by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
Here will be yet another current example to demonstrate that all U.S. mainstream ’news’ media hide from their respective publics that the U.S. Government is lying, when the U.S. Government lies — i.e., that all of the mainstream ’news’ media in America hide the truth, when the Government itself is lying. In other words: the U.S. mainstream ’news’ media are propaganda-organs for the U.S. Government.
While some American news-media are Democratic Party propagandists, and others are Republican Party propagandists, and therefore all of them eagerly expose lies that are of only a partisan nature, none of them will expose lies that both Parties share — such as, in 2002 and 2003, the central fact at that time. They hid that George W. Bush and his Administration were outright lying to the public in each and every instance in which they said they possessed conclusive evidence that, as Bush himself put it on 7 September 2002 (and no mainstream and only one alt-news medium exposed as being a lie): “a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA that they [Iraq] were six months away from developing a [nuclear] weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need [before invading].” That was his answer when he was asked at a press conference on 7 September 2002, “Mr. President, can you tell us what conclusive evidence of any nuclear — new evidence you have of nuclear weapons capabilities of Saddam Hussein?” Immediately, the IAEA said then that there was no such “new report,” and that the last they were able to find, there was nothing at all left of WMD, nor of an ability to make any, in Iraq. The American news-media simply ignored the IAEA’s denial that they had issued any new report at all such as Bush had alleged they had issued. Republican ’news’-media hid that Bush’s allegation was a lie, and Democratic ’news’-media likewise hid it. And, so, the American people trusted Bush, and destroyed Iraq. (Anyone who says that America’s invasion didn’t vastly harm the Iraqi people is either a liar or else ignorant of the realities, such as the last two links document.)
The example this time will be taken from The Week magazine, which is a compendium of summaries of the week’s ’news’ from America’s major ‘news’-media. The 1 March 2019 issue has this, on its page 8:
“Aid for Venezuela: U.S. military planes delivered more than 180 tons of humanitarian aid for Venezuela to the Colombian border city of Cucuta this week, setting up a showdown with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has vowed to block the supplies. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made a surprise visit to Cucuta and told Venezuelan troops stationed at the border that it was their patriotic duty to let aid through. ‘Will you prevent the food and medicine from reaching your own people?’”
The presumption there is that readers are simply too stupid to wonder, “Why should I trust that this military plane doesn’t also carry weapons for supporters of a coup to overthrow Venezuela’s President and to replace him with Trump’s choice, Juan Guaido — trust that weapons aren’t included in the cargo of ‘food and medicine’? Is Trump really so kind a person as to care about the Venezuelan people? Or is this instead yet another U.S. set-up for a brutal coup, such as the U.S. did in 1953 to Iran, and in 1954 to Guatemala, and in 1973 to Chile, and, more recently, in 2014, to Ukraine?”
That ‘news’-report, since it’s from The Week, is about what other U.S. propaganda-agencies are saying, and it’s true about that (they actually are saying this), but it’s summarizing from two very un-trustworthy ‘news’-media, one being a tweet from Senator Rubio on 18 February 2019 that was immediately posted at sites such as ABC News, and the other being a ‘news’-report from the Miami Herald, which added that this shipment came from USAID — and yet they ignored that USAID is a major part of almost every U.S. coup.
Here’s more context about this incident of ‘aid’-shipments: On 6 February 2019, Britain’s Daily Mail, which is less dishonest about the U.S. Government than U.S. ‘news’-media are, headlined “Venezuelan officials accuse the US of sending a cache of high-powered rifles on a commercial cargo flight from Miami so they would get into the hands of ‘extreme right fascist’ groups looking to undermine Maduro’s regime”, and reported that,
Officials in Venezuela have accused the US of sending a cache of high-powered rifles and ammunition on a commercial cargo flight from Miami so they would get into the hands of President Nicolás Maduro’s opponents.
