Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The West Is Trapped In Its Own Propaganda!

Dr. Roberts has compared Hillary Clinton's remarks with the lack of "democracy" and human rights in China. Her statements remind us of an illiterate speaker, a woman whose words merely are like a pot, calling the kettle black! Surely she has heard about Abu Graib, Guantanamo detainees, CIA secret torture prisons sprinkled throughout the world, our invasion and destruction of Iraq based merely on lies and deceptions, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. Surely her host was aware, that though she demonized China, she turned a blind eye to Israel, Mubarak, Bahrain and the Saudis! Though China's record is not perfect, is it really that bad? Why wasn't the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs criticizing America's human rights abuses and rigged elections? Why does China mind its own business, but we don't? None of the other interviewees or guests thought that Hilary had made a good decision, but even the Chinese guests were not free from the common mindset that frames every issue from the standard by which the rest of our world must be judged. Currently, the "west" can see itself only through the eyes of its own propaganda. As the BBC program was being broadcast, Greeks had again taken to the streets to protest the costs of the bailout of the banks and Wall Street - the rich being imposed on ordinary people at the expense of their lives and aspirations, and the Irish government announcement that it was going to confiscate with a tax, part of the Irish people's pension accumulations.