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The empire cries wolf: pipeline politics, the tragedy of MH17, and geo-strategic agenda bending

By Greg Maybury - posted Thursday, 31 July 2014


Roberts seems to understand this approach further undermines America's already much sullied reputation for strong global leadership-preferably usingsoft power-along with its geopolitical prestige and moral authority. It is also 'white-anting' the very principles upon which this Sometimes Great Nation was built! Cue here the sound of Founding Fathers spinning furiously but forlornly in their eternally designated plots of land! Hard to see this is what they had in mind all those years ago.

As it turned out, Roberts had quite a bit to say about MH17 disaster and ensuing, contrived, over cooked umbrage in Washington. On his own website is an article titled "Washington is Escalating the Orchestrated "Crisis" to War", an opinion piece which - unlike America's fabled and much touted Constitution - does what it says on the box:

Despite the conclusion by US intelligence…there is no evidence of Russian involvement in the destruction of the Malaysian airliner and all lives on board, Washington is escalating the crisis and shepherding it toward war.

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As if to underscore this, he followed it up with another piece called US Intelligence on Malaysian Flight MH17: Russia Didn't Do It. "US Satellite Photos do not Support Obama's Lies". In my view, there is not a wasted syllable in any of Roberts' op-ed pieces. But the following really brings home the bacon, in a much broader context and beyond that of any discussion regarding the fate of MH 17 and its cause.

Instead of declaring war on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, and Syria, why did Washington hide behind lies? If Washington wants war with Iran, Russia, and China, why not simply declare war? The reason that the US Constitution requires war to begin with a declaration of war by Congress is to prevent the executive branch from orchestrating wars in order to further hidden agendas. By abdicating its constitutional responsibility, the US Congress is complicit in the executive branch's war crimes. By approving Israel's premeditated murder of Palestinians, the US government is complicit in Israel's war crimes....Ask yourself this question: 'Would the world be a safer place with less death, destruction and displaced peoples and more truth and justice if the United States and Israel did not exist?' [My underlining]

As for Robert's views in the above pieces, they are exceedingly heady stuff, by any measure. Read them and then try and tell me America is still the good guy. Yet they are a welcome riposte to the Orwellian swill being force fed to us over this incident. He had this to say in response to the media's handling of the story:

As there are a number of possible explanations, let's keep open minds and resist Washington's propaganda until facts and evidence are in. In the very least [the US] is guilty of using the incident to blame Russia in advance of the evidence. All Washington has shown us so far is accusations and insinuations. If that is all Washington continues to show us, we will know where the blame resides. In the meantime, remember the story of the boy who cried 'wolf!' He lied so many times that when the wolf did come, no one believed him. Will this be Washington's ultimate fate?"[ My italics.]

And if Washington or anyone else for that matter want to talk about such things as "fabrication of evidence", "crimes and cover-ups", "evidence tampering" and "compromising crime scenes" and the like (and indeed the vexed, related issue of support for terrorists, separatists, rebels, the blowback from that support, and taking responsibility for that blowback), they may need to take a reality check and a cold shower and remember a Little Thing Called 9/11.

To paraphrase our own fearless PM Mr Abbott, it was with 9/11 that we witnessed "truly industrial scale" evidence tampering, removal, destruction and/or fabrication, cover-ups galore, and supreme master-classes in how to compromise a crime scene you don't want investigated too thoroughly or closely and be coverin' yo' ass at the same time. And whether by way of sheer, perhaps historically unprecedented, incompetence at best-or their own complicity or contrivance at worst-9/11 was their own crime scene, over which they, and they only, had total control!

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It is apposite to finish off with an observation from Mr Stich, a man who defended his country during World War Two and yet has spent over half his long life investigating, chronicling, and reporting and writing on widespread, deep seated official corruption in his native country, and someone who has paid a very heavy price for the privilege of being able to exercise his right to freedom of expression under the Constitution in the country that purports to hold the patent on that "right". He had this to say about the status quo in general in the Home of the Brave.

I cannot find proper words to define the arrogance of the U.S [and its] politicians-and their shills-against their own people, and those of other nations….And the new generation [seems] so obsessed with trivia that I see no hope for change.

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Greg Maybury is a Perth based freelance writer. His main areas of interest are American history and politics in general, with a special focus on economic, national security, military and geopolitical affairs, and both US domestic and foreign policy issues.

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