Hundreds of thousands of Honduran citizens are protesting the military coup that has overthrown the elected president Zelaya while the Obama administration is content to "study" whether anything "undemocratic" has happened because there are "two sides."

Trained at the School of the Americas in Georgia, the coup plotters are corrupt generals supported by the Honduran oligarchy and the CIA.

By law, the US government is obligated to cut all military aid to any foreign government that has overthrown it's country's legitimately elected domestic leadership. Therefore, Obamas cowardly inaction is clearly illegal and a violation of his oath of office. Every other country has suspended diplomatic relations with the illegitimate Honduran government responsible for the coup.
Meanwhile the Obama administration waffles while right-wing retards at the Post and republican nazis support the generals in the Honduran government stomping the will of the people there.

What a bunch of chicken shit frauds we have occupying the White House and what a bogus mass deception we are being subjected to by our right wing media serving the global elite who pull the strings of their replaceable pawns in all three branches of government.

Call off your attack dogs - Cynthia McKinney

Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:15 Written by Free Gaza Team

We just spoke to the passengers. Everyone is OK, but the situation is still very tense. They continue to be surrounded by Israeli warships which are threatening to open fire. The Israeli Navy is actively jamming all navigation systems in violation of international maritime law, endangering the people on board.

Former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, speaking from on board the SPIRIT, stated, "I am extremely angry. We demand that the Israeli government call off their attack dogs. We are unarmed civilians aboard an unarmed boat delivering medical and reconstruction aid to other human beings in Gaza. Why in God's name would Israel want to attack us and threaten our safety and welfare. I call on President Obama and the international community to intervene now to prevent this situation from escalating with potentially drastic results to the civilians on board."

Since the boat's navigation equipment is being jammed, it has turned westward in order to stay in international waters.The Captain and crew are working from the most ancient of navigation equipment...the compass to stay clear of Israeli waters.

CALL or FAX Major Liebovitz from the Israeli Navy at:
Tel + 972 5 781 86248 or +972 3737 7777 or +972 3737 6242
Fax +972 3737 6123 or +972 3737 7175

CALL Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office at:
Tel +972 2670 5354 or +972 5 0620 3264
mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il

CALL Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defence at:
Tel +972 3697 5339 or +972 50629 8148
mediasar@mod.gov.il

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a person's sense of values and her objectivity. It causes her to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
~ Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

The domestic terror organization Fox News must be held accountable for the murder of Dr.George Tiller thanks to the blood lust of right wing goons Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Colonel Glen Beck who for years have incited violence against legal abortion providers.

Not one member of Congress or the executive branch will denounce as garbage the lunatic ravings of our domestic taliban, the christian right whose leaders like Operation Rescue's Randall Terry referred to Dr. Tiller as "a mass murderer."

After centuries of religious superstition, murderous crusades, inquisitions and jihaads in the name of religion, why will not a single elected public official denounce these bloodthirsty morons who pollute our airwaves inciting violence and death in the name of "god?"

Many conservative idiots now support Obama.
Since pandering to a tiny minority of religious wackos, inviting a reactionary homophobe to deliver a benediction at his Inauguration, Obama is sending 21,000 more troops to die in Bush's unwinnable war in Afghanistan, giving right-wingers more reason to like him.

A tiny minority of crypto fascist extremists (opposing everything Obama does) uses the artificially magnified bullhorn of Fox News and, by proxy, the rest of our corporate media, spinelessly aping the republican party's agenda while pretending to be "objective."
A false dichotomy of conservatives verses republican-light centrists has been manufactured for our consumption by powerful elitists (who own everything) to misdirect the liberal majority of Americans who oppose the policies being executed by the current administration (betraying the mandate which landed Obama in the White House.)

Liberal idiots are giving Obama a pass by accepting his lies on behalf of the global elite who insist on continuing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while his administration bails out rich investment banks at the same time allowing homeowners to be thrown out on the street or placed in contaminated Fema trailers.

Liberals who make excuses for Obama, saying that "he needs more time" are well-fed middle class racists who don't care that most homeowners being evicted are black. False liberals love supporting an Uncle Tom puppet doing a shuck & jive for unseen corporate masters while "changing" nothing. A vast majority of Americans also desire single payer universal health insurance which Obama opposes.

The most effective way to disarm and neuter a dissenting majority is to put in place a superb actor to "represent" all of "us" while betraying our hopes and dreams since his surreptitious appointment as leader by the shadow government.

