Obama "promises $30 billion in military aid to Israel over the next decades" (Truth-Out, February 16, 2010).
"Only a few months earlier, the UN's Goldstone report charged Israel with massive war crimes during its assault on Gaza, including the targeting of schools, mosques and medical personnel"
[Obama] awards $250 million in government contracts to notorious mercenary outfit Blackwater aka Xe" (The Nation, June 28, 2010).
Obama "authorizes the assassination of U.S. citizens abroad, and an unprecedented declaration of executive power" (New York Times, April 6, 2010).
Obama "dramatically increases the use of drone bombers in Pakistan, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties"
[Obama] uses "cluster bombs in Yemen, resulting in the deaths of 14 "militants,' and 35 women and children" (CS Monitor, June 7, 2010).
"Obama reneges on his promise to exit Iraq, announcing that 50,000 troops and over 100,000 "private contractors' will remain"Instead of removing the troops, Obama simply renames them "transitional' forces" (February 26, 2010).
"Obama back tracks on his promise to leave Afghanistan by July 2011"Mark Sedwill, the top civilian NATO representative in Afghanistan, claims the "transition' to "independence' could run "to 2015 and beyond'"(June 24, 2010).
And the gulag at Guantanamo is still open for the dissemination of American values"
Adopting the enemies of the U.S. will set you free? NO, Barrack Obama! No more lies, Hillary Clinton. No more propaganda. No more exclusion of voices deemed too radical for State and Alternative news media outlets. No Orwellian Big Brother TV screen, spewing more of your values!
The majority of American people reject these changes offered by the current regime.
The majority reject the creation of a U.S. dictatorship! That is why you will not see Lifting the Veil on the current or the new and improved State news media outlets!
What is happening to the planet and its people is not the result of individuals, says economist Richard Wollf. It is about a system that cannot be reformed but must be removed!
Lifting the Veil is not all doom and gloom: it is not simply the unraveling of the "insanity" of electoral politics or the political empowering of the wealthy elite and their corporate wars.
Lifting the Veil is about Hope! It is not "hope" as defined by this current regime, for this Hope, Chris Hedges says, is not in the vocabulary of the powerful. It is that Hope that only the people themselves own and nurture from generation to generation, from one uprising to another, from one civil disobedient act to the upheaval of unjust laws and dictatorships. We still posses this Hope, the documentary shows. But if we are to "fight for something that is real," my colleague at the Black Commentator Larry Pinkney says, we must "translate Hope into action."
Hope precedes the appearance of Brand Obama. It was present in the uprisings of workers, Blacks, Latino/.as, says John Pilger. This Hope is present in the "activism that doesn't give up. Activism doesn't fall silent."
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