The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Watching Channel 4 and seeing President Barack Obama speak of his conversation with the Egyptian President, Penguin could not help but be shocked when Obama had the audicity to claim, with a straight face and no shame, that he had called on the Egyptian president to “give meaning to his words” in promising democracy and …
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/ PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as Not Yet Rated, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken. Other ways to browse …
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The author is a former chief economist of the IMF and is now a professor at MIT. Chuck The Bill Daley Problem By Simon Johnson, co-author of 13 Bankers (out in paperback on Monday) Baseline Scenario, 9 January 2011 Highlighted extracts: The Bill Daley Problem is completely bipartisan – it shows us the White House fails …
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One of President Obama’s unintended achievements has been to bring the moral bankruptcy of the Orwellian-named Middle East Peace Process into sharp relief: By trying to bribe Netanyahu into returning to the bargaining table with an offer of 20 additional F-35 Fighters in return for a 90 day extension of a phony settlement freeze, and …
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Weekend Edition December 17 – 19, 2010 The Myth of Liberal Intervention and the Arrogance of Ignorance Obama’s March to Folly By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney12172010.html In a recent opinion piece, “Kosovo and the Myth of Liberal Intervention,” Neil Clark in the Guardian on 15 December gave the reader a good summary of the …
Obama ‘must talk to Afghan Taliban’ By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition Dec 11, 2010 11:36 EST A group of influential international experts on Afghanistan Saturday appealed to US President Barack Obama to radically change his strategy in the war-ravaged nation and negotiate directly with the Taliban. . . . . . . . “It …
Will Colin Powell become Barack Obama’s next Pentagon chief? Toby Harnden, The Telegraph UK 4 December 2010 – – – – – – – Obama’s most important decision you haven’t heard about — Pentagon leaders Richard H. Kohn, Christian Science Monitor 6 December 2010 Breaking Down Obama’s Cabinet Contenders (2008) Brian Montopoli, CBSNews 6 November …
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