The Next War on Washington’s Agenda

Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, “Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28542

Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet states in the Middle East. Washington has beefed up Saudi Arabia’s jet fighter force. Most recently, Washington has deployed 9,000 US troops to Israel to participate in “war games” designed to test the US/Israeli air defense system. As Iran represents no threat unless attacked, Washington’s war preparations signal Washington’s intention to attack Iran.

Another signal that Washington has a new war on its agenda is the raised level of Washington’s rhetoric and demonization of Iran. Judging by polls Washington’s propaganda that Iran is threatening the US by developing a nuclear weapon has met with success. Half of the American public support a military attack on Iran in order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capability. Those of us who are trying to awaken our fellow citizens start from a deficit that the minds of half of the US population are under Big Brother’s control.

As the International Atomic Energy Agency’s reports from its inspectors on the ground in Iran have made clear for years, there is no evidence that Iran has diverted any enriched uranium from its nuclear energy program. The shrill hype coming from Washington and from the neoconservative media is groundless. it is the same level of lie as Washington’s claim that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Every US soldier who died in that war died in behalf of a lie.

It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?

In my judgment, the US government’s war preparations are driven by three factors.
One is the neoconservative ideology, adopted by the US government, that calls for the US to use its superior military and economic position to achieve world hegemony. This goal appeals to American hubris and to the power and profit that it serves.

A second factor is Israel’s desire to eliminate all support for the Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Israel’s goal is to seize all of Palestine and the water resources of southern Lebanon. Eliminating Iran removes all obstacles to Israel’s expansion.

A third factor is to deter or slow China’s rise as a military and economic power by controlling China’s access to energy. It was China’s oil investments in eastern Libya that led to the sudden move against Libya by the US and its NATO puppets, and it is China’s oil investments elsewhere in Africa that resulted in the Bush regime’s creation of the United States Africa Command, designed to counter China’s economic influence with US military influence. China has significant energy investments in Iran, and a substantial percentage of China’s oil imports are from Iran. Depriving China of independent access to oil is Washington’s way of restraining and boxing in China.

What we are witnessing is a replay of Washington’s policy toward Japan in the 1930s that provoked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan’s bank balances in the West were seized, and Japan’s access to oil and raw materials was restricted. The purpose was to prevent or to slow Japan’s rise. The result was war.

Despite the hubris in which it wallows, Washington understands the vulnerability of its Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf and would not risk losing a fleet and 20,000 US naval personnel unless it was to gain an excuse for a nuclear attack on Iran. A nuclear attack on Iran would alert both China and Russia that they could suffer the same fate. The consequence would be that the world would face a higher risk of nuclear armageddon than existed in the mutually assured destruction of the US-Soviet standoff.

Washington is getting all of us in over our heads. Washington has declared the “Asia-Pacific” and the South China Sea to be areas of “America’s national interest.” What sense does this make? It makes the same sense as if China declared the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea to be areas of China’s national interest.

Washington has deployed 2,500 Marines, promising more to come, to Australia in order to do what? Protect Australia from China or occupy Australia? Encircle China with 2,500 Marines? It would not mean anything to China if Washington deployed 25,000 Marines in Australia.

When you get right down to it, Washington’s tough talk is nothing but a silly pointless provocation of Washington’s largest creditor. What if Washington’s idiocy causes China to worry that Washington and its UK and European puppets will seize its bank balances and refuse to honor China’s holdings of $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds? Will China pull its balances from the weak US, UK, and European banks? Will China decide to strike first, not with nuclear weapons, but by selling its $1 trillion in Treasury bonds all at once?

It would be cheaper than war.

The Federal Reserve would have to quickly print another $1 trillion dollars with which to buy the bonds, or US interest rates would shoot up. What would China do with the $1 trillion in newly printed paper? In my opinion, China would dump it all at once in the currency market, because the Federal Reserve cannot print euros, UK pounds, Japanese yen, Swiss francs, Russian rubles, and Chinese yuan with which to buy up its newly printed currency.

