{"id":361864,"date":"2018-05-19T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=361864"},"modified":"2018-05-19T04:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:22:15","slug":"europe-national-sovereignty-versus-international-conquest-at-stake-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/europe-national-sovereignty-versus-international-conquest-at-stake-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe: National Sovereignty versus International Conquest, at Stake over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Europe now faces its ultimate ideological fork-in-the-road, which it has thus far ignored but can no longer ignore: They need to decide whether they seek a world of nations that each is sovereign over its own territory but over no other (and this would not be a world at war); or whether they seek instead a world in which they are part of the American empire, a world based on conquests \u2014 NATO, IMF, World Bank, and the other U.S.-controlled international institutions \u2014 and in which their own nation\u2019s citizens are subject to the dictatorship by America\u2019s aristocracy: the same super-rich individuals who effectively control the U.S. Government itself (see this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> \u2014 and that\u2019s dictatorship by the richest, in the United States).<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has become this fateful fork-in-the-road, and the immediate issue here is America\u2019s cancellation of the Iran nuclear deal that America had signed along with 6 other countries, and America\u2019s consequent restoration of economic sanctions against Iran \u2014 sanctions against companies anywhere that continue trading with Iran. First, however, some essential historical background on that entire issue: <\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. aristocracy overthrew Iran\u2019s democratically elected Government in 1953 and imposed there a barbaric dictatorship which did the bidding of the U.S. and allied aristocracies, by installing the Pahlavi Shah there, just as they had earlier, in 1932, installed the Saud King in Saudi Arabia \u2014 which land never ever had known democracy<\/span><\/a>. As Wikipedia says of Ibn Saud<\/span><\/a>, who became King in 1932, \u201cAfter World War I, he received further support from the British, including a glut of surplus munitions. He launched his campaign against the Al Rashidi in 1920; by 1922 they had been all but destroyed,\u201d with Britain\u2019s help. Similarly, the U.S. and its British Imperial partner installed Pahlavi as Iran\u2019s Shah in 1953. This was done by U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower. After the death of the anti-imperialistic U.S. President FDR, in 1945, the U.S. Government quickly became pro-imperialistic under President Harry S. Truman (whom imperial England\u2019s Winston Churchill wrapped around his little finger), and then even more so under Eisenhower, so that during the brief presidency of Ike\u2019s successor President JFK, the anti-imperialistic ghost of FDR was coming to haunt the White House and thus again threaten the conjoined U.S.-UK\u2019s aristocracies\u2019 surging global control. Kennedy was quickly souring on, and coming to oppose, imperialism (just as FDR had done) \u2014 he was opposing conquest and dominion for its own sake. So, he became assassinated and the evidence was covered-up, so that the CIA, which Truman had installed and which Eisenhower placed firmly under the control of America\u2019s aristocratically controlled military-industrial complex, became increasingly America\u2019s own Deep State, designed for global conquest (though using an \u2018anti-communist\u2019 excuse and cover for their real and ruling motive of global conquest and dominion). <\/span><\/p>\n

When the U.S.-imposed Shah was overthrown by an authentic revolution in 1979, America\u2019s continued alliance with the UK-U.S.-installed Saud family turned into a U.S.-UK alliance against Iran, which nation has ever since been demonized by the U.S. and UK aristocracies as being a \u2018terrorist regime\u2019, even though Saudi Arabia actually dominates global Islamic terrorism<\/span><\/a>, and Iran is opposed to terrorism (except to terrorism that\u2019s aimed against Israel<\/span><\/a>). And everybody who knows anything on sound basis is aware of these established historical facts. But, actually, the U.S.-Saudi alliance is even worse than that: global Islamic terrorism was invented and organized by the U.S. aristocracy in conjunction with the Saud family starting in 1979<\/span><\/a> when Iran freed itself from the U.S.