By David Swanson
So, we elected a president who promised a withdrawal from Iraq that he, or the generals who tell him what to do, is now further delaying. And, of course, the timetable he’s now delaying was already a far cry from what he had promised as a candidate.
What are we to think? That [...]

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With a landmark health-care reform bill assuring him his place in the pantheon of presidents who delivered transformational change, President Obama can now turn his attention to the economy. Today’s job numbers offer hope that the economy may have turned a corner and begun adding jobs, though not nearly enough to compensate for the 8 [...]

For decades, mainstream Israeli politicians have taken pride in their fingertip feel for the subtleties of American life and politics. Israeli diplomats know the meeting halls of the Midwest almost as well as they do the breakfast room at the Regency Hotel. So it has been disturbing to see, during the 2008 Presidential race and [...]

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By Ryan Donmoyer and Catherine Dodge
March 20 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats to back health-care legislation that he called “the toughest [...]

February 02, 2010, 07:29 PM EST




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By Edwin Chen and Nicholas Johnston
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said $30 billion of the bailout money paid back by Wall Street financial institutions should [...]

By David Swanson
Add Congressman Bill Delahunt to the list of misrepresentatives who claim to oppose wars when a Republican is president but agree to support them when a Democrat moves into the White House.
When Bush was president, Delahunt sometimes voted for war funding bills and sometimes voted against them. The inclusion in the bills [...]