How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State
© 2014 Paul Craig Roberts
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
American Insouciance
August 7, 2008
Who Will Stand Up to America and Israel?
May 28, 2009
Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?”
June 19, 2009
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US?
August 31, 2009
Another War in the Works:
America Is Led and Informed by Liars
September 29, 2009
Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
October 10, 2009
The Evil Empire
November 7, 2009
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Trial Will Convict Us All
November 24, 2009
The Obama Puppet
December 3, 2009
For Palestinians, Every Day Is Kristallnacht
December 15, 2009
Americans Submit to Tyranny
December 29, 2009
Liberty Has Been Lost
January 6, 2010
Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth?
January 8, 2010
Insouciant Americans
January 11, 2010
It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is a Police State
February 10, 2010
The Road to Armageddon: The Insane Drive for American Hegemony Threatens Life on Earth
February 26, 2010
American Naifs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands
March 18, 2010
Washington Murdered Sovereignty at Home and Abroad
March 23, 2010
Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty with It
March 24, 2010
America’s Complicity in Evil
June 3, 2010
Hillary Clinton’s Transparent Lies
July 10, 2010
The Business of America Is War
July 27, 2010
Death of the First Amendment /
August 26, 2010
The True Cost of the War
September 3, 2010
The Collapse of Western Morality
September 23, 2010
The War On Terror: Does Anyone Remember?
October 15, 2010
Who Has the Crystal Ball?
November 2, 2010
The New American Credo: Might Is Right
November 3, 2010
America’s Devolution into Dictatorship
November 12, 2010
The Stench of American Hypocrisy
November 18, 2010
Fabricating Terror: The Portland “Bomb” Plot
November 29, 2010
Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World?
November 30, 2010
Wikileaks II: A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies
December 1, 2010
2011
December 27, 2010
America Has Gone Away
December 29, 2010
Egypt: Things Have to Change in Order to Stay the Same
February 1, 2011
Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Is a Tool of Class War
February 17, 2011
War Über Alles
February 26, 2011
Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell
March 13, 2011
Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to a Higher Level
March 28, 2011
The New Colonialism: Washington’s Pursuit of World Hegemony
April 2, 2011
Libya: The DC/NATO Agenda and the Next Great War
April 7, 2011
Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death
May 3, 2011
The Agendas Behind the Fabricated Bin Laden News Event
May 6, 2011
Americans Are Living in 1984
May 11, 2011
The West Is Trapped in Its Own Propaganda
May 12, 2011
Creating the bin Laden “Reality”
May 14, 2011
The Ongoing bin Laden Saga
May 16, 2011
The Strauss-Kahn Frame-Up: The American Police State Strides Forward
May 18, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Establishment Eliminates a Threat
May 20, 2011
Does America Have a Culture?
May 23, 2011
Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?
June 5, 2011
Conspiracy Theory
June 20, 2011
Who Does the Law Serve
June 27, 2011
A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy
June 29, 2011
Prosecutors Back Off From their Iron-Clad Case Against Strauss-Kahn
July 1, 2011
Will Strauss-Kahn Be the Next President of France
July 5, 2013
The Enemy is Washington
July 22, 2011
9/11 After a Decade: Have We Learned Anything?
August 24, 2011
In America, the Rule of Law Is Vacated
September 1, 2011
The Latest Orchestrated Threat to America: Pakistan and “The Haqqani Network”
September 26, 2011
Is the War on Terror a Hoax?
September 30, 2011
The Day America Died
October 2, 2011
The Roads to War and Economic Collapse
November 23, 2011
Misreading the Fight Over Military Detention
December 4, 2011
Washington Moves the World Closer to War
January 16, 2012
Drowning in Hypocrisy
January 24, 2012
Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?
February 14, 2012
Washington‘s Insouciance Has No Rival
February 15, 2012
Silencing the Critics
February 20, 2012
Why Can’t Americans Have Democracy?
March 2, 2012
Empires Then and Now
March 26, 2012
What is ObamaCare?
April 10, 2012
Washington Leads the World into Lawlessness
April 12, 2012
How Liberty Was Lost
April 24, 2012
Trials Without Crimes or Evidence
April 25, 2012
Brewing a Conflict with China
April 30, 2012
Does the West Have a Future?
