Discussing American Abandonment of Anti-War Movement Under Obama

The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my post, “When it Comes to War, Life is Top-Heavy With Hypocrites“…

Rayn: Sad… Life is top-heavy with hypocrites.

"Anti-War Movement: 2007, 2012"

“Anti-War Movement: 2007, 2012”

Mehrdad S.: Terribly sad! We should ponder as to what happened during those 5 years.

Rayn: Obama happened. He filled the Anti-War movement with so much hope, they decided to take a four-year nap!

Mehrdad S.: To reach their ends, the politicians and the profiteers have brought the media under their control, which is no longer the “Mass Media”. It has been bought up and turned into Corporate Media at the service of what is no longer a “Democracy”, but a Corporatocarcy, a main element of which is the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (and you rightly incorporated “Knowledge” into that). In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the majority of the news media in the US. Even then, this was considered a Media Monopoly. In 2004, only 5 corporations controlled the lion share of the US media industry (Now, I presume it might be even less). And the corporate media has been constantly at work, “Manufacturing Consent” of the people for the corporatocracy’s bloody projects of wars and suppression overseas, coupled with abolishing the hard-gained Civil Rights in the US itself. That might partly explain the big difference between now and 2007.

Rayn: Indeed, Mehrdad! The Mainstream Media Monopoly most definitely manufactures the consent of the governed! And, they typically utilize the Hegelian Dialectic of PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION to do it… It’s sad, really… to know just how predictably herd-like the majority becomes in the face of “danger” and in the name of “safety”…

Mehrdad S.: True. They have a great number of psychiatrists and “academics” at their service who give them advice in their projects of horror mongering. There should always be something to horrify the ordinary people. Otherwise, what would be the future of the military-security-industrial complex ?

When it Comes to War, Life is Top-Heavy With Hypocrites

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “End U.S. Wars and Occupations,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Anti_War Movement: 2007, 2012"

“Anti-War Movement: 2007, 2012”

My Commentary: Sad… Life is top-heavy with hypocrites.

Bush and Obama Are Both Guilty of Murdering Children

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Liberty Evolution,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Bombs children: War Criminal. Bombs children: Nobe Peace Prize."

“Bombs children: War Criminal. Bombs children: Nobe Peace Prize.”

My Commentary: The technical term for this sort of inconsistency is “HYPOCRISY.” Bush and Obama are two murderous war pigs. The blood of dead children is on their hands, just as it is on the hands anyone who voted for these two jackals.

The So-Called “Shocking” Pattern of Obama Repeating Some of the Worst of George W. Bush

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Obama & Bush: Two Peas in a Pod

Obama & Bush: Two Peas in a Pod

The Shocking Pattern of Obama Repeating Some of the Worst of George W. Bush:
http://www.alternet.org/story/152095/the_shocking_pattern_of_obama_repeating_some_of_the_worst_of_george_w._bush/

(TomDispatch.comDavid Bromwich) Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency?

The record shows impressive continuities between the two administrations, and nowhere more than in the policy of “force projection” in the Arab world. With one war half-ended in Iraq, but another doubled in size and stretching across borders in Afghanistan; with an expanded program of drone killings and black-ops assassinations, the latter glorified in special ceremonies of thanksgiving (as they never were under Bush); with the number of prisoners at Guantanamo having decreased, but some now slated for permanent detention; with the repeated invocation of “ state secrets ” to protect the government from charges of war crimes; with the Patriot Act renewed and its most dubious provisions left intact — the Bush-Obama presidency has sufficient self-coherence to be considered a historical entity with a life of its own.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Shocking? NO!!! Not to me, nor to the millions other Americans who no longer subscribe to the false paradigm of the warmongering two-party fraud-system! Not everyone has had their head in the sand! One thing’s FOR SURE: as the government continues to murder, war, occupy and imperialize, MANY, MANY MORE individuals will awaken from their slumber to the reality of the BIG LIE!