The Goal

"...the goal was to distract and deter the social democratic impulses of working people. Big business was elevated from its public reputation as a kind of mafia to that of a patriotic force. 'Free enterprise' became a divinity. "

 

"...Obama's unerring theme has been not 'change'.. but America's right to rule and order the world...  he says, 'we lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good... At moments of great peril in the past century our leaders ensured that America, by deed and by example, led and lifted the world, that we stood and fought for the freedoms sought by billions of people beyond their borders.'

 

Since 1945, by deed and by example, the US has overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, crushed some 30 liberation movements and supported tyrannies from Egypt to Guatemala... Having stacked his government with warmongers, Wall Street cronies and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, the 45th president is merely upholding tradition."

 

-- John Pilger
( http://www.johnpilger.com )