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Paul Craig Roberts
Dear friends,
readers often ask me what they can do as individuals. My answer is that there
are three things you can do that are effective.
First, be aware
that solutions are pointless until there is awareness. You can help to build
awareness by recommending this site. If we could get as little as one, two, or
three percent of the US population aware and determined, we can force on
Washington a change of course.
Second,
financially support this site. It is your site. I do it for you, not for me. I
already know the information that I post for you. Only about 1% of my readers
financially support this site, which is hardly enough encouragement to match
the cost of being a dissident. I am paying the cost of dissent, and you are
getting the benefit. It would make a big difference if 2% or 3% of my readers
supported their site.
Third, purchase my
books and the books of other dissidents, such as Michael Hudson and Chris
Hedges—and there are others—who try to break people out of The Matrix. Take the
time to review the books on amazon.com and every other forum that you can find
in order to offset the negative reviews by trolls. This can sound like
self-serving advice, but the positive results far exceed the gain to the
author’s pocket book. Better sales encourge publishers to publish more
dissident books. Imagine the impact if dissident books, avoided by most publishers
with good marketing and distribution channels, outsold New York Times
Bestsellers.
Myself and others
can provide the missing fact-based information, but only you can bring change.
Washington’s drive
for hegemony and the vassal status of Europe and Japan have brought humanity to
a more perilous state than existed during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Every US president since Clinton has initiated war. The military/security
complex has run out of easy targets, and now Washington is initiating conflict
with two countries with powerful conventional and nuclear capabilities.
Washington has destroyed trust between nuclear powers—trust that every American
president from John F. Kennedy through George H.W. Bush worked to achieve—so
that now the risks go beyond accidents and mistakes. The Russian and Chinese
governments experience daily the lies that pour out of Washington and the
European capitals. The Russian and Chinese governments witness daily gratuitous
aggressive actions taken toward them. The stress from the uncertainty created
by Washington’s reckless behavior creates a momentum that leads to war.
Remember Putin’s statement in which he says that the lesson he learned from
World War II is that when war becomes inevitable, be the first to strike.
Of all the known
threats that we face, nuclear war is the worst. Most people lack the strength
to face the prospect, but unless enough of us find the strength and do
something about it, as Reagan and Gorbachev did, the prospect becomes the
reality.
My latest posting
(below) describes our progress along the road to nuclear armageddon. It is the
road that Washington, knowingly or unknowingly, is taking us down.
The
Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is
Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth
Paul Craig Roberts
My warning that
the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which
was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky,
former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of
the neoconservatives’ aggressive policies toward Russia and China.
Daily we observe
additional aggressive actions taken by Washington and its vassals against
Russia and China. For example, Washington is pressuring Kiev not to implement
the Minsk agreements designed to end the conflict between the puppet government
in Kiev and the break-away Russian republics. https://www.rt.com/news/325687-ukraine-rhetoric-sabotage-churkin/
Washington
refuses to cooperate with Russia in the war against ISIS. Washington continues
to blame Russia for the destruction of MH-17, while preventing an honest
investigation of the attack on the Malaysian airliner. Washington continues to
force its European vassals to impose sanctions on Russia based on the false
claim that the conflict in Ukraine was caused by a Russian invasion of Ukraine,
not by Washington’s coup in overthrowing a democratically elected government
and installing a puppet answering to Washington.
The list is long.
Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF), allegedly a neutral, non-political
world organization, has been suborned into the fight against Russia. Under
Washington’s pressure, the IMF has abandoned its policy of refusing to lend to
debtors who are in arrears in their loan payments to creditors. In the case of
Ukraine’s debt to Russia, this decision removes the enforcement mechanism that
prevents countries (such as Greece) from defaulting on their debts. The IMF has
announced that it will lend to Ukraine in order to pay the Ukraine’s Western
creditors despite the fact that Ukraine has renounced repayment of loans from
Russia.
Michael Hudson
believes, correctly in my view, that this new IMF policy will also be applied
to those countries to whom China has made loans. The IMF’s plan is to leave
Russia and China as countries who lack the usual enforcement mechanism to
collect from debtors, thus permitting debtors to default on the loans without
penalty.
In other words,
the IMF is presenting itself, although the financial media will not notice, as
a tool of US foreign policy.
What this shows, and
what should concern us, is that the institutions of Western civilization are in
fact tools of American dominance. The institutions are not there for the noble
reasons stated in their founding documents.
The bottom line is
that Western Capitalism is simply a looting mechanism that has successfully
suborned Western governments and all Western “do-good” institutions.
As in George
Orwell’s 1984, the IMF is dividing the world into warring factions
— the West vs. the BRICS.
To avoid the
coming conflict that the neoconservatives’ pursuit of American hegemony is
bringing, the Russians have relied on fact-based, truth-based diplomacy.
However, neocon Washington relies on lies and propaganda and has many more and
much louder voices. Consequently, it is Washington’s lies, not Russia’s truth,
that most of the Western sheeple believe.
