How
Information Is Controlled by Washington, Israel,
and Trolls, Leading to Our Destruction
By Paul
Craig Roberts
May 08,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- Dear Readers: I very much appreciate the
support you show for me in your emails. I seldom
receive a rude email from you, and when I do it
is usually something off subject, such as a
reader angry with Israel and unloading on me
with an accusation that I am a coward and a
“Jew-lover” because I don’t do enough to expose
the crimes of the Jews.
This
accusation always amuses me as the ADL lists me
as an anti-Semite because I occasionally make an
entirely justified criticism of Israel’s
mistreatment of Palestinians and excessive
influence over US foreign policy, as have many
outstanding scholars, such as John Mearsheimer
and Stephen Walt, and many Jews themselves.
My
friends find my designation by the ADL as an
anti-Semite hilarious. The person whom I
selected as my principal deputy in the US
Treasury is a Jew. David Meiselman, my friend
and co-author with me of an important study of
the Congressional Budget Office, is a Jew
(deceased). I went to Oxford for the express
purpose of studying under Michael Polanyi, a Jew
who had to leave his scientific post in Germany
to escape the Nazis. Milton Friedman, an early
supporter of the Institute for Political
Economy, is a Jew (deceased). When my book
(1971) on the Soviet economy was republished in
1990 without a word changed, it was a Jew who
wrote the Introduction. He asked, “Why did only
Roberts get it right?”
I have
had Israelis as house guests.
And the
ADL labels me an anti-Semite. Clearly, the term
no longer means anything.
I hold
Israel and the Israel Lobby accountable, just as
I held accountable the Reagan administration,
the George H.W. Bush administration, the Clinton
regime, the George W. Bush regime, the Obama
regime, and the Trump regime. (I differentiate
between administration and regime on the basis
of whether the president actually had meaningful
control over the government. If the president
has some control, he has an administration.)
According to the ADL’s logic, I am both
anti-Reagan and anti-American. But readers see
me as a true patriot, and Reagan-haters see me
as a Reagan-apologist. Clearly, something is
wrong with the ADL’s logic.
Obviously, the Israel Lobby has destroyed the
meaning of anti-Semite. In its effort to control
the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, the Israel Lobby has made
“anti-Semite” into a badge of honor.
Control
over explanations is important to Zionist
Israel. If Americans can be convinced, as many
have been, that Palestinians are terrorists out
to kill all Jews, Israel’s theft of Palestine
and mistreatment of Palestinians is not the
issue that it would otherwise be. The Israel
Lobby also works hard to control which voices
are acceptable and which are not. For example,
no one is permitted to investigate the
Holocaust. Some European countries have a law
against Holocaust investigation, and historians
have been sent to prison for challenging the
official explanation, which it is mandatory to
believe.
In the
US the Israel Lobby can even overturn decisions
on academic tenure. For example, the outstanding
scholar, Norman Finkelstein, a Jew and a critic
of Israel, was denied tenure at a Catholic
University solely on the basis of objection from
the Israel Lobby. I find it extraordinary that
not even Catholic Universities can stand up to
the power of the Israel Lobby. The tenure
committee and the faculty voted Finkelstein’s
tenure, and the Israel Lobby interceded with the
university president and blocked it.
Similarly, Steven Salaita was offered a tenure
appointment at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, accepted it, resigned his
tenure at Virginia Tech, sold his house and
moved his family to Illinois only to have the
president of the University of Illinois
illegally cancel his appointment, apparently on
orders from the Israel Lobby. Salaita’s attitude
toward Israel was not acceptable to Israel.
The
Israel Lobby succeeded in eliminating two
outstanding scholars from American academic
life, thereby extending Zionist control of the
Israeli/Palestinian explanation by eliminating
alternative explanations. As far as I can
ascertain, neither scholar has been able to
overcome the slander and obtain an academic
appointment, a great loss to students and
scholarship.
If a
writer so much as reports these factual events,
the writer is branded an anti-Semite by the
Israel Lobby. In former times, an anti-Semite
meant a person who hated Jews. But today it
means anyone who makes even a mild criticism of
Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians whose
lands Israel occupies and is stealing. Indeed,
practically nothing is left of Palestine except
the Gaza ghetto that is totally controlled by
Israel. All movements of supplies and people in
and out are controlled by Israel. Essentially,
Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto.
