Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with obama www.salem-news.com 2013 Students everywhere are special people and this observer has discovered that Syrian students are among the very best. Meeting and interviewing students again this past week, before and following, a frank and enlightening discussion with Dr. Mohammad Amer Al-Mardini, the indefatigable President of Damascus University... http://salem-news.com/articles/march082013/syria-obama-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082013/syria-obama-fl.php Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:10:00 PST Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel assumed command of the Pentagon this week. Hagel was sworn in after an extended and contentious encounter with neocon, petulant Republican senators, each in his or her own way, determined to damage both the nominee and President Obama. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012013/hagel-finally-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012013/hagel-finally-jw.php Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:24:00 PST On 3/26/2013 Iran is expected to meet other world powers in Astana, Kazakhstan to discuss its nuclear program. Discussions that the occupiers of Palestine fervently hope will not be successful. It is toward this end that their key demand this week to the US Congress... http://salem-news.com/articles/february262013/israel-obama-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262013/israel-obama-fl.php Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:59:00 PST A senior Taliban leader was arrested Sunday morning in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. ISAF said Afghan and coalition forces say the senior Taliban leader and three other insurgents were in Khugyani district. http://salem-news.com/articles/february242013/taliban-captured.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february242013/taliban-captured.php Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:46:00 PST The doings in the US Senate over the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense are illustrative of many things, not all of which are what they seem to be at first glance. We have a few days now before this plays out, and therefore an opportunity to reflect on the dynamics at work here. http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/hagel-delays-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/hagel-delays-as.php Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:37:00 PST The new round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers including the US, Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany, are less than 10 days away. Western countries say the most important demand of the P5+1 from Iran is to close down its nuclear facility at Fordow in return for lifting of certain sanctions against Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/iran-talks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/iran-talks.php Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:39:00 PST The agreement Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid (NV) thought he had reached with Republican leader Mitch McConnell (KY), died a slow, angry and ugly death Thursday. When this new Senate held its first session in January, younger and more progressive Democratic members of the Senate wanted Harry Reid to take advantage of having a Democratic majority. http://salem-news.com/articles/february142013/hagel-delayed-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february142013/hagel-delayed-jw.php Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:21:00 PST M23 rebels and Congolese army soldiers raped scores of women and committed other war crimes during the rebels’ occupation of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The killings and rape by M23 and government forces around Goma are rarely punished. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102013/congo-goma.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102013/congo-goma.php Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:49:00 PST Americans and their European poodles coiffeured red white and blue in American power salons are unlawfully targeting, and killing from afar, suspected militants innocent bystanders, and helpers, labelled “collateral damage,” whilst avoiding more politically toxic body bags containing returning American “heroes” to military bases and more lachrymose wailing from American politicians. Today, this day, men and women with “games console mentality” can kill your brothers and sisters and mine, by pressing a button caressed by their dutiful hands in America, for a drone strike against suspected militants and thereby international law... http://salem-news.com/articles/february052013/manifest-destiny-ch.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052013/manifest-destiny-ch.php Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:11:00 PST This weekend, the nation’s foreign policy is in the pious hands of Christian fundamentalist Texas preacher John Hagee. Hagee is not the only policy-shaker whose minions are roaming halls of the nation’s capitol. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022013/hagel-cufi-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022013/hagel-cufi-jw.php Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:44:00 PST She participated in the inaugural festivities in Washington, D.C., 15 years old, King College Prep Marching Band, she would see, President Barrack Obama & history in the making for a 2nd time, Back home in Chicago, dismissed from school early, all was fine. Finished with her exams, huddled under a canopy, avoiding rain, A local park, 2:30 P.M. with a dozen others, then the shots came, As a lone gunman jumped a fence then opened fire in the crowd, And like the aftermath at Sandy Hook, parents weeping out loud. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/girl-shot-obama-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/girl-shot-obama-le.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:44:00 PST President Obama and the first lady are praying for the family of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year old girl who was killed just a few days after performing at President Obama”s inauguration. Even sadder was that the young girl died less than a mile from the president’s house. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/hadiya-pendleton.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/hadiya-pendleton.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:23:00 PST On the heels of an immigration reform framework released yesterday by a bipartisan group of United States Senators, today President Obama released his own vision for an overhaul to the nation’s broken immigration system. During a speech in Las Vegas today, the President laid out his immigration reform proposal in four parts. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/causa-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/causa-reax.php Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:09:00 PST Greenlining Institute Executive Director Orson Aguilar issued the following statement in response to new immigration reform efforts announced this week: "We are heartened that Congress and the president are addressing comprehensive immigration reform, something that’s long overdue..." http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/immigratin-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/immigratin-reax.php Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:24:00 PST America’s immigration system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers and there are 11 million people living in the shadows. Neither is good for the economy or the country. It is time to act to fix the broken immigration system in a way that requires responsibility from everyone —both from the workers here illegally and those who hire them—and guarantees that everyone is playing by the same rules. