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Paul Craig Roberts: Pushing Toward The Final War
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts via his blog,
Does Obama realize that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people. Only one head of state was actually involved–the President of France.
In The genesis Of The World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincare`, President of France, Sergei Sazonov, Russian Foreign Minister, and Alexander Izvolski, Russian Ambassador to France. Poincare` wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to produce the desired war.
A Franco-Russian Alliance was formed. This alliance became the vehicle for orchestrating the war. The British government, thanks to the incompetence, stupidity, or whatever of its Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, was pulled into the Franco-Russian Alliance. The war was started by Russia’s mobilization. The German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, was blamed for the war despite the fact that he did everything possible to avoid it.
Barnes’ book was published in 1926. His reward for confronting the corrupt court historians with the truth was to be accused of being paid by Germany to write his history. Eighty-six years later historian Christopher Clark in his book, The Sleepwalkers, comes to essentially the same conclusion as Barnes.
In the history I was taught the war was blamed on Germany for challenging British naval supremacy by building too many battleships. The court historians who gave us this tale helped to set up World War 2.
We are again on the road to World War. One hundred years ago the creation of a world war by a few had to be done under the cover of deception. Germany had to be caught off guard. The British had to be manipulated and, of course, people in all the countries involved had to be propagandized and brainwashed.
Today the drive to war is blatantly obvious. The lies are obvious, and the entire West is participating, both media and governments.
The American puppet, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, openly lied on Canadian TV that Russian President Putin had invaded Crimea, threatened Ukraine, and was restarting the Cold War. The host of the TV program sat and nodded his head in agreement with these bald-faced lies. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Stephen+Harper+accuses+Vladimir+Putin+being+stuck+back+USSR/9663692/story.html
The script that Washington handed to its Canadian puppet has been handed to all of Washington’s puppets, and everywhere in the West the message is the same. “Putin invaded and annexed Crimea, Putin is determined to rebuild the Soviet Empire, Putin must be stopped.”
I hear from many Canadians who are outraged that their elected government represents Washington and not Canadians, but as bad as Harper is, Obama and Fox “News” are worse.
On March 26 I managed to catch a bit of Fox “news.” Murdoch’s propaganda organ was reporting that Putin was restoring the Soviet era practice of exercise. Fox “news” made this report into a threatening and dangerous gesture toward the West. Fox produced an “expert,” whose name I caught as Eric Steckelbeck or something like that. The “expert” declared that Putin was creating “the Hitler youth,” with a view toward rebuilding the Soviet empire.
The extraordinary transparent lie that Russia sent an army into Ukraine and annexed Crimea is now accepted as fact everywhere in the West, even among critics of US policy toward Russia.
Obama, whose government overthrew the democratically elected government in Ukraine and appointed a stooge government that has threatened the Russian provinces of Ukraine, falsely accuses Putin of “invading and annexing” Crimea.
Obama, or his handlers and programers, are relying on the total historical ignorance of Western peoples. The ignorance and gullibility of Western peoples allows the American neoconservatives to fashion “news” that controls their minds.
Obama recently declared that Washington’s destruction of Iraq–up to one million killed, four million displaced, infrastructure in ruins, sectarian violence exploding, a country in total ruins–is nowhere near as bad as Russia’s acceptance of Crimean self-determination. US Secretary of State John Kerry actually ordered Putin to prevent the referendum and stop Crimeans from exercising self-determination.
Obama’s speech on March 26 at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels is surreal. It is beyond hypocrisy. Obama says that Western ideals are challenged by self-determination in Crimea. Russia, Obama says, must be punished by the West for permitting Crimeans to exercise self-determination. The return of a Russian province on its own volition to its mother country where it existed for 200 years is presented by Obama as a dictatorial, anti-democratic act of tyranny. http://on.rt.com/sbzj4o
Here was Obama, whose government has just overthrown the elected, democratic government of Ukraine and substituted stooges chosen by Washington in the place of the elected government, speaking of the hallowed ideal that “people in nations can make their own decisions about their future.” That is exactly what Crimea did, and that is exactly what the US coup in Kiev contravened. In the twisted mind of Obama, self-determination consists of governments imposed by Washington.
