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Paul Craig Roberts: Obama Deifies American Hegemony
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet Union. In our time Washington had UN tanks sent in against Bosnian Serbs during the period that Washington was dismantling Yugoslavia and Serbia and accusing Serbian leaders, who tried to defend the integrity of their country against Washington’s aggression, of “war crimes.”
The UN supported Washington’s sanctions against Iraq that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. When asked about it, Clinton’s Secretary of State said, with typical American heartlessness, that the deaths of the children were worth it.
In 2006 the UN voted sanctions against Iran for exercising its right as a signatory of the non-proliferation treaty to develop atomic energy. Washington claimed without any evidence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon in violation of the non-proliferation treaty, and this lie was accepted by the UN. Washington’s false claim was repudiated by all 16 US intelligence agencies and by the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors on the ground in Iran, but in the face of the factual evidence the US government and its presstitute media pressed the claim to the point that Russia had to intervene and take the matter out of Washington’s warmonger hands. Russia’s intervention to prevent US military attacks on Iran and Syria resulted in the demonization of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. “Facts?!, Washington don’t need no stinkin’ facts! We got power!” Today at the UN Obama asserted America’s over-riding power many times: the strongest military in the world, the strongest economy in the world.
The UN has done nothing to stop Washington’s invasions and bombings, illegal under international law, of seven countries or Obama’s overthrow by coup of democratic governments in Honduras and Ukraine, with more in the works.
The UN does provide a forum for countries and populations within countries that are suffering oppression to post complaints—except, of course, for the Palestinians, who, despite the boundaries shown on maps and centuries of habitation by Palestinians, are not even recognized by the UN as a state.
On this 70th anniversary of the UN, I have spent much of the day listening to the various speeches. The most truthful ones were delivered by the presidents of Russia and Iran. The presidents of Russia and Iran refused to accept the Washington-serving reality or Matrix that Obama sought to impose on the world with his speech. Both presidents forcefully challenged the false reality that the propagandistic Western media and its government masters seek to create in order to continue to exercise their hegemony over everyone else.
What about China? China’s president left the fireworks to Putin, but set the stage for Putin by rejecting US claims of hegemony: “The future of the world must be shaped by all countries.” China’s president spoke in veiled terms against Western neoliberal economics and declared that “China’s vote in the UN will always belong to the developing countries.”
In the masterly way of Chinese diplomacy, the President of China spoke in a non-threatening, non-provocative way. His criticisms of the West were indirect. He gave a short speech and was much applauded.
Obama followed second to the President of Brazil, who used her opportunity for PR for Brazil, at least for the most part. Obama gave us the traditional Washington spiel:
The US has worked to prevent a third world war, to promote democracy by overthrowing governments with violence, to respect the dignity and equal worth of all peoples except for the Russians in Ukraine and Muslims in Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.
Obama declared Washington’s purpose to “prevent bigger countries from imposing their will on smaller ones.” Imposing its will is what Washington has been doing throughout its history and especially under Obama’s regime.
All those refugees overrunning Europe? Washington has nothing to do with it. The refugees are the fault of Assad who drops bombs on people. When Assad drops bombs it oppresses people, but when Washington drops bombs it liberates them. Obama justified Washington’s violence as liberation from “dictators,” such as Assad in Syria, who garnered 80% of the vote in the last election, a vote of confidence that Obama never received and never will.
Obama said that it wasn’t Washington that violated Ukraine’s sovereignty with a coup that overthrew a democratically elected government. It was Russia, whose president invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimera and is trying to annex the other breakaway republics, Russian populations who object to the Russophobia of Washington’s puppet government in Ukraine.
Obama said with a straight face that sending 60 percent of the US fleet to bottle up China in the South China Sea was not an act of American aggression but the protection of the free flow of commerce. Obama implied that China was a threat to the free flow of commerce, but, of course, Washington’s real concern is that China is expanding its influence by expanding the free flow of commerce.
Obama denied that the US and Israel employ violence. This is what Russia and Syria do, asserted Obama with no evidence. Obama said that he had Libya attacked in order to “prevent a massacre,” but, of course, the NATO attack on Libya perpetrated a massacre, an ongoing one. But it was all Gaddafi’s fault. He was going to massacre his own people, so Washington did it for him.
Obama justified all of Washington’s violence against millions of peoples on the grounds that Washington is well-meaning and saving the world from dictators. Obama attempted to cover up Washington’s massive war crimes, crimes that have killed and displaced millions of peoples in seven countries, with feel good rhetoric about standing up to dictators.
Did the UN General Assembly buy it? Probably the only one present sufficiently stupid to buy it was the UK’s Cameron. The rest of Washington’s vassals went through the motion of supporting Obama’s propaganda, but there was no conviction in their voices.
