{"id":154125,"date":"2015-05-24T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154125"},"modified":"2015-05-25T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T03:22:14","slug":"how-democratic-republican-party-chiefs-work-to-deceive-the-u-s-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-democratic-republican-party-chiefs-work-to-deceive-the-u-s-public\/","title":{"rendered":"How Democratic & Republican Party Chiefs Work to Deceive the U.S. Public"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

An organization that typically promotes the Republican propaganda agenda received information from the Democratic Obama Administration, and they publicized information from it that concerned the 2012 Benghazi attack<\/span><\/a>, which was a failure by the State Department \u2013 something that congressional Republicans have been investigating for years. But when independent investigative journalists examined the actual documents, they found a much uglier picture, which concerned the entire U.S. Government, and evil policies that are being pursued both by the Democratic President and by Republicans (as well as by some Democrats) in Congress, and which \u2018both sides\u2019 want covered up instead of covered. So: they\u2019re not covered. U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media haven\u2019t been reporting any of that \u2013 just the partisan propaganda. The American public received propaganda, not news, from America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 media \u2013 or else they received nothing at all about the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 18 May 2015, the Republican Party’s Judicial Watch organization headlined,\u00a0\u201cJudicial Watch: Defense, State Department Documents Reveal Obama Administration Knew that al Qaeda Terrorists Had Planned Benghazi Attack 10 Days in Advance<\/span><\/a>: Administration knew three months before the November 2012 presidential election of ISIS plans to establish a caliphate in Iraq. Administration knew of arms being shipped from Benghazi to Syria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Promptly, this angle on the matter was publicized to \u2018news\u2019 consumers on Fox News<\/span><\/a>, Rush Limbaugh<\/span><\/a>, Newsmax<\/span><\/a>, WorldNetDaily<\/span><\/a>, AIM<\/span><\/a>, The Tea Party<\/span><\/a>, LJ Review<\/span><\/a>, Political Brew<\/span><\/a>, InfoWars<\/span><\/a>, Hebrew Nation<\/span><\/a>, Zero Hedge<\/span><\/a>, and Sharyl Attkisson<\/span><\/a>, among other right-wing sites. But the major scandal that was displayed in those documents wasn\u2019t so much as even touched upon in any of this stenographic \u2018news\u2019 reporting, from conservative sites, which passed along to their readers that conservative propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

If anything, the mainstream \u201cliberal\u201d sites, such as The New York Times<\/i>, Washington Post<\/i>, CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN, were no better, and maybe even worse: they ignored this data-dump altogether; they didn\u2019t cover anything in it, not even the propaganda that the Republican sites did from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then the great British independent investigative reporter Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed dug into the trove of documents that Judicial Watch had now dumped online, and he headlined on 22 May,\u00a0\u201cPentagon report predicted West\u2019s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he reported a far different, and vastly more important, news story than did the conservative Judicial Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n

