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“Mueller
investigation: Thirteen Russians charged with interfering in US election
The charges are the
most direct allegations to date of illegal Russian meddling in the election”
Just trivial nonsense.
I don't know whether Mueller is misguided or whether, far more
likely, he is serving the interests who want to keep this nonsense going, and
those interests are not just Democrats. Indeed, the Democrats have hitched
themselves to this whole phony story only because they know other powerful interests
are at work on Russia for far different reasons than mock concern over the
integrity of elections. Why not just go along for the ride? And they have.
Those other powerful interests are the American security
services and military. The whole tone of "Russia as sneaky enemy" has
to be maintained in the New Cold War, a very serious project which includes
everything from running tanks up the Russian border and spending new fortunes
on weapons to a dangerous new statement of America’s nuclear weapons posture.
And the stupidest aspect of all this is that charges of
interfering in elections comes from the very country which incessantly does
more of it than anyone on the planet.
The American security services not only pay pensions to
select politicians and work to discredit others in a constellation of
countries, but of course actually overthrow selected governments, including
elected ones, as they did in Ukraine and as they are trying now to do in
Venezuela.
The United States also highhandedly pressures governments,
as in Europe, to follow American direction, even when that direction is
wrongheaded, as in the Middle East. All that bombing and killing in the Middle
East drove Europe's refugee crisis, as I'm sure the major European politicians
understand but are afraid to say.
Amazing testimony to democratic and human values, isn't it,
when major countries cannot speak the truth to their own people? But Joe Biden
- that smiling buddy of smiling Obama - only recently was embarrassingly frank
on the subject of pressuring European allies. Obama himself spoke once of
having to do a little leaning on allies to do as America wanted them to do.
That isn't leadership, that's autocracy.
By comparison, we have trivial accusations about the release
of embarrassing information through the agency of Russia, a function many might
call investigative reporting, something the corporate press does not even
attempt anymore.
Whoever obtained that information is known to Julian
Assange, but Assange is effectively held in minimum security prison on
trumped-up charges, again certainly under pressure from Washington.
We already know from Assange the information did not come
from Russia. We also have very strong reason to believe it was the work of a
disillusioned Democrat idealist, Seth Rich, who downloaded the embarrassing
files and gave them to Wikileaks. That fine young man paid with his life.
As for the “dossier,” it has always been a transparent
fraud, although it may well be peppered with some truths, as all good frauds tend
to be. The Democrats paid or helped pay for that dossier. Now, there's
something to be properly investigated concerning election interference, but we
see little sign of that so far.
Please recall how Hillary said something enlightened about
Assange along the lines of "can't we just drone him or something?" Almost
as bloodthirsty as her infamous words after the murder of Libya’s Gaddafi, an
ugly business she helped engineer under Obama. That is how dedicated to truth
Washington's crowd of scum politicians are.
After all, when you are pursuing world dominance, playing
all kinds of dirty tricks, threatening and attacking all kinds of people, there
is not a lot of room left for truth. You are busy hiding all your ugly,
law-breaking activities like paying cutthroats in Syria or Libya or Ukraine and
ignoring all norms of international law. That is the primary reason we live in
a tissue of lies, and our press, without exception, manipulates and distorts
what readers and listeners receive.
Where have we seen one shred of real evidence about Russian
interference?
We haven't. Not a scrap of anything a court would call
evidence.
Yet right this moment, Washington is not only actively
interfering in the internal affairs of a number of countries, it is busy
bombing or arming others. It occupies a portion of Syria, completely against
the will of Syria’s government and for the only purpose of trying to see part
of the country broken off to serve the interests of that other lawless nation,
Israel. It encourages and arms Saudi Arabia for its blood-soaked war on Yemen.
It allows Israel to carry right on with appalling abuses.
By the way, in the end, underlying cause of America’s phony Russia
hysteria is in America’s imperial ambitions and in its twisted relationship
with Israel. The United States dislikes Russia because it is the only country
capable of obliterating America, and American generals want things arranged so
they are the only ones capable of obliterating anyone.
Israel also very much does not like Russia for standing in
the way of the Mideast plans it has long ago worked out with the United States, plans
which have included a long march of terror and war to build “a new Middle East”
to Israel’s advantage. Israel also is a great booster of an all-dominant
American military because it sees in that an additional line of protection for
its various dark projects in the Middle East.
Talk about interfering in the affairs of others and
constantly lying about it, the Neocon Wars are our greatest contemporary example.
I can’t imagine any form of interference which exceeds killing a couple of
million people, turning millions into desperate refugees, and dismembering
several states.
So, I think the root cause of the nonsense about Russia is
not just asinine Washington politics - Democrats versus Republicans and Trump acolytes
versus traditional party people – although our press does enjoy diverting the
public’s attention with such games. The real cause is Washington’s ongoing brutal
imperial march, in lockstep with its Mideast colony, to rule the planet and
leave everyone else intimidated.
