Dr Paul Craig Roberts
| March 29, 2014
The Propaganda That the West Represents the Hope of the World is a
Great Lie
“America does not at the
moment have a functioning democracy.” -Former US President Jimmy Carter
I doubt that the Ukraine crisis precipitated by Washington’s
overthrow of the democratic government is over. Washington has won the
propaganda war everywhere outside of Russia and Ukraine itself. Within Ukraine
people are aware that the coup has made them worse off. The Crimea has already
separated from the US puppet government in Kiev and rejoined Russia. Other
parts of Russian Ukraine could follow.
In Kiev itself where the
unelected, imposed-by-Washington dictatorial government resides, extreme
right-wing Ukrainian nationalists, whose roots go back to fighting for National
Socialist Germany, are at work intimidating public prosecutors, media editors,
and the US imposed “government” itself. There is an abundance of videos
available on the Internet, some made by the extreme nationalists themselves,
that clearly reveal the intimidation of the imposed and unelected government
installed by Washington..
In Kiev US bribes
contend with naked neo-nazi force. Which will prevail?
The murder of
ultra-nationalist Right Sector militant leader Myzychko by police of the acting
Interior Minister of the American stooge government in Ukraine on March 25 has
resulted in another Right Sector leader, Dmitry Yarosh, demanding the
resignation of Arsen Avakov, the acting Interior Minister and the arrest of the
police who killed Muzychko. Yarosh declared: “We cannot watch silently as the
Interior Ministry works to undermine the revolution.” Right Sector organizer
Roman Koval in Rovno, Ukraine, warned: “We will take revenge on Avakov for the
death of our brother.”
How this will play out
is uncertain at this time. The violence provided by the Right Sector and other
ultra-nationalist groups was essential to the success of the Washington-backed
coup in overthrowing the elected democratic government. But the Right Sector
has emerged as both an embarrassment and a threat to the unelected coup
government and to its Washington sponsors who are selling the
Washington-installed puppet government as a progressive exercise in democracy.
This sell is difficult when ultra-nationalist thugs are beating up the imposed
government.
Could civil war break
out in Kiev between the Right Sector and the government installed by
Washington? We know that the Right Sector was sufficiently organized and
disciplined to take over the protests. We don’t know how well organized is the
Washington puppet government or what force this group has at its disposal. We
don’t know whether Washington has provided mercenaries to protect the
government Washington has installed. It is not clear at this time where the
power balance lies between the Right Sector and the US stooge government.
The American, UK,
Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, EU propaganda machine has blamed Putin for
all the trouble. But so far the Russian government has not had to do anything
except comply with the self-determination of the people in the Russian areas of
Ukraine. Much of Ukraine, as it exists or existed today, consists of Russian
territories added to Ukraine by Soviet rulers.
When Ukraine became
independent with Russia’s agreement when the Soviet Union collapsed, had the
Russian territories first been put back into Russia from whence they came,
Washington’s coup would not have resulted in the same level of crisis.
Instead, under
Washington’s pressure, the Russian territory was retained by Ukraine, and in
compensation Russia was given a 50-year lease on Sevastopol, Russia’s Black Sea
naval base.
The purpose of the
Washington financed and orchestrated coup in Kiev was to put
Ukraine, with its
artificial boundaries, into the EU and NATO and to evict Russia from its
warm water port and ring
Russia with US missile bases. Washington and its European puppets described
this as “bringing democracy to Ukraine.”
Ukraine already had
democracy, a young one trying to put down roots, and Washington
destroyed it. As Russian
President Putin observed, overthrowing a brand new democracy destroys
democracy. Washington’s coup established for Ukraine the precedent that force
and propaganda rule, not democracy.
But Washington cares not
for democracy, only for its agenda. And Russia, China, and Iran are in the way.
The neoconservatives, who
have controlled US foreign policy since the Clinton regime, concluded that the
Soviet collapse meant that History has chosen America as the socio-economic
system for the world. They declared the US to be “exceptional” and
“indispensable” and above international law. Washington had a free pass to
invade, murder, destroy, and dominate. The neoconservative claims of “American
exceptionalism” sound like Hitler’s claims for the German nation. When the
White House sock puppet expressed in a speech the claim of American
exceptionalism, Putin replied: “God made us all equal.”
Washington’s opinion is
that the exceptional and indispensable nation–the US–is above not only all
other nations but also above law. What Washington does is legal. What anyone
else does in opposition is illegal.
Washington’s
intervention in Ukraine has unleashed dark forces. Yulia Tymoshenko, the
criminal Ukrainian oligarch, who braids her hair or hair piece over her head
like a crown, was released from prison by Washington’s stooges and has not
stopped putting her foot, or both feet, in her mouth. Her latest in her
intercepted and leaked telephone conversation is her declaration that “it’s
about time we grab our guns and go kill those damn Russians together with their
leader.” She declared
that not even scorched earth should be left where Russia stands.
Tymoshenko was sentenced
to prison by Ukrainians, not by Russians. Contrast her extreme language and
Russophobia with the calm measured tones of Putin, who reaffirms Russia’s
interest to continue good relations with Ukraine.
On March 23 Tymoshenko
was interviewed by the German newspaper, Bild, a mouthpiece for Washington. The
crazed Tymoshenko declared
that Putin was even more dangerous than Hitler.
