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Reading Tarpley's biography on Obama would provide some context here though.Most of this author's work is well written and researched. He also established that Obama was a tool of the financial establishment (support for bailout measures and health insurance mandates belie this). The book looks like a couple of articles that were put together in all due haste. Tarpley nailed that Obama would extend the war in Afghanistan to Pakistan, with an eye towards Balkanizing the region, and he predicted that budget austerity would be a major theme of fiscal policy (coming next year).
There, wild conspiracy theories will be presented in a much more entertaining and "enlightening" fashion. My advice : save your money and go to movies instead. They were both at Columbia University at the same time.And this is pretty much all the content of this book concerning Barack Obama. My proof. The proof. He mentions only a few publications he quotes from, but the interested reader who might want to research and read articles himself is left without a list of sources.
As a matter of fact, Barack Obama's name doesn't even appear in the glossary at the end of the book.If you are hoping for an informative, competent, fact based critique of the present American president, you will be disappointed. Both Mars and I are in the same solar system."Say what.", you say. According to this book, Barack Obama was recruited by and is now a puppet of Zbigniew Brzezinski. By far the largest part of the book deals with the "machinations" of Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose "sole goal is to destroy Russia and who is willing to use any means to reach that goal". Well, Mr. I am the last survivor of an advanced civilisation which existed on Mars.
Tarpley argues the same way. Mr.Tarpley doesn't give any solid proof for his statements, he just repeats them over and over again, maybe hoping that would make them true.
Its no suprise that almost all of the reviews completely miss the point of this book, too.John McCain is a Manchurian Candidate. Some idiot is going around, writing a bunch of reviews on new Amazon accounts. The funniest thing about all of that is how ironic/unfunny/pathetic it is. Its funny how almost everybody who is doing a so-called "written review" of this book has only ONE review in their history. And all the bad reviews found each other helpful. Thats first of all missing THE ENTIRE POINT of the title; Second of all, the entire point of the book.Then they (the same person, probably) call the people who wrote positive reviews of this book "Sheep".
Although there has been alot of talk about closing Guantanamo, (a) it is not closed yet, and (b) there is not talk of closing other secret prisons that may exist. Obama has signed a bigger Stimulus Package than Bush2. A month and a half into Obama's administration has proven to be exactly what Tarpley expected. Although I don't agree with everything Tarpley writes, I can not deny the fact that he was right on point with what Obama's Administration was going to do once in office.1. Has backtracked on bring troops home from Iraq3.
I was hoping for a good postmodern analysis of contemporary American politics, or at least a deconstruction of the role of media in a postcapitalist society. I am sorry I read this book and warn others to beware of false and misleading titles and covers. I can't remember the last time I felt so ripped off by buying a book based on the cover. Instead I get loony-bin meandering and nonsense about quarter-century conspiracies that are absurd on the face.
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