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Unplugged and aware
David Watson

You know, I used to think that maybe it was just me. That maybe there was
something wrong. Maybe I should seek some professional counseling. At least,
this is what others recommended for me-my teachers, my parents, even my boss
at one time. But no, it's not just me. Now, after twenty-odd years of
pondering the situation, I've come to the realization that too many others
feel the same way as I, yet are just as powerless to enact any positive
change. No doubt these people have been recommended for professional
counseling as well, but it's a simple realization, really. Something that has
been said in casual conversation, lambasted in the media, written about,
joked about, used both metaphorically and in all earnestness. It's the
realization that our world has gone insane.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5392>

The late great commonwealth: Catching up to the Republican primary
Walter Brasch

It's the beginning of April, and that means I just finished celebrating New
Year's Eve, and will soon begin shopping for Valentine's gifts. In a month or
two, I may even get around to toasting St. Patrick.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5390>

It's a Kony game
Bill Purkayastha

Somewhere in the scrub forests of East-Central Africa is a man so evil that
he is the epitome of all that is wrong with the Universe, a man so utterly
vile that tracking him down and bringing him to justice is a Holy Crusade,
one that should involve children from around the world.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5387>

'Human rights' do not feature in Israel's lexicon
Linda S. Heard

Once again, Israel displays its utter disregard for the United Nations which
Tel Aviv believes is its enemy despite being the driving force behind the
Jewish state's birth. Members of the UN Human Rights Council recently voted
by 36-to-1 with 10 abstentions in favour of forming an investigatory panel
tasked with probing “the implications of the Israeli colonies on the civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people
throughout the Occupied Territories, including occupied East Jerusalem.”
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5384>

US Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs: Money versus soldier treatment,
health
John Stanton

The Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs (ACSAP/ASAP
<http://acsap.army.mil/sso/pages/index.jsp>) is located under US Army G-1,
Human Resources, Deputy Chief of Staff.  It consists of two elements
according to the G-1 website. “The ASAP is split into two major components:
the clinical and non-clinical ASAP or Command ASAP. The Command ASAP works
under the installation/garrison commander and is responsible for drug and
alcohol prevention and training programs, urinalysis specimen collection,
shipping and handling, risk reduction and all other non-clinical functions
within the ASAP. The proponent for the Command ASAP is the Army Center for
Substance Abuse Programs (ACSAP) which falls under the Human Resources
Directorate of the G1. The clinical ASAP handles the treatment and
rehabilitation of soldiers that are identified as having substance abuse
problems. USA Medical Command has oversight responsibility for the clinical
ASAP.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5382>

West stonewalling democracy in Bahrain
Dr. Ismail Salami

Google Bahrain and you will see how inexcusably the popular uprising in the
Persian Gulf sheikhdom is being blacked out by the mainstream media and how
discriminatingly the Western leaders ignore the vociferous demands of a
nation for democracy and social justice.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5407>

Free Your MINDS and Change the SYSTEM
Larry Pinkney

The single most potent and insidious weapon consistently used against
everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in the United
States today, continues to be the perfidious propaganda and concomitant
distractions emanating from the corporate government and its corporate-stream
media. The words of the late South African freedom fighter Steve Biko are
more relevant now than ever before: “The most potent weapon in the hands of
the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5405>

Mayhem in the making: A political circus, an out-of-control government
bureaucracy, and a distracted populace
John W. Whitehead

With less than eight months to go before the next presidential election,
political chatter among the candidates is ramping up and serious political
discourse is declining. All the while, the corrupt government machine is
taking advantage of a populace distracted by the political theater to advance
agendas that are completely at odds with the nation's fiscal, legislative and
constitutional priorities. Indeed, the process of voting and electing a new
president has become little more than an expensive, sophisticated ruse
designed to deceive us into thinking we actually have a say in what happens
in our government. However, the sad fact is that the United States government
has ballooned into an overreaching, out-of-control bureaucracy accountable to
no one in particular-not Congress or the president and least of all the
taxpayers.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5403>

The footprints of empire
The beasts we have built
Missy Comley Beattie

Last Tuesday in “Great Decisions,” I co-taught the class whose topic was
“Exit from Afghanistan and Iraq.” Abandoning the textbook, I wanted current
news. So much has happened in the past month that I decided to print, print,
print articles more relevant to the present. And I had told my co-teacher, M,
to take the video that begins each session with Condoleezza Rice, Hillary
Clinton, and Henry Kissinger, among others, who offer statements about the
role of the US in shaping world policy. Ugh.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5401>

Notes on the Bill of Rights
Carla Binion

Some framers of the Constitution opposed adding a Bill of Rights, but Thomas
Jefferson said in a letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787, “A Bill of Rights
is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general
or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on
inferences."
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5399>

Killing time-a tale of the endless War on Terror
Jerry Mazza

What else would you call the War on Terror? It's killing time between war and
peace by savaging millions of people, our system of civil rights, the
Constitution and the economy. And it's killing the future for the incoming
generations who will land in the middle of war, fire, explosions,
revolutions, counter-revolutions, non-restitution for losses caused by the
U.S., NATO, on the human soul and consciousness.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5421>

Occupying democracy: A moral revolution for social justice
Alan James Strachan, Ph.D., and Janet Coster, M.A., M.A.

