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Paul Craig Roberts On Delusional America
Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts,
Robert Parry is one of my favorite columnists. He is truthful, has a sense of justice, and delivers a firm punch. He used to be a “mainstream journalist,” like me, but we were too truthful for them. They kicked us out.
I can’t say Parry has always been one of my favorite journalists. During the 1980s he spent a lot of time on Reagan’s case. Having been on corporate boards, I know that CEOs seldom know everything that is going on in the company. There are just too many people and too many programs representing too many agendas. For presidents of countries with governments as large as the US government, there is far more going on than a president has time to learn about even if he could get accurate information.
In my day Assistant Secretaries and chiefs of staff were the most important people, because they controlled the flow of information. Presidents have to focus on fund raising for their reelection and for their party. More time and energy is used up with formalities and meetings with dignitaries and media events. At the most there are two or three issues on which a president can attempt leadership. If an organized clique such as the neoconservatives get into varied positions of authority, they can actually “create the reality” and take the government away from the president.
As I have reported on many occasions, my experience with Reagan left me with the conclusion that he was interested in two big issues. He wanted to stop the stagflation for which only the supply-side economists had a solution, and he wanted to end, not win, the cold war.
Both of these agendas put Reagan at odds with two of the most powerful of the private interest groups: Wall Street and the military/security complex.
Wall Street for the most part opposed Reagan’s economic program. They opposed it because they understood it as Keynesian deficit pump-priming that would cause an already high inflation rate to explode, which would drive down bond and stock prices.
The CIA and the military opposed any ending of the Cold War because of the obvious impact on their power and budget.
Left-wing journalists never picked up on this, and neither did right-wing journalists.
The left could not get beyond Reagan’s rhetoric. For the left, Reagan was trickle-down economics, Iran/Contra, and the fired air traffic controllers.
The right-wing liked Reagan’s rhetoric and blamed him for not delivering on it.
For the left, the Reagan years were a traumatic time. Robert Parry has never recovered from them. He can scarcely write a column about events today, which are horrific in comparison, without dragging Reagan into it. Parry doesn’t realize it, but if it is all Reagan’s fault, little wonder it has been impossible to hold Clinton, Bush 1 and 2, and Obama accountable.
Having written these lines, I already detect the denunciations coming my way for again attempting to “rehabilitate Ronald Ray-Gun.” Reagan does not need rehabilitating. This column is not about Reagan, and it is not a criticism of Parry. It is praise for Parry’s column, “‘Group-thinking’ the World into a New War.” Read it.
The pattern since Milosevic (and before) has been to demonize a foreign head of state and to take the US to war to get rid of him. That way the secret agenda is achieved under the cover of the necessity of deposing a bad or dangerous ruler.
Parry describes this well. Group-Think plays the important role of preventing any dissent, any suspicion of the case against the demonized person, and any examination of the real agenda that is being pursued.
Now it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who is being demonized. As Parry and I and Stephen F. Cohen, the most knowledgeable of the Russian experts, appreciate, Putin is not Saddam Hussein and Russia is not Iraq, Libya, Syria, Serbia, or Iran. To foment conflict with Russia that could lead to war is worse than irresponsible. Yet, as Parry writes, “from the start of the Ukraine crisis in fall 2013, the New York Times, the Washington Post and virtually every mainstream U.S. news outlet have behaved as dishonestly as they did during the run-up to war with Iraq.”
When Professor Cohen pointed out, correctly, that the lies about Russia, Ukraine, and Putin were hot and heavy, the propagandists had to get rid of the man with the facts. The New Republic, a hang-out for low IQ fools, called America’s leading Russian expert “Putin’s American toady.”
From Parry’s reporting, it appears that Group-Think has spread from the media and foreign policy community into the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, which has decided that academic careers require adherence to the government’s propaganda line, which means the neoconservatives’ line.
As I have written on a number of occasions, facts no longer play a role in American political life. Fact-based analysis is also disappearing from academic life and no longer plays a role in official economic reporting. A matrix has been created, an artificial reality that channels the energies and resources of the country into secret agendas that serve the interests of the ruling private interest groups and neoconservative ideology.
The United States government and the American people cannot contend with reality, because they do not know what the reality is.
In America’s make-believe world, neoconservative toadies such as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, set the Group-Think tone, while knowledgeable experts such as Stephen Cohen are tuned out.
In effect, America is both blind and deaf. It lives in delusions. Consequently, it will destroy itself and perhaps the world.
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We need the RESET
Everyday without a reset puts me above that many more people. With the sheep blind, deff and dumb, the future looks amazing.
"...the future looks amazing."
True, until you realize that the unprepared masses will be angry, hungry, armed, and hanging out in front of the place that they heard has food.
Ain't it absolutely amazing, how neo-conservatives like Tommy Friedman are darlings of the very left whose "principles" were once ever so diametrically opposed to the very same policies.
This article says the whole problem is the neocons ...... riiiight .....
Doesn't the author know that neocons are just Republican Progressives.
Future Jim, you may be right about that.
BigJim has posted some links about that previously here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-31/socialist-exceptionalism
Socialist Exceptionalism
American Progressive Manifesto
(that I commented upon there.)