Here was Obama, who has shredded the US Constitution, speaking of “individual rights and rule of law.” Where is this rule of law? It is certainly not in Kiev where an elected government was overthrown with force. It is certainly not in the United States where the executive branch has spent the entirety of the new 21st century establishing government above the law. Habeas corpus, due process, the right to open trials and determination of guilt by independent jurors prior to imprisonment and execution, the right to privacy have all been overturned by the Bush/Obama regimes. Torture is against US and international law; yet Washington set up torture prisons all over the globe.
How is it possible that the representative of the war criminal US government can stand before an European audience and speak of “rule of law,” “individual rights,” “human dignity,” “self-determination,” “freedom,” without the audience breaking out in laughter?
Washington is the government that invaded and destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis of lies. Washington is the government that financed and organized the overthrow of the Libyan and Honduran governments and that is currently attempting to do the same thing to Syria and Venezuela. Washington is the government that attacks with drones and bombs populations in the sovereign countries of Pakistan and Yemen. Washington is the government that has troops all over Africa. Washington is the government that has surrounded Russia, China, and Iran with military bases. It is this warmongering collection of Washington war criminals that now asserts that it is standing up for international ideals against Russia.
No one applauded Obama’s nonsensical speech. But for Europe to accept such blatant lies from a liar without protest empowers the momentum toward war that Washington is pushing.
Obama demands more NATO troops to be stationed in Eastern Europe to “contain Russia.” http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/26/obama-wants-more-nato-troops-in-eastern-europe/ Obama said that a buildup of military forces on Russia’s borders would reassure Poland and the Baltic states that, as NATO members, they will be protected from Russian aggression. This nonsense is voiced by Obama despite the fact that no one expects Russia to invade Poland or the Baltic countries.
Obama doesn’t say what effect the US/NATO military buildup and numerous war games on Russia’s border will have on Russia. Will the Russian government conclude that Russia is about to be attacked and strike first? The reckless carelessness of Obama is the way wars start.
Declaring that “freedom isn’t free,” Obama is putting pressure on Western Europe to pony up more money for a military buildup to confront Russia. http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/26/us-presses-eu-nations-to-hike-military-spending-to-confront-russia/
The position of the government in Washington and its puppet states (Eastern and Western Europe, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Georgia, Japan) and other allies purchased with bagfuls of money is that Washington’s violation of international law by torturing people, by invading sovereign countries on totally false pretenses, by routinely overthrowing democratically elected governments that do not toe the Washington line is nothing but the “indispensable and exceptional country” bringing “freedom and democracy to the world.” But Russia’s acceptance of the self-determination of Crimean people to return to their home country is “a violation of international law.”
Just what international law has Washington and its puppets not violated?
Obama, whose government in the past few years has bullied Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, Iran, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela and is now trying to bully Russia, actually declared that “bigger nations can not simply bully smaller ones.” What does Obama and his speech writers think Washington has been doing for the entirety of the 21st century?
Who can possibly believe that Obama, whose government is responsible for the deaths of people every day in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, cares a whit about democracy in Ukraine. Obama overthrew the Ukrainian government in order to be able to stuff the country into NATO, throw Russia out of its Black Sea naval base, and put US missile bases in Ukraine on Russia’s border. Obama is angry that his plan didn’t pan out as intended, and he is taking his anger and frustration out on Russia.
As the delusion takes hold in Washington that the US represents idealism standing firmly against Russian aggression, delusion enabled by the presstitute media, the UN General Assembly vote, and Washington’s string of puppet states, self-righteousness rises in Washington’s breast.
With rising self-righteousness will come more demands for punishing Russia, more demonization of Russia and Putin, more lies echoed by the presstitutes and puppets. Ukrainian violence against Russian residents is likely to intensify with the anti-Russian propaganda. Putin could be forced to send in Russian troops to defend Russians.
Why are people so blind that they do not see Obama driving the world to its final war?
Just as Obama dresses up his aggression toward Russia as idealism resisting selfish territorial ambitions, the English, French, and Americans presented their World War 1 “victory” as the triumph of idealism over German and Austrian imperialism and territorial ambitions. But at the Versailles Conference the Bolsheviks (the Tsar’s government failed to gain the Straits and instead lost the country to Lenin) “revealed the existence of the notorious Secret Treaties embodying as sordid a program of territorial pilfering as can be found in the history of diplomacy. It appears that the chief actual motives of the Entente in the World War were the seizure of Constantinople and the Straits for Russia; not only the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, but the securing of the west bank of the Rhine, which would have involved the seizure of territory historically far longer connected with Germany than Alsace-Lorraine had ever been with France; the rewarding of Italian entry into the War by extensive territory grabbed away from Austria and the Jugo-Slavs; and the sequestering of the German imperial possessions, the acquisition of the German merchant marine and the destruction of the German navy in the interest of increasing the strength of the British Empire” (Barnes, pp. 691-692). The American share of the loot was seized German and Austrian investments in the US.
