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Despite his liberal pretensions, Obama's foreign policy was dreamed upwardly at Langley—which should not have been surprising given his background
[This essay is another in CAM'due south series on the history of the CIA. Obama has been in the news this calendar week for overseeing groundbreaking on his presidential middle. This heart has sparked controversy considering information technology will not firm whatsoever bodily documents and is existence built on the supposedly protected Jackson Park on Chicago'southward southern lakefront. Hugh Iglarsh wrote in Counterpunch that the main tower—which resembles a behemothic upraised prison cell phone—will be "a Great Tower of Nothing, a monument to hubris, chutzpah and Chicago-manner clout…which rivals the Pyramid of Khufu in its roughshod, enigmatic grandiosity."—Editors]
In the summertime of 2012, President Barack Obama signed a surreptitious club authorizing the CIA and other U.South. agencies to support rebels in Syria seeking to oust Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad—a nationalist who had centrolineal with Islamic republic of iran and stood up to U.Southward. proxy Israel. [one]
Costing more $1 billion, Operation Timber Sycamore evolved into the largest covert operation since the arming of mujahadin fighters in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
U.Due south. Special Forces under Timber Sycamore again trained Islamic fundamentalists, this time in Jordan, who over again carried out a reign of terror. [two]
A voracious consumer of intelligence, Obama'due south trademark throughout his presidency was to move war into the shadows, a low-cal-footprint approach designed to aggrandize U.S. power covertly.
Full general Joseph Votel, head of the special operations control (SOCOM) characterized the Obama era equally a "gilded historic period for special operations." Green Berets were deployed to 133 countries—seventy percent of the globe—in 2014 lonely. [3]
In a coming together almost Afghanistan, Obama told CIA Director Leon Panetta that the CIA would "become everything it wanted." [iv]
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The New York Times reported that, "in the 67 years since the CIA was founded, few presidents accept had equally close a bond with their intelligence chiefs as Mr. Obama forged with Mr. [John] Brennan," [five] an builder of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program and former CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.
Obama's worldview meshed and so closely with this "unsentimental intel warrior" and "terrorist hunter" that Obama "establish himself finishing Brennan's sentences."
An anonymous Cabinet member explained that "presidents tend to be smitten with the instruments of the intelligence community [but] Obama was more smitten than almost—this has been an intelligence presidency in a mode nosotros haven't seen maybe since Eisenhower." [six]
The consequences could exist seen in Obama's boosting funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which promotes regime change in countries defiant of the New Earth Lodge, and his drastic expansion of the use of drones—for both surveillance and targeted killings.
The Obama administration farther; a) backed coups in Ukraine and Honduras; b) pivoted the U.Due south. military to Asia, ramped up arms sales to Saudi Arabia and expanded military bases in Africa; c) helped suppress evidence about CIA torture, d) refused to pursue a criminal case confronting the CIA's money laundering bank, HSBC, due east) eavesdropped on U.Southward. allies and a U.S. congressman (Dennis Kucinich) who opposed his administration'southward illegal invasion of Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya that devastated that state, f) stepped up surveillance and efforts to destroy Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange, and g) presided over the prosecution of a record number of whistleblowers under the Espionage Act of 1917.
Additionally, the Obama assistants a) protected longtime CIA assets from prosecution, like Rwandan mass murderer Paul Kagame; b) waged war by proxy in Yemen through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to which it sold most $27 billion worth of artillery; c) provided weapons to drug cartels in United mexican states under the Operation Fast and the Furious while ramping up the State of war on Drugs through the Program Mérida; and d) oversaw establishment of a secret arms pipeline from Libya to Syria by Ambassador Chris Stevens as function of Operation Timber Sycamore. [7]
CIA Family unit Connectedness—Ann Dunham
Obama's record as president should non have been surprising given his family unit background.
