JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DOING WINSTON SMITH'S JOB FOR BIG BROTHER IN "1984" OR WHY YOU SHOULD ADD WIKIPEDIA TO THE LONG LIST OF AMERICAN INTERNET AND HI-TECH COMPANIES FAITHFULLY SERVING AMERICAN DARK INTERESTS - AND WASHINGTON JUST GOES ON AND ON ABOUT NOTHING OVER HUAWEI - PART OF ITS WAR AGAINST CHINA

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS IN RUSSIA INSIDER



“Excellent Paul Craig Roberts Post - Why He Fights for Truth (and You Should Too)”



I don't know about Roberts' specific claims concerning Wikipedia, although I have no reason to doubt them.

The one thing that is certain for me is that Wikipedia literally has become a delivery vehicle for disinformation from the CIA and Pentagon and other American security agency sources, almost laughably so.

Pick any topic you like in world affairs and international politics, then check out some very recent event, and, bingo, you’ll find an article on Wikipedia. Maybe several.

Usually, they will be fairly long ones, ones giving a sense of authority and completeness. Even citations and references.

But the articles always, always have a slant, one that is not hard to see if you are anything other than a faithful tithing member of America’s Patriot Church.

The articles are not the kind of material one found on Wikipedia years ago when its operation was original but amateurish. They are not just efforts to inform people.

They are clearly tailored to influence public opinion, many of them likely coming from a "basement boiler-room" operation in Langley, Virginia.

Every single major American hi-tech or Internet company now has been recruited into service by the imperial establishment. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and others.

And American politicians go on and on, quite insincerely it seems to me, about Huawei serving the Chinese government?

I just have to laugh at the effort, designed both as a new front in the dangerous war on China and as an effort by American interests to assume a gracious pose of objectivity, fairness, and being “above the fray,” when they are anything but.

Every major information resource in America - in the press, broadcasting, Hollywood, and on-line media - has been pressed into service for telling "the American story" and distinguishing “the bad guys.”

It’s exactly the work of Orwell’s Winston Smith in 1984’s Oceania, constantly re-writing or re-interpreting history and past events from newspapers and books. Exactly, except that it is so technologically advanced, and, because the Internet now reaches close to everyone in advanced societies, the reach of the effort is breath-taking