22 October 2013 — TomDispatch
Tag: Congress
Obama’s Humiliating Defeat By Glen Ford
11 September 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
When presidents fail, it is a public spectacle. In his rush into unprovoked war against Syria, President Obama overplayed his hand. Shortly before he appeared on television on Wednesday, “Obama’s handlers advised him that his political position was, for the time being, untenable.” But he’ll soon be back on the warpath, meaner and more aggressive than ever. Continue reading
The US Government Stands Revealed to the World as a Collection of War Criminals and Liars By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
10 September 2013 — williambowles.info
Does the American public have the strength of character to face the fact that the US government stands before the entire world revealed as a collection of war criminals who lie every time that they open their mouth? Will Congress and the American public buy the White House lie that they must support war criminals and liars or “America will lose face”?
A War for Israel By Paul Larudee
10 September 2013 — Dissident Voice
If there was ever any doubt about the purpose of intervention in Syria, it has been dispelled as hoards of lobbyists from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, including 250 Jewish leaders, descend upon Capitol Hill. Their mission is to make sure that each and every member of Congress knows how important it is to vote in favor of American military intervention in Syria.
On Syria, Sunday Morning TV Journalists Don't Need Proof By Peter Hart
10 September 2013 — FAIR Blog
The public doesn’t seem to support going to war in Syria–but some high-profile Sunday morning TV journalists are either declaring their support for the war, or professing faith in the case for going to war.
“Funny Things” Keep Happening on the Way to the War On Syria. The Whole World is on a Dangerously Slippery Slope By Jooneed Khan
10 September 2013 — Global Research
Funny things on the way to the War ON Syria have been happening ever since the war IN Syria began two and a half years ago, and they just keep piling on.
Want to Know Who the US is at War With? Too Bad, Says Pentagon By Lauren Harper
4 September 2013 — Unredacted
The National Security Archive recently submitted an MDR request for the Pentagon’s current list of Al Qaeda associated forces. The list is significant not only in determining whom the military is targeting in its citizens’ names; it also illuminates the Pentagon’s broadening interpretation of its post-9/11 mandate at the expense of Congressional oversight.
US: The Indispensable (Bombing) Nation By Pepe Escobar
3 September 2013 — Asia Times Online
Yes We Scan. Yes We Drone. And Yes We Bomb. The White House’s propaganda blitzkrieg to sell the Tomahawking of Syria to the US Congress is already reaching pre-bombing maximum spin – gleefully reproduced by US corporate media.The Full Story on Why Obama Backed Down on Syria By: Ibrahim al-Amin
2 September 2013 — Al-Akhbar
Commentators in the West will surely declare that it was their democratic systems of government that forced US President Barack Obama to back down on attacking Syria. But the events that led up to Washington’s de-escalation suggest there were other factors at play.
Are Spy Agencies Once Again Lying … this Time to Justify War Against Syria?
2 September 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Congressman With Top-Secret Briefing Isn’t Impressed with Syrian War Claims
Information Clearing House 2 September 2013: The CIA’s First Coup: Washington’s Long History in Syria
2 September 2013 — Information Clearing House
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
By Jim Naureckas
Let’s compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36071.htm
Obama Will Launch a Huge Propaganda Blitz — and May Attack Syria Even If He Loses the Vote in Congress By Norman Solomon
1 September 2013
Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two very important aces in the hole.
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 August 2013: Peace or propaganda?
31 August 2013 — VTJP
News
Dozens hurt in protests across West Bank
8/31/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of protesters were lightly injured including journalists on Friday in clashes across the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces dispersed a demonstration in al-Maasara village south of Bethlehem in protests against launching an attack on Syria, and marking the 12th anniversary of the killing of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa. Demonstrators marched toward the wall and raised Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian….
Information Clearing House 31 August 2013: Obama Backs Down – People of the World are Fighting Back
31 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
Obama to Seek Congressional Approval on Syria Action
Video and Transcript
President Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from an imminent military strike against Syria to seek the approval of the U.S. Congress, in a decision that likely delays U.S. action for at least 10 days.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36045.htm
Syria: The Obama administration confirms Israeli intel as the source
1 September 2013 — Voltaire Network
The US Defence Minister Chuck Hagel, the Secretary of State John Kerry, the National Security counsellor Susan Rice and the National Intelligence director James Clapper, held a closed meeting regarding Syria with leaders of Congress, on Thursday August 2013.
Government Should Not Define What a Reporter Is — or Isn’t By Walter Brasch
24 August 2013 — Dissident Voice
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a horde of members of Congress of both parties want to decide who is and who isn’t a reporter. Sen. Feinstein says a “real” reporter is a “salaried agent of a media company.”
Video: South Africa's Largest Union on the Verge of Major Split
18 August 2013 — The Real News Network
Patrick Bond: South Africa trade unions become magnets for capital as an ideological confict masked as a sex scandal threatens to fracture union behind the one-year-old massacre (inc. transcript)
Obama Appoints Fox to Investigate Spying In the Henhouse
13 August 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Spymaster Clapper to Lead Investigation into Spying
When Obama announced last Friday that he’d reform NSA spying, we documented that it wasn’t wise to trust him.
Edward Snowden Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant By Vincent L. Guarisco
10 August 2013 — Dissident Voice
Any sound that Watson made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it… There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment…You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
– George Orwell, 1984
SYRIZA: The Great Social and Political Movement of Subversion
7 August 2013 — The B u l l e t • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 860
Political Resolution, First Congress of SYRIZA
1 The Conference of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is a continuity and a breakthrough in its course, which started in 2000, continued with its official founding in 2004, and was sealed when it took on the historic responsibility to deliver the Greek people from the catastrophic neoliberal memoranda policies that have turned our country into a debt colony and led its creative, social, and productive forces to marginalization.
The New Dark Age 