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Israel Detonates Dirty Bombs Near Palestinian Bedouin Communities
by Stephen Lendman
Dirty bombs are radiological weapons combining radioactive material with conventional explosives. On detonation, they contaminate the affected area. The US Energy Department says radiation exposure is "fairly high" but not fatal.
Nuclear expert Helen Caldicott explains no amount of radiation is safe and amounts exposed to are cumulative. Cell mutations result causing cancer and other diseases.
The difference between dirty bombs and nuclear ones is latter ones are hugely destructive and kill large numbers of people instantly.
The harmful effects of dirty ones take time to develop making it easy to attribute later illnesses and deaths to other causes.
Obama Wants More Sanctions on Russia
By Stephen Lendman
Obama commented after two days of G-7 discussions. He repeated tired old demagogic boilerplate we've heard many times before.
"(W)e're…here to stand up for the fundamental principles that we share as democracies: for freedom; for peace; for the right of nations and peoples to decide their own destiny; for universal human rights and the dignity of every human being," he blustered. Fact: Democracy in America is pure fantasy. Monied interests control everything. Ordinary people have no say whatever. Elections are farcical when held.
Fact: Throughout his tenure, Obama waged war on fundamental freedoms - including targeting more whistleblowers of government wrongdoing than all his predecessors combined and making America a Big Brother society more than earlier.
US/Saudi Genocide in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Yemen is Obama's war. It was planned and orchestrated long before naked aggression began.
Ongoing genocide affecting millions of Yemenis is Obama's latest atrocity. It's conducted by Saudi-led proxies and Israel.
An entire country is being raped and destroyed - thousands of its people murdered, mainly civilians, thousands more maimed for life. It's another of history's great crimes. Washington bears full responsibility. What's ongoing is largely unreported - 24 million people at risk are ignored.
On June 5, London's Guardian headlined "Saudi-led naval blockade leaves 20m Yemenis facing humanitarian disaster" - 80% of the population. Lack of sanitation alone risks spreading life-threatening diseases to epidemic levels.
G-7 Leaders Stay Tough on Russia - Irresponsibly
by Stephen Lendman
Obama pressured other G-7 leaders to stay hardline on Russia well before summit discussions began on Sunday - a policy benefitting America at their expense.
How long they'll go along with what's clearly not in their interest remains to be seen. What can't go on forever, won't.
Russia plans longterm. It sees normalization ahead at some point with key EU "partners." Don't expect US softening given its longstanding regime change objective.
Washington wants pro-Western stooge governance replacing Vladimir Putin. He's a strong proponent of respecting the sovereign independence of all nations.
He fundamentally opposes America's imperial agenda. He's sharply at odds with its unipolar worldview. He enjoys overwhelming popular support at home.
Saudi Blogger Imprisoned for Supporting Free Speech
by Stephen Lendman
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most repressive police states. Its barbarism is widely acknowledged. Fundamental rights guaranteed under international law are ruthlessly denied.
VV is a Saudi blogger. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, 1,000 lashes (50 at a time), and a one million riyals fine (around $250,000) for championing free speech on his site.
It was titled Saudi Free Liberals Forum until shut down after his 2012 arrest. Riyadh's kangaroo/rubber-stamp High Court upheld his sentence for insulting Wahhabi-style Islam - a fanatical Sunni sect. Initially he was charged with apostasy - a capital offense in the Kingdom. In 2013, the accusation was dropped.
In January, he got his first 50 lashes after Friday prayers outside Jeddah's Al-Juffali mosque.
Khader Adnan: Hunger Striking for Justice
by Stephen Lendman
Adnan is one of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israel's gulag.
He's held along with hundreds of others uncharged in administrative detention - a lawless practice Israel uses to imprison Palestinians for their activism, not any crimes they committed.
He was detained earlier uncharged after his lawless December 2011 arrest. He became a global cause celebre after refusing food for 66 days.
On April 17, 2012, Palestinian Prisoners Day, he was released - but not freed from Israeli persecution.
In August 2014, he was rearrested uncharged - again lawlessly administratively detained. In January, his detention was extended for another six months.
Following his initial arrest, he had three Israeli Military Court hearings. The first reviewed his arrest. The next two concerned so-called (nonexistent) secret evidence from two supposed witnesses - both unnamed.
G-7 Summit: Russia Bashing Featured
by Stephen Lendman
G-7 British, Canadian, French, German, Italian, Japanese and US leaders meeting Sunday and Monday in Germany intend assuring dirty business as usual continues.
Expect Russia bashing to be featured - including extending lawless sanctions and irresponsibly blaming Putin for US orchestrated/Kiev aggression in Donbass.
Russia is the continent's leading peacemaker - fundamentally against war, other forms of violence and instability. At the same time, prioritizing mutual cooperation with all nations - especially on issues mattering most.
G-7 countries are belligerents, irresponsibly bashing Russia for their own self-interest. Even Japan upgraded its military alliance with Washington - partnering against China.
Propaganda Accompanies Kiev's Buildup for Escalated Aggression
by Stephen Lendman
Poroshenko vowed earlier to regain Donbass and Crimea by "any means" necessary.
Kiev launched naked aggression on Donbass last April. It breached three ceasefire agreements straightaway - the latest Minsk II in February.
Fighting never stopped. Junta forces attack Donbass multiple times daily - 43 shellings in the last 24 hours, according to Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin.
"The enemy used heavy armaments once again," he said. Areas targeted include Oktyabrskiy near Donetsk's airport, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Dokuchayevsk, Spartak, Zhabichevo, Grigorovka and Zaitsrvo.
Not according to Kiev's propaganda machine. On the one hand, it calls naked aggression an ATO (anti-terrorist operation).
Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA)
by Stephen Lendman
Most people never heard of it. They're not told how they're systematically deceived, lied to and swindled. There's nothing fair about US free trade agreements.
In June 2014, WikiLeaks released a secret TISA Financial Services Annex text covering 50 countries and over two-thirds of world trade in services.
It aims for deregulating global financial services markets more than already. It allows unrestricted exchange of personal and financial data.
At the time, Global Trade Watch director Lori Wallach said:
"If the text that was leaked today went into force, it would roll back the improvements made after the global financial crisis to safeguard consumers and financial stability and cement us into the extreme deregulatory model of the 1990s that led to the crisis in the first place and the billions in losses to consumers and governments."
"This is a text that big banks and financial speculators may love but that could do real damage to the rest of us."
Is Washington Planning Barbarossa II?
by Stephen Lendman
On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa against Soviet Russia - perhaps the largest ever invasion force by one country against another involving up to four million combat and support troops.
His lunatic desire to conquer his ideological rival, acquire lebensraum, its resources and enslave its people failed. So did Napoleon 130 years earlier.
Does Washington plan repeating their mistakes? Don't put anything past lunatics running things - bipartisan hawks waging endless wars on humanity. Anti-Russian hostility and saber rattling should scare everyone. Reckless US-dominated NATO military exercises on Russia's doorstep are hugely provocative.
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