Cold War Politics Redux
Washington needs enemies.
by Stephen Lendman
Following Soviet Russia's dissolution, everything changed but stayed the same. US aims remained hard-wired. Today it's back to the future.
Cold War politics were reinvented. Russia's again the Evil Empire. Today's stakes are much greater. World peace is threatened.
Preemptive aggression is official US policy. America's duopoly power wages permanent wars. Israeli Lobby and Christian Right extremists support them. The fuse is lit for trouble.
Beating up on Russia is relentless. Putin is fast emerging as public enemy number one. Intense propaganda vilifies him. His opposition to America's imperial agenda draws rebukes.
At Mexico's G20 summit, he reiterated his position against foreign intervention to oust Assad. Syrian sovereignty is inviolable. Its people alone should decide who'll lead them.
The same holds for all countries. International law prohibits nations from interfering in the internal affairs of other states, except in self-defense if attacked.
Syria threatens no one. Crisis conditions there should be resolved constitutionally .
"No one is entitled to decide for other nations who will be brought to power and who will be removed," Putin stressed."A change of power, if it occurs -- and it could only occur by constitutional means - should result in peace and stop the bloodshed."
"In order to achieve that goal, we need to work well, to make all parties to the armed conflict stop the bloodshed, sit down to the negotiating table and agree on how they will jointly live in a common country and how the interests and security of people involved in the conflict will be ensured."
"This should be done beforehand, and not like in some North African countries, where bloodsheds continue despite regime changes."
Rebukes follow these type comments. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN envoy Susan Rice repeat spurious accusations. Media scoundrels regurgitate them. No holds barred propaganda war is waged. Truth and full disclosure don't have a chance.
