Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The most corrupt government on earth, a government so utterly corrupt that it allows former executives of a handful of corrupt mega-banks to run the economic policy of the US solely in the interest of their banks, denying tens of millions of American retirees any interest income on their savings for 7 years and denying hard-pressed Social Security recipients any cost-of-living adjustments by falsifying inflation measures, a government so totally corrupt that it has destroyed seven countries and millions of Muslims solely on the basis of lies, this irredeemably corrupt government has accused the most admired political leader on earth of corruption.
http://russia-insider.com/en/putin-corrupt-proclaims-most-corrupt-govt-earth/ri12490
The entire world outside brainwashed America, its EU vassals, and Nazified Ukraine is laughing.
The United States, once admired, then feared, is now the laughing stock of the world. The CIA-controlled German media is being abandoned by the German people who have figured out that their media is nothing but a Washington propaganda operation against Russia. The backlash is so strong that the German media might not survive. http://russia-insider.com/en/germany/germans-abandon-major-news-sites-anger-over-slanted-russia-coverage/ri885
Here is Stephen Lendman’s take on Washington’s latest attempt to demonize Putin:
Phony US Claims About Putin’s Corruption
by Stephen Lendman
Relentless US Putin bashing persists, reckless accusations made – including invading Ukraine and murder, evidence backing up claims absent. None exists.
Putin is vilified for forthrightly defending Russian sovereign independence, supporting a multi-polar world, and challenging Washington’s imperial agenda – at the same time seeking world peace and stability along with mutual cooperation among all nations.
Comments by US officials reflect administration policy. Britain’s BBC is state-owned, controlled and operated. Propaganda substitutes for credible news and information.
Its correspondent Richard Bilton asked US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) director Adam Szubin “if Putin is corrupt.”
He lied, saying “(i)n our view, yes. . . He supposedly draws a state salary of something like $110,000 a year.”
“That is not an accurate statement of the man’s wealth, and he has long time training and practices in terms of how to mask his actual wealth.”
With no corroborating evidence, Szubin claimed Washington has known for “many, many years he’s been “enriching his friends, his close allies, and marginalizing those who he doesn’t view as friends using state assets.”
“Whether that’s Russia’s energy wealth, whether it’s other state contracts, he directs those to whom he believes will serve him and excludes those who don’t. To me, that is a picture of corruption.”
The reliable Saker justifiably calls Putin “one of the greatest Russian leaders ever.” He “secured his place in history.”
“(I)n a little over a decade, he brought her back as a world power capable of successfully challenging the AngloZionist Empire.”
His overwhelming 90% popularity reflects it, even during current economic hard times because of low oil prices perhaps heading lower.
At the same time, he hasn’t so far been able to change a US-created system established during the Yeltsin years. In the 1990s, so-called Western “advisers” turned post-Soviet Russia “into a US colony.”
Reforming its economy remains Putin’s most pressing internal challenge. He’s part of the solution, not the problem.
Szubin’s accusation is part of Washington’s longstanding campaign to vilify him. It’s had no effect on the vast majority of Russians supporting him – nor on his status as arguably the world’s most preeminent geopolitical leader, a master chess player, making Obama look buffoon-like in comparison.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Szubin’s accusation, calling it “pure fiction,” Britain is complicit in vilifying him.
A BBC Panorama documentary focused on his “wallet,” his alleged “secret riches,” providing no evidence of his involvement in corruption – accusations without credibility.
Throughout his presidential years, he’s been irresponsibly bashed – Western presstitutes repeating state-sponsored misinformation and Big Lies.
All independent leaders Washington doesn’t control are targeted the same way – especially ones courageous enough to challenge its imperial agenda responsibly.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
PCR on the money again.
WTF are western leaders so afraid of?
Like Trump the more the corporate controlled media/government mouthpieces vilify him the more popular he becomes, especially with his own people. Like Trump he is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.
Bob.
Heck, Obama’s still playing tiddlywinks.
Okay, for the moment let’s say everything our gov says about Putin is true. He passes contracts to certain companies as part of a larger deal and helps his friends.
Then let’s consider Dick Cheney and Halliburton. Or the “we’re so broke” Clintons and their “foundation”. Or Geo HW Bush meeting with bin Laden’s brother the morning of 9/11 and his deep ties to the Carlyle group (along with James Baker). Or any other President, Senator, or Congresscritter post their term. And OMG what about Kissinger?
Is this not one of the best examples of the “pot calling the kettle black”?
Same old. Same old. And so it goes…
The REAL shadow government, or “deep state” behind the elected puppets in Washington DC are:
The financial/politico, military/industrial complex, who call the shots behind a veiled curtain of hidden, mutually beneficial policies, that ensure their continued absolute control.
NOTHING will change until MONEY is flushed out of politics.