Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
First, just look at these billions of dollars of U.S.-taxpayer-purchased weapons being exploded \u2014 simply wasted \u2014 in Ukraine, instead of killing people there, as America\u2019s aristocracy had intended when it got its President and Congress to donate, to Ukraine, these U.S.-manufactured weapons that had been produced and sold to the U.S. Government by those aristocrats\u2019 weapons-making firms:<\/span><\/p>\n 27 September 2017 \u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iWRQr3eNqp8<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 27 July 2017 \u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/weapons\/news\/a27511\/russia-drone-thermite-grenade-ukraine-ammo\/<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 23 March 2017 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bGlUiVIId2A<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the background of that \u2014 what these weapons had been designed<\/i> to do: <\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgB2bhFfEtM&app=desktop<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the deeper background of all of this:<\/span><\/p>\n first, in Crimea: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=65yibO8pOlA<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n then, in Donbass: http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the even-deeper background to it, from the beginning, until the present time: <\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2017\/03\/24\/what-americas-coup-in-ukraine-did\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n And, here is how corrupt our military is, which is behind this rampant wastage:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.europereloaded.com\/trillions-dollars-u-s-military-spending-unaccounted\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n So: at the present moment in America\u2019s corruption, pumping up the sales of U.S.-made weaponry is the chief motivation for what the U.S. President and Congress are doing in Ukraine; killing the people<\/span><\/a> in the areas of Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych had won more than 75% of the vote<\/span><\/a> is no longer the chief motivation for what the U.S. President and Congress are doing there. This sales-pumping continued even after the explosion that occurred on 23 March 2017. It continued even after the explosion that occurred on 27 July 2017. It continued even after the explosion that occurred on 27 September 2017. They didn\u2019t care how much of their weaponry became wasted; they cared only how much of it became sold. Profit is an even higher calling than killing, for the aristocracy and its agents (including for U.S. Presidents and members of Congress). Those sales are profitable.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n And, here<\/span><\/a> is the source of it all \u2014 the source of America\u2019s endless wars, for endless profits. <\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Back on 5 December 2014, I had headlined the question \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 answer to that question is obvious: this is not democracy, at all<\/span><\/a>. It is something else. And this fact (America\u2019s lack<\/i> of democracy) explains why the American public have not been informed about what is, and about why<\/i> it is. Or, even much, that<\/i> it is, at all \u2014 that this situation (the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s dictatorship) exists, as it actually does. Americans are supposed to vote, on that basis, as a deceived public, in a \u2018democracy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n And that\u2019s why you\u2019re not finding out about these facts, not at the New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, National Review, The Atlantic, Harper\u2019s<\/i>, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, nor etc., all of which, likewise, are funded by, and are advertising, the firms that America\u2019s billionaires control. You\u2019re not supposed to know about any of this. And, so, most Americans really don\u2019t know. Instead, Americans are supposed to love and admire America\u2019s taxpayer-funded organization for mass-killing, for mass-dying, and for massive destruction \u2014 the U.S. military. And, so, Americans do.<\/span><\/p>\n On July 27th, Gallup reported<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAmericans have given the military the highest confidence rating of any institution in American society for nearly two decades.\u201d \u201cThe military\u201d scored actually higher than any other of the listed 17 \u201cinstitutions\u201d \u2014 and here all of them were, in the order that Gallup presents them<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cConfidence in Institutions\u201d:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The church or organized religion, 41%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The Supreme Court, 40%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Congress 12%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Organized labor, 28%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Big business, 21%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The public schools, 36%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Newspapers, 27%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The military, 72%<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The presidency, 32%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The medical system, 37%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Banks, 32%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Television news, 24%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The police, 57%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The criminal justice system, 27%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Small business, 70%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n News on the internet<\/i> [such as you\u2019re now reading], 16%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Health Maintenance Organizations or HMOs, 19%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n A few months earlier, on April 26th, I had headlined \u201cPOLL: Americans Support Military-Industrial Complex Above All Else\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and that finding was based upon a poll which had just been published by Morning Consult.