Category Archives: Barack Obama

Vashna Jagarnath, The uncelebrated feast

http://www.theconmag.co.za/2014/05/23/the-uncelebrated-feast/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCon+%28The+Con%29

Esperanda Spalding, We are America. Guantanamo Bay protest

http://thejazzline.com/news/2013/11/esperanza-spalding-we-are-america-guantanamo-bay-protest/

Percy Zvomuya, The Day Zuma lost control of the party

http://africasacountry.com/the-day-zuma-lost-control-of-the-party/

Fake sign language person at Mandela memorial may have read the meaning of proceedings best, by Richard Poplak

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-12-12-fog-donkey-the-only-honest-man-in-a-stadium-of-fools/#.Uqnj76XH1SX

Barack Obama tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/10/president_obama_nelson_mandela_freed_not

Le Monde diplomatique on Louisiana’s profitable prisons

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/11usprison

Le Monde diplomatique on implications of US/ Iran’s thaw in relations

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/01iran

US continued penalisation of Cuba under Obama

http://portside.org/2013-11-09/keeping-us-dark-about-latin-america

US drone attacks met with little world concern

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/31/these_drones_attack_us_and_the

US use of drones as preferred mode of attack, contravenes international law

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-25-drones-will-return-to-bite-obama-in-the-us

Noam Chomsky, The Obama doctrine

http://portside.org/2013-10-07/obama-doctrine

Charles Pierson, US to drone victims-shut up!

US to Drone Victims: Shut Up

Danny Postel, Mission accomplished? Syria, anti-war movement and spirt of internationalism

Having stopped a US attack on Syria what is to be done about the Syrian government’s war against its people, this article asks?

 

http://portside.org/2013-09-30/mission-accomplished-syria-anti-war-movement-and-spirit-internationalism

Dave Lindorf, Obamas grotesque hypocrisy over cluster bombs

Obama’s Grotesque Hypocrisy Over Cluster Munitions

Iara Lee, Accidental diplomacy in the devils’ playground

http://portside.org/2013-09-19/syria-accidental-diplomacy-devils-playground

UN reports that chemical weapons were used in Syria

While the Syrian government had the capacity to launch the chemical weapons were there no other parties capable of such an attack?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/syrian-chemical-attack-sarin-says-un

Putin warns US not to attack

Whether one approves or disapproves of Putin as a politician, he has handled the US threat of strikes according to the norms of international law

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/putin-warns-us-not-to-attack-syria

Noam Chomsky, Instead of ‘illegal’ threat to Syria US should back Chemical weapons ban in all states

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/11/chomsky_instead_of_illegal_threat_to

Raymond Suttner, Let us hope the US strike against Syria is no more

If a regional war through US strikes against Syria is averted, paradoxically, it will not be because of restraint on the side of the US, Continue reading →

Andrew Bacevich, Drama from Obama -debate in Congress over US military strike in Syria

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175744/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_drama_from_obama/