Sergey Lavrov’s Year End Straight Talk by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Lavrov is a world-class diplomat, a true peace and stability champion, shaming his US and EU counterparts, supporting endless wars of aggression, an agenda Russia opposes. Interviewed by Interfax on Thursday, Lavrov called 2017 “a difficult year,” the international situation […]

China Slams US Accusation About Selling Oil to North Korea  by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Thursday, Trump abrasively tweeted: “Caught RED HANDED – very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea.”  “There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues […]

Israel’s Holiday Season Atrocities by Stephen Lendman Millions of defenseless Palestinians endure the full force of Israeli brutality, continuing daily throughout the year, including during holiday season, ignored by Western media. Since Trump’s Jerusalem declaration, Israeli forces murdered 15 Palestinians in cold blood, injured well over 4,000 others, detaining over 600, including around 200 children […]

Abu Dis As a Palestinian Capital? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Reportedly, the idea is part of a Trump administration sham peace plan. Palestinians won’t ever accept abandoning East Jerusalem as their legitimate capital, a small village substituting as a capital of a bantustan state, amounting to one in name only. […]

Senate Witch-Hunt Russiagate Investigation Expands by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Months of House, Senate and special council Mueller investigations represent exercises in mass deception.  They exposed America’s debauched political system, its rogue governance, its unacceptable anti-Russia hostility, betraying the public trust, jeopardizing remaining freedoms, accomplishing nothing else. Yet they continue endlessly […]

Israeli High School Refuseniks by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Military service in Israel is mandatory for male and female Jewish and Druze citizens age-18 or older. Arab citizens may volunteer. Some do. Others aren’t required to serve. Exceptions to mandated service are made for religious, physical or psychological reasons, not for […]

The Bloomberg Rogue’s Gallery Billionaire’s Index by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) It’s a daily index of the world’s 500 richest individuals, Bloomberg saying their net worth is “updated at the close of every trading day” on Wall Street. The latest figures are as of December 28, nearly year end 2017. Collectively, […]

US/Israeli Anti-Iran Plot by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) America and Israel comprise the real axis of evil, rogue states partnering in each other’s high crimes, both with megalomaniacal hegemonic aims – menacing the Middle East and planet earth. According to Israel’s Channel 10, US and Israeli military and intelligence officials agreed […]

Killing Children in Conflict Zones by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Belligerents treat children no differently from adults, brutalizing and killing them without remorse or concern for fundamental human rights. In February, marking the 20th anniversary of its Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, an annual report on affected children warned […]

The Donald John Trump Western Wall Train Station by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Building a train link from Ben-Gurion airport to the heart of East Jerusalem’s Old City is controversial enough – the affront to Occupied Palestinians compounded by naming it after the US president. It’s for his Jerusalem declaration and […]