His female parent, Ann Dunham, worked for U.South. authorities agencies and allied NGOs—the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation, Development Alternatives Inc., and United States Agency for International Evolution (USAID)—in Republic of indonesia in the 1960s and 1970s as well as Ghana, Nepal, People's republic of bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
Ann had training in the Russian language which, with everything combined, made her a "CIA recruiter's wet dream." [8]
The microfinancing projects that she worked on to help plough traditional craft industries into sustainable businesses were designed to "tether third globe masses to the mentality of finance commercialism," as Obama's unauthorized biographer put it.
Dunham's boss at USAID in Indonesia, Dr. Donald Gordon Jr., author of Credit for Pocket-size Farmers in Developing Countries for USAID (1976), was identified in Julius Mader's 1968 volume, Who Who's in the CIA, equally a CIA agent. [9]
Another boss, Peter Geithner, was futurity Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner'due south begetter.
Ann obtained her Bachelor's and Master'due south caste in anthropology at the Academy of Hawaii, writing a thesis which argued that Indonesian villagers were dynamic and could produce greater wealth if they had access to market place incentives and capital.
Ann went to Indonesia in the mid 1960s at the time that the CIA supported a military insurrection led by General Suharto against the left-wing regime of Sukarno.
Over two million suspected members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were rounded upwards and massacred in its aftermath and thousands more were imprisoned—many for decades.
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Much of Ann's anthropological and consulting field work was carried out in Eastward and Primal Coffee, which provided a hotbed of back up for the PKI—including among members of the Javanese women's association and labor federation.
The CIA at this time employed anthropologists and development workers as undercover agents to gather data on villagers' political affiliations, in which Ann, co-ordinate to her thesis adviser, Alice Dewey, had taken an interest.
After her arrival in Indonesia, Dunham taught English at the American Embassy in Jakarta, which besides housed one of the largest CIA stations in Asia and had significant satellite stations in Surabaya in eastern Java and Medan on Sumatra.
Dunham also worked for the Indonesian-American Friendship Institute in Jakarta, a suspected CIA forepart. One of her closest colleagues, Adi Sasono, had been the leader of the Muslim students during the overthrow of Sukarno.
While Ann's recruitment as a CIA amanuensis has never been openly acknowledged, she was amidst the few U.Southward. government employees with the language skills and admission to fulfill this role effectively. Evolution projects in the region were explicitly designed to pry villagers abroad from the PKI orbit, and Ann'southward piece of work would have contributed to this.
In March 1965, Ann married an Indonesian Lieutenant Colonel, Lolo Soetoro, whom she met at the University of Hawaii'due south Eastward-West Center, a "kinder, gentler version of the School of the Americas," according to 1 writer, and "cover for a training program in which Southeast Asians were brought to Hawaii and trained to become back to create agent nets," every bit U.S. Information Service (USIS) Director Frank Scotten described it.
The head of the East-West Center in 1965 was Howard P. Jones, U.South. ambassador to Indonesia from 1958 to 1965. [10]
Jones was nowadays in Jakarta as Suharto and his CIA-backed military machine officers planned the 1965 overthrow of Sukarno, who was seen, along with the PKI every bit an marry of China.
Jones later defended the coup in The Washington Post, writing that Suharto was but responding to a communist coup against Sukarno led by Colonel Untung—which was actually set up by the CIA. [11]
A friend of Ann's told her biographer that the marriage to Lolo was bundled, suggesting that Ann may take acted every bit a female person "honeypot" for the CIA whose job was to recruit avails and help them obtain U.S. citizenship.
Hailing from an aloof family unit which lost out in Sukarno's state reform, Soetoro was recalled to active duty in July 1965 before Full general Suharto's right-wing coup and worked every bit an army geographer in Coffee and Papua New Guinea, where the Indonesian army brutally suppressed popular revolts.
Soetoro went on to become an executive at Mobil Oil and its liaison to Suharto, whose economical policies Dunham praised.
CIA Family unit Connection—Stanley Armour Dunham
Obama's granddaddy Stanley Armour Dunham—who helped raise him—served with the 9th Air Strength Division in World War Two.
