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Fifty years ago today, JFK was assassinated in Dallas and questions still remain unanswered
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and other than the improbable official version, a.k.a. the Warren Commission Report, the questions of who killed him and why still remain. Continue reading
Obama’s real crimes are ignored while the GOP and corporate media go ape over the Obamacare website
The ceaseless brouhaha over the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, and President Barack Obama’s “sinking” approval ratings is comparable to a parent telling a child he must do something and when the child does, he is ridiculed and punished for doing it. Continue reading
Whaddya know, Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium-210
While scientists at Switzerland’s Institute of Radiation Physics haven’t directly called it murder, they said “Yasser Arafat was deliberately poisoned with polonium though they don’t know if it ultimately killed him.” Arafat’s widow, Suha, however, called his death “a political assassination.” Continue reading
A fracked up nation
On this Halloween, let me point you to a horror story. No, it’s not about vampires, zombies, ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. This is about a real horror called fracking—hydraulic fracturing for gas and oil. Continue reading
Whatever happened to common sense?
Last week on the Tonight Show’s Jaywalking segment, host Jay Leno interviewed people who admitted taking erotic “selfies,” photos of their naked bodies and genitalia, using cell phones and electronically sending them to their significant others of the moment. Continue reading
OMG, some poor people have air conditioning and mobile phones
I am shocked—shocked!—to learn from FOX News duo John Stossel and Elizabeth Hasselbeck that poor people are living in air conditioned luxury, yakking on their cell phones, while collecting public assistance benefits. Continue reading
America is imploding
In the United States, you are more apt to be killed by the police than by a terrorist. Continue reading
Health insurance for all, a simple idea turned into a Rube Goldberg
There’s a maxim in Washington that says never do anything simply when you can complicate or convolute it and make it deviously complex and impractical. Continue reading
Lunatic Republicans in Congress are aiming for a government shutdown
Like petulant 2-year-olds throwing temper tantrums to get their way, the right-wing ideologues in the House and Senate are threatening to shut down the government if their latest attempt (number 42) to defund Obamacare fails. Continue reading
Lie upon lie, upon lie as reasons to attack Syria
Washington’s lies about the need for attacking Syria are flying faster than a swarm of flies to honey. Continue reading
Marking 15 years of publishing online
It was 15 years ago on this date (Sept. 5, 1998) that I launched Online Journal as an alternative to the corporate media, then 12 years and 5 months later changed to a more appropriate name, Intrepid Report. Continue reading
Whatever AIPAC wants, AIPAC gets and it wants Obama to attack Syria
Israel wants Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad gone and the American Israel Affair Committee (AIPAC) is pressuring Congress to back President Obama’s plan for an illegal war of aggression on another country that has done nothing to the United States. Continue reading
The new normal on the employment front: Part-time jobs with no benefits
For those US jobs that won’t or can’t be offshored or automated, the new normal is part-time work with no benefits. Continue reading
If an independent voice is important to you, please support Intrepid Report
We are among the last of the truly independent voices. Unlike the controlled opposition, a.k.a. the gatekeepers, Intrepid Report receives no funding from foundations, corporations or sugar daddies/mommies. We have even eschewed becoming a non-profit corporation to avoid running afoul of IRS regulations on what we publish. All we have is you, our readers, to keep us going. Continue reading
WE’RE BACK!!
First of all, I want to thank all the well-wishers for their support and understanding during our time of tribulation Continue reading
Why we had to temporarily suspended publication
My husband suffered a respiratory infection and wound up in the hospital on Feb. 7 and I nearly lost him on Feb. 13. He’s home now and doing remarkably well but my time is going into tending to him, therefore, I have had to temporarily suspend publication of Intrepid Report. Continue reading
Due to an illness in the family, we have to temporarily cut back on publishing
We ask for your patience and indulgence. Continue reading
We’re taking a holiday break
I am taking a break for the holidays and will resume publishing Intrepid Report on January 7, 2013. Continue reading
We are taking a break and will resume publishing Nov. 26
We are taking a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but Intrepid Report will resume publishing on Monday, Nov. 26. Continue reading
If voters truly had enough, why such a schizophrenic outcome?
Sorry to dampen the celebrations but what have Americans learned from Tuesday’s elections? Continue reading
D-Day is here or is it?
This is the day Americans are supposed to “elect” a president and, despite the naysayers who call the inconvenient truth about election thefts “conspiracy theory,” the Big Money Masters behind the curtain will determine the winner: the awesomely evil Barack Obama or the supremely evil Mitt Romney, i.e., if we don’t again have to suffer months of limbo until the decision winds up in the hands of the US Supreme Court. Continue reading
Americans suffer from Charlie Brown syndrome
Followers of the comic strip Peanuts know that every fall Lucy would con Charlie Brown into kicking the football by promising she would hold it. Falling for her promise every time, ol’ Charlie Brown would run at the ball and, as he lifted his foot to kick it, Lucy would pull it away and Charlie Brown would wind up splat on the ground. Continue reading
Intrepid Report is back up and running, following a hardware failure
Intrepid Report’s server is back up and running after being down for nearly two frustrating days, due to a hardware failure. Continue reading
The curious timing of the anti-Islam video
Isn’t interesting that right before the US presidential election, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu champing at the bit to involve the US in a war against Iran over its nuclear program, along comes an anti-Islam video, which sat practically unnoticed on the web until an Arabic translation was added, that has set off riots and mayhem in some 20 Muslim majority countries in condemnation of the US? Continue reading
Intrepid Report needs your support
Imagine, George Zimmerman, the accused murderer of Trayvon Martin, has thus far raised nearly $250,000 in donations for his legal defense and living expenses while Intrepid Report struggles to raise $25,000 a year. What is wrong with that picture? Continue reading
We need your help
Washington, the corporations, the banksters and their cohorts would be gleeful if Intrepid Report would go away — another thorn out of their sides. For nearly 14 years, though, we’ve hung on, first as Online Journal and now Intrepid Report, thanks to the support of our readers. But as the economy tanked, so did donations and now we’re running on fumes. To put it bluntly, we need your help. Continue reading
A personal medical odyssey
Let’s put it this way, if there is an adventure to be had—even in going to the hospital—it will find me or I will find it. Continue reading
A medical emergency requires I suspend publishing until it is over
Yours truly is suffering a severe leg infection and treatment requires me to suspend publishing until it’s healed. Continue reading
The great election charade
Americans, whether in large numbers or small, will dutifully march to the polls in November and the majority will cast ballots for either the candidate from Column A or the candidate from Column B. If the majority feel they cast their votes for the Column A candidate and the Column B candidate is declared the winner, they will be stunned, as they were in 2000 and 2004. Continue reading
By signing the NDAA, Obama turned the US into a police state
President Obama, while vacationing in Hawaii, sneakily used last Saturday (when few would notice) to sign the NDAA that gives him the power to order anyone, including US citizens, arrested without charge, turned over to the military and imprisoned indefinitely without a trial or recourse to the courts. Continue reading
Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em Starve!
Posted on December 19, 2013 by Bev Conover
You know how songs get stuck in your head. The one stuck in mine this holiday season is “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!,” except what I keep hearing is Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em starve! Continue reading →