False Flags Suddenly No Longer A Crazy
Conspiracy Theory
By Caitlin Johnstone
January 18, 2022:
Information Clearing House- In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations
of false flag operations as conspiratorial
nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented
imagination of Alex Jones, the US
political/media class is proclaiming with one
voice that Russia is currently orchestrating
just such an operation to justify an invasion of
Ukraine.
“As part of its plans, Russia is laying the
groundwork to have the option of fabricating a
pretext for invasion,” White House Press Secretary
Jen Psaki
told reporters on Friday. “We have information
that indicates Russia has already pre-positioned a
group of operatives to conduct a false flag
operation in eastern Ukraine.”
“Without getting into too much detail, we do have
information that indicates that Russia is already
working actively to create a pretext for a potential
invasion, for a move on Ukraine,” Pentagon
Spokesperson John Kirby
told the press on Friday. “In fact, we have
information that they’ve pre-positioned a group of
operatives, to conduct what we call a false flag
operation, an operation designed to look like an
attack on them or their people, or Russian speaking
people in Ukraine, as an excuse to go in.”
The US government has substantiated these
incendiary claims with the usual amount of evidence,
by which I of course mean jack dick nothingballs.
The mass media have not been dissuaded from
reporting on this issue by the complete absence of
any evidence that this Kremlin false flag plot is in
fact a real thing that actually happened, their
journalistic standards completely satisfied by the
fact that their government instructed them to report
it. Countless
articles and
news segments containing the
phrase “false flag” have been
blaring throughout
all the
most influential
news outlets in the
western world without the slightest hint of
skepticism.
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This sudden embrace of the idea that governments
can stage attacks on their own people to justify
their own pre-existing agendas is a sharp pivot from
the scoff which such a notion in mainstream liberal
circles has typically received.
This 2018 article from The New York Times simply
dismisses the idea that the 2014 Maidan massacre was
a false flag carried out by western-backed
opposition fighters in Ukraine to frame the riot
police of the government who was ousted in
that coup, for example, despite the
existence of
plenty of evidence that this is indeed what
happened.
This BBC article dismisses without argument the
idea that the alleged 2018 chemical weapons attack
in Douma, Syria could have been a false flag carried
out by the Al Qaeda-aligned insurgents on the ground
to provoke a western attack on the Syrian
government, yet there are
mountains of evidence that this was the case.
Articles denouncing the very idea of “false
flag conspiracy theories” surface
routinely in the
mass media. Snopes
has a whole article explaining that false flags
are kooky nonsense without any mention of the fact
that this is a known tactic we’ve seen intelligence
operatives discussing in declassified documents,
like when
the CIA considered planting bombs in Miami to
blame Castro. I myself was once temporarily
suspended by Facebook just for posting an
article about false flag operations that are
publicly acknowledged to have occurred. People who
dare to question the
many gaping plot holes in the official 9/11
narrative have often been treated with the same
disdain and revulsion as neo-Nazis and pedophilia
advocates.
"A US official told CNN" is not a "Scoop" but demonstrates the willingness of 'journalists' to stenograph unverifiable government disinformation. https://t.co/wr2u3xKtiI
None of this is to say that every theory about
any false flag operation is true; many are not. But
the way the mass media will instantly embrace an
idea to which they’ve heretofore been consistently
hostile just because their government told them to
to do it says so much about the state of the
so-called free press today, and the fact that the
rank-and-file public simply accepts this and marches
along with it as though talking about false flags
has always been normal says so much about the level
of Orwellian doublethink that people have been
trained to perform in today’s information ecosystem.
The way false flag operations were widely considered
conspiratorial hogwash until the instant they were
reported as real by the media institutions who’ve
lied to us about every war is downright creepy.
The problem with preemptive false flag
accusations is of course that the side making the
claim can simply launch an unprovoked attack and
then say “See? They’re staging a false flag to frame
our side, just like we said they would!” And then
they can present their subsequent actions as
defensive in nature, when in reality they were the
aggressors and instigators. We are seeing nothing
from the obedient western news media to suggest
they’d do anything other than uncritically
regurgitate such claims into the minds of their
trusting audiences.
As the Beltway doctrine that US unipolar hegemony
must be preserved at all cost crashes headlong into
the reality of an emerging multipolar world, the US
government is now more dangerous than it has ever
been at any point in its history. We need the press
to be holding the drivers of empire to account with
the light of truth, and we need the public to be
opposing and scrutinizing
these reckless escalations. Instead, we are
getting the exact opposite. God help us all.
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