He was pictured in a military uniform with no insignia, which suggests an intelligence unit of measurement.
Another photograph featured his daughter Ann, with the insignia of an aristocracy schoolhouse in Lebanon on her shirt in the 1950s, where Stanley may have worked with the CIA or some other U.S. government agency.
In the early 1960s, Stanley Dunham was part of a group photo taken with Barack Obama, Sr., on his departure from the Academy of Hawaii.
Obama Sr. had been part of a Country Department/CIA exchange financed in part past the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation that brought future African leaders to the U.South. who were being groomed to serve U.S. interests in the Cold State of war.
The photograph would suggest that Dunham was i of the coordinators of the commutation, indicating work for the State Section or CIA.
According to his official biography, Dunham worked as a furniture salesman for the Standard-Grunbaum Article of furniture Visitor, which led to his frequent travel and family moves.
Contained researchers believe, however, that this job was a comprehend for his work equally an intelligence agent, who surveilled radical groups, or war machine or Air Strength production facilities, which is what brought him to Hawaii.
Dunham's favorite bar in Honolulu, to which he brought young Barry, perchance not coincidentally was owned by William J. Lederer, a known CIA amanuensis who wrote the Cold War classic, The Ugly American.
Barack Obama, Sr.
Obama's purported Kenyan-built-in begetter, Barack Obama, Sr., had met his mother in 1960 when he was twenty-three and she xviii in a Russian-language class at the Academy of Hawaii.
The leader of the opposition Kenyan African Democratic Union (KADU) condemned the exchange Obama was part of for favoring certain tribes—the majority Kikuyu and minority Luo—over other tribes to back up the Kenyan African National Union (KANU).
The latter's leader, Tom Mboya, was a favorite of the CIA and opposed the Pan-Africanist currents on the continent. He was the one who selected Obama Sr. for the scholarship.
Obama Sr. returned the favor by going back to Kenya to piece of work for the Kenyan Finance and Transport Ministries and an oil house in Kenya earlier dying in a car crash in 1982. Mboya himself was assassinated in 1969.
Far-fetched as it sounds, Obama Sr. may not have been Obama's existent begetter.
Obama Sr. and Ann never lived together or had a real wedding, and Obama Sr. had no contact with his son, except for a short ii-calendar week visit to Hawaii when Obama was 10, which may have been for the purpose of securing Obama a spot in the coveted Punahou Prep School. [12]
The photo of Stanley and Obama Sr. is suspicious considering what male parent in his correct heed would be pictured smiling with the man who impregnated his teenaged daughter and and so abandoned her?
There is evidence to propose that Obama's existent male parent was Frank Marshall Davis, an African American journalist, sexually libertine poet, political radical and alleged target of Granddad Dunham's surveillance.
Obama's friend Keith Kakugawa told an interviewer that Ann had had an matter with Davis because she was angry that the family had to move to Hawaii, away from her high-school friends who were all attending the Academy of Washington.
Ann became pregnant and, to hide the truth, Dunham paid Obama Sr.—whom he knew through the University of Hawaii commutation—to marry Ann, giving him the opportunity to extend his visa to nourish Harvard.
Barack eventually institute out the truth, writing in his first memoir, Dreams from My Father, that "the visits to Frank's house e'er left me feeling vaguely uncomfortable as if I were witnessing some complicated, unspoken transaction between the two men, a transaction I couldn't understand." [thirteen]
Obama paid tribute to his actual father in a 1981 poem published in the Occidental College Literary Journal called "Pop," which attributes to him features that resemble Davis, and references "Pop'south poetry, written before his female parent died."
Barack Sr. was not a poet and, although Stanley dabbled in poetry, Barry called him "gramps" and his mother committed suicide before his eighth altogether. [xiv]
Madelyn Dunham
I other connexion between Obama and the U.Southward. national security state lies with his grandmother Madelyn—whom Obama called Toot.
