Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
On the Coming Fall of the American Empire
Campaign for Liberty | By Daniel McCarthy | 23 July 2010 Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's [...]
Americans funding expanding Israeli occupation (“settlements”)
Der Spiegel | By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Christoph Schult | 23 July 2010 US Cash for Israeli Settlements Making a Mockery of the Moratorium Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlers are receiving [...]
America’s Resentful, Reluctant Partnership with Pakistan
Al Jazeera | By Robert Grenier (Ex-CIA) | 20 July 2010 US seeks Pakistan PR triumph A preacher I once knew said something which has resonated with me ever since. "There is no end to the good you can do," he said, "provided you are willing to give someone else the credit." No doubt, a substantial amount of good will come from the $500mn in [...]
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
The National (UAE) | By Jonathan Cook | 18 July 2010 English transcript: Bibi: ... The Arabs are currently focusing on a war of terror and they think it will break us. The main thing, first of all, is to hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to [...]
“This guy doesn’t get it, does he?” — Netanyahu, on Obama’s first criticism of Israel
The Independent | By Robert Fisk | 17 July 2010 They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason It is the season of grovelling. Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the [...]
Ho-Hum! More Racism in America
Washington Post | By Greg Sargent | 14 July 2010 Latest right wing attack: Obama only cares about black victims of terrorism This has to be the dumbest attack yet: Some on the right are on a tear because President Obama allegedly said Al Qaeda kills Africans because the organization is "racist." The hint here is that Obama cares more about [...]
Obama compared to Hitler, Lenin
Deccan Chronicle | 14 July 2010 Washington: The US President, Mr Barack Obama, has been compared to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin in a billboard by a local protest movement in Iowa state. The North Iowa Tea Party in a billboard in Mason City shows photographs of Obama, Hitler and Lenin with the statement: "Radical leaders prey on the [...]
Obama Mends fences with Netanyahu
People's Daily | By Wen Xian in U.S. | 14 July 2010 A change and not a change in U.S. Middle East policy U.S. President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 6, or last Tuesday, and they met at the same Oval office on March 23. The Obama administration's treatment of Netanyahu at the first [...]
Bush Ranked Among 5 Worst Presidents by 235 U.S. Scholars
Siena College Research Institute | 1 July 2010 American Presidents: Greatest and Worst Siena’s 5th Presidential Expert Poll 1982 - 2010 Release (Posted Below) FDR joins Mount Rushmore Figures Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln as Top Presidents TR Leads with Right Stuff; Lincoln on Ability; FDR Accomplished Most Obama [...]
Barack in Israel, Hussein in the Muslim World
Asharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 11 July 2010 Hussein? As soon as US President Obama addressed the Israelis in a televised interview with one of the local television stations, the shock hit our region. This is what became clear from the majority of the Arab media coverage, especially after Obama told the Israelis that he understands [...]
