Obama’s First 100 Days

Same Difference: Obama’s Militarized Status Quo

January 15, 2010

 Obama’s honeymoon with Latin America is definitively over. NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS. Candidate Obama was upfront about his positions on Latin America. He said pointblank that he would maintain the embargo on Cuba. He endorsed the March 2008 Colombian incursion into Ecuador. He made clear his intention to continue funding Plan Colombia—the now...
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Human Rights and Obama’s Latin America Agenda

December 1, 2009

By Scott Wright Once again, thousands of people from all walks of life converged on the School of the Americas/WHINSEC to call for the closing of the U.S. military’s school to train Latin America’s armies. This year, too, marked the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the six Jesuit priests from El Salvador, their...
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Changing President Obama’s War Mindset

October 7, 2009
Changing President Obama’s War Mindset

  By Howard Zinn May 16, 2009, The Progressive We are citizens, and Obama is a politician. You might not like that word. But the fact is he’s a politician. He’s other things, too – he’s a very sensitive and intelligent and thoughtful and promising person. But he’s a politician. If you’re a citizen,...
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Letter to President Obama from a Torture Survivor

February 28, 2009

To Obama on Torture: Investigate and Follow the Evidence Honestly and in Good Faith By Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU and Catherine Grosso We will soon know whether the Obama administration believes in one law for all citizens or whether the powerful are exempt from that principal. More specifically, will President Obama initiate an investigation...
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What Would Dr. King Tell President Obama?

January 25, 2009
What Would Dr. King Tell President Obama?

By Michael Honey The Progressive Online, January 19, 2009 What would Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we celebrate on January ninetenth, say to Barack Obama, inaugurated as President of the United States on January twentieth? A friend of mine is judging student essays on that question for the King Holiday. It is a...
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