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Did Obama Just Resort To Mind Control?
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President Obama on Wednesday called on world leaders meeting at the United Nations to "choose hope over fear" by fighting sectarian conflict and extremism, beginning with the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq but branching out beyond the Middle East.
In an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Obama urged leaders to support Iraqis and Syrians as they fight to reclaim their communities, as he also argued the merits of the new military campaign he is running against Islamic State as well as Al Qaeda and its offshoots.
"No God condones this terror," Obama said. "No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning no negotiation with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death."
Obama also called out a range of aggressive acts around the world singling out Russian aggression in Ukraine for special derision as part of a sweeping summons to cooperation over conquest.
He pledged to back Ukraine and its democratic development and to uphold the U.S. commitment to the collective defense of North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. He promised to help stop the outbreak of the Ebola virus ravaging West Africa.
But mainly the presidents remarks were his first chance to put the dramatic events of the previous 48 hours, not to mention a summer of global turmoil, in context. They followed a second night of bombing against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Videos posted on social media Wednesday showed Syrian civilians picking through the rubble of destroyed homes, and Syrian activists reported civilian casualties.
The Pentagon said that in Iraq, it hit and damaged eight Islamic State vehicles northwest of Qaim, while bombers and aircraft conducted four strikes on targets near Baghdad and Irbil.
The world, Obama said, must take concrete steps to address the danger of religiously motivated fanatics and the trends that fuel their recruitment.
Rather than portraying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the principal source of broader Middle East problems, as he has in the past, Obama emphasized the need for leaders in Muslim communities to fight the ideology of Al Qaeda and Islamic State.
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When President Barack Obama speaks today at an Open Government Partnership event at the United Nations General Assembly, he will do so as head of an administration criticized at home for its lack of openness.
This is the most restrictive and most message controlling, most manipulative and often hostile than Ive seen since the Nixon administration, said Len Downie, former Washington Post executive editor and now a professor at Arizona State Universitys Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
Obama pledged to have the most open and transparent administration in history when he was inaugurated as president in 2009. The reality hasnt met his promise, according to groups that measure government transparency.
The administration has conducted a record number of leak investigations of federal employees and contractors accused of leaking classified information to journalists. It has jailed more whistle-blowers under espionage laws than all previous administrations combined.
New York Times reporter James Risen is facing testimony or jail time in a federal case involving a former Central Intelligence Agency officer charged with leaking information to him. Earlier this month, a U.S. appeals court sent the case back to federal district court.
Last year, the Justice Department revealed it had secretly accessed phone records of Associated Press journalists. A Washington Post column published today brought attention to White House meddling in reports written by reporters in the media pool that follows the president.
The open government meeting today is being led by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Obama, at the UN general assembly this week, has been focused on Middle East unrest and reining in the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
The White House declined today to give any preview of what the president would say at the meeting.
Reporters Without Borders this year rated both Mexico and Indonesia difficult, the second to worst rating, in its annual press freedom report. The U.S. scored satisfactory, below the top level of good, earned by countries including Canada and all the Scandinavian nations.
Led by the Society of Professional Journalists, journalism and open government groups in July sent a letter to Obama detailing what they said is politically driven suppression of news and information about federal agencies.
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New York (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's policy toward Syria -- three years of red lines and calls for regime change -- culminated Monday in a barrage of airstrikes on terror targets there, marking a turning point for the conflict and thrusting the President further into it.
The U.S. said Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Jordan had joined in the attack on ISIS targets near Raqqa in Syria. The U.S. also launched airstrikes against another terrorist organization, the Khorasan Group. Obama described its members as "seasoned al Qaeda operatives in Syria," and U.S. officials said the group was plotting attacks against the United States and other Western targets.
Initially hesitant to become involved in the Syrian conflict, which pits an authoritarian regime led by President Bashar al-Assad against a patchwork of rebel groups, Obama has moved from sending weapons to opposition fighters last year, to backing away from airstrikes against al-Assad, to ordering Mondays campaign to take out ISIS terrorists who have used the Syrian unrest to gain a foothold.
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Its new ground for the U.S., which lacks robust intelligence capabilities in Syria and hasn't sent any ground forces there. Unlike the campaign against ISIS in Iraq, the U.S. doesnt have al-Assads permission to launch airstrikes in Syria, though the U.S. notified him before the attacks began.
The coalition strikes began the evening before Obama made his annual visit to the United Nations General Assembly, where the White House hopes to secure broader support for the anti-ISIS campaign from a range of allies.
The main focus, officials say, is on stemming the flow of foreign-born fighters who have joined up with ISIS and other terror groups in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. intelligence community believes there are 15,000 foreign fighters from 80 countries who are fighting alongside ISIS and other similar terror groups -- 2,000 from Europe and roughly 100 from the United States.
A senior administration official said on Monday that some of those Americans had already returned to the United States and were being tracked by the FBI. Not all of those who have returned were fighting for ISIS.
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