{"id":142685,"date":"2014-12-16T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=142685"},"modified":"2014-12-18T03:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T03:44:49","slug":"u-s-govt-seeks-excuse-nuclear-attack-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-govt-seeks-excuse-nuclear-attack-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Gov&#8217;t. Seeks Excuse to Nuclear-Attack Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Never Was a March on Washington More Needed<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n<p>The world is more nervous about the drift toward nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia than at any time since 1962\u2019s Cuban Missile Crisis. When French President Francois Hollande urgently side-tracked his return-flight from a diplomatic mission recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/hollande-to-meet-putin-in-surprise-moscow-visit-reports\/a-18113463\">in order to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Moscow\u2019s Vnukovo Airport<\/a>, at a private room that had been scoured ahead of time to eliminate any possible bugging devices, there was speculation as to what had caused Hollande\u2019s sudden detour, and there were even rumors of a possible cause being an American \u201cfalse-flag\u201d event in the works to be blamed on Russia as a pretext for going to war against Russia, just as Russia had been <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/western-news-suppression-downing-mh-17-malaysian-jet\/\">falsely blamed for the Ukrainian military\u2019s downing of Malaysia\u2019s airliner MH17 on July 17th<\/a>. All that was publicly released about the two-hour meeting were platitudes, hardly anything that would have justified side-tracking Hollande\u2019s flight so as to surprise intelligence agencies and be able to meet the Russian leader in an untapped room.<\/p>\n<p>The level of fear is certainly rising on both sides. On the U.S. side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/russia.htm\">the CBS News Poll in summer 2007 found 6% of Americans calling Russia an \u201cenemy\u201d; seven years later, that same figure was 22%<\/a>. However, what is not rumor nor fear, but proven fact, by Obama\u2019s own actions as will be documented here, is that he wants a war against Russia and is trying hard to get Europe (including Hollande) onboard with this goal in order to win it; and that America\u2019s Republican Party want this at least as much as he does, though the American public do not.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party (in the House and Senate) are staying as quiet as possible about a \u2018Democratic\u2019 President pushing them toward World War III, which is a goal that Republicans have always been far more eager for than Democrats. (Republicans are famous for \u201cSpeak softly but carry a big stick,\u201d and for swinging it as hard as they can, especially against Russians.) In fact, one of the reasons why Obama won the Presidency is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2012\/sep\/07\/barack-obama\/obama-says-romney-called-russia-our-no-1-enemy\/\">he criticized his 2012 Republican opponent Mitt Romney for saying of Russia, \u201cThis is without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That dissent by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama appealed to the U.S. public at the time, but not to America\u2019s aristocracy, who are a mix of people some of whom hate Russians and others of whom don\u2019t care about Russians, but none of whom are passionate opponents of nuclear war (a diverse group that they lump contemptuously with \u201cpeaceniks\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>For example, one major mouthpiece of Democratic Party aristocrats has always been <em>The New Republic<\/em>, and on 17 September 2014 they headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/119472\/russias-geopolitical-threat-and-obamas-meeting-poroshenko\">\u201cObama Can&#8217;t Admit That Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our &#8216;Top Geopolitical Threat\u2019.\u201d<\/a> Another one is the <em>National Journal<\/em>, the aristocracy\u2019s version of its companion propaganda-operation (owned by the same aristocrat as) <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. On 7 May 2014 (just five days after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/05\/key-man-behind-may-2nd-odessa-ukraine-trade-unions-building-massacre-many-connections-white-house.html\">Obama\u2019s people<\/a> had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/05\/videos-photos-odessan-massacre-done.html\">massacred pro-Russians in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa<\/a> and thereby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/05\/civil-war-begun-ukraine-u-s-backs-neo-nazis-democrats-u-s-media-suppress-news.html\">started the extermination-campaign against them, or \u201ccivil war\u201d<\/a> that\u2019s still raging), the <em>National Journal <\/em>headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/mitt-romney-was-right-russia-is-our-biggest-geopolitical-foe-20130507\">\u201cMitt Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our Biggest Geopolitical Foe.