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Pentagon Updating War Plans Against Russia
by Stephen Lendman
Longstanding US policy calls for regime change in all sovereign independent countries - by color revolutions or wars, notably targeting Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela, to eliminate major rivals and control world resources, especially oil.
The Pentagon maintains war plans against all targeted countries, updating them as needed, ready to act if ordered - risking potential global war.
On September 18, Washington Post-owned Foreign Policy magazine featured longtime anti-Russian writer Julia Ioffe’s article headlined “Exclusive: The Pentagon Is Preparing New War Plans for a Baltic Battle Against Russia,” saying:
“For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US Department of Defense is reviewing and updating its contingency plans for armed conflict with Russia.”
California’s Right-to-Die Bill & The New York Times
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of The New York Times
September 22, 2015
Gov. Jerry Brown of California is hearing plenty from opponents and supporters of a bill state lawmakers passed earlier this month that would allow some terminally ill patients to hasten their death. Modeled after the pioneering right-to-die bill Oregon put into effect in 1997, California’s End of Life Option Act would allow people in the advanced stages of a terminal illness to obtain a lethal dose of painkillers from a physician. Mr. Brown should sign the bill into law.
And for those who don't know why we don't have the ultimate civil right, that is why you can’t kill yourself?, keep reading.
Why Can’t You Kill Yourself?
by Elizabeth Young [published June 20, 2011]
The recent passing of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, and the arrest of the 91-year old woman making a "killing" selling $60 suicide kits, has forced society to look at why we are not allowed the right to die with dignity.[1]
UN Condemns Ukrainian Government Cover-Ups
Eric Zuesse
On September 18th, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights headlined “Statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns Ukraine: Lives lost in an accountability vacuum,” and condemned there the current Ukrainian Government in strong language, regarding not only the coup which had brought them to power in February 2014, but regarding also the massacre of the people who on 2 May 2014 had been peacefully demonstrating in Odessa against the coup. Specifically, the ongoing cover-ups by the Ukrainian Government concerning both of these matters were condemned by him.
The High Commissioner, Christof Heyns, said: By allowing almost immediate access of the scene to ‘pro-unity’ protesters, members of the public or to municipal authorities, investigators lost a large proportion of potentially valuable forensic evidence.
Russia’s Real Involvement in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Big Lies continue circulating, claiming a Russian military buildup in Syria, reminiscent of fabricated accusations of “Russian aggression” in Ukraine, long ago discredited.
Russia is Europe’s leading force for peace, stability, nation-state sovereign independence, the inviolability of international law, and against countries interfering in the internal affairs of others.
Putin, Sergey Lavrov and other Russian officials have gone all-out to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and Syria diplomatically - the only effective solution. Anti-Russian propaganda claiming otherwise stems from Washington’s longtime regime change objective - Western media in lockstep with its destructive imperial agenda.
Netanyahu Vows Harsher Police State Viciousness on Palestinians
by Stephen Lendman
Israel considers unrestrained viciousness against Palestinians defending law and order. Legitimate Palestinian resistance against ruthless Israeli persecution is called terrorism.
Justice is upside down. Militarized rule denies longtime suffering people fundamental rights everyone deserves.
They’re considered enemies of the state for demanding them - in greater danger after Netanyahu authorized police to use live fire against Palestinian protesters (using .22 caliber Ruger rifles allegedly less lethal than heavier weapons) and new legislation mandating harsh prison sentences for stone-throwers, subjecting youths and young children to years behind bars in one of the world’s most dehumanizing and brutal gulags.
Polls Show Syrians Overwhelmingly Blame U.S. for ISIS
Eric Zuesse
The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and (in the latest such poll) also finds that 82% of Syrians blame the U.S. for ISIS.
The Washington Post summarized on September 15th the latest poll. They did not headline it with the poll’s anti-U.S. finding, such as “82% of Syrians Blame U.S. for ISIS.” That would have been newsworthy. Instead, their report’s headline was "One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says.” However, the accompanying graphic wasn’t focused on the few Syrians who support ISIS (and, at only one in five, that’s obviously not much — it’s hardly even news). It instead (for anyone who would read beyond that so-what headline) provided a summary of what Syrians actually do support. This is is what their graphic highlighted from the poll’s findings:
Pressure Gets Iceland to Backtrack
by Stephen Lendman
After its capital City of Reykjavik voted to boycott Israeli products days earlier, it backtracked on Saturday - Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson telling Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RUV the decision was withdrawn.
His excuse rang hollow, claiming it was “poorly prepared. In the past, I have taken great pride in preparing all big decisions thoroughly,” he said.
“I’ll admit here and now that I am angry with myself for not doing that, and for not having prepared the decision as well as I would have liked to. This was very unfortunate.”
U.S. Will Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
Eric Zuesse
Germany’s ZDF public television network headlines on Tuesday September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” and reports that the U.S. will bring into Germany 20 new nuclear bombs, each being four times the destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima. Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, says, "With the new bombs the boundaries blur between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.”
A former Parliamentary State Secretary in Germany's Defense Ministry, Willy Wimmer, of Chancellor Merkel’s own conservative party, the Christian Democratic Union, warns that these “new attack options against Russia” constitute “a conscious provocation of our Russian neighbors.”
Threatening Jeremy Corbyn
by Stephen Lendman
An unnamed senior UK general threatened Corbyn with mutiny if as future prime minister he tried downgrading Britain’s military. More on what he said below.
Western societies are too decadent to fix, morally depraved, corrupt and debauched - waging endless wars or supporting them, betraying their own people to divert maximum resources for turning one country after another to rubble, to enrich powerful elites more than ever, popular interests be damned.
Vicious Islamophobia persists. Donald Trump is comfortable with removing millions of Muslims from America. Ben Carson told NBC’s Meet the Press he “absolutely would not agree (to) put a Muslim in charge of this nation.” Their faith and values aren’t “consistent with the Constitution,” he claimed.
Russia to Add Its 203rd Air Force Base — Its First Outside Russia
Eric Zuesse
According to GlobalSecurity.org, Russia has 202 Air Force Bases, all in Russia’s various “Military Districts"; but now there is to be a 203rd one, and it will be in Belarus. If this actually happens, it will be a historic expansion of Russia’s armed forces abroad — something that for the U.S. to do would be inconsequential since the U.S. already has 41 Air Force Bases in foreign countries, surrounding Russia, East West and South. (Belarus isn’t even anywhere near the U.S.; it’s instead bordering Russia itself.)
On September 19th at 112.international (and then on 20 September at the subscription-only Financial Times), was reported (as headlined at 112), “Russia to Establish Air Base in Belarus.” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday the 18th had signed a document, "To intrust the Ministry of Defense with the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out the negotiations with the Belarusian side and upon coming to an accommodation, to sign the agreement on behalf of Russian Federation.”
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