Being lied to is undoubtedly something that most people have experienced, and it's a valuable experience in that, ideally, it enables us to spot lies and liars before they cause us too much harm or heartache. The point being, everyone knows that people lie, that they justify some things they do with lies to themselves and others. The reason people lie is generally well understood also. We all live our lives according to a spoken or unspoken set of rules or values. When what a person wants conflicts with those rules, they resort to lying to cover up their momentary departure from living a moral life. Such lies can be conscious or unconscious.
What most people rarely, if ever, experience in the course of their lives, however, is a person who lies as a matter of course or who makes a lifestyle out of lying. We're talking here about someone for whom what they want is always at odds with conventional morality and they can therefore never be honest or express what they really think, feel and want out of fear of being utterly rejected (or worse) by their peers. Such a person would constitute a fundamentally deviant or abnormal human being. They might be fully aware that their desires sharply diverge from those of the average person and actively seek to cover them up with lies, or they may simply react 'instinctively' in each moment with a lie in a (largely unconscious) effort to preserve their ability to exploit others in service to their unwholesome desires.
The reason for this brief analysis of lying is that it relates directly to a shocking realization I recently had about the 'war on terror'.
Over the course of the past few years of watching events play out on the geopolitical stage, it has become increasingly difficult for me to digest them in any classically Cartesian way. In fact, my attempts to do so resulted in a severe case of logical dyspepsia. The problem, which is plain for anyone with the eyes to see, is that the 'war on terror' - described by its architects as a war to eliminate terrorism and promote 'freedom and democracy' - has resulted in a large net increase in terrorism and social and political instability and a concomitant decrease in actual freedom and democracy.
Stupidity or Sadism?
Faced with this glaring contradiction between stated goals and net results, I had to find a way to explain it. Two main options seemed open to me. The first, and most palatable of the two, is the idea that people waging the 'war on terror' are a cabal of bloody-minded cretins who must have trouble tying their shoelaces each morning. How else to describe a group that stubbornly continues to pursue policies that achieve the direct opposite of their, apparently heart-felt, goals? But that explanation threw up a similar problem to the one I was attempting to resolve; because the Western political, corporate and military policy-makers behind the 'war on terror' are clearly not a bunch of cretins in the official definition of that word. On the contrary, the evidence suggests they are smart, charming, ambitious (often to an extreme) and highly capable in their chosen field of leading the peoples of Western nations.
So I was left with my less-savory second option, which was to look at the results rather than the rhetoric. The conclusion, in that case, is that these people are liars and their 'war on terror' is not about eliminating terrorism and bestowing freedom and democracy on the world. It's about the exact opposite. In line with them being inveterate liars, they would, of course, cover up their agenda to sow chaos and death around the world by lying about it, and what better way to cover up your unholy urges than by presenting them as the exact opposite of what they are. With enough persistence in this deception, and drive to give vent to their abominable appetite, such a person could even end up convincing even themselves that killing civilians was, in a way, 'freeing' them or at least serving the 'greater good' (as long as you don't have to explain in too much detail what your definition of the 'greater good' is).
As I pondered this idea, many other unsavory truths became apparent to me. For example, war is very profitable for the people who own the companies that make the weapons. And war must be frequent and recurring for the profits to keep flowing. In the USA, UK, France, etc., major 'defense contractors' are given US taxpayers' money to make weapons, that are then given to the US military, which is then ordered (on some pretext) to shoot them at people overseas. To ensure that the taxpayer does not become disgruntled about the misuse of their taxes, an enemy posing an existential threat to the taxpayer is necessary. Overseas civilians should, naturally, be targeted by the weapons because this helps to provide a continuous supply of angry people - aka 'enemies' - to bomb, thereby providing a continuous source of income for weapons manufacturers (and their political friends who launch the unending wars).
But enough of generalities. On looking closely at Western government foreign policy over the past 10 or 20 years, it became clear to me that not only is the 'war on terror' about the opposite of freedom, it's not even primarily about that. From a geopolitical point of view, it seems that the USA in particular has a serious problem with Russia. Basically, the 'war on terror' is really a mask for a war (on all fronts) against Russia. I've written about this before in great detail, but as each day passes more and more evidence comes to light that suggests this thesis is accurate.
