Kerry and Obama Lying US into Yet Another War

President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry did their damed level best to lie to Americans in order to pimp a war last summer based on trumped up information in Syria and now they are doing the same thing in Ukraine. In an ongoing spectacle that has all of the fascinating qualities of one of those RNC talking point "train wrecks" the duo continue to agitate and push for an ill-conceived and ultimately disastrous fight with Russian leader Vladimir Putin who can't be counted on this time to save the dynamic duo (or us for that matter) from themselves. Today's escalation in the idiotic, hypocritical and dangerous game of chicken with the nuclear armed Russians consists of the esteemed Kerry blathering the same standard cookie-cutter neocon talking points over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Ukraine that was unleashed when the Obama team of unrivaled imbeciles decided that launching a neo-Nazi backed coup in Kiev in order to stick it to Putin during the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Not that a man like Kerry would have a problem with dealing with Nazis. The erstwhile opponent of the illegal wars of empire is a member of the infamous Yale University secret society Skull and Bones with it's longtime ties to the Wall Street elite and OSS/CIA that not only helped to arm Nazi Germany for profits he is in his element as much as a pig wallowing in a pool of shit. Not only was Wall Street money - such as that from a certain Prescott Bush from whose loins sprung two future US Presidents (with another on the way) whose Wall Street firm was actually shut down by the US government - instrumental in the rise of Hitler but they also provided cover for Nazi war criminals after the end of World War II.

With the renewed propaganda barrage against the Russians and specifically Putin erupting anew over the weekend, with a launching pad over at the Washington Post neocon transmission station by the likes of Jennifer "dog face" Rubin, Charles "Dr. Strangelove" Kraüthammer and a newcomer in some hack named Kathy Lally the ground was prepped for Mr. Kerry's latest uncontrollable bout of chronic diarrhea of the mouth. In ratcheting up the strident rhetoric, especially now that Ukrainians are rebelling against the illegally installed occupying government of "Yats" and his neo-Nazis fully understanding that the future is crushing and ruthlessly enforced austerity, pogroms, political repression and slavery Kerry was in in form unseen since last August. According to an article in The Guardian the grand marshal of the American fool's parade is now ranting about Russian agent provocateurs fomenting unrest in East Ukraine:

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, described recent developments in eastern Ukraine as "more than deeply disturbing" and repeated threats of western sanctions against Russia, which he said would be expanded to the country's energy, banking and mining sectors.

Kerry blamed pro-Russian protests in eastern Ukraine on "special forces and agents" sent by Moscow in a move he said "could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention just as we saw in Crimea".

What is it called when an imperialistic, meddling warfare state that has engaged in "intervention" after "intervention" ever since the original indigenous inhabitants of our god-kissed, star-spangled lemming colony were hunted down like animals and slaughtered as such?

This is so ridiculous on so many levels that it is the proverbial smoking gun that the entire western mainstream media is in the bag - a now completely essential and assimilated component of the Deep State that serves only one purpose which is to lie on behalf of a corrupt establishment that is careening more out of bounds by the minute. It is simply unbelievable that this guy is not called on this bullshit, especially after the obvious lies that damned near led to the attack on Syria over a sarin gas attack on civilians in a Damascus suburb that always stank but never more so than in Seymour Hersh's latest expose "The Red Line and the Rat Line" over at the London Review of Books. The US state media would NEVER allow a piece like this to be published. Hersh apparently has even been exiled by the New Yorker after his excellent work during the Bushreich. He may not get any exposure - other than vilification at ideologically bent, Deep State Muslim-baiting shitholes like Commentary Magazine but he gave two good interviews yesterday with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now and Scott Horton at Antiwar.com. Check them out.

