Friday, December 13, 2024

Manufacturing consent to militarize society

Editor's note: When the short expanse of US history is observed over the past 70 years it is grotesquely terrifying to observe how the US military along with US policy is perpetual ceaseless war. It was terrifying what was unleashed in Baghdad by the US military in 2003 when they intentionally created sectarian violence (see Iraq's sectarian war | James Steele: America's mystery man) between Sunni and Shiite Muslims with 3,000 bodies a month stacking up on the streets of Baghdad. In 2011 to ramp up the killing and hatred in Syria the US with its allies infiltrated snipers into Aleppo who were "European looking" who were killing Syrians and police until they were discovered on the roofs and arrested. In another incident, operatives staged a fake protest against the Assad government. When the Syrian demonstrators including women and children showed up for what they thought was a legitimate protest, western-backed terrorists™ fired several mortar rounds into the gathered crowd. The video-taped killing was horrific and it hasn't stopped since 2011. Syria as a country is doomed and the circumstances there are going to get extremely brutal. It will never recover and is going to be balkanized just like Libya was.
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My Internal Exile. "The USA is Run by Ruthless Killers", "When the Lie Becomes the Truth", Al Qaeda has Come to the Rescue of The Syrian People. Edward Curtin

By Edward Curtin, Global Research, December 11, 2024

“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull'd, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men." – Shakespeare, Coriolanus

Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn't go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began.

I am telling you this to try to shed some light on today's wars and alarums since my tale is common for a small subset of Americans of my generation. We learned long ago that the USA was run by ruthless killers who reveled in war. Vietnam, the Phoenix Program, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc. Nothing was beyond them. We sensed that they would never stop and they haven't. The genocide of Palestinians, the proxy war via Ukraine against Russia, the current US/Israel/Turkey bloodbath in Syria and Lebanon led by our ruthless terrorists – it is all nightmarish, malevolent, utterly evil, and conjures up hell on earth. And it will get worse in the future.

The mainstream media is claiming that the new savior of Syria is the terrorist "rebel" leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Nusra, and a former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

While there is truth in the view that the world has always been a butcher's bench with wars, hatred, and strife being a common theme, "always" is meaningless to me. For I have never lived in "always."

I have lived since birth in the United States during a period of time when it has been the world's number one butcher, starting with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then continuing waging non-stop wars, assassinating foreign and domestic leaders, including President Kennedy, executing coup d'états, supporting and arming ruthless dictators and terrorists, and creating an economy dependent on war.

All this has been sustained by lies and propaganda that most Americans have swallowed. It is a deeply ingrained Yankee doodle dandy ethos joined with American exceptionalism and a self-induced false innocence.

Just this morning, December 8, 2024, as it did during the Vietnam war, The New York Times spewed out lies about the events in Syria, calling the U.S.-backed jihadist terrorists (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/Al Qaeda, et al.) "rebels" and the overthrow of the Assad government a "civil war." In doing so, the paper is just doing what it has always done as an organ for U.S. foreign policy, seemingly forgetting that it was the Obama administration that in 2012 launched Operation Timber Sycamore, a CIA program to, under the guise of a civil war, overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of a larger effort to undercut Iran and Russia for U.S./Israel/Turkey/NATO control of the region.

It is propaganda about a much larger war well underway, as the presence of Ukrainian forces in Syria and the usual Israeli bombing attest. Like a mountain ridge wildfire, the winds whip wildly now, and whether the fire spreads next to Iran or somewhere else, it is sure to spread.

To paraphrase Thoreau, there is no need to care for a myriad of instances and applications, the only thing you need is to be acquainted with the principle, which in this case is the long-standing demonic nature of U.S. foreign policy which is synchronous with waging perpetual war.

Yet most people don't want to go past such lying headlines that are repeated by all the mainstream media. They never did, except when the issues concerned them personally, as when there was a military draft.

Please go to Global Research to continue reading.
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Considering what was outlined above did anyone expect anything differently when it comes to the new Trump administration and its appointees?


NATO is a war machine. There is no other way to describe this alliance:




One long continuous war one after another until the entire region is in flames:




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