Politics

"They're pretty bad," said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, who connected the poor poll numbers to separate findings that show a broad number of Americans don’t trust Clinton. As The Hill reports, only 40.2% of people view Hillary favorably (drastically lower than Obama's 62% at this point in the presidential-cycle and Bush's 63%). As one commentator noted "the political impression that I think she leaves strikes a lot of people as inauthentic, as something they can’t quite trust."

From a reader in Finland:

Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org,

“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.”

– Former President Jimmy Carter

An anti-government protest in the Macedonian capital of Skopje has become in violent, with police reportedly involved in clashes with demonstrators who stormed the president’s office. Demonstrators have now reportedly entered the president’s offices in the capital #Skopjepic.twitter.com/fZDO6sddNK — Balkan Newsbeat (@BalkanNewsbeat) April 13, 2016 The office of President Gjorge Ivanovis reprted to be completely demolished. According to RT: The protest began Wednesday daytime and reportedly accumulated some three thousand people.

Bilal Saab makes the case for a more precise use of the term ally:

The word “ally” is used far too casually in Washington’s Middle East lexicon. It’s time to break this bad habit, because the truth is that with the exception of Turkey—a NATO member—the United States does not share a single alliance with any Middle Eastern country.