Debra Sweet: What to Say to People Who Drone on About How Good Drones Are
A few points on the U.S. drone war which will not surprise you, but should be in your arsenal of arguments for people who think drones are an acceptable form of mass murder. 2 |
Elizabeth Warren Tells Obama To Put Up Or Shut Up On Trade Democrats and some Republican critics have been particularly frustrated by Obama's decision to treat the TPP documents as classified information, which prevents them from responding to Obama's claims about the pact in detail. "Your Administration has deemed the draft text of the agreement classified and kept it hidden from public view, thereby making it a secret deal," the letter reads. "It is currently illegal for the pres... 5 |
Democrats Accusing Obama of Doing More to Pass TPP Than Anything Else He's Done As President Democrats' frustration with President Barack Obama's trade agenda bubbled over Thursday, with key opponents accusing their party's leader of putting more effort into a bid to aid corporate America than anything he's done for the middle class. Calling it "maddening," Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told reporters that the Obama administration was putting on a full-court press unlike anything Democrats have ever seen in his presi... 5 |
After Getting Called Out, Elizabeth Warren Accuses Obama Of Deliberately Hiding Trade Details Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on President Barack Obama to make details of the trade pact he is negotiating public a day after Obama said that Warren and other critics were wrong on the facts of the deal. The Obama administration has briefed members of Congress on the deal, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but has blocked members from publicly discussing specifics. Last month, an Obama administration official ... 2 |
Guglielmo Tell: US, Canada Obstruct Final Declaration at Summit of the Americas
The Clash of Americas just closed down in Panama, and this was only one episode of it. Besides historical and very-much-publicized meeting of Barack Obama with Raul Castro, there was one of Obama with Maduro in the dark. Diosdado Cabello, President of Venezuelan National Assembly, said the day after: "We don't trust its results". Obama leaving the hall right after his speech so not to listen the reply speeches of his Latin Ame... 5 |
Guns To Surpass Car Accidents As Leading Cause Of Deaths Among Young People "Guns kill a lot of young people in the United States. Not just in school shootings or horrific 'accidents' between toddlers that tend to garner the most media attention, but in every day shootings in communities around the country that result in the deaths of thousands of children and teenagers. In 2010, 6,201 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 died by gunfire. Guns were a close second to the leading cause of death a... 6 |
The People's Budget: Progressive Proposal Aims to Un-Rig Failed Economic System Offering a sustainable alternative to regressive federal budget proposals put forth this week by the Republican majorities on Capitol Hill, the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Wednesday released The People's Budget: A Raise for America, which aims to "level the playing field" for low- and middle-income Americans. |
Eric Zuesse: Russia Says Ukrainian Nazis Pay Blackwater for Training
Tass says that the Bush-Obama nazis are now training Ukraine's nazis. 3 | |
Eric Zuesse: Obama Says He Is Improving the World
National Public Radio helps him propagandize against Russia, again. 6 |
Eric Zuesse: Putin Decides to Donate 50,000 Tons of Russia's Coal Daily to Ukraine for Heat Putin is not playing Obama's kind of chess. 42 |
Eric Zuesse: NPR Propagandizes Against Putin, for Regime-Change in Russia
How about a dose of propaganda with your daily meal? Try NPR! 17 |
Eric Zuesse: Yanukovych Proposes Solution to Ukraine's Civil War; It Fits Obama's Plan. Yanukovych seems to curry Obama's favor, a hopeless aim. 7 | ||
Eric Zuesse: U.S. House Votes 98% to Donate U.S. Weapons to Ukraine; U.S. Public Is 67% Against. Is this democracy?
The new world order is now unequivocally clear. 7 |
Eric Zuesse: Just In: See How Your Representative Voted on Bill for Obama to Send Weapons to Ukraine very grim news 8 | |
Is President Obama's Position on "Net Neutrality", an Important Step against Crony Capitalism/Classism in America? The principle known as "net neutrality" -- and it says that an entrepreneur's fledgling company should have the same chance to succeed as established corporations, and that access to a high school student's blog shouldn't be unfairly slowed down to make way for advertisers with more money. Ensuring a free and open Internet is the only way we can preserve the Internet's power to connect our world. That's why the President ha... |
RIck Lanahan: *The Conservative Era (The Era where the people and the earth lost their rights)
The Conservative Era (The Era where the people and the earth lost their rights) 2 | |
Eric Zuesse: Western News-Suppression about the Downing of MH-17 Malaysian Jet The "Buk" 'explanation' isn't just false; it is ridiculously false. Haisenko's explanation fits all the facts in the case, even as more becomes publicly revealed about the incident. 24 |
Eric Zuesse: List of the World's Richest Countries; America's Special Role in It how personal wealth and national power intersect 6 |
Eric Zuesse: VIDEOS: Ethnic Cleansing as a Political Tactic, Trashing Ukrainians the end of America as it has been known, the new nazi America 5 |
UK Emergency data law: URGENT After a European Court of Justice ruling denied the UK government the opportunity to introduce a Data Retention and Investigative Powers bill, the Prime Minister has convened a secret Cabinet meeting to pass the bill regardless as "fast-track" legislation. The bill is directed at telecommunications companies, demanding that their customers' data be held for 12 months. Law enforcement will hence have access to whatever "metadat... |
Eric Zuesse: How Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Congressional Republicans, Created Child-Refugee Flood The reality that America's "news" media won't publish 58 | |
Eric Zuesse: "Ukraine's Gangster State"
a ten-minute video summarizing Obama's mega-crime regarding Ukraine, perhaps America's biggest-ever international crime |