Obama, Syria And The Groupthink Trap
In 2008, when Barack Obama announced his national security team for his first term in office, he explicitly went on record as saying that he wanted to appoint a team…
Tagged: War
The Weaponization Of Human Rights
On June 5, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Samantha Power as UN Ambassador. On June 6, 2013, CounterPunch ran a profile of Power entitled “Samantha Power and the Weaponization of Human Rights”, which...
How To Fight Disaster Capitalism
I watched The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, an insightful 65-minute talk that investigative journalist and author Naomi Klein gave on May 19, 2008 in London, plus a 10-minute interview with Klein, introducing the...
