Referring to Obama, Van Auken writes:
He has no separate interests from theirs, serving as their figurehead “commander-in-chief.” His job is not to rein in the military and the intelligence agencies, but rather to provide them with public relations services, trying to convince the American and world public that wholesale spying, drone assassinations—whose targets he helps select at the White House’s “terror Tuesdays”—and military massacres are all necessary instruments of the “war on terror,” and in harmony with democratic rights and methods of rule.The last president that was determined to control the military-industrial-financial complex (the shadow government) was John Kennedy, and you know what happened to him and his brother.