Israel: A Genocidal Monster
It is obvious that the US mass media by turning the other way in Gaza and not covering the real war crime of Israel are complicit in this crime against humanity.
No one questions the fact that while the world is hearing and viewing the cry for help of Palestinian victims, the US Media has kept our public in the dark.
The same Corporate Media that pushed us to war in Iraq, the same media that accepted Bush's lies about Weapon of Mass Destruction in Iraq, lies about 911, lies about Al Quada's involvement, lies about Muslim hating America, now is keeping silence about Massacre in Gaza.
The same Media that was embedded in Iraq is now embedded with Israeli Army. CNN, ABC, Fox News and you name it have become collaborators in Crime against Humanity. Israel: A Genocidal Monster
It is obvious that the US mass media by turning the other way in Gaza and not covering the real war crime of Israel are complicit in this crime against humanity.
No one questions the fact that while the world is hearing and viewing the cry for help of Palestinian victims, the US Media has kept our public in the dark.
The same Corporate Media that pushed us to war in Iraq, the same media that accepted Bush's lies about Weapon of Mass Destruction in Iraq, lies about 911, lies about Al Quada's involvement, lies about Muslim hating America, now is keeping silence about Massacre in Gaza.
The same Media that was embedded in Iraq is now embedded with Israeli Army. CNN, ABC, Fox News and you name it have become collaborators in Crime against Humanity.
Those who talk about Holocaust, build Holocaust Museums, and constantly remind us how horrible Concentration Camps are should look at Gaza Concentration Camp. Has ever the world seen a Concentration Camp that holds 1.5 million people? Surrounded by Barb Wires, insulated from outside, inhibited by people whose houses have been appropriated,  leveled, their properties, farms, means of living gone and have been condemned to live in garbage without clean water, food and means of subsistence?
This problem must be faced, must be solved, must be encountered by the whole world!
How can we permit and condone massacre of the concentration Camp of Gaza by its Israeli Guards? How long we can look the other way.
The only way out is to push for a War Crime Tribunal so the Israelis understand that their crime cannot go unpunished. Then, we have to strive to free residents of Gaza Concentration Camp and at least give them a viable chance of existence as a nation with recognized boundaries free from oppression and control of its Israeli Guards.
We have to expose the complicity of Media in these War Crimes and make sure never again they keep us in the dark while a criminal state destroys a region, bombs its people, starve them to death and assassinates its leaders and destroys its infrastructure.

Obama by his silence on the issue become complicit in the Collusion of Bush and Olmert in this pre-inauguration carnage!

Obama's Inauguration Speech: Disappointing!

Farhat maquami

Obama's inauguration expense of  more than  $170 million dollars, in the middle of recession, produced less than Johnson Inaugural  of 1.2 million crowd, with less expense!.  Yet the mountain of fan fair, and money, Hollywood celebrities and publicity produced a disappointing mouse! Rick Warren gave more hope to the religious right and Neo-Cons than Obama's disappointing and colorless speech.
Obama has the makings of a great tele-prompter reader-orator, but his inaugural speech was not a great speech, unlike his stump speeches. It was well-delivered, but it consisted of no new themes, rhetoric, refurbished  conservative ideas of self-help, and no solid economic plans to address directly our economic, social and Global crisis.  No economic plans  for the country, and to end to Bush's War on Terror. More troops to fight Bush's Mythical Enemy in Afghanistan.

Obama's Mountain of hope  produced a disappointing and fearful mouse!  Wall Street dropped more than 300 points because they saw no hope for real Change! Even after Obama got his wall Street 350 750 billions of "giveaway" Bail-out money, more in TARP money, and promised them 1. 3 trillion dollars of extra expenditure for road, bridges, infrastructures and Green Jobs to nowhere.
As he was speaking instead of hope they saw despair and dumped their stocks because any one with economic 101 knows that borrowing from China to buy Chinese and Mexican industrial products and filling Wal-Mart with cheap goods at the expense of American jobs would lead to 13 trillion Dollars National Debt by the end of 2009, that in combination of budget deficit, Balance of Trade deficit would bring this great nation to is knees.
We need factory Jobs, technological jobs and export goods jobs. What we don't need a superficial service jobs. Did he say anything about this no.


