POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY AURAL BRAUN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
More intellectual crap from Aural Braun.
Mr Braun is a full-time lobbyist for the interests of the
Israeli-U.S. effort to re-shape the planet.
Mr Putin, as one of the true independent-minded statesmen of
our time, is of course at odds many times to a dangerous vision of world
affairs.
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"Please, Obama is
a joke. He is a complete amateur, never worthy or prepared to be president."
I wish it were true that Obama's behavior could be explained
by "amateur" status.
But it cannot be.
He came to office with dreams and enthusiasms and some sound
thinking, but in the face of the forces which truly govern America, he quietly threw
up his hands and has become effectively a hostage.
He undoubtedly feared assassination, but it is not just such
a dark threat which likely influenced him.
Day to day, he works with a relatively small group of people
- military and intelligence officials, members of the imperious Senate, big
money political contributors, including the powerful Israel Lobby - and that
group is not friendly to the language of an Obama before election.
Look at any other notable American politician and
presidential aspirant, and you see the same thing at work.
Hillary Clinton, over the last 20 years or so, has gone from
a rather idealistic person to an unpleasant, acerbic advocate of Imperial
America. She has told bald-faced lies in public countless times and uttered words
which might have been written by an old crypto-Nazi like Dick Cheney.
Her husband was once a man of some ideals, too, but his two
terms in office were marked by not one achievement of any worth, and he became
little more than a kind of giant vacuum cleaner for political donations,
setting some ghastly precedents like selling nights in the Lincoln bedroom of
the White House or pardoning a big-time criminal at the end of his term in
exchange for many millions of political dollars.
This is the modern reality of imperial America: elections at
the highest level simply do not matter. By the time a politician has managed to
scrabble to become a contender, with all the endless secret begging for
campaign funds, he or she has become part of the problem, not the solution.
In economics, we speak of barriers to the entry of markets.
The American campaign finance system requiring truckloads of private money to
run is effectively a barrier to entry in the political market, a barrier
against the idealistic or those who would do anything to interfere with
America’s entrenched governing establishment: the military-industrial-intelligence
complex along with such powerful special interests as the Israel Lobby.
This barrier is reinforced by a duopoly of parties in that
market, each being not very different than the other, except in some volatile
social interests of no concern to the establishment.
