Frank Rich Blasts Obama For Letting Wall Street Off the Hook – Rolling Stone
A lot of people are talking about Frank Rich’s explosive new article in New York magazine. I think it is a remarkable thing, the latest and maybe the most comprehensive in an increasingly lengthy series of articles and investigations into the Obama administration’s failure to properly investigate the causes of the financial crisis. By now this is not quite a mainstream media drumbeat, but it’s com
A Free Spirit | Ian Buruma
Reuters Ann Dunham in 1970 with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro; their daughter, Maya Soetoro; and her son, Barack Obama To write a biography without mentioning the subject’s name in the title is unusual, just as irregular, in fact, as publishing a serious work of anthropology, entitled Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, with a portrait of the author splashed on the cover.
Leon Panetta and David Petraeus given new roles in US security reshuffle
Barack Obama is to shake up his national security team and remake his defence and foreign policy, with General David Petraeus moving from Afghanistan to head the CIA and Leon Panetta leaving the agency to become defence secretary. A senior US administration official, who insisted on anonymity, confirmed the changes, the first major reshuffle of the Obama administration. Obama will formally present
Obama's Torture Problem | David Cole
In the face of overwhelming evidence that numerous US detainees were tortured during the Bush years, President Barack Obama has famously said he wants to “look forward, not back.” He prohibited the use of torture and cruelty in one of his first executive acts, but since then he has consistently resisted all efforts to hold accountable those who, under the prior administration, authorized such mist
Opinion | The World as He Finds It (Published 2010)
On Wednesday David Axelrod, President Obama’s top political adviser, appeared to signal that the White House was ready to cave on tax cuts � to give in to Republican demands that tax cuts be extended for the wealthy as well as the middle class. “We have to deal with the world as we find it,” he declared. The White House then tried to walk back what Mr. Axelrod had said. But it was a telling remark
Obama's speech to the Muslim world calls for a new beginning
In a speech to university students in Jakarta, the US president speaks fondly of his boyhood home and acknowledges that relations are still frayed with the Islamic world Reuters White House planners initially considered Indonesia as the location for Barack Obama's much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world, which he eventually gave in Cairo in June last year. Expectations then were probably impos
Obama Visits a Nation That Knew Him as Barry (Published 2010)
President Obama attended Santo Fransiskus Asisi, a Roman Catholic school, as a child. He will visit Jakarta on Tuesday.Credit...Sinartus Sosrodjojo for The New York Times JAKARTA, Indonesia � The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago. The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchange
Barack Obama's battle to get out of Afghanistan
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 24 September 2010 This story said that Barack Obama had been alone in the US Senate in opposing the Iraq war. Obama was some way from reaching the senate when, in October 2002, it voted on whether to authorise President George W Bush to use military force against Iraq. Twenty-three senators voted a
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