WHO RUNS THE MADHOUSE?
By Dr Paul Craig
Roberts
WHO RULES AMERICA?
When President Reagan nominated
me as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, he told me that
we had to restore the US economy, to rescue it from stagflation, in order to
bring the full weight of a powerful economy to bear on the Soviet leadership in
order to convince them to negotiate the end of the cold war. Reagan said that
there was no reason to live any longer under the threat of nuclear war.
The Reagan
administration achieved both goals, only to see these accomplishments discarded
by successor administrations. It was Reagan’s own vice president and successor,
George Herbert Walker Bush, who first violated the Reagan-Gorbachev
understandings by incorporating former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire
into NATO and taking Western military bases to the Russian frontier.
The process of
surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated through successor US
administrations with various “color revolutions” financed by the US National
Endowment for Democracy, regarded by many as a front for the CIA.
Washington even
attempted to install a Washington-controlled government in Ukraine and did
succeed in this effort in former Soviet Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph
Stalin. The President of Georgia, a country located between the Black Sea and
the Caspian Sea, is a Washington puppet. Recently, he announced that former
Soviet Georgia is on schedule to become a NATO member in 2014.
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Those old enough to
remember know that NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was an
alliance between Western Europe and the US against the threat of the Red Army
overrunning Western Europe. The North Atlantic is a long, long ways from the
Black and Caspian Seas. What is the purpose of Georgia being a NATO member
except to give Washington a military base on the Russian underbelly?
The evidence is
simply overwhelming that Washington ~ both parties ~ have Russia and China
targeted.
Whether the purpose
is to destroy both countries or merely to render them unable to oppose
Washington’s world hegemony is unclear at this time. Regardless of the purpose,
nuclear war is the likely outcome.
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ARMAGEDDON APPROACHES . . .
The presstitute
American press pretends that an evil Syrian government is murdering innocent
citizens who only want democracy and that if the UN won’t intervene militarily,
the US must in order to save human rights.
Russia and China
are vilified by US functionaries for opposing any pretext for a NATO invasion
of Syria.
The facts, of
course, are different from those presented by the presstitute American media
and members of the US government.
The Syrian “rebels”
are well armed with military weapons. The “rebels” are battling the Syrian
army.
The rebels massacre
civilians and report to their media whores in the West that the deed was done
by the Syrian government, and the Western presstitutes spread the propaganda.
Someone is arming
the “rebels” as obviously the weapons can’t be purchased in local Syrian
markets. Most intelligent people believe the weapons are coming from the US or
from US surrogates.
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“DIVIDE ET IMPERA” ~ DIVIDE AND RULE
The object is to fragment Syria into petty sectarian
statelets forever at each others’ throats. Ideally, this will be accomplished
by a war that will do for Syria what has already been done so spectacularly for
Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, i.e.,
destroy their infrastructures and leave them in ruins.
When Syria is destroyed and more of its land annexed to
Israel, adding to the territory already stolen in the water-rich Golan Heights,
the next step will be the fragmentation of Iran and the plunder of its oil and
gas resources. Iran is the big one. Syria is the small one on the way to Iran.
As the neoconservative chickenhawks in Washington keep saying: “Real men go to Tehran!”
(LD)
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So, Washington has
started a civil war in Syria, as it did in Libya, but this time the gullible
Russians and Chinese have caught on and have refused to permit a UN resolution
like the one the West exploited against Gaddafi.
To get around this
roadblock, fish out an ancient Phantom fighter jet from the 1960s Vietnam war
era and have Turkey fly it into Syria. The Syrians will shoot it down, and then
Turkey can appeal to its NATO allies to come to its aid against Syria. Denied
the UN option, Washington can invoke its obligation under the NATO treaty, and
go to war in defense of a NATO member against a demonized Syria.
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What was that Turkish plane doing sniffing around
Syrian airspace? ~ It was begging to be shot down! So that Turkey could give
NATO its casus belli,
its pretext for all all-out attack on Syria in violation of international law.
The warmongers in Washington have only one way of making a living nowadays ~
and that is by selling arms to war-torn countries and then systematically
looting their resources. (LD)
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The neoconservative
lie behind Washington’s wars of hegemony is that the US is bringing democracy
to the invaded and bombed countries.
