January 6, 2010

The US Role in poverty and war

The journalist and activist Allan Nairn was interviewed today, Jan. 6th, 2010, by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/stream). I wanted to pass this information on because Nairn has some radical and impressive ideas which I think need to be heard.

Nairn says: "I think Obama should be remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white racism”. “But once he became president…Obama became a murderer and a terrorist, because 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.”