UN Chief Sides with Aggressors in Syria

UN Chief Sides with Aggressors in Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) With rare exceptions, UN secretaries general serve US-led Western interests, supporting aggression by failing to denounce it, disgracing the office they hold, breaching UN Charter principles. Since installed as UN secretary general by Washington in January 2017, former Portuguese...

DOJ Accuses Harvard of Racial Bias in Admissions

DOJ Accuses Harvard of Racial Bias in Admissions by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) In November 2014, a Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) accused Harvard of “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies and procedures in administering the undergraduate admissions program” - citing harm to Asian-American applicants. The lawsuit claimed Harvard uses racial...

UN Human Rights Committee Rule for Lula’s Right to Run for President in Brazil

UN Human Rights Committee Rules for Lula’s Right to Run for President in Brazil by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was imprisoned last April on dubious corruption charges after the nation’s high court ruled his 12-year sentence could be enforced while appealing his conviction....

Claims of Syrian CW Use Are Bald-Faced Lies

Claims of Syrian CW Use Are Bald-Faced Lies by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Truth-telling is the first casualty of war. Washington and its imperial partners wage them endlessly for unchallenged global dominance - smashing one sovereign independent nation after another threatening no one.  Victims of US aggression are blamed for crimes...

Eulogizing War Criminal McCain

Eulogizing War Criminal McCain by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) America honors its worst. McCain was an unapologetic imperial spear carrier, a thuggish scoundrel supporting all US wars of aggression against nations threatening no one. He was uncaring about the horrific human cost, dismissive about millions of civilians perishing post-9/11 alone, countless...

Are Trump Regime Hardliners Sabotaging US/North Korea Talks?

Are Trump Regime Hardliners Sabotaging US/North Korea Talks? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Washington can never be trusted. Its promises are consistently broken. Rare exceptions prove the rule. Accepting US pledges at face value is hazardous to the security of all sovereign independent nations and most others. Washington has been in...

Netanyahu Threatens Iran Over Its Defense Pact with Syria

Netanyahu Threatens Iran Over Its Defense Pact with Syria by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Last Sunday, Iran’s Defense Minister General Amir Hatami and his Syrian counterpart General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub signed a defense and technical cooperation agreement. It “define(s) areas of bilateral presence, participation, and cooperation” in defending the security of...

Iran Nuclear Deal May Die

Iran Nuclear Deal May Die by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) The Trump regime’s unconscionable JCPOA pullout may end up killing the deal, or weakening it beyond repair as long as Iranophobes are in charge of Washington’s geopolitical agenda.  Full support by Russia and China isn’t enough. Backing from Britain, France and...

Will Russia Challenge US-Led Aggression in Syria?

Will Russia Challenge US-Led Aggression in Syria? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Trump regime hardliners are hellbent for escalated war and regime change in Syria - going all-out to prevent conflict resolution, a notion they abhor in all US war theaters. Republicans and undemocratic Dems are addicted to wars of aggression....

Syrian Documents Reveal CW False Flag Coming

Syrian Documents Reveal CW False Flag Coming by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) During a Tuesday special Security Council session on Syria, its UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari minced no words saying: “I put in your hands documented information on the preparations taken by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization and the affiliated groups to...