Home » Posts tagged 'barack obama' (Page 3)

Tag Archives: barack obama

The US Plan to Partition Syria

February 11, 2018

The US Plan to Partition Syria Photo by Hendrik Dacquin | CC BY 2.0 During a Jan. 17 Stanford University speech, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that the U.S. military will arm, train, finance, and otherwise support—for an indefinite time—a new, 30,000-strong, Kurdish and U.S.-allied Arab nation border force in northeastern Syria. This force […]

Continue Reading →

Trump Officially Restores Cold War

January 24, 2018

Trump Officially Restores Cold War On January 20th, CBS News bannered “Terrorism no longer the military’s top priority, Mattis says” and opened: “There is a major change in US military strategy. On Friday, more than 16 years after the 9/11 attacks, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said terrorism is no longer the No. 1 priority.” The report […]

Continue Reading →

Senate Votes To Reauthorize NSA Spying Program

January 18, 2018

Senate Votes To Reauthorize NSA Spying Program While most Congressional observers are focused on the battle to avert a weekend government shutdown (an outcome that’s looking increasingly likely), the Senate on Thursday quietly passed an extension of the NSA’s spying surveillance program, sending the bill to the president’s desk a week after the House voted to […]

Continue Reading →

As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges—Who He Owes Millions

January 14, 2018

As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges—Who He Owes Millions Trump followed in the footsteps of Obama and pardoned five megabanks—one of which he reportedly owes up to $300 million in outstanding loans. While Americans celebrated the holidays, President Trump followed in the footsteps of his predecessors by acting in the […]

Continue Reading →

New President–Same BLS Bullshit

January 6, 2018

NEW PRESIDENT – SAME BLS BULLSHIT I spent most of Obama’s presidency obliterating the jobs recovery narrative every month, as millions supposedly left the workforce because their financial situation was so wonderful. The bullshit shoveled by the BLS was nothing but manipulated misinformation then and it is still bullshit now. Just because the president is […]

Continue Reading →

Weiner Laptop Doc: Assange Warrant Issued 2 Weeks After Swedish Election Leaks Warning

December 31, 2017

Weiner Laptop Doc: Assange Warrant Issued 2 Weeks After Swedish Election Leaks Warning A confidential document found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop reveals that the United States Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden expressed concerns in 2010 that WikiLeaks would release classified US documents related to Sweden ahead of the September 19 Swedish election, tipping the vote towards the Pirate Party. The subject of […]

Continue Reading →

Trump Continues Obama’s Wars Against Democracy

December 10, 2017

Trump Continues Obama’s Wars Against Democracy US President Trump’s bold support for the apartheid dictatorship of Israel against that theocratic-racist nation’s non-Jews, fits into a larger picture of the supremacist nation that America itself has increasingly become. His immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, had repeatedly referred to the United States as being the only indispensable nation — that […]

Continue Reading →

Moscow Braces For More U.S. Sanctions

December 10, 2017

Moscow Braces For More U.S. Sanctions Whatever friendly feelings United States President Donald Trump might personally hold toward Moscow, the anti-Russian policy of his administration is even bolder than the course set in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency. This conclusion was articulated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who expressed his dismay about […]

Continue Reading →

Has Trump Made It Easier to Spy on Journalists? Lawsuit Demands Answers.

November 30, 2017

Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images HAS TRUMP MADE IT EASIER TO SPY ON JOURNALISTS? LAWSUIT DEMANDS ANSWERS. PRESS FREEDOM GROUPS filed suit today to force the government to disclose more about how and when it obtains journalists’ communications, amid reports that the Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pursuing a record number of […]

Continue Reading →

“Cloak Of Darkness” Grows As US Widens Surveillance Dragnet To ‘Homegrown Violent Extremists’

October 25, 2017

“Cloak Of Darkness” Grows As US Widens Surveillance Dragnet To ‘Homegrown Violent Extremists’ In the last months of President Obama’s ‘reign’, Reuters reports that, thanks to a presidential executive order, bypassing congressional and court review, a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities permits the collection of information about Americans for counterintelligence […]

Continue Reading →

Donald Trump didn’t create danger of presidential dictatorship, he inherited it

October 19, 2017

Donald Trump didn’t create danger of presidential dictatorship, he inherited it Sen. Warren says Trump is losing to the Constitution — but is he? Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted the president’s “illegal Muslim ban is now 0 for 3 vs the Constitution.” Video provided by Newsy Newslook Those who denounce Trump’s constitutional depredations and anti-democratic […]

Continue Reading →

The Real Destabilizer in the Middle East in Not Iran But Trump

October 17, 2017

The Real Destabilizer in the Middle East in Not Iran But Trump Photo by David Stanley | CC by 2.0 As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as “a wrecking […]

Continue Reading →

Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump – Part 3

October 12, 2017

Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump – Part 3 The first two parts of this series focused on how Trump-specific factors could lead the American empire into another series of foolish and highly destructive wars. Part 1 discussed my concerns regarding Iran deal certification, as well as Trump’s increased coziness with Arkansas […]

Continue Reading →

Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?

October 3, 2017

Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate? The answer to the question in the title of this article is that Russiagate was created by CIA director John Brennan.The CIA started what is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from being able to normalize relations with Russia. The CIA and the military/security complex need an enemy in […]

Continue Reading →

2009 – 2016: Was the Eight-Year Experiment in Maintaining the Status Quo a Success or a Failure?

October 1, 2017

2009 – 2016: Was the Eight-Year Experiment in Maintaining the Status Quo a Success or a Failure? Clearly, the core strategy of maintaining the status quo is to borrow and spend trillions of additional dollars every year. The Obama presidency was a grand experiment to test this thesis: the status quo of the U.S. is […]

Continue Reading →