The Entire Western World Lives In
Cognitive Dissonance
The
Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance
Paul Craig Roberts
In this column I am going to use three
of the current top news stories to illustrate the disconnect that is everywhere
in the Western mind.
Let us begin with the family separation
issue. The separation of children from immigrant/refugee/asylum parents has
caused such public outcry that President Trump has backed off his policy and
signed an executive order terminating family separation.
The horror of children locked up in
warehouses operated by private businesses making a profit off of US taxpayers,
while parents are prosecuted for illegal entry, woke even self-satisfied
“exceptional and indispensable” Americans out of their stupor. It is a mystery
that the Trump regime chose to discredit its border enforcement policy by
separating families. Perhaps the policy was intended to deter illegal
immigration by sending the message that if you come to America your children
will be taken from you.
The question is: How is it that
Americans can see and reject the inhumane border control policy and not see the
inhumanity of family destruction that has been the over-riding result of
Washington’s destruction in whole or part of seven or eight countries in the
21st century?
Millions of people have been separated
from families by death inflicted by Washington, and for almost two decades
protests have been almost nonexistent. No public outcry stopped George W. Bush,
Obama, and Trump from clear and indisputable illegal acts defined in
international law established by the US itself as war crimes against the
inhabitants of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia.
We can add to this an eighth example: The military attacks by the US armed and
supported neo-Nazi puppet state of Ukraine against the breakaway Russian
provinces.
The massive deaths, destruction of
towns, cities, infrastructure, the maiming, physical and mental, the
dislocation that has sent millions of refugees fleeing Washington’s wars to
overrun Europe, where governments consist of a collection of idiot stooges who
supported Washington’s massive war crimes in the Middle East and North Africa,
produced no outcry comparable to Trump’s immigration policy.
How can it be that Americans can see
inhumanity in the separation of families in immigration enforcement but not in
the massive war crimes committed against peoples in eight countries? Are we
experiencing a mass psychosis form of cognitive dissonance?
We now move to the second example:
Washington’s withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
On November 2, 1917, two decades prior
to the holocaust attributed to National Socialist Germany, British Foreign
Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote to Lord Rothschild that Great Britain
supported Palestine becoming a Jewish homeland. In other words, the corrupt
Balfour dismissed the rights and lives of the millions of Palestinians who had
occupied Palestine for two millennia or more. What were these people compared
to Rothschild’s money? They were nothing to the British Foreign Secretary.
Balfour’s attitude toward the rightful
inhabitants of Palestine is the same as the British attitude toward the peoples
in every colony or territory over which British power prevailed. Washington
learned this habit and has consistently repeated it.
Just the other day Trump’s UN
ambassador Nikki Haley, the crazed and insane lapdog of Israel, announced that
Washington had withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council, because it is “a
cesspool of political bias” against Israel.
What did the UN Human Rights Council do
to warrant this rebuke from Israel’s agent, Nikki Haley? The Human Rights
Council denounced Israel’s policy of murdering Palestinians—medics, young
children, mothers, old women and old men, fathers, teenagers.
To criticize Israel, no matter how
great and obvious is Israel’s crime, means that you are an anti-semite and a
“holocaust denier.” For Nikki Haley and Israel, this places the UN Human Rights
Council in the Hitler-worshipping Nazi ranks.
The absurdity of this is obvious, but
few, if any, can detect it. Yes, the rest of the world, with the exception of
Israel, has denounced Washington’s decision, not only Washington’s foes and the
Palestinians, but also Washington’s puppets and vassals as well.
To see the disconnect, it is necessary
to pay attention to the wording of the denunciations of Washington.
A spokesperson for the European Union
said that Washington’s withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council “risks
undermining the role of the US as a champion and supporter of democracy on the
world stage.” Can anyone image a more idiotic statement? Washington is known as
a supporter of dictatorships that adhere to Washington’s will. Washington is
known as a destroyer of every Latin American democracy that elected a president
who represented the people of the country and not the New York banks, US
commercial interests, and US foreign policy.
Name one place where Washington has
been a supporter of democracy. Just to speak of the most recent years, the
Obama regime overthrew the democratically elected government of Honduras and
imposed its puppet. The Obama regime overthrew the democratically elected
government in Ukraine and imposed a neo-Nazi regime. Washington overthrew the
governments in Argentina and Brazil, is trying to overthrow the government in
Venezuela, and has Bolivia in its crosshairs along with Russia and Iran.
Margot Wallstrom, Sweden’s Foreign
Minister, said: “It saddens me that the US has decided to withdraw from the UN
Human Rights Council. It comes at a time when the world needs more human rights
and a stronger UN – not the opposite.” Why in the world does Wallstrom think
that the presence of Washington, a known destroyer of human rights—just ask the
millions of refugees from Washington’s war crimes overrunning Europe and
Sweden—on the Human Rights Council would strengthen rather than undermine the
Council? Wallstrom’s disconnect is awesome. It is so extreme as to be
unbelievable.
Australia’s Foreign Minister, Julie
Bishop, spoke for the most fawning of all of Washington’s vassals when she said
that she was concerned by the UN Human Rights Council’s “anti-Israel bias.”
Here you have a person so utterly brainwashed that she is unable to connect to
anything real.
The third example is the “trade war”
Trump has launched against China. The Trump regime’s claim is that due to
unfair practices China has a trade surplus with the US of nearly $400 billion.
This vast sum is supposed to be due to “unfair practices” on China’s part. In
actual fact, the trade deficit with China is due to Apple, Nike, Levi, and to
the large number of US corporations who produce offshore in China the products
that they sell to Americans. When the offshored production of US corporations
enter the US, they are counted as imports.
I have been pointing this out for many
years going back to my testimony before the US Congress China Commission. I
have written numerous articles published almost everywhere. They are summarized
in my 2013 book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism.https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Laissez-Faire-Capitalism/dp/0986036250/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529582838&sr=1-1&keywords=Paul+Craig+Roberts+books&dpID=51HWdHsbtFL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
The presstitute financial media, the
corporate lobbyists, which includes many “name” academic economists, and the
hapless American politicians whose intellect is almost non-existent are unable
to recognize that the massive US trade deficit is the result of jobs
offshoring. This is the level of utter stupidity that rules America.
In The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism, I exposed the extraordinary error made by Matthew J. Slaughter,
a member of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, who incompetently
claimed that for every US job offshored two US jobs were created. I also
exposed as a hoax a “study” by Harvard University professor Michael Porter for
the so-called Council on Competitiveness, a lobby group for offshoring, that
made the extraordinary claim that the US work force was benefitting from the
offshoring of their high productivity, high value-added jobs.
The idiot American economists, the
idiot American financial media, and the idiot American policymakers still have
not comprehended that jobs offshoring destroyed America’s economic prospects
and pushed China to the forefront 45 years ahead of Washington’s expectations.
To sum this up, the Western mind, and
the minds of the Atlanticist Integrationist Russians and pro-American Chinese youth,
are so full of propagandistic nonsense that there is no connection to reality.
There is the real world and there is
the propagandistic made-up world that covers over the real world and serves
special interests. My task is to get people out of the made-up world and into
the real world. Support my efforts.
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