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Susan Rice
Former Assistant Secretary of Sate Susan Rice, who served on Bill Clinton's National Security Council, is a potential candidate for the post of ambassador to the U.N. or as a deputy national security advisor. She, too, promoted the myth that Saddam had WMDs. "It's clear that Iraq poses a major threat," she said in 2002. "It's clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully, and that's the path we're on." (After the invasion, discussing Saddam's alleged possession of WMDs, she said, "I don't think many informed people doubted that.")
Rice has also been a passionate advocate for a U.S. military attack against Sudan over the Darfur crisis. In an op-ed co-authored with Anthony Lake, she wrote, "The United States, preferably with NATO involvement and African political support, would strike Sudanese airfields, aircraft and other military assets. It could blockade Port Sudan, through which Sudan's oil exports flow. Then U.N. troops would deploy -- by force, if necessary, with U.S. and NATO backing."
Barack Obama campaigned on a pledge to bring change to Washington
"I don't want to just end the war," he said early this year. "I want to end the mindset that got us into war." That is going to be very difficult if Obama employs a foreign policy team that was central to creating that mindset, before and during the presidency of George W. Bush.
"Twenty-three senators and 133 House members who voted against the war -- and countless other notable individuals who spoke out against it and the dubious claims leading to war -- are apparently not even being considered for these crucial positions," observes Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy. This includes dozens of former military and intelligence officials who spoke out forcefully against the war and continue to oppose militaristic policy, as well as credible national security experts who have articulated their visions for a foreign policy based on justice.
Obama does have a chance to change the mindset that got us into war. More significantly, he has a popular mandate to forcefully challenge the militaristic, hawkish tradition of modern U.S. foreign policy. But that work would begin by bringing on board people who would challenge this tradition, not those who have been complicit in creating it and are bound to continue advancing it.
From Democracy Now!
Women’s Health Advocates Praise Obama for Lifting Global Gag Rule
The Global Gag Rule was seen by many as a major global barrier to access to crucial women’s health services...
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/27/womens_health_adv...a_for
AMY GOODMAN: And when Barack Obama was inaugurated, what happened in Kenya? Were there celebrations?
DR. SARAH ONYANGO: There were lots of celebrations. For us in Kenya, Kenyans see Barack Obama as one of us, you know? He’s really considered a son of this country. And so, it was a great thing. We started celebrating on the 4th of November, straight after the elections. And this week of the inauguration in the United States, there were many functions that were in front of the birthplace in western Kenya. There were many celebrations in the big city of Kisumu in western Kenya. And I think it’s been an opportunity for Kenyans. Kenyans see that change is possible, and it’s possible to have a fair and open election. You know, these are significant social and political issues just raised by the fact that Obama was elected president of the United States...
(SARAH ONYANGO has the same name as Obama´s Kenyan grandmother, but is not a relation)
Telegraph - Kenya declares national holiday in celebration of Barack Obama's presidential victory
The election of America's first black president, Barack Obama, has a special resonance in Africa – the home continent of his father.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/....html
Guardian: Barack Obama's Kenyan family celebrate victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/barackobama...kenya
National Holiday In Kenya To Celebrate President Obama's Victory (NBC coverage of when Obama won)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzkegVdO5C8
Barack Obama Celebration in Kenya (expresses the Kenyan feeling very well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89cf7NxHBc
Women’s Health Advocates Praise Obama for Lifting Gag Rule
"Kenyans see Barack Obama as one of us"
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Visions of change
By Eleanor Smeal, publisher, Ms. magazine
http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2009/VisionOfChange.asp
from Democracy Now!:
Ms. Magazine On Barack Obama: “This is What A Feminist Looks Like”
It’s not surprising to see President Obama gracing the cover of a magazine, except perhaps in one case. The latest issue of Ms. Magazine features an illustration of President Obama tearing open his dress shirt and tie to reveal a t-shirt reading “This is what a feminist looks like.” Obama is the first male to appear on the cover in over a decade. Critics have questioned the decision to put Obama on the cover, especially at so early a stage in his presidency.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/27/ms_magazine_on_ba..._this
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Visions of change
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Firstly Redjade, thanks for setting up this thread, always appreciate your ability to dig stuff out, as ever you provide excellent resource...
Regarding Obamas energy and environment policy: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/energy_and_environment/
New Energy for America plan will:
meanwhile...
Obama Lifts Abortion “Global Gag Rule”
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/26/headlines#2
Iirsh Times: Obama lifts ban on funding for abortion information, Saturday, January 24, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0124/...5.htm
RTE: Vatican critical of Obama abortion ruling
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0125/vatican.html
President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said Sunday.
The directive makes good on an Obama campaign pledge and signifies a sharp reversal of Bush administration policy.
• more at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/us/politics/26calif.html
Sung by the 80-something Pete Seeger!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
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Quote: 'Barack Obama supports tough and direct diplomacy with Iran without preconditions'
I made a screen shot and dated it January 23 2009 - in case this policy changes.
Now, we have to find out what 'tough and direct diplomacy' means in reality.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/foreign_policy/
I did a search on the whitehouse.gov website and, so far, I couldn't find an Obama position regarding Cuba.
'diplomacy with Iran without preconditions'
In the past Obama has said is supportive and open to Medical Marijuana state laws...
'Focusing scarce law enforcement resources on these patients who pose no threat while many violent and highly dangerous drug traffickers are at large makes no sense.'
• http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2008/nov/06/wi...marij
but today, three days after the inauguration, the Ghosts of Bushism are alive and well - sabotaging the new president....
• read more and discussion at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/23/45131/7071/553/...87966
'President Barack Obama on Thursday signed several executive orders that alter the Central Intelligence Agency's protocol for detaining suspects and interrogating them.
The move also ends the practice of secret CIA prisons -- but an Obama spokesman told the New York Times that this won't prevent the CIA from capturing suspects and holding them in temporary detention -- leaving CIA policy slightly open-ended.'
• more at http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_alter_CIA_interr....html