Pompeo’s First Foreign Trip as Secretary of State by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) His extremist ideology should have disqualified him for the job he’ll hold as Washington’s chief diplomat. Confirmed on Thursday by a 57 – 42 vote, largely along party lines, he’s the latest addition to Trump’s war cabinet – […]

US in Syria To Stay by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Washington didn’t launch naked aggression on Syria to quit. It didn’t illegally occupy as much as 30% of its northern and southern territory to leave. Assad rightfully called US and allied forces “invaders,” aiming to topple his government, wanting another imperial […]

Black Liberation Activist Herman Bell Granted Parole by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Jalil Muntaqim (formerly Anthony Bottom), Albert Nuh Washington, and Herman Bell were charged and convicted for the 1971 killings of New York City police officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini. They became known as the New York Three. In […]

Nicaragua in US Crosshairs Again by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Since mid-April, orchestrated protests in Nicaragua appear similar to what’s going on in Armenia, earlier in Ukraine and elsewhere – what the RAND Corporation in the 1990s called “swarming,” what first played out in Serbia in 2000. Many spontaneous-appearing demonstrations against […]

OPCW Finds No CWs at Terror-Bombed Syrian Facilities by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On April 14, US, UK and French warplanes, preemptively and illegally without just cause, terror-bombed Syrian facilities. US war secretary “Mad Dog” Mattis lied, claiming the mission was to “destroy (Syria’s)  chemical weapons research, development and production capabilities.”  […]

Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Palestinian Children by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In Occupied Palestine, defenseless young children are considered a threat to heavily armed Israeli soldiers – authorized to shoot them with impunity. Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) documented the worst abuses against Palestinian children in 2017. They include […]

Iran Rejects Nuclear Deal Changes by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Trump and French President Macron “are deciding for an (international) agreement reached among seven parties.”  “Who allowed” them to try undermine what took years of talks to consummate, Rouhani adding: “I have spoken with […]

US/Israeli Hostility Toward Iran Threatens World Peace by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Iran is a sovereign independent country, free from US imperial control – the key reason for nearly 40 years of hostility by Washington toward the Islamic Republic. It’s why Republican and undemocratic Dem administrations have sought regime change since […]

Reconstructing Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Rebuilding what Washington and its rogue allies destroyed will be an enormous longterm undertaking when begun in earnest, costing at least several hundred billions of dollars, maybe half a trillion or more before completed. Endless war without resolution assures more vast destruction than already, […]

Israel Warns of Escalated War in Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) A state of war existed between both countries since Israel’s establishment – an uneasy armistice since the 1973 Yom Kippur war, interrupted briefly during 1982 IDF aggression in Lebanon. Syria doesn’t recognize the apartheid Jewish state on stolen Palestinian […]