The Fact of Russia: An Existential Threat to the USA
The US' problem with Russia is that it exists today as the world's largest country with plentiful resources on the Eurasian landmass and with a government inclined to chart its own course towards a multi-polar world. That may not sound like any kind of a threat to you or me, but you have to understand that, until the appearance of Putin, the political and corporate 'elite' in the USA figured they had the whole world at their feet, or certainly they believed they were well on the way to creating that particular reality.
Can you imagine being in the position where your life's work was nearing completion when out of nowhere the actions of another person threatened to prevent you from achieving your goal? Not by deceit or with malevolent intentions mind you, but simply as a result of the natural order of things. You'd be entitled to feel angry, frustrated, but would you hatch a plot to destroy the other person? That's precisely the position the US 'elite' have found themselves in, and precisely what they have been trying to do to Russia for having the temerity to question and challenge the 'reality' of an 'imperium americanum'.
So Putin's Russia is most decidedly viewed as an existential threat by those who would own the entire world unchallenged. Everything that has happened over the past few years between the West and Russia, not to mention the 'war on terror', has to be seen and understood in this light.
Recently, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) - which replaced the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), the group that lobbied for a 9/11-type attack in 1999 - produced a paper that confirms what I have just said.
The co-author of the report is PNAC founder Robert Kagan (husband of Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland, the woman responsible for replacing Ukrainian democrats with Nazi-infested putschists in 2014). The CNAS report is titled "Extending American Power: Strategies to Expand US Engagement in a Competitive World Order" and like most other papers published by these chief US policy makers, lobbies again for the use of the US military to achieve unchallenged US world dominance.
American leadership, the report claimed, "is critical to preserving and strengthening the bedrock of today's international order," jeopardized, they believe, by rival world powers Russia and China. As Zbigniew Brzezinski once commented, "some stirred up Muslims" (i.e. jihadi terrorism) is easily tolerated - supported even, in order to provide the rationale for war against Russia - but the world's largest nation attempting to have an equitable input into the global order is beyond the pale for the would-be rulers of the world.
Europe or Bust
While there are many clear examples of the extreme and perfidious actions Washington's 'reality creators' are prepared to take to 'stop Russia' and 'secure the world for America', and I'm sure most readers are well aware of them, the ongoing debacle about the US/NATO "missile defense system" in Poland and Romania is interesting.
The 14-year-long project(s) finally went live in Romania last week and the Russians were, of course, not happy, seeing the missiles as designed to intimidate them and force them into a position of 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'. I do wonder, however, if Russian annoyance was also partly due to the US government's repeated treatment of the world population as if they were idiots by trying to claim that the missile system is designed to protect against Iranian missiles, despite the fact that Iran was last year welcomed back into the international community, largely by the US government.
Another interesting aspect of the strategy of placing US missile systems in European countries is that Russia is not really intimidated, because Russia could easily blow up any and all such missile systems with its own missiles. But here's the rub: in the event of Russia being forced to do such a thing, it would, de facto, be attacking a European country, as of now, Poland or Romania. This would seriously sour Russian/EU relations for a long time, which is exactly what the US government has been trying to achieve for several years. Are EU officials aware that, if the US were to succeed in forcing Russia's hand to destroy the missile systems in Europe, it is European citizens that would pay the price while psychopaths in Washington high five each other? Or have they become so 'atlanticized' that they have adopted the US elite's strong aversion to reality?
A policy of constant lying can't last forever though. Eventually, actual reality intrudes and you get exposed in one way or another. And since, as the object of the American lies, Russia has every reason to expose the truth about those lies when convenient, the American narrative is falling apart, piece by piece, and more and more people are seeing it. The question that remains then is this: will the U.S. implode from the weight of its own deception and corruption first, or will the psycho reality creators use their 'Samson option' and try to take the world down with them?
As an essayist and print author, Joe has been writing incisive editorials for Sott.net for over 10 years. His articles have appeared on many news sites and he has been interviewed numerous times by Sputnik News and Press TV. His articles can also be found on his personal blog JoeQuinn.net.
Reader Comments
We are having to play the role of detectives in order to find the clues and downright lies used to cover the truth in order to solve the crimes committed by these criminals . . . including language criminals. From politically correct words & phrases to linguistic euphemisms that soften the language in order to deflect our recognition of the hard reality of truth.