Members with the Venezuelan National Guard [GNB] and the National Integrated Service of Customs and Tax Administration [SENIAT] made the shocking discovery just two days after the plane arrived at Arturo Michelena International Airport in Valencia.
Inspectors found 19 rifles, 118 magazines and 90 wireless radios while investigating the flight which they said arrived Sunday afternoon.
Monday’s bust also netted four rifle stands, three rifle scopes and six iPhones.
And here’s yet more context: the independent American journalist Aaron Mate, tweeted on 18 February 2019:
Aaron Mate
Page 136 [near end of Ch. 4] of [Andrew G.] McCabe’s new [and only] book [THE THREAT, which was published on 19 February 2019], recounting a [July] 2017 Oval Office meeting: “Then the president talked about Venezuela. That’s the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” [Stated there by the authoritarian McCabe, in order to prove how crude Trump is, and McCabe was not condemnatory of such international thefts of Venezuela’s natural resources, but only of Trump’s crudity.]
12:59 PM – 18 Feb 2019
Furthermore, yet another independent journalist, Ben Norton, at “The GrayZone Project,” headlined on 29 January 2019, “Corporate Interests – Militarist John Bolton Spills the Beans”, and he provided a complete transcript of a brief interview that John Bolton had done with Fox Business Channel five days before, on January 24th. That interview wasn’t publicized by Fox, and its headline was as dull as possible, “Venezuela regime change big business opportunity: John Bolton”, and the ‘news’-report posted below it was empty of anything important, but Ben Norton captured the entire interview, and on January 29th he posted it to youtube and to The GrayZone Project as a news-report, with the full interview-segment also being transcribed there by Norton. In it, Bolton had said, on January 24th:
We’re looking at the oil assets. That’s the single most important income stream to the government of Venezuela. We’re looking at what to do to that. … We’re in conversation with major American companies now that are either in Venezuela, or in the case of Citgo here in the United States. … It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.
Of course, that’s an attempt at theft of the property of another sovereign nation — theft of natural-resources assets of Venezuela, from the people who live in Venezuela — it’s a huge theft-attempt, which is being bragged about by the U.S. regime. Though they’ve done this type of heist in many instances during the past few decades (including in Iraq, where U.S. oil companies now extract), Bolton’s outright bragging about it is certainly extraordinary, and thus is major news. This was major news that however hasn’t been focused upon except in the few honest sites, all of which are non-mainstream (most non-mainstream sites are just as dishonest as America’s mainstream ones are — they’re fake ‘alt-news’ instead of authentically against false ‘news’, but all mainstream national news-sites routinely report lies stenographically, as if what the Government says is always true, and so they’re propaganda). The GrayZone Project is one of the few honest sites, and Norton luckily discovered this huge news-break from the blunder by Fox Business Channel to have aired it — that revelation having been a freak event by America’s major media, a rare slip-up.
And, finally, the great investigative journalist Wayne Madsen, at the Strategic Culture Foundation, headlined sarcastically but truthfully on 1 March 2019, “Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI)”, and he (a journalist whose trustworthiness I have checked and verified for many years — he’s really one of the best) opened with:
The city of Miami, Florida may have started out as a retirement mecca for winter-worn pensioners from northern climes. However, after the beginning of the Cold War and US military and Central Intelligence Agency intervention in Guatemala, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Guyana, the Bahamas, and other Western Hemisphere nations, Miami became a refuge for exiled wealthy businessmen escaping populist revolutions and elections in South and Central America and spies. The retirement and vacation capital of the United States quickly became the “Tropical Casablanca.”
