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US Escalates Confrontation with Russia
by Stephen Lendman
US anti-Russian provocations began increasing long before Washington's Ukraine coup. More recently, they've grown more belligerent.
Sanctions continue as one element of Obama's strategy despite their ineffectiveness and increased Sino/Russian ties - an alliance challenging US dominance.
A previous article discussed Obama considering aggressive action against Russia - including deploying nuclear-armed missiles in Europe targeting its heartland - on the bogus pretext of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF 1987) violations.
Obama Bombs Libya
by Stephen Lendman
Attacking other nations directly or indirectly posing no threat to America is longstanding US policy. Obama is the latest in a long line of warrior US presidents. He exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He's a war criminal multiple times over.
America's imperial agenda is lawless by any standard. It includes a sordid history of bombings, invasions, occupations, coups, assassinations, and other destabilizing activities aimed at making the world safe for monied interests - in blatant violation of core international law.
Since WW II, dozens of victimized countries include North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Indonesia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak), Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine, Somalia, Palestine partnered with Israel, and on Sunday Libya again.
Israel Intends Force-Feeding Palestinian Hunger Strikers
by Stephen Lendman
On Sunday, Israel's cabinet approved force-feeding Palestinian hunger strikers in blatant violation of medical ethics. The practice needs three Knesset readings to become law - virtually rubber-stamp given hardline racists in charge.
Force-feeding is torture by other means. It causes extreme pain and suffering. Victims are restrained for treatment to keep them from purging.
Tubes are forced painfully through their noses and throats to their stomachs. It's done abrasively. It draws blood. Liquid nutrients are pumped into their stomachs. No sedatives or anesthesia are given. The procedure is repeated twice daily. If vomiting occurs, the procedure is repeated.
Tubes are generally reused. They're covered in blood and stomach bile. At US torture prisons they're passed from one inmate to another. Israel likely intends the same procedure.
US-Attempted Color Revolution in Ecuador?
by Stephen Lendman
On September 30, 2010, US-orchestrated coup plotters shut down airports, blocked highways, took over an airbase, parliament and Quito streets - protesting a law restructuring police benefits despite President Raphael Correa doubling their wages.
He was pelted with tear gas and hospitalized - then prevented from leaving when rebel police and coup plotters surrounded the building. After Ecuadorean military and special police forces rescued him, he announced a "coup d'etat attempt by opposition forces. They resorted to (violence) because they" can't win electorally, he said.
"The conspiracy was planned long ago," he explained - indicating he knew where. Washington's dirty hands were all over what happened.
Washington's Nakba Museum
by Stephen Lendman
The Washington Peace Center "envision(s) a world based on respect for people and the planet that is achieved through nonviolence, peace and social justice."
Its web site featured an announcement of the opening of America's first ever Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope.
It "aims to invite Palestinians to finally tell their stories by providing them with a safe environment in which they can freely share their experiences of loss, devastation and hope."
"Through preserving these stories, we strive to preserve Palestinian heritage in its entirety."
"Our inaugural exhibit, Reclaiming the Lost Future, features a comprehensive exhibition about the flight and expulsion of Palestinians in 1948; photographs of nonviolent resistance and everyday life in the West Bank and Gaza; paintings by Palestinian artists living in refugee camps; and eyewitness testimonies and interviews with Palestinian refugees that highlight their struggles, loss, and undying resilience."
Saudis Terror-Bomb Yemeni World Heritage Site
by Stephen Lendman
Sanaa's Old City is a World Heritage site - recognized by UNESCO in 1986. It's been inhabited for over 2,500 years - a major Islamic center since the 7th century.
It has 103 mosques, 14 hammans (bathhouses) and over 6,000 houses built before the 11th century. According to UNESCO:
Sanaa's Old City "is defined by an extraordinary density of rammed earth and burnt brick towers rising several stories above stone-built ground floors, strikingly decorated with geometric patterns of fired bricks and white gypsum."
"Described by historians, geographers and scholars of the early Islamic and medieval eras, Sanaa is associated with the civilizations of the Bible and the Koran."
Hillary Clinton: Profile of Rogue Leadership
by Stephen Lendman
The possibility of another Clinton or Bush becoming president in 2017 should make everyone's blood run cold.
Both represent everything wrong with America - a ruthless gangster state run by monied interests for their benefit alone, waging endless wars for power, profit and unchallenged global dominance along with governing under a homeland police state apparatus.
