{"id":108146,"date":"2014-02-18T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=c4f3d4e5410ab51401b4c1f5a11bd6b5"},"modified":"2014-02-19T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:00:50","slug":"obamas-multiple-regime-change-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-multiple-regime-change-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Multiple Regime Change Fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Lendman<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous articles discussed Obama’s rogue agenda in detail. His destructive pattern continues unabated. Throughout his tenure, he did what supporters thought impossible.<\/p>\n

He exceeded the worst of George Bush. His policies replicate Republican hardliners. Neocons infest his administration.<\/p>\n

He’s waging war on humanity. He’s doing at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

He wrecked America’s economy. He looted the nation’s wealth. He handed Wall Street crooks multi-trillions of dollars. He gave trillions more to war profiteers.<\/p>\n

Other corporate favorites benefitted hugely. So did super-rich elites. Ordinary Americans struggle through protracted Depression level conditions.<\/p>\n

Hard times keep getting harder. They persist. They show no signs of ending. Growing millions face impoverishment without jobs or futures.<\/p>\n

Freedoms are disappearing in plain sight. Police state ruthlessness targets dissent. Abuse of power is institutionalized.<\/p>\n

Multiple regime change fronts target foreign leaders. Independent ones aren’t tolerated. Obama wants Syria’s Assad replaced.<\/p>\n

He’s waging proxy to oust him. He’s responsible for three years of bloody conflict. Mass slaughter, destruction and unspeakable human misery define it.<\/p>\n

Millions of internally and externally displaced Syrians attest to his ruthlessness. War rages without end.<\/p>\n

Peace talks are more pretense than real. Full-scale US intervention may follow their failure. They’re currently deadlocked. They’re going nowhere.<\/p>\n

Syrians want their sovereign rights protected. Obama wants unconditional surrender. He wants pro-Western puppet governance replacing Assad. He wants similar stooges in charge elsewhere.<\/p>\n

So-called Iranian nuclear talks may fail. Pursuing them is red herring cover for regime change.<\/p>\n

Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful. It has no military component. Washington hardliners claim otherwise. So does Obama.<\/p>\n

Saying so flies in the face of hard evidence. Annual US intelligence assessments affirm Iran’s peaceful program. So do IAEA inspectors.<\/p>\n

Regime change matters more. So does eliminating an Israeli rival. Perhaps Obama plans more war to do it. Maybe he intends manipulating nuclear talks to fail as pretext.<\/p>\n

Maybe he’ll attack Iran jointly with Israel. Maybe he’ll risk regional war doing it. Imagine the unthinkable.<\/p>\n

Imagine humanity threatening nuclear war. Bush administration’s 2001 Nuclear Policy Review asserted first strike nuclear policy strategy.<\/p>\n

His 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategies reaffirmed it. In 2010, Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review was old wine in new bottles.<\/p>\n

Rhetoric changed, not policy. Obama “reserves the right” to use nuclear weapons preemptively. He does so based on real or invented threats.<\/p>\n

He does it against non-nuclear power states. His land\/sea\/air triad offensive can be activated on his call alone.<\/p>\n

He can order bombs away against any country. He can claim preemptive defense against a nonexistent existential threat. He can risk mushroom-shaped cloud denouement doing so.<\/p>\n

Total war risks what no responsible leader would dare. Obama waged multiple direct and proxy wars throughout his entire tenure.<\/p>\n

He’s got other targets in mind. How many more millions will suffer on his watch? How many more will perish? How much more human suffering is too much?<\/p>\n

America’s super-weapons include the Mother of All Bombs. It has globe-circling delivery systems. It has arsenal strength able to extinguish human life in hours. Days at most.<\/p>\n

It’s perhaps lawless enough to try. Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr (1904 – 2005) said human intelligence doesn’t guarantee survival.<\/p>\n

Beetles and bacteria stand a better chance than humans. They may become the only species ever to self-destruct.<\/p>\n

Hubris produces bad endings. America faces the same fate as all previous empires. None survived.<\/p>\n

America’s denouement may take humanity with it. Imagine having leaders willing to risk it. Imagine ending life on earth.<\/p>\n

Waging war on Syria risks regional war. Attacking Iran risks the unthinkable. Plans were readied years ago. Updating followed.<\/p>\n

Bombs away could happen with push button ease. Is Obama foolhardy enough to risk it?<\/p>\n

Ukraine is targeted for regime change. The battle for its soul continues. Same old, same old reflects US policy.<\/p>\n