Now home to thousands of limited liability corporations linked to the CIA, as well as private military contractors, sketchy airlines flying from remote Florida airports, the interventionist US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and exiled oligarchs running destabilization operations in their native countries, Miami – or MIAMI, “Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc.” – serves as the nexus for current Trump administration “regime change” efforts. …
Earlier, on February 18th, President Trump had delivered a lengthy speech in Miami, titled “Remarks by President Trump to the Venezuelan American Community”, and this was obviously aimed at passionate enemies of Venezuela’s Government. Here is a typical passage, with accompanying documentations of the actual truth regarding his lies as stated there. Trump’s allegations are in boldface italics, and my commentaries are in regular type within brackets, and linked there to my sources:
Not long ago, Venezuela was the wealthiest nation, by far, in South America. [The allegation that Venezuela’s economy has done less well since Hugo Chavez became President on 2 February 1999 is disconfirmed by World Bank data showing that Venezuela reached its all-time-high economic-growth rate in 2004, 5 years after Hugo Chavez became democratically elected and took office as the country’s President. The economy rapidly declined as soon as the U.S. started its coup-attempts. Furthermore, a scientific study of the data showed in 2017 that: “Mexico’s and Venezuela’s numbers on this question [[of ‘Where would you place our country ten years ago?’”]] with a 1 to 10 scale, from absolutely democratic, to not democratic, throughout the period of 2013-2017, compared to those of other countries in the region, clearly show Venezuela as the country where the highest percentage of people believed that democracy had increased during the 2003-2013 decade. Mexico ranked in twelfth place, out of eighteen surveyed countries. “This comparison helps to dimension the solid sense that Venezuelans had about the strength of their democracy during the Chávez administration, and the weak one that Mexicans had.”] But years of socialist rule have brought this once-thriving nation to the brink of ruin. [That too is false — socialism wasn’t the cause of Venezuela’s economic come-down. Venezuela’s boom-time was the period of massive public-debt buildup prior to the exceptionally high oil prices in 1973-1985, as shown in “Figure 4: Venezuela Real GDP per Capita”. Moreover, as the CIA-edited and written Wikipedia says about Venezuela: ”The election in 1973 of Carlos Andrés Pérez coincided with an oil crisis [[the OPEC oil-embargo]], in which Venezuela’s income exploded as oil prices soared; oil industries were nationalized in 1976. This [oil-nationalization and oil-production investment all at the worst possible time] led to massive increases in public spending, but also increases in external debts, which continued into the 1980s when the collapse of oil prices during the 1980s crippled the Venezuelan economy.“ That “oil crisis” was actually the period of exceptionally high oil prices resulting from Israel’s 1973 invasions and OPEC embargoes, but it was actually hell for Venezuela because Venezuela was losing money on each barrel of oil sold because only the Arabic countries and Iran were able to sell profitably their oil after the period of OPEC”s oil-embargo. Venezuela, seller of the world’ dirtiest oil, after 1976 was losing money on each barrel, when they had to repay all those foreign loans amassed during the boom-period.] That’s where it is today.
The tyrannical socialist government nationalized private industries and took over private businesses. They engaged in massive wealth confiscation, shut down free markets, suppressed free speech, and set up a relentless propaganda machine, rigged elections, used the government to persecute their political opponents, and destroyed the impartial rule of law.
In other words, the socialists have done in Venezuela all of the same things that socialists, communists, totalitarians have done everywhere that they’ve had a chance to rule. The results have been catastrophic.
In conclusion, then, no country in the world has a press that’s more dishonest than the United States of America does. “More dishonest” than this press would even be a ludicrous concept. Though the particular lies that are being promoted elsewhere might happen to be different, they can’t be worse. America’s having destroyed Iran and Libya, etc., is proof of this.
Consequently: Only people who possess a thoroughly scientific orientation toward confirming and disconfirming allegations, are capable of extracting from such ‘news’ a realistic understanding of what’s actually happening. The vast majority of people can be fooled, and they can be fooled constantly and even for (as in the instance of America, since at least 2003) decades, and yet still trust the institutions that have deceived them so mercilessly through all of those decades. This is the major reason why the United States is a dictatorship, not a democracy — and why any ‘news’-site which calls the U.S. a ‘democracy’ is thereby clearly demonstrating its untrustworthiness. But, of course, only honest news-reporting organizations are publishing this report. And there will probably be very few that will do that, though all are receiving it for publication.
