{"id":241681,"date":"2016-05-05T02:33:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T02:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=241681"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:02:17","slug":"americas-biggest-big-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/americas-biggest-big-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Biggest of All Big Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

On April 26th, Reuters headlined from Romania, \u201c\u2018We\u2019re Not Here to Provoke,\u2019 Say U.S. Pilots on Putin\u2019s Doorstep\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and gave as an example: \u201c\u2018We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,\u2019 says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a\u00a0region where tensions have risen markedly since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Romania’s neighbor Ukraine two\u00a0years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How can it not<\/i> be \u2018provoking’, when Russia now faces a threat from Obama and America’s NATO alliance, that\u2019s vastly worse than what America had faced from the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev and the USSR\u2019s Warsaw Pact alliance in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis? That was just one missile-base, 90 miles from the U.S. \u2014 not dozens of them, some right on<\/i> Russia\u2019s border. Are those American pilots idiots to believe their superiors\u2019 absurd statements about what their mission is, or is insanity the explanation here \u2014 or, is there even some third explanation possible for this oblivious statement from the American pilot? Perhaps those soldiers and airmen are simply drowning in (or drunk with) U.S. propaganda? They really believe that Russia is moving too close to NATO, not that NATO has already moved too close to Russia? Really?<\/i> The Reuters report said that NATO countries were doing this to protect themselves from \u201can increasingly aggressive Russia.\u201d Wow. But that\u2019s the line promoted by U.S. President Barack Obama<\/span><\/a>. And he\u2019s accepted as a decent person not only by the millions of voters in his own Democratic Party (though not in the Republican Party, which blames him for everything except the truth: that he is governing so far to the right that they have to concoct false \u2018leftist\u2019 reasons to criticize him); but, he\u2019s also respected even by the publics in Europe, where they suffer the flood of refugees from the invasions he leads. After all: one must never underestimate the power of propaganda, to warp the public\u2019s minds.<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 2nd<\/a><\/span>, the U.S.\u00a0\u2018Defense\u2019 Secretary, Russia-hater Ashton Carter, announced \u2014 and the equally Russia-hating NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed and endorsed \u2014 America\u2019s quadrupling of its troops and weapons on and near Russia\u2019s northwestern borders<\/span><\/a>; and America\u2019s pilot Dan Barina is part of this extremely hostile action, by the U.S. and NATO, against the people in Russia. <\/span><\/p>\n

Russia is now surrounded, on and near its borders, by numerous U.S. nuclear weapons \u2014 weapons and troops that are as close to St. Petersburg and Moscow as they can possibly get without actually invading Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the USSR and ended its Warsaw Pact, upon a promise from the regime of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush to the then-Soviet (soon-to-become merely Russian) leader, that NATO would move \u201cnot one inch to the east\u201d \u2014 a promise which the American President\u00a0told his people in private<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 was actually a lie, but which they, and all subsequent U.S. Presidents, have accepted as Western policy founded on that lie, by expanding NATO not merely \u201cone inch to the east,\u201d but right up to Russia\u2019s very borders<\/i>. That\u2019s what this February 2nd policy by U.S. President Barack Obama and his NATO stooges is bringing substantially closer to culmination.<\/span><\/p>\n

How can this not<\/i> be \u201cprovocative\u201d? What type of idiot can believe his superiors when they say \u201cWe\u2019re not here to provoke anybody\u201d? Of course, it\u2019s not to \u201cprovoke\u201d Russians: it\u2019s to downright terrify<\/i> them. They\u2019d have to be crazy not<\/i> to be terrified, at being increasingly surrounded by these WMD, from what is increasingly clearly their enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

