Government food safety scientists report political, corporate interference
kim Geiger | LA Times.com Scientists and inspectors at the federal agencies responsible for food safety say they face political and corporate interference with their work, according to a survey released Monday by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonpartisan advocate for unbiased science in government. The survey suggests a continuation of problems that government [...]
Senate To Sneak Through Internet Kill Switch Bill
Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet.com The Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece of legislation that is almost guaranteed to pass – the defense authorization bill – in an underhanded ploy to avoid the difficult task of passing cybersecurity on its own. “It’s [...]
We Got One That Can See: Former Obamanoid Reveals Truth on Fox News
It was a remarkable moment in the annals of corporate media television. During a Fox News segment on the staggering unemployment rate among the young, a former Obamanoid manages to sneak in the truth — there is no difference between Clinton, Bush and Obama, they are all puppets for elite bankers. “Obama is an illusion [...]
U.S. to spend $100 million on Afghan bases
UPI.com The Pentagon says it plans to spend $100 million on air base expansions in Afghanistan with construction efforts continuing into at least 2011. Despite growing disaffection with the war and President Obama’s pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. troops in July 2011, many of the projected installations have extended completion deadlines, The Washington Post reported [...]
Petraeus: We’re Not Leaving Iraq
Pentagon Surprised to Hear Reports that War Ended Jason Ditz | Antiwar.com As Obama Administration officials and a willing mainstream media report that yesterday was the end of the Iraq War it would likely surprise many that 56,000 US troops remain on the ground engaging in combat operations. But it seems like the spin is [...]
Obama Redefines Troops to ‘End’ Iraq Combat Mission
Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com 50,000 Troops To Be Renamed ‘Transitional’ Forces To great fanfare, President Barack Obama has pledged to put an end to America’s “combat mission” in Iraq by the beginning of September “as promised and on schedule.” There may be no small measure of incredulity for those who remember his campaign promise to [...]
The lowdown on Obama’s Experience Seattle visit
Do we even have a red carpet? Somebody better find one, because President Obama is due to visit Tuesday. Some highlights from his Experience Seattle itinerary: • Quick ride down America’s Worst Freeway to campaign rally for Sen. Patty Murray, D-The Other White Meat. • Deliver speech about “strengthening the economy and creating jobs” in [...]
Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review
Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com Few issues highlight Barack Obama’s extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As everyone knows, one of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world — far away from any battlefield — and then detaining them at Guantanamo with no legal rights of any kind, not even [...]
Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
Matthew Rothschild | Progressive.org Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and [...]
Obama gives Patriot Act another year with no privacy protections
Andrew McLemore | RawStory.com If the Patriot Act hadn’t been approved for another year, Sunday would have looked much different. Sunday could have meant the government was no longer given permission to wiretap the phones of Americans and seize their records and property. But since the bill was approved by Congressional Democrats earlier this week and [...]
Obama, The War President
Helen Thomas | CommonDreams.org President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It’s called war. The President has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Where’s the change we can believe in? Bush left a legacy of two wars, neither [...]
Obama staffer wants ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups
Daniel Tencer | RawStory.com In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he argued [...]
President Obama, the CIA and the Master of the Cover-Up
gMelvin A Goodman | Truthout.org The Obama administration quietly announced Friday the appointment of John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, to head the internal investigation of the intelligence failures that led to the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Delta airliner headed for Detroit as well as the events leading to the shootings at Fort Hood in November. [...]
Obama Expands Federal Power Over the States with Executive Order
Kurt Nimmo | InfoWars.com Read the entire executive order here (in PDF format). Obama has issued another executive order, this time establishing a so-called “Council of Governors.” The order, signed on January 11, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored [...]
Angry 9/11 responders: President Obama offers sympathy, but no support
Michael McAuliff | NYDailyNews.com Angry Sept. 11 responders say President Obama has offered sympathy but no support for their appeal to champion their cause in Congress. A group of 9/11 widows and rescue workers recently wrote Obama, asking his help to pass a bill that would fund care for ailing responders over the next 30 [...]
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Obama Invokes 9/11 to Explain Afghanistan Troop Surge
Jason Leopold | truthout.org After months of deliberations, President Barack Obama finally outlined his revised strategy for the Afghanistan war in a nationally televised address Tuesday night. The commander-in-chief repeatedly invoked 9/11, attempting to justify his plan to escalate the eight-year-old war, which calls for the rapid deployment of 30,000 additional US troops to the [...]
Obama orders 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, plans withdrawal in 2011
AP | RawStory.com President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas. The escalation — to be completed by [...]
Obama on terror trials: KSM will die
Josh Gerstein | Politico.com Americans who are troubled by the decision to send alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial will feel better about it when he’s put to death, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. During a round of network television interviews conducted during Obama’s visit to China, the president [...]
