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Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press

July 24, 2013

NORMAN SOLOMON - The part of the First Amendment that prohibits “abridging the freedom … of the press” is now up against the wall, as the Obama administration continues to assault the kind of journalism that can expose government secrets.

Tags: Eric Holder, federal shield law, Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Freedom of the Press Foundation, journalists' sources, Justice Department, national security journalism, Norman Solomon, Obama, whistleblowers
Posted in Analysis, July 2013 | No Comments »

The Biggest Oversight in Obama’s Climate Plan is a Doozy

July 6, 2013

DAVID ROBERTS - While President Obama's climate plan addresses U.S. coal-fired plants through EPA regulations, it neglects another, equally large aspect of the coal problem. Specifically, coal mining, leasing, transport, and export in the U.S. Northwest. There’s a bad situation there and it’s getting worse. Obama can and must address the situation head on...

Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, carbon pollution, climate change, coal-leasing on public lands, David Roberts, EIS, EPA regulation of coal-fired plants, exporting of coal, low-grade coal, Obama, social costs of carbon
Posted in Analysis, July 2013 | No Comments »

New Year Means New Era for Progressives and Obama

January 9, 2013

NORMAN SOLOMON - As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now. We’re in a new era of national politics -- with different circumstances that call for a major shift in approach.

Tags: enablers, Norman Solomon, Obama, progressive, reframing
Posted in Analysis, January 2013 | No Comments »

Three Ways to Fix the Climate in 2012 and Beyond

September 29, 2012

EBAN GOODSTEIN - It’s hot. It’s going to get hotter. And despite the politics of the moment, extreme weather will eventually drive a national consensus on climate action. What can each of us do to insure we get there soon, rather than too late? There are three answers. The first is to build political...

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Posted in Analysis, September 2012 | No Comments »

Will the 2012 Presidential Election Be Stolen?

September 23, 2012

DAVID SWANSON - I've been trying (with virtually no success) to get everyone to drop the election obsession and focus on activism designed around policy changes, not personality changes. I want those policy changes to include stripping presidents of imperial powers. I don't see as much difference between the two...

Tags: 2012 US Presidential election, America's 2012 Election, Barack Obama, Bob Fitrakis, Brennan Center, Bush v Gore, Canada, David Swanson, democracy, election, electronic 'glitch' in Volusia County, electronic voting machines, George W. Bush, Germany, GOP, Governor Bush, Governor Robert Taft, Greg Palast, Harvey Wasserman, Ireland, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Japan, Jeb, Jill Stein, Karl Rove, Kathleen Harris, Obama, Ohio, president, Republican, Romney, U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in Analysis, Big Picture, September 2012 | No Comments »

Organize to Address Threats Ignored by Dysfunctional Government

September 3, 2012

PETER BERGEL - In my email this morning was a message from one of my favorite organizations, the League of Conservation Voters, that began: “We just won a major victory..."but I have to admit that my reaction was “really?”

Tags: 100 mpg, 5% Solution, Al Gore’s, Arctic summer, auto industry, climate change, co2, Gil Turner, global warming, heat waves, Inconvenient Truth film, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Joe Hill, methane, Obama, Occupy, Oregon PeaceWorks, The PeaceWorker, war in Afghanistan
Posted in Analysis, September 2012 | 1 Comment »

FBI Raids Homes of Occupy Protesters in Oregon and Washington

August 26, 2012

TOM CARTER - Over the last month, heavily armed “domestic terrorism” units of the FBI used battering rams and stun grenades to conduct early-morning raids on the homes of political protesters in Seattle and Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. On July 25, three homes were raided in Portland alone and, since July 10, as...

Tags: anarchists, anti-government, Anti-War, Anti-War Committee, antiwar, assault rifles, battering rams, Beth Anne Steele, Dennison Williams, domestic terrorism, FBI, flash grenades, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Leah Plante, NATO, Obama, Obama administration, Occupy, Oregonian newspaper, raid, stun grenades, terror, terrorism, terrorist plot, Tom Carter, USA PATRIOT Act, vandalism, warrants, World Socialist
Posted in Analysis, August 2012 | 1 Comment »

News from Wisconsin Not All Bad

June 6, 2012

MICHAEL KEEGAN - Despite the national headlines, last night’s results from Wisconsin were a mixed bag. It appears that by just a few hundred votes, our efforts in the Racine State Senate district were successful, meaning we flipped the Senate to Democratic control and the new majority will be able to block [Gov....

