John Mcgarry made this post earlier and its already vanished in the constant string of posts here. But it is quite important and one of the best published on the Obama speech in Brussels on the Ukraine crisis: Much of the speech was devoted to rehashing long-discredited claims that American imperialism and its European allies represent democracy, freedom and the popular will. Obama invoked the conflict between democratic ideals and the authoritarian view that “order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” But the words rang rather hollow coming from a president who has claimed absolute and unreviewable power to order the drone-missile assassination of anyone he chooses, anywhere in the world, and whose government asserts the right to collect and store the e-mails, text messages and telephone calls of the entire human race. wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/27/obam-m27.html
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:50:08 +0000
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