{"id":159919,"date":"2015-06-19T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/samantha-power-liberal-war-hawk\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T06:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T06:42:03","slug":"samantha-power-liberal-war-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/samantha-power-liberal-war-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Power: Liberal War Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"420.02028311853\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>Liberal interventionist Samantha Power \u2014 along with neocon allies \u2014 appears to have prevailed in the struggle over how President Obama will conduct his foreign policy in his\u00a0last months in office, promoting aggressive strategies that will lead to\u00a0more death and destruction, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15256\"\/>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>Propaganda and genocide almost always go hand in hand, with the would-be aggressor stirring up resentment often by assuming the pose of a victim simply acting in self-defense and then\u00a0righteously inflicting violence on the targeted group.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador\u00a0to the United Nations Samantha Power understands this dynamic having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2001\/09\/bystanders-to-genocide\/304571\/\">written<\/a> about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda where talk radio played a key role in getting Hutus to kill Tutsis. Yet, Power is now leading propaganda campaigns laying the groundwork for two potential ethnic slaughters: against the Alawites, Shiites, Christians and other minorities in Syria and against the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10048\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/obama-power.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10048\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?55ac53\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obama-power-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"President Barack Obama talks with Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, following a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10048\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obama-power-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"President Barack Obama talks with Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, following a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama talks with Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, following a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though Power is a big promoter of the \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d \u2014 or \u201cR2P\u201d \u2014 she operates with glaring selectivity in deciding who deserves protection as she advances a neocon\/liberal interventionist agenda. She is turning \u201chuman rights\u201d into an excuse not to resolve conflicts but rather to make them bloodier.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in Power\u2019s view, the overthrow and punishment of Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad takes precedence over shielding Alawites and other minorities from the likely consequence of Sunni-extremist vengeance. And she has sided with the ethnic Ukrainians in their slaughter of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, Power spurns pragmatic\u00a0negotiations that could avert worsening violence as she asserts a black-and-white depiction of these crises. More significantly, her strident positions appear to have won the day with President Barack Obama, who has relied on Power as a foreign policy adviser since his 2008&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/06\/15\/samantha-power-liberal-war-hawk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Liberal interventionist Samantha Power \u2014 along with neocon allies \u2014 appears to have prevailed in the struggle over how President Obama will conduct his foreign policy in his\u00a0last months in office, promoting aggressive strategies that will lead to\u00a0more death and destruction, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Propaganda and genocide almost always go hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}