organization:barack obama's administration

No, Sanctions Didn’t Force Iran to Make a Deal
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/14/sanctions_did_not_force_iran_to_make_a_deal_nuclear_enrichment

That myth — promoted by officials in President Barack Obama’s administration as well as powerful lawmakers like Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) — is that crippling sanctions brought the Iranian regime to its knees, forcing it to rush to the negotiating table to beg for mercy. In this narrative, the breakthrough in nuclear talks is credited to the Obama administration’s unprecedented economic pressure, which has essentially locked Iran out of the international financial system. And like JFK before him, Obama did not compromise with Iran. The mythical gold standard was met.
Except it wasn’t.

#US judge orders end to force-feeding of #Guantanamo detainee
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/us-judge-orders-ending-force-feeding-guantanamo-detainee

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This photo made during an escorted visit and reviewed by the US military shows the corridor and the cell’s doors of “Camp 5” detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 8, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mladen Antonov)

A US federal judge has ordered President Barack Obama’s administration to temporarily stop force feeding a Syrian detainee at Guantanamo Bay prison and hand over videotapes of his treatment. Abu Wa’el Dhiab, 42, was cleared for release by the Obama administration in 2009 but has remained at the US naval base in Cuba for more than a decade without charge or trial. Lawyers from London-based human rights group Reprieve have sought to secure 140 to 150 videos of Dhiab being force-fed or forcibly restrained. read (...)

#syria

Obama administration using loophole to quietly sell arms package to Bahrain
►http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/27/obama_administration_selling_new_arms_package_to_bahrain

President Barack Obama’s administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices that they will move forward with a new and different package of arms sales — without any formal notification to the public.

(Prix Nobel de la Paix.)