“Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill”–Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn Reviews Obama’s First Year in Office

  Posted by Siriel Admin 2010 Jan 6 - 10:33pm 

   [Themes: Global issue | | USA | •Crime of War | •Imperialism & Neocon. | •Untruthful Propaganda ]

Democracy Now, January 06, 2010

In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security decisions over the last twelve months. “I think Obama should be remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white racism,” Nairn says. “But [...] the US has a machine that spans the globe, that has the capacity to kill, and Obama has kept it set on kill. He could have flipped the switch and turned it off… but he chose not to do so.” He continues, “In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.”
Source: www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/obama_has_kept_the_machine_set

Siriel-Media comment : Nairn gives real examples of how US and NATO forces wilfully target and murder civilians and he asks the right questions concerning how we would feel if foreign forces bombed civilians and murdered people freely in our own country. Nairn has the capacity to speak the hard truth calmly, as it is, and to look at the horrible truth beyond our self-serving lies and propaganda. A rare hard look at reality (but remember, it is a reality we can change).