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/immigration-rules.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/immigration-rules.php Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:16:00 PST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much. It is good to be back in Las Vegas! And it is good to be among so many good friends. Let me start off by thanking everybody at Del Sol High School for hosting us. (Applause.) Go Dragons! Let me especially thank your outstanding principal, Lisa Primas. (Applause.) http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/obama-immig-speech.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/obama-immig-speech.php Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:14:00 PST I'm not buying it. Not for one second. I do not believe that the government is going to start seizing legally owned guns from it's citizens. And furthermore, I do not believe that the government believes it either. The only thing they would gain would be civil war, and I think they know that they would lose that fight. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/gunsmoke-mirrors-vp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/gunsmoke-mirrors-vp.php Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:41:00 PST In the merry month of May, a brace of headlines twitterpated the financial world, one out of romantic Italy, the other on the Street of Dreams. Both deal with the venerable bank/dealer/trader/broker with the curious amalgam of the oldest family escutcheon on Wall Street... http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/jp-morgan-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292013/jp-morgan-ba.php Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:55:00 PST Now that some of the emotionalism has faded from the Sandy Hook school disaster we should reflect on its cause. Is it surprising that someone would walk into a school and kill innocent children? Not really. It should be expected. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242013/handling-truth-jc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242013/handling-truth-jc.php Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:51:00 PST What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” http://salem-news.com/articles/january212013/obama-inaugurated.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january212013/obama-inaugurated.php Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:04:00 PST One powerful image from Damascus that has become seared into this observers mind these days is when I walk by a Western Union office. Most of them remain open despite the brutal US-led sanctions which in their pervasive effects target almost entirely the civilian population. But all Western Union offices were closed last Thursday and Friday due to heavy snowfall, some say the deepest here for more than a quarter century. Still, some Syrians braved the extreme cold and could be seen huddled outside some branches, evidently in vain hope that they might open and their families might eat. http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/syria-situation-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/syria-situation-fl.php Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:14:00 PST Netanyahu wins the Israeli election, a given. But according to the polls, second place is a draw between the Labor Party, and the Jewish Home Party led by Naftali Bennett. http://salem-news.com/articles/january182013/naftali-bennett-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january182013/naftali-bennett-bc.php Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:48:00 PST Can President Obama change the course of U.S. Competitiveness? With inauguration day around the corner, let’s look at what has happened in recent years. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/us-competitivenesssr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/us-competitivenesssr.php Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:32:00 PST Deaths in one year from rape victims, who commit suicide, Are more than there are from school shootings, worldwide, However, The U.S. Commander-In-Chief continues to hide, The growing number of attacks in the military w/a blind eye. A photo-opt was more than he & Governor Cuomo could pass, But Oregon Sheriff Tim Mueller vows restrictions won’t last, He claims all future laws that in any way attempt to regulate, “Certain magazines and firearms” he will not dare to violate. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/gun-laws-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/gun-laws-le.php Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:39:00 PST In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, commonly known as FISA. It provided that all domestic surveillance be subject to the search warrant requirements of the Fourth Amendment, except for spying on foreign agents operating in the U.S. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/fisa-nat-sec-ab.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/fisa-nat-sec-ab.php Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:33:00 PST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Before I begin today, let me say to the families of the innocents who were murdered 33 days ago, our heart goes out to you. And you show incredible courage -- incredible courage -- being here. And the President and I are going to do everything in our power to honor the memory of your children and your wives with the work we take up here today. http://salem-news.com/articles/january162013/pres-gun-release.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162013/pres-gun-release.php Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:41:00 PST Linn County's Sheriff is taking a stand against his own country. He says he will defy federal gun laws if they change in a way that he disagrees with. http://salem-news.com/articles/january152013/tim-mueller-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january152013/tim-mueller-tk.php Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:27:00 PST THE PRESIDENT: Please have a seat, everybody. Good morning. I thought it might make sense to take some questions this week, as my first term comes to an end. It’s been a busy and productive four years. And I expect the same for the next four years. I intend to carry out the agenda that I campaigned on -- an agenda for new jobs, new opportunity, and new security for the middle class. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142013/obama-presser.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142013/obama-presser.php Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:02:00 PST Moscow is strengthening its military. Russia seeks to underscore its influence over the region it intends to encompass in its customs-free Eurasian Union. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/russian-message-fmm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/russian-message-fmm.php Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:27:00 PST Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has vowed to leave the presidential office at the end of his second term in 2014, and allow a successor to be elected. Karzai, who has led the U.S.-backed Afghan government for more than a decade, made the pledge January 11 in Washington at a joint news conference with President Barack Obama. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/karzai-calls.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/karzai-calls.php Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:02:00 PST