Friday, June 5, 2009

Obama In Cairo: A New Face For Imperialism

By Patrick Martin
05 June, 2009

"The speech delivered by US President Barack Obama in Cairo yesterday was riddled with contradictions. He declared his opposition to the “killing of innocent men, women, and children,” but defended the ongoing US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US proxy war in Pakistan, while remaining silent on the most recent Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. These wars have killed at least one million Iraqis and tens of thousands in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.

Obama declared his support for democracy, human rights and women’s rights, after two days of meetings with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, two of the most notorious tyrants in the Middle East." (more)
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9 comments:

  1. vJune 5, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    OBAMA - THE HIGHEST STAGE OF NEOCOLONIALISM
     
    http://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-11_cy-2008_m-11_d-09_y-2008_o-0.html

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  2. vJune 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    "To call it by its right name, what the more perceptive elements in the US ruling class fear is world revolution. The effort to prevent such a social upheaval is what impelled them to install Obama in the White House and what set him on his pilgrimage to Cairo."

    hmmm...

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  3. GuestJune 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM

    I cringed when he said hajib instead of hijab.

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  4. thankgodimatheistJune 5, 2009 at 6:18 PM

    Did he? Hmmm! Well technically a hijab IS a hajib. Both are correct. Not that he knew it. Both words stem from the same root/verb "hajab" (cover). For an Arab hearing him saying hajib shouldn't be a big a deal.

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  5. vJune 5, 2009 at 7:07 PM

    Perhaps it is a big deal for those who want to...make it a big deal...LOL

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  6. vJune 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM

    EXCERPT FROM ABOVE LINK
     
    <span style="color: #ff99ff; font-weight: bold;">"This is what has made it necessary for our oppressors to employ a global neocolonial strategy. It is a strategy that intends to give imperial white power a new and friendlier face that is not normally associated with oppression and exploitation. It is a strategy to seduce the peoples of the world to compliance with the predatory interests of U.S. imperialism as it becomes increasingly clear that military coercion alone is no longer sufficient for imperialist success."</span>

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  7. vJune 5, 2009 at 9:56 PM

    YOU DON'T FLY TO THE POWER, YOU FIGHT THE POWER!

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  8. anandJune 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM

    v, where does your obession with "white" come from? The world's economy is increasingly centered in Asia.

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  9. vJune 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM

    http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06052009/watch.html

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