<\/a>\u201d Conservative \u2018Democrats\u2019 are just Republicans spelled with a \u201cD\u201d; but, when it\u2019s an aristocrat, they know how to spell, and are just trying to deceive the ones who don\u2019t. This is why \u2018liberal\u2019 magazines are prized possessions of the aristocracy \u2013 to deceive the ones who don\u2019t know the difference and who think that it\u2019s fine in a democracy for politics to be merely a choice between two conservative parties, one of which is called by a meaningless adjective \u2018liberal.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The people who fund both political Parties are virtually united in that fascist belief: they don\u2019t even mind <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/meet-ukraines-master-mass-murderer-dmitriy-yarosh\/\">backing racist facists or \u201cnazis\u201d<\/a>; many of them are precisely that themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is with them (and with Wall Street, and with Big Ag, and Big Oil, and Big Military), against the public. But he\u2019s smart enough a politician to pretend otherwise, and his aristocratic funders respect this. (There were no hard feelings for his exploiting Romney\u2019s politically stupid public assertion; they knew that it was an Obama pose: he\u2019s a \u2018Democrat,\u2019 after all.)<\/p>\n<p>For America\u2019s elite, the Cold War never ended, because it was never really about communism versus capitalism \u2013 not for them. They are fascists, and they want global dominance. Capitalism, shmapitalism; all they really care about is dominating the world, destroying enemies, which means anyone who refuses to be controlled by them.<\/p>\n<p>Aristocracy hasn\u2019t changed since, well, long before the Bible began. Domination is the big thing, for the aristocracy. Russia threatens the vaunted global control by America\u2019s aristocracy, their dominance over all other aristocracies, because Russia is the second-most-powerful military nation. Russia is the only nation that can say no to U.S. aristocrats and (maybe) get away with it. That\u2019s what this conflict is all about. It\u2019s why they ratcheted up the \u201cenemy\u201d figure for Russia from 6% to 22% in just the past seven years.<\/p>\n<p>As President Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/05\/28\/remarks-president-west-point-academy-commencement-ceremony\">speech at West Point, on 28 May 2014<\/a>, propagandized for (i.e., rationalized) this conquer-Russia view on the part of America\u2019s aristocracy: &#8220;Russia&#8217;s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China&#8217;s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us.\u201d So, Obama made clear to the graduating West Point cadets that the BRIC countries are the enemy (Russia and its leading supporters of international independence, the enemies against a mono-polar or \u201chegemonic\u201d world), from the standpoint of America\u2019s aristocracy, whom the U.S. military now serves to the exclusion of any public interest. Ours want to crush the aristocrats in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Though it\u2019s alright for those other countries to produce more, that\u2019s true only if American aristocrats control the local ones there, like in any other international empire \u2013 <em>not<\/em> if the local nation\u2019s aristocrats control the country. That\u2019s not the way aristocrats in banana republics are supposed to behave. They\u2019re not supposed to be <em>independent countries<\/em>. Not really.<\/p>\n<p>The President who had invaded Libya and Syria, and re-invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and who perpetrated a violent overthrow and installed <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/meet-ukraines-master-mass-murderer-dmitriy-yarosh\/\">racist fascists<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/\">nazis<\/a>) in control of Ukraine, is lecturing the world against &#8220;Russia&#8217;s aggression,\u201d for its having accepted back into Russia&#8217;s traditional fold little Crimea, which craved to return to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s got some gall to do that, but in order to be a cadet at West Point (and thus be there hearing his speech) one needed to be either a sucker or else a cravenous tool of the aristocracy, as the military has traditionally served; so, Obama played them for being both, and they evidently liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Obama knows how to speak down to an audience and fool them into thinking he respects them. But, to aristocrats, his respect is no mere act at all; he not only respects them, he lies for them, and he protects them, because he self-identifies with them, and not with the public (who just provide his voters, the people that are forced to choose between him versus Romney, or else to go for a mere token protest-vote or non-vote, such as American \u2018democracy\u2019 has degenerated into being).<\/p>\n<p>Obama was enemy-izing (turning into enemies) nations that don\u2019t want to serve as America\u2019s banana republics. Similarly, for example, the British Empire didn\u2019t wish for local aristocrats in India to be in control, but only for those client aristocrats to be of <em>use<\/em>. That\u2019s what it means to be a client nation (or, in the American case, a banana republic).<\/p>\n<p>Obama, in his speech, added, placing a clear hyper-nationalistic coloration on his promotion of America\u2019s empire: \u201cThe United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.\u201d (Hitler thought the same thing of Germany.) He promised to keep it that way: \u201cThat has been true for the century passed [<em>sp<\/em>.: past [[somebody at the White House didn\u2019t know the difference between \u2018past\u2019 and \u2018passed\u2019]] and it will be true for the century to come.\u201d (At least he wasn\u2019t predicting there a Thousand-Year Reich.)<\/p>\n<p>So: that\u2019s historical background to Obama&#8217;s plan for using Ukraine as a stepping-stone toward conquering Russia \u2013 one of the few favors he hasn&#8217;t yet achieved for his sponsors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/obama-definitely-lied-about-having-intent-to-prosecute-banksters\/5375269?print=1\">after having protected them from what he contemptuously calls (in private) the \u201cpitchforks\u201d<\/a>; a.k.a., the public. (And he really did call us \u201cpitchforks\u201d there, in private. To him, the public were like the KKK; and the mega-bank CEOs whom he was confiding to were like the people KKKers lynched. That\u2019s the type of \u2018Black\u2019 he actually is. Blacks should loathe him, but most people, black and white, can\u2019t see beyond his skin-color and liberal platitudes. They\u2019ve got their categories wrong, and the aristocracy-controlled media like that just fine. Stereotypes help aristocrats control political outcomes. It\u2019s button-pushing for them.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/featured\/u-s-congress-now-virtually-100-ukraines-war-russia-americans-least-67-opposed\/\">On December 11th, the U.S. Senate voted 100% (unanimously) to donate U.S. weapons to the Ukrainian Government<\/a> in its war against Russia. <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-house-votes-98-donate-u-s-weapons-ukraine-u-s-public-67\/\">On December 4th, 98% of the U.S. House had done likewise<\/a>. Both bills also accuse Russia of having invaded Ukraine, and this accusation of an aggressive Russia provides a pretext for the U.S. to attack Russia, now that the Ukrainian Government has flipped from neutral (according to some estimations) or pro-Russian (according to others) to being clearly and publicly anti-Russian, by means of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw\">U.S.-engineered coup that occurred in February of this year, when masked gunmen, who were actually hired mercenaries, dressed themselves as if they were instead Ukrainian security forces, and fired into a crowd of \u201cMaidan\u201d anti-corruption protesters and police<\/a>, and the U.S. Government immediately blamed Ukraine\u2019s then-President for doing that, and Ukraine\u2019s parliament or \u201cRada,\u201d who weren\u2019t in on the scheme and didn\u2019t know about it, promptly elected \u201cYats\u201d Yatsenyuk, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM\">secretly been appointed 18 days prior to lead the country, by Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department<\/a>. \u201cYats&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/peoplesworld.org\/ukrainian-ultra-rightists-given-major-cabinet-posts-in-government\/\">immediately installed a far-right Government, filled with people who had already committed themselves to a Ukrainian war against Russia<\/a>. They then promptly set about terminating Russia\u2019s 42-year Crimean lease for Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet, which is key to Russia\u2019s security. Crimeans, who had <a href=\"http:\/\/pdf.usaid.gov\/pdf_docs\/pnaec705.pdf\">always overwhelmingly considered themselves to be Russians and not Ukrainians<\/a>, demonstrated against that Ukrainian move against them and against Russia, and Russian troops came into Crimea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/08\/obamas-war-russia-backfires.html\">to local applause, but to the condemnation from Washington and its allies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s taking back Crimea was not aggression at all, though America\u2019s noise-media say it was; it was instead protection of Crimeans against the CIA\u2019s American invasion of Ukraine. When the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev donated Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, it was much to the consternation of Crimeans at the time, and ever since. Yet, one of the explicit alleged \u2018justifications\u2019 for war against Russia, that are listed in the Republican House\u2019s bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/113\/hres758\/text\">\u201cWhereas the Russian Federation\u2019s forcible occupation and illegal annexation of Crimea. \u2026\u201d<\/a>) is a blatant lie, because Crimeans overwhelmingly wanted Russia\u2019s protection against the new, Obama-imposed, Ukrainian regime, which Obama\u2019s State Department and CIA had just installed when overthrowing the President for whom nearly 80% of Crimeans had voted. In fact, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbg.gov\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/Ukraine-slide-deck.pdf\">poll that was issued by Gallup in June 2014<\/a> showed then that 71.3% of Crimeans viewed as \u201cMostly positive\u201d the role of Russia there, and 4.0% viewed it as \u201cMostly negative\u201d; by contrast, only 2.8% viewed the role of the United States there as \u201cMostly positive,\u201d and a whopping 76.2% viewed it as \u201cMostly negative.