POLITICS: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination

POLITICS: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination

A great interview with a great man.

At least some people on the left can acknowledge that Obama is not really left or liberal.

The amazing part is how people just plug their fingers into their ears and pretend like none of this is real.

LINK URL: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-obamas-attack-civil-liberties-has-gone-way-beyond-imagination?ak_proof=1&akid=.20860.o8hxm8&rd=1&src=newsletter831496&t=9&paging=off

 

ELECTION 2012: 40 Points That “Prove” That Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate

ELECTION 2012: 40 Points That “Prove” That Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate

“They’re largely the same candidate, except that one has views that I like about gay marriage and abortion. That isn’t enough for me to choose that guy over the other, as they’re both horrid.þff” -Chris Y

I concur.

LINK URL: http://www.blacklistednews.com/40_Points_That_Prove_That_Barack_Obama_And_Mitt_Romney_Are_Essentially_The_Same_Candidate/21051/0/38/38/Y/M.html

 

GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY: Obama asserts executive privilege on Fast and Furious documents

GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY: Obama asserts executive privilege on Fast and Furious documents

Begin sarcasm:
Wow, Obama is sure upholding his promise for a more transparent government!

LINK URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/20/politics/holder-contempt/index.html

 

LINK: JOURNALISM VS. WAR ON TERROR: Obama’s personal role in a journalist’s imprisonment – Salon.com

JOURNALISM VS. WAR ON TERROR: Obama’s personal role in a journalist’s imprisonment – Salon.com

This is pretty damning. Journalist releases something USA and Yemen lied to their people about. Wikileaks then verifies it. Yemen imprisons journalist as if he’s a terrorist for saying something America doesn’t like. Local leaders and Amnesty International get mad.

Pardon is drafted up. Obama then literally called Yemen when they had the pardon written up, in order to ensure that this journalist stay in jail and the pardon disappear. Which happens after the phone call.

This is direct action. This is not Congress’s fault, this is not Obama being a puppet of vast machinery he has no control of. 

And oh, we still have secret prisons just like under the Bush Administration. Obama just tricked Obama-supporters into thinking he stopped Bush’s practice. He did not. As usual, Obama continues Bush’s practices, but more secretively. 

And at this point, is The New York Times even worth wiping one’s ass on? This is the paper that knew we were being wiretapped by the government, and sat on the story for a year. Among many other things, New York Times is now, to me, the least reliable major newspaper in existence.

LINK URL: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/obamas_personal_role_in_a_journalists_imprisonment/singleton

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