(DailyCaller) – Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich says President Barack Obama’s administration has refused to show Congress any documents detailing the legal justification for drone strikes overseas.

Kucinich is currently building bipartisan support for a resolution that would force the Obama administration to demonstrate the legality of the drone program. Read the rest of this entry »

(FoxNews) – November 13th, 2012 – Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – When he was an attorney and U.S. senator, Barack Obama established a record of pushing for stronger protections for whistleblowers – generally defined as someone who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged improper or illegal activity being committed by a government agency or by government personnel. Read the rest of this entry »

(EFF) – Since last year, a few members of Congress—led by Senator Ron Wyden—have been trying to get the Obama administration to answer a simple question: how many Americans’ phone calls or emails have been and are being collected and read without a warrant under the authority of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA)? Unfortunately, no one else in the government seems to want that question answered. Read the rest of this entry »

(OffGridSurvival) – The Obama administration is in the middle negotiating a Small Arms Treaty with the U.N. that would effectively place a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyCaller) – In a shocking development in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation, documents show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed grenade parts to walk in addition to guns.

The emails also show Obama administration officials acknowledging that they may lose track of grenades but would still be able to accomplish their original objective even if the grenades explode. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – In an astonishing bit of unexpected news, a senior State Department official has announced, “The war on terror is over.” This stems from the idea, reports theNational Journal, that, “it is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists.”

Can we fire the TSA now?

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Media Matters is a White House front group

(PaulWatson) – The Obama administration attack dog Media Matters is attempting to shut down free speech by spending $100,000 dollars on radio advertisements in an effort to get Rush Limbaugh off the air in a staggering display of contempt for the first amendment. Read the rest of this entry »

(MSNBC) – January 24th, 2012 – Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The Obama administration has launched a major propaganda offensive in the war on terror. On Thursday, they unveiled details of a new strategy to battle homegrown terrorism by fostering coordination between local authorities and teaching officials to better recognize violent extremism, according to ABC News. – Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – The Obama Administration IP Czar Victoria Espinel has been holding meetings with ISPs, registrars, payment processors and others in a bid to get them to block access to websites “dedicated to infringing activities”. However, as we have documented, the government deems such infringement to include political opinions which are antagonistic toward the state, leaving the door open for state censorship of free speech on the world wide web. Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – The Obama administration is using the threat of terror to demonize domestic opposition on both sides of the political spectrum Read the rest of this entry »

(SteveWatson) – The Obama administration is drafting legislation that will see all internet providers and other online communication services, including email clients and social networks, be forced to allow the intelligence agencies unfettered backdoor access.

“Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.” The New York Times reports.

Experts have warned that the move represents an attempt to completely re-structure and centralize the internet under government control: Read the rest of this entry »

(AP) – Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

(AaronDykes) – “Terrorism” concerns necessarily hinge on fear, and it is now completely predictable that an otherwise unpopular Obama Administration would roll out the threat of terror to bolster support for the 2010 elections. The Washington Post reports that the “Risk of small-scale attacks by al-Qaeda and its allies is rising, officials say“ in concert with comments from Obama about absorbing a terror attack, and hyperbolic comments by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano before Congress that al Qaeda is recruiting for homeland attacks. The Washington Post writes: Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – The Bush administration spent years feuding with The New York Times but the Grey Lady hardly ever backed down. Read the rest of this entry »

(Truthout) – Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants – Dahr Jamail – Read More Here

(IntelHub) – Orange Beach pulling EMS staff from BP sites because ‘BP won’t pay their bills,’ mayor says – Read More Here

(ActivistPost) – Gulf Clean Up Contracts Expose Corruption as Usual

The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush’s much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina. Read the rest of this entry »

The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union – formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico’s President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It’s for a tri-national agreement, below the radar, for greater economic, political, and security integration with secret business and government working groups devising binding policies with no public knowledge or legislative debate. Read the rest of this entry »

A Democratic Senator from Connecticut has introduced four bills aimed at establishing a groundwork for a system of comprehensive national service. Read the rest of this entry »

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities declined 18.5 percent in December from a year earlier, the fastest drop on record, as foreclosures climbed and sales sank. Read the rest of this entry »

William Isaac – the former head of the FDIC – nationalized Continental Illinois Bank, then the seventh-biggest bank in the U.S.

