COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Please, yet another "conspiracy theories"
put-down.
You've done at least three of them in the last few weeks,
almost as plentiful as attacks and put-downs on Jeremy Corbyn.
This kind of article is just about as brainless as the
conspiracy mutterings of a poor homeless schizophrenic.
Thoughtful people do not need preaching to on this subject.
The truth is we live in a civilization in which conspiracies
- genuine ones - are a normal part of our landscape.
And why is that?
Because where great wealth and power are at risk - as they
frequently are in our western world of unprecedented affluence - there is the
constant attraction to manipulate events to remove the risk, thus conspiracies.
In recent decades, we so many events which have been
secretly manipulated, thus rendering them conspiratorial in nature, it seems to
me laughable when someone publishes a piece such this one.
For example, the United States overthrew governments
secretly in Guatemala, Iran, Chile, and kept a huge secret operation against
Castro going for decades, a genuine secret terrorist operation which made bin
Laden's mountain redoubt resemble a boy scout camp. Troops were trained,
weapons distributed, assassins launched, bombings undertaken (including one
Cuban airliner), and immense resources squandered on America's trying to get
its own way.
The genuine holocaust of America's invasion of Vietnam (3
million left dead there) was launched with a staged provocation called the Gulf
of Tonkin Incident. Later secret bombings and surreptitious incursions into
peaceful Cambodia resulted in the fall of a neutral government and gave the
world "the killing fields," and ultimately the deaths of another
million people.
The fall of Sukarno in Indonesia - an event manipulated by
the CIA - resulted in a massive terror campaign. Half a million people were
hacked to death as though in a spontaneous uprising and had their bodies thrown
into rivers. The American State Department was burning the telephone wires into
the night submitting lists of names of "communists" it regarded as
suitable for such treatment.
The Soviet downing of Korean Air lines 107 was held up as an
example of Soviet brutality, but what we learned later from Sy Hersh, the world's
best investigative reporter, was that the plane was on a secret mission for the
CIA to test Soviet air defences.
America has launched dozens of lesser coups, interventions,
and minor invasions in the last fifty years. The invasion of Panama, on the pretext
of drugs, removed a disliked leader. Recent manipulations in Venezuela have
destabilized that government. The first Gulf War was just such an operation
with America's ambassador in Iraq having told Saddam the U.S. had no interest
in what he did in Kuwait, then using his minor invasion as a pretext for a
massive war and horrible aftermath.
How about the supply of poison gas to Saddam during the long
(American manipulated) Iraq-Iran War? It was used to kill thousands of Iranian
soldiers, and no war crimes accusations were made.
Look at events in Syria. What a completely deceitful
destruction just to topple a leader America and Israel hate. And to this day,
there's no honesty about what has gone on, the only truths we're receiving
coming out of Russia's government-invited intervention.
Look at the mess made of Libya.
Look at the mess made of Iraq, once the Mideast's most
progressive and economically capable state. How was that miracle of destruction
accomplished? A river of lies and manipulations about "weapons of mass
destruction," false papers about purchases of yellowcake, and even the CIA
career of an honest Republican figure's wife ended over his refusal to go along
with the lies of Bush and Cheney.
The Dr. Kelly incident, about which we've never been told
the truth. Kelly knew where the bodies were buried in the business of weapons -
including importantly what happened to South Africa's fissile stockpile after
the fall of the apartheid government. Did it go to Israel? Dr. Kelly's
handedness made completely implausible the published version of his death.
The recent Sarin poison gas incidents in Syria are
completely fraudulent. The gas was used on some poor people, but it was not
used by Assad's army, it was used by the ISIS or al-Nusrah terrorists up until
now secretly supported by America. It was to provide a pretext for an American
air assault - thus creating another Libya - but the Russians foiled the plot.
Israel's entire modern history is riddled with such
activity. It is not for nothing that Mossad's motto is, “By way of deception,
thou shalt do war." The Lavon Affair. The bombing of the King David Hotel.
The assassination of Count Bernadotte. The manipulation of events to create the
1967 War which Israel knew it could win while grabbing Palestinian and other
land they coveted. The long air assault on the USS Liberty. America's refusal
to come to the ship's aid. Israel's lame stuff about a mistake. Secret
assistance to ISIS and al Nusrah.
One could continue writing along these lines for a long
time, so the article and its predecessors are nothing but propaganda to
discredit those with genuine doubts and concerns.
Oh, and we shouldn't forget the journalism practices of the
newspapers belonging to David Cameron's country-house buddy, Rupert Murdoch.
Corruption and lies and manipulation on quite a grand scale, and likely never
to be all sorted out.
