La Paz como medalla y no como principio por Allan McDonald 18 de octubre, 2009 Wendy Elizabeth Ávila nació en Tegucigalpa, el 28 de junio de 1985, bajo una lluvia de cenizas melancólicas. Barack Hussein Obama nació en Honolulu el 4 de agosto, bajo un carnaval de colores asiáticos en 1961. Wendy fue a una escuela pública, pobre como sus [...]

by Robert Scheer November 18, 2009 What’s up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, a leading Democrat, in this case Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, has a good idea for monitoring the Wall Street fat cats who all but [...]

by Robert Parry October 14, 2009 My article mildly defending Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize drew a number of critical comments from readers who felt I was letting the President off too easily, essentially excusing his reluctance to fully reverse George W. Bush’s wars and crimes. Some readers thought I was giving Obama a pass, too, when I [...]

por Alfredo Toro Hardy 17 de octubre, 2009 Obama es sin duda un líder con buena estrella. Teniendo a sus espaldas un modestísimo curriculum político –dos años en el Senado Federal y unos pocos años más en el irrelevante Senado estadal de Illinois- llegó a la presidencia de la nación más poderosa de la tierra. En su [...]

versión en español abajo Will You Love Every Future President? by David Swanson October 15, 2009 Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II, got a [...]

A packed house hears a left-wing critique of Obama by Seth Rolbein October 29, 2009 BOSTON UNIVERSITY – With the Tsai Performance Center filled to its 500-seat capacity, many in the audience remembered when that hall was named Hayden, the University was in turmoil, and Howard Zinn was both lightning rod and radical catalyst. Much has changed. The Howard [...]

This should not absolve Obama of his responsibilities nor ignore his considerable abilities, but simply place meaningful criticism of him here on Earth – as opposed to in heaven or hell.

What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness — Bush’s NSA program — is now deemed a vital state secret. by Glenn Greenwald November 1, 2009 The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among [...]

by Norman Solomon November 16, 2009 This week begins with a significant new straw in the political wind for President Obama to consider. The California Democratic Party has just sent him a formal and clear message: Stop making war in Afghanistan. Overwhelmingly approved on Sunday by the California Democratic Party’s 300-member statewide executive board, the resolution is titled [...]

by Gideon Levy November 1, 2009 Barack Obama has been busy – offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President’s Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin’s memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses him in terms of sheer output of recorded remarks. In all the videos, Obama heaps [...]