The Neoconservative Threat To World Order: Washington’s Perilous War For Hegemony
Review of Paul Craig Roberts’ Book
You will rarely read a book written in a more courageous,
intelligent, and blunt manner about profoundly pressing world problems
than this one. Paul Craig Roberts is a phenomenon; no issue, no matter
how controversial, escapes his astute analysis. He writes with a
tornadic power and logic that convinces as it challenges. Driven by a
passionate concern for the horrible direction of the world – especially
the United States government’s responsibility for so much of its
wretchedness – he is relentless in roiling the waters of ignorance and
complacency in which so many Americans float.
A former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the
Reagan administration and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Paul
Craig Roberts (image right) has escaped all easy labels to become a
public intellectual of the highest order. He is a prolific critic of
U.S. foreign and domestic policies, with a special emphasis on the
nefarious influence of the neoconservatives from the Reagan through the
Obama administrations. A savage critic of the mainstream corporate
media – he calls them “presstitutes” – he dissects their propaganda and
disinformation like a truth surgeon and penetrates to the heart of
issues in a flash.
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The Neoconservative Threat To World Order is a compendium of
his essays written between February 2014 and July 2015. Most of them
deal with Washington’s destabilization of Ukraine and its ongoing
threats against Russia. Roberts sees this new Cold War as rooted in the
neoconservative doctrine of world hegemony. He correctly argues that
this is based on the Wolfowitz Doctrine, written in 1992 by
neoconservative Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (a signatory of
the 1997 Project for the New American Century), which became the
blueprint for NATO’s expansion to Russia’s borders and the growing
threat of nuclear war that we are faced with today. In the preface he
writes:
Once in place the Wolfowitz Doctrine resulted in the
Clinton regime abandoning the guarantees that the George H. W. Bush
administration had given to Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch
to the East. In violation of the U.S. government’s word, former Warsaw
Bloc countries were incorporated into NATO. Then NATO was used to
attack Yugoslavia and Serbia. Then the George W. Bush regime withdrew
the U.S. from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and began locating
anti-ballistic missile bases on Russia’s borders. Washington
orchestrated “color revolutions” in the former Russian provinces of
Georgia and Ukraine. When the Orange Revolution failed to deliver
Ukraine into Washington’s hands, Washington spent $5 billion cultivating
Ukrainian politicians and creating pro-American Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) that were used in Washington’s 2014 overthrow of
the elected government of Ukraine.
Read chronologically, these essays reward a careful reader with an
understanding of the progressively menacing steps taken by the Obama
administration, including the announcement that the United States is
sending battle tanks, heavy equipment, and thousands of troops to be
permanently stationed in Eastern European countries surrounding Russia.
If the shoe were on the other foot and Putin was sending the same to
Canada, Cuba, and Mexico, one would hear howls of outrage emanating from
the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post, etc., media
stenographers for Washington.
In essay after essay Roberts’ analyses give the lie to the Western
media’s misleading reporting on Ukraine and its demonization of Russia.
He sees these developments as leading to war unless the
neoconservatives are “removed from foreign policy positions in the
government and media …. The warmonger neoconservatives must be removed
from Fox ‘News,’ CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall
Street Journal, and in their places independent voices must replace
propagandists for war. Clearly none of this is going to happen, but it
must if we are to escape Armageddon.”
So the reader is enlightened but not encouraged. But this is not
Roberts’ fault. He is being truthful. He is a Cassandra warning of
future disasters if people don’t awaken from “a false reality created
for them by their rulers.” He admits that he struggles with people’s
reluctance to seek truth every time he writes a clarifying essay. Yet
he is of two minds – hopeless and hopeful. He intimates that even if
people awaken, the neoconservatives will maintain their power in
government and media. Yet he stalwartly soldiers on, hoping to change
minds, which suggests he believes at some level that changing minds has a
chance of changing structures of power and ideology. His vacillation in
this regard is understandable.
“People ask for solutions,” he writes, “but no solutions are possible
in a dis-informed world. Populations almost everywhere are
dissatisfied, but few have any comprehension of the real situation. Before there can be solutions, people must know the truth about the problem. For those inclined to be messengers, it is largely a thankless task …. Aspirations and delusions prevail over truth.”
Thankless as the task may be, Roberts elucidates many issues besides Ukraine, so these essays
can also be read as self-standing analyses: 9/11 and the anthrax
attacks, the case for impeachment of U.S. presidents, war crimes by U.S.
officials, American “exceptionalism,” Operation Gladio, “Washington’s
Iraq ‘Victory’,” European governments’ collusion with the U.S., the CIA
and its media control, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the war on terror,
false flag attacks, etc. His reach is capacious and his analysis
penetrating. He questions, probes, presents facts, and admits when
facts are not conclusive. Impeccably logical – and straightforward – he
forces the reader to reevaluate their understanding of these issues. And he references other fine writers and researchers who support and extend his points.
While correct about the rise in power and evil influence of the
neoconservatives over the past thirty years or so, I think Roberts’
understanding of the machinations of secret deep state forces going back
to Operation Gladio and the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK,
suggests he knows that the neocons are but a recent example of an old
problem. The US drive for hegemony has deep roots and a long history.
Wall Street, the banks, and the CIA have been entwined for many, many
decades. Overthrowing governments, propaganda, assassinations, and
instigating wars are their specialty. None of this is the exclusive
bailiwick of neoconservatives; they are just a current, execrable
example. Behind them, and liberals and conservatives of all stripes, sit
powers that transcend nomenclature. I’d like to see him give more
emphasis to U.S. strategy as a long-standing continuum, though this does
not detract from his astute analysis of the neoconservatives. After
all, these essays were written on the fly as the neocons policies were
being carried out by the “liberal” Democrat Obama.
