Holes in Trump’s Statement About Killing Alleged ISIS Leader by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Trump calling Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “the world’s number one terrorist leader” ignored reality. No individual, group, or other nation matches US state-terrorism, ongoing at home and abroad worldwide. As US president and commander-in-chief, the buck stops with... Continue Reading →

NYT Propaganda War on Venezuela by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Since Hugo Chavez established Venezuela’s social democracy in February 1999, the hemisphere’s best, the Clintons, Bush/Cheney, Obama and Trump targeted the country for regime change — notably wanting control over its world’s largest oil reserves. Establishment media operate as imperial press... Continue Reading →

ISIS Leader Killed? Trump’s Dubious Announcement by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman)  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi allegedly headed ISIS, the jihadist group created and supported by the US and its imperial allies. Years earlier, he was held in Camp Bucca, a US military prison in Iraq, later released, after which the ISIS terrorist... Continue Reading →

US Show Trial Punishes Truth-Telling by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) When truth-telling is criminalized, considered defamation, or otherwise judged unacceptable, speech, media, and academic freedoms no longer exist. That’s the disturbing reality of America today. Truth-telling journalists and whistleblowers involved in exposing wrongdoing are considered threats to national security and endangered.... Continue Reading →

US Political Prisoner Maria Butina Free at Last by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) In July 2018, Butina was arrested, falsely charged and politically imprisoned for being a Russian national in the US at the wrong time. Claiming she was an unregistered Russian agent was and remains a bald-faced Big Lie. US... Continue Reading →

NYT Cheers and Jeers Trump’s Claim About Killing ISIS Leader by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Trump’s announced elimination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been greatly exaggerated like countless other claims he made later proved false. A same-day article discussed Baghdadi, Russia’s Defense Ministry saying it detected no US... Continue Reading →

US Permanent War Agenda — Killing Nations, Plundering Their Resources by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Washington’s imperial agenda is all about seeking dominance over other nations, their resources and populations — brute force its favored strategy, smashing sovereign states to own them, mass slaughter, destruction and human misery considered small prices... Continue Reading →

Protests in Chile Against Neoliberal Harshness by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Neoliberalism is all about serving privileged interests at the expense of ordinary people, exploiting them so the wealthy and powerful can benefit. It’s about dominance over democracy, profits over populism, and private interests over the public welfare – a zero-sum... Continue Reading →

US Dirty War on Iran Targets its Scientists by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) US war on Iran by other means is all about wanting the nation colonized as a vassal state, its sovereignty eliminated, its oil, gas, and other resources looted, its people exploited as serfs. Illegal US sanctions are weapons... Continue Reading →

Media Cheerlead US Rape and Occupation of Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) All US post-WW II wars were and remain flagrant US Charter breaches. They’re the highest of high crimes establishment media back wholeheartedly, opposing restoration of peace and stability to war-torn countries the US wants transformed into vassal states.... Continue Reading →