A December 19 Reuters “Off the Charts” report said “examination of lead testing results across the country found almost 3,000 areas with poisoning rates far higher than in” Flint, Michigan. Continue reading
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IMF head Lagarde found guilty of criminal negligence
IMF operations make loan-sharking look respectable by comparison, debt-entrapping nations, obligating them to take new loans to service old ones. Continue reading
Trump nominates David Friedman for US ambassador to Israel
Trump’s messages on Israel are mixed. Earlier he called resolving decades of Israeli/Palestinian conflict “the ultimate deal . . . As a deal maker, I’d like to do it . . . the deal that can’t be made. And do it for humanity’s sake.” Continue reading
Congress passes measure opposing speech and media freedoms
First Amendment rights are America’s most precious. Without them, all others are endangered. Continue reading
Neocons urge war on Iran
Bipartisan neocons infest Washington, supporting endless wars of aggression—Iran a prime target to attack, regime change the objective, wanting pro-Western puppet governance replacing its sovereign independence. Continue reading
Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube conspire to censor online content
Powerful interests in America threaten alternative sources of news, information and opinion. Continue reading
Disgraceful US Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
Long ago, anti-Semitism was an issue in America, very much so when I grew up. No longer. Today it’s in vogue to be Jewish. Continue reading
Draconian US Intelligence Authorization Act
Congress annually passes intelligence policy authorization bills. The measure for FY 2017 represents a huge leap backwards, reminiscent of the 1950 Internal Security (McCarran) Act—enacted over Harry Truman’s veto. Continue reading
DAPL construction completion permit denied
After months of peaceful protests, withstanding militarized police state viciousness, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members and supporters won a glorious, though perhaps temporary, victory. Continue reading
Trump wants flag burners punished
On November 29, Donald Trump tweeted, “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag—if they do, there must be consequence—perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail.” Continue reading
Israeli minister urges greater West Bank land theft
Israel is run by a lunatic fringe combination of fascist hardliners, Zionist zealots and religious extremists. Continue reading
UN special rapporteur on Palestine blasts Israel
How many years of illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine are too many? How long will the international community tolerate its vicious persecution of millions of defenseless people? Continue reading
Israel’s Lieberman threatens Gazans with genocide
Minister of War Avigdor Lieberman is part of Israel’s lunatic fringe—ruthless, lawless, racist, militant, extremist and nightmarish for Palestinians. Continue reading
Neocon Washington Post for regime change in Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil-dependent economy suffers greatly from low prices and US economic war—waged to destabilize the country, create enormous hardships, mobilize majority opposition to President Nicholas Maduro’s leadership, and end nearly 18 years of Bolivarian fairness. Continue reading
UN Human Rights Council supports America’s imperial project in Syria
The HRC includes a rogue’s gallery of states supporting naked aggression among its 47 members, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and NATO nations Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Latvia, Albania, and Slovenia—backing US-led aggression on Syrian sovereign independence. Continue reading
Imperial tool NYT calls RT International ‘a snarky anti-West’ Kremlin mouthpiece
The New York Times long ago lost credibility, deplorably serving as a press agent for wealth, power and privilege—publishing virtual state-sponsored propaganda on major world and national issues, especially when America goes to war. Continue reading
US and UK want RT International silenced
America, Britain and their rogue partners want total control over information dissemination, alternative voices silenced—things headed incrementally in this direction. Continue reading
Putin blasts US cyber threats
Maybe he’ll stop calling America Russia’s “partner,” knowing relations are increasingly adversarial and hostile. Continue reading
Why Russia bashing is so intense
Russia and China are the only nations able to challenge America’s hegemonic agenda effectively, strategically allied, supporting each other politically, economically and militarily—a formidable anti-new world order force. Continue reading
One-sided scoundrel media reporting on Aleppo
A brief Google search showed deplorable one-sided scoundrel media reports on Saturday’s Security Council session, focused on Aleppo. Continue reading
US-supported Saudi terror-bombing incident massacres hundreds in Yemen
Yemen is Obama’s war like all other regional conflicts, others elsewhere—solely to advance America’s imperium, the cost in human lives and vast destruction of no consequence. Continue reading
Neocon Washington Post urges escalated US War on Syria
In March 2011, America launched proxy war on Syria, raping a nonbelligerent country, using ISIS and other terrorist fighters as imperial foot soldiers—Pentagon warplanes supporting them. Continue reading
Humanity’s most urgent priority: Defeating the scourge of US imperialism
America’s long term plan for unchallenged global dominance is humanity’s greatest threat—naked aggression its main strategy of choice, raping one country after another on the phony pretexts of waging war on terrorism and humanitarian intervention. Continue reading
Russia ramping up its aerial campaign in Syria
In March, Russia withdrew the “main part” of its warplanes and ground support personnel from Syria—a strategic error, US-supported terrorists taking full advantage to regroup, rearm and mobilize for more attacks. Continue reading
Kerry blames Russia and Syria for US high crimes
Here’s an easy, simple to understand and remember definition of a rogue state: the United States of America. Continue reading
America headed for war on Russia
America’s reckless imperial agenda should terrify everyone, a permanent war policy targeting all nations not serving its interests, wanting pro-Western puppet regimes replacing them—willing to risk destroying planet earth to own it. Continue reading
Trump and Hillary fiddle while Planet Earth burns
Monday night was more evasion, distraction and political fraud than anything resembling real debating—like all previous encounters of the same kind preceding them, demagoguery and bad theater instead of substance, failing to give voters real information on where candidates stand on major issues of our time. Continue reading
Brazil’s illegitimate president: Tainted by corruption, scorned at the UN, praised by Joe Biden
Michel Temer heads Brazil’s illegitimately installed coup d’état regime, a deplorable figure, widely reviled at home, scorned by six Latin and Central American nations at the UN’s 71st General Assembly session. Continue reading
NYT bashes real democracy in Russia, ignores its fantasy version in America
The New York Times’ editorial policy appears driven to reach new abysmal reporting and opinion lows, a deplorable laughing stock, especially on geopolitical issues, notably when America goes to war. Continue reading
NYT despicably blames Russia for Monday’s Syria humanitarian convoy attack carried out by US-supported terrorists
It’s a good time to repeat what I’ve said before. All the news The New York Times claims fit to print isn’t fit to read. Continue reading
Scandalous US Russia bashing heading for war
Few Americans know a neocon criminal cabal in Washington, supported by media scoundrels, is heading things toward possibly waging nuclear war on Russia—unthinkable madness if launched, threatening life on earth. Continue reading
Israel’s Facebook bill
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Stephen Lendman
Netanyahu and likeminded extremist MKs want views opposing their own suppressed—especially ones expressed by Palestinians in their longstanding struggle for justice. Continue reading →