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WE DO HAVE SOME PROBLEMS HERE
Breitbart.com recently carried a report saying, “During his speech in San Jose, California on Friday, President Obama took one question from the press on national security monitoring of Americans. Without any sense of irony whatsoever in the aftermath of the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the administration’s stonewalling on Benghazi, the Department of Justice’s targeting of reporters, the Department of Health and Human Services’ leveraging of private or...
GM Workers in Colombia Hunger Strike at US Embassy to Protest Dangerous Factory
JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. In Detroit, General Motors held their annual shareholders meeting. And we are now joined by Frank Hammer. He is a retired GM employee of 32 years, former president of United Auto Workers Local 909. And he also worked in the GM Department of United Auto Workers. He is currently a labor organizer at the School of Americas Watch. And Frank was among those demonstrating outs...
Israel has More Poverty than Any Developed Country
SHIR HEVER, TRNN PRODUCER: The image which the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs promotes of Israel is an image of a prosperous economy, a powerhouse of innovation. As part of the efforts to present Israel as a success story, Israel applied for membership in the OECD, the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, and received it. The organization publishes statistics about the member states and promotes certain kinds of reforms, usually associated wi...
OBAMA, CONGRESS & MEDIA ON IRS - FEIGNED OUTRAGE
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner." (Excerpt from President Nixon...
Former CIA Analyst: Snowden Did The Right Thing
JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden has come forward as the man responsible for the largest leak in NSA history. Now joining us is Ray McGovern. He was a CIA analyst for 27 years and prepared the president's daily brief under the Nixon and Ford administrations from 1981 to 1985. Ray now works for Tell the World, a publishing extension of the Church of the Savior in W...
Obama Defends "Big Brother" Powers
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. Today, President Obama defended his surveillance programs. Here's a little bit of what he had to say. ~~~ BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: When I came into this office, I made two commitments that are more important than any commitment I make, number one, to keep the American people safe, and number two, to uphold the Constitution, and that includes what I...
Will U.S. even survive Obama's full term?
The rash of scandals facing Barack Obama and his administration in recent days has some people wondering if the president can survive his full term through January 2017. Britain’s Telegraph newspaper is even running the headline: “You have to wonder: Will Obama see out his full term?” But U.S. radio giant Rush Limbaugh says that’s the wrong question to ask. “That’s not the question. The question is: Will America last through Obama’s full term?&...
Rand Paul: Sue Obama's surveillance state
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is now looking to sue the federal government over its policy of massive data collection on American citizens, including the logging of phone calls and Internet activities. “I’m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level. I’m going to be asking the Internet providers and all of the phone companies: Ask your customers to join me in a class-action lawsuit,” Paul said on “Fox News Sunday.” “If ...
