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The Obama Regime’s Fabricated “Terror Conspiracy” in Defense of the Police State
James Petras
Introduction
Representative democracies and autocratic dictatorships respond to profound internal crises in very distinctive ways: the former attempts to reason with citizens, explaining the causes, consequences and alternatives; dictatorships attempt to terrorize, intimidate and distract the public by evoking bogus external threats, to perpetuate and justify rule by police state methods and avoid facing up to the self-inflicted crises.
Such a bogus fabrication is evident in the Obama regime’s current announcements of an imminent global “terrorist threat”[1] in the face of multiple crises, policy failures and defeats throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Southwest Asia.
NYPD Stop and Frisk Ruled Unconstitutional
by Stephen Lendman
Longstanding NYPD stop and frisk practices are flagrantly racist. They violate constitutional privacy rights. People of color are systematically targeted.
Hundreds of thousands of law abiding residents are persecuted. According to New York's ACLU, mostly minority "New Yorkers (were) subjected to police stops and interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002."
NYPD records prove it. Precinct-by-precinct database information includes stops, frisks, use of force, and weapons recovered.On August 12, US District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Shira Scheindlin issued a landmark decision.
Will or Won't Obama Attack Syria?
by Stephen Lendman
US regime change plans are longstanding. War was planned years ago. US-supported proxy fighters wage it.
Obama didn't initiate conflict to end it. At issue now is what's next. Insurgent invaders are no match for Syria's superior military. Guerrilla fighting can continue interminably.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned about America embroiled "in a significant, lengthy, and uncertain commitment."Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey said:"Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next. Deeper involvement is hard to avoid."
GLASS-STEAGALL, OR AMERICA IS DOOMED! A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN ATLANTA
by larouchepac.com
An army of Wall Street lobbyists has desperately descended on Atlanta for the annual convention of the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL). The issue on the table for all attending legislators comes down to one basic question: Will you support the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, or will you sacrifice the future of all of your constituents, who will be doomed to a life of no pensions, no health care, no jobs in order to bail out a bunch of Wall Street scoundrels who have looted every city, county and state in America to bail out their worthless gambling debts?
Legislation to reinstate Glass-Steagall has been introduced in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. Twenty-five state legislatures around the United States
— including California and New York — have introduced resolutions calling on their Senators and Representatives to support Glass-Steagall.
The Missiles That Brought Down TWA Flight 800
By David Swanson
If the U.S. public began to raise a fuss about U.S. missile strikes that blow up large numbers of civilians at wedding parties abroad, it's not beyond the realm of the imaginable that the U.S. government would begin blaming the explosions on faulty candles in the wedding cakes. A similarly implausible excuse was used to explain the 1996 explosion of TWA flight 800 off Long Island, New York, and the U.S. public has thus far either swallowed the story whole or ignored the matter.
If you watch Kristina Borjesson's new film, TWA Flight 800, you'll see a highly persuasive case that this passenger jet full of passengers was brought down by missiles, killing all on board.
A CIA propaganda video aired by U.S. television networks fits with none of the known facts, makes the claim that there were no missiles, and offers no theory as to what then did cause the explosion(s) and crash into the sea.
Obama's Campaign to Glorify the War on Vietnam
By David Swanson
Wars exist because lies are told about past wars.
When President Obama escalated the war on Afghanistan, he revived virtually every known lie about the war on Iraq, from the initial WMD BS to the "surge." While Americans remain unfathomably ignorant about the destruction of Iraq, a majority says the war shouldn't have been fought. A majority says the same about the war on Afghanistan. This is, pretty wonderfully, impeding efforts toward a U.S. war on Syria or Iran.
The new wars were supposed to cure the Vietnam Syndrome -- that public reluctance to support mass murder for no good reason. The Pentagon is now turning to the source of the disease. The war in most need of beautification for Americans, the military has decided, is the war the Vietnamese call the American War.
The Killers of Peace
By Nicola Nasser*
The Israeli Jewish settlers of the Palestinian territory, which was occupied by Israel in 1967, are dictating unilaterally the demarcation of the borders with any future Palestinian state, thus rendering its creation impossible; holding the Israeli decision-making process hostage, they have become the real killers of peace, who brought the twenty –year old Palestinian – Israeli peace process to its current stalemate.
As early as the summer of 1995, the Iraqi born Israeli – British “new historian” Avi Shlaim wrote in the Journal of Palestine Studies: “The settlers now are the ones who determine Israel’s internal political agenda.”
Her Name Is Jody Williams
By David Swanson
Jody Williams' new book is called My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, and it's a remarkable story by a remarkable person. It's also a very well-told autobiography, including in the early childhood chapters in which there are few hints of the activism to come.
One could read this book and come away thinking "Anyone really could win the Nobel Peace Prize," if people in fact told their children they could do that instead of telling them they could be president, and if one was thinking of Nobel peace laureates as saintly beings. In a certain sense, of course, anyone can win the Nobel Peace Prize, as it's often given to good people who have nothing to do with peace, and at other times it's given to warmongers. To win the Nobel Peace Prize and deserve it, as Williams did -- that's another story. That requires, not saintliness, but activism.
Activism is usually 99% perspiration and the dedication that drives it, just like genius. But in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize, and of the sort of rapid success it honors when applied in accordance with Alfred Nobel's will, the perspiration is 49%. The other 50% is timing. The activists who recruited Williams to lead the campaign to ban landmines had the timing perfect. Williams tapped into something powerful. She orchestrated some initial successes, communicated the viability and importance of the project, worked night and day, and watched many other people, in many countries, throw themselves into the campaign in a manner that people only do when they believe something will dramatically and rapidly improve the world.
Spinning the Israeli/Palestinian Peace Process
by Stephen Lendman
New York Times editors, correspondents and contributors do it as well as anyone. They deceive regular readers in the process.
Illusions substitute for facts. Pro-Israeli bias reflects longstanding Times policy. The worst of occupation harshness goes unreported. Settler violence is ignored. Palestinians are blamed for Israeli crimes.
In their book titled "Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East," Richard Falk and Howard Friel said:"The Times regularly ignores or under-reports a multitude of critical legal issues pertaining to Israel’s policies, including Israel's expropriation and settlement of Palestinian land, the two-tier system of laws based on national origin evocative of South Africa’s apartheid regime, the demolition of Palestinian homes, and use of deadly force against Palestinians."
Wall Street Take-Off: 2012 – 2013
James Petras
On July 16, 2013, Goldman Sachs, the fifth largest US bank by assets announced its second quarter profits doubled the previous year to $1.93 billion. J. P. Morgan, the largest bank made $6.1 billion in the second quarter up 32% over the year before and expects to make $25 billion in profits in 2013. Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank, reaped $5.27 billion, up 20%. Citigroup’s profits topped $4.18 billion, up 42% over the previous year.
The ruling elite, the financial CEOs pay is soaring: John Stumpf of Wells Fargo received $19.3 million in 2012; Jamie Dimon of J. P. Morgan Chase pocketed $18.7 million and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs took $13.3 million.
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