The secret British, Russian, and French aims of the war were hidden from the public, which was whipped up with fabricated propaganda to support a war whose outcomes were far different from the intentions of those who caused the war. People seem unable to learn from history. We are now witnessing the world again being led down the garden path by lies and propaganda, this time in behalf of American world hegemony.
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Ukraine, Russia, IMF Circle Jerk
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PCR links to a great article, quite long but fascinating well worth the read if you are interested in what is happening here and what the IMF is really up to
http://www.globalresearch.ca/regime-change-in-ukraine-and-the-imfs-bitter-economic-medicine/5374877
I'm a little more hopeful than PCR ... in that I see plenty of evidence that a substantial number of we "plebs" simply aren't buying into the MSM' lies.
Certainly, in the UK' Press Forums, there is very considerable support for Russia; and there is massive condemnation of "Western Liberal" policies and politicians.
I don't claim that this "awakening" will help us to avert war. But, it might make the outcome much less certain for our home-grown tyrants. Plenty of people want to see them hang. A conflict might provide some delicious opportunities.
IF any such conflict can be contained.
On the contrary.
No 'american' is fooled by 'americanism'. You cant bamboozle 'americans' when it comes to 'americans'.
'Americans' are able to see through the narrative but as usual, their attitude depends on the benefit they draw from the various 'american' moves.
'Americans' have been used to be handed stuff by their government and they have turned a blind eye to the methods as long as they receive their share.
That is the issue: despite enormous progression and land grabbing, some 'americans' no longer see the colour of the loot.
For example, (occurrence can be found on this site), 'americans' used to deny that 'america' went into Iraq for oil concerns because they did not see a drop in price at the pump.
The loot was there and they did not get their share. So 'americans' could not have gone in Iraq for oil or else, they would have gotten a piece, right?
Same is happening for Russia, 'americans' do not see the colour of the loot so they open their mouth. Not that they oppose the effort, they oppose not receiving the fruit of the effort.
The fact that Russia is peopled with indo europeans, christian makes things worse. For so long, 'americans' were so keen to believe that being on the wrong side of 'americanism' was a reserved fate for anyone but themselves.
But with a country like Russia falling down, they can less and less deny that the fate of the wrong side of the fence is going to affect a lot of 'americans'.
For the 'american' machine to keep working, part of the 'american' middle class must be sacrificed, there is no other way.
That is a good 'american' article.
Obama this, Obama that, the behaviour of 'America' is personified in one man when it is the result of the master class aka WeThePeople aka the 'american' people.
That is why putting more negroes in position of power is one way out as 'americans' are reluctant to see negroes performing 'american' politics.
Not that they question 'americanism', they cant. But they will question that a negro is the one carrying out the plan.
Obama is your typical 'american' president. He is the heir of every 'american' president before him and he is setting up the stage for his successor.
Obama is only pursuing the 'american' plan as it was set, centuries ago, on 1776, July, 4th.
'Americans' have always been bullies. It is not a behaviour dating back to the 21th century. This article sinks into the so needed fabled past.
'Americans' have always made a mockery of their own laws, 'americans' were those people who started by claiming unalienable human rights including freedom and owning human beings as slaves.
The fact is that 'americans' cant face what they are, so they invent. They like to depict themselves as respectful of their own rule of law when they have been the biggest breakers of it.
Problem for that 'american' propagandist author: if he accepts 'american' nature for what it is, he has no longer an article.
Can no longer wallow in the fabled past and must admit that 'americans' keep behaving the same way.
Can no longer introduce Obama as the root of it when the guy is trapped by the 'american' middle class: the guy can only do what the 'american' middle class want. Any president that go astray from the plan will be dealt with quickly and neatly.
This is an 'american' world and the path is 'american'.
Obama is a puppet. If we need an "on the ground report" from China, who merely sits back and lets the other two big kids on the playground duke it out....or roadside shitting, we will address you.
"Problem for that 'american' propagandist author: if he accepts 'american' nature for what it is, he has no longer an article."