Hersh's story alone calls into question the monstrous torrent of lies about the Ukraine situation emanating from the Obama regime and the corrupt US media and perhaps there is a bit of desperation in Kerry's latest dissertation of pure, unadulterated hogwash. The drip, drip, drip effects of the NSA leaks courtesy of heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden have certainly given all of those "Hope" and "Change" banners a certain yellowing taint and I at times wonder if a lot of Obama's relentless crusade to nail Putin to a cross doesn't have as it's genesis the fact that Snowden was saved from a US or affiliated despotic partner's torture chambers by Russia's leader. Hell, given Mr. Obama's penchant for narcissism and the humiliation of his American Stasi being exposed followed by Putin intervening to stop the Syrian attacks and that classic, for the ages take down of US exceptionalism on the anniversary of that oh so sanctified day of September 11th in the Op Ed section of the New York Times, Dear Leader is steaming.

It is springtime and that substance that is heavy in the air and clogging nostrils isn't just pollen. Springtime indeed, for the US establishment led by Obama, Kerry and the neocons it might as well be Springtime for Hitler.

Nice Job Neocons: Now What?

Nothing can be more exceptionally American than the shock and arrogance expressed by the US political class in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. They are outraged, I tell you, outraged that the loathed Russian President Vladimir Putin would call their bluff and refuse to sniff the glove after they had pissed on his prized showcase of the Sochi Winter Olympics and then with assistance of fascists, neo-Nazis and assorted other anti-Semitic miscreants toppled the democratically elected government that sits on his borders. The nerve of Putin to not submit to having yet more NATO missiles surrounding mother Russia and to dare to sign off on the absorption of Crimea and then to give a speech blasting US hypocrisy, just who in the hell does this guy think that he is?

Nice job to the neocons who pushed all right buttons of the idiotic overmatched dupe that is Barack Obama, it was just as easy as having Cheney and Rummy goading Dubya into attacking and invading Iraq over resentment towards his old man. Now like the 2003 “Shock and Awe” campaign that brought chaos and sectarian vengeance to Baghdad and its surroundings, where the stars and stripes flew proudly over Saddam’s torture gulag at Abu Ghraib prison next to an ‘under new management’ sign the very same cadre of mouthy embedded deep cowards have gotten us into the mother of all messes. They have no shame about it either, the chickenhawk leader of the movement William Kristol, a modern incarnation of Joseph Goebbels just published a screed in his vile propaganda organ The Weekly Standard that called out Americans for not being sufficiently enthusiastic about World War III. Like all of the others with the exception of the fanatical war criminal John McCain whose acts of wartime bravery consisted of dropping jellied fire on Vietnamese women and children and Lindsey Graham whose USMC service consisted of flying a desk ALL neocons are chickenhawk cowards. Kristol likes to toot his own horn, in particular when advocating for the children of American mothers to be fed into the meat-grinder for his on aggrandizement yet his copious biography is strangely (or not so) devoid of military service. 

I excerpt the following from Kristol (whose amazing proclivity for being wrong about every aspect of American foreign policy just landed him a gig at ABC) and his piece "War Weariness as an Excuse":

Are Americans today war-weary? Sure. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been frustrating and tiring. Are Americans today unusually war-weary? No. They were wearier after the much larger and even more frustrating conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. And even though the two world wars of the last century had more satisfactory outcomes, their magnitude was such that they couldn’t help but induce a significant sense of war-weariness. And history shows that they did.

So American war-weariness isn’t new. Using it as an excuse to avoid maintaining our defenses or shouldering our responsibilities isn’t new, either. But that doesn’t make it admirable.

What a preening little shitbag, if he is so hellbent on war then give the man a rifle and send him to Ukraine, or Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia, Egypt, Libya or any of the other countless dozens of countries that the American war machine is meddling in. I will tell you what is definitely not admirable and that is driving the US of A and its citizens into a state of indentured servitude to continue to finance the splendid little wars of cowardly bastards like William Kristol and his ilk. Included in his company is the current stammering ass of a Secretary of State John Kerry who is doing his damned level best to create the conditions for a global thermonuclear war when Russia fights back - this is not some dipshit little country like Iraq and they are not going to just roll over.

The longtime member of elitist swine that is Yale’s Skull and Bones society,  Mr. Kerry has that certain sneering contempt of the elite, particularly with his ongoing asinine threats of economic sanctions and his snobbish revisionist history that fails to include the United States out of the list of countries who illegally invade and occupy countries while killing their inhabitants for the spoils of war. It is the same sort of flagrant dismissiveness that in a previous period of history led a similarly holier than though and corrupt ruling class marched to the guillotines. We could never be so lucky as to have such a sentiment manifest itself within the television addled hive minds of the lethargic lemmings that populate this woebegone land of war and dumbness.

