by MRN | Feb 6, 2014 | World
Last month, US President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union address. The speech is the president’s opportunity to assess the condition of the country, as well as set out his legislative agenda and his national and international priorities. This...
by MRN | Dec 9, 2013 | Middle East
Obama “deeply humbled” on a visit to Mandela’s prison cell in Robben Island while unashamedly keeping 166 detained without trial for 11 years Perhaps some people might not see the parallels between the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and...
by MRN | Sep 25, 2013 | World
Half a year into Obama’s second term, it has become clear what has been done under his watch. He brought to the world massive banking fraud, drone attacks, indefinite detention, assassination of US citizens and an unprecedented war on whistle-blowers. The rhetoric of...
by MRN | Sep 11, 2013 | Middle East
You could almost pity these people. For 67 years successive US governments have resisted calls to reform the UN security council. They’ve defended a system which grants five nations a veto over world affairs, reducing all others to impotent spectators. They have...
by MRN | Sep 11, 2013 | MRN Views
David Cameron, Francois Hollande and Barrack Obama’s moral outrage because of the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons is self-serving and hypocritical. These three leaders should reflect on their own countries’ use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)...