Tag: Obama administration

AFRICANGLOBE - As a parting gift to white supremacy, outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama put beyond any doubt his abhorrence for President Robert Mugabe's government last Friday when his outgoing administration extended its sanctions against Zimbabwe by another year. Zimbabwe's foreign-funded opposition welcomed the development but a Zanu PF minister scorned the move, describing it as inconsequential from an Obama government nearing its end.

AFRICANGLOBE - Fake news and propaganda driven by government’s and corporations is of course, nothing new. The political elite want to crack down on what they view is fake news — which essentially amounts to pretty much anything that they disagree with or what doesn’t fit with their own world view and the outcomes desired. Long, hard, fought-for civil liberties and rights, along with free expression will be handed to organisations, approved by government who are convinced we shouldn’t have those rights in the first place.

AFRICANGLOBE - President Barack Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli planes in 2014 if they were sent to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, according to reports attributed to a Kuwaiti newspaper.

AFRICANGLOBE - A new poll has shown that 59 percent of the American people are somehow disappointed or very disappointed in Barack Obama’s presidency.

AFRICANGLOBE - There is one reason why the Obama Administration hasn’t attempted to stop or even condemn the coup in Egypt. Morsi’s removal may well empower forces that are more friendly to the U.S. than the Muslim Brotherhood

AFRICANGLOBE - In a statement issued Thursday, the Obama administration has declared that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has violated “international norms” by using chemical weapons on multiple occasions over the past year.

AFRICANGLOBE - The Justice Department's investigation and surveillance of the Associated Press and Fox News have led to perhaps the most sustained wave of criticism for the Obama administration's media policies since the president took office.

When asked about policy for African Americans, the president has said, "I'm not the president of Black America. I'm the president of all America." An examination of the Obama administration's policy record toward Black people clearly bears this out. An examination of the Obama administration's rhetoric, as directed at black people, tells us something different.

AFRICANGLOBE - The Obama administration is close to announcing its support for a law that would force Google, Facebook and other Internet communications companies to build back doors for government wiretaps, according to an article in theNew York Times Wednesday.

AFRICANGLOBE - Barack Obama's second term may witness an American pivot towards Africa -- and not for the reasons you might have expected.As the president of the United States publicly takes the oath of office for the second time, it is understandable why, in stark contrast to four years ago

As of Saturday November 10, 2012, 15 States have petitioned the Obama Administration to secede from the United States of America in order to create...

The poverty report released Wednesday by the US Census Bureau is another shattering refutation of the Obama Administration’s claims to be overseeing an economic...

AFRICANGLOBE - People have resorted to eating straw and bugs because there is no other food in the Nuba mountains. The condition of the people arriving at the Yida refugee camp points to a serious shortage of food in the Nuba mountains.

As the largest world economy and manipulator of world financial and economic system, US default would have had a huge impact on the American economy as well as on the world economy and financial system.