May 10, 2012
The Case of the Missing Terrorists
May 14, 2012
Washington’s Hypocrisies
May 26, 2012
Can the World Survive Washington’s
Hubris?
June 28, 2012
Can Americans Escape the Deception?
July 4, 2012
War on All Fronts
July 16, 2012
Syria: Washington‘s Latest War Crime
July 26, 2012
The Neoconservative War Criminals in Our Midst
August 1, 2012
The Next Election: High Stake Outcomes Based on Non-issues
August 11, 2012
Is Washington Deaf to Russian Warnings?
August 16, 2012
Correa Stands Up to the Jackbooted British Gestapo
August 16, 2012
America’s Future is Death
August 20, 2012
Pussy Riot, The Unfortunate Dupes of American Hegemony
August 22, 2012
A Culture of Delusion
September 27, 2012
America’s Moral Degeneracy
October 10, 2012
The Special Interests Won Again
November 7, 2012
Obdurate Washington
December 11, 2012
Attack on Sovereignty
January 15, 2013
The Institutionalization of Tyranny
January 18, 2013
In America Law No Longer Exists
January 31, 2013
Obama’s Expanding Kill List
February 11, 2013
While Left and Right Fight, Power Wins
February 14, 2013
Hugo Chavez
March 12, 2013
Iraq After Ten Years
March 18, 2013
What is the Government’s Agenda?
June 11, 2013
Washington Is War-Crazy
June 17, 2013
Stasi in the White House
June 21, 2013
A New Beginning without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask
June 25, 2013
Washington Is Driving the World to the Final War
June 28, 2013
Has Washington’s Arrogance Undone Its Empire?
July 1, 2013
Lawlessness Is the New Normal
July 5, 2013
Putin Dresses Down the Gang of 8
July 10, 2013
Coup d’état
July 13, 2013
Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
July 23, 2013
The Two Faux Democracies Threaten Life on Earth
July 24, 2013
America Discredited
August 1, 2013
Bradley Manning Verdict Convicts Washington
August 1, 2013
Washington’s Drive for Hegemony is a Drive to War
August 8, 2013
Humanity Is Drowning in Washington’s Criminality
August 13, 2013
Gangster State US/UK
August 21, 2013
Syria: Another Western War Crime in the Making
August 26, 2013
Will Obama Doom Himself as a War Criminal?
August 30, 2013
America Totally Discredited
August 30, 2013
The Isolation of America
August 31, 2013
Will Congress Now Save Obama’s Face by Selling Out Democracy? / 393 September 4, 2013
How to Stop Obama’s Military Aggression Against Syria
September 5, 2013
The West Dethroned
September 7, 2013
Too Many Years of Lies: From Mossadeq to 9/11
September 10, 2013
Putin Steps into World Leadership Role
September 12, 2013
What Happens If the Shutdown Causes the Treasury to Run Out of Money
October 11, 2013
How America Was Lost
November 7, 2013
What Is the Real Agenda of the American Police State?
November 13, 2013
Bin Laden’s Obituary Notice
November 20, 2013
The Kennedy Assassination (November 22, 1963) 50 Years Later
November 22, 2013
Protests in Ukraine
December 4, 2013
Washington Drives the World Toward War
December 14, 2013
Washington Has Discredited America
December 19, 2013
No Need for NATO
December 2013, Trends Journal
Conclusion
Dedicated to: Bradley Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, William Binney, and all others
who stand for truth, justice, mercy
INTRODUCTION
The demonization of the Soviet Union in the post-World War II era was the basis for America’s reputation as the defender of freedom and democracy. Some historians and commentators deny that the United States deserved its reputation. They point to America’s destruction of native inhabitants, to the theft of Spanish territories in Texas and what became the Southwest of the United States, to the internment of Japanese- American citizens during World War II, to the apartheid existence of black Americans who participated very little in freedom and democracy for most of American history, and to Washington’s refusal to tolerate the rise of reformist governments in Central America.
Whether or not America ever deserved its reputation, during the last few years of the 20th century under the Bill Clinton regime and during the 21st century neoconservative regimes of George W. Bush and Barak Obama, Washington threw away America’s reputation in order to better pursue its agenda of hegemony over the world.
