More on Barack Obama
Obama’s war
By Bill Van Auken, July 17, 2009
With Obama approaching the end of his sixth month in office, there are growing indications that Washington is in only the first stages of a major escalation of the Afghanistan war.
US health care legislation to leave millions uninsured, ration care
By Kate Randall, July 17, 2009
In the Congressional debate on health care this week, both a House and Senate version of legislation conformed to Obama administration proposals for rationed medical care and contained costs.
Somali-Americans subjected to first Obama “terror” prosecution
By Bill Van Auken, July 16, 2009
The indictment unsealed Monday against two young Somali-American men signals the start of the first major “war on terror” prosecution under the Obama administration.
Figures on US jobs, wages, benefits
A rising tide of social misery
By David Walsh, July 16, 2009
Contrary to Obama administration and media claims about the recession “easing,” millions of working people in America face losing jobs, earnings and health care benefits at an accelerating pace.
Obama’s neocolonial mission in Africa
By Ann Talbot, July 16, 2009
Last week, President Barack Obama flew from the G8 summit in Italy to Accra, the capital of Ghana in West Africa, for his first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa since becoming president.
Ousted GM head gets $10 million retirement package
By Tom Eley, July 16, 2009
Former General Motors CEO and Chairman Rick Wagoner, whom the Obama administration forced into retirement in March, will be awarded a retirement package valued at over $10 million.
Obama tailors community college plan to corporate interests
By Jack Cody, July 16, 2009
Obama has unveiled a plan to provide $12 billion in funding to community colleges throughout the nation, made conditional on the development of programs directly tied to corporate interests.
US commander in Afghanistan lobbies for more troops
By James Cogan, July 14, 2009
Less than six months after Barack Obama ordered 21,000 additional American soldiers to Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed US commander, has launched a lobbying drive for more...
Oppose budget cuts in California! Defend jobs and education! Unite workers behind a socialist program!
By Socialist Equality Party, July 13, 2009
With the backing of the Obama administration, Governor Schwarzenegger is seizing on the economic crisis gripping California to gut basic social programs upon which millions of people depend.
The new GM
By Joe Kishore, July 11, 2009
The “new” General Motors exited bankruptcy court on Friday to much acclaim in the media. With the help of the Obama administration and courts, the company has shed nearly $130 billion in liabiliti...
A war of colonial conquest in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, July 10, 2009
It is remarkable that even as the Obama administration has escalated the war, it has virtually dropped the original pretext that was used to justify it. What ever happened to Osama bin Laden?
Obama claims right to imprison “combatants” acquitted at trial
By Bill Van Auken, July 10, 2009
In testimony before Congress this week, spokesmen for the Obama administration indicated that some of the worst abuses carried out in Bush’s “global war on terror” are to be continued and deepen...
