More of the Same – Only Worse (Part 2)

[See part 1 in the October 30, 2008 edition of The Black Commentator]

Nothing has changed and as long as this unequal and exploitative system remains intact, nothing will.

The recent selection by Barack Obama of the war mongering, apartheid Zionist, Wall Street-backed, infamous Mossad-connected Rahm Israel Emanuel to the powerful position of White House Chief of Staff came as no surprise to politically conscious and discerning people; and its going to get worse—a lot worse, on so very many levels.

First and foremost it should be clearly understood by Black, White, Brown, Red and Yellow peoples everywhere that Zionism is the Israeli version of the racist, murderous, and hypocritical U.S. ‘Manifest Destiny,’ which despicable ideology supported and rationalized the wholesale thievery of indigenous people’s lands, genocide, and slavery on this so-called North American continent. Zionism has become the 21st Century reality of apartheid, especially as it is practiced towards the Palestinian peoples in particular and Arab peoples in general, in what is known geographically as the Middle East.

To grasp precisely who and what the political hardliner and Zionist Rahm Emanuel is, it is helpful to review the most excellent November 5, 2008, article entitled, Obama Picks Pro-Israel Hardliner For Top Post, by Ali Abunimah, which says in relevant part:

In Congress, Emanuel has been a consistent and vocal pro-Israel hardliner, sometimes more so than President Bush. In June 2003, for example, he signed a letter criticizing Bush for being insufficiently supportive of Israel. “We were deeply dismayed to hear your criticism of Israel for fighting acts of terror,” Emanuel, along with 33 other Democrats wrote to Bush. The letter said that Israel’s policy of assassinating Palestinian political leaders “was clearly justified as an application of Israel’s right to self-defense” (“Pelosi supports Israel’s attacks on Hamas group,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2003).” The Obama appointment of Emmanuel is just a beginning component of the real Barack Obama’s war mongering and his pro apartheid Zionist stance.

One might have hoped that the majority of people in this nation would have immediately realized who Barack Obama really was and is, when days prior to the farce of the November 4th election in the U.S., he actually urged support for the over 750 billion dollar Wall Street (corporate blood sucking) sell out of the masses of every day people in this country. But the corporate media’s intense disinformation campaign and biased and overwhelming support for Barack Obama was initially, simply too potent, for the majority of people to see through or recognize how they were being manipulated, pimped, and bamboozled. But with renewed vigilance, over time that will change. It must also be remembered that liberation struggles for economic, social, and political justice, nationally and internationally, are long term dialectical affairs and they will not only continue, but in the course of time, become stronger.

While millions celebrated the successful corporate selection of Barack Obama to be the U.S. Empire’s next face, millions of others did not. Moreover, as it becomes clear, for example, that the Obama / Biden regime will not institute, support, or provide single payer / universal health care for the masses of every day people, and will in fact continue and increase support for the greedy corporate blood sucking elite of Wall Street, the people will begin to awaken. As it becomes clear that Barack Obama is not now nor ever was a man of peace but rather a procurer of war, the people will awaken. As it becomes clear that Barack Obama’s slippery tongue embodies subterfuge, half truths, and constant disinformation, the people will begin to awaken. As it becomes clear as to why the U.S. corporate media of the Empire so vigorously supported Barack Obama, the people, be they Black, White, Brown, Red, or Yellow will understand what horror the corporate / military and Zionist elite has ushered in, in the person of Barack Hussein Obama, to be the face of the imperial U.S. Empire at home and abroad.

Unfortunately, thanks not only to the Empire’s corporate media, but also to certain so-called leftists and progressives who, collaborated with and capitulated to, the U.S. Empire, there was virtually no strong, serious, or much-needed critical analysis and criticism of the then candidate Barack Obama who, like a smilingly deceptive demon from hell, came rushing in to anxiously take over the reins of the Empire for the U.S. corporate / military elite. The written words to me from an astute Black American reader of The Black Commentator ring clear and true when he recently wrote: