{"id":109192,"date":"2014-03-01T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=74899c2bc268616541531a75897fc81b"},"modified":"2014-03-01T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T07:39:00","slug":"turning-the-world-right-side-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/turning-the-world-right-side-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the World Right Side Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\"><b>Turning the World Right Side Up<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Lawless imperial rampaging turns it upside down. America is the main world belligerent. War on humanity is longstanding policy.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">So is replacing all sovereign independent governments with pro-US vassal ones. Obama&#8217;s war on Syria rages. Conditions in Ukraine remain incendiary.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Obama wants regime change in Venezuela. He stoked weeks of violence pursuing it. He&#8217;s waging war on freedom at home.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Imagine championing democratic freedoms while going all-out to destroy them. Obama wants them extinguished globally.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Today is the most perilous time in world history. Daily events should scare everyone. At stake is humanity&#8217;s survival.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Conditions go from bad to worse. Peacemakers are vilified. Warmakers win peace prizes.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Propagandists glorify war in the name of peace. Nations are destroyed to free them. Monied interests alone benefit.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Obama exceeds the worst of George Bush. He heads a ruthless police state apparatus. He seeks unchallenged global dominance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He wants it over world markets, resources and cheap labor. He wants it at the expense of fundamental freedoms and social justice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Fundamental rights don&#8217;t matter. Upside reality conceals things. Mass action more than ever is needed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Nuclear war by miscalculation is possible. Planetary life is threatened. Conditions in countries America destroys reveal what&#8217;s heading everywhere unless stopped.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They include mass impoverishment, unemployment and underemployment. Expect homeless and hunger to increase.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Social benefits will disappear entirely. Nations will be left unfit to live in. Bilderberg objectives will be achieved. They include:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">one size fits all global rules;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">one set of universal values benefitting them exclusively;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">unchallenged control of world populations;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">achieving it by mind control and coercion;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">transforming NATO into a global police force;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">eliminating democracy entirely;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">destroying middle class societies;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">replacing them with a ruler\/serf one; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">benefitting monied interests at the expense of all others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Longstanding rule of law principles will be discarded. Civil and human rights won&#8217;t matter.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">America will emerge the sole superpower. Outliers are being destroyed one by one. China and Russia alone are challengers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Plans are to weaken and neutralize them. They&#8217;re preparing for global war. America threatens them. They&#8217;re allied defensively.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re readying for scenarios they hope to avoid. Washington plays hardball. Imagine potential calamity ahead.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Russia and China represent our last line of defense. Media scoundrels vilify them unfairly. Putin bashing is relentless.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Murdoch publications are relentless. On February 28, the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304255604579408552842423072?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304255604579408552842423072.html\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Wall Street Journal <\/span><\/a>headlined &#8220;Russia Fosters Ukraine Discord.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Claiming it turns truth on its head. Crimea installed a pro-Russian leader. Journal writers worry about the autonomous province becoming the epicenter of anti-Kiev resistance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;A separatist Crimea could wind up like other Moscow-backed breakaway regions across the former Soviet Union,&#8221; they said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Journal calls them &#8220;contested territories that Russia&#8217;s neighbors accuse the Kremlin of using as levers to pressure them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin and Obama are geopolitical opposites. Putin prioritizes peace and stability. Obama thrives on violence. He wages one imperial war after another.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin believes nation-state sovereignty is inviolable. Obama believes he&#8217;s granted the divine right to intervene.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin affirms fundamental rule of law principles. Obama spurns them. He considers them quaint, old fashioned and obstacles to unchallenged global dominance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin won&#8217;t roll over for America. An inevitable confrontation looms. Ukraine could become a key flashpoint.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">John Kerry warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Washington will be watching, he said. The fullness of time may tell what he means.