Avoiding Nuclear War Is Our
First Priority
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 08, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Michel
Chossudovsky, a distinguished professor in
Canada, directs the Centre for Research on
Globalization and the website Global
Research, a font of important information
unavailable from the presstitute Western
media.
In this article
he tells us that if we do not focus on peace
instead of war, we are all going to die:
Professor Chossudovsky makes
an important point,
made to me some years ago by my colleague
Zbigniew Brzezinski and recently by former
Secretary of Defense William Perry.
Professor Chossudovsky reminds us to “bear
in mind that mistakes are often what
determine the course of world history.” A US
attack on North Korea would be a mistake
that could precipate a nuclear war.
There is no doubt that
Chossudovsky is correct.
Additionally, the continued demonization of
Russia, China, and Iran could precipate a
nuclear war. In other words, we are
surrounded by very real threats
created by Washington that receive no
attention from Western governments and the
presstitute media.
As I wrote on December 5,
we are “walking into Armageddon.”
Professor Chossudovsky has
amassed a huge amount of information that
makes clear the vast difference between the
level-headed era of JFK/Khrushchev and the
insanity of the post-Reagan era of the
re-start of hostilities for the sake of the
power and profit of the US military/security
complex and the neoconservatives’ ideology
of US world hegemony.
I am unsure that the peoples
of the Western world can without violence
against their governments do anythng to
prevent nuclear war, because the Western
politicians are in the pay of the
military/security complex and the financial
and corporate interest groups that benefit
from US hegemony. American hegemony produces
profits, and for the sake of these profits
Western leaders will risk the fate of the
world.
As I have emphasized
repeatedly, Americans as a result of their
insouciance and patriotism live in a world
in which the explanations they are given by
government and the presstitutes are used to
control what they think and believe. In this
way, government and the interest groups that
control government make their agendas
independent of any control by the citizens.
In the United States, and probably
throughout the Western world, democracy
simply does not exist. George Orwell
predicted that this would be the case by
1984, but it took the Clinton, George W.
Bush, and Obama regimes to achieve it. Today
in 2017 Big Brother does indeed rule the
Western World.
Trump’s election was like
Reagan’s. He appealed to the people instead
of to the ruling interest groups. As a high
official in Reagan’s government who was
aligned with Reagan’s goals to end
stagflation and the Cold War, I experienced
first hand the cost of going against the
powerful interest groups that are accustomed
to ruling. We took part of their rule away
from them, but now they have taken it back.
And they are now stronger than before.
Essentially, Trump is powerless and is
limited to expressing his frustrations on
Twitter.
In my opinion, the lesson
being dealt to Trump will teach any future
presidential candidate not to challenge the
ruling oligarchy by appealing to the
American people.
This means that democracy in
America is stone dead. I sometimes wonder if
democracy can be revived without violent
revolution, and of course revolutions can go
wrong.
Are Americans capable of
violent revolution? If they are not, will
the greedy elites remain in control until
they stumble into a nuclear war?
General Lemnitzer, Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President
John F. Kennedy that the US could win a
nuclear war with the Soviet Union if only
JFK would give the go-ahead. General
Lemnitzer also presented President Kennedy
with the “Northwoods” plan that called for
the US military to conduct false flag
attacks on US citizens that could be blamed
on Castro and serve as an excuse for a US
invasion of Cuba. President Kennedy
responded by removing Lemnitzer as Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A number of researchers have
concluded that Lemnitzer’s removal convinced
the military/security complex that Kennedy
was soft on communism and a threat to
American national security.
The Obama regime recreated
the Russian scare. In his election campaign
Trump revealed that he was out of step with
the recreation of the Russian threat, for
which he has been punished with “Russiagate.”
Can a president concerned that he might be
removed from office by a special prosecutor
or possibly assassinated, resist the march
toward war?
Trump is surrounded by a
Secret Service that believes that protecting
the President is protecting the United
States. However, if the Secret Service is
convinced by the Special Prosecutor,
Congress, the military/security complex, and
the presstitutes that Trump is in league
with the Russians in a Russiagate conspiracy
against the United States, the Secret
Service could fail to protect Trump, just as
they failed to protect President John F.
Kennedy.
You can rescue yourself from
the false report that Oswald assassinated
President Kennedy by watching online the
Secret Service agents, who protected
President Kennedy in his open car from
gunfire, being called away from the car so
that the assassins could have a clear shot
at Kennedy. You can see that the bullet hits
Kennedy in the right front temple and blows
off the back of his head. You can see his
wife, Jackie, climb onto the trunk of the
car to retrieve the back of the president’s
head. So much for the fake story that Oswald
shot JFK from behind. All evidence disproves
the Oswald story. No evidence whatsoever
supports it. This is the conclusion of many
years of research by many authors.
