by Eric Zuesse
The central issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign can’t even be discussed in U.S. newsmedia, because America’s media have been almost uniformly complicit all along in hiding from the American public the crucial factual information that’s necessary in order for the public to vote in an intelligent and truthfully informed way about it. No news medium wants to report its own having been complicit in anything; so, the cover-up here just continues; it has a life of its own, even though it’s a life that brings the world closer and closer to a situation which would kill billions of people, as things get increasingly out-of-control the longer this coverup continues. The cycle of virtually uniform lying thus persists, despite the growing danger it produces. This article will need to be lengthy, because the American public have been almost consistently lied-to about so many very important things — things associated with the nation’s central issue — an issue even bigger than terrorism, and than global warming, and than rising economic inequality and corruption, but which is still virtually ignored. This article is thus intended to be ‘Drano’ for a political system that has become clogged by lies just jammed down into it, now backing up and pouring out onto America’s political floor. The overflowing sludge has got to be cleaned up, and discarded. Or else — and very suddenly — it will kill us all.
This central issue is whether or not to continue to move forward with the American government’s plan, ever since the Soviet Union and its military alliance the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, to extend NATO — the anti-Russia military club — right up to Russia’s borders, surround Russia with NATO nuclear missiles a mere five minutes flight-time to Moscow, and simultaneously build a “Ballistic Missile Defense” or “Anti Ballistic Missile” (BMD or ABM) system to nullify Russia’s retaliatory missiles against an unannounced blitz U.S.-NATO invasion to take over, if not totally eliminate, Russia and its resistance to U.S. power. This operation is an ugly reality, but it is an American-led reality, and the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election will bring it into its final stage, either by ending it, or by culminating it — two drastically different outcomes, but one side or the other will prevail in this political contest, and the present article links to the documentation that America’s voters will need to be aware of that shows not only that they’ve been lied-to, but how and why they’ve been lied-to. The documentation is all-important, especially because the facts that are being documented have been hidden so successfully for so long. This is not a world that Americans want to know, but it is a world that especially the few Americans who are in control, don’t want the American public to know. That’s a toxic combination (public ignorance, which the people in control want to continue), but it is tragically real (as the documentation here will make clear).
U.S. President Barack Obama has stated, on many occasions, that the U.S. is the only “indispensable” country, and that any country which refuses to capitulate to American global supremacy is an enemy. This applies especially to Russia and to China — two formerly communist nations. Thus, the ‘Cold War’ is being resumed, and U.S. arms-makers are booming again, even though the ideological excuse (the “red scare,” communism) is now gone.
For example, Obama told graduating cadets at West Point, on 28 May 2014:
“The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. … Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums. … It will be your generation’s task to respond to this new world. The question we face, the question each of you will face, is not whether America will lead, but how we will lead — not just to secure our peace and prosperity, but also extend peace and prosperity around the globe.”
He was telling West Point graduates there, that economic competition can become a cause for America to go to war, and that America’s global supremacy is their job to enforce.
Obama placed this into a moralizing framework, as he always so skillfully does (for propaganda-purposes; he’s terrifically gifted at that), by saying to those cadets:
“America’s willingness to apply force around the world is the ultimate safeguard against chaos, and America’s failure to act in the face of Syrian brutality or Russian provocations not only violates our conscience, but invites escalating aggression in the future. … In the 21st century American isolationism is not an option. We don’t have a choice to ignore what happens beyond our borders. … As the Syrian civil war spills across borders, the capacity of battle-hardened extremist groups to come after us only increases. Regional aggression that goes unchecked — whether in southern Ukraine or the South China Sea, or anywhere else in the world — will ultimately impact our allies and could draw in our military. We can’t ignore what happens beyond our boundaries. And beyond these narrow rationales, I believe we have a real stake, an abiding self-interest, in making sure our children and our grandchildren grow up in a world where schoolgirls are not kidnapped and where individuals are not slaughtered because of tribe or faith or political belief. I believe that a world of greater freedom and tolerance is not only a moral imperative, it also helps to keep us safe.”
He was equating there the imposition of American control, as being “a world of greater freedom and tolerance,” which “helps to keep us safe.” Was it that, and did it do that, in Iraq? What about in Libya? What did it do for Ukraine? Is it really doing that in Syria? What about all of the refugees that are pouring out of all of those countries, which are being ‘saved’ by Obama’s policy, which has been America’s policy for decades, and which is not challenged, and which is bipartisan in every regard except for the style of lying rhetoric that’s being used to ‘justify’ it?
