The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman whom Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that “it’s better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy.”
If it requires 11 aircraft carriers to deal with Iran, how many will Panetta need to project power against Russia and China? But to get on with the main point, Iran has been trying “to deal with us through diplomacy.” The response from Washington has been belligerent threats of military attack, unfounded and irresponsible accusations that Iran is making a nuclear weapon, sanctions, and an oil embargo. Washington’s accusations echo Israel’s and are contradicted by Washington’s own intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Why doesn’t Washington respond to Iran in a civilized manner with diplomacy? Really, which of the two countries is the greatest threat to peace?
Washington sends the FBI to raid the homes of peace activists and puts a grand jury to work to create a case against them for aiding a nebulous enemy by protesting Washington’s wars. The Department of Homeland Security unleashes goon cop thugs to brutalize peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. Washington fabricates cases against Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Tarek Mehanna that negate the First Amendment by equating free speech with terrorism and spying. Chicago mayor and former Obama White House chief-of-staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, pushes an ordinance that outlaws public protests in the City of Chicago. The list goes on. And in the midst of it all Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Washington hypocrites accuse Russia and China of stifling dissent.
Washington’s grotesque hypocrisy goes unremarked by the American “media” and in the debates for the Republican presidential nomination. The corrupt Obama “Justice” Department turns a blind eye while goon cop thugs commit gratuitous violence against the citizens who pay the goon cop thugs’ undeserved salaries.
But it is in the War Crimes Arena where Washington shows the greatest hypocrisy. The self-righteous bigots in Washington are forever rounding up heads of weak states whose countries were afflicted by civil wars and sending them off to be tried as war criminals. All the while Washington indiscriminately kills large numbers of civilians in six or more countries, dismissing its own war crimes as “collateral damage.” Washington violates its own law and international law by torturing people.
On January 13, 2012, Carol Rosenberg of McClatchy Newspapers reported that Spanish judge Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez re-launched an investigation into Washington’s torture of prisoners in Guantanamo Prison. The previous day British authorities opened an investigation into CIA renditions of kidnapped persons to Libya for torture.
Rosenberg reports that although the Obama regime has refused to investigate the obvious crimes of the Bush regime, and one might add its own obvious crimes, “other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.”
There is no question that Bush/Cheney/Obama have trashed the US Constitution, US statutory law, and international law. But Washington, having overthrown justice, has established that might is right. No foreign government is going to send its forces into the US to drag the war criminals out and place them on trial.
The War Criminal Court at the Hague is reserved for Washington’s show trials. No foreign government is going to pay Washington several hundred millions of dollars to turn Bush, Cheney, Obama and their minions over to them in the way the US bought Milosevic from Serbia in order to create the necessary spectacle at the War Crimes Tribunal to justify Washington’s naked aggression against Serbia.
No government can be perfect, because all governments are composed of humans, especially those humans most attracted by power and profit. Nevertheless, in my lifetime I have witnessed an extraordinary deterioration in the integrity of government in the United States. We have reached the point where nothing that our government says is believable. Not even the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, the GDP growth rate—much less Washington’s reasons for its wars, its police state, and its foreign and domestic policies.
Washington has kept America at war for ten years while millions of Americans lost their jobs and their homes. War and a faltering economy have exploded the national debt, and a looming bankruptcy is being blamed on Social Security and Medicare.
The pursuit of war continues. On January 23 Washington’s servile puppets—the EU member states—did Washington’s bidding and imposed an oil embargo on Iran, despite the pleas of Greece, a member of the EU. Greece’s final ruin will come from the higher oil prices from the embargo, as the Greek government realizes.
The embargo is a reckless act. If the US navy tries to intercept oil tankers carrying Iranian oil, large scale war could break out. This, many believe, is Washington’s aim.
It is easy for an embargo to become a blockade, which is an act of war. Remember how easily the UN Security Council’s “no-fly zone” over Libya was turned by the US and its NATO puppets into a military attack on Libya’s armed forces and population centers supportive of Gaddafi.
As the western “democracies” become increasingly lawless, the mask of law that imperialism wears is stripped away and with it the sheen of morality that has been used to cloak hegemonic ambitions. With Iran surrounded and with two of Washington’s fleets in the Persian Gulf, another war of aggression seems inevitable.
Experts say that an attack on Iran by the US and NATO will disrupt the flow of oil that the world needs. The crazed drive for hegemony is so compelling that Washington and its EU puppets show no hesitation in putting their own struggling economies at risk of sharply rising energy costs.
War abroad and austerity at home is the policy that is being imposed on the western “democracies.”
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org and has been used here with permission.
Excellent. Why aren’t more “reporters” telling this truth? The Bush family has done grave damage to this country, beyond what most people can comprehend, starting with Prescott and continuing with Obama.
