Tag: obama

Is Obama trying to prevent the planned "big Mideast war" - while avoiding JFK's fate?

Obama’s decision to procrastinate, and preserve the world as we know it for one more week, may be braver than it appears.

"There's an old saying in Texas, or Tennessee...fool me once, shame on...shame on you...fool me...you can't get fooled again."

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry makes case to attack Syria. No evidence! Just believe us because we said so!

As the USA empire prepares to unilaterally attack Syria, we are reminded that creating reasons for war is a cornerstone of a global bankers empire that seeks control of world resources and governments with the wage slaves as it's livestock.

A war without a clear military objectives or goals.

A war without a clear military objectives or goals.

The Obama administration views Israel as one of the top spying threats facing its intelligence services, leaked documents reveal.

A family friend, a South Asian international human rights lawyer raised a very interesting question the other day and asked if there is a pro Israeli lobby in the US, why there is no pro American lobby in Israel? A very good question indeed.

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of  all". --Tacitus   This...

A petition signed by a reported 26,000 veterans and sent to the White House on Tuesday calls for President Obama to fire Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, saying a change of leadership is needed to eliminate the lengthy backlog of veterans awaiting action on their disability claims.

Freedom and Democracy in the Muslim world means never threaten, oppose, or criticize the hegemonic agenda of this Evil Axis to invade, occupy, slaughter, steal, plunder bribe, corrupt, and manipulate any Muslim nation or organization.

Russia’s granting asylum to Edward Snowden is not just a milestone in US-Russia relations. It is a mene tekel of “How the United States is Repeating the Mistakes that Destroyed the Soviet Union”.

The Obama administration, like the Bush/Cheney administration before it, clearly considers that the rule of law only applies to the weak and the poor. The administration makes it clear that international law doesn’t apply to the US.

Israel is many things to many people, but it is failed state. It can not exist unless it shamelessly wages war on everyone not Jewish inside and outside her borders, she has failed because she was stopped in the autumn of 2012, she reached a limit, where her military enforcement arm, the United States refused to wage war against Iran.

  Is Anyone Surprised?   By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall   BP’s massive 2010 Gulf oil spill virtually destroyed the Gulf of Mexico economy. Fisheries, tourist-related enterprises, and the...

Netanyahu (N) and Obama (O) are on the phone....

Obama calls them "rebels," Syria calls them "terrorists" but everyone agrees they are Al Qaeda.

Natural gas, according to Obama’s climate speech, is a “bridge” fuel. Shifting from coal to natural gas in US power plants is supposed to slow the increase in US carbon emissions while the US infrastructure transitions to renewable energy.

The swift action by Egypt’s military to arrest Mohamed Morsi and key leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood organization on July 3 marks a major setback for Washington’s “Arab Spring” strategy of using political Islam to spread chaos from China through Russia across the energy-rich Middle East. Morsi rejected the Defense Minister‘s demand that he quit to avert a bloodbath.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he was deeply concerned by the Egyptian military’s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi but fell short of describing the ouster as a military coup.

Just as President Obama disgracefully used Martin Luther King’s Bible at his Inauguration to tie himself to the great pacifist civil rights leader, so this totalitarian-minded, warmonger president claimed in South Africa Sunday to have been inspired by Nelson Mandela, whose legacy he said “we must all honor in our own lives.”

As with his sweeping health care legislation, the President’s long awaited climate initiative has winners and losers.

As with his sweeping health care legislation, the President’s long awaited climate initiative has winners and losers.

According to a recent article article by Gar Alperowitz, Obama has inserted a proposal to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in his 2014 budget.

I have now had the chance to read Obama’s Report on Nuclear Employment Strategy of the United States, that just came out on Friday, June 21, 2013.

There's a new Sheriff in town in the Middle East. President Putin reminded Barry that he's in charge.

By Olivier Knox   President Barack Obama is "deadly serious" about wiping out the massive backlog in veterans' disability benefits claims by 2015, White House...

VT editors Gordon Duff and Jeff Rense in 18 carefully selected minutes of clarity from a caffeine ridden "late night" rant session.

Overall, President Obama has been “a force for destruction” who has “advanced inequality, wealth concentration, deportations, imprisonments, and the de-funding of basic services in order to fund banks, billionaires, and bombers,” distinguished peace activist David Swanson says.

Overall, President Obama has been “a force for destruction” who has “advanced inequality, wealth concentration, deportations, imprisonments, and the de-funding of basic services in order to fund banks, billionaires, and bombers,” distinguished peace activist David Swanson says.

"The American press is continually filled with one wildly inaccurate and conspiratorial monstrosity after another, each one quickly proven false.

The job market for Veterans has shown some promising signs of strength, but that doesn’t mean we’re letting up now. Instead, we’re piling on—focusing on securing the gains in veteran employment this summer with two important events.

Recently, I received an email from Veterans for Peace (VFP) Chapter 136 in Central Florida asking me for an endorsement of its resolution to impeach Barack Obama.

It’s a shame that no American president can speak openly without “wrapping” their words in hyperbole.

Next May 17th will mark the 100th day more than 100 of Guantanamo’s 166 remaining prisoners will have refused food.

In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky said he never expected much of President Obama, adding, ”The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain.”

In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky said he never expected much of President Obama, adding, ”The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain.”

In the latest of a series of hoaxes, "source and fact-free" wingnut internet sites have again been suckered or bought into attacking President Obama, this time over a Bush era Food Stamp program.

In the last month of 2011, the United States Senate voted in approval of the National Defense Authorization Act and President Obama expressed no concern about the law which would strip Americans of their fifth and sixth amendment rights.

My goofiest TV debate opponent yet. Compared to him, Hannity and O'Reilly almost look sane.

We knew the Bush/41 administration hated vets. What government would cut funding for veterans in the middle of a war? Bush and Cheney, themselves notorious draft dodgers during the Vietnam War, led by Senator McCain, kept out of prison by a secret presidential pardon, used their wartime "moral authority" to label vets as "freeloaders."