PT -- Washington atinge novos níveis de insanidade com o "Relatório do Kremlin" Paul Craig Roberts

30  de Janeiro de 2018

Washington atinge novos níveis de insanidade com o "Relatório do Kremlin"

Paul Craig Roberts

Num acto da louca escalada de provocações contra a Rússia, Washington elaborou uma lista de 210 altos funcionários do governo russo e de importantes executivos de empresas que são “criminosos”, “membros do bando de Putin”, “ameaças”, “pessoas que merecem ser punidas”, no entanto, a comunicação mediática ocidental  preocupa-se a explicar a lista. A lista absurda inclui o Primeiro Ministro da Rússia, o Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, o Ministro da Defesa e os executivos da Gazprom, da Rosneft e do Banco Rossiya. Por outras palavras, a sugestão é que a totalidade da liderança política e empresarial russa é corrupta.

Os russos não parecem compreender o propósito da lista. O porta-voz  da Presidencia, Dmitry Peskov, disse que o governo vê a lista como uma tentativa de interferir na eleição presidencial russa. Não há dúvida de que Washington gostaria de reduzir o apoio público de Putin para que Washington possa usar as ONGs financiadas pelo Ocidente, que operam na Rússia, a apresentar os lacaios americanos como sendo as verdadeiras vozes da Rússia. No entanto, é improvável que o povo russo seja tão estúpido que caia nesse truque.

A lista de Washington tem três objectivos:

1) Desvalorizar a diplomacia russa, apresentando as principais altas patentes da Rússia como criminosos.

2) Apresentar a Rússia como sendo uma ameaça militar, conforme o anúncio ridículo do Ministro da Defesa britânico, Gavin Williamson, em 26 de Janeiro, de que a Rússia pretende despedaçar a infraestrutura britânica, causar muitos milhares de mortes “e criar” o caos total dentro de o país." 

3) Desviar a atenção americana e europeia da próxima publicação do relatório do House Intelligence Committee’s que prova que o Russiagate é uma conspiração entre o FBI, o Departamento de Justiça de Obama e a Comissão Nacional Democrata contra o Presidente Trump. A lista russa de Washington dará à comunicação mediática algo para falar em vez do acto da traição levada a cabo contra o Presidente dos Estados Unidos. Não esperem não ouvir nada da comunicação mediática, a não ser que o relatório do House Intelligence Committee é apenas um esforço político para salvaguardar Trump da responsabilidade.

Provavelmente, há um quarto motivo para a lista. Israel quer a pressão de Washington sobre a Rússia, porque até agora, a Rússia impediu Israel de usar os militares dos EUA para criar o mesmo caos na Síria e no Irão, como foi criado no Iraque e na Líbia. Israel quer a Síria e o Irão desestabilizados porque apoiam o Hezbollah, o que impede Israel de ocupar os recursos hídricos do sul do Líbano. A Lei de Contenção dos Adversários da América através de Sanções (Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act), que pediu a lista, aprovada pela a Câmara e pelo Senado por um votação de 517-5. Normalmente, tais votos unânimes da política externa estão associados às exigências do lobby de Israel.

O governo e o povo russo precisam compreender que Washington considera a Rússia como uma ameaça porque a Rússia não está sob a pata de Washington. Os neoconservadores sionistas controlam a política externa dos EUA. A sua ideologia é a hegemonia mundial. Eles não usam a diplomacia. Contam com a desinformação, com ameaças e com a violência. Portanto, não existe uma diplomacia americana com a qual Putin e Lavrov possam colaborar.

Putin, o líder político responsável de uma grande potência, não responde à provocação com uma hostilidade. Ele ignora os insultos e continua a esperar que o Ocidente ganhe bom senso. Mas, o que acontecerá se o Ocidente não conseguir?

Para que o Ocidente comece a pensar racionalmente, esse processo vai requerer o desmantelamento completo dos neoconservadores sionistas e/ou a dissolução da NATO. A derrota dos neoconservadores exigiria uma voz de política externa rival, e essa voz é muito fraca, pois está desligada da comunicação mediática, dos grupos de reflexão e das universidades. A dissolução da NATO exigiria que as figuras políticas europeias renunciassem aos subsídios de Washington e ao avanço de carreira que Washington fornece.

