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Pressure Continues on 28 Pages; Obama Blamed for FBI Attack on Sen. Graham
Executive Intelligence Review
May 9, 2016 (EIRNS)--Rep. Brad Sherman, a senior ranking Democrat from California, gave a hard-hitting interview to {The Hill} newspaper, published today, May 9. Sherman accuses the Obama administration of using the FBI to try to ``strong-arm'' former US Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) by detaining and interrogating him and his daughter, Gwen Graham -- a member of Congress -- and delivering the message to stop trying to declassify the documents, says {HIll} reporter Molly K. Hooper, in a video that has Sherman speaking live in the interview.
In the video, Sherman says the FBI ``took a former senator, a former governor, grabbed him in an airport, hustled him into a room with armed force to try to intimidate him into taking different positions on issues of public policy and important national policy, and the fact that he wasn't intimidated because he was calm doesn't show that they weren't trying to intimidate him.'' http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/279214-dem-fbi-strong-armed-former-senator-on-9-11-pages
Sherman also says that he didn't know about this until Rep. Gwen Graham talked to him about it on the House floor. On May 3, Sherman issued a press release demanding that the 28 pages be released. Reporter Hooper also says that legislation [JASTA] in Congress would remove the Saudi's sovereign immunity.
“Print the Money”: Trump’s “Reckless” Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln
Ellen Brown
Print the money” has been called crazy talk, but it may be the only sane solution to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled in the last 10 years. The solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonists can still work today.
“Reckless,” “alarming,” “disastrous,” “swashbuckling,” “playing with fire,” “crazy talk,” “lost in a forest of nonsense”: these are a few of the labels applied by media commentators to Donald Trump’s latest proposal for dealing with the federal debt. On Monday, May 9th, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate said on CNN, “You print the money.”
The remark was in response to a firestorm created the previous week, when Trump was asked if the US should pay its debt in full or possibly negotiate partial repayment. He replied, “I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.” Commentators took this to mean a default. On May 9, Trump countered that he was misquoted:
People said I want to go and buy debt and default on debt – these people are crazy. This is the United States government. First of all, you never have to default because you print the money, I hate to tell you, okay? So there’s never a default
.That remark wasn’t exactly crazy. It echoed one by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who said in 2011:
HumanRights] Trains and madness
Mazin Qumsiyeh
12-year old Dima Al-Wawi was just released
When we watch the way the world currently works, we can get extremely depressed. Just the last few days we saw Israelis in their thousands celebrate the release of a murdering occupation soldier who was videotaped executing a wounded Palestinian.. While 12-year old Dima Al-Wawi was just released from 3 months of Israeli gulags, hundreds of Palestinian children are still imprisoned unjustly by an occupation that has gone on far too long. We noted the vote rigging and rigged “election process” that will ensure Americans have a choice between apartheid-supporting,war-mongering and corporate-backed liar (Hillary Clinton) and an apartheid-supporting, war-mongering, women-bashing, racist cheater (Donald Trump). Both of those very wealthy individuals would tighten the noose on Americans and Palestinians as they lick the boots of the Israel lobby.
Why Sanders Continues Campaigning
Eric Zuesse
There are two realistic scenarios for Bernie Sanders to win the U.S. Presidency.
One depends upon his receiving the Democratic Party’s nomination. The other doesn’t, but both are realistic.
HE STILL MIGHT WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
He still can win the Democratic Party’s nomination, under not just one but two possible scenarios:
(1): Clinton could be indicted for her having privatized her State Department emails.
Turkey Launches US-Approved Border Aggression on Syria
Stephen Lendman
On the phony pretext of combating ISIS Ankara actively supports, Turkish forces aggressively crossed into northern Syrian territory over the weekend.
Russia has evidence of their illegal operations. Sergey Lavrov called it Erdogan’s “creeping expansion.”
Interviewed on Russia’s REN TV on Sunday, he said “(a)ccording to our information, they are digging in a few hundred meters from the border inside Syria,” operating illegally, positioning heavy weapons.“While demanding that Kurdish positions are not reinforced in Syria, Turkey has started to declare it has a sovereign right to create safety zones on Syrian territory” - with full US-led NATO support and encouragement.