This statement makes no sense. Calling him a propagandist is like calling your statement concise.
'Americans', 'americans'...
This 'american' author is a propagandist by all measures except 'american' measures.
This 'american' propagandist cant face the simple fact that 'americans' have a long history of disrespecting their own laws.
This propagandist feels the urge to paint that behaviour as being a novelty because otherwise, he wont have an article.
I've read through your comments and can't for the life of me figure out which author you are referring too? It would seem you agree with Roberts...so who?
The thought on China merely sitting back deserves a dedicated comment.
'American' nature always shine through. Funny.
So China should do something? China should meddle? But arent countries not supposed to avoid meddling into other countries' business? Is it not what 'americans' claim?
Must be too brutal a sight to face. A country behaving the way 'americans' claim a country should behave.
In the meantime, by 'american' terms, it is all up to WeThePeople to keep their own government in line. This is why 'americans' promote the ownership of guns.
So what is the US american middle class doing? They do not have enough guns or something?
Or that they are too busy shooting down negroes or sick older people?
Obama is indeed a puppet. A puppet to the will of his master, WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class.
China should do as they are doing. I think for foreign policy in this instance, they are doing as they should. How would they come out better by acting like Americans?
As for middle class folks taking up guns, that would be suicide. They would drone the fuck outta everyone and then send in the stormtroopers as we go full retard. Better to sit back and let the international community repudiate the dollar. They are helpless with no money. Drones do not fly, stormtroopers are sent home.....
I wish he was our puppet. His puppet masters are trillionaires.
The culture of death is so deep in 'americanism' that they keep wishing for war, war, war. They crave on war.
Yet again, when referring to 'americanism', what signs indicate war? None.
Everything indicates 'americans' are going to use their traditional ways to break down the russian society.
Ukraine is at the door, an angry and in pain Ukraine.
'Americans' are not able to render Ukraine rich, they can only apply 'american' economics which leads to concentration of wealth.
Much pain to come in Ukraine, it has already started with the IMF imposing drastic increases in prices.
Who is going to be blamed for that? Certainly not 'americans'. By being able to imagine a move other than the ones wanted by 'americans', Putin has selected his country as the perfect scapegoat.
Ukrainians are going to resent Russians for their incoming impoverishment.
Right at Russia's doors, a totally subjugated back door.
In the meantime, 'Americans' have kept ramping up production of various drugs in Afghanistan. It will keep going up. It wont take long to convince Afghans that exporting their drugs toward Russia leads to a booming market and a much satisfactory payback for the past.
'Americans' have a long history of using drugs to undermine a society.
Only one of the things that is going to happen to Russia following the sequences of bad moves by Putin.
Has anyone seen "Real" lately? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/the-sunday-morning-tune-up-march-30th-2014/
Dear author, your terminal hatred for America has been duly noted.
Not much more can be culled from this screed.
President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Cardoza Law Review, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.
Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.”
In 1987 the French government recognized him as “the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism” and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.
He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/about-paul-craig-roberts/
I would say he should be listened to as it pertains to this matter.
He used to be published with some regularity by mainstream outlets such as the WSJ and others. After he began speaking out against the Iraq war, they no longer published anything he wrote. Go figure.
actually, he used to be an Editor at The Wall Street Journal as well.
so yes, the guy is qualified and i'd say he's about 1000x sharper than Obama on matters of finance let alone diplomacy.
Beautifully said Dick Cheney.
Who, what really is a trusted resource for interpreting the events in the Ukraine? Each is selling their wares.
Obama has neoconservative speech writers? How did that happen? There is one problem with writers that toss around these kinds of uselessly vague labels. It shows the bias of the writer more clearly than it does give an indication of what the label means. Obama no more has neoconservative speech writers than he does members of CPAC as speechwriters. Why didnn't the writer label these speechwriters as neoliberal? Would not that be more apt? Even more so would be a phrase or description that predates even true neoconservatives. One World Government or New World Order. These are truly the modern day neoconservative and neoliberal types. They have been around for centuries. But the writer can use neoconservative so as not to point the finger of blame at his beloved liberal/socialist/communist ideals that he holds so dear. See, it's not Obama the liberal's fault...it's those evil, wily neoconservative speechwriters. I stopped readind this horsecrap when I reached that point of this article because I knew at that point it was futile to expect any kind of germane point to the thing.
