By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, January 27, 2015
PaulCraigRoberts.org
Global Research, January 27, 2015
PaulCraigRoberts.org
Washington’s attack on Russia has moved beyond the boundary of the absurd into the realm of insanity.
The New Chief of the US Broadcasting Board of
Governors, Andrew Lack, has declared the Russian news service, RT, which
broadcasts in multiple languages, to be a terrorist organization
equivalent to Boko Haram and the Islamic State, and Standard and Poor’s
just downgraded Russia’s credit rating to junk status.
Today RT International interviewed me about these insane developments.
In prior days when America was still a sane country, Lack’s charge would have led to him being laughed out of office.
He would have had to resign and disappear from public life. Today in
the make-believe world that Western propaganda has created, Lack’s
statement is taken seriously. Yet another terrorist threat has been
identified–RT. (Although both Boko Haram and the Islamic State employ
terror, strictly speaking they are political organizations seeking to
rule, not terror organizations, but this distinction would be over
Lack’s head. Yes, I know. There is a good joke that could be made here
about what Lack lacks. Appropriately named and all that.)
Nevertheless, whatever Lack might lack, I doubt
he believes his nonsensical statement that RT is a terrorist
organization. So what is his game?
The answer is that the Western presstitute media
by becoming Ministries of Propaganda for Washington, have created large
markets for RT, Press TV, and Al Jazeera. As more and more of the
peoples of the world turn to these more honest news sources,
Washington’s ability to fabricate self-serving explanations has
declined.
RT in particular has a large Western audience.
The contrast between RT’s truthful reporting and the lies spewed by US
media is undermining Washington’s control of the explanation. This is no longer acceptable.
Lark has sent a message to RT. The message is:
pull in your horns; stop reporting differently from our line; stop
contesting the facts as Washington states them and the presstitutes
report them; get on board or else.
In other words, the “free speech” that
Washington and its EU, Canadian, and Australian puppet states tout
means: free speech for Washington’s propaganda and lies, but not for any
truth. Truth is terrorism, because truth is the major threat to
Washington.
Washington would prefer to avoid the
embarrassment of actually shutting down RT as its UK vassal did to Press
TV. Washington simply wants to shut up RT. Lark’s message to RT is:
self-censure.
In my opinion, RT already understates in its
coverage and reporting as does Al Jazeera. Both news organizations
understand that they cannot be too forthright, at least not too often or
on too many occasions.
I have often wondered why the Russian government
allows 20 percent of the Russian media to function as Washington’s
fifth column inside Russia. I suspect the reason is that by tolerating
Washington’s blatant propaganda inside Russia, the Russian government
hopes that some factual news can be reported in the US via RT and other
Russian news organizations.
These hopes, like other Russian hopes about the
West, are likely to be disappointed in the end. If RT is closed down or
assimilated into the Western presstitute media, nothing will be said
about it, but if the Russian government closes down Washington’s agents,
blatant liars all, in the Russian media, we will hear forever about the
evil Russians suppressing “free speech.” Remember, the only allowable
“free speech” is Washington’s propaganda.
Only time will tell whether RT decides to be
closed down for telling the truth or whether it adds its voice to
Washington’s propaganda.
The other item in the interview was the downgrading of Russian credit to junk status.
Standard and Poor’s downgrade is, without any
doubt, a political act. It proves what we already know, and that is that
the American rating firms are corrupt political operations. Remember
the Investment Grade rating the American rating agencies gave to obvious
subprime junk? These rating agencies are paid by Wall Street, and like
Wall Street they serve the US government.
A look at the facts serves to establish the
political nature of the ruling. Don’t expect the corrupt US financial
press to look at the facts. But right now, we will look at the facts.
Indeed, we will put the facts in context with the US debt situation. READ MORE