…because thay are not paid to tell the truth…. they are paid by the ‘brainwashing machine’ :-)
Just like the judge on FOX, got fired because he told the truth…FOX is no better than CNN or any main stream media, they are all in the same bed. The only one that tells the truth is Paul & they won’t give him the time of day…jes sayin
brilliant resumee of what has been going on for a decade and not been picked up. The MSM including the BBC are now fully swinging behind traitors like Liam Fox Adam Werritty and UK ambassador to Israel Mathew Gould. This morning they broadcast an interview with Liam Fox on their ‘today’, or was it toady, programme. Liam Fox first sentence announcing Iran as a nuclear weapons state, the biggest lie perpetrated since the same old argument was used in Iraq, was reciproked by the interviwer, an experienced broadcaster who should know better. Questions as to ‘where is Werritty’ were obviously not in his repertouire and he treated the traitor with kid gloves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9686000/9686132.stm
There is a lively discussion on the subject of torture and why the Gibson inquiery was stopped here in the UK on this excellent blog.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/01/torture-cover-up/
Whether or not this article contains any truth or valid criticism has been undermined and rendered less powerful by it’s own breathless, overblown and hyperbolic prose.
Amen. This article started with valid points and then took a sharp left turn. Beware of making overstated connections where there are none, lest you become overwhelmed by conspiracy.
hypocrisy, worst then that it is treason by the congress to keep licking isreal a*s, we have zionists running this western world, people should wake up, zionists do not give a dam about your family, so, regonize the zionist and start thinking what you can do this zionists, it your family or theres
if you have time listen to this people
false flag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1tfWedVQIyM
run on the banks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-acRWoV6_k&feature=youtu.be
recognize the zionist in your area, and decide
we didn’t even have to assassinate Gaddaffi personally, we assassinated him by precipitating massive civil unrest. The rebel group in Libya would have never succeeded if it was not for the excessive amounts of NATO funded supplies, air …strikes, and training. What better way to get access to a countries resources, and spread “democracy” (opening up a foreign land to our markets by “modernizing” …them and making it’s citizens have their very own credit cards with which to buy our manufactured goods and services at the expense of their raw resources) than throwing it into the depths of anarchy. NATO is the largest colonial power since the British East Indy Tea company, and it’s reach is far more global and backed up by a much stronger military threat. What a better time to start multiple wars in the middle east then election season, as to rally the public around the current administration. Especially if we begin engagement as a result of an “offensive attack” by a country the mass media complex has been propagating against for the past few months (IRAN) . What better way to keep gas prices low during the election months to keep public support for the incumbency then launching a “stabilization effort” in libya by “securing” their oil fields for them like we did to Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Is the NTC going to hold us accountable after we helped them gain power in the first place? No. And all this is occurring right in sync with the Bilderburg’s plan formed at their annual meeting late last year by prominent politicians and captains of industry for a “more extensive and REGIONAL (not confined to a single country) war in the Middle East and Northern Africa, in order to distract the public from domestic problems and have them rally around the government. If one looks just squarely at troop occupations, amount of bombs and drone strikes dropped annually, and the amount of campaigns we are currently conducting (anywhere from 5-7) we are not on the brink of WW3, it has already been in progress for a while. And yet the mass media complex has failed to pick up on it, labeled it as isolated individual “humanitarian peace missions” by our military, or sugarcoated stories in order to provide the facade of peace, and keep the sheeple occupied with their credit ratings. God Bless Amerika
the okinawans got a short shrift from mdm sec clinton
their appeal went straight into the shredder from what i heard
http://henoko.ti-da.net/e2345478.html
is the prez gonna lend a ear to these *unpeople* ?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/24/japanese-delegation-wants-the-u-s-out-of-okinawa/
or is the door to wh only accesible to cia asset hmtdl dalai ?
http://www.voltairenet.org/The-Dalai-Lama-and-Obama-a-meeting
hypocrisy ?
hehehehe
the okinawans got a short shrift from mdm sec clinton
their appeal went straight into the shredder from what i heard
tinyurl.com/7ceahny
is the prez gonna lend a ear to these *unpeople* ?
tinyurl.com/79c7qov
or is the door to wh only accesible to cia asset hmtdl dalai ?
tinyurl.com/43obma3
hypocrisy ?
hehehehe
trevolution
*God Bless Amerika*
god help amerikka
if only its just the usg, hehehehe
u.s *hr* activist
*Giving Rajapaksa’s government a free pass on human rights empowers aspiring autocrats everywhere. It sends a clear signal to semi-authoritarian governments: Go ahead, do whatever you want; you will face no consequences for your actions.*
http://tinyurl.com/7krr3ox
say who ?
tinyurl.com/6h65m5y
what about libya ?
make it 5 supreme international crime in 7 yrs n counting
syria, china, russia…..
At the recent America and Helsinki Commission in Washington, it was stated that all Western Balkan Countries should become Members of the European Union and NATO, and that America should continue to offer support to this process, and that the NATO can have an important role in the region’s transition.
America stated that all regional Countries should join the European Union and NATO, but that Serbia’s accession to the European Union and NATO must not be approved before Kosovo’s ascension to NATO and the European Union, because Serbia might block Kosovo from joining NATO or the European Union or both.
