by Eric Zuesse
\nThe Saker<\/p>\n
The central issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign can\u2019t even be discussed in U.S. newsmedia, because America\u2019s media have been almost uniformly complicit all along in hiding from the American public the crucial factual information that\u2019s necessary in order for the public to vote in an intelligent and truthfully informed way about it.<\/strong> 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 things associated with the nation\u2019s central issue \u2014 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 \u2018Drano\u2019 for a political system that has become clogged by lies just jammed down into it, now backing up and pouring out onto America\u2019s political floor. The overflowing sludge has got to be cleaned up, and discarded. Or else \u2014 and very suddenly \u2014 it will kill us all.<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n This central issue is whether or not to continue to move forward with\u00a0the American government\u2019s plan, ever since the Soviet Union and its military alliance the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, to extend NATO \u2014 the anti-Russia military club \u2014 right up to Russia\u2019s borders<\/a>, surround Russia with NATO nuclear missiles a mere five minutes flight-time to Moscow, and simultaneously\u00a0build a \u201cBallistic Missile Defense\u201d or \u201cAnti Ballistic Missile\u201d (BMD or ABM) system to nullify Russia\u2019s retaliatory missiles<\/a>\u00a0against 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 \u2014 two drastically different outcomes<\/strong>, but one side or the other will prevail in this political contest, and the present article links to the documentation that America\u2019s voters will need to be aware of that shows not only that they\u2019ve been lied-to, but how and why they\u2019ve 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\u2019t want the American public to know. That\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n U.S. President Barack Obama has stated, on many occasions, that the U.S. is the only \u201cindispensable\u201d country, and that any country which refuses to capitulate to American global supremacy is an enemy. <\/strong>This applies especially to Russia and to China \u2014 two formerly communist nations. Thus, the \u2018Cold War\u2019 is being resumed, and U.S. arms-makers are booming again, even though the ideological excuse (the \u201cred scare,\u201d communism) is now gone.<\/p>\n For example,\u00a0Obama told graduating cadets at West Point, on 28 May 2014<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has\u00a0been true for the century passed and it will be true\u00a0for the century to\u00a0come. \u2026 Russia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in\u00a0Europe, while China\u2019s economic rise and military reach\u00a0worries its\u00a0neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us,\u00a0and governments seek a greater say in\u00a0global forums. \u2026 It will be your generation\u2019s task to respond to this new world. The\u00a0question we face, the question each of you will face, is not\u00a0whether\u00a0America will lead, but how we will lead \u2014 not just to secure our peace\u00a0and prosperity, but also extend peace and\u00a0prosperity around the globe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He was telling West Point graduates there, that economic competition can become a cause for America to go to war, and that America\u2019s global supremacy is their job to enforce.<\/strong><\/p>\n Obama placed this into a moralizing framework, as he always so skillfully does (for propaganda-purposes; he\u2019s terrifically gifted at that), by saying to those cadets:<\/p>\n \u201cAmerica\u2019s willingness to apply force around the world is the ultimate\u00a0safeguard against chaos,<\/strong> and America\u2019s failure to act in\u00a0the face of\u00a0Syrian brutality or Russian provocations not only violates our\u00a0conscience, but invites escalating aggression in the\u00a0future. \u2026 In the 21st century American isolationism is not an option. We don\u2019t have a choice to ignore what happens beyond our\u00a0borders. \u2026 As the Syrian civil war spills across borders, the capacity of\u00a0battle-hardened extremist groups to come after us only increases.\u00a0Regional aggression that goes unchecked\u00a0\u2014 whether in southern Ukraine\u00a0or the South China Sea, or anywhere else in the\u00a0world\u00a0\u2014 will ultimately\u00a0impact our allies and could draw in our military. We can\u2019t ignore what\u00a0happens beyond our boundaries. And beyond these narrow rationales, I believe we have a real stake, an\u00a0abiding self-interest, in making sure our children and\u00a0our grandchildren\u00a0grow up in a world where schoolgirls are not kidnapped and where\u00a0individuals are not slaughtered because\u00a0of tribe or faith or political\u00a0belief. I believe that a world of greater freedom and tolerance is not\u00a0only a moral imperative, it also\u00a0helps to keep us safe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He was equating there the imposition of American control, as being \u201ca world of greater freedom and tolerance,\u201d which \u201chelps to keep us safe.\u201d<\/strong> Was it that, and did it do that, in Iraq? What about in Libya? What did it do for Ukraine<\/a>? 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 \u2018saved\u2019 by Obama\u2019s policy, which has been America\u2019s policy for decades, and which is not challenged, and which is bipartisan in every regard except for the style of lying rhetoric that\u2019s being used to \u2018justify\u2019 it?<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s predecessor in office, George W. Bush, was working on the same plan, when he invaded Iraq in 2003.