[VIDEO] Phyllis Bennis: Obama Distances U.S. from Netanyahu’s Rhetoric
Obama’s speech in front of Israel supporters used strong language in support of Israel, but was very careful to break clearly from the Israeli position.
Populism and Pain in Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal
Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly from a budget proposal where Obama is letting the 1 percent off rather easy, while the rest of us, especially the poor, shoulder the pain.
The Sick Man of North America
My modestly priced new ebook covers the worsening health of U.S. foreign policy and the efforts to revive the patient.
Obama’s Real Israel Problem – and it isn’t Bibi
Israel’s fundamental policy toward the Palestinians is the problem, and that policy has hardly changed, despite the left, right and center parties that have been in power.
ICE Records Don’t Match Deportation Claims
The immigration enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security has serious issues getting its legal records to match their prosecutorial actions.
Ratcheting up the Rhetoric on Iran
The Democratic Party has tried to out-hawk Republicans since the early days of the Cold War.
Obama Did It, All By Himself
But there is a way for change we can believe in to come to pass after all.
Capital Controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The first trade agreement to be negotiated by the Obama administration should allow governments to control volatile capital flows.
Maceo Protests at Deficit Talks in Washington
A 10-year-old’s perspective of the debt ceiling debacle.
Tracking the Saudi Arms Deal
Washington is gearing up for a historic arms sale to Riyadh. So why is it so hard to learn the details of the deal?
Wanted: Real U.S. Leadership
The Arab Spring requires a consistent approach to the shared clarion call of freedom throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Obama’s Changes Don’t Match Changes of the Arab Spring
The only foundation that will work is that of international law and human rights. Until then, the Arab Spring will not blossom from the long Palestinian and Israeli winter.
U.S. Silences on the Arab Spring are Deafening
The Obama administration has hardly said a peep about the need for democracy in Saudi Arabia or the other oil-rich states of the Gulf, even as those regimes are cracking down on the small but growing number of democracy activists in their midst.
Obama’s Mexicogate?
A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents — threatens to become a major scandal for the Obama administration.
Finally, Obama’s Talking about Taxing the Wealthy
He has public opinion on his side.