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Vladimir Konstantinov chairs Crimea&#8217;s parliament. His people will defend their autonomy, he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He convened a special legislative emergency session. Sergei Aksyonov was named new prime minister.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He heads the Russian Unity party. It promotes joint Crimean\/Russian interests.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Journal editors want none of that. On February 27, they <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303801304579409363680132726?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303801304579409363680132726.html\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">headlined<\/span><\/a> &#8220;Crimean War Games. Putin moves to carve up Ukraine if he can get away with it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington and EU partners &#8220;can&#8217;t harbor any more doubts about (his) intention to provoke violent conflict in Europe,&#8221; they said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They blamed Putin for what Crimeans did on their own defensively. They want their autonomy respected.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They reject fascist Kiev authority. They have every right to do so. Journal editors didn&#8217;t explain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re furious about Moscow granting Ukraine&#8217;s legitimate president protection. Viktor Yanukovych is safe in southern Russia. He&#8217;s in Rostov-on-Don.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He held a Friday news conference. He was outspoken. He placed blame where it belongs, saying:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Now I place the entire responsibility on those who led our country to the crisis, I would say to the chaos and disaster. They are to blame for that.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Both those who came to power today and those who command them on Maidan, both visibly and invisibly.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Including representatives of the West, the United States who patronized Maidan.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;They bear responsibility before the Ukrainian people.&#8221; They broke the February 21 agreement. They never intended to go along. Saying otherwise was pretense.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He justifiably called coup d&#8217;etat Rada delagates illegitimate. He urged Russia to &#8220;put an end to the chaos and terror that exists in Ukraine today.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He &#8220;categorically (opposes) any invasion&#8230;and breach of the integrity of what was a sovereign state.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Russia cannot stay indifferent. It cannot distance itself from what is going to happen to such a large partner, a neighbor.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;ll meet face-to-face with Putin. He&#8217;s a strategic partner. He&#8217;ll learn more about his intentions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin spoke to Britain&#8217;s David Cameron, Germany&#8217;s Angela Merkel and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">No escalated violence should be permitted, he said. Lavrov spoke to John Kerry.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He stressed the urgency to return Kiev to &#8220;the legal framework (under) the February 21 agreement&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He knows Washington subverted it. Agreements are made to be broken. Endorsements aren&#8217;t worth the paper they&#8217;re written on.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Journal editors wrongfully blamed Yanukovych for murders US-supported street thugs committed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Mr. Putin isn&#8217;t picky about his company,&#8221; they said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Washington backs some of the world&#8217;s worst despots. It deplores independent democrats. It goes all-out to topple them.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Mr. Yanukovych may be a pawn-in-exile in the Russian&#8217;s game of destabilizing Crimea, and perhaps also the eastern, Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine that were the ousted leader&#8217;s political base,&#8221; said Journal editors.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They lied saying he used &#8220;live ammunition (on protesters) at Moscow&#8217;s behest and with direct help from Russian military advisers.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Putin and Lavrov went all-out to resolve months of conflict diplomatically. Washington bears full responsibility for escalating it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Violent destabilization furthers US regime change policy. Diplomacy and stability defeat it. Don&#8217;t expect Journal editors explain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They called Putin &#8220;unpredictable&#8230;A tweet from NATO headquarters won&#8217;t change things,&#8221; they added. Nor anything Kerry tells Lavrov.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They pretend Ukraine&#8217;s coup d&#8217;etat government is democratic. It&#8217;s &#8220;on the line,&#8221; they said. So is peace in Europe potentially, they claim.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;The alarm is ringing in Crimea,&#8221; they stressed. Indeed so. Not for what Journal editors endorse.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They support unchallenged imperial dominance. They want it anyway Washington can get it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They deplore democratic freedoms. They want beneficial social justice denied.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They want monied interests alone served. They want ordinary people exploited for profit.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They want societies made unfit to live in. Imagine the worst of all possible worlds if they get their way.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His new book is titled &#8220;Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning the World Right Side Upby Stephen LendmanLawless imperial rampaging turns it upside down. America is the main world belligerent. 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