By Caitlin Johnstone
March 17, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" - A
new report from the US National Intelligence
Council assesses that most of the governments
the US-centralized empire has targeted for
destruction are guilty of seeking to interfere
in the nation’s 2020 election.
Ahem.
Yeah, so, that’s the news. According to the US
intelligence cartel, the nations which sought to
interfere in the outcome of the US election include
Russia, Iran, China, Lebanese Hizballah, Cuba, and
Venezuela. Interestingly, exactly zero nations
aligned geopolitically with the United States are
listed as having interfered in its electoral
process.
“We assess that Russian President Putin
authorized, and a range of Russian government
organizations conducted, influence operations aimed
at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the
Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump,
undermining public confidence in the electoral
process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions
in the US,” the report informs us. “A key element of
Moscow’s strategy this election cycle was its use of
proxies linked to Russian intelligence to push
influence narratives-including misleading or
unsubstantiated allegations against President
Biden-to US media organizations, US officials, and
prominent US individuals, including some close to
former President Trump and his administration.”
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“We assess that Iran carried out a multi-pronged
covert influence campaign intended to undercut
former President Trump’s reelection prospects-though
without directly promoting his rivals-undermine
public confidence in the electoral process and US
institutions, and sow division and exacerbate
societal tensions in the US,” the report adds. “We
assess that Supreme Leader Khamenei authorized the
campaign and Iran’s military and intelligence
services implemented it using overt and covert
messaging and cyber operations.”
The report finds that China “considered but did
not deploy influence efforts intended to change the
outcome of the US Presidential election,” and that
it “probably continued to collect intelligence on
election-related targets and topics” and “a probably
also continued longstanding efforts to gather
information on US voters and public opinion;
political parties, candidates and their staffs; and
senior government officials.”
“We assess that Hizballah Secretary General
Hassan Nasrallah supported efforts to undermine
former President Trump in the 2020 US election,” the
report says. “Nasrallah probably saw this as a
low-cost means to mitigate the risk of a regional
conflict while Lebanon faces political, financial,
and public health crises.”
“We assess Cuba sought to undermine former
President Trump’s electoral prospects by pushing
anti-Republican and pro-Democrat narratives to the
Latin American community,” the report adds. “Cuban
intelligence probably conducted some low-level
activities in support of this effort.”
“The Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro had an
adversarial relationship with the Trump
administration and we assess that Maduro had the
intent, though probably not the capability, to try
to influence public opinion in the US against the
former President,” the National Intelligence Council
claims.
So what the US intelligence cartel is asking us
to believe this time around is that America’s
democracy has suffered
yet another invisible attack, the evidence for
which is of course top secret, and that the culprits
involved are most of the governments the US
intelligence cartel doesn’t like. Also, we’re being
asked to believe that US-aligned nations like Saudi
Arabia and Israel have had no similar interventions
in the US electoral process at all.
And of course we’re already getting reports that
this narrative will be used to justify sanctions
against many of the accused nations, including Iran
(which would necessarily kill the nuclear deal Biden
campaigned on re-entering).
“The Biden admin is expected to announce
sanctions related to election interference as soon
as next week, three admin officials tell me,” CNN’s
Kylie Atwood
reports on Twitter. “They didn’t disclose
details related to the expected sanctions but said
that they’ll target multiple countries including
Russia, China and Iran.”
So this completely unevidenced narrative is being
used to justify support for increased aggressions
which have already been long sought by the US
intelligence cartel, which has an
extensive and unbroken record of lying to us
about exactly this sort of thing. The response to
this is of course disbelief absent the mountain of
evidence required in a post-Iraq invasion world,
which (spoiler alert) will never surface. We will
never be given any solid evidence for these US spy
claims, yet US foreign policy and mainstream news
coverage of it will march on as though we have.
There is no legitimate reason to trust any of
these unproven claims, and it’s also worth noting
that even if those claims were true it would not
matter. The US
interferes in world elections more than any other
nation on earth, so foreign nations are fully
entitled to interfere in US elections as much as
they like. You have no legitimate grievances about
pushback on your behavior when you are the clear
aggressor.
Furthermore, any claims of foreign nations
pushing “influence narratives” are
dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the influence
narratives being pushed by the media-owning
plutocratic class inside the United States. Claiming
that any foreign nation has anywhere near that
degree of influence over the narratives which
Americans consume and believe is cartoonish. The
only real electoral interference in the United
States was by the plutocratic class.
This continually recycled story is so
unbelievably tedious. “Oh noes, we’ve been attacked
in an invisible way by an enemy we were already
preparing to slam with economic sanctions and new
cold war escalations! Believe us or you’re a
conspiracy theorist!” Sure, Jan. Cool story.
Whoever controls the narrative controls the
world. Those who control the dominant narratives
will keep adjusting them as they see fit to advance
whatever pre-existing agendas they have chambered up
ready to fire. Truth simply does not feature.
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