These
are simple irrefutable facts. Every aware person
knows this, but if you say it or write it, you
are a “Jew-hater.”
Many
Jews have been conditioned to believe that any
criticism of Israel, no matter how justified, is
anti-Semitic. Even Israel’s friend, former US
President Jimmy Carter, is reviled by the Israel
Lobby as an anti-Semite. Carter cautioned Israel
against mistreatment of the Palestinians and was
instantly branded a “Jew-hater.” The Jews on the
board of the Carter Center resigned.
How do
we account for the vast power of the lobby of a
foreign power whose entire consequence in the
world depends solely on Washington’s support?
How does a dependent country control, or if
control is too strong, so heavily influence,
Washington’s policy in the Middle East,
resulting in millions of deaths of Muslims and
the destruction of entire countries, and also
overturn the tenure decisions of US Catholic and
state universities? If the US is a superpower,
clearly Israel is the Hyperpower.
Israel
owes much of its influence to the billions of US
taxpayers’ dollars that Washington gives each
year to Israel. Money is fungible, and it comes
back to the US in the form of political campaign
contributions to support Israel’s friends and
defeat Israel’s critics. It come back in support
for friendly media, academics, and university
administrations. It influences entertainment and
some say court cases, not by paying off judges,
but by influencing the explanation of the case.
And so on. In other words, US taxpayers’ money
is used to give a foreign government more
control over the US than US citizens have.
There
is a great deal of hostility toward the Zionist
government among European populations and
Muslims. But this hostility does not transfer to
all Jews. People are capable of differentiating
the responsible from the powerless.
All
Jews are not Israelis and all Israelis are not
Zionists. Some Israelis complain that the
Zionist government is squeezing morality out of
the Israeli population, and they pay a price for
saying so. Israelis who organize in protest to
the Zionist policies against the Palestinians,
such as Jeff Halper, coordinator of the Israeli
Committee Against Home Demolitions, are branded
“self-hating Jews” by the Zionist government.
Few
Americans know that the Israeli government
confiscates entire Palestinian villages and
demolishes Palestinians’ homes, using specially
built equipment by the American corporation,
Caterpillar, and constructs housing for
Israelis. The Israel Lobby will deny this
despite the fact that Israeli citizens have
formed an organization that seeks to use law and
Israeli courts to prevent it. Western
governments and presstitutes are not interested
in what becomes of the dispossessed
Palestinians.
Halper
is Jewish, but the Palestinians do not hate him.
He can go to Gaza without any danger from the
Muslims. The only danger he faces is from the
Israeli government who arrested him for going to
Gaza. Indeed, distinguished Israelis, such as
Gilad Atzmon and Ilan Pappe have left Israel for
safety in Europe. Both are demonized by the
Israel Lobby. If you care to understand Zionist
Israel, read Atzmon’s book, The Wandering
Who? For Palestine, read Pappe’s books.
Think
about this more generally. As Muslims have been
under foreign occupation for a very long time,
they are aware that they have no control over
“their” governments. Some of them are aware that
Europeans and Americans also have no control
over their governments. Just as Muslims in
Palestine do not hold Halper responsible for
Israel’s murderous policies toward Palestinians,
what sense does it make for Muslims to hold
hapless Europeans and Americans responsible for
the evil policies of the US and European
governments?
If you
think about this, you can see why it is
suspicious that “Muslim terrorism” commits acts
only against innocents, who have no influence
over government policy, and not against the
responsible government officials.
If
Muslim terrorists are so sophisticated that they
can pull off events such as 9/11 and the Nice
truck attack, they are sufficiently
sophisticated to understand who their real
enemies are. They know that the enemy is not
Frenchmen enjoying an evening on French streets.
As I
have previously observed, the main
neoconservatives are well known from their high
positions in the George W. Bush and Obama
regimes. Their responsibility for the years of
US invasions, bombings, and destruction of
millions of Muslim peoples is known. None of the
neoconservatives have any protection. Yet there
has never been a terrorist attack against any of
them.
