Editor's Note: It is utterly disgusting that any analysis of Obama's "Preventative Detention" law is even needed. His new proposal is inhumane, immoral, in violation of the US constitution and international law. Since his inauguration, one day at a time, the real Barack Obama reveals himself to be even more dangerous than his predecessor. In... » read this article

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Action, cut! Pornography, feminisation of the enemy? Confused over what Obama’s view on Guantanamo and the backlog of torture images from Abu Ghraib? Join the club, laments Eric Walberg The centrepiece of United States President Barack Obama’s PR campaign to show the world the US is the nice cop was... » read this article

May 2009 “The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and... » read this article

Also see, Obama reverses decision to release prisoner abuse photos 15 May 2009 President Obama’s repudiation of his promise to comply with a court order and release Pentagon torture photos marks a qualitative deepening of the cover-up of the crimes carried out under Bush as well as their continuation under... » read this article

6 May 2009 In an extraordinary interview published in Sunday’s New York Times magazine, President Obama outlined his vision for the US economy in a piece entitled “After the Great Recession.” The interview was conducted by economic columnist David Leonhardt after Obama had delivered a major speech on restructuring the... » read this article

(emphases added) 29 April 2009 Since President Franklin Roosevelt’s fabled “Hundred Days,” a new US administration’s 100th day has served as an occasion for media comparisons to Roosevelt—usually at the expense of history and truth. This year, such comparisons abound, in part because Barack Obama’s first months have been dominated... » read this article

The current media frenzy concerning Obama’s coming release of more information on U.S. torture between 2000 and 2005 is a political storm conveniently kept out of context.  There are two aspects to the context that are missing.   First, this is not new information and well before current events erupted into... » read this article

"So be careful, if Obama looks better than Bush, it means you just don’t know how he’s about to screw you. Careful Cuba and Venezuela. And if you’re looking for a black president to finally make America discuss its history of racism, wait a little longer." The World Conference on... » read this article

April 20, 2009 In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate The American newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, quoting sources in the Pentagon, wrote the day before yesterday that those Internet sites and radio stations that according to them belong to or are attributed to the Taliban or are... » read this article

One can only wonder what prompted the incredible absurdities written by President Obama in his April 16th love letter to the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). It not only absolves CIA torturers from prosecution on the grounds that they were only following orders, (the same defense employed by Nazi... » read this article

April 8, 2009 On February 27, 2009 President Barack Obama delivered his much-anticipated policy speech on Iraq. The important point in his announcement was the withdrawal of some U.S. troops from Iraq by August 31, 2010. However, it did not mean an end to the American occupation of Iraq, or... » read this article

Editor's Note: Keith Olbermann's description of Obama's expansion of George Bush's expansion of presidential powers may be a little hard to follow in his introduction of this program. In his first interview of Howard Fineman (Newsweek), Fineman is all over the place. But his second interview with Jonathan Turley (6:40 minutes into the video), lays... » read this article

6 April 2009 A series of articles published over the weekend, based on financial disclosure reports released by the Obama administration last Friday concerning top White House officials, documents the extent to which the administration, in both its personnel and policies, is a political instrument of Wall Street. Policies that... » read this article

14 March 2009 On Thursday, President Barack Obama spoke before the Business Roundtable, an organization of leading corporate CEOs. Obama used the opportunity to deliver a paean to American capitalism. The speech, delivered in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, had an air of provocation... » read this article

    Arturo Rosales reminds us to refresh our memories and remember the LIES …   We are now about a fifth of the way through Obama’s first 100 days. The great expectations of the campaign have already begun to slip as the last poll on Obama’s popularity has receded... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Tch tch ... What's a president to do? He really tried but a nasty old judge at the Guantanamo death camp "rejected his request to suspend the trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen, is accused of planning the USS Cole attack way back in October 2000 -... » read this article

20 January 2009 The inauguration of Barack Obama has become the occasion for a tidal wave of media-orchestrated delusions and stupidities designed to overwhelm and chloroform public consciousness. The junior senator from Illinois is being compared, and is comparing himself, to everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to... » read this article

17 January 2009 Three days before the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, the distinctions have largely been effaced between the outgoing and incoming administrations. George W. Bush is, as even the corporate-controlled media admits, the most hated and despised president in American history. Barack Obama is,... » read this article

Editor's Note: 70 year old Russell Means is a native American from the Oglala Sioux nation who is recognised as one of the foremost leaders in the indigenous protests against Washington in North America. He was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and both of his parents were educated at Indian boarding... » read this article