Category: Obama

by Revolution Newspaper | May 30, 2013 On May 23, President Barack Obama delivered a major speech on drones, Guantánamo, and the “war on terror.” The speech was packaged as a new…

by Marjorie Cohn | May 24, 2013 As one of the 1,200-plus signatories to the full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times, calling for the closure of Guantanamo, I was disappointed…

by Debra Sweet | May 15, 2013 “President Obama seems quite ready to use executive authority when it comes to targeted kill lists.” While promoting the message to Close Guantanamo that we…

by Kevin Gosztola | April 30, 2013 There are steps President Barack Obama could take right now to expedite the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison camps, where prisoners currently engaged in a…

The sociopaths who wrote this memo have “legalized” the drone-killing of Americans with the exception of all the Americans known thus far to have been murdered by our government with the use…

by Glenn Greenwald For the the last four years, Barack Obama has not only asserted, but aggressively exercised, the power to target for execution anyone he wants, including US citizens, anywhere in…

…it’s emblematic of an Empire’s logic: the deceit of family values exists side-by-side with massive crimes. by Dennis Loo Jack Goldsmith, former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004 and…

by Jason Hirthler Delusions of the Liberal IntelligentsiaAs we head into The Chosen One’s second term, it might be useful to explode a few of the chronic myths that cling to the…

The reelection of Barack Obama to a second term raises many questions. from Revolution Newspaper Will he stop the American bombing from pilotless “drones” that he has ordered to be rained down…

by Dennis Loo Most of the commentary about Obama’s re-election and the defeat of some of the most reactionary GOP incumbents and candidates such as Rep. Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock has…