However, I would also suggest that the neocons are mostly Zionists. Some of the most influential are literally dual citizens of Israel and America. The social facts are the social facts. Self-defined "Jews" are only about 2% of the population, but are very frequent in the highest levels of money and media, etc., and overall disproportionately dominated the funding of the political processes, which had the most leverage over everything else that happened.
That being said, I must agree with Roberts that it also seems to me that the psychotic breakdown of American society can not be prevented, because that society is already terminally sick and insane. In particular, its monetary systems have become totally metastasized cancers, or parasites that are killing their host, as recently explained here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-01/nomi-prins-sinister-evolution-our-modern-banking-system
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mcPcBI8pNoM
Nomi Prins: The Sinister Evolution Of Our Modern Banking System
The reasonable conclusion indicated at around the 48 minute mark of that audio recording is that there is NO practical political way to break the "alliances" in government of the money, for the money, by the money!
Rather, as Nomi Prins stated at the 48:12 mark: "... the system will continue to implode at more chaotic, deeper levels, onto the rest of the global population, increasingly so going forward ..."
The problems are so profound and pervasive that there appear to be no practical political solutions. There is almost nothing but ORGANIZED CRIME & CONTROLLED OPPOSITION. Most Americans have been brainwashed to believe in bullshit for generation after generation, after generation, to the degree that they would suffer severe cognitive dissonance to even get close to recognizing the degree to which they were brainwashed to believe in bullshit. It would take prodigious amount of miraculous social psychiatry to heal the soul of enough Americans, to prevent the current runaway systems from developing into some extremely dangerous states of Peak Insanities, due to MAD Money As Debt, backed by MAD Mutual Assured Destruction.
America led the world in developing globalized electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs. Those kinds of MADNESS are automatically getting worse every day ... Most Americans believe in the psychotic bullshit of bullies to the degree that they can barely even begin to think about how psychotic that MADNESS has become, which is manifesting as a Bizarro Mirror World, or Wonderland Matrix, where almost everything that one examines is revealed to be backward and absurd.
I like to indulge in political science fiction and fantasy, based on irrational hopes, and transcendental hope, that a technologically advanced civilization may be able to politically advance too ... However, so far, there are no good grounds to believe that is possible. Rather, it is practically impossible to have any rational public debates, because the dominate natural languages, as well as the dominate philosophy of science, almost all operated inside the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories for so long that we are stuck deep in ruts, inside other deep ruts, while those ruts are mostly still getting deeper and DEEPER!
The government of the USA has become the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, all of which is based on integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, wherein those who benefited from being able to do that in the past now have overwhelming advantages to continue to do that within the established systems, especially since there is almost no publicly significant opposition that they do not also control. There are pretty well no significant, successful politicians that are not puppets, performing for muppets, on the stage set by the mass media.
This is all just worthless mental masturbation at this point.
Cause it all ends soon with a lot of blinding flashes no matter what now.
Yeah, Headbanger, that is certainly the way it looks now! Learning enough about the diseases amounts to a diagnosis of terminal illness. One has a label to put on the problem, but that does not make any difference. Although I like to try to understand things, just for sake of doing that, political problems that are the equivalent of terminal illnesses do NOT get better merely because one can label what is going wrong.
Theoretically, understanding problems is necessary to perhaps resolving them. However, figuring out the the world is controlled by runaway systems of lies backed by violence does not provide any solutions, since those systems do not care about anything except being able to back up bigger lies with more violence. Given that more rational evidence and logical arguments will certainly continue to be deliberately ignored by the established systems based on enforcing frauds, one has only two choices: watch and wait while things get worse, or also indulge in some violence that will make things get worse even faster.
It is amazing. To them bush was a war criminal for doing mostly the same type of shit. But they are perfectly ok with is as long as it's Obama. In many ways Obama is the gift that keeps on giving to the MIC and the neocons. He keeps up the same policies of bush, but since it's Obama doing it, they don't have to worry about the anti war left making too much of a stink. We libertarians might still complain, but no one listens to us anyway.
the Scam of the Duopoly in action!
And the blindness and worship to each individual party even though the results are the same is sickening.... and proof Americans are either Beyong Stupid or simply Do Not Care -
or as PCR calls them - insociant.
the scam of the duopoly! and we keep voting for either of the 2 100% captured oligarch partys - unbelievable to me - but It is what it is!
they are who we thought they are! (sorry for the football quote)
The anti-war left seems to pop in and out of existence depending on who's in the White House.
The problem is the anti-war left keeps getting co-opted by the Democratic Party. In 1968, at the DNC in Chicago, it was the Democrats who sicced the cops on anti-war protesters, let's not forget. Ever since then, Democrats and Republicans have competed only in terms of which corporate agenda to propagate. Democrats pander to the Left, and always ultimately betray the Left. I was never fooled by Obama; he's never been Left. Even in his early days in the Illinois legislature he was a creature of the Finance industry. But it's hard to go through political life without ever having a representative get into power, so the Left wants to believe and supports those who pander to them. Ultimately, every single time, they are betrayed because if we had parties organized on ideological principles, we would live in a one-party state. Only the verbiage is different, and that depends on which constituency they want to pander to today. Change the labels on the policies, and it would be impossible to tell which party had endorsed what over the past 40 years.
