The terrible truth is that a Cult of Death
rules America and is hell-bent on world domination.
—Douglas Valentine
Douglas Valentine’s life’s work has been to
expose and explain the CIA’s role in many key aspects of American society, and
how they’re behind most of the atrocities, subversion and war since WWII, all
over the world. I doubt that any other writer has given the details, or written
with the force and courage that he has. He’s told us how America really
functions, and what is behind much of its success in business, especially
overseas. He’s described how the CIA infiltrates and is protected by the media
and all the branches of the government, and how they can create chaos and
control political messages, here and abroad. I’d like to talk a bit about how
what I’ve learned from reading Douglas Valentine’s books, can be seen day to
day on the news and other media outlets. I’ll focus on the most current events,
that I think are very indicative of planned control and subversion. Valentine
covers many other events in his new book, The CIA As Organized Crime, so I’ll add my
thoughts.
I’m writing this review of Douglas
Valentine’s crucial new book, The CIA As Organized Crime, as the
Democratic Party conducts a mainstream and social media based “revolution”
against Trump. Most of the protestors are summoned from Party front group
databases and many are paid to protest by big donors like George Soros. The
theme of this revolution is: Stop(Impeach/Kill) the Racist Fascist Dictator!
Other themes from other times and other presidents are: Make the World Safe for
Democracy and 9/11 – Never Forget!
This theme was created by operatives and
principles from the Obama gang and their overlords from the ruling financial
elite. These people were responsible for war crimes in Libya, Ukraine and Syria
among many other atrocities resulting in the deaths of over four hundred
thousand people, as many or more maimed, millions of refugees, entire cities
destroyed along withmany
antiquities. These war crimes were committed by actual neo-Nazis in
Ukraine, and by fascist terrorist groups in Syria, funded and armed by the Obama
gang and the Republican neocons, through its allies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
and Turkey. But the protestors carry signs that say “Stop Fascism!” only now
that Trump is elected.
I’m not arguing that it’s unfair or wrong
to protest Trump, but want to make the deeper point that some people recognize
this as the result of social engineering and media-based mind control. The
obvious question is: how is it possible that all of the Obama gang’s war crimes
were never called fascistic and never massively protested? How is it possible
that millions were kept in a deep trance and suddenly activated into enraged
bloodthirsty revolutionaries? It’s Guy Debord’s prophecy[quoted on p.305 of
Valentine’s book] come true: “Yet the highest ambition of the integrated spectacle
is still to turn secret agents into revolutionaries and revolutionaries into
secret agents.” This anti-Trump scenario goes a big step further by turning
average citizens who think they’re being progressive and moral into
revolutionaries and secret agents! They’re not only protesting against
Trump but for the serial war criminal Clinton, who was the obvious
Establishment choice. That’s what makes this protest so sinister.
The media was completely for her and so
were many arch Establishment Republicans like the Bush gang.
Here’s Valentine[p.346]: “The CIA
established a strategic intelligence network of magazines and publishing
houses, as well as student and cultural organizations, including political and
psychological warfare operations directed against American citizens. In other
nations, the program was aimed at what Cord Meyer[CIA agent] called the
Compatible Left, which in America translates into liberals and
pseudo-intellectual status seekers who are easily influenced.
“All of this is ongoing, despite being
exposed in the late 1960s. Various technological advances, including the
internet, have spread the network around the world and many people don’t even
realize they’re a part of it, that they’re promoting the CIA line.”
Valentine’s new book explains how
societies, going back to early organized humanity, have been controlled to
believe certain myths, primarily warrior hero myths. Today, these myths are
very pervasive and diffused, they’re called “beliefs” and “opinions” and are
often disguised in moralistic language; even the protests are controlled and
co-opted and diluted to create other myths. Myths, like the Democratic Party is
anti-war or the protector of minorities, women and workers and only the other
party is racist, sexist and militaristic. This myth, carefully engineered and
delivered to the masses through the media, and meant to keep the US bitterly
divided, is what was used to trigger the targeted group to react when called
upon, in tacit, and often explicit support of the psychopath Clinton.
The themes and messages are delivered to
the gullible public by the media through “news” agencies; books, including
revisionist history and pandering biographies; social media viral thinking;
celebrities of all factions; and nominally fictional movies, TV shows and
books, such as Fox’s 24, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Kathyrn Bigelow’s Zero
Dark Thirty, Tom Clancy books etc.
The people that planned the war crimes in
Ukraine, Libya and Syria are actual fascist dictators, but the
revolutionaries aren’t aware of this and refuse to believe it even when confronted
with undeniable proof. The people that control the media are the same people
that planned the war crimes. I know, I know, it’s one of those things you just
can’t believe right?
