A bizarre article has appeared in the Washington Post urging for the revitalisation of an anti-communism culture war of CIA funding to “help artists struggling to break through overseas today” (1, WashingtonPost). More interestingly the author wants to use the movie Sorry To Bother You to do this.

The author (Sonny Bunch) betrays his imperial desires almost in his first sentence with “overseas today”. His first concern is not the direction his country is going in (a bleak one with a climate denier sex offender at the helm) but with combatting communism in other countries. The author, Sonny Bunch, talks about a book he’s recently read The Pied Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold war (titled to the less provocative The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters in the United States). This book he praises to the heavens though he warns you to “ignore its bias” (ie. the conclusion).

That’s very kind of him.

He also praises the likes of the Ford Foundation which was founded by Henry Ford. Henry Ford was an anti-semite who sponsored The Dearborn Independent newspaper that was a strongly anti-semitic newspaper that ran for 8 years.


A page from the deeply anti-semitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, Henry Ford sponsored for over 8 years.

“you’ll discover a fascinatingly byzantine effort to turn the world to the American way of thinking via pen and paint rather than munitions and murder.” (1)

Which of course ignores the fact that the CIA was changing the world with murder and munitions during the entire cold war. The author likely doesn’t even know (or is so blinded by ideology) that the US has been at war 225 years out of its 243 year existence.(2)  That’s a whole lotta murder to ensure the world heads in the direction dictated by Washington.

The United States just so happens to currently be run by a degenerate sex assaulter that thinks global warming is a Chinese hoax and threatened nuclear war with North Korea.

When Americans talk of “Pax-Americana” (The American Peace) I’m reminded of “Pax-Romana” (The Roman Peace) and a speech by Calgacus who fought for freedom from the rule of Roman Empire.

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

The Washington regime is a regime that was more than happy to wipe out 20 percent of the North Korean population in a war which was largely considered racist in the 1950s. The United States dropped more bombs on Laos than was used in the entire Pacific theatre of world war 2 even Obama had to admit that Laos was the most heavily bombed place on the planet.

From the death squads the CIA sponsored in Guyana, Guatemala, Peru and Dominican Republic. To understand how the CIA truly operated during the Cold War I can only recommend the chapter “Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads” in William Blum's brilliant Killing Hope book. In which William Blum expertly shows how the CIA trained torture units in Latin America and Africa as well as death squads that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

The CIA seemed to work from a standpoint of, as William Blum puts it, “saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy”.

In a blog Sonny Bunch wrote on the 22/8/2018 for Freebeacon.com titled In Praise of Cultural Warfare (3) he confirms this in a tweet he’s made.

(4) Sonny Bunch✔@SonnyBunch

· Aug 10, 2018

Just started reading a book about how the CIA helped spread western art in communist countries in order to subvert totalitarian regimes.

The book frames this as a bad thing. Me, I’m like, “DOUBLE THE CIA’S BUDGET, THIS IS ALL FANTASTIC.”

In this rambling blogpost on freebeacon he continues

Nabokov wasn’t “throwing punches at a man with his hands tied behind his back”: He was punching up at one of the few remaining world powers, an enemy state that had set its sights on bringing America to its knees. That Shostakovich was the Evil Empire’s representative at this event may have been unfortunate. But cultural warfare ain’t beanbag.

It’s interesting to see this kind of hysterical anti-communism creep back into society. At what point was the Soviet Union ever going to invade the United States? During 1917–1920 when, just after a World War it was then embroiled in a civil war then invaded by 14 countries one of which was the United States. Of the 14 countries they were some of the most powerful at the time (UK, France, United Kingdom, United States, Japan).

Czechoslovakia and Japan alone sent 120,000 troops into Russia.


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U.S. troops invading Russia ( Vladivostok) August 1918

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]as the Soviet Union then going to invade the United States whilst it was fully occupied with industrialisation and bringing the living standards of the poorest of the country to a higher standard in the 2nd fastest industrialisation the world has ever seen (the first being China). Were they then going to invade the United States in the 30s whilst the Soviet Union was roiled with internal politics then focused on helping Spain from being steam rolled by fascist Italy and Germany (facilitated by the western powers who feigned neutrality whilst helping the Axis powers). Was the invasion going to happen after World war 2 in which the Soviet Union lost 27 million people, saved the world from nazism and their entire country had been bombed to smithereens? At what point in history was the Soviet Union ever going to affect the United States personally?

Ideologues like Sonny unfortunately did believe their own propaganda from the cold war and from the hysterical years of McCarthyism. Oh how far the Washington Post has fallen. But it is to be expected after the WashingtonPost used Edward Snowdon to win a Pulitzer Prize then condemned him. Which puts the WashingtonPost in the bizarre situation of having won a prestigious prize for journalism whilst condemning their source.

Of course I don’t write this article to affect Sonny Bunch or for the deluded people who buy into his bullshit but for my own entertainment. As it is amusing to see such a historically tone deaf and illiterate his piece is. We can only assume he’s too busy mid orgasm reading cointelpro briefings on assassinations in the 80s to do any thorough research.

In signing off his freebeacon.com article Sonny says (in recommendation of Saunders book The Pied Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold war):

Anyway! I highly recommend reading Saunders’ book, available at an Amazon near you. So long as you remember how to read it.

Breathtaking really. I’ve already read Saunders book but unfortunately I did it with a cup of tea not a shot of ideology.

The icing on the cake of course is that the film he wants to promote was written by Boots Riley who identifies as a communist and who is trying to promote a communist and anti-capitalist sentiment in his new film.

And on that note, here’s one of my favourite tracks of his.

References

(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2018/08/22/the-cia-funded-a-culture-war-against-communism-it-should-do-so-again/?utm_term=.7b214c2e4c6d

(2) http://washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-222-239-years-since-1776.html

(3) https://freebeacon.com/blog/praise-cultural-warfare/

(4)https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1027969276634951680