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Kerry in Bahrain: Ignores Horrific Human Rights Abuses
Stephen Lendman
Bahrain is home to America’s Fifth Fleet - its regime responsible for some of the world’s most appalling human rights abuses.
Ruling Al Khalifa family despotism resists democratic change, cracking down viciously on political opponents, human rights activists, independent journalists, academic freedom and medical professionals treating nonviolent protesters brutalized by regime harshness.
Washington considers Bahrain a close US ally. On April 7, Kerry visited its capital, Manama, turning truth on its head, calling the country “a leader within the region in trying to break through on creating change that involves its citizens in its politics and opens up space and possibilities.”
Tax Cheat David Cameron Called Dodgy Dave During PM’s Questions
Stephen Lendman
Cameron admitted profiting from funds held secretly offshore in Panama, one of many notorious havens tax cheats use - including enabling ill-gotten wealth money-laundering.
During Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), feisty 84-year-old veteran New Labour MP Dennis Skinner blasted him, demanding full disclosure of his shady financial affairs, including his Notting Hill home and mortgage - calling him “dodgy Dave.”
Responding to Speaker John Bercow’s demand to withdraw his remark or be ordered out of Commons, he shouted “(t)his man has done more to divide this nation than anyone else. I still refer to him as dodgy Dave. Do what you like.”
Bercow expelled him for the day for publicly saying what millions of Brits likely believe. Over 100,000 so far petitioned for a snap election, wanting Cameron replaced.
The War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
Ellen Brown
Exposing tax dodgers is a worthy endeavor, but the “limited hangout” of the Panama Papers may have less noble ends, dovetailing with the War on Cash and the imminent threat of massive bail-ins of depositor funds.
The bombshell publication of the “Panama Papers,” leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3 article titled “Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak,” UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests. Murray writes:
Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished.
Expect hits at Russia, Iran and Syria and some tiny “balancing” western country like Iceland.
Iceland, of course, was the only country to refuse to bail out its banks, instead throwing its offending bankers in jail.
FOIA Documents Reveal Gitmo in Chicago Torture and Abuse
Stephen Lendman
London’s Guardian published information gotten from its FOIA lawsuit, documented evidence of “how Chicago police used punches, baton blows and Tasers at (its) off-the-books (Homan Square) interrogation site” - largely terrorizing Blacks.
Last year, it reported twice on the “abuse-laden ‘black site,’ “ much like what goes on at secret CIA torture prisons.
Police abuse victims disappear into a nondescript warehouse several miles west of where I live downtown. They’re lawlessly arrested detained, denied access to lawyers up to 24 hours, and tortured during secret interrogations.
Trump “The Fascist”: Backdoor Backing of a Political Psychopath Named Hilary Clinton
James Petras
Introduction
From left to right a raucous chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. They cite his campaign promises to build an Israeli-style wall along the US border; his threats to expel eleven million undocumented immigrants; and to restrict foreign Muslims from entering the US, as well as the way his pugnacious face and arm resemble those of Benito Mussolini (‘he juts out his chin, he raises his arm’). They decry his extreme nationalism as ‘resembling Hitler’s policy’, by which they mean his opposition to detrimental free trade agreements and his slogan to “Make America Great.. Again.”
In this article I will critically address the current cartoonish image of fascism with fascism’s historical reality, and then proceed to analyze the so-called “lesser evil” politics behind the re-invention of an American fascist in the guise of billionaire Donald Trump.
`Break Up Wall Street' Loose Again; Dem Debate `Could Be Fun'
Executive Intelligence Review
April 6, 2016 (EIRNS) -- Minnesota Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari, interviewed adversarily by CNBC-TV anchors April 6, repeated his assertion that the Dodd-Frank Act had done no good in preventing another full bank crash and huge bailout; and again spoke of breaking up the Wall Street banks as a potential solution. Kashkari's intervention came at the same moment that the anti-Wall Street Sen. Bernie Sanders completed his seventh primary victory over Hillary Clinton in the past eight states to vote. "The question is," Kashkari said, "in a stressed economic environment like a crisis when multiple banks are running into trouble at the same time, will we actually be able to haircut bond holders and creditors? I say the answer is no. And the reason is the contagion from one bank to another bank to another bank. No one yet has figured out how to solve that contagion risk. Dodd-Frank hasn't done it. The [`bail-in' idea] hasn't done it. We see it in Europe.... Those `contingent conversion' securities haven't added to stability. They've actually added to instability and uncertainty."
