{"id":350783,"date":"2018-03-04T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=350783"},"modified":"2018-03-04T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T16:42:05","slug":"u-s-establishment-lies-teeth-war-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-establishment-lies-teeth-war-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"How the U.S. Establishment lies through its teeth, for war against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The same people, Republicans and Democrats, who lied through their teeth for an invasion of Iraq in 2003<\/span><\/a>, are doing it again for an invasion of Russia, sometime soon, so as to \u2018defend\u2019 \u2018democracy\u2019. The U.S. has by now swallowed up virtually all lands surrounding Russia, at least in Europe<\/span><\/a>, the latest being Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, and is placing its missiles now on and near Russia\u2019s borders, which is to Russians like would be to Americans if Russia had swallowed up Canada and were placing its missiles there. But the lying holier-than-thou U.S. Establishment accuses Russia of being \u2018aggressive\u2019 when Russia holds war-games on and near its borders in order to prepare for a U.S.-NATO invasion, which actually looks increasingly likely to them every day \u2014 and not because of \u2018Russian propaganda\u2019, but because of the U.S. Government\u2019s actions. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton clearly hated Russians and wanted to start a war against Russia by establishing a no-fly zone in Russia\u2019s ally Syria (which Russia defends while the U.S. invades and occupies Syria) so as to shoot down Russia’s planes there, and then, when Russia shoots down U.S. planes in retaliation, America would have its pretext for invading Russia itself \u2018so as to defend democracy against Russian aggression\u2019 \u2014 but instead, Donald Trump became elected, and he has now turned out to be almost as much of a neoconservative as she was. This displays how extreme the grip is that the neocons, the Establishment and its many minions who dominate both of the two Parties and the press, now have.<\/span><\/p>\n

An example of the Establishment\u2019s holier-than-thou lies, is an article that appeared on February 22nd at the magazine, The National Interest<\/i>, whose article-title is itself a marvelous deception, \u201cAverting the U.S.-Russia Warpath\u201d<\/span><\/a> (while the subliminal message there is: reasons why we\u2019ll probably have to invade Russia), and whose authors are three \u2018defense\u2019 hawks, including James Northey Miller<\/span><\/a>, of Harvard. He had been an Under Secretary of Defense during the Administration of the merely moderately neoconservative President Barack Obama \u2014 the President who in 2014 grabbed Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, and who used Al Qaeda in Syria to lead \u2019the rebels\u2019 there in order to try to grab Syria<\/span><\/a>. (Ukraine had been friendly toward Russia and is now rabid against Russia; and Syria was and is allied with Russia; so, both of these two lands were American grabs, and the neocon Trump continues both.) Anyone who trusts the U.S. Government to represent in international affairs the interests of America\u2019s public, instead of the interests of America’s billionaires, has been deceived by the Establishment\u2019s (the billionaires’ and their agents’) virtually all-pervasive propaganda in America, and therefore needs a lot of re-learning about U.S. history before understanding anything about U.S. foreign policies. There is very good and sound reason why around the world the United States is considered, by far, to be \u201cthe biggest threat to peace\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u2014 because it is. (The Peter Kuznick book and Oliver Stone documentary Untold History of the United States<\/i>, are the best cleaner-away of \u2018historical\u2019 lies about U.S. history from 1912 to 2012 that I know of \u2014 and the seeing or reading of that, will expose to anyone the mockery of historical truth which is represented in articles such as \u201cAverting the U.S.-Russia Warpath.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

This ordinary, and profoundly deceptive, article starts:<\/span><\/p>\n

FOR NEARLY twenty years following the end of the Cold War, military confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation seemed implausible. Even during periods of tension, as during the Kosovo crisis in the late 1990s, few believed that disagreement between Washington and Moscow could lead to a serious crisis, no less war. Before the first decade of the new century had passed, however, Russian officials were accusing the United States of working to isolate Russia. Such apprehensions have mounted steadily in Russia in the years since. At the same time, Russian behavior, including interventions in Ukraine and Syria, military posturing and harassment in Europe, and <\/i>interference in Western elections<\/i><\/span><\/a>, has led many in the United States to conclude that, while a U.S.-Russian conflict is by no means inevitable, the risk of such a confrontation is growing.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cRussian officials were accusing<\/i> the United States,\u201d while there was supposedly actual<\/i> \u201cRussian behavior, including interventions in Ukraine and Syria, military posturing and harassment in Europe, and interference in Western elections<\/span><\/a>,\u201d which pretexts the Establishment is now debating with itself whether that will be sufficient to \u2018justify\u2019 an American and NATO invasion, as response. This holier-than-thou and upside-down presumption, of Russian-government guilt and American-government innocence, is reeking throughout that pompous article; but what\u2019s even worse is that the reality is exactly the opposite of the story-line that\u2019s portrayed in it. The actual reality is: Ever since 24 February 1990, the U.S. and its NATO allies have been pursuing secretly a continuation of the Cold War after the termination in 1991 of the Soviet Union, and of its communism, and of its counter-NATO military alliance, the Warsaw Pact; and the U.S. plan has been to swallow up, first the former Warsaw Pact nations, and then the former nations (such as Ukraine itself) that were inside the Soviet Union itself, and then, any other foreign allies that Russia might still have (such as Syria); and, then, finally, to invade and conquer Russia itself<\/span><\/a>. And, instead of helping those countries, the U.S. Government has been destroying them<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u2018news\u2019media lie about Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, they lie about Syria<\/span><\/a>, they lie about Crimea<\/span><\/a>, and they lie about the entire historical background<\/span><\/a>. America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019media are basically stenographers for the lies<\/span><\/a> by the regime<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neoconservative, holier-than-thou, lying is so widespread in America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019media, there\u2019s practically nothing else than such deceptions about Russia, that\u2019s \u201cFit to Print\u201d (or broadcast) in today\u2019s United States, and this is true in the media of both Parties, not merely the Republican media, or the Democratic media<\/span><\/a>. This neoconservative consensus \u2014 the bipartisan ceaseless warmongering \u2014 is driven by the military-industrial complex (MIC) profiteers, whose companies\u2019 main market is the American and allied governments (so that in order to increase their sales, more and costlier weapons must be purchased by those governments). <\/span>It\u2019s the MIC-sick current style of capitalism: capitalism that\u2019s of, by, and for, the billionaires: a fascism that\u2019s merely called<\/i> \u2018democracy\u2019<\/span><\/a>. (By contrast, one area of commerce that Russia refused to privatize was its weapons-manufacturers \u2014 there aren\u2019t any stockholders who pay politicians to increase the \u2018defense\u2019 budget: instead, the Government itself<\/i> is in control over that.)<\/span><\/p>\n

America\u2019s billionaires, and their many agents, are giving hypocrisy a bad name.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org The same people, Republicans and Democrats, who lied through their teeth for an invasion of Iraq in 2003, are doing it again for an invasion of Russia, sometime soon, so as to \u2018defend\u2019 \u2018democracy\u2019. The U.S. has by now swallowed up virtually all lands surrounding Russia, at least in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":350780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[30,96,535,541,59,839,526,524,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-350783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-news-media","15":"tag-propaganda","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-warfare","18":"tag-white-house","19":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350783","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=350783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}