"his beloved liberal/socialist/communist ideals"
PCR is none of these things. I am not sure we read the same article.
I did not need to read the article to get the meaning of the point. PCR seems to think that geopolitical events are being manipulated by neoconservatives to further American hegemony. It is like he stopped before the finish line. Any American hegemony is a means to further a one world government. Once in place a one world government will not allow America to keep anything gained by it's hegemony. A one world government is the desired outcome, not American hegemony.
I do not disagree. I guess it is a matter of labeling.
Thank you. I did not intend to impugn Paul Craig Roberts but the use of the term neoconservative. That term is is misleading and PCR and others would do better to accurately describe the behind the scenes players and call them what they truly are.
Iridium
Apparently, you did not read all Jerome's comment.
He stated he chose not to read the article, much less reply to any of the main points.
Instead, he chose to berate PCR for not adhering to the same political labels he professes to understand. However, his attempt to label PCR as a "liberal/socialist/communist" reveals the shallowness of his alleged insight.
Red-baiting and other such attempts to defame/digress should be seen for what they are.
It is not that I have trouble comprehending political labels. I see the use of neoconservative as a slight (and it is meant to be the way as it is used by PCR...it is a rare article written by him that does not contain the phrases neoconservatives and American Hegemony). A derisive, encompassing term meant to apply to Conservatives in general. Perhaps my description of PCR's true beliefs are wrong and if so I do apologize and my comment was not directed at PCR directly so much as it was to those in general that bandy this word about. PCR sees neoconservatives at every turn pulling the levers of government to attain American hegemony and it is this proposition that I find to be wrong. In the circumstances where American hegemony or the push for it does exist it does so only to further a one world government and not American hegemony in and of itself.
Criticizing the terminology used in an article you did not read hardly makes a convincing argument.
As for the distinctions between neoCon, neoLiib, NWO, and one world government being of such importance leading to such vehement disagreement, that seems to be exaggerated nitpicking.
The tendency toward sectarianism based on ideological fine points has been the bane of religion and politics. The unwillingness to accept that other similar positions may also be reasonable has spoiled many potential natural alliances and caused unnecessary strife and intolerance.
Is describing the actions of US led NATO in Iraq or Ukraine as striving for US hegemony instead of NWO so critical? Do they presently look much different? Can one be so absolutely certain that the future of one will look and develop so much different than the other? Do they not overlap?
Let us keep focused on the important points agreements, be less divisive, and show some tolerance, else we become as intolerant as the system we desire to change.
Yes, it is. Because it does not give the reader the whole picture. The end game is not American hegemony but to read the article that is the conclusion. Neither a world dominated by an American empire or a one world government led by a dictator is desirable but they are not one and the same nor would they be in practice if either came into being. It is not that I have intolerance for pointing out the hegemonist desires of certain actors as much as it is that one should come away with the view that hegemony is the end goal. The inference that all Obama's "handlers" or "neoconservative speechwriters" desire is American hegemony in certain parts of the world is not seeing the forest for the trees. It is a means to an end but not the actual desired end.
Or is 0bamao complicit? Is this what he meant when he told Medvedev he would have "more flexiblity" after his re-election? (Which looks like treason to me.)
He and Putin are both marxists, 0bamao has to be more stealth than Vlad. Putin seeks to dominate other nations, 0bamao seeks to dominate and control the citizens of America with his socialist agenda.
Wake up people!
Obama the Liberal? Obama the Conservative?
What a joke. Does ANYONE see a change in the trajectory of the policies from Bush the Younger to Obama?
It's NOT the individual, NOR what party they came from. There has been a consistent approach and implementation of a set of goals that have NOTHING to do with whatever stooge the masses are stampeded into to electing.
Who is driving that over arching framework and direction? Label them as you will. BUT they ARE evil. With No regard for the people's wishes nor welfare.
I totally agree! My problem with neoconservative as a label is that it leads one to believe that it is only Conservatives that desire a one world government. Why not call them what they truly are?
Neoconservative and conservative have nothing to do with each other. Don't let the similarity of the terms confuse you. A little wikipedia will clear this up.
Wikipedia as a resource is unreliable at best. I know the difference between the two words. It is the case that most who use the word neoconservative mean to use it interchangeably with conservative. How do you define neoconservative (without having to consult a reference resource) and what exactly is conservative about them?
None Dare call it Conspiracy!
http://www.google.com/search?q=none+dare+call+it+conspiracy&hl=en-US&sou...