Though defective a college caste, Madelyn rose to the rank of Vice President of the Banking company of Hawaii—which suggests she had high level personal connections.
In that task, Madelyn handled escrow accounts used to pay American Common cold War clients in Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea and elsewhere—including through CIA proprietaries.
The Depository financial institution of Hawaii further had dealings with Nugan Hand Bank of Australia through which the CIA funded the ramble coup d'état against Australian Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975. [xv]
Roofing Upward the Truth
Obama and his handlers effectively covered up the truth about Obama'southward family history.
They marketed Obama as a multi-racial candidate whose sensitivity to divergent cultures around the world would help restore America's international reputation post-obit the Bush years.
In his 2020 memoir, A Promised Land, Obama presents his mother as a 1960s rebel and beatnik who partook in civil rights protests, opposed the Vietnam State of war, married exterior her race twice, and decided to devote her career to setting up micro-lending projects for poor women in Republic of indonesia and later on Islamic republic of pakistan whose language and civilisation she absorbed. [16]
Obama claimed that his mother did non know about the countless atrocities that were committed by the Suharto regime, which is implausible given her background and the fact that they were reported on by mainstream newspapers at the time—favorably.
Of further significance, Obama underplayed his stepfather Lolo'due south regular army rank in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope. [17]
Regarding his own story, Obama has promoted falsehoods at every step.
In A Promised Land, he neglects to mention that, later on graduating Columbia University in 1983, he worked for about a year for Business organization International Corporation (BIC), a Manhattan-based consulting business firm to multinational corporations, where his job was to edit newsletters on business organization conditions in countries around the world.
Headed by a shut friend of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Orville Freeman, Jr., the former Governor of Minnesota who was involved with Humphrey in the purge of suspected communists in the Farmer-Labor Party, BIC had functioned every bit a CIA forepart.
Its sub-specialty was in recruiting left-wing organizers to employ every bit avails, and in infiltrating foreign labor unions with the goal of promoting disruptions in targeted economies.
An activist with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) described BIC every bit the guys who wrote the Alliance for Progress (Marshall Plan for Latin America): "They're the left-wing of the ruling form." [xviii]
Besides underplaying his employment with BIC, Obama in his writings omits the fact that his work as a customs organizer was for the Gamaliel Foundation, a satellite of his mother's old employer the Ford Foundation, whose underlying aim was to prevent course solidarity and the revival of Martin Luther Male monarch, Jr.'south inter-racial poor people'south movement. [19]
Obama further leaves out that as an Illinois state senator, he partook in pay-to-play schemes granting favors to political donors like slumlord Tony Rezko who helped him purchase his Hyde Park mansion for below market value, and the CEO of a engineering science firm, Robert Blacwell Jr., who paid Obama $112,000 in legal fees for work that appears impossible for him to have done.
Obama's timeline for his life story, meanwhile, is oft wrong. In A Promised Land, for instance, he claims to have spent iii years in New York after transferring from Occidental College to Columbia after his sophomore twelvemonth; however, it is believed that Obama spent the 1981-1982 school year in Pakistan and only studied at Columbia for i twelvemonth. [20]
Obama: Defender of the U.South. Empire
Obama's bottomless foreign policy tape was telegraphed in his three major books where he promotes a defence of U.S. foreign policy while maligning and advancing stereotypes about the 1960s movements and critics of U.S. foreign policy.
In his offset memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), Obama describes 1960s Black Ability icon and anti-imperialist Stokely Carmichael as a "madman" and claims to have witnessed two women selling literature outside a lecture hall where he heard Carmichael speak calling each other names like "Stalinist grunter" and "reformist bitch."
Obama editorialized that motion activists who clung to the ideals of the 1960s had get completely "removed from the struggles of those they purported to serve" or "merely plain crazy." [21]
In his latest memoir, A Promised State, Obama pats himself on the back for "questioning his own assumptions," which he writes "inoculated me against the revolutionary formulas embraced by a lot of people on the left at the dawn of the Reagan era." [22]
Obama goes on to recount arguments he allegedly had with friends in college who insisted that "the American hegemon was the root of oppression worldwide."
Obama writes that he knew better, having "lived overseas," and would extol the "idea of America, the promise of America."
According to Obama, the argument "would usually terminate with some smug bastard dropping a newspaper in front of me, its headline trumpeting the U.S. invasion of Grenada." [23]
These arguments could non really have taken identify in the mode Obama suggests considering Obama graduated from Columbia Academy in May 1983, and the U.S. invaded Grenada in Oct 1983.
At the fourth dimension of that invasion, Obama was really working for the CIA front corporation, BIC, whose employees were unlikely to have insisted that the American hegemon was the root of worldwide oppression or to have condemned the U.S. invasion of Grenada—which had been based on faux pretexts.
Obama's Ties to the Crowns and Pritzkers
1 other matter omitted by Obama is his close connection to the Crown and Pritzker families.
The Crown family—whose net worth stands at over $x billion dollars—has long owned a pregnant stake in General Dynamics, manufacturer of Trident missiles, Stryker troop carriers, bunker buster bombs, LAV-25 amphibious armored vehicles, Abrams tanks, sniper rifles, and nuclear-powered submarines and naval destroyers.
During Obama'south presidency, Full general Dynamics bought out 11 firms specializing in satellites, geo-spatial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and amassed contracts from 16 intelligence agencies after investing $10 million in annual lobbying.
The company farther embraced "every intelligence driven style of warfare," developing pocket-size target and identification systems and equipment that could intercept insurgents' cell phone and lab-top communications and figurer software used for cyber and psychological warfare. [24]
The Crown family gave at least $86,636 to Obama campaigns between 1990 and 2012 and raised an additional $three,205,233 between 2007 and 2012 while paying $135,000 for Obama'south inauguration in 2009.
Susan Crown, Lester's girl, sat on the board of Northern Trust, which gave Obama a sweetheart loan for purchase of a $1.65 1000000 Georgian revival mansion in Chicago'southward Hyde Park complete with a one thousand-canteen wine cellar.
James Crown, who was the target of a congressional and criminal probe every bit chairman of the J.P. Morgan Chase & Company's chance committee, was Obama's fundraising chair in his 2004 campaign for the Senate. [25]
The Crowns' investments in Obama paid off —Full general Dynamics' revenues shot up to over $thirty billion in 2016, a three-fold increase from 2000. The Crowns' internet worth doubled in the Obama years, causing the family to rise in the Forbes ranking to the 27th richest family in the United States. [26]
Penny Pritzker of the Pritzker banking dynasty—ranked number ix on the Forbes list with a fortune of $32.5 billion—gave $500,000 to Obama's 2nd inauguration—earning her appointment every bit Obama's Secretary of Commerce.
Pritzker had helped finance Obama from the beginning of his political career, having allegedly met him in the early 1990s when her kids were playing on a basketball team coached by Michelle Obama's blood brother, Craig Robinson.
During Obama's 2008 White House run, Pritzker served as the national chairwoman of his entrada finance team, which shattered fundraising records, and in the 2012 reelection attempt, she was a top bundler.
The Pritzker family—which made its fortune through ownership of Hyatt hotels—had long ties to the CIA. They were leading depositors in the Bahamas-based Castle Bank, a CIA outfit founded by i of the CIA's mob liaisons, Paul Helliwell, which specialized in off-shoring coin. [27]
The Pritzkers were too war profiteers. In 1953, family unit patriarchs Jay and Robert Pritzker founded the Marmon Group, an industrial property company which includes the subsidiary Marmon Aerospace and Defense which articles wires and cables for aerospace, armed services vehicles, gainsay systems, radar installations and naval shipboards.
