President Obama’s fateful decision after winning the 2008 election to seek “continuity” rather than “change” and “to look forward, not backward” has trapped him in a web of constitutional abuses that began in the Bush-43 presidency and extended into his…
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Crimea and Punishment
Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit
Exclusive: The Ukraine crisis in part stirred up by U.S. neocons has damaged prospects for peace not only on Russia’s borders but in two Middle East hotspots, Syria and Iran, which may have been exactly the point, reports Robert Parry.
Risks of a New ‘Zero-Sum’ Cold War
Can Obama Speak Strongly for Peace?
Neocons Have Weathered the Storm
Time for CIA’s Brennan to Go
How ‘Looking Forward’ Tripped Up Obama
Sen. Feinstein: Accidental ‘Whistleblower’
The West’s ‘War on Democracy’
Across the Western world, there has been a clamping down on meaningful dissent, including secret information that is withheld from the public in the name of national security. And there has been a failure to contest this assault on democracy,…