{"id":33795,"date":"2013-05-15T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-is-a-war-criminal\/33795\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:48:08","slug":"obama-is-a-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-is-a-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama \u2018Is a War Criminal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jacob Chamberlain<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with the Guardian<\/em> published on Sunday<\/a>, renowned professor and prolific critic of the \u201cmilitary-industrial-complex\u201d and rampant \u201cplutocracy\u201d in the U.S. and around the world, Dr. Cornel West explained his views on the state of America today and his fall from grace, by design, with President Barack Obama:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey say I\u2019m\u00a0un-American,\u201d West told interviewer Hugh Muir, referring to Obama\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

But from someone who actively campaigned for the man, only to be quickly and vastly disappointed, West sees in Obama the epitome of Washington corruption:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe talked about Martin Luther King over and over again as he ran,\u201d West said of their campaign stops together, adding later, \u201cYou can\u2019t just invoke Martin Luther King like that and not follow through on his priorities in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cKing died fighting not just against poverty but against carpet-bombing in Vietnam; the war crimes under Nixon and Kissinger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Cornel West (Photo: David Levene \/ the Guardian, right)<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

West goes on:<\/p>\n

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You can\u2019t meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: \u2018I shouldn\u2019t have done that, I\u2019ve got to stop.\u2019 But when you do it month in, month out, year in, year out \u2014 that\u2019s a pattern of behavior.\u201d […]<\/p>\n

I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people.\u201d […]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI knew he would have rightwing opposition, but he hasn\u2019t tried,\u201d West said of Obama\u2019s unwillingness to curb Wall Street\u2019s hold on Washington. \u201cWhen he came in, he brought in Wall Street-friendly people \u2014 Tim Geithner, Larry Summers \u2014 and made it clear he had no intention of bailing out homeowners, supporting trade unions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And later:<\/p>\n

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And he hasn\u2019t said a mumbling word about the institutions that have destroyed two generations of young black and brown youth, the new Jim Crow, the prison industrial complex. It\u2019s not about race. It is about commitment to justice. He should be able to say that in the last few years, with the shift from 300,000 inmates to 2.5 million today, there have been unjust policies and I intend to do all I can. Maybe he couldn\u2019t do that much. But at least tell the truth. I would rather have a white president fundamentally dedicated to eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight of working people than a black president tied to Wall Street and drones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This article originally appeared on : Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jacob Chamberlain In an interview with the Guardian published on Sunday, renowned professor and prolific critic of the \u201cmilitary-industrial-complex\u201d and rampant \u201cplutocracy\u201d in the U.S. and around the world, Dr. Cornel West explained his views on the state of America today and his fall from grace, by design, with President Barack Obama: \u201cHe\u2019s just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795","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=33795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}