by
Paul Craig Roberts
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Is Driving the World to the Final War
No one likes
a bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for
six decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French
presidents have to salute and say “yes sir.”
They all hate
it, but they love Washington’s money; so they prostitute themselves
and their countries for Washington’s money. Even a person of
Winston Churchill’s stature had to suck up to Washington in
order to get his bills and his country’s bills paid.
But what the
bought European leaders are finding is that Washington doesn’t
pay enough for the prostitution required. One year out of office
Tony Blair was worth $35 million dollars. But that’s not enough
to get Blair on the waiting list for $50 million 200 foot yachts,
to have a chalet in Gstaad, $50 million penthouses in Paris and
New York, and a private plane to fly between them, or to wear a
$736,000 Franck Muller watch on his wrist, sign his name with a
$700,000 Mont Blanc jewel-encrusted pen, and drink $10,000 “martinis
on a rock” (gin or vodka poured over a diamond) at New York’s
Algonquin Hotel.
In a world
in which every member of the Forbes Four Hundred is a billionaire
plus or multi-billionaire, $35,000,000 just doesn’t cut it.
In 2006 the manager of one hedge fund was paid $1,700,000,000 for
one year’s thieving. Another 25 were paid $575,000,000 for
their skills in front-running trades. $35 million is probably the
annual budget for their household servants.
The British
seem content in their role as Washington’s favorite lackey,
but France and Germany have not enjoyed that role. France’s
last real leader, General DeGaul, would have nothing to do with
it and refused to join NATO. Germany, dismembered with East Germany
occupied by the Soviets, had no choice. Germans’ gratitude
to President Reagan for their unification resulted in re-unified
Germany falling under Washington’s hegemony.
However, if
news reports from Berlin are true, Germany has had enough. The catalyst
was Edward Snowden’s revelations that Washington spies on everyone
including its allies, both Germany and the EU in particular. Moreover,
Washington uses Britain as the Trojan Horse within the EU as a backup
spy in case NSA misses something.
According to
news reports, the German, French, and EU governments are upset to
find out that their extreme subservience to Washington has not protected
them and their citizens from being spied upon. Here they are, fighting
Washington’s wars in far distant Afghanistan, the fate of which
is completely unrelated to their own, and what does Washington do
but embarrass them by spying on the personal lives of their citizens.
Who does the
Merkel government represent, Germans are asking, Germans or the
NSA? Why does the Merkel government kowtow to Washington? The next
question will be: “what does Washington’s spies have on
Merkel?”
With the German
government put on the spot by Washington’s betrayal, news headlines
are: “Germany Ready to Charge UK and US Intelligence Over Bugging
Operations.”
Little wonder
Washington and its media whores hate Edward Snowden. “A spokesman
for the [German] Federal Prosecutor said the office was preparing
to bring charges against” the UK and US intelligence services.
In light of the Snowden affair, it will be wonderful if Germany
issues arrest warrants and Washington and London refuse to extradite
its NSA and UK spy operatives who have violated every law and every
trust.
The German
Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenburger, demanded an
“immediate explanation” why Washington was applying to
Germany policies “reminiscent of the actions against enemies
during the Cold War.”
The president
of France has said that France will not again cooperate with Washington
on any issue until France receives “full assurances” that
Washington will cease spying on France.
The president
of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, and the EU Commissioner
for Justice, Viviane Reding, demand Washington’s answer to
Snowden’s revelations that Washington has betrayed its own
allies.
The question
that must be asked is: do any of these protests from politicians
who are
almost certain to be on Washington’s payroll mean anything,
or are they just make-believe protests to quiet the domestic European
populations who have been betrayed by their elected leaders? Why
would the French president and the German justice minister think
any reassurance from Washington meant anything? When in human memory
has Washington told the truth about anything? When has Washington’s
reassurance meant anything?
