by Stephen Lendman
The Cyrus Cylinder a document issued by Cyrus the Great and regarded by some as a charter of human rights. The US wars on Middle East nations such as Iraq and Iran are not only criminal in the enormous destruction of lives, infrastructure and ecology. They also rob and destroy humanity of its precious historical patrimony. But what do these barbarians care or know? They have billions of stolen dollars to comfort them. —Eds
Washington’s war on Iran includes cyber attacks, other sabotage, targeted assassinations, deadly explosions, sophisticated satellite, drone, and other type spying, bogus accusations, a virtual blockade, hostile saber rattling, multiple rounds of sanctions, and attempts to cripple its central bank and oil industry.
Targeting its nuclear industry is a red herring. At issue is replacing an independent regime with a pro-Western one. All options are considered, including war. If others fail, expect it, perhaps with nuclear weapons targeting its underground facilities. The potential consequences are unthinkable. Read more…
Did you like this? Share it:
Special Dossier
by Stephen Lendman
If it's happening, it's not reported. Washington wants no mention or suggestion of what plagued Vietnam. More on that below. Writing about the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky said:
"The moral condition of the army was hopeless. You might describe it by saying the army as an army no longer existed. Defeats, retreats, and the rottenness of the ruling class had utterly undermined the troops." Read more...
Did you like this? Share it:
By Diane Gee, Senior Contributing Editor
Provocative title, I know. When my friend Elian asked me to address whether racism and classism were separate constructs, or inextricably bound, it just kind of blurted out of my mouth. He loved the line. He’s by his own definition, brown, gay and extremely non-pc. He said it was too accurate to not re-use. He laughed his ass off.
“Racism is promoted to keep the class caste system in place,” I postulated, “It is entirely necessary to keep a set of gate-keepers to that caste system committed to maintaining it. White Uncle Tom’s if you will. House-slaves that feel they are somehow better.” Read more…
Did you like this? Share it:
By Stephen Lendman
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales: The smiling assassin—how much of a rotten apple is he? Isn’t what he did far more common—in fact perhaps a small deviation from “tacit policy” —than what the press reports? How much of a coverup is going on for obvious p.r. reasons?
.
Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing “the supreme international crime against peace.” Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity.
On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children aged 2 – 12 while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Bodies of all victims were then burned to conceal evidence. Read more…
Did you like this? Share it:
By Stephen Lendman
Editor’s Note: The world is almost certainly being set for an ambush right after the next election. The warmongers’ party, with the duplicitous Obama in the lead, will finally plunge humanity into an all-out war in the Middle East, such war being the natural result of many decades of imperialist brainwash delivered by the corporate media and pervasive ignorance. The fact that the American nation allowed the criminals in the oil industry to highjack policy in the face of compelling data showing the urgency of retiring hydrocarbons as the primary energy source, will also play its lethal role. —PG
In mid-April, Istanbul or Geneva will host nuclear talks with Iran. America, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany will attend. Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov calls them a “last chance” to avoid war.
Russian diplomats and independent observers expect it after talks designed to fail. Some believe launching it prevents or delays attacking Syria.
Al Quds al Arabi editor Abdel Bari Atwan told Russia Today he expects a package war against Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Perhaps also against Hamas. At issue is when. Washington wants it after November’s elections. Israel wants it sooner. Read more…
Did you like this? Share it:
