| by Paul Craig Roberts
( September 29,
2012 , Washington DC, Sri Lanka Guardian) In my last column, “A Culture of
Delusion,” I wrote that “Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate
every policy discussion, every political decision.” This column will use two
top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies
become “truth.”
The western
Presstitute media uses every lie to demonize the Iranian government. On
September 28 in a fit of unmitigated ignorance, the UK rag, Mail Online, called
the president of Iran a “dictator.” The Iranian presidency is an office filled
by popular election, and the authority of the office is subordinate to the
ayatollahs. Assange is demonized alternatively as a rapist and a spy.
The western
media and the US Congress comprise the two largest whore houses in human
history. One of their favorite lies is that the Iranian president, Ahmadinejad,
wants to kill all the Jews. Watch this 6 minute, 42 second video of Ahmadinejad’s
meeting with Jewish religious leaders. Don’t be put off by the title.
Washington Blog is making a joke.
Last week the
news was dominated by the non-existent but virtually real Iranian nuclear
weapons program. The Israeli prime minister, Netanyahu, blatantly intervened in
the US presidential election, demanding that Obama specify the “red line” for
attacking Iran.
Netanyahu
believes his maximum leverage over Obama, the president of the “world’s only
superpower,” is just prior to the election. Israel cannot attack Iran on its
own without the risk of Israel’s destruction. But Netanyahu reasons that if he
attacks Iran the week before the US election, Obama will have to join in or
lose the Jewish vote for not supporting Israel in states such as Florida, which
has a large Jewish population and many electoral votes. If the election is
close, Netanyahu, a person consumed by arrogance and hubris, might exercise his
threat and attack Iran, despite the opposition of former chiefs of Israeli
intelligence and military, the opposition party, and a majority of the Israeli
people.
In other words,
the outcome of the “superpower’s” presidential election might depend upon
whether the sitting president of the “superpower” is sufficiently obedient to
the crazed Israeli prime minister.
That the outcome
of the US presidential election could depend upon the agenda of the prime
minister of a tiny country that exists only because of US financial, military,
and diplomatic support, especially the UN veto, should disturb those Americans
who think that they are the “indispensable people.” How indispensable are you
when you have to do what the Israeli prime minister wants?
The US media
makes certain that this question never enters American minds. Americans have
been told that if Iran doesn’t have nukes, it has a nuke weapons program. This
is what the politicians of both parties, the media, and the Israel Lobby tell
them. Americans are told this despite the facts that the CIA and the National
Intelligence Estimate stick to the conclusion that Iran abandoned its
flirtation with a nuclear weapon in 2003 and the International Atomic Energy
Agency inspectors on the ground in Iran report no evidence or a nuclear weapons
program and no evidence of any diversion of enriched uranium to a weapons
program.
Moreover, what
could Iran do with a nuclear weapon, other than use it against an aggressor?
Any offensive use would result in Iran’s destruction.
Why do Americans
believe Iran has nukes or is making nukes when the CIA says they are not? The
answer is that Netanyahu says so, and the elected members of the US government
in the House, Senate, and White House are afraid to contradict the Israeli
prime minister, as are the American print and TV media. Some “superpower” we
are! The “indispensable people” have to grovel in the dirt before Netanyahu.
Americans are not even aware of their shame.
Iran, unlike
Israel, signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Signatories to the treaty
have the right to nuclear energy. Nuclear energy requires a low level of
enrichment, 5% or less. The minute Iran announced a nuclear energy program, the
Israeli government and its prostitutes in Washington lied that Iran was
building a bomb. For exercising its legal rights under the treaty, Iran has
been painted as a rouge criminal state and demonized..
A nuclear weapon
requires 95% enrichment. To get to 5% from scratch and then to 95% is a long
drawn out process. I think I first started hearing Israeli government claims of
an Iranian nuke back in he 1990s of last century.
When Iran
announced that, in view of the sanctions imposed by the US, sanctions that
affect medical supplies, Iran was going to enrich uranium to 20% in order to
supply itself with medical isotopes, the Israeli allegations that this would
lead to a bomb resulted in Iran saying that the Iranian government was content
for France or some other country to supply their medical isotopes and would not
pursue enrichment beyond energy requirements. The US and Russia were also
mentioned as suppliers.
According to the
NY Times on September 29, 2011, “the Iranian president told the Washington Post
and later, in basically the same terms, the New York Times: ‘if you [the UnitedStates and Europe] give us uranium grade 20 percent now, we will stop production.”
On Israel’s
orders Washington vetoed the Iranian concession. Solving the problem is not
what the Israeli government wants. The problem has to be kept alive so that it
can be used to foment an attack on Iran.
The Iranian nuke
is one of those grand hoaxes, a lie designed to hide the real agenda.
