[Peace-discuss] Deconstructing Obama's BP Speech

[C. G. Estabrook]

Obama's conscious lies about America's economic and environmental crises are 
dissected here. Instead of dealing with vital necessities for Americans, Obama's 
administration is madly killing people in the Mideast (under the "Special 
Operations" assassins chosen by Obama, Petraeus & McChrystal) in an immensely 
costly war designed to control world energy resources.  This policy is in the 
interest of the American economic elite and their competition with the 
Europeans, Chinese, etc. - but surely not in the interest of the vast majority 
of Americans. Obama and his administration should be thoroughly rejected in the 
fall elections - but unless Americans come to understand what he's doing (and 
more importantly, whom he's working for) it will be hard to insist on the 
necessary reversal of his policies.

	Deconstructing Obama's BP Speech
	By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO

"...The 'War on Terror' and attempts to combat economic troubles at home run 
directly contrary to each other.  U.S. education and health care are in such 
dire straits precisely because U.S. leaders prefer to spend nearly a trillion 
dollars a year on militarism, while states cry poor and demand massive budget 
cuts that throw thousands out of work at a time when they’re at their most 
vulnerable.  U.S. officials know that, if given the choice, the public favors 
cuts in military spending and a renewed focus on job creation, economic 
rehabilitation, and other social spending.  This is why Democrats and 
Republicans spend so much time on fear mongering, drumming up support for 
indefinite war among a reluctant public..."

Full article at <http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio06162010.html>.

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