International Peace Day was created as a way to acknowledge the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s important to remember that for all its faults, the United Nations remains the best infrastructure to create a peaceful world. And yet, when President Obama takes the podium to lecture the world on creating peace, it [...]
Monday, September 19, 2011
By Sharon Miller, CODEPINK San Francisco intern This morning, President Obama made some remarks on economic growth and deficit reduction. His remarks could have been worse, but they also could have been much, much better. I am glad that Obama acknowledged that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost US taxpayers lots and lots [...]
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Yesterday President Obama held the first Twitter Town Hall at the White House where he fielded questions about jobs, the budget, taxes, and education with Tweeters all over the nation. The event was streamed live on the White House page. While a valiant effort at direct interaction through a fast growing medium, it unfortunately resonated with his usual lack of accountability and transparency about critical issues and Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey just let him get away with it. [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis His lines may be better delivered, but Barack Obama is sounding – and acting – more like the heir to George W. Bush than the change-maker sold to the public in his award-winning ad campaign. Indeed, when not sending billions of dollars to repressive governments across the globe, the great liberal hope is authorizing deadly [...]
Friday, February 4, 2011
I was in the middle of buying some mints from a street vendor on Cairo’s Talat Harb Street—right off Tahrir Square--when the rocks started flying. I had given a 20-cent coin to the vendor. He gave me one pack of mints, and all hell broke loose. “Run, run,” people yelled at me. I saw a group of men running down the street, carrying a man whose face was streaming with blood. Then I saw the pro-Mubarak thugs, armed with rocks, metal pipes, whips. “Run, Run,” the Egyptians on the street told me. I ran for shelter as fast as I could.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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