Obama’s predecessor in office, George W. Bush, was working on the same plan, when he invaded Iraq in 2003. His allegations that he was certain that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear-weapons program, and saying against “Saddam’s WMD program” that “a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need”, all of it were just bald lies from him, because all of it was false, and he knew that it was false. He knew that there was no such ‘IAEA’ ‘report’. And the press didn’t even challenge him on it, but instead just parroted the President’s lies as if they should automatically be taken as truths. (And the press also hid the IAEA’s immediate announcement that there was no such report.) It’s happening again, but the stakes this time are even more dangerous.
We’re going into a Presidential election, in which one candidate, Hillary Clinton, clearly wants to continue the policy that has been in place since 1990 (and which her husband played a major role in), and in which the other candidate, Donald Trump, wants to stop it — he says we should end it. So, he is accused of being a ‘Soviet agent’. The same aristocracy that own the ‘news’ media and that control both of the political Parties, is being threatened by Trump’s repudiation of their program. They use moralisms — rightist ones for Republicans, and leftist ones for Democrats — to condemn him, but the real reason they are determined to defeat him is to continue their war which (on its U.S. side) never really was against communism; it was always a war for global conquest, global control; that’s how America’s controllers have been controlling this country since at least 1990. They want to continue it, though it’s heading all of us toward disaster.
In support of this aggressive agenda — a metastatically cancerous NATO — Obama in 2014 perpetrated a very bloody Ukrainian coup (propagandized as ‘democracy demonstrations’), carried out by U.S.-paid rabid racist-anti-Russian fascists, nazis actually (and from a tradition in Ukraine that descended from the pro-Hitler, anti-Stalin, side of Ukraine during World War II — the side that did Ukraine’s pogroms, etc.) and which had been allied with the Axis powers during WW II — but that now were in the pay of the U.S. government.
Some of the top members of Congress who have responsibility over foreign affairs refuse even to become acquainted with the evidence disproving the U.S. government’s lies on this. Elizabeth Murray was shocked to find in government officials, this intentional refusal to see evidence. She had served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring after a 27-year career in the U.S. government. (She should be the head of the CIA.) On 24 July 2016, in an article titled “Rep. Rick Larsen Bases Russia Policy on Myth”, she described her efforts to inform congressman Larsen about the reality of the U.S. operation in Ukraine. Wikipedia says: “Richard Ray ‘Rick’ Larsen is the United States Representative for Washington’s 2nd congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party. … Larsen is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. … He formerly worked as director of public affairs for the Washington State Dental Association and as a lobbyist for the dental profession. … the Second District was represented by future U.S. Senator Henry M. ‘Scoop’ Jackson between 1941 and 1953.” (Jackson later became famous as “the Senator from Boeing,” the first of the Democratic Party neoconservatives.)
Murray wrote (and the links here are added by me):
I mentioned to Rep. Larsen that I had just returned from Russia with a U.S. delegation, and that all the people in Russia I had spoken with — including teachers, students, journalists, medical doctors, entrepreneurs and war veterans — had no desire for a nuclear war with the United States, but instead expressed the wish for peaceful, normalized relations . . . During our time in Yalta, I had organized a ‘swim for peace’ with Americans and Russian war vets swimming together in the Black Sea, which had caused quite a stir in local Russian language media. I explained to Rep. Larsen my understanding of why the Russian public is suspicious about U.S. moves in the region (based on what I heard from people there), and why they would expect the United States to be the first to make a unilateral confidence-building measure in the direction of nuclear disarmament. Russians were savvy to the Nuland ‘Yats’ youtube recording (in which Victoria Nuland is distinctly heard telling U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that ‘Yats is the guy’ just prior to the regime change in which Arseniy Yatsenyuk became prime minister, and which directly implicated the U.S. in the Ukrainian coup), felt threatened by the recent NATO/Operation Anakonda maneuvers that took place during our delegation’s visit, and were extremely concerned about other provocative U.S. moves in the region, including economic sanctions on Russia and Crimea, the latter enacted after a majority of Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia in response to what they saw as outside interference in the affairs of Ukraine.
Larsen immediately responded with rebuttals, stating flat-out he didn’t believe there was a U.S. role in the Ukrainian events — that what I’d just told him was ‘not what I’ve been hearing’ – and he went on to talk about how the Baltic states felt threatened by Russia, etc. He didn’t know what ‘Operation Anakonda’ was and seemed unaware that the largest-ever NATO military maneuvers since WWII had just taken place on Russia’s borders. I offered to send his office additional information about that and the Ukrainian events – an offer he ignored.
