A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies
The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our "modern" world, which in fact is a throwback to the Dark Ages.
Some member of the United States government released to WikiLeaks the documents that are now controversial. The documents are controversial, because they are official US documents and show all too clearly that the US government is a duplicitous entity whose raison d’etre is to control every other government.
The media, not merely in the US but also throughout the English-speaking world and Europe, has shown its hostility to WikiLeaks. The reason is obvious. WikiLeaks reveals truth, while the media covers up for the US government and its puppet states.
Why would anyone with a lick of sense read the media when they can read original material from WikiLeaks? The average American reporter and editor must be very angry that his/her own cowardice is so clearly exposed by Julian Assange. The American media is a whore, whereas the courageous blood of warriors runs through WikiLeaks’ veins.
Just as American politicians want Bradley Manning executed because he revealed crimes of the US government, they want Julian Assange executed. In the past few days the more notorious of the dumbshits that sit in the US Congress have denounced Assange as a "traitor to America." What total ignorance. Assange is an Australian, not an American citizen. To be a traitor to America, one has to be of the nationality. An Australian cannot be a traitor to America any more than an American can be a traitor to Australia. But don’t expect the morons who represent the lobbyists to know this much.
Mike Huckabee, the redneck baptist preacher who was governor of Arkansas and, to America’s already overwhelming shame, was third runner up to the Republican presidential nomination, has called for Assange’s execution. So here we have a "man of God" calling for the US government to murder an Australian citizen. And Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates their guts.
The material leaked from the US government to WikiLeaks shows that the US government is an extremely disreputable gang of gangsters. The US government was able to get British prime minister Brown to "fix" the official Chilcot Investigation into how former prime minister Tony Blair manipulated and lied the British government into being mercenaries for the US invasion of Iraq. One of the "diplomatic" cables released has UK Defense Ministry official Jon Day promising the United States government that prime minister Brown’s government has "put measures in place to protect your interests."
Other cables show the US government threatening Spanish prime minister Zapatero, ordering him to stop his criticisms of the Iraq war or else. I mean, really, how dare these foreign governments to think that they are sovereign.
Not only foreign governments are under the US thumb. So is Amazon.com. Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, who is Israel’s most influential senator in the US Senate, delivered sufficiently credible threats to Amazon to cause the company to oust WikiLeaks content from their hosting service.
So there you have it. On the one hand the US government and the prostitute American media declare that there is nothing new in the hundreds of thousands of documents, yet on the other hand both pull out all stops to shut down WikiLeaks and its founder. Obviously, despite the US government’s denials, the documents are extremely damaging. The documents show that the US government is not what it pretends to be.
Assange is in hiding. He fears CIA assassination, and to add to his troubles the government of Sweden has changed its mind, perhaps as a result of American persuasion and money, about sex charges that the Swedish government had previously dismissed for lack of credibility. If reports are correct, two women, who possibly could be CIA assets, have brought sex charges against Assange. One claims that she was having consensual sexual intercourse with him, but that he didn’t stop when she asked him to when the condom broke.
Think about this for a minute. Other than male porn stars who are bored with it all, how many men can stop at the point of orgasm or when approaching orgasm? How does anyone know where Assange was in the process of the sex act?
Would a real government that had any integrity and commitment to truth try to blacken the name of the prime truth teller of our time on the basis of such flimsy charges? Obviously, Sweden has become another two-bit punk puppet government of the US.
The US government has got away with telling lies for so long that it no longer hesitates to lie in the most blatant way. WikiLeaks released a US classified document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that explicitly orders US diplomats to spy on UN Security Council officials and on the Secretary General of the United Nations. The cable is now in the public record. No one challenges its authenticity. Yet, today the Obama regime, precisely White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, declared that Hillary had never ordered or even asked US officials to spy on UN officials.
As Antiwar.com asked: Who do you believe, the printed word with Hillary’s signature or the White House?
Anyone who believes the US government about anything is the epitome of gullibility.
Read more by Paul Craig Roberts
- The Shame of Being an American – February 16th, 2011
- Kleptocrats at Work – February 6th, 2011
- Things Have to Change in Order to Remain the Same – January 31st, 2011
- Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values – December 5th, 2010
- Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World? – November 30th, 2010





liberranter
December 1st, 2010 at 10:55 pm
I really love how Dr. Roberts has "taken the gloves off" in his descriptions of the USFA's imperial cabal. The "old" PCR of the pre-Bush era would never have dreamed of using words like "dumbshit", "blowjob," and "orgasm" in a serious editorial targeted toward a serious readership. However, the gang of amoral criminals that is the USG simply cannot adequately be described in "polite" terms. I strongly suspect that, as this criminal regime continues down its reckless path toward tyranny and ultimate self-destruction, Dr. Roberts' editorials will acquire an NC-17 rating.