The Illuminati understood precisely what was neccessary when Obama was installed as their pawn. Circumvent and short circuit a potential revolution when the depression gets worse and continue to label it a "recession" while corporate media peddles the simulated reality to millions of willfully ignorant dupes, burned out after 8 years of Cheney/Bush treason and too lazy to employ critical analysis to see thru the charade being conducted at our nation's expense.

Obama just asked Congress for another $83 billion to throw down the toilet in Bush's two unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Didn't we vote this corporate pawn into the White House because he promised to end Bush's wars?
Ever get the feeling you've been taken?

Does this useless politician realize our economy is collapsing?
Why are taxpayers supposed to bail out the banks and the military when millions are losing their jobs and homes? And NOBODY wants these wars...

Obama is merely a pawn installed in the White House to divert attention from the offshore bankers who are using him to extract billions in tax dollars from Congress to bail out deregulated, mismanaged banks run by criminals, against the will of the people.

Obama violated his campaign promise to end Bush's illegal war, voted for passage of the Telecom Immunity Law after telecommunications giants violated the Constitution by illegally wiretapping American citizens at the behest of the Cheney/Bush junta, and, as a prefabricated "centrist" savior (supported by a massive public relations campaign in all corporate media) continues the global elite's agenda of military aggression and imperial expansion while the economy collapses.

Obama's puppetmasters, the Rockefeller and Rothschild banking dynasties working thru the Bilderberg crime group and CFR will reap billions in profits as genocide is implemented and a world control grid is installed to exterminate and enslave billions.

Mindless dupes with no critical capabilities in the billions are flocking in unison to applaud the non-change represented by Obama's continuance of the global elite's agenda.

Following world economic depression and the complete devaluation of the US dollar, Obama's bankrupting of the US economy will lead to the appointment of a new puppet from the right to implement an end to US sovereignty and install martial law in response to citizen resistance to depleted resources and massive unemployment. The looting and pillaging of our money and resources started by the Bush crime family continues unabated with the Obama regime.

Millions of people need jobs and national health insurance but neither are forthcoming with the massive squandering of our national funds on two unwinnable wars of aggression in the middle east, supported by no one.

The main reason Obama looks good now is because of the criminal imbicile Bush, worst president in history. The treasonous venom spewed by the terror mole Cheney in corporate media fuels the false paradigm for the gullible masses (oblivious to the spineless collapse of the Republican-light Democratic party in response to hate radio gibberish supporting the torture dungeons in Guantanamo, populated by innocent "terrorists" handed over for CIA bounty money by Taliban thugs in Afghanistan.)

When will humanity reject the agenda of deceit and death represented by our "elected" puppets of the New World Order?

Are any of you still capable of thinking for yourselves?

Don't knock the Hitler Youth.
It produced a pope.

There's been a media blackout on the story in the U.S. but it's front page news around the world. Corporate media doesn't want the story to get out since it would undermine Cheney's propaganda defending torture on Fox News and mainstream outlets. Why US corporate media still promotes the discredited agenda of the neocons (now only supported by an uninformed 18% of the population) is the biggest mystery.

The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not
unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to
backfire.

Colin Powell used al-Libi's tortured and knowingly fabricated
testimony to tell the United Nations that Saddam Hussein's government
was helping al-Qaeda develop weapons of mass destruction to kill
Americans. It was all a lie.
IndictBushNow.org is joining with the Partnership for Civil Justice
Fund and the ANSWER Coalition to demand that the truth be told,
filing a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the CIA,
Department of Defense, Department of State and other agencies to
reveal information in their possession about Libi’s imprisonment,
torture, false testimony on Iraq and the circumstances of his death.

A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed - at the
demand of Bush torturers - to say that al-Qaeda was linked to Saddam
Hussein is suddenly dead. Several weeks ago, Human Rights Watch
investigators discovered the missing inmate and talked to him. He had
been secretly transferred by the administration to a prison in Libya
after having been held by the CIA both in secret “black hole prisons”
and in Egypt.

Under conditions of extreme torture, the prisoner, Ibn al-Sheikh
al-Libi, agreed in 2002 to supply the Bush-ordered interrogators what
they sought as a political cover for Bush’s marketing of the pending
war of aggression against Iraq. Mr. Libi agreed to tell them whatever
they wanted in exchange for an end to the torture. The now famous
Torture Memos providing legal cover for the torture were written at
the same time starting in the summer of 2002.

