Bible Believers' Newsletter 847
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship.
The focus of current affairs and our main articles is upon the evil 'hidden hand' ruling the City of London and the Vatican. Always working under another name and in a different occupation his Hegelian dialectics engage the free kinetic energy of diverse peoples and nations in controlled conflict to exhaust life, limb and means in bloody sacrifice to his g_d Lucifer and enthrone him "on the sides of the North" where stood the broken show bread, representing 144,000 elect Israelites. Very soon the Lord will remove the seven golden candlesticks in the South, which as Masons surely know signify His Gentile Bride; and the world will enter the great tribulation.
What we are witnessing, most notably in Gaza, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine is asymetrical warfare between the left hand and the right hand, with neither hand knowing what the other hand is doing because each is directed by the same alien head with the objective of destroying the power of both. Barry Chamish, our Israeli correspondent in exile makes this clear.
The disinformation agents have done their job properly. Whilst everyone was watching the right hand, the left hand has completed its task. Although few attend church nowadays the people nonetheless reflect the pulpits which are desolate. God was never 'in' organized religion and no matter how long and hard He knocks He can never enter because they have organized away from the Word. Thus there is a famine of hearing the Words of the Lord" (Amos 8:11; Romans 11:32; II Timothy 4:3-4); the ministry in general has no understanding of "the present Truth—what Jesus is doing now" (II Peter 1:12; I John 1:7) so that those seeking the Lord just walk away from their humanist gospel. Denominational churches are "lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot regarding God's unchanging Word, and He has spewed them out of His mouth for although they are materially rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; they are spiritually wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Revelation 3:16-17). Blinded by worldlyism they do not understand that in 1688 England was conquered by Edomites and Hittites, "While men slept, Christ's enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way" (Matthew 13:25). Consequently once Christian nations and former colonies are ruled by the enemy of citizens who err when they assess their often alien dual-citizen administrators by the same standard wherewith they judge kindred fellows.
Satan is not at home with himself and neither do his children stay at home but are by nature excursive and rambling 'citizens of the world' (Genesis 4:11-17; Job 2:2; Ephesians 2:12; Jude 6)]. Current events are the outworking of long-term plans in which the actors are our pre-selected elected traitors and their dupes.
Please follow the links and view the videos to discover Israel's deception regarding Palestine and the history leading to the ongoing genocide and Washington's BIG LIES concerning Russia and the Ukraine. Paul Craig Roberts is the contributing author of this week's main articles.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Most Moral Army, under Attack [against innocent Civilians]
"By way of DECEPTION thou shalt do war." Each of us are (sic) wrestling with the question—what can WE do to help!? The call is obvious: be a mensch, tell more LIES, and . . .
Don't forget the mazuma!
Israel's Moral Defeat will haunt us for Years
July 28, 2014 — If victory is measured in the number of dead, then Israel and its army are big winners. [More than 1,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians and 6,200 injured:53 IDF]. How many more? Ten bodies, 18? Three more pregnant women? Five dead children, their eyes half-open, their mouths gaping, their baby teeth poking out, their shirts covered with blood and they are being carried on a single stretcher? If victory means causing the enemy to pile up a number of slaughtered children on one stretcher, since there are not enough stretchers, then you have won, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon—you and the nation that admires you.
And the trophy also goes to the Startup Nation, this time to the startup renowned for knowing and reporting as little as possible with as many international media and available websites as possible. "Good morning, it was a quiet night," the Army Radio host announced cheerfully on Thursday morning. In the day preceding the happy announcement, the Israel Defense Forces killed 80 Palestinians, 64 of whom were civilians, including 15 children and 5 women. At least 30 of them were killed during the same quiet night, from overwhelming shelling, bombing and firing from Israeli artillery, and this is without counting the number of injured or the number of houses blown up.
If victory is measured in the number of families wiped out within two weeks—parents and children, one parent and a few children, a grandmother and daughters in law and grandchildren and son, brothers and their children, in all the variations you might choose—then we also have the upper hand. Here, names from memory: Al-Najjar, Karaw'a, Abu-Jam'e, Ghannem, Qannan, Hamad, A-Salim, Al Astal, Al Hallaq, Sheikh Khalil, Al Kilani. In these families, the few members who survived the Israeli bombings in the past two weeks are now jealous of their dead.
"If it is legal according to international law," a Western diplomat told me, shocked by his own state's position in support of Israel, "it is a sign that something stinks in international law."
And another bouquet of flowers for our advisers, the graduates of the exclusive law schools in Israel and the United States, and maybe also in England: They are certainly the ones advising the IDF why it is permissible to fire at Palestinian rescue teams and prevent them from getting to the wounded. Seven members of medical teams on their way to rescue the injured were shot to death by the IDF during two weeks, the last two only last Friday. Another 16 have been wounded. This doesn't include the cases is which IDF firing prevented crews from driving to the disaster scene . . .
Full story: haaretz.com
Comment: Deconstructing the Zionist view of Gaza's horror: . . . It is Israel which has kept Gaza under blockade since 2006 when it decided it would not accept the result of a free and fair election that put Hamas in power. A blockade is an act of war and Israel has, by that definition, been at war with Gaza for almost a decade, a war it waged through its incessant punishment of innocent civilians. Did Netanyahu think Hamas would simply accept that forever?
In 2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon unilaterally withdrew all settlers and soldiers from Gaza, giving this narrow strip of land its first chance in history . . . to exercise sovereignty. That could have become the springboard for a new start, perhaps the beginning of a Singapore on the Mediterranean. But within two years Hamas . . . seized power. Rather than Gaza's construction the goal became Israel's destruction . . . Ariel Sharon was (according to David Ben Gurion) a consistent liar and (according to major human rights organizations) a serial war criminal. His motives for pulling the settlers out of Gaza had nothing to do with the future prosperity of the Palestinians, whom he despised and wished ultimately to be killed or expelled, and it certainly did not offer Gaza "sovereignty." The withdrawal of the settlers signaled two strategies on Sharon's part: a concentration of Israeli settlement efforts on the West Bank, and creating the conditions for the blockade that now makes Gaza nothing short of a ghetto-like prison camp. It should be kept in mind—if possible—that the strangulation of Gaza began before the election of Hamas to power in 2008. Proof of how much many Israeli Jews have been dehumanized by occupation and the propaganda of their leaders . . .
Why the Suffering of Gaza?
Barry Chamish writes: On July 20, ten days after Operation Protective Edge was launched against Gaza, the Defense Minister who threw the Jews out of Gaza in 2005, Shaul Mofaz, had this to say: "The ongoing defensive operation in Gaza has renewed discussion of the 2005 Disengagement, Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the region. On Sunday, Channel 2 reporters questioned MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima), asking what he thinks today about the Disengagement. Mofaz oversaw the withdrawal as the then-Defense Minister. Mofaz argued that despite recent events, he still believes the Disengagement was a good idea. Speaking from the entrance to Soroka hospital, where he was visiting soldiers wounded in Operation Protective Edge, Mofaz claimed that the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza saved "hundreds" of lives."