“The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.”-Thomas
Paine, First Principles of Government, 1795. Thomas Paine's words, written
217 years ago, capture the core purpose of the Occupy movement.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5418>

Let's stop Big Media's (b)ad behavior
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Over the years, we've been reporting on how power is monopolized by the
powerful. How corporate lobbyists, for example, far outnumber members of
Congress. And how the politicians are so eager to do the bidding of donors
that they allow those lobbyists to dictate the law of the land and make a
farce of democracy. What we have is much closer to plutocracy, where the
massive concentration of wealth at the top protects and perpetuates itself by
controlling the ends and means of politics. This is why so many of us despair
over fixing what's wrong: we elect representatives to change things, and once
in office they wind up serving the deep-pocketed donors who put up the money
to keep change from happening at all.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5416>

'Bradford Spring' scares UK parties
Linda S. Heard

I have to admit it. I'm a huge fan of the Respect Party's 'Gorgeous' George
Galloway. He's a larger-than-life straight-talker who stands tall among so
many nondescript mealy-mouthed British politicians, their lips sewn up by
political correctness. So when I heard he'd beaten back his Conservative,
Labour, Lib-Dem, UKIP and Green Party competitors to grab West Yorkshire's
Bradford West parliamentary seat, I scared the dog by letting out an
involuntary deafening, “You go George!”
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5414>

Computing intifada: When will Palestinians revolt?  
Ramzy Baroud

When will the Palestinians revolt?  
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5412>

Oh Canada! Imposing austerity on the world's most resource-rich country
Ellen Brown

Even the world's most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt
trap. Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical
budget cuts-cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not quit
borrowing from its own central bank in the 1970s.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5440>

Should we celebrate a decline in global poverty?
Adam Parsons

You may be forgiven for missing the good news recently reported by the World
Bank: that the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined in
almost every region of the developing world. According to the latest global
poverty estimates
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVCALNET/Resources/Global_Poverty_Upda
te_2012_02-29-12.pdf>, both the percentage of people living on less than
$1.25 a day and the number of poor declined between 2005 and 2008, the first
time that an across-the-board reduction has been reported since the World
Bank began monitoring poverty. Not only that, but preliminary estimates
indicate that the share of people living in extreme poverty declined between
2008 and 2010, even despite the global financial crises and surging food
prices. By 2010, it appears that the $1.25 a day poverty rate fell to less
than half the 1990 rate, which means that the United Nation's first
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for cutting extreme poverty in half has
already been achieved, five years ahead of schedule. This is surely a cause
for celebration-or is it?
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5436>

Everyone loves “Got Milk” ads but they don't sell milk (and their claims are
false)
Martha Rosenberg

Selling milk looks easy and even fun when you see the celebrity “milk
mustache” ads. “Got Milk?” ads may be the most recognizable and spoofed of
all ad campaigns but they are probably also the least successful: milk sales
have actually fallen every year since the ads began admit the agencies
charged with selling milk.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5429>

'Edible Secrets': Top secret U.S. government memos
Author Hoerger discusses plots against Castro, Hampton, Rosenbergs
Linda Greene

The CIA has made 638 attempts on Fidel Castro's life since the beginning of
the Cuban revolution. One entailed poisoning a chocolate milkshake with a
cyanide pellet.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5433>

Freedom of religion cannot be exclusive
Mary Shaw

In recent years, the religious right have moved even further to the right-to
the fringes. Some have even expanded their war on women's reproductive rights
to where they are condemning contraception. They even held congressional
hearings on the subject. This is despite the fact that 99 percent
<http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/charts-birth-control-statistics-catho
lics> of American women who have ever had sex have used contraception,
including 98 percent of Catholic women.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5427>

Ron Paul puts revelation of 9/11 CIA/Mossad complicity on his website
Jerry Mazza

The revelation is that Danny Jowenko is dead, the world's leading building
demolition expert was killed in a one-car accident last month, when his car
slammed into a tree.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5459>

George Clooney, the CIA's “volunteer” spokesman for Horn of Africa
Thomas C. Mountain

Holly-weirdo George “The Looney” Clooney has been one of the CIA/US State
Department's most high profile “volunteer” spokespersons for the Horn of
Africa these past few years.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5457>

Everybody's a target in the American surveillance state
John W. Whitehead

In the small town of Bluffdale, Utah, not far from bustling Salt Lake City,
the federal government is quietly erecting what will be the crown jewel of
its surveillance empire. Rising up out of the desert landscape, the Utah Data
Center (UDC)-a $2 billion behemoth designed to house a network of computers,
satellites, and phone lines that stretches across the world-is intended to
serve as the central hub of the National Security Agency's vast spying
infrastructure. Once complete (the UDC is expected to be fully operational by
September 2013), the last link in the chain of the electronic concentration
camp that surrounds us will be complete, and privacy, as we have known it,
will be extinct.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5455>

Cuba needs advocates that she can trust
Ben Tanosborn

If nothing else, the papal visit to the “Pearl of the Antilles” concluded
last week kept vigil on the all-important question of how to bring an
economic-political renewal to a courageous people. A people who gave their
soul to a revolution in order to unshackle themselves from economic and
political oppression had to live decades of inhumane economic sanctions
slapped on them for not having made the “right” political choice after the
revolution, as determined by the all-powerful neighbor: the United States of
America.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5453>

Is US sanctimony on the wane?
Sean Fenley

For certain segments of the global population, the United States has, of
course, virtually always represented little to nothing good. No doubt,
however, many have given credence to the idea of liberal, and democratic
notions that the United States is ostensibly about. Recent events, though,
would seem to belie the notion that United States is about high-minded, and
lofty ideals, but it is rather the entity with the biggest stick, who will
carry out its bidding-and that of multi-national corporations-with concern
for respect, scruples, and moral human dignity receiving extremely little
care.
<http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/5451>

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