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Canonization elevates Mother Teresa to sainthood
She’s more myth than “saint of the gutters” for allegedly helping the poorest of the poor. More on her unsaintly legacy below. Continue reading
Brazil’s Rousseff impeachment vote: Fascists 61, Democrats 20
President Dilma Rousseff’s ouster was orchestrated in Washington, complicit with corrupted Brazilian fascists—usurping power by removing her. Continue reading
Failing TTIP trade talks?
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the deplorable US/EU equivalent of TPP—corporate coup d’etats against the public welfare, ecosanity and fundamental freedoms if enacted into law. Continue reading
Obamacare: A failed experiment
Obamacare was designed as a healthcare rationing scheme to benefit drug companies, large hospital chains and insurers—instead of Medicare for all, everyone in, no one left out, everybody treated equally on a level playing field. Continue reading
Pentagon threatens to down Russian and Syrian planes
Syrian land and airspace are sovereign state territory. No foreign power may deny its military or other aircraft from operating anywhere within its borders—or Russian planes and ground personnel invited by its government. Continue reading
Aleppo Boy’s photographer: Ally of US-supported terrorists
New information on the Aleppo Boy story at the very least gives it the appearance of being an elaborately staged hoax. Continue reading
Israel planning Third Temple on Al-Aqsa Mosque site?
It’s hard imagining Israel going this far, but who knows, given its longstanding persecution of Occupied Palestinians and its own Arab citizens—20% of its population unwanted, treated like fifth column threats. Continue reading
Militarism in Chicago
US Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels perform stunt flying exhibitions in US air shows nationwide—their mission to promote militarism, imperial wars, and aid recruiting. Continue reading
Obama pushing for TPP: Misinformation and big lies his strategy
US trade deals are jobs-killing weapons of mass destruction. They destroy fundamental freedoms. They ignore eco-sanity. Continue reading
George Soros documents leaked
Notorious international con man Soros seeks new financial world order policies controlled by and exclusively benefitting monied interests like himself—to the detriment of most others. Continue reading
Neocon Washington Post editors’ anti-Putin rant
Irresponsible US media scoundrels bash Putin relentlessly hounding him no matter how noble his efforts. Continue reading
The New York Times’ plummet from grace
It’s not the “newspaper of record.” It’s the voice of wealth, power and privilege—supporting tyranny over democracy, war over peace, state terror over fundamental freedoms, propaganda over hard truths. Continue reading
Trump triumphant, wins GOP nomination
On Tuesday evening, Trump became official GOP standard bearer, a billionaire tycoon representing America’s privileged class exclusively. Continue reading
Britain’s Iron Lady 2.0?
Described by a former associate as “hard as nails,” perhaps Theresa May is the second “Iron Lady of the Western World” designate, what former prime minister Margaret Thatcher once called herself. Continue reading
US-sponsored genocide in Syria
From the republic’s inception, America waged genocidal wars without mercy, rule of law principles discarded, conquest and dominance sought at any price. Continue reading
Chilcot report far short of judgment day for war criminal Tony Blair
The long delayed Iraq Inquiry Committee Chilcot report took seven years to complete, filled 12 volumes, yet excluded what’s most important—declaring the 2003 Iraq war illegal, flagrantly violating international law, destroying the cradle of civilization, raping it for control and profit, and demanding accountability for those responsible. Continue reading
Anti-Democratic Democrat Party platform
Republican and Democrat party policies consistently represent privileged Americans at the expense of most everyone else—notably since Bill and Hillary Clinton’s deplorable 1990s co-presidency. Continue reading
Tories intend greater austerity following Brexit vote
Political fallout from last Thursday’s Brexit vote didn’t take long to unfold. David Cameron began it by announcing his resignation, effective when Tories meet in October, he said. Continue reading
Anti-Brexit camp wants second referendum
Call it the sour grapes crowd. When things don’t turn out its way, it demands another go, hoping for a different result. Continue reading
Obama’s war on Syria: Tragedy and high crime
People living distant from war zones can’t imagine the horrors millions in them face—unsure each day if they’ll live or die, remain whole or be harmed by disabling injuries. Continue reading
Brazil’s coup plotters aimed to block corruption investigation
US-supported coup plotters had multiple aims in mind — replacing democracy with tyranny, weakening or ending social justice programs, instituting neoliberal harshness, and undermining corruption investigations involving 303 of Brazil’s lower house members, 49 of 81 senators, and 37 of the 65-member impeachment commission. Continue reading
Extrajudicially held Guantanamo detainee to be released
Guantanamo remains a black hole of US extrajudicial viciousness, hundreds of innocent men and boys (all Muslims, most sold for bounty) held lawlessly since January 2002—denied due process and judicial fairness. Continue reading
Death threats received by woman for wearing America Was Never Great hat
American exceptionalism, the “indispensable nation,” an “empire of liberty,” the “leader of the free world,” a “shining city on a hill,” and other patriotic slogans mask hard truths about the most ruthlessly dangerous regime in world history. Continue reading
Trump and Kissinger discuss realpolitik
In November, US voters get to choose between two deplorable business as usual presidential aspirants—a billionaire demagogue v. a war criminal/Wall Street tool, both hugely anti-populist. Continue reading
European Union, not Brexit, threatens peace and stability
Britain’s David Cameron has it backwards, warning Brexit threatens continental peace—calling support for the move “reckless and irresponsible,” risking Britain’s economic stability, leaving it “permanently poorer.” Continue reading
France imposes widely despised anti-labor bill by decree
On top of punishing austerity, new rules imposed benefit business exclusively at the expense of worker rights. Continue reading
Brazil’s lower house speaker backtracks on annulling impeachment vote
A same day article explained US-manipulated dark forces wanting President Dilma Rousseff impeached without just cause hit a speed bump on Monday when lower house interim Speaker Waldir Maranhao annulled the vote against her because of procedural irregularities. Continue reading
Half the US electorate calls nominating process rigged
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed half of US voters believe “the system US political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is ‘rigged,’” the news agency reported. Continue reading
The Obama Doctrine: America should rule the world
In his May 2 Washington Post op-ed, Obama pushed for adopting the anti-consumer, anti-labor, anti-environment, pro-corporate predation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to let America write the rules on global trade and everything else. Continue reading
Leaked TTIP documents reveal a stealth corporate coup
The so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), like its Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) counterpart, isn’t about growth-promoting trade benefitting everyone equitably. Continue reading
Syria: Raped by US imperialism
Posted on September 8, 2016 by Stephen Lendman
Endless US post-9/11 aggression against one nonbelligerent nation after another appears part of a neocon-sponsored WW III plot, likely culminating at some point with war on Russia, China and Iran—Syria and Ukraine perhaps the most threatening flashpoints. Continue reading →