CNN Is Beating the Drums of War — Paul Craig Roberts
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CNN Is Beating the Drums of War
Paul Craig Roberts
President George W. Bush’s national security advisor, Condi Rice,
warned Americans that Saddam Hussein’s (nonexistent) weapons of mass
destruction could result in a mushroom cloud going up over an American
city. No such threat existed. But today a very real threat exists over
all American cities, and the national security advisor does not notice.
The threat issues from Washington and arises from the demonization of Russia and its leadership.
Wolf Blitzer (CNN, March 13) used the cover of a news program to
broadcast a propaganda performance straight out of the Third Reich or
perhaps from George Orwell’s 1984. The orchestration presented
Russia as a massive, aggressive military threat. The screen was filled
with missiles firing and an assortment of American General Strangeloves
urging provocative measures to be deployed against the Russian Threat.
Blitzer’s program is part of the orchestrated propaganda campaign whose
purpose is to prepare Americans for conflict with Russia.
It was such irresponsible propaganda and so many blatant lies for a
media organization to sponsor that it was obvious that CNN and Wolf
Blitzer had no fear of being called on the carpet for spreading war
fever. The so-called “mainstream media” has been transformed into a
Ministry of Propaganda.
Similar propaganda is being spread in the UK where defense minister
Michael Fallon declared Russia to be a “real and present danger” to
Europe. US troops and tanks are being rushed to the Baltics on the
pretext that Russia is going to attack.
That such blatant lies can issue from high government officials
without a shred of evidence and without shame should scare you to death.
We are witnessing the total disrespect for truth and human life by high
government officials and the presstitute media.
The propaganda is driving the world toward war. The propaganda has destroyed the trust between nuclear powers and
has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon. The Russian
government sees that Washington and its NATO vassals are conjuring a
nonexistent Russian Threat. Clearly this conjured threat has a purpose
that intends Russia harm.
Washington’s propaganda spread by the presstitutes is the most
irresponsible act in human history. Reagan and Gorbachev succeeded in
removing the threat of nuclear war, and the crazed neoconservatives and
their media whores have brought it back.
Washington’s propaganda attack on Russia and Vladimir Putin is like
Washington’s attack on Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Saddam
Hussein, Libya and Gaddafi. Does this mean that Washington intends to
attack Russia in a pre-emptive nuclear strike?
If so, it means the end of the world. Clearly, the threat to the
United States and the entire world resides in Washington and not in
Moscow. The threat is the crazed neoconservative ideology of US world
hegemony supported by the unbridled greed of American corporations to
control the resources of the world
Putin understands the seriousness of the situation and is working
hard to diffuse it, but Washington has made it impossible to diffuse.
Washington’s price is that Putin must hand over Crimea and the Russian
Black Sea naval base, abandon the Russian populations in southern and
eastern Ukraine, and accept NATO military bases in Ukraine.
Washington’s demand is a demand for Russia’s pre-emptive surrender.
In the CNN propaganda show, Wolf Blitzer failed to report that German
intelligence challenges Washington’s claims about Russia and that the
French and German governments have finally realized that Washington is
insane and are working desperately to stop Washington’s drive toward
war.
Washington and its UK puppet have spent the entirety of the 21st
century creating death and destruction. Seven countries have been
invaded, bombed, or droned in order “to spread democracy.” Iraq is
destroyed, as is Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia . Syria nearly so, and
Pakistan and Yemen are politically and socially destabilized by
incessant US air attacks. The democratic, elected, governments of
Honduras and Ukraine have been overthrown by US coups. Venezuela is
next in line, with Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Brazil waiting their
turn.
Washington has given the world 14 years of brutal and inhumane war.
Isn’t this enough evil? Does Washington have to give us more?
Washington and the presstitutes have lost their humanity. They have
become agents of evil. If mushroom clouds appear, the responsibility
will lie with Wolf Blitzer, CNN, and the presstitutes who beat the drums
of war.