The foreign policy of both parties has been dominated by neoconservative thought since the end of WWII.
The propaganda machine has been raging for years. What started as a whirl wind, large corporations serve the population better, and bribe countless small city officials with promises of huge tax monies in exchange for preferred treatment of many kinds including deferred taxation, free land, free sewer tx etc, developed to a dust devil, where all tax deferred monies 401k's must be invested in the stock market to keep it floating, and eventually a full grown f5 tornado, where the fed prints countless money simply to supply the wealthy with a stock market they can control the rest of us with. Derivatives upon derivatives upon derivatives, finally so much money has been printed there is no where else to go. Is it no suprise that geopolitical borders come into question, false flag events become reality and the world leaders find themselves caught in a deadly spiral of rapid escalation in order to control real earthly commodities when the whole thing comes crashing down? What is the ratio of death of the 1% to the 99% in an actual all out war? This is not going to end well, we have a generation now who has grown up and become our leaders thinking they are entitled without understanding fundamentally how government is supposed to work for the voters, not the elected few. Ultimately the ability to control the fed and thus the money supply while selling nothing but propaganda on the news outlets will make a small crack in our system of checks and balances that is suposed to be our government a fissure wide enought to drive necessary tanks and armored personel carriers through. Hell, most news outlets during the day are still talking about how great the recovery is going. Unbelievable.
So I did read the final paragraph to see what the point was and it is this in a nutshell...World War 3 will be started to further American hegemony. I like many of Mr. Roberts' articles as they can be insightful but his end point is misleading if not outright erroneous. World War 3 will not be fought to further American hegemony, it will be to bring us closer to, if not to attain once and for all, a one world government. It seems Mr. Roberts is unable to see the bigger picture. What all of these bankers, power elite and financiers desire is not American hegemony, they do not desire a world government styled after and administered by the United States. They do not want a one world American government. They want a one world government. America, if anything will be a means to that end but will not itself be the end. Any hegemony acquired by America will be necessarily temporary and ultimately utilized to bring about a one world government, which I can assure you will not be based upon representative republican ideals but will be a dictatorship.
But is it even possible for global elites to achieve that goal (a century old now for this crew) in the face of incredible decentralizing pressures? People underestimate the power communication transformations have in turning over previous power structures IMO.
When nobody has jobs or income, and everybody relies on the government for subsistence, because our careers have all been outsourced to poor countries or automated, then yes -- the elites will achieve exactly what they are after.
Your vote means nothing as long as you're biting down on the teat. And eventually, we will all be biting down on the teat, because the only alternative will be to starve.
Your interpretation of how things will roll out are actually not a contradiction of PCR's own opinions. There is merit in both viewpoints.
Whereas PCR describes Phase 1 (the creation of an American hegemonic global power structure), you go further by describing Phase 2 (a single NWO government) which is what follows after America has been used to clear the way by Phase 1.
Exactly. Phase 2 necessitates the removal of the results of phase 1.
Jerome Lester H... I'm thinking the US Deep State thinks as you suggest, "we'll be in charge" and perhaps some individuals who eliminate their competition will be (has that elimination process begun with Obama's changes within the military?), but powers-that-be farther up the line have other ideas.
What is happening in Ukraine and the unrest in many areas in the world brings into focus the many conflicts that develop when a region decides to change governments often outside the recognized democratic system of voting. In some cases even after an overwhelming vote such as in Crimea the whole process is called into question.
Unfortunately the American civil war did not resolve the issue of succession forever and definitely was not a template for a solution that should be used in countries across the planet. Bottom-line many in politics are slow to give up control and this will not change. For more on this important issue see the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-issue-of-sovereign-borders.html
What happened in the Ukraine was the Federal Reserve got the gold, and Russia got the country.
It's a done deal.
It's hard to argue with Dr. Roberts, other than to correct his usage of the term "NeoCon"....when it's obviously more apt to say NeoCom.
I think the founders of this country would have called them tyrants. Words have meaning. Neocommunist is more befitting than neoconservative. I know of no true conservatives that desire the same goals as the PNAC members.
or the NeObomb-a-Cons
"Does Obama realize that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and government officials?"
It may not matter now. Momentum (of thousands USFPE/EU/NATO/military bureaucrats) is building and it will soon be unstoppable even if the majority of people are opposed to it. Russians are being provoked and with only 145m people (vs NATO 800m or more and much bigger collective economy), they have only one defense.
