Fake News

 

Fake News

     Over ten years ago, I wrote a book about American Empire. The research was daunting but Google and the internet were still relatively untouched and libraries weren't yet banning books. I was well aware of what kind of reception such a message would have in The Land Of The Free so with the old adage in mind, "If you're going to tell the truth. you better make people laugh otherwise they'll kill you." I put it in a picture book with an Alice In Wonderland / Gulliver's Travels / Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas format wrapped up in a "Children's Book Of American Empire" subtitle. Needless to say, in spite of 160 hand painted whimsical illustrations of a young man's fantastical journey of illumination complete with a 50 page bibliography that included photocopies of The CIA's final typed report of it's 1953 over throw of Iranian democracy no one was in the least bit interested aside from a few friends who read it and never spoke to me again.

     I've looked askance at the official American view of itself, from magnanimous white wigged forefathers, peaceful settlers and loving Franciscan Friars to Commie fighting warriors ever since the latter tried to ship me off to Vietnam to die in a foxhole.

     I hit the Sixties right, thank God, from ending the war to Peace and Love, uplifting and hopeful times if it weren't for the other end of the stick, from JFK to Bobby to Medgar Evers to Malcom X to Martin Luther King, cities on fire and The Whole World Watching. Maybe there wasn't an end to endless war, to prejudice and greed. Maybe the stories we'd been fed since childhood were lies, conspiracies to keep us quiet. When we began to question this official line - who got us into Vietnam, who killed these heroes, we were labeled by the official American view of itself as conspiracy theorists. Fucking brilliant, labeling American citizens looking into conspiracies as conspirators.

     That little spark of genius worked quite well for quite some time but when the boot on our necks graduated into clenched fists, almost every one began looking almost every where to try and make sense of our breathing problem. Then suddenly,  seemingly out of nowhere an avalanche of insanity, ideas, suggestions, theories poured out onto the sizzling grill of the internet and nothing made sense and everything made sense and all were dismissed as conspiracies. Fucking brilliant, drowning American citizens looking into conspiracies in conspiracies, real events drowned in imagined events, truth drowned in fiction all jumbled together as conspiracy theories that only Fox News and CNN and MSNBC and The World News tonight can put right.  JFK killed by the CIA and Dulles and MLK by the FBI became Qanon. Jeffery Epstein, Jean Luc Burnel, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Trump, Bill Clinton, George Soros become the Rothchilds and the International Jewish Bankers. Hillary Clinton, Pizza Gate and the Frazzledrip Theory become 911 and A Pearl Harbor Type Event, Alex Jones and InfoWars, Falon Gong and The Epic Times. Evidence against becomes evidence of validity and vice versa.  Adrenochrome Harvest, Space Lasers, Anti Vaccines and the Jab of Death, The American Empire's one hundred year strangle hold on the Third World, GMOs are bad for you, GMOs are good for you. The End Times, shake do not stir.

     And the answer to this madness, the only way to pull us out of our insanity is to believe, to believe in the American Way, the Patriotic Way, the Biblical Way, the Fascist Way.

     God Bless The United States Of America and God Protect Our Troops.

     Amen.

     USA!

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   In his famous speech in Berlin in 1987, Ronald Reagan implored Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. A couple of years later, the Russian president not only obliged, he lifted the Iron Curtain from all of Eastern Europe but only after the United States and the West promised not to expand NATO "one inch eastward".

   In 1994, President Bill Clinton broke that promise and now NATO has expanded to Russia in Latvia and Estonia with only Belarus, Finland and Ukraine remaining neutral on the Russian border. In 2014, the Obama administration orchestrated a coup of the democratically elected government of Ukraine and put then vice president Joe Biden in charge of the "Ukrainian Project". https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/four-years-of-ukraine-and-the-myths-of-maidan/

   So much for the difference between the war mongering Republicans and the peace loving Democrats. And there's a good reason there isn't any.

   Ukraine has long been known as the bread basket of Europe and now American agribusiness is drooling at the gates. https://magazine.wharton.upenn.edu/digital/hot-investment-agribusiness-in-ukraine/

     Industry in eastern Ukraine is depressed and behind the times with its market mainly in Russia but it still belongs to the Ukrainian workers. Given the record of blue collar employment in America the last several decades, how long do you think that would last? And then there's oil. https://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP198.html

  The biggest money maker is the American "Defense Industry". Since 2014, the industry has received 2.7 billion American tax dollars for Ukraine alone. The Biden administration just approved $200,000,000 more. https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2022/01/25/200m-in-javelins-other-anti-armor-systems-grenade-launchers-and-more-to-ukraine-dod/

   And of course we wouldn't want the poor Ukrainian people to once again be victimized by the Soviet communist empire. I mean the Russian communist empire that is no longer communist and now run by filthy rich oligarchs. They must be set free by American Democracy. I mean by the American empire that is no longer democratic and now run by filthy rich .... never mind.

   So why are we racing toward war? Do we want a world where we have nuclear missiles in Cuba again? China taking advantage of the conflict and occupying Taiwan? A Russian nuclear fleet surrounding Alaska? Mutual Assured Destruction? Isn't an impending Climate Catastrophe enough? What would make us so blind as to not see impending Nuclear Armageddon?

   It's not the money is it? Annihilation of the human race and most life on earth just for a little more money? Nah. No way.

   Well, okay, maybe. But must we be subjected to the clown horror movie/High Noon shit show? Are the Democrats and the Biden administration, in lieu of the dismal failure of their domestic agenda and the Republicans in lieu of the dismal failure of their coup d'etat marching down main street, hands hovering above holsters in an attempt to keep the voters with them in the upcoming midterm elections? The grinning clowns of the media are foaming blood at the mouth. The gloom and doom voices of reporters and announcers scoff at Russia's claim it is pulling back forces while grimly bleating warnings of false flag operations and flashing maps of Ukraine crisscrossed with ominous black arrows of Russia's imminent paths of murderous invasion and merciless destruction. There definitely is a sickening parallel to the Joseph McCarthy rhetoric during the 2016 primaries when Republican congressmen, operatives and commentators sounding like bourbon sopped preachers warned of the creeping Socialist, Communist menace while their Democratic counterparts, wearing red faced, spittle spewing scowls ordered the electorate to vote for Hillary as they pounded tables with clenched fists warning of what Hell would happen if Bernie were the nominee. American Deplorables would have nothing to do with the DNC's appointment of her pants suited highness and when they figured that out, High Noon was out and the clown horror movie was most definitely in. https://observer.com/2016/07/wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/. 

   You would think that the trouncing of the glowering, dyed blond fire hydrant by the glowering, dyed blond deep fried chicken might have knocked some sense into all the gibbering monkeys racing frantically in their hamster wheels at the feet of their freeze dried oligarch masters. But it didn't and it never will because there is no sense. There is no plan. There are no Democrats and Republicans. There is only a wobbly pile of Rube Goldberg machines jittering and shaking in perpetual motion until they collapse in a stinking heap and Mother Earth tries something new.