. . . Mofaz failed to mention that his son Yaron (a former employee of ISRAIR, one of Israel's largest airlines based out of Tel Aviv) just happened to be in Amsterdam on July 17 photographing the Air Malaysia passenger jet before it was blown out of the sky . . .
Why was Yaron Mofaz (the son of Shaul Mofaz current Israel Opposition Leader and former Minster of Defense) who was not a passenger taking a picture of MH17 in Amsterdam for Reuters just prior to the plane taking off and "shot" down mid flight, becoming international news? Unlike passenger/victim Cor Pan who sent his "final shot" of MH17 to his FaceBook page with the cryptic message "This is what it looks like in case it goes down," (and is said to be still alive today).
Shlomo Mofaz was appointed the new Defence Minister only after he was indoctrinated for several months in Washington. He learned the NWO ropes at Martin Indyk's notorious "think" tank, The Washington Center for Near East Studies . . . Within two days of each other, Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz ordered the removal of three outposts to begin with, and Prime Minister Sharon declared his unilateral withdrawal plan" . . . while his uncle Shlomo was setting up the Jews of Hebron for a massacre they didn't commit. Read about the "Baruch Goldstein" mass-murder".
Col. Shlomo Mofaz, brother of the IDF's current Chief-of-Staff, an intelligence officer definitely seen meeting Baruch Goldstein in Hebron the day before the massacre . . . Suspect number two, Shlomo Edelstein. . . "If the IDF knew about an impending massacre, then it would have sent in troops to stop it, not warn Baruch that it was coming. More and more it looks like Mofaz was the mastermind of the massacre and Baruch the stooge."
The current conflict was initiated by the highly suspicious murder of three Israeli "settler" teenagers, and plenty of Israelis from the Right know the truth in their hearts . . . What if the hours' delay in reporting the kidnapped boys' disappearance was NOT a royal foul-up? Why would there even be a policy in place where the person who took the emergency call had to run it up some chain of command? What if they were anticipating something like this and the delay was all part of some master plan? What if the Arabs are right about some of this? Maybe "Jews" did kidnap the kids. Maybe the kidnapping was a ploy to enable the government to take out Hamas operations in Judea and Shomron; to eliminate the Palestine Authority's "unity government," as the Arabs are claiming. Why did the government keep reiterating that phrase "we're operating under the assumption that the boys are still alive?" (Because they already knew they were dead). . .
The Mofaz clan was always on the front line of bloodshed against innocents. Shlomo organized the Hebron massacre of '94, Shaul oversaw the deportation of Gaza's Jews in '05, and Yaron was there to witness the takeoff of the bloody end to an Air Malaysia flight, diverting attention from the war directly caused by his father's removal of Jews from Gaza . . . A war most vehemently supported by the right-wing, settler Israelis vilified by a massacre arranged by Shlomo. The circle is complete. If only the Arabs of Gaza and the settlers of Judea and Samaria understood that they share the same enemy. And suffer equally . . .
The Committee of 300's Banking Fraud
"The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this new world order the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition.
The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands" (Baruch Levy, in a letter to Karl Marx, La Revue de Paris, page 574, June 1, 1928). Comment: This is almost accomplished.
Four Videos of Life in the Middle East
Jerusalem in breathtaking high definition. Militants belonging to the [CIA and Mossad's] Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, planted explosives around the tomb of the Prophet Younis [Jonah] inside a Sunni mosque and detonated the explosion remotely last Thursday CNN. Surprise ending of Islamic Terrorist funeral. Queen Beatrix receives a lecture from the Middle East.
Flight MH17 – what you're not being told
July 27, 2014 — On July 17 two major events took place, MH17 was downed, presumably by a missile, and Israel invaded Gaza. Israel's invasion was granted an almost complete media blackout; the MH17 tragedy, however, got full media coverage as was immediately propagandized. The US government and the Western media pinned the responsibility for the MH17 tragedy on Russia within minutes, long before investigators had time to arrive on the scene, much less than providing the actual conclusion. Then came an all-out information war, lies, omissions and disinformation from all sides. The geopolitical implications of this event should not be underestimated. Depending upon how much mileage Washington can get out of it, the downing of MH17 could end up being extremely difficult. Anyone who knows their history knows that media coverage of events like these often lays the psychological groundwork for war . . . Full story: federaljack.com
Comment: For two days Ukraine has engaged the separatists preventing Dutch and Australian investigators from entering the crash site. Is this intentional? The Australian Government is considering arming their investigators, placing the world in a trap and compromising Russia so that US/NATO can invade Ukraine should its 'human shield' be killed because Australia the 'special status' of a major US ally outside NATO.
Ukraine used Phosphorous Incendiaries, Cluster Bombs against Cities
July 25, 2014 — Ukrainian troops have on many occasions used incendiary weapons and cluster bombs against militia-held cities, acts that are banned under the international law regulating warfare, the Russian military . . . are certain of a number of such attacks by Ukrainian troops. Those include artillery shelling with incendiary shells on June 12 in Slavyansk, on June 24 and June 29 in Semyonovka and on July 7 in Lisichansk. There were also air strikes with incendiary bombs on June 21 in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk and on July 23 in Donetsk and shelling with cluster shells on June 24 in Semyonovka. . . . Full story: rt.com
Comment: More like Gaza every day. At least 45 mortar shells fired at targets located inside the Rostov-on-Don region have been unleashed by Ukraine's army, Russia's border officials said. The barrage destroyed multiple houses and forced an evacuation of civilians . . . Shells from artillery fights in Ukraine have frequently landed on Russian territory since the beginning of summer. Primiusskiy was previously shelled just two days ago . . . Earlier this week, a temporary refugee camp for Ukrainians fleeing the conflict was relocated further from the border, after several mortars landed nearby. . . Full story: rt.com
Ukrainian army fired missiles at Gorlovka, killing women and children.
June 26, 2014: Neo-Nazi Kiev Putschists plan a terrorist attack in the next few days. The minimal goal would be to impose a dictatorial regime after accusing Russia of their own terrorism. The optimal goal adds to the aforementioned, an invasion of Ukraine by Polish, Lithuanian and maybe other NATO members' troops. The operation codenamed "Flash in the Dark" would be supervised by an SBU (Ukranian State Security) major calling himself Alexey Nikonov. Turn on English subtitles.