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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.
We just vote for our dictators, which are nothing more than puppets. I’ve given up on America ever becoming a respectable country. When contemplating how to end the corruption, I find myself completely at a loss, since every major corporation, institution, university, local, state, and federal governmemt eltity and each branch within each of those entities are infested with the most wretched maggots imaginable.
Corruption is what leads to dictaorships, since they realize that there is absolutely no valid reasons for 90% of their policies.
The Venezuelan socialist evil propaganda myth is totally ludicrous. The majority of Saudi Arabian citizens do not even work, and live off of the oil revenues, which is fact inconvenient for the oil, military, proganda, and government industries.
andrea iravanistein the grand duchess of franistan
Back in the 18th century the English aristocracy was discussing if people of lower social status should be educated, in case they started reading malicious (revolutionary) literature. The aristocrats came to the correct conclusion that keeping a population ignorant was more dangerous than permitting it to be educated.
This fact has apparently not been grasped by the US elite. Yes, elementary and high schools in the US are free, being financed through taxation, although they are inferior in quality to European schools. However, the US media has been given the task of dumbing down the population by keeping it ignorant. The media, which is controlled by six corporations and supervised by the Government, has three tasks: To act as a filter for all foreign news, which is rationed, being usually presented in a biased and inaccurate way. The second task is to act as an additional filter to all national news, which is presented in a somewhat larger volume than foreign news, but still not adequately. The third task is to concentrate the media on state and local news, so that the attention of the population would be directed to local matters.
This population control by the US Government is a very dangerous tactic, as the consequences could be catastrophic. For example, the media quotes phony Government statistics on unemployment and on finances. Only the foreign US debt is occasionally mentioned, while the gigantic US domestic debt is concealed, including the fact that the dollar is printed in huge amounts backed by nothing.
Analysts have for years been warning that this financial situation in the US cannot last for ever and that a crash of the monetary system will eventually happen. If it does crash, what will happen ? How will the shocked US population react ?
On the Internet it is becoming a fashion to speculate if a civil war is coming to the US. No, I don’t think that the US will see a civil war of the type that was fought between 1861 and 1865, because nobody could finance it and I don’t think people would fight each other over political ideology, having better things to do, like looking after their families. However, what you would most probably see would be anarchy, created by ethnic conflicts and severe social and economic unrest, leading to the break up of the US. I think the US elite knows this, which is the reason why it has for years been buying up real estate outside the US, preparing getaway’s.
Somber , yet penetrating analysis . Ignorance is bliss till becomes nightmare .
Yes.
But now the elite decided to make use of the tsunami weapon, knowing that the USA is almost uniquely most exposed to damage, should it be used against USA.
There is no one theory accepted by elites. Accepting some of the nouveau riche is done in order to better relieve them of all the “riche”!
Corruption is indeed key. The awareness of it means only some can be accepted as sources of fake news.
What happened to the Pharisees and Saducees? The Kohan tribe that shared Judea with the Lion tribe, Judah?
These priests had thrived on the corruption of changing money inside the Temple. They have adapted and thrived, growing debt slavery without Jubilee.
Ireland destroyed its own banks, egged on by a neighbour. The Revenue Commissioners, for whom I was an Investigator, helped divert evaced funds into banks to increase housing prices. All civil servants of rank Colonel or higher, Principal, owned shares in the banks. Decades earlier, the Education department had abolished the Leaving Cert subject of study of Economic History, in favour of “Economics”. Ignorance followed!
The abolition of taxes on farm and domestic land, in 1977, also helped to boost land prices.
Excellent show on Venezuela for RT programme Renegade inc – “Venezuela: Anatomy of a coup”
https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/452949-venezuela-anatomy-coup-politics/
Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by Dr. Francisco Dominguez, head of the Latin American Studies Research Group at Middlesex University, and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, professor of human rights at Birkbeck, to ask what’s really going on in Venezuela.
