Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
On December 5th, it was \u201cU.S. House Votes 98% to Donate U.S. Weapons to Ukraine; U.S. Public Is 67% Against. Is this Democracy?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n On December 6th, it was \u201cUkraine Receives New Weapons.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n On December 7th, it was \u201cNATO Prepositions Weapons In Poland for Attack on Russia.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Are the public supposed to be surprised when the war between NATO and Russia starts? Because it is already a hot war, and it has already begun in Ukraine; it\u2019s being waged between the invading Ukrainian Government<\/span><\/a>, proxying for Obama after his successful coup to take over that Government<\/span><\/a>, and the defending breakaway region of the former Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, proxying for Putin (because the Obama-installed leaders of Ukraine are dedicated to destroying Russia<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n NATO is preparing to invade Russia, but our \u2018news\u2019-media are hiding these preparations. And the earlier phases of these preparations<\/span><\/a> have already spurred counter<\/span><\/a>–preparations<\/span><\/a> by Russia<\/span><\/a> (which, unlike the precipitating-events on \u2018our\u2019 side<\/span><\/a>, do<\/i> receive press-coverage in the West, because, taken out of context in that way, these reports present Russia as if it were the aggressor, which it\u2019s not; the U.S. is, but the media controlled by America\u2019s aristocracy \u2013 and their servants<\/span><\/a> \u2013 censor that fact out of their \u2018news\u2019<\/span><\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n Is the \u2018news\u2019-media collectively hiding the biggest news-story of our time: the perhaps now uncontrollable buildup<\/span><\/a> to World War III, with Ukraine serving as the bait, the pretext, and an eager<\/span><\/a> staging-area for an attack against next-door Russia?<\/p>\n All of those news-reports (on December 5th, 6th, and 7th) were submitted to virtually all \u2018news\u2019-media in the U.S. and Britain, but were published by only a half-dozen very small ones, and hidden by all of the rest (including by the major \u2018news\u2019-media and almost all of the alternative-news sites).<\/p>\n When are America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019-media going to start reporting, instead of covering-up, the biggest news-story of our time<\/span><\/a>: the likeliest buildup toward a nuclear war since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?<\/p>\n Or is the biggest news-story of our time actually that cover-up itself: the control of virtually all of our \u2018news\u2019-media by the same aristocracy \u2013 the same interconnected group of billionaires and their servants (including their \u2018news\u2019 executives)? And, if that\u2019s the case, then how will the public even possibly come to know about the biggest news-story of our time?<\/p>\n After all, when it\u2019s the case that the \u201cU.S. House Votes 98% to Donate U.S. Weapons to Ukraine; U.S. Public Is 67% Against. Is this Democracy?\u201d<\/span><\/a> the question that\u2019s being asked there is a very serious one, indeed.<\/p>\n Perhaps the only way to spread the news now is via word-of-mouth and social media, as well as via reddit and other news-following sites. But the \u2018news\u2019-media themselves are not reporting it. So, the news-following sites likewise report little if any of it.<\/p>\n Of course, the aristocracy themselves already know about it. If nothing else, the editors they\u2019ve hired, who are censoring it out at their \u2018news\u2019-media<\/span><\/a>, can tell them about it, because they receive those reports (such as from the present independent reporter)<\/span><\/a>, even though the general public don\u2019t receive these reports.<\/p>\n Practically the only way that the general public can find out about it is by clicking onto the links in this and the few other news-reports that get published about it, and checking and verifying the sources, all of which are online, so that you can determine for yourself whether these sources are reliable ones.<\/p>\n Newspapers, magazines, books, TV, and radio, don\u2019t provide any similar means of easily checking out and verifying the reliability of their cited sources (no links are available in those old-style media); so, deceiving the public is much easier done in those media, than it is online.<\/p>\n But, of course, the traditional offline \u2018news\u2019 media denigrate the online ones as if only gossipy \u201cblogs\u201d were online; they do this in order to discourage the public from being able to verify (via the links, at sites online like this) for themselves<\/i>, what is actually happening.<\/p>\n A build-up to World War III is happening. You\u2019ll see it verified in those links.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s big news, even though it\u2019s already months old (specifically since at least 24 July 2014, as I noted on December 7th).<\/p>\n It\u2019s not alarmism; it\u2019s fact. It is an alarming fact, that\u2019s not being published. All that\u2019s generally being published in the West is the counter<\/span><\/a>–preparations<\/span><\/a> by Russia<\/span><\/a>. But that\u2019s not even half of the real story. And, taken out of context like that, it\u2019s a dangerously prejudiced less-than-half. America\u2019s aggressive genocide<\/span><\/a> against the residents in the area of Ukraine<\/span><\/a> that had voted 90% for the Ukrainian President whom Obama overthrew<\/span><\/a> is being entirely ignored. Obama is trying to bait Putin into a pretext to invade \u2018Ukraine\u2019 (the separatist area, to defend the people there). But America\u2019s press report as if Obama is instead simply defending Ukraine against Putin\u2019s \u2018aggression.