It’s just too much! Don’t bury your
head in the sand; it’s not going away. Douglas Valentine’s new book will
explain how that’s just the way those people planning those things want to keep
it. You obey the laws and they’ll break them. You believe what they say and
they’ll get rich while you live in deception.
The socially engineered revolutionaries in
the streets range from middle-aged white suburban housewives and their teenage
kids, to young black militants and activists to celebrities from both
mainstream and counter/alternative culture: Robert De Niro and Madonna to
Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth, who called Obama a “conscientious politician.”
Moore is a disturbing case: a brilliant rock musician and lyricist, who is
capable of writing a song about Chelsea Manning, yet calls Obama, her jailer
and tormentor, “conscientious” and a “legal scholar.” He refuses to play in
Israel, supporting the BDS movement, but endorsed Clinton, a devoted enemy of
Palestine, after Sanders capitulated to her. What is this? Moral relativism?
Can it even be called moral? This type of thinking is rampant with liberals and
conservatives alike and with people everywhere, but we’re seeing the spectacle
in a new form with this level of hysteria, and with the massive liberal Group
Think that has even infected artists who are supposed to be punk and counter culture
figures. They’re supposed to know what bullshit is!
These people: enraged, genuinely scared and
hysterical, are demanding Trump be toppled, “by any means necessary,”(also from
Moore, playing Malcom X). There are countless Facebook assassins calling for
Trump’s blood. Madonna exhorts people to blow up the White House. Rosie
O’Donnell begged Obama to enact martial law! Mainstream rags and CIA-linked
journalists glibly write about assassination and coups. After all this, they
shamelessly call
Trump a fascist! This happened in Trump’s
first week, before he even has a chance to commit his own war crimes or to show
how loyal he is to the old power structure and how he thinks the CIA is “really
really great.” Maybe they’re just teasing him a bit eh? A shot across the bow.
These “revolutionaries” are transmitting a
message of violence, planted in them by a methodical and purposeful system of
disinformation and smears, in the hopes that it will activate some deranged
person who thinks they’re on a mission from God, or better yet, Madonna or Lady
Gaga – Remember Jodie Foster. That’s one possibility but the people who plan
these things like to keep all their options open at all times. It’s a world of
possibilities for them. Their Chosen One, Clinton, was buried alive by the
dispossessed workers in the Rust Belt, and now they must seriously look at
their options. Doug Valentine’s new book gives you the history and methods of
how they look at their options and the results of those options. It’s not for
the feint of heart. After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
These revolutionaries were nowhere to be
seen while Obama droned thousands to smithereens and allowed for the
destruction of three nations, and the continuing destruction of Afghanistan and
Iraq. I doubt the millions of socially engineered revolutionaries will ever see
themselves for what they are, despite being told by many people in real time
responses to their social media rage (before they get blocked by the liberals
defending free speech). They’ve found a purpose in life, or, more likely,
“somebody” found a purpose for them. Douglas Valentine’s new book will explain
how and why those “somebodies” do that.
[From p.311] “Information management
–including official secrecy and false accusations – is the key to pacifying the
people through implicit terror, while making the internal security apparatus
appear legal, moral and popular. This is being done to American citizens
through the most ambitious psywar campaign ever waged on planet Earth.”
Some books raise the curtain on the whole
shit show, and this is one of those books. I haven’t read everything about US
history and politics, but I’ve read enough to know the score. I did read
Valentine’s previous books: The Phoenix Program, Strength of the Pack, and Strength of the Wolf, and I reviewed them for Amazon
and Goodreads. Before reading them, I thought I knew the score, but I didn’t
really. Now I do. I knew we were screwed but just not how badly and I didn’t
know how exactly it happened that we are in the mess we are in.
Valentine names all the perps and all the
plans. He weaves the comments of the people he interviews into his own prose
structure that creates a fascinating, page-turning narrative that never lags.
It often reminds me of Raymond Chandler and William Burroughs, when they talk
about the sordid and sad ways of the world. He’s never boring, even when he’s
detailing bureaucratic structures, probably because the details are so damn
sinister. His sentences are deadly efficient, hard-hitting, dense with
information and always end with a stab to the heart of the beast he so clearly
and righteously despises. He is the real revolutionary.
His books are deeply detailed with
interviews from the people that set up the bureaucracies like the Phoenix
Program and the various inter-agency drug front groups, designed to
parasitically subsume nations through corruption paired with false ideological
political motives. False, because as it turned out, the endgame wasn’t freedom
and democracy as the USA-CIA promised, in countries like Vietnam and El
Salvador and Iraq, to name a few; the endgame was the looting of resources,
land grabs for corporate and strategic gain and in the larger sense, world
domination, aka neoliberal globalism/corporatism– Valentine’s subtitle:
How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and
the World.
