by Stephen Lendman

He didn't surprise. His address lasted a mind-numbing 45 minutes. He made painful listening.

All his speeches feature demagogic mumbo jumbo Big Lies. They drown out truth.

Two years ago, he lied about Libya. He claimed US-led NATO intervened to "cope with violent conflict, care for the wounded, and craft a vision for the future in which the rights of all Libyans would be respected."

He "supported the birth of a new democracy…Libyans held elections…(They) built new institutions…(They) move(d) forward after decades of dictatorship."

Truth is polar opposite Obama's Big Lies. Libya was Africa's most developed country. Most Libyans supported Gaddafi.

They did so for good reasons. Libya was a model social justice society.

Gaddafi used its oil wealth responsibly. He provided free healthcare, education and other vital benefits.

His Libya no longer exists. Obama transformed it. He made it a charnel house catastrophe. A dystopian wasteland.

Tens of thousands were ruthlessly slaughtered. Many more were injured and/or displaced.

Libyans had benefits Americans can't imagine. Obama replaced them with dystopian harshness.

Mostly civilians were harmed. US-led NATO willfully targeted them. Obama destroyed Libyan sovereignty. He replaced it with instability, insecurity, and daily violence.

Last year, he ludicrously said "we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution."

"For most of recorded history, (the) idea that nations and peoples could come together in peace to solve their disputes and advance a common prosperity seemed unimaginable."

It still does. America bears full responsibility. So does Obama. He deplores peace, stability and security. He wages permanent wars without end.

He abhors "common prosperity." He spurns social justice. He serves monied interests only. He supports their divine rights.

He permits their grandest of grand theft larceny. He hands them America's wealth.

He gave bankers trillions of dollars. He lets war-profiteers benefit hugely. He supports government of, by, and for America's privileged.

This year, he prioritized selling war. The New York Times shamelessly supports it.

It called Obama's address "much-anticipated." It made stomach-churning listening.

According to The Times, Obama "chartered a muscular new course." He "laid out a forceful new blueprint on Wednesday for deeper American engagement in the Middle East…"

He told UN members "that the Islamic State understood only 'the language of force' and that the United States would 'work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death.' "

He ignored America's killing machine. His lawless aggression. His culpability for high crimes against peace.

So did The New York Times. It bashed Russia at the same time. It did so irresponsibly.

It's America's lead disseminator of state/corporate Big Lies. It supports wealth, power and privilege.

It's an unofficial propaganda ministry. It operates irresponsibly.

It features managed news misinformation garbage. It drowns out vital truths. It betrays its readers in the process.

Obama's address featured beginning-to-end Big Lies. "(M)ore people live under governments they elected," he claimed.

Most so-called elections are more shams than real. Entrenched power runs things. People have no say.

Obama lied suggesting otherwise. "Hundreds of millions of human beings have been freed from the prison of poverty," he said.

Billions are ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed and ill-cared for. Human misery is unprecedented.

Since economic crisis conditions erupted in late 2007, poverty increased exponentially. So did deep poverty. Obama lied claiming otherwise.

He ludicrously said world economic conditions strengthened. Millions of Americans endure protracted Depression conditions.

America isn't fit to live in. It no longer has a functioning economy. Paul Craig Roberts calls it a "house of cards."

US-style casino capitalism failed. Most of its citizens struggle daily to get by. Welcome to the age of inequality. Poverty is a growth industry.

Over 23% of Americans wanting work can't find it. Most jobs are rotten ones.

They're temp or part-time low pay/poor or no benefit service ones with no futures. Conditions are getting worse, not better.

Monied interests run things. Ordinary people suffer. More than ever in modern times. Obama ludicrously claimed otherwise.

He lied accusing Russia of aggression. "Here are the facts," he said. "After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt president fled."

"Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands."

"When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days."

"When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border."

Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions. Rogue EU partners share it.

Crimea wasn't annexed. Its people voted near unanimously to join Russia. They did so in a referendum independent international monitors judged open, free and fair.

Putin responsibly accommodated them. Obama lied claiming otherwise.

No evidence suggests Russia poured arms into Southeastern Ukraine. Washington, its rogue Western partners, and Kiev's putschist government bear full responsibility for months of violence, instability and lawlessness.

Fascist regimes operate this way. Kiev's rogue government shot down MH17. Clear evidence proves it.

Self-defense forces and Russia had nothing to do with it. Or refusing access to its crash site for days.

Russia didn't invade Ukraine. Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov abhor war, violence and instability. They go all-out for peaceful conflict resolution.

Obama deplores it. He pursues permanent wars against humanity. He wants unchallenged worldwide control.

