Obama

Obama

• Obama: the peacenik’s president?

  

  Don’t believe the hype, the Obama administration’s war record is bloody and shameful, argues Lindsey German

• Exit Obama: the strange death of American liberalism

  

  After eight years of Democratic rule, the American brand of liberalism that accompanied the country’s rise to global hegemony looks exhausted

• Corbyn and Obama: compare and contrast

  

  Barack Obama's comments about Jeremy Corbyn expose how out of touch with reality American liberalism is, argues Ben Myers

• This is where the work begins: on the streets against Trump

  

  Indignation and anguish against Trump from thousands of young school students, as they walk out of classes and militancy mounts

• The resistible rise of Trump

  

  Alastair Stephens examines the contradictions raging through the primary elections in the US

• Nato's dangerous game in the Balkans

  

  Dragan Plavšić examines the drivers behind Nato expansion in the Balkans and the implications for the left in the region

• Cameron knows that this is about sending ground troops

  

  For David Cameron, airstrikes are a prelude to ground troops. All out to stop the second Iraq War, argues Kevin Ovenden

• Code pink and black

  

  Medea Benjamin talks to Counterfire about the prospects of American foreign policy, the anti-war sentiment in the US, and the Black Lives Matter movement

• Obama's midterm blues

  

  The US midterm elections will be of marginal relevance to an electorate increasingly turning their backs on the status quo as a means of delivering change writes Sean Ledwith

• The making of Iraq War III

  

  Sean Ledwith investigates the history of Western involvement in Iraq that has led the US into a third war in the country