By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 29, 2008
"Obama's "American Promise" is War.
Barack Obama has embraced the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT).
The Obama-Biden campaign has endorsed the very foundations of the Bush administration's foreign policy agenda: "Go after Osama bin Laden, "take him out".
The rhetoric is softer but the substance is almost identical.....
What Prospects under an Obama Presidency?
Apart from the rhetoric of "bringing the troops home" from war torn Iraq, which may or may be carried out, what distinguishes the Democrats from the Republicans?
A more articulate, knowledgeable and charismatic President?
A more dignified and diplomatic approach to US foreign policy?
An opportunity to the US ruling elite "to present a different face to the world that could revive illusions in its democratic pretensions, not only internationally but within the United States as well." (Patrick Martin, Tensions rise in Democratic contest as Obama nears nomination, Global Research, May 11, 2008)
A spurious and counterfeit "humanitarian" approach to Empire, which serves to mask the truth and gain popular support.
A less reckless Commander in Chief, who has an understanding of geopolitics and is capable of taking foreign policy decisions. A more carefully thought out military agenda than that experienced during the Bush administration? But with no substantive shift in direction.
A means to quelling mounting dissent and opposition to the ruling corporate establishment by providing the illusion that the Democrats constitute a Real Alternative.
A means to sustaining the illusion that African-Americans can move up the social ladder in America and that their fundamental rights are being upheld.
A means to undermining real progressive movements by further embedding civil society organizations, trade unions, grass-roots organizations not to mention "Leftist" intellectuals into the realm of the Democratic Party.
A distraction from the extensive war crimes committed under successive US administrations.
A "human face" to war and globalization? "
Global Research, August 29, 2008
"Obama's "American Promise" is War.
Barack Obama has embraced the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT).
The Obama-Biden campaign has endorsed the very foundations of the Bush administration's foreign policy agenda: "Go after Osama bin Laden, "take him out".
The rhetoric is softer but the substance is almost identical.....
What Prospects under an Obama Presidency?
Apart from the rhetoric of "bringing the troops home" from war torn Iraq, which may or may be carried out, what distinguishes the Democrats from the Republicans?
A more articulate, knowledgeable and charismatic President?
A more dignified and diplomatic approach to US foreign policy?
An opportunity to the US ruling elite "to present a different face to the world that could revive illusions in its democratic pretensions, not only internationally but within the United States as well." (Patrick Martin, Tensions rise in Democratic contest as Obama nears nomination, Global Research, May 11, 2008)
A spurious and counterfeit "humanitarian" approach to Empire, which serves to mask the truth and gain popular support.
A less reckless Commander in Chief, who has an understanding of geopolitics and is capable of taking foreign policy decisions. A more carefully thought out military agenda than that experienced during the Bush administration? But with no substantive shift in direction.
A means to quelling mounting dissent and opposition to the ruling corporate establishment by providing the illusion that the Democrats constitute a Real Alternative.
A means to sustaining the illusion that African-Americans can move up the social ladder in America and that their fundamental rights are being upheld.
A means to undermining real progressive movements by further embedding civil society organizations, trade unions, grass-roots organizations not to mention "Leftist" intellectuals into the realm of the Democratic Party.
A distraction from the extensive war crimes committed under successive US administrations.
A "human face" to war and globalization? "
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