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By Phillip M. Rose

A timely, urgent polemic destined to be an important historical document, April 20, 2008
This review is from: Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate )
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.

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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.

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