Analysis: How Obama Changed Definition of ‘Civilian’ in Secret Drone Wars by Chris Woods, May 29, 2012 Print This | Share This Two US reports published today provide significant insights into President Obama’s personal and controversial role in the escalating covert US drone war in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. In a major extract from Daniel Klaidman’s forthcoming book Kill Or [...]
THE ROVING EYE How Osama re-elects Obama By Pepe Escobar A nuclear deal with Iran? An organized retreat from Afghanistan? The eurozone picking up a little bit of steam? Stable oil prices? Forget it. The crucial foreign elector recruited for Obama II at the White House is one Osama bin Laden. Call [...]
the Arctic region too fragile to tamper with.Protestor dressed as Grim Reaper outside Shell annual meeting in London. (Photo: rikki (indymedia). Used under Creative Commons license) How Obama Helped Authorize Shell’s Drilling the Arctic by Pratap Chatterjee President Barack Obama personally helped Shell obtain authorization to drill for oil in Alaska, according to a [...]
War and cheeseburgers By Pepe Escobar A specter haunts Europe. No, it’s not communism; it’s US rating agencies. Greece is bankrupt; the eurozone is about to crack; JP Morgan makes billion-dollar “mistakes”; there’s no (jobs) future for the new generations. And yet the weaponized arm of the Western 0.1% elites occupies [...]
A recent series of visits by US officials to Myanmar signaled the renewal of relations[GALLO/GETTY] Obama unveils ‘new chapter’ in Myanmar ties Rewards for reforms include first US ambassador to South Asian nation in 22 years and easing of investment sanctions. The ‘new chapter’ is finding another country to influence. Closed government means ‘not open [...]
Over One Million Say Shell No! to Arctic Drilling – Common Dreams staff Environmental groups delivered over a million signatures to the White House today demanding President Obama stop Shell’s plans for oil drilling in the Arctic. “President Obama has a small window to stop Shell from spoiling the Arctic, and that’s exactly what people [...]
Robert Scheer on Obama’s Sudden Conversion “Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion” — Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific. Col. Ann Wright on Rape in the Marines “The Dark Side of the Prestigious Marine Barracks” — The Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., is the showplace of the Marine [...]
An Afghan Okinawa By The Afghan Peace Volunteers http://warisacrime.org/content/afghan-okinawa There is no U.S. troop withdrawal in 2014. We are ordinary Afghans wishing for peace, and we have eyes and ears and feelings of love and despair, so please read on. The Washington Post, in reporting the recent signing of the “U.S. Afghan Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement“, stated [...]
President Obama has said he wants to ‘finish the job we started in Afghanistan’ [GALLO/GETTY] President Obama has been of two minds towards Afghanistan since the outset of his presidency. In December 2009, en route to tripling the US military presence there, he declared that US military forces would begin to withdraw from the country in 18 [...]
Afghanistan: Obama’s ‘dumb’ war Mon May 7, 2012 1:9PM GMT Hamid Javadi U.S. President Barack Obama addressing the American public from Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan on May 1 Since taking office as president of the United States, Barack Obama made the war inAfghanistan his own war. He called the occupation of Iraq ”a dumb war”, but in Afghanistan he approved [...]
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL The Nobel Peace Prize winner (Taken from CubaDebate) I shall barely talk about the Cuban people, who one day swept away United States domination of their homeland, when the imperialist system had reached the peak of its power. Men and women of all ages could be seen [...]
The President’s Private War Andrew Napolitano on drone killings: ‘What monstrous nonsense all this is’ By Andrew Napolitano May 05, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has [...]
John Brennan, chief counterterrorism advisor to President Obama. Photo Credit: Pete Souza/White House The Obama Team Just Doesn’t Get It: US Violence and Occupation Spark Terrorism There is almost no discussion about why so many people in the Muslim world object to U.S. policies so strongly that they are inclined to resist violently. May 3, [...]
“We Did Not Choose This War” and Other Hypocrisies By Leah Bolger and David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/we-did-not-choose-war-and-other-hypocrisies “We did not choose this war. This war came to us on 9/11. We don’t go looking for a fight. But when we see our homeland violated, when we see our fellow citizens killed, then we [...]
US-Afghan Pact Won’t End War or Night Raids by Gareth Porter, May 03, 2012 Print This | Share This The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” [.pdf] agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding (MOU) accompanying it emphasize transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. [...]
Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan (second from right) in the Situation Room as President Obama and his national security team monitored the raid against Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. (White House photo) Not Explaining the Why of Terrorism May 2, 2012 Exclusive: President Obama signed a U.S.-Afghan strategic agreement on May 1, committing U.S. combat forces [...]