Around here, that means you're gonna have to defend yourself with deadly force, thanks to off-shoring of so many jobs. Had 2 punks try to break into my house a few years ago. They didn't live in the neighborhood. They cam from 10 miles away, in another county. The next door neighbors have been burglarized. When I moved here, in the 80's, I didn't even lock my doors at night. (Now, I have deadbolts & door props.) People were busy working back then. The reset is occurring, in slow motion. It's becoming 3rd world. When I tell people this, they don't seem to comprehend it.
Most of the people who post here likely get it. All one needs to do is to tour a rotting decaying city. San Bernarghetto is one of my favorites. If you were ever unclear on the topic of the US ghettoization, such a trip will clear it up for most!
Hopefully Deer Park is still ok.
Amen Torpedo I moved into SB county in 1999 and saw it slide year after year. I hated to pull jury duty and go into it to get docs after my wife passed away. Sooo glad to get out and never go back. It's a classic case of default.
I went to WalMart today instead of the zoo. I was one of two non-diverse, non-retarded looking people there. My teeth were straight [and all there], I had a full set of clothes on and no pimples and weighed less then 280 pounds. The check-out lady was shocked when I paid with a credit card instead of an EBT thingy.
People there were cruising in bare feet ... one walking in his PJs ... and so on.
Was our nation always this screwed up or was I simply missing out on this circus?
Parts of it were always screwed up. But we used to shun those parts and hold them up as examples of how not to live your life. Now we glorify them, talk of their "noble struggle" and feel better about ourselves by giving them things they will quickly use up and be in need of again the very next day.
Give a man a fish and you've bought his vote for a day. Teach a man to fish and you can topple governments.
Read: Understanding psychopaths
These are the main characteristics to be on the lookout for:
Callous lack of empathy
'Teach a man to fish and you can topple governments"
Never heard that before. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. But the problem here is that most people do not want to learn how to fish. They want a fish put on their plate, and don't care where it comes from, or who had to go fishing to put that fish on their plate. That's a lot harder to fix.
and then they want to post on ZH. Maybe about how everyone at walmart is 280 lbs and toothless.
I see lexus's outside walmart and only half the customers fit the profile.
I guess ignorance is bliss. Until it isn't. Even among ZH'ers.
Teach a man to use the internet and read ZH and he won't bother you for weeks.
Excellent post NoDebt. What was once considered immoral or insanity is now welcomed with "tolerance" and paid for with stolen money from American workers.
Hown about a Carney runway. Step right upthere litte lady-- Milestones
847328_3527
Where you been man? Sounds like you just returned from a long space trip.
Here, this should get you up to date.
http://vimeo.com/44583147
Then why do you go? You must qualify to shop at whole foods or macys or worth ave. tiffany etc.
So why are you even shoping at walmart. Cunt. I was also at walmart today but I'm not a studpid whining cunt like you.
I bought a bunch of canned food to add to my survival pantry. All of us aren't as priveledged as you but in the end you will be the one sucking shit.
And here I thought morbid obesity was indicative of privilege...
What were you expecting at WalMart, 847328_3527? Moreover, why did you not go to the Zoo instead? Did you really need to go to WalMart or were you looking for communion with your fellow Americans? Frankly,
WalMart is over-priced in CANADA and I avoid it unless I need new jeans or a cheap can of paint. WalMart is just punishment for being alive
IMHO.
Walmart, at lest where I live, is one of the few places that still charges the 'old' prices for ammo. That alone makes it worth the trip.
Govt fucks us for decades, actually a century now, and people blame walmart; a 40 year old company.
Enjoy the ride down, folks.
What you saw it WalMart was typical and has been for years. Take a look at peopleofwalmart.com sometime.
My friends look at me with a sad, sympathetic look. Then they look at each other and roll their eyes at the poor tortured soul that has drifted away from reality. I try my best to tell them, but I have about 30 seconds before they change the subject to something else. I am Captain Buzzkill to them.
They are really worried about me, my wife tells me about the questions they ask her about my preparations. The recovery is real to them.
True daveO--tool and die, most consumer goods and housewares, toys, furniture, textiles, shoes, electronics and computers, machine tools, auto components, now even agricultural and machined products--all outsourced along with IT. The men who built America have destroyed it for quick gains. You're left with 3 choices: stay here and die when the government checks stop coming, revolt, or leave.
"They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces."
Richard Wright, Native Son
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq-bcFOI56E
-Tyler Durden
When people start to lose their ass they get scared, mad and speak out. In 2008 I remember a lot of fingers being pointed in the right direction. And then came the rally, and the rally, and the rally. 6 years later and here we are. When shit does hit the fan, the fun starts. And I say fun because I like the truth being exposed.
meh
We have to understand that psychopaths will never allow the truth to get in the way of their agenda.
The US has unfortunately become largely parasitic and as a result it is forver looking for new hosts into which to embed itself.