Libi’s tortured and knowingly fabricated testimony was the source of
information used by Bush to sell the war to the U.S. Senate, and the
source for Colin Powell’s bogus and lying presentation to the United
Nations in 2003.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are now running around saying that the
torture regime “protected the country from terrorist attack.” But the
torture was used for the personal political goals of Bush and Cheney:
namely, to sell their Iraq invasion to a very skeptical and
disbelieving country.

Having been discovered by human rights investigators two weeks ago,
Mr. Libi’s story coincided with the release of the Torture Memos and
the growing clamor for criminal prosecutions of Bush officials.

His testimony is the smoking gun that would reveal that the torture
regime was not for “national security” but for the personal political
aims of Bush and Cheney.

He was Exhibit A in the indictment that alleges that tortured
confessions and the contrived legal justifications of torture set up
by Justice Department lawyers in July/August 2002 were central to the
launch of the war against Iraq.

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died and tens of thousands of
U.S. service members have either been killed or badly wounded in a war
that was based on lies fortified and promoted by the most sadistic
torture.

Mr. Libi is suddenly dead. A Libyan “newspaper source” says that his
death is an apparent suicide. His friends don’t believe that.

We are building a movement for the appointment of a Special
Prosecutor. This is not a political choice. It is a legal imperative.
Mr. Libi’s death must be the first business of the investigation. When
other prisoners who had been kept at secret sites were sent to
Guantanamo, the Bush administration and the CIA intentionally kept Mr.
Libi from being part of that transfer. Mr. Libi was publicly stating
that the Iraq-al-Qaeda links attributed to him from his torture
sessions were not true.

“Who was the beneficiary” from his death? Why was he spirited away by
the Bush administration to hidden foreign prisons after he recanted
his tortured testimony and revealed that he was forced to make false
statements about Iraq under torture?

(But there's plenty on a comedian's jokes about Limbaugh and Hannity at the White House Correspondents Dinner)
So, it's been about 16 hours since BradBlog covered indie journalist/historian/blogger Andy Worthington's detailed report on the the reported suicide of the man who falsely "confessed", during torture, to a false tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The forced confession was subsequently used by the Bush Administration (Bush himself, as well as Powell and others) as justification for the war on Iraq. That, despite the fact that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi recanted his story not long thereafter, as long and widely reported.

As of this moment, not a single mainstream U.S. newspaper or broadcast outlet has reported on the story. Is it not notable? Or are our newspapers just dead set on ensuring their irrelevance by continuing to not report on news that actually matters, no matter how widely it's being reported in other parts of the world?

A search of "al-Libi" at Google News, at this moment, lists five stories in all, with The BRAD BLOG's coverage as the top story on the matter. The one, late, mainstream-ish entry is the coverage, finally, from Reuters filed one hour ago. And it's pathetic.

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, whose false tortured confession was used as basis for Bush's war, has reportedly committed suicide...
British journalist and historian Andy Worthington, an expert and author on Guantanamo, reports that the man who had supplied a key false tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda --- after being tortured in Egypt, where he had been rendered by the U.S. --- has died in a Libyan prison. "Dead of suicide in his cell," according to a Libyan newspaper.

Worthington has excellent coverage of the story tonight, which, he says, is "ablaze" in the Arabic media, but so far unreported in all but one English language outlet.

"This news resolves, in the grimmest way possible," Worthington writes, "questions that have long been asked about the whereabouts of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, perhaps the most famous of 'America's Disappeared' - prisoners seized in the 'War on Terror,' who were rendered not to Guantánamo but to secret prisons run by the CIA or to the custody of governments in third countries - often their own - where, it was presumed, they would never be seen or heard from again."

The "emir" of a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, al-Libi "was one of hundreds of prisoners seized by Pakistani forces in December 2001, crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Most of these men ended up in Guantánamo after being handed over (or sold) to US forces by their Pakistani allies, but al-Libi was, notoriously, rendered to Egypt by the CIA to be tortured on behalf of the US government."

Worthington reports:

In Egypt, he came up with the false allegation about connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that was used by President Bush in a speech in Cincinnati on October 7, 2002, just days before Congress voted on a resolution authorizing the President to go to war against Iraq, in which, referring to the supposed threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime, Bush said, "We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases."
Four months later, on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell made the same claim in his notorious speech to the UN Security Council, in an attempt to drum up support for the invasion. "I can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these [chemical and biological] weapons to al-Qaeda," Powell said, adding, "Fortunately, this operative is now detained, and he has told his story." As a Newsweek report in 2007 explained, Powell did not identify al-Libi by name, but CIA officials - and a Senate Intelligence Committee report - later confirmed that he was referring to al-Libi.