Tags: Koch Brothers, Michael Keegan, Obama, People for the American Way, Scott Walker, Wisconsin
Posted in Big Picture, June 2012 | No Comments »

House Republicans Add Gay Marriage Measure to Defense Bill

June 3, 2012

IAN DUNCAN & LISA MASCARO - Wading into the gay marriage debate, the Republican-led House tacked a provision banning same-sex marriages at military chapels onto a sweeping defense bill that is now headed to the Senate.

Tags: defense bill, gay marriage, gay righs, Ian Duncan, Lisa Mascaro, NDAA, Obama, Republicans, same-sex marriage
Posted in Big Picture, June 2012 | No Comments »

Backward Glance and Some Advice for Dick Cheney

April 25, 2012

CRAIG CLINE - Former Vice President Dick Cheney is the fortunate beneficiary of a heart transplant. I hope his new heart has more compassion than his old one did.

Tags: Craig Cline, Dick Cheney, economic justice, economy, freedom, Halliburton, heart transplant, military, military spending, Obama, terrorism, war, war profiteer
Posted in April 2012, Letters | 1 Comment »

Thinking the Unthinkable on Iran

April 13, 2012

EDITOR'S NOTE - This article adds to the peace movement’s usual analysis, which views control of oil supplies as the driving force behind U.S. policy toward Iran, the notion that nuclear nonproliferation might actually be the prime objective. Whether or not you believe that nonproliferation is the most important aspect, it is reasonable to...

Tags: Iraq, Israel, jonathan schell, middle east, military, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, Obama, war
Posted in Analysis, April 2012, Big Picture | No Comments »

Is New Bill a Clampdown on Protest?

April 9, 2012

RUSS BAKER - Is the president being asked to pound yet another nail into the coffin of democratic expression? So say alarmist scenarios concerning HR 347 (the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011), now on the president’s desk.

Tags: civil liberties, Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, HR 347, Obama, Russ Baker, Ted Deutch, Thomas J. Rooney, WhoWhatWhy
Posted in Analysis, April 2012, Big Picture | No Comments »

Murder Is Legal, Says Attorney General

March 14, 2012

DAVID SWANSON - Attorney General Eric Holder explained last week why it's legal to murder people...

Tags: Al-Qaeda, civil liberties, David Swanson, due process, Eric Holder, murder, Obama
Posted in Analysis, March 2012 | 1 Comment »

Americans Oppose Fossil Fuel Subsidies

March 4, 2012

ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - In his new proposed federal budget, President Obama called on Congress to repeal more than $4 billion a year in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, arguing that these "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies...impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to address the threat of climate change."

Tags: American opinion, fossil fuel subsidies, Obama, petroleum products
Posted in Big Picture, March 2012 | 1 Comment »

Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

February 5, 2012

ADAM ENTOUS - Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful, according to U.S. officials briefed on the plan.

Tags: arms, bomb, budget, bunker busting, diplomatic mess, DoD, Iran, military spending, nuclear development, Obama, war
Posted in Big Picture, February 2012 | 1 Comment »

The Man Who May Bring the Banksters to Justice (If They Don’t Break His Knees First)

January 26, 2012

MILES MOGULESCU - New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman may go down in history as the most important public official in reforming the corrupt financial system that caused the great Financial Crisis of 2008 and holding the perps responsible -- if he can hold out against pressure from Wall Street, the Federal Reserve,...

Tags: banks, crimes, economic systematic crash, federal reserve, Goldman Sachs, investments, Lloyd Blankfein, Obama, punishment, regulatroy controls, Wall Street
Posted in Big Picture, January 2012 | 1 Comment »

Victory Against Tar Sands Pipeline

January 20, 2012

FRANCES BEINECKE - Let’s face it: Big Oil is used to getting its way. But not any more. President Obama has just rejected a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- a project that promised riches for the oil giants and an environmental disaster for the rest of us.