The path we’re on can end only in one of two ways: Either the U.S. ‘news’ media will get real and start reporting the crucial realities (such as that the aggression in Ukraine wasn’t Putin’s ‘seizure’ of Crimea but the immediately prior coup — and its necessary ethnic cleansing afterwards — by Obama’s hirees, which started being organized by him no later than 1 March 2013, and which culminated nearly a year later), these being the crucial realities that contradict the official lies and thus might (if we’re extremely lucky) compel the U.S. government to reverse its present course; or else, there will be a surprise blitz attack by U.S.-NATO against Russia, or else by Russia against U.S.-NATO. The closer we get to the end of this matter, the more difficult the former option becomes, and the more inevitable the latter option — a blitz attack (by either side) — becomes. That’s the reality.
Obama’s ‘mono-polar world’ is a fiction, and the sooner that he and his Big Lie can be exposed (by the Western press, to the Western publics), the safer everyone will be. Discomforts on the parts of those who have promulgated and propagandized that lie will be vastly less than the disastrous alternative, which would destroy the world for everyone.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
The us regime has essentially become a cover for aipac geostrategy. IE: the zpc.
Should we listen to a ‘ventriloquist’?
“. . . simultaneously build a “Ballistic Missile Defense” or “Anti Ballistic Missile” (BMD or ABM) system to nullify Russia’s retaliatory missiles.”
The saving grace here is that we don’t make quality weapons anymore. Russia is ahead of us in this field, meaning that right now they can stop our missiles while we can’t really stop theirs. There’s no reason to think this will change, because even if in the future we manage to build a workable system, they will have gone on improving their own. We’re starting at “doesn’t work” and they’re starting at S500.
When the US-NATO led a ‘no-fly zone’ in Libya, that was supposedly created to allow a ‘humanitarian corridor’, but which quickly snowballed into its real goal of regime change and murder of Libya’s president. This epic war crime is still celebrated by Obama and Hillary Clinton as a ‘victory,’ while Libyans drown in the Mediterranean trying to escape their once-modern but now obliterated country.
Obama and Hillary are nothing but modern day charlatan’s, total liars and thieves. Their list of crimes against humanity just keep increasing, their list of lies and frauds just keeps growing.
These images clearly show the “benefits” of bringing “Western Democracy” to Nations. Something to think about, but something the US Media (and by extension the majority of the US population) will be carefully shielded from.
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Wow. someone should prinnt those out really big on a poster and position it eight in front of Hillary and the cameras.
Katherine
Not only can’t the msm discuss the central issue, but also Donald Trump cannot bring it to the fore and hammer home its importance. Perhaps his evangelical following fears nuclear holocaust–won’t the Rapture kick in then?–less than the rest of us.
I guess the question now is – how far will the neo-cons go to keep trump out?
A lot of planning and work has gone into getting the hegemon to the stage it is at now.
A number of countries destroyed, a lot of people dead, a lot of propaganda.
Will be a very dirty leadup to the election.
I can’t see them just letting Trump wind all this back if he wins.
Trump, FN, UKIP, PVV, SD, Afd – the end of culturalmarxism rise of nationalism.
Dont expect (((Them))) and (((the US news media))) do to anything but blatant warmongering because (((the media))) is 100% owned by (((them))).And that is a fact, a hate fact.
I will finish this posting later after I register my first apprehension about the veracity of the writer of this. He is wrong that Bush lied about the run-up to the second Iraq war. Extremely emotionally damaged Bush 11 believed all US propaganda he was told. That he was and still is, a deeply damaged man and child never gets told. In fact the 30 year Bush family friend who wrote the definitive biography of the family with 100% access was later killed because of it’s publication and his honesty.
Bush1 had through his CIA connections (he led it for one year. He colluded in Reagans’ shooting and early ‘retirement’) to set in place the geo-poiltical global theatre we all are now enthralled with.
The possibility exists that Bush 1 “retired” had an operation done on Bush11 after his 2 presidential terms to remove Bush 11 ability to speak of the explosive Bush dynasty secrets Bush 1 navigated productively until almost the end of his life. Truth leaks out and has destroyed what was left of the image of US Presidential integrity. The CIA, the hit men of the globe, are finding they must step down or nothing will survive. 90% of Europe already sees this truth as it becomes a continent of beggars.
“the 30 year Bush family friend who wrote the definitive biography of the family with 100% access was later killed because of it’s publication and his honesty.”
