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Global Peace and Conflict Management: Power Makes America Powerless
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The global warriors have infested mankind with tyranny and transgression. The resulting corruption, cruelty and global disorder are widespread across the Iraq-Syrian war zones and go unchallenged. All tyrants get corrupted by their own tyranny. America needs to be wise, not a warrior empire in global political affairs. The US economy is bankrupt because of the decade-old wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Could America be using the myth of “power” to escape the imperatives of historical change process? The dialectical materialism shares a concept of power that is exhaustible in global affairs. Late Professor Hans Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations) was a realist visionary to imagine a different America than what it is today. American leaders are implying “power” in absolute terms throughout the Iraq-Syrian sectarian warfare. To Morgenthau, the concept of ‘power’ is a condition related to the psychology of mind. In a nation state, leaders use their mind to transform the vested power into political acts. Morgenthau was not just an individual but an institution of thoughts and proactive vision to substantiate political understanding in a world torn apart by greed, ignorance and political wickedness. So, he offered proactive intuition and leadership in revitalizing the essence of realism in politics and to search for peace and global relationships. Perhaps Morgenthau never imagined an America - the historically conscientious and enriched in moral and intellectual values could become an intellectual and moral wasteland devoid of basic precepts and tenets in real world political affairs. America is not what it used to be in search of its own freedom. Wickedness and piety cannot be combined in one leadership characteristics.
US and Israel: Partners in High Crimes Against Peace
by Stephen Lendman
No nations threaten world peace and security more than America and Israel. Partnering in each other's high crimes.
Including Israel's summer Gaza war. Amnesty International called Washington no "uninvolved bystander."
As Israel's largest weapons and munitions supplier. Sharing responsibility for unspeakable crimes.
Genocide by any standard. Mass-murdering Palestinians. Turning large parts of Gaza to rubble.
Restocking Israel with 3,000 smart bombs. Precision-guided for greater accuracy. With more effective killing power.
Used in Operation Protective Edge. Intended for Israel's next war. Maybe soon than most people think. Billions of dollars in annual military aid make anything possible.
Assad Affirms Syrian Sovereign Independence
by Stephen Lendman
Syria is proudly independent. Assad affirmed it forthrightly. Intends maintaining it. Refusing US-controlled puppet state status.
Unlike other regional governments. Ones in other parts of the world. Sacrificing their sovereign independence.
Betraying their people. Mocking legitimate governance. For special benefits they derive.
In an interview with Paris Match magazine, Assad was asked if he feels responsible for over three and a half years of war.
Since its early days, "we have been facing terrorism," he said. "It is true that there were demonstrations, but they were not large in number."
Killer Cops
by Stephen Lendman
Cops in America kill with impunity. On average over once a day. FBI data showed 461 so-called "justifiable homicides" last year.
A euphemism most often for cold-blooded murder. A likely way undercount. Based on voluntary police reports.
No separate federal database exists. No interest in compiling one. No way to check local reports for accuracy.
Including how often white cops kill people of color. Usually unarmed/nonthreatening Black or Latino youths.
US House Declares Cold War on Russia
by Stephen Lendman
Lunatics infest Washington. Crazies. Hardline extremists. Criminals. Lawless fascists by any standard. Dominating both parties.
Mocking legitimate governance. Making policy irresponsibly.
Including homeland police state laws. Legislation serving monied interests exclusively.
At the expense of beneficial social change. Serving all Americans equitably. Democratically. Honorably. According to international and constitutional law.
Appropriating trillions of dollars for corporate handouts. Illegitimate ones. Trillions more for naked aggression. Targeting one sovereign independent state after another.
Challenging Israel's House Demolition Policy
by Stephen Lendman
Lawless by any standard. Ruthlessness writ large. Targeting Palestinians. Not Jews. Imagine the following.
Israel accuses a Palestinian family member or apartment building resident of violent criminality. With or without corroborating evidence.
It doesn't matter. The alleged offender automatically called a "terrorist." House demolition follows.
Collectively punishing everyone in it. Including the alleged offender. Even if innocent.
In 2005, Israel ceased punitive house demolitions. Deeming them counterproductive. Not achieving their claimed purpose - "deterrence." Creating justifiable hatred and hostility.
Whitey to Whitey: Yes it's us--y'all need to change, and that Right Soon
by: Daniel Patrick Welch
White Americans have essentially never internalized the Kerner Report. Assembled by Lyndon Johnson to address what was laughably referred to as the Negro Problem, the panel very quickly saw that this was a joke. There is no Negro Problem in the US, but rather a white people problem. FIFTY years ago (let that sink in), it opined, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black and one white--separate and unequal...Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American." The report explained that the race riots were rooted in segregation, inadequate housing, poor access to quality education, systematic police violence, and labor market exclusion. For these factors, the report concluded, "White racism is essentially responsible."
Dis-Accumulation on a World Scale: Pillage, Plunder and Wealth
James Petras
Introduction
Over the past 30 years, wealth has grown exponentially and has become increasingly concentrated foremost in the upper .01%, then the .1%, followed by the 1% and the upper 10% - 20%.
The large scale, long-term concentration of wealth has continued through booms and busts of the real economy, the financial and IT crises. Wealth grew despite long-term economic recessions and stagnation, because the
so-called recovery programs imposed austerity on 80% of the households while transferring public revenues to the rich.
Battleground America
by Stephen Lendman
America is more police state than democracy. George Bush institutionalized it. Obama hardened his abusive practices.
Pervasive at federal, state and local levels. Ferguson, MO symbolizes what's wrong. Obama's solution:
Downplay Michael Brown's murder. Ignore militarized police repression.
Arm state and local departments nationwide with more weapons than already supplied. Types used in war theaters.
Militarized America threatens freedom. Turning city streets into battlegrounds.
Washington provides police nationwide with enormous amounts of combat weapons, related equipment and supplies.
Punitive Israeli House Demolitions
Stephen Lendman
Israeli occupation ruthlessly oppresses millions of Palestinians. For praying to the wrong God.
For wanting rights everyone deserves. Including living free on their own land in their own country.
Home demolitions constitute collective punishment. Against Palestinians. A flagrant Fourth Geneva violation.
Since June 1967, Israel demolished over 48,000 Palestinian houses and other structures. Dispossessing occupants.
Israeli authorities claiming Regulation 119 authority. Of the 1945 British Mandate Defense (Emergency) Regulations. Long outdated.
Incorporated into Israeli law. Granting broad discretionary powers. Imposing excessive punishment. By administrative order.
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