{"article":{"id":267286,"heading":"Obama's New National Security Strategy: Ugly Business As Usual","author":"Stephen Lendman","created":"2015-02-07 17:41:01","modified":"2015-02-07 17:41:01","last_modified":"Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:41:01","article":"<p>Obama's New National Security Strategy: Ugly Business As Usual <br><br> by Stephen Lendman <br><br> Periodic National Security Strategy (NSS) documents reveal Washington's dark side. Updated versions reflect old wine in new bottles. <br><br> Including permanent wars on humanity. Against one invented enemy after another. Waging what the late Gore Vidal called \"perpetual war for perpetual peace.\"  <br><br> Making the world safe for monied interests. At the expense of popular ones. At the cost of millions of lives and appalling human misery. <br><br> Endless US direct and proxy wars rage against multiple countries. New conflicts await to be launched. <br><br> The business of America is war. Destroying humanity one country at a time or in multiples. Wealth, power and dominance alone matter. <br><br> Democratic values are pure fiction. America never was beautiful. For sure not now run by bipartisan gangsters making policy. <br><br> Neocon lunatics threaten total war. Potential life-ending global conflict. America's addiction is humanity's curse.  <br><br> Super-weapons used like king-sized hand grenades make the unthinkable possible. <br><br> On February 6, the White House published a so-called \"fact sheet\" on Obama's 2015 National Security Strategy.  <br><br> A document reflecting business as usual. Prioritizing war. Deploring peace. Time magazine called it \"new lyrics to a familiar tune.\" <br><br> Neocon National Security Advisor Susan Rice defended Obama's NSS at Brookings. One analyst calls her the \"queen of interventionist hawks.\" Another says she's a \"consummate ally of grubby despots.\" <br><br> Banality of pure evil best describes her. She deplores peace, nonviolence, diplomacy and social justice. She's typifies neocon influence infesting Washington. <br><br> America \"proudly shoulder(s) the responsibility of global leadership,\" she said. \"(T)he question is not whether America leads in the world, but how.\" <br><br> Her talk featured Russia bashing. Called its nonexistent \"aggression\" in Ukraine \"a heinous and deadly affront to longstanding international law and norms.\" <br><br> Putin scrupulously respects them. No nation in world history violates them more egregiously than America on a global scale. <br><br> Rice lied about Obama undecided on whether to supply Kiev with \"lethal defensive equipment.\"  <br><br> Equipment means weapons. Defensive means for offense. Throughout months of conflict, Washington provided Kiev with heavy weapons.  <br><br> Greater amounts are coming. Rice didn't explain. Big Lies substituted for hard facts. <br><br> Obama's new NSS is a declaration of permanent wars. A fact sheet says \"(w)e will lead with purpose.\" Code language for demanding all nations follow Washington rules - or else. <br><br> \"We will lead with strength.\" Meaning obey US policy or be bombed back to the stone age. <br><br> \"We will lead by example.\" Some example: permanent wars, spurning democracy, instituting tyranny, risking humanity's survival. <br><br> \"We will lead with capable partners.\" Meaning support America's agenda or face its wrath. <br><br> \"We will lead with all instruments of US power.\" The closest the White House comes to saying might makes right. <br><br> \"We will lead with a long-term perspective.\" Longterm or short, America's agenda is the same - unchallenged global dominance, no independent nations allowed, democracy strictly forbidden. <br><br> \"We will advance the security of the United States, its citizens, and US alliedsand partners by:\" <br><br> \"Maintaining&hellip;the best trained, equipped and led (military) force in the world&hellip;\" In other words, prioritizing militarism and war-making over peace, stability an security. <br><br> \"Working with Congress\" to assure increasing billions spent advancing America's imperium. <br><br> \"Reinforcing our homeland security\" by terrorizing nonbelievers into submission. Filling America's gulag with challengers to Washington's drive for global hegemony. <br><br> \"Transitioning to a sustainable global security posture\" through a policy of worldwide state terror. <br><br> \"Striving for a world without nuclear weapons\" by developing and producing more destructive ones. <br><br> Developing a global capacity to\" deal with all types of threats by proliferating them. <br><br> \"Confronting the urgent crisis of climate change\" by ignoring it altogether. <br><br> \"We will advance a strong, innovative, and growing US economy\" at the expense of others worldwide. By exploiting them. Stealing their resources. Turning their workers into serfs. <br><br> Eliminating good jobs at home. Replacing them with rotten ones. Turning America into a dystopian wasteland for ordinary people.  <br><br> Its middle class targeted for elimination altogether. Its working class forced to accept poverty-level jobs or starve. America's social contract on the chopping block for elimination. <br><br> US resources increasingly going for militarism, war-making and corporate handouts. <br><br> \"We will advance respect for universal values at home and around the world by\" saying one thing, doing another. <br><br> Pretending to \"promot(e) and defend democracy, human rights, and &nbsp;equality\" while practicing polar opposite policies. <br><br> So-called \"US leadership\" threatens everyone. Waging permanent wars. Deploring peace.  <br><br> Eliminating one sovereign independent government after another en route to colonizing planet earth entirely. <br><br> No nation threatens humanity's survival more than America. None have a more appalling human rights record. <br><br> None are more duplicitous. None more addicted to global wars for power and profits.  <br><br> None more willing to slaughter millions pursuing its aims. None more reflecting pure evil. Wrapped in the American flag. <br><br> Hugely destructive policies called beneficial ones. Supportive media scoundrels in lockstep with what demands condemnation. <br><br> Previous articles said try finding a single MSM report explaining &nbsp;Kiev's US-installed coup d'etat regime run by neo-Nazi thugs. <br><br> Try finding anything about lunatics making policy in Washington. Or any MSM profile in courage denouncing US imperial rampaging.  <br><br> Raping one country after another. Making America unfit to live in. Try finding hard truths on issues mattering most anywhere in MSM print or television reports.  <br><br> Managed news misinformation, distortions and Big Lies substitute. Presstitutes masquerade as journalists.  <br><br> Disgracing their profession. Making street whores look good by comparison. Washington Post editors are typical.  <br><br> Part of the irresponsible Putin-bashing chorus. On February 6, headlining \"Ukraine needs strong Western support to fend off (nonexistent) Russian aggression.\" <br><br> Duplicitous WaPo and likeminded rhetoric claim:  <br><br> \t&bull;\tnonexistent Russian aggression;  <br><br> \t&bull;\tillegitimate Kiev neo-Nazi rule called democratic;  <br><br> \t&bull;\toffensive heavy weapons called defensive ones; <br><br> \t&bull;\tWashington's rage for war seeks peace; <br><br> \t&bull;\tDonbas freedom fighters' responsibility for Kiev aggression; and <br><br> \t&bull;\tillegal ineffective sanctions work so pile on more. <br><br> WaPo editors suggest Poroshenko \"agree(ing) on a settlement (denies) him the means to resist an invasion (and) gives him few alternatives other than to capitulate to the Kremlin.\" <br><br> \"There's nothing wrong in talking with Mr. Putin, provided that the West's message is clear.\"  <br><br> \"Russia should be required to withdraw all its forces and equipment from Ukraine, reestablish the border under international monitoring and cease its support for a separatist statelet - or face a significant escalation of economic sanctions and a Ukrainian army with better weapons.\" <br><br> WaPo editors ignore Washington's installed illegitimate coup d'etat regime run by neo-Nazi thugs. <br><br> Waging naked aggression on their own citizens. Murdering them in cold blood. <br><br> Putin, Sergey Lavrov and other Russian officials going all-out for peaceful conflict resolution. <br><br> Washington committed to full-scale war. Using Kiev's military as proxy foot soldiers. Arming, funding, training and directing them. <br><br> Irresponsibly blaming Russia and rebels for made-in-the-USA planned and implemented high crimes. <br><br> Don't expect WaPo editors to explain. Or other MSM prestitutes. Consistently proliferating Big Lies. Burying hard truths everyone needs to know. <br><br> MSM scoundrels one-sidedly serve wealth, power and privilege at the expense of truth and full disclosure. <br><br> Avoid them altogether. Chose reliable sources to stay informed. More important now than ever. <br><br> At a time Washington recklessly risks starting WW III. Stopping this monster matters most. A simple choice. That or perish. <br><br> Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.  <br><br> His new book as editor and contributor is titled \"Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\" <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a> <br><br> Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.  <br><br> Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. <br><br> It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/p>\n","contact":"lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net","link":"sjlendman.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Obama","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/02\/267286.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}