In the meantime group think and herd mentaility will be the way things are directed.
The Government of America is not America.......
Perhaps but the sheeple at some point need to take responsibility or take action.
They will, but not until enough of them start dying. I hate to say it but it's true. Five decades of propaganda from media and state-run education have left us comfortably numb. Even now, most people I know assume that "it" (war or famine or disease or starvation or destitution) can happen everywhere else in the world except "here". And they have yet to notice that our "enemies" list has lately grown to include a good 3/4 of the world.
By then it will be too late, unless you have the resources to distance yourself from the madness... Like a nice villa in New Zealand...
C'mon , what have we done to deserve this shit?
As Eastwood says at the end of the movie Unforgiven, "deserve's got nothing to do with it!"
Actually when you think about it ,NZ would be a really dumb place to try and hole up.
The first thing is that a Yank is going to stick out like dog's ball: I mean every farmer here knows everything about his neighbour.
And you all are going to know where they are so picking them off one at a time would be like picking apples : just roll in on a tourist visa and set up camp.
Nah I don't believe that they would be so stupid as to come here if they are targets:the place is too small.
They are intentionally and strategically misled. When they really start to suffer they will.
Americans are the last armed citizenry standing in the way of a global police state. Once you understand that, everything else makes sense. The citizens of other countries have already been neutralized - relative to America. Not only have other peoples been disarmed, but they are addicted to government. Socialism is a creation of the globalists - not the people. Regardless of whether the American people actually are an effective deterrent, what matters is that the globalists have become very worried about them.
Arms alone don't make the difference. The general public in this country is severely lacking in both balls and heart. I have seen unarmed people change their societies because they had plenty of both guts and determination. We have a fat, stupid, and generally apathetic population, their guns don't mean fuck, and the powers that be know it and are banking on the inaction.
and in the last hundred years, those people you talk about, were probably trying to inflict leftwing nonsense upon the rest of us. They succeded because they were useful idiots acting as tools for "the man" eg. "whitey".
When they have served their purpose, they will no longer have influence; and the govt will no longer tolerate dissent.
Think ghandi marching against hitler. Martin luther "the king", marching against mao.
And then think of colonial rabble in 1775 New England...
Who had the bigger, long term influence?
"Americans are the last armed citizenry standing in the way of a global police state. Once you understand that, everything else makes sense. The citizens of other countries have already been neutralized - relative to America. "
Interpol has just set up shop on a big piece of prime land in Singapore, across the US embassy. There are surveillance cameras everywhere. On the roads "speed cameras", At the lift lobbies of public flats "residents' security", and just in, on the nice warm bodies of the police officers. The sale of alcohol after 2230 hrs has also just been banned. The probability of getting bankrupt from insulting the dear Leeder is, by historical induction, 100%.
Welcome to 1984 in Singapore.
Tell that to Leon Klinghoffer, or any number of the headless corpses rolling around Syria/Iraq right now.
Sometimes the other guy doesn't care whether whether you actually voted for the guy he actually has a beef with.
Did anyone else catch the segment with Dennis Kucinich who appeared on Justice with Judge Jeanine last night?
In summary, new (validated) pentagon tapes have surfaced about the fall of Libya and the role of the state dept (i.e. Hillary) fabricating a false narrative that there was a genocide taking lace within Libya as an excuse for US intervention. Gaddafi and his son were in direct contact with Kucinich's staff and contradicts the state dept story line.
Hillary Clinton’s ‘WMD’ moment: U.S. intelligence saw false narrative in Libya
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/29/hillary-clinton-libya-wa...
Yup. Roberts once again knocks it off the park.
When you read a former President's cabinet member writing things like that... it goes a long way to helping me not feel like a madman for thinking the things I do. Sometimes when you're surrounded by zombies, you start thinking of yourself as the crazy one.
Just got back from watching the game. Short answer, people have bought the propaganda -- it's all Putin's fault, he wants to rebuild the Russian empire. That I pointed out, and it was agreed, that the WEST has NATO bases right up to Russia's border didn't matter. There is no hope till it blows which is sad and weirdly liberating. Fuck it. PCR, et al, are right and right don't matter.
Most believe the Soviets precipitated the "Cuba Missile Crisis" and that Kennedy "saved us" . . . when it was the US-backed attack on Cuba that made them need protection via the Soviets, who themselves were facing US missiles placed in Turkey and Italy.
Deceitful malevolence goes down the American public's gullet quite smoothly. We seem to be abject connoisseurs.
Now it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who is being demonized
Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.
The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer.
What is the Russian president to make of the use of this sort of language in the most influential newsmagazines? He is on the receiving end of the same campaign of vilification that was previously directed against Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Putin certainly knows the outcome of these propaganda campaigns. Serbia was bombed into political submission and Milosevic was carted off to The Hague, where he died, mysteriously, in prison. Iraq was invaded and Hussein executed. Libya was also invaded, and Gaddafi—much to the amusement of Hillary Clinton—was savagely tortured and lynched. As for Assad, the United States has directed a bloody insurgency that has resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 Syrians.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director
"The CIA has scripted them all."
Queue the chortle...