The US dollar would take a beating. US import prices–which now include, thanks to offshoring, almost everything Americans consume–would rise. The hard-pressed 90% would take a further beating, endearing their Washington oppressors to them to an even greater extent. The rest of the world, anticipating nuclear war, would flee the dollar, as Washington would be a primary attack target.

If the missiles aren’t launched, Americans would wake up the next day a bankrupt third world country. If the missiles were launched, few Americans would wake up.

We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What purpose, whose purpose is being served? Certainly not ours.

Who benefits from our bankrupt government starting yet more wars, picking this time not on defenseless countries like Iraq and Libya, but on China and Russia? Do the idiots in Washington think the Russian government does not know why Russia is being surrounded with missile bases and radar systems? Do the Washington morons really believe that the Russian government will fall for its lie that the missiles are directed against Iran? Only American idiots who sit in front of Fox “news” could possible believe that the real issue is an Iranian nuclear weapon.

How much longer will the Russian government permit the US National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front, to interfere in its elections by financing opposition parties led by the likes of Vladimir Kara-Murza, Boris Nemtsov, and Alexei Navalny, who organize protests of every election that Putin’s party wins, alleging without any evidence whatsoever, but providing propaganda for Washington, who no doubt pays well, that the election will be and was stolen? http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=28571

In the US, such activists would be declared to be “domestic extremists” and be subjected to rough treatment. In Amerika even anti-war activists are subjected to home invasions by the FBI and grand jury investigations.

What this means is that “the criminal state of Russia” is a more tolerant democracy than the US, or for that matter, Amerika’s puppet states in Europe and the UK.

Where do we go from here? If not to nuclear destruction, Americans must wake up. Football games, porn, and shopping malls are one thing. Survival of human life is another. Washington, that is, “representative government,” consists only of a few powerful vested interests. These private interests, not the American people, control the US government.

That is why nothing that the US government does benefits the American people.

The current crop of presidential contenders, except for Ron Paul, represent the controlling interests. War and financial fraud are the only remaining American Values.

Will Americans again give the sheen of “democracy” to rule by a few by participating in the coming rigged elections?

If you have to vote, vote for Ron Paul or for a more extreme third party candidate. Show that you do not support the lie that is the system.

Stop watching television. Stop reading newspapers. Stop spending money. When you do any of these things, you are supporting evil.

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About Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.

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  1. It’s too late. We are a nation at war for war-period!

    By: Nukeman . January 14, 2012 . 10:30 am |

  2. Checking back in today for replies; I’d like to say that it is disappointing that this comment section is much more like “Open Mic” where each person makes their speech rather than a conversation where folks can add replies to each others comments!

    I believe that the discussion would be far better if the later were the rule rather than the exception!

    + I’d like to see a larger font being used in this comment box as the default font as it is boring to have to enlarge the comment window every time…

    Thanks for reading!

    By: CaptD . January 14, 2012 . 12:17 pm |

  3. Paul Craig Roberts points out a litany of truths but leaves out the major factor that enables the US government – and any government – to wage war: the willingness of individuals to initiate physical force on others. These military ENFORCERS, along with their domestic (in-country) counterparts, of a governments words are the key to ALL the harm that a government does. Without the enforcers, all the edicts/laws/regulations/mandates/etc from legislators, executives (President included), judges and bureaucrats are simply sounds and scribbles.

    So specifically in regard to current and impending wars, those who disagree with these actions need to do more than simply produce verbal and written protests to politicians, most of whom do not care for anything but to get or remain in positions of power. The action to take is to dissuade enlistments and re-enlistments in the military! Make being part of a standing military an unpopular job! Do NOT voluntarily associate – shun and ostracize – those who will not be persuaded via reasoned logic from perpetrating the harm that those in Washington are cooking up. And encourage others who agree that war is the destruction of value to take the same action. Take real actions to make government enforcement – especially the military – a job very few are willing to take. With far fewer enforcers, government is incapable of continuing the rate of harm and in fact must cease most of it.