The Soviet Union had constrained and limited American power. The collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed American hubris and arrogance. Having declared itself to be the “world’s only superpower,” Washington began reorganizing the world in its own interest, which Washington disguised as “bringing freedom and democracy to the world.”
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon provided the “new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives had written was necessary in order to launch their wars of conquest. The history of the 21st century has been the consequence of 9/11.
The government’s account of 9/11 has been effectively challenged by 2,000 high-rise architects and structural engineers, by physicists and chemists, by firefighters and first responders, by pilots, and by numerous former government officials. No aware and informed person believes that the US national security state and the intelligent services of Washington’s NATO allies and Israel’s Mossad were outsmarted by a handful of Arabs operating independently of any government and intelligence service.
Washington’s argument has been that terrorists must be killed “over there” before they come “over here” and attack America again. This argument has never made any sense, because Washington acknowledges that terrorists are stateless. According to Washington, almost all of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi Arabians. Yet, Washington attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington arranged the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya despite the absence of any relationship to 9/11. Almost every day Washington murders with drones people in Pakistan and Yemen, countries with which America is not at war. Washington has sent Kenyan troops to fight Islamists in Somalia, and has sent French and Nigerian troops to Mali to fight the Washington- armed Islamists who drifted there after helping to overthrow Gaddafi.
Mao said power comes out of the barrel of a gun. Washington says freedom and democracy come out of bombings. Mao is reviled, but Washington is praised or praises itself.
The second part of Washington’s argument is that in order to be safe, Americans must give up the civil liberties granted to them by the US Constitution. In order to be safe, Americans must consent to citizens being thrown into prison indefinitely without any evidence presented to a court and without any executive branch accountability to due process.
Americans must also consent to their government’s murder of citizens without due process of law. Mere suspicion or unproven accusation by some unaccountable executive branch off
icial is enough to snuff out the life and liberty of American citizens and to confiscate all of their property and assets.
To be safe, Americans must also consent to being spied on—every email, every Internet site visited, every telephone call, every letter written, every credit card used and purchase made, as William Binney and Edward Snowden have proven. On September 28, 2013, The New York Times reported that the NSA is even mapping the social connections of US citizens. Washington’s argument is that unless Americans accept the most complete police state in human history, they are not safe.
Consequently, today no American is safe from his own government. In public discourse in the United States facts are no longer permitted. Propaganda reigns. Washington, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary, ruled that Saddam Hussein in Iraq possessed “weapons of mass destruction” and that his possession of such weapons justified Washington’s invasion of Iraq.
When chemical weapons were used in Syria, Washington instantly blamed the Assad government and attempted to organize support for intervening against the secular Syrian government in behalf of the Islamists. Washington claimed to have conclusive evidence but refused to share it. The ploy did not work. The world saw through it. The Russian government challenged it.
The British Parliament, long an American puppet, voted against Obama’s war against Syria, declaring that Great Britain would not serve as cover for another American war crime. All of NATO except the French “socialist” president abandoned Obama’s war scheme, as did the American people and the US Congress. Putin, the President of Russia, stated publicly that US Secretary of State John Kerry “is lying and knows that he is lying. It is sad.”
At this time of writing, the world seems to be coming to the conclusion that the US is not what it pretends to be. Instead, America is a malevolent force that brings the threat of a Third World War to humanity.
Russia, the voice for peace, has tied down the US government in a UN resolution that ratifies Syria’s agreement to turn over all chemical weapons for destruction and that prevents the use of force against Syria. The criminal Obama regime fought this peace initiative with all its power and with all its purchased governments; yet Russia prevailed.
The columns in this collection from August 2008 through December 2013 document America’s descent into a Stasi Police State domestically and into a warfare state whose aim is world domination. The individual incidents and travesties presented in this collection are most likely forgotten, assuming Americans ever knew of them. When massed together they document the descent of the US into the lawlessness of tyranny. There is some repetition. I was faced with the decision to eliminate the repetition so that the individual selections would read more like chapters in a book or to leave the repetition so that the individual selections could stand independently of the book as a whole. I decided to retain the individual selections largely as written as that presents the reader both with a book and with a collection of essays.