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Hail to the Prince: Obama, the paradigmatic Machiavellian Leader

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Education, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Newswire, War

 

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Nicolò Machiavelli

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Obama, before he actually “did” anything, had a reputation. And, indeed, reputation – what others think you are, and not what you actually are – is a crucial factor in a public figure. A political leader, while marketed, literally, in order to [...]



Khalid Amayreh – Open Letter to Obama's Envoy to the OIC

By Khalid Amayreh • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, Religion

Dear brother Hussein, like many Muslims around the globe, I am glad that President Obama has appointed you as his Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Needless to say, the repair of American-Muslim relations require, first and foremost,  honesty, integrity, and good will — characters I am sure you exemplify as an [...]



Nonviolent protest continues across Iran as people chant : "Referendum, referendum, this is the people's slogan".

By Guest Post • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War

Mr. "peace-loving" Obama hardly bothered to wipe the blood off his hands when he picked up his Nobel Peace Prize. Seeing the tremendous leap forward by the people of Iran towards a democratic future, Mr. Obama continues his old warlike rhetoric against Iran. Simultaneously, he tightens the deadly grip of sanctions on the people of Iran, as they fiercely fight for democracy in their own land. Then he dares to say that he supports freedom and democracy. Freedom and democracy my ass, Mr. President!



Ramzy Baroud – The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: War is Criminal Any Day

By Ramzy Baroud • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

The media's habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outlets commented on President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, as well as on the anniversary of his election win, and then again one year after his inauguration day. With every new [...]



cartoon of the day

By Carlos Latuff • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day


Alan Hart – Please, Mr. President, Stop Talking Nonsense

By Alan Hart • Feb 7th, 2010 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Alan Hart
At a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida on 28 January, President Obama explained what in his view had to happen if there is to be a two-state solution which would see Israel and the Palestinians living side by side in peace and security. He said, "Both sides are going to have to [...]



Humanitarian aid or military occupation in Haiti?

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Mary's Choice, Newswire

SOCIALIST WORKER –  WRITTEN BY Ashley Smith, who explains why help hasn't reached most of the victims of Haiti's earthquake–because the priority of the U.S. government is on imposing its control.
WHEN HURRICANE Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, George W. Bush displayed a callous disregard for the Black victims of the disaster.
When his administration finally [...]



Mohamed Khodr – 2050: The Re-Birth of a New Just Nation

By Mohamed Khodr • Jan 18th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

First, we as Minorities must imbibe and fully understand the historic revolutionary opportunity for all Americans to reach a more perfect union by 2050 when we become the majority in our democracy. The white man has failed in his quest to understand and establish a nation where all men are created equal, that we all are born with inalienable rights, that man is born free from birth and to enslave and deprive man from that freedom is a violation of all divine edicts.

Who better to establish justice than those who’ve experienced injustice. Who better to understand deprivation, torture, hunger, chains and loss of life and land, than those who’ve suffered such. Who better to understand the loss of basic human rights than those who’ve been cleansed from such rights. Who better to understand the yearning for freedom for all men than those who’ve never possessed it. Who better to understand what racist regimes can inflict on humanity than those who’ve lived under such racist colonial regimes.



Got Fascism? : Obama Advisor Promotes 'Cognitive Infiltration'

By Guest Post • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Resistance

Your government appointees at work: Cass Sunstein seeks "cognitive" provocateurs.
WRITTEN By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010
Cass Sunstein is President Obama's Harvard Law School friend, and recently appointed Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
In a recent scholarly article, he and coauthor Adrian Vermeule take up the [...]



cartoon of the day

By Guest Post • Jan 8th, 2010 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day

By Edna Spennato from http://mundosonhos.blogspot.com/