Barack Obama

Obama Quadruples Budget For Weapons On Russian Border

February 3, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Educate! Barack Obama, NATO, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Less than a week after Russia's foreign minister warned that NATO's military build-up near Russia's borders is "counterproductive and dangerous," the United States is ramping up the deployment of heavy weapons and armored vehicles to NATO member countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Administration officials told the Times "the additional NATO forces were calculated to send a signal to President Vladimir V. Putin that the West remained deeply suspicious of his motives in the region," referring to Russia's ongoing presence in eastern Ukraine.

Obama Bans Solitary Confinement For Juveniles

January 27, 2016 Brendan O'Connor, www.gawker.com Create! Ban, Barack Obama, Juveniles, Solitary Confinement

By Brendan O'Connor for Gawker - Writing in the Washington Post, President Obama has announced a ban on the use of solitary confinement for juveniles and as a punishment for low-level infractions. Last summer, the president ordered Attorney General Loretta Lynch to conduct a review of solitary confinement’s overuse in U.S. prisons. The report is now complete and has been released to the public. The president writes that he will adopt its recommendations.

Acronym TV: Greed Is Not Good

January 9, 2016 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com Resistance Report Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Gun Control, TransCanada, Wall Street

By Dennis Trainor, Jr. for Acronym TV. TransCanada lost its bid to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Now it is using NAFTA and the US Federal courts to seek $15 billion damages – and they way I understand NAFTA, they just might win. All the more reason to make one final push to defeat NAFTA’s big brother in waiting: that Trojan Horse gently knocking at the wall that will usher in a global corporate coup: that is right people, it is time once again to take action against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Libyan People Lash Out At Obama For Destroying Their Country

December 29, 2015 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Barack Obama, Libya

By Staff of RT - In a message to the Libyan people, the US President said the 2011 Libyan revolution liberated them from “42 years of dictatorship.” Now there are “profound challenges,” which the Libyan people “have demonstrated the commitment to resolve.” Barack Obama welcomed the endorsement of the Libyan Political Agreement signed on December 17 and expressed confidence that with political dialogue and the establishment of a Government of National Accord, peace, prosperity, and security would come in the divided country.

Lawyers For Guantanamo Prisoners Blame Obama Admin For Delays

December 28, 2015 Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com Educate! Barack Obama, Guantanamo

By Ed Pilkington for The Guardian - Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been held at the camp in Cuba for up to 14 years without charge or trial have accused President Obama of stalling on his promise to close the military prison. As the US president enters his final year in office, pressure is mounting on him to stand by his pledge to shut down the detention center by the time he leaves the White House. Numerous defense lawyers working directly with Guantánamo detainees have told the Guardian that they hold Obama and his senior officials personally responsible for the lack of action.

What America Won’t Admit About Climate Change

December 10, 2015 Robert Hennelly, www.commondreams.org Educate! Barack Obama, Climate Change

By Robert Hennelly for Salon - With the Paris final talks entering their final week, it is worth noting the surreal disconnect between all the international handwringing over the abstract global warming accord and the reality that the U.S., Britain, France and Russia are bombing Syria’s oil fields into the stone age. Even while the leaders of these nations pose as green stewards of the planet, making carbon reduction promises not even legally binding a generation from now, their bombers are pounding a country that with every additional air sortie becomes more of an oil soaked dead zone.

Fossil Fuel Projects In Pacific Northwest Could Be Harmful As 5 Keystones

December 2, 2015 John Light, www.billmoyers.com Resist! Barack Obama, Environment, Fossil Fuels, KXL pipeline

By John Light for MOyers and Company - President Obama’s decision in early November to reject the Keystone XL pipeline was a major victory for the environmental movement. A broad coalition came together and elevated an issue of which few were aware to one that ultimately gained national attention, and was fiercely debated by senators and presidential candidates. But now, activists in the Pacific Northwest are engaged in another fight against our fossil fuel infrastructure — infrastructure that if built, according to the Seattle-based Sightline Institute, could unleash as much greenhouse gas pollution as five Keystone pipelines. That’s the equivalent of adding as many as 22 million cars to the road.

Did “Clean Natural Gas” Lobby Help Write EPA “Clean Power Plan”?

December 1, 2015 Gaius Publius, www.americablog.com Educate! Barack Obama, Environment

By Gaius Publius for America Blog - People are still analyzing Obama’s (typically complicated) plan to reduce CO2 emissions from power plants, and both criticism and praise is pouring in. But there’s something almost no one is saying. Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” is a huge gift to the methane (“Clean Energy”) industry — we’ll show you how in a minute. And guess who’s big in methane? Big oil, of course (see below). Let’s start here, with an analysis by Dr. Robert W. Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University. Howarth writes (my emphasis and some reparagraphing everywhere)...