“Yats”, our man in Kiev, acting every bit the pencil-necked little bureaucratic lickspittle who hit it big isn’t helping matters either. The unelected puppet of the western backed global finance mafia has ordered Ukranian troops to shoot to kill as of today. Infused with hubris over his recent visit to the White House Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a typical four-flushing little dipshit risks an ugly fate if he is unable to deliver to the global predatory capitalists the prize of Ukraine without the very lucrative chunk of Crimea missing from what was to be an enormous bounty. It would be nice to see him suffer the same fate of Nicolae Ceausescu or better yet the prototype fascist Benito Mussolini when economic hitmen/women the likes of Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland are passing out cookies to the crowds outside his window. When you make a deal with the devil you had better be damned sure that the man gets paid.

Just when you would think that it couldn't get any worse that moronic asshole Joe Biden has shown up in Lithuania to commit the US to engaging in Baltic region war games to further push Russia into a corner.

Now about those guillotines.....

Hillary Surfaces and Compares Putin to Hitler

With the restoration of the corrupt Clinton family dynasty looming the likely successor to Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham-Clinton has played the obligatory Nazi card in joining in on the Putin pile on.  Mrss Clinton made her remarks comparing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler during a private appearance in California, taken along with similar off the cuff statements in non-public settings by SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia (internment camps) and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (screw half of the country) it is a window into the very deranged mindset of the American elite. The invocation of the long dead fanatical Nazi dictator is a winner whenever it is time for the rogue American war machine to crank up for another illegal intervention into the affairs of another country. It is always a must to ensure that the leader of an enemy country be thoroughly demonized so more meddling in foreign lands can be sold to the star-spangled lemming flock who are slowly being beggared by the money directed at world domination by the government agents of a rapacious, degenerate looter class - this case being the global financial mafia that Clinton serves and will continue to serve as she takes up residence in the White House come January 2017.

The neocons truly cherish the WW II references, especially those invoking Der Führer or the sainted Sir Winston when making their case for the ongoing series of blatant acts of raw aggression and subversion of democratically elected governments that have become as American as apple pie over the last sixty or so years but why not Stalin? It is really not arguable that Russian tyrant Joseph Stalin was responsible for more dead bodies than Hitler ever was but with a deep seated aversion to real history thanks to willful ignorance, the effects of incessant propaganda, the state indoctrination of an America centric glorified revisionist history and the ongoing dumbing down process it would be a tough sell. I would imagine that the majority of Americans have absolutely no idea who Stalin was but thanks to the neocons and their media lie factories everyone understands Hitler - actually some dumbass had a letter published in yesterdays edition of my local paper entitled "Adolph Putin".  Still it is a cheap political gimmick to constantly play the Nazi card and far more than a bit hypocritical considering that the U.S. backed putsch in Ukraine has relied on neo-Nazi militias to back the hostile takeover in Kiev.

Conveniently absent from any of the American establishment media's ongoing shock and awe carpet bombing of raw propaganda demonizing Putin and lying about the nature of what happened in Ukraine has been any mention at all of the fascists, extreme right-wing nationalists and neo-Nazis that were essential to the ouster of the elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych . That is until Wednesday when the truth that was managing to seep out thanks largely to the internet and alternative media and the Ukranian neo-Nazis were finally acknowledged - in a smear piece by none other than Fox News where it was dismissed as Putin propaganda. It is highly likely that given the revelations on NSA mass surveillance provided by former government contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden that those who converse in such things are being monitored along with supporters of the BDS Movement which the ever more out of touch Israeli despot Bibi Netanyahyu invoked 18 times in his stemwinder at Tuesday's AIPAC 'do you have sufficient loyalty to Israel' litmus test soiree.  The pickup list for when the shit hits the fan will continue to grow as more and more people begin to wise up to the big con that has been played on them by criminals in high places.

