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Interesting arab view on who was underpinning Trump's victory. What I found more interesting is their scathing assessment of Obama...
During his eight years in office, Obama failed to deliver on the alternative and transformative politics voters had been encouraged to expect. He promised to close the prison camp and torture hotbed ofGuantanamo. He didn't.
He swore to recall all US troops from the bloody quagmire of Iraq, but US forces were still being sent there during the final year of his presidency. He helped create a more militarised police force and under his watch the slaying of unarmed blacks, including children, became epidemic.
And while Trump's toxic anti-immigration policies are sufficiently well known, what is not common knowledge is how under Obama's tenure more than 2.5 million people were deported, a figure which exceeds that of any previous president.
Obama broke his pledge on introducing "card checks" - a system that would have made access to union membership for workers easier. At the same time, he fortified the rapacious and corrupt cabal of bankers and financiers who had helped facilitate the global economic crisis by barring the justice department from prosecuting those at the top of the largest banks. And, of course, he bailed out the banks.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/monsters-trump-white-working-class-180117104213439.html
During his eight years in office, Obama failed to deliver on the alternative and transformative politics voters had been encouraged to expect. He promised to close the prison camp and torture hotbed ofGuantanamo. He didn't.
He swore to recall all US troops from the bloody quagmire of Iraq, but US forces were still being sent there during the final year of his presidency. He helped create a more militarised police force and under his watch the slaying of unarmed blacks, including children, became epidemic.
And while Trump's toxic anti-immigration policies are sufficiently well known, what is not common knowledge is how under Obama's tenure more than 2.5 million people were deported, a figure which exceeds that of any previous president.
Obama broke his pledge on introducing "card checks" - a system that would have made access to union membership for workers easier. At the same time, he fortified the rapacious and corrupt cabal of bankers and financiers who had helped facilitate the global economic crisis by barring the justice department from prosecuting those at the top of the largest banks. And, of course, he bailed out the banks.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/monsters-trump-white-working-class-180117104213439.html