Vladimir Putin would have none of it. He said that the UN works, if it works, by compromise and not by the imposition of one country’s will, but after the end of the Cold War “a single center of domination arose in the world”—the “exceptional” country. This country, Putin said, seeks its own course which is not one of compromise or attention to the interests of others.
In response to Obama’s speech that Russia and its ally Syria wear the black hats, Putin said in reference to Obama’s speech that “one should not manipulate words.”
Putin said that Washington repeats its mistakes by relying on violence which results in poverty and social destruction. He asked Obama: “Do you realize what you have done?”
Yes, Washington realizes it, but Washington will not admit it.
Putin said that “ambitious America accuses Russia of ambitions” while Washington’s ambitions run wild, and that the West cloaks its aggression as fighting terrorism while Washington finances and encourages terrorism.
The President of Iran said that terrorism was created by the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and by US support for the Zionist destruction of Palestine.
Obama’s speech made clear that Washington accepts no responsibility for the destruction of the lives and prospects of millions of Muslims. The refugees from Washington’s wars who are overflowing Europe are the fault of Assad, Obama declared.
Obama’s claim to represent “international norms” was an assertion of US hegemony, and was recognized as such by the General Assembly.
What the world is faced with is two rogue anti-democratic governments—the US and Israel—that believe that their “exceptionalism” makes them above the law. International norms mean Washington’s and Israel’s norms. Countries that do not comply with international norms are countries that do not comply with Washington and Israel’s dictates.
The presidents of Russia, China, and Iran did not accept Washington’s definition of “international norms.”
The lines are drawn. Unless the American people come to their senses and expel the Washington warmongers, war is our future.
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"Unless the American people come to their senses and expel the Washington warmongers, war is our future."
Does anyone believe that there will be another election?
History will remember 2016 as...
The Great Combover.
Great article and even better comments !
Well said PCR.
Cameron like all UK prime ministers are puppets who serve their populations up as economic consumers to be raped and pillaged.
The above article and so many more reveal a growing awareness of US policies and have to admit in this corrupt world anything that is not US becomes more favourable.
E.g. I do not recognise any legitimate use of drones against population that creates terror in the innocent civilians.
Those indiscriminate use of such actions alienates peoples.
As for war don't care elites die as easily as the poor and they having so much to lose resort to minor skirmishes never full blown war.
Satanically-possessed, Cameron and Obama are both homosexually initiated into the Anti-Christ reign, along with the top brass at the Pentagon.
Opponents of the divine right of Individual Sovereignty obtained by the Revolution in covenant with God alone, they are manipulated puppets of Organized Crime (monarchy and popery) and Satan.
Kay Griggs: Colonel's Wife Tell-All Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQNitCNycKQ
Sam Colt writes the insurance on those 'Divine Rights'.
USSA is a psychotic, rampaging beast. Fortunately the good guys are now prepared to stop the disease in its tracks. Unfortunately the thugocracy in Washing town, the Anglozionazi matrix of evil will burn the house down like their stooge Onkel Adolf did last time round before they themselves can be dragged from their rat holes and doused.
Onward to the end we all know is coming!
Pretty full on piece from PCR had to read it twice to let it sink in. He certainly doesn't mince words.
The spirit of Gog (Khazar cult impaler Christ-killer false-Jew "Zionists") and Babylon (Rome's false-elite and the pedophile homosexual "cult of male prostitutes") is upon America, Isaiah's prophesied "Israel," true "Zion."
In Truth and by grace the Chosen of the Creator, God Almighty, the American El-ectorate, as the sovereign People in God's foretold "Promised Land," "a nation of priests" "into which all nations of the world flow," must cast down Satan's FedScamming, Hitler-financing, Holohoaxing, JFK-assassinating, 9/11-committing, Sandy Hook-staging, false war-making Organized Crime-owned and run MIC Beast of monarchy and popery now upon us.
Kay Griggs: Colonel's Wife Tell-All Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQNitCNycKQ
Wasn't the TEA PARTY supposed to defund all this warfare-welfare bovine excrement?
Or not?
Pity us.
The elitists in the United States have destroyed our economy and self-sufficiency. They create constant wars of aggression in foreign countries. They have subjugated our state and local governments. They war against us in the US by using their threat of physical power and the media to corrupt us, deceive us, indebt us, divide us. They corrupt and deceive our police, setting them against us and us against them. The elitists spy on us, prying into our personal lives, using our weaknesses against us. They inject us with drugs that cripple us. They steal our wealth and security and enslave us to their money. They pollute our waters, air and our lands. The elitists brainwash our children with their schools and television shows. They try to destroy our hope so that they can use our despair.
Pity us... or help us.
Paul Craig Roberts, it does no good to point out our powerlessness against the evil and arrogant force of Obama, his cronies and those who came before him. They have all been the same... pretty words and evil intent. They are trying to bring us to a point of hopelessness where we believe that either we deserve death or we welcome it. Or, they want us to adore them and want to be like them.
