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Barack Obama
Czars, Kings, and Presidents
ProPublica's columnist Jesse Eisinger describes the tendency to focus on Tim Geithner, while ignoring the role of the president.
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Standing Up, One Year Later: President Obama’s Broken Foreign Policy Promises
The President's speech included a profound assertion that "from our use of drones to the detention of terrorist suspects, the decisions we are making will define the type of …
Is Obama Doing Enough to Fight Climate Change?
Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present.
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Beware the Drums of War: The Obama/Biden/Kerry Administration is Peddling a False Bill of Goods on Russia and Ukraine
President Obama's administration is peddling a false bill of goods on Ukraine.
TPP Would Deepen Income Divide
There is still a danger that Obama might seek to gain passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, using the fast-track procedure.
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The Master’s House Is Burning: bell hooks, Cornel West and the Tyranny of Neoliberalism
Cornel West critiques Barack Obama, bell hooks calls Beyonce a terrorist, and contemporary black intellectuals take to the interwebs to express disgust.
The Three-War Doctrine
Depending on what happens in the mid-terms and more importantly the next presidential elections in 2016, we might be looking at yet another effort to drive a stake through …
How NATO Jabs Russia on Ukraine
With events quickly spinning out of control in Ukraine, some policymakers need to tell President Obama that there can be even bigger trouble ahead, if Russia's national security interests …
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Beyond Marriage: Advocates Call on Obama Administration to Combat LGBTQ Criminalization
Despite the media hype, marriage equality is not the top issue on every agenda in the LGBTQ world.
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Popular Rebellion Deepens in Eastern and Southern Ukraine as NATO and the Kiev Government Step Up Attacks
As the US and its allies attempt economic and military domination Ukraine and to weaken and marginalize rival Russia, a popular revolution is deepening in eastern Ukraine.