Saturday, April 07, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WILL THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FALL OVER THE LIES AND HYPOCRISY OF THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR? - I DOUBT IT - IF IT DOES IT WON'T BE OVER THE LIES BUT JUST THE INCOMPETENCE OF BEING CAUGHT




COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER


'As Skripal-Gate Collapses so Will the May Government'

Let's hope so, but I won't hold my breath.

Western governments, all of them, today are one-hundred percent committed to this kind of deception and lying.

It is no longer unusual.

The reason is America's state of hyper-aggression to dominate world affairs with all its Neocon Wars and its Anti-Russia Crusade.

That isn't letting up any time soon.

And European governments all are under intense pressure behind the scenes to toe the American policy line. We see this so clearly in the fact that there is not a single leader’s voice in Europe ever raised against what has been a two-decade long record of mass killing, needless destruction, and the creation of millions of refugees.

America's drive for "full-spectrum dominance everywhere" is closely related to the interests of Israel. They have an almost symbiotic relationship. And, as we've seen in Britain recently, the Israel Lobby is about as influential in government affairs there as it is in the United States.

We've seen a vicious, noisy campaign against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with ugly claims around anti-Semitism and absolutely no evidence produced. Much the same modus operandi we see with the British government’s mindless Skripal accusations.

It’s an old and dirty technique for getting what you want, working outside normal, legitimate channels of democratic politics. Throw enough crap at the wall, and some of it sticks. The Twentieth Century’s preeminent exponent of the technique was Joseph Goebbels. It was the technique, too, of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the United States a couple of decades later. It still works, and that is why it is still used by the unscrupulous.

Corbyn is fair-minded on the Middle East, and that simply is not tolerated by the Israel Lobby, and elements inside Israel have even joined the attacks. Imagine, the leader of the Israeli Labour Party even butted into British internal politics on the matter, and he was not criticized in the least for such blatant interference in the affairs of another country?

The anti-Russian stuff, all of it, is just an extension of the same efforts. Russia is a barrier to America's total, unquestioned dominance in the world, and the lobby for America's Mideast colony does not like it.

Then we had the revelations not long ago, with recordings, about some Israelis plotting to unseat disliked members of the British Parliament. That ugly business, while quickly silenced by the press and the recall of an Israeli representative, just gave us a peek at the kind of activity which undoubtedly goes on day-in, day-out.

No, I don’t necessarily believe Theresa May’s government will fall over this, although it obviously deserves that fate. Her behavior and that of her foreign minister and her minister of defense have been shameful and literally criminal at times.

If she does fall, it won’t be so much over the substance of her lying and hypocrisy, it will be over the perception of incompetence in having been caught in the act. The same level of incompetence displayed by David Cameron in his idiotic EU referendum.


LIST OF RELATED CHUCKMAN ARTICLES ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SO-CALLED SALISBURY POISONING: