DEL EDITOR

Queridos lectores:

Mucho se ha dicho en las noticias sobre una conspiración que Rusia interfirió en las elecciones de EE. UU., Y debido a los medios dominantes que han estado presionando tanto sobre los temas, la gente ya no sabe qué creer. El siguiente artículo, escrito por Paul Craigs Roberts, un respetado periodista de investigación y autor, aporta algunos puntos interesantes en su análisis, que nos iluminarán a todos. – MR

“Si los más altos alcances de las agencias estatales de policía pueden salirse con la suya con un intento o con un golpe exitoso contra el presidente de los Estados Unidos, entonces ese es el final completo de la democracia y toda responsabilidad en el gobierno”.

por Paul Craig Roberts

La demora de los republicanos en publicar el resumen de la investigación de Russiagate del Comité de Inteligencia de la Cámara de Representantes está dando peso a la afirmación de los presidentes de que el informe no se está divulgando, porque es un intento de pirateo en un encubrimiento de Trump que no es creíble. Solo los republicanos son lo suficientemente estúpidos como para ponerse en tal situación.

Los lectores me preguntan por qué el memorando no se publica si es real. Debe haber algunas razones además de la estupidez de los republicanos. Sí, eso es así. Entre las muchas razones que pueden estar bloqueando la liberación están:

1) Los republicanos son muy conscientes de la seguridad nacional. No desean proporcionar precedentes para la publicación de información clasificada.

2) Muchos distritos republicanos del Congreso albergan instalaciones del complejo militar / de seguridad. Molestar a un gran empleador y dirigir el financiamiento de la campaña a un retador es una gran consideración.

3) El régimen de George W. Bush / Dick Cheney era un régimen neoconservador. Una consecuencia es que los republicanos están influenciados por los neoconservadores que hacen hincapié en la supuesta “amenaza rusa”.

4) El lobby de Israel puede destituir a cualquier miembro de la Cámara y el Senado. El lobby de Israel está aliado con los neoconservadores y esta alianza tiene la intención de mantener a los Estados Unidos activos militarmente contra amenazas percibidas a la hegemonía de Israel en el Medio Oriente y contra Rusia, que apoya a Siria e Irán, países percibidos como amenazas por Israel.

5) Muchos republicanos están investidos de falsas acusaciones de Russiagate contra Trump y le gustaría reemplazarlo con Pence. Otros republicanos creen que Trump está socavando las alianzas foráneas compradas de manera costosa y, por lo tanto, socavando el poder de Washington.

Muchos estadounidenses parecen no entender lo que está en juego.

A lo que Estados Unidos se enfrenta es a una conspiración golpista organizada por altos funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia de Obama, el FBI, la CIA, el DNC de Hillary y los medios de comunicación presidenciales para revocar el resultado de unas elecciones democráticas y destituir al presidente. La base del golpe es un dossier falso comprado por dinero que consiste en acusaciones no respaldadas contra Trump y que se utilizó para obtener órdenes del recuento de FISA para espiar a Trump y varios asociados con la esperanza de encontrar algo que pueda usarse contra Trump. A pesar de todo, las falsas acusaciones podrían ser alimentadas a los medios de comunicación de la CIA y utilizadas para crear un escándalo que requiera que un fiscal especial investigue a Russiagate.

Una vez que la investigación estaba en marcha, los presidentes mantuvieron vivo el escándalo con la esperanza de convencer a suficientes estadounidenses de que Trump debe haber hecho algo: “donde hay humo, hay fuego”, que justifica su destitución. Funcionó contra Richard Nixon, pero no contra Ronald Reagan, y Trump no es Reagan.

Si los más altos alcances de las agencias estatales de policía pueden salirse con la suya con un intento o golpe exitoso contra el presidente de los Estados Unidos, entonces ese es el final completo de la democracia y toda responsabilidad en el gobierno. La Cámara, el Senado y el poder judicial se volverán tan impotentes como el senado romano bajo los césares. Viviremos bajo una dictadura gobernada por agencias estatales policiales.

Muchos estadounidenses dicen que no necesitan el Informe de Inteligencia de la Cámara, porque en primer lugar no creen en la BS de Russiagate. Ellos pierden el punto. Necesitan el informe, porque los responsables de este intento de golpe deben ser identificados, acusados y enjuiciados por su acto de alta traición.

Esto no es algo menor. Esto va al corazón de si existirá alguna forma de libertad. Todos sabemos que la democracia no garantiza la capacidad de las personas para responsabilizar al gobierno. Sin embargo, no hay posibilidad de exigir cuentas al gobierno si se trata de un estado policial, un camino que EE. UU. Ha estado reduciendo durante algún tiempo. El audaz intento de golpe contra el presidente Trump es nuestra oportunidad de detener el impulso hacia un estado policial.

A pesar de mis publicaciones recientes, muchas personas no entienden que el documento del tribunal FISA redactado en cierto modo ha sido desclasificado y publicado y explicado por mí mismo, William Binney, y el ex fiscal de los EE. UU. Joe di Genova (ver: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org / 2018/01/22 / here-are-all-the-facts-about-russiagate/) contiene las admisiones del FBI y el Departamento de Justicia que espiaron indebidamente y obtuvieron órdenes de la corte bajo falsas pretensiones. En otras palabras, tenemos la autoridad de la propia corte de FISA de que el FBI y el Departamento de Justicia han admitido ante el tribunal sus transgresiones. Cuando el enlace en el Congreso del Departamento de Justicia (sic), Stephen Boyd, dice que el Departamento de Justicia “no está al tanto de ninguna mala acción”, está mintiendo entre dientes. El Departamento de Justicia ya confesó su fechoría al tribunal de FISA.

(Véase la afirmación de Lendman sobre Boyd de que la publicación del memorando dañaría la seguridad nacional y las investigaciones en curso. Este es siempre el reclamo que se hace cuando el gobierno tiene que encubrir sus crímenes. Http://stephenlendman.org/2018/01/memo-detailing-russiagate -abuses-names-high-level-us-officials/).

Cuando el almirante Rodgers, director de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional, descubrió que el FBI y el Departamento de Justicia estaban utilizando indebidamente el sistema de espionaje por razones políticas partidarias, dejó saber que iba a informar al tribunal de FISA. Esto causó que el FBI y el Departamento de Justicia corrieran a la cancha con anticipación y confesaran “errores” y prometieran ajustar los procedimientos para no cometer errores en el futuro. Son estos “errores” y correcciones que revela el documento de la corte de FISA.

En otras palabras, la información ya existe en el dominio público que demuestra que Russiagate era una conspiración organizada con el propósito de derribar al presidente electo de los Estados Unidos.

FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers:

Much has been said in the news about a conspiracy that Russia interfered in the US elections, and because of the mainstream media that has been banging on the subjects so much, the people don’t know what to believe anymore. The following article, written by Paul Craigs Roberts, a respected investigative journalist and author, brings some interesting points in his analysis, which will enlighten us all. – MR

RussiaGate is all sbout stopping US ‘momentum to a Police State’

“If the highest reaches of the police state agencies can get away with an attempted or successful coup against the president of the United States, then that is the complete end of democracy and all accountability in government.”

by Paul Craig Roberts

The Republicans’ delay in releasing the summary of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russiagate investigation is giving weight to the presstitutes’ claim that the report is not being released, because it is a hack attempt at a Trump coverup that is not believable. Only Republicans are stupid enough to put themselves in such a situation.

Readers ask me why the summary memo is not released if it is real. There must be some reasons besides the stupidity of Republicans. Yes, that is so. Among the many reasons that might be blocking release are:

1) Republicans are very national security conscious. They don’t want to provide precedents for the release of classified information.

2) Many Republican congressional districts host installations of the military/security complex. Upsetting a large employer and directing campaign financing to a challenger is a big consideration.

3) The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime was a neoconservative regime. One consequence is that Republicans are influenced by neoconservatives who stress the alleged “Russian threat.”

4) The Israel Lobby can unseat any member of the House and Senate. The Israel Lobby is allied with the neoconservatives and this alliance intends to keep the US militarily active against perceived threats to Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East and against Russia, which supports Syria and Iran, countries perceived as threats by Israel.

