February
10, 2018
Russian
President places flowers at memorial in Stalingrad, Feb. 2018
The
swamp, which Trump promised to drain, turned out to be a quagmire. Some swamp
creatures have emerged returning to lofty perches, while other remnants of the
imperial governing class of America are slowly and inexorably swallowed.
For
a year we have seen one after another swamp creature disappear into the
quagmire now consuming members of both the Trump team and members of the
opposition. As victims’ flounder deeper in political and legal peril only
bubbles remain as they squirm and sink from view.
But
the American people, accustomed to consuming current events mainly through
television programming, need to have both comforting and frightening images, so
that their worldview is only minimally disturbed.
Comforting
– in order to convince the public that American politicians they admire are
pure as lambs, devoted day and night to tirelessly caring for their welfare.
And, able to protect the country from terrible enemies – real or imagined.
Frightening
– in order to justify the monstrous expenditure on armaments, fueling wars that
are increasingly perceived as permanent, and fought against enemies now shown
as fake.
The
machinery needed to manufacture propaganda has been in place for centuries, but
the tools have never been better. False flag attacks turned public
attention in 1895 to Spanish imperialism in Cuba, in 1915 to German aggression
in Europe, and in 1941 to Japanese threats in the Pacific. Without these
pivotal events Americans would have likely been content to sit out the Spanish
American War, and two World Wars of the 20th century.
What
has changed now is that shocking single events are not alone sufficient to lure
the exceptional nation into launching campaigns against enemies of
freedom. With 9/11, as the new Pearl Harbor so eloquently predicted by
PNAC, Americans have been bombarded by persistent propaganda about
“terrorists,” all from the Muslim world. This fake narrative has been
used to systematically strip Americans of privacy, promote religious bigotry
against Islam, and justify mass killing of innocent people throughout the
world. All based on lies.
Americans
began to realize our government, or rouge elements inside it, created the very
enemies our politicians and military label “terrorists.” It began with
Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and spread to Syria where now the defeated
US proxy army is surrounded with their US soldier comrades confined and unable
to operate freely.
Having
lost Syria and with little hope of exerting influence in the Middle East for
generations ahead, propaganda attacks are turning from Islamic terrorists to
more dangerous and menacing targets.