Al-Libi recanted his story in February 2004, when he was returned to the CIA's custody, and explained, as Newsweek described it, that he told his debriefers that "he initially told his interrogators that he 'knew nothing' about ties between Baghdad and Osama bin Laden and he 'had difficulty even coming up with a story' about a relationship between the two." The Newsweek report explained that "his answers displeased his interrogators - who then apparently subjected him to the mock burial. As al-Libi recounted, he was stuffed into a box less than 20 inches high. When the box was opened 17 hours later, al-Libi said he was given one final opportunity to 'tell the truth.' He was knocked to the floor and 'punched for 15 minutes.' It was only then that, al-Libi said, he made up the story about Iraqi weapons training."

Worthington concludes: "The most important question that needs asking just now, of course, is whether it was possible for al-Libi to commit suicide in a Libyan jail, or whether he was murdered. I doubt that we will ever find out the truth...Whatever al-Libi’s actual crimes, his use as a tool in a program of 'extraordinary rendition' and torture, exploited shamelessly not to foil future terrorist plots but to yield false information about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, remains a low point in a 'War on Terror' that has few redeeming features."

UPDATE: 16 hours later, and virtually zero coverage of this story in the U.S. corporate mainstream MSM. Amazing

African-American groups participating in the conference sharply criticized Obama and his administration for not attending and not signing its declaration against racism.

"The boycott of the Obama administration both saddens us and angers us," said Jaribu Hill, executive director of the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights.

"We will not let Mr. Obama off the hook simply because he stands inside black skin, or because his campaign served to energize and inspire thousands of young people and people of color," she said.

Ban, the U.N. chief, was heartened at the adoption of the declaration by consensus and urged countries not at the conference to rejoin the fight against racism.

In Paris, France's foreign minister criticized the U.S. decision to stay away from an event featuring Ahmadinejad while declaring itself open for negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.

"More than a paradox, it could really be a mistake," Bernard Kouchner said.

Filed by Hanna Ingber Win

GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a pretext for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out Monday from a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs tossing red clown noses at the popular leader.

The walkout was a display of racist sentiment by the puppet diplomats, bought and paid for by the global elite whose imperial wars in the Middle East violate human rights in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, exposing an agenda of predatory greed motivated by lust for oil.

Two protesters in clown wigs tossed the noses at Ahmadinejad as he recited a Muslim prayer to begin the speech.

Ahmadinejad restarted the speech, saying the US and Europe had helped establish Israel after World War II at the expense of Palestinians .

"They resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering," he said.

That prompted a walkout by some 40 racist diplomats from Britain and France and other European countries that had threatened to leave the conference if anyone dared to criticise Israel.
The United States and 8 other European countries were already boycotting the event revealing a hypocritical lack of concern over the continuing scourge of racism on the planet, shaming the people of the world with their arrogance and indifference. The global elite's head puppet Obama is a useful front man for their agenda of war and oppression thanks to his skin color. Who could accuse him of disrespecting a United Nations Conference on racism,(aside from those who can judge the truth for what it is?)

The ruling elite consists of those of all races whose allegiance is to their own greed, tho most of them are white. The shame committed by the Obama administration in disrespecting a serious UN conference addressing racism is a blot on our entire nation. Corporate media hopes to cover this up with the usual pro-Israel propaganda demonizing Iran's leader for telling the truth.

Ahmadinejad went on to accuse Israel of being "the most cruel and repressive racist regime."

UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon regretted the racist nature of the protesters disrupting the conference and their lack of respect for freedom of speech.

Today, President Obama announced the worse possible path he could have taken in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been the downfall of many Empires...our Empire is already crumbling economically and militarily, and Obama's plan will only hasten the Empire's demise. I am all for the Empire collapsing, but not on the innocent people in Afghanistan or on our troops and their families. - Cindy Sheehan

Obama's greatest tactical error, according to Dick Gregory, comes from his foreign policy.
"Afghanistan," Gregory says.
"Can someone tell him that every power that ever went into Afghanistan not only lost, but crumbled from within?"

The actions of Obama's Chief Financial Adviser Larry Summers and his Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in permitting the payment of $165 million in bonuses to AIG executives (Summers, according to the Wall Street Journal, actually pressed Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CT, to secretly remove a bar to the payment of such bonuses from the bailout bill) and storm of public outrage that has followed public disclosure of those payments, provides an opportunity for President Obama, whose administration is stumbling badly on many fronts, to turn things around and avoid political disaster.