It covers the MSM’s coverage and the whole regurgitated regieme change US methods in Latin America..
Yup is a good one.
Sadly on sputnik is an extensive article from a previous advisor to Chavez….not optimistic.
First time when I went to so-called West, after carefully following western media, I needed less than a week to realize that all western media are in service of USA government and that there is symbiosis between western mainstream media and USA and other western political elites.
So, only idiots can believe in fairy tales about media freedom in the so-called west. All these media are just western propaganda machinery.
But the problem is that, despite how much they lie and manipulate, there are ALWAYS enough of stupid brainwashed zombies who are ready to swallow anything from these criminals and their so-called media.
One example is that idiotic story about Russian election influence in USA elections and that Russians actually decided outcome of USA elections.
At first moment, this nonsense seemed so stupid and imbecile that I could not imagine that it is even possible anyone can take it seriously.
But I obviously underestimated level of stupidity and imbecility of many zombified and brainwashed people all around the world.
I hope that percentage of sane people who does not buy this BS any more, grows every day.
I saw one local politician, one of the very few who I do not hold in utter contempt due to his courage in opposing the near total Groupthink of the racist, Sinophobe, China-haters in politics and the fakestream media cess-pools, recently declare, with straight face, that ‘Russian meddling’ won the election for Trump. To add imbecility to idiocy, he then listed a few of the real reasons, including voter suppression, while neglecting the 100 million who absented themselves from the farce.
The Propaganda Multiplier: How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics
https://www.globalresearch.ca/propaganda-multiplier-global-news-agencies-western-media-geopolitics/5670371
Very useful article on the role news agencies (ap, reuters, etc) have in shaping the zionazi-gay media narrative in the west.
The import of weapons and military equipment under the pretext of humanitarian aid was also performed repeatedly during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was first discovered hidden in trucks transporting such alleged ‘humanitarian’ aid from moslem countries at the checkpoints of Bosnian Serbs’ army (back towards the end of 1992, if I remember correctly). It was shown on Bosnian Serbs TV.
Likewise, col David Hackworth of US Army who was stationed in Tuzla (Bosnia, controlled by moslems) gave statement in a BBC documentary that he was oftimes an unwilling witness to night landings of large transport planes (at Tuzla airport), mainly from moslem countries, bringing arms to Bosnian moslems in contravention of UN introduced arms embargo, under the humanitarian aid label.
Right thruout the Anglo Zionist Empire, the media are merely mouthpieces; stenographers for Imperialism and Neoliberalism, and more Conquest, and above all, protectors of the status quo. Bosnian Croat hits the nail on the head: ‘Stupid Brainwashed Zombies’ – and that is very much the case here in Australia. It is immensely frustrating and just fecken scary that the vast majority of people fully swallow the bullshit. They believe Putin interfered in the U.S elections, they believe Assange is a rapist and traitor, they believe Australia is a sovereign, independent nation, they believe the Skripal nonsense, and all the other crap spewed out by the mainly Murdoch rags -and they cannot get enough of ‘american culture’ – especially the younger Aussies. And literally everyone is staring at their phones. Its just depressing and nuts. How do you get thru to these people??
Getting through. Don’t. Employ empathy, feel pity and sorrow for them. That’s what you tell them. That will get through. Then, out of sheer human curiosity, the majority will want to know why you fell that way for them. At that point, fell free to unload, cause they asked and you didn’t infer. Each small iota of an idea, is a seed planted, harvest may take a while.
I am not optimist at all. Lunatics like Pompeo, Bolton, Rubio, Abrams, Bloody Gina and others will not stop. Because THEY CANNOT STOP.
THEY MUST NOT STOP.
If they stop it is all over for them. That imperialist agenda works only this way, they must have enemy. And if they succeed to enslave entire world, then they would establish brutal Orwellian totalitarian system (now it is already half established) and everyone who resist would be destroyed without mercy.
