US President George W. Bush awards former CIA director George Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom on December 14, 2004. The US Central Intelligence Agency had explicit guidelines for “human experimentation” on terrorism detainees as part of its controversial rendition, detention and interrogation program, according to a newly declassified document. The document containing the guidelines was... 

President Barack Obama is an “opportunist” with “awful” policies, one of the world’s top intellectuals, American linguist Noam Chomsky, has said. He was extremely critical of Obama’s use of drones in the Middle East and the secretive TPP trade deals. “I’m not one of those who was disillusioned,” the 86-year old author and political activist said... 

US President Barack Obama has lashed out at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, saying he is destroying the country’s economy in order to recreate the Soviet empire. During a speech to world leaders at the G7 summit in Germany, Obama attacked Putin over the Ukraine crisis. “Does he continue to wreck his country’s economy and continue Russia’s isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire... 

The United States has devolved into a “soft-core totalitarian dictatorship” and other nations should disassociate from it, activist and radio host Rodney Martin says. The United States has devolved into a “soft-core totalitarian dictatorship” and other nations should begin to disassociate from it, according to an American activist and radio host in California. Rodney Martin, the chairman of... 

US President Barack Obama said that his administration has retrieved the reputation of the United States as “the most respected country on earth.” Obama made the statement while answering questions with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Monday. “People don’t remember, but when I came into office,... 

The US Senate passed a controversial “fast-track” trade bill in a 62-37 vote on Friday. It is a key part of President Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia, which aims to counter China’s rising economic and diplomatic power via the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The bill will now head to the House of Representatives for a vote early next month, where it is expected to face a tougher showdown. If... 

Barack Obama has made a speech, saying that this Memorial Day is the first in 14 years without major US war. Critics and social media users slammed him as hypocritical, saying the US remains involved in military conflicts and proxy wars. “Today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war,” Obama said on Memorial Day, a US holiday for remembering... 

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting today that a “renegade” American spy who approached a Federation Embassy official in Washington D.C. last week and provided documentation she claimed “proved” the United States was intending to start a massive global war has been placed incommunicado in a mental hospital under secret orders issued by President Barack Obama. According to this... 

US Vice President Joe Biden announced that the US government will provide F-35 fighter jets to Israel next year to the country a strategic advantage over its rivals in the Middle East. The US government will provide F-35 fighter jets to Israel next year to the country a strategic advantage over its rivals in the Middle East, US Vice President Joe Biden said during a speech celebrating Israeli independence. “Next... 

A U.S. federal judge in Texas has denied the federal government’s request to lift a hold on President Barack Obama’s controversial immigration plan. By refusing to lift the ban he issued in February, the ruling halts temporary relief from deportation and other immigration benefits for up to 4.7 million immigrants in the US. The plan was part of Obama’s executive order, bypassing the... 

Remarks by US President Barack Obama about not requiring Iran to recognize Israel as part of a nuclear deal with the P5+1 is counter to the discourse adopted by the White House and other US officials since the regime came into being, says a renowned activist and radio host. Obama said in a Monday interview with NPR that requiring Tehran to recognize Israel is a “fundamental misjudgment”. According... 

An American political analyst says people in the United States are tired of policies of the families of Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush when they were in power. “They’re really tired of both Bushes and Clintons. One is perhaps enough. Maybe there should be new faces and new names there,” William Jones from Executive Intelligence Review told Press TV on Monday. He made the comments after former... 

US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US President Barack Obama has told Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will “reassess” its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli prime minister’s recent provocative statements. Obama delivered the message in a phone call to Netanyahu on Thursday, days after Netanyahu rejected the idea of a Palestinian state during... 

US President Barack Obama threatened to take military action against Israel not to let Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strike Iran. Netanyahu was planning airstrikes at an emergency meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Benny Gantz, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarîda said. The meeting was held after... 

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s chairman has been removed from his post for the first time in the award’s 114-year history. He’s been criticized over a number of the panel’s controversial picks, like US president and the EU. Ousted Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, a former Norwegian Labor prime minister, had been in charge of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for six years before he was voted...