{"id":220570,"date":"2022-10-03T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=220570"},"modified":"2022-10-02T03:31:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:31:47","slug":"only-adult-children-still-believe-u-s-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/only-adult-children-still-believe-u-s-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Adult Children Still Believe U.S. Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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30 Sep 2022 – <\/em>It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration is hell-bent on destroying Russia and will risk nuclear war in doing so.\u00a0 It has already started World War III with its use of Ukraine to light the final match.\u00a0 The problem is that reasonable people are in very short supply, and, as Ray McGovern recently wrote in \u201cBrainwashed for War with Russia<\/a>,\u201d the Biden administration and their media lackeys<\/p>\n

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\u2026 will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China \u2026. Most Americans are just as taken in by the media as they were 20 years ago, when they were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They simply took it on faith. Nor did the guilty media express remorse \u2013 or a modicum of embarrassment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many good writers \u2013 all of whom are banned from mainstream media \u2013 have \u00a0made clear why the corporate media propaganda about the US\/NATO war against Russia via Ukraine is false and egregiously dangerous.\u00a0 The government of the U.S.A. is led by morons in the demonic grip of the \u201cThe U.S. Should Rule the World\u201d ideology.\u00a0 It is nothing new.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wish to debate the facts, for that is a fool\u2019s game created to suggest there is something to debate.\u00a0 For the evidence is clear, except to the public in the grip of propaganda-induced ignorance or those elites who never learned from the ancient Greek goddess Nemesis that dark Furies will destroy those who in their hubris push the limits.\u00a0 The Biden administration has already done that, while President Biden mutters inanities as if he were a mafia boss wandering the streets in his pajamas and slippers.\u00a0 The recent sabotaging of Nord Stream 2 is another example of the treacherous road we are traveling, as Diana Johnstone makes clear in her recent article, \u201cOmerta in the Gangster War<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, the U.S.- run NATO has moved military forces and bases into countries encircling Russia. This includes weapons that can very quickly be converted to nuclear use. This, as I\u2019ve pointed out before, is tantamount to Russia doing the same in Mexico and Canada, and let\u2019s add Cuba as well.\u00a0 We know what the U.S. response would be, but when President Putin and his government objected and said this is a betrayal of previous agreements, he was dismissed as if he were a child making things up.<\/p>\n

In 2014, when the U.S. engineered a coup in Ukraine, bringing into power neo-Nazi elements, and Russia protested this coup on its western border, Washington mocked such concerns. Every time Russia has complained about such provocative moves, the U.S. has dismissed them as inconsequential.<\/p>\n

For years the U.S. has supported the Ukrainian killing of the Russian speaking peoples of eastern Ukraine, and finally, when Ukraine had amassed forces to invade the Donbas region, the Russian government had had enough and sent troops into the region to defend this area.\u00a0 Thus the hypocritical West played at outrage that what they had created was finally backfiring.\u00a0 Russia was cast as the guilty party for invading Ukraine. \u00a0And now a full-fledged U.S. war against Russia is out in the open and it will become more dangerous as it continues.\u00a0 Nuclear annihilation becomes a very real possibility as the Biden administration continues to push the envelope.<\/p>\n

There will be no end to the war in Ukraine because the U.S. is intent on doing everything in its power to try to bring Russia to its knees.\u00a0 It is madness on its face, but then insane people are in charge. In this process, everyone is expendable, friends, foes, and anyone who stands in its way, including the U.S.\u2019s supposed European allies<\/a> whose leaders seem intent on destroying their own countries.<\/p>\n

Perhaps ironically \u2013 but I think not, as a knowledge of history confirms \u2013 the volte-face of the American liberal class<\/a> with its promotion of the new Cold War, censorship, the CIA, and FBI and the so-called progressive Democratic politicians in the U.S congress, including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, embracing and voting for war<\/a> with Russia via Ukraine, should be no great surprise. These people, and their Republican counterparts, with rare exceptions here and there, live on desolation row and flip when so ordered.\u00a0 But \u201cnobody has to think too much about Desolation Row,\u201d in Dylan\u2019s words, because it\u2019s the social disease we inhabit, and like fish in water, many know nothing else.<\/p>\n

On a similar note, Ray McGovern<\/a> has also recently reminded those who pay attention to him that The New York Times, <\/em>as is its tradition, is promoting the U.S. war against Russia just as it did with the Vietnam War in the 1960s.\u00a0 Little changes is his theme, no apologies are ever offered, and the readers of the most famous American newspaper and CIA conduit are asked to swallow daily doses of propaganda that are so egregiously obvious that only children would be fooled.\u00a0 Sadly, the United States has become a country of children, Babes in Toyland<\/a> who never realize that at the end of the plot the gun is reversed and is aimed at them.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not funny.<\/p>\n