BBC Russian Service delete Report which doesn't fit Propaganda Narrative
July 25, 2014 — The Catastrophe of MH17: BBC in the Search of the "BUK" – The Video Report Deleted by @BBC. The original BBC Video Report was published by BBC Russian Service on July 23, 2014. Why did BBC delete this report by Olga Ivshina? Is it because the BBC team was unable to find any evidence that a rocket was launched in the area that the Ukrainian Security Service ("SBU") alleges to be the place from which the Novorossiya Militia launched a "BUK" missile?
Or is it because every eyewitness interviewed by the BBC team specifically indicated the presence of Ukrainian military aircraft right beside the Malaysian Airlines Boeing MH17 at the time that it was shot down?
Or is it because of eyewitness accounts (like the one posted following the transcript of the BBC report) confirming that the Ukrainian air force regularly used civilian aircraft flying over Novorossiya as human shields to protect its military aircraft conducting strikes against civilian population from the Militia's anti-aircraft units? . . . Full story: wordpress.com
Boeing in Ukraine
July 24, 2014 — The following video-only document published and released today, shows the firing of lethal projectile Ukrainian BUK-M1 that broke the fateful flight of Malaysian Airlines MH17 on 17 July, leading to tragic and unjust death of 298 innocent people and whole of mankind into mourning.
Identical to the photos posted a few days ago by the Russian authorities, showing Ukrainian arrays of BUK-M1 which were lined up scattered in the province of Donetsk. The Russian authorities apparently had the following video in their possession as evidence of the guilt of Ukraine and Western supporters and were quick to make an impression, since up until yesterday the US claimed that they would release evidence in their possession incriminating for Russian-speaking.
Yesterday the claims were shot down when American authorities were found to be without any evidence which implicates the Russian-speaking Ukrainians, stating formally that they know who broke the plane and therefore their accusations against Russia were only speculative and provocative. Now the following unique document from an anonymous source comes to the surface. Watch the video below launch deadly missile, and note the similarity of the video footage with the satellite photos released by the Russian authorities showing Ukrainian BUK-M1 . . . Full story: defencenet.gr
Malaysian Airlines MH17 was ordered to fly over the East Ukraine Warzone
July 21, 2014 — Malaysian Airlines confirms . . . "MH17 filed a flight plan requesting to fly at 35,000ft throughout Ukrainian airspace. This is close to the 'optimum' altitude. However, an aircraft's altitude in flight is determined by air traffic control on the ground. Upon entering Ukrainian airspace, MH17 was instructed by Ukrainian air traffic control to fly at 33,000ft" . . . [Note Illuminati all-seeing eye in caagsone as on the reverse of US Great Seal and US$1 note].
The regular flight path of MH17 (and other international flights) over a period of ten days prior to July 17th (day of the disaster), crossing Eastern Ukraine in a Southeasterly direction is across the Sea of Azov. The flight path on July 17th was changed. . .
While the audio records of the MH17 flight have been confiscated by the Kiev government, the order to change the flight path did not come from Eurocontrol . . . What is significant, however, is that the Western media acknowledged that the change in the flight path did occur, and the that "heavy weather" narrative is a fabrication . . . It is worth noting that a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet equipped with air-to-air R-60 missiles was detected within 5-10 km of the Malaysian aircraft, within an air corridor reserved for commercial aircraft. . .
The damage incurred to Malaysian Airlines as a result of these two tragic occurrences must also be addressed. Malaysian airlines have high safety standards and an outstanding record.
These two accidents are part of a criminal undertaking. They are not the result of negligence on the part of Malaysian Airlines, which potentially faces bankruptcy. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: Israel and Malaysia do not maintain formal diplomatic relations. Malaysia was one of the first countries in the United Nations to recognize the State of Palestine in 1988 (as a majority 134 UN member nations do) and would consider beginning relations with Israel only when a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian people is successfully concluded. The war crimes tribunal held in Malaysia which found Israel guilty of war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon and called on the Islamic world to embrace the use of the gold dinar for international trade and as an alternative to US dollar reserves in central banks.
Malaysian Airlines MH17: who stands to Gain?
July 29, 2014 — The Russian military has released military monitoring data which challenge allegations circulating in the media pertaining to the MH17 crash in the Donetsk Region of Eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Questions have been raised about Kiev military jets tracking MH17, Ukrainian air traffic controllers and the deployment of Buk missile systems. Kiev should also release military data on the circumstances leading to the crash. So should the Pentagon which reportedly has relevant intelligence and satellite data.
Since military data is hardcore information, Kiev and Washington should be persuaded to be transparent and accountable. The UN Secretary-General can play a role in this since there is a specialized agency within the UN, the ICAO, dedicated to international civil aviation. Military data from Moscow, Kiev and Washington should be scrutinized by the independent international panel that is supposed to probe the MH17 catastrophe.
Such data carries much more weight than videos purportedly revealing the role of the pro-Russian rebels and the Russian government in the crash. One such video showing a Buk system being moved from Ukraine to Russia is a fabrication. The billboard in the background establishes that it was shot in a town?Krasnoarmeisk?that has been under the control of the Ukrainian military since May 11. Similarly, a You Tube video showing a Russian General and Ukrainian rebels discussing their role in mistakenly downing a civilian aircraft was, from various tell-tale signs, produced before the event.
The public should be wary of fabricated 'evidence' of this sort, after what we have witnessed in the last so many years. Have we forgotten the monstrous lies and massive distortions that accompanied the reckless allegation that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which led eventually to the invasion of that country in 2003 and the death of more than a million people? Iraq continues to bleed to this day. What about the Gulf of Tonkin episode of 1964 which again was a fabrication that paved the way for wanton US aggression against Vietnam that resulted in the death of more than 3 million Vietnamese? The 'babies in incubators' incident in Kuwait in 1990 was yet another manufactured lie that aroused the anger of the people and served to justify the US assault on Iraq. Just last year we saw how an attempt was made by some parties to pin the blame for a sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria upon the Assad government when subsequent investigations have revealed that it was the work of some militant rebel group.
From Tonkin to Ghouta there is a discernible pattern when it comes to the fabrication of evidence to justify some nefarious agenda or other. As soon as the event occurs before any proper investigation has begun, blame is apportioned upon the targeted party. This is done wilfully to divert attention from the real culprit whose act of evil remains concealed and camouflaged. The colluding media then begins to spin the 'correct' version with the help of its reporters and columnists who concoct 'fact' out of fiction. Any other explanation or interpretation of the event is discredited and dismissed derisively to ensure that the 'credibility' of the dominant narrative remains intact. As the narrative unfolds, the target often embodied in a certain personality is demonized to such a degree that he arouses the ire of the public and becomes an object of venom.
The pattern described here is typical of what is known as a 'false flag' operation in which blame for some dastardly deed is consciously transferred to one's adversary. It has happened right through history and many contemporary nation-states?and not just the United States?are guilty of flying false flags.
