Humanity’s Greatest Enemy?

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counterpunch
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008

The success of the Bush Regime’s propaganda, lies, and deception with gullible and inattentive Americans since 9/11 has made it difficult for intelligent, aware people to be optimistic about the future of the United States. For almost 8 years the US media has served as Ministry of Propaganda for a war criminal regime. Americans incapable of thinking for themselves, reading between the lines, or accessing foreign media on the Internet have been brainwashed.

As the Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, said, it is easy to deceive a people. You just tell them they have been attacked and wave the flag.

It certainly worked with Americans.

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The gullibility and unconcern of the American people has had many victims. There are 1.25 million dead Iraqis. There are 4 million displaced Iraqis. No one knows how many are maimed and orphaned.

Iraq is in ruins, its infrastructure destroyed by American bombs, missiles, and helicopter gunships.

We do not know the death toll in Afghanistan, but even the American puppet regime protests the repeated killings of women and children by US and NATO troops.

We don’t know what the death toll would be in Iran if Darth Cheney and the neocons succeed in their plot with Israel to bomb Iran, perhaps with nuclear weapons.

What we do know is that all this murder and destruction has no justification and is evil. It is the work of evil men who have no qualms about lying and deceiving in order to kill innocent people to achieve their undeclared agenda.

That such evil people have control over the United States government and media damns the American public for eternity.

America will never recover from the shame and dishonor heaped upon her by the neoconned Bush Regime.

The success of the neocon propaganda has been so great that the opposition party has not lifted a finger to rein in the Bush Regime’s criminal actions. Even Obama, who promises “change” is too intimidated by the neocon’s success in brainwashing the American population to do what his supporters hoped he would do and lead us out of the shame in which the neoconned Bush Regime has imprisoned us.

This about sums up the pessimistic state in which I existed prior to the go-ahead given by the Bush Regime to its puppet in Georgia to ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of Russians in order to defuse the separatist movement. The American media, aka, the Ministry of Lies and Deceit, again accommodated the criminal Bush Regime and proclaimed “Russian invasion” to cover up the ethnic cleansing of Russians in South Ossetia by the Georgian military assault.

Only this time, the rest of the world didn’t buy it. The many years of lies–9/11, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda connections, yellowcake, anthrax attack, Iranian nukes, “the United States doesn’t torture,” the bombings of weddings, funerals, and children’s soccer games, Abu Ghraib, renditions, Guantanamo, various fabricated “terrorist plots,” the determined assault on civil liberties–have taken their toll on American credibility. No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government.

The rest of the world reported the facts–an assault on Russian civilians by American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian troops.

The Bush Regime, overcome by hubris, expected Russia to accept this act of American hegemony. But the Russians did not, and the Georgian military was sent fleeing for its life.

The neoconned Republican response to the Russian failure to follow the script and to be intimidated by the “unipower” was so imbecilic that it shattered the brainwashing to which Americans had succumbed.

McCain declared: “In the 21st century nations don’t invade other nations.” Imagine the laughs Jon Stewart will get out of this on the Daily Show. In the early years of the 21st century the United States has already invaded two countries and has been beating the drums for attacking a third. President Bush, the chief invader of the 21st century, echoed McCain’s claim that nations don’t invade other nations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7556857.stm

This dissonant claim shocked even brainwashed Americans, as readers’ emails reveal. If in the 21st century countries don’t invade other countries, what is Bush doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what are the naval armadas and propaganda arrayed against Iran about?

Have two of the worst warmongers of modern times–Bush and McCain–called off the US/Israeli attack on Iran? If McCain is elected president, is he going to pull US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan as “nations don’t invade other nations,” or is President Bush going to beat him to it?

We all know the answer.

The two stooges are astonished that the Americans have taught hegemony to Russians, who were previously operating, naively perhaps, on the basis of good will.

Suddenly the Western Europeans have realized that being allied with the United States is like holding a tiger by the tail. No European country wants to be hurled into war with Russia. Germany, France, and Italy must be thanking God they blocked Georgia’s membership in NATO.

The Ukraine, where a sick nationalism has taken hold funded by the neocon National Endowment for Democracy, will be the next conflict between American pretensions and Russia. Russia is being taught by the neocons that freeing the constituent parts of its empire has not resulted in their independence but in their absorption into the American Empire.

Unless enough Americans can overcome their brainwashed state and the rigged Diebold voting machines, turn out the imbecilic Republicans and hold the neoconservatives accountable for their crimes against humanity, a crazed neocon US government will provoke nuclear war with Russia.

The neoconservatives represent the greatest danger ever faced by the United States and the world. Humanity has no greater enemy.

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10 Responses to “Humanity’s Greatest Enemy?”

1. Eric Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 10:02 am

   Translation: there’s something seriously wrong with the human race. A failed species if there ever was one. Stupid and evil. Demon-posessed. May a very large, unstoppable, earth-annihilating asteroid strike as soon as possible if there in fact is a merciful God.

2. midea Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 10:04 am

   Dear readers,

   Hello and cheers!
   I am absolutely amazed that among 7 billion population on this prison planet, nobody can deduce the truth of the Islamic regime in Iran.
   Look here, in a nutshell, the world HAD and HAS only one unique “government” that plays all the cards. you can call it Illuminati or whatever. when they decided to end the fabricated military-industrial wars between Eastern and Western blocks in the mid 70’s,they planned to create a TERRORIST HUB in the region to CONTINUE with the role of the Soviet Union in another guise.
   What really happened is that they created an eastern enemy in the beginning of 20th.century( Russian Revolution) to reach these two goals:
   1- Achieving Ordo ab chao, that is ,to force all the eastern countries and all the western countries gather in two united blocks, the East and the West (As they did earlier with 13 American colonies).
   The role of Soviet Union as a dummy regime was to confront Europe and USA and strengthen the huge military-industrial complex to create the world’s first superpower capabilities in the USA. After the Soviet Union role was fulfilled in the end of 70’s, there came the time to unite the now united East with the united West under one umbrella and there were no need for more superpower capabilities because it already existed in a huge and invincible complex in the USA.
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   2-Now the final stage must take place such that when the superpower capability is completed, then it is time to strengthen the NATIONAL SECURITY sector , that is, to create the final scene in terms of seizing all levers of power and declaring a martial law and global dictatorship by criminalization of each and every citizen. In this stage you see at least 16 USA national security agencies working together.
   Now what you need to create this political scene as you did in the case of Soviet Union ? a hub in the Middle East to terrorize and demoralize the world and specially the USA citizens(The Axis of Evil, indeed!). To play a dummy role as a big enemy, to send CIA money and country’s oil Dollars to many smaller terrorist groups in the region ( Can you ratify a Federal budget for financing terrorists in the middle East?!) and to furnish weapons for all these groups to keep the region in blood and fire turmoil! THAT IS the role of the Islamic Republic in Iran. This regime is just a puppet, a proxy in fact, for the shadow world government that is advancing swiftly.
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   Remember two years before Iranian Revolution , Muammar Qadhafi (with CIA financing), produced the popular and famous movie “Mohammad Rasoulollah” or “The Messenger” starring Anthony Quinn, which showed Islamic movements are coming forward and will conquer.
   Before the Iranian Revolution, Muammar Qadhafi bought Cassius Kelley the black Boxer to convert his faith to Islam and become Mohammad Ali.
   Then one year before the Revolution, there was a big promotional theater about the world boxing championship. In those days satellite live shows were a rare luxury, and all the sleepless Middle Easters watched at dawn, as the “Islamic” boxer knocked down the “American” one (a purely fabricated fight). And of course do not forget that in the coming years, the Rocky serial movies starring Sylvester Stallone all were preparing the world for the same theater and this time the “American” knocked down the “Russian ” and predicted the soviet downfall in the 80’s.
   Remember the current Iranian President is one of the “students” that attacked the USA embassy and held many hostages for months. Note that none of those “students” had any differing political orientation? How come all of these “students” that were accidentally present at the gates of embassy were all of the same gang?
   Also, remember the SAND STORM that jeopardized the Pentagon plot (operation Eagle Claw) to release those hostages. When the American aircrafts were based in Iranian deserts, a huge sand storm sent them to oblivion. Do you know who makes sand storms and other types of storms , and tornados and quakes (including Katrina, and Indian ocean tsunami)?
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   “By the end, the prestigious group of special operations Delta Force had lost 8 of its members, 7 helicopters, a C-130 aircraft, and had NOT EVEN MADE CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY. The mission was a complete disaster.”
   Read full story with pictures in: http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.....pseng.html
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   Please just think! The Iranian IMAM Khomeini is promoted widely by the British BBC, settles in a nice Paris suburb to meet all the press and gives false promises to every body, and then flies to Iran in a French plane , gets on an American Chevrolet Blazer and heads to a cemetery! The Time magazine declares him The Man of The Year!

