{"id":55496,"date":"2015-03-16T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=55496"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:25:57","slug":"cnn-is-beating-the-drums-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/03\/cnn-is-beating-the-drums-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Is Beating the Drums of War"},"content":{"rendered":"

14 Mar 2015 – <\/em>President George W. Bush\u2019s national security advisor, Condi Rice, warned Americans that Saddam Hussein\u2019s (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction could result in a mushroom cloud going up over an American city. No such threat existed. But today a very real threat exists over all American cities, and the national security advisor does not notice.<\/p>\n

The threat issues from Washington and arises from the demonization of Russia and its leadership.<\/p>\n

Wolf Blitzer (CNN, March 13) used the cover of a news program to broadcast a propaganda performance straight out of the Third Reich or perhaps from George Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em>. The orchestration presented Russia as a massive, aggressive military threat. The screen was filled with missiles firing and an assortment of American General Strangeloves urging provocative measures to be deployed against the Russian Threat. Blitzer\u2019s program is part of the orchestrated propaganda campaign whose purpose is to prepare Americans for conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

It was such irresponsible propaganda and so many blatant lies for a media organization to sponsor that it was obvious that CNN and Wolf Blitzer had no fear of being called on the carpet for spreading war fever. The so-called \u201cmainstream media\u201d has been transformed into a Ministry of Propaganda.<\/p>\n

Similar propaganda is being spread in the UK where defense minister Michael Fallon declared Russia to be a \u201creal and present danger\u201d to Europe. US troops and tanks are being rushed to the Baltics on the pretext that Russia is going to attack.<\/p>\n

That such blatant lies can issue from high government officials without a shred of evidence and without shame should scare you to death. We are witnessing the total disrespect for truth and human life by high government officials and the presstitute media.<\/p>\n

The propaganda is driving the world toward war. The propaganda has destroyed the trust between nuclear powers <\/em>and has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon. The Russian government sees that Washington and its NATO vassals are conjuring a nonexistent Russian Threat. Clearly this conjured threat has a purpose that intends Russia harm.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s propaganda spread by the presstitutes is the most irresponsible act in human history. Reagan and Gorbachev succeeded in removing the threat of nuclear war, and the crazed neoconservatives and their media whores have brought it back.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s propaganda attack on Russia and Vladimir Putin is like Washington\u2019s attack on Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Saddam Hussein, Libya and Gaddafi. Does this mean that Washington intends to attack Russia in a pre-emptive nuclear strike?<\/p>\n

If so, it means the end of the world. Clearly, the threat to the United States and the entire world resides in Washington and not in Moscow. The threat is the crazed neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony supported by the unbridled greed of American corporations to control the resources of the world<\/p>\n

Putin understands the seriousness of the situation and is working hard to diffuse it, but Washington has made it impossible to diffuse. Washington\u2019s price is that Putin must hand over Crimea and the Russian Black Sea naval base, abandon the Russian populations in southern and eastern Ukraine, and accept NATO military bases in Ukraine. Washington\u2019s demand is a demand for Russia\u2019s pre-emptive surrender.<\/p>\n

In the CNN propaganda show, Wolf Blitzer failed to report that German intelligence challenges Washington\u2019s claims about Russia and that the French and German governments have finally realized that Washington is insane and are working desperately to stop Washington\u2019s drive toward war.<\/p>\n

Washington and its UK puppet have spent the entirety of the 21st century creating death and destruction. Seven countries have been invaded, bombed, or droned in order \u201cto spread democracy.\u201d Iraq is destroyed, as is Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia . Syria nearly so, and Pakistan and Yemen are politically and socially destabilized by incessant US air attacks. The democratic, elected, governments of Honduras and Ukraine have been overthrown by US coups. Venezuela is next in line, with Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Brazil waiting their turn.<\/p>\n

Washington has given the world 14 years of brutal and inhumane war. Isn\u2019t this enough evil? Does Washington have to give us more?<\/p>\n

Washington and the presstitutes have lost their humanity. They have become agents of evil. If mushroom clouds appear, the responsibility will lie with Wolf Blitzer, CNN, and the presstitutes who beat the drums of war.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the <\/em>Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for <\/em>Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and <\/em>Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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