Barack Obama
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Obama and Sotomayor ‘Almost a perfect mix’ By Anayat Durrani and Eric Walberg
Since the announcement of Sotomayor’s appointment, conservatives opposing the appointment of Sotomayor have zeroed in on a statement she made at a 2001 lecture in Berkeley, California, discussing how a judge’s personal experiences in life affects their perspective. In her lecture she said, “I would hope that a Latina woman with the richness of her… Continue reading
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Ostracism or Reconciliation? Cuba, the U.S. and the Organization of American States
In 1962, President Kennedy’s ambassador to the OAS, DeLesseps Morrison, a rabid anti-communist, pushed a resolution through the organization suspending Cuba’s membership in the Western Hemisphere’s most important regional institution. Given the lack of overwhelming regional backing for such a move against Cuba at the time, this was no easy task. In fact, in order… Continue reading
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Obama offers little new By Ali Abunimah
Obama offered little new, reaffirming well-worn US positions that view Palestinians, particularly Hamas, as the aggressors, and Israel as the innocent victim. While calling for Israel to halt settlement construction (as US presidents have done for decades), Obama offered no hint that he would back those words with action. Quite the contrary, the president said… Continue reading
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Action, cut! By Eric Walberg
The centrepiece of United States President Barack Obama’s PR campaign to show the world the US is the nice cop was to end the military tribunals, which he called “an enormous failure” during last year’s presidential campaign, and close the infamous Guantanamo prison. This was Obama’s first major “achievement” upon assuming office. Continue reading
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Philippe Leymarie, “From Blunder to Blunder in Afghanistan”
Aware of the disastrous effect of th[ese] kind of incidents, President Karzai regularly denounces these ‘mistaken’ airstrikes, which add to the population’s hostility to the ‘occupying forces’ and to his own government, which is already accused of inaction. Continue reading
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NEW FILM TELLS UNREPORTED STORY OF OBAMA’S ELECTION By Danny Schechter
For the first time in American history, a president is using the techniques he deployed in running for office in pushing for deeper change. Those who want him to go even further might want to master the approach he used. Continue reading
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COHA: Summit of the Americas: Obama Goes to Trinidad
The reconstruction of a meaningful inter-American relationship must involve the dismantling of the Cuban embargo and Washington’s singling out Cuba for special treatment Continue reading
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Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans By Tom Burghardt
The lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, is aimed at ending the NSA’s dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and holding accountable the government officials who illegally authorized it. Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Iran responds to Obama
Investigative historian and journalist, Gareth Porter, speaks to Sharmini Peries about President Obama’s Nowruz greeting to Iran. Noting the significance of this unprecedented move by the US government, and the saying that this is the first time the Iranian leader himself has responded directly to the US, Porter said, “Obama was displaying atmospherics here far… Continue reading
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Phil Wilayto, "Did Iran Reject Obama's Overture?"
In a statement to Press TV, Iran’s English-language television channel, presidential aide Ali-Akbar Javanfekr said, ‘If Mr. Obama takes concrete action and makes fundamental changes in U.S. foreign policy towards other nations, including Iran, the Iranian government and people won’t turn their back on him.’ Continue reading
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Phil Wilayto, “Did Iran Reject Obama’s Overture?”
In a statement to Press TV, Iran’s English-language television channel, presidential aide Ali-Akbar Javanfekr said, ‘If Mr. Obama takes concrete action and makes fundamental changes in U.S. foreign policy towards other nations, including Iran, the Iranian government and people won’t turn their back on him.’ Continue reading
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Video: Iraq – Non-combat combat troops
Speaking to President Obama’s announcement of withdrawing US combat troops from Iraq within 18 months, Phyllis Bennis says, “Obama says that the combat mission will end but combat will not end. When you leave 50,000 troops on the ground in a volatile, war-like situation, there is going to be combat.” Continue reading
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COHA: A Warning for President Obama: Speak out on El Salvador or Jeopardize Prospects to Revive Latin American Relations
There is a huge disparity in campaign funding between the parties, rising levels of violence, and concerns over the impartiality of the Supreme Court, Electoral Tribunal and much of the media. Moreover, the right wing ruling party ARENA and ultra-conservative NGO fuerza solidaria have spread a campaign of disinformation that threatens to destabilize the country… Continue reading
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COHA: Obama and the Gatekeeper: President Lula Comes to Washington
Although it appears that energy policy will monopolize the meeting, Lula will undoubtedly also address needed changes in U.S. policy towards both Cuba and Venezuela. Continue reading
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Afghanistan: “There Was No Military Solution”
His soldiers were in a battlefield, caught in a cycle of attack and counterattack with an enemy that usually slipped away by the time the artillery shells rained down. There was no military solution Continue reading
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COHA: Let Down on Cuba
The Obama administration is still holding on to the tattered embargo like an aging frat boy hanging around his old stomping ground trying to relive the glory days. Continue reading
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Media Lens 5 March, 2009: Generic Invader Nonsense — Obama on Iraq
This is how the truth is slowly cleansed from the newsprint through repeated brainwashing. Now the main context for the killing is the insurgency rather than the occupation. Continue reading
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Viktor PIROZHENKO: Soros as the Mirror of the US Politics in the Post-Soviet Space
Under the Democratic Administration the US is likely to revert to the reliance on NATO in collective security affairs and to start restoring the influence of its NATO partners and the alliance as a whole. Continue reading
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Asymmetrical class warfare by Jamison Foser
MSNBC joined the pile-on, with a segment asking: “Is there a war against the wealthy? Do we have a class war developing?” Continue reading
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Video: Empire – Obama’s Middle East challenge – Pt 2
As conflict continues in the Middle East, the world faces an uncertain economic future and a new US president is sworn in, Al Jazeera launches a new series that will question global powers and their agendas Continue reading
The New Dark Age 