Is the US or the World Coming to an End? — Paul
Craig Roberts
Is
the US or the World Coming to an End?
It will be one or the other
It will be one or the other
Paul Craig Roberts
2014 is shaping up as a year of
reckoning for the United States.
Two pressures are building on the US
dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig
the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the
Fed’s illegal price rigging spreads. The evidence of massive amounts of naked
shorts being dumped into the paper gold futures market at times of day when
trading is thin is unequivocal. It has become obvious that the price of gold is
being rigged in the futures market in order to protect the dollar’s value from
QE.
The other pressure arises from the
Obama regime’s foolish threats of sanctions on Russia. Other countries are no
longer willing to tolerate Washington’s abuse of the world dollar standard.
Washington uses the dollar-based international payments system to inflict
damage on the economies of countries that resist Washington’s political
hegemony.
Russia and China have had enough. As I
have reported and as Peter Koenig reports here http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38165.htm Russia
and China are disconnecting their international trade from the dollar.
Henceforth, Russia will conduct its trade, including the sale of oil and
natural gas to Europe, in rubles and in the currencies of its BRICS partners.
This means a big drop in the demand for
US dollars and a corresponding drop in the dollar’s exchange value.
As John Williams (shadowstats.com) has
made clear, the US economy has not recovered from the downturn in 2008 and has
weakened further. The vast majority of the US population is hard pressed from
the lack of income growth for years. As the US is now an import-dependent
economy, a drop in the dollar’s value will raise US prices and push living
standards lower.
All evidence points to US economic
failure in 2014, and that is the conclusion of John Williams’ April 9 report.
This year could also see the breakup of
NATO and even the EU. Washington’s reckless coup in Ukraine and threat of
sanctions against Russia have pushed its NATO puppet states onto dangerous
ground. Washington misjudged the reaction in Ukraine to its overthrow of the
elected democratic government and imposition of a stooge government. Crimea
quickly departed Ukraine and rejoined Russia. Other former Russian territories
in Ukraine might soon follow. Protesters in Lugansk, Donetsk, and Kharkov are
demanding their own referendums. Protesters have declared the Donetsk People’s
Republic and Kharkov People’s Republic. Washington’s stooge government in Kiev
has threatened to put the protests down with violence. http://rt.com/news/eastern-ukraine-violence-threats-405/ Washington
claims that the protests are organized by Russia, but no one believes
Washington, not even its Ukrainian stooges.
Russian news reports have identified US
mercenaries among the Kiev force that has been sent to put down the separatists
in eastern Ukraine. A member of the right-wing, neo-Nazi Fatherland Party in
the Kiev parliament has called for shooting the protesters dead.
Violence against the protesters is
likely to bring in the Russian Army and result in the return to Russia of its
former territories in Eastern Ukraine that were attached to Ukraine by the
Soviet Communist Party.
With Washington out on a limb issuing
threats hand over fist, Washington is pushing Europe into two highly
undesirable confrontations. Europeans do not want a war with Russia over
Washington’s coup in Kiev, and Europeans understand that any real sanctions on
Russia, if observed, would do far more damage to Europeans. Within the EU,
growing economic inequality among the countries, high unemployment, and
stringent economic austerity imposed on poorer members have produced enormous
strains. Europeans are in no mood to bear the brunt of a
Washington-orchestrated conflict with Russia. While Washington presents Europe
with war and sacrifice, Russia and China offer trade and friendship. Washington
will do its best to keep European politicians bought-and-paid-for and in line
with Washington’s policies, but the downside for Europe of going along with
Washington is now much larger.
Across many fronts, Washington is
emerging in the world’s eye as duplicitous, untrustworthy, and totally corrupt.
