Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If you've got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling. If you feel like there's been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world to manipulate your understanding of what's going on with this war, it's because
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." -Morpheus
We're watching a maniac agenda playing out. And somehow it seems to have the support not only of corrupt political elites but also - bafflingly - from a super-majority of regular citizens turned into self-righteous asses by infantile news propaganda.
Hysterical sanctions, severing of trade links, illegal broken contracts, unprecedented breaches of trust stealing Russia's forex savings, increasingly aggressive NATO expansion, universal exclusion and vilification of everything Russians, a willing submission by "Western" scientists, academics, business leaders, industry, corporations to the depraved worldview of America's most sociopathic war hawks, the overnight transformation of entire populations into Russophobic zealots; and a relentless stream of weapons and covert military operators from unaccountable foreign powers into Ukraine.
The conflict is being recklessly turned into an existential threat for Russia. This will inevitably lead to serious escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine.
The coda of our present trajectory is nuclear holocaust.
I've know for at least 50 years that the US DoS and DoD are thoroughly corrupt, and even knew there was corruption present in HHH. The past 5 years taught me that the Democratic Party is corrupt beyond salvation as well as that the Republican Party leadership is also corrupt but at least the Party's bylaws leave it open to the will of the people. The past two years have taught me that HHH and all its alphabet agencies are corrupt to the core and that corporate media and in fact most corporations are steeped in corruption. The core of the Western Empire, consisting of the Anglosphere, is far more corrupt than Zimbabwe.
That said, when Caitlin says, "...and everything you were taught about your nation, your government and your world is a lie, that's definitely a possibility worth considering," I have considered such a nihilistic conclusion about "what you were taught" and I reject it completely. In school, I was taught that the US was founded on the Enlightenment belief in the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and that the Bill of Rights was adopted in order to guarantee that government would not infringe on the individual natural or God-given rights expressed therein. I also learned of countless individual Americans who struggled for over 200 years, against the hypocrisy of moneyed interests, to bring those rights to reality. Some struggled peacefully, like William Lloyd Garrison and Martin Luther King, Jr., some not so peacefully, like John Brown. Garrison narrowly avoided martyrdom; others did not. It's counter-productive to ignore the true principles on which the country was founded or to claim those principles somehow serve "white supremacy" when so many white men in the Union Army fought to end slavery and many of the martyrs of the Civil Rights struggle were white. We must revere our heroes and heroines and the principles for which they struggled and many died. Not all white people are members of an "oppressor class" that controls the narrative, and not all minorities are victims.
It is true that "...we're all being manipulated at mass scale to think, act and vote in a way which benefits a vast power structure that rules over us while hiding its true nature," but that power structure is not controlled by ALL white people, and there are many BIPOC like Barack Obama, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Susan Rice who are part of that power structure. J. D. Vance is not (yet) a member of that "power structure," nor the millions of "hill billies" and other "poor white trash" who struggle through life as unrecognized victims of prejudice. The claims that equal opportunity and cultural values like hard work, standard English and STEM somehow serve "white supremacy" are merely attempts to destroy the fabric of society so we can "build back better." But what are we planning to build? If it's a society where incompetents are advanced because they are "members of a traditionally marginalized identity" while hard-working, competent people who don't have such victimhood are victimized, we should all oppose that. You can't fight evil with evil methods, and society will not progress by holding back segments of its "best and brightest" regardless of group identity.
We need a revival of basic American values, and I don't care if that sounds "conservative," or in opposition to race or "feminist" hustlers. I've "paid my dues" by treating all people I interact with equally regardless of their majority, minority or sexual identity. My ancestors were not slavers, but were themselves "wage slaves." This country will be destroyed if we persist in disadvantaging hard working, competent members of any identity group because of ASSUMED guilt.
Its more than Ukraine at this point... as you said earlier in another blog, the main target is china because America feels threatened and wants to maintain hegemony. That’s why the stuff with Pakistan happened just now too. America will do anything and everything to ensure western neoliberalism stays in power
May I add: if you are starting to realize that the old left right divide no longer seems to make sense maybe you should watch Fox and listen to a Trump rally and see what your erstwhile enemy has in common with you and your new sensibility.
Yup. Unprecedented deluge of propaganda coming from western MSM. I scan headlines in MSM then go see something completely different in independent and foreign non-western news services. #EndTheEmpireOfLies has become my standard hashtag.
I just posted this in WaPo. Let’s see if it survives the mods.
The US is ruled by people who never know when and where to stop. Russian oligarchs?
How about health care? Appalling longevity? Gun control? World or Western world-leading murder, mass murder, racial murder, incarceration, pollution, obesity, child poverty, divorce, …. The list is endless. And see PISA scores for adolescent educational attainment if you want to feel real good.