To protect ourselves from being deceived by such operations, the general public should always ask: who stands to gain from a particular episode? Cui Bono is in fact an important principle in the investigation of a crime. In the case of the MH17 carnage, the pro-Russian rebels do not benefit in any way from downing a civilian airliner. Their goal is independence from the Kiev government which is why they are fighting Kiev through sometimes violent means including shooting down its military planes. Massacring 298 passengers in a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur does not serve their cause. Moscow which backs the rebels to an extent also gains nothing from involving itself in such a diabolical carnage.
10 days after the carnage, it is now clear who is trying to reap benefits from that terrible tragedy in the skies. The demonization of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, orchestrated from various Western capitals, including Kiev, after Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation, thus thwarting one of the primary strategic goals of NATO's eastward expansion, has now reached its pinnacle. After MH17, it has become a lot easier to convince people?even without an iota of evidence?that Putin is a 'mass murderer.' The tarnishing of Putin's image is crucial for those in the West who want to curb Russia's political re-assertion so that the US and its allies can perpetuate their global dominance without hindrance.
MH17 has helped the elite in Washington in yet another sense. It has strengthened its push for tougher sanctions against Russia which began after the Crimea vote. Given their extensive economic ties with Russia, many European countries such as Germany, France, Netherlands and Italy have been somewhat lukewarm about widening and deepening sanctions. But will that change now? Will an outraged European public, incensed by the MH17 massacre, demand that their governments punish Moscow?
It is obvious that those who seek to punish Russia and the pro-Russian rebels, namely, the elite in Washington and Kiev, are poised to gain the most from the MH7 episode. Does it imply that they would have had a role in the episode itself? Only a truly independent and impartial international inquiry would be able to provide the answer.
In this regard, we must admit that while elites in Kiev and Washington may stand to gain from MH17, those who actually pulled the trigger may be some other group or individual with links to the powerful in the two capitals. It is quite conceivable that a certain well-heeled individual equipped with the appropriate military apparatus and with access to air-control authorities in the region may have executed the act of evil itself.
Because of who he is, and where his loyalties lie, that individual may have also decided to target Malaysia. Was he giving vent to his anger over our principled stand on the question of justice for the Palestinians? Was he also attempting to divert public attention from Israel's ground offensive against Gaza which time-wise coincided with the downing of the Malaysian airliner?
As we explore MH17 from this angle, would we be able to connect the dots between MH17 and MH370, between July 17 and March 8, 2014?
We should not rest till the whole truth is known and the evil behind these two colossal catastrophes punished severely. We owe this to every soul who perished on those fateful flights.
This article is dedicated to the cherished memory of all those on MH 17—especially the 80 children who were on board.
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar is a prominent Malaysian scholar and author, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST).
Pope Francis: US must care for Illegal Alien Migrants
July 7, 2014 — Helping to spread Obama's gospel of Marxist entitlement, Pope Francis gave United States president Barack Obama's Illegal Alien Welfare Program a shot in the arm today when he said that America must care for the tens of thousands of illegals who break the law to enter the country. Francis said nothing about the responsibility of countries-of-origin where "migrants" come from and nothing about returning them back from whence they came.
Pope Francis has sent a message to the "Mexico/Holy See Colloquium on Migration and Development," urging protection for tens of thousands of unaccompanied children migrating North from Central America and Mexico in increasing numbers . . . globalization has rendered migration a "hallmark" of society today. Despite this it is still seen as an emergency or as a circumstantial phenomenon.
Above all, the Pope's thoughts go to "the tens of thousands of children who migrate alone, unaccompanied, to escape poverty and violence." He says, "this is a category of migrants . . . who cross the border with the United States under extreme conditions and in pursuit of a hope that in most cases turns out to be vain." He notes that the numbers of children undertaking this hazardous journey "are increasing day by day" . . .
[Furthermore] in a BBC interview that the Vatican is struggling to spin, Pope Francis took the highly unusual step of actually admitting that there are thousands and thousands of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church worldwide. By their estimates about 8,000. This mind-numbing admission has sent shock-waves through the highest levels of the Vatican system. . .
Comment: The Spirit of Laodicea (which means "people's rights" or Marxism-Communism) gushes forth from the Vatican in fulfillment of the curse Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24:37 which is the repetition of the original sin . . . "as it was in the days of Noah" (Genesis 6:1-13). 'Multiculturalism'.
The spirit of Sodom is active "in the Catholic Church worldwide" in fulfillment of the curse Jesus prophesied in Luke 17:20-30 which is homosexuality . . . "as it was in the days of Lot" (Genesis 18 – 19).
Washington is escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian 'Crisis' to War
By Paul Craig Roberts Asst. Sec. US Treasury for Economic Policy 1975-8
? 2014 all rights reservedJuly 25, 2014 — Despite the conclusion by US intelligence that there is no evidence of Russian involvement in the destruction of the Malaysian airliner and all lives onboard, Washington is escalating the crisis and shepherding the World toward war.
Twenty-two US senators have introduced into the 113th Congress, Second Session, a bill, S.2277, "To prevent further Russian aggression toward Ukraine and other sovereign states in Europe and Eurasia, and for other purposes." The bill is before the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Note that prior to any evidence of any Russian aggression, there are already 22 senators lined up in behalf of preventing 'further Russian aggression'.
Accompanying this preparatory propaganda move to create a framework for war, hot or cold with Russia, NATO commander General Philip Breedlove announced his plan for a deployment of massive military means in Eastern Europe that would permit lightening responses against Russia in order to protect Europe from Russian aggression.
There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
The existence of 'Russian aggression' is assumed, not demonstrated. Neither Breedlove nor the senators make any reference to Russian war plans for an attack on Europe or any other countries. There are no references to Russian position papers and documents setting forth a Russian expansionist ideology or a belief declared by Moscow that Russians are 'exceptional, indispensable people' with the right to exercise hegemony over the world. No evidence is presented that Russia has infiltrated the communication systems of the entire world for spy purposes. There is no evidence that Putin has Obama's or Obama's daughters' private cell phone conversations or that Russia downloads US corporate secrets for the benefit of Russian businesses.
Nevertheless, the NATO commander and US senators see an urgent need to create blitzkrieg capability for NATO on Russia's borders.
Senate bill 2277 consists of three titles: 'Reinvigorating the NATO Alliance,' 'Deterring Further Russian Aggression in Europe,' and 'Hardening Ukraine and other European and Eurasian States against Russian Aggression.' Who do you think wrote this bill? Hint: it wasn't the senators or their staffs.
Title I deals with strengthening US force posture in Europe and Eurasia and strengthening the NATO alliance, with accelerating the construction of ABM (anti-ballistic missile) bases on Russia's borders so as to degrade the Russian strategic nuclear deterrent, and to provide more money for Poland and the Baltic states and strengthen US-German cooperation on global security issues, that is, to make certain that the German military is incorporated as part of the US empire military force.
