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Yemen Peace Talks Deadlocked
by Stephen Lendman
On June 15, talks began - an inauspicious process with opposing sides not meeting face-to-face. Instead, UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, continues shuttle diplomacy between attending delegations with no signs of progress so far.
He was less than candid claiming "an important start towards the return to a political process."
So was UN spokesman Farhan Haq in New York saying "discussions will hopefully foster mechanisms that create confidence, increase the chances of implementation of the different Security Council resolutions and ensure that compromise on one side will not be abused by the other."
Talks going nowhere were extended until Saturday to try breaking an intractable deadlock. It's unlikely. Riyadh and Yemeni exiled US-installed puppet Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi demand Ansarullah Houthis accept one-sided Security Council Resolution 2216 terms.
Yemen Peace Talks: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
It bears repeating what previous articles stressed. Yemen is Obama's war using Saudis and other regional rogue states to do his dirty work - including Israel.
At stake is Yemen's sovereign independence. Washington wants US-controlled puppet governance replacing it.
Its proxy war is systematically turning parts of Yemen to rubble, murdering thousands, injuring many more, creating a growing refugee crisis and one of the world's most devastating humanitarian catastrophies - largely ignored by Western media.
On Monday, so-called peace talks began in Geneva. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has done nothing to demand an end to Saudi-led aggression. Weak-kneed calls for all parties to show restraint substitute for action to stop mass slaughter and destruction.
Putin Responds to US Provocations
by Stephen Lendman
Make no mistake. America is an aggressor nation threatening world peace, stability and security.
It's permanent war agenda endangers everyone. Its ruthless pursuit of unchallenged dominance wants a ruler-serf world unfit to live in.
It's increasing hostility toward Russia and China may launch WW III. Lunatics in Washington wanted Russia nuked since early Cold War days.
General Curtis LeMay (1906 - 1990) argued for doing it even at the cost of a few US cities. So did General Lyman Lemnitzer (1899 - 1988). They believed nuclear war was inevitable so better sooner than later while America had a clear advantage. They weren't alone from their time to now.
On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin said Russia will act appropriately to US-dominated NATO's encroachment on its borders.
JVP, Alison Weir And the Hatred of the White
By Gilad Atzmon
A month ago, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) issued a call for a Herem(excommunication, Hebrew) against the remarkable activist and writer Alison Weir. The call was distributed internally amongst JVP’s chapter leaders and was leaked to me by a few JVP dissenters. The publication of the call led to a massive surge of resentment towards JVP within the dissident movement. JVP was compelled to explain their move.
The call for Herem is deeply rooted in Jewish culture. Throughout their history, Jews have called for the expulsion of some of their most articulate and sophisticated minds. Spinoza, and Uriel Da Costa are famous examples. Christ, another dissent voice, found himself nailed to the cross for advising his people to love their neighbours. Though Rabbinical Jews rarely call for a herem, contemporary so-called ‘liberal’ Jews are obsessed with that ugly, primitive medieval ritual.
CIA Human Experimentation
by Stephen Lendman
Since the early 1950s, CIA operatives conducted physically harsh and psychologically crippling mind control experiments. Human subjects were used as unwitting guinea pigs.
Rules governing CIA activities include Executive Order 12333 (1981) authorizing intrusive spying for counterintelligence purposes. Loophole-ridden provisions permit anything goes.
An ACLU FOIA lawsuit obtained more information on secret CIA domestic spying operations.
Woefully too little is known but more now than a few weeks ago, said the ACLU. Although CIA legal authority to spy at home is limited, earlier congressional investigative committees discovered massive "Operation CHAOS" spying - targeting anti-war activists and political dissenters.
Russia to Counter US Eastern European Buildup
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed ongoing US anti-Russian provocations - including plans for troop deployments and heavy weapons positioned near its borders.
Reuters reported US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James calling Russia "the biggest threat" on her mind - when none whatever exists.
The Air Force may further increase its rotational forces in Europe, she said. What's likely is just "the beginning. There will be more" to come.
"We will be reassuring (our) allies we are standing shoulder to shoulder with them." Air patrols in the Baltics increased. Fifth-generation F-22 stealth warplanes may be stationed in Europe.
Washington wants NATO members to increase military spending - at a time none face external threats except ones they invent. On Monday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said the following:
Reports of its planned Eastern European military buildup "show that the the United States is obviously negotiating with its allies to erode the fundamental provision of the Russia-NATO Founding Act of 1997, under which the alliance pledged to avoid 'additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces' in" Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Romania and Hungary.
Two Kiev Officials Defect to Donbass
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, former Kiev foreign intelligence service operative Alexei Miroshnichenko and former foreign ministry official Yuri Miroshnichenko held a press conference in Lugansk saying they can no longer tolerate what's ongoing in their country.
They're brothers. One worked in Kiev, the other at Ukraine's embassy in France. "We made the decision voluntarily. We were not compelled to do so," they said.
"We can no longer put up with what is happening in Ukraine. Traitors, fascists, various intelligence agents have taken up the reins of the country, and are leading it to ruin."
Alexei said "the turning point (for him) was (learning) the people of Donetsk and Lugansk are being deliberately exterminated."
House Rejects Fast Track Authority - For Now
by Stephen Lendman
Baseball great Yogi Berra was right. "It ain't over till it's over." More on this below.
On Friday, House members rejected fast track (Trade Promotion Authority - TPA) by a convoluted process explained below.
If enacted, it would let Obama ram through Congress with minimal hearings and no debate anti-consumer, ecosystem-destroying trade legislation global justice advocates call NAFTA on steroids.
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade legislation empowers corporations over national sovereignty, domestic laws and popular interests. It's nightmarish by any standard.
Jeb Bush Makes His Presidential Candidacy Official
by Stephen Lendman
Jeb Bush wants to be president. Why ordinary Americans would want him they'll have to explain.
Hugo Chavez called George Bush "the devil" who thinks he's "the owner of the world." It runs in the family.
All politicians lie. Ignore what Bush says. Understand what he'll do if elected.
He'll continue the same destructive policies wrecking mainstream America to enrich the privileged few he represents more than already - an agenda of endless wars, corporate empowerment, handouts and grand theft without accountability along with police state crackdowns on nonbelievers. America's gulag (at home and abroad) is filled with political prisoners. Its war on humanity risks world peace. It's the same whether Republicans or Democrats run Washington. They're all part of the same dirty system.
U.S. May Position for a War Against Russia Russia Says It Will Respond If U.S. Does So
Eric Zuesse
On Saturday, June 13th, The New York Times bannered, "U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe,” and Russia’s response to the announcement wasn’t long in coming.
The Russian equivalent of America’s Wall Street Journal and Britain’s Financial Times, which is Kommersant (or Businessperson), headlined on June 15th, "US may redeploy heavy weapons to the borders of the Russian Federation,” and reported that, "According to sources in the Russian Government, the implementation of this plan will force Moscow to post on the border with the Baltic countries Russia's own offensive military capability that can destroy US facilities in the event of a hypothetical conflict.”
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