This big lie, that what America is doing there is \u2018defensive\u2019, is stanched up by other, lesser, lies, such as Obama\u2019s lie that the reason<\/span><\/a> why he\u2019s expanding America\u2019s Strategic Defense Initiative (anti-ballistic missile, or \u2018star wars\u2019) system, in Europe, has been to protect Europe from Iranian nuclear missiles. Iran never had nuclear weapons, and Obama reached an agreement with Iran that will for decades prevent Iran from having them, but he still expands the SDI system right up to Russia\u2019s borders, as\u00a0\u2018protection against Iran\u2019<\/span><\/a>. The people who protest against Obama\u2019s lies are then marginalized as mere kooks, which is the way to get idiots to ignore even the most barefaced facts (such as Western terrorization of the Russian population), because only idiots can continue to believe such liars as the Obama regime, when their lies are so obvious as this. These protests against Obama and NATO and all of Western aggression, aren\u2019t<\/i> coming from America\u2019s Republicans or other right-wingers: the smearing of these protesters with that broad-brush taint can be believed only by idiots \u2014 people who are willingly suckers, suckers notwithstanding the blatancy with which the facts run against<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>the lies they swallow.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the very get-go, in 1983 \u2014 when the Republican U.S. President, Ronald Reagan (with the active support of Ashton Carter at MIT), started the SDI project<\/span><\/a>, under the lie that disabling a combatant\u2019s retaliatory ability isn\u2019t profoundly aggressive against that opponent (basically checkmating him) \u2014 the SDI concept was aimed at achieving an invasion of the Soviet Union which couldn\u2019t be effectively countered; it was aimed ultimately at replacing the balance-of-power system of \u201cMutually Assured Destruction\u201d (MAD), by a gross im<\/i>balance of power that would enable conquest<\/i> of the opponent; it would enable a blitz-attack against the Soviet Union, an attack which wouldn\u2019t be able effectively to be responded to via a counter-attack; it would enable an attack which would pre-emptively disable<\/i> that response to it. In other words: it\u2019s all a con, a lie, to say that SDI is \u2018purely a defensive measure\u2019. It can be the most decisive aggressive measure, the only way that\u2019s even conceivable to \u2018win\u2019 a nuclear war (as some of the West\u2019s aristocrats think can be done<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia notes about Ashton Carter<\/a><\/span>: \u201cCarter was a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as an advocate of preventive wars against North Korea and Iran.[43][44][45] In response to increase in tension in Ukraine, Carter considered proposing deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe that could pre-emptively destroy Russian weapons.\u201d That\u2019s a \u201chawkish\u201d background just as Hillary Clinton\u2019s is, virtually indistinguishable from that of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney; and yet, Barack Obama, when he was starting his political career in a region where the opposition to invading Iraq was strong, Obama claimed<\/i> that he opposed<\/i> invading Iraq. Yet, somehow, once he was finally inside the White House, suddenly the people he was surrounding himself with were Wall-Street-backed individuals who had supported<\/i> invading Iraq (and any other country whose leader was friendly toward Russia). He did to Libya, Ukraine, and Syria, what George W. Bush did to Iraq. If that\u2019s not fraudulent \u2018democracy\u2019<\/span><\/a>, then what is? The public had been given no indication they would be getting, with Barack Obama, merely a more-articulate version of George W. Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n

America has been lying not only regarding its aggressive designs against the Soviet Union, but (and this is far more heinous) \u2014 afterward<\/i>, when the supposed \u2018ideological\u2019 reason for the Cold War had ended \u2014 it is lying even more blatantly in its \u2018justifications\u2019 for its (and NATO\u2019s) anti-Russia policies despite communism having ended and the Soviet Union (and its Warsaw Pact) disbanded.<\/span><\/p>\n

How much longer will the aristocracy that control the U.S. Government be able to get away with such obvious lies, such continuation and even escalation of the \u201cCold War\u201d after its very raison d\u2019etre<\/i> (anti-communism) is long-since gone? If it turns out to be too long, then only a matter of time will pass before those buttons get pushed and those nuclear weapons are released, to destroy the world. Horrific as those weapons are, they are built, and manned, to be used. If this seems unimaginable, then the question has to be this: Is it as unimaginable as is the manifested-existing evilness<\/i> of America\u2019s aristocracy (such as Barack Obama, Ashton Carter, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, George Soros, the Koch brothers, etc.) and of the aristocracies (in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere) that are allied with it?<\/span><\/p>\n

