Established firms in Chicago and both coasts are asked to submit qualifications to design Obama library
The foundation tasked with building the Barack Obama Presidential Center is asking designers from the U.S. and overseas to compete for the Chicago project. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will choose the finalists later this year. Aug. 26, 2015.
by Vijay Prashad
The war on Libya in 2010 was Hillary Clinton’s most powerful experience. When the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was killed on the outskirts of Sirte, she said: “We came, we saw, he died.” It was a callous display of U.S. power. It is a window to how Hillary Clinton would govern as President: with an iron fist against any challenge to U.S. power.
China and Russia, for Rubio and Hillary Clinton, are living threats. “A gangster in Moscow is not just threatening Europe,” Rubio said colourfully last year, but “he’s threatening to destroy and divide NATO.” Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, had compared Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler. The establishment is pledged to push back against Russia. There is wide consensus on that.
"The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to
approve regulating Internet service like a public utility....".
"The F.C.C. plan would let the agency regulate Internet access as if
it is a public good."
The $400 billion, 40 year oil and gas deal between China and Russia is a response to the new cold war pressure and sanctions on Russia, says economist Michael Hudson
On Obama's initiative, it has been decided that leaders of the United Nations Security Council member countries will meet on Sept. 24 to discuss nuclear issues.
"We are hopeful that your country would support the Arab draft resolution," says the June 29 letter to Bildt. "Unfortunately," Sweden was among the EU nations voting to block action on the document last year, Moussa wrote. In Stockholm, Swedish foreign mi
The statement on October 26, 2004, from which the name of Van Jones has now (Sept 2009) been removed. "Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, [was] Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called
Om sjukförsäkringsreformen nu går igenom, även i dess svaga form[....], kan republikanerna hamna(r) i långvarig politisk maktlöshet och deras aktivister förvandlas till partiets extremistproblem. "Sjukförsäkring är nyckeln till USA:s politiska framtid", P
Murray: CIA used Uzbek torture to create false intelligence; support for regime continues Craig Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee. The Real News Network