By canonizing McCain the media proves again its power to brainwash the people.

Patrice Greanville

Any person who even half understands the depth of criminality of the US state, as chief tool and citadel of the international imperial plutocracy, is simply disgusted with the barrage of transparently mendacious tributes flowing to a notorious and repulsive war criminal. For McCain, as sinister a figure as this country produces, was nothing if not a pathological war lover, and probably an impostor, too. And yet, there it is, most ordinary Americans, whom Paul Craig Roberts so correctly call "insouciant" (this insouciance the product of crib to grave acculturation in a society that worships consumerism and individualism, and which has successfully banned intelligent thought and endorsed mass ignorance), appear to agree now that John McCain was a "true American hero," whatever the hell that means, in my book, writing at a time when US soldiers only serve imperialist designs, nothing good at all. In any case I just wanted to share with you an opinion I found that sums up my revulsion at this state of seemingly impregnable imbecility.

"Nothing could be more revealing about the depth of ignorance in the USA regarding that government's real role in the world than the country's painfully embarrassing outpouring of "hero's" accolades for a man it knows so little about ... most Americans know nothing about the long list of terrorist groups he actively supported, or about his own true record in Vietnam , which he falsified lavishly (like John Kerry) ... they just suck up the Public Relations version of McCain which was concocted with the crudest and most dishonest advertising techniques to get him elected. And of course many now call him a "hero" because he hated Trump, that's all they think they need to know. And after 30 years in the Senate and a long history of actual facts and revelations about the real McCain -- mostly ignored by the presstitutes -- the public is still drinking that Imperial Military-Worship-Cult Brand Kool-Aid. This incredible deep-rooted ignorance among the citizens of the most powerful country on Earth, about the reality of their country's crimes and widespread destruction and support for brutal regimes around the world, is shameful and disgraceful, and it is one of the main phenomena driving the ongoing omnicide on this planet." —Greg Barrett