US Terror-Bombing Turned Raqqa Into a Moonscape by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) America raped and destroyed Mosul on the phony pretext of combating ISIS and liberating the city. Thousands of civilians were killed. Indiscriminate terror-bombing, including use of banned weapons, massacred them. Raqqa is being raped and destroyed the same way,... Continue Reading →

Deplorable US Mainstream Media by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Press agent journalism substitutes for the real thing. Truth-telling is a lost art, absent in Western reporting on issues mattering most. The fourth estate was never more disreputable than now, a shameful disgrace to its profession - featuring disinformation, fake news and... Continue Reading →

Kushner/Netanyahu Meeting by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Prospects for resolving decades of Israeli/Palestinian conflict are nil - because Washington and Tel Aviv reject an equitable solution. Peace and stability defeat their agenda. Endless violence and confrontation further it. Neither country negotiates. They demand. Trump’s Zionist son-in-law/senior advisor/geopolitical know-nothing is back in... Continue Reading →

She’s Back: Hillary Blames Everyone But Herself by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) She never went away, hanging around like a bad aftertaste. Her new book due out in September is titled “What Happened” - well known to everyone paying attention. Why she lost to Trump is absent from its pages, fabricated... Continue Reading →

Grenade Blast Rocks Kiev by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) On Thursday, witnesses reported a grenade exploded in central Kiev in early afternoon. Police called it an “explosion of an unidentified object on Grushevsky Street. A man and a woman have sustained injuries.” According to a Tass correspondent at the scene, the... Continue Reading →

Irreconcilable US/North Korea Differences by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) The problem lies in Washington, not Pyongyang the way it’s been throughout the DPRK’s history. America tolerates no sovereign independent states it doesn’t control - why it wages preemptive wars, stages color revolutions, and assassinates foreign leaders, its post-WW II agenda. The... Continue Reading →

US Threatens Pakistan by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) All too often, Washington’s way of getting other countries to support its agenda is through bullying and threats. Tactics include illegal sanctions, cutting off aid, restrictive trade policies, color revolutions and naked aggression - whatever it takes to force its will on other... Continue Reading →

Nikki Haley: An Embarrassment as US UN Envoy by Stephen Lendman ((stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) It’s hard imagining why Trump chose her for the diplomatic post. The former South Carolina governor knows little about geopolitics. Her over-the-top remarks show it. Her extremist rants are an embarrassment to the position she holds. Trump should... Continue Reading →

Putin/Netanyahu Meeting by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Netanyahu is frantic about Russia, Iran and Hezbollah allied with Syria effectively combating US and Israeli-supported terrorism. They’re defeating his aim to eliminate a regional rival, isolate Iran, then target the Islamic Republic the same way. Accompanied by Mossad director Yossie Cohen, national security... Continue Reading →

The Latest Saudi Atrocity in Yemen by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) War in Yemen was planned and orchestrated in Washington, ongoing for two-and-a-half years with no end in sight. Of all current war theaters, none match the horrors in Yemen, millions of its people threatened by endless conflict, famine, and untreated... Continue Reading →