Leaving Afghanistan by Staying By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/leaving-afghanistan-staying Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military presence in Afghanistan (currently about three times the [...]
Washington Felons Fret Over Hanky-Panky in Cartagena by Philip Giraldi, April 26, 2012 Print This | Share This Americans are frequently most hypocritical when they are responding to a sex scandal. The tale of the sins and omissions of the Obama secret service team in Colombia is still being revealed, piece by piece. The [...]
Make Love, then War By Linh Dinh April 27, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — In these days of a dying, raving and hallucinating empire, its best known poet, and a master at being anti-war, is accepting a Presidential Freedom Award from a cynical if affable, still, to many people, master of [...]
A Game of Drones More Sharing ServicesShare|Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on email Precision-guided mythology masks a brutal truth. By Ximena Ortiz | April 27, 2012 America’s recent foreign policy has been enabled by a central idea: the United States does things differently. It wages wars differently. It suspends habeas [...]
The Drone-Happy President: Obama Escalates in Yemen – Again by Glenn Greenwald Ten days ago, I wrote about a request made by CIA Director David Petraeus to expand the drone war in Yemen in accordance with the following, as expressed by the first paragraph of The Washington Post article reporting it: At the time, I wrote that “it’s [...]
A Conspiracy of Whores by: John Grant Whore: (verb) To debase oneself by doing something for unworthy motives, typically to make money. -The New Oxford American Dictionary It’s a challenge to make adult sense of the absurdities coming out of Colombia right now. I had first planned to write about the Drug War [...]
Abroad, as at Home, Obama Coasts on a Wave of Disappointment Significant hope was invested in Obama to repair America’s global reputation and reorient its foreign policy – but there’s been precious little return By Gary Younge April 23, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — In January 1903 the US signed a treaty [...]
‘The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play‘—The Insanity of the Regulatory Race to the Bottom by William K. Black The plot of the movie WarGames (1983) involves a slacker hacker (played by Matthew Broderick) who starts playing the game “Global Thermonuclear War” with Joshua, a Department of Defense (DoD) supercomputer that [...]
Murder, Inequality, Corporate Profits and Free Trade Go Together Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. You can follow him on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/matthewstoller Here’s the President on Sunday on a new trade deal with Colombia. Obama says US trade deal with Colombia has strong protections for workers and the environment…. [...]
Land of the Un-free and Mind Controlled Just discovered this in my Draft folder – forwarding a Washington Post article acknowledging ten political atrocities which remain a dirty, unspoken secret in America. (Scroll to the bottom.) (I highly recommend this news source: WantToKnow.info, by Fred Burks.) Here’s to waking up. ~Jean “James Madison [...]
How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian‘s Nightmare Obama has expanded and fortified many of the Bush administration’s worst policies. April 18, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. When Barack Obama took office, he was the civil liberties communities’ [...]
President Barack Obama signs an executive order closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) A President Who Doesn’t Even Try Is Obama Kowtowing to the Right? Or Is He One of Them? by Ted Rall The President’s progressive critics blame [...]
‘Tunisia is one of our oldest friends in the world,’ President Obama said when US Peace Corps reopened operations in the country [EPA] Washington, DC - After a 16 year hiatus, the US Peace Corps is reopening operations in Tunisia. The first group of volunteers is scheduled to arrive this year and their assignments will focus on English [...]
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL Sugarcoated realities fading away (Taken from Cubadebate) I was surprised today as I listened to the speech delivered by Jose Miguel Insulza in Cartagena. I thought that the person who was speaking on behalf of the OAS would at least demand some respect for the sovereignty of the [...]
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Said Jalili gives a press conference on April 14, 2012 as Iran and six world powers open talks on Tehran‘s disputed nuclear program in Istanbul, Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images Why Netanyahu’s Afraid of Diplomacy by Trita Parsi Apr 17, 2012 2:00 PM EDT Netanyahu and Obama [...]
What Rich People Fear Most By Kenneth Rapoza April 18, 2012 “Forbes” – Once again, Washington has shown just who they work for. On matters of the economy, it is a handful of favorite industries like banking and insurance. On fiscal and monetary matters, it is the ubiquitous one percenters [...]
Obama Echoes Bush, Sets Plan for Polar Bear Extinction “President Obama’s proposal for these magnificent and imperiled animals is a gift to Big Oil“ – Common Dreams staff The Obama Administration issued a proposed rule yesterday that disregards the effects of greenhouse gases on polar bear habitat leading one conservation group to say that the [...]
