Trump’s Tax Plan for the Rich by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Tax cuts for business and high-net-worth households don’t create jobs or stimulate growth, as Trump and others around him falsely claim.  Saying they’ll spur a hiring boom and boost the economy is baloney. Helicopter money for ordinary people makes sense. […]

Severe Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) It was nearly a week after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico for Trump to notice, tweeting: “Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble.” In […]

The UN Stinks of Sulfur With Trump’s Presence by Stephen Lendman stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez always expressed his views candidly on vital issues, a hallmark of his governing style. He once said “(t)he grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat…is represented by US imperialism.” “Let the dogs […]

Deporting Palestinians? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The scheme keeps resurfacing – deporting families of Palestinian activists for justice to Syria or Gaza. In November 2014, months after Israeli Protective Edge aggression on Gaza, Knesset legislation was drafted to revoke the citizenship or residency of Palestinian freedom fighters falsely called “terrorists,” […]

Pentagon Wants Greater Military Spending, Claims Nonexistent Russia Threat by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Washington spends around as much as the rest of the world combined on militarism and warmaking, with all so-called defense categories included. It’s at a time when the nation’s only enemies are invented ones to keep things […]

UN Russia Bashing by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) A shameful UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report on Russia’s Crimean republic and Sevastopol reads like it was written by Washington’s intelligence establishment – an exercise in disinformation. Self-determination is a universal right – recognized by the UN Charter and other international […]

Canada’s Shame: Banning Chelsea Manning’s Entry by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) O Canada needs a rewrite, the nation’s national anthem, redesigning its national flag as well, a skull and crossbones or perhaps swastika replacing its traditional maple leaf. The Trudeau government permanently banned Chelsea Manning from entering the country, she revealed […]

Israel Responsible for Killing Three of Its Security Forces by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Palestinian Nimr Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal pulled the trigger. Occupation harshness claimed the lives of two Israeli security guards and a border police officer at the entrance of the illegal Har Adar settlement. Regime ruthlessness has a price, […]

Trump Ups the Stakes in Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Trump is a businessman, a geopolitical no-nothing. Delegating warmaking to hawkish generals was a reckless act. He doesn’t immerse himself in details, largely stays disengaged from policymaking complexities, lets others handle them. Generals love wars, how they advance in rank […]

Trump’s Deplorable Agenda by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In his first eight months in office, Trump escalated US wars of aggression in multiple theaters, risks nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, possible direct confrontation with Russia and China – while serving Wall Street, war-profiteers, other corporate favorites and wealthy Americans exclusively […]