The Reign of Propaganda

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

If truth has a chance it is in a different country than America.

Masters of propaganda from its inventor, Jewish public relations expert Edward Louis James Bernays, to the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, agree that a lie can be turned into truth by constant repetition.

The more pure the lie, the more complete the success in turning it into The Truth. Lies partly based in fact or half-truths open themselves to factual challenge. For a propagandist the best lie is a lie unfettered by even a distant relationship to truth. Such a lie can be turned into such self-evident truth that no evidence is necessary. As Nikki Haley and Hillary Clinton put it: “Evidence! We don’t need any stinking evidence. We know Russia hacked our election!

For the typical American, who doesn’t know anything, the confidence of the former Secretary of State and “rightful President of the USA” and the confidence of President Donald Trump’s own Ambassador to the United Nations are sufficient to convince them that the lie that Russia stole the US presidency for Trump is true. We all know it. Why? Because we have all heard it endlessly repeated for many months. As one acquaintance said: “If it were false, surely the media would have exposed it.” This insouciant naivete is characteristic of Western populations.

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As Bernays and Goebbels knew, one good propagandist can control the opinion of the targeted group, whether it is a gender or a nation.

Initially for Benays the targeted group was American women. As a propagandist for an American tobacco company, “the father of spin” promoted female smoking as a sign of feminist independence. He called cigarettes “Torches of Freedom.” He also provided the propaganda that enabled the United Fruit Company to have the US Government overthrow the elected government of Guatemala in 1954.

Goebbels turned Germans into servants of the Third Reich, an accomplishment the neoconservatives have yet to attain in the United States, but they are still working at it.

The neoconservatives, the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, and the US presstitutes have succeeded in blocking Trump from withdrawing from Syria and from normalizing relations with Russia. They have succeeded in this by using their fabrication, “Russia-gate,” to put President Trump in a box. If Trump now normalizes relations with Russia, it will be presented to the world by the presstitutes as proof that the Putin/Trump conspiracy against Western democracy is real. If Trump were to normalize relations, thereby removing “the threat” that justifies the power and profit of the military/security complex’s budget, he would likely be impeached as a traitor to the USA. Trump’s tweets would be overwhelmed by the onslaught of the presstitutes.

Americans, British, Europeans, Russians, Chinese, Indians, and everyone else need to understand that Washington’s hostility toward Russia is in the service of powerful interest groups. These interest groups are more powerful than the President of the US.

Israel and its design on the Middle East is one of these powerful interest groups. As Admiral Tom Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “No American president can stand up to Israel.”

The neoconservatives, who serve both the Zionist state of Israel and the US military/security complex, are another of the powerful interest groups that constrain the American government. That the neocons are firmly allied with Israel and the military/security complex increases their power and influence. President Eisenhower warned Americans in 1961 in his last public address to the American people that the power of the military/industrial complex made it a threat to American democracy: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Eisenhower%27s+warning+of+the+military%2fsecurity+complex&&view=detail&mid=7E7D9C582D8FB406F8927E7D9C582D8FB406F892&rvsmid=9D891E045120807989A89D891E045120807989A8&fsscr=0&FORM=VDQVAP

Eisenhower’s warning was 56 years ago. With the President of the United States concerned about the military/industrial complex 56 years ago, try to imagine how much more this power is entrenched after the decades of the Cold War and “Soviet Threat.” The power of the military/security complex is the premier power in Washington.

Eisenhower’s speech is the best speech any American President has ever delivered. It is only 14 minutes and 4 seconds long; yet it covers everything. There is awareness that we can be victims of our own success. Whatever their public position, neoconservatives have no alternative but to hate President Eisenhower with a passion, because he compared the threat to America from the military/industrial complex to the threat from the Soviet Union.

Americans need to wise up, as do the Russians, Chinese, Europeans and everyone else over whom the neoconservatives intend to exercise hegemony regardless of the cost. The total budget of the US military/security complex has been estimated at $1.1 trillion, a figure that is 70% of Russia’s estimated 2017 GDP. It is larger than the GDP of Mexico and Turkey. It is 45% of the GDP of France or England, and 32% of the GDP of Germany. There are 195 countries in the world. Only 14 of them have A Gross Domestic Product larger than the budget of the US military/security complex.

Washington’s wars in the Middle East involve many interests, including mundane ones such as who controls pipeline locations and energy flows. It also involves Israel’s interests. Twice Israel has sent its army into southern Lebanon for the purpose of occupying and annexing the water resources of southern Lebanon, and twice the militia Hezbollah has defeated and driven out the Israeli army, the fighting capability of which is overrated. Hezbollah receives financial and military support from Syria and Iran. Using their neoconservative allies and the orchestrated-by- propaganda American hatred of Muslims, Israel intends to use the US military to put Syria and Iran in the same state of chaos as Iraq and Libya. If deprived of outside support, Hezbollah can finally be defeated by the Israeli army. With Syria and Iran in chaos, the Russophobic neoconservatives can send jihadism into the Russian Federation to break up the biggest constraint on US unilateralism.

If we consider the combined power of these interest groups—the US military/security complex with an annual budget greater than the GDP of most countries, the neoconservatives with their ideology of US world hegemony and alliance with both Democratic and Republican parties, and Israel which has the US government in its pocket and brags about it—how is it possible for President Trump to do as he said he would do and normalize relations with Russia and withdraw from the US interventions in the Middle East? The prospect of Trump succeeding is remote.

If the Russian government fails to understand that President Trump is not the one who is in charge, Russia will be destroyed along with America and the rest of the world.

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Zarathustra

I am not insouciant about my mancrush on PCR.

WIP
WIP

Here’s some propaganda no motherfucker will expose…

“The military, military personnel and all veterans are Hero’s and are beyond reproach. They can never have enough support, money or praise. We all owe our freeeeeeeeedom to them. One and all”.

How’s that for some fucking propaganda?

rhs jr
rhs jr

I consider your attitude about us Vets Blasphemy Sir!

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

same here. WIP is off his meds.

Worked with a guy; he was glad guys got drafted for RVN and killed – he said it gave him a better chance for a good job.

Wip
Wip

I do not share your guys happiness for guys getting drafted and killed. Being drafted is no different than being made a slave.

All I’m saying is Do You Really Know What You Are Fighting For? Well do ya?

We praise anyone who was in the military for any job or reason. Paaaahlease. How many people go into the military for the exact reason for the sweet benefits for life? Or for freeeeee school? Or even better, for freeeeeee sex change operations? Queer as a fuck all up in your junk in the shower? Lovin it are ya? Now I’ve GOT to revere all the queers even?

Sorry to tell you but you’re no fucking hero if all you did was turn a wrench or give orders for other people to kill other people you don’t have a beef with.

Would you call Shitstain Mcaine a hero? Well, would ya? IS HE BEYOND MOTHERFUCKING REPROACH? He was in the fucking military wasn’t he?

If the military is so fucking great WHY THE FUCK DO I KEEP LOSING MY FREEEEEEEEEDOMS? ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION.

Wip
Wip

Do you consider yourself beyond reproach? Well, do ya? If so, why? Are you special? Did you kill someone you didn’t know for a reason you can’t explain? If you can explain it, how is it you are so sure? You believe everything the government tells you? Are you sure you aren’t really working and killing others for the benefit of corporations? Well?

rhs jr
rhs jr

I resent your attitude that the common GIs are stupid or barbaric; maybe you are right about the Elite ZOG because I rarely met a senior officer I respected. Many of us knew that the way we were fighting (search and destroy into a jungle) was as stupid as what the Red Coats did here but when you are a young soldier, you don’t have options. Most people were trying to be faithful to God and country; to not be murderers nor get murdered; nobody wants to die for their country; despite your opinion, we were never traitors to We The People. Your attitude belongs with Antifa not Patriots; you could be right about all the politics but I don’t like your attitude about GIs and I’d like to go three rounds with your rotten mouth while you tell me all about the disgusting draftees while I enjoy stomping your leftist ass; it’d be good therapy for both of us.

