John Pilger on Obama and US foreign policy

[tumblerpigeon2]

Read John Pilger's 'Freedom Next Time' he should be our next prime Minister!

Watch the moving 'Burning Inside' it says and spells it out

[wisdomtrek]

I'm speaking on date Jan 7th, 2012. As such I can do a retrospective analysis to discern whether the pomp of (C)obama matched the reality of his tenure in office.

HE WAS A COMPLETE FUCKING FRAUD. A TOOL OF FINANCE CAPITAL.

Surprisingly enough he was WORSE then Bush, just a better deceiver in regards his interactions with the public, his public persona.

Alex jones skit interviewing COBRA COMMANDER, hence (C)obama,

[katsfanman]

We can get our Freedom back in *2012* answer RON PAUL !

[Solidgroundfilms]

ESSENTIAL PILGER ARCHIVE LINK cut n paste -JOHN PILGER-THE PEOPLE'S DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKER

[sssssjjjj1]

you people have had your country conned away from you. The press helped cheney, neocons(jews) and mossad do 911 and get away with it.......so far. Don't think this is over. Not by a long shot!

[11181001]

Great video, keep it up. Brandon Jarod new music release coming soon!

[DAVEDSIG]

Unfortunately, there wont be any "difference" or "change" in US foreign policy under Obama! Robert Gates spelt it out very clearly in Obama's early days! He said: "Foreign Policy & Defence will be off - limits to you!" Even if Obama wanted to, he cant by the powers that be!

[Evrythn1outof8infnty]

Don't you just have to wonder what the world would be like if absolute power doesn't corrupt? Obama would be a real hero that way... Rome, Egypt, America, Nazi germany, would all be peaceful and caring. But unfortunately absolue power doesn't just corrupt, it corrupts absolutely. Future empires are worse than past ones because the power is more absolute. Nuclear weapons that make attacking indefinitely more effective than defending, psychologically based propaganda that advances faster than CPUs

[JohnnyRock2000]

Unreal. I've been watching vids like this on the internet for a long time and never heard of John Pilger until this evening. Wow. I feel like my head has been stuck up my ass.

[CobinRain]

@JohnnyRock2000 Good comment/ Thank God for the Internet. But it reveals that Americans dont hear stuff because the entire mainstream media is owned by a few hundred men and women. Establishment supporting men and women. SO no hard questioning. There was the hard questioning about Iraq back in 03, Or Israel now? American politicians expect deference. And are surprised when a line of questioning is pursued by someone like Pilger. Try to see his interview with John Bolton. You'll love it!

[CobinRain]

@CobinRain If you cant find Pilger's interview with John Bolton, take a look at his "Palestine is still the Issue"..My American cousin watched this with an open mouth and then said.."Americans have just never heard any of this stuff..."

[JohnnyRock2000]

@CobinRain - have now seen many hours of documentaries by John Pilger. Interviews with Bush's neocons and many others. Imperialism is his focus and why not? It is about power and control, with people that have it now and want to keep it and also people that envy that and have it within their grasp too. Pilger seems to be able to tell his side convincingly and truthfully, and backs it up without alienating his viewers. There is power in that and more power to him. Who will replace him in time?

[CobinRain]

@JohnnyRock2000 Lets hope John Pilger is around a wee while more. I met him briefly at a book festival in my home town and found him even more impressive in person. He is a walking enclyclopedia of the brutal events of the late 20th century. He covered Vietnam for years, covered the Israeli wars from 67 on, was standing less that 15 feet away when Bobby Kennedy was murdered...etc etc. And what enrages the people he confronts is..he confronts with facts..remorseless facts. Glad youre into it.

[Evrythn1outof8infnty]

@CobinRain I have been living in Canada for 10 years without ever hearing of him. I could only assume less people know of him the the U.S. They must have done a good job keeping him off main stream media while making sure he wont know he's half censored.

[CobinRain]

@Evrythn1outof8infnty Yes, the power elite in America have become used to a compliant media. You can see the outcome of it right here on the Tube where so many Americans react in angry disbelief at things the whole rest of the world knows. Iran is shown projecting hate for the US but Americans are never told all the reasons Iranians might have for hating the US. And there are plenty. Media Bias by omission. Watch Pilger's War on Democracy and Wiki him. US politicians avoid Pilger with reason

[CobinRain]

@Evrythn1outof8infnty Watch Pilgers "Breaking the Silence". It will give you bad dreams, even in Canada...the real story of Iraq. Pilger corners a US government Official, asks questions which are denied, then in Pilger fashion, pulls the proof right out of the Library of Congress..He does his homework. Altho Australian he lives here in the UK now..

[NewBornpt]

Obama Can´t do shit... The Capitalist Pigs COntrol USA...

