3. Nuclear weapons

Obama stated “The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran” – yet Iran has repeatedly stated that it does not want nuclear weapons; US intelligence confirms that they gave up any such intentions 6 years ago;  Iran has repeatedly voted for a nuclear-free Middle East (this being repeatedly opposed by nuclear terrorist states of Israel and the US); Iran has not attacked any other country for centuries whereas  the US has attacked, threatened or subverted almost every country on the planet and Israel has attacked numerous countries (Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Uganda and the US per the USS Liberty attack) as well as playing a “dirty tricks” US surrogate role in Central America, South America, Africa and the South Pacific).

Obama makes no mention of  Israeli nuclear weapons (believed to number about 200)  but reiterates the “terrorism” canard against Iran , a country under attack from US-enabled heroin smugglers from Afghanistan and US-backed Baluchi terrorists from Baluchistan in SW Pakistan. And of course, if Iran did have nuclear weapons would they use then to commit suicide by attacking the US or Israel? Of course not.

Obama uses the following spin and motherhood device in avoiding mention of Israeli nuclear weapons [my additions in square brackets] : “I understand those who protest that some countries [e.g. Israel] have weapons that others do not [e.g. Iran, Palestine]. No single nation [e.g. the US] should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations [except America?] hold nuclear weapons.”

4. Democracy

Obama stated that “I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other” – yet that is exactly what the US and its allies are  doing in Haiti, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Occupied Territories in which the formerly dominant parties (e.g. Hamas that overwhelmingly won the 2006 Occupied Palestinian elections held under Occupier guns, winning 76 seats out of 132 ) have been declared to be “terrorists” and hunted down and killed leaving only the “acceptable” remaining Indigenous parties to participate in “democracy” under foreign guns.

Indeed in Diego Garcia, Lebanon (the Shebaa farms zone) and Syria (the Golan Heights) US-style “democracy” is assured because these Occupied Territories have been completely ethnically cleansed of Indigenous inhabitants.

While Obama made an admission of US responsibility for overthrowing democracy in Iran in 1953, he did not have the guts (or the time in one speech)  to admit to America’s appalling role in subversion of democracy in virtually every country around the World from Fiji (1987 US-backed military coup) to Haiti (2004 US-backed military coup) (for details see William Blum’s “Rogue State” and Gideon Polya’s “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).

Of course, in this core part of his speech Obama egregiously lied by omission (ignoring US subversion of democracy world-wide except in relation to subversion of Iranian democracy in 1953) and also lied by by commission. Thus Obama stated : “Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have responsibilities. To play a role in fulfilling Palestinian aspirations, and to unify the Palestinian people, Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, and recognize Israel's right to exist” – but  the reality is otherwise: Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian elections in 2006 but the Hamas MPs have been variously imprisoned, killed or besieged in the Gaza Concentration Camp; Hamas does not deny the right of Israel to exist but (like Mandela and the ANC in Apartheid South Africa) wants observance of international law and non-racism; and Hamas versus Israeli violence is underscored by Apartheid Israel’s recent killing of 1,400 Gaza inmates in retaliation for zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets in the preceding year.

Democracy is fundamentally the practical expression of the will of the people and perhaps the most fundamental wish of all human beings is to see the survival of their children. Yet infant mortality is shockingly high in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire (Haiti, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan). In contrast, in impoverished, US-sanctioned and US-threatened Cuba – free of US hegemony for 50 years – the infant mortality rate is the same as in the US. Cuban democracy indeed.

5. Religious freedom

Obama ignores the reality that one of the most holy cities for 2 billion Christians and 1.5 billion Muslims (Jerusalem) is illegally occupied and violated by racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel in violation of numerous UN Resolutions, notably UN Security Council Resolution 252 that expressly forbids Israeli genocidal dispossession of East Jerusalem Palestinians and indeed of all other Occupied Indigenous Palestinians. Indigenous Palestinians are frequently forbidden to worship at their holy shrines in Occupied Palestine and going on the Haj runs the risk of never being able to return to their homes and families in Palestine.

Obama made a “weasel words” statement about Muslim freedom of religion: “We must always examine the ways in which we protect it. For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfil their religious obligation. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfil zakat”.

Yet recently in the United States of America (aka the United States of Israel) the founder members of what was once the biggest Muslim charity in the US were jailed for 65 years for giving money to aid the orphans from Israeli killings of Occupied Palestinians i.e. the US has made the core Muslim obligation of alms-giving (zakat) a criminal offence attracting an effective life sentence in prison (see “anti-Arab anti-Semitism. US and Australia make Muslim charity a major crime”) . 

6. Women’s rights

Obama concentrated on the wearing of the hijab and female literacy - but ignored the fundamental biological desire and “right” of women to see the survival of their offspring, a “right” variously denied by mass paedocidal polices of US imperialism and US-backed surrogates  in the Occupied Territories of Haiti, Somalia, . Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and robot-bombed NW Pakistan.