<\/strong> His allegations that he was certain that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear-weapons program, and saying against \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD program\u201d that \u201ca report came out of the Atomic \u2014 the IAEA that they\u00a0were six months away from developing a weapon. I don\u2019t know what\u00a0more\u00a0evidence we need\u201d<\/a>, all of it were just bald lies from him, because all of it was false, and he knew that it was false<\/a>. He knew that there was no such \u2018IAEA\u2019 \u2018report\u2019. And the press didn\u2019t even challenge him on it, but instead just parroted the President\u2019s lies as if they should automatically be taken as truths. (And the press also hid the IAEA\u2019s immediate announcement that there was no such report.<\/a>) It\u2019s happening again, but the stakes this time are even more dangerous.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going into a Presidential election, in which one candidate, Hillary Clinton, clearly wants to continue the policy that has been in place since 1990 <\/strong><\/u>(and which her husband played a major role in), and in which the other candidate, Donald Trump, wants to stop it<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0 \u2014 he says we should end it. So, he is accused of being a\u2018Soviet agent\u2019<\/a>. The same aristocracy that own the \u2018news\u2019 media and that control both of the political Parties, is being threatened by Trump\u2019s repudiation of their program. They use moralisms \u2014 rightist ones for Republicans, and leftist ones for Democrats \u2014 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\u2019s how America\u2019s controllers have been controlling this country since at least 1990<\/a>. They want to continue it, though it\u2019s heading all of us toward disaster.<\/p>\n In support of this aggressive agenda \u2014 a metastatically cancerous NATO \u2014 Obama in 2014 perpetrated a very bloody Ukrainian coup (propagandized as \u2018democracy demonstrations\u2019), carried out by U.S.-paid rabid racist-anti-Russian fascists, nazis actually<\/a> (and from a tradition in Ukraine that descended from the pro-Hitler, anti-Stalin, side of Ukraine during World War II \u2014 the side that did Ukraine\u2019s pogroms, etc.) and which had been allied with the Axis powers during WW II<\/a> \u2014 but that now were in the pay of the U.S. government<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s lies on this. Elizabeth Murray<\/a> 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.<\/a>) On 24 July 2016, in an article titled \u201cRep. Rick Larsen Bases Russia Policy on Myth\u201d<\/a>, she described her efforts to inform congressman Larsen about the reality of the U.S. operation in Ukraine. Wikipedia says: \u201cRichard Ray \u2018Rick\u2019 Larsen is the United States Representative for Washington\u2019s 2nd congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party. \u2026 Larsen is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. \u2026 He formerly worked as director of public affairs for the Washington State Dental Association and as a lobbyist for the dental profession. \u2026 the Second District was represented by future U.S. Senator Henry M. \u2018Scoop\u2019 Jackson between 1941 and 1953.\u201d (Jackson later became famous as \u201cthe Senator from Boeing,\u201d the first of the Democratic Party neoconservatives.)<\/p>\n Murray wrote<\/a> (and the links here are added by me):<\/p>\n 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 \u2014 including teachers, students, journalists, medical doctors, entrepreneurs and war veterans \u2014 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 \u2018swim for peace\u2019 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 \u2018Yats\u2019 youtube recording (in which Victoria Nuland is distinctly heard telling U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that \u2018Yats is the guy\u2019 just prior to<\/a> the regime change in which Arseniy Yatsenyuk became prime minister, and which directly implicated the U.S. in the Ukrainian coup<\/a>), felt threatened by the recent NATO\/Operation Anakonda<\/a>maneuvers that took place during our delegation\u2019s 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<\/a> voted to rejoin Russia in response to what they saw as outside interference in the affairs of Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Larsen immediately responded with rebuttals, stating flat-out he didn\u2019t believe there was a U.S. role in the Ukrainian events<\/a> \u2014 that what I\u2019d just told him was \u2018not what I\u2019ve been hearing\u2019 \u2013 and he went on to talk about how the Baltic states felt threatened by Russia, etc.<\/strong> He didn\u2019t know what \u2018Operation Anakonda\u2019 was and seemed unaware that the largest-ever NATO military maneuvers since WWII had just taken place on Russia\u2019s borders. I offered to send his office additional information about that and the Ukrainian events \u2013 an offer he ignored.<\/p>\n The path we\u2019re on can end only in one of two ways<\/strong><\/u>: Either the U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media will get real and start reporting the crucial realities<\/strong> (such as that the aggression in Ukraine wasn\u2019t Putin\u2019s \u2018seizure\u2019 of Crimea<\/a> but the immediately prior coup<\/a> \u2014 and its necessary ethnic cleansing afterwards<\/a> \u2014 by Obama\u2019s hirees, which started being organized by him no later than 1 March 2013<\/a>, and which culminated nearly a year later), these being the crucial realities that contradict the official lies<\/a> and thus might (if we\u2019re 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.<\/strong> The closer we get to the end of this matter, the more difficult the former option becomes, and the more inevitable the latter option \u2014 a blitz attack (by either side) \u2014 becomes. That\u2019s the reality.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s \u2018mono-polar world\u2019 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<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n\n
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