Greater Than Ever Super-Wealth Fuels Increasing Inequality by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Super-rich individuals never had things better, benefitting at the expense of increased impoverishment – engineered by governments complicit with their privileged class, a high crime against humanity, ongoing worldwide. According to its latest report last March, Forbes magazine said […]

High-Profile Human Rights Groups Fail to Condemn Unlawful US Mistreatment of Marzieh Hashimi by Stephen Lendman The silence of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, and other high-profile human rights groups over Mazieh’s unlawful arrest, detention and abusive treatment by the FBI is deafening. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) stopped short of condemnation, […]

False Flags in Northern Syria? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) False flags are a US specialty, staged as pretexts for what its ruling authorities intend. Most often they’re to wrongfully blame victims for crimes committed against them. ISIS claimed responsibility for last Wednesday’s suicide-bombing attack and a similar Monday incident, both […]

Indefinite Detention Uncharged and Untried a Crime Against Humanity  by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) These are troubled times. Rule of law protections don’t help. The US does whatever it pleases, operating by its own rules, inflicting harm on nations, groups and individuals, including its own citizens. The UN, world community nations, […]

Michelle Alexander on Palestinian Suffering by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Since UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour’s 1917 call for establishing a nation for Jews in historic Palestine, their people have endured over a century of discriminatory injustice.  Israel’s 1948 war of aggression stole 78% of their homeland, the rest in June […]

Trump to Restrict Imports of Chinese Tech Producers? by Stephen Lendman Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to restrict imports of designated Chinese telecom companies like Huawei – on the phony pretext of national security if he goes this far. What’s in play is wanting US companies to have a leg up over Chinese […]

Latest Israeli Attack on Syria Largely Foiled by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On the phony pretext of an Iranian threat in Syria, Israel partnered in Washington’s undeclared war on the country – raging for almost eight years, no end of it in prospect. The IDF admitted conducting countless numbers of airstrikes […]

Dems Reject Trump’s Proposed Deal to End Government Shutdown by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On day 30 and counting, it’s the longest partial government shutdown in US history, surpassing the previous record 21-day shutdown in 1995-96. It began over Republicans’ pledge to balance the budget, part of the so-called Newt Gingrich/Dick […]

US Training Saudi and UAE Pilots for Combat in Yemen by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Yemen is one of many US forever wars – key NATO countries, Israel, Jordan, the Saudis and UAE partnering in them. US special forces operate in Yemen. Pentagon drone war has been ongoing in the country […]

US/North Korea Summit 2.0 by Stephen Lendman Over seven months after Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held summit talks in Singapore, the US failed to take any meaningful good will steps toward fulfilling mutually agreed on principles. Washington doesn’t negotiate in good faith, failing to deal with other countries fairly, seeking global dominance […]