Thank you Joe for once again removing the dirty little language lies that obscure and cover the pristine shine of truth. It's amazing that so much of our time and energy is required to set the record straight. Not just writing the truth, but also dismantling the lies before one can then present the truth. And that is Doing the Work. And you do an awesome job!
Factional to a degree yes...insane no...
Only their level of inhumanity, hubris, personal ambition & greed is insane.
They know exactly what they're doing & what the outcome will be.
Remember they trained us what & how to think.
Whether the other side knows is not even a question worth asking.
They know or are stupid too...and stupid is not an option
Connecting the dots in this fine article by Joe it is even obvious that the European PTB know what is going on...
That's why they support the US narrative..
Either that or they're stupid too...and once again stupid is not an option when it comes to WW3.
Too much smoke & mirrors here to really get to the truth of the matter easily but as I consider all the Governments & PTB in the know as to what's going on & not totally stupid I can't see an all out Armageddon style WW3 at all.
Localized fighting & proxy profit/power play wars yes..
And for all our sakes I hope i'm correct
Dear Joe,
"...a person who lies as a matter of course or who makes a lifestyle out of lying.... the evidence suggests they are smart, charming, ambitious (often to an extreme) and highly capable in their chosen field.... being inveterate liars, they would, of course, cover up their agenda to sow chaos and death around the world by lying about it, and what better way to cover up your unholy urges than by presenting them as the exact opposite of what they are...."
This is of course the classical description of a psychopath. As an associate of Laura's you must have studied psychopathy extensively - there has been so much written about it out there. Another symptom of psychopathy is the ability to convince themselves and maintain in the face of absolute evidence that the consequences of their insanity was never their fault. Winston Churchill - a quintessential psychopath - could never admit that WWII was his fault, in spite of Hitler's 13-times-offer to withdraw from every inch of occupied Europe except the Danzig Corridor in Poland which is all he said he wanted from the beginning. Churchill turned him down 13 times, and even turned down Hitler's offer (pre-war) to sign a treaty with Britain guaranteeing that if the British Empire was attacked anywhere in the world, Germany would send troops and warships to its defense.
Had Churchill made peace, or better yet, never declared war, there would have been no Holocaust, no 27 million dead Russians, no 11 million dead Germans, and no 60,000 dead Britons. But Churchill was a psychopath who loved to watch suffering, pain, dismemberment and death (of other people, not his own... he even advocated dropping mustard poison gas on Iraqis, those pesky brown savages as he called them whose civilization was 5,000 years older than that of Britain, which was trying to steal Iraq's oil - sound familiar??) and he loved war beyond everything else, except a juicy fresh young boy's bottom. (If you think I am being sensational, ask me and I'll tell you all about Dear Winnie and his escapades between the sheets - and those of his dear old Mum, as well.)
The same thing is happening today. Instead of "The Boche" or "The Hun" we are told to fear "The head-chopping Jihadi" or "The Russian Bear." You wonder how the American people could fall for this crap and how they could be so stupid. Well, their dumbing-down has been 100 years in the making, (Yes, all documented, financed by the Carnegie Institute, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation back in 1910-1930,) and was financed by the SAME FAMILIES - the very same - who want to conquer and loot Russia today. They have wanted to loot Russia, actually, since 1815, when, at the Congress of Vienna, "Lord" Rothschild (actually no more than a snot-nosed hairy Yid, who had bought his title off the equally snot-nosed German "King" of England,) offered the Czar to create a Central Bank for Russia, and his offer was declined. He swore he would destroy the Czar and all his family and all the nobility and take over Russia. It took just over 100 years, but they did it in the end.
Same way, in 1791 closely following the ratification of the US Constitution, the Rothschilds financed the First Bank of the United States with a 20-year charter, which expired in 1811. At that time the Congress refused to renew the charter, and Lord Rothschild said in London, "Well, then, we will give them a war and bring them to their senses." Such was his power that he could make Britain provoke the USA into the War of 1812. After the 1815 Congress of Vienna aforementioned, the Second Bank of the United States was chartered by Congress in February 1816.
