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
All-Out War In Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’
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Washington’s Reckless Demonization Of Russia — Paul Craig Roberts
If Professor Petras’ account of the developing war scenario in
Ukraine is correct, it would seem that the Russian government has
underestimated Washington’s mendacity and overestimated European
independence and sense of survival.
There is little doubt that hubris has made Washington insane. But it
is difficult to account for Europe’s insanity. With winter at hand,
how can Europe expect to be part of bringing such trouble to Russia and
still receive deliveries of natural gas?
Perhaps Europeans are fooling themselves that Russia will stand aside.
If the situation is as dire as it seems, the Russian government must
prevent it from unfolding by accepting the request of the eastern and
southern provinces to unite with Russia. Then an attack on Donetsk
becomes an attack on Russia herself. Such an attack would be suicidal
for Washington’s puppet regime in Kiev and for Europeans that back such
an attack.
The Russian government has done all it can to encourage Europe to
maintain profitable and peaceful relations with Russia. However, it
seems that Europeans are too firmly under Washington’s control to act in
their own interest. Europe’s vassalage is permitting a scenario to
unfold that could lead to World War III. The Russian government could
preempt this risk by accepting the separatists’ request for unification
with Russia.
All-Out War In Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’ by Professor James Petras
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40305.htm
Washington Has Placed The World On The Road To War — Paul Craig Roberts
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Washington Has Placed The World On The Road To War
Does the world have a death wish?
Paul Craig Roberts
The drums for war are being loudly beaten in Washington, European
capitals, and the presstitute Western media. A headline in the Asia
Times is “NATO Is Desperate For War.” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-080814.html This time the target is Russia, a major nuclear power.
The deadly consequences of such a war would extend beyond Russia,
Europe, and the US to the entire world. The Western use of lies to
demonize Russia endangers life on earth and reveals the West to be both
reckless and irresponsible. Yet, few voices are raised against this
recklessness and irresponsibility.
Ron Unz brings to our attention the important voice of a distinguished Dutch journalist, Karel Van Wolferen. Wolferen http://www.unz.com/article/the-ukraine-corrupted-journalism-and-the-atlanticist-faith/ and Unz himself http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-who-shot-down-flight-mh17-in-ukraine/
are important offsets to what Unz regards, correctly in my opinion, as
“the utter corruption and unreliability of the mainstream American
media.”
Wolferen’s article is long but very important. Readers will see analysis akin to my own.
Wolferen shows how the Washington hegemon has captured Europe within an
Atlanticist ideology that forecloses any independent thinking or foreign
policy on the part of Europeans who are reduced to a state of
vassalage. Wolferen concludes that as Washington drives Europe toward
war, “Europeans cannot bring themselves to believe in the dysfunction
and utter irresponsibility of the American state.”
With no internal checks on Washington’s recklessness from allies, the
media, and US Senators, the only brake on Washington’s drive to war is
Russian, Chinese, Indian, and South American diplomacy. If this
diplomacy fails, Fukushima, as bad as it is, becomes a mere raindrop in
the ocean. http://www.globalresearch.ca/weve-opened-the-gates-of-hell-fukushima-spews-radiation-world-wide/5395912
The slaughter by Washington, Washington’s Kiev stooges and
Washington’s EU vassals of civilians in the former Russian territories
that comprise the southern and eastern borders of present-day Ukraine is
not only largely unreported in the Western media, but also denied or
blamed on Russia.
The crimes that Washington is perpetrating while blaming Russia has
aroused a high level of anger among the Russian people. Such anger is
dangerous as it could force Putin, who continues to emphasize
non-confrontation http://rt.com/news/180268-putin-russia-mobilize-confrontation/ , to turn away from diplomacy to violence.
Egor Prosvirnin, the chief editor of a Russian news site, shows us
the extent of the anger in Russia caused by the dangerous mixture of
Washington’s broken promises with the vicious propaganda war against
Russia and the German government’s complicity. http://sputnikipogrom.com/europe/germany/18213/russian-appeal/
Prosvirnin expresses anger that is white hot: “Germans have failed
their test. When Evil has returned again to Europe, you do not even
attempt to resist it, and immediately fall prostrate at its feet like a
slave.” As Russians see it, all of Europe is a slave to the evil
emanating from Washington.