    This does not mean I am a pacifist. Defending one’s self, family/friends and property/possessions from a clear aggressor is NOT the same as being a government enforcer, military or domestic.

    Don’t simply take the attitude that supporting and voting for a particular presidential candidate will solve the problem of government-caused harm. Be self-responsible in your own actions – positive Social Preferencing towards those who produce/promote value and negative Social Preferencing towards those who initiate/seek/promote harm.

    By: Kitty Antonik Wakfer . January 14, 2012 . 5:15 pm |

    • Kitty,

      I’ve been giving that a lot of thought lately. There a few difficulties to overcome with that approach.

      First and foremost, many who serve in the military are sons of fathers of sons who also served and sacrificed for what they believed was ‘just war’. To even begin the conversation is to potentially desecrate the sacrifice, decades, and perhaps even deaths of loved ones. That’s a tall hill to climb just to start a conversation. But even if we suceed in getting people to not ‘re-up’ , the government has now added returning military to its terror watch list (MIAC report and others). Because of this issue, perhaps the “orders we will not obey” approach is better for currently serving.

      The next issue is how to dissuade people from enlisting in the first place. That seems do-able but will require lots of people to have uncomfortable conversations. So long as people are satiated with weapons of mass distraction, we wont begin that process en masse. The fact that this comment thread is so deep is evidence that our numbers are growing. Perhaps that is the real reason why SOPA is under discussion.

      By: Durablefaith . January 22, 2012 . 9:33 am |

  4. More proof that these madmen will do anything to maintain their power, including creating the diversion of a disastrous war that could kill millions of innocent people.

    By: Jed Smith . January 15, 2012 . 12:16 am |

  5. I am replying, at least in part, to a recent comment by Jed Smith, which for some odd reason does not show on the article’s main website and comments yet but does show in my email notifications.

    “Win or lose, our time on earth is very short. What else are we to do with our alloted time, except what we feel is right ? ”

    If one is a Christian, one knows that seeking the truth, the whole truth, is what we are required to do as “our part.” After doing that, we have the Holy Spirit to show us what is the right course of action in resisting this evil and tyranny, not just “our feelings.”

    Suggest everyone listen to yesterdays show of Webster Tarpley on GCNlive.com. In the last part of Hour 1 and the first part of Hour 2, Dr. Tarpley explains Dr. Ron Paul’s past statements regarding world government and a world currency from the Congressional Record. He also explains how Ron Paul fully supports Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital corporate raider and pump and dump ways. Very important and very enlightening. Also, suggest downloading yesterdays Secret Truth show on GCNlive.com, Hour 2, where Dr. Dennis Cuddy explains his latest book’s thesis – The Secret NAZI plan. Both Tarpley and Cuddy are truth seekers, but both seem to be leaving out a big piece of the puzzle, and that piece has to do with Dr. E. Michael Jones calls “the Jewish revolutionary spirit.”

    By: DachsieLady . January 15, 2012 . 7:32 am |

  6. Webster Tarpley is not a supporter of Ron Paul. Last Week I listened to him on Jeff Rense radio show and was somewhat taken aback at his attacks on Ron Paul. However, if what he is saying is true, then we are being led astray. Ron Paul might be the real deal, but then again he might not be what he appears. Tarpley seems to be able to dig out a lot of dirt on people. After all, he did a smash up job on G.H.W. Bush.
    I believe this does bring about some questions concerning Ron Paul. I have read some statements of his concerning immigration, so called free trade, and banking regulations. I’m not sure if I like what I read.
    Besides his opposition to more war and foreign involvement as well as a return to a constitutional government, I feel he doesn’t go far enough on military spending, preferring instead, to slash social services when they are most needed.
    I am not entirely comfortable with Ron Paul though, and wish he would clarify some statements. If not, I will then be forced to consider someone else.

    By: JohnZ . January 15, 2012 . 12:24 pm |

  7. JohnZ

    First let me say that I am perceiving a bit of contradiction in Dr. Roberts writings and speech. I heard Dr. Roberts say, (loose paraphrase here), tha voting and elections and all that is not longer the answer to the ills of the USA. Even in this article we are commenting on, Dr. Roberts uses the phrase “if you must vote”. But Dr. Roberts also wrote an aritcle “America’s Last Chance” where he says voting for Ron Paul is our “last chance.” I find that contradictory.