Dr. Roberts is a truth teller and a genuine patriot. Truth is his
country. In a speech he gave in Mexico while accepting the International
Award for Excellence in Journalism, he said, “In the United States
journalists receive awards for lying for the government and the
corporations…. Once a journalist sacrifices Truth to loyalty to a
government, he ceases to be a journalist and becomes a propagandist.”
So if you want truth, read The Neoconservative Threat to World Order. It’s journalism at its best.
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Prof. Edward Curtin, Global Research, 2016
Lithuanians Under Police State Attack: and the world under Washington’s attack — Paul Craig Roberts
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Lithuanians Under Police State Attack
and the world under Washington’s attack
Paul Craig Roberts
According to news reports
https://ltnacionalistas.wordpress.com/angliskai/lithuanian-government-intensifies-persecutions-against-anti-imperialist-activists/ and to this appeal by Kristoferis Voishka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MDj2uvyLk
the pro-American government installed in Lithuania is persecuting
Lithuanians who dissent from the anti-Russian propaganda that is driving
Washington’s NATO puppets to war with Russia. Unlike their puppet
government, Lithuanians understand that war with Russia means that
Lithuania on the front line will be utterly destroyed, a result that
would not bother Washington in the least, just as Washington is
undisturbed when its forces obliterate weddings, funerals, and
children’s soccer games.
What is Lithuania? To Washington it is a nothing.
Kristoferis Voiska runs an alternative Internet news site in
LIthuania. Not long ago he interviewed me, and the interview appeared in
both LIthuanian newspapers and on his Internet news program in video
form. I found him to be sincere and well informed. I advised him that
interviewing me would bring trouble for him, and he already was aware of
that.
As I have said so many times, Americans are the worst informed people on the planet. They are unaware of the growing momentum toward war with Russia. The
presstitute media throughout Europe, especially in the Baltic states and
Poland, is hard at work creating in people’s minds the fear of a
Russian invasion. The orchestrated fear then provides the basis for the
American puppet governments to beg troops and tanks and missiles from
Washington, and the US military/security complex, counting its profits,
is pleased to comply.
But what Russia sees is a threat, not a money-making opportunity for
the US military/security complex and payoffs to the corrupt Lithuanian
and Polish governments, which are increasingly perceived as neo-nazi
like the government that Washington bestowed on Ukraine.
The situation is dangerous, as I keep telling you, a message that some are too weak to accept.
If you care to show support for Kristoferis and the independent media
in Lithuania, send emails to him at: tautiniai.socialistai@yandex.ru
In about one week I will be 76 years old. I was born in 1939 as
World War II was unfolding as the direct consequence of the Versailles
Treaty that broke every promise President Woodrow Wilson made to Germany
in exchange for the end of World War I.
I remember as a child Cold War nuclear attack drills in elementary
school during which we would cower under our school desks. We were
issued dog tags with our blood type just like the dog tags ripped by
their comrades off US soldiers killed in the war movies by Germans or
Japs (no longer a permissible word) and sent home to the dead GI’s
family.
To us it was more romantic than scary. We loved wearing the dog
tags. I have no idea what happened to mine. They must be collectors’
items by now.
I have seen a lot. As kids playing war–in those days you could have
toy guns without being shot down by the police who are protecting us–we
reveled in America’s World War victories. We understood, thanks to our
parents and grandparents, that the Red Army won the war against Germany,
but we Americans beat the heartless Japs.
That was enough. We knew that the US was tough.
I was 14 when the Korean War broke out. We expected to win, of
course, and our expectations, we thought, were proven correct when
General MacArthur’s amphibious landings rolled up the North Korean
army. But what MacArthur and Washington had overlooked is that China
and the Soviet Union were not about to accept a US victory.
Before Americans could cheer, the Third World Chinese Army rolled in
and pushed the conqueror of Japan back town to the tip of South Korea.
It was a humiliating defeat for American arms. In his dispute with
President Truman about the conduct of the war, MacArthur, America’s most
famous general, was removed from command.
Washington accepted defeat in Korea and again in Viet Nam where a
500,000 US force consisting of US Army, Marines, and Special Forces was
defeated by a Third World guerrilla army.
To these defeats we can add Afghanistan and Iraq. After 14 years of
killing, the Taliban controls most of the country. Jihadist have carved
a new state out of parts of Syria and Iraq. The Middle East reeks of
American defeat. Just like Korea. Just like Viet Nam.
Despite these facts insouciant Americans and their crazed rulers in
Washington imagine that the US is a Uni-Power, the world’s only
superpower against whom no country can stand. Arrogance, ignorance, and
hubris are leading the US into conflict with Russia and China, either
of which can destroy the US with ease. And Europe as well. And the
stupid bought-and-paid-for Japanese government, a total non-entity, a
disgrace to the Japanese people, a collection of well-paid American
puppets.
As Andrew Cockburn has documented, the US military is lost in
abstractions and is no longer capable of conducting conventional
warfare. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/24/us-government-us-military-became-murder-inc-paul-craig-roberts/
Any American or NATO army sent to attack Russia will be destroyed
almost instantly. Washington cannot accept the loss of prestige from
defeat and would take the war nuclear. Life on earth would end.
The only conclusion that informed analysis supports is that
Washington is the greatest threat to life on earth. Washington is a
greater threat than global warming. Washington is a greater threat than
the exhaustion of mineral energy sources. Washington is a greater
threat than the rise in world and US poverty from Washington’s policy to
enrich the few at the expense of the many.
The only possible conclusion is that unless Washington collapses from
its economic house of cards or is abandoned by its NATO puppet states,
Washington will destroy life on earth.
Washington is the greatest evil that the world has ever faced. There is no good in
Washington. Only evil.
