The stuck pigs are squealing. To shift the onus from the US State Department, Hillary Clinton paints Wikileaks' release of the "diplomatic cables" as an "attack on the international community". To reveal truth is equivalent, in the eyes of the US government, to an attack on the world.
It is Wikileaks' fault that all those US diplomats wrote a quarter of a million undiplomatic messages about America's allies, a.k.a., puppet states. It is also Wikileaks' fault that a member of the US government could no longer stomach the cynical ways in which the US government manipulates foreign governments to serve, not their own people, but American interests, and delivered the incriminating evidence to Wikileaks.
The US government actually thinks that it was Wikileaks' patriotic duty to return the evidence and to identify the leaker. After all, we mustn't let the rest of the world find out what we are up to. They might stop believing our lies.
The influential German magazine, Der Spiegel, writes: "It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy."
This might be more a hope than a reality. The "Soviet threat" during the second half of the 20th century enabled US governments to create institutions that subordinated the interests of other countries to those of the US government. After decades of following US leadership, European "leaders" know no other way to act. Finding out that the boss badmouths and deceives them is unlikely to light a spirit of independence. At least not until America's economic collapse becomes more noticeable.
The question is: how much will the press tell us about the documents? Spiegel itself has said that the magazine is permitting the US government to censor, at least in part, what it prints about the leaked material. Most likely, this means the public will not learn the content of the 4,330 documents that "are so explosive that they are labeled 'NOFORN,'" meaning that foreigners, including presidents, prime ministers, and security services that share information with the CIA, are not permitted to read the documents. Possibly, also, the content of the 16,652 cables classified as "secret" will not be revealed to the public.
Most likely the press, considering their readers' interests, will focus on gossip and the unflattering remarks Americans made about their foreign counterparts. It will be good for laughs. Also, the US government will attempt to focus the media in ways that advance US policies.
Indeed, it has already begun. On November 29, National Public Radio emphasized that the cables showed that Iran was isolated even in the Muslim world, making it easier for the Israelis and Americans to attack. The leaked cables reveal that the president of Egypt, an American puppet, hates Iran, and the Saudi Arabian government has been long urging the US government to attack Iran. In other words, Iran is so dangerous to the world that even its co-religionists want Iran wiped off the face of the earth.
NPR presented several nonobjective "Iranian experts" who denigrated Iran and its leadership and declared that the US government, by resisting its Middle Eastern allies' call for bombing Iran, was the moderate in the picture. The fact that President George W. Bush declared Iran to be a member of "the axis of evil" and threatened repeatedly to attack Iran, and that President Obama has continued the threats--Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has just reiterated that the US hasn't taken the attack option off the table--are not regarded by American "Iran experts" as indications of anything other than American moderation.
Somehow it did not come across the NPR newscast that it is not Iran but Israel that routinely slaughters civilians in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank, and that it is not Iran but the US and its NATO mercenaries who slaughter civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yeman, and Pakistan.
Iran has not invaded any of its neighbors, but the Americans are invading countries half way around the globe.
The "Iranian experts" treated the Saudi and Egyptian rulers' hatred of Iran as a vindication of the US and Israeli governments' demonization of Iran. Not a single "Iranian expert" was capable of pointing out that the tyrants who rule Egypt and Saudi Arabia fear Iran because the Iranian government represents the interests of Muslims, and the Saudi and Egyptian governments represent the interests of the Americans.
Think what it must feel like to be a tyrant suppressing the aspirations of your own people in order to serve the hegemony of a foreign country, while a nearby Muslim government strives to protect its people's independence from foreign hegemony.
Undoubtedly, the tyrants become very anxious. What if their oppressed subjects get ideas? Little wonder the Saudis and Egyptian rulers want the Americans to eliminate the independent-minded country that is a bad example for Egyptian and Saudi subjects.
As long as the dollar has enough value that it can be used to purchase foreign governments, information damaging to the US government is unlikely to have much affect. As Alain of Lille said a long time ago, "money is all".
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan's first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of several books including: War of the Worlds: How the Economy was Lost; Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy; Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
Reader Comments
Iran is the excuse for WW3. I don't know how much you know about military strategy but it surprised me that it wasn't hit
this summer. The answer is simple. The U.S. wait for things to escalate, namely Iran to get more "nuclearized". Because WW3 is going to be nuclear. In other words Iran is going to be nuked. That of course is the fuse. If Pearl Harbour (FDR knew about it) was the fuse for U.S. engagment in WW2, 9/11 (Bush Jr. also knew about it) was the fuse for U.S. engagement in WW3. History repeated.
