US Foreign Policy

Dear Senator Obama

As voters in the United States are entertained either by the minutia of electoral politics anticipating the next gaffe by Sarah Palin as well as the latest poll or the latest frivolous update on the artificial and superficial lives of magazine-created celebrities, people in Africa are suffering from a myriad of crises for which the Western World is largely responsible and which we now ignore at ou

George Bush’s true legacy may not be truly understood for many years. Domestically he will be remembered as the president who severely weakened the economy, undermined civil liberties, and enfeebled the foundations of democracy.

As many of you will remember, the American 4 by 100 meter relay team at the summer Olympics did not complete the race because during an exchange, the baton was dropped. The structurally embedded empire builders in the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, and NSA etc. should have no such fears if Obama qualifies for the final event, the swearing-in of the president.

From his article published on The Orgonian yesterday, professor Mearsheimer in Chicago University argued that Hilary and Obama were no friends of Israel for they were facilitating Israel's pursuit of self-destructive policies that no true friend would favor.

Read the article here:

I just came across an interesting interactive world map of US Foreign Policy on the site Historyisaweapon.com

Check it out, its very nicely done. Its an interactive history of US backed coups. Coups that toppled democratically elected goverments in favor of brutal dictators who in return backed US business interests.

By Marjorie Cohn, Published on September 2, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, told a meeting of The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal, that the military did not intend to carry out “pinprick strikes” against Iranian nuclear facilities. He said, “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military.”

By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium: Fri., Aug 3, 2007
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