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

[E.Wayne Johnson]

I was in Henan Luohe the other day and had some extra time so
I decided to get a haircut.  My translator wanted to
take a nap and I assured him that I was able to get a haircut on my
own.

He said,
"You will get a haircut?  You will go see a Barbarian?"

One might imagine a really civilized barbarian gives you
a nice decorative plastic bag to carry your head back home in.

Actually my haircut was very civilized.  I got a comfortable &
careful warm water shampooing before and after the haircut and
it cost me the RMB equivalent of USD$One.

I think that Americans want to believe the lies and they
like it when their military can roast potential enemies from
thousands of miles away.  Americans like the spoils of war,
the thrill of the bloodshed of others, and the sense of power
that comes from being "invincible".

Americans want to buy the lie because it resonates with the lust of the 
eyes,
the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.

The USA could come back home
carrying its ass in a plastic bag after the Iran matter.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "E.Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama's charade on Iran sanctions


>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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