\u201d This wasn\u2019t much changed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2013%20October%207%20Survey%20of%20Crimean%20Public%20Opinion,%20May%2016-30,%202013.pdf\">a year-earlier Gallup poll<\/a>. The Republican Party (and thus the Republican-controlled House) is willing to lie blatantly (about this and other crucial matters) in order to justify invading Russia, as it did in invading Iraq in 2003 (<a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2014\/06\/27\/the-first-iraq-war-was-also-sold-to-the-public-based-on-a-pack-of-lies\/\">and even in 1991<\/a>); and Barack Obama is willing to lie blatantly too for the same reasons \u2013 such as about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/08\/seymour-hersh-syria-report_n_4409674.html\">source<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n08\/seymour-m-hersh\/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line\">sarin gas attack in Syria<\/a>, etc. \u2013 but there were enough Democrats in the U.S. Senate to block Obama\u2019s getting such blatant lies into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Substitute%20Amdt.%20to%20S.%202828.pdf\">the Senate\u2019s bill on Ukraine<\/a>, so it\u2019s much milder, even though it does give the Ukrainian Government $450 million of U.S. taxpayers\u2019 money. However, when Republicans take over the Senate in January, their bill will match the House\u2019s in its warmongering lies, and Obama will get all he wants for his planned war against Russia (not just the $450 million that the Democratic-controlled Senate bill has provided).<\/p>\n<p>So, now, both the Senate and the House, plus the U.S. President (via his State Department, CIA, FBI, and entire Administration), are actually at war, a hot war not a cold war, against Russia, through their proxy, their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=81d_1403227131\">made-in-Washington<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WPcilPbC0uA\">racist-fascist<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/\">nazi<\/a>, Government of Ukraine, which currently is doing the fighting and the killing and the dying, but which couldn\u2019t do it but for that Western backing.<\/p>\n<p>This should be analogized to Fidel Castro\u2019s takeover of Cuba and his and Soviet leader Khrushchev&#8217;s attempt to base near the U.S., Soviet nuclear missiles aimed against America. At that time, in 1962, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said that we\u2019d go to war against the USSR if necessary to prevent this; and today Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has implied, but not yet said, that his country will likewise go to war against the United States if necessary to stop its attempt to do against Russia what Khrushchev had been stopped from doing against the U.S. in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>However, the U.S. is now already farther along the warpath than the USSR had been in 1962. Already, many thousands of deaths have resulted from Ukraine\u2019s war against Russia and against its supporters inside what had previously been parts of Ukraine. In 1962, Cuba was at peace, except for a few bands of U.S.-backed Cubans, who were trying to overthrow Fidel Castro. Ukraine is today\u2019s Cuba, but even more of a danger. And, this time, the United States Government is trying to impose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/06\/really-need-re-start-cold-war.html\">nuclear supremacy<\/a>; the Soviet Union and its communism no longer even exist, and Russia is up against the mortal threat that is being wrongfully perpetrated by the U.S. against them.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, U.S. President Obama was serious when he tossed out Ukraine\u2019s President Viktor Yanukovych; and clearly he has the full backing of the U.S. Congress (though with some hesitation on the part of Democrats) to go to war against Russia and finish the job that he has begun.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for the ongoing donations \u2013 officially loans, but \u2018loans\u2019 to an already-bankrupt Government are donations \u2013 by both U.S. taxpayers and EU taxpayers, that are channeled mainly through the U.S. and EU and IMF, Ukraine would simply stop its hot war against Russia and against its own ethnic Russians; and the Ukrainian Government that we installed in February would just collapse. <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/featured\/u-s-taxpayers-now-alone-financing-ukraines-ethnic-cleansing-campaign\/\">The IMF and EU seem likely now to have ended their donations, but U.S. taxpayers certainly haven\u2019t ended ours.<\/a> We\u2019ve barely even started, though, ever since 1991, U.S. taxpayers have already invested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eaR1_an9CnQ\">\u201cover five billion dollars\u201d in this scheme<\/a> to bring \u2018democracy\u2019 to Ukraine, even before Obama\u2019s successful February coup provided the capstone to that entire Orwellian effort: America\u2019s aristocracy and its hired hands call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw\">this<\/a> \u2018democracy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2014\/12\/11\/the-us-congressional-declaration-war-against-russia.html\">his analysis of the American aristocrats, ranging from the Kochs on the right to the Soroses on the left<\/a>, who are lobbying for this campaign to get taxpayers to fund the American aristocracy\u2019s military take-over of other nations\u2019 aristocracies and resources. Madsen sees as being the few politicians in Washington who are resisting that, both Ron Paul (and definitely not his son Rand Paul) libertarians, and Dennis Kucinich progressives.