Barack Obama
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Shock Absorbers: Progressives Stunned by Obama Non-Surprises Chris Floyd
There is certainly a great deal of slack-jawed shock going around these days, especially in progressive circles, where pundits, commentators, analysts and kibitzers continually find themselves reeling from yet another ‘inexplicable’ move by the Obama Administration to uphold the core principles of their predecessors: enriching the rich, extending the empire, and enhancing the authoritarian power… Continue reading
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Egypt’s Intelligence head Suleiman: “Nobody in the Arab World can Afford to say NO to Egypt!”
We know from absolutely trustworthy sources that yesterday, when news reached them at the Moqata (Abu Mazen’s seat at Ramallah) that Saed Siyam had been killed, the political leaders present, among them Abu Mazen, congratulated themselves and handed out sweets. Continue reading
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COHA: A Call to Obama to Fulfill his Pledge for a New Cuban Policy
Obama’s speech foreshadowed the first major switch in White House strategy towards American travel to Cuba since former President Bush had announced new restrictions in a speech he delivered in 2004. Continue reading
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Reflections by Fidel Castro: Deciphering the Thoughts of the New President of the United States
To keep a military base in Cuba against the will of our people is a violation of the most elemental principles of international law. The US President has the faculty of abiding by that rule without exacting any condition whatsoever. Continue reading
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COHA: ¿Cambio?: Latin America in the Era of Obama ― An Early Reading on the Administration
If he is to revive any significant U.S. silhouette in the Latin American region, Obama must live up to his oft-repeated but as yet untested campaign rhetoric calling for ‘change.’ Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 66 – Change (in rhetoric) we can believe in
Whatever good changes might occur in regard to non-foreign policy issues, such as what’s already taken place concerning the environment and abortion, the Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy Continue reading
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44 Years Later, LBJ’s Ghost Hovers Over the 44th President By Norman Solomon
Right now, on the subject of the Afghan war, what dominates the discourse in Washington is narrowness of political vision — while news outlets are reporting that the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan is expected to “as much as double this year to 60,000 troops.” Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: North Toward Home
HOPKINS VILLAGE, BELIZE — I watched Obama’s inaugural speech over a plate of rice, beans and tortillas eaten with my fingers, in a thatch roofed joint in Belize. Which is organic and ethnic as hell, but I’d be the first to admit that a bucket of hot wings and a cold sixer would have been Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Deciphering Obama’s message to the Middle East
22 January, 2009 From Baghdad, Leila Fadel joins Gareth Porter to discuss Obama’s inaugural message for Middle East ears http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1997033 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Obama, hope and expectations Pt.2
Bill Fletcher Jr. on the ‘heresy’ of critiquing Obama and what he wants Obama to do http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1996877 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Video: Obama, hope and expectations by Bill Fletcher
Bill Fletcher on the ‘heresy’ of critiquing Obama and what he wants Obama to do http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1992921 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Betraying the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King By Andrew Hughes
“I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.” Continue reading
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Andrew Hughes: Obama’s statement on the Crisis in Palestine
Obama’s sycophantic, one sided admiration for Israel was as intense as his vilification of anyone who dared to criticize its policies. His choice of words to express the unity between the U.S. and Israel was probably more revealing that he would have liked. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti Empire Report #65, 3 January, 2008: America's other glorious war
The Pentagon pushes hard for a large increase in troops for Afghanistan. Barack Obama has been calling for the same since well before the November election. Listen to the drumbeats telling us that the security of the United States and the Free World necessitates increased action in this place called Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Glen Ford: Israel and the U.S.: Partners in Permanent Aggression
Just before the U.S. elections, Senator Joe Biden shot off his mouth about the certainty that Barack Obama would be ‘tested’ early in his presidency. ‘Watch,’ said the blathering vice-presidential candidate. ‘We’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.’ Biden didn’t predict where the test would come… Continue reading
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Rahm Israel Emanuel-Obama’s Zionist Warmonger
David Swanson on Barack Obama’s selection of Rahm Israel Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1845617 more about “Rahm Israel Emanuel-Obama’s Zionist W…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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You bastard, you burst my bubble! No not really By William Bowles
It’s difficult to see exactly what the incoming Obama administration can actually do about this crisis except attempt to ride it out and let the people pay the cost, which in any case, they are already doing. Continue reading
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Aleksei YEGOROV: Hillary Clinton’s Appointment Complete the Pre-Election Project Called ‘Obama’
For the time being (if not for good) Barack the politician and president can be rest in oblivion. There is Biden, the Clintons clan, and the Wall Street financial lobby. They are the real people the would-be negotiators with the United States would have to deal with. Continue reading
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Codepink: Is Obama forgetting something?
As we watch the President Elect pull together his cabinet, full of members of the Clinton and Bush administrations, we want to remind him of the promises he’s made to the American people. Continue reading
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AKIVA ELDAR: Obama’s Palestinian Friend: a MUST READ interview with Rashid Khalidi
Prof. Rashid Khalidi didn’t react when John McCain described him as a ‘Palestinian hater of Israel,’ because he wanted Barack Obama to win. But now, in an interview in Jerusalem, he is ready to express his displeasure with the president-elect. And he does not think Obama can make a fundamental change in U.S. policy on… Continue reading
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