Why did Merkel allow Washington to force Germany into a conflict with
Russia that has produced enormous Russian anger toward Germany? What
accounts for Merkel’s total failure as a leader?
The Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes have set the world on the path to the final war.
How is it possible for their evil to go unrecognized?
The two murderous states are the US and Israel. By tolerating their
endless slaughters and endless lies, the world prepares its own demise.
The only hope for life and truth is that the world unite against
these two criminal governments, isolate them diplomatically and
economically, and make it impossible for their government officials to
travel abroad without being arrested and placed on trial.
Why does the world need Washington and Israel? Unless the world has a
death wish, the world does not need Washington and Israel.
Washington Threatens The World — Paul Craig Roberts
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Washington Threatens The World
Paul Craig Roberts
The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political
and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash
evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam
Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group,
ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq
and Syria.
The turmoil brought into the Middle East by the Bush and Obama
regimes has meant death and displacement for millions and untold future
deaths. As I write 40,000 Iraqis are stranded on a mountain top without
water awaiting death at the hands of ISIS, a creation of US meddling.
The reality in the Middle East stands in vast contradiction to the
stage managed landing of George W. Bush on the US aircraft carrier
Abraham Lincoln where Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” on May 1,
2003. The mission that Washington accomplished was to wreck the Middle
East and the lives of millions of people and to destroy America’s
reputation in the process. Thanks to the demonic neoconservative Bush
regime, today America is regarded by the rest of the world as the
greatest threat to world peace.
The Clinton regime’s attack on Serbia set the pattern. Bush upped
the ante with Washington’s naked aggression against Afghanistan, which
Washington clothed in Orwellian language – ”Operation Enduring Freedom.”
Washington brought ruin, not freedom, to Afghanistan. After 13 years
of blowing up the country, Washington is now withdrawing, the
“superpower” having been defeated by a few thousand lightly armed
Taliban, but leaving a wasteland behind for which Washington will accept
no responsibility.
Another source of endless Middle East turmoil is Israel whose theft of Palestine is
Washington-enabled. In the middle of Israel’s latest attack on
civilians in Gaza, the US Congress passed resolutions in support of
Israel’s war crimes and voted hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for
Israel’s ammunition. Here we witness Great Moral America 100 percent in
support of unambiguous war crimes against essentially defenseless
people.
When Israel murders women and children, Washington calls it “Israel’s
right to defend their own country” – a country that Israel stole from
Palestinians – but when Palestinians retaliate Washington calls it
“terrorism.” By supporting Israel, declared to be a terrorist state by a
few moral governments that still exist, and accused of war crimes by
the UN General Secretary, Washington is in violation of its own laws
against supporting terrorist states.
Of course, Washington itself is the leading terrorist state.
Therefore, it is illegal under US law for Washington to support itself.
Washington, however, does not accept law, neither domestic nor
international, as a constraint on its actions. Washington is
“exceptional, indispensable.” No one else counts. No law, no
Constitution, and no humane consideration has authority to constrain
Washington’s will. In its claims Washington surpasses those of the Third
Reich.
As horrific as Washington’s recklessness toward the Middle East is,
Washington’s recklessness toward Russia is many orders of magnitude
greater. Washington has convinced nuclear armed Russia that Washington is planning a nuclear first strike.
In response Russia is beefing up its nuclear forces and testing US air defense reactions. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-strategic-bombers-conduct-more-than-16-incursions-of-u-s-air-defense-zones/
It is difficult to imagine a more irresponsible act than to convince
Russia that Washington intends to hit Russia with a preemptive first
strike. One of Putin’s advisers has explained to the Russian media
Washington’s first strike intentions, and a member of the Russian Duma
has made a documented presentation of Washington’s first strike
intentions. http://financearmageddon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/official-warning-u-s-to-hit-russia-with.html By marshaling the evidence, I have pointed out in my columns that it is impossible for Russia to avoid this conclusion.
