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The Coup
Against Truth
By Paul Craig
Roberts
January 05,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- Jon Rappoport’s mocking of the US presstitutes
is superb:“Vladimir Putin is the secret president of the
United States.
“Yep. That’s
it. The US is now the USSR. It’s all over. Trump is a
Communist who took orders from Putin. Trump is a Red.
That was his game all along. He’s a billionaire Commie.”
Ridicule is
effective, and nothing deserves ridicule more than the
Washington Post, New York, Times, CNN, and the rest of
the presstitutes who pretend to be real journalists. But
as I have emphasized, and other real journalists, such
as Glenn Greenwald (see,
for example
) imply, the fake news recklessly promoted by the
presstitutes brings with it the threat of thermo-nuclear
war.
For several
years Russia and her president have experienced endless
demonization. The Russians know that Georgia’s invasion
of South Ossetia (done while Putin was at the Beijing
Olympics) was a Washington provocation. The Russians
know that Washington’s coup in Ukraine (done while Putin
was at the Sochi Olympics) was a provocation aimed at
seizing Russia’s Black Sea naval base in Crimea and
cutting Russia off from the Mediterranean. The Russians
know that Washington knows that the charges that Russia
hacked Hillary’s emails and the US presidential election
are lies. The Russians know that the “Russian threat”
created by Washington is a lie along with all of its
permutations, such as an impending Russian invasion of
Poland and the Baltics. The Russians understand that US
ABM bases on Russia’s borders are provocations, as are
NATO military exercises on Russia’s borders and in the
Black Sea. You can add to this list on your own.
The lies are
ubiquitous, have grown more absurd, and are now
institutionalized in the US government in the CIA,
executive branch agencies, and among many US senators
and representatives. That these lies are validated by
endless media repetitions throughout the Western world
are viewed by Russia as indications that Western
populations are being prepared for a military attack on
Russia. Putin has warned publicly on many occasions that
the Western propaganda is dangerously destabilizing.
Yet, as he also notes, no one hears his warnings.
Washington is
so intent on its anti-Russian propaganda that Congress
has passed, and Obama has signed, an intelligence bill
that contains a section, Title V, that authorizes active
measures to counter purveyors of false news. These
purveyors are alternative media websites, such as this
one, that challenge the official lies. The truthful
alternative media is accused of being under Russian
influence. Last summer a website shrouded in secrecy was
created that recently posted a list of 200 websites
alleged to be under Russian influence, either directly
or indirectly. The Washington Post irresponsibly
published a long article endorsing the fake news of 200
websites working for the Russian government.
In other words,
the suppression of the truth is the last defense of the
corrupt American ruling establishment. During the last
24 years three Washington regimes have murdered millions
of peoples in nine or more countries along with US civil
liberty. To cover up these vast crimes, unparalleled in
history, the presstitutes have lied, slandered, and
libeled.
And the
Washington criminal regime holds itself up to the world
as the indispensable protector of democracy, human
rights, truth, and justice. As the Russian Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman said recently, what makes America
exceptional is the use of might in the service of evil.
Washington
brands not only its opponents but all who speak the
truth “Russian agents,” hoping that the demonization of
Russia has sufficiently frightened the population that
Americans will turn their backs to those who speak the
truth.
It would seem
obvious even to the insouciant that an establishment
that has gone so far out on a limb that the CIA director
publicly attributes the election of Donald Trump to
Russian interference but is unable to produce a shred of
evidence—indeed in the face of totally conclusive
evidence to the contrary—is determined to hold on to
power at all costs.
The CIA’s open,
blatant, and unprecedented propaganda attack against a
president-elect has caused Trump to throw down the
gauntlet to CIA director John Brennan. There are reports
that Trump intends to revamp and reorganize the
intelligence agency. The last president who said this,
John F. Kennedy, was murdered by the CIA before he could
strike against them. Kennedy believed that he could not
take on the CIA until he was re-elected. The delay gave
the CIA time to arrange his assassination.
Trump appears
to understand his danger. He has announced that he
intends to supplement his Secret Service protection
(which was turned against JFK) with private security.
Isn’t it
striking? The president of Russia states publicly that
Washington is driving the world to thermo-nuclear war
and that his warnings are ignored. The president-elect
of the United States is under full-scale attack from the
CIA and knows that he cannot trust his official security
force. One might think that these extraordinary topics
would be the only ones under discussion. But you can
find such discussion only on a few alternative media
websites, such as this one, branded by PropOrNot and the
Washington Post as “under Russian influence.”
Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week,
Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He
has had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the
West,
How America Was
Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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