Low rates benefit investors at the expense of savers, retirees and pensioners without paychecks needing income especially harmed. At near zero percent for nearly seven years, virtually none is forthcoming for most people. Continue reading
Obama’s so-called war to degrade and destroy Islamic State is a complete fabrication. Defeating it is simple. Stop recruiting, arming, funding, training and directing its elements. Continue reading
British Prime Minister David Cameron called Jeremy Corbyn a threat to national security. More on what he said below. Continue reading
Longtime British Labour Party MP since 1983, Jeremy Corbyn was considered a 100-1 shot for its leadership after declaring his candidacy in June, on an antiwar, anti-austerity platform, saying: “This decision to stand is in response to an overwhelming call by Labour party members who want to see a broader range of candidates and a thorough debate about the future of the party. I am standing to give Labour party members a voice in this debate.” Continue reading
At the most perilous time in world history, waging peace takes on added urgency. On September 20, Gerald Celente will launch his new initiative. Continue reading
Obama’s proxy war on Syria is in its fifth year—using Islamic State and other takfiri terrorists as proxy foot soldiers, supported by US terror bombing of Syrian infrastructure targets on the phony pretext of defeating ISIS. Continue reading
Longstanding Israeli policy calls for Judaizing Palestine, ethnically cleansing non-Jews, continuing slow-motion genocide against Muslims, and prohibiting Palestinian self-determination. Continue reading
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. Locking people in cages long-term with little or no human contact flagrantly violates the letter and spirit of the law. Yet it’s standard US prison practice nationwide. Continue reading
Lunatics in America aren’t just in Washington. London Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman explained West Point Law Professor William Bradford claims “legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a ‘treasonous’ fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants.” Continue reading
America is run by a criminal aristocracy—a one-party system with two wings, serving monied interests exclusively at the expense of beneficial social change. Continue reading
Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: “The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the government indiscriminately collects their telephone metadata along with the metadata of hundreds of millions of other citizens without any particularized suspicion of wrongdoing, retains all of that metadata for five years, and then queries, analyzes, and investigates that data without prior judicial approval of the investigative targets.” Continue reading
Official US claims about wanting to degrade and defeat ISIS are a complete fabrication. Washington actively recruits their fighters, along with other takfiri elements, as foot soldiers for endless wars of aggression against nations targeted for regime change. Continue reading
Vital truths are systematically suppressed. Willful disinformation, distortions and bald-faced lies substitute—why Western media are called presstitutes, making street whores look good by comparison. More on this below. Continue reading
On Thursday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned and announced snap elections, likely in late September—a ploy hoping for enough voter support to remain in power before ordinary Greeks feel the pain of greater austerity he agreed to after pledging no more in January. Continue reading
US authorities ruthlessly and consistently violate 8th Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Continue reading
Independent evidence shows GM foods and ingredients harm human health. All nations should ban them. Continue reading
Freedom in America is being systematically destroyed: one police state law at a time—with most people ignorant and/or indifferent about what is happening. Continue reading
Previous articles explained no credible evidence suggests Russia or Donbass freedom fighters had anything to do with downing MH17. Continue reading
Naftali Bennett is a Netanyahu coalition partner. He heads the fascist Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party. He’s ideologically over-the-top. Continue reading
Three recent polls show most Americans oppose what they know little about or what’s potentially at stake. More on this below. Continue reading
Friday’s fourth/dubbed “final” ministerial attempt to reach agreement failed. Global Trade Watch Director Lori Wallach called it a “Maui [Hawaii] meltdown.” Continue reading
When investing becomes gambling, bad endings follow. The next credit crunch could make 2008-09 look mild by comparison. Bank of International Settlements(BIS) data show around $700 trillion in global derivatives. Continue reading
It began in August 1953—replacing democratically elected Mohammad Mossadeq (Iran’s most popular politician at the time) with a generation of brutal US-installed Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi dictatorship. Continue reading
On April 2, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported Khalida Jarrar’s arrest. Continue reading
He elevates chutzpah to a higher level. He and likeminded Israeli lunatics reject framework agreed on terms. Continue reading
Britain is run by the same kinds of lunatics infesting America. Prime Minister David Cameron and other UK officials hype nonexistent “Russian aggression.” Continue reading
America and Britain partner in each other’s high crimes. Their longstanding relationship dates from the 19th century. Continue reading
Propaganda works. Israelis got the best electoral results fear-mongering can sell. Continue reading
Obama’s agenda combines permanent naked aggression against one country after another with homeland police state repression. Continue reading
Times editors deplore democracy. They consider sham US elections legitimate ones. Continue reading
Instead of renouncing its odious debt and walking away, Athens agreed to pay bankers first, maintain austerity, and let long-suffering Greeks continue taking the hindmost. Continue reading
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Putin v. Obama on Syria
Posted on September 18, 2015 by Stephen Lendman
Judge for yourself who’s right and wrong, whose policies are constructive, whose are destructive, who supports the Syrian people, who mass murders them, who causes human refugee floods fleeing war-torn countries for safe havens. Continue reading →