Speaking to the RBK television channel in a video published on Friday, Lavrov adopted a phrase used by former US president Barack Obama in his 2015 State of the Union address when he falsely described the Russian economy as falling apart. “As former US president Barack Obama once said about …
Read More »‘We the People’ gone and no one noticed: Biden removes Obama-era petition tool to thunderous media silence
All links to ‘We the People,’ the petition page launched out by the Obama administration in 2011, now redirect to the main White House website. Neither the ‘Contact’ nor ‘Get Involved’ links, which used to lead to it, do so anymore. Apparently, this has been the case since January 20, …
Read More »Why Biden installing Obama-era hawks in senior roles and preparing to fire up the War Machine again is very bad news for Syrians
Just days before Biden’s inauguration, there were conflictingreports of US military build-up in oil-rich northeast Syria. Whatever happened in the run-up to the change of power in Washington, it is a fact that this area was already occupied and plundered by US Coalition forces and their Kurdish separatist proxies. Some …
Read More »Biden’s relief plan looks good for progressives but if he goes back to the wimpy politics of the Obama era it will never happen
US President-elect Joe Biden recently unveiled a new COVID-19 relief proposal as his Democratic Party prepares to take control of both houses of Congress. The proposal, called the American Rescue Plan, will provide much-needed direct payments to Americans, extend federally enhanced unemployment insurance, double the federal minimum wage and establish …
Read More »‘America is back’: Biden fills State Department slots with more Obama vets, including Ukraine ‘coup plotter’ Victoria Nuland
“These leaders are trusted at home and respected around the world, and their nominations signal that America is back and ready to lead the world, not retreat from it,”Biden said on Saturday in a statement announcing his picks to fill top positions under his nominee for secretary of state, Anthony …
Read More »Biden ‘should pick OBAMA AS AG,’ paving the way for him to ascend later to Supreme Court justice, former White House lawyer says
Appointing Obama as the nation’s top law enforcement official would help reassure voters rattled by the polarized US political system that President-elect Biden will govern in the national interest, said Douglas Kmiec, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Kmiec, who also …
Read More »Trump unseats Obama as US’ ‘Most Admired Man’ & Michelle Obama earns ‘Most Admired Woman’
Eighteen percent of respondents to the survey, released Tuesday, named President Trump as their most admired man, while Obama’s support dropped to 15 percent. Despite his presidential victory and inauguration day looming, Biden garnered only six percent support. Also making the top 10 were Dr. Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, Elon …
Read More »Top economic policy voice under Obama & Clinton says $2,000 stimulus checks could OVERHEAT economy… and even $600 is too much
“I’m not even sure I’m so enthusiastic about the $600 checks, and I think taking them to $2,000 would actually be a pretty serious mistake that would risk a temporary overheat,” Summers said Thursday in a Bloomberg TV interview. The former Harvard University president added that he would like to …
Read More »Like Obama, like Trump: Biden embraces Goldman Sachs bankers after Electoral College win
Ex-Goldman banker Eric Goldstein, who worked on the investment bank’s Merchant Banking division for nearly two decades, will join Biden’s Homeland Security Review Team, Politico revealed on Monday. His erstwhile colleague Monica Maher – currently vice president of cyber threat intelligence at Goldman Sachs – has been appointed to the …
Read More »Obama-era hawk Samantha Power reportedly tapped as US foreign aid body head. Critics ask: Libya, Syria & Yemen legacy, anyone?
If she gets to be the next heard of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Power would “signal the Biden administration plans to revitalize foreign assistance and use it as an instrument of soft power and to achieve humanitarian goals”, according to the Axios news website, which reported her …
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