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The Pritzkers—like the Crowns—thus personally profited from Obama's mammoth military budgets, which outstripped those of President Bush by an average of $18.7 billion per yr, Obama's naval buildup in the Southward People's republic of china Ocean and his overseeing more sales of military weaponry than whatever other president—$60 billion more than than President Bush. [28]
Determination
As the first Black president, Obama is often placed on a pedestal as a moral beacon and compared to such historic figures as Martin Luther Rex, Jr., and Nelson Mandela.
These comparisons are off base, equally Obama is an opportunistic and often deceitful politician who has shown a lack of moral integrity throughout his career.
Obama's deep ties to and support of the CIA and adjunct agencies similar the NED fueled dandy foreign policy disasters which ravaged numerous countries.
Later he left the presidency, Obama worked through his consigliére John Brennan to help conjure up the "Russia Gate" scandal, which revived Cold War-era demonologies, poisoned U.Due south.-Russian federation relations and greatly increased the threat of nuclear state of war.
Media outlets including those on the Left continue to perpetrate many myths about Obama and to assume a defensive posture in the face up of right-wing attacks.
While these attacks may be nefarious, they should non forestall sober and critical analysis about America'south forty-4th president and the dark forces behind his rise to power and reign.
- Marking Hosenball, "Sectional: Obama authorizes surreptitious U.S. support for Syrian rebels," Reuters, August 1, 2012, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-obama-order/exclusive-obama-authorizes-secret-u-s-support-for-syrian-rebels-idUSBRE8701OK20120801
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See Mark Taliano, Voices From Syria (Montreal: Global Research, 2017). ↑
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The size of SOCOM expanded by virtually 25 percent during Obama'due south presidency, increasing from 55,800 people to 69,700. ↑
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Leon Panetta, Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in State of war and Peace (New York: Penguin Press, 2014), 252. ↑
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Peter Bakery and Marking Mazetti, "Brennan Draws on Bond with Obama in Bankroll CIA," The New York Times, Dec 14, 2014, https://world wide web.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/us/politics/cia-main-and-president-walk-fine-line-.html ↑
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Jeremy Kuzmarov, Obama'south Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Atlanta: Clarity Press Inc., 2019), 21. Brennan was head of the Analysis Corporation, a CIA contractor business firm during the menstruation before the 2008 election when employees of it rifled through Obama'southward passport file at the State Department. This may have been a major factor behind Brennan's closeness to Obama and promotion.
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Kuzmarov, Obama's Unending Wars, 100, 135, 267. In Libya, the Obama assistants supported the overthrow of pan-Africanist Muammar Qaddafi, who resisted the establishment of a giant AFRICOM military base in Libya. Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya'south first president afterward Qaddafi's overthrow, Mohammed Magariaf, was recruited past the CIA in the 1980s into a counter-revolutionary forcefulness in Republic of chad. The Obama administration likewise supported Full general Khalifa Hiftar, who had coerced people into joining the CIA'due south anti-Qaddafi Contra army in the 1980s by putting them in hot, windowless, crowded rooms with floors ankle-deep in sewage for long periods of fourth dimension if they did not hold. ↑
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Mondo Frazier, The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama (New York: Threshold editions, 2010), 113. ↑
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Gordon helped barricade the U.Due south. embassy during the 1965 Suharto coup. Julius Mader, Who'south Who in the CIA (Berlin: Julius Mader, 1968), 139. In the latter book he is listed as Dr. Gordon Donald Jr. He is said to have been a U.S. naval veteran who served equally special counselor of the Part of Analysis and Inquiry for the Soviet Bloc in the Department of State and in Djakarta and Lahore, where Dunham followed him. ↑
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The section on Ann Dunham is drawn from Kuzmarov, Obama's Unending Wars; Wayne Madsen, The Manufacturing of a President (cocky-published, 2012); Webster Tarpley, Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography (Joshua Tree, CA: Progressive Press, 2008). For more on Dunham'south background, see also Janny Scott, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother (New York: Penguin Books, 2011). ↑
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Wayne Madsen, "The Story of Obama: All in the Company," Wayne Madsen Report, August 18, 2010, https://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2015/ten/20/43457/ ↑
