Despite Barack Obama’s high-minded words about “just wars” and human rights – most recently in his Nobel Peace Prize speech – the U.S. President has shielded officials from George W. Bush’s administration from accountability for torture and other war crimes, prompting stern rebukes from leading advocates of civil liberties.
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ACLU Blasts Obama on Bush’s Crimes
Consortium News Hoping for bipartisanship on pressing issues like the economy and health care, Democrats scuttled the investigative plans. However, Republicans have shown … Blistering Indictment Leveled Against Obama Over His Handling of Bush-Era War … truthout all 27 news articles » |
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Obama treads Soviet Road out of Kabul
Mainstream The new Afghan strategy announced by United States President Barack Obama on December 1 is a game-changer in regional politics across a broad swathe of the … Challenges For Obama’s Afghan Strategy Voice of America all 116 news articles » |
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US health care tab to keep growing under overhaul
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep … Health care, Afghan war splits Democrats CNN all 1,693 news articles » |
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Defaults to Rise as Credit Issues Remain, Greene Says
Bloomberg Credit-card legislation designed to protect consumers from abrupt changes to card terms, which President Barack Obama signed May 22, presents an opportunity … and more » |
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The Nobel Prize albatross
MarketWatch In his acceptance speech in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize, US President Barack Obama made the argument that force is sometimes needed to achieve peace. … From peacemaker to war president FinalCall.com News WIRE WATCH: Obama in Oslo; Geithner, Stiglitz, Zoellick on Economy; Protesting … Wall Street Journal (blog) President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize Examiner.com Christian Science Monitor - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Moneycontrol.com all 6,027 news articles » |
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US EQUITIES WEEK AHEAD: Fed Meets; Inflation, Housing Data
CNNMoney.com President Barack Obama on Monday will meet with a group of top bankers to talk about the economy, lending and financial regulation as tension between the … and more » |
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Challenges For Obama’s Afghan Strategy
Voice of America “And that doesn’t even address the issues of opium production and trafficking, which fuel and criminalize the economy, and in which some ministers are … Obama treads Soviet Road out of Kabul Mainstream all 36 news articles » |
Republican U.S. congressional leaders urged President Barack Obama to work with them to win approval of long-stalled free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea as early as possible in 2010.
