The British Woke UP
— Can The Americans?
Paul Craig Roberts
Many thanks for the
support that you give to the website and for the words of encouragement and
appreciation that you send to me. The website resulted from you calling me out
of retirement. It is widely read and translated into foreign languages.
I try to read every
email, but it is not possible for me to read and comment on the many articles
and books that you send or to respond to your questions over a wide range of
issues, not all of which I know anything about.
This website is a
great deal of work. In our time to be truthful is to be provocative. To write
provocatively leaves little room for error or mistatement as today’s euphemism
terms it. I could shill for the establishment and be wrong 98% of the time and
nothing ever would be said about it. But there is no forgiveness for a
provocative truth-teller.
You have open
inquiring minds and you want to know. Your motives are not to protect your
illusions and delusions or to reinforce your emotional needs. This is why I
write for you.
If no one knows or
respects truth, the world is lost. But it only takes a few to change the world.
The cultural anthopologist Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only
thing that ever has.”
Change can be for
better or worse. President Reagan and a committed few overcame the resistance
of the CIA and military-security complex and reduced tensions among nuclear
powers by negotiating the end of the Cold War with Soviet leader Gorbachev. During
the reign of the last three US presidents, a few neoconservatives resurrected
the nuclear tensions and took them to a higher level than at the peak of the
Cold War.
There are hopeful
signs that the neoconservative drive to World War III can be derailed. It seems
that finally the Russians have caught on that America is not the Holy Grail but
a government reminiscent in its aggression of Nazi Germany. Hopefully, Russian
countermeasures will make even the crazed neocons think twice.
The British people,
or rather a majority of those who voted, surprised the Establishment, which was
confident of the success of its propaganda, by voting to save their ancient and
distinguished country, the font of liberty, from disappearing into the EU, a
dictatorship ruled by unaccountable appointees. The British had enough of that
with kings and decided that the future did not lie in going backward. The
British vote to exit the EU could bring the unintended consequence of
unravelling the EU and NATO, thus reducing Washington’s ability to foment war.
Americans need to
decide that they, like the British, do not appreciate being led backward to
worse times.
The senator was
rewarded with a multi-million dollar banking job for overturning Great
Depression era legislation that made financial capitalism workable. Americans
need to understand that capitalists do not care if capitalism works for you as
long as it works for them.
The collapse of the
Soviet Union, due to the arrest of Gorbachev by hardline elements in the
Communist Party, gave rise to the American Neoconservatives, a double handful
of people closely tied to the Israeli government. These few people have
involved America, for Israel’s benefit, in 15 years of warfare that has
destroyed seven counries, with the cost to Americans of approximately $7
trillion dollars, according to Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes.
The obviously false
excuse for this destruction of peoples and resources is the myth of
“terrorism.” Most “terrorist events” in the US have been sting operations
organized by the FBI in order to collect the multi-billion dollar bounty that
Congress gives for preventing terrorist events. How best to keep this bounty flowing
than to organize a terrorist event and prevent it? It is debatable whether such
events as 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, Sandy Hook, San Bernandino, and
Orlando are false flag events or drills staged by crisis actors and presented
to the public as real.
The debt associated
with 15 years of Washington’s wars is now being used to attack Social Security
and Medicare. The One Percent and their “free market” apologists are determined
that the elderly will pay for the wars that enabled Israel to reduce Palestine
to a ghetto and for the wars that enriched the profits and power of the
military-secutity complex, while inflicting a massive refugee problem on
Europe.
If the British, or
enough of them, woke up, perhaps something similar can happen in America.
From many of you I
hear your frustrations with family, friends, and associates who are content
with what they hear from the BBC, Fox “News,” CNN, and the New York Times.
Obviously, if everyone was intelligent and could think for themselves or even
had time to consider what they are told, we would not be in the state that we
are in.
Our job is to get
enough people into the habit of thinking for themselves that we have the few
required to change the world. (“Few” is relative. In a country of 300 million
people, “few” is probably several million.)
Arguing with
friends doesn’t work. Arguments generate hostility and competitiveness. Avoid
arguing. Your friends and family do not know anything. They sit in front of Fox
“News” and CNN. They are brainwashed.
Perhaps one way to
approach friends and family is to ask questions. For example, how can there be
103 casualties in Orlando and no visible evidence of the massive number of
ambulances and EMT personnel necessary to deal with such a massive number of
casualties? I asked my readers to help me prove the official story line, and no
one could come up with convincing visible evidence. How can there be such a
massive event without abundant evidence?
How can powerfully
constructed skyscrapers, built to withstand airplane collisions, suddenly
explode allegedly as a result of minor asymmetrical damage and scattered low
temperature office fires? How can the entire contents of the towers be
pulverized when there is insufficient gravational energy to accomplish such
pulverization?
How is it possible
that WTC 7 came down in free fall acceleration in the absence of controlled
demolition? Why doubt that there was controlled demolition when the owner of
the WTC said on TV (still available online) that “the decision was made to pull
the building?”
In case you have
forgotten, you “pull” a building with controlled demolition. It takes a long
time to wire a building for demolition. Obviously, Building 7 was not wired on
September 11, 2001.
We are constantly
informed by the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, numerous
senators and representatives, by NATO commanders, by EU politicians, by
presstitutes, and others, that “Russia has invaded Ukraine.”
Take a minute and
think about this extraordinary lie. Clearly, evidence is no longer a factor in
determining what is occuring. Assertion only rules. Take a
second to look outside The Matrix. Is it really possible that Ukraine would
still exist if Russia invaded? I would bet my life that within 60 hours of a
Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine would again be part of Russia.
Remember August
2008 when the US and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army invaded the
peacekeeping realm of South Ossetia, killing Russian peace-keeping troops and
Ossetian civilians. Putin was at the Beijing Olympics, but Russian armed forces
quickly smashed the American/Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army. Putin
held Geogia in his palm.
What did Putin do
after delivering this lesson in the superiority of Russian arms? He released
Georgia and returned home.
So how is it that
Putin, according to the entirely of the Western political establishment and
media whores, is determined to rebuild the Soviet Empire? Putin held Georgia.
No power on earth could have forced him to release Georgia. But Putin withdrew
Russia’s forces and released the country. The former Georgian president is now
an American operative in Ukraine.
If you consider the
number of outsiders, including US citizens and the former president of Georgia,
who serve in the Ukrainian government, it raises questions about the so-called
“Maidan Revolution” in February 2014. If this really was a popular uprising,
and not a Washington orchestrated coup, why is there such a shortage of
Ukrainians to form the new government that foreign citizens have to be brought
in to rule the country?
Do not believe any
official explanation of anything. Things are not true just because the
government and presstitutes say so. Keep in mind that official explanations can
be cover for hidden agendas. If Washington and the media have their way, we
will live in a world constructed out of lies designed to hide from us the real
interests being served.
That is not the
kind of world that any of us want to live in.