Tags: energy, fracking, GOP, Obama, offshore spills, oil, Petroleum lobby, tar sands pipeline
Posted in Big Picture, January 2012 | 1 Comment »

Slip-Sliding to War with Iran

January 14, 2012

ROBERT PARRY - With the typical backdrop of alarmist propaganda in place, the stage is now set for a new war, this time with Iran. The slightest miscalculation (or provocation) by the United States, Israel or Iran could touch off a violent scenario that will have devastating consequences.

Tags: foreign policy, fundamentalists, GOP, greed, Iran, Islam, Israel, money, Obama, oil, US, war
Posted in Big Picture, January 2012 | No Comments »

If You Care About Keystone and Climate Change, Occupy Exxon

December 31, 2011

PAUL LOEB - It seemed like the afterthought in the payroll tax cut extension fight, a small consolation prize to the Republicans on what should have been the easiest of bi-partisan votes. But the two-month clock is now ticking on whether Obama will approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada's environmentally disastrous tar sands....

Tags: compromise, corporate greed, Exxon, global warming, human error, natural disasters, Obama, Occupy, pipeline, sleaze
Posted in Analysis, December 2011 | No Comments »

Is the Pipeline Victory a Turning Point for the Climate Movement?

November 17, 2011

TED GLICK - Two days ago I was convinced that the amazing Keystone XL pipeline victory won by the North American climate movement on November 10 was going to be, without question, a pivotal turning point. Today, having thought more about it, I’d say it’s more like somewhere between “maybe” and “probably.”

Tags: Big Oil, climate change, co2, coal, extreme climate events, Frederick Douglass, Obama, oil, pipeline, solar, victory
Posted in Big Picture, November 2011 | No Comments »

Worst Congress. Ever.

November 3, 2011

RT.COM BLOG - In the 34 years that an ongoing poll has asked Americans for their take on Congress, never in the three-decade span has that number dipped into the single digits. Never, at least, until now. The results of the latest survey from CBS News and The New York Times confirm that Congress’...

Tags: 99%, Congress, disapproval, historically low approval rating, jobs plan, Obama, occupy movement, polls, unemployment
Posted in Big Picture, November 2011 | 1 Comment »

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

September 24, 2011

MIKE LOFGREN - Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot.

Tags: God, GOP tactics, liberal fear, Michelle Bachmann, Obama, posturing, propaganda, Public workers, Republican, rhetoric, tax cuts, Tea Party, wealthy
Posted in Big Picture, September 2011 | No Comments »

Climate Change Movement Initiates Civil Resistance

August 19, 2011

BILL MCKIBBEN - Ain’t eBay grand? For $10 you can buy a sack of 50 assorted Obama ’08 buttons, and that’s what I’ve been doing. If you look closely, you might see them this weekend on the lapels of some of the global warming protesters holding a sit-in outside the White House.

Tags: buttons, congressional stagnation, disappointment, global warming, hope, Obama, promises
Posted in Analysis, August 2011 | No Comments »

Sacred Mantras Need Examination

July 10, 2011

URI AVNERY - The Palestinians are planning something thoroughly obnoxious: they intend to apply to the UN for statehood. Why obnoxious? Any Israeli spokesman (not to mention spokeswoman) will tell you readily: because it is a “unilateral” move. How dare they proclaim a state unilaterally? How dare they do so without the consent of...

Tags: Arab-Israeli conflict, Clinton, forced eviction, Haifa, Israel, Obama, Palestine, partition, propaganda, refugees, UN General Assembly, US Veto
Posted in Analysis, July 2011 | No Comments »

Obama’s Withdrawal Speech:Contrasting Views from Two Peace Advocates

June 23, 2011

REBECCA GRIFFIN & TOM HAYDEN - Rebecca Griffin and Tom Hayden are both strong peace advocates who have worked long and hard to end the wars in the Middle East. Their views on President Obama’s speech about his Afghan war plans are quite divergent, yet both make valid and important points.