And, the use of \u2018Crimea\u2019<\/span><\/a> as an excuse for this restoration of the \u201cCold War\u201d (which is already a hot war in Ukraine, Syria, and other lands, where the U.S. sees fit to replace leaders that ally with Russia), is just as bogus as is the use of \u2018Iranian nuclear weapons\u2019 as an excuse for installing SDI. Any aristocracy that needs to lie so blatantly in order to continue along such a catastrophic path as this, needs to be defeated, instead of to be believed and obeyed.\u00a0They might as well be Satan. Except that, unfortunately, they\u2019re not<\/i> mythological \u2014 which makes all the difference: this demon is all-too-real<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some news reports from perhaps the world\u2019s best living investigative reporter, Christof Lehmann, who has provided shocking details about how vile this global-aristocratic operation is, regarding Syria \u2014 entailing not only the U.S. aristocracy, but the European ones, and the Arabic ones, the entire rotten-through-and-through \u201cWestern alliance\u201d (an alliance of aristocracies who can be satisfied with nothing less than their collective global conquest).<\/span><\/p>\n

The first report, on 2 May 2013, titled \u201cEU Lifts Oil Embargo on Syria \u2013 Buys Directly from Al Qaeda\u201d<\/span><\/a>, summarizes the key facts that Western media had already reported (prior to their being virtually banned from reporting these things in the West), things such as that 27 of the 28 EU nations had already decided in April 2013 to purchase oil stolen from Syria by \u201cthe Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda linked rebel group,\u201d in order to assist the Saudi and Qatari royals in financing \u201cthe moderate opposition forces\u201d (such as Al Qaeda \u2014 the group that had perpetrated 9\/11 and other terrorist attacks against Western populations; and, even Seymour Hersh reported<\/span><\/a>, on 4 April 2014, that Obama and U.S. allies were supplying weapons to al-Nusra) to defeat the Syrian army of Bashar al-Assad. (Assad is Shiite but secular, the opposite of fundamentalist Sunni Islamic, which is the jihadism that the Sauds and their fellow-Arab royals are devoted to; and Assad is furthermore allied with those Arab-royals\u2019 chief oil-and-gas competitor, Russia; so, Western aristocracies help these Sunni jihadists who are being sent into Syria to overthrow Assad.) <\/span><\/p>\n

The second in the series, on 8 August 2013, was titled \u201cEU\/US Al-Qaeda Massacres on Kurds for Oil and Secession.\u201d<\/span><\/a> It opened with this summary: <\/span><\/p>\n

In April 2013, the European Union lifted its embargo on the import of oil from \u201crebel held\u201d Syrian territories. The import <\/i> [of oil] is primarily to come from the predominantly Kurdish region of Syria. In July and August 2013, confirmed and unconfirmed reports about massacres of Kurds, committed by western-backed, Al-Qaeda associated insurgents, increase simultaneously\u00a0with an influx of insurgents <\/i>[jihadists] from western countries. An estimated 17,000 fighters from the Kurdish Workers\u00b4 Party, PKK have deployed from Turkey to the region near Irkuk, in the Kurdish Administrated Region of Iraq. The function of the EU\/US strategy \u2013 massacres<\/i> [of Syria\u2019s civilian population] for oil, to finance mercenaries<\/i> [those jihadist groups that are pouring into Syria to eliminate Assad], and to create a\u00a0demand for\u00a0secession among Syrian Kurds, over perceived security concerns.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The third in the series, on 22 June 2014, was titled, \u201cU.S. Embassy in Ankara Headquarter for ISIS War on Iraq \u2013 Hariri Insider\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and it opened:<\/span><\/p>\n

The green light for the use of ISIS brigades to carve up Iraq, widen the Syria conflict into a greater Middle East war and to throw Iran off-balance, was given behind closed doors at the Atlantic Council meeting in Turkey, in November 2013, told a source close to Saudi-Lebanese billionaire Saad Hariri, adding that the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is the operation\u2019s headquarters.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

