Tag: Barack Obama

  • Two Peace Prizes: The Nobel Legitimizes the Empire’s War on Venezuela While the US Peace Prize Honors Resistance

    The Nobel Peace Prize was established in 1901. In the decades that followed, Mahatma Gandhi emerged as the international symbol of world peace for resistance to the dominant imperialism of his time – the British Empire. He was never recognized by the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee has honored figures ranging from the admirable Martin Luther […]

  • Why Western Hegemony is Over

     The tariff truce between China and the United States is set to end in August. What do you forecast will happen after that? And what will happen to trade relations between China and the US for the rest of US President Donald Trump’s second term? The United States learned that it can’t impose its will on China. The rare earths […]

  • Zohran Mubarak: The Battle Begins

    Saint Sun — a myth One day, a young prince died in the city of Unch in the Indian subcontinent. The boy had had great respect and love for a Shia Ismaili Pir Shams. (Pir means saint and Shams means Sun – Saint Sun.) The king was devastated; he ordered his magistrates and jurists to get […]

  • Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic

    Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic

    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Chance for Peace” speech, delivered on 16 April 1953 Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower […]

  • The Burning of Children Instead of Paper

    The Burning of Children Instead of Paper

    Israel Has Wiped Out Over 1,000 Entire Families International Middle East Media Center, 27 May 2025 Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise. […]

  • US and EU Supported al-Qaeda in Syria

    US and EU Supported al-Qaeda in Syria

    The key decision was when Barack Obama finally decided in December 2012 to arm al-Qaeda in Syria so as to bring down Syria’s Government. That culminated a U.S. policy since 1949, which was aimed against Russia and against Palestinians. It is an established fact that U.S. President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Hagel, and the rest […]

  • Reaganland 2

    Rick Perlstein’s 2020 bestseller Reaganland is a must read for many reasons. First and foremost this 900 or so pages book reads like a novel. Perlstein is that great a storyteller. He covers the rise of the right wing in our nation, focusing from Jimmy Carter’s 1976-1980 presidency to Ronald Reagan’s nomination in 1980. As […]

  • A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters

    A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters

    Photo credit: CODEPINK On October 24, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s basically our proxy war. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end this in […]

  • Cuba under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts its Greatest Challenge

    Cuba under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts its Greatest Challenge

    The majority of Cubans support Castro…every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. — Lester D. Mallory, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, 1960 Despite draconian coercive measures by the US – overwhelmingly condemned every […]

  • The Most Important US Presidential Election of Our Lifetime

    The Most Important US Presidential Election of Our Lifetime

    Left-liberals plea every four years that this really is the most important election ever and time to hold our noses and send a Democrat to the White House. The manifest destiny of US world leadership, we are told, is at stake, as is our precious democracy which we have so generously been exporting abroad. Let’s […]

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