Tags: Afghanistan, civilian, combat, counterinsurgency, Obama, peace, terrorism, Troop Deployment, veteran, war, withdrawal
Posted in Big Picture, June 2011 | No Comments »

Open Government Groups Asked to Rescind Transparency Award Given to Obama

June 10, 2011

SIBEL EDMONDS & COLEEN ROWLEY - On March 28, 2011, President Obama was given a “transparency award” from five “open government” organizations: OMB Watch, the National Security Archive, the Project on Government Oversight, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and OpenTheGovernment.org. Ironically — and quite likely in response to growing public...

Tags: federal, Obama, oversight, persecution, transparency, truth, watchdog, Whistle-blowers
Posted in June 2011, What's Happening In the Movement | 1 Comment »

Open Letter to President Obama: Bin Laden Assassination Is Not Something to Celebrate

May 2, 2011

DAN HANDELMAN - We were very troubled by your announcement Sunday night about the death of Osama Bin Laden. You described his assassination at the hands of a secret U.S. operation as "justice," an "achievement" that "should be welcomed by all people who believe in peace and humanity."

Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, bin Laden, drone, International Criminal Court, Iraq, Mission Accomplished, Obama, Pakistan
Posted in Analysis, May 2011 | No Comments »

Libya: Backing the Destructiveness of Military Power Again

April 9, 2011

IAN HARRIS - People should not be surprised that the United States has put itself in line to dictate the nature of the next head of state in Libya. After all, in 1954 this country replaced an elected leader in Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had promised to nationalize the oil in his country....

Tags: Gadafhi, Libya, Military Intervention, Obama, oil, peace, protest, regime change, rights, war
Posted in April 2011, Big Picture | 6 Comments »

Attack on Libya May Unleash a Long War

April 7, 2011

PHYLLIS BENNIS - The United States and its allies launched the war against Libya on the eighth anniversary of the 2003invasion of Iraq. President Barack Obama says the U.S. will transfer command authority very soon, that military action should be over in "days, not weeks," and that he wants no boots on the ground....

Tags: budget, freedom, Gaddafi, insurgents, Libya, Obama, protest, war
Posted in Analysis, April 2011 | No Comments »

The People vs. the U.S. Government

March 12, 2011

DAVID SWANSON - Statistically speaking, virtually nobody in the United States of America knows that we spend more on the military than the rest of the world combined, that we could eliminate most of our military and still have the world's largest, that over half of the money our government raises from income taxes...

Tags: defense spending, environment, mass transit, military cuts, Obama, pollution, sustainability, taxation
Posted in Analysis, Big Picture, March 2011 | 1 Comment »

Public Says Cut Pentagon, Obama Says Increase It

February 14, 2011

DAVID SWANSON - Did you know that the U.S. public wants military spending cut? Did you know that President Barack Obama wants to increase it for his third year in a row? Actually I already know that most of you didn't know either of these things.

Tags: cutbacks, deficit, Department of Defense, military spending, National Priorities Project, Obama, Pentagon, Public Opinion, spending freeze
Posted in Big Picture, February 2011 | 2 Comments »

After New START: Where Does Nuclear Disarmament Go From Here?

January 11, 2011

LAWRENCE WITTNER - With U.S. Senate ratification of the New START treaty on December 22, supporters of nuclear disarmament won an important victory. Signed by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last April, the treaty commits the two nations to cut the number of their deployed strategic (i.e. long-range) nuclear warheads...

Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Jon Kyl, Lawrence Wittner, modernization, New START, nuclear weapons, Obama, Russia
Posted in January 2011, SMART Stuff | 6 Comments »

A New Year: Time to Envision, Demand Peace

December 28, 2010

MICHAEL TRUE - “The same war continues,” Denise Levertov wrote, in “Life at War.” Her lament is even more appropriate for 2011 than as it was when she wrote the poem forty-five years ago. Columnists and academics, including International Relations professor Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, are finally acknowledging facts familiar to anyone “awake” regarding...

