All news is lies and all propaganda
is disguised as news - Willi Munzenberg
The “media” along with the neocons and neoliberals are in
full-blown meltdown after President Trump, during his Super Bowl Sunday interview
with neocon Bill O’Reilly, spoke truth to power.
Excerpt:
O'Reilly asked Trump whether
he "respects" the former KGB agent:
"I do respect him, but I respect a lot of people," Trump
said, "That doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him."
Trump said he would appreciate any assistance from Russia in the fight against
ISIS terrorists, adding that he would rather get along with the former Cold
War-era foe than otherwise.
"But, [Putin] is a
killer," O'Reilly said.
"There are a lot of killers," Trump responded, "We've
got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"
A shipment of fainting couches had to be brought in to
accommodate, the barrage of GOP and DNC spokes-hypocrites whose delicate
sensibilities had been mightily offended.
The media’s naked emperor, Bill O’Reilly whose suit of brilliant clothes
are invisible to those who are not regular Fox viewers, were deemed too stupid,
or incompetent to comprehend the outrage.
The
propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other
sets of people are human. - Aldous Huxley
Yes, Trump’s candor had the elite swooning after all truth
is to the media and politicians what kryptonite is to Superman. Years of media consolidation in order to pass
lies as truth were blown out of the water in one interview. When President Trump said “"There are a
lot of killers, we've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so
innocent?" That was more than the
media could bear. From Steve Lendman:
Excerpt:
US Terror-Bombing Far More Extensive Than Reported
America’s global war on terrorism is a scam to wage permanent war
on humanity. Its imperial madness threatens everyone. It wastes trillions of dollars unavailable
for vital domestic needs. It made America a rogue state far more menacing than
any other in world history.
Its thermonuclear arsenal if used
in error or by design can kill us all. Neocons like Hillary Clinton and Washington’s criminal class believe the
Pentagon should do whatever it takes to eliminate all challengers to US
dominance over planet earth, its resources and populations. Trump is a businessman. Can he tame this
beast or become its servant, a question yet to be answered? …He hasn’t ended Bush/Cheney/Obama wars, but
give him a break. He’s only been in office two-and-a-half weeks...
America’s wars are far more deadly than reported, according to a
February 5 Military Times report, saying:
“The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted
over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan,” according to an
investigation it conducted - not
including Libya, Yemen, Somalia and parts of Pakistan terror-bombed. Thousands
of US airstrikes were unreported, causing
unknown numbers of casualties, mostly noncombatant civilians, paying
the greatest price in all wars.
US and Israeli ones consider them
legitimate targets, a flagrant violation
of international law… All
governments lie. The Pentagon
notoriously misleads the public. Nothing it reports is credible. What’s
most important to reveal is suppressed, including accurate casualty counts and
the fact that all US wars are against
nations threatening no one…
“If you're not careful, the
newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving
the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
In order to continue the American assault by the neocons and
neoliberals against helpless, hopeless nations there must be a constant enemy,
a straw man that must be continually knocked down. That straw man is Vladimir Putin. The threat of Vladimir Putin was used as an
excuse to overthrow the elected government of Viktor Yanukovich of Ukraine
whose crime was to turn down a trade deal with the European Union for a better
trade deal with Putin’s Russia. From
Voice of Russia:
Excerpt:
US, NATO, CIA supporting Nazis in
Ukraine project
The overthrow of the government of
Ukraine was an armed coup d’état ordered, planned, organized, funded, carried
out and executed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Pentagon, the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and their surrogates in the European
Union (EU) using every instrument at their disposal including the National
Security Agency (NSA) and all of their
amassed media resources. It was carried out with the knowledge and approval
of US President Barack Hussein Obama if not at his directive.
The actions of the US in organizing the armed overthrow and
installation of an illegitimate puppet government in Kiev was and continues
to be illegal and revelations that continue to be exposed, including the latest
regarding the hiring of snipers to kill
demonstrators and police, are an outrage and a crime against all humanity that must not be allowed to stand…
In documented regime change operations, which Ukraine clearly was, the CIA has classically used snipers to
heighten the panic and the terror and in the end to blame whichever side it
is against for crimes against the people…
In the case of Ukraine the illegitimate “authorities” immediately “filed
charges” against the acting President Yanukovich.
