the worst diplomat in the world

Bush and the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, revealing a continuity of American imperial prerogatives underneath otherwise shifting official discourses. . While Bush chafed at Brazil’s independence in Latin America, Obama bristled at Brazil’s engagement in the Middle..

is this the change we can believe in?

Obama’s first few months in office should remind anyone who harbored illusions otherwise that, as the president of the United States, Obama—by definition—is there to preserve the status quo, even at the price of a few reforms on the side. . ..

the case for an independent left party

The party-within-the-party approach has been tried in a variety of forms since the late 1930s by labor’s PACs (political action committees), waves of reform Democratic club networks, McGovern’s new politics, Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialists of America, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow..

join the fight for energy freedom

He directed EPA to draft a series of regulations that would adversely and dramatically affect coal-fired power plants as a means of fulfilling his campaign promise to fundamentally transform the energy makeup of the United States. . Obama’s war on coal had its intended effect...

the world in transition

Fortunately for the US, Obama did not follow this kind of program in response to the Great Recession here, when we had 10 percent unemployment. ... The Obama administration’s policies in Latin America were no better than those of George W. ..

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obama takes aim at america’s growing income gap

Calling it the “defining challenge of our time,” President Obama on Wednesday said that he would dedicate his three remaining years in office to reversing the “relentless decades-long trend” toward increasing economic inequality and declining opportunities for upward mobility in the United..

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