Thus UNICEF, WHO and UN Population Division data inform us that in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories the “annual death rate” is 0.6%, 0.9% and 7.0%, respectively, for under-5 year old infants – as compared to 0.1% for Israeli or White Australian infants and 10% for Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War 2 (for which war crimes Japanese generals were tried and hung).

Obama’s words are hollow indeed – he is the effective ruler of Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, devastated countries in which the equal rights for women obtaining in  2003 and 1978, respectively, (i.e. prior to massive, malignant and violentent US involvement) has been supplanted by gross abuse of women’s rights by US-backed Puppet Governments.

7. Economic development and opportunity

Obama’s pontifications about “economic development and opportunity” represent a massive lie. The US with 4.7% of the world’s population consumes 25% of the world’s wealth. Obama is responsible for 655,000 avoidable deaths from deprivation each year in the US Overseas Empire (and an unknown number of violent excess deaths but his Nazi-style generals “don’t do body counts”). However the global avoidable mortality carnage on Spaceship Earth under US hegemony with Obama at the wheel is horrendous: 16 million avoidable deaths annually (9.4 million being under-5 infants) from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease (2004 data; see Gideon Polya’s “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).

Obama and the pro-Zionist Mainstream media and politicians of the Western Murdochracies scrupulously avoid seeing the horrendous consequences of First World hegemony. Thus using UN Population Division data one can estimate “avoidable mortality” (excess mortality, avoidable deaths, excess death, deaths that did not have to happen) for every country in the world , avoidable mortality being the difference between actual deaths in a country and deaths expected for a peaceful, decently run country with the same demographics.

Thus for all countries (excepting Germany and Japan) occupied by the US as a major occupier since 1945, the 1950-2005 avoidable deaths have totalled 82 million. The breakdown (expressing avoidable deaths as a ratio of the 2005 population and including the value for the US itself) is as follows (m = millions; * indicates other major co-occupiers): US [8.455m/300.038m = 2.8%] - Afghanistan* [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Cambodia* [5.852m/14.825m = 39.5%], Dominican Republic [0.806m/8.998m = 9.0%], Federated States of Micronesia [0.016m/0.111m = 14.4%], Greece* [0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%], Guam [0.005m/0.168m = 3.0%], Haiti* [4.089m/8.549m = 47.9%], Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%], Korea* [7.958m/71.058m = 11.2%], Laos* [2.653m/5.918m = 44.8%], Panama [0.172m/3.235m = 5.3%], Philippines [9.080m/82.809m = 11.0%], Puerto Rico [0.039m/3.915m = 1.0%], Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m = 51.8%], US Virgin Islands [0.003m/0.113m = 2.4%], Vietnam* [24.015m/83.585m = 28.7%], total = 82.193m/357.651m = 23.0%  (see “Global avoidable mortality”).

The 1950-2005 avoidable mortality has totalled 1.3 billion (the World), 1.2 billion (the non-European World) and 0.6 billion (the Muslim World) – a Muslim Holocaust 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million deaths, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) or the “forgotten” WW2 Bengal Famine (6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death by the British).

However it gets worse.  The US and its extreme right wing Anglo allies Canada and Australia, are among the worst greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters in the world  as revealed by the following figures: “annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in units of “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008 data) is 2.2 (India), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 24 (Canada) , 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2 pollution is included (see Wikipedia, “List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita”).

Obama has offered a mere 2% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020 whereas top UK experts say 6-8% per year is required just to maintain the current damaging atmospheric CO2-equivalent of 450 ppm .  Obama’s cowardice is committing the World to a worsening Climate Genocide that, according to top UK climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS, will mean that fewer than 1 billion will survive the century i.e. about 10 billion will die, mostly non-European, and including 2 billion Indians and 3 billion Muslims in a Muslim Holocaust that will dwarf the 0.6 billion Muslims of the past 6 decades.

In summary, Obama’s speech to the Muslim World had some positives - admission of US overthrow of democracy in Iran (but no admission of the horrendous subversion of democracy by the US in virtually all countries around the world); US support for a Palestinian State (but in practice only when Israel agrees); and opposition to nuclear weapons (while the nuclear terrorist rogue states of the US and Israel have 15,000 and 200, respectively).

For the rest,  Obama ‘s speech was a dishonest, Orwellian and Goebbelsian  mix of pro-Zionist propaganda, obfuscation, spin, outright lies, slies (spin-based untruths) and massive lying by omission about the carnage of the Bush (now Obama) War on Muslims ( 7-9 million excess deaths, so far), the post-war, US-complicit  Muslim Holocaust (0.6 billion Muslim excess deaths) and the worsening, US-complicit  Climate Genocide that will kill 3 billion Muslims this century due to unaddressed man-made climate change.

Who does Obama think he is fooling?

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