WIP
WIP

Would you dickhead? Sadly you were meat for the grinder and no-one had the temerity to warn you. I’m happy (seriously) for your safe return.

I don’t have anything against military people. I have a problem with hero worship and the never ending “they deserve everything” attitude. If you go to serve, then serve. But please don’t tell me you’re fighting for my FREEEEEEEEDOMS because it’s BULLSHIT.

Would you agree that hero worship is what got us, in part, Mcain?

Hello, the bank is broken but the government and the MIC will take care of itself even if it means all of our FREEEEEEEDOMS have to be sacrificed.

All hail the MIC and anyone linked to it.

No worries, the new crop of heros will be fighting from their basements dropping bombs on anything and everything that looks threatening to the MIC and especially anyone who controls it.

Ain’t no Vietcong did nothin to me.

rhs jr
rhs jr

We all are losing are freedoms because of the ZOG not the GIs. One day the GIs might be told to implement Martial Law and then we will see their true colors and we will not be ashamed.

WIP
WIP

How can you know if you won’t be ashamed? If the government tells you to kill your fellow citizens it’ll be a simple…sorry, just following orders?

Kill people overseas, kill citizens, kill whatever and whoever the government tells you?

I hope I’m misunderstanding you.

And if we are all losing our freeeedoms, what good is the military to me?

rhs jr
rhs jr

“Kill whatever the government says” shows you understand the problem but you are evidently an Antifa who either hates GIs or is assigned to troll TBP and being true to Communist Critical Theory refuses to admit the problem is ZOG; I am really tired of your endless circle of shit; over and out.

Wip
Wip

It’s too bad you decided to take your ball and go home. I’ve learned a lot coming to TBP over the years but there is only so much we could know about each other and our thoughts/beliefs.

I am definitely not antifa or a leftist. In case you come back to check this thread I’ll just tell you a few things about myself. I have to say that being called antifa hurt a bit.

I do NOT hate GIs. One of the most emotional times in my life came once a year for 9 years.
I worked at a restaurant where we gave free meals to any and all Veterans on Veterans Day.
But I had MUCH more respect for the OLD guys.
I’ve been coming to TBP every day several times a day since back when (07?) Quinn was sending out Ron Paul CDs.
Wip stands for Work In Progress.
I fought with Smokey back in the day.
I loved it when that antifa girl got punched in the face.
I think OWS got a bad rap. I think they were on to something but their message got drowned
out.
I don’t believe the US has fought in a justified war in a looooong time.
I don’t believe a person is a hero just for following orders.
I am a 7th Day Adventist and if you want to see a hero watch the movie Hacksaw Ridge.

I’ll stop now since it isn’t my intention to write an autobiography. I just thought I would share a bit.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Thanks for the info because I was beginning to hate your guts. I am also concerned about all the misuse of the military: LGBTQs, the leftist generals Obama supported, his cutting R&D, procurement, his supporting terrorist, droning everybody, destroying nations, pissing off allies etc. In the military, the rot starts at the very top. Trump is doing a little better.

Gay Veteran
Gay Veteran

“…over and out….”

hmmmmm, obviously you weren’t in the military.
It’s either “over” or “out”, never both

BL
BL

I’m not saying it’s ZOG, but it’s ZOG.

MOVINGTARGET
MOVINGTARGET

I believe our military soldiers are the victims, when 9-11 happened, most of us believed the official fiction, and wanted some revenge.

But we have a volunteer military, so only the best and the brightest are going to enlist, (the Christian boys that were taught to respect God and Country.)

The MIC is responsible for seducing their patriotism into fighting a war for the ZOG, and redeploying them over and over again, to make sure they came home an amputee, or in a body bag, so they would not be a threat to the NWO, while the MTV/EBT freeloaders living in their mothers basement could safely stay home!

Now these boys have figured out that the game was rigged and are committing suicide. I think they should let their guilt turn to hatred and go to Israel and kill some Jews, but they were not raised that way, were they.

On another note, John McCain had brain cancer. This POS that helped organize ISIS, (read $$) has something wrong with his brain, go figure.

God really hit that nail on the head…
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