Among
the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel
Lobby—the Deep State of the military/security complex— there is enormous fear
that an uncontrollable President Trump at the upcoming Putin/Trump summit will
make an agreement that will bring to an end the demonizing of Russia that
serves to protect the enormous budget and power of the military-security
complex.
You
can see the Deep State’s fear in the editorials that the Deep State handed to
the Washington Post (June 29) and New York Times (June 29), two of the Deep
State’s megaphones, but no longer believed by the vast majority of the American
people. The two editorials share the same points and phrases. They
repeat the disproven lies about Russia as if blatant, obvious lies are hard
facts.
Both
accuse President Trump of “kowtowing to the Kremlin.” Kowtowing, of
course, is not a Donald Trump characteristic. But once again fact doesn’t
get in the way of the propaganda spewed by the WaPo and NYT, two megaphones of
Deep State lies.
The Deep State editorial
handed to the WaPo reads: “THE REASONS for the tension between the United
States and Russia are well-established. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine,
instigated a war in eastern Ukraine, intervened to save the dictatorship of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, interfered in the U.S. presidential election
campaign to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, poisoned a former
intelligence officer on British soil and continues to meddle in the elections
of other democracies.”
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The
WaPo’s opening paragraph is a collection of all the blatant lies assembled by
the Deep State for its Propaganda Ministry. There have been many books
written about the CIA’s infiltration of the US media. There is no doubt
about it. I remember my orientation as Staff Associate, House Defense
Appropriation Subcommittee, when I was informed that the Washington Post is a
CIA asset. This was in 1975. Today the Post is owned by a person with
government contracts that many believe sustain his front business.
And
don’t forget Udo Ulfkotte, an editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, who wrote in his best seller, Bought Journalism, that there was not a
significant journalist in Europe who was not on the CIA’s payroll. The English
language edition of Ulfkotte’s book has been suppressed and prevented from
publication.
The
New York Times, which last told the truth in the 1970s when it published the
leaked Pentagon Papers and had the fortitude to stand up for its First
Amendment rights, repeats the lies about Putin’s “seizure of Crimea and attack
on Ukraine” along with all the totally unsubstantiated BS about Russia
interfering in the US president election and electing Trump, who now kowtows to
Putin in order to serve Russia instead of the US. The editorial handed to the
NYT insinuates that Trump is a threat to the national security of America and
its allies (vassals). The problem, the NYT declares, is that Trump is not
listening to his advisors.
Shades
of President John F. Kennedy, who did not listen to the CIA and Joint Chiefs of
Staff about invading Cuba, nuking the Soviet Union, and using the false flag
attack on America of the Joint Chiefs’ Northwoods Project (look it up
online). Is the New York Times setting up Trump for assassination on the
grounds that he is lovey-dovey with Russia and sacrificing US national interests?
I
would bet on it.
While the Washington Post and
New York Times are telling us that if Trump meets with Putin, Trump will sell
out US national security, The Saker says that Putin finds himself in a similar
box, only it doesn’t come from the national security interest, but from
the Russian Fifth Column, the Atlanticist
Integrationists whose front man is the Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, who
represents the rich Russian elite whose wealth is based on stolen assets during
the Yeltsin years enabled by Washington. These elites, The Saker
concludes, impose constraints on Putin that put Russian sovereignty at risk.
Economically, it is more important to these elites for financial reasons to be
part of Washington’s empire than to be a sovereign country.
I
find The Saker’s explanation the best I have read of the constraints on Putin
that limit his ability to represent Russian national interests.
I
have often wondered why Putin didn’t have the security force round up these
Russian traitors and execute them. The answer is that Putin believes in
the rule of law, and he knows that Russia’s US financed and supported Fifth
Column cannot be eliminated without bloodshed that is inconsistent with the
rule of law. For Putin, the rule of law is as important as Russia.
So, Russia hangs in the balance. It is my view that the Russian Fifth
Column could care less about the rule of law. They only care about money.
As challenged as Putin might
be, Chris Hedges, one of the surviving great
American journalists–who is not always right but when he is he is
incisive–explains the situation faced by the American people. It is
beyond correction. American civil liberties and prosperity appear to be
lost.
In my opinion, Hedges
leftwing leanings caused him to focus on Reagan’s rhetoric rather that on
Reagan’s achievements—the two greatest of our time—the end of stagflation,
which benefited the American people, and the end of the Cold War, which removed
the threat of nuclear war. I think Hedges also does not appreciate
Trump’s sincerity about normalizing relations with Russia, relations destroyed
by the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes, and Trump’s sincerity about
bringing offshored jobs home to American workers. Trump’s agenda puts him up
against the two most powerful interest groups in the United States. A
president willing to take on these powerful groups should be appreciated and
supported, as Hedges acknowledges the dispossessed majority do. If I
might point out to Chris, whom I admire, it is not like Chris Hedges to align
against the choice of the people. How can democracy work if people don’t
rule?
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Hedges
writes, correctly, “The problem is not Trump. It is a political system,
dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political
parties, in which we [the American people] don’t count.”
Hedges is absolutely correct.
Hedges is absolutely correct.
It is
impossible not to admire a journalist like Hedges who can describe our plight
with such succinctness:
“We
now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice,
universities destroy knowledge, the press destroys information, religion
destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy.”
Read
The Saker’s explanation of Russian politics. Possibly Putin will collapse
under pressure from the powerful Fifth Column in his government. Read
Chris Hedges analysis of American collapse. There is much truth in it.
What happens if the Russian people rise up against the Russian Fifth Column and
if the oppressed American people rise up against the extractions of the
military/security complex? What happens if neither population rises up?
Who
sets off the first nuclear weapon?
Our
time on earth is not just limited by our threescore and ten years, but also
humanity’s time on earth, and that of every other species, is limited by the
use of nuclear weapons.
It is long past the time when
governments, and if not them, humanity, should ask why nuclear weapons exist
when they cannot be used without destroying life on earth.
Why
isn’t this the question of our time, instead of, for example, transgender
toilet facilities, and the large variety of fake issues on which the
presstitute media focuses?
The
articles by The Saker and Chris Hedges, two astute people, report that neither
superpower is capable of making good decisions, decisions that are determined
by democracy instead of by oligarchs, against whom neither elected government
can stand.
If
this is the case, humanity is finished.
Here are the Washington Post and New York Times editorials.
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
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