Obama’s Israel Ambivalence The right says President Obama hates Israel, but in reality he’s just aloof and smug. Conservatives have for several years wondered aloud about Barack Obama and his seemingly less-than-warm approach to Israel. Could it be, they asked themselves, that he’s an anti-Semite? They should ask themselves instead how anyone as bored and…
Edward Snowden, the Washington Post & Whistleblowers By: Kevin Gosztola Monday June 10, 2013 Washington PostAfter Edward Snowden came forward and identified himself as the source of disclosures that had been published by The Guardian on top secret surveillance programs being operated by the National Security Agency, Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman posted…
‘UNTHINKABLE’ Geithner Says No Deal Is Not An Option Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek. President Barack Obama met Saturday with Republican…
Gore’s rallying call: ‘Climate crisis is a struggle for the soul of America’ Gore evokes the Iraq war, credit crunch, civil rights and emancipation to argue the US electoral system is broken and only a mass movement can deliver reason on global warming Al Gore, pictured in Florida in September 2010, argues in…
It’s Still the Economy, Stupid Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource. The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis. Andrew Hetherington for Newsweek Bill Clinton 14 WAYS TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK Next week in Chicago, the Clinton Global…
Indeed, Mitt 3.0 hopes to play up his past as a corporate turnaround artist and focus less on being “just one of the guys.” While Romney tends to poll well with upper-middle-class, college-educated voters, he has traditionally struggled with the party’s blue-collar base. The campaign appears now to be betting that even if Tea…
The weeks before President Obama ordered Navy SEALs into Pakistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, administration officials weighed using American warplanes to obliterate the terror mastermind’s fortified compound from the sky or sending commandos on a high-risk mission to assault the structure from the ground. But there’s one option the administration appears to…