{"id":16618,"date":"2016-01-18T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2016-01-18T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:32:30","slug":"the-21st-century-an-era-of-fraud-paul-craig-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16618","title":{"rendered":"The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud \u2014 Paul Craig Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/01\/18\/the-21st-century-an-era-of-fraud-paul-craig-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud \u2014 Paul Craig Roberts<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"single_page_entry_meta\">In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way.\u00a0 On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to advance an undeclared agenda.\u00a0 In the 21st century this fraud multiplied many times. Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Libya were destroyed, and Iran and Syria would also have been destroyed if the President of Russia had not prevented it.\u00a0 Washington is also behind the current destruction of Yemen, and Washington has enabled and financed the Israeli destruction of Palestine.\u00a0 Additionally, Washington operated militarily within Pakistan without declaring war, murdering many women, children, and village elders under the guise of \u201ccombating terrorism.\u201d\u00a0 Washington\u2019s war crimes rival those of any country in history.<\/div>\n<p>I have documented these crimes in my columns and books (Clarity Press).<br \/>\nAnyone who still believes in the purity of Washington\u2019s foreign policy is a lost soul.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and China now have a strategic alliance that is too strong for Washington. Russia and China will prevent Washington from further encroachments on their security and national interests. Those countries important to Russia and China will be protected by the alliance.\u00a0 As the world wakes up and sees the evil that the West represents, more counries will seek the protection of Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>America is also failing on the economic front.\u00a0 My columns and my book,\u00a0<em>The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism<\/em>, which has been published in English, Chinese, Korean, Czech, and German, have shown how Washington has stood aside, indeed cheering it on, while the short-term profit interests of management, shareholders, and Wall Street eviscerated the American economy, sending manufacturing jobs, business know-how, and technology, along with professional tradeable skill jobs, to China, India, and other countries, leaving America with such a hollowed out economy that the median family income has been falling for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud \u2014 Paul Craig Roberts In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way.\u00a0 On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to advance an undeclared agenda.\u00a0 In the 21st century this fraud multiplied many times. Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[130,950,506,2951,694],"class_list":["post-16618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-fraud","tag-markets","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16620,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions\/16620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}