\u2019 To \u2018report\u2019 that way is to lie. It\u2019s to lie about what might be the biggest news of our time. And there\u2019s lots else they don\u2019t report<\/span><\/a>, so as to enable this to happen<\/span><\/a>. Anyone who pays a cent to traditional \u2018news\u2019 media, and to any of the many \u2019alternative news\u2019 sites that also are participating in this cover-up and massive deception of the public, is rewarding it.<\/p>\n On December 8th, Jonathan Cook at Dissident Voice headlined \u201cMonbiot: A Compromised Critic of Power,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he closed: \u201cMost telling is that [George] Monbiot [of Britain\u2019s Guardian<\/i>] does not even suggest that this area of corporate power [reporters\u2019 subservience to the line of command up to their aristocratic masters] needs fixing, let alone propose ways it might be done. That, ultimately, is because he is an employee of a corporation, one that sets implicit limits on what he can write about in relation to an area that is his stated expertise. For this reason, Monbiot is fatally compromised as a critic of the corporations. Not because most of what he writes is not excellent, but because he has to omit from his concerns a central problem he claims to be addressing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n A democracy cannot function like that. Only an aristocracy can, otherwise called an \u201coligarchy,\u201d \u201cplutocracy,\u201d “kleptocracy,” or \u201cfascism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Anyone who says that \u2018the Western democracies\u2019 could never instigate World War III are assuming something that has now become false: that the phrase \u201cthe Western democracies\u201d refers to something that still exists and that includes the United States. None of that assumption is true any longer.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse On December 5th, it was \u201cU.S. House Votes 98% to Donate U.S. Weapons to Ukraine; U.S. Public Is 67% Against. 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![voted 90% for the Ukrainian President whom Obama overthrew<\/span><\/a> is being entirely ignored. Obama is trying to bait Putin into a pretext to invade \u2018Ukraine\u2019 (the separatist area, to defend the people there). But America\u2019s press report as if Obama is instead simply defending Ukraine against Putin\u2019s \u2018aggression.\u2019 To \u2018report\u2019 that way is to lie. It\u2019s to lie about what might be the biggest news of our time. And there\u2019s lots else they don\u2019t report<\/span><\/a>, so as to enable this to happen<\/span><\/a>. Anyone who pays a cent to traditional \u2018news\u2019 media, and to any of the many \u2019alternative news\u2019 sites that also are participating in this cover-up and massive deception of the public, is rewarding it.<\/p>\nOn December 8th, Jonathan Cook at Dissident Voice headlined \u201cMonbiot: A Compromised Critic of Power,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he closed: \u201cMost telling is that [George] Monbiot [of Britain\u2019s Guardian<\/i>] does not even suggest that this area of corporate power [reporters\u2019 subservience to the line of command up to their aristocratic masters] needs fixing, let alone propose ways it might be done. That, ultimately, is because he is an employee of a corporation, one that sets implicit limits on what he can write about in relation to an area that is his stated expertise. For this reason, Monbiot is fatally compromised as a critic of the corporations. Not because most of what he writes is not excellent, but because he has to omit from his concerns a central problem he claims to be addressing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nA democracy cannot function like that. Only an aristocracy can, otherwise called an \u201coligarchy,\u201d \u201cplutocracy,\u201d “kleptocracy,” or \u201cfascism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnyone who says that \u2018the Western democracies\u2019 could never instigate World War III are assuming something that has now become false: that the phrase \u201cthe Western democracies\u201d refers to something that still exists and that includes the United States. None of that assumption is true any longer.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\nInvestigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Zuesse On December 5th, it was \u201cU.S. House Votes 98% to Donate U.S. Weapons to Ukraine; U.S. Public Is 67% Against. Is this Democracy?\u201d On December 6th, it was \u201cUkraine Receives New Weapons.\u201d On December 7th, it was \u201cNATO Prepositions Weapons In Poland for Attack on Russia.\u201d Are the public supposed to be surprised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":142495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,527,526,524,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-142507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-nuclear-war","15":"tag-propaganda","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-usa-news","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-06-at-11.42.08-PM-1024x697.png\"){kind=link}