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Putin Giving Up on Assad, Says Erdogan
Eric Zuesse
Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked by an interviewer last week, “On the question of Syria, have you seen changes in the attitude of Russian President Putin?” and Erdogan replied: "As compared to the past, there is a much more positive attitude by Putin towards Syria. He is no longer approaching the matter like he used to. No longer is it, ‘We’ll stand with Assad till the end.’ I expect that he will abandon Assad.”
Erdogan is constantly in touch with both of the principals who will be determining the future of Syria, Barack Obama who wants Islamists to take the country over, and Vladimir Putin who wants the existing secular regime to stay in power. Obama supports and is supported by the Sunni Muslim Erdogan, and Putin supports and is supported by Shiite Muslim Iran.
Kiev Calls 567 Artists Threats to National Security
by Stephen Lendman
Rogue states maintain power by intimidation, repression and controlling the message - suppressing anything challenging their authority.
Ukraine is an illegitimate US-installed fascist police state - a rogue regime opposed to fundamental freedoms. It’s waging war on its own people.
Its human rights record is horrendous. Even the State Department admits it harasses and discriminates against ethnic minorities, makes arbitrary arrests for political reasons, abuses individuals in custody including torture, engages in human trafficking, operates a corrupt judicial system, denies due process, commits violence against women, abuses children, uses forced labor, and severely limits the right of workers to strike.
Israeli Doctors Refuse Force-Feeding Order
by Stephen Lendman
Medical ethicists call the practice barbaric, tantamount to torture. The World Medical Association (WMA) calls it “inhuman and degrading treatment.”
Israeli Medical Association (IMA) chairman Leonid Eidelman denounced the practice. Force-feeding prisoners against their will is "unethical," he said.
In a letter to Israeli authorities, he explained the IMA would "order doctors to act solely according to the rules of ethics, and not feed or nourish hunger strikers against their will."
In 2014, IMA issued guidelines for treating hunger strikers - saying all treatment must be carried out “in accordance with the patient's free will…(G)enerally accepted ethical principles in Israel and abroad (prohibit) forced medical treatment, including force-feeding…”
Obama and Putin to Address General Assembly in September
by Stephen Lendman
Pope Francis will address the world body in New York on September 25 - a day after he becomes the first pontiff to address a joint congressional session, then meet with Obama at the White House.
The US president and Vladimir Putin will address the General Assembly on September 28 - the Russian leader’s first time since 2005.
Obama’s 2014 world body address was one of his worst - painful beginning-to-end demagogic listening. He ignored America’s killing machine - rampaging globally against one country after another.
He irresponsibly bashed Russia - baselessly accusing Putin of aggression in Ukraine - the same Big Lie repeatedly blasted worldwide, media scoundrels reporting it like administration press release handouts, gullible Western audiences believing it.
Understanding ISIS: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Zahir Ebrahim
| Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
First, one must comprehend the theory behind fomenting controlled chaos of “revolutionary times” by supporting both sides of the conflict. The concept of Insurgency and counter-insurgency as a war paradigm for sustaining “imperial mobilization” under the cover of controlled chaos is explained in: “Insurgency vs. Counter Insurgency”. Fomenting “revolutionary times” with self-inflicted terror is explained in “Understanding Self-Inflicted Terror”.
The new militant “Islamic State” with “caliphate” galore is only the manufactured progression of going from empire's own stateless antediluvian actors playing their scripted “Taliban - Al Qaeda terrorist” role as public enemy number one of the United States and the civilized world, to antediluvian stateful actors playing their scripted “ISIS - terrorists' expansionist” role as public enemy number one of the United States and the civilized world. Twenty-first century barbarians being brought to power to foment not just the “Clash of Civilizations”, as the erstwhile Jewish political theorist Samuel Huntington at Harvard University, and still ever present “foremost Western scholar of Islam”, Jewish prof. Bernard Lewis at Princeton University had formulated it in the 1990s, but the “Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians” as Daniel Pipes more accurately couched the empirical manifestations of “militant Islam” after 9/11.
Little-Known Facts About the Fox News Republican Debate
Eric Zuesse
TIME has posted the transcript of the August 6th Fox News Channel Republican Presidential candidates’ debate, and there are a number of interesting features in it that have not generally been covered in the press:
1: After introducing all the contestants in this the first of the Republican Presidential candidates’ debates, FNC’s Chris Wallace turned to FNC’s Brett Baier and said, with no explanation "I think you would call that a home field advantage.” This constitutes subtle acknowledgment that Fox News Channel is, and prides itself on being, the Republican Party’s television network (thus “home field”). Mr. Baier’s reply to that was equally opaque: "It might be. We’ll see,” as if that statement meant something. 2: The first question in the debate was from Baier, and (as Ezra Klein aptly noted) it was specifically selected in order to shame one specific candidate, Donald Trump, who is the only candidate who has not promised to endorse whomever wins the Republican nomination:
John Kerry on the Vietnam War: Earlier and Now
by Stephen Lendman
From August 4 - 8, Kerry visited five Asian countries, including the ASEAN Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ending his trip in Hanoi, Vietnam - enlisting support against legitimate Chinese activities in its own waters, risking direct confrontation to solidify Washington’s military footprint in a part of the world not its own.
He highlighted America’s current relationship with its former foe - ludicrously calling earlier US Southeast Asian naked aggression “a diplomatic failure.”Saying “(t)he war that took place here half a century ago divided each of our countries and stemmed from the most profound failure of diplomatic insight and political vision.”
Assad Honors Syria’s Army
by Stephen Lendman
It represents the land component of Syria’s armed forces - its dominant military branch engaged in a heroic struggle against US and Israeli imperialism.
Its origin dates from post-WW I - its modern incarnation since 1945. On July 31, Assad honored it on the 70th anniversary of its founding.
He expressed thanks for over four years of heroically defending the Syrian people and homeland against US recruited, armed, funded, trained and directed death squads sent cross-border to commit horrendous atrocities - to destabilize and topple his government, to continue endless violence and chaos. “Because you embodied an example in defending the homeland and preserving the integrity of its people, the Syrian people have stood side by side with you to repulse the aggressors and to express their pride in you,” Assad said.
Sign the petition: Thank President Obama for pursuing peace with Iran/RESPONSE
Larry Pinkney
RESPONSE from Larry Pinkney to MoveOn.org
I most certainly will NOT sign your petition (below) thanking Drone Man, 'Kill List,' NDAA/indefinite detention signing Barack Obama for more of his smoke & mirror "diplomacy" re Iran or any other nation. STOP being shills for the Democratic Party while simultaneously perpetuating the fake left/right paradigm of divide & conquer carried out by the 'leadership' of both the 'Democratic' and Republican parties!!!!
In the context of the United States, the only thing "historic" about the so-called deal with Iran, is how successfully Obama (and his corporate vomit-stream media clones) continue to be in duping a significant portion of the 'American' people. But this too, is steadily changing.
Irresponsible NYT and CNN Venezuela Bashing
by Stephen Lendman
Venezuelan Bolivarian democracy shames America’s sham process. Its electoral system is the world’s best, says Jimmy Carter.
Slanderous reporting remains relentless - since Hugo Chavez took office in February 1999, continuing under Nicolas Maduro, vicious Big Lies substituting for hard truths.
On August 7, New York Times editors headlined “Venezuela Tries to Silence Critics.” They outrageously denounced its government for prohibiting two criminals from seeking public office. Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado openly call for regime change. They want Maduro forcefully ousted. They want fascist governance replacing Bolivarian fairness. They want Venezuela returned to its bad old days.
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