COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“New Book About the
Deep State Plot to Demonize Russia
With a strong
endorsement from Oliver Stone The Plot to Scapegoat Russia”
I am always glad for new sources which confirm old beliefs,
but, I must say, there is little in this review that is new to informed and
critically-minded observers.
Concepts such as “humanitarian intervention” are, and have
long been, of the same nature as the White Helmets in Syria, totally phony.
The US never intervenes militarily where genuine
humanitarian catastrophes occur. It did not intervene in Rwanda while it
understood perfectly what was happening at a very early stage. It did not in
Cambodia. It did not in Indonesia.
Indeed, in the slaughters of Indonesia, after the fall of
Sukarno, the State Department was on the phone submitting lists of
"communists" to the new government who were best added to the
hundreds of thousands getting their throats cut and having their bodies thrown
into rivers.
The US militarily intervenes only where it has a geo-political
goal or interest.
As far as phony front outfits like America’s Democracy Now! there are many of them in
the US.
Despite formal rules against being involved in local
affairs, the CIA has long used the method of such media to "get out its
messages." In the 1960s, good magazines like Saturday Review were secretly supported by CIA.
What do formal rules mean to an organization where it is
accepted that lying under oath is just fine? CIA Director Helms himself
established that fact for us back in the 1960s.
The Internet has many seemingly liberal or independent sites
which I believe are in fact CIA zombies. In some cases, they may know it. In
other cases, they may not. The CIA works both ways, just as it has paid its own
employees and paid outside assets, the assets not always being aware of where
their money comes from.
You can take a good guess at such sites just by the nature
of the material they favor, the way they treat things, and the rules they
establish.
Mother Jones magazine seems certainly one of these. Daily
Kos is another. Pacific News Network is yet another. Vanity Fair belongs on the
list I believe.
The American book publishing industry is filled with the
same effort. Some publishing houses go along to get along, some are unwitting
tools, and some are themselves just covert operations.
Remember, publishing in a country like the United States is today
a very difficult business, fraught with risk. How nice to have a source of
funds, whether understood or not, streaming in to steady your business.
In return, as a publisher, you still get to do some of what
you always wanted to do, but perhaps not all of it, but there are a few things,
here and there, that you must do or you will lose your important covert sponsor.
There has been an entire industry in advocacy books about
such crucial matters as the Kennedy Assassination, the downing of TWA Flight
800, and 9/11. The manipulative nature of a good many of the books is apparent.
This CIA effort, by the way, plays the game from both sides.
Books trying to reestablish the authority of the pathetic
Warren Report by one route or another - authors like Gerald Posner, Priscilla
Johnson, Vincent Bugliosi, Edward Epstein - clearly have CIA influence embedded
one way or another into their books on the Kennedy Assassination, directly or
indirectly. You cannot read their books without sensing it at many little
points, as in what things are emphasized and what things are glossed over or as
in over-hyped claims about the limited evidence we have.
The Agency also takes another route of attack. It actually arranges
to have books attacking the Warren Commission published, but ones which are so
poorly researched or written that they effectively discredit genuine critics by
“the company they keep.”
It was a publicist at the Agency, decades ago, who came up
with the derogatory term, "conspiracy theorist" to be used against
genuine critics, and the term remains in wide use today.
America’s corporate press, always doggedly loyal to Deep
State interests, keeps the term alive by regular use in articles and editorials
still. Its longevity is proof of how effective such media manipulation can be.
American society is deeply penetrated by the CIA and its sister
agencies, and it has been since long before the Snowden revelations about the
NSA snooping on everyone.
The truth is that it was a terrible mistake to create
something like CIA, and the very President who signed the legislation, Harry
Truman, said so.
You simply cannot create a huge, well-financed agency whose
accountability is close to non-existent, charge it with the execution of
countless dirty tricks and manipulations abroad, allow its members to lie under
oath, and keep financing its cancerous growth, without creating a monster, a
monster which attacks decency in your society, destroys ethical considerations
in your international dealings, and a monster which erodes the foundations of democratic
government.
