The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: America's Perilous War for Hegemony - Softcover

Roberts, Dr. Paul Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986076996 ISBN 13: 9780986076992

Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

This stellar collection of Paul Craig Roberts essays dating from February2014 explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition ofvassalage on other countries and Washington’s resurrection of distrustamong nuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan and Gorbachevworked to eliminate.Roberts explains how the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 removedthe only check on Washington's ability to act unilaterally. The UnitedStates’ position as the sole remaining superpower led to the euphoricproclamation of “the end of history” and to Washington’s presumption ofthe victory of “American democratic-capitalism” over all other systems. The neoconservatives became entrenched in successive Americanadministrations, both Republican and Democratic. Their ideology of USglobal hegemony—the doctrine that no other power will be allowed toarise that could constrain US unilateral action—has become afoundational premise of US foreign policy and has led to recklessintervention in Ukraine and an irresponsible assault on Russian nationalinterest.In pursuit of hegemony, Washington has expanded NATO to Russia’sborder, instigated “color revolutions” in former constituent parts of theSoviet Union, announced a “pivot to Asia” to encircle China, orchestrateda coup in Ukraine, demonized Putin, and imposed warlike sanctionsagainst Russia. These reckless and irresponsible actions have broughtback the risk of nuclear war.This succession of events has impelled Roberts—following an illustriouscareer in government, journalism and academia—to perform theclarifying function abandoned by the mainstream media of examining theagendas at work and the risks entailed. His insightful commentary isfollowed all over the world. In February 2015, Roberts was invited toaddress a major International conference in Moscow hosted by Institutesof the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute ofInternational Relations, where he delivered the address which is the titleof this book.In Roberts’ assessment, Washington's drive for hegemony is not onlyunnecessary but unrealistic and filled with peril for Americans and theworld at large. This book is a call to awareness that ignorance andpropaganda are leading the world toward unspeakable disaster.

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About the Author:

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, member of the US Congressional staff, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and columnist for Business Week. He held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown. He was awarded the US Treasury's Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of US economic policy," and France's Legion of Honor. He has testified before Congress on 30 occasions and is author or coauthor of ten books and numerous scholarly articles.

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Excerpt from Address to the 70th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference, Hosted by Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, February 25, 2015:

...A number of thoughtful Americans suspect that the neoconservatives are responsible for 9/11, as that event gave the neoconservatives the "New Pearl Harbor" that their position papers said was necessary in order to launch their wars for hegemony in the Middle East. 9/11 led directly and instantly to the invasion of Afghanistan, where Washington has been fighting since 2001. Neoconservatives controlled all the important government positions necessary for a "false flag" attack.

Neoconservative Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who is married to another neoconservative, Robert Kagan, implemented and oversaw Washington's coup in Ukraine and chose the new government.

The neoconservatives are highly organized and networked, well-financed, supported by the print and TV media, and backed by the US military/security complex and the Israel Lobby. There is no countervailing power to their influence on US foreign power.

The neoconservative doctrine goes beyond the Brzezinski doctrine, which dissented from Detente and provocatively supported dissidents inside the Soviet empire. Despite its provocative character, the Brzezinski doctrine remained a doctrine of Great Power politics and containment. It is not a doctrine of US world hegemony.

While the neoconservatives were preoccupied for a decade with their wars in the Middle East, creating a US Africa Command, organizing color revolutions, exiting disarmament treaties, surrounding Russia with military bases, and "pivoting to Asia" to surround China with new air and naval bases, Vladimir Putin led Russia back to economic and military competence and successfully asserted an independent Russian foreign policy.

When Russian diplomacy blocked Washington's planned invasion of Syria and Washington's planned bombing of Iran, the neoconservatives realized that they had failed the "first objective" of the Wolfowitz Doctrine and had allowed "the re-emergence of a new rival . . . on the territory of the former Soviet Union" with the power to block unilateral action by Washington.

The attack on Russia began.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0986076996
• ISBN 13: 9780986076992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416