Is this what happens when a fraudulent Saturday morning cartoon Empire unravels? The evil rulers seek things for which they won’t ever be accountable, to distract from the awful realities? Russian oligarchs? You’ve gone completely out of your minds.
Caitlin: If you believe it's possible that these existential crises we're fast approaching may be the catalyst we need to collectively rip the blindfold from our eyes and begin moving in a truth-based way upon this earth and creating a healthy world, then we are on the same page.
“If you can't recall ever seeing such intense mass media spin about a war before, it's because you haven't.”
Now granted, I don’t have time right now to click through the link, and maybe this is indeed the *most* propagandized war, but I’ll never forget Iraq.
I’m so sick of the lies. Russia invading Ukraine for whatever objective is terrible, but the relentless hypocritical lies are even worse. If international laws actually applied to Americans every president post WW2 would be hung for the same reasons liberals are frothing at the mouth at the idea of hanging Putin.
As a leftist, it’s *insane* to me how much my “progressive” “liberal” friends have been propagandized into mush over this.
A perfect article for today! I put my article on Substack yesterday that starts: "How did the Left become obedient, pro-corporate, pro-censorship, pro-propaganda warmongers? Let’s look at how we learned to stop worrying and love the lie. As Caitlin Johnstone published in US Officials Admit They’re Literally Just Lying to the Public About Russia, these are not lies exposed in some backwater, shadow-banned conspiracy theory website." Then I continue with your NBC quotes and others from When You Lie... I've noticed that some readers are clicking on the links to here.
But in the video, I mistakenly assume Zelensky is not in Ukraine and looked it up AFTER I published it, finding this photo op that seemed so much the brooding hero. But proving my point that he didn't have the ability to negotiate peace, I read Aaron Mate's amazing article yesterday about how Zelensky is captured, not just by the West, but by his own neo-Nazi forces who say openly they will hang him from a tree if he negotiates. So I include that in the article:
The "aliens-from-space" still have to make their appearance to finish their devious plans, after countless virus scares and world war three. You see, the aliens-from-space will be our saviors, since we have cancelled all past heroes, they now must come from "off planet", in order to be that which saves humanity from itself.
Unless this IS the human's last hurrah, then I say, let's GO!
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." -Morpheus
We're watching a maniac agenda playing out. And somehow it seems to have the support not only of corrupt political elites but also - bafflingly - from a super-majority of regular citizens turned into self-righteous asses by infantile news propaganda.
Hysterical sanctions, severing of trade links, illegal broken contracts, unprecedented breaches of trust stealing Russia's forex savings, increasingly aggressive NATO expansion, universal exclusion and vilification of everything Russians, a willing submission by "Western" scientists, academics, business leaders, industry, corporations to the depraved worldview of America's most sociopathic war hawks, the overnight transformation of entire populations into Russophobic zealots; and a relentless stream of weapons and covert military operators from unaccountable foreign powers into Ukraine.
The conflict is being recklessly turned into an existential threat for Russia. This will inevitably lead to serious escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine.
The coda of our present trajectory is nuclear holocaust.
They did it with Covid - making the vaxxed hate the unvaccinated, so they can do it with Ukraine.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/why-anger-towards-the-unvaccinated?s=w
The last sentence spoke to me. I still have hope for humanity.
I've know for at least 50 years that the US DoS and DoD are thoroughly corrupt, and even knew there was corruption present in HHH. The past 5 years taught me that the Democratic Party is corrupt beyond salvation as well as that the Republican Party leadership is also corrupt but at least the Party's bylaws leave it open to the will of the people. The past two years have taught me that HHH and all its alphabet agencies are corrupt to the core and that corporate media and in fact most corporations are steeped in corruption. The core of the Western Empire, consisting of the Anglosphere, is far more corrupt than Zimbabwe.
That said, when Caitlin says, "...and everything you were taught about your nation, your government and your world is a lie, that's definitely a possibility worth considering," I have considered such a nihilistic conclusion about "what you were taught" and I reject it completely. In school, I was taught that the US was founded on the Enlightenment belief in the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and that the Bill of Rights was adopted in order to guarantee that government would not infringe on the individual natural or God-given rights expressed therein. I also learned of countless individual Americans who struggled for over 200 years, against the hypocrisy of moneyed interests, to bring those rights to reality. Some struggled peacefully, like William Lloyd Garrison and Martin Luther King, Jr., some not so peacefully, like John Brown. Garrison narrowly avoided martyrdom; others did not. It's counter-productive to ignore the true principles on which the country was founded or to claim those principles somehow serve "white supremacy" when so many white men in the Union Army fought to end slavery and many of the martyrs of the Civil Rights struggle were white. We must revere our heroes and heroines and the principles for which they struggled and many died. Not all white people are members of an "oppressor class" that controls the narrative, and not all minorities are victims.