[jsmccall1]

When money, class and state are abolished arzoyan it will leave a power vacuum which will then be filled by the next totalitarian dictator, czar, caeser, emperor, pharoah, etc.... a 'god' on earth who rules by divine right and owns all... people, land, resources, etc.... 'rights' as we now know them in the US will be obliterated. THe result will not be any sort of recognizable 'freedom' as we know it.

[mac163]

Thank you ycp77 for the vid. more than a year and a half has passed since this and John Pilger was right on the money. obama like bush is simply a figurehead no more no less.

[arzoyan]

2- Capitalism must be transcended into a community of humanity in COOPERATION for OUR COLLECTIVE WELL BEING, in this social reality MONEY,CLASS,STATE shall be abolished and human energy and creativity will be freed from shackles of profit motive and will express itself in multitude of loving caring and humanising forms. 3 The emerging majority democratc movement shall be based on above principles hence no leaders,no secrets,no ism A TRULY MOVEMENT CONSCIOUS OF TRANSFORMATIVE ESSENCE.

[arzoyan]

Any political movement with leaders and followers as template is an ideological process of distortions and manipulations for the interest of a minority ruling class.We the working class of the world need to organise ourselves on the basis of FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES that 1- capitalism whether state run like ex Soviet Union or currently China or private operated like in USA with the emergency help from the uncle Sam when necessary is a mechanism of Working class exploitation.

[wlwak]

The BBC are just an outfit of more subtle propagandists. They follow power and they always have.

[TheRiddler72]

@wlwak

That's because they're government owned and censored, just like every other major news corp.

[arzoyan]

world capitalism - the wage slavery of immense humanity through the politically manipulated market mechanism for the abstract process of concentration and accumulation of capital in the hand of a few- is an imposition of war,poverty,insecurity,exploit­ation,suppression,enviornmenta­l destructions , no matter which political leader is masking the deception.

[mattiastub]

check out alex jones new film the fall of the republic which was released today

[openyourfuckingeyes]

@mattiastub

alex jones is a hack

[Jonchess1]

Not really good enough to say anybody is better just get rid of Bush! There are powerful forces which do not seem any less influential in the Obama administration as they were in the Bush one. Only sure sign that he is independent from the Industrial Military complex is if he begins to significantly reduce the Military and in particular its presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. So far the signs do not appear encouraging.

[openyourfuckingeyes]

but he's so eloquent! and michelle obama is so down to earth!! hes soo different

[TJnomadi]

he's a fraud like all U.S presidents

[ceomeye]

such a fukn shame... Hope you can believe in is hope betrayed. What this entails is that this is a punch to the stomach of African Americans and all people who believed in him. it also means that slaver is fully activated and executed at the highest levels in washington DC. Do as I say Uncle Tom!!

[YackingYoda]

Obama is like a clown used to entertain the kids while the parents discuss which school to send them to.

[HemiHead66]

I get a kick outta Bam Bam when he talks about the rule of law. In one hand he's got the law, and in the other he's waving the murderers on by. It's like Cheney saying he's kept America safe after he let the largest attacks on American soil happen. Did ya ever read the Autopsy reports from Bush's torture program? The the Dept. of Defense put them out, and you've got line after line of beaten to a pulp - cause of death, Homicide. They were all prisoners with no charges.

[CarringtonVilla]

What the fuck would a communist son of a shit like John Pilger know about free speech? This maggot fuck goes on like rabid dog bitching about how the US is a land of slavery, but could give a two-fuck about the state of free-speech in kkkomunist countries like China and Russia, where the ENTIRE NEWS NETWORK is monopolized by the (yes you guessed) government and where if anybody speaks out against the status quo, they won't just lose their jobs, they'll get put to death.

Nothing but a snake.

[starmanskye]

Carringtonvilla: You show yourself as a limpbrained fiddlehead sheeple. The most basic error is that socialism isn't Communism. But then neither belief confounds critical thinking, unlike the neoliberal massmedia that has been conditioning arrogant dopes like you. You don't even suspect US media monopolism & misnamed public education has been dumbing you down, force-feeding you outrageous lies & fabrications to disguise the duplicity & hidden agenda of the hegemonic corporatocracy you embrace.

[CarringtonVilla]

I embraced corporatocracy? Wow and you just showed yourself to be a rabid, zombified, head-banging brainwashed communist attack dog. Communism/socialism (communism-lite) doesn't confound critical thinking of course it doesn't it's a fucking fairy tale that any person with a half a brain would dismiss as borderline insanity. But then again, if the US manufactured consent, what of the enforced consent of communist pieces of shit like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela with their STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA

[ngonea]

CarringtonVilla -all ISM's were created by the International Banksters, This game goes all the back to the days of Babaylon, they left there and raised up Rome, Rome raised up great Britian, Britian put Hilter into power in Germany,all the ISM's are a variation of the same MONETARY EMPIRE, he who controls a Nations money supply rules their Gov. This country has been taken over by Corporatism (facism) another ISM,

America is still a British Colony, run by the IMF since 1930's, FDR's bankruptcy.