Russia and China are only hope. All others are either enslaved vassals or frightened too much to say anything.
Those criminals that I already mention above will not tolerate this situation and they will provoke war with Russia or China or both of them. Not much hope for this world.
They cannot stop because they love what they do. They are serial killing psychopaths.
You don’t, Gezzah. They were pithed at birth, and what remained of their brain was washed daily in lies, hypocrisy and really ignorant, self-deluding, stupidity, ever since. The one feature that strikes me is the 100% Groupthink among the presstitutes, and not just the total absence of any differing opinions, but the complete refusal to see or acknowledge the monoculture of the mind that prevails. What I really enjoy is the mixture of stupefaction and fear that the presstitutes exhibit whenever some Badthinker accidentally appears (for the one and only time, of course)to utter some ghastly Thought Crime. Another salient feature is how certain inconvenient truths or unworthy victims are totally disappeared from the fakestream media sewer, like those quintessential unpersons, the Palestinians.
Sean The Leprechaun, Bosnian Croat, Mulga Mumblebrain: appreciate the feedback, thanks. Just to echo Mulga; the whole groupthink – marching in lockstep….. goosesteps, is probably the most surreal thing of all. The conformity of the World.
aka The banality of evil
I concur with all of the above
“Just to echo Mulga; the whole groupthink – marching in lockstep….. goosesteps, is probably the most surreal thing of all. The conformity of the World.”
It’s called zionazism ueber alles. Or “full spectrum dominance”, the zionazi-gay wet dream.
The Zionazis and the Talmudists, from whose doctrines Zionazism grew, both believe that Jews are meant to rule the world, either through useful Sabbat Goy idiots, or directly, from Jerusalem. I rather believe that a majority of Jews, particularly in the Diaspora would see that ambition as deranged, and highly dangerous, but there is a lot of psychological and moral dead space between an Einstein, Arendt, Menuhin, Benjamin etc, and the Bibis, Ovadia Yosefs, Sharons and Luciana Bergers of the world. But we mere goyim are utterly forbidden to criticise the actions of any Jew, because that is ‘antisemitism’ and indicates a wish to exterminate all the Jews. It is quite insane, is it not?
Gezzah, the Internet in China, of all places, is alive with debate on every subject, apart from the rule of the Chinese Government over China. That will get you strife, as one expects in a country under full assault by the greatest force for Evil in all history-the US-Israel Reich and its coterie of Western stooge regimes. Meanwhile, in the glorious West, the fakestream media sewer is entirely Rightwing and owned by the ruling parasites, practises 100% Groupthink, lies about virtually everything, and the Internet is being increasingly shut down in the name of ‘Western Moral Values’. And Freedom of Opinion and Speech and the USA’s supposedly precious First Amendment are all being liquidated throughout the West to protect the Zionazis from being upset by the truth of just how wicked is apartheid, racist, terrorist Israel, and so utterly pernicious the control of Western elites by Zionazi money power.
Mulga Mumblebrain: I know…. I know. Try and avoid all mainstream newspeak (media) except occasionally glance at ABC News Facebook to see what incredibly vital (cough….) topics they have on it, and peruse the headlines when I get up in the morning, but that’s it. Waste of my brain cells and my time delving any deeper. Its just fecken brainrot. Try and focus mainly on Independent sites. One site I regularly check is Middle East Reality Check, which you probably know – Aussie guy looking at the pro Israel bias in the Aussie media and politicians, plus Moon Of Alabama, OffGuardian, The Greanville Post, Caitlin Johnston, and a couple of others. I don’t want to become a zombie also!
I dropped OffGuardian because, despite their mucilaginous pretense that they do not censor opinions, they disappeared mine, after I opposed their odious and fanatical anthropogenic climate destabilisation denialism. As this is the greatest threat to humanity, EVER, their otherwise good positions (in my opinion) on other topics, are negated by that pernicious idiocy.