5) Many Republicans are themselves invested in false Russiagate allegations against Trump and would like to replace him with Pence. Other Republicans believe that Trump is undermining Washington’s expensively-purchased foreign alliances and, thereby, undermining US power.

Many Americans do not seem to understand what is at stake.

What America is confronted with is a coup conspiracy organized by top officials of the Obama Justice Department, FBI, CIA, the Hillary DNC, and the presstitute media to overturn the result of a democratic election and remove the president from office. The basis of the coup is a fake dossier purchased for money that consists of unsupported allegations against Trump and that was used to obtain warrants from the FISA count to spy on Trump and various associates hoping to find something that can be used against Trump. Regardless, the false allegations could be fed to the CIA’s media assets and used to create a scandal requiring a special prosecutor to investigate Russiagate.

Once the investigation was under way, the presstitutes kept the scandal alive hoping to convince enough Americans that Trump must have done something—“where there is smoke, there is fire”—that justifies his removal. It worked against Richard Nixon, but not against Ronald Reagan, and Trump is no Reagan.

If the highest reaches of the police state agencies can get away with an attempted or successful coup against the president of the United States, then that is the complete end of democracy and all accountability in government. The House, Senate, and judiciary will become as powerless as the Roman senate under the caesars. We will live under a dictatorship ruled by police state agencies.

Many Americans say they don’t need the House Intelligence Report, because they don’t believe the Russiagate BS in the first place. They miss the point. They need the report, because those responsible for this attempt at a coup must be identified, charged, and prosecuted for their act of high treason.

This is not minor stuff. This goes to the heart of whether any form of liberty will exist. We all know that the ability of the people to hold government accountable is not assured by democracy. However, there is no prospect of holding government accountable if it is a police state, a road that the US has been going down for some time. The audacious coup attempt against President Trump is our opportunity to stop the momentum to a police state.

Despite my recent postings, many people do not understand that the somewhat redacted FISA court document that has been declassified and released and explained by myself, William Binney, and former US Attorney Joe di Genova (see: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/here-are-all-the-facts-about-russiagate/ ) contains admissions by the FBI and DOJ that they improperly spied and obtained warrants from the court under false pretenses. In other words, we have it on the authority of the FISA court itself that the FBI and DOJ have admitted to the court their transgressions. When Department of Justice (sic) congressional liaison Stephen Boyd says the DOJ is “unaware of any wrongdoing,” he is lying through his teeth. The DOJ has already confessed its wrongdoing to the FISA court.

(See Lendman on Boyd’s claim that releasing the memo would harm national security and ongoing investigations. This is always the claim made when government has to cover up its crimes. http://stephenlendman.org/2018/01/memo-detailing-russiagate-abuses-names-high-level-us-officials/).

When Admiral Rodgers, director of the National Security Agency, discovered that the FBI and DOJ were misusing the spy system for partisan political reasons, he let it be known that he was going to inform the FISA court. This caused the FBI and DOJ to rush to the court in advance and confess to “mistakes” and to promise to tighten up procedures so as not to make mistakes in the future. It is these “mistakes” and corrections that the FISA court document reveals.

In other words, the information already exists in the pubic domain that proves that Russiagate was a conspiracy organized for the purpose of bringing down the elected president of the United States.

A case can be made that it would be just as well if the coup succeeds as it would bring an end to Washington’s cover as the government of a great democracy with liberty and justice for all. Most other governments, and one would hope certainly the Russian and Chinese governments, would see the coup as America’s final transition into a police state and give up their utopian ideas of reaching accommodation with Washington. The constraints on Washington’s ability to bully the world would be greatly strengthened by the universal perception that the government of the United States had devolved into a police state.

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers:

Today I share with you this article written by Finian Cunningham, which showed me how important it is for all of us who love this country, to create and build awareness and consensus about how the United States elite is endangering this great nation by sustaining itself out of wars. – MR.

US needs to kick its cold war habit before it destroys itself and the world

“America’s war-driven economy is not only a threat to world security from the inevitable antagonisms it fosters, but also this economy is threatening the collapse of American society from exorbitant waste of resources”

by Finian Cunningham

The National Defense Strategy unveiled by Pentagon chief James Mattis illustrates once again the revanchist Cold War mindset dominating Washington which is the inevitable expression of the US’ destructive addiction to militarism.

