30 June 2009 | Americas, Dictatorship, Honduras, Obama, Presidency, US Military | Matt Barganier
I’m no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I’ll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement:
Zelaya’s fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to test the idea of allowing him a second term. Honduras’s Constitution explicitly forbids [...]
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07 February 2009 | Barack Obama, CIA, Censorship, Civil liberties, Covert Action, Guantánamo, News, Obama, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes | L. Reichard White
Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed.
Why?
Perhaps this explains it:
So, while a few die hard “24″ fans — and Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey — might still claim confusion about [...]
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23 January 2009 | Obama | Justin Raimondo
Drudge headlined this story “OBAMA WAR: 7 KILLED DURING SUSPECTED U.S. DRONE STRIKES IN PAKISTAN…”
It is off his page now, and the number dead has risen to 22.
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13 November 2008 | Iraq, Obama | Mike Ewens
The InTrade prediction markets allows individuals to bet on the winner of the presidential elections and US recession timings. They can also be used to bet on US foreign policy. The graph below shows the contract price for the outcome “Number of US Troops in Iraq (given a Democratic president) as of June 2010.”
A [...]
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