Washington Is Humanity’s Worst Enemy — Paul
Craig Roberts
April 13, 2014 |
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Washington Is Humanity’s Worst Enemy
Paul Craig Roberts
How does Washington get away with the
claim that the country it rules is a democracy and has freedom? This absurd
claim ranks as one of the most unsubstantiated claims in history.
There is no democracy whatsoever.
Voting is a mask for rule by a few powerful interest groups. In two 21st
century rulings (Citizens United and McCutcheon), the US Supreme Court has
ruled that the purchase of the US government by private interest groups is
merely the exercise of free speech. These rulings allow powerful corporate and
financial interests to use their money-power to elect a government that serves
their interests at the expense of the general welfare.
The control private interests exercise
over the government is so complete that private interests have immunity to
prosecution for crimes. At his retirement party on March 27, Securities and
Exchange Commission prosecutor James Kidney stated that his prosecutions of
Goldman Sachs and other “banks too big to fail” were blocked by superiors who
“were focused on getting high-paying jobs after their government service.” The
SEC’s top brass, Kidney said, did not “believe in afflicting the comfortable
and powerful.” In his report on Kidney’s retirement speech, Eric Zuesse points
out that the Obama regime released false statistics in order to claim
prosecutions that did not take place in order to convince a gullible public that
Wall Street crooks were being punished. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/09/65578/
Democracy and freedom require an
independent and aggressive media, an independent and aggressive judiciary, and
an independent and aggressive Congress. The United States has none of the
above.
The US media consistently lies for the
government. Reuters continues to report, falsely, that Russia invaded and
annexed Crimea. The Washington Post ran an obviously false story planted on the
paper by the Obama regime that the massive protests in former Russian
territories of Ukraine are “rent-a-mobs” instigated by the Russian government.
Not even Washington’s stooges in Kiev
believe that. Officials of the Washington-imposed government in Kiev
acknowledged the need for some autonomy for the Russian-speaking regions and
for a law permitting referendums, but this realistic response to widespread
concerns among Ukrainians has apparently been squelched by Washington and its
presstitute media. US Secretary of State John Kerry continues to turn a deaf
ear to the Russian Foreign Minister and continues to demand that “Russia must
remove its people from the South-East.”
What is happening is very dangerous.
Washington misjudged its ability to grab the
Ukraine. Opposition to the US grab is almost total in the Russian-speaking areas.
Local police and security forces have gone over to the protesters. The corrupt Obama regime and the presstitute media lie through their teeth that the protests are insincere and mere orchestrations by “Putin who wants to restore the Soviet empire.” The Russian government keeps trying to end the conflict and unrest that Washington’s reckless coup in Kiev has caused short of having to reabsorb the former Russian territories as it was forced to do in Crimea. But Washington continues ignoring the Russian government and blaming the unrest on Russia’s not Washington’s, interference. http://rt.com/news/lavrov-kerry-ukraine-talks-200/ See also: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38196.htm
Ukraine. Opposition to the US grab is almost total in the Russian-speaking areas.
Local police and security forces have gone over to the protesters. The corrupt Obama regime and the presstitute media lie through their teeth that the protests are insincere and mere orchestrations by “Putin who wants to restore the Soviet empire.” The Russian government keeps trying to end the conflict and unrest that Washington’s reckless coup in Kiev has caused short of having to reabsorb the former Russian territories as it was forced to do in Crimea. But Washington continues ignoring the Russian government and blaming the unrest on Russia’s not Washington’s, interference. http://rt.com/news/lavrov-kerry-ukraine-talks-200/ See also: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38196.htm
The Russian government knows that Washington
does not believe what Washington is saying and that Washington is
systematically provoking a continuation and worsening
of the problem. The Russian government wonders what agenda Washington is pursuing. Is Washington in its arrogant stupidity and superpower hubris unable to acknowledge that its takeover of the Ukraine has come amiss and to back off? Does Washington not realize that the Russian government is no more able to accept the application of violence against Russian populations in Ukraine than it could accept violence against Russians in South Ossetia? If Washington doesn’t come to its senses, the Russian government will have to send in troops as it had to do in Georgia. nal-288/ ” target=”_blank”>http://rt.com/news/ukraine-russia-operation-criminal-288/
of the problem. The Russian government wonders what agenda Washington is pursuing. Is Washington in its arrogant stupidity and superpower hubris unable to acknowledge that its takeover of the Ukraine has come amiss and to back off? Does Washington not realize that the Russian government is no more able to accept the application of violence against Russian populations in Ukraine than it could accept violence against Russians in South Ossetia? If Washington doesn’t come to its senses, the Russian government will have to send in troops as it had to do in Georgia. nal-288/ ” target=”_blank”>http://rt.com/news/ukraine-russia-operation-criminal-288/
As this is clear even to a fool, is it
Washington’s goal to start a war? Is that why Washington is massing NATO forces
on Russia’s borders and sending missile ships
into the Black Sea? Washington is putting the entire world at risk. If Russia concludes that Washington intends to drive the Ukraine crisis to war rather than to resolve the crisis, will Russia sit and wait, or will Russia strike first?
into the Black Sea? Washington is putting the entire world at risk. If Russia concludes that Washington intends to drive the Ukraine crisis to war rather than to resolve the crisis, will Russia sit and wait, or will Russia strike first?
