Online Journal May 13, 2009, Writer-activist David Boyajian’s investigative articles and commentaries have appeared in Armenian media outlets in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Armenia and the Newton Tab and USA Armenian Life newspapers named him among their “Top 10 Newsmakers of 2007.” So, when Barack Obama paid a visit to Turkey last month, it seemed like a good time to ask Boyajian for his take on the new president’s approach to the issue of the Armenian genocide. (Map of Armenia and […]
Source: NYT (4-21-09) President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists. “High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence […]
ZSpace 29 April 2009 The BBC American soap Madmen offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the "smart" people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving on a scale imagined by those who had read Freud and applied mass psychology to anything from cigarettes to politics. Just as the Marlboro Man was virility itself, so politicians could […]
La fermeture des prisons clandestines. Le secret reste entier. La nouvelle administration Obama est-elle crédible ? par Jules Dufour Mondialisation.ca, Le 13 avril 2009 Les emphases sont d'IN Les décrets qu’a signés le Président Obama le 22 janvier dernier prescrivant la fermeture du centre de detention de Guantanamo et des prisons clandestines opérées par la CIA dans le monde ont été considérés à ce moment-là comme la fin d’un cauchemar et comme étant désormais l’entrée dans une nouvelle […]
Mondialisation.ca, Le 30 mars 2009 La crise économique et sociale La débâcle financière a déclenché l’émergence d’une crise sociale latente à travers les États-Unis. La confiscation frauduleuse d’épargnes de toute une vie et de fonds de pension, ainsi que l’appropriation des recettes fiscales pour financer les « sauvetages bancaires » de billions de dollars sont en jeu, et servent ultimement à remplir les poches des plus riches des États-Unis. Cette crise économique est en grande partie le […]
TheRealNews 27 mars 2009 Noam Chomsky speaks to Paul Jay on the Obama - Geithner plan. Chomsky says that "they're simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and changing them a little, but essentially the same idea: keep the institutional structure the same, try to kind of pass things up, bribe the banks and investors to help out, but avoid the measures that might get to the heart of the problem." http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/03/27-0
Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film WHY WE FIGHT won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER, won the 2002 Amnesty International Award. In addition to his work in film, Jarecki is also the Founder and Executive Director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group, dedicated in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy. […]
February 21, 2009 By Paul J. Balles "The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate." Senator Fullbright, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee What kind of thinking explains why it is so easy for Israelis to slaughter 3500 civilians in Gaza, 40 per cent of whom were children? The Israeli murderers were fully aware of their incomparably strong armaments. They launched at least 2500 air-raids on Gaza, dropping more than 1000 tons of explosives, including phosphorous […]
How should Americans, as a whole, consider the season of Lent? Using Noam Chomsky as a lens, it would be good to start with our misuse of the planet, our militarization of space, and ultimately our irrational commitment to global hegemony....all of which threaten our own survival and the future lives of our grandchildren.
Obama Embraces Bush's “War On Terror” Policy Without Naming It So By Abdus Sattar Ghazali Countercurrents.org 27 February, 2009 President Barrack Obama has virtually embraced his predecessor George Bush's “War on Terror” policy without naming it so. Asked in a CNN interview why he hasn't used the oft-repeated "war on terror" phrase coined by the Bush administration, Obama said he believes the U.S. can win over moderate Muslims if he chooses his words carefully. "Words matter in this […]
The Washington PostThursday, January 22, 2009 Calling a Time Out By George McGovern As you settle into the Oval Office, Mr. President, may I offer a suggestion? Please do not try to put Afghanistan aright with the U.S. military. To send our troops out of Iraq and into Afghanistan would be a near-perfect example of going from the frying pan into the fire. There is reason to believe some of our top military commanders privately share this view. And so does a broad and growing swath of your […]
CounterPunch Change (in Rhetoric) We Can Believe In? Obama and the Empire By WILLIAM BLUM Source: speakersforanewamerica.com I've said all along that whatever good changes might occur in regard to non-foreign policy issues, such as what's already taken place concerning the environment and abortion, the Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy; little done in this area will reduce the level of misery that the American Empire regularly […]
"...Let's hope that Obama breaks all his election promises..., because all his election promises, in terms of foreign policy, are a continuation of business as usual. ...There was almost nothing between McCain and Obama in foreign policy. Indeed, Obama went further: he even declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel; he threatened Latin America; he, at times, seemed to be going further than Bush." Democracy Now interviews John Pilger on Obama's recent victory in the 2008 presidential election […]
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