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Today, August 24, 2010 is exactly the 1600th anniversary of the sacking of Rome by the army of the Visigoths. 1600 years from now will the events of 9/11 still be reverberating through the corridors of history? Historians and archaeologists from Germany, Switzerland, Britain and the United States specialising in the decline and fall of [...]

BANGKOK, Aug 18, 2010 (IPS) – An international campaign seeking a war crimes inquiry into the alleged systematic abuses by Burma’s military regime finally has a strong ally in U.S. President Barack Obama. Washington revealed Tuesday that the Obama administration is throwing its weight behind the creation of a U.N. commission of inquiry into crimes [...]

Glen Greenwald nails Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs to the wall over his comment regarding it is professional leftists who are disappointed with Obama and that they would have been equally disappointed had it been Dennis Kucinich elcted. You may think that the reason you’re dissatisfied with the Obama administration is because of substantive objections to [...]

(BBC) “I believe Prime Minister Netanyahu wants peace. I think he is willing to take risks for peace,” said Mr Obama. Well that or pure political bullshit – your guess is as good as mine. Drivel Tags: Israel, Netanyahu, Obama Related posts Your Bumper Sticker May be Dangerous to Your First Amendment Rights (0) You [...]

I am sad to say that whatever respect I had left for Dennis Kucinich has now unalterably disappeared. This bill is a sell out to the insurance companies, nothing more. It is health care reform only on the thinnest of surfaces. That he would abandon his so called principles, most likely because Obama’s hitman, Rahm [...]