Far-Right Groups Decline But Those Left ‘Leaner And Meaner’
Hate Groups 1998-2013 (Credit: SPLC) Rob Quinn writes for Newser: Tough times for the far right? The number of militias, skinhead gangs, and other extremist groups in the US dropped last year for the...
View ArticleNorman Solomon: Heard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of...
Norman Soloman writes for the Huffington Post: International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a...
View ArticleNukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
Steve Breyman writes for CounterPunch: We spent much of the eighties resisting Ronald Reagan’s new Cold War, and his new nuclear weapons of all shapes and sizes. We pushed back against his giant...
View ArticleHundreds Arrested During Keystone XL Outside White House
‘Hundreds of students demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline deal, but Obama has already fast tracked the southern half of the pipeline which is currently delivering Canadian tar sands...
View ArticleThe ‘Most Transparent Administration In History’ Sets New Record In Denying...
Mike Masnick reports for Techdirt: On the day of his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would be “the most open and transparent in history.” It did not take...
View ArticleObama Whitewashes World War One
Matthew Rothschild writes for The Progressive: President Obama just went to Flanders Field in Belgium to pay homage to those who lost their lives in World War I. But rather than use the occasion to...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg to give Obama ‘ambassador to humanity’ award
Ian Swanson reports for The Hill: President Obama will speak next month at a gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of a Holocaust history foundation established by director Steven Spielberg. The USC...
View ArticleObama: Russians don’t want war, they know our military is ‘significantly...
Katie Zezima reports for The Washington Post: Russia doesn’t want a military confrontation with the United States, President Obama said Wednesday. In an interview with Major Garrett of CBS News, Obama...
View ArticleObama: “Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force?”
President Obama gave a joint press conference yesterday [April 28th] with Philippine President Benigno Acquino after signing a ten year security pact which will see the US military return to the...
View ArticleCold War Against Russia — Without Debate
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen writes for The Nation: ‘Future historians will note that in April 2014, nearly a quarter-century after the end of the Soviet Union, the White House declared a...
View ArticleZbigniew Brzezinski: What Obama Should Tell Americans About Ukraine
Editor’s Note: Zbigniew Brzezinski served as National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter from 1977-1981. He was one of the main reasons for Carter’s reversion back to the early Cold War way of...
View ArticleA new report reveals an erosion of approval for U.S. leadership in countries...
Nicolas J S Davies writes for Alternet: ‘During the Bush years, people all over the world were horrified by America’s aggression, human rights abuses and militarism. By 2008, only one in three people...
View ArticleObama: ‘I Believe in American Exceptionalism with Every Fiber of My Being’
Jon Queally writes for Common Dreams: ‘In a speech rife with incongruities and contradictions, President Obama set out his vision and defense of U.S. foreign policy on Wednesday at the West Point...
View ArticleRetired General: Obama’s Iraq Goals ‘Very Difficult’ to Accomplish Without...
Elizabeth McLaughlin reports for ABC News: ‘Retired Gen. Carter Ham, who served as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Mosul, Iraq, from 2004-2005, told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on “This Week”...
View ArticleDefense secretary “not confident” Guantanamo will be closed under Obama
Kristina Wong reports for The Hill: ‘Defense Secretary Ashton Carter cast doubt Tuesday on whether the Guantanamo Bay detention facility can be closed before President Obama leaves office. “I’m not...
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