He reported that these documents showed that in order \u201cto isolate the Syrian regime,\u201d which we were trying to defeat since it\u2019s allied with \u201cRussia, China, and Iran\u201d (according to the documents), we were allied with the Sunni world of Al Qaeda, ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Muslim Brotherhood, so as to bring down the Shiite Assad regime in Syria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahmed says:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The strategy appears to fit a policy scenario identified by a recent US Army-commissioned RAND Corp report. The report, published four years before the DIA document, called for the US\u00a0‘to capitalise on the Shia-Sunni conflict by taking the side of the conservative\u00a0Sunni regimes in a decisive fashion and working with them against all Shiite\u00a0empowerment movements in the Muslim world.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That jargon-laden report, from 2008,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0said: “Divide and Rule is a strategy that focuses on exploiting fault lines between\u00a0the various SJ groups to turn them against each other and dissipate\u00a0their\u00a0energy on internal conflicts.\u201d The idea was for the U.S. to win by getting other countries and peoples to go to war against each other and for the U.S. to sell more weapons while other countries become weakened by the conflicts. However, that 2008 analysis was actually out-of-date, because it ignored the issues of Russia and China, and barely even mentioned a subordinate option: “Under this strategy, the United States might\u00a0take an aggressive stance by seeking to overthrow the Iranian regime\u00a0and replacing it with a\u00a0moderate one that does not rely on Shiite chauvinism\u00a0for its legitimacy. This would tamp down the forces of radical Shiism\u00a0in the Middle East and Persian Gulf.\u201d This statement of the option ignored that the very idea of an Islamic Caliphate is\u00a0specifically Sunni<\/i>,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0not at all Shiia. (Our Government \u2013 and our stenographic \u2018free press,\u2019 both right and left \u2013 hides this crucial fact in order to wage its war against Iran and its allies, who have done Americans no harm, though the U.S. has done great harm to them.) In fact, the RAND report refers in passing to the \u201cwell-known states such as China\u00a0and Russia; however, despite the importance of these states within military\u00a0planning, they are not directly\u00a0linked to the long war<\/span><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Russia and China have, since then, actually become Obama\u2019s chief foci.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0So: that 2008 Rand report isn\u2019t at all in synch with current U.S. foreign policy, which actually supports<\/i> the forces for Islamic Caliphate. (The Judicial-Watch-released document refers instead to \u201cSalafist principate,\u201d so as to hide the connection of Obama-Administration policy goals to Obama\u2019s \u2013 and to congressional Republicans\u2019 in general<\/i> \u2013 actual support of ISIS, etc.: their joint determination to defeat the Russia-China allied countries, such as Venezuela, Syria, Libya, and Iran.)\u00a0The American people fear ISIS, etc., but America\u2019s aristocrats instead fear China and want to conquer Russia. Propaganda by both of the political parties pretends that the American Government has the people\u2019s priorities and concerns at heart, not the aristocracy\u2019s (which it actually does<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahmed closes his news report by condemning America\u2019s “own deeply misguided policies of secretly sponsoring Islamist terrorism for\u00a0dubious geopolitical purposes.\u201d (Ahmed doesn\u2019t define what those are.\u00a0I have.<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The next day, May 23rd, Robert Barsocchini (but without providing links to either Judicial Watch or Dr. Ahmed) headlined at washingtonsblog:\u00a0\u201cDIA Docs: West Wants a \u2018Salafist Principality in Eastern Syria\u2019,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he explained that when the documents (which he acknowledged had been released to Judicial Watch) say \u201cSalafist,\u201d they are referring specifically to the Saudi Wahhabist form of that sect, the version that\u2019s pushing for an Islamic Empire or \u201cCaliphate\u201d headquartered in Mecca, the form of Islam that\u2019s known in the West as jihadist or \u201cextremist\u201d or \u201cIslamic Caliphate.” Regarding the extremism of the Saudi royal family, Barsocchini then links to and quotes from wikipedia:<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi Government is funding to increase the Salafi Islam throughout the world.\u00a0Estimates of Saudi spending on religious causes abroad include \u201cupward of $100\u00a0billion\u201d, between $2 and 3 billion per year since 1975 (compared to the annual\u00a0Soviet propaganda budget of $1 billion\/year [and US government\/corporate\u00a0propaganda budgets of many billions per year]),[92] and \u201cat least $87 billion\u201d from\u00a01987\u20142007.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Its largesse funded an estimated \u201c90% of the expenses of the entire faith\u201c,\u00a0throughout the Muslim World.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBooks, scholarships, fellowships, mosques\u201d (for example, \u201cmore than 1,500\u00a0mosques were built from Saudi public funds over the last 50 years\u201d) were paid for.[96] It rewarded journalists and academics, who followed it and built satellite\u00a0campuses around Egypt for Al Azhar, the oldest and most influential Islamic\u00a0university.[97] Yahya Birt counts spending on \u201c1,500 mosques, 210 Islamic centres\u00a0and dozens of Muslim academies and schools\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

