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Dec 27, 2011 · Obama and The Empire. Paperback – December 27, 2011. Fidel Castro, one of the chief protagonists of the Cold War and Washington's traditional foe, casts a critical eye over the significance of Barack Obama's election and his performance in his first term of office.
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Nov 1, 2010 · Book about great hopes Castro’s regime had in Obama, as well as the rest of the world, but it describes how Obama became just another politician with no real capacity to make changes in the world.
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May 18, 2022 · How the National’s ‘Fake Empire’ Helped Elect Obama. In this exclusive book excerpt, a melancholy album opener becomes a theme song for one of the most thrilling political campaigns in U.S. history. May 18, 2022 by Ryan Pinkard.
Obama and the Empire. Fidel Castro, one of the chief protagonists of the Cold War and Washington's traditional foe, casts a critical eye over the significance of Barack Obama's...
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With less than nine months left in his term, President Obama must be thinking about how his presidency will be assessed by history. The 44th president had an unusually ambitious agenda upon taking office, but economic and political realities forced him to put aside some goals and compromise on others. Mr. Obama himself, in a 2015 interview with Mar...
A poll by National Public Radio this February found that perceptions of the law are mixed, with only 35 percent saying it has directly helped the people of their state and 27 percent saying it has hurt people. Still, by many measures the law has been a success, with 20 million more Americans now insured, the uninsured rate dropping from 20 percent ...
2. The 2009 economic stimulus package. Mr. Obamas first order of business was to deal with the economic crash of 2008, and he did it by reaffirming Keynesian economics and turning away from the government is the problem mantra made popular by President Ronald Reagan. He proposed new federal spending on infrastructure and health programs, as well as...
Many Democrats wanted a much larger stimulus, but conservatives argued that any deficit spending would only worsen long-term economic security, and a $787 billion package passed with only three Republican votes in the Senate and zero Republican votes in the House. Five years after its passage, the White House estimated that the stimulus added six m...
4. The Dodd-Frank Act. Mr. Obama proposed reforms to the finance industry in 2009; the following year, Congress passed and he signed this legislation. It creates multiple agencies to monitor financial markets, regulate hedge funds and intervene to avoid a repeat of the 2008 crisisfor example, by dissolving large banks without government bailouts. B...
Because of its complexity, the effectiveness of the Dodd-Frank Act is hard to measure and something of a moving target. Adam Davidson of the New York Times Magazine wrote last year that the finance industry has used hundreds of meetings with banking regulators, along with lawsuits over every tiny detail of Dodd-Frank to change the letter of the law...
5. Tax and budget compromises. In 2010, the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, ending any hope of a second economic stimulus package and forcing Mr. Obama to govern according to smaller-government principles. In December, he agreed to a compromise that extended by two years the income tax cuts signed into law in 2001 by Presid...
In 2011, Republicans demanded deep cuts in government spending as a condition for raising the federal governments debt ceiling. Mr. Obama signed the Budget Control Act, which mandated a sequester, or across-the-board cuts, of $1.2 trillion in domestic and defense spending over nine years, unless or until the passage of a deficit-reduction package t...
8. The appointment of (at least) two Supreme Court justices. Mr. Obama has named two members of the nine-person Supreme Court; Republican leaders in the Senate are determined not to let him name a third, despite the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February. In 2009, Mr. Obama nominated the federal appeals court judge Sonia ...
Aug 2, 2023 · So if Obama is the first U.S. president from the periphery of empire, he’s also the first president from the billionaire-foundation-NGO complex, which makes him the perfect mediating figure ...
Obama is the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, [a] and the first president born in Hawaii. Obama was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2016 presidential election.
