Washington Is Driving The World To The Final WarPaul Craig Roberts Whether the desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen. If Americans can overcome their gullibility, their lifelong brainwashing, their propensity to believe every lie that their government tells them, and if Americans can escape the Matrix in which they live, they can reestablish the morality, justice, peace, freedom, and liberty that their government has taken from them. It is not impossible for Americans to again stand with uplifted heads. They only have to recognize that their government is the enemy of truth, justice, human rights and life itself. Can mere ordinary Americans triumph over the evil that is their government without the aid of a superhero? If ideas are strong enough and Americans can comprehend them, good can prevail over the evil that is concentrated in Washington. What stands between the American people and their comprehension of evil is their gullibility. If good fails in its battle with Washingtons evil, our future is a boot stamping on the human face forever. A US senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Ecuadoran government that he would block the import of vegetables and flowers from Ecuador if Ecuador gives asylum to Edward Snowden. The cost to Ecuador would be one billion dollars in lost revenues. Menendezs statement Our government will not reward countries for bad behavioris ironic. It equates bad behavior with protecting a truth-teller and good behavior with betraying a truth-teller. Menendezs statement is also a lie. The US government only rewards bad behavior. The US government consistently rewards those who conspire against the elected governments of their own countries, setting them up as dictators when Washington overthrows the elected governments. Menendezs threat did not work, but the senator did succeed in delivering yet another humiliating blow to Washingtons prestige. The Ecuadoran President, Rafael Correa, beat Menendez to the punch and cancelled the trade pact with the US on the grounds that the pact was a threat to the sovereignty of Ecuador and to moral principles and was being used by Washington to blackmail Ecuador. Ecuador doesnt accept pressure or threats from anyone, added Communications Secretary Fernando Alvarado who then offered Washington foreign aid to provide human rights training to combat torture, illegal executions and attacks on peoples privacy. Washington, exposed with its hand in the cookie jar devouring the privacy of the entire world and prevented by its hubris from acknowledging its illegal behavior and apologizing, has so mishandled the Snowden affair that Washington has done far more damage to itself than occurred from Snowdens revelations. Washington has proven conclusively that it has no respect for anyones human rights, that it has no respect for any countrys sovereignty, that it has no respect for any moral principles, especially those it most often mouths, and that it relies on coercion and violence alone. The rest of the world now knows who its enemy is. Washingtons presstitutes, by helping Washington demonize Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Manning, Assange, and Ecuador, have demonstrated to the world that the US media is devoid of integrity and that nothing it reports can be believed. The US print and TV media and NPR comprise a ministry of propaganda for Washingtons immoral agendas. On June 24, the Stasi States favorite whore, the Washington Post, denounced three times democratically-elected Rafael Correa as the autocratic leader of tiny, impoverished Ecuador, without realizing that the editorial not only demonstrated the Washington Posts lack of any ethics whatsoever but also showed the entire world that if tiny, impoverished Ecuador can stand up to Washingtons threats, so can the rest of the world. President Correa replied that the Washington Post managed to focus attention on Snowden and on the wicked countries that support him, making us forget the terrible things against the US people and the whole world that he denounced. Correa added that Washingtons world order isnt only unjust, its immoral. The reason Washington hates Correa has nothing to do with Snowden. That Ecuador is considering asylum for Snowden is just an excuse. Correa is hated, because in the second year of his first term he repudiated the $3 billion dollar foreign debt that corrupt and despotic prior regimes had been paid to contract with international finance. Correas default threat forced the international financial gangsters to write down the debt by 60 percent. Washington also hates Correa because he has been successful in reducing the high rates of poverty in Ecuador, thus building public support that makes if difficult for Washington to overthrow him from within. Yet another reason Washington hates Correa is because he took steps against the multinational oil companies exploitation of Ecuadors oil resources and limited the amount of offshore deposits in the countrys banks in order to block Washingtons ability to destabilize Ecuadors financial system. Washington also hates Correa for refusing to renew Washingtons lease of the air base in Manta. Essentially, Correa has fought to take control of Ecuadors government, media and national resources out of Washingtons hands and the hands of the small rich elite allied with Washington. It is a David vs. Goliath story. In other words, Correa, like Venezuelas Chavez, is the rare foreign leader who represents the interests of his own country instead of Washingtons interest. Washington uses the various corrupt NGOs and the puppet government in Colombia as weapons against Correa and the Ecuadoran government. Many believe that it is only a matter of time before Washington succeeds in assassinating Correa. American patriots, who feel that they should be on their governments side regardless of the facts, would do well to remember what true patriotism is. For Americans, patriotism has always meant allegiance to the Constitution, not to the government. The oath is to defend the Constitution against enemies domestic and foreign. The Bush and Obama regimes have proven themselves to be the Constitutions worst enemies. It is not possible for a true patriot to support a government that destroys the Constitution. The United States is the Constitution. Our country is not the Obama regime, the Bush regime, or some other administration. Our country is the Constitution. The Constitution is our country. Beyond obligations to ones own country, all humans have a responsibility to human life itself. Washingtons puppet states, such as the NATO countries, Japan, and Colombia, by providing cover and support for Washingtons aggression are enabling Washington to drive the world into World War III. The temptation of Washingtons money easily overwhelms weak characters such as Tony Blair and David Cameron. But the governments of NATO countries and other accommodating states are not only selling out their own peoples by supporting Washingtons wars of aggression, they are selling out humanity. Washingtons hubris and arrogance grow as Washington bumps off country after country. Sooner or later Russia and China, will realize that they themselves are targets and will draw firmer lines. Arrogance will prevent Washington from acknowledging the lines, and the final war will be launched. Washingtons hegemonic impulse is driving the world to destruction. The peoples of the world should realize this and force their governments to stop enabling Washingtons aggression. This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts new website Institute For Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. 