So what proof do you have that the CIA scripted them all?
History.
Yep...which is typically inadmissible in a court of law...next.
fuck you bangalore bitch. Court of law in a lawless society? fuck you
One day soon we will show your people a "court of law".
Tradition!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
One might suspect also the Zionists who've long insinuated themselves in State and Defense and who surround the president. Sad to say, recent presidents (who've known nothing of foreign policy or economic policy) have looked to these dual-allegiance types for advice.
I am not offended by your thoughtful comment Bangalore Torpedo.
"The CIA has scripted them all."
Queue the chortle...
So what proof do you have that the CIA scripted them all?
here http://www.zerohedge.com/users/bangalore-torpedo
What offends me is that my tax dollars are being spent for your salary, and that you assume Hedgers are ignorant enough to be persuaded by your comments, led by a government so ignorant that it would not pee on itself if its pant were on fire. The ignorance I speak of is reflected in your obvious comment and attempt to assume that your 11 week experience here at ZH, makes you qualified to sway readers who have seen through the viel for years and decades.
The CIA and NATO want a "limited" nuclear battle so bad they can taste it. The madmen and war criminals in those organisations had better be taken down soon. The world is already irrevocably damaged by them. Diebold may well "elect" another member of the Bush crime family to highest office at the rate we are going.
May the gods bless PCR for his fine contribution to our understanding.
But I am not yet convinced that US foreign policy craziness is CIA inspired.
I still strongly suspect Jews, who control the MSM and the big banks and who have inordinate influence on presidential administrations.
It might turn out that CIA is only place in government where one can still find true patriots who give a shit about the USA and who are not entangled in a quest to ensure the security of Israel and world Jewry.
In November 1942, Rabbi Weismandel negotiated a deal with the Nazi government to have all the Jews in Western Europe and the Balkans released out of Germany for a mere 2 million dollars. Weismandel sent a courier to the Rothschild-led World Zionist Organization in Switzerland. The request was refused with a message for him... "If we do not sacrifice any blood, by what right shall we merit coming before the bargaining table when they divide nations and lands at the war's end? ....for only with blood shall we get the land."
From 1933 to 1935, the World Zionist Organization turned down two-thirds of all the German Jews who applied for immigration certificates. As late as 1943, while countless Jews in Europe were dying, the U.S. Congress proposed to set up a commission to "study" the problem. Rabbi Stephen Wise, who was the principal American spokesperson for Zionism, came to Washington to testify against the rescue bill because it would divert attention from the colonization of Palestine.
From the perspective of genuine history, there's no paradox in seeing Israel emulating the Nazis in waging a genocidal war against the 4 million Palestinians imprisoned in the concentration camp Israel has created in Gaza. Nor is it surprising to see the extreme racial prejudice of the Israelis being brainwashed into thinking themselves the 'chosen people' while looking upon the Palestinians as worthless humanity. In the case of Nazism and Zionism, as one philosopher put it, "the poison and the antidote were brewed in the same vat."
It should come as no surprise that Baron Rothschild is commemorated in Israel as 'The Father of the Settlement' nor that the motto of the Israeli Mossad reads "By way of deception, thou shalt do war." The fractional-reserve central-banking system, the war on terrorism and Israel are all reflective of a war by way of deception - a war on humanity itself.
- http://www.darkmoon.me/2013/top-israeli-scientist-says-ashkenazi-jews-ca...
Not even comparable to what NewsWeek is dishing out....
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-its-time-regime-change-303399
Bunch of fascist Nazi's.
that was pretty clumsy Orwellization {in the article}
I don't think the author needs to be taken seriously
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_J._Motyl
Newsweek is clearly trying to curry favor with [insert favorite name of global banking/warmongering conspiracy, as you like it]
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/newsweek-jim-impoco...
Even if The Atlantic Council has to be - not so much because of their collective intelligence, which is modest, but because it contains the purest distillation of NATO [Anglo-American] propaganda.
Huntsman dropped out of high school to play in a rock band... to play keyboards.... could you take anything such a man would say at all seriously?
Compare the MSM demonization of Putin to coverage of our own dear leader. I can take you to 95% of the people who frequent my business who think the magic negro is systematically destroying the middle class, enriching the banksters, fomenting racial strife and acting as a dictator. Never a single peep in the MSM from main street unless it's flattering drooling leg tingling bullshit regarding our own leadership. TPTB own the media and tell you what, when and how to think and the low info sheeple swallow the jizm everytime.
Country deserves whatever bad happens to it. See ya on the other side
I usually put CNN on in the background as I get ready to leave the house to see what worthless bullshit the herd is currently grazing on. Absolutely disgusting brown nose MSM interview this morning with the idiot in chief by Fareed what's his name in which, among other delusional fantasies, the great BS'er declared his legacy will be having saved the economy. Listening to the forked tongue devil almost made me puke.
Carl Bernstein extensively documented CIA control of the media back in 1971 . . .
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
Quite correct, Bob. There is an abundance of well-documented material, which can prove those points to anyone who bothers to investigate. The problem is that most people have been conditioned to not want to do so!
