Tag: President Obama

So, Mr. President, we need to start practicing the virtue of defending human rights here at home before we start lecturing others abroad, because the only thing that rivals the horror of what this United States Government agency is doing to its employees is what it's doing to your stature and credibility in the eyes of people who want very much to respect you.

President Obama demanded equal protection and support for all troops and Marines who serve in the armed forces, echoing recent calls by Mikey Weinstein of the Military...

I endured a moment of deep crisis this week, upon realizing that there might actually be more Pure Dumb in the world than I...

When President Obama took office, Eileen Fleming began phoning, faxing and e-mailing him and Secretary of State Clinton seeking a statement regarding the fact that...

President Obama proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order is an extremely dangerous end run around Congress and the...

As The Electronic Intifada reported in November, international solidarity and anti-war activists are facing a new wave of repression in the United States. ......

The President expresses gratitude to America’s military men and women and their families, and discusses the steps his administration is taking to help create...

President Obama: You do understand why the American people DO NOT take cries of terrorism at face value? Please acknowledge. Admitting that the American people...

From the White House: The Return of First Question By Jesse Lee Today before his press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a couple questions from Twitter...

Two lines in the fourth stanza of The Star Spangled Banner provide a clue to one American mindset that supports empire building. By James M. Wall...

Now, I was pleased to see that yesterday, Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. Senator Voinovich said, “This country is really hurting,” and “We don’t have time anymore to play games.” I could not agree more.

Stephen Lendman at OpEdNews has a piece that should make every libertarian, conservative, progressive; hell every American cringe: At the Obama administration. Is the...

From the White House: "Through All the Noise and Lobbyists and Partisanship... a Simple Choice" by Jesse Lee A Recovery Act that’s put more than 2 million...

The Commerce Department reports that "eal gross domestic product (GDP) increased 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2010 after increasing 5.6 percent in...

Brilliant analysis by Phyllis Bennis. by Phyllis Bennis So far the requests  have gone like this: Obama: Please freeze settlements. Netanyahu: No. Obama: Please freeze settlements. Netanyahu: No. Obama: Please freeze...

The Tea Party movement has a long, if perhaps not so distinguished pedigree, as fear of socialism has been a tool by powerful economic forces in the US for more than a century used to oppose any policies which might help poor and working people.

If the 2008 election had included only the votes of White People, President Obama would have lost in a landslide,  55 percent (McCain-Palin) to...

How can a pre-existing condition be declared for someone who has not even been born?

A recent example is a Harris poll that asked whether each of 15 statements about Barack Obama is true or false. In every single case, the less schooling people had, the more likely they were to believe that false things are true.

Update: Bob Cesca at Huffington Post:  "No matter how loud and obnoxious they might become, the urgency is to make sure the tea party...

The GOP leadership is a much more serious threat to the American way than Al Qaeda can ever be. While Al Qaeda is undoubtedly a physical threat to the American people, the GOP is attacking America's soul. They're attempting to alter what America is as a nation - and you're failure to address that issue is so counter- intuitive to your political base, who, after all, voted for change, that many are beginning to wonder if you're not part of the problem.

The year, 1960: It had been over a decade since that damn Harry Truman integrated the armed forces when the Greenboro Four decided to...

Climate and clean energy measures create jobs. Even without national climate and clean energy policies, green jobs have grown at more than twice the rate of overall jobs over the past decade, according to a June 2009 study by the Pew Charitable Trusts. State-level studies show the same trend. For example, a December 2009 analysis by Collaborative Economics and Next 10 showed that California, which has some of the most forward-thinking climate policies in the country, has seen green job growth outpace overall job growth by a rate of almost 3-to-1 since 1995.