Editor’s remarks:
What Obama has done or is doing is in line with the American political
culture whose basis lies in power and domination. But any lip service by
the U.S. power elites to the so-called ‘American values’ and ‘promoting
democracy’ abroad (!) is part of that political culture where rhetoric
and propaganda have to be used repeatedly before the global audience. In
the eyes of American warmongers and the corporate interests that rule
America and the global American Empire, this in-itself provides them
with a moral basis for their actions and their policies. In a nutshell,
the killing of people abroad ranging from individual cases of
assassinations to organised slaughter of hundreds, thousands and even
millions of people by America in Vietnam and Iraq can all be justified
by pointing to a higher cause which USA stands for. During the Cold War,
it was ‘defending the free world’ and after the end of the Cold
War, it has become ‘war against terror’. Therefore, Obama and his allies
are continuing their global peace mission!
Nasir Khan, Editor
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by Norman Solomon, CommonDreams, January 16, 2013
Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration four years ago — but since then, in word and deed, the president has done much to distinguish himself from the man who said “I have a dream.”
After his speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, King went on to take great risks as a passionate advocate for peace.
After his Inaugural speech in January 2009, Obama has pursued policies that epitomize King’s grim warning in 1967: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”
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