Tags: Afghanistan, Andrew Bacevich, Denise Levertov, Iraq, Michale True, Obama, Pakistan, Tea Party, utopia
Posted in Analysis, Dec. 2010 | 1 Comment »

White House Dries Out Moral Collapse in Spin Cycle

December 18, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON - On December 5th, in a column about economic policy, Paul Krugman focused on “moral collapse” at the White House -- “a complete failure of purpose and loss of direction.” Meanwhile, President Obama flew to Afghanistan, where he put on a leather bomber jacket and told U.S. troops: “You’re achieving your objectives....

Tags: Afghanistan, moral collapse, Norman Solomon, Obama, Paul Krugman, tax cuts
Posted in Analysis, Dec. 2010 | 6 Comments »

Obama Wooing “Economic Royalists”

November 24, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON - In his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt denounced “the economic royalists.” He drew the line against the heartless rich: “They are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred.” What a different Democratic president we have today.

Tags: economic royalists, green New Deal, Lawrence Summers, Norman Solomon, Obama, Wall Street
Posted in Analysis, Nov 2010 | No Comments »

Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine

October 19, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON -- Take it from David Axelrod. “Almost the entire Republican margin is based on the enthusiasm gap,” the president’s senior adviser said last week. “And if Democrats come out in the same turnout as Republicans, it’s going to be a much different election.” But we don’t get to have a different election.

Tags: David Axelrod, enthusiasm gap, Norman Solomon, Obama, progressive
Posted in Analysis, Oct 2010 | No Comments »

“End of Combat” Claim Disputed

September 27, 2010

JOHN LAFORGE -- The press made a big deal of it. The president even starred in an Oval Office TV show about the “end to U.S. combat” in Iraq, which was announced on August 31. Mr. Obama said he’d fulfilled a promise to end the war. Obama’s bit of theater cost less than George...

Tags: Col. Malcolm Frost, Gen. Jeffery Buchanan, Iraq, John LaForge, Obama
Posted in Analysis, Big Picture, Sept 2010 | No Comments »

Right-Wing Republicans vs. Corporate Democrats vs. Progressive Populists

September 15, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON -- At this bleak political moment, gaining congressional power for progressives might seem like pie in the sky. More and more desperate efforts are underway to stave off a Republican takeover of Congress. But the necessity of trying to prevent right-wing rule on Capitol Hill should not obscure the need to win...

Tags: Corporatocracy, Election Day, Heathcare Not Warfare, Norman Solomon, Obama, Progressive Demoncrats of America
Posted in Analysis, Sept 2010 | 1 Comment »

Obama’s Speech: A Brief for Endless War

September 3, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON -- On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war. Hours later, the New York Times front page offered a credulous gloss for the end of “the seven-year American combat mission in Iraq.”

Tags: Afghanistan, General Patraeus, Norman Solomon, Obama, Robert Gibbs, Troops, war
Posted in Analysis, Sept 2010 | 1 Comment »

DeFazio Explains His Opposition to Afghanistan War Funding

August 22, 2010

REP. PETER DEFAZIO -- Given that the war in Afghanistan has entered its ninth year without clearly defined objectives or an exit strategy, I wanted to provide you an update of my continued opposition to our head-in-the-sand Afghanistan policies. We recently saw a major shakeup in military leadership in Afghanistan, but it is...

Tags: Afghanistan, escalate the war, Karzai government, Obama, Peter DeFazio
Posted in Analysis, Aug 2010, Big Picture | No Comments »

Kagan Supreme Court Nomination Invites GOP Election Victories

May 12, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON -- If President Obama has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens -- and the Supreme Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially because it’s part of a pattern.

Tags: civil liberties, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, Norman Solomon, Obama, progressive rhetoric, Supreme Court
Posted in Analysis, May 2010 | 2 Comments »

Three Days That Could Change the World – This Weekend

April 30, 2010

JUDITH LEBLANC AND KEVIN MARTIN -- Barack Obama is undoubtedly the U.S. president most committed to nuclear disarmament since Kennedy. People all over the world have cheered President Obama's commitment to move toward nuclear disarmament.

