Barack Obama

Pity The Sad Legacy Of Barack Obama

January 10, 2017 Cornel West, www.theguardian.com Educate! Barack Obama

By Cornel West for The Guardian - Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility. Eight years ago the world was on the brink of a grand celebration: the inauguration of a brilliant and charismatic black president of the United States of America. Today we are on the edge of an abyss: the installation of a mendacious and cathartic white president who will replace him. This is a depressing decline in the highest office of the most powerful empire in the history of the world. It could easily produce a pervasive cynicism and poisonous nihilism. Is there really any hope for truth and justice in this decadent time?

Trump Is Obama’s Legacy

January 10, 2017 Staff, www.therealnews.com Educate! Barack Obama, Donald Trump

By Staff of The Real News Network - But now we're going to take a beginning of a look, at least, at the Obama Administration over the next week or two -- and most importantly the issue of the financial meltdown '07/'08 and how President Obama handled that. And, within the context of that, the whole emergence, over the last few decades, of the power of finance -- and the more parasitical finance seems to get, the more casino gambling it seems to get, the more powerful it seems to get politically. And President Obama is certainly part of that process and Trump a continuation thereof. Now joining us from Iowa City to discuss all this is Paul Street.

Obama Will Not Declare Grand Canyon A Monument

January 7, 2017 Miriam Wasser, www.phoenixnewtimes.com Educate! Barack Obama, Grand Canyon

By Miriam Wasser for Pheonix New Times - Rep. Raul Grijalva announced in a written statement today that he has received word from the White House that President Barack Obama does not plan to designate the Greater Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument in the few days he has left in office. "I can only express my profound disappointment," Grijalva wrote. “The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most iconic and popular natural places, not just for its beauty but for its importance to tribal culture and history." The proposed 1.7-million-acre monument would have permanently protected the fragile ecosystem of the Grand Canyon watershed from uranium mining and some old-growth logging...

Obama Sold More Weapons Than Any President Since WW II

January 7, 2017 Farid Farid, www.motherboard.vice.com Educate! Barack Obama, weapons

By Farid Farid for Motherboard - President Barack Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, will leave office in a few weeks with the dubious honor of having sold more weapons than any other American president since World War II. And experts say President-Elect Donald Trump will most likely sell even more. Most of the arms deals totaling over $200 billion in the period from 2008 to 2015 have ended up in the Middle East, according to a Congressional Research Service reportpublished in December. The report, produced by the non-partisan government agency attached to the Library of Congress, breaks down the weapons sold which included surface-to-air missiles, tanks, and supersonic combat aircraft.

Trump’s Neo-Fascism Built On Neo-Fascism Of Obama And Democrats

January 5, 2017 Ajamu Baraka, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Fascism

By Ajamu Baraka for Black Agenda Report - Late on the evening of December 23, when the attention of the public was fixed on the consumerist excesses of the holiday season, President Obama signed into law the Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Like the other NDAAs that President Obama signed into law during his administration, this one further strengthened the repressive capacities of the state. Buried deep in the provisions of the NDAA was language from a bill introduced by Sen. Rob Portman ostensibly to protect the public from the effects of “foreign propaganda.” As previously reported by Black Agenda Report, the bill, originally introduced last March...

US Seeking Nuclear Domination, Increases Dangers Of Nuclear War

January 1, 2017 Jonathan Marshall, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Ronald Reagan, Russia, United States, Wars and Militarism

By Jonathan Marshall for Consortium News. “My bottom line is that the likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe today is greater than it was during the Cold War,” declares former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry. A nuclear test detonation carried out in Nevada on April 18, 1953. A nuclear test detonation carried out in Nevada on April 18, 1953. If a new Trump administration wants to peacefully reset relations with Russia, there’s no better way to start than by canceling the deployment of costly new ballistic missile defense systems in Eastern Europe. One such system went live in Romania this May; another is slated to go live in Poland in 2018. Few U.S. actions have riled President Putin as much as this threat to erode Russia’s nuclear deterrent. Only last month, at a meeting in Sochi with Russian military leaders to discuss advanced new weapons technology, Putin vowed, “We will continue to do all we need to ensure the strategic balance of forces."

Obama Allows Toothless UN Resolution Against Settlements To Pass

December 26, 2016 Zaid Jilani, www.theintercept.com Create! Barack Obama, Israeli settlements, United Nations

By Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION on Friday finally allowed the UN Security Council to call on Israel to halt its settlement expansion on Friday. The resolution essentially re-states U.S. policy that settlement activity in the West Bank is illegal and counterproductive, and that Israel’s security must be protected. The U.S. did not support the resolution, but it did not utilize its veto power either. In a press call Friday afternoon, White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes explained that the White House abstained on the resolution because it “expresses a consensus international view on Israeli settlement activity.”

Obama Dismantles Framework Targeting Muslims And Iranians

December 23, 2016 Staff, www.niacaction.org Resist! Barack Obama, Iran, Islamophobia, Muslims

By Staff of NIAC Action - Washington, DC – NIAC Action applauds the Obama Administration’s decision to officially terminate the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), the post-9/11 program that tracked and discriminated against immigrants from predominately Muslim nations, including Iran. “This is a major victory for communities who fear they will be targeted in the Trump era,” said NIAC Action Executive Director Jamal Abdi. “Dismantling the NSEERS framework ensures that Donald Trump will not inherit a nascent program to track and register immigrants from Muslim-majority countries.”

An Open Letter To President Obama: Decision Time For Israeli-Palestinian Peace

December 21, 2016 Ralph Nader, www.blog.nader.org Create! Barack Obama, Israel, Palestine, Peace

By Ralph Nader for The Nader Page - Dear President Obama: On November 28, 2016, Jimmy Carter, the President who negotiated the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1978, wrote an op ed for the New York Times titled, “America Must Recognize Palestine.” His urgent plea was directed to you to take “the vital step…to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine, as 137 countries have already done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership,” before you leave office on January 20, 2017. Mr. Carter referenced your reaffirmation in 2009 of the Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt and United Nations Resolution 242 when you called “for a complete freeze on settlement expansion on Palestinian territory that is illegal under international law.”

Obama Bans New Oil, Gas Drilling Off Alaska, Part Of Atlantic Coast

December 21, 2016 Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner, www.reuters.com Create! Ban, Barack Obama, Drilling

By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner for Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on the environment before Republican Donald Trump takes office next month. Obama used a 1950s-era law called the Outer Continental Shelf Act that allows presidents to limit areas from mineral leasing and drilling. Environmental groups said that meant Trump's incoming administration would have to go court if it sought to reverse the move. The ban affects 115 million acres (46.5 million hectares) of federal waters off Alaska in the Chukchi Sea and most of the Beaufort Sea and 3.8 million acres (1.5 million hectares) in the Atlantic from New England to Chesapeake Bay.

Senate Torture Report Being Kept From Public For 12 Years After Obama Decision

December 19, 2016 Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Barack Obama, CIA, Torture

By Spencer Ackerman for The Guardian - Barack Obama has agreed to preserve the Senate’s landmark investigation into the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11, but his decision ensures that the document remains out of public view for at least 12 years and probably longer. Obama’s decision, revealed in a letter from White House counsel W Neil Eggleston, prevents Republican Richard Burr, the Senate intelligence committee chairman who has been highly critical of the investigation, from destroying existing classified copies of the December 2014 report. Daniel Jones, a former committee staffer who led the torture inquiry, criticized the preservation as inadequate.

Happy 29th Birthday, Chelsea Manning

December 17, 2016 Chase Strangio, www.medium.com" Resist! Barack Obama, Chelsea Manning, Pardons, Transgender, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

By Chase Strangio for Medium. Our greatest wish for Chelsea Manning on her birthday and every day is that she is pardoned and released from prison. Join us in wishing her a happy birthday by urging President Obama to pardon her. Chelsea has shown herself to be an amazing person who sees injustice and works to change it. In her time since her arrest she has evolved and grown. Now she has become a leading voice for the trans movement. There is so much progress in that area and some of the credit for ameliorating discrimination against trans people goes to Chelsea who has stood up for her rights, and by doing so, the rights of others, under very difficult circumstances. We are confident that Chelsea will continue to evolve and grow; and continue to show leadership in her coming years. Happy birthday to Chelsea.

Civil Rights Groups To Obama: Dismantle ‘Muslim Registry’ Now

December 13, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Islamophobia, Muslims

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - About 150 people marched to the White House today to ask President Obama to rescind a program dormant since 2011. The program, which registered foreigners from mostly Muslim countries, was created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and used to deport thousands of people. The protesters are concerned about the potential for President-elect Trump to use the program, called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), to register and deport Muslims. The demonstration, organized by MoveOn.org, Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM), the ACLU and many others, comes soon before President-elect Doanld Trump takes office.

Obama’s Last Big Con

November 24, 2016 Dave Lindorff, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Barack Obama

By Dave Lindorff for Counter Punch - Much was made when Barack Obama made his historic run for the White House of the fact that in the course of his relatively young life he had been a “community organizer” and that in addition to having a law degree, he had actually taught Constitutional law. Just nine days after his inauguration as the nation’s first black president, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was awarded that October,.

Obama Rejects Pardon For Snowden

November 23, 2016 Jerry White, www.wsws.org Educate! Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, Pardons

By Jerry White for WSWS - In an interview published Friday, President Barack Obama told Der Spiegeland German public broadcaster ARD that he would not pardon Edward Snowden before leaving office in January. The former National Security Agency contractor remains in exile for exposing the illegal surveillance operations of the NSA and other U.S. spying agencies, which target countless millions of people in the U.S. and around the world.

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