China is aware that China faces the same threat from Washington. http://yalejournal.org/2013/06/12/who-authorized-preparations-for-war-with-china/
China’s response to Washington’s war plans against China was to
demonstrate how China’s nuclear forces would be used in response to
Washington’s attack on China to destroy the US. China made this public,
hoping to create opposition among Americans to Washington’s war plans
against China. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2484334/China-boasts-new-submarine-fleet-capable-launching-nuclear-warheads-cities-United-States.html Like Russia, China is a rising country that does not need war in order to succeed.
The only country on earth that needs war is Washington, and that is
because Washington’s goal is the neoconservative one of exercising
hegemony over the world.
Prior to the Bush and Obama regimes, every previous US president went
to great efforts to avoid telegraphing any nuclear threat. US war
doctrine was careful to keep nuclear weapons limited to retaliation in
the event the US suffered a nuclear attack. The purpose of nuclear
forces was to prevent the use of such weapons. The reckless George W.
Bush regime elevated nuclear weapons to preemptive first use, thus
destroying the constraint placed on the use of nuclear weapons.
The overriding purpose of the Reagan administration was to end the
cold war and, thereby, the threat of nuclear war. The George W. Bush
regime, together with the Obama regime’s demonization of Russia, have
overturned President Reagan’s unique achievement and made nuclear war
likely.
When the incompetent Obama regime decided to overthrow the
democratically elected government in Ukraine and install a puppet
government of Washington’s choosing, the Obama State Department, run by
neoconservative ideologues, forgot that the eastern and southern
portions of Ukraine consist of former Russian provinces that were
attached to the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic by Communist Party
leaders when Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country – the Soviet
Union. When the Russophobic stooges that Washington installed in Kiev
demonstrated in word and deed their hostility to Ukraine’s Russian
population, the former Russian provinces declared their desire to return
to mother Russia. This is not surprising, nor is it something that can
be blamed on Russia.
Crimea succeeded in returning to Russia, where Crimea resided since
the 1700s, but Putin, hoping to defuse the propaganda war that
Washington was mounting against him did not accept the pleas from the
other former Russian provinces. Consequently, Washington’s stooges in
Kiev felt free to attack the protesting provinces and have been
following the Israeli policy of attacking civilian populations, civilian
residences, and civilian infrastructure.
The presstitute Western media ignored the facts and accused Russia of
invading and annexing parts of Ukraine. This lie is comparable to the
lies that US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the UN about Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction in behalf of the criminal Bush regime, lies
that Colin Powell later apologized for to no avail as Iraq had been
destroyed by his lies.
When the Malaysian airliner was destroyed, before any facts were
known Russia was blamed. The British media was especially primed to
blame Russia almost the instant it was known the airliner was downed. I
heard the BBC’s gross misrepresentation and blatant lies on American
National Public Radio, and only the Daily Mail’s propagandistic account
was worse. The entire “news” event has the appearance of orchestration
prior to the event, which, of course, suggests that Washington was
behind it.
The airliner deaths became all important for Washington’s propaganda
war. The 290 casualties are unfortunate, but they are a small fraction
of the deaths that Israel was inflicting on Palestinians at the same
moment without provoking any protests from Western governments, as
distinct from Western peoples in the streets, people whose protests were
conveniently suppressed for Israel by Western security forces.
Washington used the downing of the airliner, which probably was
Washington’s responsibility, as an excuse for another round of
sanctions and to pressure its European puppets to join the sanctions
with sanctions of their own, which Washington’s EU puppets did.
Washington relies on accusations and insinuations and refuses to
release the evidence from the satellite photos, because the photos do
not support Washington’s lies. Facts
are not permitted to interfere with Washington’s demonization of Russia
any more than facts interfered with Washington’s demonization of Iraq,
Libya, Syria, and Iran.
Twenty-two reckless and irresponsible US senators have introduced the
“Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014,” US Senate bill 2277,
sponsored by Senator Bob Corker, who well represents in his ignorance
and stupidity what appears to be the majority of the American population
or the majority of voters in the state of Tennessee. Corker’s bill is a
mindless piece of legislation designed to start a war that would be
likely to leave no survivors. Apparently, idiotic Americans will elect
any fool to power.
The belief that Russia is responsible for the downed Malaysian
airliner has become fact in Western capitals despite the total absence
of even a tiny scrap of evidence in behalf of the claim. Moreover, even
it the accusation were true, is one airliner worth a World War?
