{"id":25022,"date":"2014-02-21T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/president-obama-the-permanent-revolutionary\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T19:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T00:43:16","slug":"president-obama-the-permanent-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/human-longevity\/president-obama-the-permanent-revolutionary\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama, the &#39;Permanent Revolutionary&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    By Anthony F. Shaker  <\/p>\n<p>    Western propaganda about Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela,and a    host of other so-called \"human-rights files\" around the world,    is being churned out on an industrial scale these days. Working    in unison with the politicians are NGOs like Human Rights    Watch, which is currently beating the drum of war at a frenetic    speed, much as we rememberAmnesty    Internationaldoing at the height of the Cold War.     True, the argumentspresented to the public stand, almost    invariably, on wild assumptions and claims that have no basis    in reality except in the minds of armchair    strategists,secretplotters and lunatics.   <\/p>\n<p>    One recent example is an article in Foreign Affairs, a major    establishment policy journal (\"The Good and Bad of Ahrar    al-Sham. An al Qaeda-Linked Group Worth Befriending,\" by    Michael Doran et al.). Its authors actually tried to promote    American rapprochement with Wahhabi and    Saudi-sponsoredjihadism around the world, as if this has    not already happened.  However, the mock ignorance behind    this moral acrobatics seems to reflecta far more sinister    design than even the larger and expanding rivalry into which    the US is now locking itself with the Russian Federation.  <\/p>\n<p>    The first question that comes to mind, even if the authors are    correct in distinguishing good from bad Wahhabi terrorists, is    towhat end? What do the authors hope Obama would achieve    with such analliance? Liberty? Some    antiquatedAmerican version of \"democracy\"?  <\/p>\n<p>    The tragedy is that the United States is operating, more than    ever, under the cloak of \"revolutionism,\" one based on the    notion that human rights must be practiced according to US    values and whenever the US dictates.  <\/p>\n<p>    Naturally, this new tribal redefinition of liberty requires the    demolition of \"regimes\" that refuse to embrace such a divinely    ordained \"self-evident truth.\" But because nobody has the    patience to listen anymore, the Obama administration regularly    has to issue military threats, sanctions, etc., just to be    heard over the growing din of misery around the world.  <\/p>\n<p>    Most disturbingly, the US has returned to its old tactic of    deploying armed local militias, as it has done against    Nicaragua, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, of course    Afghanistan under the Soviets, not to mention other nations.    Bloodthirsty terrorists--and literally, cannibals who film    themselves eating human flesh--apparently pose no problem. We    nickname them freedom fighters--more offensively, \"activists.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Is this how human rights and democracy are to be established in    countries we claim to care about? Or, is it a useful instrument    with which to demolish states that the governments of both the    US and Israel feel are blocking their view of the glorious    future awaiting us all under Americo-Israeli \"guidance.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    That is a cartoonish interpretation of the world at the    intellectual level of Bibi the Bomber during his comical    address at the UN.I say this because it has become amply    clear the US is on a fast-track to the \"dustbin of history\" on    this march (as the \"evil Communist revolutionaries\" once used    to paint their capitalist opponents).  <\/p>\n<p>    The purpose of using Saudi- and Gulf-sponsored armies of    Wahhabi jihadists around the Islamic world, most devastatingly    in Syria, is not to build anything, but to pave the way for    direct foreign control in an increasingly desperate situation    for the US and the EU on nearly every front (geopolitical,    diplomatic and, for the EU, economic).  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/opinion\/columnists\/21-02-2014\/126894-obama_revolutionary-0\/\" title=\"President Obama, the &#39;Permanent Revolutionary&#39;\">President Obama, the &#39;Permanent Revolutionary&#39;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Anthony F. Shaker Western propaganda about Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela,and a host of other so-called \"human-rights files\" around the world, is being churned out on an industrial scale these days. Working in unison with the politicians are NGOs like Human Rights Watch, which is currently beating the drum of war at a frenetic speed, much as we rememberAmnesty Internationaldoing at the height of the Cold War <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/human-longevity\/president-obama-the-permanent-revolutionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-longevity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}