The word on the street is that the CIA does
not operate in America’s interest; that is, doing things that would protect the
majority of Americans and insure that the country’s written standards and laws
are upheld. Instead, it subverts nations for an oligarchy of super-rich
financial and corporate interests that are essentially trans-national or
global, whose allegiance is not national; their allegiance is to a captive
government at the service of, and essentially indistinguishable from, financial
institutions. The oligarchy is comprised of the super-rich of many nations
whose money is handled by one dominant Western system and network. The goal is
to enrich this group at any cost and since the cost to maintain the system is
greater
than the profits, making it essentially a
Ponzi scheme, constant looting through warfare, debt
service, taxes, stock market/real estate
bubbles and bailouts, and organized crime must be maintained to generate cash.
The majority of humanity is the intended victim of all of these massive crimes
and the key is that they pay the costs, while the oligarchs take the
profits. Anyone that works to further the interests of the oligarchy are given
decent-paying jobs with lots of benefits and perks, pensions, and sometimes,
included in schemes that bring in a lot of money. They’re also made to feel
superior and part of some glorious purpose.
Valentine’s new book is the introduction to
and condensation and summation of his other work along with several interviews
that always add and elaborate on his subject of CIA control mechanisms and
corruption of governments, starting with the US; it enhances the reading of
those other great works and offers many insights into the time up to 2016,
after the period covered in the other books: the early 20th century to the mid
1990s. The subjects of his previous books are political subversion of nations
through terror and war for profit, and government collusion with, and control
of, organized crime. This book is equally as important as the others, and
continues the previous subjects, but includes the other main element of
government control: the media’s role in propaganda, secrecy, social engineering
and mind control. Valentine has masterfully condensed his previous books, while
integrating his thoughts on the media component of control throughout the
chapters. The result is not only a history of the CIA but a precise description
of how the US government and society works.
The Phoenix Program exposed the new method that the US would use to take over
governments and the collusion between the military and political(intelligence)
units of government. Think tank intellectuals are the mouthpieces for the
financial oligarchs: this is
the vaunted public-private partnership.
It’s being extended into private mercenary armies and intelligence gathering
corporations, mostly in the form of cyber-security groups. All of these
are branches of the CIA in spirit and often
in fact. They create the complexity and confusion
that provides cover; this system of
multiple companies and organizations is also used by big financial
institutions. It becomes so extensive and diffused that people say it can’t ALL
be CIA; but it is; at least anything the CIA thinks matters.
Valentine’s overarching subject is the
military/ political/ intelligence, and corporate(finance) networks and how they
interconnect. Phoenix is the blueprint for total bureaucratic conquest of a
foreign country using virtually untraceable cash that is returned with interest
from profits reaped, or raped, from the conquest. The cash comes from a complex
network of taxes, crime, and corporate donors. To the people involved in
subverting countries like Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, war is
nothing more than a good investment. They know they aren’t patriots and
don’t give a sleazy fuck about democracy, freedom, women’s rights, the troops,
or any of the other things they incessantly babble about. That stuff is just
their conartist’s cover story for the rubes.
In Strength of the Wolf and Strength
of the Pack, Valentine describes the connections between the police and
intelligence apparatus and organized crime, for the purpose of controlling the
sources of all organized crime profits–mainly drugs and weapons, but also
prostitution and human trafficking. This is the chaos element necessary to
prevent the formation of viable political opposition. The enormous profits from
crime fund much of the dark budgets of the CIA and other intel groups, and are
used to corrupt individuals, buy weapons and train and equip proxy death squads
and terrorist armies. Crime also weakens, impoverishes and destabilizes
cultures and societies, turning ethnic groups against each other and
themselves. We see this clearly in the US with gang warfare over drug turf.
I don’t think any other book on this
subject could ever surpass the intricacy of Valentine’s books, built around the
first-hand accounts from most of the main agents involved. They are among other
things, epic accomplishments in the art of the interview, conducted on a
massive scale. Valentine doesn’t hold anything back or stop short, like
so many books do. The point of the exhaustive interviews, as well as his prose,
is to lay bare the ugly reality that the US government took over the drug trade
as a key element in its strategy for world control, especially post WWII. This
is really where they beat the Soviets, who, I’m afraid, with all their devious
chess master skills, failed to see that killer strategy. As a result of that
killer strategy, heroin has gone from a deeply underground big city thing, then
to much wider inner city use, and now a worldwide epidemic that’s in every
little town from Maine to Moldova; it’s hopelessly fed and complicated(by
design?) by the presence of highly addictive pharmaceutical opiods that are
always getting stronger.
