A fabricated report was spread by the UK Guardian newspaper and BBC that a Russian armored convoy entered Ukraine and was destroyed by the Ukrainian military. The German media including Die Welt picked up the false report and spread the hysteria. Once again we have confirmation that the Western media is corrupt and unreliable.
The drums for war are being loudly beaten in Washington, European capitals, and the presstitute Western media. A headline in the Asia Times is “NATO Is Desperate For War.” This time the target is Russia, a major nuclear power.
The deadly consequences of such a war would extend beyond Russia, Europe, and the US to the entire world. The Western use of lies to demonize Russia endangers life on earth and reveals the West to be both reckless and irresponsible. Yet, few voices are raised against this recklessness and irresponsibility.
Ron Unz brings to our attention the important voice of a distinguished Dutch journalist, Karel Van Wolferen. Wolferen and Unz himself are important offsets to what Unz regards, correctly in my opinion, as “the utter corruption and unreliability of the mainstream American media.”
Wolferen’s article is long but very important. Readers will see analysis akin to my own. Wolferen shows how the Washington hegemon has captured Europe within an Atlanticist ideology that forecloses any independent thinking or foreign policy on the part of Europeans who are reduced to a state of vassalage. Wolferen concludes that as Washington drives Europe toward war, “Europeans cannot bring themselves to believe in the dysfunction and utter irresponsibility of the American state.”
With no internal checks on Washington’s recklessness from allies, the media, and US senators, the only brake on Washington’s drive to war is Russian, Chinese, Indian, and South American diplomacy. If this diplomacy fails, Fukushima, as bad as it is, becomes a mere raindrop in the ocean.
The slaughter by Washington, Washington’s Kiev stooges and Washington’s EU vassals of civilians in the former Russian territories that comprise the southern and eastern borders of present-day Ukraine is not only largely unreported in the Western media, but also denied or blamed on Russia.
The crimes that Washington is perpetrating while blaming Russia have aroused a high level of anger among the Russian people. Such anger is dangerous as it could force Putin, who continues to emphasize non-confrontation, to turn away from diplomacy to violence.
Egor Prosvirnin, the chief editor of a Russian news site, shows us the extent of the anger in Russia caused by the dangerous mixture of Washington’s broken promises with the vicious propaganda war against Russia and the German government’s complicity.
Prosvirnin expresses anger that is white hot: “Germans have failed their test. When Evil has returned again to Europe, you do not even attempt to resist it, and immediately fall prostrate at its feet like a slave.” As Russians see it, all of Europe is a slave to the evil emanating from Washington.
Why did Merkel allow Washington to force Germany into a conflict with Russia that has produced enormous Russian anger toward Germany? What accounts for Merkel’s total failure as a leader?
The Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes have set the world on the path to the final war. How is it possible for their evil to go unrecognized?
The two murderous states are the US and Israel. By tolerating their endless slaughters and endless lies, the world prepares its own demise.
The only hope for life and truth is that the world unite against these two criminal governments, isolate them diplomatically and economically, and make it impossible for their government officials to travel abroad without being arrested and placed on trial.
Why does the world need Washington and Israel? Unless the world has a death wish, the world does not need Washington and Israel.
Copyright © 2014 Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, How America Was Lost, is now available.
“What accounts for Merkel’s total failure as a leader?” I remember reading another article by PCR, wherein he stated that he asked his dissertation advisor, who was , or had been a high level official in the State Dept., I think, how the US leaders get foreign leaders to do what they wanted. The advisor stated, “we pay them.” Now, as I understand it , he wasn’t talking about lower tier countries, like Ecuador or Mexico, although I am sure that applies there too, but about countries like Great Britain and Germany. I am not suggesting the US could pay Merkel enough, at one time, to purchase her acquiescence to be a front line state in a nuclear war. However, consider the Mafia and a crooked official. Once they take money, they are on the hook and can’t refuse. So, over some long period of time a history has been built up with certain foreign leaders, most foreign leaders, and they simply can’t refuse. Manuel Noriega refused to let Panama be used as a staging ground for the invasion of Nicaragua. Remember what happened to him?
“The two murderous states are the US and Israel.” Yes and no. In the Israel-US relationship, which I term Ismerica, which one is dominant. In my estimation, it is Israel. More likely, it is a group of wealthy financiers who control both, but hold the interests of Israel as paramount. Criminals have an expression when referring to the act of supremely using a person. “I will use her/him till she/he is all used up.”
I have read where Netanyahu uses essentially the same phrase in reference to the US. Tommy Rimes
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