This year 2014 is the
100th anniversary of World War 1. As my Oxford professor, Michael Polanyi,
said, this was the war that destroyed Europe. He meant culturally and morally
as well as physically. As John Maynard Keynes made clear in his prediction, the
propagandistic way in which World War 1 was blamed on Germany and the “peace”
that was imposed on Germany set up World War 2.
We are witnesses today
to the same kind of propagandistic lies with regard to Russia that caused World
War 1. In The Genesis Of The World War, Harry Elmer Barnes quotes the French
chief editor of a French account of the organization of propaganda in France
during World War 1. The French built a massive building called La Maison de la
Presse. In this building images of people were created with hands cut off,
tongues torn out, eyes gouged out, and skulls crushed with brains laid bare.
These images were then photographed and “sent as unassailable evidence of
German atrocities to all parts of the globe, where they did not fail to produce
the desired effect.” Also provided were “fictitious photographs of bombarded
French and Belgian churches, violated graves and monuments and scenes of ruins and
desolation. The staging and painting of these scenes were done by the best
scene-painters of the Paris Grand Opera.”
This vicious propaganda
against Germany meant that Germany could be blamed for the war and that all of
President Woodrow Wilson’s guarantees to Germany of no reparations and no
territorial loss if Germany agreed to an armistice could be violated. The
propaganda success guaranteed that the peace settlement would be so one-sided
as to set up the Second World War.
Russia has observed
Washington’s strategic moves against Russian national interests and Russian
sovereignty for two decades. What does Putin think when he hears the vicious
anti-Russian propaganda based 100% in lies?
This is what Putin
thinks: The Americans promised Gorbachev that they would not take NATO into
Eastern Europe, but the Americans did. The Americans withdrew from the ABM
Treaty, which prohibited escalating the arms race with anti-ballistic missile
systems. The Americans arranged with Poland to deploy anti-ballistic missile
bases on Poland’s border with Russia. The Americans tell us the fantastic lie
that the purpose of American missile bases in Poland is to protect Europe from
non-existent Iranian ICBMs. The Americans change their war doctrine to elevate
nuclear weapons from a retaliatory deterrent to a pre-emptive first strike
force. The Americans pretend that this change in war doctrine is directed at
terrorists, but we know it is directed at Russia. The Americans have financed
“color revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine and hope to do so in the Russian
Federation itself. The Americans support the terrorists in Chechnya. The
Americans trained and equipped the Georgian military and gave it the green
light to attack our peacekeepers in South Ossetia. The Americans have financed
the overthrow of the elected government in Ukraine and blame me for the anxiety
this caused among Crimeans who on their own volition fled Ukraine and returned
to Russia from whence they came. Even Gorbachev said that Khrushchev should
never have put Crimea into Ukraine. Solzhenitsyn said that Lenin should not
have put Russian provinces into eastern and southern Ukraine. Now I have these
Russian provinces agitating to return to Russia, and the Americans are blaming
me for the consequences of their own reckless and irresponsible actions.
The Americans say I want
to rebuild the Soviet Empire. Yet, the Americans witnessed me depart from
Georgia when I had this former Russian province in my hands, thanks to the
short-lived war instigated by the Americans.
There is no end to the
American lies. I have done everything possible to respond to provocations in a
low-key reasonable manner, offering to work things out diplomatically, as has
my Foreign Minister Lavrov. But the Americans continue to provoke and to hide their
provocations behind lies. The Americans brazenly bring to me a strategic threat
in Ukraine. They intend to put Ukraine in NATO, the purpose of which expired
with the Soviet collapse. They intend to put more missile bases on Russia’s
borders, and they intended to evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, its
warm water port
Americans have no
intention of working anything out. They intend to subjugate Russia. Washington
wants Russia powerless, surrounded with ABM bases that degrade our strategic
deterrent to uselessness. These Americans will not work with me. They will not
listen to me or to Russia’s Foreign Minister. They only hear their own call for
American hegemony over the world. My only alternative is to prepare for war.
The government of China,
having read Washington’s war plans for war against China and being fully aware
of Washington’s “pivot to Asia,” in which the “indispensable nation” announced
its “safe-guarding of peace” by surrounding China with naval and air bases,
understands that it has the same Washington enemy as does Russia.
What the entire world
faces, every country, every individual regardless of their political
orientation, is a Washington-engineered confrontation with Russia and China.
This confrontation is enabled by Washington’s bought-and-paid-for European and
UK puppet states. Without the cover provided by Europe, Washington’s acts of
aggression would result in war crimes charges against the government in
Washington. The world would not be able to enforce these charges without war,
but Washington would be isolated.
The European, Canadian,
Australian, New Zealand, and UK governments have betrayed not only their own
peoples but also the peoples of the entire world by lending the support of
Western Civilization to Washington’s lawlessness.
The propaganda that the
West represents the hope of the world is a great lie.
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Paul Craig Roberts,
Boiling Frogs Post contributing author, is a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has been
reporting on executive branch and cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades.
He has written or co-written eight books, contributed chapters to numerous
books, and has published many articles in journals of scholarship. Mr. Roberts
has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of
economic policy, and has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican
administrations. You can visit his website here.
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