   Don’t you see what has happened? Iranian regime ( simultaneously with Saddam Hossein and Taliban in Iraq and Afghanistan) was the substitute for the Soviet block dissolution. This time not to strengthen the military powerhouse but to create much terror for ordinary citizens and to clear the grounds for the USA police state and EU dictatorship which will be declared very soon of course.
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   “It will take a more definite recognition of the Grand Architect of the Universe before the APEX STONE IS FINALLY FITTED INTO PLACE and this nation in the full strength of its power is in a position to assume leadership among the nations in inaugurating “the new order of the ages” [the motto of the Great Seal].
   - Henry A.Wallace,in 1934;33rd.Vice President of the USA, In F.D.Roosevelt era.
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   Yes! Do not forget that all political matters going on in the world are controlled by one and only one center (You can call it Anti-Christ, Illuminati, Dajjal, grand architect or whatever.)
   My website is : http://www.freewebs.com/mindcontrolvictim
   Thank you and goodbye.

3. Aj Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

   The real deal is the depopulation of humans on this planet , As the Illumanati have had planed for years , over thrity years ago
   they have been moving forward little buy little , But now we are seeing the expression of gettin R done faster implamented especially here in the U.S of A , And the west coast of the U.S is were it’s supposed to happen , when it doe’s People read and look around the country of what being put in place for laws , you’ve got private prisons being built all over buy rich Saudi’s and other investor’s such as American’s around your towns or states I grauntee you will see the tress of law enforcement getting tuff on citzens and abuseing there powers of being police enforcer’s . And the plan continues stand buy for more to come sooner than you think !

4. Georgia Redneck Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

   Where’s those dag-on Rushkee’s, I heard about a Georgia invasion, I got my goose gun, where are they. This article say’in we Mericans are stupit, bullshit. We’ves gots tons of brains. Just ask my wife. “MoMa, is Mericans stupid?”
   MOMA: Shut your dumb hillbilly ass up I’m a watch’in Maury Show.
   Redneck: What’s this show bout?
   Moma: Husband is cheating on is wife. So she’s doing it with his brother who’s mentally retarded to get even, … now she’s pregnant with a little tard.

   NOW, YOU WONDER HOW FOX NEWS CAN DUPE MOST OF AMERICA? WHAT IS WRITTEN ABOVE IS FUNNY…BUT IT IS MOSTLY TRUE.

5. will hale Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

   Religion is the Opiate of the masses.
   never a truer statement.
   Eric you are as misguided as the rest of them.
   http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com check it out its a first step in the right direction.

6. will hale Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

   georgia redneck thats is funny!!!

7. zephie Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

   gravity holds so firmly to me now, to come here forced a soul as pawn….. all we are pawn and to that we should rise as knight….. the world is vegas and mouths filled-blood and dirt, bullits for babes and broken. the whole of everything in this place in askew.
   imagine theres no heaven, then where would john lennon be. they kill our poets and lovers…. freedom marchers and knowers. its not as a snuffed candle i would leave this place….
   and still gravity never held me like this before.
   is this the nation that brought to me its birth with such pride and glowing? well the flame of that torch feels the same wieght as i do.
   is this the best we can do? we are born of stars and the cosmos, this is not my shiney planet. this is someone elses stain on my isle.
   we are infected and sick, the media a syringe of puss, crack, candy…. the schools feed flouride and twinkies and pavlov’s bell.
   without greed and control…………..? thats like seeing the world with the eyes of a child.
   what do i have to do to be that kid again? there in lies the crux.
   whatever it is i would love to see some of you on the playground. mess with gravity and what not.

8. Matt Says:
   August 17th, 2008 at 3:03 am

   “Translation: there’s something seriously wrong with the human race. A failed species if there ever was one. Stupid and evil. Demon-posessed. May a very large, unstoppable, earth-annihilating asteroid strike as soon as possible if there in fact is a merciful God.”

   Agreed.

9. MAR Says:
   August 17th, 2008 at 4:25 am

   Midea,

   You’ve been corrected about the false things you say and you keep saying the same things over and over…I guess you aren’t capable of listening or changing….ie you’re an American idiot.

   The reason you make so many mistakes is that you don’t listen…a simple mistake like the boxer Cassius Kelley is a prime example, you are so ignorant/stupid of your own history you don’t even know his last name, which you can google…you stupid twit…it’s Clay…now try reading a shut up…you’re too stupid to be commenting.

10. Steve Williams Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    Swell.

    Extreme mental illness sweeps the human population yet again…

    Every effect has its cause.
    Why are so many acting so mentally ill?

    Things don’t just magically happen. Things happen because other things make them happen.