He should promptly demand Geithner's and Summers' resignations, and should also fire the CEO of AIG, Edward Liddy (as 80% owner of AIG, the US has the power to do that anytime). It would also be a good idea at the same time to fire the CEOs of all the leading banks that are at this point surviving on government bailouts.

This would allow Obama to correct the fundamental mistake he made during the transition period following the November election in installing a bunch of Clinton-era economic advisors and Bush holdovers to be his economic team.


The US economy is in disastrous shape, and it is going to take new ideas, and people untarnished by the last 30 years of deregulatory excess and unsavory links to Wall Street, to rescue it. Obama has no shortage of good people to turn to: Nobel economist and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman, former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz and economist James Galbraith all spring immediately to mind as people who could offer new and better approaches to addressing both the immediate crisis and the longer-term challenge of restoring the health of the nation's economy, and of making it work for everyone, instead of just the wealthy few.

Of course, it could be that Obama is really not interested in radically changing the US economy, and its financial system. He has certainly accepted the tarnished coin of the Wall Street establishment during his campaign, and could simply be doing their bidding, but one has to operate on the hope that this is not the case. After all, the Obama campaign also raised an unprecedented amount of cash from ordinary folks, and if money is influence, he owes those little people big time.

In any event, it seems clear that if this president who spoke during his campaign of "hope and change" continues to cater to the bankers and the corporate interests that want to see no major revamping of the economic system and the regulatory apparatus, he is headed for a one-term presidency--and a sad and failed one at that.

The voters who sent Obama to Washington have been willing to extend him the benefit of the doubt, even when he made his almost uniformly lousy cabinet picks. They were willing to grant that he had been handed a disastrous situation by the last administration.

But as each week passes, the disaster becomes less Bush's and Cheney's, and more Obama's.

The same can be said of Obama's other big crisis: the two endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Again, Obama has largely retained and accepted the advice of the same people who helped run these huge policy disasters during the Bush/Cheney years, and is buying the basic assumptions of those two wars. He is most certainly not ending the Iraq conflict, and is now talking about leaving as many as 50,000 US troops in Iraq for years--as many as were in Vietnam in the fall of 1965. He is reportedly talking about doubling the number of troops in Afghanistan to over 60,000, and about expanding the war into Pakistan, and not just the tribal areas, but Baluchistan province, a heavily populated part of that country. This latter decision, which could lead to an explosion in Pakistan, and the collapse of the central government, could lead to an huge demand for more US troops in the area--perhaps hundreds of thousands more--and even to India's entry into the conflict.

This is as outrageous and doomed a strategy as is his economic program of trying to salvage the nation's zombie banks while nickel-and-diming a "stimulus" program for ordinary people.

He should seize the moment of s**tcanning his corrupt and inept economic team to also sack his military advisers, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Centcom commander David Petraeus, and bring in people who will tell him how to get the US out of both conflicts pronto.

If he fires and replaces his economic and military teams, and announces both a quick end to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and the immediate break-up of the country's big failed national banks and financial institutions, he has a chance to become a great president. If he does not, it is as predictable as the rising of the seas that his presidency will be a failure. We are nearing a point where the American public is going to lose patience with the half measures, the continuing pouring of national treasure down the twin sinkholes of the failed financial institutions and the two endless wars in the Middle East, and the tone-deaf behavior of cabinet secretaries and advisors who don't have a clue about how average Americans are living these days.

This is President Obama's moment for action. Firing Geithner and Summers would be a good start.

Americans should make an effort to let President Obama know that they want more than token stimulus programs. (Just consider this: official unemployment is now 8.1 percent, but only 4.1% of American workers are able to collect unemployment benefits, and meanwhile, real unemployment is closer to 18 percent. That's a lot of hurt, and not a lot of help.)

A good idea would be to join a march on the Pentagon set for this Saturday, March 21, and a two-day program of demonstrations against Wall Street set for April 3 and 4 in New York City.

by Dave Lindorff
www.opednews.com
__________________

Today I walked past Ugly Betty and a production crew on Broadway near Wall Street.
What's her name? Amerika Vispucci or something? Her braces looked real.

No Wars on Iran, Pakistan, Gaza!

The world can’t wait!

Come OUT to the first national protest of the wars under President Obama

THURSDAY March 19 leave work & school to PROTEST the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War.

