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Mort Rosenblum | After Referendumb, a Coup Attempt; Is Capitulation Next? 
 
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Rosenblum writes: "Venezuelans are dying in the streets to preserve their democracy. All we Americans have to do is vote. If we're not up to that, history will see us as the people who capitulated, dumbly handing over our keys to a self-obsessed clown." 
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Why Trump Should Be Afraid With Robert Mueller on the Case 
Bob Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone 
Dreyfuss writes: "By now, it's clear: Robert Mueller, the special counsel looking into Russiagate and related matters, is a determined, relentless inquisitor whose investigation could lead to criminal charges against a wide range of Donald Trump's staff, associates, former campaign officials and members of his immediate family." 
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Former DOJ Civil Rights Head: Jeff Sessions Is Implementing an Anti-Civil Rights Agenda 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions has certainly implemented an anti-civil rights agenda at the Justice Department, targeting some of the most high-profile areas of work that the Civil Rights Division had been engaged in in years prior." 
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A US Military Contractor Spent US Tax Dollars on Aston Martins Rather Than Afghanistan, Audit Finds 
Graham Lanktree, Newsweek 
Lanktree writes: "A U.S. contractor bilked the American military out of $50 million spent on Bentleys, Aston Martins and big salaries for senior staffers' significant others, according to a government audit. Senator Claire McCaskill demanded on Wednesday that the Pentagon explain why it was allowed to get away with it." 
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'If Police Patrolled White Areas as They Do Poor Black Neighborhoods, There Would Be a Revolution' 
Paul Butler, Guardian UK 
Butler writes: "The work of police is to preserve law and order, including the racial order. Hillary Clinton once asked a room full of white people to imagine how they would feel if police and judges treated them the way African Americans are treated. If the police patrolled white communities with the same violence that they patrol poor black neighborhoods, there would be a revolution." 
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Robert Fisk | The Problem Today in Both East and West Is That Our Governments Are Not Our Friends 
Robert Fisk, The Independent 
Fisk writes: "When Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite channel has both the Saudis and the Israelis demanding its closure, it must be doing something right. To bring Saudi head-choppers and Israeli occupiers into alliance is, after all, something of an achievement." 
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Penalties Against Polluters Drop 60% Under Trump 
Environmental Integrity Project 
Excerpt: "So far, the Trump administration's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been lighter on the pocketbooks of polluters than previous administrations, collecting 60 percent less in civil penalties than previous administrations had recovered from environmental violators on average by the end of July in their first year after taking office." 
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Boardman writes: "A country doesn't need a monolithic totalitarian government to have an effectively working police state. The United States has had a partial police state in place since before it existed as a 'free country.'" 
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FOCUS: William Boardman | Republican Cruelty - Just for Immigrants, Disabled, and Gays? 
 
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Boardman writes: "Scapegoating minorities is useful in building a police state." 