    Dr. Tarpley is good in a lot of ways and I do think he is seeking truth, however, he seems to carry it way too far in his “progressivism” or however he would describe himself.

    Libertarianism and libertarianism with a small L are concepts antithetical to Catholic social teach and really to true Christianity. You have to be careful about concepts such as “the common good”, the moral law, usury, and private property,, and most importantly “FREEDOM”. Freedom is not an end in iteself. It is, properly defined, a means to an end. The end is each of our own personal ends – whether we go to heaven or hell..
    Private property is a conditional, not an absolute, right.
    My right to own an automobile does not give me the right to drive it on the sidewalk, and as a corollary: my right to own a factory does not give me the right to cheat my workers .

    There is something wrong with capitalism as I see it. It seems wealth and greed always take the lead and that is morally wrong.

    By: DachsieLady . January 15, 2012 . 1:26 pm |

    • Dachsie

      I disagree that small l libertarianism is incompatible with true christianity. Jesus said the poor you shall always have with you. It is not a solvable issue as laziness and corruption are innate to mankind as is sin so for one reason or another there will always be poor among us. Discarding “thou shalt not steal” will not fix this.

      Further, the catholic attitude towards governance is unbiblical as well as it completely ignores the sinfulness of man and the tendency of power to corrupt. This blind spot may explain why Germany (roughly 40% catholic in the 1930′s) cooperated with the Nazi’s whereas Denmark (roughly 80% lutheran) did not. If the core belief is that authority is trustworthy, is always legitimate because it is endorsed by God, then how will you deal with corruption when it shows up in your leadership?

      To punctuate this weakness, the Vatican fully endorsed the UN as the rightful ruler of the world and gave them an indulgence to crush resistance for the good of mankind. Babel has been tried and found wanting…

      http://durablefaith.com/2011/10/25/vatican-gives-un-an-indulgence/

      By: Durablefaith . January 22, 2012 . 9:41 am |

  8. ‘unless it was to gain an excuse for a nuclear attack on Iran. A nuclear attack on Iran would alert both China and Russia that they could suffer the same fate’
    That one sentence shows the class of dr (smh) Roberts.
    Another thing is using word puppets when talking about European countries.
    Then as a dessert, ‘vote for Ron Paul’ (was it paid by R Paul’s campaign? Or his superpac?). After reading article like that by his supporter I wouldn’t be really considering such possibility (not that there are any sound candidates).

    By: Daniel Krzysiek . January 15, 2012 . 2:47 pm |

    • There’s your freight of sblyomogy, right there. People do have a strong reaction to the emblem of the nation, or to the emblem of a movement to which they have any sort of emotional attachment (I don’t doubt that on Bathurst racing weekends there are some getting tears in their eyes over the Holden and Ford flags). The developing iconography of flags over the centuries is a fascinating historical/sociological area that I’ve not had the time to delve as deeply into as I’d like, but flags are indeed more than just the rallying signals they started out as.

      By: Rocio . April 21, 2012 . 7:07 am |

  9. I do enjoy reading Dr. Roberts writings. I suppose if this country could outlaw alcohol with a constitutional amendment all though it was a failure to try and legislate morality, I believe it is possible for states to put forth a motion to amend the constitution and outlaw money in politics.

    President Reagan and President Carter both ran on public funding so it is possible to do it again.

    By: Victor Mason . January 15, 2012 . 9:50 pm |

    • with the history of the US Israel Iran would be fools not to have or build nacuelr weapons. and use them at the first chance they get Iran is a republic. The Constitution of The United States Republic establishes a REPUBLIC. Every soldier in the armed forces takes the oath of office to defend and uphold the Constitution, how does IRAN,PALESTINE, LIBYA ,SYRIA , GRENADA,CUBA,NICARAGURA,CONGO or any of the so called rogue nations threaten the constitution?

