Top Tax-Payer Funded Neocon Think Tank Calls On US To Oust Putin

A prominent neocon paymaster, whose outfit dispenses $100 million in U.S. taxpayers’ money each year, has called on America to “summon the will” to remove Russian President Putin from office, reports Robert Parry.

Robert Parry
作者 Robert Parry
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The neoconservative president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy [NED] has called for the U.S. government to “summon the will” to engineer the overthrow of Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that the 10-year-old murder case of a Russian journalist should be the inspiration. Carl Gershman, who has headed NED since

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Obama Pledges To Defend Gulf States Against ‘Iranian Agression’

Iran has never expressed serious interest in attacking any of the GCC nations, and spends far less on its military than either Saudi Arabia or the UAE.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

During his visit to Saudi Arabia to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, President Obama provided the GCC member nations with a personal guarantee that the United States would defend their nations against “Iranian aggression.” The comments were intended to placate the GCC member nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, as they are all

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US: Iran Deal Won’t Mean Immediate Sanctions Relief

Iran sees US claims as contrary to framework deal and says real peace can’t be achieved unless sanctions are lifted.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz

US State Department officials today insisted that the promised sanctions relief to Iran as part of the nuclear deal is going to be phased, with most of the relief awaiting formal US verification of Iranian compliance. That is a problem for Iranian officials, who note that their requirements under the framework are not phased, and that they don’t

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Obama, Universities Move To Expand Low-Income Access To College

A child born into poverty has a 5 percent chance of making it to the top quintile without a college degree, but chances almost quadruple if that child were to go to college.

Carey L. Biron
作者 Carey L. Biron
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, file photo, U.S. Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, faces reporters(AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

WASHINGTON --- President Barack Obama is starting to fill out an initiative he announced in August to increase access to upper-level education for lower-income students, and to ensure that those from marginalized communities are best equipped to finish their schooling and obtain a degree.  Last week, the president and Michelle Obama jointly hosted

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Could Gitmo’s Closure Be On The Horizon?

The new policy will allow 160 detainees to be released in various repatriation processes in some countries but not all.

Jo Erickson
作者 Jo Erickson

Will 2014 be the year President Barack Obama finally fulfills his 2008 campaign pledge to close Guantanamo Bay prison? It appears, at least, that the notorious detention facility’s closure is something he continues to work toward. On Thursday, Obama signed into law the 2014 defense spending budget, which changes how the military handles sexual

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Study Reveals Americans Feel The Nation Should “Mind Its Own Business”

A new report from the Pew Research Center found that 52 percent of respondents believed the U.S. should mind its own business internationally.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese

During the 2012 presidential election, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced — as part of his platform — a major agenda for expanding America’s global interests, with an expansion of naval and military defense systems, diplomatic repair with the United States’ key allies, and a call for the country to aggressively take the lead

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