Russia Restores Flight Safety Memorandum on Syria Air Operations

Russia Restores Flight Safety Memorandum with US on Syria Air Operations by Stephen Lendman According to Sputnik News, Russia restored the 2015 agreement, suspended after Trump’s April 7 aggression.  He lawlessly OK’d the terror-bombing of Syria’s Shayrat air base - on the phony pretext of Assad allegedly authorizing the April 4 Khan Sheikhoun CW attack...

US Aegis Ashore Anti-Missile System Violates INF Treaty

US Aegis Ashore Anti-Missile System Violates INF Treaty by Stephen Lendman On Saturday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry called Washington’s Eastern European deployment a flagrant INF violation, saying: “The United States has deployed Aegis Ashore anti-missile systems at its base in Romania, and plans…another such system in Poland.”  “(They) incorporate vertical launch systems similar to Mk-41 universal...

Trump’s Op-Ed Big Lies

Trump’s Op-Ed Big Lies by Stephen Lendman All politicians lie! Believe nothing they say! Rare exceptions prove the rule! Trump is America’s Liar-in-Chief - a billionaire businessman, now dirty politician! In a Washington Post op-ed, commemorating his first 100 days in office, he lied claiming he kept promises made to Americans. Trump: “One hundred days...

Trump v. FDR’s First Hundred Days

Trump v. FDR’s First Hundred Days by Stephen Lendman On Friday, Trump ludicrously called his first 100 days “the most successful in our country’s history.” Arguably, they’re the worst. Truth-telling isn’t his long suit. He’s best known for bluster, bombast, demagoguery, and turning truth on its head, along with breaking every positive promise made.  His...

Le Pen Is Right About Disastrous Euro Policy

Le Pen Is Right About Disastrous Euro Policy by Stephen Lendman Campaigning ahead of next Sunday’s French presidential runoff, Le Pen pronounced the euro currency “dead,” saying: “We need to control the currency, to adjust it to the economy, because today the single currency is a burden.” It benefits “big companies engaged in international trade.” It gives Brussels...

Trump Is Right About Major Media Fake News

Trump Is Right About Major Media Fake News by Stephen Lendman Deplorable media scoundrels deliver all fake news, all the time, on domestic and geopolitical issues mattering most. Especially in times of war like now, journalism the way it should be is the first casualty - truth-telling considered anathema. Disinformation and Big Lies substitute. So-called...

Fake News About Russia Sending Weapons to Taliban

Fake News About Russia Sending Weapons to Taliban by Stephen Lendman It would be fitting justice if the report was true.  Taliban roots go back to CIA-recruited, armed and supported Mujahideen fighters against Afghanistan’s Soviet occupiers in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan called them “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” Today, they’re one of America’s...

Le Pen’s Pro-Palestinian PM Choice

Le Pen’s Pro-Palestinian PM Choice by Stephen Lendman Ahead of the May 7 French presidential runoff, Marine Le Pen chose defeated Debout la France (Arise France) presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan as her prime minister if elected. He’s ideologically right-wing like herself. With him at a Saturday news conference, she said “(w)e will form a government...

Trump Supports Terrorism

Trump Supports Terrorism by Stephen Lendman America is history’s greatest perpetrator of state-sponsored terrorism. Its so-called war on this scourge is a fabricated hoax. Its sordid record is longstanding, including:  genocidal war on Native Americans - continuing today against their culture and traditions; enslavement of Black Africans; its deplorable history of racism and Islamophobia -...

Tillerson Threatens North Korea

Tillerson Threatens North Korea by Stephen Lendman America favors bullying over responsible diplomatic outreach, lying over truth-telling, dominance over mutual cooperation, war over peace. Addressing Security Council members on Friday, Secretary of State Tillerson turned truth on its head, claiming years of US “well-intentioned diplomatic efforts to halt (North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile) programs...