Earlier reports showed Erdogan wants control over border areas inside Syria nearly 100 km long and eight km deep, a flagrant violation of its sovereignty.
US Talks Peace in Syria While Waging War
Stephen Lendman
Ceasefire is more illusion than reality. John Kerry claims it saved “literally tens of thousands of lives…” Half a million Syrian deaths from over five years of US-sponsored conflict reveal the viciousness of Washington’s imperial agenda.
Syrians suffer from endless war, slaughter and destruction. Nothing in prospect suggests resolution. Rhetoric is no substitute for action.
As long as Washington wants puppet governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence, endless war will continue. Countless more victims will perish.
US-supported terrorists continue crossing from Turkey into Syria on a regular basis. According to Syria’s Peace Coordination Center, scores of militants trained and armed in Turkey. “entered Anadan in…northern Aleppo” on May 10 alone.
Putin Honored Memory of His Father in Immortal Regiment March
Stephen Lendman
Monday’s Moscow Victory Day commemoration was moving and impressive by any standard, honoring the memory of millions of Russians killed defending their homeland.
Putin showed his humanity. Holding a photo of his father wounded in battle, one of millions of heroic WW II Russian soldiers, he headed Monday’s Immortal Regiment march, walking “shoulder-to-shoulder alongside hundreds of thousands of (ordinary) Russians,” reported RT International.
Organizer Nikolai Zemtsov said the event “brought together people whose grandparents fought from 1941 - 1945. Thus, we are honoring the memory of heroes who earned this hard-won victory.”
Addressing crowds in Red Square, Putin honored millions of heroic Russians involved in defeating the scourge of Nazism. He urged unity in combatting terrorism.
Brazil’s Lower House Speaker Backtracks on Annulling Impeachment Vote
Stephen Lendman
A same day article explained US-manipulated dark forces wanting President Dilma Rousseff impeached without just cause hit a speed bump on Monday when lower house interim speaker Waldir Maranhao annulled the vote against her because of procedural irregularities.
Something is rotten in Brasilia. Overnight Monday, he about-faced, saying “I revoke my decision issued May 9, 2016, in which the lower house sessions were annulled.” Was he pressured, bribed or threatened?
He gave no change of heart reasons. Brazilian media reported his party members threatened to expel him if he didn’t reverse course. He also faces possible corruption charges, perhaps deciding supporting right-wing Brazilian lawmakers keeps him less vulnerable to indictment.
Neocons Want Iran Nuclear Deal Rescinded
Stephen Lendman
In a Monday Independent Journal op-ed, neocon House Speaker Paul Ryan claimed Obama “misled the American people on the Iran (nuclear) deal…Everything about (it) is starting to unravel.”
Nothing supports his baseless claims. Tehran’s best faith efforts along with four of the other P5 countries plus Germany may go for naught if neocons infesting Washington get their way.
Longstanding US policy toward Iran remains hostile - solely for its sovereign independence, unrelated to its nuclear program, well known to be peaceful without a military component or intention to have one.
Ryan and likeminded neocons want Iran kept isolated, the nuclear deal rescinded and regime change actively pursued. He opposes even modest changes in longstanding hostile policy.
U.S. & Russia Reaffirm Commitment to U.N. Peace Process in Syria, Despite Obama’s Opposition
Eric Zuesse
On May 9th, the U.S. and Russia issued a "Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the United States on Syria”, saying that, "The Russian Federation and United States are determined to redouble efforts to reach a political settlement of the Syrian conflict consistent with UNSCR 2254.”
UNSCR 2254, from the U.N. Security Council, on 18 December 2015, refers several times to, and endorses, “a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition in order to end the conflict in Syria,” and, in one passage, it “stresses that the Syrian people will decide the future of Syria." It goes on, to state that the Security Counci:l Expresses its support, in this regard, for a Syrian-led political process that is facilitated by the United Nations and, within a target of six months, establishes credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance and sets a schedule and process for drafting a new constitution, and further expresses its support for free and fair elections, pursuant to the new constitution, to be held within 18 months and administered under supervision of the United Nations, to the satisfaction of the governance and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability, with all Syrians, including members of the diaspora, eligible to participate.
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