It is true that "...we're all being manipulated at mass scale to think, act and vote in a way which benefits a vast power structure that rules over us while hiding its true nature," but that power structure is not controlled by ALL white people, and there are many BIPOC like Barack Obama, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Susan Rice who are part of that power structure. J. D. Vance is not (yet) a member of that "power structure," nor the millions of "hill billies" and other "poor white trash" who struggle through life as unrecognized victims of prejudice. The claims that equal opportunity and cultural values like hard work, standard English and STEM somehow serve "white supremacy" are merely attempts to destroy the fabric of society so we can "build back better." But what are we planning to build? If it's a society where incompetents are advanced because they are "members of a traditionally marginalized identity" while hard-working, competent people who don't have such victimhood are victimized, we should all oppose that. You can't fight evil with evil methods, and society will not progress by holding back segments of its "best and brightest" regardless of group identity.
We need a revival of basic American values, and I don't care if that sounds "conservative," or in opposition to race or "feminist" hustlers. I've "paid my dues" by treating all people I interact with equally regardless of their majority, minority or sexual identity. My ancestors were not slavers, but were themselves "wage slaves." This country will be destroyed if we persist in disadvantaging hard working, competent members of any identity group because of ASSUMED guilt.
Its more than Ukraine at this point... as you said earlier in another blog, the main target is china because America feels threatened and wants to maintain hegemony. That’s why the stuff with Pakistan happened just now too. America will do anything and everything to ensure western neoliberalism stays in power
Bernays vs the masses one more time. Hope you're right and this is a Tocqueville "Ancien Regime and the Revolution" moment.
May I add: if you are starting to realize that the old left right divide no longer seems to make sense maybe you should watch Fox and listen to a Trump rally and see what your erstwhile enemy has in common with you and your new sensibility.
Spot on, girl! 💪👏👏👏
Yup. Unprecedented deluge of propaganda coming from western MSM. I scan headlines in MSM then go see something completely different in independent and foreign non-western news services. #EndTheEmpireOfLies has become my standard hashtag.
I just posted this in WaPo. Let’s see if it survives the mods.
The US is ruled by people who never know when and where to stop. Russian oligarchs?
How about health care? Appalling longevity? Gun control? World or Western world-leading murder, mass murder, racial murder, incarceration, pollution, obesity, child poverty, divorce, …. The list is endless. And see PISA scores for adolescent educational attainment if you want to feel real good.
Is this what happens when a fraudulent Saturday morning cartoon Empire unravels? The evil rulers seek things for which they won’t ever be accountable, to distract from the awful realities? Russian oligarchs? You’ve gone completely out of your minds.
Go Caitlin.
Caitlin: If you believe it's possible that these existential crises we're fast approaching may be the catalyst we need to collectively rip the blindfold from our eyes and begin moving in a truth-based way upon this earth and creating a healthy world, then we are on the same page.
Congruent 👏🏼
I take issue with this:
“If you can't recall ever seeing such intense mass media spin about a war before, it's because you haven't.”
Now granted, I don’t have time right now to click through the link, and maybe this is indeed the *most* propagandized war, but I’ll never forget Iraq.
I’m so sick of the lies. Russia invading Ukraine for whatever objective is terrible, but the relentless hypocritical lies are even worse. If international laws actually applied to Americans every president post WW2 would be hung for the same reasons liberals are frothing at the mouth at the idea of hanging Putin.
As a leftist, it’s *insane* to me how much my “progressive” “liberal” friends have been propagandized into mush over this.
Let’s just vote harder, that will fix everything!
A perfect article for today! I put my article on Substack yesterday that starts: "How did the Left become obedient, pro-corporate, pro-censorship, pro-propaganda warmongers? Let’s look at how we learned to stop worrying and love the lie. As Caitlin Johnstone published in US Officials Admit They’re Literally Just Lying to the Public About Russia, these are not lies exposed in some backwater, shadow-banned conspiracy theory website." Then I continue with your NBC quotes and others from When You Lie... I've noticed that some readers are clicking on the links to here.
But in the video, I mistakenly assume Zelensky is not in Ukraine and looked it up AFTER I published it, finding this photo op that seemed so much the brooding hero. But proving my point that he didn't have the ability to negotiate peace, I read Aaron Mate's amazing article yesterday about how Zelensky is captured, not just by the West, but by his own neo-Nazi forces who say openly they will hang him from a tree if he negotiates. So I include that in the article:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/what-zelensky-should-keep
We have a long road as yet to travel.
The "aliens-from-space" still have to make their appearance to finish their devious plans, after countless virus scares and world war three. You see, the aliens-from-space will be our saviors, since we have cancelled all past heroes, they now must come from "off planet", in order to be that which saves humanity from itself.
Unless this IS the human's last hurrah, then I say, let's GO!
When all of the television networks coordinate their talking points, left or right, you know you're being manipulated.