Keep on hitting them below the belt, Dr. Roberts; their days are numbered!
JLS
December 1st, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Seriously, Dr. Roberts explains things so clearly it's amazing!
tommauel
December 1st, 2010 at 11:43 pm
This is the best article I have read in months at this site or at any site. It's a call to revolution against the stupidity of the capitalist imperial state.
Maidhc Ó Cathail
December 2nd, 2010 at 1:18 am
And who advised Blair to lie and manipulate the British government into war?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-LS5t31Xdo
Ozymandias
December 2nd, 2010 at 2:25 am
Thanks again Paul for simple clarity
mickperry
December 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 am
The Wikileaks revelations appear to have the potential to lift the stone on every nation state; not just the US. How the citizens of each country respond after seeing what crawls around underneath is another matter. Many people in Pakistan for example will not have failed to note that General Ashfaq Kayani sat down with US Ambassador Anne Patterson in March 2009 and discussed removing President Asif Ali Zardari from office. They may hate him, but many Pakistanis would insist that it is no longer acceptable for their country to be run as a military dictatorship either. I for one am looking forward to reading Tariq Ali's reporting of how these revelations are impacting on the pro democracy forces at work in that country over the coming months. The situation regarding Aafia Siddiqui also shows how easily the interpretation of these cables can be twisted to subvert the truth. Consider this, from Wednesday's Guardian: “…(Dr Siddiqui).. was never imprisoned at the Bagram military prison in Afghanistan, the embassy cables suggest. 'Bagram officials have assured us that they have not been holding Siddiqui for the last four years, as has been alleged'.”
'Never imprisoned' there despite independent eye witness testimony to the contrary? So they were only holding her for three years? For two?
I'm not so sure that all of the mushroom media hate Wikileaks either. I would presume that here in Britain for example, the Guardian is having to print extra copies just to keep up with the current demand. Whether the interest is sustainable is another question: someone pointed out the other day that at the current rate of 'drip feed', we are going to be reading these revelations for the next seven years.
Shootist66
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:27 am
Regarding the two women who brought charges against Assange: "One claims that she was having consensual sexual intercourse with him, but that he didn’t stop when she asked him to when the condom broke."
How would she even know the rubber broke? And if she 'determined' this following the initial act it was too late to do anything about it, anyway. What a load of trumped up bullshit!
emsnews
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:16 am
http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-great…
In this posting, I tease apart the meeting between our own Council of Foreign Relations ambassador in Bishket and Zhang, ambassador of China. At this meeting about who is bribing whom to keep the US base there, Zhang pointedly tells the US that 'This is all about money' and he suggests the US drop the pretense of giving 'aid' for various things and just call this money an open bribe and thus, get it over with.
For much of our 'foreign aid' is mere bribes to get countries to do things that please Zionists and plutocrats who use the US as their base of operations or rather, the dumb muscle for their international games.
The cables are FULL of this stuff! Just tons of it! I take out any at random and they are filled with stories about ambassadors struggling to bribe or control foreign governments so they will do stupid things that don't even benefit the US public AT ALL but rather, does things for international players using the American public as chumps.
Thank you, Roberts, for saying the right things about this! And the sex charges against Assange are hilarious considering no one has arrested the Pope or for that matter, the head of Italy.
Maidhc Ó Cathail
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:49 am
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: The real issue is, who is feeding WikiLeaks on this issue? They're getting a lot of information which seems trivial, inconsequential, but some of it seems surprisingly pointed.
And I wonder whether, in fact, there aren't some operations internationally, intelligence services, that are feeding stuff to WikiLeaks…
…it may be getting stuff at the same time from interested intelligence parties who want to manipulate the process and achieve certain very specific objectives.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_program…
liveload
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:44 am
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
– Dr. Joseph Goebbels
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
– Hermann Goering
Anyone else seeing a pattern here? Anyone? Anyone? … Bueller?
JLS
December 2nd, 2010 at 7:53 am
"I'm not so sure that all of the mushroom media hate Wikileaks either. I would presume that here in Britain for example, the Guardian is having to print extra copies just to keep up with the current demand. "
I'm so glad to hear that! That's awesome. I hope Europe wakes up and gets its collective nose out of Washington's bum.
liveload
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:27 am
"Mushroom Media"
I love it…feed 'em shit and keep 'em in the dark.
bogi666
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:33 am
This is what the world needs to know and Roberts articulates it so well,even the mindlessness American population could understand, if they could read. The USG is befuddled, striking out like the multiple headed hydra it is and not making any sense because the only sense the USG HAS IS NONSENSE. Accusing Wikileaks of criminal conduct for reporting the CRIMINAL conduct of the USG. USG officials denying, lying, evidence that is in print with their signatures, HillBillary, telling her employees to commit crimes, identity theft, and having her spokesperson to deny actual existence. Other USG politicians accusing Assange of being a traitor to the USA when he's not even a citizen. This speaks of empire when the rest of the world is subject to laws of the USG.
