Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media. The propagandists running Homeland Security were contradicted by the state governments, forcing Homeland Security to retract its fake news claims.
Filthy politicians, filthy media, criminal empire—they all deserve each other, and are inseparable.
The unasked/unanswered question is why did Homeland Security put out a FAKE NEWS story?
Greenwald explains that the US media is so conditioned by the National Security State to see Russian President Putin lurking behind and masterminding attacks on America that it is “now religious dogma”—a requirement—to find Russian perfidy everywhere. The result Greenwald correctly says is that “an incredibly reckless, anything-goes climate prevails when it comes to claims about Russia. Media outlets will publish literally any official assertion as Truth without the slightest regard for evidentiary standards.”
In other words, the United States no longer has a media. It has a propaganda ministry for the military/security complex, the neoconservatives, and the Israel Lobby. And the idiot Americans sit in front of the TV and absorb the propaganda, and they read the New York Times and think that they are sophisticated and in the know.
What Greenwald doesn’t address is the effect of the massive amount of fake news on Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. Russia knows that Washington knows that the accusations against Russia are false. So why is Washington making false accusations against Russia?
This is a serious question, not only for Russia but for the entire world. All previous false accusations from the Clinton regime criminals, the Bush/Cheney regime criminals, and the Obama regime criminals ended in miiltary attacks on the falsely demonized targets. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea would be within reason to wonder if the false news propaganda attack on them is a prelude to military attack.
Iran and North Korea cannot attack the US and its European vassals, but Russia and China can. I have written about the Operational Command of the Russian armed forces conclusion that Washington is preparing a surprise nuclear attack on Russia. Instead of reassuring the Russians that no such planning is in the works, Washington has instead pushed further the fake news Russiagate story with the false report that Russia had hacked the elections of 21 states.
What is the point of US security agencies such as Homeland Security, CIA, FBI, NSA constantly filling the propaganda machine known as the American Media with lies about Russia? Russia must wonder as well. Russia knows that they are lies. Russia knows that it does no good to refute the lies because the West has a Propaganda Ministry instead of a media. Russia knows that Washington told lies about the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, Iran. What does Russia conclude from the constant stream of lies about Russia that flow out of Washington and are presented as truth by the Western presstitutes?
If you were the Russian government, would you conclude that your country was the next to be attacked militarily by Washington? If you were the Russian government, you would know that Washington/NATO cannot possibly attack Russia except by surprise nuclear strike. Knowing this, if you were the Russian government, would you sit there and wait on the strike? Imagine yourself the Russian government listening day in, day out, to endless wild improbable charges against Russia. What can Russia possibly conclude other than this is preparation of Western peoples for a nuclear attack on Russia?
Russia is not going to be hung like Saddan Hussein or murdered like Gaddafi.
I have written many times that provoking nuclear powers such as Russia and China is the most extreme form of recklessness and irresponsibility.
The crazed morons in Washington are risking the life of the planet. The presstitutes are worse than the whores that they are. They never question the path to war; they only amplify it. Washington’s craven, cowardly, moronic vassal states in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and the rest of the EU/NATO idiots are, by their cooperation with Washington, begging for their own destruction.
Nowhere in the West is there a sign of intelligence.
Will Washington follow Adolf Hitler’s folly and march into Russia?
Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Roberts’ How the Economy Was Lost is now available from CounterPunch in electronic format. His latest book is The Neoconservative Threat to World Order. PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS—I have written many times that provoking nuclear powers such as Russia and China is the most extreme form of recklessness and irresponsibility. The crazed morons in Washington are risking the life of the planet. The presstitutes are worse than the whores that they are. They never question the path to war; they only amplify it. Washington’s craven, cowardly, moronic vassal states in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and the rest of the EU/NATO idiots are, by their cooperation with Washington, begging for their own destruction
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
So unfortunate that liberal media would go out of its way to discredit itself by pushing the equally false anti-Israel spiel. Never mind the fact that the US is one of the leading providers of weapons to the surrounding Arab states, some of which seek to eradicate Jews from the region, establishing a 100% “pure” Moslem Mideast. As of yesterday, at least Wisconsin renewed the allegations that Russia “hacked the election” in this state. How and why they supposedly did this remains a mystery. In this era, media have shone a striking disinterest in logic in promoting such nonsense. It… Read more »
Will Washington follow Adolf Hitler’s folly and march into Russia? No, one should understand that much of US braggadocio is clumsy propaganda, meant to divert attention from the real atrocious policies they try to bring about (sometimes with success like the Vietnam debacle or no success like with Iraq). Diversion tactics it is called and by forcing attention to Russia, North Korea etc., their actions concentrate out of the audience’s view on Venezuela and Africa. It is not the subtlest way to exert one’s powers, but then what do they know in Washington? The tactic of Russian interference and clumsy… Read more »
Though I have differences of opinion with Hedges, he outlines in his interview with North of WSWS exactly what the political situation is like in this country vis-a-vis Russian “influence”: Question: How do you interpret the fixation on Russia and the entire interpretation of the election within the framework of Putin’s manipulation? Chris Hedges: It’s as ridiculous as Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. It is an absolutely unproven allegation that is used to perpetuate a very frightening accusation—critics of corporate capitalism and imperialism are foreign agents for Russia. I have no doubt that the Russians invested time, energy and… Read more »
Fabian,
The “Middle-East” (a Western European imperialist term) has never been Arabic. It consists of Turks, Kurds (a Turkic people), Iranians (Caucasians), Arabs and over the millennia Jews (both Semitic people). It cannot and is not considered to be an Arab territory, but the artificial imposition of expatriate Jews at the Mediterranean edge as a nation was only possible through British and French colonialism. That is where the rub lies…
Islam has little to do with it, it is like Christianity a world religion divided in two sects (like Catholicism and Protestantism) that battle each other, Sunni and Shi’i. Though there are no records that the smaller sect Shi’i were burned at the stake like the Protestant heretics by the Roman-Catholic Inquisition. As for oppression of women (and children), that is an atavistic anomaly mainly in Saudi-Arabia sustained by an indifferent Western foreign policy, but then it forms part of Judaic orthodoxy too. Is commodification of female bodies in Western advertising and popular culture not equally oppressive ?
There is a certain way of convincing other people of your arguments if they are rational and outline clearly the pros and contras of what you are trying to commute. But the unrelenting stream of petty hatred on the television cable ‘news’ channels of WNBC and CNN against Trump (whatever one may think of him and his administration) only serves to antagonize those who are very willing to listen to arguments that have a defensive basis. But especially women maintain an animus that soon loses its persuasiveness in stumbling again and again over the same imponderables, because it is not… Read more »