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As the firewall vanished between TV news and entertainment in the 1970s, public exposure to realities evoking understanding, empathy, conscience and judgment vanished with it. Sponsors dislike their products juxtaposed alongside real-life death and destruction.
Henry Kissinger famously observed, "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." Controlling the world's food supply as well as oil and minerals have been our chief "foreign policy" objectives.
Alongside Haliburton and Blackwater, Monsanto marched into Baghdad behind former Kissinger Associates Managing Director, CPA Administrator Paul Bremer, who brought 100 Orders to the Fertile Crescent including Article 81 to prohibit new seed saving, destroy family farming and install Big Ag. The same condition was imposed upon the U.S.-installed coup government in soil-rich Ukraine, the "Breadbasket of Europe," through EU Article 404 embedded in its $17 billion IMF loan agreement.
Were either of these quietly orchestrated takeovers vitally important to societies we have cruelly victimized reported by the US corporate media? Prerequisite to both Kissinger-prescribed areas of control is public mind control, presaged in 1949 by George Orwell. The corporate media efficiently performs this imperial function, now preparing the American mind for ever-expanding war. The broad reach, complexity, disguises, cynical scripting and human costs of this propaganda cannot be overestimated.
As prospective coronation of the "Queen of Chaos" draws closer, familiar leader-demonizing and atrocity-image propaganda of dubious origin about Syrian President Assad and Russian President Putin increases.
Twisted Tales about Assad
Our mid-August annual Veterans for Peace convention included a recent delegation-to-Syria report. Broad cross-sections of Syrian citizens and organizations had confirmed - as polls, the 2014 Syrian election, and honest visiting journalists report - that President Assad is widely respected and supported by the Syrian people, trusted to protect their secular government and institutions from wanton destruction by US, NATO and associated forces as befell Iraq and Libya.
© Middle East EyePresident Assad addresses Syrian parliament in March 2011.
A terrible Syrian drought beginning in 2006 forced some 1.5 million rural residents into cities already overwhelmed as sanctuary for nearly two million Iraqi and Palestinian refugees created by the US and Israel. As conditions worsened Assad requested US help, which was ignored by Hillary's State Department which instead assembled forces to opportunistically attack his crippled state innocent of aggression against us.
After NATO's destruction of Libya, urged by Hillary's State Department, its looted arsenals were shipped from Benghazi to arm tens of thousands of these mercenaries to launch yet another so-called "civil war" upon Syria.
The dazed and dirtied 5-year-old Syrian boy is a transparent example of image propaganda, like the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter fabricating eye-witness testimony about neonatal Iraqi atrocities and the obviously false-flag sarin gas attack in Damascus. This posed image of undocumented attribution and speculative interpretations is typical propaganda for demonizing leaders targeted for attack by the US, NATO and allies under the poorly defined and conveniently flexible R2P doctrine.
This begs the question why reliably sourced, far more damning atrocity images from Israel's Cast Lead and the US in Falluja received no such R2P-evoking proliferation in domestic mainstream media. Can anybody seriously wonder?
© Electronic Iraq ProjectIraqi baby recovered from rubble following US airstrike in Falluja.
This attack on Russian ally Syria was certain to evoke a Putin response. A Russian naval base is located on the Syrian coast, and Russia like Syria has remained embattled by Sunni Wahhabists. Russian intervention, unlike ours, was legally invited by the elected, internationally recognized Syrian government. Its rapid success has revealed the murky, hidden agendas of the Western/Wahhabi lynch mob not to end the conflict and save lives but to destroy Syria as a functioning, secular state blocking economic and hegemonic ambitions of its assailants.
As we attacked Syria in 2011-2012, the 10-year, $5 billion US project to unseat the Ukrainian government acknowledged by Hillary-appointed State Department officer Victoria Nuland was approaching fruition. This exploded the following year into the "Maidan revolution," to which they knew Putin would also be obliged to respond.
© The 4th MediaDemonization of Putin.
These aggressive Western moves, with more on Hillary's drawing board, require demonization of Putin. In a bizarre 2012 example of staged "soft power" pseudo-events, celebrity and human rights zealots exploited the strategically timed p*ssy Riot uproar. Escorted by film crew, this anarchist quintet shouted anti-Christian obscenities at the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church during a service before the High Altar.
Although the church, not the government, prosecuted the case and their sentence was commuted by Putin, anti-Putin rhetoric was later substituted in the video for internet posting to falsely imply government repression. No previous anarchist theatrics using anti-Putin slogans - including public fornication in a Moscow museum and throwing live cats at McDonald's restaurant workers - had been prosecuted.
Elemental public awareness of history and geography easily exposes and debunks most propaganda-infused reports. The largely indistinguishable and hopelessly corrupted duopoly must be demolished along with its subservient, reality-contorting media stenographers.
Distrust must be our default setting toward emotionally evocative mainstream "news."
Americans, please vote to protect the many Syrians, Iraqis, Ukrainians, Palestinians, Lebanese (Hezbollah) and others in our imperial crosshairs who cannot vote. Cancel the coronation. Jill Stein will be an honest, rational and ethical woman chief executive.
from the powers that be, to destabilize the middle east, 7 countries in 5 years. Hildabeast was just following orders. I think we are cooked as a nation anyways, whoever gets in will quickly forget their propaganda for votes, and follow the globalist agenda already put in place. One cant do anything about something one doesn't know about. And those that try, mysteriously die. So, there you go...