      By: Ilam . April 21, 2012 . 8:35 pm |

  10. I am very grateful for the rational and candid interpretation of politics by the author. One element that I find neglected however, is the problem of the general utilization of resources and labor even if the hypothetical “correctives” are made, however improbable. John Perkins (of “Economic Hitman” notoriety) has spoken of limited resources on and in the planet , which are channeled through fraudulent and corrupt governments throughout Afro-Asia that have been cultivated for over 65 years, since especially after WW II. This is the “American” empire, the first truly global empire of the “corporatocracy” according to Perkins. A “corrected” America would still resort to these channels, since its Protestant heritage would suggest falling back on to the assumption of the pseudo-autonomy of nations, and by implication exacerbate further the proven inability to be culturally and physically reconciled to these regions of the US global backyard. So I think that there are no easy solutions. However, lucid analysis , such as what I find in this website, certainly is an eye-opener.

    By: Christopher G Jesudason . January 16, 2012 . 5:10 am |

  11. Dachsielady
    It appears you’re attempting to mix religion with politics which, as the saying goes, makes for strange bedfellows. In the past religion has been antithetical to freedom and liberty. The two have been at odds throughout history. Nowhere has it been more evident than the history of the Catholic Church (Vatican). Freedom and liberty are not what religion is all about. Religion is about the accumulation of wealth and power over individuals. Religion, especially the Church, has used nearly every form of repression, outright murder and various forms of propaganda ( Jesuits) to enforce and retain its power over entire nations. I won’t even go into the abuses of human rights committed by the Church from day one.
    Our founding fathers were deists. They expressed a belief in an almighty but refused to become part of an organized “lynch mob” disguised as spirituality and faith. After all, history is filled with many fine examples of religious extremism and the results of which have proven to be disastrous.
    We are faced with an even more threatening form of religious extremism today in the form of the xtian-zionist. I won’t go into the fine details here as we all know enough about these misfits to realize how so many people especially those who have limited brain capacity, can be so brainwashed into such madness.
    Liberty and freedom also includes the responsibility of ones self. One has the freedom and liberty to conduct ones own affairs as he or she see fit as long as no harm is done to others, but must accept the consequences when criminal actions are committed. What we are witnessing is the complete breakdown of ethics and morals which transcend any religious belief. The ideas of morality and ethics have been involved in human history since man began to ponder his place in the world. The greatest supporters of the idea of liberty were also great adherents to ethics and morality. Conversely those who exhibit the lack of ethics and morality are quite often in conflict with liberty.
    Hence what is being witnessed is such a lack of ethical and moral standards by the government in Washington, that freedom and liberty is being treated as a nuisance and hostile. aggressive wars and acts of war are normal. The destruction of liberty has become the overall goal of this government. It is interesting that so many politicians who so strongly support israhell also support so many egregious acts against freedom and liberty. It should come as no surprise at all as zionism itself is hostile to liberty. We only need to remember the acts of Sen. Carl Levin and Joe Lieberman who so display their open hostility toward liberty. They also support more wars for israhell.

    By: JohnZ . January 27, 2012 . 3:02 am |

  12. No, JohnZ, is is not I that i attempting to mix religion with politics. I wrote a short response to what was meant to be a clever satire of the falsely represented Garden of Eden as utopia by Art Thomas, who believes in the truly utopian libertarian economic philosopy. So Art Thomas posts a satire of something is represents from a religious book, the Old Testament bible book of Genesis. I say if Art Thomas is goping to misrepresent a religious concept, the Garden of Eden and the nature of man in the Garden of Eden, he needs to be corrected. (Neither was my short response Christian, Catholic, or religious per say, but rather just wanting Mr. Thomas to get his facts straight and perhaps come up with a more accurate satire. But Libertarians I have known are almost all atheists and agnostics and can’t resist an opportunity to pounce on religion.)

    The truth of the matter is that we got on a discussion of the libertarian philosophy of Ron Paul, and when you discuss philosophy, you naturally discuss basic religious and moral concepts.