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Intrepid Report: Week of June 27, 2016

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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 Myths about Brexit and the EU By Wayne Madsen The upset victory of the Brexit campaign for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the Europe Union has all the usual suspects pulling their hair, gnashing their teeth, clutching their pearls, and looking for the nearest fainting couch. The gloom and doom predictions that the world now faces an economic catastrophe are on the lips of George Soros-paid operatives and Wall Street con artists who have managed to book themselves on the blathering “news” shows found in the vast wasteland of cable television. The Brexit vote By Paul Craig Roberts What does it mean? How America’s Afghan crusade came home to Orlando Orlando ISIS gunman was embedded in expatriate US-backed Afghan jihad network By Nafeez Ahmed There are many threads to this tragic, horrifying story of a gay American son of an Afghan mujahid. Trump, his virus and the dark age of unreason By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship There’s a virus infecting our politics and right now it’s flourishing with a scarlet heat. It feeds on fear, paranoia and bigotry. All that was required for it to spread was a timely opportunity—and an opportunist with no scruples. Omar Mateen & the US State Dept: Two peas in a pod? By Jane Stillwater Here we go again. The American military-industrial complex is once again dropping really broad hints that stepping up its illegal “war” on Syria would be really, really nice. They are hoping that it might be a lot nicer than their recent illegal “wars” on Libya, Iraq, Ukraine and Afghanistan—but don’t hold your breath. Worst mass shooting in American history? By Margaret Kimberley Contrary to press reports, the killing of 50 people at a gay club in Orlando, Florida is not the worst mass shooting in American history. Where to begin? Tuesday Anti-Brexit camp wants second referendum By Stephen Lendman Call it the sour grapes crowd. When things don’t turn out its way, it demands another go, hoping for a different result. Brexit & economically incorrect identity politics By Frank Scott Brexit, a loss for not only British but also European and global capital, is ultimately a victory for humanity even though the mentally beleaguered brigades of all-is-always-lost are made to see it as a triumph of the racist right. US propaganda operations attract extremist families By Wayne Madsen Seddique Mateen, the father of the Orlando, Florida nightclub shooter Omar Mateen and self-styled leader of a pro-Taliban Afghan government-in-exile in Florida, is emblematic of the American policy that permits extremist propaganda operatives to be nurtured on US soil. Since the Cold War era, the US Central Intelligence Agency has exceled in finding the most extreme Cubans, Eastern Europeans, Afghanis, Uighurs, and others to concoct and broadcast incendiary propaganda on airwaves funded by the US government. Diablo shutdown marks end of atomic era By Harvey Wasserman As worldwide headlines have proclaimed, California’s Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) says it will shut its giant Diablo Canyon reactors near San Luis Obispo, and that the power they’ve been producing will be replaced by renewable energy. Chewbacca and the world of semi-reality news media By Rosemary and Walter Brasch A Facebook video of a woman wearing a Chewbacca mask and laughing almost hysterically in her car has drawn more than 140 million hits from numerous sources in the past two weeks. Escaping the cult By Missy Comley Beattie Last time I watched mainstream TV, I was with my sister Laura, traveling after attending our niece’s wedding. One of the interchangeable anchors asked a Trump fan about her candidate’s obvious lies. (Funny, since they all lie.) She said she doesn’t care. She likes him, will support him, regardless. Wednesday The 2016 U.S. election: A possible repeat of the 1964 election? By Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay The way this 2016 American presidential election is unfolding, there is a good chance that it could be a repeat of the 1964 U.S. election. In both instances, a Democratic presidential candidate is facing a flawed and frightening Republican presidential candidate who multiplies provocative and reckless statements and off-hand comments. The war on weed is winding down—but will Monsanto be the winner? By Ellen Brown In April, Pennsylvania became the 24th state to legalize medical cannabis, a form of the plant popularly known as marijuana. That makes nearly half of US states. A major barrier to broader legalization has been the federal law under which all cannabis—even the very useful form known as industrial hemp—is classed as a Schedule I controlled substance that cannot legally be grown in the US. But that classification could change soon. In a letter sent to federal lawmakers in April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said it plans to release a decision on rescheduling marijuana in the first half of 2016. Palestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel uses water as a weapon of war By Ramzy Baroud Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. Who should make political policy, the people or the politicians? By William John Cox In the midst of what undoubtedly will be the nastiest and most expensive presidential campaign in American history, it is important to remember that the question is not so much whether a candidate is a good