Why is Barack Obama getting away with constitutional outrages that would have caused an outburst of protest if George Bush committed them, asks Eamonn McCann. GEORGE BUSH was denounced around the world for allowing his intelligence agencies to install wiretaps without warrants from the courts. But Barack Obama authorizes the... » read this article

13 March 2010 The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the US. The White House and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are promoting a nationwide wave of school closures, teacher and staff layoffs, attacks on teachers’ wages and conditions, and an expansion of privately run charter... » read this article

6 February 2010 As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war. The operation in central... » read this article

2 February 2010 The Obama administration’s budget for the 2011 fiscal year, unveiled Monday, projects massive US government deficits for the next decade, fueled by gargantuan military spending and the impact of the financial and economic crisis of American and world capitalism. The US national debt is projected to more... » read this article

1 February 2010 The 90-minute televised meeting between President Barack Obama and the House Republican caucus, broadcast over the cable networks Friday, was an extraordinary exposure of the right-wing consensus within American bourgeois politics. It was a demonstration of the administration’s decision, in the wake of the Republican victory in... » read this article

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt of Obama's Town Hall Meeting in Tampa Florida. In it he responds to a question from a University of South Florida student who asks a question about Obama's view of Israel's treatment of the people of Palestine. Watch Obama fumble. The entire audio of... » read this article

25 January 2010 In a public statement criticizing the major banks Thursday, followed by a speech on jobs in the industrial town of Elyria, Ohio, Friday, President Barack Obama has begun a transparent effort to posture as the defender of the people against corporate interests. In what media pundits and... » read this article

20 January 2010 One year ago today, on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. The event was greeted with enthusiasm in the US, as well as in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. Many millions around the world hoped the... » read this article

Editor's Note: The ongoing issue among U.S. voters who want real change is to vote Democrat or for one of the parties that are excluded from the process (e.g., think Green Party) - or not to vote at all. Here's a call - from Washington - to "Massachusetts Democrats" and... » read this article

How do you spell success? No head of state in recent history has been re-elected so many times by such an overwhelming majority of the population as has President Hugo Chávez Frías. Any national leader in the world "would die for" his margins in any election campaign. His success has... » read this article

Editor's Comment: This Fault Lines video exposes what the Obama regime has done since he came into office on January 20, 2009. Millions, including many on the Left, were caught up in the euphoria when the first African American was (s)elected as president of the United States. Dreams and expectations... » read this article

19 October 2009 The United Nations Human Rights Council has endorsed a report into Israel’s 22-day assault on Gaza in December and January, accusing Israel of war crimes. Israel’s premier, Binyamin Netanyahu, predictably denounced the report as biased against Israel and unjust and insisted that he would not allow any... » read this article

17 October 2009 The class character of the Obama administration is clearly indicated by one statistic: President Obama has made available more than $12 trillion in cash infusions, loans and guarantees to the financial industry, but for state governments that are facing massive budget deficits, Obama has thus far provided... » read this article

I read an online report on Gentleman’s Quarterly (GQ)’s latest issue, and discovered why Palestinians are losing faith in President Obama. There at the top of a list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Washington, DC, was my old political colleague from Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. I quickly scrolled the... » read this article

"We think that this gives us a sense of momentum when the United States has accolades tossed its way rather than shoes" -  P.J. Crowley U.S. State Department  Obama made history as the first black President of USA, and once again, he makes history as the first person awarded the... » read this article

When I first saw the headline, in Rob Kall’s OpEd News, I thought “This is a joke.” However on further checking the joke on the web - through sites as diverse as al-Jazeera, the Globe and Mail, the Christian Science Monitor, Reuters and others - it became obvious that this... » read this article

5 October 2009 US President Barack Obama’s failed effort to attract the 2016 Olympics to his adopted home city of Chicago reveals much about the character and priorities of his administration. Obama flew to Copenhagen on October 2 to deliver a personal appeal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which... » read this article

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake "nuclear threat", with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis that led to invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people. In 2001, the Observer... » read this article

The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations. He is squandering the country’s future with deficits that can never be repaid. He has retained and even bolstered our surveillance state to spy on Americans. He is forcing us to buy... » read this article

In run-up to address to Congress 7 September 2009 As polls show mounting popular distrust of Obama’s reactionary health care proposals in the run-up to his September 9 address to Congress on health care, the administration is trying to secure right-wing support for its agenda. White House officials on Sunday... » read this article