Obama Condemns Egypt’s Military Massacre; US Aid Continues
US President Barack Obama condemned the Egyptian military’s massacre of civilians and canceled a planned joint military exercise, even as the forces responsible for the bloodbath will continue to...
View ArticleNSA Brazil Spying Scandal Widens; Snowden Reveals Petrobras Targeted
Brazil’s president has personally informed her US counterpart that her planned visit to the United States depends on his administration’s response to a widening NSA spying scandal. President Dilma...
View ArticleBrazil’s Rousseff Cancels US Visit Over NSA Spying Scandal
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has announced the cancellation of a planned trip to the United States in reaction to revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on her personal...
View ArticleUS, Iran in High-Level Talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart are sitting down Thursday for the highest level talks between the two nations in 34 years. CNN reports Kerry and Foreign Minister Mohammad...
View ArticleTaliban Shooting Survivor Malala Yousafzai Meets Obama, Tells Him Drone...
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, met with US President Barack Obama in the White House on Friday and told him that drone strikes kill innocent...
View ArticleFox Lies: Sean Hannity Fact-Checked over False Obamacare Claims
A Salon.com reporter and former senior counsel to Montana’s last governor has fact-checked anti-Obamacare claims made by Sean Hannity and found the Fox News host has blatantly misled viewers about the...
View ArticleAmnesty International: US Drone Strikes in Pakistan May Be War Crimes
Two of the world’s leading human rights groups have released scathing reports detailing how US drone strikes are killing innocent civilians in Pakistan and Yemen. Amnesty International has issued a...
View ArticleGermany’s Merkel Demands ‘Immediate’ Explanation from Obama about Alleged NSA...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned President Barack Obama on Wednesday to demand an “immediate and comprehensive” explanation for alleged US spying on her mobile phone communications. Der Spiegel...
View ArticleFor 4th Straight Year, Obama Approves Military Aid to Countries Using Child...
For the fourth straight year, President Barack Obama has granted waivers from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to a handful of African and Arab nations allowing them to continue receiving US military...
View ArticleIsrael Fumes as World Powers Make ‘Historic’ Deal With Iran
Netanyahu claims Israel’s ‘right and the duty to defend itself by itself’ while Iran, world leaders celebrate step towards peace Common Dreams In what is being hailed as a groundbreaking and historic...
View ArticleObama Cites Pope Francis in Speech Denouncing Economic Inequality
Delivering a rousing speech attacking economic inequality on Wednesday, President Barack Obama cited Pope Francis, who in his short tenure has made a name for himself in progressive circles by...
View ArticleFull Video & Transcript of President Obama’s December 4, 2013 Speech on...
Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much. Please, please have a seat. Thank you so much. Well, thank you, Neera, for the wonderful introduction and sharing a story that...
View ArticleSeymour Hersh: Obama “Cherry-Picked” Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack...
Democracy Now! Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins us to discuss his new article casting doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims that only the Assad regime could have...
View ArticleFlorida Republican House Candidate Joshua Black: Arrest Obama and “Hang Him...
A Republican candidate running for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives has called for President Barack Obama to be arrested and executed by hanging for ‘war crimes.’ The Tampa Bay Times...
View ArticleOil-Rich Dictators Enjoy Obama’s Support
On the delicate matter of United States support for brutal dictatorships, the following statement attributed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was reportedly referring to the ruthless Nicaraguan...
View ArticleAmerican University Students Stage Walk-Out Protest Against “War Criminal”...
More than two dozen American University students staged a walk-out protest during an address by former vice president Dick Cheney at the Washington, DC school on Thursday. Some of the students called...
View ArticleAppeals Court Orders Release of Obama Administration’s Anwar al-Awlaki...
Panel sides with ACLU and New York Times in demanding legal rationale for al-Awlaki killing Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams A federal appeals court on Monday morning is demanding that the Obama...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: Israel Could Become an “Apartheid State”
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently told a closed-door meeting of influential world leaders that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” if there is no two-state solution to the...
View ArticleNewly-Released Emails Link Benghazi Scandal to White House
Emails released on Tuesday link the White House to what critics call misleading messaging regarding the deadly September 11, 2012 Islamic militant attack on the United States diplomatic facilities in...
View Article10 Years After Abu Ghraib, No Justice For Torturers, Tortured
“You can’t spell abuse without Abu,” said one US Army medic to another, Sgt. Andrew Duffy, after throwing a seriously injured and handcuffed Iraqi prison to the ground, face-first, upon his arrival at...
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