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Is Trump
Bending?
By Paul Craig Roberts
January 10, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- “Trump
acknowledges Russia role in U.S. election hacking”
If this is not a fake news headline and the Reuters
report is correct, Trump is bending to the pressure.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-idUSKBN14S0O6
And to no avail. Intelligence officials and Senate
leaders say that Trump’s admission is not enough and
that he must punish Russia, not establish normal
relations.
Trump is being pushed hard to validate the orchestrated
“Russian Threat” on which the fortune and power of the
military/security complex resides. If this report is not
more fake news and Trump continues bending, he will be
in the ruling establishment’s hands by the time he is
inaugurated.
Is Goldman
Sachs Taking Control of the Trump Presidency?
By Paul
Craig Roberts
Pam and Russ
Martens have compiled an amazing
roster of present
and former Goldman Sachs executives
ensconced in the
Trump transition team and announced as Trump appointees.
This is
discouraging.
On the other
hand, the Senate is unlikely to refuse confirmation to
Goldman Sachs personnel.
Many people
have worked for Goldman Sachs, including Nomi Prins, and
Pam Martens worked on Wall Street. Both are effective
critics of the big banks.
Some of Trump’s
most important appointments—State, Defense, and National
Security
Advisor—are supportive of his intentions to restore
normal relations with Russia, reorganize the CIA, and
get the US out of pointless wars. If he can achieve
these things or even one of them, it is a victory
regardless if he fails to take on the banks.
According to
Douglas Valentine’s just published book, The CIA As
Organized Crime, it is the CIA, not the banks, that
control the government. Judging by the extraordinary
pressure that the CIA is putting on Trump with the
allegation that Trump’s election is tainted by Russian
interference, it is not clear at this time whether the
CIA will accept Trump as President of the United States.
If Goldman
Sachs were also Trump’s determined opponent, what would
Trump’s chances be?
It is very easy
to be unrealistic about expectations from a president.
Trump’s announcement that he intends to supplement his
Secret Service protection with private protection
suggests that he understands that there are many
constraints on his action.
There is no
guarantee that Trump can do anything. But clearly his
election is seen as a threat by the ruling
establishment. So let’s give Trump a chance and see what
he can do. I doubt he will be able to do anything but
surrender. Nevertheless, I hope.
Certainly there
is no reason to help the ruling establishment pull him
down. Whether they realize or not, those liberal, left,
progressive commentators and organizations are aligned
with the ruling establishment in the attack on Trump.
Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week,
Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He
has had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the
West,
How America Was
Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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