On the Brink of War and Economic Collapse — Paul Craig Roberts
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On the Brink of War and Economic Collapse
Paul Craig Roberts
On occasion a reader will ask if I can give readers some good news.
The answer is: not unless I lie to you like “your” government and the
mainstream media do. If you want faked “good news,” you need to retreat
into The Matrix. In exchange for less stress and worry, you will be
led unknowingly into financial ruin and nuclear armageddon.
If you want to be forewarned, and possibly prepared, for what “your”
government is bringing you, and have some small chance of redirecting
the course of events, read and support this site. It is your site. I
already know these things. I write for you.
The neoconservatives, a small group of warmongers strongly allied
with the military/industrial complex and Israel, gave us Granada and the
Contras affair in Nicaragua. President Reagan fired them, and they were
prosecuted, but subsequently pardoned by Reagan’s successor, George
H.W. Bush.
Ensconced in think tanks and protected by Israeli and
military/security complex money, the neoconservatives reemerged in the
Clinton administration and engineered the breakup of Yugoslavia, the war
against Serbia, and the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders.
Neoconservatives dominated the George W. Bush regime. They controlled
the Pentagon, the National Security Council, the Office of the Vice
President, and much else. Neoconservatives gave us 9/11 and its
coverup, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the beginning of the
destabilizations of Pakistan and Yemen, the U.S. Africa Command, the
invasion of South Ossetia by Georgia, the demise of the anti-ABM Treaty,
unconstitutional and illegal spying on American citizens without
warrants, loss of constitutional protections, torture, and the
unaccountability of the executive branch to law, Congress, and the
judiciary. In short, the neoconservatives laid the foundation for
dictatorship and for WW III.
The Obama regime held no one accountable for the crimes of the Bush
regime, thus creating the precedent that the executive branch is above
the law. Instead, the Obama regime prosecuted whistleblowers who told
the truth about government crimes.
Neoconservatives remain very influential in the Obama regime. As
examples, Obama appointed neoconservative Susan Rice as his National
Security Advisor. Obama appointed neoconservative Samantha Power as
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Obama appointed neoconservative
Victoria Nuland as Assistant Secretary of State. Nuland’s office,
working with the CIA and Washington-financed NGOs, organized the U.S.
coup in Ukraine.
Neoconservatism is the only extant political ideology. The ideology
is “America uber alles.” Neoconservatives believe that History has
chosen the United States to exercise hegemony over the world, thereby
making the U.S. “exceptional” and “indispensable.” Obama himself has
declared as much. This ideology gives neoconservatives tremendous
confidence and drive, just as Karl Marx’s conclusion that history had
chosen the workers to be the ruling class gave early communists
confidence and drive.
This confidence and drive makes the neoconservatives reckless.
To advance their agenda neoconservatives propagandize the populations
of the U.S. and Washington’s vassal states. The presstitutes deliver
the neoconservatives’ lies to the unsuspecting public: Russia has
invaded and annexed Ukrainian provinces; Putin intends to reconstitute
the Soviet Empire; Russia is a gangster state without democracy; Russia
is a threat to the Baltics, Poland, and all of Europe, necessitating a
U.S./NATO military buildup on Russia’s borders; China, a Russian ally,
must be militarily contained with new U.S. naval and air bases
surrounding China and controlling Chinese sea lanes.
The neoconservatives and President Obama have made it completely
clear that the U.S. will not accept Russia and China as sovereign
countries with economic and foreign policies independent of the
interests of Washington. Russia and China are acceptable only as vassal
states, like the UK, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
Clearly, the neoconservative formula is a formula for the final war.
All of humanity is endangered by a handful of evil men and women ensconced in positions of power in Washington.
Anti-Russia propaganda has gone into high gear. Putin is the “new Hitler.”
Daniel Zubov reports on a joint conference held by three U.S. think tanks.
