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Veterans For Peace President, Mike Ferner, Responds To President Obama’s Rebranded Occupation Of Iraq
Sep 1st
War Is A Crime .org A veteran’s perspective makes it clear that two major points must be made in response to President Obama’s announcement regarding combat troops leaving Iraq. First, there is no such thing as “non combat troops.” It is a contradiction in terms. It is internally inconsistent. It is illogical. It is simply [...]
Boehner’s Cheap Opposition Strategy
Aug 25th
Ruth Marcus – There are times when I flirt with the notion that the country would be better off with divided government. If Republicans took control, say, of the House, there would be pressure on both parties to behave more responsibly. The GOP would be pushed to stop carping and posturing, and start governing. Democrats [...]
The Afghan War Diaries
Jul 26th
thinkprogress.org NATIONAL SECURITY The Afghan War Diaries Yesterday afternoon, the whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks.org released a massive archive of 92,000 classified reports revealing an “unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.” The archive, containing reports from the ground written during a six-year period from [...]
What The Wikileak Means For The Afghanistan War
Jul 26th
Posted by MICHAEL CROWLEY Sunday, July 25, 2010 The Obama White House is furious this morning about the massive leak of military documents chronicling the unvarnished truth about the Afghanistan war. At the same time, though, there must be a certain sense of relief around the West Wing. When they first learned that the whistleblower [...]
War In Afghanistan: Illegal, Untenable And Unwinnable
Jul 2nd
OpEdNews: War in Afghanistan: Illegal, Untenable and Unwinnable – by Stephen Lendman A May 30 Delaware County Times editorial headlined, “Is US fighting unwinnable war in Afghanistan” asking: “Why should America (believe) it can (accomplish what the) Soviet Union (and) Britain couldn’t….? Public sentiment against it is growing, and “Many pundits say the war….can never [...]
Why the United States still can’t get BP to do what’s necessary
Jun 14th
Gulf Oil Spill This post originally appeared at Robert Reich’s blog If Obama asserts no legal authority over BP, he can’t cleanup the oil giant’s cleanup BY ROBERT REICH Here’s what Coast Guard Rear Adm. James A. Watson wrote to BP’s chief operating officer on Friday: “Recognizing the complexity of this challenge, every effort must [...]
Obama presses aid to small business
Jun 11th
The Chicago Tribune The Swamp by Christi Parsons President Obama this morning will call on Congress to pass a series of his proposals to spur hiring in the private sector, following a meeting with owners and workers of small enterprises in the Oval Office to talk about how they are weathering the recession. Four months [...]
Don’t expect Obama to be Superman
Jun 11th
Washingtonpost.com Why can’t President Obama stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Why can’t he get the Israelis and Palestinians to stop squabbling and make peace? Why can’t he get the Europeans to contribute more troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan? Why can’t he forge a global treaty to reduce the emission [...]
Obama should take charge of cleanup in the Gulf
May 26th
Boston.com GLOBE EDITORIAL MORE THAN a month after BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is washing up in ugly clumps on beaches and wetlands, coating birds and other marine wildlife with a deadly slick. Just as pelicans and sea turtles are caught in an oily grasp, so is President Obama. Out of political caution, he and [...]
House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo
May 24th
The Public Record 5/24/10 Posted by Andy Worthington A U.S. Army soldier with Echo Company, 629th Military Intelligence Battalion, keeps watch from a guard tower at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention center on Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 13, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy President Obama’s hopes of closing [...]
