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As US Attacks Libya Again, Peace Group Tells Obama: ‘Stop the Bombing’

August 7, 2016 Lauren McCauley and Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Lauren McCauley and Jon Queally for Common Dreams. Citing the disastrous bombing campaign in 2011 that pushed the nation into political chaos and bloody violence, anti-war groups are calling for an immediate end to a new wave of airstrikes on Libya approved by U.S. President Barack Obama. "The world needs a peace movement now more than ever, as Obama continues to drop bombs all over the Middle East and we prepare for the next US president." —CodePinkIn an online petition sent out Tuesday, the U.S.-based peace group CODEPINK declared: In the last seven years, Nobel Peace Prize-winning President Obama has bombed seven countries. Tell President Obama it's time to stop endless bombing across the Middle East! We, the undersigned, call on President Obama to end the bombing campaign in Libya and across the Middle East. We agree with Congresswoman Barbara Lee when she said that "there is no military solution to this crisis" with [the Islamic State or ISIS]. We ask that the administration instead take steps to form a comprehensive regional approach that addresses political, economic, humanitarian and diplomatic challenges that allow [ISIS] to commit violence.

Obama Commutes 214 Prison Sentences, Largest In One Day Ever

August 5, 2016 Leon Neyfakh, www.slate.com ,
By Leon Neyfakh for Slate - President Obama has used his clemency power to shorten the prison sentences of 214 federal inmates doing time for drug offenses, it was announced on Wednesday. It’s Obama’s third time this year issuing commutations, a move that reflects his administration’s belief that too many people are serving overly harsh prison sentences because of a criminal justice system that is too tough on nonviolent crime. Wednesday’s batch of commutations brings the total number of people whose sentences Obama has shortened to 562—more than the previous nine presidents combined, according to the White House.

Obama Broadens Use Of ‘Climate Tests’ In Federal Project Reviews

August 4, 2016 John H. Cushman Jr., www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By John H. Cushman Jr. for Inside Climate News - Strengthening the hand of advocates for action on the climate crisis, the Obama administration issued final guidance calling on federal agencies to fully consider greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and the costs they impose on society in deciding on major projects. The action this week by the White House's Council on Environmental Quality has been under intense discussion for six years. It could significantly affect how the government decides, for example, whether to approve major infrastructure projects, how to manage national forests, and how much to charge for leases of coal on public lands.

Obama Admin. Brokered More Weapons Sales Than Any Other Since WWII

August 1, 2016 William D. Hartung, www.thenation.com
By William D. Hartung for The Nation - When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on the state of the business come out. It’s not that no one writes about aspects of the arms trade. There are occasional pieces that, for example, take note of the impact of US weapons transfers, including cluster bombs, to Saudi Arabia, or of the disastrous dispensation of weaponry to US allies in Syria, or of foreign sales of the costly, controversial F-35 combat aircraft.

Obama Prepares To Reinforce Militarized Police Occupation Of Black America

July 29, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com ,
By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - Barack Obama is “responsible for the biggest escalation in the history of the one-sided war against Black America. He increased militarization of local police 24-fold before banning some kinds of Pentagon weapons transfers, but is now preparing to send more battlefield weaponry to the streets of our cities. “Clinton or Trump will surely build on Obama’s lethal legacy.” Black activists confronted police terror on the cops’ own turf, last week, with actions at the Washington, DC, lobbying offices of the Fraternal Order of Police and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association headquarters in New York City.

Nancy Pelosi Declares Opposition To Obama’s TPP Trade Deal

July 27, 2016 Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com ,
By Michael McAuliff for The Huffington Post - WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has come out in opposition to the massive Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal as it’s currently written, putting her on the same page as newly minted vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine. Pelosi (D-Calif.) made the declaration in a letter late last week to several groups that protested outside her offices in San Francisco and delivered her more than 200,000 petition signatures opposing the TPP.

Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership President Obama’s Vietnam?