A \u201ctrusted source\u201d close to the Saudi-Lebanese multi-billionaire and former Lebanese P.M. Saad Hariri told, on condition of anonymity, that the final green light for the war on Iraq with ISIS or ISIL brigades was given behind closed doors, at the sidelines of the Atlantic Council\u2019s Energy Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 22-23, 2013. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCertain circles in Washington put a hell of a lot of pressure on Obama to put a gun to al-Maliki\u2019s head\u201d, said the Hariri source, adding that \u201ctime was running out and Obama was hesitant.\u201d Asked what he meant with \u201ctime was running out\u201d and if he could specify who it was that pushed Obama, he said: \u2026\u201cWho exactly pressured Obama? I don\u2019t know who delivered the message to Obama.\u201d \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The summit was, among others, attended by Turkey\u2019s President Abdullah G\u00fcl, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernst Monitz, Atlantic Council President Frederick Kempe, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft<\/i> [and others]. \u2026 Noting that a prominent member of Saudi Arabia\u2019s royal family, Prince Abdul Rachman al-Faisal has been named as the one being \u201cin command\u201d of the ISIS brigades, and if he could either confirm or deny, he nodded, adding that \u201cthe Prince\u201d is responsible for financing the operation and for part of the command structure, but that the operations headquarters is the U.S. Embassy in Ankara Turkey.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The fourth in this series, on 7 October 2013, was titled, \u201cTop US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and it\u2019s so good, it simply must be read (just click onto that link). This report documented that Obama\u2019s accusation that Assad had been responsible for the August 2013 sarin attack in Syria is a lie, and that Obama and his allies are the actual people who were behind that sarin attack. It opened: \u201cEvidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia\u00b4s Interior Ministry.\u201d It described the scheme, by the White House, plus Saudi King Salman, plus Turkey\u2019s President Erdogan, plus Qatar\u2019s Emir Thani, to run sarin-precursor chemicals from Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s stockpiles through Turkey into Syria, to be turned there into sarin, so that the 21 August 2013 gassing in Ghouta Syria resulted, and it was blamed, by these liars, against Assad, so that it could be used by U.S. President Obama as the excuse to do to Assad what Obama and his allies had already done to Gaddafi.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were many subsequent news-reports, by Seymour Hersh and others<\/span><\/a>, which documented different aspects of this operation, but none gave a fuller picture of it than did the original, by Christof Lehmann.<\/span><\/p>\n

By no coincidence, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, and Ukraine\u2019s Viktor Yanukovych, all were leaders who had been friendly toward Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin. The idea among the Western aristocracies is to eliminate all of Putin\u2019s foreign allies, and then (once he has no foreign allies remaining) to get rid of Putin himself, because Putin refuses to buckle to Western control.<\/span><\/p>\n

