by Paul
Craig Roberts
Hillary
Clinton is proving to be the “teflon candidate.” In her campaign
for the Democratic presidential nomination, she has escaped damage
from major scandals, any one of which would destroy a politician.
Hillary has accepted massive bribes in the form of speaking fees from
financial organizations and corporations. She is under investigation
for misuse of classified data, an offense for which a number of
whistleblowers are in prison. Hillary has survived the bombing of
Libya, her creation of a failed Libyan state that is today a major
source of terrorist jihadists, and the Benghazi controversy. She has
survived charges that as Secretary of State she arranged favors for
foreign interests in exchange for donations to the Clintons’
foundation. And, of course, there is a long list of previous
scandals: Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate. Diana Johnstone’s
book, Queen of Chaos, describes Hillary Clinton as “the top
salesperson for the ruling oligarchy.”
Hillary
Clinton is a bought-and-paid-for representative of the big banks, the
military-security complex, and the Israel Lobby. She will represent
these interests, not those of the American people or America’s
European allies.
The
Clintons’ purchase by interest groups is public knowledge. For
example, CNN reports that between February 2001 and May 2015 Bill and
Hillary Clinton were paid $153 million in speaking fees for 729
speeches, an average price of $210,000.
As it became
evident that Hillary Clinton would emerge as the likely Democratic
presidential candidate, she was paid more. Deutsche Bank paid her
$485,000 for one speech, and Goldman Sachs paid her $675,000 for
three speeches. Bank of American Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Fidelity
Investments each paid $225,000.
Despite
Hillary’s blatent willingness to be bribed in public, her opponent,
Bernie Sanders, has not succeeded in making an issue of Hillary’s
shamelessness. Both of the main establishment newspapers, the
Washington Post and the New York Times have come to Hillary’s
defense.
Hillary is a
war-monger. She pushed the Obama regime into the destruction of a
stable and largely cooperative government in Libya where the “Arab
Spring” was a CIA-backed group of jihadists who were used to
dislodge China from its oil investments in eastern Libya. She urged
her husband to bomb Yugoslavia. She has pushed for “regime change”
in Syria. She oversaw the coup that overthrew the democratically
elected president of Honduras. She brought neoconservative Victoria
Nuland, who arranged the coup that overthrew the democratically
elected president of Ukraine, into the State Department. Hillary has
called President Vladimir Putin of Russia the “new Hitler.”
Hillary as president guarantees war and more war.
In the
United States government has been privatized. Office holders use
their positions in order to make themselves wealthy, not in order to
serve the public interest. Bill and Hillary Clinton epitomize the use
of public office in behalf of the office holder’s interest. For
the Clintons government means using public office to be rewarded for
doing favors for private interests. The Wall Street Journal reported
that “at least 60 companies that lobbied the State Department
during her [Hillary Clinton’s] tenure as Secretary of State donated
a total of more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation.”
According to
washingtonsblog.com, “All told, the Clinton Foundation and its
affiliates have collected donations and pledges from all souces of
more than $1.6 billion, accoring to their tax returns.”
According to
rootsactionteam.com, multi-million dollar donars to the Clinton
Foundation include Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk,
Kuwait, ExxonMobil, Friends of Saudi Arabia, James Murdoch, Qatar,
Boeing, Dow, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, and the United Arab Emirates.
According to
the International Business Times, “Under Hillary Clinton, the State
Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20
nations whose governments had given millions to the Clinton
Foundation.”
Hillary
Clinton has escaped unharmed from so many crimes and scandals that
she would likely be the most reckless president in American history.
With the arms race renewed, with Russia declared “an existential
threat to the United States,” and with Hillary’s declaration of
President Putin as the new Hitler, Hillary’s arrogant
self-confidence is likely to result in over-reach that ends in
conflict between NATO and Russia. Considering the extraordinary
destructive force of nuclear weapons, Hillary as president could mean
the end of life on earth.
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