—DISPATCHES FROM ERIC ZUESSE—
Americans have been lied to for many generations. Reality manipulation is an old pillar of the ruling cliques’ legitimacy.
Americans are profoundly misinformed about international relations — and there’s a reason for this: the deep corruption within the American Establishment (the people who shape American political opinions).
Saudi Prince “Bandar Bush” has been a key figure in many Western criminal shenanigans, including the manufacturing of false flag attacks in Syria. [CC BY-SA by Tribes of the World]
John Foster Dulles, Wall Street’s key man in Eisenhower’s State Department, was nothing but the quintessential American imperialist, a moral vulture in international relations. With sibling Allen, head of the CIA, the brothers cast a long and sinister shadow on US policy for many years. Too bad nothing is actually changed in those quarters.
The U.S. aristocracy have been allied with the Saudi royal family for decades. When the fascist John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles had Kim Roosevelt — Teddy Roosevelt’s fascist grandson — organize the 1953 CIA overthrow of the progressive democratic secular freely elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, and install there the barbaric Shah and his torture-chambers, it sparked the Iranian public to hate Americans, who had brought this hell to them. The Eisenhower Administration did this.
Then, in 1979, came the Iranian revolution installing not a Mossadegh-type secular democracy such as America overthrew, but instead a Shiite clerical dictatorship, to replace the American fascist one, which had been entirely alien to Iran (though this alien regime used a local dictator, the Shah, as its figurehead — who answered to Washington). In succession now, Mossadegh’s two enemies — first the U.S. aristocracy, and now the Shiite clergy — have replaced an alien, U.S., dictatorship by a native one. But that native one (after 1979, the Shia clergy) has no international-jihadist ideology. Though Shia clerics hate the apartheid Israeli regime and fund Hezbollah to fight it, there is otherwise nothing that’s even remotely comparable to jihadism, in the Shia branch of Islam. Jihad (global conquest) is strictly a Sunni phenomenon, and it centers around the Saudi government, which is owned by the Saud family, and whose laws are made by the Wahhabist (the Sauds’ extremely fundamentalist Islamic) clergy, which is financed by the Sauds and by the subjects that the royal family own — the ‘citizens’ of Saudi Arabia. This is why 92% of the Saudi public think that ISIS is good. (By contrast, in the multicultural nation of Syria, which is allied with Iran and Russia and is ruled by a decidedly non-sectarian and secular government that’s composed mainly of Shia, and which has been invaded by Wahhabist-Salafist foreign fighters who are financed by America’s jihadist allies, 78% of the population disapprove of ISIS, and 82% blame the U.S. as being the chief power behind ISIS.)
The original sin that has shaped America’s role in the Mideast (other than our siding with the apartheid nation of Israel and so being widely despised around the world by Muslims) occurred when America’s aristocracy took over Iran in 1953, for their oil companies. But Americans hate Iranians as a result of that original sin, which was done by the Dulleses to Iranians on behalf of U.S. oil-company friends, which include the Sauds. The American people are getting the blowback from the American aristocracy’s international crimes abroad.
And, now, as Gallup is consistently finding, Americans hate the Iranians. That’s because the Iranians have called America “the great Satan” because that’s what America (our aristocracy and its agents) had actually been to them — to the Iranian people. Iran’s public are right, even though the clergy that rule over them are wrong — but Americans don’t know that distinction, and so condemn the Iranian nation.
Meanwhile, the Sauds, from whom the American public have suffered 9/11 and lots else, are ‘American allies’ according to the duplicitous U.S. press. They are not allies actually of the American public, but of the American aristocracy, which the American press don’t even expose to the public: this country, after all, is (not) a ‘democracy.’