-UK dictatorship and restored Iranian sovereignty (even though in a highly compromised Shiite theocratic way, nothing at all like the secular Iranian democracy that had been overthrown by the U.S. and UK aristocracies in 1953). The U.S. and Sauds created Islamic terrorism in 1979 in order to draw the Soviet Union into Afghanistan and ultimately used these terrorist proxy “boots on the ground” so as to force the Soviets out of Afghanistan \u2014 thereby draining the Soviet economy in the hope of ultimately conquering the U.S.S.R. and then conquering Russia itself<\/span><\/a>, which the U.S. President GHW Bush on the night of 24 February 1990 made clear that the U.S. and its allies must do \u2014 he gave the European vassal-nations their marching-order on that date<\/span><\/a>, and they have reliably followed that order, until now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia, which the U.S. aristocracy craves to conquer, is an ally of Iran (which they hope to re-conquer). The basic principle of America\u2019s aristocracy is repudiation of national sovereignty. That\u2019s what the U.S. Government globally stands for today. Russian Television headlined on May 11th, \u201c\u2018Are we America\u2019s vassals?\u2019 France vows to trade with Iran in defiance of US \u2018economic policeman\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s re-imposition of U.S. economic sanctions against any companies that do business with Iran, is being resisted by all the other nations that had signed the Obama-Kerry nuclear accord with Iran, the \u201cJCPOA\u201d treaty<\/span><\/a>: UK, France, China, Russia, U.S., and EU (which is led by Germany). The U.S. regime knows that if even America\u2019s allies \u2014 UK, France, and Germany \u2014 hold together with Iran, to defy the Imperial actions punishing them for continuing with Iran even after the U.S. pull-out from the treaty, then the Western Alliance will be jeopardized, if not terminated altogether, and finally the Cold War, which GHW Bush had ordered the allies to continue even after the end of the U.S.S.R., and of its communism, and of its Warsaw Pact military alliance mirroring America\u2019s NATO alliance, will finally end also on America\u2019s side, just as it had ended in 1991 on the Soviet Union\u2019s side. Such an end to the Cold War would possibly cause America\u2019s military-industrial complex \u2014 and the stock values of mega-corporations such as Lockheed Martin \u2014 to collapse. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, the U.S. aristocracy is afraid of peace replacing their existing permanent-war economy. All those trillions of dollars that have been invested in machines of mass-murder abroad, could plunge in value, if UK, France, and Germany, terminate the Western Alliance, and become individual sovereign nations who join with Iran \u2014 another individual sovereign nation \u2014 to say no to the Imperial power (the U.S.), and yes to national sovereignty, which sovereignty constitutes the sole foundation-stone upon which any and all democracies are constructed. No democracy can exist in any nation that is a vassal to some other (the imperial power). In a world where national sovereignty is honored, democracy would not necessarily exist everywhere, but it would no longer be internationally prohibited by an imperial power, which inevitably is itself a dictatorship, no real democracy at all<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On March 3rd, the 175-year-old imperial magazine, The Economist<\/i>, headlined against China as an enemy in this continuing Cold War, \u201cHow the West got China wrong\u201d<\/span><\/a> and explained \u201cthe Chinese threat\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChina is not a market economy and, on its present course, never will be. Instead, it increasingly controls business as an arm of state power. \u2026 Foreign businesses are profitable but miserable, because commerce always seems to be on China\u2019s terms.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The imperialistic view is that the international dictator and its corporations should rule \u2014 there should be no real sovereign other than this dictatorship, by the U.S. regime now, since America is today\u2019s imperialist nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps Europe now will make the fateful decision, between international dictatorship on the one side, or else the supreme sovereignty of each and every nation on the other, to determine its own laws \u2014 and to require any corporation that does business there to adhere to its legal system and to none other: the supremacy of each nation within its own territory, not of any international corporations, not even of ones that are based in some international-bully country that says it\u2019s \u201cthe one indispensable nation\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u2014 meaning that every other<\/i> nation is<\/i> \u201cdispensable.\u201d Russia won\u2019t accept that. Iran won\u2019t accept that. China won\u2019t accept that. Will Germany accept it \u2014 the land of the original: \u201cDeutschland \u00fcber alles\u201d? Will France? Will UK? <\/span><\/p>\n

