In a recent speech, John Pilger called attention to the little-known fact that Barack Obama's first employer after graduating from Columbia in 1983, Business International Corporation, "has a long history of providing cover for the CIA with covert action, and infiltrating unions and the left.  I know this because it was especially active in my own country, Australia.  Obama doesn't say [in Dreams from My Father] what he did at Business International, and there may be absolutely nothing sinister, but it seems worthy of inquiry and debate, as a clue to perhaps who the man is."[1]  --  Pilger went on to contrast appearance and reality in the politics of Barack Obama.  --  NOTE:  On Aug. 3, the University of Sydney announced that John Pilger would be the recipient of the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize....