Jeffrey D. Sachs always had the right ideas and right sentiments. When you read him, you know you're only seeing the top layer of the massive reservoir of knowledge that's below what he is expressing at the time.
Because Sachs is also a
refined gentleman, he holds back on digging deep into the reservoir lest he
bring out negative aspects that could hurt someone. His criticism has always
been directed at the easy-to-see, superficial deficiencies of the United
States. He does that without naming names or describing how certain individuals
or groups serve their own interests at the expense of others. This is why Sachs
makes you wish he would mix a little realism with his idealism, and overcome his
timidity about telling it like it is.
His latest article is about a
rare moment when something went right during the bad year that 2020 has
otherwise been. He described what went right in that year, and articulated his
wishes for what the new year 2021 should be like. You can see all that in the
article he wrote under the title: “Europe and China's Year-End Breakthrough,”
published on December 31, 2020 in the online magazine, Project Syndicate. Here
is how Sachs has described that moment:
“With the completion of an
investment treaty between the EU and China, the new year begins on a promising
footing. Now is the time for the world's powers to stop casting stones from
glass houses, and start coming together to end the pandemic and set the stage
for a green, digital global recovery”.
You can see, however, that for
a moment, Jeffrey Sachs chided the world powers for “casting stones from glass
houses,” urging them to stop doing that. Alas, he does not say who these powers
are, or who might be the individuals or institutions in America that oppose
them or collaborate with them. And he does not say what it is that they do,
which they must not do. But even though Sachs does not name names, a passage in
his article reveals a great deal about who these people and institutions are.
Here is that passage:
“The aim of US policy is to
constrain China's belligerence and human-rights violations, or so the US says.
But it is worth noting that the policy is favored by a bipartisan establishment
that maintains 800 overseas military bases, and has repeatedly launched illegal
wars, imposed illegal unilateral sanctions, and refused to abide by the UN
Charter, treaties, and Security Council decisions. It's certainly hard to argue
that China is the belligerent party here”.
There can be no mistake about
it. Jeffrey Sachs is talking about the neocons who would involve America in
perpetual wars so as to implement the Pax Americana scheme they put together, thus
serve the interests of Israel at the expense of American and foreign lives as
well as oodles upon oodles of wasted wealth.
Had Jeffrey Sachs decided to
tell it like it is, he would have explained in detail the role that lobby
groups such as AIPAC are playing to reconfigure the Department of State. This
is the department of foreign affairs where the people that used to run it, were
serving American interests faithfully, but were purged and replaced by agents
whose loyalty is suspect. In fact, these suspects would not even qualify as
having dual loyalty because they are openly and singularly loyal to Israel.
The good news that prompted
Jeffrey Sachs to write his article, has been the coming together of China and
the European Union. But the truth is that this event is only a small part of a
much bigger picture. What's happening in reality, is that the whole world has
been coming together for some time now. And while this is unfolding, neocons of
the John Bolton variety are trying to implement a demonic scheme that will have
hellish ramifications if it were to succeed.
What Bolton and his comrades
are working on at this time, is a jumbo-size Brexit that will pull the
English-speaking world out of the Human Union of nations. Originally, Bolton
and comrades wanted to group the so-called democracies and pull them out of the
United Nations to form a rival organization. When nobody wanted to play their
game, the comrades reduced their sights to encompass only what they viewed as
the English-speaking democracies. They are still working on this scheme at this
moment, but are having a difficult time convincing any of the potential members
to join them.
The reasons why this is
happening are as numerous as there are potential candidates. For example, India
thinks of itself as a superpower that will form its own sphere of influence and
need not a John Bolton telling it what to do. And there is an Australia that
could not drop its two-way commerce with China to trade its abundant resources
with God knows who. As to Canada, this is a trading nation that needs the whole
world to trade with, and not just an America that is increasingly turning protectionist.
And there is the irony of all
ironies. It is that Israel is getting orgasmic having visions of starting warm
relations with its “kissing” cousins, the Arab neighbors. It will not drop this
dream for a pot of golden munitions from America.
Do you know what else is ironic, my friend? Britain has come to realize that being a brexited island, it has only one place where it can turn to secure its economic salvation. The place is none other than its former colonies in Africa and Asia. Britain is now working on a new kind of British Commonwealth that has nothing to do with the neocons’ Pax Americana.