Title II is about confronting 'Russian aggression in Europe' with sanctions and with financial and diplomatic 'support for Russian democracy and civil society organizations,' which means to pump billions of dollars into NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that can be used to destabilize Russia in the way that Washington used the NGOs it funded in Ukraine to overthrow the elected government. For 20 years Russian government negligence permitted Washington to organize fifth columns inside Russia that pose as human rights organizations, etc.
Title III deals with military and intelligence assistance for Ukraine, putting Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova on a NATO track, expediting US natural gas exports in order to erase European and Eurasian energy dependence on Russia, preventing recognition of Crimea as again a part of Russia, expanding broadcasting (propaganda) into Russian areas, and again 'support for democracy and civil society organizations in countries of the former Soviet Union,' which means to use money to subvert the Russian federation.
However you look at this, it comprises a declaration of war. Moreover, these provocative and expensive moves are presented as necessary to counter Russian aggression for which there is no evidence.
How do we characterize a bill that is not merely thoughtless, unnecessary, and dangerous, but also more Orwellian than Orwell? I am open to suggestions.
Ukraine as it currently exists is an ahistorical state with artificial boundaries. Ukraine presently consists of part of what was once a larger entity plus former Russian provinces added to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by Soviet leaders. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia permitted Ukraine's independence, under US pressure Russia mistakenly permitted Ukraine to take with it the former Russian provinces.
When Washington executed its coup in Kiev last year, the Russophobes who grabbed power began threatening in word and deed the Russian populations in eastern and southern Ukraine. The Crimeans voted to reunite with Russia and were accepted. This reunification was grossly misrepresented by Western propaganda. When other former Russian provinces voted likewise, the Russian government, kowtowing to Western propaganda, did not grant their requests. Instead, Russian president Putin called for Kiev and the former Russian provinces to work out an agreement that would keep the provinces within Ukraine.
Kiev and its Washington master did not listen. Instead, Kiev launched military attacks on the provinces and was conducting bombing attacks on the provinces at the moment the Malaysian airliner was downed.
Washington and its European vassals have consistently misrepresented the situation in Ukraine and denied their responsibility for the violence, instead placing all blame on Russia. But it is not Russia that is conducting bombing raids and attacking provinces with troops, tanks, and artillery. Just as Israel's current military assault against Palestinian civilians fails to evoke criticism from Washington, European governments, and the Western media, Kiev's assault on the former Russian provinces goes unreported and uncriticized. Indeed, it appears that few Americans are even aware that Kiev is attacking civilian areas of the provinces that wish to return to their mother country.
Sanctions should be imposed on Kiev, from which the military violence originates. Instead, Kiev is receiving financial and military support, and sanctions are placed on Russia which is not militarily involved in the situation.
When the outbreak of violence against the former Russian provinces began, the Russian Duma voted Putin the power to intervene militarily. Instead of using this power, Putin requested that the Duma rescind the power, which the Duma did. Putin preferred to deal with the problem diplomatically in a reasonable and unprovocative manner.
Putin has received neither respect nor appreciation for encouraging a non-violent resolution of the unfortunate Ukrainian situation created by Washington's coup against a democratically elected government that was only months away from a chance to elect a different government.
The sanctions that Washington has applied and that Washington is pressuring its European puppets to join send the wrong information to Kiev. It tells Kiev that the West approves and encourages Kiev's determination to resolve its differences with the former Russian provinces with violence rather than with negotiation.
This means war will continue, and that is clearly Washington's intent. The latest reports are that US military advisors will soon be in Ukraine to aid the conquest of the former Russian provinces that are in revolt.
The presstitute nature of the [Jewish controlled] Western media ensures that the bulk of the American and European populations will remain in the grip of Washington's anti-Russian propaganda.
At some point the Russian government will have to face the fact that it doesn't have 'Western partners.' Russia has Western enemies who are being organized to isolate Russia, to injure Russia economically and diplomatically, to surround Russia militarily, to destabilize Russia by calling the American-funded NGOs into the streets, and in the absence of a coup that installs an American puppet in Moscow to attack Russia with nuclear weapons.
I respect Putin's reliance on diplomacy and good will in the place of force. The problem with Putin's approach is that Washington has no good will, so there is no reciprocity.
Washington has an agenda. Europe consists of captive nations, and these nations are without leaders capable of breaking free of Washington's agenda.
I hope that I am wrong, but I think Putin has miscalculated. If Putin had accepted the former Russian provinces' requests to reunite with Russia, the conflict in Ukraine would be over. I am certain that Europe would not have joined Washington in any invasion with the purpose of recovering for Ukraine former provinces of Russia herself. When Washington says that Putin is responsible for downing the Malaysian airliner, Washington is correct in a way that Washington doesn't suspect. Had Putin completed the task begun with Crimea and reunited the Russian provinces with Russia, there would have been no war during which an airliner could have been downed, whether by accident or as a plot to demonize Russia. Ukraine has no capability of confronting Russia militarily and had no alternative to accepting the reunification of the Russian territories.
Europe would have witnessed a decisive Russian decision and would have put a great distance between itself and Washington's provocative agenda. This European response would have precluded Washington's ability to gradually escalate the crisis by gradually turning the temperature higher without the European frog jumping out of the pot.
In its dealings with Washington Europe has grown accustomed to the efficacy of bribes, threats, and coercion. Captive nations are inured to diplomacy's impotence. Europeans see diplomacy as the weak card played by the weak party. And, of course, all the Europeans want money, which Washington prints with abandon.
Russia and China are disadvantaged in their conflict with Washington. Russia and China have emerged from tyranny. People in both countries were influenced by American cold war propaganda. Both countries have educated people who think that America has freedom, democracy, justice, civil liberty, economic wellbeing and is a welcoming friend of other countries that want the same thing.
This is a dangerous delusion. Washington has an agenda. Washington has put in place a police state to suppress its own population, and Washington believes that history has conveyed the right to Washington to exercise hegemony over the world. Last year President Obama declared to the world that he sincerely believes that America is the exceptional nation on whose leadership the world depends.
In other words, all other countries and peoples are unexceptional. Their voices are unimportant. Their aspirations are best served by Washington's leadership. Those who disagree 'Russia, China, Iran, and the [CIA's] new entity ISIL' are regarded by Washington as obstacles to history's purpose. Anything, whether an idea or a country, that is in the way of Washington is in the way of History's Purpose and must be run over.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries Europe faced the determination of the French Revolution to impose Liberty, Equality, Fraternity upon Europe. Today Washington's ambition is larger. The ambition is to impose Washington's hegemony on the entire world.
