Obama Endorses Use of National Guard to Suppress Protests in Ferguson. (PressTV)

President Obama: Brussels Speech.

The most frightening thing about this diatribe is not the mendacity of Pres. Obama, but that he believes that we should believe this rubbish, and cast our lives away upon its platitudes. Just to set the record strait, the real threat to the democratic values and way of life in Europe is not the Russian Federation but the United States. The United States has never in living memory pursued the interests of the people. It is a country designed to be the plaything of the super-rich, and all the cant about human rights, as Edward Snowden and Pvt. Manning have exposed, are worth less than nothing when the cameras are off. In the last twenty years the United States has maintained its tenuous hold on international hegemony through destabilizing region after region of the world.

Likewise NATO has shed its cloak of anti-communism and has supported American power as a criminal organization engaging in countless war crimes and violations of international law. I have already dealt in depth with the reality of American involvement in Ukraine. There is no need to re-address the despicable nature of Washington's hyper-power.

Though there is a irony here that needs to be addressed. It is in the interest of the United States to curtail its foreign obligations and manage problems at home, not becoming entangled in Ukraine. It is in the interest of the Russia that the US stay out of central Europe. It is in the interests of the EU that America observe from a distance rather than dictate what is essentially internal policy to European states. In short everyone who can have an stake in Ukraine has a vested interest in the United States bending on Ukraine. Yet, the US is still going to meddle in Ukraine for years to come, provoking the Russians and in good time the Poles and the Germans. I would like to see the President answer this question--Why?

Quid Pro Quo in Ukraine

By Gene Ogorodov

After the dramatic failure of US policy in Syria this fall, due, primarily, to the diplomatic work of Pres. Vladimir Putin, it was obvious that America would look for a way to strike back at the Russian Federation. Then, as if on cue, this winter saw Kiev erupt in violent protest against the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, which ended on February 22 with a coup ousting the elected government in favor of a pro-American provisional government.

Chomsky "Obama's Imperialist Policies"

The State of the Union 2014

The Boston Pine Flag doesn't usually post either comedy or fiction, but out of respect for Pres. Obama we have decided to make an exception for him. It never ceases to amaze me how delusion, willfully ignorance, and just plain stupidity passes for political nous in the US. The only two things that the President's State of the Union address said was that: firstly, he and his advisors are completely oblivious to the legion of catastrophic crises that are wracking the United States, and, secondly, that Sec. of State Kerry recognizes that Putin has the Obama administration over a barrel. Congratulations Pres. Putin and FM Lavrov on forcing the US to concede closing GITMO and Iranian sanctions--at least in Tuesday's State of the Union.

MLK's Dream 50 Years On

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most misunderstood public figures of the 20th Century. No one will deny that he was both a great man and a good man. He inspired an entire generations of Americans to re-examine the social contract and strive to make a better world for all people, and American propaganda tells us that he succeeded in laying the foundations of that better world that we now live in. 

I will not insult the memory of Dr. King by pretending that the United States has buried the specter of institutionalized racism. This country has turned Dr. King's dream into a nightmare. As for all Americans, life is worse for African-Americans today than it was in the 1970s. Token political enfranchisement and Affirmative Action favoring middle and upper class African-Americans matters very little in the face of abject poverty and permanent economic disenfranchisement for the vast majority of African-Americans. 

Pres. Obama does not epitomize the new found freedom of the African-American community; rather, he exemplifies the new spirit of the age where political leaders sell-out the constituents for cold hard cash. (Cf. A Liberal Voice on Pres. Obama.) Dr. King was for people not profit. When we see an America that cares more about people than the bottom line, then the United States will have begun to walk towards Dr. King's Dream.

A Liberal Voice on President Obama's Re-Election

by Gene Ogorodov

We have heard from members of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that Obama's victory has given him a mandate from the people to pursue progressive policies. Whether the American people want progressive policies or not, it is a bit incredulous of the liberal Democrats to suggest that Obama will reform the United States.

Only in America could President Obama pass for a liberal. It is incredible that he is almost universally described on both the left and the right as an extremely progressive politician. Other than his waving the talismans of LGBT rights and universal health-care, one must use the same electron microscope to see his liberal policies that Noam Chomsky once suggested one needed to see Obama's contributions to world peace.