US policies cause unspeakable human misery. No nation in world history caused more harm to more people at home and abroad over a longer duration than America.

None exceed its lawlessness. Its disdain for core human and civil rights. None more threaten world peace.

America isn't beautiful. It never was. For sure not now. It threatens humanity's survival.

Obama represents the worst of rogue leadership. He belongs in prison, not high office.

America's "choice is clear," he hyped. "We choose hope over fear." His hyperbole was polar opposite reality.

"…(W)e come together to reject the cancer of violent extremism," he claimed. US global state terrorism exceeds the worst of all other rogue states in world history.

It's responsible for more genocidal mass slaughter, destruction, and human misery over a longer duration than history's worst dictatorships.

Their crimes pale by comparison to America's. They do so in terms of:

• bullying other nations to comply with its diktats;


• targeting them with regime change for refusing;


• making the world safe for monied interests;


• redrawing the world's map to serve them;


• letting them operate lawlessly;


• handing them America's wealth;


• trashing social justice;


• asserting might over right;


• waging permanent wars on sovereign nations;


• doing so for unchallenged global dominance;


• causing irreparable harm to billions worldwide for generations;


• violating core rule of law principles;


• institutionalizing state terror;


• spreading the scourge of fascism; and


• making societies unsafe to live in.

Obama lied claiming America supports "freedom of nations and (the right of) peoples (able) to make their own decisions."

He deplores this notion and others related to it. He spurns diplomacy and peace. He prioritizes violence, belligerence and permanent wars of aggression.

He ludicrously claimed America supports "mutual interest and mutual respect." A commitment to work responsibly to solve modern-day problems.

A pledge "to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and pursue the peace and security of a world without them."

A dedication to "eradicat(ting extreme poverty by 2030." A promise "to help people feed themselves, power their economies, and care for their sick."

A guarantee to "reduc(e) our carbon emissions (and increase) our investments in clean energy."

America deplores mutual interest and respect. It's responsible for egregious world problems.

Its policies create extreme poverty. They exploit world economies. They cause starvation, homelessness, health problems and unspeakable human misery.

Practically nothing is done to develop clean energy. To work toward replacing polluting fossil fuels and dangerous nuclear energy.

Obama lied claiming America "is not and never will be at war with Islam. (T)here is no us and them," he said.

No "clash of civilizations" exists, he claimed. "(H)umanity's future depends on us uniting against those who would divide us along the fault lines of tribe or sect, race or religion."

America won't "send US troops to occupy foreign lands," he claimed. He ludicrously said it military might is used responsibly.

America is committed to "tak(e) action against immediate threats, while pursuing a world in which the need for such action is diminished."

It "will never shy away from defending (its) interests, but we will also not shy away from the promise of this institution and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the notion that peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of a better life."

"…America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems, to make our union more perfect, to bridge the divides that existed at the founding of this nation."

"(W)e hold our leaders accountable," he claimed. We "insist on a free press and independent judiciary."

"…(W)e address our differences in the open space of democracy - with respect for the rule of law; with a place for people of every race and every religion; and with an unyielding belief in the ability of individual men and women to change their communities and their circumstances and their countries for the better."

Its "can help light the world…We are heirs to a proud legacy of freedom, and we're prepared to do what is necessary to secure that legacy for generations to come."

Obama's address was beginning-to-end brazen bald-faced Big Lies. He elevated them to a higher level.

His presidency gives rogue leadership new meaning. Madness defines it.

Neocon extremists infest Washington. They hugely influence policies. They do so destructively.

Obama promised hope and change. He delivered permanent wars, domestic ruthlessness and betrayal.

He's ideologically over-the-top. He presides over a homeland police state apparatus.

He recklessly advances America's imperium. His quest for global dominance risks the unthinkable.

Impeaching him is a national imperative. He violated public trust from day one in office.

He did so throughout his tenure. He broke every major promise made.

He wages permanent war on humanity. He risks heading America for WW III. He's guilty of high crimes against peace.

He trashed America's social contract. His policies caused unprecedented levels of poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, homelessness and human misery.

He's beholden to powerful monied interests. They own him. He spurns fundamental civil and human rights.

He ignores rule of law principles. He mocks democratic values. He's contemptuous of essential needs.

He institutionalized tyranny. It's a hair's breadth from full-blown. It's one major homeland false flag away.

Humanity's survival is uncertain. It's up for grabs. So are fundamental freedoms.

US state terror threatens them. So do America's permanent wars.

They rage without end. They do so lawlessly. They cause mass slaughter and destruction.

America's killing machine is the world's most ruthless. Survival hangs in the balance if it's not stopped.

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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III".

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Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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