The conference blamed Russia for the failures of Washington’s foreign policy. Read this article: http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20141205/1015538604.html
to see how neoconservatives operate in order to control the
explanations. Even Henry Kissinger is under attack for stating the
obvious truth that Russia has a legitimate interest in Ukraine, a land
long part of Russia and located in Russia’s legitimate sphere of
influence.
Since the Clinton regime, Washington has been acting against Russian
interests. In his forthcoming book, The Globalization of War: America’s
Long War against Humanity, Professor Michel Chossudovsky presents a
realistic appraisal of how close Washington has brought the world to its
demise in nuclear war. This passage is from the Preface:
“The ‘globalization of war’ is a hegemonic project. Major military
and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken
simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan
Africa, Central Asia and the Far East. The US military agenda
combines both major theater operations as well as covert actions
geared towards destabilizing sovereign states.
“Under a global military agenda, the actions undertaken by the
Western military alliance (US-NATO-Israel) in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Palestine, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are coordinated at the highest
levels of the military hierarchy. We are not dealing with
piecemeal military and intelligence operations. The July-August
2014 attack on Gaza by Israeli forces was undertaken in close consultation
with the United States and NATO. In turn, the actions in
Ukraine and their timing coincided with the onslaught of the attack
on Gaza.
“In turn, military undertakings are closely coordinated with a
process of economic warfare which consists not only in imposing
sanctions on sovereign countries but also in deliberate acts of destabilization
of financial and currency markets, with a view to undermining
the enemies’ national economies.
“The United States and its allies have launched a military adventure
which threatens the future of humanity. As we go to press, US
and NATO forces have been deployed in Eastern Europe. US military
intervention under a humanitarian mandate is proceeding in sub-Saharan
Africa. The US and its allies are threatening China under President Obama’s
‘Pivot to Asia’.
“In turn, military maneuvers are being conducted at Russia’s
doorstep which could lead to escalation.
“The US airstrikes initiated in September 2014 directed against
Iraq and Syria under the pretext of going after the Islamic State are
part of a scenario of military escalation extending from North Africa
and the Eastern Mediterranean to Central and South Asia.
The Western military alliance is in an advanced state of readiness.
“And so is Russia.”
As I have often remarked, Americans are an insouciant people. They
are simply unaware. Suppose they were aware, suppose that the entire
population understood the peril, could anything be done, or have the
insouciant Americans fallen under the control of the police state that
Washington has created?
I don’t think there is much hope from the American people. The
American people cannot tell genuine from fake leadership, and the ruling
private elites will not permit real leaders to emerge. Moreover, there
is no organized movement in opposition to the neoconservatives.
The hope comes from outside the political system. The hope is that
the House of Cards and rigged markets erected by policymakers for the
benefit of the One Percent collapses. David Stockman regards this
outcome as a highly likely one. The collapse that Stockman sees as being
on its way is the same collapse about which I have warned. Moreover,
the number of Black Swans which can originate collapse are even more
numerous than the ones Stockman correctly identifies. Some financial
organizations are worried about a lack of liquidity in the fixed income
(bonds) and derivatives markets. Barbara Novack, co-chair of Black
Rock, is lobbying hard for a derivatives bailout mechanism.
David Stockman’s article is important. Read it until you understand it, and you will know more than most everyone. http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/david-stockman/duck-and-cover%E2%80%A8/
Many will ask: If the wealth of the One Percent is vulnerable to
economic collapse, will war be initiated to protect this wealth and to
blame the Russians or Chinese for the hardships that engulf the American
population? My answer is that the kind of collapse that I expect, and
that David Stockman and no doubt others expect, presents government with
such social, political, and economic insecurity that organizing for a
major war becomes impossible.
Whereas the political impotence of the American people and the
vassalage of the Western World impose no constraints on Washington,
economic collapse brings revolutions and the demise of the existing
order.
As hard as collapse would make it for people to survive, the chances for survival are higher than in the event of nuclear war.
