by Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n
The entire Western edifice rests on lies.<\/strong> There is no other foundation. Just lies.<\/p>\n This makes truth an enemy. Enemies have to be suppressed, and thus truth has to be suppressed.<\/strong><\/p>\n Truth comes from foreign news sources, such as RT, and from Internet sites, such as this one.<\/p>\n Thus, Washington and its vassals are busy at work closing down independent media.<\/strong><\/p>\n Washington and its vassals have redefined propaganda. Truth is propaganda if it is told by countries, such as Russia and China, that have independent foreign policies.<\/p>\n Propaganda is truth if told by Washington and its puppets, such as the EU Observer.<\/strong><\/p>\n The EU Observer, little doubt following Washington\u2019s orders, has denounced RT and Sputnik News for \u201cbroadcasting fabrications and hate speech from their bureaus in European Union cities.\u201d<\/p>\n Often I appear on both RT and Sputnik. In my opinion both are too restrained in their reporting, fearful, of course, of being shut down, than full truth requires. I have never heard a word of hate speech or propaganda on either. Washington\u2019s propaganda, perhaps, but not the Russian government\u2019s.<\/p>\n In other words, the way Washington has the news world rigged, not even independent news sites can speak completely clearly.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Western presstitutes have succeeded in creating a false reality for insouciant Americans and also for much of the European Union population.<\/p>\n A sizable percentage of these insouciant peoples believe that Russia invaded Ukranine and that Russia is threatening to invade the Baltic States and Poland. This belief exists despite all intelligence of all Western governments reporting that there is no sign of any Russian forces that would be required for invasion.<\/p>\n The \u201cRussian invasion,\u201d like \u201cSaddam Hussein\u2019s weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections,\u201d like \u201cAssad of Syria\u2019s use of chemical weapons against his own people,\u201d like \u201cIranian nukes,\u201d never existed but nevertheless became the reality in the Western media. The insouciant Western peoples believe in non-existent occurrencies.<\/p>\n In other words, just to state the obvious noncontroversial fact, the Western \u201cnews\u201d media is a propaganda ministry from which no truth emerges.<\/p>\n Thus, the Western World is ruled by propaganda. Truth is excluded.<\/strong><\/u> Fox \u201cnews,\u201d CNN, the NY Times, Washington Post, and all the rest of the most accomplished liars in world history, repeat constantly the same lies. For Washington, of course, and the military\/security complex.<\/p>\n War is the only possible outcome of propaganda in behalf of war. When the irresponsible Western media brings Armageddon to you, you can thank the New York Times and the rest of the presstitutes for the destruction of yourself and all your hopes for yourself and your children.<\/p>\n Stephen Lendman, who comprises a good chunk of the remaining moral conscience of the West, explains the situation<\/a>:<\/p>\n EU Bashes \u201cRussian Propaganda\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n by Stephen Lendman<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Western major media march to the same drummer \u2013 dutifully regurgitating managed news misinformation garbage, willfully burying hard truths on issues mattering most.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alternative sources beholden to truth and full disclosure operate by different standards \u2013 engendering ire among Western nations wanting their high crimes suppressed \u2013 bashing sources revealing them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The EU Observer (EUO) claims independent credentials while supporting policies responsible news sources denounce.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Independently reporting hard truths isn\u2019t its long suit. Its editor, Lisbeth Kirk, is the wife of former Danish European Parliament member Jens-Peter Bonde. Human Rights Watch\u2019s European and Central Asian advocacy director Veronika Szente Goldston calls its journalists \u201cthe most in-your-face in Brussels.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EUO irresponsibly bashed Russia\u2019s Sputnik News and RT International \u2013 two reputable sources for news, information and analysis \u2013 polar opposite Western media propaganda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It shamelessly called their reporting valued by growing millions \u201cbroadcasting fabrications and hate speech from their bureaus in EU cities.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It touted plans by EU officials to counter what they called \u201cuse and misuse of communications tools\u2026play(ing) an important role in the dramatic political, economic and security-related developments (in) Eastern (European countries) over the past 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It drafted a nine-page \u201caction plan\u201d intended to convey \u201cpositive\u201d messages. It\u2019ll increase funding to blast out Europe\u2019s view of things more effectively.<\/p>\n It wants EU policies promoted in former Russian republics the old-fashioned way \u2013 by repeating Big Lies often enough until most people believe them.<\/p>\n A new EU foreign service cell called East StratComTeam operating by September will run things \u2013 functioning as a European ministry of propaganda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019ll \u201cdevelop dedicated communication material on priority issues\u2026put at the disposal of the EU\u2019s political leadership, press services, EU delegations and EU member states.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Material circulated in Russia and other EU countries aims to let news consumers \u201ceasily understand that political and economic reforms promoted by the EU can, over time, have a positive impact on their daily lives\u201d \u2013 even though precisely the opposite is true.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It wants so-called benefits Europeans enjoy explained to people continent-wide. Will millions of unemployed, underemployed and impoverished people buy what\u2019s plainly untrue from their own experience?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sputnik News, RT, US independent sources like the Progressive Radio Network and numerous others steadily gain audience strength at the expense of scoundrel media people abandon for good reason.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Growing numbers want truth and full disclosure on things affecting their lives and welfare. Politicians in Western countries want ordinary people treated like mushrooms \u2013 well-watered and in the dark.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n RT\u2019s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said \u201cthe European Union is diligently trying to stifle the alternative voice of RT, at a time when in Europe there are hundreds of newspapers, television channels and radio stations, which set out only one point of view on what is happening in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The BBC is Fox News with an English accent. US so-called public radio and broadcasting are no different \u2013 telling listeners and viewers everything except what they most need to know.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Simonyan explained \u201cBritain (has) an entire army brigade of 1,500 men\u2026whose tasks include the fight against Russia on social networks. NATO has a task force aimed at countering Russian influence throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOnly recently, Deutsche Welle launched a 24-hour television channel in English to counter RT. At the same time, nearly all the major Western media, including the BBC, DW and Euronews have long disseminated their information in the Russian language, while Radio Liberty, funded directly by the US government, broadcasts in Russian.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c(I)f after all this, the EU still complains that they are losing the \u2018information war\u2019 against Russia, perhaps it\u2019s time to realize that\u201d growing numbers of people are fed up with being lied to.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n People want reliable sources of news, information and analysis unavailable through mainstream Western sources using propagandists masquerading as journalists.<\/strong><\/u><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Craig Roberts Rages: Truth Is Now A Crime Against The State by Paul Craig Roberts The entire Western edifice rests on lies. There is no other foundation. Just lies. This makes truth an enemy. Enemies have to be suppressed, … Continue reading \n