Clinton's belated entry into the game comes at a crucial time and is likely a harbinger of her official announcement of the bid for the 2016 Democratic party nomination. She will then roll largely unopposed to the highest office in the land as the Republican party has continued to self-immolate by pandering to the ideological domestic counterparts of Ukraine's Svoboda and Right Sector who with their relentless defense of taking over the powers of the state to enforce a bigoted and insane religious doctrine upon America have rendered them incapable of winning a national election. She is after all the chosen one by the global elite financial syndicate that controls both U.S. political parties but has particularly become entrenched with the Democrats. In an interesting excerpt from Rolling Stone magazine, in a Matt Taibbi piece on the ongoing commodities racketeering by Goldman Sachs and others an old Clinton friend resurfaces. From "The Vampire Squid Strikes Again":

The sudden turning on of this huge faucet of free money seems to have been a factor in an ensuing commodities shopping spree undertaken by all three firms. Morgan Stanley, for instance, claimed to have just $2.5 billion in commodity assets in March 2009. By September 2011, those holdings had nearly quadrupled, to $10.3 billion.

Goldman and Chase – along with Glencore and Trafigura, a pair of giant Swiss-based conglomerates that were offshoots of a firm founded by notorious deceased commodities trader and known market manipulator Marc Rich – all made notably coincidental purchases of metals-warehousing companies in 2010.

The presence of these Marc Rich entities is particularly noteworthy. According to famed Forbes reporter Paul Klebnikov, who was assassinated in 2004 after years of reports on Russian corruption, Rich made a fortune in the early Nineties striking crooked deals with the Soviet bosses who controlled the U.S.S.R.'s supplies of raw materials – in particular commodities like zinc and aluminum. These deals helped create a fledgling class of profiteers among the bosses of the crumbling Soviet empire, a class that would go on years later to help push Russia out of its communist past into its kleptocratic present.

"He'd strike a deal with the local party boss, or the director of a state-owned company," Klebnikov said back in 2001. "He'd say, 'OK, you will sell me the [commodity] at five to 10 percent of the world-market price . . . and in return, I will deposit some of the profit I make by reselling it 10 times higher on the world market, and put the kickback in a Swiss bank account.'"

Rich made these reported deals while in exile from the United States, which he fled in 1983 after the U.S. government charged him with tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering and trading with the enemy after being caught trading with rogue states like Iran, among other things. The state filed enough counts to put him away for life, and he remained a fugitive until January 2001, when a little-known Clinton administration Justice Department official named Eric Holder recommended Rich be pardoned. A report by the House Committee on Government Reform later concluded that Holder had not provided a credible explanation for supporting Rich's pardon and that he must have had "other motivations" that he didn't share with Congress. Among other things, the committee speculated that Holder had designs on the attorney general's office in a potential Al Gore administration.

In any case, in 2010, a decade after the Rich pardon, Holder was attorney general, but under Barack Obama, and two Rich-created firms, along with two banks that have been major donors to the Democratic Party, all made moves to buy up metals warehouses. In near simultaneous fashion, Goldman, Chase, Glencore and Trafigura bought companies that control warehouses all over the world for the LME, or London Metals Exchange. The LME is a privately owned exchange for world metals trading. It's the world's primary hub for determining metals prices and also for trading metals-based futures, options, swaps and other instruments.

Clinton family intimate Marc Rich? With that being Taibbi's last piece for Rolling Stone as he is moving on to First Look Media to work along with real journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, Marcy Wheeler and others who will push the envelope in challenging the rogue American government I can hardly wait for the followup. Mr. Rich along with others looted the former Soviet Union after the collapse and the actions ongoing in Ukraine with the full support of the U.S. government to apply the economic austerity shock doctrine so that the pigs can feast must have his ghost beaming with approval.

