Author Archives: Stephen Lendman

Cruz-Fiorina alliance shows desperation

Sunday’s announced Cruz-Kasich alliance to stay out of each other’s way in upcoming primaries as a way of challenging Trump faltered straightaway—Kasich urging supporters to stick with him. Continue reading

Desperate GOP attempt to stop Trump

Trump remains overwhelmingly popular among GOP voters, way outdistancing his rivals. Cruz and Kasich alone remain—allying in a desperate bid to stop him. Continue reading

Widespread public distrust of mainstream media

Americans have little faith in so-called major media news and information, a collective lying machine by any standard, suppressing what’s most important to report, substituting managed news misinformation rubbish. Continue reading

Media scoundrels ignore NY primary irregularities

America resembles a banana republic. Its sham political process has no legitimacy, democracy in name only, voters with no say whatever. Continue reading

Did Clinton steal the NY primary?

So-called elections in America are farcical by any standard, mocking real democracy—Tuesday’s NY primary the latest example, a travesty of electoral legitimacy for Democrat Party voters. Continue reading

Neoliberal coup attempt in Brazil

Washington still thinks of Latin and Central America as its backyard. Colonial thinking never fades. Continue reading

FOIA documents reveal Gitmo in Chicago torture and abuse

London’s Guardian published information gotten from its FOIA lawsuit, documented evidence of “how Chicago police used punches, baton blows and Tasers at [its] off-the-books (Homan Square) interrogation site”—largely terrorizing Blacks. Continue reading

America’s money controlled political process

From inception, America was never beautiful or democratic. Rich and powerful interests run things exclusively for their own benefit, ordinary people entirely shut out. Continue reading

Anti-labor law protests in France

Small-scale protests last month grew to much larger ones—in Paris and numerous other French cities. Continue reading

Panama Papers: Tip of a hugely dirty iceberg

The world’s rich and powerful public and private figures have top lawyers, accountants and others advising on how to avoid taxes and keep their wealth hidden from public view, including legal and other ways to use money to make more of it. Continue reading

‘Truth About Cancer’ documentary

Information on the important documentary to be released online April 12 states, “CANCER WILL KILL NEARLY 8 MILLION PEOPLE THIS YEAR.” Continue reading

Fabricated Putin link to leaked Panama Papers

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) calls itself an initiative “focusing on . . . cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power.” Continue reading

Fidel rips imperial America

Approaching age 90 this summer, Fidel Castro’s physical capability isn’t what it used to be. His intellect remains keen, his judgment sound, his passion for keeping Cuba free from US predation and control uncompromising. Continue reading

Brussels police state witch-hunts

Official reports and scoundrel media ones lack credibility, intended solely to deceive, not inform, hyping fear with a diabolical agenda in mind. Continue reading

Scoundrel media jihad to stop Trump

This political season’s presidential campaign is unprecedented, unlike anything before in memory—a single polarizing candidate relentlessly bashed. Continue reading

Republican showdown coming

Since entering the presidential race last June, Trump shook things up like no other US aspirant in memory—turning an otherwise dull political season into a memorable one, for better or worse. Continue reading

Super Tuesday exit polls showed voters want revolutionary change

America’s dysfunctional political system is too corrupted to fix. Ordinary Americans understand. Continue reading

Dirty business as usual sweeps Super Tuesday

Results were known before polls opened Tuesday morning. The same holds throughout the farcical political season—a meaningless pre-scripted exercise in theater, substance entirely excluded. Continue reading

The New York Times reinvented history of war on Libya

The Times operates as a quasi-official ministry of state propaganda, featuring misinformation and Big Lies on major issues mattering most—systematically suppressing what readers need to know. Continue reading

Snowden: US presidential campaign a choice between Trump and Goldman Sachs

It’s largely a choice of style, not substance, dirty business as usual continuing no matter who succeeds Obama. Still, Snowden has a point. Continue reading

Bashing Trump makes him stronger

He’s a duopoly power anomaly, a billionaire, demagogic business as usual aspirant, coming across to supporters as populist. Continue reading

Longstanding Hillary Clinton ties to Monsanto

Her presidency would be nightmarish for world peace, popular interests and what remains of fundamental freedoms, a disaster risking full-blown tyranny and global war—vital to go all-out to oppose. Continue reading

Americans mindless about the grave dangers they face

Never before in history has the danger of possible humanity destroying nuclear war been greater. Fundamental rights Americans think they have don’t exist. Continue reading

Pontiffs and politics

The separation of church and state in America is fundamental. Thomas Jefferson and others stressed its inviolability. More on this below. Continue reading

US spy chief irresponsibly hypes a major terrorist attack on US Soil ahead

9/11 and subsequent attacks on US soil were state-sponsored false flags. Any new ones ahead will be no different. Big Lies repeated ad nauseam claiming otherwise reflect willful deception. Continue reading

Russian premier warns against East/West confrontation

On Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev addressed Munich Security Conference participants. Continue reading

Antonin Scalia’s passing

Appointed Associate Supreme Court Justice by Ronald Reagan in 1986, Antonin Scalia represented core hard-right neocon extremism throughout his tenure. Continue reading

Landslide New Hampshire primary results

Iowa caucuses portend little, rarely if ever determining what’s to follow. New Hampshire was the first primary. Continue reading

America created Daesh (ISIS)

America created global terrorist groups at least since the CIA’s involvement against Soviet Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Continue reading

Something rotten in Iowa

When establishment candidate A defeats upstart candidate B by six coin toss wins, a 1.6% likelihood or virtual impossibility, red lights flash fraud. Continue reading

Were Iowa caucuses rigged?

America is notorious for electoral rigging, fraud commonplace since at least the 1824 presidential race, the outcome called the “Corrupt Bargain.” Continue reading

Obama’s indifference to violence and human suffering

America is the greatest purveyor of violence in world history. No other regime ever matched its barbarity on a global scale over a longer duration, its contempt for human rights and welfare. Continue reading