When phrases such as “the deep state”
and “conspiracy theory” become staples of both the corporate mainstream media
and the alternative press, we know the realities behind these phrases have
outlasted their usefulness for the ruling elites that control the United States
and for their critics, each of whom uses them refutably or corroboratively.
These phrases are bandied about so often that they have become hackneyed and
inane.
Everything
is shallow now, in our faces, and by being in our faces the truth is taking
place behind our backs. The obvious can’t be true since it’s so obvious, so let us
search for other explanations, and when the searchers search, let us call them
“conspiracy nuts.” It is a mind game of extraordinary proportions,
orchestrated by the perverted power elites that run the show and ably abetted
by their partners in the corporate mass media, even some in the alternative
press who mean well but are confused, or are disinformation agents in the
business of sowing confusion together with their mainstream Operation
Mockingbird partners. It is a spectacle of open secrecy, in which the
CIA, which created the “conspiracy theory” meme to ridicule critics of the
Warren Commission’s absurd explanation of the Kennedy assassination, has
effectively sucked everyone into a game of to and fro in which only they win.
“When I make a word do a lot
of work like that,” said Humpty Dumpty, “I always pay it extra.”
Only
by stepping outside this narrative frame with its vocabulary can we begin to
grasp the truth here in our Wonderland of endless illusions.
Death, sex, power, intrigue, murder, suicide – these are the staples of
the penny press of the 19th century, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, Hearst’s New York Journal, the tabloids, today’s mass media, and
the CIA. People hunger for these stories, not for the real truth that
impacts their lives, but for the titillation that gives a frisson to their
humdrum lives. It is why post-modern detective stories are so popular, as if
never solving the crime is the point.
To say “we will never know”
is the mantra of a postmodern culture created to keep people running in
circles. (Note the commentaries about the Jeffrey Epstein case.) Elusive and
allusive indeterminacy characterizes everything in the culture of
postmodernity. Robert Pfaller, a professor at the University of Art and
Industrial Design in Linz, Austria and a founding member of the Viennese
psychoanalytic research group “stuzzicandenti,” put it clearly in a recent interview:
The
ruling ideology since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or even earlier, is
postmodernism. This is the ideological embellishment that the brutal neoliberal
attack on Western societies’ welfare (that was launched in the late 1970s)
required in order to attain a “human”, “liberal” and “progressive” face. This
coalition between an economic policy that serves the interest of a tiny minority,
and an ideology that appears to “include” everybody is what Nancy Fraser has
aptly called “progressive neoliberalism”. It consists of neoliberalism, plus
postmodernism as its ideological superstructure.
The
propagandists know this; they created it. They are
psychologically astute, having hijacked many intelligent but soul-less people
of the right and left to do their handiwork. Money buys souls, and the
number of those who have sold theirs is numerous, including those leftists who
have been bought by the CIA, as Cord Meyer, the CIA official phrased it so
sexually in the 1950s: we need to “court the compatible left.” He knew
that drawing leftists into the CIA’s orbit was the key to efficient propaganda.
For so many of the compatible left, those making a lot of money posing as
opponents of the ruling elites but taking the money of the super-rich, the JFK
assassination and the truth of September 11, 2001 are inconsequential, never to
be broached, as if they never happened, except as the authorities say they did.
By ignoring these most in-your-face events with their eyes wide shut, a coterie
of influential leftists has done the work of Orwell’s crime-stop and has
effectively succeeded in situating current events in an ahistorical and
therefore misleading context that abets U.S. propaganda.
The debate over whether Jeffrey Epstein
committed suicide or not is a pseudo-debate meant to keep people spinning their
wheels over nothing. It attracts attention and will do so for many days to come.
There are even some usually astute people suggesting that he may not be dead
but might have been secretly whisked off somewhere and replaced with a dead
look-alike. Now who would profit from suggesting something as insane as
this? The speculation runs rampant and feeds the spectacle. Whether he
was allowed to kill himself or was killed makes little difference.
It’s
akin to asking who pulled the trigger that killed President Kennedy.
That’s a debate that was intended to go nowhere, as it has, after it became
apparent that Lee Harvey Oswald surely did not kill JFK. John Kennedy’s
murder in broad daylight in public view is the paradigmatic event of modern
times. It is obvious to anyone that gives minimal study to the issue that it
was organized and carried out by elements within the national security state,
notably the CIA. Their message was meant to be unequivocal and clear: We can
kill him and we can kill you; we are in full control; beware. Then they went on
to kill others, including RFK and MLK. It takes little intelligence to
see this obvious fact, unless you wish not to or are totally lost in the
neighborhood of make-believe.
