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Syrian General Elections Update
Stephen Lendman
On Thursday, 7,000 polling stations in 13 of Syria’s 15 provinces opened at 7AM, ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra controlled Raqqa and Idlib excluded for obvious reasons.
Scheduled to remain open until 7PM, the deadline was extended to midnight to accommodate heavy turnout, results to follow when tabulations are completed.
US elections are farcical by comparison, meaningless money controlled exercises serving wealth, power and privilege exclusively. Syrians have the real thing. Washington mocked their democratic process, saying it doesn’t reflect “the will of the people,” polar opposite reality.
Internally displaced Syrians and others in terrorist controlled areas could vote if able to get to polling stations anywhere in the country.
Putin’s Annual Q & A Tour de Force
Stephen Lendman
Putin’s annual marathon straight talk Q & A session, responding forthrightly to questions posed, is polar opposite Obama’s double talk.
It ended while this was being written. I contacted one of the Russian broadcasters asking if I could participate - ask President Putin a question in English and get his answer in Russian (later translated) live on air, televised nationwide.
I got a reply acknowledging my request, heard nothing further about communicating directly with a man I call the world’s preeminent leader. I asked too late. He was well along in his session when I emailed. He’s always swamped with questions at annual Q &As, tries covering as much ground as possible relating to vital domestic and geopolitical issues.
Jewish Money And The Labour Party - Here Are The Numbers
Gilad Atzmon
If you are curious about why the Labour Party has been groveling to the Jewish Lobby for the last few months, Jewish Donor Michael Foster provides the nitty gritty - - the numbers of kosher domination.
In his commentary in The Daily Mail , Foster, who donated £400.000 to the party ahead of last May’s election, reveals “This year, no major Jewish donor has given a pound to the central Labour Party.”
The numbers are shocking. “In the run-up to last May’s General Election, the Jewish community donated almost one-third of the £9.7 million that Labour received from private donors – and that despite recoiling from Labour’s parliamentary vote to recognise Palestine.”
Establishment Defender David Brooks
Stephen Lendman
He makes painful reading, nonsense instead of good sense, rubbish unfit to print, one of many examples of the deplorable state of today’s major media.
If mainstream journalists like Brooks did their jobs responsibly, we’d have vital long overdue revolutionary change in America - instead of government of, by, and for its privileged few alone.
Each electoral season highlights the crisis. Voters want what no duopoly party candidates represent at all levels of government.Americans paying attention, knowledgeable about US history, know campaign promises are made to be broken.
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."
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