Using cynical bald-faced sophistry, the New York Times constantly upends the truth in the service of its plutocratic masters. On Sunday, February 17th, I was surprised to see in the reliably neoconservative newspaper, New York Times, an ‘opinion’-article headlined with the distinctively non-neoconservative title, “Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too.” But, then, I got to the neocon core, in the article itself: But in recent decades, both Mr. Hall and Mr. Johnson argued, Russian and American interferences in elections have not been morally equivalent. American interventions have generally been aimed at helping non-authoritarian candidates challenge dictators or otherwise promoting democracy. Russia has more often intervened to disrupt democracy or promote authoritarian rule, they said. Equating the two, Mr. Hall says, “is like saying cops and bad guys are the same because they both have guns — the motivation matters.” That’s just a typical neocon lie — reality turned upside-down, black-is-white and white-is-black. When the CIA hired Iranian mercenaries to rebel against and overthrow the progressive democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh in 1953 and installed there a dictatorship (which lasted till 1979); and did the same to overthrow and replace the progressive democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in 1954; and, more recently, in 2009, helped Honduras’s aristocracy to overthrow that country’s progressive democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, and to cement and make permanent their new and fascist regime; and, in 2014, perpetrated a brutal coup in Ukraine overthrowing that country’s democratically elected but corrupt (like all prior post-communist Ukrainian Presidents were) President Viktor Yanukovych — even the Soviets (including the pre-1991 and pre-independent Russians) weren’t that bad; and a 1992 classic BBC documentary about the CIA’s having set up in Western Europe during the Cold War numerous deadly terrorist incidents which were designed so as to be blamed on ‘communists’, makes clear, that the US CIA is a spiritual implant into the US Government, of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi (but now American) Gehlen Organization — a darling of the CIA Director Alan Dulles, and which is still today the CIA’s spirit. But, even that hypocrisy misses the essentially fascist nature of America’s secret-police agencies, because America’s Presidents are now reliably pro-fascist, and on many occasions are even pro-racist-fascist, or pro-“nazi” (standing out to defend the nazi ideology itself). At the U.N., both President Obama and President Trump have stood America up publicly as being one of only three countries (in Obama’s case) and then of only two countries (in Trump’s case) publicly defending nazism. Furthermore, on one day (31 October 2015), twice in close succession, the U.N. Secretary-General publicly criticized Obama, though not by name, for opposing and insisting on blocking, democracy in Syria. Whereas Russia insists upon a democratic and united — instead of ethnically broken-up — Syria, and polls amongst Syrians consistently show that the vast majority of Syrians insist upon the same thing, the US Government not only does everything possible to block it, but has the gall to deny the blatant fact that it’s seeking to replace Syria’s secular non-sectarian Government, by a fundamentalist-Sunni Government that will do the Sauds’ bidding (and the bidding of America’s oil-giants). However, that February 17th New York Times article is deceptive not merely on account of its holier-than-thou admission of the CIA’s supposedly ‘past history’ of badness and its presumption of today’s Russia being almost as bad as was the Soviet Union. Actually, the article includes several other lies, such as are exposed in these three articles about how American billionaires systematically robbed Russia during the 1990s: “Russia’s Fiscal Whistleblower” “Soros and His CIA Friends Targeted USSR/Russia in 1987” Those articles offered at least some of the explanation as to why America’s billionaires (at least the ones who care about this matter at all) hate Vladimir Putin: they had loved Boris Yeltsin because he allowed them to rape Russia, but Putin put a stop to it.
ERIC ZUESSE, Senior Contributing Editor • 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. Besides TGP, his reports and historical analyses are published on many leading current events and political sites, including The Saker, Huffpost, Oped News, and others.
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Spot on article. From Allen Dulles Nazi-love-fest at the CIA, to Operation Gladio’s Western terrorism which for decades was blamed on the left and progressives as “disinformation,” to endless CIA coups destroying any leader who opposed our neocolonial agenda, the soul of the West has absolutely rotted from within. MLK before being assassinated predicted “spiritual death” for America if we continued down the same path. Rather than collective ethical reflection, our response was to “double-down” on our insane ruthless amoral militarism. Welcome to the most brutal, violent, heavily armed, amoral empire that has ever existed on planet earth, bar none.
GARY (gbossa_25@hotmail.com) sends the following comment: Spot on article. From Allen Dulles Nazi-love-fest at the CIA, to Operation Gladio’s Western terrorism which for decades was blamed on the left and progressives as “disinformation,” to endless CIA coups destroying any leader who opposed our neocolonial agenda, the soul of the West has absolutely rotted from within. MLK before being assassinated predicted “spiritual death” for America if we continued down the same path. Rather than collective ethical reflection, our response was to “double-down” on our insane ruthless amoral militarism. Welcome to the most brutal, violent, heavily armed, amoral empire that has ever… Read more »
I wonder if Mr. E.Z. could indeed believe at all in “personal responsibility”. If he hasn’t been deceived by NYT reporting, why would millions others be ? (Has he ever told us why it’s so clear to him what the truth is, in order for us to try to appreciate why millions others wouldn’t see it ?) Perhaps the deceived millions resonate to the things in the (official) media, hence they would even subscribe for some of it. If they are mistaken, they will pay for it – what is the problem ? That these are millions of people in… Read more »