A Securities and Exchange Commission prosecuting attorney, James Kidney used
the occasion of his retirement to reveal that higher ups had squelched his
prosecutions of Goldman Sachs and other “banks too big to fail,” because his
SEC bosses were not focused on justice but “on getting high-paying jobs after
their government service” by protecting the banks from prosecution for their
illegal actions. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/09/65578/
The US Agency for International Development
has been caught trying to use social media to overthrow the government of
Cuba. http://rt.com/news/cuba-usaid-senate-zunzuneo-241/
This audacious recklessness comes on
top of Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government, the NSA spying
scandal, Seymour Hersh’s investigative report that the Sarin gas attack in
Syria was a false flag event arranged by NATO member Turkey in order to justify
a US military attack on Syria, Washington’s forcing down Bolivian President Evo
Morales’ presidential plane to be searched, Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass
destruction,” the misuse of the Libyan no-fly resolution for military attack,
and on and on. Essentially, Washington has so badly damaged other countries’
confidence in the judgment and integrity of the US government that the world
has lost its belief in US leadership. Washington is reduced to threats and
bribes and increasingly presents as a bully.
The self-inflicted hammer blows to
Washington’s credibility have taken a toll. The most serious blow of all is the
dawning realization everywhere that Washington’s crackpot conspiracy theory of
9/11 is false. Large numbers of independent experts as well as more than one
hundred first responders have contradicted every aspect of Washington’s absurd
conspiracy theory. No aware person believes that a few Saudi Arabians, who
could not fly airplanes, operating without help from any intelligence agency,
outwitted the entire National Security State, not only all 16 US intelligence
agencies but also all intelligence agencies of NATO and Israel as well.
Nothing worked on 9/11. Airport
security failed four times in one hour, more failures in one hour than have
occurred during the other 116,232 hours of the 21st century combined. For the
first time in history the US Air Force could not get interceptor fighters off
the ground and into the sky. For the first time in history Air Traffic Control
lost airliners for up to one hour and did not report it. For the first time in
history low temperature, short-lived, fires on a few floors caused massive
steel structures to weaken and collapse. For the first time in history 3
skyscrapers fell at essentially free fall acceleration without the benefit of
controlled demolition removing resistance from below.
Two-thirds of Americans fell for this
crackpot story. The left-wing fell for it, because they saw the story as the
oppressed striking back at America’s evil empire. The right-wing fell for the
story, because they saw it as the demonized Muslims striking out at American
goodness. President George W. Bush expressed the right-wing view very well:
“They hate us for our freedom and democracy.”
But no one else believed it, least of
all the Italians. Italians had been informed some years previously about
government false flag events when their President revealed the truth about
secret Operation Gladio. Operation Gladio was an operation run by the CIA and
Italian intelligence during the second half of the 20th century to set off
bombs that would kill European women and children in order to blame communists
and, thereby, erode support for European communist parties.
Italians were among the first to make
video presentations challenging Washington’s crackpot story of 9/11. The
ultimate of this challenge is the 1 hour and 45 minute film, “Zero.” You can
watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU961SGps8g&feature=youtu.be
Zero was produced as a film
investigating 9/ll by the Italian company Telemaco. Many prominent people
appear in the film along with independent experts. Together, they disprove
every assertion made by the US government regarding its explanation of 9/11.
The film was shown to the European
parliament.
It is impossible for anyone who watches
this film to believe one word of the official explanation of 9/11.
The conclusion is increasingly
difficult to avoid that elements of the US government blew up three New York
skyscrapers in order to destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran,
and Hezbollah and to launch the US on the neoconservatives agenda of US world
hegemony.
China and Russia protested but accepted
Libya’s destruction even though it was to their own detriment. But Iran became
a red line. Washington was blocked, so Washington decided to cause major
problems for Russia in Ukraine in order to distract Russia from Washington’s
agenda elsewhere.
China has been uncertain about the
trade-offs between its trade surpluses with the US and Washington’s growing
encirclement of China with naval and air bases. China has come to the
conclusion that China has the same enemy as Russia has–Washington.
One of two things is likely: Either the
US dollar will be abandoned and collapse in value, thus ending Washington’s
superpower status and Washington’s threat to world peace, or Washington will
lead its puppets into military conflict with Russia and China. The outcome of
such a war would be far more devastating than the collapse of the US dollar.
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