I do not believe that your words are helping us. Why do they do it? It seems insane to us. Why do the hate us, the people?
Paul Craig Roberts, it does no good to point out our powerlessness against the evil and arrogant force of Obama, his cronies and those who came before him. They have all been the same... pretty words and evil intent. They are trying to bring us to a point of hopelessness where we believe that either we deserve death or we welcome it. Or, they want us to adore them and want to be like them.
I do not believe that your words are helping us.
We are not powerless. It is a warped mind that seeks to subdue and dominate that is powerless, powerless, without the consent of those who it seeks to subdue and dominate. When consent is withdrawn, there are simply not enough bullies to enforce the tyranny. You cannot opress nations, you can only oppress scapegoats therewith as an example. Mileage varies, but bare-faced tyranny and deception are never stable or permanent.
Shut up and get back to work.
Why?
Because we said so...That's why.
Reposted :
Deified unilateralist America; PCR says it very well.
This dystopian play out of Syrac's evisceration, 5 million refugees and two nation states totally destroyed, as follow on to Palestine's and Lebanon's past eviscerations in that region, will bring down the regional Gordian knot of Pax Americana's triple hold over the world : MIIC/OIL/Petrodollar hegemonies.
By taking out the three secular leaders of that region (Saddam, Q-daffy, now Assad), by selling toxic gases and weapons of mass destruction to these very overlords over 50 years, by having trampled democracy in Iran--as all over the world on a asymmetric war spree beginning in Nam--by having humiliated Japan in making China its world factory pivot since the famous ping pong game's fallout, (all the while imposing a monetary straight jacket on its bouyant industry via the Plaza and Louvre accords), by having then concocted the outsourced model into a permanent financialized casino now all enmeshed in currency wars and derivative plays out of the Oligarchy's control, the logical outcome of this increasingly dystopian world scenario will be the inevitable fall of those very petromonarchies that shook hands with FDR in 1945.
And their add ons when the "winds of change" blew out Britain's hold on that ME region, thus spawning the Gulf states --which will DE FACTO bring to an end the NEO CON plays of the past 50 years.
The ME oil game and petrodollar supremacy will be over. The rise of obscurantism its fatal regional legacy.
And all that will be left is the MIIC-- and a huge private and public sector debt in the hands of the rulers of the Empire.
What you sow you then reap.
And the legacy of 1492 will then be questioned by the new world caught up in an incredible spiral of reconfiguration. Where the US led West, all the while being the nexus of innovation, will look like Charles V's universal Empire that will have to be destroyed to its very remote conquistadorial tentacles and forced into its own retrenchment at home, in a desolate and internally corroded national fabric centered around New Vienna; as the likely outcome of what happens to those who play at being Empire builders of a construct on which the sun never sets!
Never trust a Visigoth.
have you watched adam curtis' bitter lake?
sunset is followed by sunrise is followed by sunset is followed by sunrise is followed by...
Saudi now threatening to attack Syria if Assad is not removed.
Lets see, Saudi , where women can't drive, and have to be totally covered in black, and beheads people daily, is the best buddy of the USA, next to Israel.
Saudi, whose weapons are all USA made is already committing slow genocide on the poor country of Yemen, and not one peep from the Mullato Monkey..
WTF is WRONG with America?
Why do you keep returning to me with your replies like little lost puppy? You are so loyal to my comments. Like you been paid to do that. Do you think I care about you?
You think I care about a goddam Latvian Nazi fuckfaced PIG bastard like you?
Just another coward with not a leg to stand on.
Well, your actions show you care a lot about me. There are no others who follow my comments so trusty, so loyal. Never missed any of my comments. What name you want? My little pathetic puppy? A? How about ‘little slimy’. Do you like that name? Little slimy :D
Let's see.. got to check this.. here slimy slimy.. here slimy...
Well if Kosovo was such a success why is Germany being deluged with Albanians and Kosovars ? If the US really had influence in Turkey it would not be using human-wave attacks to destroy Greece and overwhelm Hungary.
If Germany were not run by an Anti-German the EU borders would not have been destroyed and Germans would not be being made homeless for forcible resettlement of human-wave attacks from Turkey. Luftwaffe bases would not be housing people from the Middle East of unknown provenance; and soldiers would not be forced out of barracks to house these human-wave invaders.
Obama is destroying Western Europe. The irony is that this year Bavaria has finally dropped its ban on Mein Kampf being published in Germany but the book has directions on how it is to be read doubling the size of the book !!!!!
