Intrepid Report: Widespread public distrust of mainstream media, Why is the progressive left helping the elite elect Hillary?, No prizes for guessing Netanyahu’s plans, The U.S. decision to kill more civilians in Iraq and Syria

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We cannot keep publishing without your help. We rely on you to help us pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate Monday Widespread public distrust of mainstream media By Stephen Lendman Americans have little faith in so-called major media news and information, a collective lying machine by any standard, suppressing what’s most important to report, substituting managed news misinformation rubbish. Monroe Doctrine becomes the Obama Doctrine By Wayne Madsen Long discredited, the Monroe Doctrine, a policy set forth by President James Monroe that stipulates that the Western Hemisphere is America’s backyard over which it exercises complete tutelage, has been dusted off by Barack Obama. The neo-Monroe Doctrine, which can be called the Obama Doctrine, has seen the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, State Department, and the Pentagon actively work to oust progressive leaders from power in Latin America. US assaults British sovereignty By Paul Craig Roberts The Washington elite believe that the British people should serve Washington’s interest and not their own. To this end, President Obama has been sent to London to emphasize that the UK must remain in the EU. The fire each time By Luciana Bohne Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains’ hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria. Bernie Sanders has qualified as a rabbi By Gilad Atzmon The Times of Israel explained earlier this week “How Bernie Sanders just became the rabbi of the Jewish left.” Tuesday Real hypocrisy versus real change: Canada’s PM Trudeau backs arms deal with Saudi ‘Lords of Terrorism’ By Mark Taliano “Reverse Projection,” as described by Canadian professor John McMurtry, is a staple of propagandists as the imperial West imposes its toxic agenda of war and poverty domestically, and throughout the world. Desperate GOP attempt to stop Trump By Stephen Lendman Trump remains overwhelmingly popular among GOP voters, way outdistancing his rivals. Cruz and Kasich alone remain—allying in a desperate bid to stop him. Why is the progressive left helping the elite elect Hillary? By Paul Craig Roberts Have you noticed that it is not only the presstitute media and the two establishment political parties that are beating up on Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump but also the progressive left? Sometimes the messages overlap so much that the progressive left sounds like the One Percent. But mainly the progressive left is down on Sanders because he is “not pure,” and they don’t like Trump because he hurts people’s feelings and doesn’t apologize. What state of history are we really in? For revolutionists the question is far from academic. By Gaither Stewart In his work “Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution,” Lenin discusses a vexing Russian pre-revolutionary problem similar to the problem facing American left radicals today. For Russia of that epoch the question was one of timing and tactics: Was the classical Marxian bourgeois revolution leading to a democratic republic as a first step toward the Socialist Revolution necessary, and even possible, considering the pusillanimous nature of the Russian bourgeoisie at the time? Or could Russia bypass bourgeois capitalism altogether and leap directly from backwardness into advanced socialism? Today, more than a handful of people ask: What will be the nature of the long overdue Great American Revolution? I’m not cheering By Missy Comley Beattie “Smile,” she said, “no one wants to be in the company of someone who’s sad.” She performed happiness confidently, although once during lunch at a crowded café, she looked at me, began to cry, then loudly said, “Cancer is so fucking terrible.” Her son died in 2006 and when I met her in 2009, she was grieving, like me. I was Brailing my way, wondering if anything ever would be normal for me again after my husband’s death. She and I became friends. Wednesday Israel is making it difficult to be a Jew By Dave Alpert The more aware I become of Israel and the people who occupy what was formerly Palestine, the more difficult it is for me to be a Jew. The illusion of rights By John Chuckman In truth, there is no such thing as a right. Disenfranchising large segments of Americans By Walter Brasch Several hundred thousand American citizens won’t be voting in presidential primary elections—and it’s not their fault. Washington launches its attack against BRICS By Paul Craig Roberts Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. At 80, failed Abbas is probed, derided and scapegoated By Ramzy Baroud “We won’t act like them, we will not use violence or force, we are peaceful, we believe in peace, in peaceful popular resistance.” This was part of a message issued by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in October, only days after a few incidents took place in which Palestinian youth were accused of attacking Israeli soldiers and settlers with knives. Thursday The U.S. decision to kill more civilians in Iraq and Syria By Nicolas J S Davies USA Today reported on April 19th that U.S. air forces bombing Syria and Iraq have been operating under new, looser rules of engagement since last fall. The war commander, Lt Gen McFarland, now orders air strikes that are expected to kill up to 10 civilians without prior approval from U.S. Central Command, and U.S. officials made it clear to USA Today that U.S. air strikes are killing more civilians as a result of the new rules. World War III has begun By Paul Craig Roberts The Third World War is currently being fought. How long before it moves into its hot stage? The endgame of 2016's anti-establishment politics By Robert Reich Will Bernie Sanders’s supporters rally behind Hillary Clinton if she gets the nomination? Likewise, if Donald Trump is denied the Republican nomination, will his supporters back whoever gets the Republican nod? No prizes for guessing Netanyahu’s plans By Linda S. Heard All of a sudden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the international community to recognise Syria’s Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 War, as belonging to Israel. Obscured American: Anna the retired teacher, cab driver and computer programmer By Linh Dinh Don, Friendly Lounge owner, told me this joke, “How is a South Philly guy like Jesus? One, he’s never left his neighborhood. Two, he hangs out with the same 12 guys. Three, his mother thinks he’s God.” Friday Cruz-Fiorina alliance shows desperation By Stephen Lendman Sunday’s announced Cruz-Kasich alliance to stay out of each other’s way in upcoming primaries as a way of challenging Trump faltered straightaway—Kasich urging supporters to stick with him. May Day 2016: No gods, no masters By Joseph M. Cachia Each year, as we join millions across the world to celebrate the victories of workers, our own Freedom Day remains still fresh in our minds. Requiem for American foreign policy change By Ben Tanosborn It was expected to happen and, true to course, it did. On Tuesday, April 26, presidential primaries in five northeastern states hermetically, and silently, sealed the fate of how the US will be dealing with the rest of the world on all issues, geopolitical or economic, for another four, perhaps eight years. Nancy Reagan never wanted to see the Bushes again By Wayne Madsen WMR was told by a longtime national security aide to then-President Ronald Reagan that First Lady Nancy Reagan told White House staff that “I never want to see the Bushes again.” The comment came after Bush family friend John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan on March 30, 1981, some ten weeks after the presidential inauguration. Mrs. Reagan apparently was convinced that Vice President George H W Bush and Second Lady Barbara Bush were somehow connected to the assassination attempt. Censored, surveilled, watch listed and jailed: the absurdity of being a citizen in the American police state By John W. Whitehead In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed as an act of treason—were blinded, castrated, disfigured, mutilated, rendered mute by having their tongues cut out of their heads, and ultimately crucified.
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