Paul Craig Roberts: Attack on Sovereignty. The Obama Regime and America's Unipolar World!

Those concerned about The New World Order speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China, Russia, and Iran complain, is all about. Washington has demonstrated that it has no respect for its own laws and Constitution, much less any respect for international law, and the law and sovereignty of other countries. All that counts, is Washington's will as the pursuit of hegemony moves Washington closer to becoming a world dictator. The examples are too numerous, someone should compile them into a book. During the Reagan administration, the long established bank secrecy laws of Switzerland had to bend to Washington's will. The Clinton administration attacked Serbia, murdered civilians, and sent Serbia's president to be tried as a war criminal for defending his country. The US government engages in widespread spying on Europeans emails and telephone calls that are unrelated to terrorism. Julian Assange is confined to the Ecuadoran embassy in London, because Washington won't permit the British government to honor his grant of political asylum. Washington refuses to comply with a writ of habeas corpus from a British count, to turn over Yunus Rahmatullah, whose detention a British Court of Appeals has ruled to be unlawful. Washington imposes sanctions on other countries, and enforces them by cutting sovereign nations that do not comply out of the international payments system. Last week, the Obama regime warned the British government, that it was a violation of US interests for the UK to pull out of the European Union or reduce its ties to the EU in any way. In other words, the sovereignty of Great Britain is not a choice to be made by the British government or people. The decision is made by Washington in keeping with Washington's interest. The British are so accustomed to being Washington's colony, that deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and a group of UK business executives quickly lined up with Washington. This leaves Great Britain in a quandary. The British economy, once a manufacturing powerhouse, has been reduced to the City of London, Britain's equivalent to Wall Street.