July 26, 2016 Dean Baker, www.truth-out.org , , , ,
By Dean Baker for Truthout - The prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are not looking very good right now. Both parties' presidential candidates have come out against the deal. Donald Trump has placed it at the top of his list of bad trade deals that he wants to stop or reverse. Hillary Clinton had been a supporter as secretary of state, but has since joined the opposition in response to overwhelming pressure from the Democratic base. As a concession to President Obama, the Democratic platform does not explicitly oppose the TPP.

The President Is Wrong About Dallas, Wrong About Race

July 12, 2016 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org , ,
By William Boardman for Reader Supported News - hat the President expressed is a conventional wisdom meme, and it is both inadequate and false in so many ways, but it reflects the unhealthy American zeitgeist all too well. Probably this argument will offend some people, but its purpose is to get beyond the popular willingness to be offended and get to a more considered place of comprehension. But first we have to find our way out the mental squirrel cage that keeps our public discourse from viewing our country, our world, and even ourselves with any kind of healthy sense of wholeness and interconnectedness.

Teachers Protest Deportations, Detention Of Refugee Students

July 8, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com , , , , ,
By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - It was the first presidential campaign event in which Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama appeared together. The Charlotte Observer ran a headline that suggested Clinton found her “roar” during the event in Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite the momentous occasion, teachers and students were there to protest Obama’s record on deportations and demand Clinton and Obama release refugee youth, who are currently jailed by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE).

Obama: Meet With Fracking Impacted Communities Abandoned By Government

July 4, 2016 Seth Gladstone, www.foodandwaterwatch.org ,
By Seth Gladstone for Food and Water Watch - Washington, D.C. – Today, more than 100 families personally affected by fracking sent a letter to President Obama asking for him to meet with them in advance of the Democratic National Convention, where impacted people from across the country will be coming to participate in a march calling for a ban on fracking and extreme fossil fuel extraction and a swift transition to renewables. “We are here to ask you and ranking EPA officials to meet with our families to hear the personal testimonies...

President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office

July 4, 2016 Russell Brandom, www.theverge.com ,
By Russell Brandom for The Verge - For the last three years, one month, and seven days, Edward Snowden has been living in exile from the United States. On May 20th, 2013, he boarded a flight from Hawaii to Hong Kong after setting in motion the most powerful public act of whistleblowing in US history. In the months that followed, the public learned about programs collecting data on every phone call in the United States, attacking private networks run by Google and Yahoo, and hacking into the web’s advertising networks to turn them into tools of surveillance.

Obama Admin Approved Over 1,500 Offshore Fracking Permits

July 2, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com , ,
By Steve Horn for Desmog - On June 24, the independent news website TruthOut broke a doozy of a story: the Obama Administration hassecretly approved over 1,500 instances of offshore hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Gulf of Mexico, including during the Deepwater Horizon offshore spill disaster. Albeit released on a Friday, a day where many mainstream media reporters head out of the office early and venture to late-afternoon and early-evening Happy Hour specials at the bars, the TruthOut story has received deafening silence by the corporate-owned media apparatus.

Obama Appointed Judge Says Feds Cannot Regulate Fracking On Public Land

June 23, 2016 Timothy Cama, www.thehill.com , , ,
By Timothy Cama for The Hill - A federal judge appointed by President Obama struck down the administration’s regulation on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands on Tuesday, ruling that the Interior Department does not have congressional authority to regulate fracking. The decision is a major loss for the administration, which worked for years to update its oil and natural gas drilling regulations to account for dramatic increases and innovations in fracking.

Rockers Tour To Oppose The TPP

June 16, 2016 David Nakamura, www.washingtonpost.com ,
By David Nakamura for The Washington Post - The political fight over President Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is entering the cultural mainstream. A week after Obama declared that he's "down with TPP" on the "Tonight Show," a group of rock musicians and Hollywood actors is launching a "Rock Against the TPP" road tour to rally the public against the 12-nation trade accord.

President Obama, Pardon Edward Snowden And Chelsea Manning

June 3, 2016 Trevor Timm, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By Trevor Timm for The Guardian - As he wraps up his presidency, it’s time for Barack Obama to seriously consider pardoning whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Last week, Manning marked her six-year anniversary of being behind bars. She’s now served more time than anyone who has leaked information to a reporter in history – and still has almost three decades to go on her sentence.
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