Obama wants another independent leader toppled. He wants pro-Western stooge governance replacing him.<\/p>\n

He wants opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk leading it. On Sunday, he addressed supporters publicly. He did so in Ukraine’s Independence Square.<\/p>\n

President Viktor Yanukovych extended an olive branch earlier. Yatsenyuk rejected his offer to become prime minister. He’s forming his own government, he said.<\/p>\n

He wants Ukraine’s 2004 constitution reinstated. It calls for combined parliamentary\/presidential rule.<\/p>\n

Obama wants Ukraine colonized for profit. He wants its resources plundered. He wants ordinary Ukrainians turned into serfs. He wants Russia increasingly weakened and isolated.<\/p>\n

He’s in league with ultranationalist extremists. He’s involved in inciting continuing violent clashes.<\/p>\n

He wants all former Soviet republics transformed into subservient US satellites. He wants America’s war machine encroaching on Russia’s borders.<\/p>\n

Imagine challenging the only other nation able to match America’s nuclear might blow for blow.<\/p>\n

Imagine the potential mother of all conflicts. Imagine the possible mother of all bad endings.<\/p>\n

Imagine an irresponsible US leader willing to risk the unthinkable. Imagine bipartisan complicity doing nothing to stop him. Imagine strong anti-war sentiment absent on streets protesting.<\/p>\n

Imagine America again getting away with mass murder. Imagine it on the most unspeakable of ugly scales.<\/p>\n

Imagine risking humanity’s survival in the process. Imagine imperial madness exceeding everything preceding it.<\/p>\n

Imagine targeting Venezuela at the same time. Imagine wanting Bolivarian social justice destroyed.<\/p>\n

Imagine trying for the past 15 years to extinguish it. Imagine new schemes following failed ones.<\/p>\n

Imagine wanting control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. They’re the world’s largest. Big Oil has its eye on the prize it covets.<\/p>\n

Obama killed Chavez. He was either poisoned or infected with cancer causing substances.<\/p>\n

Maduro believes he’s targeted the same way. He knows Obama wants him ousted. He wants fascist governance replacing him.<\/p>\n

US manipulated violence continues on Venezuelan streets. On Sunday, President Nicolas Maduro addressed thousands of supporters.<\/p>\n

“You want to see people in the streets? We’ll give you people in the streets,” he said. Thousands cheered him.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to give one millimeter of the power the Venezuelan people have given me.”<\/p>\n

“Nothing will stop me from building this revolution which comandante Chavez left us.”<\/p>\n

Maduro denounced protesters as coup d’etat fascists. Responsible parties will be prosecuted according to the full letter of the law, he said.<\/p>\n

He accused former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe of fomenting unrest. He called him an “enemy of Venezuela.”<\/p>\n

So is anti-Bolivarian fascist politician Leopoldo Lopez. He heads
\nVenezuela’s hard-right Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) party.<\/p>\n

He incited violence. “There cannot be peace,” he said. A warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n

He’s charged with murder, terrorism, conspiracy, incitement to crime, setting fire to a public building, damaging public property, public intimidation, and inflicting serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Maduro called him “the face of fascism.” He threatens Venezuelan freedom. He’s against Bolivarian fairness. So are other likeminded extremists.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice Miguel Rodriguez Torres spoke publicly. He condemned opposition-provoked street violence.<\/p>\n

“(V)andalism protests, he called them. Popular Will party extremists incite them. John Kerry issued an outrageous one-sided statement. In didn’t surprise. In part, he said:<\/p>\n

“We are particularly alarmed by reports that the Venezuelan government has arrested or detained scores of anti-government protestors and issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.”<\/p>\n

“These actions have a chilling effect on citizens’ rights to express their grievances peacefully.”<\/p>\n

He ignored Washington’s role in inciting violence. He condemned what he supports.<\/p>\n

Doublespeak duplicity defines US policy. Kerry called on Venezuela’s government “to provide the political space necessary for meaningful dialogue with the Venezuelan people\u2026”<\/p>\n

He urged restoration of calm. He called “(f)reedoms of expression and peaceful assembly\u2026universal rights.”<\/p>\n

Venezuela “has an obligation to protect” them,” he said.<\/p>\n

Bolivarian principles champion them. America systematically trashes rule of law principles. It’s waging economic, political and street clash war on Venezuela. Don’t expect Kerry to explain.<\/p>\n