Tags: Judith Leblanc, Kevin Martin, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, nuclear weapons, Obama, Yoko Ono
Posted in Apr 2010, Peace Visioning, SMART Stuff | No Comments »

Nuclear Calculus: New Think and Old Weapons

April 24, 2010

NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW: The New York Times' lead editorial on Sunday, February 28, 2010 laid out some of the major nuclear issues very well.

Tags: New York Times, nuclear non-proliferation, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear weapons, Obama, test ban treaty
Posted in Apr 2010, SMART Stuff | No Comments »

Is START Really a Beginning?

April 20, 2010

LAWRENCE WITTNER: Does the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague on April 8, really provide a beginning toward a nuclear-free world? That's what Obama implied in a statement two weeks earlier. Speaking to reporters at the White House, he...

Tags: disarmament, Dmitry Medvedev, Lawrence Wittner, nuclear nonproliferation, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear weapons, Obama, ratification, START Treaty
Posted in Apr 2010, SMART Stuff | No Comments »

U.N. Chief to Visit Hiroshima on August 6

April 17, 2010

KYODO NEWS: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has decided to visit Hiroshima on August 6 as the Japanese city marks the 65th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing, according to a senior U.N. official. The plan, expected to be formalized around July, would make Ban the first U.N. chief to attend an annual...

Tags: atomic bomb, Ban Ki Moon, Hiroshima, Kyodo News, nuclear disarmament, Obama, U.N. General Assembly, United Nations
Posted in Apr 2010, Big Picture | 1 Comment »

Beltway Bulletin

March 22, 2010

BRIEFING REPORTS ON: 1) Federal Debt vs. the Current Deficit; 2) Social Security; 3) The Federal Debt; 4) Obama's Energy and Global Warming Plans; and 5) Tethered Wind - Emerging but Ignored by the Feds.

Tags: Congress, current deficit, energy, federal debt, global warming, Journal Nature, Obama, social security, Social Security Trust Fund, tethered wind
Posted in Beltway Bulletin, March 2010, News | No Comments »

Pressing the Peace Reset Button

March 7, 2010

WINSLOW MYERS: The hopeful energy that resulted in the election of President Obama has run smack into the depressing reality of the largest military budget ever submitted in the history of the planet. But effective strategizing for peace can only emerge from an accurate perception of where we are.

Tags: Cenozoic, military budget, Obama, peace, polarization, Winslow Myers
Posted in Focus Topic, March 2010, Peace: What Does It Mean? | 1 Comment »

Obama’s Afghan “Strategy” Another American Tragedy

February 15, 2010

JOSEPH GERSON: Shortly after President Obama’s Afghanistan War escalation speech, I was contacted by the Voice of America’s Russian Language Service. They wanted to interview me. These are the questions they asked: What do you think about Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan? Were you surprised by it? Do you think it would be possible...

Tags: Afghanistan war strategy, geostrategy, Joseph Gerson, Karzai, Obama, Taliban, Vietnamization
Posted in Big Picture, Feb 2010, News | No Comments »

Democrats Boosting Right-Wing Populism

February 9, 2010

NORMAN SOLOMON: In his triumphant speech on election night, the next senator from Massachusetts should have thanked top Democrats in Washington for all they did to make his victory possible.

Tags: corporate healthcare, Democrats, healthcare, healthcare reform, Norman Solomon, Obama, Progressives
Posted in Editorials, Feb 2010, Opinion | 1 Comment »

Government Hinders Gaza Freedom March

February 4, 2010

JEAN ATHEY: We are in the Middle East, seeking a nonviolent solution to the blockade of Gaza. Free Gaza actions are occurring all over Cairo, and so the police, who are often in riot gear, have had a busy day — they show up wherever we go. They are incredibly young, maybe 18 or...

Tags: American Embassy, Audacity of Hope, Cairo, freedom march, Gaza, Nobel, Obama, Palestine, Palestinians, peace
Posted in Big Picture, Feb 2010, News | 2 Comments »

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