The man stood in front of the world and basically said "we'll take whatever we want".
I agree with Scahill
“[Obama] basically came out and said the U.S. is an imperialist nation and we’re going to do whatever we need to do to conquer areas [and] take resources from people around the world,” says independent journalist Jeremy Scahill. “It’s a really naked declaration of imperialism … When we look back at Obama’s legacy, this is going to have been a very significant period in U.S. history where the ideals of very radical right-wing forces were solidified. President Obama has been a forceful, fierce defender of empire.”
Can anyone else see the problem with a "Nobel Winner for Peace" making these statements? I am an idiot?
Please don't stop watching it there because the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff that was herself political prisoner and the Brazilian government and was a target of the NSA which was revealed by the the documents released by Eric Snowden.
Watch it again.
Again Scahill
"Basically you have a Democratic President that stands in front of the U'N and stakes out a Neocon foreign policy and owns it and wraps it in this cloak of Democratic legitimacy"
Don't get me started on what Seymour Hersh has to say.
OK if you insist I will expand.
"Duncan Campbell [the British investigative journalist who broke the Zircon cover-up story], James Bamford [US journalist] and Julian Assange and me and the New Yorker, we've all written the notion there's constant surveillance, but he [Snowden] produced a document and that changed the whole nature of the debate, it's real now," Hersh says.
"Editors love documents. Chicken-shit editors who wouldn't touch stories like that, they love documents, so he changed the whole ball game," he adds, before qualifying his remarks.
"But I don't know if it's going to mean anything in the long [run] because the polls I see in America – the president can still say to voters 'al-Qaida, al-Qaida' and the public will vote two to one for this kind of surveillance, which is so idiotic," he says.
It really is all related but only if you are paying attention.