Hillary was Washington's 67th Secretary of State. She served from January 21, 2009 - February 1, 2013. She was arguably America's worst - at least until John Kerry succeeded her.
From 2001 - 2009, she was US Senator from New York. In 2008, she unsuccessfully challenged Obama for the Democrat party's presidential nomination. She's back again for another try.
Netanyahu: Serial Liar, Unindicted War Criminal
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article explained he heads an Israeli regime comprised of hate-mongering racists, over-the-top fascists and religious fundamentalist zealots.
It's Israel's most extremist regime in its history. It exceeds the viciousness of Netanyahu's previous coalitions and Sharonian evil. It represents the worst of rogue state ruthlessness and then some.
Netanyahu's speeches repeat the same old demagogic Big Lies. At the June 9 Herzliya Conference, he blustered about nonexistent "Iran(ian) regional aggression" and nuclear weapons program.
After renouncing Palestinian statehood while campaigning, he lied saying he's "committed to a solution of two states for two peoples…"
Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor
By Katherine Smith, Ph.D.
“Conspiracy” is a real word for a real event that has existed in human societies in all cultures throughout human history. [Appendix A]
The assassination of the President of the United States on national television by a “lone” assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself is assassinated the next day by another “lone” assassin—would cause even the most rational skeptic, or critical thinker, to question the institutional narrative of the events. [1]
In other words, the institutional narrative, or official explanation, of a lone assassin, who was in turn assassinated the very next day by another lone assassin, is as epistemically dubious, and as equally “silly and without merit,” as any of the conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination.
The human species has evolved as pattern-seeking, cause-inferring animals. As such, our nature drives us to find meaningful relationships to understand the world. Conspiracy theories are offered as alternate explanation to an important social, political or economic event (henceforward, “The Event”) when the institutional narrative is confusing or unsatisfactory. Conspiracy, originally a neutral term, has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning since the mid sixties, for it implies a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in certain events. Conspiracy theorizing has become commonplace in the mass media and emerged as a cultural phenomenon in the United States following the public assassination of JFK.
Noam Chomsky, linguist and scholar, contrasts conspiracy theory as, more or less, the opposite of institutional analysis. The latter focuses mostly on explanations based on the information found in official records of publicly known institutions, whereas the former offers explanations based on information derived from coalitions of individuals.
Most academics, or the rational community, find the conspiracy theories of popular culture to be silly and without merit, and automatically dismiss such alternative explanations as ridiculous, misconceived, unfounded, outlandish and the result of irrational thinking by paranoid schizophrenics. Some academics even contend that conspiracy theories “undermine human social and civic decency in society.” [2]
However, on closer examination, academics can see, and are forced to admit, that there is no systemic flaw to the concept of the conspiracy theory per se, because 1) there have been at least 33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True and 2) it is in the nature of many conspiracy theories that they cannot be falsified; that is, proven to be false.
Waco TX Biker Massacre: Classic False Flag Operation & Government-Run Inside Job
by Michael Thomas State of the Nation Posted on June 3, 2015
Innocent Bikers Slaughtered by Government Sting Operation to Teach ‘Rebels’ a Lesson
Just like the Branch Davidian bloodbath and Oklahoma City bombing, the ATF and FBI intimidate non-conforming fringe groups Agents Provocateurs Used to Manufacture Fake Feud Between the Two Biker Groups
Nothing scares the U.S. Federal Government more than an awakening populace that is moved to the point of revolting, or even organizing. Whenever citizens come together in a cohesive fashion to advance the deeply shared common goal of exposing government corruption, betrayal and malfeasance, all hell is bound to break loose. And so it did… at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 18th, 2015.
Make no mistake about it — this meticulously preplanned assassination of targeted bikers at Twin Peaks was a government-coordinated conspiracy designed to thwart any attempt to flex their muscles. It was also perpetrated to blacken the reputations of biker groups everywhere. They are groups, not gangs, as the Mainstream Media (MSM) purposefully and disparagingly call them.
The two biker groups involved also belong to a growing fringe culture that is far removed from any of the violent gangs of the past. These organizations are, in fact, much more civilized and law-abiding than the law enforcement departments that monitor them 24/7. They certainly don’t engage in misguided plots to commit cold-blooded murder like the alphabet soup government agencies which are supposed to protect them and everybody else.
Just who are these bikers who were falsely portrayed as a bunch of wild and crazy types similar to the “dreaded Black Widow biker gang”?
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