Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy
“It’s either serious and you’re seriously involved, or you go to a demonstration and go home and forget about it and go back to work, and nothing happens.”
“It’s either serious and you’re seriously involved, or you go to a demonstration and go home and forget about it and go back to work, and nothing happens.”
Once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties Knight In Shining Armor many were expecting
“They are waiting for us to lead. And as long as I hold this office, I intend to provide that leadership.”
Online privacy groups said they felt that would endow the White House with overly ambiguous and far-reaching powers to regulate the Internet
Perhaps what bothers the Obama Justice Department and results in an opinion flying in the face of six decades of international law is the strong evidentiary chain ultimately pointing toward criminal conduct on the part of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
“I’m just not going to get into the details surrounding any of these events right now.”
Already, Mr. Obama has had to reconcile his campaign-trail criticism of Mr. Bush for excessive use of so-called signing statements to bypass parts of legislation with his own use of such tactics.
Why? Because the court released a few paragraphs of a report that confirmed our abuse and torture of detainees.
In March 2009, President Obama called the AIG bonuses an “outrage.”
But Barack Obama was going to be different, or so my fellow antiwar liberals— and a few antiwar conservatives— hoped. He was to herald the end of that uncompromising and unilateral era of preventive war
On civil liberties, his record is extremely mixed, and that’s being generous
“The transformation of media has not only undermined the imperial institutions of the mainstream media; it has undermined the imperial Presidency.”
One year after his landmark promise to shutter the controversial prison at the US naval base in Cuba
“And yet we continue to financially support with billion of dollars coming from our taxes”
“A year on, the [Obama] administration continues to look the other way when it comes to full disclosure of and remedy for human rights violations perpetrated by the U.S.A. in the name of countering terrorism.” – Amnesty International
The notion of decreasing the deficit and national debt through reductions in military spending is one of the most absolute Washington taboos. What possible rationale is there for that?
Howard Zinn believes he is headed toward a “mediocre” presidency. And he adds that “mediocre” means “dangerous.”
Obama said he would seek from Congress a law authorizing and governing the President’s power to imprison detainees indefinitely and without charges
