Heightened Tensions Along the Lebanese/Israeli Border by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) By its own admission, Israel’s IDF conducted numerous airstrikes on Syrian targets in recent years. Last week, Lebanon’s Al-Manar television reported that an Israeli strike near Damascus International Airport killed Hezbollah fighter Ali Kamel Mohsen and four others. In response,... Continue Reading →

GOP Let ‘Em Eat Cake Stimulus Plan by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced the so-called Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act. It’s long on benefitting US business interests, woefully short on helping tens of millions of jobless, homeless, food insecure, and... Continue Reading →

Trump Regime Frantic Over Growing Sino/Iranian Ties by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) China is politically, economically, militarily, and savvy enough to hold its own against whatever hostile acts are taken against its sovereignty by either wing of the US war party. For over 40 years, Iran withstood endless US war on... Continue Reading →

GOP Stimulus Scheme: Generously Fund Privileged Americans, Crumbs for Workers by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Made-in-the-USA economic collapse is the most diabolical scheme ever concocted by dark forces in the country. It’s all about engineering the largest ever wealth transfer from ordinary people to corporate favorites and the nation’s super-rich. It... Continue Reading →

Do Sino/US South China Sea Military Exercises Risk War? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) US rage for dominating other nations plays out by waging endless preemptive wars by hot and other means against nonbelligerent nations threatening no one — with no end of them in prospect. Russia is the world’s dominant... Continue Reading →

Decadent USA: An Unparalleled Global Threat by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) In December 2017, NYU Center on International Cooperation nonresident fellow James Straub’s Foreign Policy magazine article called America “decadent and depraved.” He compared today’s USA to “the decadent stage of the Roman Empire, or of Louis XVI’s France, or the... Continue Reading →

Anti-Netanyahu Rage in Israel by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Netanyahu is a right-wing extremist, an apartheid enforcer, an unindicted war criminal multiple times over, and an anti-Palestinian hate-monger. Charged with none of the above high crimes, he’s going through slow-motion trial for fraud, bribery, and breach of trust. Proceedings are likely... Continue Reading →

Militarizing Space: US Plans What Russia and Most Other Countries Oppose by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Longstanding US plans call for waging wars from space. In 1985, the US Space Command (USSPACECOM) was created. In December 2018, Trump ordered it be made a unified combatant command for war under the US... Continue Reading →

Fantasy Democracy Britain a Longtime US Poodle by Stephen Lendman(stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) In his 1946 MO-based Westminster College Iron Curtain address, Winston Churchill noted “a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and empire and the United States.” Months earlier, he stressed that “Britain should not abandon our special relationship with the United... Continue Reading →

Israeli Supreme Court Rules Against the Health, Safety, and Welfare of Palestinian Prisoners by Stephen Lendman The vast majority of Palestinians languishing in Israeli gulag harshness were imprisoned for political reasons. Along with illegal occupation, collective punishment, assassinations and other forms of murder, state-terrorism, and other breaches of international law against long-suffering Palestinians, mass imprisoning... Continue Reading →