Enquanto escrevo, o Conselho do Atlântico está a convocar os membros e a comunicação mediática para uma discussão com os membros do Conselho Atlântico, o Embaixador Daniel Fried e Anders Aslund. O Conselho do Atlântico é uma agência de propaganda neoconservadora. O objectivo da "discussão" é minar ainda mais, as relações dos EUA com a Rússia.

O governo russo enfrenta uma situação difícil. A política externa dos EUA e, portanto, do mundo ocidental, é controlada por neoconservadores que estão determinados a apresentar a Rússia à  luz mais ameaçadora. A diplomacia russa não pode fazer nada para mudar este quadro. Uma resposta russa não agressiva e responsável tem o efeito de incentivar  ainda mais, as provocações de Washington. Até certo ponto, a passividade russa pode convencer os neoconservadores de que podem atacar a Rússia de modo bem sucedido. Por outro lado, as provocações contínuas podem convencer a Rússia de que o país está a ser escolhido para ataque, propiciando assim uma acção preventiva russa.

No mundo, todos devem perceber a ameaça da guerra nuclear que é inerente à política de Washington em relação à Rússia e no mundo, todos devem compreender - a única ameaça que a Rússia representa, é contra o unilateralismo e parcialidade de Washington.

Tradutora: Maria Luísa de Vasconcellos

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD -- The True State of the Union: A House Divided, Enslaved & Mired in the Mistakes of the Past

JANUARY 31, 2018

The True State of the Union: A House Divided, Enslaved & Mired in the Mistakes of the Past

by JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

 “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

—Abraham Lincoln

History has a funny way of circling back on itself.

The facts, figures, faces and technology may change from era to era, but the dangers remain the same.

This year is no different, whatever the politicians and talking heads may say to the contrary.

Sure, there’s a new guy in charge with a talent for stirring up mayhem and madness, but for the most part, we’re still recycling the same news stories that have kept us with one eye warily glued to the news for the past 100-odd years: War. Corruption. Brutality. Economic instability. Partisan politics. Militarism. Disease. Hunger. Greed. Violence. Poverty. Ignorance. Hatred.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Brush up on your history, and you’ll find that we’ve been stuck on repeat for some time now.

Take the United States of America in the year 2018, which is not so far different from the United States of America during the Civil Rights era, or the Cold War era, or even the Depression era.

Go far enough afield, and you’ll find aspects of our troubled history mirrored in the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany, in the fascism of Mussolini’s Italy, and further back in the militarism of the Roman Empire.

We’re like TV weatherman Phil Connors in Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, forced to live the same day over and over again.

Here in the American police state, however, we continue to wake up, hoping this new day, new president and new year will somehow be different from what has come before.

Unfortunately, no matter how we change the narrative, change the characters, change the plot lines, we seem to keep ending up in the same place that we started: enslaved, divided and repeating the mistakes of the past.

You want to know about the true State of our Union? Listen up.

The State of the Union: The state of our union is politically polarized, controlled by forces beyond the purview of the average American, and rapidly moving the nation away from its freedom foundation. Over the past year, Americans have found themselves repeatedly subjected to egregious civil liberties violations, invasive surveillance, political correctness, erosions of free speech, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc.

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Did the US Government Murder the Founder of RT?

Did the US Government Murder the Founder of RT?

January 30, 2018 

Did the US Government Murder the Founder of RT?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/fbi-releases-docs-claiming-rt-founder-beat-himself-death-his-hotel-room

FBI Releases Docs Claiming RT Founder Beat Himself To Death In His Hotel Room

by Tyler Durden

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 04:22

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The FBI just released the results of their investigation claiming that the media mogul and found of RT killed himself by repeatedly smashing his head and upper body into the ground.

In November 2015, the Free Thought Project reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC.

Originally, authorities announced that Lesin died from a heart attack.

However, the results of his autopsy released months later indicated a far more sinister cause of death and the heavily redacted FBI documents that were just released add to that story.

The documents, detailing the FBI investigation into Lesin’s death were just released Saturday morning in spite of the investigation ending in October of 2016.

In spite of the original cause of death noted as a heart attack, a few months later, the District of Colombia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and Metropolitan Police Department said that “blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities” contributed to Lesin’s death. “The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has released the cause and manner of death for Mikhail Lesin… Cause of Death: blunt force injuries of the head,” the statement said.

Now, FBI investigators have released the results of their investigation claiming that the blunt force trauma all over his body was self-inflicted.