Instead of declaring that Bush's Policies, which has brought disrepute to the ideal's of this nation would be abandoned, he complemented Bush. 
Instead of declaring to the world that Never again he would permit the leaders of this nation take us to the wrong war by lies and deceits and declaring to the world that we follow Human Rights and respect supremacy of truth in our conducts, he sat down Collin Powell in front row and defended militarism.
Instead of declaring , never again  America would torture innocent human beings, and he has ordered his Justice department  to  prosecute anyone who has violated the international laws, he praised Bush. Instead of declaring to the world that never again America would keep silent while its military arsenals are being used to destroy 22000 houses in Gaza and murdering more that 1200  women and children and more than 6000 seriously wounded, in the Biggest Concentration Camp in history, he could have said he would try to bring peace to Palestinians and end their carnage!
No, for 24 days he kept silent and still  is waving his Israeli flag, not thinking what is good for the United States must take preference over the interest of another nation.. We need markets for our products and 1.5 Billion Muslims would be our customers, only if we show the olive branch. The president must be the greatest salesman for America and he failed to get their attention.
He Brought Rick Warren to give him credence among other neo-Christian rights and letting him to make a sale's pitch for his Neo-Con's agenda that has taken us to the road to economic devastation; but did not make a sale's pitch for the American blacks and impoverished.

Yes, made conservative happy now that they know one of their own is the White House and under the "Black Skins there is White Mask" ; they are happy to see that all old Civil Rights leaders are going to the "quite house", where he sent Reverent Wright. But the question is not about individual achievement via Charter Schools  and parental guidance; but via a society that give all black Americans and  other minorities a chance, the same chance we give to all new immigrants, like Barak Obama!.
He is a great Achiever and he knows Black Americans psychology, so he wants to keep them happy by his rhetorical lesson of success; but his lesson as a son of Kenyan, has nothing to do with black history and how the American society should uplift them. Afro-American psychological happiness with him actually is counterproductive. That is why many Neo-cons are celebrating the end of Al Sharpton, jessie Jackson and others old Civil Right leaders; but, Civil Rights movement would not die and must regroup and do not permit   individual achievement of blacks cloud their group oppression.   


.In Contrast to vividness of Obama, the speech was unusually dull, abstract and  lacked any reference to people or situations in the present. The concepts, and the argument on which the speech hung was lifeless. They  were neither original nor compelling.

Nothing in the speech rings true!.  From America's success in the past was based on people who "struggled and sacrificed and worked." he concludes that " What we need now is a "new era of responsibility."  What does it mean? It means Bush and Co. did nothing wrong; but we the people, as powerless as we were, are the reason for our  troubling economy. Our generation is at fault. Now  we have to start changing our behavior. Nothing about FISA , that he voted for , nothing about the fabricated War on Terror, that has scared us from our own shadows; nothing about extra-ordinary renditions; nothing about lies to get us into the War; nothing about the cost of war that he voted for it every time Bush asked; nothing about stopping the war now to stop bleeding, but we are in trouble now is because the present generation has acted irresponsibly. Is that really at the heart of America's difficulties at home or in the world? It has the ring of Neo-Cons Biblical prophecies, but not of grain of truth.

There were subsidiary themes that seemed ill-suited to the occasion. Obama declared we need to end "the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics." Yes, fine, but again: Does that get at the problem now? Is Obama facing partisan warfare? Is Washington deeply divided? It may become so, but nothing suggest that this is a critical problem. Unless he wants to take the party to the right and he feel that he might see opposition from Congress and Civil Rights leader.

Obama did not say anything about the nature of challenges facing us. Or he said is:" Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred,"! This is nonsense! Our nation is at war with people  who love us but hate their own oppressive  government. There is no danger from Al Quaeda or Hamas , even after 5 years of torture in variety of torture chambers the CIA, Bush administration, Justice department , FBI investigation, Military Kangaroo courts have not produced one legally acceptable confession or a real culprit for 911 attack on us! It seems  the danger posed by Al Qaeda is reminiscent of George W. Bush and his fabricated "war on terror". Obama and the country clearly face grave problems overseas; but they can't be reduced to a "far-reaching network." So what on hell he is talking about!

The economic crisis? "Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age." Greed? Yes, but greed condoned and encouraged by government. Hard choices? What does these refer to? Few people getting sub-prime loan!? Auto companies making the wrong cars? Obama doesn't say anything of substance!