Unless Russia and China submit, this means war (globalresearch.ca emphasis added).
Comment: "The United States of America is considering the possibility of granting Ukraine the status of an ally without membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
. . . Baldwin said that the American side highly appreciates its cooperation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and that it is ready to provide comprehensive support to them.
He stressed that a draft law on prevention of Russian aggression, adoption of which will allow Ukraine to obtain the status of an ally of the United States without NATO membership, is currently under consideration by the United States government.
. . . President Petro Poroshenko has asked the United States Congress to declare the self-proclaimed "People's Republic of Luhansk" and "People's Republic of Donetsk" as terrorist organizations and declare their members as terrorists. Poroshenko believes that when sanctions are not working, there are grounds for appeal to the United States Congress to grant Ukraine the special status of a major ally outside NATO (like Israel, Australia, and the Philippines) to enable it to solve its security problems. (Ukrainian News, July 24, 2014).
The granting of the "status of ally outside NATO" would set the stage for the possible deployment of US and NATO forces inside Ukraine in the context of joint military operations with the Ukraine Armed Forces and National Guard.
The US Senate's Russian Aggression Prevention Act, about which I reported in my previous column, does even more mischief than I reported. If the bill passes, which it likely will, Washington becomes empowered to bypass NATO and to grant the status of "allied nation" to Ukraine independently of NATO membership. By so doing, Washington can send troops to Ukraine and thereby commit NATO to a war with Russia.
Notice how quickly Washington escalated the orchestrated Ukrainian "crisis" without any evidence into "Russian aggression." Overnight we have the NATO commander and US senators taking actions against "Russian aggression" of which no one has seen any evidence.
With Iraq, Libya, and Syria, Washington learned that Washington could act on the basis of baldfaced lies. No one, not Great Britain, not France, not Germany, not Italy, not the Netherlands, not Canada, not Australia, not Mexico, not New Zealand, not Israel, nor Japan, nor S. Korea, nor Taiwan, nor (substitute your selection) stepped forward to hold Washington accountable for its blatant lies and war crimes. The UN even accepted the package of blatant and obviously transparent lies that Colin Powell delivered to the UN. Everything Powell said had already been refuted by the UN's own weapons inspectors. Yet the UN pussies gave the go-ahead for a devastating war.
The only conclusion is that all the whores were paid off. The whores can always count on Washington paying them off . . . Russian President Putin's bet that by responding to Washington's aggression in Ukraine in a unprovocative and reasonable manner would demonstrate to Europe that Russia was not the source of the problem has not payed off. European countries are captive nations. They are incapable of thinking and acting for themselves. They bend to Washington's will. Essentially, Europe is a nonentity that follows Washington's orders.
If the Russian government hopes to prevent war with Washington, which is likely to be the final war for life on earth, the Russian government needs to act now and end the problem in Ukraine by accepting the separatist provinces' request to be reunited with Russia. Once (the Russian-Aggression-Prevention-Act-of-2014) S.2277 passes, Russia cannot retrieve the situation without confronting militarily the US, because Ukraine will have been declared an American ally . . .
Full story: Paul Craig Roberts
US War against Russia is already underway – Paul Craig Roberts/Voice of Russia
By Paul Craig Roberts Asst. Sec. US Treasury for Economic Policy 1975-8
? 2014 all rights reservedJune 27, 2014 — The Voice of Russia interviews Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the US Treasury, currently the chairman of The Institute for Political Economy . . .
VOR: But what exactly is the rationale behind the never-ending wars?
There are several reasons that are mutually supportive. One is that the neoconservative ideology came to full power with the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this ideology says that history has chosen the US to prevail all over the world, that there is no alternative to the American political and economic system, and that this choice by history gives the US the responsibility to exercise hegemony over the entire world.
So, this is a very powerful ideology, a more powerful ideology than the US has ever before had. And it comes at a time when other ideologies are gone. The communist ideology is gone; the Marxist revolutionary movements are gone. And so, it leaves the US dominating on the ideological level.
Another reason is the military-security complex . . . And the third very powerful interest group is the Israel lobby. Most of the neoconservatives are Jewish ethnics. Many of them are Israeli-US citizens. Almost all of them are closely tied to Israel. And so, the neoconservative ideology of American hegemony fits in very well with the thirteen years of wars in the ME, because these wars also serve a subsidiary interest of disposing of the Arab states that are not aligned with the US and Israel, and that could serve as a check on Israeli policy or Israeli expansion in the ME.
So, these three come together, they are all mutually supportive and in many ways it is the same people. The neoconservatives are the same as the Israel lobby. The officials in the Pentagon, in the State Department, they are also neoconservatives. So, it is a very strong three-part foundation that holds together.
VOR: So, you are saying that the policy is largely defined by an Israeli lobby. But the US policies in the ME actually endanger Israel.
Yes, this is an unintended consequence of the policy. Some analysts tried to warn the neoconservatives that the borders in the ME are artificial, like the ones in Africa that were drawn up by the European colonists, principally the English and the French.
So, you have countries in which you have Shia majorities and Sunni minorities, and then you have countries in which there is a reverse, Sunni majorities and Shia minorities. And this is like the African boundaries that were drawn bringing into the same country two warring tribes, who traditionally were enemies. So, the boundaries of the states don't make a lot of sense. The boundaries could only have been drawn by ignorant Westerners.
The Islamic confrontation between the different sects was prevented by very strong secular rulers, such as Saddam Hussein, who had a secular government, and Assad in Syria. These were secular, non-Islamic governments that kept the conflict suppressed. So, when you overthrow those governments, you release the conflict.
So, what we see happening on the part of what they are calling ISIS or ISIL is a reforming of borders . . . In place of Iraq, there will be these warring factions. In place of Syria—warring factions, just like in Libya today. And a state that has no central government is no threat to Israel. And, therefore, we favor this destruction of the political entities of these countries, because it releases us from any sort of organized government's opposition to Israel's theft of Palestine. Iraq no longer has a government, it has warring parties, like in Libya, like Washington is establishing in Syria.
So, this is the way the Israelis and the neoconservatives see it. They do not see the destruction of secular Muslim states as a threat; the fools see it as a destruction of a unified country, which would reduce the ability of that country to employ any sort of opposition to Israeli or American purposes.
VOR: But in that case, wouldn't the government and governmental institutions be replaced by something like political and paramilitary organizations, which we now term as extremist groups with which we are dealing now? And wouldn't those entities pose more threat, than individual governments? Or do those people believe that they would be able to control them somehow?
No, I don't think they think they can control them. And yes, they do pose a threat, because they are not secular . . .
VOR: When you have been describing that neocon ideology with an idea of a global mission, doesn't it seem strikingly similar to something like the Marxist ideology, to the communist ideology?
