Trump Regime’s Controversial Superfund Administrator Nominee by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The federal superfund program was established in 1980 by the Carter administration. It’s responsible for cleaning up hazardous waste sites, caused by corporate polluters and natural disasters – its aim to protect public health and the environment. Initially funded by […]

Targeting Assange Threatens Speech, Media and Academic Freedoms by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) That’s what targeting him is all about, wanting truth-telling on vital issues suppressed. Permitting the falsified official narrative alone is where things are heading. It’s how police states operate everywhere – tyranny over democratic governance, rule of law […]

Near-Lowest Ever US Corporate Taxes by by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The great 2017 GOP tax cut swindle reduced the nominal corporate rate from 35 – 21% – the lowest US percentage since 1940 at the onset of WW II. Corporations in America don’t pay the nominal rate. Most pay little […]

Devastated Yemen Faces Another Possible Cholera Crisis by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Yemen is a virtual forgotten war, raging full-scale for over three years, devastating the country and its people, media scoundrels giving it short shrift coverage – US television “news” practically none at all. Washington is at war on Yemen […]

Trump Regime Seeks Creation of an Arab NATO by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) With attribution to composer Burt Bacharach, what the world needs now is what there’s too little of – peace, equity and justice over militarism and endless wars of aggression. US-dominated NATO members, Euro/Atlantic partners, Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and […]

Booming US Economic Growth? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) America’s economic engine benefits corporate predators and high-net worth individuals exclusively. It’s propelled by the greatest wealth transfer scheme from ordinary people to privileged ones in world history. Wall Street and other corporate predators never had things better since America’s Gilded Age […]

Imran Kahn Declares Victory in Pakistan’s Election by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Former cricketer, National Assembly member, head of Tehreek-e-Inaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice – PTI – an anti-mainstream party in contrast to dominating Pakistani ones from inception), Imran Kahn looks poised to be his nation’s next prime minister. Independent analyst […]

Israel’s Unchecked Killing Machine by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On the 18th Great March of Return Friday, IDF soldiers again used lethal force against peacefully demonstrating Gazans as in previous weeks.  Two protesters were killed in cold blood. Another died from earlier sustained wounds, hundreds more injured by live fire and […]

Controlling Idlib Province: Syria’s Final Liberating Battle? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Assad, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, and other government officials stressed many times that conflict won’t end until the country is entirely liberated and foreign forces no longer occupy any parts of it. With the Damascus countryside, most of […]

Mass Casualties from Southwest Syria ISIS Attacks by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) ISIS and other terrorist groups operate as an extension of US imperial aggression in Syria and elsewhere. Casualties from its multiple suicide and related attacks in Syria’s Sweida province days earlier in the country’s southwest near Jordan rose to […]