[Peace-discuss] James Petras fulminates…

[C. G. Estabrook]

Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Worth pondering. I would like to ask Petras whether would have preferred 
> McCain.Palin to the here reviled Obama.
> 
> I asked a panel at the UFPJ, which  included Tom Hayden, why there were 
> no real progressives nominated to Obama's team, and received no answer. 
> I thought this was a gross omission, because it must have implications 
> for the anti-war movement. 
> 
> James Petras gives his interpretation of those implications. The panel 
> at UFPJ were not willing to consider them.  (Maybe it was too late in a 
> long session.) --mkb
> 
> 
> Petras' conclusions are taken from the article at: 
> http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1766&more=1&c=1 
> <http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1766&more=1&c=1>
> 
> …
> */Conclusion/*
> /
> /
> /Nothing speaks to Obama’s deep and abiding commitment to become the 
> savior of the US empire as clearly as his willingness to appoint to the 
> highest position of policy making the most mediocre failed politicians 
> and generals merely because of their demonstrated willingness to pursue 
> the course of military-driven empire building even in the midst of a 
> collapsing domestic economy and ever more impoverished and drained 
> citizenry./
> /
> /
> /Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go into 
> the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his economic 
> and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’ moment: The 
> nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and warmongers. Let us join 
> the inaugural celebration of our ‘First Afro-American’ Imperial 
> President, who wins by con and rules by guns!/
> /
> /
> /December 2008/
> 
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