{"article":{"id":268341,"heading":"Obama Memorial Day Big Lies","author":"Stephen Lendman","created":"2015-05-27 18:25:05","modified":"2015-05-27 18:25:05","last_modified":"Thu, 28 May 2015 02:25:05","article":"<p>Obama Memorial Day Big Lies <br><br> by Stephen Lendman <br><br> Obama is an unindicted war criminal, a moral coward, a national disgrace, a serial liar. <br><br> On Memorial Day (May 25) at Arlington National Cemetery, he again disgraced the office he holds. He ignored millions America killed and maimed post-9\/11 alone. <br><br> He dishonored America's war dead. A previous article said they were sacrificed on the alter of greed and lust for power. <br><br> America hasn't fought a legal war since WW II. Post-9\/11, lawless ones on humanity continue raging - raping one country after another or in multiples. <br><br> Obama wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the rump. \"Today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engage in a major ground war,\" he ludicrously blustered. <br><br> Fact: Obama wars rage against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Donbass, and partnered with endless Israeli aggression against Palestine by funding its killing machine. <br><br> Fact: Throughout Obama's entire tenure, America hasn't known a day of peace. <br><br> Fact: Obama wants congressional authorization to wage wars at his discretion. <br><br> Fact: He's a serial international, constitutional and US statute law violator. <br><br> Fact: Impeaching him is a national imperative. <br><br> Fact: He belongs in prison, not high office. <br><br> Fact: His unjustifiable belligerence toward Russia and China risks WW III. <br><br> Fact: His contempt for humanity shows in his brazen lawlessness - at home and abroad. <br><br> Fact: He wrecked the economy, looted the treasury, handed the nation's wealth to banksters and other corporate predators, imposed austerity on ordinary people struggling to make ends meet, and governs under a police state apparatus. <br><br> Fact: He targeted more whistleblowers exposing government wrongdoing than all his predecessors combined. <br><br> Fact: His war on freedom threatens to destroy it altogether. <br><br> Fact: His aim to commodify public education risks denying millions of American youths what others like this writer got when growing up in inner-city Boston. <br><br> Fact: His kill list decides who dies at his discretion. <br><br> Fact: America sunk lower than ever before on his watch. <br><br> It dishonors its war dead, wounded, sick, maimed and dying. Its entire history is blood-drenched. <br><br> The business of America is war. It's a national addiction - pillaging for profit. It benefits rich, powerful elites at the expense of everyone else. <br><br> Martin Luther King called America \"the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.\" Imagine if swords were turned into plowshares. Imagine an America fit to live in.  <br><br> Imagine its resources used for healthcare, education, creating living wage\/good benefits jobs, ending homelessness and hunger, and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. <br><br> Imagine a race to the top instead of the bottom. Imagine ending the nightmare of possible nuclear annihilation. Imagine the benefits of peace over war.  <br><br> Imagine abolishing world conflicts forever. Imagine never again being more than an empty slogan. Imagine a World Peace Day commemoration - something really worth celebrating. <br><br> Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.  <br><br> His new book as editor and contributor is titled \"Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\" <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a> <br><br> Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.  <br><br> Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. <br><br> It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/p>\n","contact":"lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net","link":"sjlendman.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Obama","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/05\/268341.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}