The Obama administration

  • The American people made history in electing Barack Obama--and they expected big reforms instead of the same old America Obama represents. November 4, 2009

  • Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his already impressive record. October 20, 2009

  • I was shocked when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize--until I recalled that Wilson, Roosevelt and Kissinger had all won. October 14, 2009

  • Barack Obama, who is in the process of waging two wars, is now the recipient of an award that is supposedly reserved for those who have a commitment to peace. October 14, 2009

  • The important thing about Joe Wilson's outburst isn't that it was bad etiquette, but that it symbolizes the racism and intolerance of the Republican right. September 23, 2009

  • Why did Barack Obama cave again to the right-wing blowhards who attacked environmental justice activist Van Jones? September 9, 2009

  • Republicans and conservative Democrats are set to wreck health care reform--and Barack Obama is letting them. August 25, 2009

  • Socialists should refuse to sacrifice the independence of social movements in the interest of any politician's election. July 30, 2009

  • There may be differences within the limits of "mainstream" ruling-class thinking, but figures like Obama would never challenge those limits themselves. July 29, 2009

  • How is it that the name of a high-ranking Obama administration official came to be featured in an ad campaign for Big Oil? July 16, 2009

  • Barack Obama said that Africa's future "is up to Africa," but he ignored the U.S. government's own role in making Ghana's poverty worse. July 13, 2009

  • Some of Barack Obama's most ardent supporters are unsettled by the administration's failure to pursue a bold agenda for reform. June 29, 2009

  • Obama's Cairo speech showed that crucial changes are taking place in U.S. policy that represent potential opportunities for an antiwar movement. June 23, 2009

  • I watched Barack Obama's speech to the background noise of Israeli fighter jets conducting maneuvers over the West Bank. June 18, 2009

  • Obama's rhetoric in Cairo was intended to restore the credibility of American imperialism at home and abroad--how is that a "step forward"? June 17, 2009

  • The U.S. president spoke in Cairo as if his and previous administrations were neutral brokers of peace, instead of rapacious backers of Israel's war. June 16, 2009

  • Barack Obama's Cairo speech heralds a shift from the Islamophobic rhetoric of the Bush regime--but not the long-term aims of the U.S. empire. June 12, 2009

  • Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's plan to present Barack Obama with another book got me thinking about what I'd recommend. June 10, 2009

  • Barack Obama's speech in Cairo doesn't represent a dramatic change in foreign policy, but a return to the mainstream after eight years of George W. Bush. June 10, 2009

  • Fewer then six months into the new administration, we're finding out that beneath the rhetoric of "change" lies more continuity than many expected. June 8, 2009

  • Recent appointments by the Obama administration illustrate how out-of-touch status quo politicians are from people's needs. June 2, 2009

  • It's time for a little truth in advertising--what's the reality behind the media happy talk about Barack Obama's first 100 days? May 6, 2009

  • Whatever disappointments people have about Obama, the dust hasn't settled on this new era, and there's a feeling we have room to fight for our demands. May 5, 2009

  • Barack Obama's approach to the banking crisis has been even more generous to Wall Street than George W. Bush. May 4, 2009

  • The Obama administration is effectively marginalizing the issue of Palestine, and unfortunately setting the stage for renewed Israeli assaults. May 1, 2009