Israeli officials throughout its history consistently showed contempt for Palestinian rights – from Ben-Gurion to Allon to Meir to Begin to Rabin to Peres to Sharon to Netanyahu and others, an array of rogue leaders,…
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Stephen Lendman was born in 1934, is a retired, progressive small businessman concerned about all the major national and world issues, committed to speak out and write about them. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to the Lendman News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday – Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://republicbroadcasting.org/Lendman
A casino culture of anything goes persists. When counter-parties don’t have funds to pay on demand, bubbles begin deflating. It’s just a matter of time before current market mania ends. When investing becomes gambling, bad…
Its Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) represents the beginning of a significant challenge to predatory Western financial institutions – the IMF, World Bank and other loan shark lenders of last resort. The IMF was established to stabilize exchange rates linked to the dollar and bridge temporary payment imbalances. The World Bank’s mandate was to provide credit to war-torn developing countries. Both bodies proved hugely exploitive – using debt entrapment to transfer public wealth to Western bankers and other major creditors.
It’s all over but the obituary. Rubber-stamp Greek parliamentarians overwhelming approved transforming the nation into a banker run colony – by a 229 – 64 vote. Six lawmakers abstained. Coalition partner Independent Greeks leader Panos…
On Friday, three days rocking Paris ended. Cherif and Said Kouachi took refuge in a Dammartin-en-Goele printing company facility. French security forces stormed it. Reports said gunfire was exchanged. Both brothers were killed. Separately, Amedy…
Hitler’s master plan included removing all internal opposition. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Exterminating or enslaving inferior people. Considered non-Ayrans subhumans (Untermenschen). Sought Lebensraum (living space). Aryanizing Europe and beyond. Establishing New Order dominance over conquered lands….
Permanent war is official US policy. Obama is the latest in a long line of rogue warrior presidents. He’s waged multiple direct and proxy wars. He’s done so throughout his tenure. He has lots more…
The Islamic State is the pretext. Syria is the target. At issue is regime change. It’s replacing its sovereign independence with pro-Western stooge governance. It’s wanting unchallenged regional control. It’s wanting Big Oil exploiting its…
Major media editors support what demands condemnation. Wall Street Journal editors are worse than most. They endorse Washington’s imperial agenda. They believe might makes right. On January 2, they headlined ”Victory in Okinawa,” saying: “…Japanese authorities will allow the US military to relocate an air base on the strategically significant island of Okinawa.” “Think of it as a triumph of democratic realism in the face of renewed regional threats.” America’s presence constitutes the most significant regional threat by far. Not according to Journal editors. They falsely accused China of “saber-rattling.” They want its “aggressive behavior deterred.” They claimed “nervous officials across Asia” want defense ties with America strengthened. Washington pressures them to do so.
Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich explained, saying: “Of all developed nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income, and we’re surging towards every greater inequality.” America’s 400 richest elites have…