US Sanctions War by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the Security Council alone may authorize intervention against member states to restore peace, stability and security. Its members alone may impose sanctions on member states, their entities or individuals. Nations imposing them on their own do […]

America Needs a Stronger Defense Industry? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Post-WW II, America’s only enemies were and remain invented ones.  No real ones existed since Nazi Germany and imperial Japan were defeated – none anywhere, clearly none today! Yet the US consistently pours countless trillions of dollars down a black […]

Everything Trump Regime Coup Plotters Threw at Venezuela Failed by Stephen Lendman Trump regime hardliners expected Venezuelan President Maduro to be toppled easily. They expected the country’s military to support their plot. They thought regional leaders would go along with forcibly topping Maduro militarily.  Notably they expected popular support for their scheme, overwhelming numbers of […]

Ilhan Omar: The Real Deal? Largely Looking Good with Flaws Needing Correction by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Congressional profiles in courage are few and far between. Rarely ever do US lawmakers challenge the nation’s destructive domestic and geopolitical agendas with conviction. Pretenders abound, longtime con man Bernie Sanders Exhibit A. His […]

Permanent US Occupation of Syria Planned? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Trump lied about winning against ISIS, the scourge the US created and supports, along with al-Qaeda, its al-Nusra offshoot, and other jihadist groups. Last December, he lied saying “(o)ur boys, our young women, our men — they’re all coming back […]

Boeing’s Unsafe to Operate 737 MAX 8 by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) After flying for the first time in summer 1956, a choppy experience I remember well, I remarked to a friend on a subsequent flight that I hoped the laws of aerodynamics would remain in force while I was airborne. […]

Saudi Crown Prince Stripped of Some Powers? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Reports by London’s Guardian, Press TV, and other media suggesting it are unverified, the Guardian saying the following: Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) “has not attended a series of high-profile ministerial and diplomatic meetings in Saudi Arabia over the last […]

Sabotage of Venezuela’s Electrical Grid 2.0 by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) According to sources on the ground, Caracas and surrounding areas are affected, including Altamira, La Urbina, El Cafetal, El Rosal, Los Palos Grandes, and other districts. In Chacao municipality where various foreign embassies are located, power was lost Sunday evening. […]

China’s Documentation of US Human Rights Abuses by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In response to annual US reports on human rights in China, Beijing issues its own on the deplorable state of human rights in America. It’s latest report made the following introductory remarks, saying: As in previous years, the latest […]

Russia’s Futile Diplomatic Outreach to the US by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Republicans and undemocratic Dems don’t negotiate. They demand, the way it’s been since the Clinton co-presidency. Things hardened under its successors, notably by the Trump regime, its geopolitical agenda run by psychopathic neocon extremists – why dealing with them […]