The Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama, who in his prize-claiming speech boldly claimed the mantle of Mahatma Gandhi, is now visiting India. And why has he made this pilgrimage to the homeland of his spiritual mentor? Has he come to drink more deeply of the wellsprings of satyagraha, to steep himself more thoroughly in the Gandhian principles of courageous, active, non-violent resistance to evil, to the Mahatma's ceaseless dedication to the poor and the outcast?
No: he has come to seal the deal on the sixth largest sale of war weapons in the history of the United States: $5 billion for the bristling, burgeoning Indian military, currently waging war on millions of its own people in Kashmir and the poverty-devastated state of central India, where the despair is so deep that suicide among the poor is epidemic.
Five billion dollars could have transformed the lives and futures of millions; instead it will go into the pockets of a few American war profiteers -- who will of course spread the wealth around to their favorite politicians ... such as Barack Obama, the leading recipient of war industry money in the 2008 campaign, outdoing even that old soldier and ardent militarist, John McCain.
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Good to see the happy snappers of the corporate controlled media are on their usual best behaviour, wherever the 'work' takes them.
ReplyDeleteAnd doesn't the mob provide the perfect pictures for them snap away at....
"We have come to offer our hands in friendship, with a message of peace"...
Thats all that photo-journalists of the corporate controlled media are around the elite mob, there to arrange the icing around the cake with a sugary coated image from behind the lens.
Same here in Melbourne with Hitlery Clintons visit under a swooning fit by the media..all bedazzled....and obviously staged.
SOOOO see through..its funny.