The Continental nationalization went very well. So you would assume that Isaac would be pro-nationalization, right? Read the rest of this entry »

William Isaac – the former head of the FDIC – nationalized Continental Illinois Bank, then the seventh-biggest bank in the U.S.

The Continental nationalization went very well. So you would assume that Isaac would be pro-nationalization, right? Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress. In this morning’s edition of the Shooting Wire, Jim Shepherd writes that Canadian officials have it on “good authority” our State Department may be on the verge of cutting off all imports of certain calibers of ammunition. Read the rest of this entry »

Now-famous Chicago exchange floor reporter says state intervention in banking system is a drag on taxpayer money. Read the rest of this entry »

As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world. Read the rest of this entry »

The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantanamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military dominance policy, expanding military budget, and wars of occupation and aggression will likely continue unabated.

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The United States is planning to send an additional 17,000 troops to one of the world’s most battle-scarred nations – Afghanistan – long described as “a graveyard of empires”. Read the rest of this entry »

Obama has picked a Bilderberger to be his choice for health secretary — Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Obama initially picked former Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle for the position, but Daschle “withdrew because of personal tax issues,” in other words he didn’t bother to pay any taxes because minions of the elite are not required to do so, except for public relations reasons. Recall Sebelius, described as “a moderate Democrat,” was considered a leading candidate to be Obama’s vice presidential running mate last summer, but the elite picked CFR member Joe Biden instead. In June, 2008, Sebelius attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia, a fact not reported by the corporate media in her home state. She was included on the Official 2008 Bilderberg Participant List. Read the rest of this entry »

What I saw was like a form of collective punishment, leaving behind a trail of grieving mothers, angry fathers and traumatized children. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent media reports on the mounting evidence of wholesale corruption in US reconstruction efforts in Iraq are symptomatic of the criminal nature of Washington’s war and occupation from their inception nearly six years ago. These crimes are continuing under the Obama administration, with no end in sight. Read the rest of this entry »

Warmonger Barak Obama is at it again, not only does he promote chaos in Asia with his program of bombing Pakistan , but now he is promoting a conflict between Russia and Iran . Read the rest of this entry »

The threatened closure of a key Pentagon supply base in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, with serious implications for the Obama administration’s planned escalation of the US-led war in Afghanistan, has deepened tensions between Washington and Moscow. Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy; little done in this area will reduce the level of misery that the American Empire regularly brings down upon humanity. And to the extent that Barack Obama is willing to clearly reveal what he believes about anything controversial, he appears to believe in the empire. Read the rest of this entry »

Competing Ideologies: Davos v. Belem

Founded in 1971, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually in Davos, Switzerland to bring together top business and political leaders as well as mostly neoliberal minded intellectuals, economists, journalists, and others. Read the rest of this entry »

“Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed
when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”-Sarah Brady Read the rest of this entry »

The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately be constrained by deep-seated structural pressures that will attempt to exploit Obama to rehabilitate American imperial hegemony, rather than transform it. Read the rest of this entry »

Within days of taking power, the Obama administration has made clear that it will escalate the war to subjugate the Afghan people, intensify US military strikes on targets inside Pakistan and continue the occupation of Iraq indefinitely. What is being prepared is a brutal escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan and a widening of the conflagration in the region. Read the rest of this entry »

“Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.” Bertrand Russell

“In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933)

“I believe in a whole lot of things that make me progressive and put me squarely in the Democratic camp.” Sen. Barack Obama, (July 8, 2008)
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