[rastaman39]

Jah Bless this man for his courage Exposing this SHITSTEM,,, he tells the truth on the OPPRESSION to the DOWNPRESSED,, Seen .. Jah Live !!

[ngonea]

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[clancypants77]

john pilger, you tell the truth.

[yourgasm]

John Pilger is just a stupid extremist who wants things handed over on a plate to ppl. Dumb commie. Lets not forget this is a man who backs Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez who are nothing but dictators but hey he loves to point out the human rights about America.

[craig260691]

Fuck you

[yourgasm]

Fuck you.

[adeleellie6]

I like Obama but John Pilger has been right for such a long long time and I have always respected him, he says unpopular things but he always ends up being right.

[QuattroAmiciFilms]

you're a pimp ycp777

[v1660]

well, he probably is a better alternative than bush.

i just hope he and the propaganda apparatus will leave chavez alone. but that might be a naive thought, after all, we wouldnt like him to be independent and set an example for other countrys now would we?

[rayyyyyy1]

Its important that people who want a fairer society do everything they can to bring social jusice about.

JP is an eternal critic much easier to criticise than compromise. But can anybody be really sure that the critic has more effect than a doer like obama?

[oilervision]

John Pilger Will eat his words one day. You are watching the Tiger Woods of Politics...rock on Obama.

[michaelxhuxley]

The Tiger Woods of politics, i assume then you think Obama is a chicken pecking uncle tom?

[rahimulrich]

Great, true and real.

[rayyyyyy1]

Obama has an extremely hard job on his hands. The US looks to be heading into a huge depression. John Pilger would obviously like to see him fail. It suits JPs narrow world view to believe that anybody democratically elected these days must be morally bankrupt.

[jlfittro]

I don't think John Pilger wants Obama to fail he is just being realistic. Look at the right leaning apointees and see the future.

Obama will soft sell the same policies as Clinton/Bush. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[jazza161080]

since when are us elections democratic? your presidents are appointed not elected,everybody except americans know that

[CarringtonVilla]

"presidents are appointed not elected"

That's about as retarded a statement as my saying Venezuela is a democracy.

[scottishchap2008]

it is a democracy, youve been outfoxed by the news my friend

[CarringtonVilla]

No it isn't. You've been brainwashed by the Eastern MSM. For real news, you have to check out the alternatives: CNN, FoxNews, BBC,.

[SoulsOfThePure]

carringtonvilla: i will have to say i admire your opinion on the matter. have you taken the opportunity to have actually have watched the "war on democracy" film? i have done a substantual amount of reseach on the matter and i agree as well with many others on the evidence that John Pilger provides, but, on the other hand i am also curious to where you have obtained you knowledge the matter....

[lilhotboy247]

@CarringtonVilla : I CANNOT tell if you are being serious or not...? So please do tell... I mean really???

[4Peace4All]

@CarringtonVilla: if you consider fox to actually have "news", you need to re-evaluate what you're watching and hearing from them

[monicalups]

thank you for posting,,.,,john pilger is GOD!

[iossifrankidavidis]

John Pilger continues to enlighten me. Thank you John Pilger!! Thanks for this video

[firebreathone]

Obama is good. I like the people in his cabinet: Rahm Emmnuel was a great choice. So was Joe Biden. Hillary Clinton is also very good. |

[AmericaFell]

Obama is a desperate destraction from the madness that is America. Up untill this election Blacks & hispanics all but give up on any hope. but now just because of what this guy represents they seem to have fogotten all that, and suddenly this idioc word change is in the air. the only change he is going to bring is to make things even worse!

[Kalydosos]

I agree with most of what you say however, Mr Obama is not an idiot his policy in Afghanistan is crazy.

He'll only get more people killed in this colonial war.

[rivi8840]

THe international crisis Biden alluded to during the campaign will stem from Latin America and Chavez not Iran/Israel. Democratic presidential admins have historically had difficulties dealing with the L A left (Castro, Ortega etc)

Starting with JFK & Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missle Crisis. LBJ/Dom Rep1965, Carter/Mariel/Sandanistas, Clinton/1994 Cuban Balseros Crisis/Elian Gonzales.

[totolondon]

obama will change nothing ...just killing people the are all masons...

[WOLF333999]

Thank you for posting this video, ycp777.