Barack Obama has served as nothing more than a placebo for steadily-eroding civil liberties in the United States. What was billed as the "most transparent" administration in the history of the United States has turned into its most opaque, with Obama prosecuting more government employees for violating the 1917 Espionage Act than any of his predecessors combined. The "crimes" of those being prosecuted were simply communicating to journalists the malfeasance and law-breaking of the federal government.Madsen also makes some very cogent observations about Michael Brown's murder by Officer Wilson.
Obama was also billed as the first African-American president of "post-racial" America.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Obama: A Placebo for Civil Liberties
Click here to access article by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.