Barack Obama
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Anti-Muslim bigots to address AIPAC
Pastor Myles Holmes, an anti-Muslim and anti-gay bigot, is scheduled to speak about evangelical support for Israel at the conference of the powerful lobby group AIPAC on Monday. Continue reading
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Masking Tragedy in Ukraine By Chris Floyd
20 February 2014 — Counterpunch.org Sinister Illusions It is no secret that Barack Obama is one of the supreme illusionists of modern times. The disconnect between his words and his deeds is so profound as to be almost sublime, far surpassing the crude obfuscations of the Bush-Cheney gang. Their projections of unreality were more transparent, and Continue reading
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Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target: Empire Under Obama, Part 4 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
My focus on the imperial structure during the Obama administration is not to suggest that it does not predate Obama, but rather, that Obama represents ‘continuity’ in imperialism, not “change.” This part examines the concept of ‘counterinsurgency’ as a war against the populations of Iraq, Afghanistan and spreading into Pakistan. Continue reading
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Syria: The Iron In Obama’s Soul By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the holy cow – «boots on the ground». The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops although the Obama administration may not intend to take recourse to such… Continue reading
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Obama Will Launch a Huge Propaganda Blitz — and May Attack Syria Even If He Loses the Vote in Congress By Norman Solomon
The administration is about to launch a ferocious propaganda blitz that will engulf a wide range of U.S. media. And as a fallback, the president is reserving the option of attacking Syria no matter what Congress does. Continue reading
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Ten Thoughts About Julian Assange and WikiLeaks By Andy Worthington
In the last eight months…since WikiLeaks began focusing on major stories involving the United States, there are concerns that Julian Assange the figurehead has been taking over from WikiLeaks the organization in perceived importance, and that both are overshadowing the importance of the whistleblower who leaked the information in the first place — by many… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 September, 2010: The 2010 Palestine Peace talks – a Sylvester Stallone remake?
4 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Barghouthi: “Construction Continues In Dozens of Settlements” IMEMC – 4 Sep 2010 – Saturday September 04, 2010 – 18:10, Palestinian Legislator, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, stated that while Israel is heading to peace talks with the Palestinians, its government continues its illegal settlement activities in Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 July, 2010: US Marines Sanitised Bloodbath
26 July, 2010 — Information Clearing House Afghanistan War Logs: Massive Leak of Secret Files Exposes Truth of Occupation By Nick Davies and David Leigh Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops · Covert unit hunts leaders for ‘kill or capture’ · Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato · Read the Guardian’s full Continue reading
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Haiti’s Robespierre: The Tragedy of Toussaint L’Ouverture By BJÖRN KUMM
While the mass graves are being filled up in Haiti and international opinion devotes some fleeting moments of attention to this unhappy nation, all we hear about is misery, poverty, corruption, chaos. This of course was to be expected. Haiti is seen as simply another “failed state” one can only feel sorry for and which… Continue reading
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Obama’s War: Why is the Largest Military Machine on the Planet Unable to Defeat the Resistance in Afghanistan By Sara Flounders
The total U.S. military budget has more than doubled from the beginning of this war in 2001 to the $680 billion budget signed by President Barack Obama Oct. 28. The U.S. military budget today is larger than the military budgets of the rest of the world combined. The U.S. arsenal has the most advanced high-tech… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Obama’s Fight for Reform
Almost a year after the Great Giddy Swarming of the Obamians last November, some of the revelers are waking up with one booger of a hangover. And they are asking themselves, ‘What were we thinking when we had that tenth drink of Democratic Party Kool-Aid?’ It was a clear cut case of seduction and date… Continue reading
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Barack Obama, front man for the ‘man’ By William Bowles
In all likelihood, the inner sanctum, those who selected Obama in the first place were fully aware of what would happen when they put up a black man to front a white, racist United States. Obama was, and is fully intended to be the whipping boy of that there is no doubt, exploiting his own… Continue reading
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Tons of Imperial Fun: Hellfire Hillary Pours Oil on Somalia's Fire By Chris Floyd
There is apparently no path blazed by George W. Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. Surges, assassinations, indefinite detention, defense of torture, senseless wars and rampant militarism — in just a few short months, we’ve seen it all. So what do we see from the administration of ‘hope and change’? We see —… Continue reading
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US-Israel Relations: New Horizons or Same Matrix of Control? By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria
Many skeptics have justifiably raised the question about whether America’s first black president is the harbinger of real relief for Palestinian quest for freedom or merely an excuse for a new false dawn. Their skepticism arises from the fact that Obama has either failed to recognize the inherent deception in the “Oslo Accords” of the… Continue reading
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MICHAEL, WALTER AND NELSON IN AN ERA OF ICONOMANIA By Danny Schechter
Politicians may rule but celebrities dominate in a culture where every pol dreams of shaping an aura that inspires hero worship and adoration. That was Barack Obama’s trump card with his eloquence often blinding us to the substance of his stances. Continue reading
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U.S. Press Misses Honduran Official's Racist Assault on U.S. Prez By Steve Rendall
Using the word ‘negrito,’ a well-recognized and profoundly racist epithet, whose literal translation means ‘little black man’ or ‘little black boy,’ Ortez referred to Obama as ‘that little black boy who knows nothing about nothing’ [‘ese negrito que no sabe nada de nada’] and ‘a little black man who doesn’t know where Tegucigalpa is’ [‘el… Continue reading
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OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? – PT. 2: The Many Sides of Barack Obama, The TOO Many Sides by Mark S. Tucker
Sibel Edmonds first noted the perpetual “rationalizing…defense …[and] illogical excuses [of] ‘He’s been in office for only 20 days, give the man a break!’ and ‘He’s had only 50 days in office, give him a chance!’ and currently, ‘be reasonable – how much can a man do in 120 days?!’” before asking if we mightn’t… Continue reading
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A Civil War: Obama’s Gift to Pakistan By Liaquat Ali Khan
With a willful caricature of the Pashtuns, who are successfully resisting the occupation of Afghanistan, Obama advisers are forcing Pakistan, a subservient ally, to help win the war in Afghanistan. This help is suicidal for Pakistan. The civil war will unleash intractable sectarian, ethnic, and secessionist forces. As the warfare intensifies in coming months, Pakistan… Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook, “How the Media Annexed East Jerusalem to Israel”
So what is to be made of this fairly typical line from a report issued by AFP last week: ‘More than 280,000 settlers currently live in settlements dotted throughout the Palestinian territory that Israel captured during the 1967 Six Day War’? Where are the missing 200,000 settlers? Continue reading
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Sonia Maria Sotomayor — She’s No Clarence Thomas, But No Thurgood Marshall Either By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The bubble of false reality that is corporate media’s coverage of the nomination of Sonia Maria Sotomayor begins with the racist rants of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, and a host of Republican senators and talking heads. It encompasses a torrent of righteous air and ink denouncing the racists, along with an inspiring story of humble origins, hard… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 