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After Barack was built-in, Ann moved to Washington State for a flow while Barack Obama Sr. completed his studies at the University of Hawaii before going to Harvard. ↑
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Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York: 3 Rivers Press, 1995); discussed in Kuzmarov, Obama's Unending Wars, ch. 2. ↑
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See Kuzmarov, Obama'due south Unending Wars. ↑
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After the bank's collapse, its founder, Frank Nugan, was shot to death about Sydney. Nugan Manus had been used to wash CIA drug money at the stop of the Indochina State of war. ↑
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Barack Obama, A Promised Land (New York: Crown Publishers, 2020), half dozen, 7. Ann's mentor at the University of Hawaii, Alice Dewey, described her equally a "garden variety democrat" and not a leftist radical. In that location is no prove of her having attended ceremonious rights or anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, which were rare when Ann was a pupil in the early 1960s. ↑
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Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown, 2006). Obama claimed that the "story of the coup and purge was deadening to appear in American newspapers," which was not the case.↑
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James Kunen, The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a Revolutionary (New York: Avon Books, 1970), 112; Kuzmarov, Obama's Unending Wars. Kunen notes that BIC supported the left-wing Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on issues related to civil rights and student control of universities but differed on the question of imperialism. An informed source told journalist Wayne Madsen that Obama's tuition debt at Columbia University was paid off by BIC.
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Tarpley, Barack H. Obama, 62.
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Madsen, The Manufacturing of a President, 145, 146. Academy Clearinghouse records indicated that Obama only attended Columbia Academy in 1982-1983, though the school afterward claimed in that location was a "computer error," which appears rather dubious, and that Obama attended in 1981-1982. Obama himself refused to release his college transcripts or proper noun a single classmate or acquaintance from his time at Columbia. In that location are no photos and very few people, students and faculty, remember him at the school, prompting suspicion and conspiracy theories. Obama's passport records meanwhile accept been destroyed. During his time in Pakistan, where his mother was then working, Obama stayed at the home of the family unit of Muhammed Soomro, who became acting president after the resignation of Pervez Musharraf in August 2008. According to unidentified sources, Obama and his stepfather partook in unknown CIA business concern. At the time, Pakistan was a major hub for the recruitment of Islamic fundamentalists to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Andrew Kreig, Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters (Washington, D.C.: Eagle View Books, 2013), 23, 24.
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Obama, Dreams from My Male parent, 139, 140. ↑
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Barack Obama, A Promised Land (New York: Crown Publishers, 2020), thirteen. ↑
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Obama, A Promised State, 14. ↑
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Kuzmarov, Obama's Unending Wars, 20, 21, 37, 38. Henry Crown, Lester's begetter, established Material Services Corporation (MSC), which was ane of the government's largest World War II contractors but was sued for over $1 million by the Role of Toll Administration for price gouging. In 1962, its successor, Full general Dynamics, in which Crown remained the largest investor, was target of a major influence-peddling investigation by the Senate Government Operations Committee after beingness awarded a $7 billion Pentagon contract for TFX fighter bombers (later F-111) that was quashed later John F. Kennedy's assassination. In the 1970s, Crown was implicated in a major bribery scandal in the country of Illinois which led to the imprisonment of some state legislators. In the 1980s, the firm was fined over $650,000 for paying bribes to Admiral Hyman Rickover, the Director of Naval Submarine programs, over a 16-year period. ↑
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Kuzmarov, Obama's Unending Wars, 20; Bryan Schatz, "The Obama years Have Been Very Skillful to America'south Weapons Makers," Mother Jones, March/Apr 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/obama-international-artillery-weapons-deals/. ↑
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Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine.
He is the author of iv books on U.S. strange policy, including Obama's Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and The Russians Are Coming, Over again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018).
He can be reached at: jkuzmarov2@gmail.com.
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