More than a quarter century after the official end of the Cold War between the US and the former Soviet Union, Washington has the cheek to label both Russia and China as “revisionist powers.”

Policy and discourse dominating Washington shows it is the US that is the biggest “revisionist power,” trying to revive ideological tensions and antagonism with Russia and China.

Defense Secretary Mattis declared last week that fighting non-state terrorism was no longer the primary focus of US national security. He said the “great power competition” with Russia and China was the new priority.

Mattis’ National Defense Strategy echoed themes contained in the National Security Strategy document published in December, which was signed off by President Trump. The NSS also cast Russia and China as “rivals” and existential threats to America’s influence in the world.

As with the NSS paper, Moscow and Beijing condemned the latest Pentagon document as being stuck in Cold War thinking and dealing with foreign relations in an “imperialistic” manner. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said it was regrettable that Washington, “instead of conducting normal dialogue is trying to prove its leadership using such confrontational concepts and strategies.”
This is after the US government voted last year to increase annual military spending by $50 billion to a record high of $700 billion.
Not even during the Cold War was the US military budget anywhere near the current outlay, according to comparative data cited by respected US economist David Stockman.

The US military budget is about 14 times that of Russia and four times that of China.

Simply put, in order to justify this stupendous largesse with American tax dollars, the Pentagon is compelled, out of logical necessity, to constantly portray the world as a threatening place.

“We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order – creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory,” states the National Defense Strategy.

Ironically, as Russian military intervention in Syria helped to destroy a Western-backed terrorist mercenary army, the US is now shifting its rationale for military spending from terrorism to Russia.

It is well documented that the US economy is largely dependent on the military-industrial complex. Over half of the nation’s annual discretionary budget is consumed by federal spending on military. This is, in effect, a massive taxpayer subsidized economy driven by militarism. Yet, American capitalism claims to be the paragon of “free enterprise” and “private ownership.”

Since the end of the Second World War, the characteristic feature of the US economy is militarism and the military-industrial complex. Arguably, without this annual massive injection of public money, so-called “American capitalism” would collapse.

That’s why it is vital for US economic survival, under its prevailing economic system, that the world is constantly presented to the American taxpayers as a threat to national security. It’s the equivalent of telling children scary bedtime stories.

US-based political analyst Randy Martin says America’s war-driven economy is not only a threat to world security from the inevitable antagonisms it fosters, but also this economy is threatening the collapse of American society from exorbitant waste of resources.

It is reliably calculated that the US has racked up its national debt by some $6 trillion from wars and military spending over the past 17 years alone. That “war debt” represents nearly one-third of the total US national debt of $19 trillion – making the United States the biggest debtor nation in the world.

Martin adds: “The US has been addicted to economic militarism for decades. It is destroying our economy and endangering global security by continually seeking out wars and enemies. The bitter irony is that Pentagon chief James Mattis claims to be keeping the homeland safe when in fact it is the Pentagon which poses the greatest threat to American society, not fictitious enemies like Russia and China.”
Another integral factor too is that disproportionate US economic exploitation of the planet’s resources is dependent on maintaining military superiority.

On that point, Mattis was perhaps more candid than he intended when he stated in the National Defense Strategy document: “The costs of not implementing this strategy are clear. Failure to meet our defense objectives will result in decreasing US global influence, eroding cohesion among allies and partners, and reduced access to markets that will contribute to a decline in our prosperity and standard of living.”

It is a pretty shocking admission by Mattis. He’s saying that America’s “standard of living” is purchased through a strategy of military dominance over the rest of the world. He also discloses, albeit unintentionally, that what is really bothering US state planners is their diminishing power to act unilaterally as before, owing in part to the growing power of Russia, China, and others in a multipolar world.

Mattis laments: “For decades the United States has enjoyed uncontested or dominant superiority in every operating domain. We could generally deploy our forces when we wanted, assemble them where we wanted, and operate how we wanted. Today, every domain is contested—air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace.” (This article was cut to fit space).