The
latest from Paul Craig Roberts
Washington
Is Driving The World To “The Final War”
Paul
Craig Roberts
28
June, 2013
“V
For Vendetta,” a film that portrays evil in a futuristic England as
a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends with the
defeat of evil. But this is a movie in which the hero has super
powers. If you have not seen this film, you should watch it. It
might wake you up and give you courage. The excerpts below show
that, at least among some filmmakers, the desire for liberty still
exists.
Whether
the desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen. If
Americans can overcome their gullibility, their lifelong
brainwashing, their propensity to believe every lie that “their”
government tells them, and if Americans can escape the Matrix in
which they live, they can reestablish the morality, justice, peace,
freedom, and liberty that “their” government has taken from them.
It is not impossible for Americans to again stand with uplifted
heads. They only have to recognize that “their” government
is the enemy of truth, justice, human rights and life itself.
Can
mere ordinary Americans triumph over the evil that is “their”
government without the aid of a superhero? If ideas are strong
enough and Americans can comprehend them, good can prevail over the
evil that is concentrated in Washington. What stands between the
American people and their comprehension of evil is their
gullibility.
If
good fails in its battle with Washington’s evil, our future is a
boot stamping on the human face forever.
If
you, an American, living in superpower America lack the courage to
stand up to the evil that is “your” government, perhaps the
courage of Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and tiny
Ecuador will give you heart.
A
US senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Ecuadoran
government that he would block the import of vegetables and flowers
from Ecuador if Ecuador gives asylum to Edward Snowden. The cost to
Ecuador would be one billion dollars in lost revenues.
Menendez’s
statement–”Our government will not reward countries for bad
behavior”–is ironic. It equates bad behavior with
protecting a truth-teller and good behavior with betraying a
truth-teller. Menendez’s statement is also a lie. The
US government onlyrewards bad behavior. The US government
consistently rewards those who conspireagainst the elected
governments of their own countries, setting them up as dictators when
Washington overthrows the elected governments.
Menendez’s
threat did not work, but the senator did succeed in delivering yet
another humiliating blow to Washington’s prestige. The
Ecuadoran President, Rafael Correa, beat Menendez to the punch and
cancelled the trade pact with the US on the grounds that the pact was
a threat to the sovereignty of Ecuador and to moral principles and
was being used by Washington to blackmail Ecuador. “Ecuador doesn’t
accept pressure or threats from anyone,” added Communications
Secretary Fernando Alvarado who then offered Washington foreign aid
to provide human rights training to combat torture, illegal
executions and attacks on peoples’ privacy.
Washington,
exposed with its hand in the cookie jar devouring the privacy of the
entire world and prevented by its hubris from acknowledging its
illegal behavior and apologizing, has so mishandled the Snowden
affair that Washington has done far more damage to itself than
occurred from Snowden’s revelations. Washington has proven
conclusively that it has no respect for anyone’s human rights, that
it has no respect for any country’s sovereignty, that it has no
respect for any moral principles, especially those it most often
mouths, and that it relies on coercion and violence alone. The
rest of the world now knows who its enemy is.
Washington’s
presstitutes, by helping Washington demonize Snowden, Glenn
Greenwald, Manning, Assange, and Ecuador, have demonstrated to the
world that the US media is devoid of integrity and that nothing it
reports can be believed. The US print and TV media and NPR
comprise a ministry of propaganda for Washington’s immoral agendas.
On
June 24, the Stasi State’s favorite whore, the Washington Post,
denounced three times democratically-elected Rafael Correa as “the
autocratic leader of tiny, impoverished Ecuador,” without realizing
that the editorial not only demonstrated the Washington Post’s lack
of any ethics whatsoever but also showed the entire world that if
“tiny, impoverished Ecuador” can stand up to Washington’s
threats, so can the rest of the world.
President
Correa replied that the Washington Post “managed to focus attention
on Snowden and on the ‘wicked’ countries that support him, making
us forget the terrible things against the US people and the whole
world that he denounced.” Correa added that
Washington’s “world order isn’t only unjust, it’s immoral.”
The
reason Washington hates Correa has nothing to do with Snowden.
That Ecuador is considering asylum for Snowden is just an excuse.
Correa is hated, because in the second year of his first term he
repudiated the $3 billion dollar foreign debt that corrupt and
despotic prior regimes had been paid to contract with international
finance. Correa’s default threat forced the international financial
gangsters to write down the debt by 60 percent.
Washington
also hates Correa because he has been successful in reducing the high
rates of poverty in Ecuador, thus building public support that makes
if difficult for Washington to overthrow him from within.
Yet
another reason Washington hates Correa is because he took steps
against the multinational oil companies’ exploitation of Ecuador’s
oil resources and limited the amount of offshore deposits in the
country’s banks in order to block Washington’s ability to
destabilize Ecuador’s financial system.
Washington
also hates Correa for refusing to renew Washington’s lease of the
air base in Manta.
Essentially,
Correa has fought to take control of Ecuador’s government, media
and national resources out of Washington’s hands and the hands of
the small rich elite allied with Washington. It is a David vs.
Goliath story.
In
other words, Correa, like Venezuela’s Chevez, is the rare foreign
leader who represents the interests of his own country instead of
Washington’s interest.
Washington
uses the various corrupt NGOs and the puppet government in Colombia
as weapons against Correa and the Ecuadoran government. Many
believe that it is only a matter of time before Washington succeeds
in assassinating Correa.
American
patriots, who feel that they should be on “their” government’s
side regardless of the facts, would do well to remember what true
patriotism is. For Americans, patriotism has always meant
allegiance to the Constitution, not to the government. The oath is to
defend the Constitution against enemies domestic and foreign.
The Bush and Obama regimes have proven themselves to be the
Constitution’s worst enemies. It is not possible for a true
patriot to support a government that destroys the Constitution.
The
United States is the Constitution. Our country is not the Obama
regime, the Bush regime, or some other administration. Our
country is the Constitution. The Constitution is our country.
Beyond
obligations to one’s own country, all humans have a responsibility
to human life itself. Washington’s puppet states, such as the NATO
countries, Japan, and Colombia, by providing cover and support for
Washington’s aggression are enabling Washington to drive the world
into World War III.
The
temptation of Washington’s money easily overwhelms weak characters
such as Tony Blair and David Cameron. But the governments of
NATO countries and other accommodating states are not only selling
out their own peoples by supporting Washington’s wars of
aggression, they are selling out humanity. Washington’s
hubris and arrogance grow as Washington bumps off country after
country. Sooner or later Russia and China, will realize that they
themselves are targets and will draw firmer lines. Arrogance
will prevent Washington from acknowledging the lines, and the final
war will be launched.
Washington’s
hegemonic impulse is driving the world to destruction. The peoples of
the world should realize this and force their governments to stop
enabling Washington’s aggression.
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