Black Man Lectures UN Delegates On
White Imperialist Foreign Policy
By Jay Janson
24 September, 2010
Countercurrents.org
It’s the United Nations Conference on the underachieved Millennium Goals for the formerly militarily invaded enslaved, occupied and exploited nations of the nonwhite majority of mankind.
A black American president, backed by Wall Street and serving its investment bankers in cowardly and murderous wars in various innocent Muslim nations, has the balls to lecture the General Assembly on morality.
Incredulously, in a half-hour long speech Obama managed to avoid mention of the very purpose of the 65th Meeting of the General Assembly dedicated to saving the lives of those who will starve to death or die of preventable diseases and live in poverty this year and in the foreseeable future. A poverty that was created by the brutal racist exploitation of industrialized and weaponised colonialist nations in previous centuries that continue their exploitation through financial institutions controlled by the U.S. and its allies.
Right off, we hear about 9/11, as if that would justify the unmentioned U.S. invasions of the nations of Afghanistan and Iraq and the bombing of Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
Then the delegates are subjected to the list of America’s belligerent foreign policy concerns cloaked in Obama’s expounding on how good America is. For the umpteenth time he explained how wrong Iran is to refuse to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is not lying when it repeats over and over again that it does not desire nuclear weapons (like the U.S. does).
Then, the stern tone of voice explaining, justifying; the economic sanctions the U.S. has arranged, as if the world did not know of Eisenhower having Kermit Roosevelt lead the CIA in the false flag overthrow of Iranian democracy and install a U.S. oil companies friendly dictatorship; as if people listening to him had forgotten Ronald Reagan’s backing Saddam Hussein's devastatingly cruel eight year war attacking Iran; as if all these knowledgeable diplomats had forgotten that Pakistan and India did not sign on to the nonproliferation treaty and now threaten the world and each other with nuclear winter.
What bad taste for the president of the superpower to bring his dirty laundry to the General Assembly of which the government of the Peoples Republic of Korea is a member; to have the arrogance to malign its government after we once invaded, bombed Korea flat and killed a million people all under the very collaboration of the United Nations he preaches peace to while bragging in passing how the U.S. is able to use less troops now for its success with modern technology. (unmanned Predator Drone Hellfire Missile strikes.)
Before the rather repetitious boasting of American democratic ideals ad infinitum, we are treated to the deft dropping of a phrase here, a phrase there, within pious talk of how desirable peace in Palestine is. Again, as if the delegates are not aware of the yearly billions of dollars in U.S. military subsidy of Israel, and of U.S. votes against all UN resolutions requiring Israel to stop its hurtful policies toward the Palestinians. The rockets into Israel are mentioned gravely. Without saying so, those occasional rockets justify the wiping out of 500 Palestinian children among 1,000 adults and the murder of nine Turks in international waters on that mercy ship headed for Gaza.
To formally give the pretense of showing compassion toward the Palestinians Obama stoutly affirmed his preference that the temporary freeze on new Jewish settlements be “extended.” That comment seemed to reverberate around the hall “Would like to see the freeze “extended” (not new settlements halted).
One wondered what message the empty chairs of the Israeli delegation during Obama’s speech was meant to convey. Was it some kind of ploy to make it appear there was a rift in the sixty-five year old tight unity of Israeli and U.S. homicidal foreign policy? - and thereby give the impression that the U.S. could somehow come to be a evenhanded and fair third party in the peace negotiations?
Obama’s UN address was obviously meant for American voters ears. If we remember that, it won’t seem so ungracious, lacking in courtesy and pompous.
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England, India and the US, and now resides in New York City.