SATURDAY March 21 at the Pentagon.
Barack Obama says he will:

leave 80,000 troops, thousands of private contractors, and 17 permanent bases in Iraq;
send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan , leading to more killings of civilians;
keep sending robot drones over Pakistan, killing more civilians;
deploy nuclear carriers with enough firepower to annihilate any country in the Mideast;
support the Israeli siege on Gaza;
keep in place the “secret rendition” program which Bush used to torture detainees;
keep the government spying on citizens and continue Bush’s “state secrets” justification;
increase the U.S. military by 92,000 troops, sending more to die for empire;
refuse to investigate & prosecute the war and torture crimes of the Bush regime.

The election of the first black president is effectively re-branding preemptive and illegal wars of aggression to make us feel good about them, enlisting us to “serve and sacrifice” for horrors we have no good reason to support.

The U.S. war on Afghanistan is an unjust war of aggression—the supreme war crime, waged not to bring democracy and liberation to the Afghan people, but to control Afghanistan with the goal of permanent domination of the Middle East.

But, we don’t have to go along! It’s immoral to “wait and see” or hope for the best from Obama.

If you care about humanity, get in the streets to send a message to the world that there are millions of us who don’t want these crimes carried out.
It’s time now to take action & make our demands visible everywhere.

New York City, NY

March 19 1PM. Converge at Union Square, 14th and Broadway. Rally to stop the occupations and torture. Statement to rally in NYC and at all events around the country by Chris Hedges, former NY Times Mid-East bureau chief. Speakers about war and torture—Debra Sweet, WCW national director and others to be announced. 3PM. March through the city. Orange jumpsuit and black hoods contingent—yes, Guantanamo is still open, torture is still going on and must stop! Artists and everyone—bring your visual displays of urgency to stop the occupations. High school students and youth contingent marching to say We Are Not Your Soldiers–Obama as president does not change the illegitimate and immoral nature of the wars!

5PM. Converge at Times Square Recruiter Station. 43rd and Broadway. Obama wants 92,000 more for the Marines and Army to escalate the war in Afghanistan—no way!

Mr. Obama, like George Bush, you cannot look me in the face and tell me that my son died for a “Noble Cause” in the “dumb war,” but I will look you right in your face and tell you that all wars are “dumb” and if you think that you can “win” a “smart war” in Afghanistan, then you are far dumber than you appear.

The Noble Cause is peace and a foreign policy that is free from murder and belligerence.

Mr. Obama, be the change that you promised us you were: bring our children home from Iraq AND Afghanistan.
Posted by Cindy Sheehan at 8:06 PM

In a slick bait and switch Obama went back on his word to end the war in Iraq, promising to keep troops there for another 19 months, then leave 15,000 US soldiers there indefinitely as an occupation force to "train Iraqi military."
This should come as no surprise considering that Bush and Cheney appointed Obama's Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the war criminal in charge of continuing the disasterous foreign policy blunders of the neo cons who lied us into two unwinnable wars that continue to drain our collapsing economy. Will the millions who fought to end Bush's wars of aggression now arise from their stupor and protest Obamas betrayal of "Change We Can Believe In?" Nah. Everyone's too mesmerized with having an elegant first family.

Announcing his intention to expand the stupid and clearly unwinnable war in Afghanistan, Obama promised to increase troops there even though his Pentagon advisors admitted to having no "end game" strategy. History teaches us that no foreign power on earth has succeeded in subjugating Afghanistan including the British Empire, Alexander the Great, and the Soviet Union (which collapsed after squandering it's resources there.) Listening to his delusional foreign policy advisor Zbignew Brezinski, Obama is now bankrupting the US economy further by squandering tax money on two imperial wars of aggression rejected by the people of the world.

Proving that the masses love their servitude, Obamas popularity continues while he serves the interests of his corporate masters, funneling 8.5 trillion in bailout money to investment banks with a small increase to public works to placate the millions of unemployed and disenfranchised.

Getting a standing ovation from Congress before saying or doing anything, Obama employed his slick oratorical skills in seducing millions into going along with the continuing mass deception and grand Simulation in his State of the Union speech.

Obama opposes the Fairness Doctrine which would allow voices of dissent to challenge the nazi lunacy of the republican party's leader Rush Lintball along with the daily swill of Fox News and 90% of corporate media.
Having a rabid fascist opposition barking at his heels is apparently part of Obama's master plan.

What needs to be done now is mass resistance to any more war mongering by the executive branch, the abolition of the fascist republican party, arrest and trial of the Bush crime family and a restoration of our constitutional rights and the rule of law. The Simulation won't likely tolerate that. The masses love their servitude and their new savior, put in place thru a gigantic public relations campaign that would make Stalin proud.