In other words,
Russia was misled by believing that the West respects and abides by the values
that it professes. In fact, these “Western values” are merely a cover for the
unbridled evil of which the West consists.
The Western
peoples are so dimwitted that they have not yet understood that the “war on
terror” is, in fact, a war to create terror that can be exported to Muslim
areas of Russia and China in order to destabilize the two countries that serve
as a check on Washington’s unilateral, hegemonic power.
The problem for
the neocon unilateralists is that Russia and China—although misinformed by
their “experts” educated abroad in the neoliberal tradtion, people who are de
facto agents of Washington without even knowing it—are powerful military
powers, both nuclear and conventional. Unless Russia and China are content to
be Washington’s vassal states, for the neoconservatives, who control Washington
and, therefy, the West, to press these two powerful countries so hard can only
lead to war. As Washington is not a match for Russia and China in conventional
warfare, the war will be nuclear, and the result will be the end of life on
earth.
Whether ironic or
paradoxical, the US is pushing a policy that means the end of life. Yet, the
majority of Western governments support it, and the insouciant Western peoples
have no clue.
But Putin has
caught on. Russia is not going to submit. Soon China will undersand that US
dependency on China’s workforce and imports is not a protection from
Washington’s aggression. When China looks beyond its MIT and Harvard
miseducated neoliberal economists to the writing on the wall, Washington is
going to be in deep trouble.
What will
Washington do? Confronted with two powerful nuclear forces, will the crazed
neocons back off? Or will their confidence in their ideology bring us the final
war?
This is a real
question. The US government pays Internet trolls to ridicule such questions and
their authors. To see the people who sell out humanity for money, all you have
to do is to read the comments on the numerous websites that reproduce this
column.
Nevertheless, the
question remains, unanswered by the Western presstitute media and unanswered by
the bought-and-paid-for stooges in the US Congress and all Western
“democracies.”
Indications are
that Russia has had enough of Amerian arrogance. The Russian people have
elevated a leader as they always do, and which Western countries seldom, if
ever, do. The West has triumphed by technology, not by leadership. But Vladimir
Putin is Russia’s choice of a leader, and he is one. Russia also has the
technology and a sense of itself that no longer exists in the diversified West.
There is nothing
like Putin anywhere in the West, over which presides a collection of
bought-and-paid-for-puppets who report to private interest groups, such as Wall
Street, the military-industrial complex, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and
the extractive industries (energy, mining, timber).
At the 70th
Anniversary of the United Nations (September 28), Putin, backed by the
President of China, announced that half of the world no longer accepts American
unilateralism. Additionally, Putin said that Russia can no longer tolerate the
state of affairs in the world that results from Washington’s pursuit of
hegemony.
Two days later
Putin took over the fight against ISIS in Syria.
Putin, still
relying on agreements with Washington, relied on the agreement that Russia
would announce beforehand its attacks on ISIS installations in order to prevent
any NATO-Russian air encounters. Washington took advantage of this trust placed
in Washington by Russia, and arranged for a Turkish jet fighter to ambush an
unsuspecting Russian fighter-bomber.
This was an act of
war, committed by Washington and Turkey, and thereby Washington’s European NATO
vassal states against a nuclear power capable of exterminating all life in
every one of the countries, including the “superpower US.”
This simple fact
should make even the American super-patriots, who wear the flag on their
sleeve, wonder about the trust they place in “their” government and in Fox
“news,” CNN, NPR, and the rest of the presstitutes who continually lie every
minute of every broadcast.
But it won’t.
Americans and Europeans are too insouciant. They are locked tightly in The
Matrix, where the impotent creatures are content to live without understanding
reality.
Realizing that it
is pointless to attempt to communicate to the Western sheeple, who have no
input into their government’s policy, Putin now sends his message directly to
Washington.
Putin’s message is
loud and clear in his order directed against any US/NATO operations against
Russia in its Syrian operations against ISIS:
Putin followed up
this order with another order to the Russian Defense Ministry Board:
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported at the Defense Ministry
meeting that 56 percent of Russia’s nuclear forces are new and that more than
95 percent are at a permanent state of readiness. The few Western news sources
that report these developments pretend that Russia is ”saber-rattling” without
cause.
To make it clear
even for the insouciant Western populations, everything that Reagan and
Gorbachev worked for has been overthrown by crazed, demented, evil American
neoconservatives whose desire for hegemony over the world is driving the world
to extinction.
These are the same
bloodthirsty war criminals who have destroyed seven countries, murdered,
maimed, and displaced millions of Muslim peoples, and sent millions of refugees
from the neocon wars into Europe. None of these war criminals are protected
from terrorist attack. If the alleged “Muslim threat” was real, every one of
the war criminals would be dead by now, not the innocent people sitting in
Paris cafes or attending parties in California.
Neocons are the
unhumans who created on purpose the “war against terror” in order to gain a
weapon against Russia and China. You can witness these unhumans every day on
talk TV and read them in the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Wall Street
Journal, the New York Times, the British, German, Australian, Canadian, and
endless Western newspapers.
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 areThe Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West
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