Kerry Showboats in Kiev as Putin Shows His Missile to Obama

It is so delightfully ironic that in an epic battle of the comparing of dicks that Putin has now one upped the insecure Obama by allegedly test firing a Topol ICBM missile on Tuesday. Let’s just hope that for the sake of the continuation of human life on Earth that the pathological narcissist U.S. President doesn’t decide to prove that his is bigger.  In the latest developments of what the western state-corporate controlled media is breathlessly hyping as Cold War II or the REAL clash of civilizations the hurricane of bullshit reached category four level with an ominous storm surge. Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry, fresh off of his over the top asininity on the Sunday morning propaganda circuit where he uttered the nonsensical words that "You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext" which he was allowed to slither off of the hook for by the insufferable gravy-train rider Bob Schieffer who never bothered to bring up the word “Iraq” made landfall in Kiev.

Kerry as is his modus operandi make a big show out of launching into extended forays of verbal mish mash, just as he did when ginning up a case for an attack on Syria until his own tongue did him in and gave Putin a chance to sashay in steal away the next Middle East war. He also laid flowers at the Kiev Memorial for those killed during the violent street protests that were hijacked by western backed fascist goons and turned into murderous riots. But what would a visit to an un-elected government installed by chicanery and subversion by an American official be without the obligatory bribe. Kerry delivered to the newly installed fascist/neo-Nazi stocked regime in Ukraine the gift of the promise of over $1 billion dollars in loan guarantees - hey American taxpayers, you have enjoyed the show on TV now you will be paying for it - with Obama, Kerry, Samantha Power and Susan Rice delivering their brand of liberal interventionism at gunpoint get used to it. There is an acronym that the entire doomed non-elite classes of citizens in The Homeland should become familiar with BOHICA = Bend Over Here It Comes Again. Kerry of course made no reference to the right-wing thugs and neo-Nazis who are backing "Yats" and the occupying government but with the subject being taboo and a likely career killer in the domestic media why would he?

So on it goes, the aggrieved Obama is talking more smack accusing Putin of violating international law - my God has this man no shame? - while he presides over one of the most flagrant violators of the law on the planet.  The entire sordid circus has pretty much reincarnated the neocon ghouls who are caterwauling for war with Russia at the top of their lungs from the think tanks, media venues and editorial pages from which they pontificate to send others to their deaths and permanent maiming as though it is some kind of sick fucking game. While they have spent the last two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union - their original object of hatred - backing illegal wars against nearly every country in the vicinity of Israel the new tensions with the Bear have them honing in with a laser focus. The scrum will soon be joined just in time for the 2014 mid-terms by the packs of corrupt charlatans and opportunists in both of our now beyond salvage criminal political parties with all of them trying to one up each other on how best to nuke Russia. There is yet anther excuse to once again avoid any sort of serious discussion of the real issues that plague America such as the economic strip-mining by looter capitalists, government subsidized financial markets, offshoring of jobs (crack cocaine to CEOs) and that hidden inflation that is conveniently omitted from official figures but is seen during every trip to the grocery store with rising prices and shrinking packages.

But as bad as it gets here in the U.S. of A. with the ongoing redistribution of wealth to the fractional upper 1 percent and the ongoing funding of wars without end it is going to be far worse in Ukraine as the pigs will soon be feasting with the devastating austerity package that is about to be imposed. The global finance mafia is going to devour the people of Ukraine once western control has been consolidated. The interim prime minister "Yats", an endearing nickname made famous by the "Fuck the EU" intercepted and leaked phone call of one Victoria Nuland who is an Assistant Secretary of State in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs is a made man with a job to do. Arseniy Yatsenyuk is a former central banker and therefore the top choice to wield the carving knife soon to be taken to those essential services, social programs and pensions that have to be stolen from the people in yet another country that will be assimilated into the Borg collective of the impoverished. He is also the chosen man of American interests to get the job done so that the parasitic elite can revel in their theft of even more money to finance their lavish globe-trotting lifestyles. He has the full backing of the U.S. establishment as well as vicious state-protected goon squads to act as enforcers with those who dare to step out of line including Nazi wannabes - it all sounds so 1980's Latin American but with the coming of Cold War II it is back to the future for The Homeland.

