tim Scott for the Senate seat from South Carolina, but I got not support from anyone. Can you imagine anyone more disenchanted than was?
I have been writing about the disparity between the rich and the poor for more than a decade. I've written about campaign finance reform for as long. When you read Daily Kos or Campaign for America's future, know this, when I wrote an article a month before Obama's election, telling everyone that he lied about not taking corporate contributions and I disclosed that his second largest contributor was Goldman Sachs, they threw me off and I haven't written for them since (except when they pull an article website that does publish me. I know that they are just Democratic mouthpieces.
Kerry and Abbas Conspire Against Palestinians
by Stephen Lendman
Abbas is a longtime Israeli collaborator. Washington one-sidedly supports Israeli interests, including decades of ruthless occupation harshness.
Whenever Kerry shows up anywhere, especially in the Middle East, he’s always up to no good. His current trip took him to Berlin (meeting with Netanyahu while there) and Amman, meeting with Jordanian officials and Abbas, plotting ways to betray Palestinians again, urging calm at the expense of their interests.
On Saturday, he “strongly condemn(ed) (Palestinian) terrorist attacks against innocent civilians,” ignoring Washington’s full support for ongoing Israeli instigated violence.
Donald Trump Says the U.S. Should Have Stolen Iraqis’ Oil After Destroying their Country
Eric Zuesse
On Sunday the 25th of October, Republican U.S. Presidential aspirant Donald Trump was interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, and was asked about Iraq. He said, "I told you very early on, if we're going to leave, take the oil.” He then repeated this theme again, in this CNN interview: “And I said, take the oil when we leave. But we shouldn't have really left.” So: he thinks that the U.S. occupation of Iraq should have continued on, and should be continuing, and that the U.S. should have “taken” Iraq’s oil. But he added that, “We shouldn’t have gotten in” to Iraq in the first place. This latter opinion from him was purely a retrospective comment, and Trump had never even expressed himself publicly about the invasion until it had already been done. He had said at that time (August 2004) only that it was . This new retrospective evaluation by Trump of the invasion of Iraq, now on CNN, sparked from the interviewer, questions about whether Trump thinks that “the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein” in power in Iraq. Trump answered directly, “A hundred percent.” He added: "They're worse now than they ever were. People are getting their heads chopped off. They're being drowned. They're — right now, they are far worse than they were ever under Saddam Hussein.” And, in fact, no reasonable person can doubt the truth of that statement. The recently released "Gallup 2015 Global Emotions Report” interviewed a thousand citizens of each of 148 countries and found: "Iraqis Are the Saddest & One of the Angriest Populations in the World.” Furthermore, Iraqis were found to have the world’s “Highest Negative Experience Scores,” which is a misery-index. Therefore, Trump is accurate to say that the American government did such a thing as that, to the people of Iraq.
Global Peace and Security: Mankind is Traumatized by the Middle East Conflicts
Mahboob A Khawaja
“We are waging war on terrorism even as we embody terrorism. No wonder we seem sometimes to be at war with ourselves, and have been for most of the 21st century….. No American under 12 has Lived in a Country at Peace… whatever the U.S. government knows, or thinks it knows, is not widely shared with most of its citizens….. The American Enemies List Is Decided Anonymously and Secretly.” - William Boardman
(“America a country at war with an Illusion”).
Wars and societal conflicts do not end with political statements. The mankind is fraught with painful experiences of the unwanted Two World Wars. The perpetrators escape the consequences pushing humanity into unthinkable disasters generations after generations. A war of words and conveniently arrived erotic hypothesis of the few sadistic warlords on complex global issues are draining out the positive energies, time and opportunities for peaceful dialogue towards conflict prevention and conflict management. If Israel and the PLO had moral and intellectual capacity to talk and reconcile, the killings and stabbing of innocents could have been averted by ending the occupation and coming to terms with the two state solution. While Israelis and Palestinians live in open prisons of mutual fear and hatred, their leaders compete for numbers in opinions polls and are unable to provide proactive leadership role for conflict resolution. Likewise, the sectarian conflicts in Syria and Iraq require moral and intellectual foresights and creative strategies to strike peaceful conclusion. Ironically, America, Russia and few West Europeans are competing in bombing the civilians and causing unthinkable losses of life and destruction of human infrastructures across the Arab world.
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