The garbage that is the corporate media, together with corporate greed, will never be addressed without real systemic change.

Increasing joblessness, corporate greed, homelessness, a national population with no single-payer, comprehensive health care, and ongoing war in Iraq and Afghanistan are but a few of the significant telltale signs that are not seriously addressed or remedied by the latest Barack Obama stimulus package, supported by the majority of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Peace with justice is the only stimulus plan that will work for the people of the United States and the world. The Obama stimulus package / plan, despite all its political smoke and mirror trappings, is doomed to fail, for it contains no real systemic change. It is a continuation of the same old madness, repackaged for the 21st century.

The sum total of zero is still zero and the recent Obama economic stimulus package dismisses the fact that the unquenchable greed of the U.S. corporate elite is what has led to the present debacle in this nation, and has served to massively degrade the environmental habitability of our entire planet while simultaneously sucking the very life blood out of everyday Black, Brown, White, Red, and Yellow peoples both here and abroad.

Perhaps now, a few of the so-called “progressives” and “leftists” in the U.S. are beginning to own up to the fact that to expect real systemic change from Barack Obama is tantamount to expecting the embrace of a Black Widow spider to be anything other than the rapturous embrace of disappointment, and ultimate, untimely, poisonous death. Nevertheless, there is absolutely no legitimate reason that can be offered by these progressives and leftists for their betrayal of the overwhelming majority of people in this nation and throughout the world in their support for the corporate, apartheid Zionist, de-facto war mongering U.S. president, Barack Obama.

The U.S. corporate media (including the Public Broadcast Service [PBS] and CNN) are in fact acting as the fifth column for the U.S. government’s propaganda machine, albeit in often hard-to-decipher, subterfuge. They are presently among the greatest purveyors of disinformation, misinformation and the myth of U.S. democracy at home and abroad.

We must be honest with ourselves and prepare for the approaching time when even the corporate media will no longer be able to seriously pretend that the Obama economic stimulus package / program is working for the masses / majority of people in this nation. We must develop alternative “survival programs,” pending the collective awareness of the people for the need for total systemic change in this nation. We must network with one another, Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow; building a consciousness and survival network of information and alternatives to the increasing economic and social madness that is enveloping this nation and world.

In a coming column or columns, your writer will explore some specific examples of what systemic change really means. Meanwhile, let us not be blinded by the smoke and mirrors of fake change, false hope, and the continuity of empire.

It is only we the people who are the modis and springboard for real systemic change. Ours is a struggle, not against the singular “fairy tale” of race and color but against the over all reality of systemic oppression.

Onward brothers and sisters! Our new day will arrive only when we the people bring it about!

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.