A selection of articles peeling back the carefully constructed image of Obama, his Cabinet and the campaign leading to his presidency.
Aug. 9 The Health Care Debate Has Only Just Begun
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren't Fighting For Health Care For Everybody
New Low for Obama on Gay Rights
Nuance Is Fine Until It's a Flip-Flop
5/21 Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney
May 16: James Petras: Obama's Animal Farm
May 15: Health care's enigma in chief
May 15: Obama: Keep Military Tribunals
May 8: On Obama's Watch: More Gays Kicked Out of Military
April 21: NAFTA to Stay: Obama
April 15: Forgive and Forget Torture
April 10: Obama Vows Slow Action on Global Warming
April 10: President asks billions for war
Obama surrenders on military spending
April 9: Obama: $75 Billion More in War Spending?
April 8: Obama Administration Quietly Expands Bush's Legal Defense of Warrantless Wiretapping
April 8: Ten Principles for a Black Swan-Proof World
April 7: Obama’s Domestic AIDS Proposal Disappoints
April 5: Billionaire Buffett benefits from bailout he promoted
April 4: Obama Finds That Washington’s Habits of Secrecy Die Hard
March 25: Obama: Hypocrite on Health Care, Hater on Single Payer
March 4, Wall Street's Best Investment
March 2, McKinney: Ruminations on President Obama's Tenure Thus Far and "Acceptable Punditry"
Feb. 25 Stiglitz: Obama Has Confused Saving Banks with Saving Bankers
Feb. 21 Obama and Nationalization
Feb. 18 Obama's "Entitlement Reform"
Feb. 17 Wall Street's Disaster Has Spawned Our Greatest Terrorist Threat
Feb. 17 Obama's Bush's War on Terror
Feb. 11 William Greider on the Dems Money Question
Feb. 11 Mass Action to Nationalize Banks! William Engdahl
Feb. 4 Obama’s Crusade to Save the Banksters
Feb. 4 Freedom Rider: Economic Crisis Worsens
Feb. 3 Well, That Certainly Didn’t Take Long
Feb. 2 Obama to Continute Secret Jails
Jan. 23 Economist Krugman on Obama's Inaguration
Jan. 19 Black Caucus Abandons King Legacy and Black Opinion, Votes For War on Gaza
Jan. 17 Obama sells out to Wall Street
Jan. 10 New York Times: Delays to Obama’s Campaign Pledges
Jan. 9 Obama's NeoCon: Dennis Ross
Jan. 2 Obama's Deadly Silience
Dec. 26 More on Arne Arne Duncan, Education Nominee
Dec. 21 Obama's Betrayal of Education?
Dec. 20 Glen Ford: Was the election of Barack Obama good for Black people? No.
Dec. 10. Obama’s ‘Center-Right’ Presidency: The Die is Cast
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
Dec. 5. Obama's Econonic Dream Team
Stephen Lendman, Z.net
Dec. 2. Obama AG pick defended Guantanamo policy
Dec. 1 Barack Obama's Kettle of Hawks,
Jeremy Scahill, The Guardian UK
Nov. 30 Right Wingers Love Obama's Picks
Nov. 26 Obama and Latin America: What He Really Promises
Nov. 25 Obama’s OMB Head Would Cut Social Security
Nov. 25 Robert Gate retained as Secretary of State (Surge in Iraq, soon surge in Afghanistan)
Nov. 22 Hillary Clinton appointed Secty of State (so much for Change)
Nov. 21 Obama Don't Ask Don't Tell (Continuing Clinton's policy)
Nov. 21 Wall Street Cheers as Geithner named as Treasury Chief (can labor cheer as well?)
March 9 The Emerging Healthcare Sell-Out
Shamus Cooke
March 2 The Big Lie of Recession Politics: Shared Sacrifice
Shamus Cooke
Feb. 12 Obama's Bank Bailout: Bush's Plan Resurrected
Shamus Cooke
Feb. 5 Will Obama Start the Next Trade War?
Shamus Cooke
Feb. 3 Obama's Campaign Promises and the Laws of Capitalism
Ann Robertson
Jan. 21 Why Bailing Out Banks Doesn't Work
Shamus Cooke