Controversial New Video of Obama’s PastorA new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S.
In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, "Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle," McChesney declared, "Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism."
In the video, which captures Wright's appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the "corporate media" provide a "binary lens" of the world, in such terms as "communist versus Christian," Monthly Review offers what it calls "no-nonsense Marxism."
He added: "You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word socialism or Marxism."
He called America "land of the greed and home of the slave."
During the 2008 presidential campaign, as Obama was trying to distance himself from figures such as Wright and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, Wright gave a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and repeated a discredited Soviet propaganda claim that the U.S. Government had manufactured the AIDS virus to kill black people.
The McChesney introduction of Wright provides more insight into the political network, based largely in Chicago, that launched Obama's political career and still influences him.
A professor at the University of Illinois, where Bill Ayers is also employed, McChesney was an editor of Monthly Review but now serves as a contributor to the publication and a director of the Monthly Review Foundation.
Fox News' Glenn Beck, who has focused critical public attention on McChesney's influence in the "media reform" movement and on the Obama Administration, has noted that McChesney co-authored another piece for Monthly Review, "A New New Deal Under Obama?," in which he said, "In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles."
Ironically, McChesney's Free Press organization has received at least $1 million from the Open Society Institute of billionaire George Soros, a mega-capitalist who seems to have dedicated his life to overturning the system that made him wealthy.
Soviet propaganda claim that the U.S. Government had manufactured the AIDS virus to kill black people.
Yes it is, we have a Constitution. If you don't like, go elsewhere.Opposition to the policies of political regimes is hardly a sufficient reason to leave, as evidenced by your continued presence here.
I'm fairly certain it was David Horowitz who started that conspiracy theory.It was a Soviet rumor? I thought Farahkhan was the one who started it.
I'm fairly certain it was David Horowitz who started that conspiracy theory.
Among Horowitz's better-known titles are Deadly Innocence: Solving the Greatest Murder Mystery in the History of American Medicine (1994), in which he claims that Kimberly Bergalis' dentist, David J. Acer was a pedophile and a serial killer who used HIV as his murder weapon; and Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional? (1996), which advances the theory that AIDS and Ebola were engineered by the U.S. government with biological warfare and genocide in mind. As an author, the themes he has taken up over the years have moved away from public health advice related to dentistry, and on to general health-related conspiracy theories, opposition to vaccination, and New Age therapies, with elements of numerology and Christian apocalyptic prophesy.
Whoops, thank you for the correction. But yes, that was who I was referring to.You may be thinking of Leonard Horowitz:
(from Wiki)
If he hates America so much why doesn't he get the **** out.
"I'm fairly certain" = "I don't know, but here's what I want to be true,".I'm fairly certain it was David Horowitz who started that conspiracy theory.
"Reverend" Wright is not objecting to just the regime, but to every aspect of American culture, society and history that does not specifically enrich himself.Opposition to the policies of political regimes is hardly a sufficient reason to leave, as evidenced by your continued presence here.
Did you miss the posts that followed that one? I messed up on the first name. It's Leonard Horowitz."I'm fairly certain" = "I don't know, but here's what I want to be true,".
Yes it is, we have a Constitution. If you don't like, go elsewhere.
"Reverend" Wright is not objecting to just the regime, but to every aspect of American culture, society and history that does not specifically enrich himself.
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