Trump to Reap Millions of Dollars from GOP Tax Cut Heist by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) David Stockman minced no words, calling the measure “a fiscal, economic and political monster…hands down the worst tax bill enacted in the last half-century.” On Wednesday, Trump practically admitted it’s no “middle class miracle,” saying […]

Daily Israeli State Terror in Occupied Palestine by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Ahead of more Palestinian protests after Friday prayers, Israeli soldiers and police attacked Palestinian resisters with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, and toxic tear gas, beating others with weapons for the occasion.  Scores were injured, maybe hundreds into the […]

UN General Assembly Rejects Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration  by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The vote should have been near-unanimous – every nation except rogue states America and Israel, complicit in Trump’s Jerusalem declaration.  UN member states overwhelmingly rejected it – symbolically rendering it null and void only. The non-binding vote was adopted […]

Netanyahu’s Rage Over General Assembly Vote on Jerusalem by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Thursday, UN General Assembly members are poised to hand him and Trump a sharp rebuke – rejecting the notion of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, spurning Palestinians’ equal right to the city for its future capital. Reportedly, US […]

US and Israel v. the World on Jerusalem by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Jerusalem is an international city – the capital of none. Neither Trump, Netanyahu or anyone else can change what UN Resolution 181 established in November 1947, before Israel became a member state. UN Resolution 194 mandated free access […]

Will Washington Attack North Korea? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) North Korea threatens no one. Yet Trump’s rage for war makes the unthinkable increasingly possible. What’s ongoing in America is similar to what preceded US aggression on Iraq in 2003 – both nations and their leadership demonized, unfounded threats alleged. Trump’s […]

Deplorable Israeli Media Propaganda by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Haaretz reporting blows hot and cold, at times delivering journalism the way it should be, then spoiling it by going the other way too often. It deserves credit for criticizing Netanyahu’s deplorable governance, citing the danger of Zionist zealotry, and featuring reports […]

Trump’s National Security Strategy Threatens World Peace by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Trump’s National Security (NSS) Strategy was a call to arms. It’s a warrior agenda, a blueprint for endless wars of aggression against all sovereign independent states – notably calling Russia and China America’s enemies, war plans likely prepared against […]

Catalans Vote Today by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Catalonia is occupied Madrid territory, its self-governance suspended, eight of its ministers lawlessly imprisoned. Six were released on December 4, four remain behind bars, including vice president Oriol Junqueras and Home Affairs minister Joaquim Forn, along with civil society leaders Jordi Cuixart and […]

UN General Assembly to Vote on Rescinding Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Thursday, General Assembly members will meet in a rare emergency special session (ESS) in the wake of America’s veto of a SC resolution opposing Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. A draft resolution is […]