As regards jihadist groups such as Al Qaeda and even ISIS: though they\u2019re of big concern to Western publics, Western aristocrats are far more concerned to conquer Russia. Their foreign policies display this top priority of theirs. To these aristocrats, jihadists are just a side-show. The main event is Russia. The end of communism, and of the USSR, and of the Warsaw Pact, don\u2019t really make any difference to them. They want the land, and its resources. They don\u2019t care about the people on it \u2014 anywhere.<\/span><\/a> Just nuke \u2019em<\/i>, maybe? It\u2019s a messy job, but it\u2019s the type of job for people such as Dan Barina. Western taxpayers pay their salaries, but the people who control what they do are the Western aristocrats. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, for example,\u00a0Obama\u2019s National Security Strategy 2015<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0uses the term \u201caggression\u201d 18 times, and 17 of them refer to Russia; none of them refer to Al Qaeda, nor to ISIS (which he calls instead \u201cISIL,\u201d because that\u2019s the English-language version of \u201cDAESH,\u201d the name that the royal Sauds give to the organization), nor to the Sauds and the other Arabic royal families, who\u00a0finance<\/span><\/a>\u00a0jihadist\u00a0groups<\/span><\/a>. (Their only demand upon them is to avoid perpetrating their terrorism within their own countries \u2014 to do it only abroad.) However, if the West\u2019s enemies are their own aristocracies, which control both their government and their \u2019news\u2019 media, then it makes sense that their propaganda will blame Russia and its allies (i.e.: blame the countries the West\u2019s aristocrats want to conquer), for everything they can concoct to blame them. Where the public\u2019s main enemy is in charge, it\u2019s natural for that enemy\u2019s chief foreign enemy to be blamed by the government and the \u2018news\u2019 media, so as to get one enemy of the aristocrats (their own public) fearful of the aristocrats\u2019 other enemy (the foreign aristocracy they want to defeat). \u201cLet\u2019s have you and him fight it out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Western governments have been heisted by Western aristocrats. This is what has become of \u201cWestern \u2018democracy\u2019\u201d \u2014 and not only<\/i> of Western kings and princes such as reign in the Arabic countries. They\u2019re all actually tyrannies, even the ones (such as Obama) who speak pretty phrases \u2014 who lie right and left about why they are doing what they are doing<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire U.S. alliance \u2014 all of the aristocracies that comprise it \u2014 are rotten to the core. Millions of refugees have poured into Europe, and the publics in Europe are outraged, but the people who are behind it all are their own nation\u2019s leadership (both elected and unelected), who support or even participate in American invasions and coups \u2014 not<\/i> those refugees, from the mass-murder and chaos those Western leaders had caused, in Iraq, in Libya, in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>, in Syria, and elsewhere. The publics in the West take the terrorist attacks and other blows, while their government and media blame Russia and its allied countries such as the BRICS, though the real villains are their own national leadership, and the leadership of \u201cthe Western alliance\u201d \u2014 the invasion-alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sickness, that\u2019s destroying the world, emanates from Washington and Riyadh, not from Moscow and Beijing. The proper name for it is \u201cconquest.\u201d This is not the way authentic democracy functions. Feudalism used to function this way. Fascism<\/span><\/a> now does. And now, the biggest of all its Big Lies is that it\u2019s all being done in order to \u201cpromote world peace and security.\u201d It\u2019s like in George Orwell\u2019s allegorical novel,\u00a01984<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The real enemy lies within, where it reigns, even in the outlying aristocracies. It calls itself \u201cthe Western alliance.\u201d It\u2019s not only responsible for the invasions that are increasingly a curse upon the world; it (via the \u201cCollective Defense\u201d provision of the NATO portion of it<\/span><\/a>) constitutes the hair-trigger for global nuclear annihilation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Either NATO will end, or the world as we\u2019ve always known and wanted to live in it, will. It\u2019s one or the other. George Herbert Walker Bush left us this curse upon the world<\/span><\/a>, and the challenge now is to end NATO now<\/i>, because, if it shouldn\u2019t have ended when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact did, then when should<\/i> it end \u2014 or is it going to end only when the world-as-we\u2019ve-known-it ends: in nuclear annihilation? If it\u2019s not going to end in nuclear annihilation, then a global decision will have to be made, that NATO is a criminal organization, which must be ended now<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The result of that would be a better and a safer world, for everybody<\/i>. Aristocratic dreams of world-conquest have already reached beyond the danger-point, to the alarm-bell<\/span><\/a>. If the solution is not now, it will be the final solution<\/i> for everybody. The dreams of Obama and many others in the U.S. aristocracy, for \u201cPrompt Global Strike\u201d and \u201cThe Rise of US Nuclear Primacy\u201d<\/span><\/a>, are a mythical solution that will actually lead inevitably to such a final solution \u2014 not only<\/i> for Russians, but for everyone<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter S. Rieth, at East-West Accord, headlined on April 28th, \u201cAre Poland\u2019s Elites Itching for War with Russia?\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he documented that they are, and that their hatred of Russians goes back at least to when \u201cPoland invaded Kiev in 1919.\u201d He vaguely urges the Obama Administration to withdraw its thousands of new troops and new weapons from Poland, because, \u201cThe United States fails to recognize that although it will presumably retain command over any American troops eventually stationed in Poland, it will be helpless in the face of Polish impetuosity.\u201d But his statement is ambiguous, weak, and even evasive: the actual reason that (as he only implicitly<\/i> acknowledges) the Polish aristocracy\u2019s \u201cimpetuosity\u201d could produce World War III, is that both Poland and the U.S. have signed the NATO Treaty with its mutual-defense Article Five saying, in effect, that whenever one member-nation claims to have been attacked by Russia, the U.S. will launch its nuclear weapons against Russia. The only rational opinion of such a commentary as that, is: Cut it out! The reality is: End NATO now!! NATO after 1991 is a criminal organization, the biggest threat to the entire world; and, such pusillanimous commentaries, which don\u2019t even point to the real hair-trigger for nuclear war, are worthless. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing short of ending NATO now, will suffice. Gorbachev ended the Warsaw Pact in 1991. When<\/i> will NATO end \u2014 or will the world end first?<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst part of it is: Germany, France, and UK, haven\u2019t yet withdrawn from NATO. Until they do, NATO will continue to be the red-hot danger it is. No rational voter in any of those countries will vote for any politician who fails to state clearly:<\/i> End NATO Now! We must withdraw from NATO!! <\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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