A century ago in the years before World War I, American progressive intellectuals, as Stuart Ewen writes in PR: A Social History of Spin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026 had espoused the Enlightenment dictum that people \u2013 at least middle-class people \u2013 were essentially rational, capable of evaluating information and then making intelligent decisions.\u00a0 In the context of the CPI [the U.S, Committee on Public Information, a large propaganda apparatus set up in April 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson to sell the American entry into the war against Germany as necessary to \u2018Make the World Safe for Democracy,\u2019 whose members included Edward Bernays, the propagandist and so-called father of public relations] \u2018public opinion\u2019 became something to be mobilized and managed; the \u2018public mind\u2019 was now seen as an entity to be manufactured, not reasoned with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Faith in reason was abandoned in favor of psychological manipulation of emotion and the use of unreason \u2013 the \u201cnight mind\u201d \u2013 which became the template for future propaganda and the application of psychological techniques, a forerunner of the CIA\u2019s MKUltra and Operation Mockingbird.\u00a0 As the crackdown on dissent increased with passage of the 1917 Espionage Act (under which Julian Assange is falsely charged today) and then the Sedition Act in 1918, many so-called progressives embraced the authoritarian imposition of state controls on dissent, just as they do today.\u00a0 An important exception was Randolph Bourne, who in 1917 castigated these turncoats in his blistering essay, \u201cWar and the Intellectuals<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cSocialists, college professors, publicists, new-republicans, [and] practitioners of literature,\u201d he wrote, \u201chad assumed the iniquitous task of \u2018riveting the war mind on a hundred million of the world\u2019s people.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Today such people debate whether they should be called liberal or progressive.\u00a0 I say, call them warmongers of the lowest order.<\/p>\n

I remember when I was an impressionable child and television had only a few channels.\u00a0 This was in the years between the Korean War and the one against Vietnam. There was a movie that was repeated on television regularly: Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/a>, starring the amazing performer Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan, the Irish-American composer\/lyricist\/playwright, who, in the years before WW I was known as the man who owned Broadway and whose statue stands in Times Square in New York City.<\/p>\n

Child that I was, I saw the film many times and was mesmerized.\u00a0 My emotions rose with every viewing.\u00a0 My heart strings vibrated to the tunes of \u201cOver There\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re a Grand Old Flag.\u201d\u00a0 I marched proudly<\/a> to WW I with Cagney\/Cohan.\u00a0 This was a movie that appeared in 1942 to promote the WW II war effort by using the lies about WW I to do it.\u00a0 But oh what fun!\u00a0 And the stirring songs \u2013 fodder for a child.\u00a0 And this was before the CIA completely owned Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Yet I grew up.\u00a0 I am no longer a child.\u00a0 I have studied and seen through the propaganda of The New York Times, CNN, <\/em>the Washington Post, Fox News, The Guardian, Hollywood,<\/em> etc.<\/p>\n

Many of those I know have not.\u00a0 They believe in the unbelievable. They still live in what Jim Garrison called the \u201cDoll\u2019s House\u201d and accept what Harold Pinter termed \u201ca vast tapestry of lies.\u201d\u00a0 Pinter said in his 2005 Nobel address<\/a> what has not changed an iota since about the U.S.\u2019s murderous foreign policy:<\/p>\n

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn\u2019t happening. It didn\u2019t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It\u2019s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I was a child, I was hypnotized by \u201cYankee Doodle Dandy.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve grown a bit.\u00a0 McGovern and Pinter are right; little has changed \u2013 Vietnam, WW I, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iran, Nicaragua, El Salvador, China, etc.\u00a0 And of course, Russia, always Russia, at whose heart the weapons are always aimed, fiendish Russia that must be destroyed to make the world safe for the predators that pose as lovers of democracy and international law.<\/p>\n

When President Kennedy, deeply chastened by the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, spoke about real peace and democracy at American University on June 10, 1963<\/a>, he was the last American leader to recognize that international relations had to undergo a radical change, especially in the nuclear age.\u00a0 Demonizing other countries had to give way to dialogue and mutual respect.\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children\u2013not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women\u2013not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Five months later the CIA made sure his voice was stilled.\u00a0 Such sentiments have been verboten ever since.<\/p>\n

Only children still believe the America propaganda and its war machine.<\/p>\n

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