From a sublime point of view, with a macabre sense of humour, it is amusingly ironic that the phrase "conspiracy theory" was popularized by the mass media because the CIA instructed their media assets to do so, after the Presiden Kennedy assassination:
http://www.thrivemovement.com/news-flash-cia-invents-conspiracy-theory.blog
Embedded inside that article is a link to a copy of the declassified document about how the "conspiracy theory" meme was promoted by the government through mass media.
http://www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html
CIA Document #1035-960
RE: Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report
"... 3. Action. ... b. To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passing to assets."
UNITARY MECHANISMS:
The whole of human history has been one vast conspiracy of backing up lies with violence, which has become more sophisticated as systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. There is actually nothing which operates outside of human realities being entropic pumps of energy, which is deliberately misunderstood in backward ways by the biggest bullies' bullshit world view. There is nothing else which exists but the dynamic equilibria of systems of more or less organized lies operating robberies. There is nothing else than human societies operating according to the principles and methods of organized crimes, in which situation there is maintained the illusions of controlled opposition.
Governments are forms of organized crime, while organized crimes are forms of government. Governments basically evolved from military organizations, which was organized crime on a large scale. Citizens are members of an organized crime gang, called their country. There is nothing wrong with the theory of a democratic republic operating through the rule of law. However, the vast majority of American citizens have been reduced to being Zombie Sheeple, who act like incompetent political idiots, that are being fleeced to exhaustion, while being set up to be slaughtered. Of course, most of those who read Zero Hedge already know that, but they can not do anything effective to prevent that from automatically getting worse, faster, because most Americans are victims of the best brainwashing that money could buy, going on and on, for generation after generation!
Definitely not one of PCR's more racier articles. Maybe one about terrorist hoaxes, 9-11 trutherism, or the CIA in Ukraine might be a touch funner next time. I give him this though:
1) The American people are indeed more delusion than most, but I chock 99% of that up to pure ignorance and
2) His "facts no longer play a role" rant, above, is also spot on, especially with the vast majority of his articles, where opinion is the order of the day!
Life can be disappointing can't it?
Sorta like that time you were at 0-0 and I clicked red thinking I could be FIRST! only to find I was 9th.
<<In effect, America is both blind and deaf. It lives in delusions. Consequently, it will destroy itself and perhaps the world.>>
The AngloZionist empire is a huge, shambling, dying zombie. As it goes down the challenge for the rest of us in the world, including us peasants, is to try to stay clear of its flailing limbs. I hope the SCO puts us out of this misery soon. I know the sane side of the world has to tread carefully, since the western madmen have access to nukes. The AngloZios will blow us all to smithereens if they see that they have lost while they still have that access. But I hope it ends soon. This hypervigilant lifestyle, that the rest of us have to get used to, is becoming excruciating. We cannot start businesses, go to a job, watch the media, or even carry on commerce without supporting the deathstar. In the meantime we have a choice between destitution and slavery, or a lifestyle of voluntary poverty. And we can try to get used to an unnatural life of constant watching over our shoulder, avoiding the government, and waiting for this shambling thing to fall over at long last, knowing that when it does go down it will fall right on top of some of us. (Keep voting, sheeple, and teach your children how lucky they are to live in this new world order prison. That's for the dwindling number of you who even have kids to raise anymore.)
++Renfield,
Logged in to upvote that pithy nugget of zeitgeistiness...
The average American has little or no ability to use discernment about anything. They are totally dependent on the black box or i-gadget to tell them what is going on.
The really telling and very sad fact is, most don't even care what the truth is...those who frequent these pages are well aware of who they are. Friends, co-workers, relatives and perfect strangers, who are totally oblivious to the delusional illusion.
Good point. Look who the Dems will run for next president. It will either be Elizabeth Warren or Hillary Clinton. Either will serve their masters well. The sheeple read Warren's books, where she sympathizes with the regular, hard working American, so the voters point to this and say she cares. In the meantime, she was the one in charge running TARP, essentially. And TARP was the largest government backed looting of the American people in history. Most Americans don't understand TARP, or what it really entailed. The spin they got was the government "saved the banks". So there you have it. Hopelessly uninformed people, lining up for the next round of "takeaway while we say we give" politicians. The constitution will not be safe from either of those candidates. As far as the Republicans go, give me the names and I'll probably be able to tell you a similar sad story.
get em!
PCR is my favorite GET OFF MY LAWN writer!
and by "lawn" I don't mean, lawn.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it. What do you mean?
Interesting Mr. Roberts. It is a shame we did not have a view point like this back in the 1980's to make sense of what was going on with the Federal Government.
<<It is a shame we did not have a view point like this back in the 1980s>>
heh I saw what you did there...
In effect, America is both blind and deaf. It lives in delusions. Consequently, it will destroy itself and perhaps the world.
There are two facets of the usa.
The maggot-facet is made up of meglomaniacs who are ate up with delusions of grandeur and the smell of their own farts. They are served by the toadys. They do what they want and yes they will eventually kill us all either through arrogant miscalculation or deliberately.
The other facet apparently enjoys being ignorant so trying to educate them is pointless. Even if you could enlighten them and win them over to sanity and morality they are mostly powerless to stop the maggots.