To paraphrase Mao,
“democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun.”
However, the Arab
Spring has come up short on democracy, as have Iraq and Afghanistan, two
countries “liberated” by US democratic invasions.
What the US is
bringing are civil wars and the breakup of countries, as President Bill
Clinton’s regime achieved in former Yugoslavia. The more countries can be torn
into pieces and dissolved into rival factions, the more powerful is Washington.
Russia’s Putin
understands that Russia itself is threatened not only by Washington’s funding
of the “Russian opposition,” but also by the strife among Muslims unleashed by
Washington’s wars against secular Muslim states, such as Iraq and Syria. This
discord spreads into Russia itself and presents Russia with problems such as
Chechen terrorism.
When a secular state
is overthrown, the Islamist factions become free to be at one another’s
throats. The internal strife renders the countries impotent.
As I wrote
previously, the West always prevails in the Middle East because the Islamist
factions hate one another more than they hate their Western conquerors.
Thus, when
Washington destroys secular, non-Islamist governments as in Iraq and now
targeted in Syria, the Islamists emerge and battle one another for supremacy.
This suits Washington and Israel as these states cease to be coherent
opponents.
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RUSSIA SURROUNDED
The Russians are only too aware that the projected wars
against Iran and Syria are proxy wars against them. The Chinese know that they, too, are being covertly
targeted by these attacks on their Iranian and Syrian allies. Russia and China
therefore have a stark choice: either to intervene and stop the planned
destruction of Iran and Syria by the US, Israel and their camp followers in
NATO and the Muslim world ~ or else be next on the hit list. (LD)
Russia is
vulnerable, because Putin is demonized by Washington and the US media and
because Putin’s Russian opposition is financed by Washington and serves US, not
Russian, interests. The turmoil that Washington is unleashing in Muslim states
leaks back to Russia’s Muslim populations.
It has proved to be
more difficult for Washington to interfere in China’s internal affairs,
although discord has been sowed in some provinces. Several years from now, the
Chinese economy is expected to exceed in size the US economy, with an Asian
power displacing a Western one as the world’s most powerful economy.
Washington is
deeply disturbed by this prospect. In the thrall and under the control of Wall
Street and other special interest business groups, Washington is unable to rescue
the US economy from its decline. The short-run gambling profits of Wall Street,
the war profits of the military/security complex, and the profits from off-shoring
the production of goods and services for US markets have far more
representation in Washington than the wellbeing of US citizens. As the US
economy sinks, the Chinese economy rises.
Washington’s
response is to militarize the Pacific. The US Secretary of State has declared
the South China Sea to be an area of American national interest. The US is
wooing the Philippine government, playing the China threat card, and working on
getting the US Navy invited back to its former base at Subic Bay. Recently
there were joint US/Philippines military/naval exercises against the “China
threat.”
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AMERICA believes it has a right to establish bases all
over the Pacific Ocean, threatening Chinese interests . . . but would America
like it if China established Chinese bases all over the Atlantic Ocean,
threatening America? (LD)
The US Navy is
reallocating fleets to the Pacific Ocean and constructing a new naval base on a
South Korean island. US Marines are now based in Australia and are being
reallocated from Japan to other Asian countries. The Chinese are not stupid.
They understand that Washington is attempting to corral China.
For a country
incapable of occupying Iraq after 8 years and incapable of occupying
Afghanistan after 11 years, to simultaneously take on two nuclear powers is an
act of insanity. The hubris in Washington, fed daily by the crazed neocons,
despite extraordinary failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, has now targeted
formidable powers ~ Russia and China. The world has never in its entire history
witnessed such idiocy.
The psychopaths,
sociopaths, and morons who prevail in Washington are leading the world to
destruction.
The criminally
insane government in Washington, regardless whether Democrat or Republican,
regardless of the outcome of the next election, is the greatest threat to life
on earth that has ever existed.
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AMERICA, YOU WILL DO AS I SAY!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the REAL President of America ~ the man who runs the American Madhouse with
the help of AIPAC and America’ s Zionist organizations . . .
Don't you just get sick of the elites playing games with the public. We need people you to keep spreading the truth so these blind people will see before it's too late!
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