Why write this without including the title of the book?
Did you even click onto the links in this passage, to see what the evidence on the matter is?:
Obama’s predecessor in office, George W. Bush, was working on the same plan, when he invaded Iraq in 2003. His allegations that he was certain that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear-weapons program, and saying against “Saddam’s WMD program” that “a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need”, all of it were just bald lies from him, because all of it was false, and he knew that it was false. He knew that there was no such ‘IAEA’ ‘report’. And the press didn’t even challenge him on it, but instead just parroted the President’s lies as if they should automatically be taken as truths. (And the press also hid the IAEA’s immediate announcement that there was no such report.)
Bush did in his eye believe anything innocently..are you joking me?
The Bush’s innocent victims ? Have you ever even seen a photograph of them not to mind anything else?
The plans to eliminate billions of humans to make the globe easier to manage as a huge set of colonies to endlessly plunder is an idea that preceded the founding of the USA in the form of the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern European royals that supported it. The harsh Jesuits arriving in the protectively closed down Japanese state painted in a screen to tell the tale, tells it all.
The Robber Barons of the new USA espoused this religious belief that the white man is exceptional whereas the coloured man was/is, defective.White in the West being the colours of pure angel’s wings, in the East or Indian continent, white being the colour of death. Angels, to extend the fantacy, never die, have no mortality.
I agree completely, and.
There is more background to this present issue that dwarfs this by significance. The US is being used as a tool/puppet not just for expanding its borrowed ideology, which in essence is not American, but on behalf of the Zionist cult that calls for DE-population of every-body but them-selves and a few that accept their place as slaves
I am sure most people would want to worship God ( in which ever way one chooses to accept the Divine) before Mammon, but the system has been set up (by the Bankers) that God (Divine) is relegated to an unimportant second behind Mammon the god of the Bankers..
The “problem” seems to be God ain’t and can’t be relegated, the resistance is one’s natural birth right and this seems to be Waking in the World as I write. This is what will become fully Understood in the Individual as the future seemingly unfolds.
Just for convenience, and reductio ad absurdum. Let us suppose that the US, fights and wins a nuclear war. Unlikely but what of the consequences. See below.
”Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter, and Human Extinction.
Federation of American Scientists
Oct.14, 2015 in Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons by Steven Starr
While it is impossible to precisely predict all the human impacts that would result from a nuclear winter, it is relatively simple to predict those which would be most profound. That is, a nuclear winter would cause most humans and large animals to die from nuclear famine in a mass extinction event similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Following the detonation (in conflict) of US and/or Russian launch-ready strategic nuclear weapons, nuclear firestorms would burn simultaneously over a total land surface area of many thousands or tens of thousands of square miles. These mass fires, many of which would rage over large cities and industrial areas, would release many tens of millions of tons of black carbon soot and smoke (up to 180 million tons, according to peer-reviewed studies), which would rise rapidly above cloud level and into the stratosphere. [For an explanation of the calculation of smoke emissions, see Atmospheric effects & societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts.]
The scientists who completed the most recent peer-reviewed studies on nuclear winter discovered that the sunlight would heat the smoke, producing a self-lofting effect that would not only aid the rise of the smoke into the stratosphere (above cloud level, where it could not be rained out), but act to keep the smoke in the stratosphere for 10 years or more. The longevity of the smoke layer would act to greatly increase the severity of its effects upon the biosphere.
Once in the stratosphere, the smoke (predicted to be produced by a range of strategic nuclear wars) would rapidly engulf the Earth and form a dense stratospheric smoke layer. The smoke from a war fought with strategic nuclear weapons would quickly prevent up to 70% of sunlight from reaching the surface of the Northern Hemisphere and 35% of sunlight from reaching the surface of the Southern Hemisphere. Such an enormous loss of warming sunlight would produce Ice Age weather conditions on Earth in a matter of weeks. For a period of 1-3 years following the war, temperatures would fall below freezing every day in the central agricultural zones of North America and Eurasia. [For an explanation of nuclear winter, see Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences.]
Nuclear winter would cause average global surface temperatures to become colder than they were at the height of the last Ice Age. Such extreme cold would eliminate growing seasons for many years, probably for a decade or longer. Can you imagine a winter that lasts for ten years?
The results of such a scenario are obvious. Temperatures would be much too cold to grow food, and they would remain this way long enough to cause most humans and animals to starve to death.”
There are no winners in a nuclear war. I think it was J.Kennedy who once said,” … we must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us.” Enough said
Frank,
All-out Nuclear War will be indeed a complete catastrophe for the human civilization.
