By Paul Craig Roberts What does the world think? Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia. In his March 28 speech, Obama…
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An Open Letter to President Obama
Peace is not yours to give, Mr. President. But hope is certainly yours to take away. By Kathleen Kirwin March 9, 2011 As I listened to a friend and colleague in Afghanistan…
Interview with Andy Worthington: The Outrage of the Bush-Obama Military Commissions
"The fundamental problem with the Military Commissions is that terrorism is a crime, but the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration, were trying to prosecute people in military settings for crimes,…
State of the Union: War on Terror Goes On and On, and On…
By Debra Sweet On Tuesday January 25, at the same moment Congress gathered for the State of the Union address from Barack Obama, almost a hundred people gathered to discuss “Torture, Guantanamo and…
Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military Commissions
By Andy Worthington For T. S. Eliot, April was the cruelest month, but for the prisoners at Guantánamo it is January — from the dashed hopes of January 2009, when President Obama…
Obama War Budget Breaks All Records
By Glen Ford On Capitol Hill, resistance to U.S. militarism has all but collapsed – and the Republican majority in the U.S. House has not even arrived, yet. With no opposition whatsoever…
With Indefinite Detention and Transfer Bans, Obama and the Senate Plumb New Depths on Guantánamo
President Obama is now fulfilling one of Dick Cheney’s great hopes, presiding over a prison in which the overwhelming majority of the remaining 174 prisoners will, in all likelihood, continue to be…
An Open Letter to the Left Establishment
We are asking you to commit yourself to actively supporting the protests of Obama administration policies which are now beginning to materialize. By Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, et. al. A…
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe
A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan. By David Corn In its first months in office,…
“Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?” The Enlightened War Policies of Obama the Peace Laureate
By Chris Floyd One of the most important stories of the day continues to be almost universally ignored, both by the corporate media and most ‘progressive’ bloggers, eternally absorbed with the shallow…