Washington Is The Greatest Threat To World Order —Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Is The Greatest Threat To World Order
Paul Craig Roberts
Sergei Naryshkin, the Chairman of the Russian Parliament
says that the growing tensions in international relations result from
Washington’s lack of morals and violations of international law:
“The increasing crisis in international relations is
rooted in Western nations’ lack of morals and their reluctance to observe basic
norms of international law,” State Duma chairman Sergey Naryshkin has said.
“The tensions in the international situation have seriously increased over the
past few years and this happens primarily because a group of Western nations,
first of all, the United States of America, are neglecting the major principles
of international law or interpret them freely,” Interfax quoted the Russian
parliamentary leader as saying at a meeting with law students on Monday.
“I would be more direct – it happens due to the lack of morals,” Naryshkin
added. He emphasized that the argument of “American exceptionalism” often used
by many US politicians was against not only the legal principle of equality of
all nations and peoples, but also contradicted basic human morality.
The Duma speaker also said that at the moment he considered Russia as the key
protector of the basic foundations of international law. He noted that as one
of the victor nations in World War II, Russia played a decisive role in
introducing international law and that it had paid a great price for this
achievement.
In May 2015, Naryshkin published an article in the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily in
which he urged European politicians to stop heeding advice from the United
States and to start working on common Eurasian economic interests with Russia.
If this doesn’t happen, Washington will eventually destroy the EU’s economic
sovereignty by skillful manipulation of WTO mechanisms, Naryshkin wrote.
Naryshkin has also backed the idea of a future merger between the Russian
Federation and the European Union, and in April 2015 he suggested immediately
starting consultations. The idea of the possibility of such a merger originally
came from Czech President Milos Zeman, who confessed to having a dream that one
day Russia would join the EU.”
Naryshkin has a good point. Until the advent of the
“war on terror,” torture was a rarely used tool of post-WW II governments in
Europe and the US. But in the 21st century illegal torture became so
commonplace that a magazine, Torture, was created to expose and
combat torture. The magazine’s editorial board consists of Nilantha Ilangamuwa,
Lauren Glenmere, and Eric Bailey.
In the current issue, Marjorie Cohn explains that
“Torture Is Just Plain Wrong.” Morton Koch Andersen and Erik Wendt explain “Law
As Repression.” Ron Jacobs explains “The Murderer As Hero,” as epitomized by
Amerian Sniper and the TV series NCIS. Noam Chomsky explains the disappearance
of the US Constitution:
The constitutional lawyer in the White House has
introduced further modifications. His Justice Department explained that “due
process of law”—at least where “terrorism offences” are concerned—is satisfied
by internal deliberations within the executive branch. King John would have
nodded in approval. The term “guilty” has also been given a refined
interpretation: it now means “targeted for assassination by the White House.”
Furthermore, the burden of proof has been shifted to those already assassinated
by executive whim. As the New York Times reported, “Mr. Obama embraced a
disputed method for counting civilian casualties that in effect counts all
military-age males in a strike zone as combatants . . . unless there is
explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.” The guiding
principles are clear: force reigns supreme; “law” and “justice” and other
frivolities can be left to sentimentalists.
Government in America reeks of lawlessness and
violence, whether it is the police shooting down citizens on their streets and
in their homes or the military killing and displacing millions of Muslims in
Washington’s attacks on seven countries. I explain the enormous threat that
Washington presents to the world in my latest book, The Neoconservative
Threat To World Order
Who will be next to experience Washington’s violent
immorality?
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