Fabricating reality, then using it to manufacture more disgusting lies.
PATRICE GREANVILLE
The official Wiki page for Foreign Affairs is a gem of Orwellian dissembling. Suitably impressed with itself as an old establishmentarian tool, it begins:
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.[1] Founded on 15 September 1922, the print magazine is currently published every two months, while the website publishes articles daily and anthologies every other month.
Nothing here about its true national security/academic/CIA/State Department parentage and management, nor its mission to produce and disseminate constant disinformation on America's true foreign policy objectives and methods. That Foreign Affairs, like the rest of the US media, upends reality routinely and shamelessly is a given: literally, everything published by FA is a lie, a revolting lie at that, or a deformation of fact so grotesque as to be useless. Just consider this excerpt from their August 9, 2022 issue:
China’s New VassalHow the War in Ukraine Turned Moscow Into Beijing’s Junior PartnerBy Alexander Gabuev
 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting in Beijing, February 2022 Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP The war in Ukraine has cut Russia off from much of the Western world. Barraged by sanctions, denounced in international media, and ostracized from global cultural events, Russians are feeling increasingly alone. But the Kremlin can rely on at least one major pillar of support: China. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has forced Russia to turn to its fellow Eurasian giant, hat in hand. (Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, China's New Vassal, 9 Aug 2022). |
Like all Empires, and especially one long steeped in the dark art of manufacturing gargantuan deceptions and delusions, wild constructs that can only emerge from the collective mind of a culture drunk on narcissism, Karl Rove, a major player in the GW Bush administration, (despite some coy denials), has long been credited with this gem of exceptionalist hubris:
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." [The New York Times Magazine] (1)
No wonder we had an anti-communist hysteria, the recalcitrant Russiagate scam, and now naked lawfare unleashed on Trump, a basically unclassifiable, opportunistic, and unpredictable figure, but no matter how despicable, a direct product of the repeated Democrat betrayals and the inevitable general rottenness of the US political system, currently in its most imbecilic and tribalistic phase. I'm talking about the age of financialised capitalism. So draw your own conclusions. At the end of the day, the Big Lie will be with us until this malignant empire collapses. It literally needs lies—loads of them— to exist. Truth kills it. Spread the truth.
—PG
Notes
(1) Damon Linker, What if Karl Rove was right about the reality-based community?, The Week, July 26, 2019
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