More on Barack Obama
Honduras: Is US moving to back ‘state of siege’ election?
By Bill Van Auken, October 19, 2009
Reports from Washington indicate that the Obama administration may back a presidential election in Honduras under state of siege conditions and without the restitution of ousted President Manuel Zelay...
Obama and the fiscal crisis of the states
By Tom Eley, October 17, 2009
State governments in the US, facing the indifference of the Obama administration in spite of record budget deficits, are slashing social spending and laying off workers.
Obama in New Orleans: The callous face of the US ruling elite
By Patrick Martin, October 17, 2009
In a brief, three-hour stopover in New Orleans en route to a fund-raising dinner with millionaire Democrats in California, President Barack Obama made perfunctory promises to the people of the devasta...
US pressure builds ahead of talks with Iran in Vienna
By Peter Symonds, October 14, 2009
In the lead-up to international talks next Monday on Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, the Obama administration has been intensifying pressure on Tehran.
Obama tops Bush in troop buildup
By Bill Van Auken, October 14, 2009
The report Tuesday that the combined troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan are now larger than under Bush marks a grim milestone in the Obama administration’s military escalation.
Obama continues assault on democratic rights
By Tom Eley and Barry Grey, October 12, 2009
Recent moves by President Obama underscore the anti-democratic continuity between his administration and that of George W. Bush.
The Nobel War Prize
By Bill Van Auken, October 10, 2009
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, an American president who is presiding over two wars and preparing to escalate the US intervention in Afghanistan, has provoked astonishment arou...
US Afghanistan commander requested as many as 60,000 more soldiers
By Tom Eley, October 10, 2009
The top-end request for an increase in US troop levels in Afghanistan presented to President Obama by Gen. Stanley McChrystal is substantially larger than the 40,000 previously reported, according to ...
Obama rules out troop drawdown in Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 8, 2009
President Barack Obama will not consider any reduction in the US military commitment in Afghanistan, White House and congressional officials declared after a three-hour meeting at the White House on T...
Eight years after invasion
Washington faces deepening debacle in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, October 7, 2009
Eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Obama White House sand the Pentagon are engaged in a heated debate over whether to send another 40,000 troops in an attempt to salvage an interven...
Obama offers no relief to growing army of jobless workers
By Jerry White, October 7, 2009
In the face of the mounting unemployment crisis, the Obama administration has no plans to offer serious relief to the 15 million workers out of work and the millions more facing job losses and economi...
White House-military tensions over Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 6, 2009
Growing tensions between sections of the military brass and the Obama administration have emerged openly in the conflict between the top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, and the W...
