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Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate

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This is not a book bashing Obama because he doesn't wear an american flag pin on his suit or because he might be a closet Muslim.

Instead, this book tackles the history of fascism, the geopolitical strategy of the Brzezinski group, the politics of Obama's main advisors and supporters, and a history of Jimmy Carter's Presidency as it relates to his relationship with Zbigniew Brzezinski. After a study of these topics and people, the central question becomes obvious: did Obama choose these people, or did these people choose Obama?

One of the reasons this book is so important is clear when we consider the reasoning the American people had when electing Bush. Everyone knew he wasn't a foreign policy genius, but the average Bush voter figured that if he was surronded with the 'best and brightest' then everthing would turn out alright.

If only we had paid more attention to his advisors - the neocons, vulcans and members of the infamous Project for a New American Century - we could have predicted and maybe averted our latest adventures in the Middle East.

For this same reason, we should make sure we study Obama's advisors and determine what Obama's "Change" will really look like before it is too late.

Author Tarpley has written an expose of Obama as the next Manchurian Candidate (the first was Carter), recruited, trained, husbanded, financed and handled by the Bilderbergs and their American subsidiary, the Trilateral Commission. Unfortunately, the book is VERY repetitive, going over and over the same material, and loaded with invective and really scurrilous personal attacks and ill-advised adjectives. Apparently it is impossible for the author to mention many names without using descriptive adjectives like reactionary, doltish, evil, idiotic, fascist, scoundrel, etc. The use of such terms is hardly scholarly, and indeed the author makes no pretense of offering a scholarly work, preferring instead to offer a polemic.

The author includes essays by others than himself, but who offer essentially nothing new or different that those points made in his own chapters. In essence, more than half of the book can be skipped without missing anything.

The theme is that Obama was spotted and recruited by Zbigniew Brzezinski for his eventual election to President while Obama was studying political science at Columbia. Zbig was teaching there at the same time (1982-83), and Obama wrote his senior paper on a subject of Zbig's primary interest, "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament." Obama has provided essentially no information concerning his time at Columbia and the influence of Zbig.

Lest this seem unbelievable to the reader who is unfamiliar with Zbig's role as co-founder (with David Rockefeller) of the Trilateral Commission (TC), the author serves up a few relatively undisputed facts. Zbig was put on to Jimmy Carter in 1973 by George Franklin when Carter was an unknown governor of Georgia. Zbig liked what he saw and understood that Carter would be subservient and easily handled, so took Carter to Rockefeller and the two catapulted Carter into the Presidency. It must be remembered that Carter came from nowhere, and only seven months before his nomination, was preferred by only four percent of the Democrats. The Trilateral influence was brought to bear and it proved decisive. And Zbig became Carter's National Security Advisor, TC, CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and Bilderberg Paul Volcker took over the Federal Reserve. In fact, Carter's cabinet was stuffed with TC, CFR and Bilderberg members, as has every administration had their cabinets and top bureaucratic positions including the CIA filled by Bilderbergs, TC & CFR members since then.

Unfortunately Carter was totally inept, and Ronald Reagan's "Reagan Democrat" revolt proved to be a nasty surprise for the Bilderbergs, Zbig & David Rockefeller. The first George Bush was better (also a CFR & TC member), but he still did not move the country into a public-private partnership of socialism and giant international corporations to control the country on a national and international level. Pamela Harriman introduced Bill Clinton to the Bilderbergs in 1991, and he was anointed by them to be the next President a year before he was actually elected. Zbig was back in power, if a little behind the scene. Incredibly, George W. Bush stole the election from the approved Al Gore, and even held his own against Bilderbergs John Kerry and John Edward. But now there would be no fooling around. It was time to bring someone forward who was totally bred and groomed for the Presidency and one who would dance every tune the Bilderbergs and TCs played. Although Bill Clinton was a Bilderberg, TC & CFR, Hillary was not. Enter Barack Obama.