Obama has three years left in office. How many more independent governments does he plan to target?<\/p>\n

How much more street violence will he cause? How many more wars will he wage? How much more carnage will follow?<\/p>\n

How much longer will Americans tolerate his lawlessness? The only solution is nonviolent revolution.<\/p>\n

Resisting tyranny is a national imperative. America’s Declaration of Independence endorsed it, saying:<\/p>\n

“(W)hever any form of government (threatens) life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\u2026it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”<\/p>\n

Jefferson, Madison and other notable Americans supported doing so. Tyranny is too unjust to tolerate. Good people are obligated to resist.<\/p>\n

It’s a noble tradition. It’s a universal right for justice. It’s high time Americans got some. The alternative is perhaps perish.<\/p>\n

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n

His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/p>\n

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n

Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/p>\n

It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama’s Multiple Regime Change Fronts<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Previous articles discussed Obama’s rogue agenda in detail. His destructive pattern continues unabated. Throughout his tenure, he did what supporters thought impossible.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He exceeded the worst of George Bush. His policies replicate Republican hardliners. Neocons infest his administration. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s waging war on humanity. He’s doing at home and abroad.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wrecked America’s economy. He looted the nation’s wealth. He handed Wall Street crooks multi-trillions of dollars. He gave trillions more to war profiteers.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Other corporate favorites benefitted hugely. So did super-rich elites. Ordinary Americans struggle through protracted Depression level conditions. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Hard times keep getting harder. They persist. They show no signs of ending. Growing millions face impoverishment without jobs or futures.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Freedoms are disappearing in plain sight. Police state ruthlessness targets dissent. Abuse of power is institutionalized.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Multiple regime change fronts target foreign leaders. Independent ones aren’t tolerated. Obama wants Syria’s Assad replaced. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s waging proxy to oust him. He’s responsible for three years of bloody conflict. Mass slaughter, destruction and unspeakable human misery define it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Millions of internally and externally displaced Syrians attest to his ruthlessness. War rages without end. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Peace talks are more pretense than real. Full-scale US intervention may follow their failure. They’re currently deadlocked. They’re going nowhere.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Syrians want their sovereign rights protected. Obama wants unconditional surrender. He wants pro-Western puppet governance replacing Assad. He wants similar stooges in charge elsewhere.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So-called Iranian nuclear talks may fail. Pursuing them is red herring cover for regime change.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful. It has no military component. Washington hardliners claim otherwise. So does Obama.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Saying so flies in the face of hard evidence. Annual US intelligence assessments affirm Iran’s peaceful program. So do IAEA inspectors.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Regime change matters more. So does eliminating an Israeli rival. Perhaps Obama plans more war to do it. Maybe he intends manipulating nuclear talks to fail as pretext.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Maybe he’ll attack Iran jointly with Israel. Maybe he’ll risk regional war doing it. Imagine the unthinkable. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine humanity threatening nuclear war. Bush administration’s 2001 Nuclear Policy Review asserted first strike nuclear policy strategy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategies reaffirmed it. In 2010, Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review was old wine in new bottles.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Rhetoric changed, not policy. Obama “reserves the right” to use nuclear weapons preemptively. He does so based on real or invented threats.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He does it against non-nuclear power states. His land\/sea\/air triad offensive can be activated on his call alone. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He can order bombs away against any country. He can claim preemptive defense against a nonexistent existential threat. He can risk mushroom-shaped cloud denouement doing so.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Total war risks what no responsible leader would dare. Obama waged multiple direct and proxy wars throughout his entire tenure.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s got other targets in mind. How many more millions will suffer on his watch? How many more will perish? How much more human suffering is too much?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
America’s super-weapons include the Mother of All Bombs. It has globe-circling delivery systems. It has arsenal strength able to extinguish human life in hours. Days at most.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s perhaps lawless enough to try. Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr (1904 – 2005) said human intelligence doesn’t guarantee survival.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Beetles and bacteria stand a better chance than humans. They may become the only species ever to self-destruct. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Hubris produces bad endings. America faces the same fate as all previous empires. None survived.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
America’s denouement may take humanity with it. Imagine having leaders willing to risk it. Imagine ending life on earth.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Waging war on Syria risks regional war. Attacking Iran risks the unthinkable. Plans were readied years ago. Updating followed. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bombs away could happen with push button ease. Is Obama foolhardy enough to risk it?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Ukraine is targeted for regime change. The battle for its soul continues. Same old, same old reflects US policy. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Obama wants another independent leader toppled. He wants pro-Western stooge governance replacing him.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk leading it. On Sunday, he addressed supporters publicly. He did so in Ukraine’s Independence Square.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