One would think that the Chancellor of
Germany, the British Prime Minister, and the President of France would see the
danger in the situation. Perhaps they do. However, there is a large difference
between the aid that Russia gives countries and the aid given by Washington.
Russia provides financial support to governments; Washington gives bagfuls of money
to individuals in the government with
the knowledge that individuals are more likely to act in their own interest
than in the interest of their country. Therefore, European politicians are
silent as Washington pushes a crisis toward war. If we don’t get to war, the
only reason will be that Putin comes up with a solution that Washington cannot
refuse, as Putin did in Syria and Iran.
It is a paradox that Putin is portrayed
as the heavy while Washington pretends to be the champion of “freedom and
democracy.” In the 21st century Washington has established as its hallmarks
every manifestation of tyranny: illegal and unconstitutional execution of
citizens without due process of law, illegal and unconstitutional indefinite
detention of citizens without due process of law, illegal and unconstitutional
torture, illegal and unconstitutional rendition, illegal and unconstitutional
surveillance, and illegal and unconstitutional wars. The executive branch has
established that it is unaccountable to law or to the Constitution. An
unaccountable government is a tyranny.
Tired of being spied upon and lied to,
the Senate Intelligence Committee has produced a thorough investigation of the
CIA’s torture programs. The investigation took four years to complete. The
Committee found, unequivocally, that the CIA lied about the extent of the
torture and kidnappings, that detainees did not undergo some mild form of
“enhanced interrogation” but were subjected to brutal and inhumane torture,
that the CIA, contrary to its claims, did not get even one piece of useful
information from its grave crimes against humanity. The American presstitutes
assisted the CIA in inaccurately portraying the effectiveness and mildness of
the CIA’s Gestapo practices. During the entirety of the investigation, the CIA
illegally spied on the Senate staff conducting the investigation.
Is the public ever to see this report
beyond the parts that have been leaked? Not if the CIA and Obama can prevent
it. President “change” Obama has decided that it is up to the CIA to decide how
much of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation will be made public.
In other words, unless someone leaks the entire report, the American public
will never know. Yet, “we have freedom and democracy.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee
itself has the power to vole to declassify the entire report and to release it.
The committee should do so immediately before the members of the committee are
browbeat, threatened, and propagandized into believing that they are
endangering “national security” and providing those mistreated with grounds for
a lawsuit.
The US government is the most corrupt
government on earth. There is no independent judiciary or media, and Congress
has acquiesced to executive branch encroachments on its powers. Consider the
judiciary. Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights represented
the father of the American citizen, who Obama said would be murdered by the US
government on suspicion that he was associated with terrorism. When Ratner
asked the federal courts to block an illegal and unconstitutional execution of
an American citizen without due process, the federal judge who heard the case
ruled that the father of a son about to be murdered did not have standing to
bring a case in behalf of his son.
After several lives were snuffed out by
President “I’m good at killing people” Obama, Ratner represented relatives of
Obama’s murdered victims in a damage suit. Under US law it was clear as day
that damages were due. But the federal judge ruled that “the government must be
trusted.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38202.htm
Whether or not anyone has standing is
entirely up to the government. The IRS takes a completely different position on
the matter. Children have standing to have their tax refunds confiscated by the
IRS if the IRS thinks the IRS may have overpaid the parents’ Social Security
benefits. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101576080
So in “freedom and democracy” Amerika,
children are responsible if the IRS “thinks”–no proof required–that it wrote
parents too large of a Social Security check, but a father has no legal
standing to bring a lawsuit to prevent the US government from the extra-legal
murder of his son.
Thanks to the Republican Federalist
Society and to the Republican judges the Federalist Society has managed to have
appointed to the federal bench, the federal judiciary functions as a protector
of executive branch tyranny. Whatever the executive branch asserts and does is
permissible, especially if the executive branch invokes “national security.”
In America today, the executive branch
claims that “national security” is impaired unless the executive branch can
operate illegally and unconstitutionally and unless citizens are willing to
give up every constitutional right in order to be made safe in a total police
state that spies on and documents every aspect of their lives.
Even the Government Accountability
Office has been neutered. In 2013 the Government Accountability Office told the
TSA to eliminate its behavior screening program as it is a waste of money and
does not work. So what did the TSA do. Why, of course, it expanded the useless
intrusion into the privacy of travelers.
This is Amerika today. Yet Washington
prances around chanting “freedom and democracy” even as it displaces the
greatest tyrannies in human history with its own.
Only gullible Americans expect leaders and
elites or voting to do anything about the institutionalization of tyranny.
Elites are only interested in money. As long as the
system produces more income and wealth for elites, elites don’t give a hoot about tyranny or what happens to the rest of us.
system produces more income and wealth for elites, elites don’t give a hoot about tyranny or what happens to the rest of us.
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