The author cites how Obama's career was managed for him: from his assisted entry into Harvard Law School, Editor of the Law Review, his movement to Chicago and receiving a position to teach constitutional law, then his election to the Illinois State Senate (unopposed, as the expensive Bilderberg lawyers were able to have all Obama's opponents' names taken off the ballot), and even his election to the US Senate. In that campaign, the Democratic front runner was destroyed by the timely breaking of a scandal story, and then his popular Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, was destroyed and forced to abandon his candidacy when Obama's handlers were able to get an LA judge to unseal Ryan's divorce settlement and give it to the press. Obama walked in against little more than a token protest vote. In the Senate Obama was instructed to avoid voting on controversial bills so his carefully coached controlled voice and cadenced speeches would be the only face he would present. The author points out that Obama is strictly a nothing front man, but his vacuous speeches are able to almost hypnotize his audiences. Much like Mussolini, Chavez, Castro and Hitler were able to do.

These are the main elements of the author's theme, but he also spends a good of space on fascism, and the One World Order goals of the Bilderberg, TC and CFR organizations. The surprising element in all this is that the author is a committed leftist, and his criticism of Obama comes from the left. He puts Obama more readily under the fascist label than the socialist, although clearly the two labels become blurred together is the state envisioned by Zbig, the Bilderbergs & company.

There is much to ponder in this book, particularly in view of the collapse of the US economy predicted by the author that was to be engineered by the Bilderbergs at the right time to ensure Obama's election. The price of oil almost terminated Obama's candidacy, but the Bilderbergs were able to get the price under control and reduced by their financiers in Europe and Asia.

If this book's themes seem improbable or the Bilderbergs, TC or CFR are unknown to the reader, he would be advised to read Daniel Estulin's "The True Story of The Bilderberg Group", James Perloff's "The Shadows of Power - The Council on Foreign Relations And The American Decline", and Robert Ross's "Who's Who of the Elite - Members of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations & Trilateral Commission".

As I said, these is truly much here to read and ponder, but the presentation was awful. The overblown content rated five stars; the presentation and writing only one. So I compromised on three. Still, I recommend the reader buy and read this book.

In opening Professor Webster Griffin Tarpley's book "OBAMA The Postmodern Coup", I did not imagine how this latest work of his would speak to me in a manner so powerful. Webster Griffin Tarpley has presented us with an analysis of current events, so devastating as to leave us reeling in utter dismay and disarming our general complaisance, rudely awakening us from the smug satisfaction that we know what's going on. But what Tarpley is telling us cannot be! But then again we have not dug up the facts, even though some of us are capable, and then like Tarpley fearlessly let the truth out.

Webster Griffin Tarpley's defining moment when laying out the facts that clearly show the molding of Barack Obama as a creature that was formed into a puppet to be be molded as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in the forthcoming November election. With little choice of prospective candidates Obama, as Tarpley writes "was a student at Columbia University in 1981-1983 where he was studying politics, doing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament," and was taken in hand by Zbigniew Brzezinski who was head of the anti-communist Russian Department at the University. Obama possessed the formative character background that made the molding of his specific nature susceptible to the manipulations of the puppeteer Brzezinski who presented Obama to the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission. As Tarpley writes "Obama would be nobody without the investiture, financing, networking, media support and other forms of assistance provided by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Trilateral Commission, Skull and Bones, and other members of the financier elite."

Tarpley dwells in detail on the true nature of Zbigniew Brzezinski. He had previously offered assistance to Carter after Carter announced his intention to run for President, So Brzezinski, in 1975, taking advantage of Carter's acceptance of his offer of aid brought Carter the support of the Trilaterial Commission ( p.55). This in the end led to the failures in the Carter regime."Zbig who was kept in the closet for many months during the Carter administration because of his hideous Dr. Strangelove persona"(p.176)...."Any lingering doubts about Obama's status as an abject puppet of Zbezniew Brzezinski and the Rockefeller Trilaterial commission ended this morning when the withered mummy of imperialism himself appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe to campaign for Obama urged on by his own moronic daughter Mika Brzezinski, an Obama groupie and sycophant" (p.176)....."Zbigniew, a low level Polish aristocrat whose life has been devoted to hatred for Russia, lauded Obama for his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq war, saying he himself was the source of Obama's arguments back then - thus confirming Obama's long-term status as his puppet"(p.176).

