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Trump planning global trade war?
According to Axios, Trump appears heading toward imposing tariffs of around 20% on steel and other imports. Continue reading
Trump’s undeclared war on Venezuela
Since Hugo Chavez’s ascension to power in 1999, four US administrations sought regime change. Continue reading
Nikki Haley’s recklessly belligerent remarks
Trump’s neocon UN envoy, Nikki Haley, sounds like Samantha Powers on steroids—her hostility toward Russia, Syria and world peace evident from her reckless comments. Continue reading
America’s rape and destruction of sovereign states
America’s sordid history reflects a despicable legacy of ravaging, colonizing and plundering one nation after another. Continue reading
Nightmarish Senate version of Trumpcare
Details of both programs are now known. House and Senate versions are thinly veiled schemes to shift the burden of increasingly expensive healthcare onto the backs of millions of Americans unable to afford a fundamental human right. Continue reading
GOP wants Medicaid abolished
Republicans want Medicare and Medicaid eliminated, marketplace medicine replacing both programs—obtaining healthcare based on the ability to pay. Continue reading
Famine and cholera stalk Yemen
No country on earth is more devastated by US imperial viciousness—complicit with Saudi Arabia doing its dirty work. Continue reading
Cuba responds to Trump’s affront
Playing to his neocon base, along with south Florida anti-Cuban extremists, Trump slammed the door on improved US relations with the island state—the latest administration embarrassment. Continue reading
America’s forever war strategy
America is unique among history’s warrior states—prioritizing endless wars, not ending them to achieve a new era of peace and stability. Continue reading
Trump lets Mattis decide on troop levels in US war theaters
Straightaway in office, Trump delegated war making to hawkish generals—Defense Secretary Mattis, National Security Advisor McMaster and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dunford in charge, assuring endless wars continue. Continue reading
Chelsea Manning interviewed
On May 17, Chelsea Manning was released, her 35-year political incarceration for exposing US war crimes commuted to seven years, her long ordeal finally over—a chance at last to rebuild her life. Continue reading
Tyranny in Britain
In 2015 as home secretary, Theresa May introduced draconian investigatory powers legislation, authorizing enhanced surveillance—on the phony pretext of combating terrorism ruling Tories support. Continue reading
Saddam’s Iraq was paradise compared to now
Make no mistake. Saddam Hussain was no democrat, far from it. He ruled despotically. Continue reading
Trump and Theresa May want Internet freedom curbed
Their agendas threaten digital democracy—the last frontier of press freedom. Continue reading
The deplorable state of healthcare in America
Healthcare in America is the world’s best—based on the ability to pay. Continue reading
Trump to roll back Obama’s Cuba policy
Obama’s policy was dubious when announced. His so-called “new course on Cuba” concealed dirty business as usual, strategy and tactics changing, not Washington’s objective to return the country to US vassal state status. Continue reading
Trump blasts Abbas
Trump represents Anglo-Zionist interests, responsible for endless imperial wars, conquest, colonization, resource control, exploitation of millions and dominance—creating nightmarish conditions worldwide. Continue reading
Trump’s infrastructure privatization scheme
Straightaway in office, Trump proved he’s an imperial/predatory corporatist tool—his rhetorical populism pretense, not real, his agenda hugely harming ordinary people at home and abroad. Continue reading
Hawkish Russophobe Zbigniew Brzezinski passes
Zbigniew Brzezinski served as geopolitical counselor to Lyndon Johnson, later as Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor. Continue reading
Greece is no longer a sovereign state
Berlin and Brussels colonized Greece, debt entrapping it in the euro straightjacket, the country pillaged, its people impoverished, its crown jewel enterprises and assets sold off at fire sale prices. It continues to grab what’s left. Continue reading
UK prime minister wants government control over Internet content
Theresa May opposes online freedom, the last frontier of free and open expression, a platform for activism, the only reliable independent, commercial-free source of news, information and analysis. Continue reading
Trump’s Muslim world address
In Saudi Arabia Sunday night, Trump addressed the Muslim world—after sealing a $110 billion arms deal, signing a memorandum of intent to supply Riyadh with weapons worth around $350 billion over the next decade. Continue reading
Israeli minister calls for assassinating Assad
The US/Israeli axis represents humanity’s greatest threat—serial aggressors, partners in high crimes, waging endless wars. Continue reading
Israel’s draft nation-state law codifies racism
The 1917 Balfour Declaration is its antecedent—“establish[ing] in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people,” at the expense of indigenous Arabs as things turned out. Continue reading
Puerto Rico declares bankruptcy
Colonized and exploited by America since 1898, its people, governor and other officials are powerless—ruled by US administrations and Congress. Continue reading
House passes pay or die Trumpcare
Obamacare was bad enough—a deplorable rationing scheme to enrich insurers, drug companies and large hospital chains. Continue reading
US coup plot wants Venezuela’s government toppled
Since Hugo Chavez’s February 1999 ascension to power, Washington wanted Venezuela’s bad old days restored—fascism replacing Bolivarian social democratic freedoms. Continue reading
Trump seeking change in libel laws?
To win defamation lawsuits, plaintiffs must prove falsified statements or information—causing material harm either negligently or willfully. Continue reading
Trump’s America unfit to live in
The myth of an anti-establishment candidate vanished straightaway in office. Donald Trump’s a dirty politician like most others in Washington—saying one thing, doing another, causing enormous harm to millions at home and abroad. Continue reading
US war on whistleblowers
Truth-telling in America is endangered. Free and open expression is our most fundamental right, all others threatened without it. Continue reading
Trump’s reckless Korean peninsula brinksmanship
Posted on July 6, 2017 by Stephen Lendman
Trump’s belligerent unpredictability could embroil East Asia in devastating conflict. Continue reading →