If truth has a chance it is in a different country than America.
Masters of propaganda from its inventor, Jewish public relations
expert Edward Louis James Bernays, to the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul
Joseph Goebbels, agree that a lie can be turned into truth by constant
repetition.
The purer
the lie, the more complete the success in turning it into The Truth. Lies
partly based in fact or half-truths open themselves to factual challenge. For a
propagandist the best lie is a lie unfettered by even a distant relationship to
truth. Such a lie can be turned into such self-evident truth that no evidence
is necessary. As Nikki Haley and Hillary Clinton put it: “Evidence! We don’t
need any stinking evidence. We know Russia hacked our
election!”
For the typical American, who doesn’t know anything, the
confidence of the former Secretary of State and “rightful President of the USA”
and the confidence of President Donald Trump’s own Ambassador to the United
Nations are sufficient to convince them that the lie that Russia stole the US
presidency for Trump is true. We all know it. Why? Because we have all heard it
endlessly repeated for many months. As one acquaintance said: “If it were
false, surely the media would have exposed it.” This insouciant naivete is
characteristic of Western populations.
As Berneys and Goebbels knew, one good propagandist can control
the opinion of the targeted group, whether it is a gender or a nation.
Initially for Beneys the targeted
group was American women. As a propagandist for an American tobacco company,
“the father of spin” promoted female smoking as a sign of feminist
independence. He called cigarettes “Torches of Freedom.” He also provided the propaganda
that enabled the United Fruit Company to have the US Government overthrow the
elected government of Guatemala in 1954.
Goebbels turned Germans into servants of the Third Reich, an
accomplishment the neoconservatives have yet to attain in the United States,
but they are still working at it.
The neoconservatives, the military/security complex, the Israel
Lobby, and the US presstitutes have succeeded in blocking Trump from
withdrawing from Syria and from normalizing relations with Russia. They have succeeded
in this by using their fabrication, “Russia-gate,” to put President Trump in a
box. If Trump now normalizes relations with Russia, it will be presented to the
world by the presstitutes as proof that the Putin/Trump conspiracy against
Western democracy is real. If Trump were to normalize relations, thereby
removing “the threat” that justifies the power and profit of the
military/security complex’s budget, he would likely be impeached as a traitor
to the USA. Trump’s tweets would be overwhelmed by the onslaught of the
presstitutes.
Americans, British, Europeans, Russians, Chinese, Indians, and
everyone else need to understand that Washington’s hostility toward Russia is
in the service of powerful interest groups. These interest groups are more
powerful than the President of the US.
Israel and its design on the Middle East is one of these
powerful interest groups. As Admiral Tom Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations and
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “No American president can stand up
to Israel.”
The
neoconservatives, who serve both the Zionist state of Israel and the US
military/security complex, are another of the powerful interest groups that
constrain the American government. That the neocons are firmly allied with
Israel and the military/security complex increases their power and
influence. President Eisenhower warned Americans in
1961 in his last public address to the American people that the power of the
military/industrial complex made it a threat to American democracy.
Eisenhower’s warning was 56 years ago. With the President of the
United States concerned about the military/industrial complex 56 years ago, try
to imagine how much more this power is entrenched after the decades of the Cold
War and “Soviet Threat.” The power of the military/security complex is the
premier power in Washington.
Eisenhower’s speech is the best speech any American President
has ever delivered. It is only 14 minutes and 4 seconds long; yet it covers
everything. There is an awareness that we can be victims of our own success.
Whatever their public position, neoconservatives have no alternative but to
hate President Eisenhower with a passion, because he compared the threat to
America from the military/industrial complex to the threat from the Soviet
Union.
Americans need to wise up, as do
the Russians, Chinese, Europeans and everyone else over whom the
neoconservatives intend to exercise hegemony regardless of the cost. The total
budget of the US military/security complex has been estimated at $1.1 trillion,
a figure that is 70% of Russia’s estimated 2017 GDP. It is larger than the GDP
of Mexico and Turkey. It is 45% of the GDP of France or England, and 32% of the
GDP of Germany. There are 195 countries in the world. Only 14 of them have A
Gross Domestic Product larger than the budget of the US military/security
complex.
Washington’s wars in the Middle East involve many interests,
including mundane ones such as who controls pipeline locations and energy
flows. It also involves Israel’s interests. Twice Israel has sent its army into
southern Lebanon for the purpose of occupying and annexing the water resources
of southern Lebanon, and twice the militia Hezbollah has defeated and driven
out the Israeli army, the fighting capability of which is overrated. Hezbollah
receives financial and military support from Syria and Iran. Using their
neoconservative allies and the orchestrated-by- propaganda American hatred of
Muslims, Israel intends to use the US military to put Syria and Iran in the
same state of chaos as Iraq and Libya. If deprived of outside support,
Hezbollah can finally be defeated by the Israeli army. With Syria and Iran in
chaos, the Russophobic neoconservatives can send jihadism into the Russian
Federation to break up the biggest constraint on US unilateralism.
If
we consider the combined power of these interest groups—the US
military/security complex with an annual budget greater than the GDP of most
countries, the neoconservatives with their ideology of US world hegemony and
alliance with both Democratic and Republican parties, and Israel which has the
US government in its pocket and brags about it—how is it possible for President
Trump to do as he said he would do and normalize relations with Russia and
withdraw from the US interventions in the Middle East? The prospect of Trump
succeeding is remote.
If the
Russian government fails to understand that President Trump is not the one
who is in charge, Russia will be destroyed along with America and
the rest of the world.
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.
Copyright © 2017 Paul Craig Roberts
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