[Peace-discuss] Obama's charade on Iran sanctions

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think the greatest fear of the US economic elite is that the American people 
will discover that there is not only a difference but a contradiction between 
the interests of that elite and those of the vast majority of Americans.

Barack Obama recognized that when he wrote about Vietnam that "the biggest 
casualty [sic] of that war was the bond of trust between the American people and 
their government" (The Audacity of Hope). That is, we found out that US policy 
was not in our interests.

And he offered himself in that book as the person to pull the wool back over 
Americans' eyes - which he did, remarkably successfully, in the co-option of the 
anti-war movement, to an extent I hadn't thought possible, even though I thought 
it was quite clear what he was trying to do.

I quote at the beginning of each News from Neptune TV show the remark of the 
late Alex Carey: "The 20th century was characterized by three developments of 
great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate 
power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate 
power against democracy."

Politicians have long recognized the problem: in My Struggle, Hitler says that 
Germany lost WWI because its propaganda was not so highly developed as that of 
the British (and the Americans). He promised that that wouldn't happen again.

The great 'contribution' of the modern US is to outdo all others in the PR 
manipulation of a formally free people. --CGE


On 6/12/10 10:13 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> This despicable resolution will give the world more reason to hate the
> American Empire and the American people. It is no longer enough to blame
> Obama or Bush or Congress.
>
> It is the people of the United States who are responsible for their leaders.
> The people of the USA have the leaders that they want, and their leaders and
> their military and secret "services" do the will of the people of the United
> States.
>
> It is the people of the United States who commit the crimes against humanity
> and it is therefore reasonable that the "American People" themselves should
> pay the price for this folly.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Sent: Sunday,
> June 13, 2010 8:00 AM Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama's charade on Iran
> sanctions
>
>
> OBAMA’S CHARADE ON IRAN SANCTIONS Posted on June 9th, 2010
>
> Today, the United Nations Security Council will adopt a new resolution (see,
> here) imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear
> activities. Predictably, the Obama Administration is working to spin its
> “victory” in New York as both a great diplomatic achievement and a serious
> intensification of international pressure on Iran over the nuclear issue. It
> is neither...

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