Brzezinski's evil design as an "aging revanchist" is to develop all avenues that would lead to the crushing of Russia, smashing it into smithereens. Tarpley's profile of Brzezinski brings to the fore the thorough details it deserves. As for the concern of Obama, Tarpley has laid a thin layer of veneer over his real persona. On this veneer are the do good platitudes,
b ut also on this surface veneer was Obama's strategy as expressed by Tarpley; his strategy "has depended from the beginning on creating an irresistible tidal wave of hysteria, adulation, media swoon and sense of messianic inevitability....He has not been running for president he has been running for Savior."(p.154) But now let us look under the Obama's surface veneer. As we pull back this veneer the first words to catch our eyes is Zbezniew Brzezinski and the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission, The Ford Foundation, Bilderberger Group, Skull and Bones, Rand Corporation, The Chicago Council of Foreign Relations and the Chicago School of economics. To this partial list of the corporate ruling elite, we can also add Obama's military advisor the war criminal General Merrill McPeak and then to seal the deal of corporate military control we now newly have General Colin Powell jumping on the Obama bandwagon. Not forgetting the pro-Obama Wall St. financiers, we have the real nature of Obama and what we can expect once he is in office. Professor Tarpley's book is a chilling account of events today as he has put them together in their logical order,
showing Obama to be the "ventriloqist's, Zbezniew Brzezinski's dummy" which on examination could be identified as a "Manchurian Candidate".

When Obama first ran for president I was a bit excited. Being a libertarian I hoped he would actually end the disastrous war in Iraq but when I did some sniffing around and research I found out it was all talk. Something troubled me, I didn't like the almost brainwashed mentality of his supporters, nor did I like his plans for a Stassi like agency in the US, coupled with his dealings with a noted fascist who worked for the Carter White House and he started to come off as a phony. I had no way to corroborate my feelings with the facts, until I came across this book. It blew my mind and my eyes wide open, what I suspected was true. Look up any of this stuff, it is backed up. Knowing Obama's sycophantic followers who would and are following him of a cliff, I'd say most of the negative reviews are from them. Don't underestimate Obamabots, there is droves of them and it is hard for them to see truth, they just stick their head right back into the propaganda sand. I know I used to be in their camp but unlike them, I have a mind of my own and if I have doubts I always look into them. Obama is just another one of their tools, the same people who are behind the Bush administration are the same ones behind the "Savior" and the "Last Hope". People please wake up, and open your eyes. You Obamabots shut off your programming and give this book a try, and leave your mind open.

I couldn't put it down. I learned alot. I had questions about a lot of things and independently did my own fact checking. and it all checked out. His conclusions seemed a bit out there, but the more you read and think about it and check it out, the more it seems to be spot on. Definitely worth the time and money.

Politicians do the opposite of what they promise more often than not. So before you vote, plug your ears to their speeches, and check what their advisors have been up to...

In "Obama: the Postmodern Coup," Tarpley gets a giant scoop as the first to delve behind the screen into the forces behind Obama: and finds out his handlers are enemies of the people. Zbigniew Brzezinski (instigator of Al-Qaeda and the Afghan-Soviet war) is CEO of the BHO show. On the economy, regressive Skull & Bones and Wall Street figures set the tone. In military affairs, it's Gen. McPeak, the perpetrator of genocidal civilian bombing tactics.

All unawares, the United States slipped into the grip of a soft coup last fall, the Brzezinski faction won over the power elite, and the neo-cons are unlamented lame ducks. Tarpley finds that "Zbig" controls two of the three front runners for the presidency -- Barack Obama and John McCain, but that Obama is the elitist favorite for a "new face" on a doddering empire.

Obama got his entrée as a protegé of "Realpolitiker" Brzezinski. He is scripted to loftily fill the role of pseudo-savior, a key one for the planned hysteria of the "people power" coups, as perfected by Left CIA and NGO traveling circuses in Eastern Europe. Now the recipe is being franchised home to cook America's political process.

Obama's backers make a laundry-list of the elite: the Rockefellers, Rand Corp., Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Chicago School of Economics, Bilderbergers - and the Ford Foundation six ways to Sunday. No wonder the manufactured messiah gets the lion's share of campaign cash from the corporations, and a free ride from their wholly owned media.

