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Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts over foreign activities of which Washington or American interest groups disapprove. Perhaps the worst results of Washington’s disregard for the sovereignty of countries is the power Washington has exercised over foreign nationals solely on the basis of terrorism charges devoid of any evidence.
Consider a few examples. Washington first forced the Swiss government to violate its own banking laws. Then Washington forced Switzerland to repeal its bank secrecy laws. Allegedly, Switzerland is a democracy, but the country’s laws are determined in Washington by people not elected by the Swiss to represent them.
Consider the “soccer scandal” that Washington concocted, apparently for the purpose of embarrassing Russia. The soccer organization’s home is Switzerland, but this did not stop Washington from sending FBI agents into Switzerland to arrest Swiss citizens. Try to imagine Switzerland sending Swiss federal agents into the US to arrest Americans.
Consider the $9 billion fine that Washington imposed on a French bank for failure to fully comply with Washington’s sanctions against Iran. This assertion of Washington’s control over a foreign financial institution is even more audaciously illegal in view of the fact that the sanctions Washington imposed on Iran and requires other sovereign countries to obey are themselves strictly illegal. Indeed, in this case we have a case of triple illegality as the sanctions were imposed on the basis of concocted and fabricated charges that were lies.
Or consider that Washington asserted its authority over the contract between a French shipbuilder and the Russian government and forced the French company to violate a contract at the expense of billions of dollars to the French company and a large number of jobs to the French economy. This was a part of Washington teaching the Russians a lesson for not following Washington’s orders in Crimea.
Try to imagine a world in which every country asserted the extra-territoriality of its law. The planet would be in permanent chaos with world GDP expended in legal and military battles.
Neoconned Washington claims that as History chose America to exercise its hegemony over the world, no other law is relevant. Only Washington’s will counts. Law itself is not even needed as Washington often substitutes orders for laws as when Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State (an unelected position) told the President of Pakistan to do as he is told or “we will bomb you into the stone age.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5369198.stm
Try to image the Presidents of Russia or China giving such an order to a soverign nation.
In fact, Washington did bomb large areas of Pakistan, murdering thousands of women, children, and village elders. Washington’s justification was the assertion of the extra-territoriality of US military actions in other countries with which Washington is not at war.
As horrendous as all of this is, the worst of Washington’s crimes against other peoples is when Washington kidnaps citizens of other countries and renditions them to Guantanamo in Cuba or to secret dungeons in criminal states such as Egypt and Poland to be held and tortured in violation both of US law and international law. These egregious crimes prove beyond any doubt that the US government is the worst criminal enterprise that has ever existed on Earth.
When the criminal neoconservative George W. Bush regime launched its illegal invasion of Afghanistan, the criminal regime in Washington desperately needed “terrorists” in order to provide a justification for an illegal invasion that constitutes a war crime under international law. However, there were not any terrorists. So Washington dropped leaflets over warlord territories offering thousands in dollars in bounty money for “terrorists.” The warlords responded to the opportunity and captured every unprotected person and sold them to the Americans for the bounty.
The only evidence that the “terrorists” were terrorists is that the innocent people were sold to the Americans by warlords as “terrorists.”
Yesterday Fayez Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari was released after 14 years of torture by “freedom and democracy America.” The United States military officer, Col. Barry Wingard, who represented Al-Kandari said that “there simply is no evidence other than he is a Muslim in Afghanistan at the wrong time, other than double and triple hearsay statements, something I have never seen as justification for incarceration.” Much less, said Col. Wingard, was there cause for a litany of multi-year torture in an effort to force a confession to the alleged offenses.
Do not expect the Western prostitute media to report these facts to you. To find out, you must go to RT https://www.rt.com/usa/328329-kuwaiti-detainee-guantanamo-transfer/ or to Stephen Lendman http://sjlendman.blogspot.com or here to this site.
The presstitute Western media are part of Washington’s criminal operation.
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PCR, I think Stalin’s regime was a wee bit worse. Good Lord.
