While it’s always refreshing to see the lives of working people centered in our media, the docuseries Working: What We Do All Day is hampered by the limitations of its host and narrator, former president Barack Obama.
Trump's bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack
"Contrary to what is stated here, nuclear weapons do not bring peace. They have, if anything, made the planet "safe" for US and proxy wars, while we all remain under the general threat of annihilation. Their effect on our culture and character, and on our social contract, has been profoundly damaging. As Simone Weil put it in her famous essay on the Iliad, 'Thus it is that those to whom destiny lends might, perish for having relied too much upon it.'"
The New Yorker 14 juni 2016
John Cassidy writes about President Obama’s impassioned [post-Orlando] speech about immigration, terrorism, and Donald Trump.
Robert Fisk, Independent 204.2016, according to the New York Times, the Saudis have even threatened to sell billions of dollars of their US assets if Congress passes a bill allowing the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for the crimes against humanity of 9/11.
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
Efter åtta år har ingen ens tillstymmelse till svar. De som dominerar är upptrappning utan politisk substans och tillbakadragande utan politisk heder. Vi stirrar ner i ett svart hål. Det enda vi ser är skräck., skriver Per Wirtén
Counter Punch, September 9, 2009. "Richard W. Behan lives and writes on Lopez Island, off the northwest coast of Washington state. He has published on various websites over two dozen articles exposing and criticizing the criminal wars of the Bush Administ
"British-Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian Tariq Ali spoke at Hampshire College on November 17 for the the Twelfth Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture. The annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture honors the teaching, scholarship, and activism of the late Eqbal Ahmad
Atomkofferten, som også kalles «The Nuclear» eller «Atomic Football», veier 18 kilo og har en liten antenne. Selve kofferten er en diskré utformet Zero Halliburton metallkoffert kledd med lær og inneholder fire elementer: * The Black Book, med mulighetene
Feffer 23.12. jämför Obama med Nixon. Å ena sidan START, vapenkontroll och (eventuellt) nedrustning. Å andra sidan krig och imperialism. "This bifocal view of Richard Nixon reveals one of the great paradoxes of the U.S. peace movement. Peace activists div
"Rather than bleeding the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, with more civilian and US losses than ever, a way out could have been a conference on security and cooperation in Central Asia, modelled on the Helsinki Conference 1972-75, which prepared the way f
President Obama’s proposed “Copenhagen Accord” aims to shift from developed to developing countries the balance of “common but differentiated responsibilities” that have been bedrock principles of equity in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Clim
The protest in Nairobi on 15 January by a handful of Muslim youth, in which four people were killed, revealed a profound radicalisation and inter-faith resentment among Nairobi’s Muslims. Analysis by John Onyando, 20 January 2010
Extracted from a 10th anniversary edition of No Logo to be published by Fourth Estate on 21 January. "Another, more hopeful possibility is that Obamamania will end up being what the US president's advisers like to call "a teachable moment". Obama is a gi
Democracy Now 2 Feb: "As part of a record $3.8 trillion budget proposal, the Obama administration is asking Congress to increase spending on the US nuclear arsenal by more than $7 billion over the next five years. Obama is seeking the extra money despite
By HANS BLIX April 4, 2010 STOCKHOLM — The financial crisis and global warming have had the world’s attention in recent years. Thanks to President Barack Obama’s initiative, perhaps the season for nuclear disarmament has finally arrived.
6 April, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER "The 50-page “Nuclear Posture Review” released on Tuesday acknowledged outright that “the massive nuclear arsenal we inherited from the cold-war era” is “poorly suited to address the challenges posed by suicida
IPS 5 April: "The efforts of the Barack Obama administration to maintain the secrecy of the counterterrorism policies of its predecessor, the administration of former President George W. Bush, hit a major speed bump last week. On Mar. 31, a federal judge
Lasse Karlsson har sammanställt några presscitat kring toppkonferensen i Washington. bl a Chrstian Science Monitors ledare, Eva Selin Lindgren (cp) och ett citat ur Christian Azars bok. Reuters ger en inblick i spelet bakom kulisserna i en intervju med fö
"the 50th anniversary conference of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which led the sit-in movement of the 1960s. I attended SNCC’s founding conference at Shaw in April 1960. That meeting had been called in response to the February 1, 1
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading T
June, 2010. "Is it unimaginable that the Tea Parties might turn in that direction? Perhaps not, though much depends on the extent to which the Republican Party and people like Sarah Palin are able to co-opt the movement. If they do, the revolt will fizzle
By Philip Giraldi July 19, 2010 "If one goes into an internet café it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification." "As this article was being written, a story broke reporting that
Gareth Porter "Under the administration's definition of the concept, combat operations will continue after August 2010, but will be defined as the secondary role of U.S. forces in Iraq. The primary role will be to "advise and assist" Iraqi forces. An offi
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel's leaders would calculate
Aug 2009 article by Elaine Grossman, final para: "Without clear direction from Obama, now president, "we essentially signal [to the world] that the president's nuclear elimination pledge is just another ultimate goal and not different from what any other
Israel is more likely than not by next July to take military action aimed at curbing Iran's disputed nuclear activities, more than three dozen present and former Israeli policy-makers and other U.S. and Arab state officials indicated in interviews with T
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Middle Eastern Affairs Colin Kahl and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Michael Corbin presented the administration plan for what they called a "transition from a military to civilian re