    Good luck and God bless you.
    Just for the record, the Catholic Church and the Vatican is subject to the same human serious mistakes as is any institution, however I believe its teachings are most correct and that its teachings on government and social institutions and “freedom” and “liberty” and “indivvidualism” and what is a “just war” are the most correct from a New Testament and Christian Catholic viewpoint, regardless of what Church leaders today are doing and saying or not doing and saying.

    The Church condemned the war on Iraq but even supposed leading Christians, including Catholics, and politicians who claim to be Catholic, all roundly ignored.

    You JohnZ appear to be have some fixation on “relition” considering your diatribe which I only skimmed.

    By: DachsieLady . January 27, 2012 . 5:58 am |

  13. It ‘s obvious you took offense at my remarks concerning the Church. I was only stating fact.
    If the Vatican supports the U.N. then it also support NATO and its actions which has killed tens of thousands of innocent people. It doesn’t matter if it’s Serbia, Bosnia, Iraq or Libya or Iran. Will Nigeria be next to be bombed to freedom?
    Washington is entering into a stage in the game where any thought of pulling back from the abyss is going to come too late. Once set into motion, that inertia will gain momentum without control. Of course the case of the tail wagging the dog will be self evident but at this point it will be rather moot. Washington, Britain and israhell will have committed themselves beyond stopping.
    The lies told by Clinton, Obama, Paneta and zionist-necon newspapers, cable news rooms and pundits continue to push the nation further along towards a calamity. A disaster waiting to happen. These people don’t care. Clinton is a zionist jew. Obama a puppet. Paneta will say what he is told to say and the rest control the medium. Congress is filled with traitors who have sold us all out for israhell. They’ve been paid their seven pieces of silver. Now we will reap the consequences: The economy will collapse. Martial law and internet censorship. There will be an attempt at gun seizure which will fail and will trigger open rebellion.
    This war may very well be the last one America will start.

    By: JohnZ . January 29, 2012 . 12:58 pm |

  14. JohnZ

    I read your post today but skipped reading the last few before that.

    I agree with 99 percent of what you wrote.

    I cannot defend the “Vatican” and I have been working my hardest to point out and document to Catholic media sources that the Church is wrong to be so chummy with the U.N. I have been fighting this for approximately 14 years to the best of my ability. I bet the Vatican spokespersons would have some rhetorical wiggle and say they do not “support” the U.N. or NATO.

    All I know is there is an evil facttion of elites throughout world history who have been manipulating economies and causing wars all for the goal of attaaining a one world death and slavery system. I think this evil brotherhood is largely made up of those of the “Jewish revolutionary spirit”. (Read Dr. E. Michael Jones’ book “Jewish Revolutionary Spirit”)

    I cannot describe the wrongness of our current economy in most part, but I can say that capitalism, charging compounding interest on the loan of money, is wrong now and has been condemned in religious writings for millenia. (Muslims condemny it too. Catholics have always condemned it but have gotten soft on it in the the last decades as they have on many other important moral issues.)

    Those of the Jewish revolutionary spirit have infiltrated the Church and whether that has been going on for only the last couple of hundred years, or for many hundreds of years, I cannot say for sure, but it is the cause of the contamination and shambles of the Church today.

    Man requires some government in order to give the greatest chance of peace and prosperity. the right kind of freedom, and getting to heaven for each indiviual. There is a right way and a wrong way to achieve this. The elites of the world have plotted for a one world death and slavery system and always against right efforts for right government.

    It always gets down to what is right and what is wrong. Most of us know a one world system can only be a system of death and slavery ruled by the filthy Evil rich. There is nothing wrong with amassing wealth if its earned honestly and used honestly. When it is used to kill and enslave man, then we need to fight for a right system that pulls the reigns in tight on those filthy evil, and I think Satan worshippers, elites.

    The top banksters need to all be tried and either executived or imprisoned for life. But where are the honest government leaders, and judges to do the right thing?

