Paul Craig Roberts
In America truth is offensive. If you tell the truth, you are offensive.
I am offensive. Michael Hudson is
offensive. Gerald Celente is offensive. Herman Daly is offensive. Nomi
Prins is offensive. Pam Martens is offensive. Chris Hedges is offensive.
Chris Floyd is offensive. John Pilger is offensive. Noam Chomsky is
offensive. Harvey Silverglate is offensive. Naomi Wolf is offensive.
Stephen Lendman is offensive. David Ray Griffin is offensive. Ellen
Brown is offensive.
Fortunately, many others are offensive. But how long before being offensive becomes
being “an enemy of the state”?
being “an enemy of the state”?
Throughout history truth tellers have suffered and court historians have prospered. It is
the same today. Gerald Celente illustrates this brilliantly in the next issue of the Trends
Journal.
the same today. Gerald Celente illustrates this brilliantly in the next issue of the Trends
Journal.
Over the past 35 years I have learned this lesson as a columnist. If you tell readers
what is really going on, they want to know why you can’t be positive. Why are you telling
us that there are bad happenings that can’t be remedied? Don’t you know that God
gave Americans the power to fix all wrongs? What are you? Some kind of idiot, an anti-American, a pinko-liberal-commie? If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Cuba, Iran or China (or to wherever the current bogyman is located)?
what is really going on, they want to know why you can’t be positive. Why are you telling
us that there are bad happenings that can’t be remedied? Don’t you know that God
gave Americans the power to fix all wrongs? What are you? Some kind of idiot, an anti-American, a pinko-liberal-commie? If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Cuba, Iran or China (or to wherever the current bogyman is located)?
The ancient Greeks understood this well.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the prophetess who no one believed
despite her 100 percent record of being right. Telling the truth to
Americans or to Europeans is just as expensive as telling the truth to
the Greeks in ancient mythology.
In America and everywhere in the Western world or the entire world, telling the truth is
unpopular. Indeed, in the USA telling the truth has been criminalized. Look for example at Bradley Manning, held for two years in prison without bail and without a trial in violation of the US Constitution, tortured for one year of his illegal confinement in violation of US and international law, and now put on trial by corrupt prosecutors for aiding “enemies of the US” by revealing the truth, as required of him by the US military code. US soldiers are required to report war crimes. When Bradley Manning’s superiors showed themselves to be indifferent to war crimes, Manning reported the crimes via WikiLeaks. What else does a soldier with a sense of duty and a moral conscience do when the chain of command is corrupt?
unpopular. Indeed, in the USA telling the truth has been criminalized. Look for example at Bradley Manning, held for two years in prison without bail and without a trial in violation of the US Constitution, tortured for one year of his illegal confinement in violation of US and international law, and now put on trial by corrupt prosecutors for aiding “enemies of the US” by revealing the truth, as required of him by the US military code. US soldiers are required to report war crimes. When Bradley Manning’s superiors showed themselves to be indifferent to war crimes, Manning reported the crimes via WikiLeaks. What else does a soldier with a sense of duty and a moral conscience do when the chain of command is corrupt?
Julian Assange is another example.
WikiLeaks has taken up the reporting function that the Western media has
abandoned. Remember, the New York Times did publish the Pentagon Papers
in 1971, which undermined the lies Washington had told both to the
public and to Congress to justify the costly Vietnam War. But today no
newspaper or TV channel any
longer accepts the responsibility to truthfully inform the public.
Julian Assange stepped into the vacuum and was immediately demonized,
not merely by Washington but also by left-wing and right-wing media,
including Internet. It was a combination of jealousy, ignorance, and doing Washington’s bidding.
Without WikiLeaks and Assange the world
would know essentially nothing. Spin from Washington, the presstitute
media, and the puppet state medias would prevail. So the word went out
to destroy Julian Assange.
It is amazing how many people and
Internet sites obeyed Washington’s command. Assange has been so
demonized that even though he has been granted political asylum by
Ecuador, the British government, obeying its Washington master, refuses
to allow him safe passage out of the London Ecuador Embassy. Is Assange
destined to live out his life inside the Ecuador Embassy in London?
Will Assange be a replay of Cardinal
Jozsef Mindszenty who on November 4, 1956, sought asylum in the US
embassy in Budapest as Soviet tanks poured into Hungary to put down the
anti-communist revolution? Cardinal Mindszenty lived for 15 years in the
US embassy. Today it is “freedom and democracy” amerika that is copying
Soviet practices during the cold war.
In contrast with “freedom and democracy”
US and UK, the “authoritarian,” “communist,” “oppressive” Chinese
government when confronted with Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s
defection to the US embassy in Beijing, let him go.
It is an upside down world when America
and the British refuse to obey international law, but the Chinese
communists uphold international law.
Insouciant americans are undisturbed
that alleged terrorists are tortured, held indefinitely in prison
without due process, and executed on the whim of some executive branch
official without due process of law.
Most americans go along with
unaccountable murder, torture, and detention without evidence, which
proclaims their gullibility to the entire world. There has never in
history been a population as unaware as americans. The world is amazed
that an insouciant people became, if only for a short time, a
superpower.
The world needs intelligence and
leadership in order to avoid catastrophe, but america can provide
neither intelligence nor leadership. America is a lost land where
nuclear weapons are in the hands of those who are concerned only with
their own power. Washington is the enemy of the entire world and
encompasses the largest concentration of evil on the planet.
Where is the good to rise up against the evil?
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