... Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. VICE quoted José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of Human Rights Watch: “Many peasants grow coca because it is their only profitable crop, given ...
... is the author of "Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq" (2010). He also wrote the chapters on "Obama at War" in "Grading the 44th President: a Report Card on Barack Obama’s ...
... he’s Joe Labor, coming to the job with a genuine affinity for working stiffs. Consider Barack Obama’s former appointee, who Biden has chosen to serve again, Tom Vilsack. Bizarre, since he actually tried ...
... Trump -- like Barack Obama and George W. Bush before him -- was able to order missile strikes and deploy troops in numerous war-torn countries without congressional constraints. And there was no reason ...
... of senators. The notable exception, of course, was its deplorable use as a tool to block civil rights, voting rights, and anti-lynching bills, which is why President Barack Obama correctly referred to ...
... the corporate-friendly Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama took office). One of Trump’s overarching “achievements” was to move the frame of feasible political options rightward. Now, the ...
... as “the man from Hope” (the name of his first hometown). Barack Obama authored the bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” that appeared two years before he won the White House. But projecting our hopes onto ...
... positioned. There’s far less naiveté about Joe Biden on the verge of his presidency than there was a dozen years ago on the verge of Barack Obama’s. And much stronger communication and organizing capacities ...
... promised would see similar abuses of power in subsequent presidencies if not acted on. Barack Obama and Donald Trump predictably expanded on numerous Bush power abuses. But only delusional, racist, rightwing ...
... by Barack Obama, who used them 10 times more than his predecessor – killed unknown numbers of civilians who remained largely anonymous. Civilian deaths from airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330% ...
... People on the left did very little to challenge Barack Obama after he won the presidency in 2008. Two years later, a big Republican wave took control of Congress. Now, we’re being told that people on ...
... His bullying personality and lack of deference to the United States left an aghast Bill Clinton exclaiming "Who's the f***ing superpower here?" after their first meeting. His relationship with Barack ...
... A substantial percentage of them worked in the United States government when Barack Obama was president. The appointments should provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration ...
... votes than any president in American history—more than Ronald Reagan, more than Bill Clinton, more than even Barack Obama, in whose shadow Biden seems to live. In short, the people want Biden to wield ...
... of weapons-industry power over the U.S. government, it was, exactly as Barack Obama claimed during his presidency, a tremendous success. Eisenhower spoke of the military industrial complex corrupting ...
... February 2020. (Hogre, Flickr) A war on leaks was mounted by President Barack Obama, and it resulted in more prosecutions under the Espionage Act than all previous presidential administrations combined. ...
... the size of the court before — in 2016, when the Senate reduced the size of the court to eight for an entire year rather than seat Merrick Garland, Barack Obama's nominee to replace the late ...
... by progressives in difficult and inspiring campaigns: intent on doing what, according to conventional political wisdom, can’t be done. While the Republican Party has given “faith” a bad name, Barack Obama ...
... law. At the very end of Barack Obama’s presidency, the United States supported a U.N. resolution criticizing settlements for the first time — a position Trump has since reversed. Engel said in a 2017 ...
Nearly 12 years ago, Barack Obama began staffing his administration in the middle of a global economic crisis. Despite the high hopes of the progressive forces that catapulted Obama into office, his transition ...