More on Barack Obama
Obama administration to seek extension of Patriot Act spy powers
By Patrick Martin, September 17, 2009
In a letter from the Justice Department to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Obama administration has gone on record for the first time supporting the extension of key provisions the USA Patriot Act...
Israel: Mitchell’s diplomacy stalls over settlement freeze
By Chris Marsden, September 17, 2009
The expansionist actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expose claims that the Obama administration will be a neutral arbiter toward the Palestinians.
US-China trade tensions sharply escalate
By John Chan, September 16, 2009
In a move that threatens to trigger a major trade conflict, US President Barack Obama last Friday signed an order to impose a 35 percent tariff on Chinese-made tyre imports over the next three years.
Obama turns to AFL-CIO to defend health care cuts
By Jerry White, September 16, 2009
In appearances at a GM plant in Ohio and the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, Obama turned to the labor bureaucracy to defend his health care plan against growing popular opposition.
Obama advisor champions rationed health care
By Kate Randall, September 15, 2009
Ezekiel Emanuel has been placed in a strategic position to influence the Obama administration’s overhaul of the health care system based on private profit and the delivery of class-based, rationed c...
One year after the financial crash
Obama goes cap in hand to Wall Street
By Barry Grey, September 15, 2009
On the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Barack Obama came to Wall Street Monday to plead with the bankers not to block his proposals for marginal changes in financial regulati...
Letters on the Obama administration and healthcare
September 15, 2009
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site on the Obama administration’s healthcare “overhaul”
Right-wing march in Washington against Obama health care plan
By Joe Kishore and Barry Grey, September 14, 2009
Right-wing groups organized a demonstration in Washington to denounce the Obama administration, with particular focus on the proposed health care overhaul outlined in the president’s speech before C...
Threat of US-led sanctions against Iran
By Peter Symonds, September 14, 2009
The Obama administration warned last month that the US would press for tough new sanctions against Tehran unless it responded positively to an offer for negotiations on the nuclear issue by the end of...
Obama on Labor Day: Hollow promises of economic recovery
By Patrick Martin, September 8, 2009
Speaking to an AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Barack Obama declared that the US economy is “moving in the right direction” despite the ongoing destruction of working class...
The dismissal of Van Jones
By Joe Kishore, September 7, 2009
Responding to pressure from the extreme right over his aide’s previously held oppositional views, Obama dismissed “environmental jobs czar” Van Jones.
In run-up to address to Congress
Obama administration seeks right-wing consensus on health care
By Alex Lantier, September 7, 2009
By signaling its willingness to drop a “public option” for health coverage, the Obama administration is appealing to right-wing support for its reactionary health care agenda.
