In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he  ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. In both cases, the mass murder was barely news. [...]

Weakling at Home, Imperial President Abroad He has few constraints (except those he’s internalized).  No one can stop him or countermand his orders.  He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to explain the “legality” of his actions.  And if he cares to, he can send a robot assassin to kill you, whoever [...]

There is a dangerously painful story line that is being propagated about a presidential race between President Obama and Mitt Romney. The line is that this will be a contest over competing visions for the country. In this story the alternative visions are outlined in the competing budgets put forward by President Obama and House [...]

Comentamos a continuación una muy preocupante noticia que ha recibido escasa, por no decir nula, atención en la prensa mundial. Según revelara Kenneth Schortgen Jr., del periódico digital Examiner.com el presidente Barack Obama firmó el 16 de Marzo de 2012 una nueva Orden Ejecutiva que amplía considerablemente los poderes presidenciales conferidos por la Orden Ejecutiva [...]

Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from an outdoor clock.  There would always be people all around him, but far too engrossed in the daily paper to notice.  [...]

Malcolm X, whose assassination is commemorated this week, warned us that, “If we don’t stand for something, we may fall for anything.” Forty-seven years later, most Black politicians and mainline African American organizations are willing to stand for nothing beyond the re-election of the First Black President. For the second presidential season in a row, [...]

Good but limited measures on tax reform are sacrificed, once again, to Obama’s eagerness to compromise on budget cuts President Obama’s proposed budget has a few interesting proposals for reforms over the next decade. Among the best are the proposals to rescind the Bush tax cuts for households with incomes of more than $250,000, and to [...]

In reality, a $25bn mortgage deal with banks is a drop in the ocean – given US homeowners’ $700bn of negative equity Big announcements of breakthrough legislative deals during election campaigns should be taken with huge grains of salt. Generally more rhetoric than reality, they sometimes contain real concessions made by politicians seeking votes. So it [...]

Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version [...]

Intentemos un curso rápido sobre cómo arruinar la economía global. Una enmienda clave de la Ley de Autorización para la Defensa Nacional firmada por el presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, el último día de 2011 –cuando nadie prestaba atención– impone sanciones a cualquier país o compañía que compre petróleo iraní y lo paguen a través del [...]