Friends, it's very simple: if you support Barack Obama and the Democrats -- even if reluctantly, even if you're just being all sophisticatedly super-savvy and blogospherically strategic about it, playing the "long game" or eleven-dimensional chess or what have you -- you are supporting the outright murder of innocent people who have never done ( Read more... )

And we know that as disappointed as we might be in Barack Obama - in his little failings, in his petty slights, in his odd betrayals, in his unseemly habit of dancing naked through the streets of Oslo smeared with the blood and entrails of Afghan children - we also know that the alternative would be far worse. Why, with a Republican president, we ( Read more... )

Two weeks before going to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama sells his new Vietnam-lite to the world out of a US military academy. George Orwell, we salute you. War is indeed peace. ~ Pepe Escobar

The real choice Obama faced was not how many troops to send. We do not have enough troops to commit a militarily meaningful number. The real choice was to get out now or get out later. His duty as chief executive, the state of America’s treasury (empty), concern for the well-being of our troops and their families, and the hopelessness of the ( Read more... )

From both sides of the artificial divide.

Obama has ramped up the assassination of political opponents of the U.S. and the U.S.-aligned authoritarian regime in Pakistan, deploying more Predator drone plane attacks than Bush. But that's just for now. Obama could still personally order a government agency to murder you ( Read more... )

It was a tad premature, perhaps, but I believe events have born it out...

From Glenn Greenwald...
The NYT sums up Obama's civil liberties record in one paragraph
Saturday May 16, 2009 07:26 EDT
President Obama’s decisions this week to retain important elements of the Bush-era system for trying terrorism suspects and to block the release of ( Read more... )

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For all the President lovers out there.

How many times do you have to see it? How many times must it be shoved in your face, crammed down your throat, brought down on your head like a ton of bricks, before you get the picture? When it comes to the lineaments and methods of empire -- war, murder, torture, extortion, and deceit -- there is no ( Read more... )

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Well, I haven't seen it, not officially. But after so many years I'm ready to grasp at straws.Obama tells generals to speed up Iraq withdrawal plans

International Herald Tribune Wed, Jan 14 2009 15:36 GMTPresident-elect Barack Obama has signaled to top military commanders that he is not satisfied ( Read more... )

Some people will look at the top one and say, yep. They'll look at the bottom and say how dare you. On the other hand, some people will do just the opposite. What do you see? Truth or offensiveness?


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