The Albanians of the Balkans want other parts of Serbia for joining NATO, so as not to Veto NATO, until there is a Greater Mono Ethnic Albania in order to prove once again the Centuries long held Truth of the Fraud of Europeanism, except among the few Deluded ones that pass off as some type of Intellectuals, but who the ordinary People who have more common sense know are just Fools.
The Albanians know that if Serbia is a NATO member, then NATO cannot help the Albanians steal More Land in order to make it a Greater Mono Ethnic Albania, but Serbia does not want to join NATO, as the Partnership for Peace with NATO is more than sufficient.
What this means is that Albania or Germany will Veto Serbia from becoming a NATO Member until Serbia is basically just Belgrade.
If America and Company think that Serbia and Kosovo will join the European Union, then they will do it as one Country, or not at all.
This is because Kosovo will never join the European Union as there are Several Vetoes on that, and that means that if Kosovo must join the European Union, then these few Decent European Union will Veto Serbia from joining the European Union under those conditions.
Serbia realizes that the division of Kosovo is not practical, even if it were Constitutional, because it will not bring peace, even NATO’s phoney peace to the Region or to Europe.
America said that the entire region has made great progress since 2000, and that it now would be wrong to hinder Serbia’s European Union integration progress.
For the Albanians of Serbia’s Province of Kosovo, who Present Themselves as the Saviour of Civilization, as Humanitarian, as Caring, as Compassionate, and as especially as Europeans; then, here is their Perfect Opportunity to accept that a Negotiated Autonomy for Kosovo Albanians is the way to prove this to themselves, and to prove it to others.
Most Albanians know why the Serbs know that Albanians hate Serbs, and this is because of the Lies and Malicious Slander against Serbs, by Albanians, and the unwarranted hostile approach to them.
There are no other reasons than that they are Non-Albanian, and they and they own Land that Albanians want to steal, and because the Serbs will not give away their Land.
If the Serbs should give away their Land, then the Serbs will be continued to be hated for being Non-Albanian, and this is one reason why True Serbs will never give away their Land.
Anyone who Deliberately and Repeatedly Maliciously Slanders anyone, hates them even though that hatred is not Confessed by the Liar and Malicious Slander for the Obvious Reasons.
It is not possible for any sane Person to Deliberately and Repeatedly Lie and Maliciously Slander a Person or a Nations unless they hate them, and that is a Fact.
Saying bad things against someone is not Slander if it is based on Facts, and to say that the Hitler and his Nazis were Evil is not lying or maliciously slandering, but it is stating a Fact.
The Serbs in the South of Kosovo are lucky if they are not murdered or imprisoned on false charges, and this is only because NATO is there, but if Serbia ever recognized Kosovo, then Kosovo would become Mono Ethnic Albanian, and there are Many Albanians who will not present a even one reason why the Serbs in North Kosovo should have more rights then those in South Kosovo.
This is because Human Rights for Non-Albanians is something that Many Albanians are extremely hostile to; however, for the Obvious Reasons Albanians will not Confess to that.
I think that the Serbs need to ask the Albanians why they hate them, and not to let go until an honest answer is given, or until the Albanians reluctantly and grudgingly accept Negotiated Autonomy for Kosovo as Serbian Citizens.
America and Germany should be asked the same question using the same method, until they revoke their support for Kosovo’s independence, and to do this in a Fully European Media Publicized manner.
The Albanians will not confess to hating Serbs, but if anyone saw the Facts of Kosovo, then they would know that the Albanians are obviously lying.
The Albanians will say that it was because Albanians were killed in a war that the Albanian Leaders started with the help and permission of American led NATO.
The Real Reason for the start of that Kosovo War was Attempted Land Theft that was passed off as a humanitarian mission, because Slobodan Milosevic did not consent to give up Serbia’s Province of Kosovo at the Rambouillet set up, and so America and NATO were going to try their best to steal Kosovo.
The war was a long time ago, and so if the Albanians hate Serbs to this day, then Kosovo is not ready for independence until the Albanians acknowledge their share of the guilt, or if they are as pure as they claim, then Serbia will wait patiently until they are forgiven by the Albanians of Albania, Montenegro, FYROM, Greece, and of course their own Country of Albania.
Once that forgiveness is forthcoming, then the Albanians will accept a Negotiated Autonomy for Kosovo as Serbian Citizens, and possibly as dual Citizens of Serbia and Albania, because Serbia will never recognize Kosovo.
Serbia should tell the European Union that there can be no normalization of South Kosovo toward Serbia, or America and the European Union toward Serbia, because for as long as the Kumanovo Agreement exists, because this does not happen between any Normal Countries of any neighbouring Countries in the World who have Normal Relations, and it should not happen with a Country and its Province.
Waaaah Waaahhh
get a grip people. so what will happen if a terror attack in USA happens….then everyone will complain nothing was done…..the US is protecting itself and thank god for smart juries like that in the Mehanna trial…so funny that the First Amendment bull crap did not work in the case…as for the constitution, we are in a new day and age people—a day founding fathers did not imagine so things have to change
i am all for having my phone tapped, being watched, questioned, informing if it helps saves lives—you should be too
unless you have something to HIDE—
wah wah
YOU get a grip, kid