Palestinian/Trump Administration Row by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Tuesday, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas nominally froze contact with Washington, in response to the Trump administration’s threat to close the PLO’s US office – unless it agrees to peace talks with Israel accomplishing nothing each time initiated, along with ceasing efforts to […]

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Lebanon Fears Hostile Israeli Intentions by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) A previous article discussed a sinister US/Saudi/Israeli alliance for possible greater regional turbulence than already – Iran and Lebanon prime targets for hostile actions, including war. Washington, Riyadh and Tel Aviv want sovereign independent Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon eliminated. Is […]

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More Classified Hillary Emails Revealed by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Judicial Watch (JW) revealed new classified Hillary pay-to-pay emails, more evidence of her corrupt State Department practices, criminality gone unpunished. Emails released from her private server included classified material. A 2011 exchange with Sid Blumenthal discussed “serious trouble for the Libyan […]

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Putin and Trump Speak on Tuesday by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) They’ve spoken twice by phone, today reportedly for an hour. They’ve met face-to-face twice – in Hamburg, Germany and Danang, Vietnam.  No summit was held or planned, nothing achieved between them except Putin promises he’ll keep, Trump’s to be broken, […]

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Google’s War on Media Freedom by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) A previous article explained Google’s transformation from search engine to online censor. Changes in its search algorithm makes it harder to access what it calls fake news, low-quality information and conspiracy theories – code language for real news, information and analysis […]

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Turkey Reconsidering NATO Membership? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Turkey’s military in the alliance is second only to America in size. President Erdogan nominally sides with Russia and Iran on Syria. His sincerity is another issue entirely. He’s long coveted annexing northern Syrian and Iraqi territory, especially its oil-rich areas. His […]

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Slave Trade in Libya: Legacy of US-Led Aggression by Stephen Lendman Before Obama’s war, orchestrated by Hillary Clinton, launched in February 2011, Libya was Africa’s most developed nation.  Today it’s a cauldron of endless violence, instability, turmoil, deep poverty, mass unemployment and appalling human misery. Libyans under Gaddafi got extraordinary benefits most Americans can’t imagine, […]

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Trump’s FDA Waging War on Imported Drugs by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The Food and Drug Administration operates as arm of corporate interests, not protecting and promoting public health as claimed – most of its budget funded by Big Pharma. It notoriously approves unsafe GMO foods and ingredients, an earlier agency […]

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Putin/Assad Meeting by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Monday, both leaders met in Sochi, Russia, not announced for 24 hours to assure Assad’s safe return to Damascus. Knowledge of his travels outside Syria would risk his assassination, perhaps by a US air-to-air or ground-to-air missile, targeting his aircraft. Washington ignores rule […]

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Trump Disgracefully Declares North Korea a State Sponsor of Terrorism by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) America, NATO, Israel, Saudi Arabia and their rogue partners in high crimes are the world’s leading state sponsors of terrorism – not Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Hamas, Yemeni Houthis or North Korea. They support […]

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