The US is the most powerful nation on earth, but its position of global supremacy is being challenged - economically, militarily and politically. And the person many Americans hold responsible for these failings is the president who promised them change. The worldwide economic crisis of 2008 started in the US and the aftershocks are still being felt today. Unemployment is running at more than eight per cent, productivity is down and the national debt is a whopping $137bn. Such turmoil makes it hard to honour electoral promises. The country is deeply divided. The machinery of government has been tied in knots by partisan bickering and the rise of the right-wing, anti-state Tea Party and the street protests of the left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement are a reminder of how polarised the nation has become. Despite this, Barack Obama, the US president, has pushed through healthcare reform and turned around the failing auto industry. He has stopped the war in Iraq and killed Osama bin Laden. But is this enough to win re-election for a second term? And, whoever wins, will the next president have the unenviable task of overseeing the US' decline?Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
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The election of the first black US president offered hope to millions of African Americans across the country. But have four years of an Obama presidency seen positive change for black communities in the US' inner cities? While the 'war on drugs' rages on inside the US, there is some political consensus it is failing. White House officials have even indicated a federal policy shift away from incarceration and towards a public health strategy. In Baltimore, one of the most dangerous cities in the US, the police have reframed their 'war on drugs' as a 'war on guns'. The rhetoric may have changed, but critics say nothing else has and that concentrated law enforcement has resulted in high levels of incarceration among young African Americans and the criminalisation of entire communities. The nearly 30 years of drug policies have perpetuated cycles of violence and economic repression in US inner cities and especially among poor minority neighbourhoods. "Even in the age of Obama something akin to a caste system is alive and well in America," says Michelle Alexander, a law professor and author. "The mass incarceration of poor people of colour is tantamount into a caste system specifically designed to address the social, political and economic challenges of our time .... We have a school-to-prison pipeline operating in Baltimore and other cities across the nation where young people believe, with some good reason, that their destiny lies behind bars and they too will become <b>...</b>
Two-term Governor, Gary Johnson, says the internet must remain free. SOPA and PIPA are just the latest efforts on behalf of the federal government to limit free speech. If no one stands up to this threat on our fundmental right, we will lose it. Two two-party system is one system of control, censorship and the loss of personal liberty. Be Libertarian for one election. LIVE FREE
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On the Monday, August 20 session of Infowars Live, Alex Jones blasts through important news items, including information uncovered by an FOIA request revealing the Department of Homeland Security's watchful eye is fixed squarely on Alex, Infowars stories and even user comments, news that an eyewitness from the Century 16 theater in Aurora heard an alarm that fateful night warning "murder in the theater," the FBI's Counterterrorism Analysis Section report specifically labeling constitutionalists as terrorists, and news that Lord Jacob Rothschild has essentially placed a $200 million dollar bet that the Euro will soon collapse. Alex will further break down the imminent economic collapse and give tips on how to prepare for it. www.infowars.com www.planetinfowars.com [support the infowars spread the news] www.infowarsstore.com www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowarsteam.com [New Website!!] www.infowarshealth.com
Brandon Raub served his country well as is apparent from the amount of medals and decorations he received as a Marine. He fought for this country, for freedom, for the Constitution. One thing in particular that he fought for was our right to free speech. That right was taken away from him on August 16, 2012. A contingent of police officers, FBI and Secret Service agents wrestled him to the ground in handcuffs and took him away without due process, without being arrested, without any semblance of legality. Waiting back at John Randolph Psychiatric Hospital in Hopewell, Virginia was a psychiatrist willing to do the US government's bidding and signed a court order to lock up Brandon for thirty days of "observation." What tipped off the FBI and Secret Service agents that Brandon was insane and might harm others? He dared to criticize his government. In a phone interview he had this to say: "I really love America, and I think that idea that you can be detained and sent somewhere without due process and a lawyer ... is crazy." Wake up, America or you'll be next...
