Barack Obama

Bono love-bombs mass murderer Shimon Peres

In declaring Israeli president a “gift to the world,” the singer omitted a few salient facts.

The crocodile tears of Samantha Power

America’s new ambassador to the UN only condemns human rights abuses when it’s politically expedient to do so.

How Amnesty has let down Bradley Manning

There is nothing complex about Bradley Manning’s case, so why is the world’s best known human rights group not demanding his release?

Investigate Israel's killing of US teen, rights group tells Obama

Barack Obama has maintained silence over Israel’s 2009 killing of Furkan Doğan on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara.

Weddady's Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise

Max Blumenthal
New York City
7 May 2013

A group that rose with US government and Israel lobby funding during the early stages of the Iraq war incubated the controversial new website “Free Arabs.”

Protest tents spring up across the West Bank

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
15 April 2013

New “villages” build on opposition to US support for Israeli apartheid voiced during Obama’s visit.

Book review: Rashid Khalidi shows how US got hired as Israel's lawyer

Rod Such
7 April 2013

American diplomats were so eager to please Israel that they became “more royalist than the King.”

Obama makes fun of heckler asking "who killed Rachel Corrie?"

Rabeea Eid, the Palestinian who interrupted Obama’s speech, says it’s necessary to make sure that the US presidential visit isn’t treated as something “normal.”

Waiting for Obama in Ramallah

“Don’t say these words,” the policeman almost whispered. “It’s enough that you’re looking at me with such furious emotion in your eyes, but please don’t call me a traitor.”

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