THE FAILURE OF GERMAN LEADERSHIP Merkel Whores For Washington
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THE FAILURE OF GERMAN LEADERSHIP
Merkel Whores For Washington
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington, enabled by its compliant but stupid NATO puppets, is pushing the Ukrainian situation closer to war.
German Chancellor Merkel has failed her country, Europe, and world
piece. Germany is the strength of the EU and NATO. Had Merkel said
“No” to sanctions on Russia, that would have been the end of the crisis
that Washington is brewing, a crisis unlikely to be ended short of war.
But Merkel has signed away the sovereignty of the German nation and
assigned the fate of Germany to a province in the American Empire. Thus
has Merkel and the weak German leadership consigned the world to war. Already blamed for World
War 1 and World War 2, now Germany will be blamed for World War 3.
Washington’s mismanaged Ukrainian coup has cost Washington Crimea,
which Washington wanted most of all in order to deprive Russia of its
warm water naval base on the Black Sea. In addition, the mismanaged
overthrow of an elected government in Ukraine is threatening to also
lose the Russian cities of eastern Ukraine. Like Crimea, eastern
Ukraine consists of former Russian areas that Khrushchev stuck into
Ukraine in the 1950s.
In what is clearly a fruitless and pointless effort to get Crimea
back, Washington is demanding that Russia interfere in Crimea and
prevent Crimea from seceding from Ukraine. If the Russian government
refuses to follow Washington’s orders, Washington has announced that it
will inflict “damaging sanctions” on Russia. Initially, EU countries
expressed an unwillingness to go along with Washington, but with bribes
and threats, Washington has conquered Merkel and has its European
puppets lined up following orders.
Washington understands that economic sanctions are a far less threat
to Russia than the loss of its Black Sea naval base. Washington also
understands that Putin cannot possibly abandon the millions of Russians
in eastern and southern Ukraine to the mercy of the anti-Russian and
unelected government imposed by Washington in Kiev. As Washington knows
that its threat of sanctions is empty, why did Washington make it?
The answer is in order to drive the crisis to war. Washington’s
neoconservative nazis have been agitating for war with Russia for a long
time. They want to remover one of the three remaining restraints
(Russia, China, Iran) on Washington’s world hegemony. Washington wants
to break up the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
before these countries form a separate currency bloc and avoid the use
of the US dollar.
Russia will respond in kind to Washington’s sanctions. European
peoples and Western banks and corporations will suffer losses. It would
be at least two or three years before Washington has in place means of
delivering US natural gas achieved by fracking and contamination of US
water supplies to Europe to take the place of Russia’s cutoff of energy
to Europe.
The Western presstitute media will dramatize the Russian response to
sanctions and demonize Russia, while ignoring who started the fight,
thereby helping Washington prepare Americans for war. As neither side
can afford to lose the war, nuclear weapons will be used. There will be
no winners.
All of this is perfectly clear, just as was the obvious conclusion of
the march of events leading up to World War 1. Now, like then, the
people who see the outcome are powerless to stop it. Delusion rules.
Arrogance and hubris overflow. Statements and actions become ever more
reckless, and then there is hell to pay.
Americans and Europeans, if they had any awareness at all, would be
in the streets violently protesting the coming war toward which the
insane criminals in Washington are driving the world.
Instead, the German chancellor, the French president, the British
prime minister and the Western presstitute media continue to lie: It
was legitimate for the West to steal Kosovo from Serbia and to steal the
Ukrainian government, but it is not legitimate for the Russian
population of Crimea to exercise self-determination and return to
Russia. Washington and its EU puppets even have the audacity to declare
falsely, after overthrowing an elected government in Ukraine and
installing an unelected one, that Crimean self-determination violates
the Ukrainian constitution, which no longer exists because Washington
destroyed it.
The criminally insane government in Washington has pushed the Russian bear into a corner. The bear is not going to surrender.
