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Obama, Barack H.

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15 March 2017

The former president of the United States, Barack Obama, has relocated his staff to the district of Kaloroma (Washington D.C.). This is because they had no legal right to use their interim premises (occupied in January and February) to conduct politics. Their new headquarters is a manor (see (...)

Barack Obama Farewell Adress

by Barack Obama

Chicago | 10 January 2017

Hello, Chicago! (Applause.) It’s good to be home! (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause.) All right, everybody sit down. (Applause.) We’re on live TV here. I’ve got to move. (Applause.) You can tell that I’m a lame duck (...)

“The Art of War”

The Legacy of The “Democrat”

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 3 January 2017

And so the double mandate of Barack Obama comes to an end: none of U.S. empire’s strategic objectives have been fulfilled yet the president wraps up by taking several mandatory and oppressive measures. What will happen when an anti-imperialist succeeds him at the White (...)

Barack Obama authorizes delivery of weapons to jihadists in Syria

by Barack Obama

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 8 December 2016

Presidential Determination No. 2017-05
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination and Waiver Pursuant to Section 2249a of Title 10, United States Code, and Sections 40 and 40A of the Arms Export Control Act to Support U.S. Special (...)

The Ultimate Barack Obama Exit Interview

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

21 September 2016

His presidency is winding down. A contentious election—fought largely over his record and legacy—is about to be decided. With that in mind, Barack Obama recently invited the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to the White House for a long, personal, open-ended conversation. The meeting, (...)

The Obama Doctrine

by Jeffrey Goldberg

10 March 2016

The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world
Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered (...)

State of the Union address 2016

Obama - My combat

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 19 January 2016

The last State of the Union address by President Obama was the occasion of a vigourous panegyric in favour of his country, in all points the best « on Earth » (sic). Unfortunately, his magnificent rhetoric was not based on a single convincing argument. His splendid oratory was thus unable to mask (...)

Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination

by Paul Craig Roberts

8 March 2014

The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is “against international law” for Crimea to exercise self-determination. [1] Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington’s empire but is not permissible for real people to (...)

The Nobel Prize for peace 2009 : ’’I’m really good at killing people’’

6 November 2013

In a book published this morning, journalists Mark Halperin and John Hellemann scrutinize the 2012 US presidential campaign opposing Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
Having good connections in both camps, they report the remarks made by both candidates. According to the journalists, Obama likes (...)

Obama at the UN General Assembly

Five Years a Zionist Lackey, Fifteen Minutes an American President

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 11 October 2013

Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups and the merciless prosecution of patriotic truth (...)

“Orient Tendencies”

Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama

by Wassim Raad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 2 September 2013

Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama
By Ghaleb Kandil
The resistance of Syria against the colonial war, the last two and a half yers, opened the way for new international balances that could rid the world of the American-Zionist hegemony. Building on this strength, partners and (...)

Netanyahu calls Obama’s bluff

by Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar

New Dehli (India) | 16 November 2012

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marshals troops toward Gaza, Barack Obama is making a grievous error by being seen as walking in step. Post-election optimism over direct talks with Iran will be shattered should Israel invade, and the Arab world will view the US president as full of (...)

President Barack Obama’s remarks on Election Night

by Barack Obama

Chicago | 7 November 2012

Thank you very much!
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression; (...)

Obama Afghanistan deaths top those of Bush

25 August 2012

Sgt. Louis R. Torres of Oberlin, Ohio, died August 22, 2012, of injuries sustained by an explosive device in Kandahar two weeks earlier.
Now the longest conflict in U.S. history, the Afghanistan war has taken the lives of 2,000 Americans, half of whom were killed in just the past two and a (...)

The Pentagon’s "new enemy" image

Obama’s Geopolitical China ‘Pivot’

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 23 August 2012

With little fanfare Barack Obama late last year announced a "strategic pivot" in US defense policy to focus on the Pacific, bolstered by "Coalition of the willing" Australia. It is all about emerging China as an economic colossus with a mind all its own. The US military has been steadily (...)

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