By Caitlin Johnstone
October 17, 2022:
Information Clearing House
-- We’re being driven
toward nuclear war on the completely fictional
claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac
who’s just invading countries completely
unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates
freedom, and won’t stop invading and conquering
until he’s stopped by force.
The news media aren’t telling people about
the western aggressions which led to this
war. They’re not telling people the US is
keeping this war going with the
stated goal of weakening Russia and is
rejecting peace talks and refusing to push for
peace. All people are being told is that
Putin is another Hitler who won’t listen to
reason and only understands violence. The
world’s two nuclear superpowers are being pushed
closer and closer to direct military
confrontation based on a complete fiction which
omits mountains of facts.
To participate in this madness is
indefensible. It is indefensibly immoral to
foist a fictional version of events upon a
trusting populace in order to manufacture
consent for more and more aggressive acts of
brinkmanship with a nuclear superpower. These
people are depraved.
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“No no you don’t understand, if we weren’t
being told constantly by the media that this
proxy war needs our full support and censoring
the voices who dispute this and using giant
troll armies to swarm and silence anyone who
questions this, we might fall victim to
propaganda.”
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“You’re not anti-war, you’re just
anti-AMERICAN wars,” said the person who is
loudly cheerleading America’s proxy war in
Ukraine.
Warmongers don’t like being called warmongers
when they support a US proxy war that was
deliberately provoked by the US and is being
sustained by the funding and facilitation of the
US with the explicit goal of weakening a
longtime geopolitical rival of the US. They get
very upset when you point out the fact that they
are doing this, and when people’s opposition to
their warmongering is described as “anti-war”:
They very much prefer to pretend that this
time the US is on the good and righteous side of
a war, because in that imaginary world they’re
the cool anti-fascists standing up to an evil
tyrant and those who oppose their warmongering
are the real warmongers.
“This time the US is on the GOOD side of a
war! Also, goo goo ga ga I am a little baby with
a little baby brain.”
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The closer we get to nuclear war the less
patience I have for sectarian spats between
people who are supposed to be opposing war and
militarism. Grow the fuck up and get over
yourselves. This is more important than you and
your ego.
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Don’t let anyone tell you your criticisms of
US warmongering make no difference; if they
didn’t, the empire wouldn’t work so hard to
dissuade you from making them. They work so hard
to manufacture public consent for their agendas
because they absolutely require that consent.
An entire globe-spanning empire rests on our
closed eyelids. Depends on keeping us in a
propaganda-induced coma. Circulating ideas and
information which discredit and dispute that
propaganda poses a direct threat to that empire.
That’s what all the censorship of dissent is
about.
Is your one tweet, video or public
demonstration going to bring the empire crashing
down? Of course not. But it will spread
awareness by that much. And all positive changes
in human behavior are
always preceded by an expansion of awareness.
You’re nudging us all toward awakening to
whatever extent you help expand awareness of
truth and reality.
We can’t be the Hollywood hero who
single-handedly decapitates the machine, but we
can all collectively throw sand in its gears,
making it harder and harder for it to function.
That’s what disrupting the imperial propaganda
machine accomplishes, because that machine
depends on propaganda. The weakest part of an
empire that’s held together by lies and
manipulation is its lies and manipulations;
that’s why it’s such an aggressively protected
aspect of its power. And it happens to be the
one part that anyone with a voice can attack,
and attack effectively.
The
nightmare scenario for our rulers is the
same as the nightmare scenario for every ruler
throughout history: that the masses will get
sick of their rule and use the power of their
numbers to get rid of them. That’s exactly what
the propaganda matrix is designed to
prevent.
One aspect of this struggle that is
a bit like a Hollywood movie is that it kind of
is a struggle between light and darkness,
because the empire depends on keeping its
activities obfuscated and unseen while we’re all
working to make its machinery visible and
transparent. That’s why Assange is in prison.
It’s also why internet censorship keeps ramping
up, why propaganda is getting more and more
blatant, and why online discussion is swarmed by
astroturf trolling ops. Those in power are
working against the people to keep things dark
and unseen.
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