Albert Einstein had said that WW4 would be conducted with stones and bows and arrows. Well, he couldn't be more correct, that's if there are any survivors left. The Russians are constructing 5,000 new underground bunkers and are renovating the old ones left from the cold war era. The Chinese are doing the same. And so is the U.S. (renovating the old ones) and constructing a completly new one, they are not letting the info go public. Right now the U.S. has the best protection in the world. Underground nuclear bunkers , ICBMS and of course
a weapon few people know about the HAARP that can cause damage that seems like natural disasters namely earthquakes, fires, floods and volcano activation. I know all that after 15 years of research. Unfortunately WE ARE ALL WALKING INTO
A TRAP. Because this time there will be no human winners. Watch 2 movies : "Skyline" and "Into infinity" and you 'll understand. The "Vultures from Above" namely Aliens are going to be the winners since most of us if not all will perish in the havock that will follow. I have more data to support this ABSURD scenario but I need an entire book to write about it. And they are counting on the ABSURDITY of such a scenario. Unfortunately I'm going to be among the victims and I'm only 43 years of age. I can give you the
time schedule though : 2012 : The GOP takes over "officialy.". Summer (as usual) of 2013 "green light" to strike Iran. Well, I guess by the end of 2014 the hostlities between us and us and the "Vultures from Above" will be over. Currently the landing zones (2 times the size of the U.K.) for the Alien Spacecrafts are being constructed in Africa. I happen to live outside the U.S.
and my info is not as "filtered" as yours in the States. I've been doing a lot of research since 1995 when things started getting "critical" combined my info from many different sources, double and triple checked it. Also I have two degrees one in engineering and a second in business. Both my late grandfathers and my late father were engaged in wars and since one of my late grandfathers was a state governor for 15 years in a row in 3 different states I don't have to read "Political Ponerology" . I know how things work. Oh, we were warned alright , many times but we chose to ignore the warnings. It always feels better that way. For releasing sensitive info for the past 13 years the GOP tried to nail me more times than I care to remember. Unfortunately I can't give you my URL or e-mail for further info. But don't worry those bashing me have them both. As for "Wikitricks" it's just a distraction. Sincerely, D.P.F.
1) How to get an increasingly suspicious populace to believe what they never would believe if it came from the mouths of government representatives. Create a leak, make them think you didn't want them to know. There is nothing of consequence for any real truthseeker in the Wikileaks files. It has been hyped extensively, globally, in mass media - that should be a clue.
2) Internet is now a "national security problem" or better yet a "global security problem" and for your own good we must remove internet freedoms, globally. As is presently under way in the US. 100eds of domains have been foreclosed by the government over the last few days. So far file sharing sites. Do you want to place some bets in which direction this snowball will be moving?
From www.whatreallyhappened.com, the article "The complete idiots guide to wiki leaks":
So, given that 95% of the current Wiki Leaks is really old news, as a public service I will point out the bits of poison that Julian hopes you will eat.
1. Iran is bad so you should all want to kill them.
2. Saudi Arabia is bad because they are funding Al Qaeda so you should all want to kill them.
3. North Korea is bad because they gave really long range missiles to Iran for Iran to put their nuclear warheads in, so you should all want to kill them.
4. China is messing with your computers, so you should all want to kill them.
Hillary is just adding credibility to their own lie machine. Facilitating the lies they want to sell, and moving in on free speach on the internet by simultainiouslly crediting their mouthpiece as a classic Hegelian dialectic "problem".
Lars R
Isn't this what these little Wiki leaks are all about? Trying to get all the compatriots busy with infighting to spread the confusion, deceit and backstabbing around the world? To do what Santa will not?
How much longer can the big lie hold up under all this pressure?
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There is more to be gleaned from what Wikileaks doesn't report than what it does.
Among other things...
Israelis in northern Iraq, supporting the PKK's independence activities in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran
Opium poppy cultivation in Iraq
Record opium crops inn Afghanistan
Israelis and Indians in Afghanistan
Were one of a suspicious bent, one might agree with Rivero and Duff that Assange is working for Mossad.