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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.

Case Dismissed For State Of The Union Activists

June 1, 2016 Joy First, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , ,
By Joy First for National Coalition for Nonviolent Resistance. As we prepared for trial, we knew that Judge Gardner has jailed activists found guilty in the past, and so we knew we must be prepared for jail time. We also knew that the government prosecutor had not responded to our latest motions, and so we wondered if that was a sign that they were not ready to proceed with atrial. With this uncertainty in mind,for the first time ever I got a one-way ticket to DC, and it was with great sadness that I said goodbye to my family. And what was my offense that brought me there? On the day of Obama’s last State of the Union address, January 12, 2016, I joined 12 others as we exercised our First Amendment rights attempting to deliver a petition to President Obama in an action organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. We suspected that Obama would not tell us what was really going on, and so our petition outlined what we believed to be the real state of the union along with remedies to create a world we all would want to live in. The letter outlined our concerns regarding war, poverty, racism, and the climate crisis. As about 40 concerned citizen activists walked toward the US Capitol on January 12, we saw the Capitol Police were already there and waiting for us.

Obama’s Hiroshima Visit: Reminder Atomic Bombs Weren’t What Won War

May 28, 2016 Gar Alperovitz, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Gar Alperovitz for The Huffington Post - U.S. President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to Hiroshima offers an opportunity to reconsider some of the myths surrounding the historic decision to use the atomic bomb. Such reconsideration also helps focus attention on how we can avoid any future use of weapons that are now thousands of times more powerful than the ones used in 1945. A good place to start is with an unusual and little-noticed display at The National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington.

Obama Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground”

May 27, 2016 Justin Mikulka, www.desmogblog.com , ,
By Justin Mikulka for Desmog - “We’re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground…that’s not a position.” This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the “growing movement of keeping oil in the ground” at the 2016 Columbia Global Energy Summit in April. Since Chris Smith worked for more than a decade for Chevron and Texaco, this answer should not surprise anyone.

Obama Commutes Sentences Of 58 Federal Prisoners

May 6, 2016 Timothy Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Timothy Gardner for Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has commuted the prison terms of 58 people, nearly a third of whom were serving life sentences, the White House said on Thursday. Most of the convicts who will be freed early were non-violent drug offenders. Obama said in a blog post that “it just doesn’t make sense to require a non-violent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison.”

Top Five Reasons Obama Is Wrong On TPP

May 5, 2016 Paola Masman, www.prosperousamerica.org ,
By Paola Masman for Coalition for A Prosperous America - President Barack Obama penned a Washington Post op-ed yesterday outlining a flimsy case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. The TPP is currently on life support due to a voter revolt against trade and global governance deals. Presidents Clinton and Bush also pushed similar trade and global governance agreements with similar arguments. We now have trade deals with 20 countries, we have data, and we don’t have to rely only on projections. The data are not kind to Obama’s optimistic arguments.

Barack Obama Readies For Final TPP Push

April 28, 2016 Ned Resnikoff, www.ibtimes.com ,
By Ned Resnikoff for IBT - President Barack Obama last week renewed his push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, suggesting that it will be easier to pass the deal after the elections are over. The idea is that lawmakers will then be more insulated from political influence. Yet Obama has his own potential incentives to push for the TPP: His presidential foundation has been relying on support from industries that could profit from the agreement.

Family Of Drone Victim FOIA Suit Under FOIA, As Obama Denies Civilian Deaths

April 23, 2016 Staff, www.reprieve.org ,
By Staff of Reprieve - A Yemeni man who lost two civilian relatives in a drone strike has today filed an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the Obama Administration. The appeal in Jaber v Obama comes as Obama officials issue fresh denials of discounting foreign lives, telling the Guardian “it is certainly not the case that lives of a certain nationality are more valuable to us than those of any other.”
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