These charges of course came in
unison with choreographed statements by western officials (EU officials, the
White House and others), massive
choreographed media coverage, showing selected scenes and footage of “poor
defenseless peaceful protestors” bloodied and apparently the victims of
“the brutal police forces” who themselves were completely unarmed having to
face snipers, guns, Molotov cocktails, steel cement filled pipes and highly trained armed protestors bent on
killing them…
Very similar to the killing of 426 children in Latakia Syria and
the gas attacks in Damscus when Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad had welcomed
UN chemical weapons inspectors… Just as the killing of 426 children was
to serve as the pretext for the invasion of Syria, the killing
of “civilians” served as the pretext for toppling the government and to charge
the president with mass murder.
The violence is not over in
Ukraine. The US/CIA/NATO/EU are growing
desperate and having problems getting the Ukrainian people to accept that
the murderers and neo-nazis are now their new leaders. Almost no one accepts their legitimacy, except of course western
lackeys and politicians who are in on the coup.
The media’s the most powerful
entity on earth. They have the power to
make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s
power. Because they control the masses. –
Malcolm X
Yes, almost no one accepted the legitimacy of the coup
installed Nazi government in Ukraine. So
who did the US/CIA/NATO/EU turn to in order to make the people of Ukraine
accept the government they installed?
Why, they turned to RAND Corporation for a solution, a final solution. From Global Research:
Excerpt:
President Poroshenko Uses RAND Corporation “Action Plan” for Eastern
Ukraine including Ground Assaults and Air Strikes
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko follows the action plan proposed by RAND analysts. This Memorandum on the “advisable course of
action” automatically means that the peace plan confirmed by Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko is slated to fail.
The document provides three
stages for the conduct of a military operation in eastern Ukraine.
The first stage implies total isolation of the region considering that all local citizens are
terrorists or sympathizers. The
Region should be encircled with troops and sealed off entirely from any flow of
goods and persons. Broadcasting services, Internet
connection, telephone and mobile communications in the region shall be shut
down.
The second stage is named Mop-up. Ground assaults shall be preceded by air
strikes against the strategic facilities. The
use of non-conventional arms is allowed.
The document also provides for internment
camps outside the cleared settlements. People
featuring traces of combat engagement shall
be tried in court for terrorism.
During the third stage Back to Normal power supplies and communications
shall be restored. The borders shall be strengthened to avoid possible
provocations. All the refugees should be checked for possible support for
separatists in internment camps. Special
focus shall be made on information security. All foreign media shall be blocked there.
Wow, Ukraine’s Nazi government installed by the CIA
considered any citizen that failed to accept their new government a terrorist
or terrorist sympathizer giving the Nazi government a nod to use any means,
even non-conventional arms like nukes to persuade them. If not persuaded to accept their Nazi
government, they were given the OK to try them in court and designate them
terrorists to be detained in internment camps.
By banning foreign media from reporting the Ukraine holocaust, America’s
media was spoon-fed CIA approved propaganda labeling Putin is the murderer.
“The propaganda system allows the
US leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of
misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger
appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative
butchers.” - Edward S. Herman
Is it any wonder the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted
to join Russia lest they be the next victims of the “US/EU/NATO/CIA
liberators?” Russia has had a warm water
seaport in Crimea for over 200 years and yet the media perpetuates the lie that
Russia invaded Crimea. From NPR:
Excerpt:
Crimea Overwhelmingly Supports Split From Ukraine To Join Russia
Russian news services are claiming
overwhelming support in Crimea for the region's plan to secede from Ukraine and
unite with Russia, citing exit polls from Sunday's referendum. Russia's state
news agency reports that after 50 percent of the votes had been processed that
more than 95 percent of voters said they
were in favor of joining Russia…
Polls closed Sunday evening after a
day of reportedly high turnout.
Preliminary results aren't expected to be announced until late Sunday or
Monday. Russian lawmakers and other officials are being quoted saying that they
will work to absorb Crimea very quickly, perhaps by the end of March.
Pro-Ukrainian activists inside Crimea had urged a boycott of the
vote, NPR's Gregory Warner reports, saying it was called prematurely and
without debate… The referendum had
widely been expected to pass; Crimea's parliament has already voted to seek
annexation by Russia. Government
officials in Ukraine, the U.S. and elsewhere say they consider the referendum
illegitimate, and the White House released a statement rejecting it.
