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 [...]
UPDATE: Opportunity to Achieve our Goal
911blogger.com Jon Gold 11/30/2008 Donna Marsh O’Connor, mother of 9/11 victim Vanessa Lang Langer, recently posted an “idea” at change.org, “which was then promoted at both 911truth.org and 911blogger” for America to have a new investigation into the attacks of 9/11. Unfortunately, Donna’s “idea” never picked up steam.However, on 11/28/2008, Debora Blake posted a similar [...]
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. [...]
Six Top Obama Fundraisers Now Leading Transition Teams
DemocracyNow.com At least a half-dozen of President-elect Barack Obama’s new transition team leaders were among Obama’s top fundraisers who “bundled” cash for him on the campaign trail. Four of them raised $500,000 or more for the Obama campaign. Some public interest advocates have expressed concern over the links. Craig Holman of Public Citizen said, “Any [...]
Emanuel’s father: His son will not “clean the floors of the White House” like an Arab
JerusalemPost.com Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, a key member of the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives, has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s call to serve him as chief of staff, party officials said on Thursday. Obama barely had time to savor his victory before he began filling out his new administration and getting a sobering [...]
The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
By Morton Skorodin November 01, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse“: The period we’re living in now is the Bush-Obama-McCain Administration. Bush obligingly initiated Obama’s bombing campaign on Pakistan. The three of them colluded on the recent wealth transfer (about $840 billion) from the American people to Wall St. The 24 hr/7 days/wk media Wurlitzer distracts us from [...]
Hitler Endorses Obama
Dissident Voice by Joe Mowrey / October 20th, 2008 Okay, that title is a cheap sensationalist tactic to get you to read this article. But before all you extreme left-wing progressives rush to your keyboards to condemn me for using a Nazi reference in the same sentence with the patron saint of changeyness, let me [...]
The Debate That Made No Difference
If what happened last night is any indication of what is in the future for America, we may as well brace for it. There was no mention of civil liberties being returned to Americans, no lessoning of the military budget that brought us into this debt, along with the declining housing market. By Timothy V. [...]
Secret Service confiscates books & buttons from Ron Paul delegates – Updated
Daily Newscaster September 4th, 2008 By: D. H. Williams @ 7:29 PM – EST Today at the Republican National Convention, as the Ron Paul Delegates were taking a picture in front of the model White House inside the Convention Center, they were surrounded by Secret Service which proceeded to search the bags of all the [...]
Federal government involved in raids on protesters
Salon.com Glenn Greenwald Sunday Aug. 31, 2008 11:46 EDT As the police attacks on protesters in Minnesota continue — see this video of the police swarming a bus transporting members of Earth Justice, seizing the bus and leaving the group members stranded on the side of the highway — it appears increasingly clear that it [...]
US candidates practise their U-turns
In order to pass their political driving test, successful politicians need to be masters of one tricky manoeuvre in particular – the U-turn. Max Deveson | BBC.com The contenders in this year’s US presidential election are no exceptions – both John McCain and Barack Obama have engaged in some nifty repositioning. Mr McCain’s U-turns have [...]
The Democratic National Convention Looks Like A Good Place Not To Be
Jonathan | TruthAlliance.net We Are Change Colorado has now become aware that another group, Unconventional Action, is planning on being violent at the DNC protests. Violence is a broad term. Some argue that property damage is violent, others might tell you it sends a message. To most of the Truth Alliance and We Are Change [...]
Fear and Publishing, We Are Change Seattle in the Seattle Sinner
Piper’s Pit: A Common Reality by Saab Lofton/Seattle Sinner “Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.” –Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic Science usually [...]
Massachusetts congressman states why impeachment is off the table
Apparently, according to this congressman, it is to avoid pushing King George into attacking Iran, declaring martial law within the U.S.A. and preventing the 2008 elections from occurring. Ralph Nader (the man some people, who are somewhat narrow-minded, blame for Bush’s appointment as the first King of the U.S.A.) reads a quote from a letter [...]
I, Ken, support Ron Paul for President of the U.S.A.
RonPaul2008.com Ron Paul on the issues. Ron Paul Talks With Jay Leno on Oct. 30, 2007 Remember, Remember, This 5th of November, The patriot money-bomb plot. For Ron Paul’s the reason, That this campaign season, We’re giving it all that we’ve got. Send one hundred dollars, And tell talk show callers, To answer sweet liberty’s [...]
We Are Change Seattle – Wesley Clark
Is it More than Politics with Wesley Clark? Jack Lesser / WeAreChangeSeattle.org LAKE FOREST PARK, Washington – Time makes for experience and lessons learned, knowledge gained. Wesley Clark served in the United States Army for thirty – four years and rose to the rank of four -star general as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. On [...]
Giuliani Lies About Suppressed EPA Reports
Aaron Dykes / JonesReport.com October 2, 2007 KIRKLAND, Washington – Responding to questions from local activists during a recent campaign stop, Rudy Giuliani made a strange claim that air quality reports concerning Ground Zero were “open” and “public” despite a recent publicized controversy over the suppressed and intentionally misleading reports released in the aftermath of [...]
