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Barack Obama
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Twisting the Facts to Make a Case Against Obama
Paul Krugman: Niall Ferguson is deliberately misleading readers in his recent cover story for Newsweek magazine.
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The Real Importance of Bill Clinton’s Wonderfully Long Speech
In the aftermath of criticism for the falsehoods spoken at the RNC, President Clinton's speech accomplished a very clear goal: the truth.
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Dumb and Dumber: Obama’s “Smart Power” Foreign Policy Not Smart at All
Despite his intelligence, John Feffer explains why President Obama's foreign policy seems to go from bad to worse.
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Can the Black Middle Class Survive: Obama Is in the Oval Office but the Black Bourgeoisie is Foundering
In 2008 Obama was elected president on the promise of hope and change. Four years later, the black middle class is still struggling in this economy looking for a …
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After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat
High ranking government officials like Staff General Martin Dempsey have finally come out to denounce US involvement in any military efforts to support an Israeli war against Iran.
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Your Turn, Mr. President
have reached a phase of the presidential campaign that could be called the Season of Empty Metaphors.
Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform
This punitive approach to poverty has driven poor mothers of color further to the margins of the economy, making them even more politically invisible.
Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell’s Arctic Drilling
Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yanomami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Shellu2019s drilling in …
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Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It’s Inequality, Stupid
As wealth and income rise to the top, moreover, so does political power.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Barack Obama Endorses Movement to Amend the Constitution and Overturn Citizens United, and More
Movement to amend the Constitution and overturn the Supreme Courtu2019s disastrous Citizens United decision just got its biggest endorsement yet u2013 from President Barack Obama.