He could have declared the reality that our economy is wrong because of greedy Bankers who invested and lost their investment. Of Israeli and Wall street commodity brokers  who in collusion with media , artificially increased the price of oil 5 times its worth pocketed the difference and transferred their money into foreign places. If the whole world has lost these trillions of dollars one would ask were did all these money that they scammed go, into the black hole , as Obama wants us to believe or in the pocket of the Wall street bankers and brokers that Obama wants to "Bail-out"!

The shallowness of his diagnosis is obvious, that is why he had lost his Mojo. His diagnosis dooms his supposed treatment of our economic problems. He is trying to shift the burden to the powerless people not the leaders who led them to the economic suicide. It was our leaders not the lead  who took us to this economic suicide mission, called depression. Why did he cover-up facts and blend them with fantasy?
 It is up to us to unmask him and force him to follow the "Change  yes, We Can" and move him to move to a more progressive direction rather than seeking comfort in Neo-Cons corner.Otherwise he would gravitate to individualism so the poor, he who can separate would become equal, and socialism for the rich, the Government should take-out money, that it does not have, from Treasury and "Bail-out" the rich Bankers and industrialists!

Americans are basically good people who are fooled by snake-oil salesmen. They believe the system must be changed; but, each time they fall into the trap of the "two party system" and nothing changes. But for a time they are happy that they have elected a new person who brings change "We can Believe in"; and, that keep the system going.

Obama is nothing but the continuation of the system and in every passing day he proves this point.

1. Obama was the "nominee of the system" because we need to change our Logo if we want to clean our tarnish image abroad. Who is better than Obama and his UN representative Rice to improve the arrogant murderous and brutal image of America as was represented by Bush!

2. Obama is not what the liberals believe him to be! He is for the War in Afghanistan that US Peace Institute has declared it to be a lost war for a lost cause!

3. War on Iraq has become the forgotten War. It is not news anymore. Yet we are paying for more than 300,000 GIs, mercenaries and contractors.
There is a Seamless transition in Defense. Robert Gate and Petreas would stay the course!!
The Move On.com has been put on the back burner.

4. Closing of Guantanamo Bay and similar torture Chambers in Afghanistan and Iraq with far greater victims are not discussed.

5. Joe Lieberman,  the non-Democrat right wing turn coat is re-installed as Senate Homeland Security Chair, on Obama's insistence.

6. In economy Obama was the first person who twisted arms so the First 750 billions was given to Bush to transfer it to his Bankers and Stock Brokers to facilitate "Socialism for the Rich"!
He is borrowing another 1-3 trillion dollars and would increase the National Debt to 13 Trillion Dollars by 2010. That is we print money out of thin air and become indebted to China, India and whosoever would buy our Treasury Bills. No speak of Budget deficit or trade deficit!
No mention of the fact that without investing in America, without  discarding Reaganomics, without Modification of NAFTA, without manufacturing in America and a "Buy America" plan we are not going anywhere.
 Investing in roads and bridges which brings manufactured products from Mexico and China  would not help America and would not reduce our balance of trade or cure our budget deficit, it would actually increase our dependence! Real Change starts with banning out-sourcing jobs and investing in American manufacturing. Our steal Mills closures and Wal-Mart expansion are death bell for American working class.
Obama's first TARP was for the Bankers and his second "Bail-out" is for a superficial infrastructure, Green Technology and service jobs   and not a fundamental change to bring manufacturing and thriving Unions as a back bone of American Economy.

Reaganomics by shifting manufacturing to China destroyed not only the Union but America and we have to get our country back from the reactionary system which under the mask of Globalization destroyed America.
7. Obama who talked about everything and every day goes in front of TV for the most trivial event has kept his silence about Israelis murder of Palestinians in Gaza so by the time he takes power the massacre of Refugees who have been thrown out of their original home in Northern Israel and have been living in Refugee camps in Gaza during the past 50 years. Silence when people are starved to death and have been left without medical supplies and clean water is a Crime. Obama's assertion of there is only "One President" has no justification and make him an accomplice in this crime against humanity. If he wants to cleanse America of the bad image that Bush created he has to show sympathy, as an individual, for the human suffering of helpless  
Unlike the US public which is kept in dark by the Corporate Media, Obama has access to real reports from US Intelligence Agencies and International press, and should assert his personal views, his timidity is shameful and would not be good for the American Image in the world.     