Considering that the alleged Muslim terrorists
are so inconsiderate of their own lives, they
could easily take out former VP Dick Cheney, who
has only minimal protection. Consider that there
have been no Muslim terror attacks on
unprotected US Senators and Representatives and
presstitutes who have fervently supported two
decades of murderous warfare against Muslims.
Consider that the US and Europe are now full of
Muslim refugees from Washington’s wars, and
terrorist events (which are probably false flag
events) are rare.
In a
real democracy with a real media and real
opposition parties, these questions would be
investigated and part of public debate, not
dismissed as “conspiracy theory.” As I reported
in a previous column, CIA documents were
discovered that show that the CIA invented the
use of “conspiracy theory” to prevent a real
investigation into the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/08/31/are-you-a-mind-controlled-cia-stooge-paul-craig-roberts/
To
return to the purpose of this missive, which is
to thank you for your support, I agree with the
numerous readers who wrote to tell me that they
do not waste time reading comment sections in
which the majority of comments are the work of
narcisstic idiots and paid trolls, and in which
anonymous commentators slander not only the
columnist but also one another. Readers advise
me to treat the comments as water off the duck’s
back.
I did
not protest because of thin skin. As I
understand it, many governments, agencies of
governments, and private interest groups and
individuals with agendas, such as Monsanto and
George Soros, finance trolls to attack Internet
writers who are critical of their agendas. Other
reports say that Google is cooperating with the
government’s control over explanations by making
it more difficult to find truth-tellers online.
Other reports say that Twitter and Facebook are
censoring what can be posted.
The
process of discrediting truth-tellers works as
follows: A writer provides an explanation that
differs from the official explanation. He or she
is set upon both by narcissists full of
themselves and by trolls.
His or
her argument is mischaracterized. He or she is
branded a “conspiracy theorist,” a “Putin dupe”
or “Russian agent,” an “anti-Semite,” an
“anti-American,” a “Reagan apologist.” Once
these comments are posted, the troll network
spreads them into social media, with the
intention of discrediting the writer and
creating suspicion about his or her motives and
sanity. As most people are poorly informed and
have difficulty differentiating The Matrix from
The Reality, the trolls succeed in limiting the
writer’s audience.
It is
not “thin skinned” to object to a process that
discredits those who provide real information
when the purpose of the discrediting is to
protect the official disinformation used to
control explanations.
Readers
continually ask me what can be done to regain
control over the government. My answer is that
the people cannot do anything until they
understand the situation. Without good
information, they cannot understand the
situation. Narcissists and trolls work to keep
people confused about legitimate sources.
If
comment sections required real names and real
email addresses, comments would be less damaging
to the truth as commentators would be less
inclined toward irresponsibility and malice.
Everywhere in the Western World, and this
includes the Asian provinces of the American
Empire, it is close to impossible to acquire
accurate information. The only purpose of
information from Washington and from the print
and TV media and NPR is to get the captive
populations to accept the officlal explanation
that serves the ruling agenda. Those who provide
real news, such as RT, are attacked as fonts of
“fake news.” In other words, for Washington
truth is an enemy. As George Orwell said, “In a
time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act.”
The
Saker says that the agenda most in need of our
attention is the “anglo-zionist agenda” of
US/Israeli domination. The overriding fact of
our time is that any country or person in the
way of US/Israeli domination is destined for
destruction.
That is
our reality.
Russia
and China have finally caught on that the
democratic rhetoric issuing from Washington is a
cloak for the evil that is the operating force
of the US government.
Will
Russia and China accept the hegemony of this
evil or will they not? It is a very serious
matter that Washington has convinced the Russian
and Chinese governments that Washington is
preparing a preemptive nuclear strike against
them. This is extremely serious, not something
for narcissists and trolls to play with.
For all
who ask what to do, the answer is to speak out
strongly against Washington for risking all life
by convincing Russia and China that Washington
is preparing to nuke them. To understand how
dire the situation is, ask yourself why you hear
no protests against such provocation of Russia
and China from the West’s print and TV media,
from the US Senate, from the House of
Representatives, from European political
leaders, from hardly anyone.
The
absence of protest tells the Russians and
Chinese that the American Empire is OK with the
preemptive attack. Where is Merkel’s voice?
Where is May’s? Where is any leader’s voice?
The
absence of protest voices tells Russia and China
that the die is cast.
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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