Disinformation On Every Front
Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the
Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no
disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the
business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right,
the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to
americans.
If I may give some examples: The other day Chuck Colson, one of the
Nixon officials imprisoned for Watergate crimes, died. This gave NPR the
opportunity to relive the Nixon horror.
What precisely was the Nixon horror? Essentially, there was no such
thing. Watergate was about President Nixon lying about when he learned
about the Watergate burglary.
When Nixon learned about the burglary, he did not act on it prior to his
reelection, because he reasoned, rightly, that the Washington Post
would blame him for the burglary, although he had nothing to do with it,
in the hopes of preventing his reelection.
By going along with a cover-up, Nixon enabled the Washington Post to
make an issue of the precise date on which Nixon learned of the
burglary. White House tapes indicated that Nixon had learned of the
burglary before he said he learned of it. So Nixon had permitted a
cover-up and had to go, but what was the real reason?
What was the Watergate burglary? We don’t really know. A group of
men including former CIA operatives were hired by the Committee to
Re-elect the President to break into a Democratic campaign office in the
Watergate complex. We don’t know the purpose of the burglary. Some
claim it was to wire-tap the telephones in the belief that the
Democratic Party was getting re-election money from communists in Cuba
or elsewhere. Others claim that the burglars were looking for a list of
call girls, that compromised a White House official, as his fiancee was
allegedly one of the call girls.
Looking back from our time during which Bush and Obama have
deep-sixed the US Constitution, violated numerous US and international
laws, and behaved as if they were caesars unconstrained by any law or
any morality, Nixon’s “crimes” appear so trivial as to be unremarkable.
Yet, Nixon was driven from office and is regarded as a criminal.
What was Watergate really about?
I doubt we will ever know. But I can offer one possible explanation.
Nixon, like John F. Kennedy before him, alarmed the military/security
complex with his plans to withdraw US troops from Vietnam
(Vietnamization) and his determination to open communication with
communist China and improve relations.
As President Eisenhower warned in his last address to the American
people, conflict brings power and profit to interest groups that benefit
from conflict. Nixon, like Kennedy before him, was perceived as a
threat by these powerful interests, because he was working to reduce
conflict.
James W. Douglass in his documented book, JFK and the Unspeakable,
attributes the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the CIA,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secret Service. Douglas reports that these
powerful government institutions were concerned by Kennedy’s refusal to
approve Operation Northwoods, to back the CIA’s invasion of Cuba, and to
confront the Soviets militarily over the Cuban missile crisis and by
Kennedy’s plans to end US military intervention in Vietnam. JFK also
told his brother Robert that after his re-election he was going to break
the CIA into a thousand pieces.
The right-wing view that Kennedy was too soft to stand up to
communism was intensified when it was learned that Kennedy was working
with Nikita Khrushchev through back channels to defuse the Cold War. In
his “A Strategy of Peace” speech (June 1963), Kennedy announced the
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the suspension of atmospheric nuclear
testing.
“What kind of a peace do we seek?,” Kennedy asked. “Not a Pax
Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” With his
words and deeds, President Kennedy made himself into a threat against
the interests of the military/security complex.
There was enough suspicion of JFK’s assassination that yet another
president assassinated by another “unhinged lone gunman” might raise
more eyebrows. Nixon was disliked by the media, which made him a good
candidate for political assassination. The Watergate burglary provided
the opportunity. The Washington Post did the job with reports of “Deep
Throat” meeting with reporters in spooky underground parking lots after
midnight. Little, if any, information of consequence was contained in
these reports. Instead, the newspaper’s reporting transferred the
spooky danger of the deserted parking garages to Nixon and an aura of
evil was attached to Nixon that eroded his support.
It is interesting that it is only presidents who work to reduce
conflict who become targets for assassination. Reagan’s anti-Soviet
rhetoric was strong enough to fool the left-wing, but the
military-security complex knew of Reagan’s intention to end the Cold
War. The CIA, formerly headed by Reagan’s vice president, opposed
Reagan’s plan to put the pressure of an arms race on the creaking Soviet
economy. The CIA argued that the centrally planned Soviet economy
allowed the Kremlin to control investment and that the Communist Party
could allocate whatever percentage of Soviet GDP to the military as was
needed to win the arms race. In other words, the CIA argued that the US
would lose the arms race if Reagan raised the stakes as a means of
bringing the Soviets to negotiate the end of the Cold War. Did the CIA
really believe this, or was the military/security complex trying to keep
the profitable Cold War stalemate going?
Washington cannot exist without conflict. Now that the “Muslim
threat” is wearing thin, Washington is stirring up a conflict with
China. Washington is sticking its nose into every dispute China has with
its neighbors and building up its military presence in the
Asian-Pacific. As I wrote in my previous column, a China threat is being
created as a long-term threat to take the place of the former Soviet
threat.
Moving on to another topic, americans are told that education is the
answer to unemployment. Get that university degree and live happily
every after.
As RT recently reported, the truth is that more than half of recent
US university graduates are unemployed or very underemployed. So much
for the mantra that “education is the answer.”
“Education is the answer” serves the colleges and universities who
want the tuition payments. It serves the companies who make student
loans. It helps the offshoring corporations disguise that they are the
main cause of unemployment.
Education is not the answer when high value-added, high wage
manufacturing and professional service jobs, such as software
engineering, are moved offshore in order to enhance short-term profits
for shareholders and multi-million dollar bonuses for CEOs, while
domestic employment and purchasing power are destroyed. Unless American
university graduates can emigrate to China and India, there is no one
to employ them. Yet, we still hear the call to run up student loan debts
beyond the ability of salaries to repay the loans.
Professional tradable service employment in the US is so scarce that
the University of Florida has abolished its computer science department.
As few of the graduates can find employment, the university has
reallocated the department’s budget to football, a paying sport.
Americans plugged into the Matrix are programmed to believe that they
have correct information provided by a varied and “independent media.”
In fact the media is owned by 5 or 6 mega-media companies run by
corporate advertising executives and Washington.
Recently, Bloomberg gave us the report that “Japan, Denmark and
Switzerland are among the countries to rally this week to [IMF chief]
Lagarde’s call for a bigger lending capacity beyond the current $380
billion to shield the world economy against any deepening of Europe’s
debt turmoil.”
This Bloomberg report is nonsensical. The loans are not shielding
the world economy. The loans are shielding the private banks from their
own mistakes at the expense of the world economy. The Bloomberg
report shows how completely the Western media is involved in forcing
ordinary peoples to subsidize private bankers. It could not be more
clear; yet, there is no embarrassment at Bloomberg for serving as the
bankers’ propagandist.
Indeed, there is only honor. Serving the Matrix is where lie the
rewards. Those who oppose the Matrix are the outcasts whose efforts
might, as in the film, save the race of humans from the domination of
evil, or else, if they lose, confine the outcasts to prosecution and
death.
Across every front Americans are fed lies. The official media line is
that the Japanese Fukushima nuclear threat from the earthquake and
aftermath is well contained and over. However, the fact of the matter
appears to be that an amazing radioactive inventory of both spent and
unused fuel rods is in damaged cooling pools that could suffer collapse
at any time (especially if there is another earthquake), thus releasing
enormous radioactivity (reference
link). This possibility presents a greater threat than the initial molten cores of the reactors themselves.
Michael Chossudovsky
points out that the media is yet to acknowledge the widespread
contamination resulting from the Fukushima disaster, and there may be
worse to come.
But who cares? Back to the Matrix and the “reality show.”
