WORLD-TYRANT WORLD 08 09 14 1

WORLD-TYRANT WORLD 08 09 14 1 

Washington Threatens The World [Excerpts] 

Copyright by Paul Craig Roberts 

August 8, 2014 @ 5:48 pm 

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/08/washington-threatens-world-paul-craig-roberts/print/

Republicans want to sue or to impeach Obama over relatively inconsequential issues, such as ObamaCare. 

Why don’t Republicans want to impeach Obama over such a critical issue as subjecting the world to the risk of nuclear armageddon? 

The answer is that the Republicans are as crazed as the Democrats.  Their leaders, such as John McCain and Lindsay Graham, are determined that “we stand up to the Russians!” 

Wherever one looks in American politics one sees crazed people, psychopaths and sociopaths who should not be in political office. 

Do you think that the neoconservative influence that prevails in Washington, regardless of the political party in office, is too dangerous to be tolerated? 

ESSAY IN ENGLISCH

The West on the wrong path [Excerpts] 

von Gabor Steingart 

Gabor Steingart is the publisher of Germany’s leading financial newspaper Handelsblatt.

08.08.2014, 13:53 Uhr

http://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kommentare/essay-in-englisch-the-west-on-the-wrong-path/10308406.html

Every war is accompanied by a kind of mental mobilization: war fever.  Even smart people are not immune to controlled bouts of this fever.  “This war in all its atrociousness is still a great and wonderful thing.  It is an experience worth having“ rejoiced Max Weber in 1914 when the lights went out in Europe.  Thomas Mann felt a “cleansing, liberation, and a tremendous amount of hope”. 

Even when thousands already lay dead on the Belgian battle fields, the war fever did not subside.  Exactly 100 years ago, 93 painters, writers, and scientists composed the “Call to the world of culture.”  Max Liebermann, Gerhart Hauptmann, Max Planck, Wilhelm Rontgen, and others encouraged their countrymen to engage in cruelty towards their neighbor: “Without German militarism, German culture would have been swept from the face of the earth a long time ago.  The German armed forces and the German people are one.  This awareness makes 70 million Germans brothers without prejudice to education, status, or party.” 

We interrupt our own train of thought: “History is not repeating itself!”  But can we be so sure about that these days?  In view of the war events in the Crimean and eastern Ukraine, the heads of states and governments of the West suddenly have no more questions and all the answers. 

The US Congress is openly discussing arming Ukraine.  The former security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski recommends arming the citizens there for house-to-house and street combat.  The German Chancellor, as it is her habit, is much less clear but no less ominous: “We are ready to take severe measures.” 

German journalism has switched from level-headed to agitated in a matter of weeks.  The spectrum of opinions has been narrowed to the field of vision of a sniper scope. 

Newspapers we thought to be all about thoughts and ideas now march in lock-step with politicians in their calls for sanctions against Russia's President Putin.  Even the headlines betray an aggressive tension as is usually characteristic of hooligans when they 'support' their respective teams. 

The Tagesspiegel: “Enough talk!“  The FAZ: “Show strength“.  The Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Now or never.”  The Spiegel calls for an “End to cowardice”: “Putin's web of lies, propaganda, and deception has been exposed.  The wreckage of MH 17 is also the result of a crashed diplomacy.” 

. . . 

After the end of the [first world war], the penitent issued a second call, this time to understanding between nations: “The civilized world became a war camp and battle field.  It is time that a great tide of love replaces the devastating wave of hatred.” 

We should try to avoid the detour via the battle fields in the 21st century. History does not have to repeat itself.  Maybe we can find a shortcut.