The whole postwar order is imploding as nation states are assaulted and undermined in a way not seen since 1942. Obama was nothing but a Goldman cipher, and has simply become the organ grinder's monkey
They will eventually try to bring those blue helmeted thugs to US soil and I firmly believe they should be shot on sight then hung from the nearest lamp post. Obama is just taking money to convert the US to what Soros thinks it should be. Same thing with the Hildabeast, check from the Nebraska billionaire went through and she opposes the pipeline while saying jobs repairing his railroad cars will make America great again. What slime.
Having worn the blue helmet in Yugoslavia (along with the staff of the US field hospital), I take umbrage at the uninformed attack on UN peacekeeping missions displayed in the above comment. Standing between two parties determined to kill each other is a dangerous business, but the UN has done it dozens of times - sometimes with good results, but often with poor results or complete failure. Such is the way of the world in which the innocent are made to suffer for the ambitions of the powerful.
Amerika + Itsahell = Jewknighted States of Jewmerica
Amerika has a history of hypocrisy, it lucked out because a few of the founding brothers had the insight to pen a great constitution. A study of its true history will show it never really walked the talk. With its arrogant and weakened view of justice Amerikan resistance was weak and it is now deeply infected with the virus that is Israel, a virus it helped gestate. Thinking and informed people of the world look on in disgust and a resistance is now taking shape.
Saudi now threatening to attack Syria if Assad is not removed.
Lets see, Saudi , where women can't drive, and have to be totally covered in black, and beheads people daily, is the best buddy of the USA, next to Israel.
Saudi, whose weapons are all USA made is already committing slow genocide on the poor country of Yemen, and not one peep from the Mullato Monkey..
WTF is WRONG with America?
Yet the Saudis want to replace their king who is a puppet for one of his sons.......I doubt Saudi will last much longer anyway
ISIS is CIA/Mossad and the USA is now pissed off that Russia will kick their ass
The charade called the Useless Snakes foreign policy is falling apart for the world to see.
ISIS is CIA/Mossad and the USA is now pissed off that Russia will kick their ass
The charade called the Useless Snakes foreign policy is falling apart for the world to see.
Ukraine wants to be part of the EU.
Okay, pass the word to all those migrants and refugees that Kiev is inviting them all in and giving everyone 10k Euros to get started.
hehe
Welcome to ZSSA* where Freedom is Dangerous, Warfare is Peace and Lies are Truth
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One of the ironies in all this is that Washington wants a uni-polar world with itself and its allies at the helm calling all the shots and pulling all the strings. Westminster is fully on board because it allows Britain to continue its dream of still running an Empire and we all know who is behind the Washington model: the bankers, Khazars and their cronies. It has always been thus.
Russia, China & Iran want a multi-polar world which respects different customs and traditions of different nations.
Sadly, since Western arrogance prevails, war looks to be the final outcome but as
Confucius said: "War not decide who is right, war decide who is left."
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Fk, can't we wait till spring to start shit? Winter sucks bad enough.
Hey negative rates. You called it. From moonofalabama.org Under Russian Pressure U.S. Accepts "Unified", "Secular" Syrian State "Putin's realist talk about Syria at the UN, which embarrassed the platitude spouting Obama, led to a change in U.S. policies.
The White House has halted the Pentagon training of the unicorn riding "moderate rebels". That program is toast but the real question is if the "secret" CIA run program, which is vastly more extensive, is also suspended. My hunch is that it is.
On top of that Secretary of State Kerry made a very new statement that amounts to a really significant change in policy:
The United States and Russia agree on "some fundamental principles" for Syria, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday, adding that he plans to meet again with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.
"There was agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united, that it needs to be secular, that ISIL (Islamic State) needs to be taken on, and that there needs to be a managed transition," Kerry told MSNBC, adding that differences remained on what the outcome of such a transition would be.
Never before has the U.S. officially expressed a demand that the Syrian state should in future be "secular" as it is now. This is a rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood dominated Syrian exile coalition and of the GCC states' proxy fighters in Syria who demand a sectarian state based on Islamic law.
Since Israel lost the 2006 war against Hizbullah ...
Don't watch the lips...
Watch the hands.
The lines are drawn. Unless the American people come to their senses and expel the Washington warmongers, war is our future.
Help them come to their senses PCR. Tell them about the WTC7 collapse and how that is proof positive we are now an occupied nation. Only 8% even know it PCR!
I usually agree with Roberts, but on the subject of events in Bosnia in the 90's, he is badly mistaken. The history of Bosnia in the 90's is one of relentless assault on the muslim population by the Bosnian Serbs, backed by the Serbian army within Serbia itself. In it, the Serbs mobilized historical and religious hatreds and committed shameful attrocities, including the destruction of civiian housing and historical mosques, bulldozed muslim graveyards and culminated in the Srebrénica massacre. Civiians could not walk the streets of Sarajevo for fear of Serbian snipers. The much-delayed rescue of the Bosnian muslims by NATO is perhaps a positive event in the history of that alliance.