Many researchers have
concluded that the Warren Commission knew
that JFK was assassinated by elements of the
military/security complex, but that the
commission knew that it could not tell the
American people in the wake of the Cuban
missile crisis that the US government had
just murdered the US president. At a
difficult time in the Cold War, Americans
would loose confidence in their own military
and security services. I can understand a
decision to cover up what happened.
Nevertheless, those responsible should have
been forced to resign on the grounds that
they failed to protect the President of the
United States, and under cover of preventing
another such failure in the future, the
black ops section of the CIA should have
been closed down, as President Kennedy
intended to do. The failure by the Johnson
administration to remedy the situation has
left the power in the hands of the security
agencies to act against the president, as we
are witnessing with the attack on Trump by
CIA director John Brennan, and FBI directors
Comey and Mueller.
Trump is portrayed by the
presstitutes as an idiot. But he is not an
idiot. Idiots don’t wind up being
billionaires or married to the most
beautiful woman on earth. Idiots don’t have
the confidence to take on the interest
groups that control the two political
parties and win a presidential election.
Trump is anything but dumb,
but he understands now that he is not really
the president of the United States.
The United States is ruled by
the militry/security complex, by the Federal
Reserve in the interests of the big banks
and Wall Street, by the extractive
industries as evidenced by Trump handing
over to them two national monuments in Utah
to be ravaged, raped, and ruined for their
profit, and by the Israel Lobby, which has
kept Washington at war in the Middle East
for 16 years. The Amerian people have no
input into decisons. Americans are powerless
and helpless, like Jews and everyone else in
the Nazi camps and like the Palistinians in
the Gaza ghetto. They have no voice and are
irrelevant to the decisions made in
Washington.
Once you understand this, you
can understand why Trump would move the US
embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The Israel
Lobby is one of the most powerful interest
groups in Washington. Trump, under attack
from so many quarters can do no better than
to have the Israel Lobby and Mossad on his
side.
Who else can Trump turn to?
The people in flyover America who elected
him are powerless. The Isreal Lobby isn’t.
Just look at the results of
Trump’s announcement that the US embassy
will be located in Jerusalem. The
neoconservatives who were determined to get
rid of Trump because he voiced peace with
Russia and the Muslims instead of US
hegemony, now praise him. Even John
Podhoretz, a leader of death-to-Trump, is
euphoric that Trump flaunted the UN and
international law and declared, in effect,
Jerusalem to be Israel’s. National Review,
formerly a conservative magazine for which I
was once a contributing editor, but now a
vassal of the Israel Lobby, described
Trump’s action as “a blow against
international anti-Semitism.”
If you were alone in
Washington’s hot seat under constant attack
by the pressitute media and the
military/security complex and under
investigation by a Special Prosecutor
appointed for the explicit purpose of
indicting you and removing you from office,
and you could turn to a powerful interest
group before which all tremble, would you
not seek the protection of the Israel Lobby
and Mossad? Some fool you would be not to do
so. As the CIA has known for decades, the
agency is penetrated by Mossad. Trump can
know in advance if the CIA is going to
assassinate him.
So, dear readers, you have
asked me why Trump has opened the way for
Israel’s complete takeover of Palestine.
Perhaps the answer is that Trump is hoping
that the powerful Israel Lobby will protect
him from Mueller and the military/security
complex, who are out to get him.
Perhaps it is a hopeful
development that Trump has taken refuge in
the Israel Lobby’s protection. Mossad, of
course, is more capable than the CIA. If the
Israel Lobby will protect Trump, perhaps
Trump can survive the assault on him by the
military/security complex and actually
restore trust between the two major nuclear
powers. What does Israel have to lose by
preserving life on earth? Israel has already
gained, in the face of international law, UN
resolutions, and a compliant America and
Europe, all of Palestine. Israel has
achieved what the American Empire achieved
against the native Americans. And now Trump
gives Israel the last prize–Jerusalem. Why
should not the Israel Lobby protect Trump?
Americans can bitch about the
Jews all they want (until it becomes
illegal), but what is there to bitch about
if the Israel Lobby can save the only
politician in the Western world who wants to
normalize relations and reduce the high
level of tensions with Russia?
If the Israel Lobby will save
us and the planet from nuclear destruction,
more power to them. It is unfortunate for
the long-suffering Palestinians that they
are the sacrificial lamb, but is the fault
Trump’s or the fault of the
military/security complex, the DNC, and the
presstitute media for putting Trump in a
desperate situation?
Further reading:
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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