Usually
foreign analysts of the American political scene are either sycophantic or
just annoying, but no one would dare say that about Aussie observer Caitlin
Johnstone, whose punk rock style of cutting to the chase is as refreshing as it
can be shocking (I am not a fan of the strong language, but I get it). Since
President Trump’s “fire and fury” explosion yesterday Americans have to an
unsettling degree once again rallied ’round the (false) flag of war propaganda.
Today Ms. Johnstone provided a much-needed slap in the face to the mind-numbed
masses once again clamoring for US bombs on a country they could not find on a map if their lives
depended on it.
As even
many soi-disant libertarians reverted back to playing
war commander on their keyboards — “I’m all for a non-interventionist foreign
policy, but THIS GUY’S GONNA KILL US!!!” — Johnstone reminded anyone with half
a brain of one eternal truth: Governments and their house servants (the
mainstream media, neocons, deep state, etc) are murderous liars and the only
way they dare flush a few hundred billion dollars — and oceans of blood — down
the toilet of war is to first lie their brains out to the people they are
confident will swallow the poison pills and call them candy.
Of course the United States government and its minions are lying
about North Korea, Johnstone reminds us. They ALWAYS lie!
The United
States power establishment has an extensive history of using lies, false flags
and propaganda to manipulate its hundreds of millions of citizens into
supporting needless military interventionism. From the Gulf of Tonkin incident to
the false Nayirah testimony to
the amazing network of lies spun
about Saddam Hussein to the ‘humanitarian’ intervention in Libya to
the unconscionable Bana Alabed psy-op in
Syria, there is no depth to which the US war machine will not stoop in
deceiving the public about the need to unload the military-industrial complex’s
expensive inventory onto some third world country overseas, no limit to the
evils that America’s unelected power establishment will commit in order to
secure geopolitical dominance, and no end to the mass media propaganda
machine’s willingness to report war propaganda as objective fact.
It is quite literally impossible to be too paranoid about these
people. If you had an acquaintance who was a known compulsive liar with an
extensive history of duping people into fighting one another for his own
sociopathic amusement, how would you react if he handed you a gun and told you
that your neighbor is getting ready to attack you?
This might prove shocking even to some “libertarians” caught up
in the frenzy of manufactured threats. But the US government lies. They lie day
and night. All the time about everything.
Johnstone concludes:
There is one government in the mix here that has proven itself
completely sociopathic and untrustworthy in such matters, and it ain’t the
DPRK. Stay skeptical, stay watchful, and stay woke.
“Oh no,” people squeal! “THIS time they’re telling the truth!”
Good luck with that. Blood’s on your hands, not ours.
Daniel McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute
for Peace and Prosperity.
Copyright © 2017 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in
whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are
given.
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