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 […]

Anti-Venezuela Media Propaganda in Action by Stephen Lendman US wars of aggression, color revolutions, and coups like what’s ongoing against Venezuela wouldn’t get out of the starting gate without major media acting as press agents for Washington’s imperial plots. They serve as a collective mouthpiece for power, ignoring rule of law principles, complicit in the […]

Russian Foreign Ministry on Venezuela and Crimea by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (MZ below), things in Venezuela remain “extremely tense,” stressing: “(S)abotage” was responsible for knocking out most of the country’s electrical power for days, things largely normalized again. MZ: “Like the absolute […]

Upping the Stakes in Yemen by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) US forever war in Yemen rages, the Saudis, UAE, NATO, and Israel part of its so-called coalition – against peace in the country and elsewhere. Over 17 years of war began by the Bush/Cheney regime. There’s virtually no prospect for ending […]