US War on Venezuela by Other Means Based on Big Lies and Mass Deception by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Waging war involves selling it to enlist popular support at home – or at least avoid strong opposition. Hegemonic US strategy includes fear-mongering, misinformation, disinformation, Big Lies, fake news, and other forms […]

World’s Leading Human Rights Abuser USA by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The State Department publishes human rights reports for over 190 countries annually. Omitted is the appalling record of the world’s leading human rights abuser on a global scale – the USA. No nation in world history caused more harm to […]

Terror-Bombing Gaza, Ignoring Israeli High Crimes by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In response to several rockets fired from Gaza, landing harmlessly, Israeli warplanes terror-bombed 100 targets in the Strip pre-dawn Friday, according to an IDF spokesperson. The world community and UN ignored Israeli naked aggression like many times before, illegally blockaded […]

US College Admissions Scandal by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In the 1961 Hollywood film Splendor in the Grass, the protagonist’s oil-wealthy father got his academically unqualified son admitted to Yale. Though unexplained in the film, he likely bought his admission, his influence not enough to prevent his son’s expulsion for failing […]

North Korea to Suspend Talks with Trump Regime? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Two Kim Jong-un/Trump summits and additional talks between officials of both countries achieved no change in hardline US policy toward the DPRK.  Nothing suggests the likelihood of improved bilateral relations ahead. Both right wings of US one-party rule […]

The Trump Regime Considers the West Bank, Gaza, and Syria’s Golan Israeli Territory by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The West Bank and Gaza are illegally occupied Palestinian territories. There’s nothing “disputed” about them.  Expanding Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land flagrantly violate Fourth Geneva’s Article 49, stating: “Individual or mass forcible […]

Saving Venezuela’s Social Democracy by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Trump regime hardliners are hellbent on eliminating it, wanting control over Venezuela’s oil, gas, gold, and other valued resources, along with gaining another imperial trophy. Since established under Hugo Chavez in February 1999, Venezuelan social democracy has been a thorn in the […]

Electrical Power Largely Restored in Venezuela by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) According to Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez, electrical power in the country is mostly restored, potable water service 80% restored, adding: “Problems remain with transformers that have been sabotaged…in Baruta and El Hatillo. The service has been restored in 60% of […]

US Anti-Russia Legislation by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Largely by voice vote on Tuesday, House members passed four anti-Russia measures, continuing US war on the country by other means. One bill targeted Vladimir Putin over the February 2015 killing of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov – lethally shot multiple times in central […]

The Trump Regime Wants US LNG Replacing Russian Natural Gas by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline project is the most impressive of its kind – when completed to be the world’s longest underwater pipeline. It’ll be able to deliver 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from beneath […]