Putin Dueling with the West? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) GOP and undemocratic Dem hardliners, along with echo chamber media scoundrels, consistently blame US enemies and adversaries for crimes and other wrongdoing committed by Washington against them. Managed news misinformation and disinformation repeated enough gets most people to believe almost anything. […]

US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Washington’s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival. At his annual marathon Q & A news conference last week, Vladimir Putin warned about possible […]

China’s Outreach v. America First by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Throughout the post-WW II era, America first always reflected its geopolitical agenda.  Trump acknowledged reality by naming it, backing it with greater unacceptable toughness than his predecessors. Leading Truman era dovish Cold War architect George Kennan urged “dispen(sing) with all sentimentality […]

Syrian Forces Enter Strategically Important Manbij  by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Turkey’s Erdogan is a US/Russian supported tinpot despot, a regional menace, threatening anyone challenging or criticizing his iron-fisted repressive rule. He threatened to attack Manbij in northwest Syria. His cross-border incursions flagrantly violate international law – waging naked aggression against […]

Reshuffling the Deck Chairs in Riyadh by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Saudi Arabia is a family dictatorship masquerading as a nation state, the most ruthless Arab world regime. Its rule is absolute, no opposition tolerated, no civil or human rights afforded ordinary Saudis – no speech, media or academic freedoms, nor […]

The NYT: Press Agent for Wealth, Power and Privilege by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The Times never met a US war of aggression it didn’t back wholeheartedly – nor any of its  adversaries it didn’t bash with relish, notably Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Russia, and China. It’s silent about […]

Iraq a Platform for Endless US Regional Wars by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Post-the 9/11 mother of all false flags, initiating US aggression on one nation after another, Dick Cheney warned of wars that won’t end in our lifetime. Former CIA director James Woolsey said America “is engaged in World War […]

Will Trump Use Paramilitary Hired Guns in US War Theaters? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Renamed Academi, Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince proposed getting Trump to privatize US warmaking in Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The idea surfaced in July 2017 over endless years of war in Afghanistan, achieving nothing but more […]

Russia Angered Over Israel’s Latest Attack on Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Complicit with US aggression, Israel is waging war on Syria without declaring it. Russia belatedly addressed the threat it should have acted strongly against much earlier – against US-led terror-bombing as well, responsible for massacring tens of thousands […]

The NYT Lying Machine Never Rests by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The Times is to journalism the way it should be what war is to peace, what equity is to injustice, what the rule of law is to flagrant breaches – what yellow journalism is to the real thing. Notably on […]