or bad person, but rather what should and will be the policies, objectives, and consequences of her or his administration? What do the People of the United States really want and expect their government to do on their behalf? Who should make political policy, the People, or the politicians they elect to represent them? A week in the life of the American police state By John W. Whitehead If you’ve been caught up in the circus that is the presidential election, you’ve likely missed the latest news about all the ways in which the government continues to erode our freedoms, undermine our sovereignty, abuse our trust, invade our homes, invade our privacy, destroy our property, hijack our bank accounts, and generally render itself above the law. Was the fix in? By Dave Alpert In 2008, Hillary Clinton was forced to accept and support Barack Obama’s nomination for the presidency, something that everyone thought she had locked up. Thursday A rejection of the EU foreign policy also part of Brexit wave By Wayne Madsen Largely lost in the wave of anti-European Union fervor sweeping through Europe in the wake of the United Kingdom’s historic Brexit vote to leave the union is the rejection by most Europeans of the EU’s common foreign policy that runs counter to the interests of Europeans. Not only has the EU supported sanctions against Russia that have financially decimated European farmers and factory workers and welcomed millions of mainly Muslim migrants to Europe from U.S.-created civil wars in the Middle East and South Asia, but now it encourages many Muslim militants in Europe to return to Syria. In Syria, they continue to wage war against the government of President Bashar al Assad and his allies. Tories intend greater austerity following Brexit vote By Stephen Lendman Political fallout from last Thursday’s Brexit vote didn’t take long to unfold. David Cameron began it by announcing his resignation, effective when Tories meet in October, he said. Haaretz confirms: Britain has been operating as an Israeli puppet within the EU By Gilad Atzmon “With Brexit, Israel Loses a Major Asset in the European Union,” Haaretz reported Sunday. The Orlando shooting and our reptilian minds By Mark Taliano The shooting in Orlando, Florida, is not about homosexuals, or Muslims, or assault rifles. A view from Japan: An interview with Motoyuki Shibata By Linh Dinh In Japan, even a serious writer may be seen on mass advertising, and a translator can become a star. One of Japan’s most famous intellectuals, Motoyuki Shibata is a specialist on American literature. He has translated books by Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Steven Millhauser and Stuart Dybek, among others. Shibata is also the editor of two popular literary journals, the Japanese-language Monkey and the English-language Monkey Business. His book of essays, The American Narcissus, won the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2005. Among the pieces are “Wonder If I’m Dead,” “The Half-Baked Scholar” and “Cambridge Circus.” Early puberty in girls is becoming epidemic and getting worse Girls with early onset puberty face a number of mental and physical health risks. By Martha Rosenberg Padded bras for kindergarteners with growing breasts to make them more comfortable? Sixteen percent of U.S. girls experiencing breast development by the age of 7? Thirty percent by the age of 8? Clearly something is affecting the hormones of U.S. girls—a phenomenon also seen in other developed countries. Girls in poorer countries seem to be spared—until they move to developed countries. Friday The collapse of Western democracy By Paul Craig Roberts Democracy no longer exists in the West. In the US, powerful private interest groups, such as the military-security complex, Wall Street, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness and the extractive industries of energy, timber and mining, have long exercised more control over government than the people. But now even the semblance of democracy has been abandoned. Bloody Hillary’s abuse of children By Jack Balkwill It’s amazing how the mainstream press hide the bloody history of Hillary Clinton, including her abuse of children, encouraging millions to vote for her. The establishment has clearly been behind her candidacy. Anti-Democratic Democrat Party platform By Stephen Lendman Republican and Democrat party policies consistently represent privileged Americans at the expense of most everyone else—notably since Bill and Hillary Clinton’s deplorable 1990s co-presidency. The GOP’s love affair with its ‘earthquake in a box’ Breaking up is hard to do and Republicans just can't seem to quit their presumptive presidential candidate. By Michael Winship Republicans, we know what you’re going through. Freedom Rider: The good news of Brexit By Margaret Kimberley This week the world has to be thankful for hubris and political miscalculation. These two factors have temporarily thrown a wrench into the imperialist project. No one in the British or American establishment foresaw the “Brexit” vote that called for a United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union. An Armenian American group caves in to the Anti-Defamation League By David Boyajian For several decades the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other leading Jewish American organizations (AIPAC, AJC, B’nai B’rith, and JINSA) have deliberately colluded with Turkey and Israel to defeat U.S. Congressional resolutions on the Christian Armenian Genocide and to diminish the factuality of that genocide.
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