Israeli Inflicted Holy Land Horrors by Stephen Lendman Palestinians are suffering, not celebrating new year festivities. State-sponsored terror haunts them throughout the holiday period and all other times of year without respite. Daily reports are grim. Palestine’s Health Ministry reported 142 Palestinians extrajudicially killed since October 1, including 27 children and seven women, perhaps several... Continue Reading →

Hezbollah Chief Vows Retaliation for Israeli Assassination by Stephen Lendman Targeted assassinations are an Israeli specialty - cold-blooded murder by any standard. On December 19, Lebanese Palestine Liberation Front commander Samir Kuntar was at his Jaramana, Syria home, east of Damascus. An Israeli airstrike murdered him. His younger brother Bassam tweeted the news, saying “(w)ith... Continue Reading →

Grim New Year Tidings by Stephen Lendman The new year traditionally is a time for hope and change, a new beginning, a shift from policies causing so much harm to many millions worldwide - nameless, faceless victims of imperial ruthlessness. New Year’s day and each successive ones assure more of the same, business as usual... Continue Reading →

Business As Usual Chicago Police Reform by Stephen Lendman Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s announced police overhaul plan to stem cop killings and violence smacks of pure subterfuge. Living in Chicago for nearly half a century, I’ve heard numerous horror stories about police misconduct and abuse, several from affected victims.  Expect meaningless cosmetic changes only, nothing addressing... Continue Reading →

Big Lies About Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Campaign by Stephen Lendman It’s been devastatingly effective in Syria, conducted with powerful weapons and precision accuracy, exclusively targeting ISIS and other terrorist groups. Big Lies persist otherwise. Media scoundrels willfully proliferate misinformation. Russia bashing continues without letup - because Putin respects sovereign independent rights and inviolable international laws, polar... Continue Reading →

Russia and America: Competing Strategies on Terrorism by Stephen Lendman Each nation has polar opposite objectives. Russia is committed to combating the scourge of ISIS and other takfiri terrorist groups - its Syrian campaign remarkably successful in a few short months, intending continued operations until its objectives are accomplished. Washington supports the scourge it claims... Continue Reading →

Russia’s Awesome Military Power by Stephen Lendman Russia’s military is a formidable force to be reckoned with, matching America’s best at a small fraction of the cost, using its resources judiciously, prompting US Air Forces in Europe commander General Frank Forenc to call its qualitative and quantitative capability “alarming.” Its competency is exceptional, using powerful... Continue Reading →

Brazil Rejects Deplorable Israeli Envoy Choice by Stephen Lendman Last August, Netanyahu announced former settler leader Dani Dayan as new Israeli ambassador to Brazil, without consulting its Foreign Ministry, a simple courtesy.  Dayan is a hardline racist, former settler Yesha Council leader, ideologically over-the-top, committed to ethnic cleansing for exclusive Jewish development - earlier calling... Continue Reading →

Russia: America’s Main Geopolitical Adversary by Stephen Lendman At least from when the Soviet Union replaced Tsarist Russia, Washington and Britain wanted regime change, officials installed they controlled. Three months before WW I ended, Britain led a multi-nation force. At the time, Lloyd George was Prime Minister. Churchill was UK Minister of War and Air.... Continue Reading →

NYT Supports Kiev Fascists by Stephen Lendman Times management and editors support US-installed fascists running Ukraine, hugely corrupt and lawless gangsters, still waging war on their own people, against fundamental human and civil rights - a classic rogue state with no legitimacy whatever. Not an obstacle for the self-styled “newspaper of record,” supporting what demands... Continue Reading →