And notice that the full scale invasion of Europe and the USA by the 3rd world doesn’t bother PCR one bit.
Dr. Roberts, Washington’s all those claims are based on some Hollywood script written by some Zionist scriptwriter. These laws only apply to America’s 1% elites.
Even Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state and a war criminal, admitted in the past that “America has no friends, it has only self interests.”
Dr. Noam Chomsky has claimed that “America is world’s greatest terrorist state.”
America has been waging open and covert wars against the Islamic Republic for the last 36 year for some of the phony excuses, which Washington have defended when committed by state of Israel.
It’s interesting to note that European Parliament president Martin Schultz and several other European governments leaders have said that Iran is the only country which can help the US to bring peace in the Middle East.
http://rehmat1.com/2015/11/09/eps-jew-prez-praises-irans-role-in-regions-stability/
You little liar, you…
The exact words (“there simply is no evidence other than he is a Muslim in Afghanistan at the wrong time, …”) you quote seem to have originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2009.
& the Washington Post back then had a complete article written by Col. Barry Wingard about this case.
You should check at least Wikipedia before you write your jokes…
The US gubmint has been unabashedly criminal since Bush was “elected”. Once that ground was broken — that openly and flagrantly criminal actions by the US government would be stamped “Legal” and “Patriotic” — the succeeding administrations simply followed course.
Completely criminal. Corrupt through and through. A modern facile fascism.
PCR’s articles are kind of thrilling, although I wouldn’t go any further than that in my assessment of them. The comments area is kind of interesting, with a fixed pattern that goes a bit like this: (1) a critique of his failure to condemn immigration policy laxity; (2) a not so subtle spin on his words that emphasizes the role of Israel on all the troubles he mentions; (3) one or more comments pointing out some alleged factual errors in his article.
Hope he keeps on writing and Unz keeps on publishing him. Speaking as a third world citizen, whatever errors he commits, I find his point of view is valuable.
I would think 3rd worlders love PCR. He wants every White country opened up to mass non-White immigration and he blames EVERYTHING on Evil White Men.
I haven’t got PCR as figured out as you seem to have. I don’t think unrestricted immigration is a good thing, although in that respect I am in the minority both in Brazil (where I live) and at large. As for Evil White Men PCR blames, I guess you mean Obama.
Your title is TRUE — that is why Hillary and associates are so popular.
PCR isn’t a “little liar”; he, like so many writers today, seems to be suffering from a mild case of ADD and is apparently too distracted and rushed to check his sources carefully.
In this article, his ADD is evidenced by the fact that he switches from “prostitute media” to “presstitute…media” (his favorite overworked pun) in the space of a few lines without even noticing.
I don’t think the US, with all its current faults, is worse than Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, or Duvalier’s Haiti. I believe that PCR, in his heart of hearts, doesn’t think so either. His hyperbole comes from the deep pain of being a disillusioned lover: once a True Believer in America the Good, the shock of finally seeing the Picture of Uncle Sam Gray has apparently sent the poor chap off the deep end.
I hope he is not suffering from pre-Alzheimer’s disease as well as ADD. The fact that he poses on his website before a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father of American Central Banking, really makes one wonder.
Paul Craig Roberts has lost his mind. Did he ever have one is the question.
PCR is just handing out his opinions. If you have specific disagreement, particularly fact-based disagreement, you should spit it out like a man, and not like a kvetching little sabra.
Roberts qualifications and experience dwarf yours, perhaps even suggesting a “micro-dwarf” scale to put your qualifications and experience in true perspective.
” . . . Once that ground was broken–that open and flagrantly criminal actions by the US government would be stamped ‘Legal’ and ‘Patriotic’–the succeeding administrations simply followed course. . . .”
The U.S. Government is too far gone to be “reformed.” Of course, there are a couple of correctives–
My reply to Smith:
“The U.S. Government is too far gone to be “reformed.” Of course, there are a couple of correctives–secession, or an ICBM on Washington, District of Corruption. . . .”
