Jimmy Carter Blasts US Domestic and Foreign Policies by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) As president, the Carter Doctrine pledged Middle East military intervention if US interests were threatened. His administration considered invading Iran and seizing its oil fields. He encouraged Saddam Hussein to attack Iran. He supported Salvadoran and Nicaraguan fascists, […]

Scores of Bomb Threats in Russia Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Wednesday, around 190 sites were evacuated in Moscow and 16 other Russian cities following bomb threats. Emergency services remain on alert in schools and universities, shopping malls, railway stations, airports, hotels, cinemas and other locations. Moscow’s emergency services received over […]

Another Deplorable GOP Healthcare Plan by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Proposed by neocon Republican Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, so-called Cassidy-Graham is similar to earlier GOP marketplace medicine plans – focused on profit-making, not providing all Americans with adequate healthcare coverage. Along with co-sponsors Dean Heller and Ron Johnson, Cassidy […]

Deplorable American Values by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) So-called American values have done more harm to more people worldwide over a longer duration than any other nation in world history – a legacy of endless wars of aggression, predatory corporate empowerment and post-9/11 tyranny, nothing to be proud of. Not for […]

New White House Communications Director by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Hope Hicks is Trump’s third communications director in less than eight months, following Mike Dubke and Anthony Scaramucci – fired after 10 days. Hicks is likely to fare better, assuming a role she’s had for years. She’s Trump’s longest-serving political aide. […]

America: Imperial Bully Threatening World Peace by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) America’s rage for unchallenged global dominance represents the greatest threat to world peace, security and humanity’s survival. It’s geopolitically out-of-control,  both warrior wings of its duopoly governance hellbent on forcing its will on all other nations. Naked aggression is its […]

Sanction America, Not North Korea by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Ideally, sanctions should be abolished, prohibited for any reasons. They’re counterproductive, achieving pain and suffering alone for ordinary people in targeted countries, nothing else. As long as they’re permitted, legally by Security Council members alone, illegal unilaterally, sanction America for its […]

US Anti-BDS Legislation by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Global BDS activism is vital – the most effective initiative challenging Israeli ruthlessness, essential to preserve and support. Congressional Israel Anti-Boycott Act legislation wants it criminalized. It aims to “amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to include in the prohibitions on boycotts […]

Victory Achieved in Syria? by Stephen Lendman Yogi Berra was right, saying “(i)t ain’t over till it’s over.” Things are heading in the right direction in Syria, miles yet to go to liberate the country from the scourge of America’s presence and terrorist groups it supports. Each day brings more good news than bad. On […]

Undemocratic Dems Pretend to Support Universal Healthcare They Oppose by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Congressional progressives don’t exist. Sanders and others pretending otherwise oppose what they claim to support.  During the Obamacare debate, Sanders was the only undemocratic Dem rhetorically for  single-payer universal coverage, then rejected it by supporting the (Un)affordable […]