Trump’s North Korea/US Summit Pullout Reflects Imperial Arrogance by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Trump’s pullout is another example of why Washington can never be trusted - time and again agreeing to one thing, then doing something entirely different. Trump withdrawing from the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran was the clearest example... Continue Reading →

Reactions to Trump’s North Korea/US Summit Pullout by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Hegemons don’t negotiate. They demand, wanting all nations bending to their will, offering nothing in return except empty promises. Washington operates this way, a rogue state waging war on humanity, bullying, pressuring, bribing, and otherwise forcing its will on... Continue Reading →

Trump Cancels North Korea/US Summit by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Coming weeks ahead of the scheduled summit alone surprised. Time and again it’s clear. Washington virtually never negotiates in good faith - or pre-negotiates, as the pullout shows. Rare exceptions prove the rule. If Kim Jong-un/Trump talks are held at a... Continue Reading →

PA Requests ICC Probe Israeli Crimes in the Occupied Territories by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Since the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) became effective in July 2002, victims of Western and Israeli imperialism alone were prosecuted - never the perpetrators. Around two-thirds of world nations are ICC members,... Continue Reading →

Does Trump Regime Intend Full-Scale War on Syria? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) In 2007 at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, former NATO commander General Wesley Clark said America underwent a post-9/11 transformation - his address on YouTube deleted.  A “policy coup” occurred, he said. With no public debate or acknowledgement, hardliners... Continue Reading →

Yulia Skripal’s Scripted Public Remarks by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Sergey and Yulia recovered enough from whatever harmed them to be released from hospitalization - clearly not a Novichok military-grade nerve agent as falsely claimed - able to cause death in minutes. Their whereabouts is unknown. They’re denied contact with Russia’s... Continue Reading →

US Envoy David Friedman Poses with Photo Image Showing Jewish Temple Replacing Al-Aqsa by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Notorious Zionist ideologue David Friedman is Trump’s ambassador to Israel, a disturbing choice when announced. He one-sidedly supports Israeli apartheid rule, its lawless settlement expansions on stolen Palestinian land. He’s dismissive about Palestinian... Continue Reading →

Trump Regime Wants a North Korean Vassal State Bordering China by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Time and again, Washington proved it can never be trusted, consistently breaching promises made, spurning its treaty obligations - operating solely by its own rules, aiming for global hegemony by whatever it takes to achieve its... Continue Reading →

Elements of Trump’s No-Peace/Peace Plan? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Unnamed sources with claimed access to Trump’s plan say it contains the following provisions - subject to revisions before release: 1. A Palestinian state (in name only) with limited sovereignty (meaning none) in around half of the West Bank where Palestinians... Continue Reading →

Another False Flag CW Attack Coming in Syria? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) On Monday, Syria’s military and Russian reconciliation center members in the country found heavy weapons supplied by US-dominated NATO to ISIS and other terrorists, along with gas masks, and other protective gear for use during a CW attack.... Continue Reading →