Eurasians understand that very well.
However, during past couple of decades the ‘popular’ mood in America is ‘to nuke’ a country if that does not follow USA’s instructions – how can they be so ignorant about the dangers to themselves ?
There are also the real (but usually unmentioned) problems of atmospheric injection of partial – combustion products. Incomplete combustion of urethanes will release hydrogen cyanide in adequate concentrations, whilst incomplete combustion of fluoropolymers will release hydrogen fluoride. Whilst these two will add significantly to the ground-level “toxic soup” that any survivors will have to somehow negotiate, there are the “other” incomplete combustion products (such as benzo(a)pyrene) that are very carcinogenic. “It ain’t just the radiation that’ll cause long-term problems”. . . . .
It will also be interesting to see how much extra environmental damage will result from the failures (accidental or deliberate) of civilian nuclear power installations should (or rather, once) their cooling / control systems fail.
There are more than a few very well-thought-out articles on the Net, from pretty reputable (level-headed) authors, that clearly state that a “significant” exchange will not put Mankind “back for a few centuries”, but rather will be the end of mankind full stop. Something for those with access to “The Button” to seriously consider I would have hoped.
a blitz attack “from either sides”
Pray that it wont be Russia who starts the Blitz
or else it will be either extinct or, if it survives by chance,
it will not only lose freedom
but gain the worst reputation that a country ever had, worse than Germany post WW II.
But I think Putin and his military are too smart to fire the first shoot!
For, if USA dare start the Mega-Crime called WWIII, it will be their empire that gets bust, thats sure.
The first debate between Trump and Clinton should prove highly interesting when the Donald gets to personally rebut the narrative that Hillary’s operatives are floating that Trump is “Putin’s Puppet,” essentially a traitor to the United States, and on whose behalf Putin is spying on an American political organization (the DNC) by hacking their servers and intercepting emails with the purpose of proving misconduct by the Hillary camp, thereby interfering in the American political process. All based on zero evidence, mind you, but widely circulated in all the American media which is usually given kneejerk credibility by an ignorant public. Normally, one would anticipate that confrontation to be quite the thrill ride since President Obomber himself has accused Russia and Putin of being guilty of all charges.
However, upon reading about the military maneuvers for which NATO has recently been preparing, i.e., simultaneous attacks on the Donbas, the Sevastopol base, the Kaliningrad base, and possibly Syria, coupled with Obomber’s provocative charges against both Putin and Trump, it would not surprise me in the least for him to declare marshal law and suspend presidential elections while he prosecutes the ensuing all out war against Russia. Based on his words and policies, the man has clearly lost some of his faculties and should be considered a real menace to world peace, just as Hillary should be considered, for her attitudes are even more bellicose.
Christopher Black in a new article in New Eastern Outlook (NATO’s war on Russia: Someone is Playing Us) presents a quite plausible scenario that orchestrates the predicted military moves with the Wikileaks, Julian Assange’s role and possible motives, both Hillary’s and Obomber’s series of accusations against Putin and Trump both before and after the actual leaks came out, and even draws in statements by the British that their SAS is prepared to intervene in Turkey should a second coup against Erdogan be attempted (with the implication that the first coup was inspired by Washington and NATO with Russia letting the cat out of the bag, thereby sabotaging it). Reportedly, the two pilots who nearly shot down Erdogan’s plane were CIA guys and the same guys who shot down the Russian fighter jet earlier. It is made to sound like the Obomber administration may be preparing for the day it “settles all family business” involving Russia. The world may not have to wait for Hillary’s ascension to the throne to see the world go up in flames. The time may be nigh for hostilities to start, as, it is said, Kiev has accelerated its bombardment of the Donbas, has encroached on the neutral zone, occupying villages and towns within it, and has re-outfitted and re-trained its regular army and private militias with NATO’s assistance. I guess they are loaded for bear. Don’t make any plans for Christmas this year.