On February 22nd, Gallup headlined “Four Nations Top U.S.’s Greatest Enemy List” and reported that they were: North Korea, Russia, Iran, and China. Those were the four nations whose names had been volunteered by respondents in answer to “What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy today? (open-ended).” The complete list of nations identified by one or more of the 1,021 respondents included 25 nations. Saudi Arabia came near the bottom of that list. (On 22 April 2015, CNN issued a poll finding that the same four nations came up as posing the biggest “threat” to the U.S.; but also finding that ISIS was considered by Americans to be a far bigger threat than any nation.)
And our government won’t prosecute, nor attempt to prosecute, the people who actually fund terrorism — not even the terrorism that hits here, never mind in Europe etc. That refusal to prosecute the people who were behind the 9/11 attacks is also what the expurgated 28 pages in the U.S. Senate’s 9/11 report are all about. (And, since the American public don’t know, there’s no pressure from the public on that, either.)
After all: it’s not hard for any authentic news-reporter to prove that Hillary herself is aware that what she said there was false — that her remark was a lie, not merely a slip-up. When she was the U.S. Secretary of State, one of the first things she did (after assisting the fascist junta that had taken over in Honduras on 28 June 2009 to stay in power) was to send a cable to the U.S. Ambassadors in all of the capitals where the donations to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups, were coming from, requiring those Ambassadors to the local aristocracy to tell them to stop doing that; these were the Ambassadors only in fundamentalist-Sunni-run countries: Saudi Arabia (the center of it all), Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan. It’s because Sunni-run countries are where almost all of the jihadists and especially the funding for jihadism come from. In that private cable, she even said things like: “Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.” “Qatar’s overall level of CT [Counter Terrorist] cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region.” “Kuwait … has been less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks outside of Kuwait. Al-Qa’ida and other groups continue to exploit Kuwait both as a source of funds and as a key transit point.” “UAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups, including al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups, including Hamas.”
This lie that Hillary Clinton and so many other American politicians spout, is one of many lies that our ‘news’ media can’t expose, because to do that would also expose themselves — that the media themselves have deceived the American public by not pointing out that the politicians are lying about these major, determinative, issues. In this regard, it’s similar to the lie that Bush didn’t lie but merely had been mistaken about “Saddam’s WMD”: how could the press now acknowledge that Bush had lied, when they refused to even examine his lies while they were being made, which is when it counts? And that’s why politicians such as Clinton can get away with their lies against Iran.
There is no doubt that the U.S. press is as dishonest about Russia as toward its traditional allies, such as Ukraine, Syria, and Libya. (And: Iran — because America since 1953 has joined with the jihadist Sunni royal families on that, and virtually forces Iran to ally with Russia for protection against us.) And this nest of subjects includes the entire topic of jihadism, which America’s aristocracy secretly back (and use as a tactic against Russia and its allies) but which Russia’s aristocracy and public both oppose, consistently — and not only by tokens such as killing Al Qaeda’s leaders, but by getting done the entire ugly job that needs to be done (which was described there with a remarkable lack of bias, in a recent issue of the New Yorker magazine, by Joshua Yaffa, headlining “Putin’s Dragon”). There is no way to defeat jihadism without destroying the jihadist culture, itself. Instead, the U.S. has been and is allied to it. Not just in Saudi Arabia, but also in the other Arabic Sunni oil-kingdoms: Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE — and, more recently, also in the resurgently-Sunni NATO ‘ally’: Turkey. So: our ‘press’ must lie big-time, and with only very few exceptions of honesty, about these matters.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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Well “Great Satan” is not far off the mark as a description of the USA as I can see, metaphorically of course. The unbounded greed that leads this country is just amazing and the ignorance fostered by the “kkknow nothings” and the mono-theist wing-nuts is mind-blowing. Obviously I’m not a friend of religion but the Shia brand of Islam pales with the vitriol of the Wahabists, the Zionists, and the evangelical Protestant, which doesn’t excuse the fascist Roman Catholics, though Pope Francis(a Jesuit, which in itself is suspect) seems to be turning from the Polish-Nazi brand before him. One question… Read more »