The Ugly American: Obama Throws Tantrum over Ukraine

There was once a time when I thought that the prospects of a Sarah Palin presidency were the blood thirsty old bastard McCain to have kicked the bucket had he beaten Barack Obama in 2008 would be the end of the world as we know it. But in now watching this current reckless administration careening around I have to admit that I was likely wrong. Palin was an abject moron but it is precisely that quality which would have limited the amount of damage that she would do in that she would have been kept a good distance from the nuclear launch codes and relegated to a purely figurehead role while the adults actually ran the show. Hell, if George W. Bush didn’t manage to blow up the planet in eight years we could have muddled through under the brief tenure of the ‘Killa from Wasilla’ until a suitable replacement was put into office. Now I fear that with the actions of the inexperienced, incompetent narcissist Obama who has been locked in an ugly feud with Russia’s Vladimir Putin - that began with the granting of asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and then boiled over with his intervening to stop the Obama-Kerry attack on Syria –it is Obama himself that is the greatest threat to this country that exists today.

Real leaders don’t throw tantrums as Obama is doing with his overreaction to Putin sending his military into Crimea after the western backed coup d’etat in Kiev dislodged the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych in favor of a western puppet. Obama has denounced Putin and dispatched Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry to Ukraine to shore up U.S. support for the illicit government that was put into power after gangs of violent fascist thugs including neo-Nazis turned the streets of Kiev into a fire illuminated bonfire of anarchy. Pissed off over years of obstruction and warfare with a corrupt GOP that is desperate to wrest controls of the corporate spoils system away, humiliated by the unconstitutional rampage of his NSA Stasi that Snowden revealed, saddled with an economy that only can function with the ongoing anal raping of the American taxpayer to funnel  tens of billions of dollars a month into a failed system of Wall Street gambling and surrounded by lackeys and sycophants Barry is going berserk over being once again punked by Putin. 

El Presidente  just cancelled "trade and investment" talks with Russia and his Secretary of State has been threatening to oust Russia from the G8 entirely, the Pentagon has also suspended military ties and they are just getting warmed up. Obama can't be happy this morning after once again being used as a foot-stool by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and like the drunken bully who takes it out by drop-kicking the poor dog or smacking the wife and kids around after a bad day at work is hellbent on doing the same to Putin. The problem though is that when it comes to experience and actual leadership Barry is strictly in the bush leagues when it comes to playing ball against a seasoned veteran. Putin will take the early 'rope a dope' flurry of blows delivered by the petulant head of a rapidly impotent global bully and will ultimately turn the tables therefore inflicting yet more embarrassment and indignity upon The Homeland. He is already upping the ante by rightfully stating that Yanukovych was taken out by an "unconstitutional coup" and referencing that place where the corrupt western media will not go - that the putsch was assisted by fascist hooligans and neo-Nazi thugs: “I agree with Maidan’s demand for cardinal change in power … but there is the danger that a fascist element will come to the fore, and some anti-semite will come to power” - according to The Guardian.

Oh, and he is threatening to cut off gas exports. In a thinly veiled threat against the prospective members of Obama's  'coalition of the willing' to punish Putin with economic sanctions Gazprom made it known that Europe would find itself increasingly dependent on Russian gas in the years to come.  We will soon see just who has the stomach to indulge Obama's latest outbreak of childishness. 

The old warhorse himself Pat Buchanan (whom I don’t always agree with) calls a spade a spade with his latest column on the Obama hissy fit enabled by the neocon embeds within state institutions such as the media. The piece is entitled “Tune Out the War Party!” from which I excerpt:

With Vladimir Putin’s dispatch of Russian troops into Crimea, our war hawks are breathing fire. Russophobia is rampant and the op-ed pages are ablaze here.

Barack Obama should tune them out, and reflect on how Cold War presidents dealt with far graver clashes with Moscow.

When Red Army tank divisions crushed the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956, killing 50,000, Eisenhower did not lift a finger. When Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall, JFK went to Berlin and gave a speech.

When Warsaw Pact troops crushed the Prague Spring in 1968, LBJ did nothing. When, Moscow ordered Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to smash Solidarity, Ronald Reagan refused to put Warsaw in default.