    By: DachsieLady . January 29, 2012 . 4:20 pm |

  15. That’s a wise asnewr to a tricky question

    By: Jaylin . February 15, 2012 . 11:09 pm |

  16. Unfortunately capitalism does not exist in America or anywhere else for that matter: it is nothing more than corporat feudalism.
    America is moving towards a feudal society not unlike that which ruled Europe for centuries. The 1% will have total control of everything including what you will be allowed to eat. Your children will be nothing more than canon fodder for each and every war the wealthy and power elite can instigate. Starvation is already becoming a very real problem now and the reports that some children have had to eat rats have been substantiated.
    When the parents who are now living in what used to be white, middle class suburbia watch their children starve, then what will they do?
    It will be time to lock and load.

    By: JohnZ . February 16, 2012 . 8:25 pm |

    • Dear John Z and Kitty Antonik Wakfer,
      Both of you seem to indicate something in common; on the one hand the support of individuals to state aggression, and on the other, the impotence of individuals before state power. How do you square both?

      By: Christopher G Jesudason . February 16, 2012 . 9:08 pm |

  17. Chris, I see no problem with my statement. Individual rights, liberty and freedom come first before the privileges and power given to the government as stated in the Constitution. However in these times the state has become so all powerful and invasive, our freedom and liberty are being stripped away. The election process is a sham. Vote fraud is everywhere and the machines have been hacked to flip votes. Maybe what I should have said was that the people are impotent against excessive government power by ordinary means, that is through the election process, writing your representative and presenting or attempting to present petitions for redress of grievances. You send an e-mail to your congresscritter and you get a form letter back. They don’t even read it. Most of them no longer hold town hall meetings for fear of facing an angry and desperate constituency.
    Money has taken control of Washington. Money that neither you nor I have in the abundance that Wall St. , multinational corporations, AIPAC and yes even the drug cartels have that now corrupt nearly every level of government: from the lowliest bureaucracy all the way to the SCOTUS, and even the Pentagram.
    It is going to take something on the order of Occupy Pennsylvania Ave. by literally a million or more people to make ourselves heard and respected and… we are going to have to convince many more people that unless they too, understand that they too are going to be seriously and negatively affected unless they get involved.
    Occupy Wall St. is just the beginning.

    By: JohnZ . February 17, 2012 . 11:31 am |

    • Two things. Of cursoe Hillary said to help the Greens. The second is that the Wall Street Journal, in an article that obviously has White House sourcing, claims that the Green movement actually :U.S. Treasury Department strategists already have been focusing on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has emerged as the economic and military power behind Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.In recent weeks, senior Green Movement figures who have been speaking at major Washington think tanks have made up a list of IRGC-related companies they suggest targeting, which has been forwarded to the Obama administration by third parties.It might have been more informative for a more formidable debating opponent to be presented than Ledeen, but you debate the adversary you have, not the adversary you wish you had.

      By: Christopher . July 3, 2012 . 5:13 pm |

  18. Dear JohnZ,
    What I seem to gather from the US situation – I do not live there, but I have close relatives who do – judging from your input and those of others, whose opinions I must also take into consideration , is that there certainly exists an element of aggression and superiority on the part of a portion of the populace that has been nurtured over the century or centuries of American paramountcy, and this orientation fuels and further rationalizes US policy in the US and abroad, and on the other hand, you also have another portion (not mutually exclusive to the first group) that are vulnerable to a top heavy governance.

    In all these viewpoints, I find one area of neglect. It is, I think, dangerous to underestimate the capacity of large nations outside of the Euro-American (E-A) orbit of global hegemony to influence and determine to some extent internal policies along this orbit since this aspect is never featured in the media, both mainstream and specialist. In other words, it may not be prudent to believe that all decisions that are made to appear to originate from this axis actually derives solely from this axis.