Tarpley ought to be dean of social sciences in a prestigious university (if any of them aren't vassals of the robber baron foundations, Rockefeller and Ford). I happen to have a poli sci degree, but almost all of "Postmodern Coup" was new to me, for example:

- American history is marked by cycles or "party realignments" of about 36 or 40 years, such as FDR's 1932 landslide or the upheavals of 1968. A few power cult strategists like Samuel Huntington know this. Under Brzezinski-Carter, they began planning ahead to subvert the cycle shift we are in now, first by the "War on Terror," now with the synthetic, pseudo-leftist Obama movement, to set the nation on a course they will determine until around 2050.

- The Democrats repeatedly nominate foregone losers with their caucus system, tilted towards "Volvo-driving" Democrats who decide the primaries in red states, which the Dems never win in the GE. Obama continues this quaint tradition of "square-wheelers" which won't play in Peoria, like Mondale, Dukakis, McGovern etc.

- How to recognize fascism in the bud? It doesn't start as a right-wing, top-down system. First it needs to gather strength from grass roots. Usually it spawns as a youth movement, often left-tinged, idealist, mystical, with stirring slogans, euphoria, and a theme of national unity and regeneration. Not so unlike "Obamania." Mussolini got his start as a leftist, socialist politico.

- Why does Obama want to attack Pakistan, the world's 6th largest country, with almost 3 times more people than Iran, and 6 times more than Iraq? It's a Chinese ally, and to get at Russia, Brzezinski wants to isolate China, forcing it to attack Russia to get oil. A madcap gambit, that can only play the US into an even tighter corner.

"Postmodern Coup" is a book with a mission -- to stave off the looming world-historical tragedy that Tarpley foresees. Yet it's about much more than "Manchurian candidate" Obama, or even Brzezinski and his earlier puppet, Jimmy Carter. Historian Tarpley draws on an unparalleled store of erudition, past precedents and inside knowledge of today's political players, and distills it here for our up-to-the-minute situation.

This book is a crash course in the essentials you need to know about US and world politics, but the media never wanted you to.

A month and a half into Obama's administration has proven to be exactly what Tarpley expected. Although I don't agree with everything Tarpley writes, I can not deny the fact that he was right on point with what Obama's Administration was going to do once in office.

1. Obama has signed a bigger Stimulus Package than Bush
2. Has backtracked on bring troops home from Iraq
3. Although there has been alot of talk about closing Guantanamo, (a) it is not closed yet, and (b) there is not talk of closing other secret prisons that may exist.

Seems like a lot of the "reviewers" here dismissed this book out of hand and didn't even read it. Agree with the contents or not, but please read it before trying to influence others about its contents or quality.

I am pleased to see that there are already two positive and perceptive reviews of this new book. I will try to encourage readers who might be skeptical of the basic tenets of this book to look beyond some of the words such as "Fascist" and "Trilateral Commission" to find out what these terms actually mean. While this book is clearly polemical in tone, it supports what may appear at first blush to be outrageous or merely facile claims with erudite historical background, much as Mr Tarpley did in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. Mr Tarpley's attack on Obama must be understood as a thoughtful, considered attack from the moderate left, not the illiterate vituperative attack one often hears from the rabid Right.

Why should Americans be concerned about Fascism in 2008? Before you say, "Why, indeed?", doubtless thinking of the current Cheney-Bush regime, one should look at the early history of Fascism, which was controlled by bankers but given left radical anti-establishment cover in its nascent stage.

From pp. 19-20:
"The radical, anti-establishment, and leftist overtones of fascism may be the hardest
for the present day American to grasp. Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and their ilk appear
in retrospect as right wing extremists of the most exasperated type. But it should be
recalled that Mussolini in his early career as a socialist, and that even Hitler
insisted on calling his movement national socialism."

"Obama - The Postmodern Coup" goes on to give a brief history of European Fascism, drawing parallels with current and possible near future events in America and elsewhere.