Author says the Outlaw US Empire’s citizenry’s being lied to constantly, an assertion fairly well proven, and that the lying’s been bipartisan. But, somehow Trump’s to be believed, whereas Clinton’s not. Well, I’m as anti-Clinton as one can get, but it’s very difficult to get others to take Trump’s policy vows seriously given the constant lying. How can we prove Trump will do as he says when we know Clinton will lie and continue the neocon goal of Full Spectrum Dominance. 67% in the latest poll say Clinton cannot be trusted, but Trump’s % isn’t much better. In the discourses I have with others online, most agree that Clinton’s the Greater Evil, but don’t want Trump either, so they’re voting for Green Party’s Stein. Some see the need to vote for Trump to ensure Clinton is defeated, but it’s very difficult to get people on the Left to entertain that thought. The only writer I’ve read that has provided any confirmation that Trump isn’t lying is Pepe Escobar in this article, https://www.rt.com/op-edge/351893-trump-money-convention-cleveland/ But I need more than one source to try and convince people that Trump’s indeed going to stop the Outlaw US Empire’s expansion plans–he did specifically say in his Acceptance Speech that his goal is to bring about peace, a goal that’s been blacked-out by the Propaganda System. But, again, how to convince people that while Clinton lies about whatever to get elected Trump isn’t doing the same. It’s a Catch-22. How to resolve it?
If that is truly Trump’s intention, it will be a very bumpy ride. Nobody intending to reign in the empire will stay alive long or remain as President. It simply won’t be allowed.
Indeed, yes. The only way out is through an awakening of the American people. But where is the 21st Martin Luther King? Nowhere that I can see.
As for the Europeans, a spell must have been cast on them, surely.
I’m not worrying about this. V. V. Putin stated several times that there will be never again a war on Russia’s soil. It wil be on usa soil. So run for your life us-americans. Change your regime and chase your elites.
Eric Zuesse has really caught on to the game the elite are playing against Donald Trump. This is good news. The more people aware of this, the more hope we have for eventual peace. The problem is, can we survive the next six months? Top Russian geopolitical analyst Alexander Dugin is afraid Obama will create a state of emergency to stop Trump’s election. This dire scenario aside, Trump and Putin agree on foreign affairs to such an extent their views are indistinguishable. This is a step for the world. I try to argue this convincingly in the following:
https://quemadoinstitute.org/2016/07/26/nuclear-war-vs-global-peace-trump-and-putin-poised-to-solve-crisis/
As usual Eric gets to the root of our problem. Our media was stolen from us by traitors and they need to be called out by name. There will be no change with the 1-party masquerading as 2. The only solution will come from third party. Think Green.
If Sanders had accepted Jill Stein’s offer to replace her as the Green Party’s nominee, then yes, the Green Party would have a chance to win the White House, but he did not. Protest-votes are self-righteous throw-away votes. Stein won’t reach even 3% of the vote, just like Nader never did.
I think Stein could easily surpass the 3% mark this year. Normally, no, but I expect a sizeable chunk of votes to go Libertarian and Green in this most unusual election.
It takes people willing to lose a few battles (elections) to finally win the war of having more than two assigned parties taken seriously. And I never consider voting one’s conscience to be “self righteous throw-away votes”.
I Agree with Eric but also with ANonymous. It was, I believe, foolish of Sanders to reject Stein’s offer.
I think they could have had a chance to win.
Perhaps just as important, they would have been in presidential debates.
Stein has to poll at 15% before she can be included in the debates. this is a significant goal in itslef, because she will bring these issues front and center and, I believe, wipe the floor with both Clinton and maybe also Trump.
Thus, if a pollster calls you, I would say you are voting for Stein, regardless of how you plan to vote.
Katherine
Watching the American elections is much like watching two apes flinging feces at each other.
They are amusing if you view them as unintentional comic buffoonery.
This is the degenerate idiotic spectacle called “democracy.”
Trump’s unfortunate choice of Mike Pence as running mate has put him in the cross hairs. If he were to die in office the neo-cons would have their man in the White House. Checkmate!
The central issue is Zionist control of the United States. All the Middle Eastern wars were planned by Zionists; and fought for Zionist goals (e.g. Oded Yinon plan)
Zionism is the issue. it is always the issue.
Eric,
I believe by reducing geopolitical actions as the work of large factions who share common approaches to securing more power we can better understand world events and, most importantly, predict future outcomes. Applying it here is correct as it gets to the true crux of the matter – power- and who is working with whom, etc. This is what finally made the Brexit make sense to me and I believe it should be the starting point for the cui bono approach. That doesn’t mean it makes it any easier to comprehend the situation but it provides a framework that offers the most coherent interpretation in my opinion.
