Article Contents
- 1. HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
- 1.1 Habeas corpus
- 1.2 Closing Guantánamo Bay
- 1.3 Military tribunals
- 1.4 Extraordinary renditions
- 1.5 Torture
- 1.6 Assassination of U.S. citizens
- 1.7 The U.S. PATRIOT Act
- 1.8 Warrantless wiretapping
- 1.9 Immigrant rights
- 2. THE WARS, MILITARISM, THE ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD
- 2.1 Militarism
- 2.2 Iraq
- 2.3 Afghanistan
- 2.4 Drone attacks
- 2.5 Popularity in Arab and Muslim countries
- 2.6 Pro-democracy uprisings
- 2.7 Attack on Libya
- 2.8 War on Drugs
- 3. CORPORATIONS, SPECIAL INTERESTS, AND ECONOMIC POLICY
- 3.1 Election funding
- 3.2 The bank bailout, the foreclosure crisis, and financial reform
- 3.3 The health care bill, insurance companies, and big pharma
- 3.4 Social Security
- 3.5 Bush tax cuts and corporate taxes
- 3.6 Free trade agreements
- 4. SECRECY VS. TRANSPARENCY
- 4.1 The state secrets privilege
- 4.2 Whistleblowers and journalists
- 5. THE ENVIRONMENT
- 5.1 Global warming
- 5.2 Offshore drilling
- 5.3 Nuclear power
- 5.4 Ground-level ozone limits
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Obama pushes forward with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, another corporate-authored free trade deal
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Over two years after Obama’s stated withdrawal date, no end in sight for the war in Afghanistan
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By waiving the Child Soldiers Prevention Act each year, Obama has made the law null and void
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Guantánamo hunger strikes
Most of hunger-striking inmates at GITMO have been cleared for release but remain detained indefinitely. American Medical Association and Red Cross protest force-feeding by tube. Read more under 1.2 Closing Guantánamo Bay
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Leaks by Edward Snowden confirm en mass domestic and international surveillance by the NSA under Obama
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Violence surges as Obama’s second term marks the tenth anniversary of Iraq’s occupation
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NYT: Obama personally in charge of CIA’s secret “kill list”
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Obama administration: “The ‘existence or nonexistence’ of the drone campaign is a ‘state secret’ “
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