Author Archives: Stephen Lendman

No red wave, no surprise

Americans not only get the best “democracy” money can buy, they get results determined by brazen fraud. Continue reading

Wicked Witch of the West selected, not publicly elected UK prime minister

In Britain, majority party members choose the prime minister as head of government. Continue reading

Fake news claim: Russia seeks wider conflict

Big Lies take on a life of their own by ad nauseam repetition. Continue reading

Russian recognition of Donbass long overdue

In February 2014, the Obama/Biden regime’s Maidan coup transformed democratic Ukraine into Nazi-infested fascist rule. Continue reading

Russia nears readiness to invade Ukraine?

Advice to news consumers: If a feast of fakery is your cup of tea… Continue reading

Russia bashing on Sunday propaganda TV

As hegemon USA, NATO vassal regimes and their MSM press agents wage war of words on Russia, Sino/Russian ties are stronger and more durable than any previous time throughout the post-WW II period. Continue reading

Escalating war on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Founded in 1978 by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the company was sold to Unilever in 2000. Continue reading

Cuba reflects Fidel’s redoubtable spirit

Hostile to what just societies hold dear, establishment media march in lockstep with flagrantly illegal US/Western policies. Continue reading

US/UK dark forces want Julian Assange dead from medical neglect and slow torture

Along with complicit establishment media, US/UK regimes want Julian Assange silenced by death behind bars. Continue reading

Biden regime aiming to destabilize and undermine Cuba

Longstanding US policy aims to transform nations free from its control into subservient vassal states. Continue reading

Biden regime escalates war on Russia and China by other means

Hostile to peace, stability, cooperative relations with other countries, and rule of law principles, Biden regime hardliners escalated illegal sanctions war on Russia and China. Continue reading

Russia’s gloves coming off?

Do Russian officials henceforth intend dealing with the US-dominated West in the only language their regimes understand? Continue reading

US/Western supported Israeli apartheid viciousness

Documentation of Israeli crimes of war, against humanity, atrocities, and other forms of state-sponsored brutality since establishment of the Jewish state could fill countless blood-drenched volumes. Continue reading

Iran unjustifiably blamed for another false flag attack?

Unlike repeated US-dominated NATO and Israeli rule of law breaches, Iran fully complies with its international obligations. Continue reading

Biden regime terror-bombs Syrian/Iraqi border areas

Forever war by hot and/or other means is official US policy against all nations free from its control. Continue reading

Israel’s war on truth-telling media and journalists

Time and again, truth-telling journalism as it should be is a casualty of all things war and related violence. Continue reading

Establishment media ignore Israeli high crimes

There’s no ambiguity about life in Occupied Palestine. Continue reading

Blinken on Sino/Russian threats?

Establishment media, the VOA, and Washington’s other state-sponsored propaganda operations give US officials a platform to lie and mass deceive the public. Continue reading

Nonbelligerent Russia an existential threat?

Democratic Russia is a leading proponent of world peace, stability, cooperative relations with other countries, and compliance with the rule of law. Continue reading

Bashing invented US enemies

Nations refusing to sell their soul to higher power in Washington are automatically considered threats to its national security at a time when its only enemies are invented. Continue reading

Israeli violence against Palestinian protesters in Occupied Jerusalem

Time and again, when Palestinians protest legitimately against Jewish state viciousness, Israeli soldiers and other security forces attack them with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, toxic tear gas, and other repressive tactics. Continue reading

The blame game

Duplicity and contempt for the rule of law define longstanding US policy on the world stage. Continue reading

Is trouble in Texas symptomatic of America’s unravelling?

Chicago where I live experiences severe cold, snow, and occasional heavy amounts in winter. Continue reading

JCPOA on the rocks?

Trump regime hardliners went all-out to destroy the landmark nuclear deal with Iran. Continue reading

Ignoring the greatest US Great Depression

Instead of explaining the dire state of things in the US, West and elsewhere—Main Street economies in collapse—establishment media pretend otherwise. Continue reading

Ecuador’s presidential election suggests return of people-friendly rule

On Sunday, Equadorians voted for a successor to imperial tool President Lenin Moreno. Continue reading

Biden’s interventionist agenda

Biden/Harris regime interventionist dirty tricks began straightaway in office. Continue reading

Assange denied bail

After ruling for Assange against the Trump regime’s extradition request, UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser denied his legal team’s bail request for urgently needed/long denied medical care—unjustifiably saying the following on Wednesday: “I am satisfied that there are substantial grounds for believing that if Mr Assange is released today he would fail to surrender to court to face the appeal proceedings [sic],” adding, “As far as Mr Assange is concerned, this case has not yet been won…The outcome of this appeal is not yet known.” Continue reading

Pardon Julian Assange

The US Constitution gave presidents “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment (Article II, Section 2).” Continue reading

Unacceptable foreign occupations by US forces

Interfering in the internal affairs of other countries is flagrantly illegal under the UN Charter and other international law—that’s automatically US constitutional law. Continue reading

Millions of Americans vulnerable to eviction

During the most severe Main Street economic collapse in US history—with over one-fourth of working-age Americans jobless—additional calamity looms in the coming weeks. Continue reading

Pompeo’s war on China, Iran and truth-telling

As point man for Trump regime foreign policy, illegal US sanctions on targeted countries likely come at Pompeo’s urging. Continue reading