pcr expresses a thought most of us have. will we ever be getting a government that works for us;

 

Contrarian Explanations even when true are slow to be accepted

Paul Craig Roberts

I was thinking about myself recently, about whether efforts to inform that are contrarian can be successful.  In economics I am known for my reformulation of our understanding of the Soviet Economy and Soviet economic history and for my statement of supply-side economics that added the second blade of the scissors to macroeconomics and was adopted by President Reagan as the economic policy of his administration. Both are paradigmatic changes which require a lot of time to gain general acceptance.  People content with what they already know avoid as long as they can the trauma of learning something new.

I am finding that the same holds for our understanding of current events. I was the first to point out that the slow pace at which Putin was conducting the Ukraine conflict was widening the conflict dangerously, and now we find that Europe is preparing for war with Russia in four years. Recently the Russian expert Gilbert Doctorow announced that he agrees with me that Putin’s never-ending war is an ever-widening war, so there are two of us who see the obvious.

In the case of the Israeli-American aggression in the Middle East during the first quarter of the 21st century, I seem to be the only one who has identified the source of the Israeli-American aggression against “seven countries in five years” to be the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. As long as this agenda is the agenda of the Israeli government, there can be no peace in the Middle East.  Negotiations that are proposed are pointless as long as the Zionist agenda remains Greater Israel, which originally consisted of Israel’s claim from the Nile to the Euphrates, but now from the Nile to Pakistan, which includes Iran,Turkey, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.  How are Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Lebanon to negotiate their own extermination as nation states?  The destruction of Iraq, Libya, and Syria as functioning states in control of their own territory was achieved with American blood and money under the guise of “the war on terror.”  Americans, of course, fell for “the war on terror” just as they fall for every lie told them by Washington............more..........