As it was
with Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald, so it is with Epstein. There will be
no trial. Nothing is really hidden except the essential truth.
Guess, debate, wonder, watch, read to your sad heart’s content. You will
have gotten nowhere unless you step outside the frame of the reigning
narrative.
A corollary example of another recent national headline grabber, the
Mueller investigation, is apropos here. Douglass Valentine, expert on the
CIA and author of The CIA as Organized Crime, said
in a recent interview that in all the
endless mass media discussions of the Mueller investigation, one obvious
question was never asked: What is the CIA’s role in it all? It was never
asked because the job of the corporate mass media is to work for the CIA, not
to expose it as a nest of organized criminals and murderers that it is.
What is important in the Epstein
case is the deep back story, a tale that goes back decades and is explored
by Whitney Webb in a series of fine articles for
the Mint Press. Read her articles and you will see how Epstein is just the
current manifestation of the sordid history of the American marriage between
various factions of the American ruling elites, whose business is sexual exploitation
as a fringe benefit of being willing members of the economic and military
exploitation of the world. A marriage of spies, mafia, intelligence
agencies, sexual perverts, foreign governments, and American traitors who will
stop at nothing to advance their interests.
It is
a hard story to swallow because it destroys the fairy tale that has been
constructed about American “democracy” and the decency of our leaders. Webb’s
articles are not based on secret documents but on readily available information
open to a diligent researcher. It’s known history that has been buried,
as is most history in a country of amnesiacs and educational illiterates.
The average person doesn’t have Webb’s skill or time to pull it all together,
but they can read her illuminating work. Often, however, it is the will to
truth that is lacking.
While
Webb places the Epstein matter in an historical context, she does not “solve”
the case, since there is nothing to solve. It is another story from a
long litany of sex/espionage stories openly available to anyone willing to
look. They tell the same story. Like many commentators, she draws
many linkages to the Israeli Mossad’s long-standing connections to this
criminal under and over world in the United States and throughout the
world. She writes:
Ultimately,
the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single
intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group [a
secretive group of Jewish billionaires, including Epstein’s patron Leslie
Wexner], politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an
organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both
nations.
If anything is obvious about the
Epstein case, it is that he was part of a sexual blackmail operation tied to
intelligence agencies. Such blackmail has long been central to the
methods of intelligence agencies worldwide and many arrows rightfully point to
the Mossad.
However, while throughout
Webb’s articles she draws linkages that lead to the Mossad, she only suggests
CIA connections. This is similar to but milder than a point made in an
article written by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counter-terrorism
specialist, Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad? Giraldi
writes that the CIA “would have no particular motive to acquire an agent like
Epstein.” This makes no sense. Of course, they would. The CIA
and the FBI have a long record of such activities, and to hold such a club over
the heads of presidents, senators, et al. to make sure they do their bidding is
obviously a strong motivation.
Valentine’s
point about not asking the question about the CIA’s involvement in the Mueller
investigation pertains. Does Giraldi believe that the Mossad operates
independently of the CIA? Or that they don’t work in tandem? His
statement is very strange.
The
CIA is organized crime, and if Epstein is Mossad connected, he is CIA also,
which is most likely. No one like Epstein could have operated as he did for
decades without being sustained and protected. Now that he is dead there
will be no trial, just as there will be no mainstream media or justice
department revelations about the CIA or Mossad. There will be a lot of
gibberish about conspiracy theories and the open secret that is the spectacle
of secrecy will roll on. There will, of course, be much sex talk and outrage.
We will anxiously await the movie and the TV “exposés.” Most people will know,
and pretend they don’t, that the country is ruled by gangsters who would pimp
their mothers if it served their interests.
Those of us who oppose these criminals
– and there are growing numbers all over the world – must avoid being sucked
into the establishment narratives and the counter-narratives they spawn or
create. We must refuse to get involved in pseudo-debates that are meant
to lead nowhere. We must reject the language created to confuse.
If revolutionary change is to come, we
must learn to tell a new story in language so beautiful, illuminating, and
heart-rending that no one will listen to the lying words of child molesters,
mass murderers, and those who hate and persecute truth tellers.
As John Berger said, “In storytelling
everything depends on what follows what. And the truest order is seldom
obvious.”
Edward
Curtin [send
him mail] is a writer whose work has appeared widely. His website
is edwardcurtin.com.
Copyright © 2019 Edward Curtin
