Where
Do Matters Stand?
By Paul Craig
Roberts
June 09,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- On the eve of World War II the United States was
still mired in the Great Depression and found itself
facing war on two fronts with Japan and Germany.
However bleak the outlook, it was nothing compared
to the outlook today.
Has anyone
in Washington, the presstitute Western media, the
EU, or NATO ever considered the consequences of
constant military and propaganda provocations
against Russia? Is there anyone in any responsible
position anywhere in the Western world who has
enough sense to ask: “What if the Russians believe
us? What if we convince Russia that we are going to
attack her?”
The same
can be asked about China.
The
recklessness of the White House Fool and the media
whores has gone far beyond mere danger. What do the
Russians think when they see that the Democratic
Party intends to elect Hillary Clinton president of
the US? Hillary is a person so crazed that she
declared the president of Russia to be “the new
Hitler” and organized through her underling, neocon
monster Victoria Nuland, the overthrow of the
democratically elected government of Ukraine. Nuland
installed Washington’s puppet government in a former
Russian province that until about 20 years ago was
part of Russia for centuries.
I would bet
that this tells even the naive pro-western part of
the Russian government and population that the
United States intends war with Russia.
Ever since
Russia stood up to Obama over Syria, the Russians
have been experiencing hostile propaganda and
military operations on their borders. These
provocations are justified by Washington and its
NATO vassals as a response to “Russian aggression.”
Russian aggression consists of nothing but obviously
false assertions that Russia is about to invade the
Baltics, Poland, and Romania and recreate the Soviet
Empire, the Eastern European part of which, together
with the former Russian provinces of Georgia and
Ukraine, now belong to the American Empire.
The
Russians know that the propaganda about “Russian
aggression” is a lie. What is the purpose of the lie
other than to prepare the Western peoples for war
with Russia?
There is no
other explanation.
Even morons
such as Obama, Merkel, Hollande, and Cameron should
be capable of understanding that it is extremely
dangerous to convince a major military power that
you are going to attack. To simultaneously also
convince China doubles the danger.
Clearly,
the West is incapable of producing leadership
capable of preserving life on earth.
What can be
done when the entire West demonstrates a death wish
for Planet Earth?
Until the
criminal regimes of Clinton, George W. Bush, and
Obama, American presidents from John F. Kennedy
forward worked to reduce tensions with the Soviets.
Kennedy worked with Khrushchev to reduce tensions
caused by US missiles in Turkey and Soviet missiles
in Cuba. President Nixon negotiated SALT I (the
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) and the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. President Carter
negotiated SALT II, which was never ratified by the
US Senate but was observed by the executive branch.
President Reagan negotiated with Soviet leader
Gorbachev the end of the Cold War. President George
H.W. Bush in exchange for Gorbachev’s agreement to
the reunification of Germany promised that NATO
would not move one inch to the East.
All of
these achievements were thrown away by the
neoconized Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama
regimes, each a criminal regime on par with Nazi
Germany.
Today life
on Planet Earth is far less secure than during the
darkest days of the Cold War. Whatever threat global
warming poses, it is miniscule compared to the
threat of nuclear winter. If the evil that is
concentrated in Washington and its vassals
perpetrates nuclear war, cockroaches will inherit
the earth.
I
have been warning about the growing danger of a
nuclear war resulting from the arrogance, hubris,
ignorance, and evil personified by Washington.
Recently, four knowledgable Russian-Americans
spelled out the likely consequences of trying to
drive Russia to submission with war threats:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/06/03/41522/
See
also:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/05/28/as-our-past-wars-are-glorified-this-memorial-day-weekend-give-some-thought-to-our-prospects-against-the-russians-and-chinese-in-world-war-iii/
Don’t
expect the brainwashed American population to have
the moral conscience and fortitude to prevent
nuclear war or even the intelligence to prevent
their own vaporization. In a recent article in the
Wall Street Journal Scott Sagan and Benjamin
Valentino report that 59% of the US population
support attacking Iran with nuclear weapons in the
event that Iran sank one US Navy ship:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/would-the-u-s-drop-the-bomb-again-1463682867
Republicans
were much more likely than Democrats to approve
attacking Iran with nuclear weapons with 81% of
Republicans approving nuclear war compared to 47% of
Democrats. Yet, the Democrats are behind Hillary who
would be the first to use nuclear weapons. After
all, a feminized woman has to prove how tough she
is, just as Margaret Thatcher was “the Iron Lady.”
Before it
it too late for Americans and all of humanity,
arrogant Americans need to recall that “those who
live by the sword, die by the sword.”
The
economic picture is equally dismal and unpromising.
The latest payroll jobs report was even more awful
than reported. Hardly any new jobs were created, but
what largely escaped reporting is the fact that the
economy actually lost 59,000 full-time jobs.
Increasingly the US economy consists of part-time
jobs that cannot support an independent existence.
Thus, more Americans age 19-34 live at home with
parents than independently with spouses or partners.
Fully half of 25-year old Americans live in their
childhood rooms in their parents’ homes.
This is the
“New Economy” that the filthy lying neoliberal
economists promised would be reward for the American
work force giving up their manufacturing and
professional skill jobs to foreigners. What a
monstrous lie the neoliberal economists told so that
corporate executives and shareholders could put into
their own pockets the living wage of the American
work force. These neoliberal economists, and, alas,
libertarian “free market” ones, have not been held
accountable for their impoverishment of the American
work force deeply buried in debt with no future
prospects.
Those few
Americans who have any awareness are beginning to
realize that the One Percent and the western
governments that serve them are re-establishing
feudalism. The brilliant and learned economist,
Michael Hudson, has labeled our era the era of
neo-feudalism.
He is
correct. The majority of young Americans come out of
university heavily indebted, primed for debtor
prison. When half of 25-year olds cannot marry and
form households, how can anyone believe that housing
sales and prices are rising except as a result of
speculative investors banking on rental income from
a population that cannot even pay its student loans.
The United
States is the sickest place on earth. There is no
public or political discussion of any important
issue or of the multiple crises that confront
America or the crises that America brings to the
world.
The
American people are so stupid and unaware that they
are capable of electing a criminal and a warmonger
like Hillary president of the United States and be
proud of it.
These
“tough” Americans are so frightened of hoax dangers,
such as “Muslim terrorists” and “Russian aggression”
that they willingly sacrificed their depleted
pocketbooks, the Constitution of the United
States—an act of treason on the part of the American
people who utterly failed their responsibility to
protect the Constitution—and their own liberty to a
universal police state that has all power over them.
It is
extraordinary that once-proud, once-great European
peoples look for leadership from a country of
moronic non-entities who have pissed away the
liberty, security, and prosperity that their
Founding Fathers gave to them.
Fellow
Americans, if you care to avoid vaporization and,
assuming we do avoid it, live a life other than
serfdom, you must wake up and realize that your most
deadly enemy is Washington, not the hoax of “Russian
aggression,” not the hoax of “Muslim terrorism,” not
the hoax of “domestic extremism,” not the hoax of
welfare bankrupting America, not the hoax of
democracy voting away your wealth, which Wall Street
and the corporations have already stolen and stuck
in their pockets.
If you
cannot wake up and escape The Matrix, your doom will
bring the doom of the planet.
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.
|