{"id":20027,"date":"2014-03-09T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20027"},"modified":"2014-03-09T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:06:48","slug":"obama-comes-out-against-self-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20027","title":{"rendered":"Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination<\/strong>
\nby Paul Craig Roberts – Voltaire Network – 8 March 2014<\/p>\n

The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is \u201cagainst international law\u201d for Crimea to exercise self-determination. [1] Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington\u2019s empire but is not permissible for real people to exercise.<\/p>\n

On March 6 Obama telephoned Putin to tell the Russian President again that only Washington has the right to interfere in Ukraine and to insist against all logic that only the \u201cgovernment\u201d in Kiev installed by the Washington-organized coup is \u201clegitimate\u201d and \u201cdemocratic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, the elected government in Crimea pushed by the people in Crimea to give them a vote on their future is \u201cundemocratic\u201d and \u201cillegitimate,\u201d but a non-elected government in Kiev imposed by Washington is the voice of self-determination and legitimacy.<\/p>\n

Washington is so arrogant that it never occurs to the hubris-infected fools what the world thinks of Washington\u2019s blatant hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Since the Clinton regime, Washington has done nothing but violate international law\u2013Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia.<\/p>\n

Does Russia have an Africa Command? No, but Washington does.<\/p>\n

Is Russia surrounding the US with military bases? No, but Washington has used the NATO organization, whose purpose disappeared 23 years ago, to organize western, eastern, and southern Europe into an empire army with forward bases on Russia\u2019s borders. Washington is determined to extend the boundaries of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization to Georgia in central Asia and to Ukraine on the Black Sea. Both Georgia and Ukraine are former constituent parts of both Russia and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Washington is doing the same thing to China and Iran. Washington is working to establish new air and naval bases in Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, with which to block the flow of oil and other resources into China. Iran is surrounded by some 40 US military bases and has US fleets standing off its coastline.<\/p>\n

In Washington\u2019s propaganda, this rank militarism is presented as \u201cdefending democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Russian government continues to act as though Washington\u2019s thrusts at Russia\u2019s independence and strategic interests can be defused with good sense and good will. But Washington has neither.<\/p>\n

Since the Clinton regime, Washington has been in the hands of a collection of ideologues who are convinced that the US is \u201cthe exceptional indispensable country\u201d with the right to world hegemony. Everything that Washington has done in the 21st century is in pursuit of this goal. ..more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination by Paul Craig Roberts – Voltaire Network – 8 March 2014 The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is \u201cagainst international law\u201d for Crimea to exercise self-determination. [1] Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington\u2019s empire but is not permissible more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[4281],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20028,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions\/20028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}