The Trilateral Commission plays a big role in this book, particularly as its co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski is Obama's primary advisor. The failed Jimmy Carter Presidency was dubbed the "Trilateral Presidency" at the time due to the overwhelming influence of the Trilateral Commission on Carter's presidency. Mr Tarpley analyzes the Carter Presidency very closely, and offers it as a mirror to a possible Obama Presidency. The candidacy periods are already eerily similar, which should lead one to draw some very obvious conclusions about a possible Obama presidency. Trilateralist and former FCC chairman (1979-87), Paul Adolf Volker, he of the 22% prime rate that aided in the de-industrialization of the USA, is firmly in the Obama camp. Beware!

An important concept to understand in this critique is the CIA Color Revolution/People Power coups that have been staged with varying degrees of success in Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia and Belarus. This book maintains that the Obama candidacy is just such a coup. As outrageous as that sounds, the book makes an excellent case to support this claim. If you do not understand what is behind the demonstrations last year in Myanmar, and this year in Tibet, this book will enlighten you.

Mr Tarpley espouses a concept of periodic party re-alignments and believes that 2008 marks the possible beginning of a new re-alignment. This appears to be a valid concept, and lends increased urgency to his call to stop the Obama coup in its tracks.

This book is as much a critique of Zbigniew Brzezinski as it is of Obama. One cannot understand the Obama candidacy without an understanding of Brzezinski and what he stands for. While Brzezinski has claimed that he does not play an important role for Obama, the European press at least sees through this, as documented. Brzezinski the petty revanchist, the dangerous Russophobe, the evil genius who destroyed the Carter Presidency, is exposed in detail. Many on the Left are fooled into thinking that the splitting up of larger nations such as Yugoslavia, Iraq and Turkey is always a good thing. Brzezinski thinks so too, but not out of benevolence. From p. 109:

"Zbig claims that the real goal of the
world-wide awakening is "dignity." By dignity he means respect for
every minute parochial or particularist trait of every real or imagined
ethnic group and sub-group. It is the kind of dignity that reduces those
who enjoy it from the status of independent nations to mere
ethnographic material. Such dignity as Zbig imagines it can only be
attained by the smallest possible political units - by the thorough
balkanization, partition, and subdivision of the existing national
states."

Mr Tarpley shows in detail how this balkanization is designed solely to make these areas easier for a hegemon to control. In case you didn't know, these plans tend to backfire, as the two World Wars have demonstrated.

Two other authors, Bruce Marshall and Jonathan Mowat, also contributed chapters to this book. Bruce Marshall exposes Obama's proposal for a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank (NIRB) as a Wall Street boondoggle, not a return to the values of FDR as claimed. Mr Marshall also exposes the incompetence and duplicity of Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean. Dr Dean is planning a pre-convention convention (perhaps in June) of the super delegates to try to get them to commit to Obama before the convention in August. Jonathan Mowat's chapter, "The new Gladio in action?", while it pre-dates the 2008 electoral race, details the CIA coups in Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia and outlines the roles of CIA front groups including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Gene Sharp's sadly mis-named Albert Einstein Institution.

As one other reviewer commented, if appointments were made on merit, Mr Tarpley would be a distinguished professor at a large university. This book was produced under great time pressures, and as such was not as tightly edited as it would otherwise have been. While it lacks an index, I overcame that by ordering a fully searchable pdf copy that I was able to download instantly after making my payment. While this is an "instant" book, it should endure as an important historical document, regardless of the outcome of the 2008 conventions and elections. I give it my highest recommendation.

Mr Tarpley has a weekly radio show on the Genesis Communications Network, which I encourage you to check out. Podcasts for his show are available.

The INTIMATE connection between Obama and Trilateral founder/Rockefeller vassal Zbigniew Brzezinski is WELL-DOCUMENTED. Don't be suckers simply because you worship this man the media is putting forth as the new messiah. It should raise at least a few eyebrows that this maverick upstart singing a song of change is closely allied with crusty old white men who have have directed foreign policy from their councils and think tanks for decades.

Obama got in HOT WATER with the Israel lobbies (who have allied themselves with the Iraq-invading, Iran-hating Neocons -- supporting Tarpley's analysis) because of his close ties to Brzezinski. Before dismissing this "conspiracy theory", google "obama brzezkinski" and read the DOZENS of MAINSTREAM NEWS ARTICLES. Here's just one.

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