So, you see Joe, it's all about money, robbery and plunder on a scale the public cannot begin to imagine, and it has been so for hundreds of years. Somewhere between one and three hundred million human beings have died in wars since 1791 to achieve the latest statistic, which say that 62 human beings - yes, sixty-two - own HALF the wealth of the entire planet. Yes, 62 men now own as much as 7,500,000,038 other people.
But hey, life is good if you are one of the 62. You can pick up the phone, call the White House, and tell the President how many sheets of bog paper he is allowed to use to wipe his arse, and you will be obeyed. The CIA is your private hit squad, just like the Gambinos and the Genoveses had their assassins, the elite have the CIA to murder anyone they want murdered. Like all psychopaths, their hands are clean, and nothing that happens - torture, murder, millions of dead mothers and children, wars, ecological disaster, the end of civilization, nothing is their fault. No, they have their private pew in the church or the synagogue, and they are to be seen there praying meekly every Sunday or Saturday to their God, who is pleased with them and grants their every wish. (But if God does not grant their prayers, the CIA is always there to make them come true.)
[And Satan took Him up unto a high mountain, and shewed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and all the glory thereof, and said unto Him: "All this will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship Me." And Jesus said unto him, "Get thee behind me, Satan."]
Satan, of course is known in several places in the Bible, a book filled with wisdom, as "The Prince Of Lies." And so, we come full circle to your thesis about the lies that constitute the War Of Terror, and conclude that, depending on your religious opinions, the system under which we all live, and have lived for thousands of years, is either psychopathic, or Satanic.
Maybe both....??
- LG
Not sure about the Bible being a source of such fine wisdom though unless one cherry picks it though.
It's just more of the same old in the future until a people wake up catastrophe happens.
Bingo!
"the system under which we all live, and have lived for thousands of years, is either psychopathic, or Satanic."
two words that describe the same thing. Call it what you will. These people are not human by any normal definition of the word.
Right on. But, because it is a Biblical reference, this may turn people off... for the Bible itself is continually used to deceive. However, strip away the associated social stigma of "religiosity", and this identification of "deception" with Satanism as being its essence is simple, accurate, concise, pragmatic, and we would do well to heed the Biblical warnings about the dangers of using deception for the control over others for our own profit... while often being exceedingly greedy. This is the formula for perpetual war.
Truth, expressing goodwill toward others, generosity, hard work, and at all times, honor.... these are Christian teachings, and have been taught to be the "key to the door" through which we must pass to reach a peaceful, equitable, and loving future. From experience, I believe this to be true and have no better suggestion.
No problem. Excessive though-ing understood and forgiven. Try halving the vodka in the mix.
It's late. Don't know about you, but it's long past my bedtime. I'll pay for this in the morning.
Hey, why worry about it? If you have a nice comfortable bed, enjoy it - we may not be able to do so for ever. Nothing in life is permanent, not even life itself, so we might as well enjoy what we have.
A secret - enjoyment is not dependent on WHAT you have, since it is all impermanent anyway, but rather on what you MAKE of what you have. A kid can enjoy a toy that cost $2.99 just as much as Larry Ellison can enjoy his 285-foot yacht that cost $350,000,000.00. Imagine that.
Imagine all the people..... living life in peace.
- LG
Great article Joe. I am reminded of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and it's scary to see just how much of it they managed to implement. I can only hope that more and more people awake to their utter lies, and stop their inexorable path to endless war and suffering.
PROTOCOL No. 7
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces - are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.
2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the ... will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race.
PROTOCOL No.12
'1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows –
2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties.....
Please go to this link. It is one of the most important books you will ever read: [Link]
The Protocols are the product of a 2,700-year-old agenda. Quite amazing that it has survived and flourished for 120 generations. One wonders if there is some paradimensional evil force behind it. Maybe there is more going on in this universe than meets the eye?
- LG
Consider this - the leaders of the West and of Russia are playing us for the fools which we usually are.
They conspire to keep us in a constant state of fear. They even make it seem like WW3 is a possibility (why would the elite destroy the very world on which they live? They don't want total destruction, they want to continue stealing all they can from us).
Don't forget - people with anxiety buy more useless stuff, people in fear are more easily controlled.
Kissinger, the Death Merchant himself, recently met with Putin. What was that about? Coordinating the game plan?
