Web-savvy Obama ‘rarely’ reads blogs, says they’re misleading
Jeremy Gantz | RawStory.com Although he owes his current job in part to the Internet’s unique networking and communications tools – and his campaign’s unprecedented ability to raise money online – President Obama “rarely” reads blogs because he considers some of them misleading and simplistic. The comment, made during a wide-rangingNew York Times interview aboard Air Force One, may [...]
Obama’s trade rep pick owes almost $10,000 in taxes
CNN.com Former Dallas, Texas, Mayor Ron Kirk, who is President Obama’s nominee to be the U.S. trade representative, owes nearly $10,000 in taxes. He’s the fourth Obama pick that has come under fire for tax issues. Kirk’s tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007 were reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee as part of the [...]
Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance
Peter Phillips | ProjectCensored.com The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantanamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military dominance policy, expanding [...]
Hold them Accountable
Justin Raimondo | AntiWar.com I don’t, as a rule, endorse legislation: being a libertarian and all, my faith in the ability of government action to have any beneficial effect is exactly nil. However, in the case of the Executive Accountability Act of 2009 [.pdf], I’m making an exception. This is because, unlike most if not all [...]
Endgame? What Endgame?
Afghanistan: A war without end.Justin Raimondo | AntiWar.com So, you thought it was all going to be different, did you, that we were in for a change – a Big Change? Well, the bad news, as Newsweek reports, is that the more things change …. “The Pentagon is prepared to announce the deployment of 17,000 additional soldiers and [...]
Guns and Butter (Again)
Ivan Eland | AntiWar.com When you stop to think about it, people measure how well their lives are going not by their absolute state of being but by their situation relative to their expectations. For example, a poor person in a developing country may be ecstatic about getting a pair of shoes for the first [...]
Meet More New Bosses
Geov Parrish | Eat The State Last issue, ETS! began its comprehensive look at Barack Obama’s cabinet-level appointments thus far, examining his inner circle, his environmental picks, and his financial team. This issue, we turn to Foreign Affairs and Security (generally awful), and to Social Services (generally pretty good). Here’s to hope in the next [...]
The Mailed Fist and the Velvet Glove
Obama speaks to the Muslim world Justin Raimondo | Antiwar.com President Obama’s interview with al-Arabiya television is remarkable in several ways, but what strikes me the most is that it coincided with the first air strikes on Pakistan under his administration: 22 people were killed, including between four and seven Taliban/al-Qaeda bad guys. In the Arabiya interview, Obama was [...]
Obama: Tough decisions on Iraq, Afghanistan loom
Anne Gearan | AP.com Emerging from his first Pentagon briefing as president, Barack Obama said Wednesday that his administration faces “difficult decisions” about Iraq and Afghanistan. But the new commander in chief offered no further details about his plans as the U.S. carries on wars in both countries. “Our efforts to continue to go after extremist [...]
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Geithner was “involved in just about every flawed bailout” of the Bush era
Andrew Ross Sorkin | DealBookBlog.NYTimes Timothy F. Geithner, President Obama’s nominee to be Treasury secretary, is testifying before the Senate Finance Committee at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. As president of the New York Federal Reserve since 2003, Mr. Geithner has been a central player in building the vast bailout plans that the government has extended [...]
Starbucks: “Are You In” The Start of Obama’s Civilian National Security Force?
Infowars.com See the entire Starbucks press release here. Starbucks wants to make it easy to join Obama’s proposed paramilitary brown shirt volunteers. “Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25. The goal of the effort is to raise pledges in excess of [...]
Meet the New Bosses
Geov Parrish | EatTheState.org The Obama spin machine has spent much of the last two months telling America that Barack Obama’s administration will draw from a wide ideological range of leaders. In turn, corporate Beltway media, taking this pledge to mean that Obama will appoint some Republicans, has been broadly supportive of Republican appointments like Robert [...]
Cheney: Bush’s actions legal if not impeached
The Raw Story Andrew McLemore Published: Sunday January 4, 2009 If you don’t get punished, you didn’t go anything wrong, right? That’s the message Vice President Dick Cheney gave in an interview with CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday, suggesting that a president’s actions are legal if those actions didn’t result in his impeachment.
Obama & Biden To Protect Bush Administration Criminals
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com It’s par for the course for Obama and Biden, the men who promised “change” but in every step of their preparations for assuming office have pursued nothing but continuity, to acknowledge that they will protect criminals in the Bush administration from prosecution for authorizing torture, a complete violation of both [...]
Liberals voice concerns about Obama
Carol Lee, Nia Malika Henderson | Yahoo.com Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown [...]
Hillary plays hardball
Leonard Doyle |theindependent.co.uk Before Hillary Clinton has been formally offered the job as Secretary of State, a purge of Barack Obama’s top foreign policy team has begun. The advisers who helped trash the former First Lady’s foreign policy credentials on the campaign trail are being brutally shunted aside, as the price of her accepting the [...]
Obama Adviser Brzezinski’s Off-the-record Speech to British Elites
TheNewAmerican.com Zbigniew Brzezinski, a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama on matters of national security and foreign policy, was the featured speaker at Chatham House in London on November 17, 2008. The title of his lecture was “Major Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next US President.” Although Chatham House events are known to attract “the [...]
This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House
Jeremy Scahill | Alternet.org U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. [...]
