By Denis Campbell
In three months the UK will contest a general election. Wow! Can you feel the tension build… Zzzzzzzz.
Three months out from November of 2008, US candidate Barack Obama spoke before 85,000 people at the Democratic National Convention’s outdoor football stadium. Here? The three parties reluctantly and finally agreed to their set of televised [...]

by Robert Reich
Washington is paralyzed by snow and partisanship. Nothing is getting done – even as the Great Recession pulls more Americans into its maw.
In the midst of this paralysis, the President was asked about the giant pay packages of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co. ($17 mullion for 2009) and Lloyd [...]

by Denis Campbell
Welcome to the toughest 1st year in the loneliest job in the world. Good that you have a dog and you’re not in Kansas anymore Mr. President. You approached the utter disaster left by the previous occupant with a determination, grit, grace and pragmatism that has long been missing.
Now sir you have to [...]

One year on from inauguration and month on from Copenhagen what has happened to our hope that the US would finally act on climate justice?
by Iestyn Davies
Anniversaries come and go.  But none have passed with greater significance to those of us concerned with climate justice than Obama’s first year in office.  In this policy field [...]

No matter where you turn the next week there will be a non-stop string of talking heads bloviating about President Obama’s 1st year. I’ll be joining the gaggle for BBC and IRC (International Radio China).
If you are on the right he was a complete disaster, the worst ever. If you are on the far left [...]

by Charley James
Anyone who’s been to Afghanistan knows that its eastern mountains bordering Pakistan are filled with countless box canyons from which the only way out is the same way you came in. They’re deadly – Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in this nightmarish geography – because it’s easy for insurgents to rain [...]

by Robert Reich
President Obama says he wants to “rebalance” the economic relationship between China and the U.S. as part of his plan to restart the American jobs machine. “We cannot go back,” he said in September, “to an era where the Chinese . . . just are selling everything to us, we’re taking out a [...]

by Anthony Asadullah Samad
One year ago, the United States witnessed the people take its government back from ideological tyranny, greed, and anti-intellectualism. The election of President Barack Obama was a worldwide event — a signal to the world that America, at last, had overcome it’s last taboo (at least publicly), race. Graveyards all over America [...]

Crosses the Line on 3 Continents and Gets Burned?
by Denis Campbell
It’s not been a good week for Rupert Murdoch. 1st he was caught in an interview by his son’s flagship Aussie broadcast network calling President Obama a racist and denying that FOX News’ Glenn Beck compared Obama to Stalin.
Then his flagship London tabloid The Sun [...]

What a Difference a Year Makes.  Dignity, anger and grace fused as he tries to explain the unexplainable. Would that the world be able to see all of America and Americans in this new light.