Been fooled since 1913, the illegal formation of the Federal Reserve and their failed private eugenics experiment, its cost the citizens dearly.
Difficult to understand what direction this business is headed — the business of pointing crooked fingers at “them”. It is easy to see the cool proofs that are spread-out here for our easy consumption, and the eating doesn’t cause much indigestion . . . and well, we were nauseous to begin with. So, the easy questions aside, we are left with the same one still lingering, and beggaring the asking. . . where is truth? and where is the whole truth, when the demagogues give these half-drawn conclusions — which is really the whole lie.
I think that there is level of frustration that gives rise to the “finger pointing.”
First, a lot of Americans still place trust in the media. I had an old friend “de-friend” me on Facebook since I had the audacity to state that the attempt to overthrow Assad had nothing to do with “humanitarian” considerations. The MSM is splitting American into two camps, those that believe the MSM and those, like myself, that don’t. It has increased the divisiveness of the country.
Second, it is time consuming to get accurate information about what is going on in the world. I must spend two hours a day trying to sort out fact from propaganda. It is more than just a hobby. I have to make life decisions and it is hard to do so in a milieu of media dishonesty.
Third, there is a feeling of affront. I try to conduct my affairs honestly. I take affront at seeing a major institution of my country engaged in pure propaganda. It is – in all honesty – not just dishonest, but treasonous. And they get away with it and get paid good amounts of money for doing it. It is an affront to my basic sense of justice.
Agreement. Divisiveness!
Splitting the people, but driving a wedge into every man too — a moral decay, that sucks life. American’s are useless as a body politic, when we view our brothers as enemies. There is a negative action of exposing lies and standing trial for truth, but positive actions are fully denied us by the crushing thought-prison of the “normal” m.o. of “conformity to the lie.”
Although this article makes some good points about the lack of reliability and accuracy in media outlets, I don’t see how this supports the statement that the media are propaganda outlets of the US government. All that we can conclude is both sources present similar propaganda. In fact, one might conclude the reverse, that the US government is a propaganda outlet for the corporations which own US media. In fact the statements by Bolton suggest that the Powers of interest in Venezuela are the major oil companies. These are the parties that would, after all actually benefit from seizing Venezuela’s oil.
David, you make a good point and one that has often puzzled me. How exactly government propaganda end up being reported as “news” by the mainstream media?
For instance, the American Broadcast System is owned by Disney. What interest does Disney have in overthrowing the Maduro regime? None that I can see. It would seem to be in their self interest to “beat” the other networks to a different but far more believable story. But they don’t do that. Why?
Also, consider the New York Times. The Times is largely owned by the Ochs family. What interest did they have in starting the quagmire in Iraq? Again, none that I can see. But they supported it anyway. And, after the fact, I remember one NYT reporter conceding that “everyone in the beltway knew” that the whole “weapons of mass destruction” narrative of the Bush administration was nothing but a pretext. He admitted that everyone knew this all along. So why did they allow it to happen?
And this happens over and over again.
At this point, I can no longer just dismiss this all as coincidence. There is some sort of infiltration or collaboration going on. It doesn’t make sense otherwise. It is just too improbable.
Some suggestions.
One, the people who actually own the media are all part of the same “class.” The themes that are reported as news are decided on, in the country club circuit and the lower level reporters must toe the line or get fired. I know that this was true with the reporting of the Vietnam War in the 1970’s. Accordingly, I would not be surprised if it is still true to day and to even a greater extent.
Two, there are intelligence operatives embedded in the media. This has long been known to be true but it might be far more widespread than originally believed.
Three, the government operates in secret behind the cloak of national security. It could be that “access” to information is given “quid pro quo,” so that the media become complicit in deception for what the government tells them is the “nation’s best interest.” Again, I know that this happened in the Vietnam era and I would not be surprised if it is now going on to an even greater extent.
