The long and drawn out 2012 presidential election is finally over and President Barack Obama was reelected. Shortly after he was reelected, Obama launched another drone strike in Yemen — a harbinger of what’s to come in his second term. It is worth going through Obama’s foreign policy during the past four years in order to assess what he’s done and understand what the future holds.
Tag Archives: 2012 presidential election
Obama’s first-term record of militarism
Posted by Adam Hudson on November 12, 2012 in Afghanistan, Africa, Asia, Drones/Drone warfare, Empire/Hegemony, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations, Iraq, Irregular warfare & covert operations, Middle East & North Africa, Military-industrial complex, war economy, & war profiteering, Pakistan, Somalia, Targeted killing, War & Peace, Yemen
Tags: 2012 election, 2012 presidential election, Afghanistan, Africa, Barack Obama, China, disposition matrix, drone warfare, drones, empire, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kill List, Libya, Obama, Pakistan, proxy war, Somalia, targeted killing, War, War on Terror, Yemen
The $1 trillion national security budget
With high unemployment, massive poverty, inequality, and a weak economic recovery, the economy is obviously the number-one issue in public consciousness. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney continue to trade barbs on the presidential campaign trail. Romney accuses Obama of being “anti-business”, while Obama criticizes Romney’s record with Bain Capital, Romney’s private equity firm that was involved in outsourcing American jobs overseas. Amidst this cacophony of superficial babble and quacking from two politicians backed by multinational corporations and Wall Street, one fact is conveniently left out of the discussion — the $1 trillion national security budget.
Posted by Adam Hudson on July 29, 2012 in Economy, Empire/Hegemony, Inequality, International Relations, Irregular warfare & covert operations, Military-industrial complex, war economy, & war profiteering, Poverty, War & Peace
Tags: $1 trillion, 2011 debt deal, 2012 presidential election, anti-war, Barack Obama, CIA, drones, economic injustice, economic justice, empire, global economic crisis, imperialism, militarism, military-industrial complex, Mitt Romney, national security, national security budget, unemployment, War
Third Parties Deserve A Second Look
Another piece of mine that appeared in Turnstyle News.
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In this election, like most election years, the voices of third party candidates are rarely heard. Most of the attention is focused on the two major parties running. However, considering the public’s deep dissatisfaction with the political system and Obama’s continuation of corporatist policies, third party candidates need to be heard. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Adam Hudson on February 29, 2012 in Activism & Social Change, Radical/Revolutionary Ideas
Tags: 2012 election, 2012 presidential election, Green Party, Justice Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Peta Lindsay, Rocky Anderson, Roseanne Barr, third parties