OBAMA: THE INEVITABLE NOMINEE

FARHAT MAQUAMI

The American commentators are ignoring the fact that Obama, who is neither a liberal, nor a Black-American, with no experience or writing in economics, has been groomed to seize the American Presidency. No one has really questioned where this man who only set foot on American mainland 26 years ago, without a serious challenge to his credentials, got such a great well-oiled propaganda machine, supported by multinational corporations money, and Israeli Government, has crushed Hillary Clinton, who only six months ago was the presumptive Nominee of the Democratic Party.

MEDIA'S CANDIDATE  

How the same corporate media put Banana peels under silly Bill Clinton in South Carolina in order to invent a Black identity for Obama. Obama, who never regarded himself as a Black-American,  never experienced historical racism and never regarded himself as Black Americans, suddenly start getting emotional support from Blacks who eventually voted for his Blackness rather than his politics.This emotional support continued even after he renounced  the Black Church by rejecting Jeremiah Wright.

 

Obama used the Trinity United Church as a vehicle  to repackage himself as a Christian( although he was a non-practicing Muslim, like millions of other we wrongly hate) in order to get into the American politics. He aligned himself with two Israeli citizens Rahmim Israel Emanuel and David Axelrod who cleverly repackaged and marketed Obama.

He watched and memorized the fiery speeches of Wright and mimicked  his aspirations, manner of speech and populism to get into the Chicago's political scene.

There is no record of him ever being  Baptized as a Christian. He is, like all other immigrants to the US an opportunist who may climb the ladder by adapting and using any symbol to get them accepted into the American culture. Nothing in him is real. He was never considered by black Americans as one of their own. He has never espoused anything that somehow he might be on the side of Black Americans plight in the midst of plenty. Indeed, he rarely acknowledges Bill Clinton, and admires Reagan..

All he has a speech against the War in Iraq, copied from Jeremaih  Wright and other well-known marginal radicals, who were opposing the War. He was in no position to make a decision, vote and his opposition stops at that one speech!

He would reposition troops in Iraq, but would never end occupation of Iraq and the Middle East.     

 

Obama used Reverent Wright "Audacity of Hope" speeches, called him a Mentor, an uncle and great inspirer of his dreams and then in a nana second disposed him like . One should wonder the tremendous forces operating behind Obama that could silence a fiery man like Reverent Wright. The corporate forces behind Obama and aligned with Emanuel are so overwhelming that could silence a man like Wright over night!

What happened to  Reverent Wright is already happening to Clintons.

Obama used Wright as a sacrificial lamb to get the nomination and Clintons would be sacrificed, lynched and trashed as a declaration of loyalty to the new order.

 BILL CLINTON'S Gaffe
Corporate Media's animosity to Clintons is a fact and it was only the stupid mistake by Bill Clinton who compared Barak Obama to Jessie Jackson that ignited the black masses enthusiasm and racial pride to go for Obama. Indeed, it was Clinton who made him Black, as Obama never perceived himself as a Black American.He used his Blackness to utilize affirmitive Action only. 

This was the greatest ploy of the Campaign; exploiting Black's historical sentimentality to vote en mass for a newly declared Black man:Obama, who never had Black history, Black Pride, or shared suferrings.!

Even when Obama denounced and rejected the Black Church, the same media banished Reverent Wright completely and totally sent him to Gulags of oblivion; and, never gave him a chance to respond. Clinton is no match for Obama's cut throat tactics and bannishment of Wright is the living proof of his brutal power! 

Why did, a firebrand progressive radical's banishment and sudden disappearance from Media has never been questioned? Why the Cable News and their pundits, who discuss any trivia for days, did not give a chance to Reverent Wright to defend his ideas and to clarify the issues? Why nobody questions Wright sudden disappearance and see this as a conspiracy of corporate media and Israei Government to present Obama as the Nominee of Democratic Party!

Why Wright has been used as a sacrificial lamb in Obama's coronation? Wright was saying nothing different from Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Ward  Churchill! Why no one on the left or right questions his disappearance!     

