{"id":87748,"date":"2017-03-06T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=87748"},"modified":"2017-02-28T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:49:38","slug":"the-resurrection-of-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/the-resurrection-of-armageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resurrection of Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe U.S. intelligence community\u2019s extraordinary campaign of leaks claiming improper ties between President Trump\u2019s team and Russia seeks to ensure a lucrative New Cold War by blocking detente.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Gareth Porter<\/p>\n

<\/em>27 Feb 2017 – <\/em>It only required 24 days for the Deep State to castrate President Donald Trump and terminate the promise that the high tensions with Russia created during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes would be terminated by Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

As Gareth Porter shows conclusively (http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/46546.htm<\/a>), the case against General Flynn, Trump\u2019s 24-day National Security Adviser, and by implication against Trump himself, is a fake news creation.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s CIA director, John Brennan, planted fake reports, none of which contained any evidence whatsoever, on the CIA-compliant media whores known as \u201cpresstitutes.\u201d The CIA\u2019s media whores knew that the reports were a CIA response to the threat to the $1,000 billion annual budget of the military\/security complex that desperately needs \u201cthe Russian threat\u201d for its justification. But the media whores\u2014-principally the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC\u2014-and all the rest as well are more dedicated to serving their CIA master than they are to serving peace between nuclear powers. Interesting, isn\u2019t it, that the US and Western media are more committed to conflict with Russia than they are to peace, despite the brutal fact that 10 percent of the nuclear arsenal of either the US or Russia is sufficient to terminate all life on earth.<\/p>\n

As Patrick Lawrence says: \u201cThe lights upon us are dimming. We have been more or less abandoned by a press that proves incapable of informing us in anything approaching a disinterested fashion. As suggested, either the media are Clintonian liberals before they are newspapers and broadcasters, or they are servants of power before they serve us.\u201d http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/46532.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

All we have left, says Lawrence, is the alternative media. \u201cTo put this simply and briefly, they and we must learn that they are not \u2018alternative\u2019 to anything. In the end there is no such thing as \u2018alternative media,\u2019 as I often argue. There are only media, and most of ours have turned irretrievably bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alternative media is the Internet media, websites such as this one, RT, the Intercept, USAWatchdog, Alex Jones, Information Clearing House, Global Research, Unz Review, etc. These independent news sites are under attack. Remember the list of 200 \u201cRussian agents\/dupes\u201d? Every source of information that does not subscribe to the Deep States\u2019 Matrix creation of \u201cthe Russian Threat,\u201d which is the Deep State\u2019s replacement for the orchestrated \u201cSoviet Threat,\u201d has been selected for shutdown. Apparently, Alex Jones is already having problems with Google. Several websites managed to get off the 200 List, and those that have seem to have collapsed as members of the opposition.<\/p>\n

As the Nazis said, all it takes is fear, and the people collapse.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s presidency is effectively over. Even if he is permitted to remain in office,
\nhe will be a figurehead for the Deep State\u2019s presidency. President Trump has already fallen into line with the military\/security complex. He has said Russia has to return Crimea to Ukraine, whereas in fact Crimea returned itself to Russia. He has rejected a new strategic arms limitations treaty (START) with Russia, stating that he wants supremacy in nuclear armaments, not equality. http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/02\/27\/president-trump-decries-new-start-treaty.html <\/a>Obama\u2019s one trillion dollar upgrade of the US nuclear arsenal is likely to get a boost from Trump.<\/p>\n

After one month in office the goal has changed from reduced tensions with Russia to greater tensions. Greater tensions might soon be upon us. There are plans to occupy part of Syria with US troops in order to prevent Syria with Russia\u2019s help from reuniting the country. http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/rand-corporations-plan-for-dicing-up-syria\/5577009<\/a> Part of Syria is to go to Turkey, part to the Kurds, and Washington will keep a chunk. This way Washington can keep the turmoil going forever. The Russians brought this problem on themselves. Ever hopeful for Washington\u2019s cooperation against ISIS, Russia dallied in cleaning out ISIS. The prospect that Trump would work with Russia as part of better relations assumed that Trump would actually be in charge, which has turned out to be delusional.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to know if the new Trump regime is more Iranophobic than Russophobic. The Trump regime\u2019s inclination to jettison the Iran agreement and reopen the conflict means more conflict with Russia. Washington\u2019s continued provocations of both Russia and China will dispel any lingering Russian expectations of better relations with Washington.<\/p>\n

It is bizarre to see the liberal-progressive-left allied with the warmongers against Trump. As the neoconservatives pull nuclear Armageddon out of the grave that Reagan and Gorbachev put it in, the American left demands the impeachment of the president whose goal was better relations with Russia. Once the champion of the working class, the left now champions Identity Politics. Trump\u2019s goal of jobs for the working class leaves the leftwing cold. The left wants to destroy the \u201cTrump deplorables,\u201d which the left describes as \u201cracist, misogynist, homophobic, gun nuts.\u201d In Identity Politics, every identity is a victim except the oppressor identity\u2014white heterosexual males.<\/p>\n

Where then is the opposition to the neoconservative ideology that is driving US foreign policy toward world hegemony? There are a few of us, but we are being cast as \u201cPutin agents.\u201d In other words, those who have sufficient intelligence to understand that Washington is not going to achieve hegemony over Russia and China or even Iran, but is likely to provoke nuclear war by trying, are relegated to the traitor class.<\/p>\n

The reason that there is still life on earth after more than a half century of nuclear weapons is that American presidents and Soviet leaders worked together to reduce tensions. During these decades, there were numerous false alarms of incoming ICBMs. However, because the leadership of both countries were working together to avoid nuclear conflict, the warnings were disbelieved both by the Soviets and Americans.<\/p>\n

Today the situation is vastly different. The last three US presidents, and now apparently Trump also, worked overtime to increase tensions between the two nuclear powers. Moreover, it was done in ways that convinced the Russian government that Washington is completely untrustworthy. The ongoing vicious lies about the Russian connections of Trump and his associates are so obviously false as to be laughable, but the Russians are seeing that the falsity of the charges notwithstanding, Trump\u2019s National Security Adviser has fallen and Trump himself might be next.<\/p>\n

In other words, the Russians are observing that in America facts are not relevant to outcomes. The Russians have already experienced this with regard to themselves with the lies about Putin, the Ukraine, Georgia, and Russian intentions toward Europe. Putin is routinely called a \u201cthug,\u201d \u201cmurderer,\u201d \u201cthe new Hitler\u201d by US politicians, presstitutes, and the Democratic Party\u2019s candidate in the recent presidential election. Ranking US generals describe Russia as the \u201cprincipal threat to the US.\u201d NATO commanders assert that the Russian Army could occupy the Baltics and\/or Poland at any moment. These nonsensical accusations and predictions suggest to the Russians that the West is preparing its populations for an attack on Russia.<\/p>\n

In such a tense state of affairs, how will false alarms be interpreted? Will Americans convinced that Putin and Russia are evil incarnate believe the false alarms this time? Will Russians convinced that they have been set up for attack believe them this time?<\/p>\n

This is the extreme risk to which the insane neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the greedy military\/security complex, and the aggressive generals have exposed life on earth.<\/p>\n

And the few voices warning of the risk are dismissed as \u201cRussian agents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the <\/em>Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for <\/em>Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and <\/em>Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. Roberts’ latest books are <\/em>The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> and<\/em> How America Was Lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the extreme risk to which the insane neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the greedy military\/security complex, and the aggressive generals have exposed life on earth. And the few voices warning of the risk are dismissed as \u201cRussian agents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}