Source: InfowarsDr. Paul Craig Roberts
Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, “Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.”
Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate
puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet
states in the Middle East. Washington has beefed up Saudi Arabia’s jet
fighter force. Most recently, Washington has deployed 9,000 US troops to
Israel to participate in “war games” designed to test the US/Israeli
air defense system. As Iran represents no threat unless attacked,
Washington’s war preparations signal Washington’s intention to attack
Iran.
Another signal that Washington has a new war on its agenda is the
raised level of Washington’s rhetoric and demonization of Iran. Judging
by polls Washington’s propaganda that Iran is threatening the US by
developing a nuclear weapon has met with success. Half of the American
public support a military attack on Iran in order to prevent Iran from
acquiring nuclear capability. Those of us who are trying to awaken our
fellow citizens start from a deficit that the minds of half of the US
population are under Big Brother’s control.
As the International Atomic Energy Agency’s reports from its
inspectors on the ground in Iran have made clear for years, there is no
evidence that Iran has diverted any enriched uranium from its nuclear
energy program. The shrill hype coming from Washington and from the
neoconservative media is groundless. it is the same level of lie as
Washington’s claim that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction. Every US soldier who died in that war died in behalf of a
lie.
It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations
against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear
weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
In my judgment, the US government’s war preparations are driven by
three factors. One is the neoconservative ideology, adopted by the US
government, that calls for the US to use its superior military and
economic position to achieve world hegemony. This goal appeals to
American hubris and to the power and profit that it serves.
A second factor is Israel’s desire to eliminate all support for the
Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Israel’s goal is to
seize all of Palestine and the water resources of southern Lebanon.
Eliminating Iran removes all obstacles to Israel’s expansion.
A third factor is to deter or slow China’s rise as a military and
economic power by controlling China’s access to energy. It was China’s
oil investments in eastern Libya that led to the sudden move against
Libya by the US and its NATO puppets, and it is China’s oil investments
elsewhere in Africa that resulted in the Bush regime’s creation of the
United States Africa Command, designed to counter China’s economic
influence with US military influence. China has significant energy
investments in Iran, and a substantial percentage of China’s oil imports
are from Iran. Depriving China of independent access to oil is
Washington’s way of restraining and boxing in China.
What we are witnessing is a replay of Washington’s policy toward
Japan in the 1930s that provoked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japan’s bank balances in the West were seized, and Japan’s access to oil
and raw materials was restricted. The purpose was to prevent or to slow
Japan’s rise. The result was war.
Despite the hubris in which it wallows, Washington understands the
vulnerability of its Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf and would not risk
losing a fleet and 20,000 US naval personnel unless it was to gain an
excuse for a nuclear attack on Iran. A nuclear attack on Iran would
alert both China and Russia that they could suffer the same fate. The
consequence would be that the world would face a higher risk of nuclear
armageddon than existed in the mutually assured destruction of the
US-Soviet standoff.
Washington is getting all of us in over our heads. Washington has
declared the “Asia-Pacific” and the South China Sea to be areas of
“America’s national interest.” What sense does this make? It makes the
same sense as if China declared the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean
Sea to be areas of China’s national interest.
Washington has deployed 2,500 Marines, promising more to come, to
Australia in order to do what? Protect Australia from China or occupy
Australia? Encircle China with 2,500 Marines? It would not mean anything
to China if Washington deployed 25,000 Marines in Australia.
When you get right down to it, Washington’s tough talk is nothing but
a silly pointless provocation of Washington’s largest creditor. What if
Washington’s idiocy causes China to worry that Washington and its UK
and European puppets will seize its bank balances and refuse to honor
China’s holdings of $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds? Will China pull
its balances from the weak US, UK, and European banks? Will China decide
to strike first, not with nuclear weapons, but by selling its $1
trillion in Treasury bonds all at once?
It would be cheaper than war.
The Federal Reserve would have to quickly print another $1 trillion
dollars with which to buy the bonds, or US interest rates would shoot
up. What would China do with the $1 trillion in newly printed paper? In
my opinion, China would dump it all at once in the currency market,
because the Federal Reserve cannot print euros, UK pounds, Japanese yen,
Swiss francs, Russian rubles, and Chinese yuan with which to buy up its
newly printed currency.
The US dollar would take a beating. US import prices – which now
include, thanks to offshoring, almost everything Americans consume –
would rise. The hard-pressed 90% would take a further beating, endearing
their Washington oppressors to them to an even greater extent. The rest
of the world, anticipating nuclear war, would flee the dollar, as
Washington would be a primary attack target.
If the missiles aren’t launched, Americans would wake up the next day
a bankrupt third world country. If the missiles were launched, few
Americans would wake up.
We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why
is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What
purpose, whose purpose is being served? Certainly not ours.
Who benefits from our bankrupt government starting yet more wars,
picking this time not on defenseless countries like Iraq and Libya, but
on China and Russia? Do the idiots in Washington think the Russian
government does not know why Russia is being surrounded with missile
bases and radar systems? Do the Washington morons really believe that
the Russian government will fall for its lie that the missiles are
directed against Iran? Only American idiots who sit in front of Fox
“news” could possible believe that the real issue is an Iranian nuclear
weapon.
How much longer will the Russian government permit the US National
Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front, to interfere in its elections by
financing opposition parties led by the likes of Vladimir Kara-Murza,
Boris Nemtsov, and Alexei Navalny, who organize protests of every
election that Putin’s party wins, alleging without any evidence
whatsoever, but providing propaganda for Washington, who no doubt pays
well, that the election will be and was stolen?
In the US, such activists would be declared to be “domestic
extremists” and be subjected to rough treatment. In Amerika even
anti-war activists are subjected to home invasions by the FBI and grand
jury investigations.
What this means is that “the criminal state of Russia” is a more
tolerant democracy than the US, or for that matter, Amerika’s puppet
states in Europe and the UK.
Where do we go from here? If not to nuclear destruction, Americans
must wake up.
Football games, porn, and shopping malls are one thing.
Survival of human life is another.
Washington, that is, “representative
government,” consists only of a few powerful vested interests. These
private interests, not the American people, control the US government.
That is why nothing that the US government does benefits the American people.
The current crop of presidential contenders, except for Ron Paul,
represent the controlling interests. War and financial fraud are the
only remaining American Values.
Will Americans again give the sheen of “democracy” to rule by a few by participating in the coming rigged elections?
If you have to vote, vote for Ron Paul or for a more extreme third
party candidate. Show that you do not support the lie that is the
system.
Stop watching television. Stop reading newspapers. Stop spending
money. When you do any of these things, you are supporting evil.
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate
Editor of the Wall Street Journal . He has held numerous academic
appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research
Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the
Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the
author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking
in Washington ; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside
the Soviet Economy , and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of
The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are
Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
