�If the masses of people in this nation knew or had known the pertinent facts pertaining to the war mongering �we can fight the war better,� pro-apartheid Zionist, corporate Wall Street-backed, slippery tongued Barack Obama, it is doubtful that they would have been so thoroughly bamboozled and hoodwinked to their own detriment and that of the world.� These words were written by me, approximately two years ago, in the October 30, 2008, issue of The Black Commentator; and with a sad, terrible and predictable fury they are now coming home to roost, haunting the suffering peoples of this nation and planet. When reality is ignored the consequences can be, and usually are, perilous.

As president of the United States, Barack Obama has supported, and is supporting, the most insidious forms of corporate thievery, militarism, and the gutting of civil and political liberties in this nation and around the world. He is doing this by his support for the unconstitutional so-called Patriot Act, his active advocating and support for the criminal financial bail-out of Wall Street, his extension and broadening of the illegal and amoral U.S. program of international kidnapping known as �Rendition,� his escalation of the U.S. war in Afghanistan (and drone missile attacks in Pakistan), and his continuation of the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq. Like a fork-tongued serpent, Obama consistently practices policies which very badly hurt the every day people of this nation and world, while engaging in a litany of disinformation and simultaneously cynically pretending to have the best interests of just plain every day Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples at heart. Indeed, in the first year of his presidency Barack Obama has demonstrated that he is the conjurers� conjurer; a willing and wily servant of the corporate / military elite, and an enemy extraordinaire of the common people.��

Thus, it should come as absolutely no surprise that Barack �Grima Wormtongue� Obama appointed former U.S. presidents George �the Butcher� Bush, and William �the sleaze� Clinton to head the U.S. so-called earthquake �relief� efforts in the tiny black nation of Haiti. Apparently Barack Obama is so delighted with war criminal George W. Bush�s emasculation of hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans, that he has rewarded him with the task of doing the same thing to the earthquake victims of Haiti! Of course, the actual Bush / Clinton task assigned by Obama, is in reality, to exploit the terrible disaster in Haiti by intensifying and continuing the U.S. actions of subterfuge which have economically and politically emasculated the Haitian people, under the guise of supposedly assisting them. Remember that it was under the U.S. presidential administrations of William Clinton and George W. Bush that (in collusion with France, Canada, etc.) outrageous economic constraints and conditions were imposed upon Haiti, which were guaranteed to not only stifle Haiti�s independent economic development as a sovereign nation, but also ensured that Haiti would have no viable national infrastructure for its people. These constraints and conditions have been continued by Barack Obama. The recent horrible earthquake in Haiti served to exacerbate and highlight the already existing terrible economic and political conditions which had been previously forced upon this nation by the United States corporate / military elite, et al.� Moreover, it bears remembering that it was the complicity and subterfuge, on the part of the U.S. Government itself, which resulted in the deposing and kidnapping of the democratically elected, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristede. There is no doubt whatever that the Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel clique is fully cognizant of all of these horrors, and in the cynical name of aiding the Haitian people, is in fact continuing them.�

Finally, the billions of dollars that France, in complicity with the United States, Canada, etc., extorted from the tiny nation of Haiti, in the form of so-called �reparations� payments to France (for Haiti�s dared to have successfully struggled to win its independence from French slavery and colonization) must be immediately returned to the Haitian people. Anything short of this is a continuation of this mockery of justice towards Haiti.

What we in this nation of the United States must understand is that the reality of the daily economic and political horrors inflicted upon Haiti by the U.S. corporate / military elite etc., are also stealthily, and to a far less obvious degree, being steadily inflicted upon every day people in the United States of all colors by Barack Obama, in service to his corporate / military puppet masters. It is urgent that we recognize this NOW for what it actually is. This Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel clique, in complicity with the slimy U.S. corporate media, will not hesitate to continue to obfuscate and misinform the people of this nation and world, in a constant, never-ending effort to control and manipulate. Keep in mind that the corporate media is the hand maiden of this corporate government and it exists to form opinion, not to inform it. Thus, the people are kept in a constant state of fear and manipulation, combined with perpetual corporate blood sucking and perpetual wars abroad.

Barack Obama�s phony health care reform is in fact a big fat gift to the corporate elite of the avaricious pharmaceuticals and their concomitant corporate ilk. Furthermore, Obama�s so-called �bank tax� is but another cynical ruse whose purpose is to confuse and mislead the every day people of this nation, while endlessly bilking them / us.�

It is no coincidence that the U.S. corporate media continues to squawk about a nonexistent �jobless� economic recovery when it knows full well that there is no such thing for the masses of people. It is likewise no coincidence that home foreclosures are continuing to skyrocket and the Obama regime, while having criminally, financially bailed out the fat cats of Wall Street [with the every day people�s money], has not insisted upon a total and complete moratorium on foreclosures.

Sadly, many people in the United States have performed a backwards flip, by having allowed themselves to be dangerously mesmerized by the Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel clique. The every day people have jumped backwards from the frying pan straight into the fire. But all is not lost. We have the option to struggle against the corporate fascist government oligarchy and its newest and most deadly sorcerer Barack Obama. We have the option of utterly rejecting both the so-called Democrat[ic] and Republican corporate political parties. We have the option of building �third� parties, outside of the de facto one party Republicrats [i.e. Democrat and Republican Party]. We have the option of telling the entire corporate news media (including the corporately �sponsored� PBS--the so-called Public Broadcasting System) to go to hell. We have the option of turning all of these Republicrats and their political enablers out to pasture.�

However, we must act quickly and with determination and clarity for you can be assured that the military and imperialist policies, and the active subterfuge, of and by this Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel regime are meant to scare and thereby manipulate and control� the �American� people into submission by ensuring that horrible �terrorist� attacks upon civilians will continue to occur. I reiterate: The escalated military and imperialist policies of this government are like throwing gasoline on a fire, thus ensuring the escalation of so called �terrorism� on all sides. Be not deceived, Barack Obama and his administration are quite aware of this, and of the inevitable terrible consequences of what they are doing. They know full well that the people are not protected by pushing political and military policies that incur hostility and the vicious, murderous cycle of revenge. The �terrorism� carried out by nation-states, including that of the United States, feeds the �terrorism� and repetitive cycle of hatred and revenge, and no amount of the Obama administration�s �Wizard of Oz� rhetoric, subterfuge, or obfuscation changes this reality.

It is time for the every day people to take the lead and become the collective leaders. It is time for the people to actively stand up, to actively organize, and with one unstoppable voice say, NO MORE!!!

Time to place the politicians and their corporate masters in the proverbial frying pan where they belong.

Onward then my sisters and brothers. Onward!....� There remains much work to be done.

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/LehrerNewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.