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Sto caricando le informazioni... How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare Statedi Paul Craig Roberts
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Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad,Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of theirgovernment running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms--if ever they were aware of them in the first place--accepting to live in the increasingly pernicious "new normal" with little protest. This remarkable anthology of columns documents and reminds us ofthe extraordinary developments that, in their accumulation, have led tothe destruction of accountable and moral government in the US. Few American commentators have cut more clearly through thedeepening deceit, hypocrisy and outright criminality that has infestedofficial Washington since 9/11 than Paul Craig Roberts. His scathingcritique sheds much-needed light on the country's impendingnightmare-economic collapse, internal repression, ongoing wars, andrising rejection by friends and foes alike.America's fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought thegovernment's 9/11 conspiracy theory. This defining event of our time, which has launched the US on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic police state, is a taboo topic forinvestigation in the media. Trillion dollar wars have created financing problems for Washington's deficits,threatening the dollar's role as world reserve currency, and putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. These protections are called "entitlements" as if they are some sort of welfare that people have not paid for in payroll taxes all their working lives. With over 21 per cent unemployment, withAmerican jobs, GDP, and technology having been given to China and India, with warbeing Washington's greatest commitment, with the dollar over-burdened with debt, withcivil liberty sacrificed to the bogus war on terror, the liberty and prosperity of the Americanpeople have been thrown into the trash bin of history. The militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street and corporate greed, willnow run their course. "How America Was Lost" marks Roberts as one of the most incisive andcourageous moral commentators in America today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book shows that America is now a Lawless State but doesn't look at its "Counter Cultural Revolution". Does a 50 year countercultural assault on traditional America, Christianity, U.S. history and the Constitution have some relevance to the present situation or not? Were the Counterculturalists just enabling the Police/Warfare State or did they think they were building a better world?
The author doesn't ask the question but at least he highlights 9/11 as the catalyst in bringing on the P/W State, with the article format unfortunately only blurring the issue. Maybe he could have emphasized the following points:
1) The agreement among specialists that the third tower (WTC7) came down in a controlled demolition (owner Larry Silverstein was actually recorded giving an instruction to "pull it")
2) Preparation for demolition takes several weeks so Silverstein had prior knowledge of 9/11.
3) The US government/ judiciary/ Congress/ CIA/ FBI and news media all refusing to treat Silverstein as a suspect.
In reality, Silverstein isn't only a suspect, he's also a personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, so perhaps the author could have followed the trail:
This is the same Netanyahu,who held a celebration to commemorate the Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British Mandate Government of Palestine) in which Zionist activists dressed as Arabs placed milk churns filled with explosives against the main columns of the building.
The same "Zionist terrorists dressed as Arabs" theme appeared again in Operation Susannah (Lavon Affair) where Israeli operatives impersonating Arabs bombed British and American cinemas, libraries and educational centres in Egypt to destabilize the country and keep British troops committed to the Middle East.
Equally, Israelis and U.S. Zionists appear all over the most recent 9/11 "Operation" (with Israelis once again impersonating Arabs) in a historic deception/terror action of a type that seems to carry a lot of kudos with old Israeli ex-terrorist Likudniks.
At any rate Israelis were sent to film the historic day, with the celebration including photos of themselves with a background of the burning towers where thousands of Americans were being incinerated, and the glorious day has even been turned into a theme of celebration in the Purim festival with Jewish schoolchildren proudly displaying paper models of towers being hit by aircraft (Google: "school children Purim 911").
Roberts talks about the destruction of the US Constitution in the 9/11 Permanent Emergency, but he really needed to explain how America lost its "Guardians" (Congress, Justice and a Free Press) with fear now replacing justice and every Congressman and MSM journalist having to internalize the new rules.
In the opinion of this reviewer, he could have put Cowed America in some kind of historical context.
At least in mythology, the archetype of the American community in the second decade of the new millenium is probably the rural village in Kurosawa's landmark film Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]. The government has allied with the bandits to loot the citizens who are afraid and can't defend themselves. They slowly realize that they have to find new professional guardians and luckily do find some who agree to do the work. After a lot of trouble the village regains its freedom with most of the guardians killed, but the villagers (and the guardians) know that's its part of the job. (