For more than a hundred years, the foreign policy of the United States government has been directed to the establishment and maintenance of global dominance.

To this end, violence, overthrow, conquest and murder have been utilized as required. (See "Dominion Over the World" for the sources and development of this policy.) More and more, oppression and brutalization have become the bywords of domestic policy as well.

Today, the United States as a political entity is a corporatist-authoritarian-militarist monstrosity: its major products are suffering, torture, barbarism and death on a huge scale.

My judgment of Barack Obama in particular has now been proved beyond all dispute and all doubt, even before he takes office.

I find it altogether astonishing that anyone could be surprised to the least degree by the American establishment's absolute refusal to recognize the monstrous evil of the ongoing Gaza massacre.

No major American politician and no American commentator of any significance will acknowledge the war crime the United States has committed and continues to commit in Iraq, or the scope of the genocide the actions of the U.S. government have unleashed.