by Stephen Lendman
Obama with Erdogan: Standard hypocrisy at work—photo-ops to legitimate the crimes being plotted behind closed doors.
On May 16, the Wall Street Journal headlined “Russia Raises Stakes in Syria,” saying:
Russia “sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a buildup that US and European officials see as a newly aggressive stance meant partly to warn the West and Israel not to intervene in Syria’s bloody civil war.” Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Since early 2011, Obama’s been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme’s familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism’s dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan’s Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” He characterized Contra killers the same way. Continue reading »
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By Paul Craig Roberts
The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in “liberated” Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the US attempted occupation. Continue reading »
Washington DC is an Imperial Nation
The US will not stop its insidious meddling until it gets what it wants. Washington doesn’t care if all of Syria is turned into a big heap of rusting rubble.
Imperialists are not just arrogant, they are stupid. Pretending that they might get a different result than previous US administrations have obtained before, the Obama administration is planning to send lethal arms to Syrian rebels. According to the Washington Post, Obama and his advisors have been “edging” toward this decision for months. Their rationale for jumping in now is because they believe it will give Washington more control over which rebel factions actually end up with the weaponry. The expressed hope is that such arms would stay with the Free Syrian Army headed by Syrian Army defector General Salim Idriss. Of course, as any student of war knows, once unleashed the demons that operate during such endeavors have a life of their own. In other words, once the weaponry is in Syria, there is no telling who will end up with it. The Syrians themselves are incapable of determining how their civil war will end. Does Washington seriously think it can? Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Obama and Netanyahu: Partners in horrendous crimes…and that’s no figure of speech.
In late January, Lebanese military sources reported multiple Israeli violations of Lebanon’s airspace. One or more targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border were struck. Around the same time, Israeli warplanes attacked a military research center in Jamraya. It’s about 10 miles from the Lebanese border. Early Sunday morning, Israel struck it again. Continue reading »
The Onion is the most famous fake news website in the world, adored by millions who visit the site regularly for a cheap laugh as well as sharp political satire. But even fake news has certain responsibilities.
Recently The Onion began publishing articles that framed the Syrian conflict according to the very biased views of U.S. politicians and mainstream media. Suddenly The Onion’s objectivity and satire was reduced to regurgitating the war mongering that the website had previously mocked. Continue reading »