TPP, Nukes, Fracking, Mandatory Corporate Insurance, Drones...
Take Obama. As he prepares to leave office, the fawning has begun all over again. He is cool. One of the more violent presidents, Obama gave full reign to the Pentagon war-making apparatus of his discredited predecessor. He prosecuted more whistleblowers truth-tellers than any president. He pronounced Chelsea Manning guilty before she was tried. Today, Obama runs an unprecedented worldwide campaign of terrorism and murder by drone.
In 2009, Obama promised to help rid the world of nuclear weapons and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No American president has built more nuclear warheads than Obama. He is modernising Americas doomsday arsenal, including a new mini nuclear weapon, whose size and smart technology, says a leading general, ensure its use is no longer unthinkable.
James Bradley, the best-selling author of Flags of Our Fathers and son of one of the US marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, said, *(One) great myth were seeing play out is that of Obama as some kind of peaceful guy whos trying to get rid of nuclear weapons. Hes the biggest nuclear warrior there is. Hes committed us to a ruinous course of spending a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons. Somehow, people live in this fantasy that because he gives vague news conferences and speeches and feel-good photo-ops that somehow thats attached to actual policy. It isnt.
On Obamas watch, a second cold war is under way. The Russian president is a pantomime villain; the Chinese are not yet back to their sinister pig-tailed caricature when all Chinese were banned from the United States but the media warriors are working on it.
Truth cuts like a knife