They raised me to be evil. You know, that old chestnut. [/Dr. Evil]
Does this fart make my butt sound/smell big?
That makes me divergent and facetless.
seattle 24 ne 14......4th quarter..........inside the matrix
Rats, I was hoping for the day to pass without any idea how that lame exhibition was going.
Thomas Friedman, "neo-conservative"??
I think maybe neoliberal is a more accurate term - like Bush, like Clinton, like Bush, like Obama, like...
The term neoconservative, and more wholey those who are labeled as such, are an insult to conservatives.
I think maybe Dr. Robert's point is that, at their dark core, there's no difference between these fucking weasels.
Fear sells.
...is Netanyahu being as bad as Putin?...because he is being demonized lately the same?...Are we prepared to export our Freedom, Democracy and the way of life to a country such as the State of Israel, the way we did in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and are trying now our best in Syria?
We need to shame the idiots.
Paul does this well.
The fact is that the American people have no say at all how this Country is being run. We're just along for the ride to the end of this train wreck.
I have tremendous respect for Paul Craig Roberts, but I fear that he gets lost in the obfuscations of politicans and fails to see the wizard behind the curtain: the banks.
There can be no wars without deficit financing, and there can be no deficit financing without the banks, the only entities currently empowered to create money out of thin air.
The entire reason that the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 was to ensure that the bankers could never be dethroned from power. In addition, the Federal Reserve Act gave the bankers a way to do insider trading without consequences. For if a banker sits on the board of the Fed, that banker knows what the interest rate decisions and market interventions will be before anyone else.
Politicians are simply tools for the banks...nothing more.
So, let us not get lost in the confusion of political party affiliations, foreign policy, or domestic policy.
Oh, no. He gets it. You need to search through a lot of his youtube videos until you hit the ones where he deals with banks and money.
The ultimate delusion is that you're the world's messiah.
or supposed to hasten his arrival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4OXmO3T2vc
To rule the nations from a Golden Temple in Jerusalem...where he will, presumably, sit like an effendi and eat...
Just like Richard Fuld thought he could hold out for one more trading day so too does the USA hold out for another trading day, but those trading days were numbered when Bear Stearns was taken down via a bear raid. From that point on everyone knew what Investment Banks were going to go down and they knew the order of default as well.
Fuld was delusional and thought that Lehman Bros. could not be brought down. The United States of America uses all forms of psychological defense to pretend it is still viable when all thoughful business persons throughout the World know that it is not a viable
country, republic, corporation, or governance. The USA is presently
directionless and in a state of Anomie or normlessness. Denial of reality is self protective in many respects, but to deny the deficit
numbers is pure unadulterated lunacy at best. The FED Reserve
must be scrapped entirely, and the Israel lobby of Washington needs to be scrapped as well. No American taxpayer dollars should be going to Israel whatsoever. All offshore Petrodollars should be confiscated or taxed on amnesty provisions legislated ASAP. Much needs to be done with regard to governance by the people and for the people. Currently, the orthodoxy is only catering to the monied classless kleptocrats in the 1% and the oligarch agendas between left/right wing ideologues like Koch Bros. n' Soros. The Government of the USA needs to go back to the Constitutional requirement to govern for the people and not just the enfranchised classless kleptocratic 1%. In brief, America needs a rebuild from the ground up to restore the tenor of the founding fathers and the American Constitution.
A matrix has been created, an artificial reality that channels the energies and resources of the country into secret agendas
Hitting pretty close to home there dude.
It's hilarious to call Thomas Friedman a neocon. Although he's most definitely a toadie.
The whole decay got started when Washington was left to be the sole superpower. Future historians will likely tell us that right after the cold war, Washington started too many unnecessary wars that bled both American blood and treasure, that have been way more expensive than all milirary spendings (include hugely expensive Vietnam War) in the cold war era combined in the real terms.
While China has successfully built a world-class modernized economy out of poverty induced by Washington-led economic embargo ended by Nixon, the United States has successfully destroyed its industrial base out of short term profit motif. Now in retrospect Washington simply squandered the very brief window of opportunity for building long-lasting prosperity for all by cutting spending on militarism and by leading the world in less savagery way. In the next thirty years, unfortunately, China’s peaceful uprising will put Beijing on the equal footing with Washington economically, financially and militarily. In forty to sixty years, Beijing will become the new Boss and from now on Washington will also be remembered as the sole victim of the post Cold War. And how inconvenient that is for the self-claimed Chosen people in Washington.
Does Washington desire to kill China's development before it's too late? You bet. But the question is whether or not they can do it successfully given China has a relatively good pile of nukes.
in sixty years there will be another (post-china) empire, considering the pace. also, global reserve currencies life expectancy is up to sixty years. dollar is losing its privilege as we speak.
btw, according to some sources, china was the biggest economy in 2014, surpassing US. 2020-2025 chinese and russian militaries are expected to be fully modernized and equal, if not supreme, to US military. finance-wise, jury is still out. i guess we have to wait and see who's left standing after the collapse, reset, what have you.
