How Obama shattered any hope for change - and Biden will continue his warmongering neoliberal legacy
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Moderate Rebels
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🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | This is Moderer Rebels. I'm Ben Norton, joined by my co-host Max Blumenthal, |
| 0:09.0 | and we have a friend of the show back. Actually, I think he's probably the guest we've had |
| 0:13.6 | more than anyone else. We're speaking with Ali Abunima. You probably know him. If you don't know him, |
| 0:19.1 | you definitely should check out the electronic intifada. |
| 0:22.0 | He is the executive director of that great independent news website, focusing on apartheid Israel and |
| 0:29.2 | Palestinian resistance. |
| 0:30.3 | And today we're going to talk about Joe Biden, the next U.S. president, what his administration |
| 0:36.3 | will look like. |
| 0:39.4 | And the future of the Democratic Party under the spect U.S. president, what his administration will look like, and the future of the Democratic Party under the specter of Barack Obama, who's, he's hanging over the Democratic Party. It's |
| 0:46.3 | effectively his party now. And Barack Obama just released another memoir. So we're going to talk |
| 0:52.1 | about what that says about him. But let's talk about |
| 0:54.7 | Biden, Ali. Let's start with that. Biden is going to be the next president. Donald Trump, |
| 1:00.3 | who claims that he won the election without any evidence. He basically acknowledged that this week. |
| 1:06.4 | Today is November 25th. And Trump said that that his administration is working toward the transition |
| 1:13.1 | to the Biden administration. They've all but acknowledged that publicly. So we now know that Biden |
| 1:19.7 | has several members of his cabinet picked. He's publicly announced them. Secretary of State, |
| 1:25.8 | his nominee is going to be Anthony Blinken. And Blinken is a |
| 1:30.2 | liberal interventionist, a war hawk. He is a longtime foreign policy advisor to Joe Biden, who |
| 1:36.5 | worked with him to support the Iraq War. And then fast forward, and under the Obama administration, |
| 1:43.6 | Blinken was a State Department official, |
| 1:46.1 | and there he helped oversee the war on Libya. |
| 1:50.1 | He strongly supported that, the 2011 NATO war that destroyed the Libyan state |
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