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France Bombs Syria
by Stephen Lendman
France is part of the problem, not the solution, in Syria. It supported Obama’s war from inception. It partners in all US imperial wars, a key member of NATO’s killing machine, smashing one nation after another.
On Saturday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius lied, blaming Assad for four-and-a-half years of war, ignoring Obama’s full responsibility and French complicity, backing his aggression on another independent country, using ISIS and other takfiri terrorists to do his dirty work.
“There has been a lot of comment in the last few days on the role of Assad and whether he can or should be a stabilizing element in Syria,” said Fabius. He lied calling him “the main person guilty of the current chaos. If we were to say to the Syrians that the future of Syria lies in Assad, then we'll expose ourselves to failure.”
Putin Was Always Right About Syria
by Stephen Lendman
He understands what’s going on and how to resolve things responsibly - polar opposite Obama endless war agenda, blaming his high crimes on Assad.
In September 2013, The New York Times published Putin’s op-ed titled “A Plea for Caution from Russia,” saying:
Ongoing conflict in Syria “prompted (him) to speak directly (at) at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.” Post-WW II, the UN was “established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.”
Yet it continues. Endless wars rage. UN members never stopped them. Most never tried. Too many partnered in waging them. America and rogue allies deplore peace and stability.
US Preparing for War with Russia?
by Stephen Lendman
America is a warrior state, waging direct and/or proxy wars at home and abroad throughout its entire history - today on a global scale, with an arsenal of weapons of unimaginable destructive power able to end life on earth, and lunatics in charge perhaps planning to use them.
In September 2010, Stop NATO editor Rick Rozoff said the Pentagon is using Baltic states as “training grounds for Afghan and future wars.”
After NATO expanded from 16 - 28 members from 1999 - 2009 by adding all former Warsaw Pact countries, including former Soviet republics Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Washington used their territory for military bases, troop and weapons deployments, regional “air patrols and the initial stages of a continent-wide anti-ballistic missile system beyond” NATO plans for an Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence Programme.
Time for UN to shift mission in Yemen
By Nicola Nasser*
Peace in Yemen will continue to be elusive unless the United Nations shifts its mission from sponsoring an inter-Yemeni dialogue to mediating ceasefire negotiations between the actual warring parties, namely Saudi Arabia & allies and the de facto representatives of Yemenis who are fighting to defend their country’s territorial integrity and independent free will, i.e. the Huthi - Saleh & allies.
Convening its 70th session while celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the United Nations is unlikely to reconsider its stand on Yemen, but it must do, at least to provide a face – saving exit strategy for Saudi Arabia if not to stop a snowballing severe humanitarian crisis in the country.
The United Nations Mauritanian special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed will sooner than later face the fate of his predecessor Jamal Benomar, who resigned his mission last March acknowledging its failure.
How AIPAC-OFAC are working to maintain sanctions targeting Iran and her students
Franklin Lamb
Tehran
Iranian grad students at Iran's Shahid Beheshti University discussing their
hopes and concerns with an American visitor about relief from US-led
sanctions still targeting students and their countrymen. Sept. 2, 2015.
Photo credit: Sam Shakiba.
Only a small percentage of Iran and America’s population has ever met face to face. Almost none of both countries citizens under the age of 35 have ever engaged in long, often fascinating and passionate conversations. Perhaps an exception being Expats who left Iran decades ago for various reasons and have taken US citizenship.
This partially accounts for the eagerness witnessed in Iran these days by Americans who meet with Iranian students with their seemingly limitless energy and who like to spend hours discussing dozens of subjects after quickly shedding a fair bit of their society’s social decorum.
Other visitors to Iran have commented on the ‘instinctive connections’ foreigners, not just Americans experience as they discover that Iranians have little in common with some Western orientalist notions of what they are supposed to be like.
Former Israeli Prime Minister’s Critique of Settlements
by Stephen Lendman
Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke candidly about Israel’s settlement project in a recording heard in a documentary titled “Rabin: In His Own Words.”
The Times of Israel said it’s “being publicized for the first time” - the film’s release planned ahead of the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s November 4, 1995 assassination, the only Israeli leader killed in office, a victim of Jewish terrorism, Palestinians their usual target.
On February 26, 2969, Levi Eshkol died while serving. Rabin notoriously partnered with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat in agreeing on the deplorable Oslo Accords - a measure assuring continued occupation harshness, including land theft and brutal persecution.
'Disaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation'
Robert J. Burrowes
In his just-released book, 'Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe www.versobooks.com/
books/1985-disaster-capitalism Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations to exercise power in the modern world as multinational corporations consolidate their control over the political and economic life of the planet.
While ostensibly a book about how national governments increasingly abrogate their duty to provide 'public' services to their domestic constituencies by paying corporations to provide a privatized version of the same service – which is invariably inferior and exploitative, and often explicitly violent as well – the book's subtext is easy to read: in order to maximize corporate profits, major corporations are engaged in a struggle to wrest all power from ordinary people and those institutions that supposedly represent them. And the cost to ordinary people (including their own corporate employees) and the environment is irrelevant, from the corporate perspective.
Boehner Resignation: Ousted by Republican Infighting
by Stephen Lendman
Politics isn’t for sissies. The rough and tumble takes its toll. Harry Truman once said if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
A day after basking in the glow of Pope Francis’ Washington visit and address to a joint congressional session he arranged, Speaker John Boehner said he’s leaving Congress, effective October 30. Did he resign, or was he pushed? It appears a palace coup ousted him.
A Boehner aide’s twitter statement said “Speaker Boehner believes that the first job of any Speaker is to protect this institution and, as we saw yesterday with the Holy Father, it is the one thing that unites and inspires us all.”
“The Speaker’s plan was to serve only through the end of last year. Leader Cantor’s loss in his primary change that calculation. The Speaker believes putting members through prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable damage to the institution.”
Washington Rules Don’t Bend
by Stephen Lendman
New World Order Washington rules tolerate no outliers, no sovereign independence permitted, no unwillingness to bend to America’s will.
The price for disobedience is regime change - by color revolution or war. A criminal class in America runs things. One-party rule with two wings is enforced. No deviations allowed - no alternate choices, no giving voters say on anything, a democracy in name only, mocking the real thing.
America’s hegemonic aims are unprecedented, worse than ever under Obama - a war criminal, serial liar, and moral coward, recklessly threatening Russia and China, demanding they go along with US policies no matter how damaging to their own interests. Longstanding plans call for regime change. Both countries are America’s top two targets.
Guantanamo: One of Many US Black Sites
by Stephen Lendman
Guantanamo is the tip of America’s global torture prison network, operating covertly in dozens of countries, subjecting victims to brutalized treatment.
They include Shaker Aamer, one of 52 Guantanamo prisoners cleared for transfer to countries willing to accept them.
Aamer is the last British detainee, approved for release by the Bush administration in 2007. Obama officials refused to send him home to his wife and four children, despite repeated UK requests - until today, September 25. Word came. He’s going home. More on his case below.
Straightaway in office, Obama promised closure. An Executive Order authorized it. Guantanamo remains open - a blight on the national conscience.
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