President Viktor Yanukovych extended an olive branch earlier. Yatsenyuk rejected his offer to become prime minister. He’s forming his own government, he said.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants Ukraine’s 2004 constitution reinstated. It calls for combined parliamentary\/presidential rule.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Obama wants Ukraine colonized for profit. He wants its resources plundered. He wants ordinary Ukrainians turned into serfs. He wants Russia increasingly weakened and isolated.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s in league with ultranationalist extremists. He’s involved in inciting continuing violent clashes.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants all former Soviet republics transformed into subservient US satellites. He wants America’s war machine encroaching on Russia’s borders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine challenging the only other nation able to match America’s nuclear might blow for blow.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine the potential mother of all conflicts. Imagine the possible mother of all bad endings. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine an irresponsible US leader willing to risk the unthinkable. Imagine bipartisan complicity doing nothing to stop him. Imagine strong anti-war sentiment absent on streets protesting.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine America again getting away with mass murder. Imagine it on the most unspeakable of ugly scales. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine risking humanity’s survival in the process. Imagine imperial madness exceeding everything preceding it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine targeting Venezuela at the same time. Imagine wanting Bolivarian social justice destroyed.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine trying for the past 15 years to extinguish it. Imagine new schemes following failed ones. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Imagine wanting control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. They’re the world’s largest. Big Oil has its eye on the prize it covets. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Obama killed Chavez. He was either poisoned or infected with cancer causing substances.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Maduro believes he’s targeted the same way. He knows Obama wants him ousted. He wants fascist governance replacing him.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
US manipulated violence continues on Venezuelan streets. On Sunday, President Nicolas Maduro addressed thousands of supporters.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“You want to see people in the streets? We’ll give you people in the streets,” he said. Thousands cheered him.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“I’m not going to give one millimeter of the power the Venezuelan people have given me.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Nothing will stop me from building this revolution which comandante Chavez left us.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Maduro denounced protesters as coup d’etat fascists. Responsible parties will be prosecuted according to the full letter of the law, he said.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He accused former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe of fomenting unrest. He called him an “enemy of Venezuela.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So is anti-Bolivarian fascist politician Leopoldo Lopez. He heads <\/div>\n
Venezuela’s hard-right Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) party.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He incited violence. “There cannot be peace,” he said. A warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s charged with murder, terrorism, conspiracy, incitement to crime, setting fire to a public building, damaging public property, public intimidation, and inflicting serious injuries.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Maduro called him “the face of fascism.” He threatens Venezuelan freedom. He’s against Bolivarian fairness. So are other likeminded extremists.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On Sunday, Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice Miguel Rodriguez Torres spoke publicly. He condemned opposition-provoked street violence.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(V)andalism protests, he called them. Popular Will party extremists incite them. John Kerry issued an outrageous one-sided statement. In didn’t surprise. In part, he said:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“We are particularly alarmed by reports that the Venezuelan government has arrested or detained scores of anti-government protestors and issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“These actions have a chilling effect on citizens’ rights to express their grievances peacefully.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ignored Washington’s role in inciting violence. He condemned what he supports.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Doublespeak duplicity defines US policy. Kerry called on Venezuela’s government “to provide the political space necessary for meaningful dialogue with the Venezuelan people…”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He urged restoration of calm. He called “(f)reedoms of expression and peaceful assembly…universal rights.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Venezuela “has an obligation to protect” them,” he said.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bolivarian principles champion them. America systematically trashes rule of law principles. It’s waging economic, political and street clash war on Venezuela. Don’t expect Kerry to explain.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Obama has three years left in office. How many more independent governments does he plan to target?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
How much more street violence will he cause? How many more wars will he wage? How much more carnage will follow?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
How much longer will Americans tolerate his lawlessness? The only solution is nonviolent revolution.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Resisting tyranny is a national imperative. America’s Declaration of Independence endorsed it, saying:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(W)hever any form of government (threatens) life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Jefferson, Madison and other notable Americans supported doing so. Tyranny is too unjust to tolerate. Good people are obligated to resist.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s a noble tradition. It’s a universal right for justice. It’s high time Americans got some. The alternative is perhaps perish.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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