Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning: Martyred Behind Bars for Truth-Telling by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In 2013, Assange said “(Chelsea) Manning has become a martyr, adding: She “didn’t choose to be a martyr. I don’t think it’s a proper way for activists to behave to choose to be martyrs, but these […]

Pompeo’s Rage to Eliminate Venezuela’s Social Democracy by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Sovereign independent democracies stand in the way of US aims for unchallenged global dominance. Bipartisan hardliners in Washington want them eliminated everywhere. Venezuela is in the eye of the storm, the Trump regime hellbent for toppling democratically elected and […]

International Criminal Court: US/NATO Imperial Tool by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Time and again, the ICC breaches its mandate, calling for “end(ing) impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern.” The court consistently ignores US/NATO imperial war crimes, prosecuting their victims instead. Established by the Rome Statute of […]

Defending Venezuelan Democracy From US Tyranny by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Venezuela is the hemisphere’s preeminent social democracy – a notion the US and other Western nations abhor. It’s why the Bolivarian Republic is targeted for regime change, along with Washington wanting control over its world’s largest oil reserves and other […]

Establishment Media Bald-Faced Big Lies About Venezuela by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) US establishment media are a national embarrassment, a collective lying machine on vital issues, a force for pure evil. They feature managed news misinformation and disinformation, Big Lies, and fake news, truth telling on what ordinary people most need […]

NYT Lynch Mob Mentality by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Lynch mob mentality unacceptably targets individuals like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, groups like FARC, Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as nations for regime change like Iran, Venezuela, and numerous victims of US aggression. US-led Western media support for the above high […]

Assange’s Arrest Affirms US/UK Speech, Media, and Academic Freedoms Are Null and Void by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The US First Amendment affirms fundamental speech and media rights without which all others are threatened. No society is free without them. Eliminating them assures totalitarian rule. In her 1951 book, titled “The […]

Assange’s Indictment Further Proof of No Just Cause to Detain Chelsea Manning by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Like countless others, Manning and Assange are imperial state victims, targeted for doing the right thing, for exposing US high crimes, not for any wrongdoing. On March 8, Manning was detained for refusing to […]

Is Trump Regime Military Intervention in Venezuela Likely? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Regional nations, the world community, UN, and overwhelming majority of Venezuelans oppose US military intervention in the country. What’s highly unlikely is possible with neocon extremist hardliners in charge of Trump regime geopolitics. Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai […]

Pompeo in Latin America by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) From April 11 – 15, his visits to Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Colombia are all about hardening the Trump regime’s coup plot against Venezuela’s Maduro and Bolivarian social democracy. It also aims to counter growing Sino/Russian influence in the country and region. […]