Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
George W. Obama: War We Can Believe In
The American Conservative | By Andrew J. Bacevich | 1 February 2010 Issue No Exit America has an impressive record of starting wars but a dismal one of ending them well. President Obama’s decision to escalate U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan earned him at most two muted cheers from Washington’s warrior-pundits. Sure, the [...]
George W. Obama: Neither Transparency Nor Rule of Law
The Village Voice | By Nat Hentoff | 12 January 2010 George W. Obama After his first year, Obama shows his true face Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with [...]
The Pervasiveness of Racism in America
Deccan Chronicle | 10 January 2010 Reid apologises for racial remarks Veteran US senator Harry Reid has apologised to President Barack Obama for referring to him in racially insensitive language in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign as "light-skinned" and as having "no Negro dialect." "I deeply regret using such a [...]
Drum Rolls for the “Yem/Som” War
Washington Post | Editorial | 10 January 2010 Why it's wrong to rule out nation-building in Yemen THE DISMAL socioeconomic state of Yemen inspires despair in some of those considering what can be done about al-Qaeda's base there. It's the same defeatism that infects the discussion of other hosts to terrorism -- Afghanistan, Pakistan or [...]
TNR Editor Calls for Harsher View of Islam
Think Progress | By Matthew Yglesias | 8 January 2010 Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today” “... the truth is that ... you can't have a true view of routine mass murder in the contemporary world without having quite a harsh view of Islam today.” — Marty Peretz, Editor, TNR New Republic editor in chief Martin Peretz says that [...]
Michelle Obama Victim of American Racism
Deccan Chronicle (India) | 4 January 2010 Michelle's racist picture reappears online A caricature of US First Lady Michelle Obama as a chimpanzee has reappeared on the Internet, two months after the morphed "racist" picture first provoked a major controversy. The image has now been reappearing at the top of the results when the words [...]
White Supremacists Call OBAMA “Oppressive Bloodsucking Arrogant Muslim Alien”
Dissident Voice | By Bill Berkowitz | 29 December 2009 White Supremacists Crash Anti-Obama Tea Party It began with Apr. 15 Tax Day protests as thousands rallied in a number of cities across the country. It continued on into the summer with raucous town hall meetings and gun-toting anti-Barack Obama demonstrators, and appeared to reach its [...]
Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad
Huffington Post | By Eric Margolis | 23 December 2009 In my office hang photos of this writer with Pakistan's last four leaders. Two of them - Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto - were murdered. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted in a military coup led by photo number four, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who was deposed last year by Pakistan's [...]
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
The Nation | By Naomi Klein | 21 December 2009 Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN. There's plenty of blame to go around, but [...]
Pakistani Analysts Buy Obama’s Exit Narrative
Dawn | By Ilhan Niaz | 14 December 2009 Post-American scenarios in Afghanistan After three decades of turmoil, violence and killings, Afghanistan is still at war. A powerful foreign occupation force continues to hold in place a local collaborationist dispensation with few roots and even less demonstrable competence. Democratic development has [...]