 

It seems the media is distorting and doctoring the Obama's biography to prepare Americans to accept Obama as an American Black liberal who should be elected as the next president of the US. He has never been an advocate of progressive liberalism or Unions. No one questions what these liberals have  done for blacks  since the Civil Right movement.

Whereas, everything in Obama's history seems to be flowed, doctored and made to crown him as the next president. Yet, nobody is allowed to question the real OBAMA, beyond the rosy picture painted by the media!  He paints his years  in Columbia  College  and almost  every  other event in his life different from what actually happened! and the Media never examine the contradictions. We seem to be infatuated with Obama as an Agent of change the same way our ancestors fell for an snake oil salesman! 

 

When we see that the same media, CNN, CNBC, Newsweek, New York times, and you name it media in the US, who blindly accepted, defended and advocated Bush's Theory of 911, the Attack, Occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq; then writing lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and finally  marching there, as embedded journalists in Iraq, are now supporting the Obama Mania. That is why everybody should be suspicious.

 

Who is this darling of Media and why every media in town is beating the Obama's Drum?

Obama's is not a Black American, but a hyphenated Kenyan American, who like all other new immigrant s do not share anything with the Black-Americans, whom  according to his Grandmother were Negros to be afraid of ,  be suspicious of and avoid them at all cost, because he was half white!.

Despite, the rewriting of Obama's biography, neither he was ever treated lik Black-Americans, nor he ever perceived of himself as a black-American. He never experienced racism and what he is making-up now has not been supported by anyone in Hawaii, where he spent most of his lifet life before the age of 20.   

 

He set foot in the United States and used his darker skin to take advantage of "affirmative action" and to get higher education and get to Harvard!

He was born from an atheist mother and an African Muslim father whose marriage certificate was never found and the mother run with Obama and his father's classmate to Indonesia.Then around the age of 11 rejected him and sent him to Hawii never  caring for him again. His life story would be a living proof that anybody can make it in America!

Americans are great people and here is the land of opportunity for all immigrants, except Blacks who were forcibly brought here!

He was introduced to Christianity at age of 23 by Reverent Wright. Yet, it seems that he was never officially baptized. It seems that he used Reverent Wright issue to dispel the idea that he was a Muslim and disposed of Reverent Wright, renounced and rejected him when the Black Church Ideology was no more necessary for his success.

 

OBAMA'S SUCCESS : Only in America

 

Obama's success story can only happen in America. It proves the basic goodness, simplicity, philanthropy, abundance of opportunity, acceptability and abundance of opportunity for any immigrant to succeed in America. Americans are very nice, religious and gullible people who would accept any story and believe any snake oil salesman who preach and promise them hope and new beginning.

First we believed in Bush, his never proven theory of Al Quada 's911( six years has passed without any convictions and any verdicts or confessions), the myth of WTC BUILDINGS  collapse because of the planes(now even Jessie Ventura has accepted the implosion theory of Collapse), the myth of Weapon of Mass Destruction and Iraq's Occupation, and we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq for strategic reasons. Now we want to get out but we are electing another Preacher of steals our Hope for Change by keeping us in the Middle East under different guise to protect our interests.    

Everybody can progress and succeed in America except the real Black-Americans, who are condemned to suffer and be ignored in the inner cities or be victim of racism like what happened in Hurricane Katrina! 35 years after civil rights Black-Americans are still at the bottom of this society, while every Vietnamese, Pashto, , Indian , or Chinese immigrant comes on top  in 5 years( Obama is a son of Kenyan who set foot in Los Angeles 25 years ago) while Blacks masses could not do in 400 years. They have been used by their corrupt leaders at every occasion and this time are voting for Obama, as if he is one of their own!

 

Ignoring the fact that Obama's was never accepted by anybody in Black community and never thought of himself as Black, before being compared to Jessie Jackson by silly Billy!.  

 

Masses of Black Americans would not get any benefit from Obama's Hope,  as his policies are closer to Reagan than Bill Clinton, Carter and Johnson. In every respect he is closer to conservative side and on the right of Clinton's, who was a moderate!  The only beneficiary of Obama's Nomination would be the changing image of America for the Global corporations and the Militarys desire to establish African Command to secure the resources of Africa for American Multinationals. This hopefully would bring a more favorable image of the US after disastrous policies of Bush administration.