These presidents saw no vital U.S. interest imperiled in these Soviet actions, however brutal. They sensed that time was on our side in the Cold War. And history has proven them right.

-AND-

The Washington Post calls Putin’s move a “naked act of armed aggression in the center of Europe.” The Crimea is in the center of Europe? We are paying a price for our failure to teach geography.

The Post also urges an ultimatum to Putin: Get out of Crimea, or we impose sanctions that could “sink the Russian financial system.”

While we and the EU could cripple Russia’s economy and bring down her banks, is this wise? What if Moscow responds by cutting off credits to Ukraine, calling in Kiev’s debts, refusing to buy her goods and raising the price of oil and gas?

This would leave the EU and us with responsibility for a basket-case nation the size of France and four times as populous as Greece. Are Angela Merkel and the EU ready to take on that load, after bailing out the PIIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain?

If we push Russia out of the tent, to whom do we think Putin will turn, if not China?

This is not a call to ignore what is going on, but to understand it and act in the long-term interests of the United States.

Many things can be said about Buchanan, both good and bad but what cannot be denied is that he has been there before when it comes to geopolitics particularly as a crucial member of the Nixon administration and accompanied Tricky Dick to China back when Obama had barely grown out of wearing diapers.  His advice should be heeded as that of any rational person when it comes to this rapidly escalating and thoroughly unnecessary pissing contest between Obama and Putin.

I don't have much confidence in the adults intervening in time to prevent Barry from soiling himself once again on the world stage.

(Image: patdollard.com)

After Instigating Coup U.S. Needs to Stay the Hell Out of Ukraine

The U.S. warmongers are still drunk off of the magic elixir of their joyous weekend coup d'etat of the democratically elected government of Ukraine and the accompanying delight of sticking it to the hated Vladimir Putin during his international Olympic showcase at Sochi. The bloodlust of vampires like the deranged Senator John McCain and his ilk albeit temporarily slaked by a week of mayhem in the streets of Kiev will be back soon as there will be the imminent demands that the Obama administration engage in backing a rogue occupying force that is ready to engage in some serious pogroms against their hated enemies. While the corrupt media was exulting in such raw propagandizing as the replacement of a statue of Vladimir Lenin with a golden toilet - reminiscent of the military psyops exercise of hauling down the statue of Saddam Hussein during the early days of the Iraq 'Shock and Awe" invasion. There was also a bit of a lurid tale making the rounds about a golden toilet that looked like a throne in the palace of ousted president Viktor Yanukovich but that was exposed early on as a hoax before it ended up on Rachel Maddow and Bill O'Reilly's shows on Monday night cable television's electronic cesspool.

That the at least temporarily in power western backed group that is in the orbit of the sleazy Yulia Tymoshenko, a woman who is the celebrated head of the media cult of personality and who has her own history of corruption relied on vicious goons including neo-Nazis to oust Yanukovich is lost on the cheerleaders masturbating over the latest episode of the "two-minutes hate".  Hell, it was only a few short months ago when President Barack Obama and Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry were ready to scramble the bombers to attack Damascus targets in a war against the regime of Bashar al-Assad that they and the war pigs who run the establishment were throwing in with fiendish Islamist militants affiliated with al Qaeda and a taste for human flesh. Despite the best efforts of the American war machine and the chronic meddling of one Saudi prince who goes by the nickname of "Bandar Bush" we managed to avoid getting dragged into that morass thanks to none other than Putin himself who pounced on a typical  Kerry diarrhea of the mouth moment to ride to the rescue and spare us all another disastrous Middle East war. The reigning war freaks within the Washington 'consensus' of the elite have been itching to feed Putin to the pigs ever since and inciting a civil war on Russia's borders does exactly that - at least in their eyes.

