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A devastating assessment of Obama’s first year

Amplifyd from www.democracynow.org
In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security decisions over the last twelve months. “I think Obama should be remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white racism,” Nairn says. “But once he became president…Obama became a murderer and a terrorist, because the US has a machine that spans the globe, that has the capacity to kill, and Obama has kept it set on kill. He could have flipped the switch and turned it off…but he chose not to do so.” He continues, “In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.Read more at www.democracynow.org
 

War is for peace

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The US President reiterated that he was not in the same league as previous recipients including Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Junior.
He acknowledged that he was the Commander-in-chief of a country which was currently involved in two wars and he had sent thousands of troops to the warfields.

“Many of them have been killed. Many will be killed,” said Obama, adding “The concept of a just war has rarely been observed in history.”

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