Good points Mike. I like your option one. Corporate actions are determined by their boards. One problem is that board members may have other financial interests. Either by sitting on the boards of other corporations or simply having large share holdings in companies that would directly benefit. An interlocking system of board memberships would exactly create a privileged moneyed class as you describe. One other point is the system of intellectual guidance provided by private “think tanks”. Especially the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. There are many others of course. These organizations often seem to provide directives to the political class on what policies those funding them happen to favor. The American Enterprise institute, for example was closely tied to the Project for the New American Century.
So I guess it seems to me that when the most powerful monied interests decide on a policy, it doesn’t make sense to do anything other than go along. Otherwise you will find your media organization subject to hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts or other forms of financial blackmail and it will not end well for you.
That is a good guess as to how this country really operates.
David, that is a good point about interlocking directorships. I remember reading the biography of Steve Jobs. In the book, they noted the Al Gore was on the Board of Directors of Apple Corporation. I remember thinking, “Al Gore is on the Board of Directors of Apple?”
The AEI and PNAC are both neo-conservative and neo-liberal, ie Zionazi, projects.
That’s correct, the PNAC has had a profound effect on US foreign policy in the 21st century including the Iraq war. This is despite the fact that both co-founders of the PNAC William Kristol and Robert Kagan were officially merely writers, political commentators and analysts in the private sector and had no governmental authority whatsoever.
@Mike from New Jersey. Yes! I think it was ex CIA Chief Wm. Colby who once bragged that “anyone of any importance in the major media was a CIA asset.”
If I remember correctly, Wm Colby eventually met a suspicious “accidental” death in or near his home’s swimming pool. That news quickly disappeared.
Barry in Missouri, USA
It is common knowledge that William Colby met an intentional rowing “accident” on a river because he could not keep his mouth shut, like admitting that the CIA supervised the media in the US.
Barry, there was actually a CIA program to that effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCfTIapds0
If you told that to the average middle class American they would call you a “crazy conspiracy theorist,” however, it was the subject of Congressional investigation and there is no doubt but that it happened.
Im calling out Pete Davidson from SNL a CIA plant.
That seems a sort of ‘the chicken and the egg’ argument, or should I say ‘the snake and the egg’. US politicians are tools of the capitalist elite who own and therefore control the country, particularly the Zionazi Israel First Fifth Column, but they themselves are nearly all filthy rich in comparison to the proles.
You know how the First Amendment to the Constitution separates church and state.
I have often thought that we need an amendment requiring separation of capital and state.
I thought it might be a good rule of thumb to infer than the least wealthy Congress members were more trustworthy and reliable. Unfortunately, my hypothesis doesn’t always seem to work. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is actually one of the poorest members of Congress with a negative net worth of over one million dollars. Poor Debbie. She certainly should be getting some kind of a payoff from somebody.
The more I read about the Larouch PAC, the more I believe the Elephant in the room is the Brits: they`ve been after the USA since the American Revolution and haven`t quit. See Lyndon LaRouche’ video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcdRCWEt4Q
1932, A True History of the United States
The guy is bang on!
Cynthia McKinney Card on US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwk8SpS5f4
The economic collapse is very soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=230wMQcbU5k
It seems to be a human fault , that hearing something, true or false, we form an opinion. It is almost impossible to change that opinion in discourse and will always end up in an argument and facts will never matter as most people are to busy or lazy to research the situation. Main stream media understand this and can cast the most idiotic program ( Rachel Maddow ) and it will resonate with people. Shame on us.
9/11 had to occur at that time, as Sadam’s son in law had “escaped” to Sadam’s controllers in Washington. He had bad news: their man, Sadam, was dead! Their chem weapons had to be sent near to IsRaEl for safe pick up. USA supplied weapons.
Seems they could not find any other plan than to devastate Iraq in order to balkanize it.
Stealing ancient artifacts was just a bonus. Pallet loads of dollars? Icing on the cake.