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USA insulting world’s intelligence
May 10, 2014 by
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May 10, 2014 4:40AM GMTBy Kevin Barrettz
“They
must really think we’re stupid.” That is what people all over the world are
saying about the American government and media’s portrayal of world events.
Several
weeks ago, an interviewer said to Russian President Putin: “NATO claims the
missile shield was not built against you but against Iran.” Putin broke out
laughing. When the laughter finally subsided, Putin said: “You really make me
laugh. God bless you because it’s almost time to finish the day… indeed it’s
already time to go to sleep. At least I get home in good humor.”
No sane
person could seriously assert that NATO’s missile shield circling Russia is
intended to protect the West from Iran. Yet, that is exactly what NATO – the
imperial American occupation army in Europe – tells the world. How stupid do
they think we are?
Governments
lie. Imperial governments construct vast empires of lies. But in the past, most
official lies carried at least a thin veneer of plausibility. Today, the US
government and its media echo chamber do not seem to care whether their lies
are even slightly credible.
The
Ukraine crisis has been a non-stop festival of American lies, each one more
ridiculous than the last.
First
they told us that the protestors against Ukraine’s legitimate president, Viktor
Yanukovych, were heroes who love democracy and hate corruption. In fact, the
protestors were an oversized rent-a-mob led by Nazi thugs and Zionist crime
oligarchs, bought and paid for by the five billion dollars the US spent
undermining Ukraine’s democracy.
Then
they told us that the “heroic protestors” were being gunned down by
Yanukovych’s forces. In fact, it was NATO’s Operation Gladio snipers who were
doing the false-flag shootings.
They
claimed that Yanukovych “fled” the presidency. In fact, he was overthrown by a
typical CIA putsch while traveling; since he never stepped down, Yanukovych is
still the legitimate, democratically-elected president of Ukraine.
They
claimed that Putin was “intransigent” for refusing negotiations. In fact, the
US insisted that Russia recognize the illegitimate Nazi putsch government in
Kiev as a precondition for negotiations – which would have made negotiations
moot.
They
claimed that Putin was an aggressor in Crimea. The truth is that the people of
Crimea voted by a 97% landslide to join the Russian Federation – as was their
right under the principle of self-determination, a cornerstone of international
law.
They
claimed that the anti-Kiev protests in Eastern Ukraine are some kind of Russian
plot. The reality is that the people of Eastern Ukraine are up in arms because
they have no desire to be governed by an illegitimate regime of NATO
terrorists, IMF austerity looters, Zionist crime oligarchs, and Nazi thugs.
They
claimed that the anti-Kiev forces were forcing Jews to register themselves. In
fact, the “Jews must register” leaflets were another Operation Gladio style
false-flag provocation by NATO.
They
claimed that last week’s Odessa Massacre was somehow Russia’s fault. In fact,
NATO’s neo-Nazi thugs chased pro-Russia protestors into the Trade Unions
Building, burned them to death, and strangled survivors trying to escape – the
result, intentional or not, of another Operation Gladio false flag provocation.
Here is
how the New York Times concealed the truth about the Odessa Massacre: “Violence
also erupted Friday in the previously calmer port city of Odessa, on the Black
Sea, where dozens of people died in a fire related to clashes that broke out
between protesters holding a march for Ukrainian unity and pro-Russian
activists.”
As an
English teacher at three major American universities, I always instructed
students to begin sentences with a specific subject and verb that clearly
express “who does what.” In this case, “NATO-backed Nazi thugs” are the who,
and “chased pro-Russian protestors into a building and burned and strangled
them to death” are the what.
Instead,
the New York Times begins its sentence with an abstraction, “violence,” that
just somehow “erupted.” We are told that “dozens of people died in a fire,” but
we are not told who killed them, simply that the fire was “related to clashes.”
George
Orwell, author of “Politics and the English Language,” must be rolling over in
his grave.
Does
anyone in the world really believe anything John Kerry and the US mainstream
media are saying about Ukraine? Expressions like “credulous dupe” do not even
begin to describe the type of person who would be taken in by such brazen
falsehoods.
Fortunately,
there are signs that the world is not as stupid as the American establishment
thinks it is. The people of Eastern Ukraine are united in their refusal to
kowtow to the criminals in Kiev, and much of the world supports them. At the
end of the day, the most economically advanced and strategic part of Ukraine is
likely to become a fervently anti-NATO, anti-New World Order bulwark.
US-NATO
lies are failing in Ukraine just as they failed in Syria, where President Assad
is expected to win re-election on June 3rd and preside over an
ever-more-united, ever-more-peaceful nation. The turning point in Syria was the
failure of the al-Ghouta false flag in August, which the US and its Zionist
lobby unsuccessfully tried to blame on Assad. More recently, another false flag
plot by Turkish leaders, who were scheming to attack their own country and
blame it on Assad, was exposed.
As in
Ukraine, the American narrative about Syria has completely collapsed. The US
and its puppets always insisted that the Syrian opposition was peaceful,
democratic, and committed to human rights, while Assad’s government was the
source of all atrocities. But as the smoke clears, it has become apparent that
Syria, like Ukraine, was destabilized by NATO and its Operation Gladio minions.
The
trouble in Syria began in the same way as in Ukraine: A mob of NATO hirelings
and their deluded followers was sent into the street to be shot at by Operation
Gladio false-flag snipers. The shootings were falsely blamed on the government;
civil war was incited; and NATO-backed thugs and extremists went to war against
the legitimate government – all according to plan. This is what the CIA has
been doing all over the world since it overthrew Iran’s Mossadegh in 1953 and
Guatemala’s Guzman in 1954.
Today,
more and more people around the world are waking up to the manipulations and
deceptions of the mainstream US narrative. Yet rather than reining in their
falsehoods – the sane response to today’s interconnected hyper-mediated world –
our US-NATO imperial masters keep pumping up the lies till they explode.
They
must really, REALLY think we’re stupid.
Then
again, if they can convince us that 19 debauched pseudo-Muslims led by a
terminal kidney patient in a cave in Afghanistan could outwit the world’s most
advanced air defense systems and blow up three buildings with two planes, they
have good reason to think we are stupid enough to believe almost anything.
KB/NN
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