John Pilger reveals that Obama's first job after graduating from Columbia University was with Business International Corporation, which Obama does tell us in his book Dreams of My Father. What is new information is that Pilger says Business International has a long history of providing cover for the CIA and for infiltrating leftish unions. He says he knows that from what it did in his own country, Australia.
Oh. Barry, we barely knew ye.... Now, maybe that means nothing.... But, still, interesting. I'd like to have known that.
He also quotes Christopher Hedges who writes:
President Obama does one thing, and Brand Obama gets you to believe another.
This is the essence of successful advertising. You buy or do what the advertiser wants because of how they make you feel.
Hedges calls this "chump politics."
Author, journalist, film maker , and strong leftist Pilger's entire speech at the Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco.
Via Commenter Dancing Opossum at The Confluence.
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Cannonfire
has been questioning whether Obama's summer in Pakistan wasn't under the auspices of the CIA. Go check his posts on this.
Yep, Cannonfire has been on this for a while
A lot of observations, but nothing concrete. I'm unconvinced of the CIA link, but it wouldn't be huge surprise if true.
Smoke.,..
but not fire...
I wouldn't be surprised either, but that's not the same as something being true.
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