Why the Vilest Republicans Have Come to Love Hillary Clinton
Eric Zuesse
The 1964 “Goldwater Girl” Hillary Rodham (Clinton) is now viewed as a possible savior by the same Republicans that loathed her husband: she’s enough of a “neo-conservative” to make lots of them want her to become the next U.S. President.
After Bill Krystol’s friend, Robert Kagan (both men were the “Project for a New American Century” top propagandists for the U.S. to invade Iraq in 2003) praised Hillary Clinton in a Washington Post op-ed, the journalist Robert Parry noted that this endorsement was based on her solid neo-conservative record, especially because "she has backed coups, such as in Honduras (2009) and Ukraine (2014); invasions, such as Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011); and subversions such as Syria (from 2011 to the present) all with various degrees of disastrous results,” and therefore she carries on superbly the neo-conservative tradition, which they represent.
NATO as a War-Racket NATO Causes Refugees, Then Uses Them As Excuse for More Invasions
Eric Zuesse
NATO is the anti-Russia military club of nations, even after the communist Soviet Union and its military club against the U.S., the Warsaw Pact, ended in 1991 — NATO didn’t reciprocate that by ending itself, as it should have done (and would have done if the U.S. President at the time, George Herbert Walker Bush, had had any basic decency; instead, he said in private, “To hell with that; we won, they didn’t!” but he continued telling Gorbachev that NATO wouldn’t move “one inch to the east” — which promise he was planning to violate, and which his successors have been violating). With the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact gone, NATO’s claimed raison d’etre was also gone, but NATO shamelessly continued on, and it even has expanded right up to Russia’s borders (just try to imagine what John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have thought if it hadn’t been Soviet nuclear missiles merely in Cuba in 1962, but all surrounding the U.S. — and that’s the situation today but reversed: today’s Russia is in the situation of 1962’s U.S., but even more so, though NATO has the audacity to accuse Russia of ‘aggression’ for, essentially, defending itself from NATO — from the enemies that are increasingly surrounding it!). (Yes, what America has been doing, really, is that bad.)
Why Hillary Clinton’s Paid Speeches Are Relevant
Eric Zuesse
On the fake-‘progressive’ (actually conservative-Democratic-Party) website that’s run by a longtime CIA asset Markos Moulitsas, “Daily Kos,” there was posted on February 24th an article by “motocat”, headlined, “I have personally been to a closed door corporate Clinton speech. This is what I experienced.” This person, he or she, didn’t indicate what the speech said, other than “how disappointing the whole thing was,” and, that it was a speech by Bill Clinton, not Hillary Clinton, and “It made me feel sort of sad to see how old and feeble he looked. The last time I had seen Bill speak was when he was running for his first term as President. He looked like a different man.” Then the author went into speculation about what might be in Hillary Clinton’s speeches:
“Everyone wondering what Hillary possibly could have said in 30 minutes that was worth 250K is missing the point. These people are celebrities. They are booked to deliver paid speeches, because it benefits those who book them in some way. You might as well ask what Kanye West could possibly say in 45 minutes at Madison Square Garden that would be worth 250K to the promoter.
German Economic News Reports Obama Has Abandoned His ‘Neocons’
Eric Zuesse
German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), the most reliable news-source on geostrategic matters, reported, on March 31st, that U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had secretly reached agreement on working together to kill the jihadists in Syria, even despite Obama’s having long been carrying out instead the policies of his Administration’s neoconservatives, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, which prioritize first America’s longstanding effort to overthrow and replace the Russian government (by overthrowing governments that ally with Russia). If this news-report is correct, then it indicates that Obama has finally come around to the position that Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, had, according to the great investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, been urging upon Obama: to place the destruction of the jihadists as being a higher priority than the anti-Russian campaign (which has been carried out by overthrowing Russia’s allies — especially Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, successfully done in February 2014 — and Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Unlike Yanukovych, Assad seems to have become the all-but-certain winner of the American-and-jihadists’ war to overthrow his secular government.)
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