With this frame work in mind, Obama and Hillary appear by all intents and purposes to be part of a group of multi-national industrialist advocates, with a strong connection to the German-Nazi-fascists who control that countries corporate structure, that are looking to obtain power over the Russian nation for two reasons: to both (1) cement their control over western economies and (2) based off the fear of a unified Eurasian bloc, which threatens their viability (ie, sustainable only in a CB-financed vacuum of non-competitive capitalism) due to aging populations and post-industrialization. Their constituents are the CFR/Bilderberg et al that coordinate policy across Japan, Europe, Australia, US, etc. It is with this mind we can see that they are desperate to maintain control over their populations as the monetary situation deteriorates and debt becomes useless to alleviate the underlying economic issues. For that reason they are willing to enforce a Marxist culture through enforced immigration and PC fascism via their controlled media.
I disagree that the ultimate goal is actual nuclear war. I believe the real goal is achievable nuclear and military supremacy, ie the ability to win a war, as a bluff and bargaining tool – not a real outcome. The pursuing of destabilization across the ME and encroachment on their border is to both increase this bluff and also contain their economic potential vis-à-vis the silk road initiative and the looming Eurasian bloc.
With this light, I would claim Donald Trump is a nationalist realist, perhaps representing business interests not involved with the Atlanticists (perhaps they would not gain from the TPP). Hence the aversion to bad trade deals, immigration, lawlessness and the Marxist control over free speech. In this regard Trump and Putin are similar – looking to operate on a realistic world order where business and capitalism are returned and crony, idealists are thrown out.
From this light, I wonder who is backing Trump as he is co-opting false flags (terrorism across Europe and the US) to carry out Confirmation Bias against Hillary and the pro-immigration camp. This would suggest, as with the Wikileaks limited hang out group, that the CIA (or a group within) is orchestrating false flags to stave off a Hillary presidency.
But who knows… because if that’s true then who shot down the Russian fighter jet over Turkey?
@Nils, “From this light, I wonder who is backing Trump as he is co-opting false flags (terrorism across Europe and the US) to carry out Confirmation Bias against Hillary and the pro-immigration camp. This would suggest, as with the Wikileaks limited hang out group, that the CIA (or a group within) is orchestrating false flags to stave off a Hillary presidency. ”
I am not following you here. What do you mean by “co-opting false flags” and what is “confirmation bias”? How does the CIA orchestrating false flags stave off a Hillary presidency?
Please, Help me connect the dots in your argument!
Katherine
Katherine,
If you believe the same people who can carry Gladio b events can do so for other political reasons then there is much reason to believe all the recent ISIS terrorism is meant to create a public sentiment for more war. This war is to topple Bashar al-Assad. In any manner, trump has used these to his advantage to look like the Law and Order candidate and to close the borders. You can even see the parallels with Marie Le Pen now arguing for war against “Islam”.
Confirmation bias is repeating a phrase of caricature over and over until it becomes accepted as reality. “Crooked Hilary” “Lying Ted”. Trump is using the false flag attacks to paint the democrats as weak.
http://katehon.com/article/national-leadership-styles-and-deep-state-trump-and-hillary
Kilary and Trump.
the overlords have placed two pitbulls in the ring. they organised the fight. they don’t care who wins/losses.
but they needed to field a creditable opponent to hilary. to make it enough of ( a fair fight ? )
a spectacle, for the populace to get behind.
and they’ve achieved that, the hegelian dialectic again.
they are the ventriloquist’s dummy’s, aren’t they?
somehow we need to focus on the ventriloquist.
Is this a “hold your breathe” moment?
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/07/popov-nato-uaf-exercises-and-equipment.html
I note that also Porky plus a few other “leaders” have left Ukraine. Just for the summer hols? Or to be out of country if a balloon has been planned to go up.
E.Z. has been really telling it like it is ever since he truly took in the whole picture and left the criminal Democratic Party. If the public knew of the already many many close calls of total thermonuclear war taking place just from mistakes that have been narrowly avoided they would thank their lucky stars, or get down on their knees and give thanks to their God, that human kind and its civilization still exists. And this is without compounding the situation to the point where it will simple become a matter of who makes the “first strike” or not at all. This is the existential matter of our age as the American elites push this brinkmanship agenda to the point where there can’t be any “blinking” but only draw and fire or die. The psychopaths that man or woman the American administration believe that the Russians and Chinese will eventually surrender their nations and peoples for the exploitation of the western Apex Elites even though time and time again President Putin has told them and their western sycophant media propagandists that Russia will not be blinking and will be forced to act in the name of self-preservation. Either the group think insanity of the western managerial class is abrogated somehow, any which way, or there is going to be a terrible price to pay for the greed and lust for power and control they manifest. The western Apex Elites desire for ever expanding riches and control at any cost to other lives or life support systems is a result of inter-generational mental illness that has destroyed any human morality they have once had. Instead of seeking mutual understanding and benefit they want it all; or let there be nothing. The only quick solution with a retreat to safety, which is what is needed, is either the people rise up and demand the return of sanity, very unlikely, or someone in high office with a leadership role makes it so.
