Dear Readers: I agree that the official Las Vegas story seems to
be unraveling. A public mass shooting should be transparent, not opaque. I think
we explored the story long enough to discover that without knowing the facts,
we cannot arrive at an explanation with confidence.
It is time to move on to
another unraveling—that of US/Russian relations. This unraveling is far more
serious as it threatens life on earth. I have warned of the consequences of
Washington threatening Russia’s security by breaking agreement after agreement,
by placing missile bases on Russia’s borders, by orchestrating anti-Russian
coups in former Soviet provinces, and by a continuing volley of false
accusations against Russia. There is no act more reckless and irresponsible
than to make one nuclear power fear nuclear attack from another.
Alert
observers have become aware of the mounting danger. Canadian professor Michel Chossudovsky writes that
Washington has taken nuclear war from a hypothetical scenario to a real danger
that threatens the future of humanity.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who
worked with President Ronald Reagan to end the Cold War and the threat of
nuclear Armageddon, has appealed to President Trump and President Putin to hold
a summit meeting and bring an end to the rising tensions. Gorbachev wrote in
the Washington Post that “it is far from normal that the presidents of major
nuclear powers meet merely on the margins of international gatherings.” This is
especially the case as “relations between the two nations are in a severe
crisis.”
Gorbachev’s
warning could be an understatement. Last March, General Viktor Poznikhir, the
deputy commander of the Russian military’s Operation Command expressed concern
that Washington could be preparing a surprise nuclear attack on Russia.
See here, hereand here.
Had
any such statement from the Russian high command been issued anytime during the
20th century Cold War era, the President of the United States would have
immediately contacted the Soviet leader and given every assurance that no such
plan or intentions toward Russia existed. As far as I can tell, the Trump White
House let this ominous announcement pass unremarked. If this is the case, it
must have provided confirmation to the Russians’ conclusion.
For
some time I have pointed out that the entirety of the West, both the US and its
vassal states, continue to ignore very clear Russian warnings. Gilbert Doctorow has made
the same point.
Perhaps the most clear of all
was Putin’s public statement that “Russia will never again fight a war on its
own territory.” If Washington’s EU vassals did not hear this clear warning that
they are courting their nuclear destruction—especially the Poles and Romanians
who have mindlessly hosted US missile bases—they are as deaf as they are
stupid.
One Russian official told the
idiot British government to its face that if the British threat to first use
nuclear weapons is directed at Russia, if such an attempt is made, Great
Britain will disappear from the face of the earth.
There is no doubt that that
would be the case.
So why do Washington’s
impotent vassals talk tough to Russia, a government that only desires peace and
has threatened Britain in no way. Nor has the Russian government threatened
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, or any of the former Eastern European vassals
of the Soviet Union that exchanged their captivity to the Soviet Union for
captivity to Washington. Russia has not even threatened Ukraine, which Russia
could wipe out in a couple of minutes. Why are all of these countries,
apparently led by mindless, gutless two-bit politicians, aligned with
Washington’s false propaganda against Russia?
The answer is money. The
vassals are paid to go along with the lies. As Alain of Lille said as long ago
as the 12th century, “not God, not Caesar, but money is all.”
What are the forces driving
Washington’s provocation of Russia? There are three, and they comprise a vast
conspiracy against life on earth.
One
is the Neoconservatives. The Neoconservatives were convinced by the Soviet
Collapse that History has chosen not the proletariat but American “democratic
capitalism” as the socio-politico-economic system for the world, How America Was Lost: ... and
that this choice by History conveys on America the status of the
“indispensable, exceptional” country, a status that places America above all
other countries and above international law and, indeed, America’s own laws.
America is so exceptional
that it can torture people in total violation of both US law and international
law. The government in Washington can, on suspicion alone without presentation
to a court of evidence and conviction, confine US citizens indefinitely,
torturing them the entire time, and can assassinate them at will without due
process of law. This is the definition of a total police state tyranny. Yet
Washington represents America as a “great democracy,” whose endless wars
against humanity are “bringing democracy to the world.”
America is so exceptional
that it can bomb other countries indiscriminately without officially being at
war with those countries.
America is so exceptional
that the separation of powers prescribed in the American Constitution can be
totally ignored by the executive branch as, the Neoconservatives claim, the
President has “unique powers” not limited by the Constitution, which, of
course, is just another lie.
Russia, China, and Iran are
targets of the Neoconservatives, as were Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia,
Syria, Yemen, and provinces of Pakistan, because these countries have/had
independent foreign policies and are/were not Washington’s vassals.
The Neoconservative doctrine
states that it is the “principal goal” of US foreign policy “to prevent the
rise of Russia or any other state” that can serve as a constraint on
Washington’s unilateralism.
The
New York Times under this headline on March 8, 1992, explains the Wolfowitz doctrine.
Paul Craig Roberts, a
former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of
the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial
abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
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