It was a sad day for all people of good will on October 9th 2009 when the Nobel Committee announced the award the Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama. At the ceremony Obama was obliged to defend his decision to authorize the sending of a further 30,000 US troops to war-torn Afghanistan in a continuation of the war against terrorism promoted by former President Bush and planned his neocon acolytes such as Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Douglas Feith amongst others. Let’s not forget them – ever.

It is the first time in the history of the now not-so-credible Nobel Prizes that the head of a country actively engaged in wars in at least three countries – Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan using unmanned bomber drones – has been honored in this way. In fact, it is nothing more than an insult and a gross slap in the face to millions of people who looked to the Nobel Committee to throw some sanity and light in an increasingly convulsed and dangerous world.

The Nobel Prize for Peace has now been converted into the Noble Prize for War. According to the illustrious winner war is necessary to achieve peace. This is in stark contrast to other prominent and PROVEN historical figures such as the Liberator Simón Bolívar who simply said: “If you want peace, then prepare for war”. There is a huge difference in ethics and humanity between these two statements.

As usual the depth of criticism expressed by the corporate media was limited to “surprise” as Obama had only been in the Oval Office for a little over eight months.

The ruling elites all appear to be in on it. Corporations, governments, media, the Nobel Prize Committee – all of which form part of the Illuminati - At least in the author’s opinion.

When you look at the facts of three wars; interference in other countries affairs; NED and USAID funding to destabilize any government not friendly to the whims of the corporations; torture now legalized and secret CIA prisons popping up in Lithuania, for example, you have to ask yourself what Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland meant when he said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".

For me and many others what Obama is trying to achieve is no different from what Hitler wanted to achieve - World Domination - but not in the name of the German People but in the name of the Global Corporate Empire.

One year is almost enough

Now that we have had one year of Obama what has really changed? In terms of world peace absolutely nothing. In terms of social programs in the US? Ditto – in fact it’s gotten worse. And after the quasi religious “Yes, we can”, hypnosis carried out at Obama’s victory speech, we really have to ask ourselves where all this is headed.

Instead of launching into a long analysis of several options of what lies in store in 2010 if the Obama regime continues on its present course I would prefer to take readers back to 1969.

For those of us with sufficient accumulated youth, we will all remember Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner as a protest against the inhumanity of the Vietnam War. Here’s Jimi to remind us all ... again:

The bombs and missiles falling from Jimi’s guitar in Vietnam have now been projected forward forty years to Obama’s inheritance of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Jimi’s performance has cloaked Obama as it did Nixon at that time and just as the Nobel Prize for Peace has been transformed into the Nobel Prize for War, so the Star Spangled Banner has been transformed into the Star Spangled Massacre – lterally.

Forget saying that this is down to Bush because it is not. The buck stops with Obama and the troops should have been withdrawn months ago. Oh, I can hear the do-gooders and those who have not given up the ghost on Obama saying, “These things take time. We can’t just leave.” Why not? The US left Somalia in just a few months and completed the withdrawal in March 1995.

If the same pattern emerges then we can expect at least another six years of war. The US finally admitted defeat and abandoned Vietnam to the North Vietnamese in 1975. Six years after Jimi’s performance at Woodstock.

Will we see scenes of panic in the Green Zone in Bagdad when the US does finally leave? Hard to say but one thing is certain - go back and listen to the last ten seconds of Jimi’s Star Spangled Massacre performance. The chords he hits just before the video expires are those of Purple Haze. This title aptly mirrors US foreign policy led by Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.

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AXIS OF LOGIC COLUMNIST, ARTURO ROSALES

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