I have no reason to believe reform is possible. The US government is wholly corrupt; virtually every element of its operation is a perversion of both principle and function.
Collapse of so large an organization doesn’t take place all at once. There are distributed nodes of operation in fortified locations across the continent. The vestiges of the US government will be ravaging the survivors for years to come, just as elements of Roman rule remained semi-functional for centuries. Even revolution, assuming such revolution is not itself some fascist spin-off, can only succeed in small areas. A rebellion that recoups the entire geographic extent of the former USA is not possible.
I generally agree with you but part of the civil breakdown that PCR is frequently hysterical (and always hypocritical) about is realizing that everyone’s “qualifications” are crap.
PCR rants. He constantly lists dubious facts among his very few supporting points. (E.g., his unknowing thoughts about the last coup in Honduras.) He splatters crap constantly on not just the government of the US but its people.
Trump lifts people up by implying, “You want to make America great again. That’s why you won’t dishonor yourself.”
Well, yeah. PCR doth on occasion choose the “Rant” option. So do I. So do a lot of esteemed Commenters Emeritus around and about the Internet. When PCR speaks of finance and economics, the core is usually as solid as any propounded by Those Who Call Themselves Mainstream. With politics, not so much. But then, what part of “politics” is not, in large part, “rant”?
While I do like Trump best, with Paul a close second, I am not so sure that Trump will actually accomplish anything of significance. It’s difficult to change a government that is so thoroughly corrupt, so morally destitute. Good intentions are always nice, however.
Consider that the USA has serious infrastructure problems. A corrupt government and its array of succubi contractors can make just as much money through rebuilding infrastructure as it can by waging the Forever War. But, the budget (spending bill, I should say) divides between war and welfare. Thus, there is another motif at work that twists simple greed into alternate paths.
When the debt reaches $20T (soon), debt payments will subsume the bulk of the budget. Things should start going seriously downhill ’round about then. Late 2017, looks like.
So because some people got “renditioned” to Poland or wherever and were subject to enhanced interrogation, the US is the worst criminal enterprise in the history of mankind. I think my 5 year old niece has a better grasp of history than PCR. And no, I’m not interested in providing a long, boring rebuttal to a nutjob. Would I debate a 9/11 truther?
“I don’t think the US, with all its current faults, is worse than Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, or Duvalier’s Haiti.”
Faint praise.
I agree with PCR, as usual. To the people who keep throwing out Stalin or Haiti as worse, they seem to forget America’s history of genocide, slavery and Jim Crow. They are besotted with their own righteousness. Their own sins seem much less evil that other people’s. That is pretty much the definition of hypocrisy.
Another distinction is that America’s corruptions is ongoing, seemingly in perpetuity. Julian Assange is still locked away in London. Snowden is still banished to Siberia. And Bradley Manning is still in Leavenworth. And of course there has been no resolution of outstanding corruption problems like GITMO, black site prisons, 911 Truth etc.
Do you have something against plain English? It’s not “enhanced interrogation”–it’s TORTURE. And Guantanamo isn’t a health spa.
If only it was a health spa. Shaker Aamer looked rather chubby upon his release after 13 years. A few weeks in the sweatbox would have done the fat Limey a world of good.
I guess Paul Craig Roberts will next tell us the rapes in Cologne are really “false flag” operations, complete with crisis actors.
All of it planned by Evil White Men!
PCR must have insulted Unz’s sister 40 years ago and Unz never got over it. Publishing this drivel is Unz’s revenge.
As one who objects to US law’s extra-territorial reach in many cases and is strongly critical of those allowing extradition of their countrymen to the US I could see some merit in this rant but for one glaring fault. PCR simply doesn’t bother to make clear, even to himself it seems, the difference between what is illegal and what is merely immoral or in some way bad.
This is what the wiki gave me in response to a search on “Paul Craig Roberts resume”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts#Honors_and_recognition
I have been reading PCR for some time and I think you got this right. And it’s time for PCR to retire. But he is not wrong when he asserts that Imperial Washington is a criminal enterprise.