Americans accept it. The U.S. public are very effectively controlled by America\u2019s aristocracy. A Yougov poll at the start of 2017<\/span><\/a> (the start of Trump\u2019s Presidency) asked over 7,000 Americans to rate countries as \u201cenemy\u201d, \u201cunfriendly\u201d, \u201cfriendly\u201d, \u201cally\u201d, or \u201cnot sure\u201d; and, among the 144 rated countries, Americans placed at the most hostile end, in order from the very worst, to the 13th-from-worst: North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Sudan. Other than Saudi Arabia, which the U.S. Government treats as being its master<\/span><\/a> if not as being its very top ally, and which is, in any case, by far the U.S. military\u2019s biggest customer<\/span><\/a> (other than the U.S. Government, of course), that list from Yougov looks very much like, or else close to, what America\u2019s aristocracy would want to see targeted, as being America\u2019s \u2018enemies\u2019. So, other than Americans\u2019 including the top ally both of America\u2019s aristocracy and of Israel<\/span><\/a>‘s aristocracy, Saudi Arabia, on that list of enemies, the list was very much what the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s \u2019news\u2019media had been promoting as being<\/i> America\u2019s \u2018enemies\u2019. In fact, even though those \u2018news\u2019media haven\u2019t informed Americans that 92% of Saudi Arabians approve of ISIS<\/span><\/a>, or that the Saudi royal family financed and organized the 9\/11 attacks<\/span><\/a> (in conjunction with others of George W. Bush\u2019s friends<\/span><\/a>), Americans view Saudi Arabia hostilely. That\u2019s acceptable to America\u2019s aristocracy, because the Saud family\u2019s hatred is focused against Iran, the main Shiite nation, and the U.S. public (have been deceive to) prefer Saudi Arabia over Iran. In fact, a 17 February 2016 Gallup poll<\/span><\/a> showed that Iran was seen by Americans as being even more hostile toward Americans than is Saudi Arabia. So, America\u2019s aristocracy have no reason to be concerned that their chief ally and second-from-top governmental customer, the Saud family, are unfavorably viewed by the U.S. public. Both in America and in Saudi Arabia, the aristocracy effectively controls its public. Thus, the American people think in the way that the American aristocracy want them to \u2014 supporting any conquest (e.g., Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2012-<\/span><\/a>) that the aristocracy want to perpetrate. Of course, the way to achieve this control is by means of the windows through which the public get to see the world around them, which windows on the world are the nation\u2019s \u2018news\u2019media.<\/span><\/p>\n

On May 12th, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) reported that the American people are very effectively controlled to believe Iran to be America\u2019s enemy and very dangerous to us. The headline was \u201cMedia Debate Best Way to Dominate Iran\u201d<\/span><\/a> and the article documented that the American people are being very intensively propagandized by the aristocratically controlled media, to favor aggression against Iran, and are being heavily lied-to, in order to achieve this.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, though the American public will continue to support the American Government (despite distrusting both their government and their \u2018news\u2019media<\/span><\/a>), foreign publics aren\u2019t so rigidly under the control of America\u2019s aristocracy; and therefore Europe\u2019s aristocracies could abandon their alliance with the U.S. aristocracy, if they strongly enough want<\/i> to. Their \u2018news\u2019media would obediently do whatever they\u2019re told, and could begin immediately portraying the reality of the U.S. Government, to their people \u2014 including, for example, the reality that the U.S. stole Ukraine<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and some of the participants have even confessed their roles<\/span><\/a><\/span>; Russia did not<\/i> steal Crimea<\/span><\/a> (and the Crimea-Ukraine issue was the alleged spark for the \u2018restoration\u2019 of the Cold War \u2014 which The West never actually ended on its side, only Russia did on its side<\/span><\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n

An end of The Western Alliance (America\u2019s empire) could happen. But it would require \u2014 from the EU\u2019s leaders (and\/or from Turkey\u2019s Erdogan) \u2014 courage, conviction, and a commitment to national sovereignty\u2019s being the foundation-stone to any democracy anywhere, and this change-of-political-theory would be something drastically new in Europe (and-or in Turkey), which is a region that has historically been staunchly supportive of empires, and thus supportive of dictatorships (ones that are compliant \u2014 foreign stooge-regimes). That would require a historic sea-change. Iran\u2019s peace, if not Iran\u2019s very existence (and maybe even world peace), might be depending upon this slender hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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