You gotta laugh at the brainless way in which the American media repeat the official lies, in this case: President Obama departs on European trip to support NATO allies anxious about Russia’s aggression. Yep, that’s right, “Russia’s aggression.” The American establishment (and its media whores) in their infinite hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness have been using that word for generations. Everyone commits aggression, except us, the world’s chief bully and meddler in everyone’s affairs, and not for noble cause either. (Click to enlarge)
[O]bama in Estonia, Leader of the Free World, Commander-in-Chief of a Global Alliance against ISIS and Russia (conflated into a mélange of Anti-communism/Counterterrorism), then on to Wales to rally the troops, all sorts of defense-intellectuals bestowing their blessings on a potentially open-ended conflict, NATO itself the willing tool of US hegemonic principle and purpose to shape the world system in its own image and to its own self-interest and advantage. That much should now be obvious. NATO from its inception has been an extension of US foreign policy, the military complement of the IMF and World Bank, while the European Union, only slightly less tractable, is a dependable source of support for the stabilization of world capitalism under American leadership, directed to the social-structural control of modernization so as to maintain a de facto colonial relationship to the Third World and the arresting of socialist and/or revolutionary currents wherever they might appear. A tall order? Hardly, for the West has come to include Japan, Israel, and in a somewhat grey area, whomever accepts American largesse in drawing the Manichean line with Russia and China, the regnant ideological dualism between Freedom and Slavery.