This financial aid has done much to overwhelm less strict local interpretations of\u00a0Islam, according to observers like Dawood al-Shirian and Lee Kuan Yew, and has\u00a0caused the Saudi interpretation (sometimes called \u201cpetro-Islam\u201d) to be perceived as\u00a0the correct interpretation \u2014 or the \u201cgold standard\u201d of Islam \u2014 in many Muslims\u2019 minds.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: The United States, with support by the \u2018Democratic\u2019 President and also by both parties, Democrats and Republicans, in Congress, is assisting the jihadist or Saudi-financed wing of Islam, in order to defeat Russia, and China<\/i> (since those are the nations that America\u2019s aristocrats are really concerned about<\/span><\/a>). (They\u2019re concerned about empire<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The documents, which were dated 12 August 2012, mentioned that there is a (and they used all-caps)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPOSSIBILITY OF\u00a0ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST\u00a0PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS\u00a0IS\u00a0EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION [to Assad] WANT, IN\u00a0ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So: contrary to the Republican Party\u2019s campaign to condemn the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton for the Benghazi attack by Al Qaeda, and contrary to the Democratic Party\u2019s campaign to deceive the American people into believing that we\u2019re at war against extremism in the Muslim world, our government is, in fact, united in both Parties<\/b>\u00a0to support the Saudi princes\u00a0who virtually own Islamic extremism<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If this is an American government that supports the American people, then it does so by lying to them, and by working on the side of the enemies not only of the American people but of the publics throughout the world. Why would that be? What\u2019s indisputable is that it is so.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the story which Ahmed found new documentation for in his report on the data-dump from Judicial Watch. Are America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 media reporting this important news story \u2013 added confirmation that the U.S. is on the Saudi side in order to defeat Russia and its allies? Or are they instead reporting the criticisms by the chiefs of both political parties against each others\u2019 party? If it\u2019s such stenographic \u2018news\u2019 reporting, then it\u2019s really unchanged since 2002 and 2003, when U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media stenographically reported the Administration\u2019s statements about \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD,\u201d etc., and when most Democrats joined with virtually all Republicans in supporting a criminal invasion of Iraq \u2013 a criminal invasion that profited many American aristocrats while it did enormous harm to everyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n

The documents that were linked to by Judicial Watch<\/span><\/a> included also the following prophetic August 2012 military predictions, which, if the Obama Administration were acting upon these matters that early, no indication exists of it (and note here: the all-upper-case text will be changed in order to make this large text-block more easily readable):<\/span><\/p>\n

D. The deterioration of the situation has dire consequences on the Iraqi situation and [the consequences] are as follows:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u20131. This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq] to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria [Assad\u2019s enemies], and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers one enemy, the dissenters. ISI [ISIS] could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u20132. [blacked out]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u20133. The renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi arena.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

That passage was reported in the press release by Judicial Watch, and so it was included in some of the coverage by the \u2018news\u2019 media that reported anything of Judicial Watch\u2019s story.<\/span><\/p>\n

The big news story in the United States is the utter corruption of its \u2018free press.\u2019 That\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing, yet again, with regard to the Republican-Democratic policy of warring against Russia, China, Syria, and Iran; and for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bharain, and the other oil sheikhdoms. Anyone who quotes the lying rhetoric of the U.S. Government in order to deny that this is true should consult the links that have been provided here, before affirming those lies by Republicans and Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States is Government of the people, by and for the aristocracy<\/span><\/a>. Everything (and especially\u00a0Obama\u2019s \u2018trade\u2019 deals<\/span><\/a>) can be truthfully understood only on that basic understanding, in which America\u2019s two political parties have become, since at least 1980, just two contending\u00a0branches of the aristocracy party, in this country, which was founded on ending the aristocracy<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The big story is this posthumous defeat of America\u2019s Founders by a now-resurgent aristocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/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>, and\u00a0of \u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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