Furthermore, the entire financial world is on the edge of a waterfall and when it cascades over, a lot of people are going be so bad off that they won't care if war occurs. A small 'incident' is all it may take. Unfortunately for all of us, that war may very end with the unthinkable.
People tend to gloss over the reality that just about all of these wars and the rest of the bs that goes on are perpetrated by irrelevant old men. Irrelevant in the respect that they are past the age of attracting females except by paying for the attention. They should be retired and sitting on a beach. Offer any young person great wealth but with the proviso that they would have to add 40 years to their lives and they would tell you to fuck off. No one wants to be that old and rightfully so. No one cares about these people, the cheneys etc. Old and irrelevant but they are deperately trying to convince the world that their faded lives have meaning. They don't. I am fast reaching that stage and I hope I have the intelligence to not make a fool of myself.
Eh, when you look at the women that surround these old men, that's not what you see at all.
Ugly old Rush Limbaugh marries a hot chick. Ugly old Soros marries a hot chick.
If one thing is true about the people that have the power to start wars, it is that they are rich. And rich men will always have beautiful women.
Your analysis fails. The desire for power is not a replacement or substitute for sex. It stands alone, it requires nothing else, and nothing else can replace it. It is an end, not a means (to sex or to anything else.) As O'Brien explained in 1984: "We are the priests of power..."
"except by paying for the attention".. yeh the rich old guys purchase the hot chicks. Younger, good looking guys don't need that kind of cash to get sex.
There are certain writers whose articles you don't even need to read. As soon as you see the name -- Bill Gertz, Paul Craig Roberts, Peter Schiff -- then you know the argument.
It's like the old joke about the lifers in a dungeon somewhere who tell each other jokes by calling out numbers:
Prisoner #1: "Number 75!"
Prisoner #2: "Hahahahaha!"
Anyone that claims that Putin's actions in Crimea are not irredentist is in complete denial.
Also, PCR's account of the start of WWI is extremely dubious, if not outright paranoid and conspirologist. What next, Bilderbergers, Jeckyll Island, alien abductions?
"Anyone that claims that Putin's actions in Crimea are not irredentist is in complete denial."
It is you who are in complete denial, stoppo. If the US foreign policy/NATO/EU establishment had not helped organize the 'protests' and driven Urkaine's legitimate President from the country, Crimea would still be part of Ukraine.
And there is plenty of evidence, of what the US foreign policy/NATO/EU was doing, in the form of released taped conversations of Assist Sec of State Victoria Nuland's discussions with her underling, and of the Estonian foreign ministers conversation with the EU foreign affairs minister, just to name two.
I said at the outset, knowing that the US funded the "spontaneous insurrection", that the BO/Putin dance was but street theatre. One part of it is that perhaps BO owed Putin for saving his behind in Syria as the US cannot afford to throw troops in there, politically or economically. BO is currently trying to expatiate himself with the Saudi's over his Shi'a-philic behaviour. The Crimea is vastly significant for its Black Sea ports for Russia and it dominated by Russian speaking and identifying people. What a mtually agreeable situation: exchange a western putsch in the Ukraine for the Crimea! It will make lots of news time that allow all players to ignore the dire problems on their respective domestic fronts as well as adopt their righteous indignation disguises... going into "full-tilt defender of the free"[sic] mode.
I find it to be entertaining street theatre as long as it stops there. But it might not as those who drive these countries, the MIB (military industrial banking) Mob are pursung this on a pure business dimension. "Sorry about the deaths, it is just business." Nothing new there for over 150 years as far as the US is concerned. The country was committed into that posture with the election of Lincoln, a Hamiltonian of great capacity to sacrifice others.
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
--60 Minutes (5/12/96)
"We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn't know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it... I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that." Col Kurtz, Apocolyse NowThe nation-state system will not survive the nuclear age. We will either have one-world government, or we will destroy ourselves.
For the life of me I can't understand why Americans oppose global government -- as if somehow they had rights or freedom or prosperity today. Far from it. We live in the most severely unequal nation on Earth, among the advanced nations. The globalists have already created the global economy which is the prerequisite toward monetary and political unification. You are already a commodity, and your economic worth will continue to plummet until it approaches zero.