The missing component in Valentine’s work,
until now, in his study of the US government’s control strategy, was the media
– it’s the main subject of this new book. While in some chapters he condenses
the subjects of his other books, he’s doing it in the context of the media’s
role– that he writes about in greater detail in other chapters– exposing the
work of corrupt or compromised journalists. The book is a synthesis of his
previous subjects and the role the media plays in protecting the secrecy and
spreading the lies that enable subversion and conquest of nations.
Valentine quotes from the Marine Corps
Gazette, from 1989[p.354]: “The new type of warfare will be widely
dispersed and largely undefined. The distinction between war and peace will be
blurred to the vanishing point. There will be no definable battlefields or
fronts. The distinction between civilian and military will disappear. Success
will depend heavily on effectiveness and joint operations, as the lines between
responsibility and missions become blurred…This new type of warfare will depend
on psychological operations manifested in the form of media information
intervention…One must be adept at manipulating the media to alter domestic and
world opinion. On this new psychological battlefield, television news may
become a more powerful operational weapon than armored divisions.”
And it was for a while, but now the
mainstream news has been largely ridiculed and exposed, especially by many
Trump voters and by Trump himself, calling them “fake news,” turning their own
smear phrase against real left and libertarian news sites(mostly
internet-based) against them. The whole fake news narrative was certainly a CIA
ploy, though a total failure from the start, except of course for the liberal
“revolutionaries” and Democrats in Congress who still repeat that Putin was
behind the “fake news” about Clinton’s record-setting corruption. One positive
thing is that many people are looking out for this sort of nonsense, and the
concept of false flag attacks, both violent and disinformation-based, has
entered into the public consciousness to a certain extent. Valentine asserts
that the CIA will always increase the pressure and resort to a complete authoritarian
takeover, complete with concentration camps, if it feels the interests of the
oligarchy are threatened.
Valentine describes his own blackballing by
the mainstream media starting with Morley Safer doing a poison pen hit job on The
Phoenix Program in the New York Times. It killed the book in its
infancy and thwarted his career as an historian and journalist for many years.
But Safer is already forgotten while Valentine is and will always be regarded
as one of the truly great and courageous historians and journalists.
Valentine exposes “heroes” like Daniel
Ellsberg and his CIA friends and connections; he explains that they’re only
allowed to become heroes, as a show for the masses, that reenforces the myth
that America is a country where no one is above the law. But the age of the
heroes is over, as we see with Snowden and Manning; it didn’t last too long did
it? He describes how famous journalists like Glenn Greenwald and Sy Hersh stop
short of exposing the whole story and are in a sense being used to convey
diluted messages. He talks at length about how war criminals like former
Senator Bob Kerrey, Congressman Rob Simmons(R-CT) and others are repackaged as
heroes and put into public office. He details evidence against them that is
enough for any fair judicial system to put them on trial.
Valentine’s great gift to the nation and
the world is to show that most of what you see in the news is all highly
orchestrated and interconnected to direct US military wars or indirect
subversion like Syria, Ukraine and the many countries before them. What was
acceptable one day, and even created by the US, like Saddam Hussein, is not
acceptable after a certain preordained expiration date. One day acceptable, the
next day Hitler. Same story over and over again and the suckers buy it every
time. Valentine gives philosophical and psychological context of the effects of
these often subtle, but noticeable journalistic compromises and purposeful
failures, on the willingness of people to understand and seek intellectual,
emotional, and consequentially, political freedom.
My intention was to convey how important
Valentine’s work as a whole is, and how this new book is another main component
of his enormously complex theme. I say another because I want more; but we can
be satisfied with this book because it closes the circle:
government(military-intel-private finance)/organized crime/ and now
media(mainstream and compromised leftist journalism)). Others can elaborate
with more books but he’s giving them the blueprint to work from.
Which brings me back to the Democratic
Party/Facebook revolutionaries. If they want to know why they’re out there, and
why they think Trump is a fascist but Obama isn’t, and why they think they’re
really doing something for the good of the country, they should read this book,
and all of Doug Valentine’s books; then, maybe, just maybe, they’ll
realize that they’re out there on the streets because some people sitting in
skyscrapers, and government buildings and secure compounds want them there, and
told them to go there, and are dictating the terms every step of the way
through the media.
They’ve been conditioned to scream
“RACIST!” on demand, and to be silent when institutional racism is being
carried on by a black president, or by Bill Clinton, who the media absurdly
calls, “the first black president.” They’re silent as the tomb when the “good
guys” are bombing black, brown, yellow and white people. Maybe those people
will never read Douglas Valentines new book, but hopefully you will.
Joseph Balletti [send him mail] is the author of a novel, The Goddess of Wealth, and a book of poetry, Seldom Seen Poems. He is an art historian
specializing in undocumented archaic Chinese jades. He believes a better world
is always with reach.
