US president-elect Joe Biden has filled his transition team with hawkish neoliberal war-profiteering holdovers from the Barack Obama administration. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada about how the specter of Obama haunts America – and controls the Democratic Party.
We review passages from Obama’s new memoir “A Promised Land,” and how they expose his sociopathic imperial worldview. We also discuss how Rahm Emanuel’s neoliberal model in Chicago is being copied nationwide.
And we address Biden’s cabinet picks, including liberal interventionist Antony Blinken and neocon Michele Flournoy, as well as Democratic support for Israeli apartheid.
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(Episode recorded November 25, 2020)
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- Follow Ali Abunimah on Twitter at twitter.com/aliabunimah
- Read the Electronic Intifada’s journalism at electronicintifada.net
- “How Barack Obama learned to love Israel,” by Ali Abunimah in the Electronic Intifada
- MSNBC host Chris Hayes in 2009: “Washington has been taken over by a master race of beautiful black people. I wish they’d all stay.”
Washington has been taken over by a master race of beautiful black people. I wish they'd all stay.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 18, 2009
- Democracy Now praising Joe Biden’s hawkish foreign policy team
Biden National Security Appointments Focus on Multilateralism, International Cooperation https://t.co/HkST3F4v6j
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) November 25, 2020
