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Obama Has Been Fighting Doctors Without Borders For Years
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/obama-doctors-without-borders_n_6068634.html

When President Barack Obama lauded the “incredible heroism” of American doctors who travel to countries such as Sierra Leone to do “God’s work” and “keep us safe,” on Tuesday, he was celebrating a community packed with Doctors Without Borders volunteers. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power has been more explicit, using the acronym for the international group’s French name, Medicines Sans Frontiers, in speeches and on Twitter.(...)

But the recent executive branch acclaim for Doctors Without Borders obscures a long-running struggle between the humanitarian group and the White House over global drug prices.

#MSF #médicaments #prix #brevets

Where is the Antiwar Movement?
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/where-is-the-antiwar-movement

When President Obama said he intended to strike Syria last year after the Assad regime launched a chemical weapons attack, anti-war sentiment surged in the U.S. Phone calls and e-mails poured...

NATO Set to Ratify Pledge on Joint Defense in Case of Major Cyberattack
NYT By DAVID E. SANGER AUG. 31, 2014
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/world/europe/nato-set-to-ratify-pledge-on-joint-defense-in-case-of-major-cyberattack.htm

When President Obama meets with other NATO leaders later this week, they are expected to ratify what seems, at first glance, a far-reaching change in the organization’s mission of collective defense: For the first time, a cyberattack on any of the 28 NATO nations could be declared an attack on all of them, much like a ground invasion or an airborne bombing.

The most obvious target of the new policy is Russia, which was believed behind computer attacks that disrupted financial and telecommunications systems in Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008, and is believed to have used them in the early days of the Ukraine crisis as well.

But in interviews, NATO officials concede that so far their cyberskills are limited at best.

#OTAN sans stratégie en cas de #cyberguerre ; #sécurité_informatique #surveillance

Obama’s Portable Zone of Secrecy (Some Assembly Required)
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/us/politics/obamas-portable-zone-of-secrecy-some-assembly-required.html

When President Obama travels abroad, his staff packs briefing books, gifts for foreign leaders and something more closely associated with camping than diplomacy: a tent.
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Even when Mr. Obama travels to allied nations, aides quickly set up the security tent — which has opaque sides and noise-making devices inside — in a room near his hotel suite. When the president needs to read a classified document or have a sensitive conversation, he ducks into the tent to shield himself from secret video cameras and listening devices.