COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA TODAY
RT bank accounts
blocked in UK – editor-in-chief
This act, especially combined with the severing of Assange's
Internet connection, is worrying.
Only recently Obama gave a rather disturbing speech about alternate
and independent media.
I wrote a long comment on this.
His words contained disturbing notions of a new darker age
of information.
These acts against RT and against Assange very much seem to
be the first seedlings growing from Obama's disturbing speech.
Here was my response:
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN BLACKLISTED NEWS
“There has to be, I
think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes
some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they
just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world,”
- Obama
None of these words of Obama's sound good.
His words are deliberately soft and politically-correct, but
they are truly saying things no president should say.
The mainline press is now a shadow of its former self owing
to corporate consolidation and concentration plus the rising costs of genuinely
seeking stories abroad.
The fact that America's government today is so immersed in
trying to re-order the lives of so many others on the planet, rather than
working for its own people, also plays a large and increasing role, for the
press must go along to keep the official explanations “out there."
Any paper or broadcaster who even tried to say, for example,
what Syria is really about would put its contacts in government - contacts for
leaks and information and for influencing policies regarding their industry -
at total risk. They would be cut-off and have their taxes audited and be
investigated for disloyalty and being under the influence of foreign powers
just for a start.
It just cannot happen, and, besides, the corporate entities
of news are no different to any other corporate entities from Microsoft to
Coca-Cola. They have no interest in opposing the establishment. They are part
of it.
As for the Internet and the tremendous growth of alternative
news sources, I fully expect an assault of some kind to be mounted by
Washington.
Banning or limiting sources like Sputnik or RT? Possibly
creating the equivalent of The Great Wall of China against all independent
journalists and commentators? A very active program of discrediting people in
the alternative media? Making the saying of certain things illegal, censorship
under the guise of hate-crime legislation? Search engines like Google –
completely in the CIA’s pocket – ignoring some search requests or re-directing
them? Going after ISPs who carry such media under spurious new laws? This whole
precious structure of alternative media is highly vulnerable to determined
opponents with good resources, I am sorry to say.
There are lots of possibilities, and we can be certain
people with big resources are at work in gaining what they want, a virtual
monopoly over the dissemination of information and the ability to put out
disinformation with virtually no opposition.
Because the fundamental truth is the American government
long ago stopped being a government for its own people. It is a government for
special interests and aggression all over the planet, one that requires an
endless stream of lies and misrepresentations to carry on.
That is at its heart of what this very strange presidential
election is about. Trump is no angel, but angels are not very helpful in
fighting the kinds of forces directing America today. And right now virtually
all cautions have been thrown to the wind to discredit him.
Hillary awaits - arms out, bug-eyed clown smile turned on -
her deliverance so that she may, in turn, deliver to the interests who put her
where she is what they want. And just one of her duties will be to repress
alternative media and sources of information, something very helpful too when
you pursue the hellish policies of war she will pursue.