Good article but the conclusion is wrong. America probably will destroy itself but the rest of the world is not exactly a paradise. If the world is destroyed then the other countries of the world will share in the blame as well as the pain. If there is a nation that is without blame for the world's condition it would be such a good place to live we would all be trying to move there. I have not heard of such a place and don't believe it exists. When the world destroys itself, the whole world will be at fault.
Hey Too Fat. Go for a jog! In the Andes!
The article is right. America and most of it's citizens haven't endured the reality that many mortals experience in other lands such as war, 'real' poverty and more.
Why do you think so many want to come to America? The same reason so many Africans are desirous to go to Europe. It is a hell of a lot better than the place they came from.
Yet for those who experienced America 40 years ago to America of today, we see what is occuring. No one wants to know, their heads are in the sand, till it is too late.
The America of 45 years ago is long dead! I no longer recognize the nation I volunteered to defend back in 1969.
So your eyesight is still fine Mr P. And you are in full possession of your mental faculties.
It's a sorry sight isn't it?
So your eyesight is still fine Mr P. And you are in full possession of your mental faculties.
It's a sorry sight isn't it?
You can be forgiven for thinking, at the time, that you were 'defending' this country.
However, you could not be forgiven for still thinking so.
Or 1987....
who wont the game? I'm just another ignorant, uneducated middle class American who knows nothing about what is going on and how it will destroy my children's lves. I believe everything the government tells me, they want to help me. That is how pathetic I am
I created the universe, beer volcanoes, and stripper factories to help my flock of pirates pass idle time, and because i was bored...
Wrap thy noodly appendages around me and protect me from all the non-believers!
That last sentence is the rub. It is true that if the American people don't stand up now, it's over for everyone everwhere in a short 10 to 20. It's just a shame that old Paul Craig couldn't have done the math on the Fed back in the day. If it's a sacred cow, it's usually a fraud.
Obama is right - we need more bong
How about every single fucking tv show, the now famous black guy with a hot white girl being exploited by the fucking filthy jews? Every fucking commerical, every fucking tv show, espn and sports reporters, every music video. The filhty fucking jews are trying to genocide white people with promoting mixed racing. And then over in israel, it's against the law for a jew to mix with any non jew. Sick fucking bastards. Don't forget forcing open immigration of white countries like the fucking cunt bitch barbara lerner.
"filthy jews" over and over, eh?
Here to poison the well, Joshua?
I think you're on to somethign.
I think they've been trying to destroy a tribal identity amongst whites as you say. Feminism, miscagenation, affirmative action, political correctness, hollywood, etc.
Because, it's European whites they fear. It's European whites who at one time recognized the parasites and worked to eliminate them. Pogroms didn't happen because they were fun.
The chosenites are working feverishly to make sure that their only real threat is emasculated, immigrated, and bred out of existence. The remaining are being brainwashed to accept their new brown and/or gay masters.
Oh shit, I've criticized the un-criticizable. Oh shit.
Admission: I"m not the center of attention at parties.
If a reform rabbi in the US marries two reform Jews, their marraige is not recognized in Israel by the "officials". Interesting, no?
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2015/01/false-flags-and-how-to-start-c...
Can you imagine how myopic poor plebs like me would be, feeling around for some truth and reality without the internet. Even though the internet is full of junk, there's diamonds in them thar hills, if you take the trouble to prospect through the mud.
Nice piece from PCR, as usual.
But I have one point of contention:
"facts no longer play a role in American political life"
One fact plays the central and absolutely crucial role:
They have the guns and the will to use them to force compliance of US.
Until some group of people (thnk Lexington MA) says "NO MORE" and meets force with force, this will continue.
Whoop Whoop Bullshit Alarm Whoop Whoop
What a disgusting piece of progressive propaganda trash. Progressives are desperate to not own the crap pile they created.
PROGRESSIVES are in charge and have been for a very looooong time.
Embrace the suck, progressive criminal filth, then FOAD.
Grimaldus
did anyone notice how the superbowl ads were heavily laden with sentiment and bs. they want to feminze the boys soooooooooooo badly
That is standard communist practice. Proven to be effective, it is now done daily in thousands of places in small ways, and for sure it is done on purpose.
All excellent points by Paul Craig Roberts. I believe he is correct in every regard but I can't help think that none of this is new and has been going on even long before Roberts was born. Operation Mocking Bird had media outlets in the pocket of the CIA way back in the forties ( maybe long before that ). Perhaps the biggest myth is the concept of a 'free and independent media' ever existing, anywhere. Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear, as the saying goes.
I have no doubt that a big correction is on the horizon and that America might very well be on the declining end of its prominence. But yet at all times there were, and always will be, old men telling us that the best of times are over and the world is coming to an end....and for THEM its usually true.
" Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear, as the saying goes."
So Bobby Charles got it. Someone tell me if the odd clip is inappropriate. It's just that I take the bard thing seriously.
"Remember kids , when you're smashing the state , to keep a smile on your lips , and a song in your hearts"
Phineas Freak wasn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GAZswAV_EM
Have you noticed how all the crooks from Hollywood's film factory movies are Russians now.