“Mr. Lesin died as a result of blunt for injuries to his head, with contributing causes being blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities, which were induced by falls, with acute ethanol intoxication,” the report states.

In other words, the FBI is claiming that Lesin got so drunk that he repeatedly and violently fell on things until he killed himself.

To show just how much information the FBI is willing to release on these findings, here is the version of the amended autopsy report they released in the report.

Washington Reaches New Heights of Insanity with the “Kremlin Report” by Paul Craig Roberts

Washington Reaches New Heights of Insanity with the “Kremlin Report”

January 30, 2018 

Washington Reaches New Heights of Insanity with the “Kremlin Report”

Paul Craig Roberts

In an act of insane escalation of provocations against Russia, Washington has produced a list of 210 top Russian government officials and important business executives who are “gangsters,” “members of Putin’s gang,” “threats,” “people deserving to be sanctioned,” or however the Western presstitutes care to explain the list. The absurd list includes the Prime Minister of Russia, the Foreign Minister, the Defense Minister, and executives of Gazprom, Rosneft, and Bank Rossiya. In other words, the suggestion is that the entirety of Russian political and business leadership is corrupt.

The Russians do not seem to understand the purpose of the list. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the government sees the list as an attempt to interfere in the Russian presidential election. There is no doubt that Washington would like to reduce Putin’s public support so that Washington can use the Western-funded NGOs operating in Russia to present American stooges as Russia’s true voices. However, it is unlikely that the Russian people are stupid enough to fall for such a trick.

Washington’s list has three purposes:

1) To undercut Russian diplomacy by presenting the top echelons of Russia as gangsters.

2) To present Russia as a military threat as per the ridiculous announcement by British defense minister Gavin Williamson on January 26 that Russia intends to rip British “infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths,” and create “total chaos within the country.”

3) To shift American and European attention away from the coming release of the House Intelligence Committee’s report that proves Russiagate is a conspiracy between the FBI, the Obama Department of Justice and the Democratic National Committee against President Trump. Washington’s Russian list will give the presstitutes something else to talk about instead of the act of treason committed against the President of the United States. Expect to hear nothing from the presstitutes except that the House Intelligence Committee report is only a political effort to shield Trump from accountability.

There is likely a fourth reason for the list. Israel wants Washington’s pressure on Russia, because Russia has so far prevented Israel’s use of the US military to create the same chaos in Syria and Iran as has been created in Iraq and Libya. Israel wants Syria and Iran destabilized because they support Hezbollah, which prevents Israel from occupying the water resources of southern Lebanon. The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which requires the list, passed the House and Senate by a vote of 517-5. Normally, such unanimous foreign policy votes are associated with demands from the Israel Lobby.
 
The Russian government and the Russian people need to understand that Washington considers Russia to be a threat because Russia is not under Washington’s thumb. The Zionist neoconservatives control US foreign policy. Their ideology is world hegemony. They do not use diplomacy. They rely on disinformation, threats, and violence. Therefore, there is no American diplomacy with which Putin and Lavrov can engage.

Putin, being a responsible political leader of a great power, does not respond to provocation with provocation. He ignores the insults and continues to wait for the West to come to its senses. But what if the West does not come to its senses?

For the West to come to its senses requires the complete overthrow of the Zionist neoconservatives and/or the breakup of NATO. 

The overthrow of the neoconservatives would require a rival foreign policy voice, and that voice is very weak as it is shut off from the media, the think tanks, and the universities. The breakup of NATO would require European political figures to give up their Washington subsidies and the career advancement that Washington provides.

As I write the Atlantic Council is holding a members and press call in for a discussion with Atlantic Council members Amb. Daniel Fried and Anders Aslund. The Atlantic Council is a neoconservative propaganda agency. The purpose of the “discussion” is to further undermine US-Russian relations.

The Russian government faces a difficult situation. The foreign policy of the US, and thereby of the Western world, is controlled by neoconservatives who are determined to present Russia in the most threatening light. Russian diplomacy can do nothing to change this. The non-provocative and responsible Russian response has the effect of encouraging more provocations from Washington. At some point Russian passivity might convince the neoconservatives that they can successfully attack Russia. Alternatively, the continual provocations might convince Russia that the country is targeted for attack, thereby causing a Russian pre-emptive action.

Everyone in the world should realize the threat of nuclear war that is inherent in Washington’s policy toward Russia, and everyone in the world should understand that the only threat that Russia poses is to Washington’s unilateralism.

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