<\/span><\/p>\n So: the operation is very successful.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n 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 First, just look at these billions of dollars of U.S.-taxpayer-purchased weapons being exploded \u2014 simply wasted \u2014 in Ukraine, instead of killing people there, as America\u2019s aristocracy had intended when it got its President and Congress to donate, to Ukraine, these U.S.-manufactured weapons that had been produced and sold to the U.S. Government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":327994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[115,30,32,96,59,804,524,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-327993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-politics-2","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![the areas of Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych had won more than 75% of the vote<\/span><\/a> is no longer the chief motivation for what the U.S. President and Congress are doing there. This sales-pumping continued even after the explosion that occurred on 23 March 2017. It continued even after the explosion that occurred on 27 July 2017. It continued even after the explosion that occurred on 27 September 2017. They didn\u2019t care how much of their weaponry became wasted; they cared only how much of it became sold. Profit is an even higher calling than killing, for the aristocracy and its agents (including for U.S. Presidents and members of Congress). Those sales are profitable.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, here<\/span><\/a> is the source of it all \u2014 the source of America\u2019s endless wars, for endless profits. <\/span><\/p>\n\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\nBack on 5 December 2014, I had headlined the question \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 answer to that question is obvious: this is not democracy, at all<\/span><\/a>. It is something else. And this fact (America\u2019s lack<\/i> of democracy) explains why the American public have not been informed about what is, and about why<\/i> it is. Or, even much, that<\/i> it is, at all \u2014 that this situation (the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s dictatorship) exists, as it actually does. Americans are supposed to vote, on that basis, as a deceived public, in a \u2018democracy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd that\u2019s why you\u2019re not finding out about these facts, not at the New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, National Review, The Atlantic, Harper\u2019s<\/i>, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, nor etc., all of which, likewise, are funded by, and are advertising, the firms that America\u2019s billionaires control. You\u2019re not supposed to know about any of this. And, so, most Americans really don\u2019t know. Instead, Americans are supposed to love and admire America\u2019s taxpayer-funded organization for mass-killing, for mass-dying, and for massive destruction \u2014 the U.S. military. And, so, Americans do.<\/span><\/p>\nOn July 27th, Gallup reported<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAmericans have given the military the highest confidence rating of any institution in American society for nearly two decades.\u201d \u201cThe military\u201d scored actually higher than any other of the listed 17 \u201cinstitutions\u201d \u2014 and here all of them were, in the order that Gallup presents them<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cConfidence in Institutions\u201d:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe church or organized religion, 41%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe Supreme Court, 40%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nCongress 12%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nOrganized labor, 28%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nBig business, 21%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe public schools, 36%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nNewspapers, 27%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe military, 72%<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\nThe presidency, 32%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe medical system, 37%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nBanks, 32%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nTelevision news, 24%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe police, 57%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nThe criminal justice system, 27%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nSmall business, 70%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nNews on the internet<\/i> [such as you\u2019re now reading], 16%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nHealth Maintenance Organizations or HMOs, 19%<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nA few months earlier, on April 26th, I had headlined \u201cPOLL: Americans Support Military-Industrial Complex Above All Else\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and that finding was based upon a poll which had just been published by Morning Consult.<\/span><\/p>\nSo: the operation is very successful.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\nInvestigative 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 First, just look at these billions of dollars of U.S.-taxpayer-purchased weapons being exploded \u2014 simply wasted \u2014 in Ukraine, instead of killing people there, as America\u2019s aristocracy had intended when it got its President and Congress to donate, to Ukraine, these U.S.-manufactured weapons that had been produced and sold to the U.S. Government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":327994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[115,30,32,96,59,804,524,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-327993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-politics-2","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/observationalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ukraine_historical_vs_electoral_2010.png\"){kind=link}