Legal Bribery: Money Flows To Supporters Of The TPP

November 23, 2015 Carter Dougherty, www.ibtimes.com Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Carter Dougherty for International Business Times - After voting to give President Barack Obama the authority to strike new trade deals in the summer, House Democrats have enjoyed the warm, friendly embrace of the chief executive and a steady flow of cold, hard cash from the companies that are backing a massive agreement with Asia-Pacific nations. Obama, in a display of political acumen that often has eluded him in dealing with Congress, never stopped wooing members who supported him as he eyeballed the prize -- ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- by the time he leaves office.

Air Force Whistleblowers: Mismanaged Drone Program Fuels Terrorism

November 19, 2015 Ed Pilkington and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com Resist! Barack Obama, Paris, Terrorism

By Ed Pilkington and Ewen MacAskill for The Guardian - The letter, addressed to Obama, defense secretary Ashton Carter and CIA chief John Brennan, links the signatories’ anxieties directly to last Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. They imply that the abuse of the drone program is causally connected to the outrages. “We cannot sit silently by and witness tragedies like the attacks in Paris, knowing the devastating effects the drone program has overseas and at home,” they wrote. The joint statement – from the group who have experience of operating drones over Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones...

Obama’s Trade Deal Is In Trouble

November 18, 2015 Ian Swanson and Bob Cusack, www.thehill.com Educate! Barack Obama, Congress, TPP

By Ian Swanson and Bob Cusack for The Hill - President Obama’s trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim countries is in deep trouble with Congress. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) haven’t decided whether they’re going to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — even after they helped the president win fast-track authority in a bruising interparty fight that was meant to ease its passage. Republicans are deeply disappointed with the deal negotiated by Obama’s team, as are many business groups, which have yet to embrace it.

Court Upholds Delay Of Obama’s Executive Action On Immigration

November 10, 2015 Cristian Farias, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Barack Obama, Immigration

By Cristian Farias for The Huffington Post - A federal appeals court on Monday agreed to keep on hold President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration -- nearly a year after he announced it as a backstop measure to Congress' failure to enact comprehensive immigration reform. The divided, 124-page ruling deals a blow to the administration's Deferred Action for Parental Accountability program, known as DAPA, and there may be just enough time for a formal appeal to the Supreme Court to be resolved ahead of the 2016 election. In ruling against the government, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit largely agreed with a lower court judge, who in February issued a “nationwide injunction” that effectively stopped DAPA from taking effect...

What Sort Of Assessment DOES Enhance Learning?

October 31, 2015 Anthony Cody, www.livingindialogue.com Create! Barack Obama, Education, Testing

By Anthony Cody for Living in Dialogue - In recent weeks we have heard President Obama talk about the value of tests – even as he acknowledges that they have become too pervasive. President Obama suggested we should have tests that “enhance instruction,” and “enhance teaching and learning.” Unfortunately, the standardized tests his administration has promoted and continues to require do none of these things. There are, however, ways to assess learning that DO enhance learning, rather than stifle it.

Obama Admits Too Much Student Testing: Too Little Too Late

October 26, 2015 Diane Ravitch, www.dianeravitch.net Educate! Barack Obama, Education, Testing

By Diane Ravitch for Diane Ravitch's Blog - The Obama administration acknowledged that students are spending too much time on testing and recommended that no more than 2% of classroom instructional time be devoted to testing. Apparently the administration is reacting to bipartisan opposition and widespread parent protests against the diversion of time and billions of dollars to high-stakes testing. Public sentiment, as recorded in recent polls, opposes the overuse of standardized testing. In addition, the Times reports, the administration was reacting to a new report from the Council of Great City Schools, which found that the current regime of testing has not improved achievement.

BATs Respond To Obama Administration Announcement Over Testing

October 26, 2015 Staff, www.badassteachers.blogspot.com Educate! Barack Obama, Education

By Staff of Badass Teachers Association - Today the Obama Administration released a statement calling for "a cap on assessment so that no child would spend more than 2 percent of classroom instruction time taking tests. It called on Congress to 'reduce over-testing' as it reauthorizes the federal legislation governing the nation’s public elementary and secondary schools.” The Badass Teachers Association, an education activist organization with over 70,000 supporters nationwide, are reluctantly pleased with this announcement. Our vision statement has always been to refuse to accept assessments, tests and evaluations created and imposed by corporate driven entities that have contempt for authentic teaching and learning.

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