Yes, that's exactly what it is. The US is chosen by history. In Marxism history chooses the proletariat. In the neoconservative ideology history chose Washington.
VOR: Does that imply that, perhaps, those two ideologies could have a common root?
No, I don't think they have a common root, but their effect on the world is the same, because it gives the country that expresses that ideology an impetus to run over other countries and to establish itself, because it sees itself as the sole legitimate system. And in that sense, the Marxist and the neoconservative ideologies are the same, but the roots are quite different.
And I think as well, you know, the whole notion of the unipolar world, the American sole superpower, this fits the financial interests very well. I left them out of my three-part foundation that I spoke to you about, but in a way it is a four-part . . . If your currency is not the world currency and you don't operate the world payment system, you can't impose sanctions. And so, the power to impose sanctions is also a power for your financial institutions to prevail over the institutions of other countries. So, this ideology that I'm talking about also appeals to Wall Street, to the big banks, because it ensures their hegemony as well.
VOR: But in that case, I start wondering—was it an intended implication or, perhaps, unintended, again, that whatever the US has been doing for the past ten years or even more has been strengthening China, which the US seems to be identifying as its primary adversary. Now, you've been mentioning the financial system. The Chinese start talking about bringing their own currency into the world market as a new reserve currency. And this has been largely thanks to all those crises, which have been triggered off by the US.
What the US did that gave China its economic beginning, was to offshore the American manufacturing jobs. Industry and American manufacturing was moved offshore by the capitalists under the pressure of Wall Street in order to lower labor costs, in order to achieve higher earnings for shareholders, for Wall Street and for the managers through bonuses. And so, it was a very shortsighted policy from the standpoint of national interests, but it was in the interest of Wall Street and in the individual interests of the chief executive officers of the corporations.
Once China had the American technology and the American business knowhow, it was free of American economic predominance. And now, actually, China has a much more powerful economy, certainly in manufacturing, than the US has.
Another factor that contributed to weakening the American economic system was the rise of the high-speed Internet, because now it is possible for professional service jobs, such as engineering, software engineering, computers, any type of engineering, any type of work that does not have to be done on site, this work can be done anywhere in the world and sent in on the high-speed Internet.
This has given countries like India and China the ability to put their people into jobs that used to be filled by American university graduates. Again, it is a cost saving for the corporations, Wall Street likes it: it increases profits.
And so, this is where China's rise came from. It was an unintended consequence of globalism . . . They say—oh, it is just free trade, we will benefit . . . it is not free trade and we haven't benefited.
VOR: But in that sense, does that imply that, perhaps, when we are talking about the interests of large corporations Vs national interests, national interests are increasingly losing to the corporate?
In the real sense, there is no longer an American national interest. There is the interest of these powerful interest groups. And we've had these recent studies from scholars who have found that the American public has no input whatsoever into government decisions or into policy decisions . . . in terms of the foreign policy—the question that you raised . . . the US is sort of making itself vulnerable in many ways. For example, look at the economic policy. For years now, in order to support a handful of large banks the Federal Reserve is creating trillions of dollars, new dollars.
This creation of dollars devalues the existing dollars that are held by people around the world . . . this has caused some thought about leaving the dollar as the world reserve system. When the threat to the real value of dollar denominated financial instruments comes on top of the suffering from Washington's financial bullying of sovereign countries, the momentum grows for finding some other mechanism than the dollar as a way of settling international transactions.
And of course, the Chinese have said that it is time to de-Americanize the world. And the Russians said recently that we need to de-dollarize the payment system. And so, we have this agreement with Russia and China on the large energy deal which is going to be outside the dollar payment system.
We see the BRICS, the five countries—India, China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa—and they are talking about settling their trade imbalances in their own currencies. And they are even talking about creating a bank between themselves, like an IMF or a World Bank . . . And over time, all of this creates animosity, worries. And then, when you add, on top of that, all the new dollars that the Federal Reserve has created since 2008, it creates a real financial worry. And so, I think, in that sense, the US has weakened its position.
VOR: But how far do you think the US might be prepared to go to protect the dollar? Or, perhaps, those interest groups are no longer interested to protect that particular currency. Perhaps, they have already taken some kind of precautions.
From the standpoint of Washington's power, losing the world currency role would be devastating, because that's the main basis for Washington's power. That's why Washington has financial hegemony, that's why Washington can impose sanctions on sovereign countries. So, if Washington loses this role, if the dollar ceases to be the world reserve currency, we'll see a dramatic reduction in Washington's power.
All of the interest groups that benefit from Washington's power would find that a disadvantage. Of course, most of these corporations are now global or transnational. And they may have bank balances in many countries.
VOR: But still, how far is Washington prepared to go? Could it afford another war? When Saddam Hussein attempted to challenge the US Dollar back in 2000, he had to pay a price. And we all know what kind of price he did pay. Now, when China and Russia, and other countries are starting to mull the idea, what kind of risk are they running?
They are running a risk. We already know that the US has announced a pivot to Asia, reallocating 60% of the American navy to the South China Sea to control the flow of resources on which China depends. The US is contracting to build a series of new air and naval bases running from the Philippines to Vietnam in order to block China.
We have witnessed this century the US withdraw from the ABM treaty with Russia. We witnessed the US construct an ABM system and began deploying it on Russia's borders. The purpose of an ABM is to neutralize the strategic deterrent of the other country.
We've seen the US change its war doctrine; nuclear weapons are no longer to be used only in retaliation to an attack. They are now a preemptive first-strike force. This is clearly directed at Russia. The Ukraine is directed at Russia. So, the war is already started, it is underway. That's what the Ukraine is about. It is the war against Russia.
And the war against China is in preparation. The US takes the side of every country that gets into a dispute with China, even over small things that have nothing whatsoever to do with the US.
The US is surrounding both countries with military bases. The US wants to put Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin that was part of Russia for two or three hundred years, they want to put that into NATO. They are going to put Ukraine into NATO.
Washington broke all the agreements that Reagan and Gorbachev had about not taking NATO into Eastern Europe. NATO is now in the Baltics. It is all across Eastern Europe. The former members of the Warsaw pact are now members of NATO.
So, the war is already underway, it is clear. The US has been preparing for years. And the Russians, they must be aware of this. If they are not, they are in really deep trouble.
VOR: Can the US afford it?
Of course! Sure! The reserve currency can pay its bills by printing money. And that's what Washington does. Washington prints the money.
VOR: But like you said, that creates a lot of risks.
