La marioneta
corporativa llamada Barack Obama culmina su presidencia en un clima de
ignominia e impotencia. Nada de esto debe ser sugerido siquiera a las masas de
su país, so pena de que la furia popular despierte ciertas conciencias, por lo
que la despedida del susodicho fue emotiva hasta las lágrimas (foto). Que pase
el que sigue. Leemos en Strategic Culture Foundation la siguiente nota de
Finian Cunningham:
Título: Obama’s
‘Farewell To Arms’ As War Presidency Ends
Texto: Eight
straight years of warmongering come to an end as US President Barack Obama bows
out with his «farewell to the nation» speech this week, as fawning American
media dubbed his valediction.
In reality,
Obama’s outgoing address should have been billed as a «farewell to arms» made
by arguably one of the most belligerent presidents to ever have occupied the
White House.
Only in
exceptionally delusional America could such a pernicious paradox be presented
as something honorable and sentimental.
Obama, the 44th
US president, may have been the first black president and winner of a Nobel
peace prize during his first year in office in 2009. But apart from those
dubious accolades – championed by supposedly liberal Hollywood celebrities and
media pundits – his actual record in office is one of blood-soaked disgrace.
Instead of ending
American overseas wars as he had promised back in 2008, Obama expanded on his
predecessor George W Bush’s criminal foreign interventions. At least seven
countries – Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia – have
been routinely bombed under Obama’s watch as the US Commander-in-Chief. That’s
one repugnant record.
Last year alone,
the US military reportedly dropped over 26,000 bombs around the world killing
countless thousands of people, the exact number buried under official secrecy
and American mainstream media indifference. At that rate, American anti-war
campaigner Medea Benjamin estimates that US forces deployed three bombs every
hour of every day for the whole of 2016. This death from the skies included
Obama’s personal ordering of drone assassinations during his weekly Terror
Tuesday briefings from Pentagon chiefs, the use of which increased 10-fold
under his command, killing thousands of innocent civilians as «collateral damage».
In Yemen, one of
the poorest countries on Earth, where Obama fully backs an ongoing Saudi air
war, it is reckoned that a child dies every 10 minutes from the
American-supplied bombing campaign and blockade. Hardly a word about this
US-backed genocide is permitted to intrude into public awareness by the Western
corporate-controlled media.
Under the
supposed Nobel peace laureate, the United States has sold an all-time record of
$115 billion-worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia – one of the most repressive
regimes in the world – which has in turn fueled jihadist terrorism across the
Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and Europe.
In Syria, just
one of the countries to be afflicted by Obama’s policy of covert collusion with
jihadist terrorism for regime-change machinations, the death toll is estimated
to be around 400,000, with millions more displaced by the US-led proxy war that
began in March 2011.
That war
unleashed by the Obama administration to oust President Bashar al-Assad has
only been arrested because of Russia’s military intervention at the end of
2015. At every step, Obama and his top diplomat John Kerry have sought to
thwart Russia’s efforts to salvage the country from jihadist terror proxies.
With warped logic, Obama and his British and French allies – all sponsors of
the regime change war in Syria – have tried to paint Russia as a war criminal.
In his final year
in office, Obama has overseen a massive escalation in US military special
operations around the world. These covert forces are now reported to be
operating in 138 countries – 70% of the world – a military deployment that
represents a 130% increase on that under George W Bush. Self-declared liberal
Americans consider Bush to be a warmongering disaster, yet somehow they hail
Obama as some kind of progressive «peace president».
The Nobel prize
awarded to Obama surely stands as an egregious offense to humankind’s
intelligence and decency. With his typical rhetorical sophistry, Obama talked
about abolishing nuclear weapons during his early days in the White House, only
to subsequently commit his nation to a trillion-dollar upgrade of its nuclear
arsenal. In stark violation of international obligations under the
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Under his watch,
the «peace president» has pursued a bellicose collision course with
nuclear-armed Russia that threatens a global conflagration. Relations between
the US and Russia have sunk to new dangerous depths – never seen since the
former Cold War – led largely by the Obama administration’s demonizing of
Moscow with a litany of fraudulent charges. Charges amplified by the servile
Western mass media of course instead of being debunked as they surely should
be.
Rather than
dialogue and diplomacy, Obama’s presidency has used subterfuge and relentless
propaganda to antagonize Russia. From personal insults against Russian
President Vladimir Putin being a «Hitler figure» to vilifying Moscow for
regional conflicts that the Western powers have actually stoked, Obama has
tempted all-out war through reckless sanctions and expansion of NATO forces on
Russia’s borders. The last power to have menaced Russia with such flagrant
aggression was Nazi Germany. Yet, Putin is caricatured as Hitler, while Obama
is lauded in the Western media as a standard-bearer for world peace.
This week as
Obama gave his self-preening farewell to the nation speech, thousands of new US
troops and tanks were dispatched to buttress NATO forces already at
unprecedented levels in Germany, Poland and the Baltic states. While his country
endures economic austerity and social collapse from poverty, the White House
has ordered $3.4 billion in extra military spend in Europe to bolster NATO
aggression towards Russian. Part of that warmongering extravagance involves
supporting a neo-Nazi junta in Kiev to continue its onslaught against the
ethnic Russian people of eastern Ukraine, where the death toll has reached at
least 10,000 since 2014.
Only in America,
the «exceptional nation» as Obama repeatedly proclaims, is a warmongering
president feted as a «peace leader». Whereas his successor, Donald Trump who
will be inaugurated next week, is pilloried as a traitor because he has dared
to call for restoring better relations with Russia.
Trump is by no
means perfect. His reactionary and at times foul-mouthed populism may be
deserving of mockery as it was this week at the Golden Globes film-awards
ceremony held in Hollywood. Award-winning actress Meryl Streep won plaudits
from the supposed liberal media for her rebuke of Trump over his alleged bigoted
and bullying behavior.
But where is the
appropriate condemnation of Obama for displaying far worse failings – as
perhaps the most blood-soaked president to have sat in the «highest office of
the nation»?
What makes the US
the most dangerous nation on Earth to world peace is that so many of its
so-called liberal intellectuals, artists and media evidently view Barack Obama
as a man of peace and progress. When in reality, the 44th president should be
prosecuted for multiple war crimes. Instead of being free to earn millions of
dollars in future years giving sonorous speeches on «international relations»
to sundry audiences, Obama should be earning time behind bars. (In the ignoble
company of other US ex-presidents, it should be added.)
se va el peor presidente de los eeuu. desde su postura progre y liberal hipócrita se camuflo otro asesino imperial. pero incluso desde el punto de vista imperial fue el presidente de la debacle, su errática política internacional y su torpeza término por precipitar el colapso de la potencia y el resurgimiento de Rusia como el balance de fuerzas, con una docena de países abandonando la tutela imperial en sólo 2 años. y con China como lider de la economia mundal. La pérdida de influencia de eeuu no tiene antecedente en los últimos 60 años. Se fue llorando.
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