Breaking: California Gov. Jerry Brown Cancels Official Reports About Australian Kangaroo Harvests! Nick Gillespie | April 18, 2012 Anybody who thinks California Gov. Jerry Brown is taking it easy in his second round as the Golden State’s top official can suck on this: California lawmakers won’t be briefed any longer on kangaroo harvests in Australia under a plan to [...]
. Stop Obama’s Drone War in Pakistan by Matthew Rothschild The Pakistani government and its opposition parties have just come together in a rare show of unity to demand that the United States cease all drone attacks inside their country.As well they should The United States hasn’t declared war on Pakistan. The U.S. has no [...]
President Sarkozy is facing a tough re-election battle [EPA] Washington, DC - As nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 commence, both sides are talking tough in public to mask their private urgency. The US continues to reiterate that the “window for diplomacy” is fast closing, while the Iranians have made a play to have negotiations take [...]
If you go to http://truth-out.org/news/item/8523-after-constructive-talks-on-iran-nuclear-program-hopes-rise-for-diplomacy you can read a McClatchy article on the present position in the Iran diplomacy/war situation. It all sounds nice and neat. First there is the warhawk Obama and fellow European warmongers who would love nothing better than to bomb the living daylights out of Iran. As an aid to [...]
Sarkozy ‘embarrassed France‘ with Obama video conference TV stunt French president condemned for allowing cameras in to film video link-up just days before first round of election Angelique Chrisafis in Paris guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 April 2012 11.50 BST Article history Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of using a video conference withBarack Obama to boost his [...]
Global Peace and Wars: America at War with Itself By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD Built on lies and political deception, the on-going wars were suppose to create a new culture of FEAR amongst the American and European common masses, enabling the ruling elite to sustain their grip over the powerhouses for [...]
The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival Noam Chomsky Text of lecture given at the The University of Toronto, April 7, 2011(Transcript courtesy of Yvonne Bond) I’m going to talk mostly about the United States, in part because I know it better, but also in part [...]
The Obama administration called the rocket launch a ‘provocative action’ that threatens regional security. Photograph: Ekaterina Shtukina/Ria Novosti/EPA Obama engagement policy ‘in tatters’ after North Korean rocket defiance US officials expect Pyongyang to carry out third nuclear test in near future, respresenting significant policy failure for president guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 April 2012 17.56 BST Article history [...]
THE ROVING EYE Surrender now or we’ll bomb you later By Pepe Escobar Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership in Tehran before … setting optimal conditions for an “all [...]
How NATO Dehumanizes Us Categories:Afghanistan http://vcnv.org/how-nato-dehumanizes-us by Jerica Arents When we finally stepped off the helicopter and greeted the mountains of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, I was exhausted. A full day and a half after our departure, my eyelids were heavy and I was hoping, desperately, for a cup of warm, life-giving [...]
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, right, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) shake hands during a campaign event at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., March 30, 2012. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) Obama and Romney Are Politicians, Not Visionaries Monday, 09 April 2012 09:23By Dean Baker, Truthout | [...]
Obama’s economic policies have failed to create jobs or a recovery because “he banked on the banks” [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - Back in the last Century, when Bill Clinton was running for re-election in the “permanent campaign” he, with the advice of the smarmy Dick Morris chose to co-opt Republican positions to pre-empt their using [...]
Advancing the Policy of “Aggressive Diplomacy” Iran in Obama’s Speeches By Sasan Fayazmanesh The best way to understand the Middle East policies of U.S. officials is to study their speeches at the annual policy conferences of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where nearly every political figure must pay homage to Israel and its most [...]
By David Model (about the author) opednews.com This page has been pointing out the terror tactics involved in Drone warfare for quite some time. Obama is possibly the worst Presient the US has produced. The electoral system there is corrupt and simply a plaything for the elite and their money backed up by ruthless media propaganda. [...]
Obama Told Pakistan: US ‘Not Ready’ to Stop Drone Strikes ‘No Flexibility’ In Talks by Jason Ditz, March 29, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The highly anticipated meeting between President Obama and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, potentially the last one before Gilani is [...]
Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim Posted by John Feffer at 9:24am, March 29, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I’ll be handing you back off to Tom shortly. If you’d like to welcome him back with a donation -- which is how we keep this site afloat -- please consider [...]
Ehud Barak with German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere in Berlin, March 20, 2012. Photo by: AP Germany official: Meeting with Israel’s Barak left me ‘more concerned’ of war with Iran Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere says feels some Israeli cabinet members do not give enough thought to the negative consequences that could develop in wake of a strike of Iran‘s nuclear [...]
