Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Lee Sustar* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint Barack Obama, celebrated as a champion of all good causes three years ago, has thrown traditional Democratic constituencies overboard – not just to make a deal with Republicans, but to carry out the Corporate America’s agenda. CHICAGO (IDN) – Can someone please remind [...]
POST-ABBOTTABAD PAK SULKING HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON OBAMA
June 23, 2011 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 729 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By B.Raman Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have had no impact on President Barack Obama’s counter-sanctuary emphasis in his counter-terrorism strategy. 2. It was this counter-sanctuary emphasis that enabled the successful extermination of Osama bin Laden on May 2,2011, by US naval [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Obama Takes the Centrist Option on Withdrawal
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS) – In a much-anticipated decision, U.S. President Barack Obama announced here Wednesday evening that he will withdraw 10,000 of the 100,000 U.S. troops currently deployed in Afghanistan by the end of this year and a total of 33,000 by some [...]
U.S.: Obama’s Claim of Libya War Powers Widely Disputed
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 17, 2011 (IPS) – President Barack Obama’s claim that U.S. military operations against Libya should not be subject to the War Powers Act and do not require Congressional approval is drawing heavy fire from friends and foes alike. In a 38-page report submitted [...]
Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 22, 2011 (IPS) – The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious confrontation. The [...]
MIDEAST: Obama Peace Vision Sparks New Disputes
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognised borders are established for both states." The seemingly neutral and quasi-consensual principle laid out by U.S. President [...]
Obama Delivers Republican Arguments
April 14, 2011 By
The Real News Network April 14, 2011 Bill Black: Obama detaches the debt problem from the real economy More at The Real News
Statement on President Obama’s Budget Plan
April 13, 2011 By
For Immediate Release: April 13, 2011 Contact: Alan Barber, 202-293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.- Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released the following statement on the President’s deficit-reduction plan: “President Obama’s statement was about as encouraging as could have been hoped for in the context of an agenda committed to [...]
Debt deal distracts from the economy’s real problems.
Statement on the Debt Ceiling Deal Debt deal distracts from the economy’s real problems. Center for Economic and Policy Research, CEPR For Immediate Release: August 1, 2011 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.- Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), issued the following statement on the debt ceiling [...]