Even though Russia and the USA are seemingly one step away from starting Armageddon, they both calmly and peacefully cooperate totally in regards to the ISS and Antarctica.
Nothing to see here, nothing suspicious here, go back to sleep if you want. Ignorance is bliss while the Truth hurts.
Have you ever considered the possibility that ICBMs don't actually work? What evidence do you have that they work? I know, I know, the Authority Figures say that they work and that's good enough for you.
ICBMs don't work and the threats of WW3 are but psychological warfare against us.
Folks, they are lying to us about everything. And why wouldn't they? Because that would be wrong? Because we would see through the lies? (LOL)
Stop thinking nationally. Start thinking globally. They want a new WORLD order, not a new national order.
That's interesting. I notice that a lot of people - from Arab kings to Asian Prime Ministers such as Mr. Abe - have been making the pilgrimage to Moscow recently to kiss Putin's ring, as it were.
Maybe there is no evil agenda being hatched, but just a dawning suspicion that Mr. Putin is a wily beast who has outfoxed them all so far, and it would be better to be the friend of such a champion chessmaster than his enemy?
Personally, I find it all fascinating. Every day, I wake up and hope to hear of some new event in which Mr. Putin has poked his finger in the eye of the USA and its suck-titty vassals in Europe. Like you, I suffer from a terminal case of suspicious cynicism, but I suspect Mr. Putin is the reed that bends with the wind and springs back, and thus does not break.
Lovely show. Better than Game of Thrones. Especially sine we all get to be in it.
Folks... When I quote the Bible, it is not an advocacy of Christian dogma, which is a manufactured political agenda designed to strengthen the Byzantine Empire of the 4th Century, and which has been used ever since to support political systems and keep the masses in ignorance and subjugation. NOTE ONE: Same for Islam! NOTE TWO: Same for Judaism - perhaps even more of a control mechanism, being the foundation of the other two, and which has subjugated the Jewish Race for 2,700 years.
But whoever wrote the ideas and concepts in the New Testament was a wise and enlightened soul, whose words have been corrupted and distorted for 2,000 years now. Not original thoughts either - they have been expressed by the founders of many religions, from Zoroastrianism to Buddhusm to Mithraism to the Egyptian mysteries. Universal truths are universal, and remain truths across cultures and down through the centuries.
As hard as the psychopaths try to suppress the truths of what it means to be fully human and replace them with lies, they have failed, and will always fail. Psychopaths do not understand normal humanity - if they could, they would give up trying to control us.
- LG.
Government is an extension of the megalomaniac mind, our recent history shows that, quite clearly. Governments are an obsessive bunch of really bad, lying and cheating and killing people, who like to 'take over'.
Certainly, though, there are some megalomaniacs (Russia) better than others (USA)?
And most certainly, we must find, determine and support those?
Certainly, there is no other way to live and so it is ok because that is 'how it is'.
We would all like to do our 75-80 years, our 'time' here, would we not?
And so certainly we must decide on the right megalomaniac.
Then duck and run for cover, as they fill the planet with holes.
Bang, bang.
BANG.
Go Russia, go big daddy. We wuv wu.
BANG!!!!!!!!!
Yeah.
ned, out
Not per se. It's about learning to see the unseen and gauging the lines of force through which the ultimate controllers do their deeds.
I appreciate your comments on the Protocols of Zion. I believe just about the same thing. I never let my self get sucked in by ideas that make any one people scapegoats or proxy scapegoats for all the evil in this world. It seems a great deception in itself to think and believe this way.
The ideas you expressed in this particular article confirm what I picked up on as soon as Russia got involved in the effort to rid Syria of terrorists. I connected some dots. Before that I was more just really upset about the Ukraine situation because I am Ukrainian but I couldn't see what Ukraine had to do with Syria. Now I pretty much do.
Your analysis was another breath of fresh air to give us a clear understanding of the stench that we live in. Keep up the great work.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength
etc
Niall knows as well as most of the readers, there is no War On Terror - it's correctly called the War OF Terror.
Illegally invading and occupying sovereign nations under the pretext of 'preventative' national security, then destroying the cultures, infrastructure and political and monetary systems against international law and the US Constitution, doesn't smak of creating a 'stable' civilization.
More to the point, behind the mask of 'terrorism' lurks an out of control and insane Government.