Until the reserve currency role is lost, there is no limit. [This is where the Vatican will come in after the sinking of Los Angeles causes the dollar to fail and after Russia invades and occupies mainland USA – Ed]. Recently I read that one of the advisors to Putin said that Russia needs to form some kind of alliance with other countries and bring down the dollar as the world reserve currency, that this is the only way to stop Washington's military aggression. Of course, he is completely right. But the question is—can they organize something that quick enough that succeeds—because Europe is an American puppet state. Those European governments are not independent. They are no more independent than Hungary and Czechoslovakia and Poland were of the Soviet Communist Party. And Japan is a puppet state; it is not an independent country.
So, if you have the euro backing the dollar and you have the yen backing the dollar, that's a fairly strong position to be in. And so, it is going to be difficult for Russia and China or whoever is interested to make inroads in any sort of a rapid way.
And yet, we can see . . . look what happened in Ukraine. Russia was focused on the Olympics and the US stole Ukraine. Russia was paying no attention; somehow the Sochi Olympics were more important. So, what happened—Washington reached in, stole Ukraine. Now, this is a tremendous problem for the Russian Government, for Putin, for his leadership.
Putin has asked the Russia Duma to rescind the permission to use the Russian troops in Ukraine. So, clearly, he is acting in a very restrained way. He is trying to avoid conflict. He probably realizes that the conflict will be much more dangerous to everybody than the neoconservatives in Washington think.
But the question is—will Putin be able to avoid conflict? What will Washington think? Will they think—oh, this is a very reasonable man, we can make a deal. Or will they think—look, he is scared, Russia is weak, let's push forward.
VOR: It is interesting! I remember that George W. Bush in an interview to the Wall Street Journal towards the end of his second term said something about Putin, which was rather surprising to hear from him. He said that Putin never failed him on any of his promises. So, the assessment was rather positive than negative.
I think that's true. But you see Washington's propaganda has nothing to do with facts. There is no propaganda like Washington propaganda. Washington can control the explanation of anything. Putin can't. Americans believe that all the trouble in Ukraine was caused by Putin, that he invaded, that he annexed, that he is behind all the trouble in southeastern Ukraine today and that it is all Russia's fault, and that Russia is a threat, and that we have to arm ourselves against "the Russian threat." Washington is recreating the Cold War that it had with the Soviet Union.
This is a very profitable way to supply the US military-security complex with the taxpayers' money. And in some ways it is safer than a war, because the war in Afghanistan didn't go well, the war in Iraq didn't go well. But if you can have a Cold War and you don't actually fight, you can keep it going for years, just like the Cold War with the Soviet Union. And the Cold War built the military-security complex in the US.
So, that's at least the backup line for Washington. I'm not sure that we can rely on Washington to have the judgment not to push Washington's takeover of Ukraine into a hot war. It seems preposterous to think that Washington would be in a hot war with China and Russia. These are two large powerful countries. They have nuclear weapons.
But a lot of preposterous things have happened. And governments often fall under the sway of their own propaganda. And clearly, somebody in Washington thinks that a nuclear war can be won, because otherwise, why would they change the war doctrine so that nuclear weapons cease to be a retaliatory force and become a first-strike weapon? Why would they build antiballistic missiles and put them on Russia's border and on ships in the Black Sea and South China Sea.
It is clear that some people in Washington believe that the US can win a nuclear war. In fact, there was an article published several years ago in Foreign Affairs, which is the principle journal of the Council on Foreign Relations—an influential collection of strategic analysts and former government officials. And they said the US is so far ahead of Russia in nuclear weaponry, that we can very easily attack Russia and suffer no retaliation. So, you have people that think that way.
VOR: But that experiment could cost us a planet.
That's exactly it! But look at WWI. Look how many empires it cost. It cost the Tsar—Russia and its Empire. It cost the Austrian-Hungarians, it destroyed them. It destroyed the German ruling family. The war left Great Britain dependent on US financial support.
VOR: Yes, true. But there were no nuclear weapons at that time.
There is big propaganda that you can actually use nuclear weapons. I'm trying to combat that. I had recently on my site articles by various scientists pointing out that nobody wins.
VOR: I'm absolutely amazed at how the Department of State is handling its own propaganda; there is no real argumentation whatsoever. Why? Is it that they no longer care to look credible?
It is just the power. American foreign policy, how does it work? It is always based on coercion or threats, bribes. If a bribe doesn't work, you use a threat. I mean, one of the main purposes of the NSA spying on the world is to be able to blackmail all the government leaders. And they do that very effectively. Everybody has got something they don't want known. So, they use bribes, bags full of money. First of all, Washington buys the foreign leaders. If there is any holdout, they topple them, like Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi. There have been several in South America that they've simply just assassinated, because they wouldn't obey. So, the foreign policy of the US is a policy based on force. It is not based on diplomacy or persuasion. It is based on brutal force.
What does the State Department tell people—do what we say or we will bomb you into the Stone Age. Remember? They told that to thePakistaniAfghan leader. Do what we say. Now!
So, if you have that type of attitude, it doesn't matter whether you tell the truth or tell lies, because you are the ruler, you are the one, you are the Caesar. And what you say goes, true or false. And so, it is not important to you that it is true, because you are not working on a diplomatic level.
This is something that Putin and Lavrov (the Foreign Minister) don't seem to understand. They keep thinking that they can work something out with Washington, if the Russian government is just reasonable enough and shows enough good will.
This is a Russian delusion. Washington has no good will.
VOR: Are there any unintended consequences to that strategy, the way you see it?
Only if people catch on and see at some point the reality?and this is what Putin is relying on. At some point, what happens in Germany and France? Will they realize and say—hey, look; the Americans are driving us into a mess. What do we gain from the American hegemony over the world? How do we gain from a conflict with Russia or China? Let's stop this. Let's pull out.
If some country were to pull out of NATO or pull out of the EU, then the cover up of Washington's war crimes by "the coalition of the willing" would have dissenters. Washington has actually told the Congress that if the White House has NATO's backing, the president doesn't need the permission of Congress to go to war . . .
I think one unintended consequence of Washington's brutal use of power is that it causes the NATO countries to realize that they are being driven towards a conflict by a government that is essentially insane and taking a fantastic risk with everyone's life and with the planet.
So, perhaps, the realization by others of Washington's danger to life is what Putin is hoping for. He is hoping that the more Russia is reasonable and not provocative, and doesn't take provocative actions, the greater the chance that the German Government or the French Government will realize that Washington's agenda does not serve mankind, and that Europe will take some steps to extract themselves and their countries, and their people from Washington's control, in which case the American empire falls apart.
So, I think that's what Putin is betting on. He is not a fool, certainly not, and he realizes the threat of a war, he can see it. And so, this is probably why he's asked the Russian Duma to rescind the permission to use the Russian forces in Ukraine. He is trying to show the Germans, the French—look, it is not me, and it is not us.
I hope he succeeds. The future of the world really depends on whether Putin's use of diplomacy can prevail over Washington's use of force. Full story: paulcraigroberts.org nl847.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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