You must watch this! Did you have a sense of deja vu listening to Obama in his Oval Office speech talk about the imperative need to become independent of fossil fuels? Did you feel, “Ho hum, what’s new?” Jon Stewart refreshes our memory, as only he can do, with stiletto clips and painful humor. When [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Obama'
Jon Stewart Hits the Nail on the Head!
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Alternative Energy, Carbon Tax, Energy independence, Obama, Solar, Video, environment
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NYT Publishes Op Ed Urging Change in Israel Policy
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Obama, Palestine, Policy
In another hopeful sign of change on Israel, the venerable, conservative New York Times published an Op Ed piece by Tony Judt, director of the Remarque Institute at New York University and, notably, an American Jew. This is noteworthy on two counts: 1) that the NYT would give a high profile to a piece critical [...]
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Paul Volcker’s Influence Rises
January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Bailout, Banks, Corporate Power, Economy, Federal Reserve, Financial, Obama, Stock Market, Treasury, Wall Street
Obama had Paul Volcker at his side when he announced his new plan to regulate the big banks. This is a big deal. It may signal the beginning of the end for the of reign of Larry Summers and Treasury Secretary Geithner over Obama’s economic and financial policies. By giving the big banks every possible [...]
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The First Good News in a Long Time – Obama Takes on Banks
January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Bailout, Banks, Obama, Regulation, Stock Market
Just when I despaired that Obama lacked the guts to get tough on banks, he came out with a clear, strong plan to cut down the unregulated, enormously profitable, operations of banks too-big-too-fail – and to cut these banks down to a size that won’t be too big to fail. Perhaps the best news of [...]
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The End of German Innocence in Afghanistan
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Military, Obama, Politics
Now that Obama has has escalated the war in Afghanistan, what lies ahead politically may be foreshadowed by a bombing in early November ordered by a German colonel. This bombing received little attention in US media, but it created a political firestorm in Germany, and the repercussions are still reverberating. Der Spiegel published a fascinating, [...]
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Obama and Afghanistan
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Military, Obama, Policy
I watched Obama live yesterday. What a tragic disappointment. I kept feeling like I was watching Bush — or Clinton, or Reagan, or Lyndon Johnson justifying military action and demonizing those they plan to kill. I soon found myself incredibly bored. I just kept yawning. It was all so predictable and and disgusting. I find [...]
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The Sad State of Our Country
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Bailout, Banks, Corporate Power, Credit Default Swaps, Federal Reserve, Mortgages, Obama, Policy, Politics, Restructuring, Stock Market, Taxpayers, Treasury, Video, Wall Street
Last night I watch Bill Moyers Journal via the internet. The first piece interviewed David Simom, creator of “The Wire.” His realistic view of the quagmire of drugs/ghettos/crime/corruption had such a ring of Knowing that I found myself nodding and shaking my head again and again. If you are a “Wire” fan, as I am, [...]
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“Warmonger Wins Peace Prize”
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Nobel Prize, Obama
The local Mendocino community forum is generally filled with so much vitriol and personal attack that I read few of the hundred or more posting that arrive daily. Somehow, though, this response to some of the vitriol by Mitch Clog (who ran against the incumbent Republican congressman in a Don-Quixote-like contest) caught my eye. The [...]
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Losing Faith in Obama
September 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Obama, Policy, Politics
I, and most of my friends, have found our enthusiasm for Obama steadily sinking. Where once I eagerly sought news of Obama on internet to see what he was saying and doing, I’ve found myself disinterested. Even seeing his speeches, which I now rarely do, leave me unmoved. I’ve been dismayed for a long time [...]
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Torture – the View from Berlin
August 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Obama, Policy, Terrorism, torture
While the issue of bringing to full light and justice those responsible for torture is politically divisive and charged in the United States, commentators in Germany, which has more than its share of inhumanity to mankind, seem united in their desire to see that justice is done. The following is from Der Spiegel. The World [...]
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