The Remdesivir COVID-19 Great Hope Drug Hoax?

The Remdesivir COVID-19 Great Hope Drug Hoax? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) On Wednesday, news about  Gilead Sciences’ COVID-19 remdesivir drug under development sent the company’s stock price and overall US stock market soaring, the same for other equity markets. Yet no evidence shows that the drug is effective in treating...

Diabolical Chinagate the New Russiagate

Diabolical Chinagate the New Russiagate by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) While Russiagate still simmers, Chinagate is coming to a boil — both highly politicized, nothing credible supporting them. No evidence in modern memory suggests US election meddling by other countries. If attempted, they’d accomplish nothing because of the US political system...

45 Years Ago Today

45 Years Ago Today by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) US history since WW II is pockmarked with endless wars of aggression against invented enemies — what the scourge of imperialism is all about. The nation’s resources are used for smashing one country after another, occupying planet earth with the Pentagon’s empire...

US-China Relations on the Rocks?

US-China Relations on the Rocks? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Both right wings of the US war party are hostile toward sovereign independent states that are free from its imperial control. It’s notably true for nations with enormous hydrocarbon resources like Iran and Venezuela — what the US seeks control over...

Millions More US Jobless Than Reported

Millions More US Jobless Than Reported by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Based on how it was calculated pre-1990s, Shadowstats economist John Williams has the real US unemployment rate at around 38%, heading higher. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “millions” of jobless US workers aren’t getting benefits because applications they filed,...

Trump Regime to Formally Approve Illegal Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Land

Trump Regime to Formally Approve Illegal Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Land by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Trump and Netanyahu are two sides of the same coin with a nationality difference. Both relish war. They serve privileged interests and themselves exclusively, along with enforcing harsh crackdowns on resisters — at the expense...

Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians During COVID-19 Outbreaks

Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians During COVID-19 Outbreaks by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Instead of easing state-sponsored violence against Palestinians at a time of COVID-19 outbreaks, the racist Netanyahu regime and extremist settlers it supports are using the public health crisis to intensify viciousness. Instead of denouncing what’s going on and holding...

The People’s Choice Between Two Unacceptable Lessers for US President in November

The People’s Choice Between Two Unacceptable Lessers for US President in November  by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) What passes for US-style “democracy” would make some despots blush.  It’s more fanciful than real, an illusion of what doesn’t exist. The nation was created to be run by its rich, well-born, and able,...

Reports of North Korean Leader’s Death Greatly exaggerated

Reports of North Korean Leader’s Death Greatly Exaggerated by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) Once again, the good old reliable US major media proved unreliable again — time and again delivering fake news to readers, viewers and listeners. On April 20, the NYT reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “was receiving...

Are the US and China on a Collision Course for Greater Confrontation?

Are the US and China on a Collision Course for Greater Confrontation? by Stephen Lendman  (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman) US policymakers from both right wings of the one-party state want China’s rise on the world stage as an economic, industrial, and technological power undermined. A undeclared Cold War between both countries rages. There’s...