truth cannot be spoken in america...

"president obama is legally obligated to prosecute former president george w. bush and former defense secretary donald rumsfeld... the bush regime was a lawless regime. this makes it difficult for the obama regime to be a lawful one. a torture inquiry would lead naturally into a war crimes inquiry. general taguba said that the bush regime committed war crimes. president obama was a war criminal by his third day in office when he ordered illegal cross-border drone attacks on pakistan that murdered 20 people, including 3 children. the bombing and strafing of homes and villages in afghanistan by u.s. forces and america’s n.a.t.o. puppets are also war crimes. obama cannot enforce the law, because he himself has already violated it..." // paul craig roberts, 01.26.09, information clearinghouse

the arrival of the obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the bush era. the origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. while the election of president obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately be constrained by deep-seated structural pressures that will attempt to exploit obama to rehabilitate american imperial hegemony, rather than transform it...// nafeez mosaddeq ahmed, 01.26.09, information clearinghouse