What is the real
agenda?
The real agenda
hiding behind the hysterical concern about an Iranian nuke, is the rightwing
Israeli government’s design on the water resources of southern Lebanon.
Twice the
Israeli government sent the Israeli army into southern Lebanon to occupy and
eventually annex the territory. And twice Hizbollah defeated and drove out the
vaunted Israeli army.
The few thousand
Hizbollah fighters were able to defeat the Israeli army, which is equipped and supplied
by US taxpayers’ dollars while Americans are foreclosed out of their homes and
left unemployed as Washington applauds the offshoring of their jobs, because
Syria and Iran provide Hizbollah with financial support and weapons that
destroy Israeli tanks.
Syria, of
course, is currently resisting its destruction by Israel and its american
puppet state. The overthrow of Syria hasn’t gone well, because the Russians and
Chinese didn’t go along with it, like they stupidly did in Libya. But the far
rightwing Israeli government has concluded that with american prestige involved
in the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria, the deed will be done.
That leaves
Iran. The Israeli government knows that it cannot be forthright and say that it
wants Americans to go to war with Iran so that Israel can steal southern
Lebanon. But if fear over nonexistent nukes can muster the Western populations
to support an attack on Iran, Iran can be eliminated as Hizbollah’s supplier,
and Israel can steal the water from Lebanon.
There is no
discussion whatsoever of the real agenda anywhere in the US print and TV media.
I doubt there is any discussion anywhere in Europe, which is a collection of
american puppet states.
Will we get
World War III for Christmas? Possibly, if the US election is close as it
approaches. If the election is too close to call, Netanyahu might throw the
dice and rely on Obama following his lead. Iran will be attacked, and the
consequences are unknowable.
Let’s turn to
Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Like Iran, Assange has been demonized, not on the
basis of facts but on the basis of lies.
Washington,
which poses as a purveyor of human rights, has been mistreating if not
torturing Bradley Manning since May 2010 without bringing him to trial in an
effort to make Manning say that he and Assange constitute a spy team working
against the US.
Assange is a
celebrity, because Wikileaks publishes the news leaked to the organization that
the Presstitute media suppresses. While in Sweden, Assange was picked up by two
celebrity-hungry women who took him home to their beds. The women later bragged
of their conquests on social media, but apparently when they found out that
they were rivals, they turned on the “two-timer” Assange and made charges. One
claimed that he had not used a condom as per her request, and the other claimed
that she had offered one helping but he had taken two.
Whatever the
accusations, the Swedish prosecutorial office investigated and dismissed the
case.
Despite this
known fact, the Western Presstitute media reports that Assange is a fugitive
evading rape charges by hiding in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London. Even RT, an
alternative media voice, has fallen for this disinformation.
After Assange
was cleared in Sweden, a female prosecutor has tried to reopen the case. There
is no evidence for her to bring charges, so she demanded that England arrest
Assange and extradite him to Sweden to be questioned.
Normally, people
are not subject to extradition for questioning. Only people who have been
formally charged are extradited. But this detail wasn’t of interest to the
Presstitute media or to the British courts which ruled as Washington desired.
Opinions vary as
to whether the female prosecutor who wants Assange for questioning is an
ideological feminist who believes no heterosexual sex is legitimate or whether
she is in the pay of Washington. But experts agree that once Assange is in
Sweden he is certain to be turned over to Washington, which will demand his
extradition on trumped up charges. Extradition on trumped up charges is
difficult in England but easy in Sweden.
Assange offered
to be questioned in London, but the female prosecutor refused. Now the
Ecuadoran Embassy is offering to send Assange to the Ecuadoran Embassy in
Sweden to be questioned, but Washington, London, and the Swedish prosecutor
have refused. They want Assange without the protection of the asylum that
Ecuador has granted him.
Washington has
how made this obvious. John Glaser writing in Antiwar.com, September 26, 2012,
reports: “Newly declassified documents have revealed that the US military
designated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange an enemy of the state, who can be
killed or detained without trial.” ( Link
01 See also Link
02 )
Assange is
Washington’s enemy, because he let the truth get out. WikiLeaks is a
journalistic enterprise, not a spy enterprise. It publishes information, some
of which is leaked to it by whistleblowers, just as the Pentagon Papers were
leaked to the New York Times. The information leaked to WikiLeaks has
embarrassed Washington, because it shows Washington to be two-faced, a
manipulator of other countries’ governments and medias, and overflowing with
mendacity.
In other words,
Washington is not the light upon the hill but the gates of Hell or Mordor.
Assange had best
be careful. If he again speaks to supportive crowds from a balcony of the
Ecuadoran Embassy in London, he is likely to be shot down by a CIA sniper.
Approved by
Obama, of course. Or his successor.