<\/p>\n<p>Madsen doesn\u2019t note, however, that both of those men are now retired; so, they can afford to speak the truth without losing their jobs, since they\u2019ve already lost them. Among the U.S. aristocracy that finances politicians into federal offices, there is no visible support whatsoever for such dissidents challenging the aristocracy: when one of them somehow manages to get into the political system, they\u2019re removed from it, in one way or another, before they can do any damage to the U.S. aristocracy.<\/p>\n<p>This is how it came to be that <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/featured\/u-s-congress-now-virtually-100-ukraines-war-russia-americans-least-67-opposed\/\">98% of the House and 100% of the Senate voted for war against Russia, even though at least 67% of the American public who expressed an opinion about that in a Pew poll were opposed<\/a> (and this 67% figure might have been far higher if the question had been more directly asked, such as: \u201cShould the U.S. go to war against Russia in order to enable Ukraine to get back Crimea and conquer the rebelling regions in Ukraine\u2019s own former southeast?\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>This America is supposed to be a \u2018democracy,\u2019 in which 99% of Congress and the President want taxpayers to be required to donate to the Ukrainian military, but less than one-third of the American public want to make those donations. Is it instead actually taxation without representation \u2013 a modern fascist form of the very oligarchy that America\u2019s Founders went to war against and defeated in order to create America? How much more of a demonstration needs to be made that today\u2019s America is a dictatorship, not a representative democracy or republic? Only media pretend it\u2019s not a dictatorship, because they\u2019re part of it, owned by the same people who heisted our Government and who trade favors with one-another against us. Clearly, this is an us-versus-them situation in which oligarchs are the aggressors, who destroyed American democracy, and from which a democracy now must again be seized, because it has been stolen from us and will not be retaken without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Madsen also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2014\/12\/03\/israel-secret-plan-for-second-israel-in-ukraine.html\">an interesting explanation<\/a> as to why Israel is so passionately supportive of the racist-fascist, or nazi, Ukrainian political parties that the Obama Administration has placed in control of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of such speculations and evidence, however, there is nothing speculative about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/06\/indications-u-s-planning-nuclear-attack-russia.html\">the American Government\u2019s drive to nuclear war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part and parcel of the same deal that just passed in the U.S. Congress and was signed by the President, that in the event of any future U.S. financial crash, FDIC-insured bank accounts won\u2019t be paid until and unless the mega-banks that hold derivatives contracts get full payment on all of those gambling policies they had bought \u2013 i.e, never. Granny\u2019s savings account will get emptied out to pay Wall Street\u2019s gambling-debts. (Not that the U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media ever made such things clear to the public. But how do you think we had managed to obtain a Congress and a President like these are? The public had to be fooled by the aristocrats\u2019 propaganda, and the \u2018news\u2019 media had to help aristocrats fool them about it, because the \u2018news\u2019 media receive their funding from aristocrats, both as their owners and as their advertisers. The public are just pawns on their chessboard. This is what became of democracy: it\u2019s merely the residual verbal shell \u2013 \u2018democracy\u2019 \u2013 an Orwellian opposite of the original meaning.)<\/p>\n<p>As Obama told the mega-bank chiefs on 27 March 2009 in private, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/obama-definitely-lied-about-having-intent-to-prosecute-banksters\/5375269?print=1\">\u201cI\u2019m protecting you \u2026 My Administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s going to teach those granny-bank-account \u201cpitchforks,\u201d and such, a thing or two about \u201cthe one indispensable nation.\u201d Namely: those people in it, the public, are dispensable, even if not quite as much so as are the people his forces are <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/enemies-ukraine-speak\/\">slaughtering (ethnically cleansing) in southeast Ukraine and other such places, where the \u2018real riffraff&#8217; live<\/a>. The people in those areas are punished and killed for the crime of living where \u201cthe right people\u201d want them simply to be gone (preferably dead, but otherwise refugees in Russia, until the ICBMs kill them).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.\u201d But it\u2019s long since gone, and is now aiming to clear out land elsewhere, especially southeast Ukraine, to place nuclear missiles there.