The Tonkin
Gulf? Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iranian nukes? Assad’s
sarin gas attack? FBI orchestrated “terror attacks”? It
is a proven fact that the US government lies every time it opens
its mouth. Compared to Washington, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Mao, Castro,
Chavez, and Pol Pot were truthful.
Washington’s
reply to Europe’s demands for explanation is: “We will
discuss these issues bilaterally with EU member states,” but
“we are not going to comment publicly on specific alleged intelligence
activities.”
You know what
that means. Bilateral means that Washington is going to talk with
each EU country separately, using the information NSA has obtained
to blackmail each complainant into silence. Whereas the EU together
could stand up to Washington, separately the countries can be browbeat
and offered more money or threats that illicit love affairs will
be revealed to shut them up. Washington is betting on its power
to intimidate individual countries with the threat of isolation
and being cut off from money. If the EU countries agree to the secret
bilateral explanations from Washington, the affair will end and
the spying on Europe will continue while Washington and the EU politicians
deny that the spying continues.
By now the
entire world must know that Washington is not merely lawless, but
also totally out of control, reveling in arrogance and hubris, driven
by desires for hegemony over the entire world. Washington is so
paranoid and distrustful that it doesn’t even trust its own
citizens or the European puppet governments that it has bought and
paid for.
Washington
is the only government that has ever used nuclear weapons, and Washington
used them against a defeated government that was trying to surrender.
Today the craziness in Washington is much worse. Decision-making
councils are full of crazed neoconservative war-mongers, such as
National Security Advisor Susan Rice, a threat to humanity. Washington
think tanks and media are over-represented by neoconservatives such
as William Kristol who wants to know “what good are nuclear
weapons if you can’t use them?”
The sleazy
European politicians and media who took Washington’s money
provided for their own economic security, but they betrayed the
security of the entire world. By enabling Washington’s hegemony,
they unleashed Washington’s arrogance. This arrogance now threatens
not merely the independence of every country but life on earth.
Instead of
meeting unilaterally alone with Washington, the European countries
should
stand together. After all, supposedly there is an EU. If there is
an EU, Washington should meet with the EU, not with its constituent
parts individually, no one of which can stand up to Washington’s
intimidation and bribes.
If thermo-nuclear
war is to be avoided and life is to continue on earth, Europe must
disband NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed
in the aftermath of World War II. Its purpose was to prevent the
powerful Red Army, which defeated Nazi Germany, from overrunning
all of Western Europe.
The Soviet
Union collapsed in 1991, 22 years ago. Yet, NATO still exists. Moreover,
against President Reagan’s intentions, NATO has grown. NATO
now includes former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire, such
as Eastern Europe, and former constituent parts of the Soviet Union
itself, such as Georgia, the government of which is bought and paid
for by Washington. The NGOs that Washington funds might even deliver
Ukraine into Washington’s fold.
Egged
on by Washington, Georgia initiated a war with present day Russia,
which superior Russian forces quickly ended. In the opinion of many,
the Russian government showed far too much tolerance for its defeated
enemy, which is being rearmed by Washington and encouraged into
new military adventures. Washington is working to make Georgia,
located in Asia between the Black and Caspian seas, a member of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO membership would make
Georgia a treaty protectorate of Washington and its NATO puppets.
Washington thinks that this elevation of Georgia would result in
Russia acquiescing to Georgian aggression in order to avoid war
with the US and NATO.
China, also,
has been amazingly abused by Washington, and instead of replying
in kind, has taken it in stride. This magnanimity on the part of
the Chinese has been misinterpreted by Washington as fear. The fear
that Washington imagines is causing China to quake in its boots
has encouraged Washington to surround China with new naval, air,
and troop bases. The fact that however numerous are Washington’s
bases in the Pacific and South China Sea, Washington itself is an
ICBM away has not registered on the ignorant scum that rules Amerika.
Overwhelmed by its hubris, Washington threatens all life on earth.
July
3, 2013
Paul
Craig Roberts, a
former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases
of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book,
The
Tyranny of Good Intentions,
co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how
americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random
House. Visit his website.
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