Democratic Party

Barack Obama | (Whitehouse.gov) – The White House: “President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches” Full text of President Obama’s speech at Selma: It is a rare honor in this life to follow one of your heroes. And John Lewis is one of my heroes. Now, I have to imagine […]

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“Kiss Me!” Bibi Tells Boehner: Bibi and Boehner as Mario and the Magician

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By Raouf J. Halaby | (LeMonde Diplomatique) – Published in 1929, German author Thomas Mann’s novella Mario and the Magician is not only Mann’s evocatively compelling and poignantly potent comment on the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, but it is also a character template for successive egotistically sycophantic megalomaniacs enamored with their delusional […]

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Frmr Israeli Intel Head: Netanyahu’s Clash w/ Obama ‘Intolerable’, Risks end of US UN Veto

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Meir Dagan, the former head of Israeli intelligence, has long been on the outs with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Now he is actively campaigning for the Israeli electorate to dump him as prime minister in the upcoming elections. Soon after leaving office four years ago, he broke longstanding […]

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War on Whistleblowers (ft. Edward Snowden & David Carr)

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Brave New Films | – Brave New Films: War on Whistleblowers (ft. Edward Snowden & David Carr) War on Whistleblowers highlights recent cases where American government employees and contractors took to the media to expose fraud and abuse. In all cases the whistle-blowing was to the detriment of their professional and personal lives. With President […]

African-Americans

Giuliani & Obama: Immigrant Families and Really Loving America

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Rudy Giuliani maintains that Barack Obama doesn’t love the United States of America because of the way he was brought up. Obama was largely brought up after age 10 by his grandmother and grandfather on his mother’s side, Madelynn Dunham and Stanley Armour Dunham. Stanley Dunham enlisted in […]

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Obama Says: U.S. At War With Terrorism, Not With Islam

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By RFE/ RL | – U.S. President Barack Obama has said the United States is not “at war” with Islam, but with people who distort the religion. Speaking on February 18 at the three-day White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, Obama said, “We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with […]

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Against Torture: American Heroes who Indicted Cheney’s Dark Side

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By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) Why was it again that, as President Obama said, “we tortured some folks” after the 9/11 attacks? Oh, right, because we were terrified. Because everyone knows that being afraid gives you moral license to do whatever you need to do to keep yourself safe. That’s why we don’t shame or […]

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Obama on his Foreign Policy: Between Realism and Idealism

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By Matthew Iglesias | (Vox) – “When it comes to foreign policy, is President Obama a realist or an idealist? Turns out he rejects both terms.” Vox: “Obama on the goal of his foreign policy”

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When you’ve Lost Bernie Sanders: How Netanyahu destroyed the Israel Lobby

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Senator Bernie Sanders, the most consistent and prominent progressive in the US Senate, has decided to skip the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Congress on March 3, which was orchestrated by Israel’s ambassador to the US Ron Dermer and Speaker of the House John Boehner […]