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Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Daniel L Davis — Obama Is Ignoring the Law in Libya, And Congress Doesn't Care

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It is now plainly evident, incontrovertibly so, that the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government consider what was once k...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Gareth Porter — US military leadership resisted Obama's bid for regime change in Syria, Libya

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The political implications of the episode are clear: bureaucratic self-interest trumped the military’s conviction that US security is being...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

President Obama blames the incident on Russia being in Syria

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"I do think this points to an ongoing problem with Russian operations [in Syria] ... in the sense that they are operating very close to...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

And so it begins...Treasury tapping Federal worker retirement funds in order to pay bills

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So here it begins once again. The Treasury is raiding money from Federal employees' retirement funds so that the gov't can pay its ...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard — White House warns Europe on Greek showdown

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Washington blames Europe for the lack of global recovery and is losing its patience with EMU creditor states that fail to pull their weight...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Robert Parry — Nuclear War and Clashing Ukraine Narratives

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America and Russia have two nearly opposite narratives on Ukraine, which is more an indictment of the U.S. news media which feigns objectiv...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Michael Stephens — Looking Beyond the Tax System To Fight Inequality

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In the context of last Tuesday’s State of the Union, Pavlina Tcherneva was interviewed by Wall Street Journal Live‘s Sara Murray on the iss...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Robert Waldmann — Obama’s Populist Tax Reform Proposal

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Barack Obama has released the details of a fairly radical proposal to increase tax progressivity which he will make in his state of the uni...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Al Jazeera — Obama denies US role in Hong Kong protests

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President downplays tension between China and US, saying Washington's "pivot to Asia" is not about containing Beijing. Regar...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Evan McMorris-Santoro — Despite Election Losses, Obama Still Sees Hope For Bipartisanship

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The president is either delusional or braindead. White House officials Tuesday evening insisted that having Republicans in control of the...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

Greg Maybury — The Why of Obama’s Failed Hope

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I think that the answer may be a lot simpler than any of the scenarios mentioned below, even though there may be some truth there. When  ...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Yves Smith — What Drives Obama’s Foreign Policy?

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It has become commonplace to depict Obama as weak and overly reactive to Republican and media pressure. But that view conveniently ignores ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Bill Black — Obama Consults a “Wide Variety of Economists” – Just Not Those Who Got it Right

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In a PR effort that aptly illustrates his approach to governance, President Obama has revealed that he is meeting with a “wide variety of e...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Glenn Greenwald — What Excuse Remains for Obama’s Failure to Close GITMO?

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The sole excuse now offered by Democratic loyalists for this failure has been that Congress prevented him from closing the camp. But here, ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Samuel Charap and Lee Feinstein — Obama’s Quiet Offensive

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Apparently President Obama had encirclement in mind all along and the crisis in Ukraine has provided the opportunity to forge ahead with it,...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Shlomo Ben-Ami — History Strikes Back

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Preparing for WWIII.  The first half of the article is correct, but instead of drawing the conclusion that the West blew a historic oppor...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Chris Arnade — The Pope, Obama and a Former Banker Walk Into a Slum—Does the 1% Still Win?

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Barack Obama is not Pope Francis, and not just because the slums of Buenos Aires are so much worse than the South Side of Chicago. Pope Fra...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Bloomberg — Obama Says Putin’s Challenging the World Order in Ukraine

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President Barack Obama said indifference to Russia’s attempt to unilaterally redraw the boundaries of Ukraine would ignore the lessons that...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Coleen Rowley — Obama Ensnared in Bush’s Abuses

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President Obama’s fateful decision – after winning the 2008 election to seek “continuity” rather than “change” and “to look forward, not ba...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Zuckerberg calls the president because he can

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We're now at the point where a 20 something year old kid can call the president and complain if he doesn't like somet...
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