The disenchanted Reagan Administration official and much-honored economist and political scientist, Paul Craig Roberts, headlined on April 27th, “Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China” and stated an impressive case that this radical conclusion is realistic, no mere alarmism. Roberts even said in it that “Russia and China cannot simply sit there and await America’s preemptive nuclear strike,” which is an extremely bold and even courageous thing to assert in a country that the rest of the world labels as being overwhelmingly “the greatest threat to peace in the world today” (and this U.S.-government-sponsored global poll was taken only once, in 2013, and because of its finding was never repeated, nor was it mentioned in the government-controlled media).
But how can this possibly be true, given that a war between the U.S. and Russia would ultimately release 15,000 nuclear warheads before the ‘winner’ would even be able to contemplate what he had ‘won’, and the ‘winner’ would almost certainly die from radiation sickness within, at most, a decade, if not from starvation or illnesses or injuries produced by the nuclear-destroyed planet, occurring within even less time than that? We’ll get to that question; he has an answer to it.
The majority of the American people seem to have accepted the propaganda that Russia is the number one threat to the United States. With propaganda controlling the explanation, Washington’s aggressive actions are explained as defense against a threat and not as a policy that will end life on earth.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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What will it take to bring America to live according to its own self image?
It is useless to compare the US to Nazi Germany because what is happening in the US is a further pattern of applying a corporate model of society to the nation as a whole. Trump is but the penultimate phenomenon of big business interests overriding all public ones, which is a normal progression of capitalist patterns. Corporations are by their nature hostile to democratic rules and implant this on the US government by the constant interplay between the US government and large enterprises through interchange of personnel. What we see is the imposition of a corporate pattern on the government… Read more »
PS Mechanical thinking is rote thinking and it invades all political discourse. Rote thinking is much divorced from reality. The repeated clichéd and personalized accusations against Trump do nothing to clarify the noxious laws he strengthens nor the ongoing march of the above mentioned Corporatism that he promotes. On the contrary it facilitates the neglect of knowledge about what is being instituted. Rote thinkers never change their judgment because the basic premises are set, much like the Church teachings are dressed so now and then in more “humane” garb while underneath with some smart probing it is clear that the usual preconceptions stay in place. Thus is the… Read more »