The UK Defense Committee has concluded that a broke and militarily
impotent UK must “focus on the defense of Europe against Russia.” The
military spending drums, if not the war drums, are beating and the
entire West has joined in. A militarily impotent Britain is going to
defend Europe from a non-existent, although much proclaimed, attack from
the Russian bear.
US and NATO military dignitaries and the Pentagon chief are issuing
Russia Threat Warnings based on alleged but non-existent Russian
troop-buildups on Ukraine’s border. According to the the Western
Ministry of Propaganda if Russia defends the Russian populations in
Ukraine from military attack from Washington’s stooge government in
Kiev, it is proof that Russia is the villain.
Washington’s propaganda campaign has succeeded in turning Russia into
a threat. Polls show that 69 percent of Americans now regard Russia as a
threat, and that the confidence of Russians in American leadership has
vanished.
Russians and their government observe the identical demonization of
their country and their leader as they observed of Iraq and Saddam
Hussein, of Libya and Gaddafi, of Syria and Assad, and of Afghanistan
and the Taliban just prior to military assaults on these countries by
the West. For a Russian, the safest conclusion from the evidence is
that Washington intends war on Russia.
It is my opinion that the irresponsibility and recklessness of the
Obama regime is without precedent. Never before has the United States
government or the government of any nuclear power gone to such great
efforts to convince another nuclear power that that power was being set
up for attack. It is difficult to imagine a more provocative act that
more endangers life on earth. Indeed, the White House Fool has doubled
up, convincing both Russia and China that Washington is planning a
preemptive first strike on both.
Republicans want to sue or to impeach Obama over relatively
inconsequential issues, such as ObamaCare. Why don’t Republicans want
to impeach Obama over such a critical issue as subjecting the world to
the risk of nuclear armageddon?
The answer is that the Republicans are as crazed as the Democrats.
Their leaders, such as John McCain and Lindsay Graham, are determined
that “we stand up to the Russians!” Wherever one looks in American
politics one sees crazed people, psychopaths and sociopaths who should
not be in political office.
Washington long ago gave up diplomacy. Washington relies on force
and intimidation. The US government is utterly devoid of judgment.
This is why polls show that the rest of the world regards the US
government as the greatest threat to world peace.
Today (August 8, 2014) Handelsblatt, Germany’s Wall Street Journal, wrote in a signed editorial by the publisher:
“The American tendency to move from verbal escalation to military
escalation – the isolation, demonization, and attacking of enemies – has not
proven effective. The last successful major military action the US
conducted was the Normandy landing [in 1944]. Everything else – Korea,
Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan – was a clear failure. Moving NATO units
towards the Polish border with Russia and thinking about arming Ukraine
is a continuation of relying on military means in the absence of
diplomacy.”
Washington’s puppet states – all of Europe, Japan, Canada, and
Australia – enable Washington’s unrivaled danger to the world by their
support of Washington’s agenda of exercising hegemony over the entire
world.
The 100th anniversary of World War I is upon us. And the folly that
caused this war is being repeated. WWI destroyed a civilized Western
world, and it was the work of a mere handful of scheming people. The
result was Lenin, the Soviet Union, Hitler, the rise of American
Imperialism, Korea, Vietnam, the military interventions that created
ISIS, and now resurrected conflict between Washington and Russia that
President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had ended.
As Stephen Starr has pointed out on my website, if merely 10% of the
nuclear weapons in the US and Russian arsenals are used, life on earth
terminates.
Dear readers, ask yourselves, when has Washington told you anything
that was not a lie? Washington’s lies have caused millions of
casualties. Do you want to be a casualty of Washington’s lies?
Do you believe that Washington’s lies and propaganda about the
Malaysian airliner and Ukraine are worth risking life on earth? Who is
so gullible that he cannot recognize that Washington’s lies about
Ukraine are like Washington’s lies about Hussein’s weapons of mass
destruction, Iranian nukes, and Assad’s use of chemical weapons?
Do you think that the neoconservative influence that prevails in
Washington, regardless of the political party in office, is too
dangerous to be tolerated?