In a call to Russian President
Vladimir Putin, President Obama said
that the secession vote "would never be recognized" by the United
States. He also urged Putin to pursue a diplomatic de-escalation of the
crisis, support the Ukraine government's plans for political reform, return its
troops in Crimea to their bases, and halt advances into Ukrainian territory and
military build-ups along Ukraine's borders…
"A total of 93 percent of participants in the
referendum in Crimea have voted for the
accession to Russia," reports Russia's state-run Itar-Tass news
agency, "according to an exit poll conducted by the Crimean Institute for
Political and Sociological Studies…"
Moments after Crimea's polls
closed, the White House issued a statement rejecting today's vote, saying
that it runs contrary to Ukraine's constitution.
Russian President Vladimir Putin defended
Sunday's vote, with state-run Itar-Tass news agency reporting that he called
the referendum "in compliance with
the norms of international law, in particular with Article 1 of the UN Charter
that stipulates the principle of equality and self-determination of
peoples."
How much do you want to bet the “election” held in Ukraine
was not "in compliance with the norms of international law.” But facts be damned all we hear in the
United States is that Putin’s Russia “annexed Crimea” and it is Russia’s fault
that the people of Ukraine refuse to accept their US installed Nazi
government.
All of the war-propaganda, all of
the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not
fighting. – George Orwell
So let’s see the how the media covered the reaction of the
neocons and neoliberals in our government to the Trump/O’Reilly interview. From ABC News:
Excerpt:
Trump's Comparing US to Putin's Russia Draws Bipartisan Backlash
President Donald Trump's comment
equating Russia under Vladimir Putin to the United States has drawn sharply negative reactions from people in both parties. Trump told Fox News in an interview set to
air prior to the Super Bowl on Sunday that he respects Putin.
"I do respect him," Trump told Fox News’ Bill O'Reilly.
When O'Reilly said, "Putin is a killer," Trump
responded, "A lot of killers. We got a lot of killers. What, you think our
country's so innocent?"
Republicans were quick to rebuke
Trumps statement Sunday morning. “I
don’t think there’s any equivalency,” Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said on CNN’s “State of the
Union.” “America is exceptional.
There’s a clear distinction here.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, tweeted a reference to
political assassinations to help draw the distinction between the U.S. and
Putin's Russia…
Similarly, Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska told ABC News' George
Stephanopoulos on "This Week" …"Let's be clear... "There
is no moral equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom-loving nation in the
history of the world and the murderous thugs that are in Putin's defense of
his cronyism," Sasse said.
In a tweet, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the daughter of former Vice
President Dick Cheney, called Trumps statement “deeply troubling and wrong.”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a 2016 Republican presidential
candidate who has been a critic of President Trump, responded on Twitter that “America has been a beacon of light and
freedom. There is no equivalence
with the brutal regime of Vladimir Putin…”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried to come to Trump’s
defense on “Face the Nation” but said “there is no question in my mind that America is the moral leader of the world…”
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said on ABC's
"This Week" that she resents Trump’s statement. "I really do
resent that he would say something like that,” Klobuchar said. “You cannot compare any leaders in our
country to what Vladimir Putin has done.”
“I want to know what the Russians have on Donald Trump,” House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
Oh our brave, very, very rich politicians engorged from the
spoils of war are so afraid of Donald Trump.
If the people believe that Vladimir Putin is no threat to American
freedom, their gravy train could come to an end. The media have become celebrities, just as
long as they continue to reinforce the lies about the “war on terror” that have
made them so rich, they will continue to live their pampered existence.
One of the hopeful things that I’ve
discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has
been a result of media lies. The media
could’ve stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn’t reprinted
government propaganda they could’ve stopped it. - Julian Assange
Will Trump dismantle the war Juggernaut by exposing the
sixteen year reign of death perpetrated by the neocons, neoliberals and their
media propagandists? Will Trump buy into
the hoax that Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism? I don’t know, but after only two weeks on the
job, people are beginning to wake up and find they cannot believe anything the
neocons and neoliberals along with their supine media propagandists say. Maybe, just maybe America can return to its
once noble status of a beacon of light and freedom.
By Patricia Baeten
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