Truth Has Become Un-American
Truth Has Become Un-American
Paul Craig Roberts
Those of us who have exited The Matrix are concerned
that there are no checks on Washington’s use of nuclear weapons in the interest
of US hegemony over the world.
Washington and Israel are the threats to peace.
Washington demands world hegemony, and Israel demands hegemony in the Middle
East.
There are two countries that stand in the way of
Washington’s world hegemony—Russia and China. Consequently, Washington has
plans for preemptive nuclear strikes against both countries. It is difficult to
imagine a more serious threat to mankind, and there is no awareness or
acknowledgment of this threat among the Congress, the presstitute media, and
the general public in the United States and Washington’s European vassal
populations.
Two countries and a part of a third stand in the way
of Greater Israel. Israel wants the water resources of southern Lebanon, but
cannot get them, despite twice sending in the Israeli Army, because of the
Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which is supplied by Syria and Iran. This is why
Syria and Iran are on Washington’s hit list. Washington serves the
military/security complex, Wall Street and the over-sized US banks, and Israel.
It is unclear if the Russians and Chinese understand
that Washington’s hostility toward them is not just some sort of misunderstanding
that diplomacy can work out.
Clearly, Russia hasn’t interfered in the US
presidential election or invaded Ukraine, and does not intend to invade Poland
or the Baltics. Russia let go the Soviet empire and is glad to see it gone, as
the empire was expensive and of little benefit. The Soviet Eastern European
empire comprised Stalin’s buffer against another Western invasion. The Warsaw
Pact had no offensive meaning. It was not the beginning, as misrepresented in
Washington, of Soviet world domination.
I see a lack of clarity about the threat that Russia
faces in Russian media reports and articles posted on Russian English language
websites. I see a lack of clarity in Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s
continued efforts to work out an accommodation with Washington. How can Lavrov
work out an accommodation with Washington when Washington intends to dominate
or isolate Russia?
Lavrov and Russian media organizations do not always
show awareness that it is not Washington’s intention to accommodate other
national interests.
It cannot be otherwise for these three reasons:
- The
budget for the US military/security complex is the largest in the world.
It is larger than the Gross Domestic Product of many countries. It
includes not only the Pentagon’s budget but also the budgets of 16 US
intelligence agencies and the Department of Energy, which is the location
of the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant and 16 other national laboratories.
When all the elements are added together, the military/security complex
has annually the power and profit from $1,000 billion. An empire of this
sort just doesn’t give up and go away because some president or some part
of the electorate want peace. The “Russian Threat” is essential to the
power and profit of the military/security complex, about which President
Eisenhower warned Americans 56 years ago. Just imagine how entrenched this power is now.
- The
neoconservatives, who control both US foreign policy and the Western
media’s explanation of it, are mainly Jews of Zionist persuasion. Some are
dual Israeli-US citizens. The neoconservatives believe that the collapse
of Soviet communism means that History has chosen the United States as the
socio-politico-economic system, and that the US government has the
responsibility to assert the hegemony of America over the earth. Just read
the neocon documents. They assert this over and over. This is what it
means that America is the exceptional and indispensable nation. If you are
the indispensable nation, every other nation is dispensable. If you are
exceptional, everyone else is unexceptional. The claim that the
neoconservatives make for the US is similar to the claim that Hitler made
for Germany.
- As
Israel controls US Middle East policy, Israel uses its control to have
Washington eliminate obstacles to Israel’s expansion. So far Israel has
achieved the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s government and chaos in Iraq,
Washington’s war on Syria, and Washington’s demonization of Iran in the
hope that sufficient demonization will justify war.
For the Russian Foreign Minister to believe that it is
possible to reach an accommodation with Washington, other than a Russian
surrender, is nonsense. Perhaps this is Lavrov’s use of diplomacy to delay the
US attack while Russia prepares. Or perhaps Lavrov is just a diplomat who
sticks to his last, despite the facts.
Much of the Russian media, both in Russian and foreign
language broadcasts and websites, thinks that the Western misrepresentation of
Russia is just a mistake and that that facts, once they are established, can
rectify the mistake. These Russian journalists don’t understand that Washington
could not care less about facts. Washington desperately needs an enemy, and
Russia is the enemy of choice.
The Chinese government seems to think that Wall Street
and US corporations are too dependent on the cheap Chinese manufacturing labor,
which keeps the US system fueled with profits, to jeopardize these profits by
going to war.
By underplaying the risk of war, Russia and China fail
to mobilize world opposition to Washington’s recklessness and, thereby, enable
Washington’s move toward war.
The presstitutes serving the National Security State
continue to drive toward conflict. Consider Newsweek’s May 26, 2017, cover
story with Putin on the cover and the caption:
“The Plot Against America:
Inside Putin’s Campaign to Destroy Democracy in the U.S.”
It is difficult to imagine such ignorant nonsense from
a mainstream news magazine. Democracy in America has been destroyed by special
interest groups, by a US Supreme Court decision that gave the reins of power to
special interest groups, and by a hoax war on terror that has destroyed the US
Constitution. And here we have the presstitutes saying that Putin is destroying
American democracy. Clearly, there is no extant intelligence anywhere in the
Western media. The Western presstitutes are either corrupt beyond belief or
ignorant beyond belief. Nothing else can be said for them.
Consider Time magazine’s cover. It depicts Trump
turning the White House into the foundation for the Kremlin and St. Basil’s
Cathedral, which rise above the White House, symbolizing America’s subservience
to Russia under President Trump. This extraordinary propaganda seems to be
readily accepted by the bulk of the Western populations, peoples who will die
as a result of their insouciance.
Even writers critical of Washington, such as Paul
Street’s recent article on CounterPunch and the English language Russian
website, Strategic Culture Foundation, cannot bring themselves to state the
truth that the US military/security complex needs a major enemy, has elected
Russia for that role, and intends to defend this orchestration to the end of
humanity on earth.
Street writes about “How Russia Became ‘Our Adversary’
Again.” According to Street, Russia became the enemy of choice because Russia
protected part of the world’s population and resources from being exploited by
global capital. Russia became the number one enemy of the US also because Putin
stopped the American exploitation of Russia economically. Putin is in the way
of Washington’s exploitation of the world.
Much of what Street says is correct, but he is
hesitant to state it in a straightforward manner. He has to dilute his message
by repeating the obligatory propaganda. Street calls Trump, who originally
wanted normal relations with Russia, an “orange-haired brute . . . [who
admires] Putin’s authoritarian manliness.”
Trump’s problems originated in his goal of normalizing
relations with Russia. Hillary is the brute who intended to worsen the
relations.
Putin is a democrat, not an authoritarian. The
authoritarians are in Washington. Surely Paul Street and CounterPunch know
this. But Street has to protect himself from speaking some politically
incorrect truths about the US and Russia by throwing in some anti-Putin
propaganda and denigrating President Trump.
That peace with Russia and China would undermine the
justification of the $1,000 billion military/security budget, and that the
military/security complex is the American government, is too much
truth for most writers to state.
Truth is the most rare element in the Western world,
and we will not be permitted to have much of it much longer. Increasingly, truth
is difficult to find. Soak it up while it is still available.
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