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Noah Shachtman Wired.com 9/6/2012 President Obama doesn’t like to talk about how he uses drones to kill suspected militants — including American citizens. Explanations about who gets picked for remote-control death and who does the picking are left to underlings and aides. Just a few days ago, for example, Obama blew off a local Cincinnati […] September 8th, 2012 | Tags: "kill list", CNN, Council on Foreign Relations, drones, due process, Jessica Yellin, Yemen | Category: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Media accountability, Pakistan, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Mark Egan and Michelle Nichols Reuters 10/13/2011 Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the group that started it all may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world’s richest men. There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has […] October 13th, 2011 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', "Occupy Wall Street", Adbusters, bailouts, Council on Foreign Relations, Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Kalle Lasn, Kickstarter, Michael Moore, Open Society Institute, Tides Foundation | Category: Banking and finance, Canada, Communism, Entitlements, George Soros, Marxism, New York, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, TARP, TIDES | Comments are closed
Ben Johnson Floyd Reports 4/15/2011 The Justice Department has decided: it is perfectly acceptable for the president to send American troops into foreign military adventures without so much as consulting Congress, as long as he is carrying out the will of the United Nations. Just before Barack Obama’s speech on the budget on Wednesday, the […] April 15th, 2011 | Tags: Council on Foreign Relations, Libya, NATO, Office of Legal Counsel, war | Category: Africa, Barack Obama, Congress, Department of Justice, Middle East, Military, United Nations, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Emily Flitter Reuters 3/9/2011 (Reuters) – When it comes to protecting consumers, American politicians in China don’t always practice what they preach, unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables show. In 2007, two U.S. Congressmen privately admonished a Chinese official about the sudden spike in potentially harmful Made-in-China products being shipped around the world, according to a cable […] March 10th, 2011 | Tags: Baxter Health Care, Council on Foreign Relations, product safety, Rep. Mark Kirk, Rep. Rick Larsen, trade | Category: China, Economy, United States | Comments are closed
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