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Here’s Why Keystone XL Is the Wrong Choice for Our Nation
Here’s Why Keystone XL Is the Wrong Choice for Our Nation The new Republican majority in Congress wants to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil. President Obama announced he will veto bills that bypass the official review of Keystone XL. There are plenty of reasons to block these bills […]
New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship
New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship Just before the holidays, Barack Obama signed a new law punishing Venezuela’s leaders for human rights violations — for persecution and imprisonment of union leaders, journalists and protesters, and for a general disregard for the law. “The United States,” proclaimed the sanctions, “supports the people of Venezuela in their efforts to […]
U.S. Media Dangerously Regurgitated Government Claims About North Korea and Sony – Truthdig
U.S. Media Dangerously Regurgitated Government Claims About North Korea and Sony – Truthdig. By reflexively and uncritically repeating the Obama administration’s unsubstantiated claim that North Korea was behind the hack of Sony Pictures, the U.S. establishment press once again revealed itself to be a mouthpiece for—rather than a check on—power, and thus a danger to […]
Yanukovych Proposes Solution to Ukraine’s Civil War; It Fits Obama’s Plan. Washington’s Blog
Yanukovych Proposes Solution to Ukraine’s Civil War; It Fits Obama’s Plan. Washington’s Blog. The Ukrainian President whom U.S. President Obama overthrew in a violent coup this past February isnow proposing that “people will be able to negotiate and Ukraine will once again be united.” The former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in a lengthy interview published on Christmas […]
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war | Reuters
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war | Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism. Washington’s longstanding dispute with North Korea, which for years has centered […]
2014 Year in Review: Part 2 – David Collum | Peak Prosperity
2014 Year in Review: Part 2 – David Collum | Peak Prosperity. “Printing money out of thin air does not increase wealth, it only increases claims on existing wealth.” ~Charles Hugh Smith In the olden days, claims that the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer were a thinly veiled rallying cry […]
Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog
Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog. Previously-leaked documents showed that the CIA warned Obama that funding rebels doesn’t work … but Obama decided to fund the Syrian rebels anyway for cynical political gain. Top CIA officers say that drone strikes increase terrorism (and see this). Indeed, virtually all aspects of the American […]
U.S., Cuba to restore ties after 50 years of hostility | Reuters
U.S., Cuba to restore ties after 50 years of hostility | Reuters. (Reuters) – The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with Cuba more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. Announcing the end of what he called a “rigid” policy […]
PIGMEN WIN AGAIN « The Burning Platform
PIGMEN WIN AGAIN « The Burning Platform. “The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have […]
Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge
Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge. As we reported over the weekend, in the tumult surrounding Citigroup’s annexation of Congress with the passage of the theatrically dramatic $303 trillion derivative quid-pro-$1.1 trillion spending quo,what most missed is that Congress also unanimously passed […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, War to the Horizon | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Engelhardt, War to the Horizon | TomDispatch. It was the end of the road for Chuck Hagel last week and the Washington press corps couldn’t have been more enthusiastic about writing his obituary. In terms of pure coverage, it may not have been Ferguson or the seven-foot deluge of snow that hit Buffalo, New […]
Uncertainty in Washington Poses Long List of Economic Perils – NYTimes.com
Uncertainty in Washington Poses Long List of Economic Perils – NYTimes.com. WASHINGTON — As House Republicans mull another round of fiscal brinkmanship with President Obama, a dark cloud is threatening to return to otherwise clearing economic skies: fiscal and political uncertainty. Republican leaders moved Tuesday to finesse their way around another government shutdown next week, […]
The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Controlled Press Washington’s Blog
The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Controlled Press Washington’s Blog. How many Americans know that the current regime in Ukraine was installed in a very bloody February 2014 coup d’etat, that was planned in the U.S. White House, and overseen by an Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, and run by the CIA, and carried […]
Talking to James Risen About “Pay Any Price,” the War on Terror and Press Freedoms – The Intercept
Talking to James Risen About “Pay Any Price,” the War on Terror and Press Freedoms – The Intercept. Jim Risen, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for exposing the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, has long been one of the nation’s most aggressive and adversarial investigative journalists. Over the past several years, he has received at least as […]
Obama’s Appalling Hypocrisy On Ukraine—–NATO Started It, Not Putin | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Obama’s Appalling Hypocrisy On Ukraine—–NATO Started It, Not Putin | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. For a man who had taken a stunning electoral blow two weeks earlier, Barack Obama completed his Asian trip with an air of unperturbed leadership of the world—whatever the Republicans at home thought about who was in charge of what now […]