Vic Safranek
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:48 am
Mr. Roberts has definitely developed a hard edge, I imagine through frustration and anger. I have to say, "right on!". He was previously much more circumspect in the use of language, which has gotten us nowhere. Thank you, Mr. Roberts, for being a credible public figure and taking such an opposing position to all the pontificating d***heads. The phrase "Truth to power" is not much used anymore, but it ought to be.
Vic Safranek
p.s. Don't hesitate to do a piece on the WikiLeaks leak about the Saudi's financial support of Al Qaeda, who has torn apart our country. Lots of good material in there.
Darrin Wright
December 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 am
Who is feeding Wikileaks? Look at the content of these "leaks". This is Mossad and the State of Israel turning the screws. Brzezinksi knows this, so do many others. Israel is not, and never has been, an "ally" of the United States; their deeds prove this over and over again. This is game theory, to isolate the US from the world while demonizing Israel's perceived enemies. Clever, but transparent.
jojo
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:31 am
Subject on habitual Liers: it's a serious medical debilitating problem called USrael Complex
Term limits needed 2×4–cleans out Israel firsters
Cynthia
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 am
Wikileaks going after the Goldmans of the World (see link below) pretty much shoots down the theory held by some antiwar activists that Julian Assange is a Mossad agent, who has sold out to the Zionist Power Structure. I might believe this theory if he were to move into a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hamptons and spend his weekends playing golf with Lloyd Blankfein and other sleazy vampire squids. But until this happens, I'll continue to believe that Julain Assange is more of a foe than a friend to the Zionist state of Israel!
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/…
And I have no doubt that Julian Assange knows that he'd be a dead man by now if he were to tread too heavily on Israel. Self preservation, in my view, is what's keep him from exposing too much bloody dirt on Israel.
Not to sound like I'm hell bent on revenge, but any man who enjoys crushing bastards, as Julian Assange says he does, is a man after my own heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxmUrtw53nE
Cynthia
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:04 am
Let me add that all work being done by anyone who is being paid directly or indirectly by the government — whether they were elected or appointed to do their job — must be subjected to full disclosure — no ifs, ands, or buts about it. And anyone who wants to do their job behind closed doors in secrecy should quit doing work for the government and take a job in the private sector! Once this is understood, then it’ll be understood that WikiLeaks is working on behalf of the taxpayers to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in government. And if the mainstream media outlets were doing what they’re supposed to do, which is to expose shady activities taking place in all levels of government, there would be no need for an outfit like WikiLeaks to exist.
If what I’m saying here makes me a radical anarchist, as some have accused me of being, then I’m very proud to be one. But once my accusers have realized that our country has fully collapsed into a fascist corporate state, then they’ll wish there were more radical anarchists like myself speaking out against this incestuous relationship between big government and big business, thriving in the dark while screwing us taxpayers over!
Merry Xmas From WikiLeaks:
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/merry_x-mas_…
Don
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:19 am
I know that this is a very sensitive subject, but it's important to get facts straight. As dumb as Mr Huckabee is, he has not suggested that Mr Assange be executed as a traitor as Dr Roberts suggests (but contradicts himself in his link to Jason Ditz's piece: http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/30/mike-huckabee-…
Mr Huckabee asks for execution of Mr Manning.
The creeps in Congress call for branding Mr Assange a terrorist, which appellation, before long, will apply to those convicted of speeding.
Carry on, Dr Roberts…but get your story straight…please.
wadosy
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:12 pm
speaking of crushing bastards, i wonder if julian is gonna post any cables about rachel corrie…
seedmother
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Excellent, hard hitting article Dr. Roberts. It certainly seems that all is lost. And yet, I meet Americans everyday with high levels of individual integrity who would never condone any of this. Some are scared to death and will let $13. hr. employees in uniforms put their hands down their children's pants, some become cynical (like me) but many just don't get what has been lost. Perhaps we never had any freedoms… just illusions.
wadosy
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
…but bibi is a believer in wikileaks, according to julian.
wadosy
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:00 pm
this setup is starting to smell fishier and fishier.
and will probably smell even fishier yet unless julian starts coughing up some cables about israeli atrocities.