The scene in the film ‘Tombstone’ when Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday, steps in to protect his friend Wyatt Earp from the ‘faster draw’ Johnny Ringo, confronting the bully and giving no avenue of avoiding the duel is a similar situation that will take place only on a nuclear war scale if the present situation continues.
The Nato/American/European/Zionist alliance and it’s pig headed obsession for world hegemony reminds me of the Quranic verse, And when it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth,” they say: “We are only peacemakers.” (Chapter 2 Verse 11). Almost in synchronicity with Obama’s words.
Trump has no interest in expanding NATO to the Black Sea region, primarily Ukraine and Georgia. And, his statements about Article 5 should be read that if the EU or Turkey create a problem for themselves, there is no US rescue on offer.
That being said, his administration would support NATO members who are “paying their fair share”. This includes Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
As long as Russia and its allies do not misconstrue “strong but less expansive” as some sort of weakness there are significant opportunities for the US, UK, and Russian spheres of influence to gain. The expansionary factions, EU and Sunni/Wahabbi, will lose ground.
The real question is who controls USA ? who controls the media, who controls the banks ? if the American public know this answer, then they will choose the right way. If not, they will loose again and who knows if they will have another chance. The time is ticking and if the wisdom is lacking they will be sucking. Enough is not enough ? This kind of “indispensable” thinking will destroy America.
that was me (above), sorry I forget to sign it
That is a good question. But has a complicated answer. Some know,some don’t. Of those that know,some care,some don’t care. And of course those that don’t know,don’t care. Most Americans “know” to some extent that “Jews” are into “money” and the banks. And that they also are “big” in the media and entertainment industries.But most don’t see anything “odd” or “sinister” about that. Its just thought of by most people as the way it is. They don’t see the extreme dominance they hold there. And what that means for the US,both internally and in foreign relations. The ones that do worry about that are mostly considered as antisemitic (and for a number of them ,they are).And since the media and schools (and certainly not Hollywood) don’t talk about it. Its not a major issue with most Americans.
Bob, I do remember a poll of Americans taken some years ago (and, naturally, never repeated) where the average estimate by those polled of the percentage of Americans who were Jewish was 43%. I do know that Americans are notoriously ignorant, but they do seem able to notice who it is that dominates the upper echelons of their society. They just made the mistake of imagining the same proportion were present among the ‘moochers’, as well.
I agree that this issue of USA hegemonic aggression against Russia, China, and basically the rest of the world is the number 1 issue before this country, and that is the importance and serioiusness of this election and of Trump’s candidacy.
Call him a buffoon, deride his hair cut, but he is the only one who seems to see that this emperor has no clothes—or, rather, that this emperor is loaded with venom and is poised to strike to kill.
I have tried, to little avail, to point this out this to old-line progressives. That this election is about *survival*! Forget the rest. It doesn’t matter whether we build a wall or not, whether we make it harder for women to get abortions, or what not. Once the button gets pushed all of those preoccupations will be blown away.
Katherine.
While I agree with the main points of this article and appreciate the approach Mr. Zuesse has taken, the conclusion leaves something to be desired. It almost feels like a false choice.
@Valhalla (above) is correct to point out that the mainstream media is simply *not* going to “get real and start reporting the crucial realities”. The mass media is owned/controlled by people who are very much invested in continuing the American narrative, including all the lies repeated by Obama, Clinton, et al. The people who own the media not going to start questioning the discourse now. The general public is for the most part incapable of any critical engagement with the media, though fortunately there are increasing numbers who have abandoned it and now read alternate channels such as The Saker. :)
If, as Mr. Zuesse argues, the choice is between a revolution in the Western MSM and a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Russia, I’m afraid we’re only going to get the latter. I don’t feel that’s our only choice, though.
As far as the media is concerned, the question I see is slightly different: that is, how to convince more people to abandon the MSM and turn their attention to alternate channels like The Saker? For example, I come here for news but I can’t interest most of my friends in also coming here because the tone is often too extreme. E.g., articles that practically shout that “the reality” is either the entire Western MSM does the impossible or else it’s going to be WWIII.
Nar. Clinton will pursue detente, as Obama has. Trump will be easily trick-bagged into a war by the neocons, who are standing by.