Tag: Barack Obama
In the Name of “Israel’s Security”: Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Jan 24, 2020 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics, US
US funding of Israel’s military adventures continues unabated despite the rapidly changing political reality in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe Radical Underuse of Impeachment
Dec 20, 2019 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
Impeachable offenses the US Congress ignores include launching the endless wars, imprisoning without trial, torturing, and mass warrentless spying.
Read MoreHow UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank
Dec 20, 2019 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics, US
The UN’s impotence in the face of Israel’s flagrant violations of international law have only encouraged Israel’s criminal behavior.
Read MoreWhat the U.S. House’s Impeachment Inquiry Wouldn’t Ask Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
Dec 4, 2019 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
It is disgraceful that the US State Department continues to play diplomatic word games to avoid describing the Armenian genocide as genocide.
Read MoreThe Latest False News on the Trump Impeachment
Nov 18, 2019 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics, US
We all need to ask ourselves why it is Trump who is under investigation and not Biden and Obama. We already know the reason.
Read MorePropaganda, Pandering, and Politics
Jul 26, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
“Free” is America’s new verbal Potemkin village of health care, where Susie gets a free birth if she survives her abortion, free medical care for life, and even free food. All Susie has to do for herself is breathe.
Read MoreThe Obama Wars
Jul 11, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
Read MoreObama: Front Man for Washington’s Imperialism
Jul 9, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Obama was very much aware that he was fronting for the ruling establishment as he waged mass atrocities to enforce Washington’s hegemony over the world.
Read MoreThe Democrats Are Self-Destructing
Mar 29, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Democrats are all too willing to ingore the crimes of Democratic presidents while insisting on propagating the evidenceless Russiagate conspiracy theory.
Read MoreWhy It’s Ilhan Omar’s Critics Who Are Fueling Anti-Semitism
Feb 14, 2019 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
By falsely accusing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of anti-Semitism, her critics are feeding into the very racist stereotype they claim to be challenging.
Read MoreFrom Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees
Dec 6, 2018 | Viewpoints, Americas, Middle East, Politics, US
Refugees escaping to the US or Europe are perceived as the invaders, rather than the US and its allies who’ve helped cause the reasons for their flight.
Read MoreWhat Vox Gets Wrong with Its “11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine”
Sep 29, 2018 | News & Analysis, Featured, Palestine, Politics, US
Vox gets some things right in its “11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine” feature, but in the end leaves readers even more misinformed.
Read More17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
Sep 29, 2018 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
The list of failed lessons from the US war on Afghanistan after seventeen years of incessant violence is a long one. Here are a few.
Read MoreLISTEN: The US as Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
Sep 26, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics
Scott Horton interviews me about how the US government is the greatest obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians and how to realize a just peace.
Read MoreTrump’s Space Force Is Insane: Cultural Historian H. Bruce Franklin
Aug 22, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
American cultural historian H. Bruce Franklin discusses the creation of the US Space Force and how it is an “open declaration of our national insanity.”
Read MoreIs There Enough of America Left To Be Saved?
Aug 10, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
As the United States is the Constitution, destroying the Constitution by rejecting habeas corpus, due process, and free speech destroys the United States.
Read MoreRussia Is Our Friend
Aug 6, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Russia must be a true friend indeed to have put up with the US government’s international aggression for all these years.
Read MoreThe United States Is the Only Remaining Colonial Power
Aug 2, 2018 | Viewpoints, Americas, Politics, US
Washington pretends to be the great protector of democracy, but every time an independent government is elected in Latin America, Washington overthrows it.
Read MoreTrump Administration Reiterates US Backing of Israel’s Illegal Gaza Blockade
Jul 20, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics
The US has long supported Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade, a policy of collectively punishing the civilian population of Gaza for living under Hamas’s rule.
Read MoreTrumperial Presidency
Jun 4, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
How did we get to the point that the US Executive Branch maintains that the president can pardon himself for his crimes and the Congress goes along with it?
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