Reading the comments all over the Internet, you'd think that American rightists consider tribalism to be preferable to political unification. Again, as if somehow you retain more control over your own life. That is an illusion. Get over it.
if there is a global village whats it going to look like? a tribal government is the opposite of centralized. a centralized economy won't work, its failing right now. you either have to put every american youth into hitler style indoctrination camps, or admit we are far too diverse, (mass media has a way of pulling us together, and all cultural forms start to blend together, but mass media is failing) all of recent presidents have been failures before they were elected, and bigger failures after they left. the globalists are singing their swan song. woody allen made a joke about it, as soon as i figure out the key, they change the locks. theres also a problem with being ahead of your time, but that was last generation. be ahead of your time, go retro. start your own tribal village
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Not one bitcoin piece on ZH all this week, gee I wonder why -lol
Hey phuckstar, bitcoin tumbling down...
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg10zig15-minztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv
IMO, the tell: http://www.voanews.com/content/un-general-assembly-declares-crimean-vote-to-join-russia-invalid/1880715.html .
"World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people."
They were arrainged and funded by the Rothschilds and their banking cabal. During the process, they managed to kill 10's of millions of white people.
the rise of human kind, from zero to 8 billion, occured despite war, famine, disease, genocide, fratricide, particide. infanticide. now that we are overpopulating the planet, and we all need a little elbow room, now suddenly life is precious.
People give Obama credit he does not deserve. He is no world shaker but only The current talking head. The ne0c0n$ are running the world show and we are just along for the ride.
It's 4:20 somewhere...
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Oh my god you people are geniuses. You're onto the fact that the US goverment is corrupt.
Anyone who thinks Obama has neo-conservative speech writers on his staff is a fool with zero credibility. I stopped reading this stupid article after your first sentence.
Paul Craig Roberts, right on many things, has lost it here. I live in Kiev. It was a popular uprising to unseat a duly-elected but criminal President. What happened in Crimea was indeed an invasion. By Russians without uniforms, but Russian nonetheless, and many of them. There has been no other explanation. The referendum, rushed through in two weeks with only two choices "Join Russia Now" and "Join Russia Later" was a total sham.
Mr. Roberts, you are an embarassment. Often right in the past, you have lost it. Ukraine is an independent nation, and deserves to be respected as such. It has been badly governed. It is unconsionable to assail them at this moment when they want to assert themselves. And no, the uprising was not the work of the US government. The US government is inept, as you have so often said. Whatever they may have wanted is irrelevant. Maidan was a people's movement.
You are right that the US should stay strictly out of it. Putin has overextended himself, and time will prove the fact. For the US to barge in with fancy weaponry would just get people hurt. It would thrill the neocons and the armaments industry, two outcomes to be avoided. Putin has bitten off more than he can chew,. Now all be quiet as he chokes to death.
If you elect crooks then you have to eat it until their term is over, even if the term is for life. The uprising was wrong.
"It was a popular uprising..."
Do you mean "popular" among those who took part?? Or "popular" in that it had 50% +1 support from the full Ukraine population??
If the first, I cannot disagree with you. If the second, I do not agree.
The revolution was "popular" among those who took part and/or by those in Western Ukraine (and of course the EU & USG who fuelled it).
Roberts is right that the US should stay out of it. Putin has overextended himself, and the situation will right itself in time. It will not help whatsoever if the US rushes in with arms. Somebody might get hurt.
Imagine an all USA planet. There would be no wars because there'd be nobody to fight. Except maybe drugs.
And the Game of Thrones continues.......
Obama, or more appropriately, TPTB don't have any other choice. We are in an incipient global socio-economic collapse scenario and they have pretty much fired all their economic arrows. Right now, the only way for them to stay in power is to seriously cow the sheeple...and cow the sheeple, they will. They will stop at nothing to maintain their hegemony. The fabric of their tapestry of lies is unraveling and soon, very soon, they will be left naked in the face of the truth.
Desperate people do desperate things. Tread carefully my friends and know (KNOW) just who you can trust. These are dangerous times.
Prepare as you see fit.
On war, it's always been with us. Many moons past, we used to whack each other over the head with sticks. Technology has brought us a long way. It's been 150 years since blood was spilled in our republic. We have collectively forgotten the horrors of war. I am getting old and I had hoped to die in peace. It's pretty damned annoying that I have to put up with this kind of flatulence in my later years.
Sigh, oh well,
Get your asses in gear and finalize your preps...