    The availability of raw materials, energy sources, cheap and increasingly skilled labour, cheap research capabilities and services and so on will not be primarily determined by internal US democratic processes; those resources were made available due to the political and global corporate engineering of the E_A axis of power with their local collaborators; I think that it is these other extraneous factors due to the other 85% of humanity that will increasingly determine to some extent the situation in the USA. I also feel that the sooner the population within the USA realizes the need to be reconciled to these others on the planet, the more stable the situation, both outside the USA, as well as within, in terms of the abatement of the culture of corruption that was seeded first in the ex-colonies after WW 2 as a definite policy to aid in the abuse and exploitation of these entities and now within the Axis. There is a relation of the parts to the whole. In the Hebrew religion (I am re-reading Leviticus) , one cannot just kill an animal; in the first reading, one must offer all these animals at the door of the tabernacle; in the second reading, there is emphasis on sacrificial animals; both these passages are consistent to the Jewish concept of Kosher food which Islam in a sense parodies without the historical liturgical continuity since they too consume “halal” food. These customs point to a need to see the part in terms of the whole, and the sanctity of all creation and the need to be reconciled to the created order.

    In a similar way, the peoples and lands outside the Euro-USA axis should never be considered “fair game” if you are interested in long term stability which implies that all peoples and all lands must feature in your local decisions. Unfortunately, this is not the case, to their detriment.

    By: Christopher G Jesudason . February 18, 2012 . 1:27 am |

  19. Chris, you are correct in your assessment of outside influences determining U.S. policies. Nowhere is that more apparent than in U.S. foreign policy in the middle east. The overwhelming outside influence is of course israhell. Through its operatives within America ie: AIPAC, ADL and other zionist organizations, it has, with the deluge of money, extortion and other devices of influence, has nearly total control of America’s foreign and to a certain extent internal policies. This is by no means extrapolation of any sort. To assess the true extent of israhell’s zionist control of American politics, one needs only to observe this upcoming election cycle. To the exclusion of Ron Paul, all other candidates completely support israhell to the extent of going to war with Iran irregardless of the truth. They are in total lockstep with the Liked Party’s policy towards the Palestinians, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and it’s desire to eliminate the sovereignty and people of these nations. They fully support zionist expansion throughout the middle east. To add insult to injury they also support further expansion of the Patriot Acts and or further destruction of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. This is aligned with the zionist/marxist intent on subverting America into submission.
    There is always a modicum of influence from other nations as well, but quite generally not to the extent israhell has and not with the intent of creating such economic, political and social havoc.
    Your last point is of course, being well made, indicates that most of us including myself has failed to mention that fact. However it was not my intention to do so. I agree with your assessment concerning the rights of other sovereign peoples and states. For myself it has a great deal of influence in my own assumptions and correlates with my own political philosophy of self determination and dignity. I cannot support any idea of subverting a nation of peoples for any purposes whatsoever. However the fact that this nation and other nations have been doing so for the entire history of humanity makes it highly unlikely it will soon end.
    America has been the hypocrite above and beyond all others. It’s politicians chastised other nations for human rights failures while it imprisons and tortures innocent people. Dropping bombs from the air whether by manned or unmanned aircraft and murdering men, women and children and calling it by some other action using hyperbole and doublespeak to soften the image of the dead innocent is beyond any moral and ethical question. Destroying entire nations, which it has done in the past, such as its illegal and costly war in Viet Nam and now Iraq and Afghanistan indicates America’s own lack of humanity, morals and ethics. The U.S. neither respects nor supports the idea of sovereignty and dignity of other lesser states. They are to be invaded, its governments and society torn asunder, and dominated by western, corporate ideology.
    When the U.S. learns to respect the sovereignty and dignity along with the ideals of self determination of other nations then it will begin to respect the sovereignty, dignity and self determination of its own people. And that is the problem which pervades America today.
    That is why the people of America must repudiate this current political, economic and social system which is now destroying it. The people must repudiate the electoral and political process including both dominate parties and replace that which has become so uncontrollably and completely corrupted with a government of, by and for the people. This is going to take some time and a great deal of soul searching and effort on the part of most people. It is also going to take a great deal of courage.
    cheers

    By: JohnZ . February 18, 2012 . 8:05 am |

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