{"id":358977,"date":"2018-04-29T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turning-on-russia-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-04-29T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:56:59","slug":"turning-on-russia-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turning-on-russia-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning on Russia \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In this first of a two-part series, Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould trace the origins of the neoconservative targeting of Russia.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The German newsmagazine <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Der Spiegel<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> last September<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/eu-worries-over-u-s-economy-grow-a-1166809.html\">reported<\/a> that, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cStanley Fischer, the 73\u2013year-old vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is familiar with the decline of the world\u2019s rich. He spent his childhood and youth in the British protectorate of Rhodesia\u2026 before going to London in the early 1960s for his university studies. There, he experienced first-hand the unravelling of the British Empire\u2026 Now an American citizen, Fischer is currently witnessing another major power taking its leave of the world stage\u2026 the United States is losing its status as a global hegemonic power, he said recently\u2026 The U.S. political system could take the world in a very dangerous direction\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the creation of the so called Wolfowitz Doctrine in 1992 during the administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, the United States claimed the mantle of the world\u2019s first and only Unipower with the intention of crushing any nation or system that would oppose it in the future. The New World Order, foreseen just a few short years ago, becomes more disorderly by the day, made worse by varying degrees of incompetence and greed emanating from Berlin, London, Paris and Washington. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">As a further sign of the ongoing seismic shocks rocking America\u2019s claim to leadership, by the time Fischer\u2019s interview appeared in the online version of the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Der Spiegel<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">, he had already announced his resignation as vice chair of the Federal Reserve\u2014eight months ahead of schedule. If anyone knows about the decline and fall of empires it is the \u201cglobalist\u201d and former Bank of Israel president, Stanley Fischer. Not only did he experience the unravelling of the British Empire as a young student in London, he directly assisted in the wholesale dismantling of the Soviet Empire during the 1990s.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As an admitted product of the British Empire and point man for its long term imperial aims, that makes Fischer not just empire\u2019s Angel of Death, but its rag and bone man. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/04\/29\/turning-on-russia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this first of a two-part series, Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould trace the origins of the neoconservative targeting of Russia. By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel last September reported that, \u201cStanley Fischer, the 73\u2013year-old vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is familiar with the decline of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}