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s \u2018entrepreneurs\u2019 have work to do, across the globe; and all the charred remains of the nuclear \u2018victory\u2019 will be passed on to <em>their<\/em> proud heirs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the new American way, the way of \u2018entrepreneurs\u2019 \u2013 a.k.a. \u201cthe aristocracy\u201d \u2013 but actually only the \u2018entrepreneurs\u2019 who have been able to grab the most, who are billionaires. Only insiders can apply for admission. Outsiders can apply for a job, nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Obama had it all figured out. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eric-zuesse\/obama-i-dont-care-about-t_b_4978653.html\">Everything else from him was just an act<\/a>. He is the personification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eric-zuesse\/obama-lied-about-obamacar_b_5161578.html\">cynicism<\/a>, and of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/04\/obamas-first-amendment-defense-political-liars.html\">lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t think so, then how do you explain <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obama-definitely-caused-malaysian-airliner-downed\/\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/people-extermination-jobs-ukraine\/\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WPcilPbC0uA\">this<\/a>? Are those just innocent tragedies; and, if not, then who was the most indispensable person toward causing them to happen \u2013 causing them to be imposed by the Ukrainian Government that Obama\u2019s coup imposed upon Ukraine? Obama\u2019s decisions were essential in order to empower the people who are perpetrating this extermination-campaign, which is the bait intended to draw Vladimir Putin into a Ukrainian conflict so as to provide a pretext for an American nuclear attack against Russia \u2013 as if Russia doesn\u2019t have even more of a legitimate national-security interest in its Ukrainian neighbor than the U.S. had in its Cuban neighbor in 1962, when we rightly threatened nuclear war over that type of provocation.<\/p>\n<p>If the next U.S. President protects Obama from criminal prosecution for Ukraine like Obama protected Bush from criminal prosecution for Iraq, then the U.S. is hopelessly a lawless nation, no democracy at all.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the nuclear bombs in the war that Obama and the other stooges of America\u2019s aristocracy are building up to, will not be targeted against themselves and their psychopathic (often billionaire) sponsors. Those people will instead have their bomb-shelters, and their corporate jets.<\/p>\n<p>Oligarchs are foreign to a democracy. Consequently, their servants in government, especially America\u2019s current and former President, are foreign to the U.S. Constitution, and to their Oath of Office, and thus to this country, irrespective of their technical citizenship as \u2018American.\u2019 They should both be brought up on charges of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article39119.htm\">treason<\/a> against the United States of America; for, if they are not, then truly democracy is ended in this country, with no hope of restoration, and America\u2019s Presidents are not subject to American Law, but instead stand above it, beyond it, and immune from it. That makes them dictators, but for whom, and against whom? The record speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Reader-comments to this commentary, pro-and-con, are invited regarding this conclusion, especially because a public forum to discuss this severe matter is needed now \u2013 a turning-point in American, and (sad to say), perhaps also (if a nuclear attack occurs) a turning-point in global history. That\u2019s the case regardless of which side of this debate one is on. The fundamental character of this country is at stake now. The public should have a say in it (if that\u2019s still even possible, given that 99% of the media are in the hands of oligarchs \u2013 the very same aristocrats who benefit from the status-quo).<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear war is a serious matter, and the American Government must immediately halt their plan to provoke it. The time to force a halt to that is now, or else it will be never. Every step we get closer to nuclear war makes reversing the direction, which is toward war, even more difficult, and less likely, and makes <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/featured\/war-drums-beat-louder-faster-u-s-russia\/\">nuclear war<\/a> even likelier than it was before.<\/p>\n<p>If the public is to take charge (assuming that doing so is still possible), it will happen sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>The public discussion will begin now, if it begins at all.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re close to the precipice. Will the public remain quiet?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Not-Even-Close-Democratic\/dp\/1880026090\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339027537&amp;sr=8-9\"><em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> and of <em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Q1H4EG\">CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Was a March on Washington More Needed Eric Zuesse The world is more nervous about the drift toward nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia than at any time since 1962\u2019s Cuban Missile Crisis. 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