Today, after managing to get through the closing ceremonies at Sochi without going ballistic over blatant meddling in Ukraine by Washington and Europe Putin let it rip correctly denouncing the west for backing "terrorists" and "extremists" to oust a democratically elected leader - he didn't mention the Nazis though but the images from Kiev and the manhunt for the on the run Yanukovich speak for themselves. The U.S. is once again exposed as nothing more than a criminal state which it has been since the end of WW II when the hellspawn that is the CIA was created and one of the first things that Allen Dulles and his fellow treacherous scum did was enter into a pact with Nazi war criminals including General Reinhard Gehlen to form an alliance against the Soviets. This shit is getting old and the Cold War should be in the past and the current flock of red-baiters including McCain and the rest of the Neocons have been so discredited that in a sane country they would have long ago been exiled from any sort of legitimacy. But as with the Arizona legislature and their attempt to turn gays into the new 'niggers' (or Juden) under their white supremacist Jim Crow II jihad against decent civilization it is apparent that we are never going to get past any of this and will remain necklaced by the heinous prejudices of that much hyped but truly mediocre "greatest generation". Sure they are dying out but their policies are resurgent and in continuing to push for the destabilization with Russia they may yet incinerate the rest of us.

The coming weeks will see more saber-rattling, neocon lies on what should be publicly owned media airwaves but have been hijacked by the fascist fifth column and will surely embolden those like McCain to continue to instigate and raise funds for the same type of murdering psychopaths that are typically supported by the empire. Note the Latin American death squads of the hallowed Ronald Reagan. There are however voices of sanity although they will continue to be mocked and marginalized by the venal, ass-kissing careerists in the so-called mainstream media. The libertarian icon Ron Paul has already spoken out against U.S. intervention in a ginned up civil war:

The usual interventionists in the US have long meddled in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In 2004 it was US government money that helped finance the Orange Revolution, as US-funded NGOs favoring one political group over the other were able to change the regime. These same people have not given up on Ukraine. They keep pushing their own agenda for Ukraine behind the scenes, even as they ridicule anyone who claims US involvement.

A recent leaked telephone conversation between two senior government officials made it clear that not only was the US involved in the Ukrainian unrest, the US was actually seeking to determine who should make up the next Ukrainian government!

Senator John McCain, who has made several trips to Ukraine recently to meet with the opposition, wrote last week that the US must stand up to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Crimea.

Why are US government officials so eager to tell the Ukrainians what they should do? Has anyone bothered to ask the Ukrainians? What if might help alleviate the ongoing violence and bloodshed if the Ukrainians decide to remake the country as a looser confederation of regions rather than one tightly controlled by a central government? Perhaps Ukraine engaged in peaceful trade with countries both to the west and east would benefit all sides. But outside powers seem to be fighting a proxy war, with Ukraine suffering the most because of it.

If you asked most Americans how they feel, my bet is that you would discover they are sick and tired of the US government getting involved in every crisis that arises. Certainly the American people want none of of this intervention in Ukraine. They understand, as recent polls have shown, that our interventionist foreign policy is only creating more enemies overseas. And they also understand that we are out of money. We could not afford to be the policemen of world even if we wanted to be.

While widely ridiculed by the presstitutes former Congressman Paul has been nothing if not consistent against the cancer that is the American warfare state. It took a lot of balls to oppose wars and interventionism when Paul did, back in the days when the alternative internet media was  in its infancy and the PNAC dominated Bushreich was embarked on a world domination tour abroad and a relentless attack on civil liberties in The Homeland. Paul rose to the occasion repeatedly, never more so when he took over the stage at the ridiculous Republican presidential 'debate' back in 2007 to assign a reading list to at the time front-runner Rudy "Mr. 9/11" Giuliani. The blowhard former Big Apple mayor never recovered and has become a punchline today.

It is up to those whose bullshit detectors are always on high, fully understand that the domestic media does nothing but distort, obscure and spin that which is true in order to push the big business of war and military expenditures and wrap it all up in the star-spangled Hitlerian 'Big Lie' of spreading "democracy" to take a stand against this latest and very dangerous provocation of Russia. 

You won't find the truth on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, MSNBC, CNN or any of the other propaganda arms of a criminal empire but you will find it here and in the alternative media. There is a reason why the state wants to use their vast unconstitutional spying apparatus,  their rigged courts and their bought and paid for Congress to destroy freedom of speech on the internet and that the legitimacy of their coup in Ukraine has already been already come into question only makes them more intent at doing so.