Author Archives: Stephen Lendman

Facebook restores Telesur page—for how long?

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 17, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

In cahoots with dark forces in Washington, Facebook is an anti-social media censoring machine. Continue reading →

Facebook an anti-social media censoring machine

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 16, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

On Tuesday, Caracas, Venezuela-based Latin American broadcaster Telesur reported the following: “Telesur’s English’s page has been removed from Facebook for the second time this year without any specific reason being provided.” Continue reading →

US jury rules against Monsanto

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 14, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Monsanto is one of the most reviled corporate predators for good reason. Continue reading →

Social media hostility to speech and press freedoms

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 13, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

In cahoots with US dark forces, Facebook wants truth-telling on vital world and national issues censored, content diverging from the official narrative suppressed. Continue reading →

Alexis de Tocqueville was wrong

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 10, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

From inception, democracy in America was pure fantasy. No rule of the people ever existed—governance of, by, and for the privileged few alone at the expense of most others. Continue reading →

Nikki Haley reinterprets aggression in Yemen

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 8, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Nikki Haley is the US imperial state’s foul-mouthed voice at the UN and on the world stage—a Russophobe, Iranophoble Ziofascist extremist supporter of endless wars of aggression, blaming them on victims. Continue reading →

Fantasy prosperity in America

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 7, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Since the neoliberal 90s, America has been steadily thirdworldized. Over 21% of workers wanting jobs can’t find them. Continue reading →

Mass incarceration in America

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 6, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

America’s gulag prison system is the shame of the nation. The Sentencing Project’s director, Marc Mauer, is a leading expert on US criminal injustice, harming blacks and Latinos most of all. Continue reading →

Universal healthcare could save hundreds of billions of dollars annually

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 2, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

According to Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), universal healthcare in America would save about $500 billion annually—by eliminating insurer middlemen and the bureaucratic nightmare it creates for physicians and hospitals. Continue reading →

Targeting Assange threatens speech, media and academic freedoms

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on August 1, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

That’s what targeting Julian Assange is all about, wanting truth-telling on vital issues suppressed. Permitting the falsified official narrative alone is where things are heading. Continue reading →

Devastated Yemen faces another possible cholera crisis

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 31, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Yemen is a virtual forgotten war, raging full-scale for over three years, devastating the country and its people, media scoundrels giving it short shrift coverage—US television “news” practically none at all. Continue reading →

Falsely blaming Hamas for Israeli high crimes

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 25, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Blaming victims is longstanding US, Israel, and scoundrel media policy. Continue reading →

Diabolical plot to extradite Assange to US

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 24, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Ecuador granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum at its London embassy in August 2012. Continue reading →

Israeli war on Gaza over kites?

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 23, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Hamas is a legitimate political organization, not a terrorist group as falsely designed by Israel and Washington in deference to the Jewish state. Continue reading →

Apartheid rule over Palestinians enacted into Israeli Basic Law

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 20, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

From inception, democracy in Israel was pure fantasy. Now rights for Jews alone is official with Knesset enactment of apartheid rule over Palestinian citizens. Continue reading →

Raging Russophobia in America

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 19, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

I was an adolescent when the Cold War began. I remember the “father of (Soviet Russia) containment” George Kennan and Winston Churchill’s 1946 Fulton, MO, “Iron Curtain” speech—later writing about what they both had to say. Continue reading →

Israeli law to deny Palestinian high court petitions

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 18, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

On the phony pretext of seeking to reduce the High Court of Justice’s caseload, extremist Knesset members will vote this week on a repressive bill to limit the right of Palestinians to challenge illegal settlement construction on stolen land. Continue reading →

Israel’s apartheid nation-state bill heading for adoption?

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 17, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Like America and other Western states, democracy in Israel is pure fantasy, absent from inception. Continue reading →

Israel heads toward terror war on Gaza

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 16, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Israel holds Gazans hostage under an illegal blockade since mid-2007—unrelated to security issues, solely for political reasons. Continue reading →

Trump’s SCOTUS nomination: A hard-right transformational choice

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 12, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Long gone from the High Court are towering figures like William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the court’s finest hours during their tenure—champions of justice for all. Continue reading →

Trump’s deplorable SCOTUS nomination

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 11, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Nominating another right-wing extremist to the nation’s High Court surprised no one. Continue reading →

Other nations trust America at their peril

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 10, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Duplicity and betrayal define US relations with other nations and its own ordinary people—ill-served, abused and exploited in deference to its privileged class. Continue reading →

Netanyahu regime cuts off funds to Palestinians

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 6, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

When it comes to fundamental Palestinians rights, Netanyahu operates like a tinpot despot. Continue reading →

Israel plans annexation of West Bank land

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 4, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

US support and encouragement lets Israel get away with mass murder and much more. Its longstanding plans call for stealing and annexing all valued Judea and Samaria land. Continue reading →

Historic change in Mexico?

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 3, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Politics in Mexico and Chicago are similar. Former city Alderman Paddy Bauler long ago said it best: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” Continue reading →

Justice Kennedy’s retirement assures greater injustice in America

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on July 2, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, effective end of July. Continue reading →

Poverty and deprivation in America

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on June 28, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

America is a land of extremes—unprecedented wealth enjoyed by a privileged few contrasted with deep poverty because of neoliberal harshness, bipartisan force-fed austerity, grievously harming the nation’s most vulnerable. Continue reading →

Trump bashing ignores what’s most important

By Stephen Lendman
Posted on June 27, 2018 by Stephen Lendman

Make no mistake. Trump is a rogue actor, a despicable character, serving his privileged class exclusively at the expense of most others, the nation’s least advantaged harmed most by his hostile agenda, besides unspeakable horrors inflicted on countless millions abroad. Continue reading →