“The U.S. intelligence community’s
extraordinary campaign of leaks claiming improper ties between President
Trump’s team and Russia seeks to ensure a lucrative New Cold War by blocking
detente.” — Gareth Porter
It only required 24 days for the Deep State
to castrate President Donald Trump and terminate the promise that the high
tensions with Russia created during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama
regimes would be terminated by Trump’s presidency. As Gareth Porter shows conclusively, the case
against General Flynn, Trump’s 24-day National Security Adviser, and by
implication against Trump himself, is a fake news creation.
Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, planted
fake reports, none of which contained any evidence whatsoever, on the
CIA-compliant media whores known as “presstitutes.” The CIA’s media whores knew
that the reports were a CIA response to the threat to the $1,000 billion annual
budget of the military/security complex that desperately needs “the Russian
threat” for its justification. But the media whores—-principally the New York
Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC—-and all the rest as well are more dedicated
to serving their CIA master than they are to serving peace between nuclear
powers. Interesting, isn’t it, that the US and Western media are more committed
to conflict with Russia than they are to peace, despite the brutal fact that 10
percent of the nuclear arsenal of either the US or Russia is sufficient to
terminate all life on earth.
As Patrick Lawrence says: “The lights upon us are
dimming. We have been more or less abandoned by a press that proves incapable
of informing us of anything approaching a disinterested fashion. As suggested,
either the media are Clintonian liberals before they are newspapers and
broadcasters, or they are servants of power before they serve us.”
All we have left, says Lawrence, is the
alternative media. “To put this simply and briefly, they and we must learn that
they are not ‘alternative’ to anything. In the end, there is no such thing as
‘alternative media,’ as I often argue. There are only media, and most of ours
have turned irretrievably bad.”
The alternative media is the Internet
media, websites such as this one, RT, the Intercept, USAWatchdog, Alex Jones,
Information Clearing House, Global Research, Unz Review, etc. These independent
news sites are under attack. Remember the list of 200 “Russian agents/dupes”?
Every source of information that does not subscribe to the Deep States’ Matrix
creation of “the Russian Threat,” which is the Deep State’s replacement for the
orchestrated “Soviet Threat,” has been selected for the shutdown. Apparently,
Alex Jones is already having problems with Google. Several websites managed to
get off the 200 List, and those that have seem to have collapsed as members of
the opposition.
As the Nazis said, all it takes is fear,
and the people collapse.
Trump’s presidency is effectively over.
Even if he is permitted to remain in office, he will be a figurehead for the
Deep State’s presidency. President Trump has already fallen into line
with the military/security complex. He has said Russia has to return Crimea to
Ukraine, whereas in fact, Crimea returned itself to Russia. He has rejected a
new strategic arms limitations treaty (START) with Russia, stating that he
wants supremacy in nuclear armaments, not equality. Obama’s one trillion
dollar upgrade of the US nuclear arsenal is likely to get a boost from Trump.
After one month in office the goal has
changed from reduced tensions with Russia to greater tensions. Greater tensions
might soon be upon us. There are plans to occupy part of Syria with US troops
in order to prevent Syria with Russia’s help from reuniting the country. Part of Syria is to go to Turkey, part to the
Kurds, and Washington will keep a chunk. This way Washington can keep the
turmoil going forever. The Russians brought this problem on themselves. Ever
hopeful for Washington’s cooperation against ISIS, Russia dallied in cleaning
out ISIS. The prospect that Trump would work with Russia as part of better
relations assumed that Trump would actually be in charge, which has turned out
to be delusional.
It is difficult to know if the new Trump
regime is more Iranophobic than Russophobic. The Trump regime’s inclination to
jettison the Iran agreement and reopen the conflict means more conflict with
Russia. Washington’s continued provocations of both Russia and China will
dispel any lingering Russian expectations of better relations with Washington.
It is bizarre to see the
liberal-progressive-left allied with the warmongers against Trump. As the
neoconservatives pull nuclear Armageddon out of the grave that Reagan and
Gorbachev put it in, the American left demands the impeachment of the president
whose goal was better relations with Russia. Once the champion of the working
class, the left now champions Identity Politics. Trump’s goal of jobs for the
working class leaves the leftwing cold. The left wants to destroy the “Trump
deplorables,” which the left describes as “racist, misogynist, homophobic, gun
nuts.” In Identity Politics, every identity is a victim except the oppressor
identity—white heterosexual males.
Where then is the opposition to the
neoconservative ideology that is driving US foreign policy toward world
hegemony? There are a few of us, but we are being cast as “Putin agents.” In
other words, those who have sufficient intelligence to understand that
Washington is not going to achieve hegemony over Russia and China or even Iran,
but is likely to provoke nuclear war by trying, are relegated to the traitor
class.
The reason that there is still life on
earth after more than a half century of nuclear weapons is that American
presidents and Soviet leaders worked together to reduce tensions. During these
decades, there were numerous false alarms of incoming ICBMs. However, because
the leadership of both countries were working together to avoid nuclear
conflict, the warnings were disbelieved both by the Soviets and Americans.
Today the situation is vastly different.
The last three US presidents, and now apparently Trump also, worked overtime to
increase tensions between the two nuclear powers. Moreover, it was done in ways
that convinced the Russian government that Washington is completely untrustworthy.
The ongoing vicious lies about the Russian connections of Trump and his
associates are so obviously false as to be laughable, but the Russians are
seeing that the falsity of the charges notwithstanding, Trump’s National
Security Adviser has fallen and Trump himself might be next.
In other words, the Russians are observing that in
America facts are not relevant to outcomes. The Russians have already
experienced this with regard to themselves with the lies about Putin, the
Ukraine, Georgia, and Russian intentions toward Europe. Putin is routinely
called a “thug,” “murderer,” “the new Hitler” by US politicians, presstitutes,
and the Democratic Party’s candidate in the recent presidential election.
Ranking US generals describe Russia as the “principal threat to the US.” NATO
commanders assert that the Russian Army could occupy the Baltics and/or Poland
at any moment. These nonsensical accusations and predictions suggest to the
Russians that the West is preparing its populations for an attack on Russia.
In such a tense state of affairs, how will
false alarms be interpreted? Will Americans convinced that Putin and Russia are
evil incarnate believe the false alarms this time? Will Russians convinced that
they have been set up for attack believe them this time?
This is the extreme risk to which the
insane neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the greedy
military/security complex, and the aggressive generals have exposed life on
earth.
And the few voices warning of the risk are
dismissed as “Russian agents.”
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been
reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition
of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.