"What If They Threw a Pandemic & Nobody Came?" by Margaret Anna Alice

 

What If They Threw a Pandemic & Nobody Came?

Sending an SOS to the World: #StopTheTreaty

Margaret Anna Alice

Sep 30

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“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.”
—Thomas Jefferson1, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Kindle, paperback, hardcover)

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
—H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women (Kindle, paperback, hardcover, audiobook)

Sending out an SOS

This is an SOS to the people of the world.

At this moment in history, a global coup is underway. It started in 2020. Really, it started long before that, but we’ll focus on 2020 onward because that’s when Mr. GloboCap; the philanthropaths; their mentors and muses; the tyrants; WEF puppets; the “experts”; government agencies; and the colluders yanked the rug out from under us and we began our dizzying tumble down the rabbit-hole of propaganda; menticide; psychological experimentation; dehumanization; disconnection; obedience training; censorship of “misinformation”; data obfuscation; gagging of doctors; smearing of scientists; bamboozlement; human rights violations; mandates; quarantining; martial law; medical apartheid; totalitarianism; concentration camps; and all ten stages of genocide via experimental injection, hospicide, and mockery of early treatment protocols.

WHO’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Under the guise of public health, the legal infrastructure is presently being laid for one-world tyranny courtesy of the fleece-garbed wolf known as the World Health Organization.

In January 2022, that took the form of US-proposed International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments that would have granted WHO Director-General Tedros A. Ghebreyesus absolutist powers superseding the laws of sovereign nations. We succeeded in impeding all but one of those amendments, thanks primarily to the vocal opposition of African nations and readers like you, who helped alert the world even as the public opinion engineers attempted to muffle and malign us.

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Letter to the US HHS Office of Global Affairs

“Governments do like epidemics, just the same way as they like war, really. It’s a chance to impose their will on us and get us all scared so that we huddle together and do what we’re told.” —Dr. Damien Downing, President, British Society of Ecological Medicine…

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Sporting a blood-spattered resumé believed to include “systemic genocidal violence and gross human rights violations” and “killing, arbitrarily detaining, and torturing Ethiopians,” Tedros is the ideal figurehead to oversee the International Demolition Derby being used to mask the global financial collapse, enact the philanthropaths’ depopulation agenda, and digitally enslave the survivors.

Tedros is so eager to play dictator, he overruled a panel of experts who had voted against declaring moneypox a pandemic—and got away with it.

Who better to implement a global One Health cookie-cutter nostrum than an unaccountable autocrat?

Taking over the World Is As
Easy As 1-2-3

The IHR amendments were only one part of the takeover puzzle2 (one they will no doubt try to resurrect at a later stage). The WHO is still forging ahead with the central and most lethiferous tool—the international pandemic accord, or, officially, the WHO CAII: Convention, Agreement, or Other International Instrument (rebranded from pandemic treaty after #StopTheTreaty went viral).

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Letter to the WHO

Your suggestive question contains presuppositional framing that implies this instrument is a foregone conclusion. I reject that premise. Here are my demands, however, in a world where this tool exists: 1) Revert to the early 2009 definition of “pandemic…

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Having first planted the seed on March 11, 2021, the WHO announced on December 1, 2021, that its decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, had:

“agreed to kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

Sounds reasonable, right? Maybe you’d better pull out your doublespeak decoder ring to make sure.

What, you don’t have one? No worries, you can borrow mine.

Here’s the translation into plainspeak:

“Under the smokescreen of an arbitrarily defined phenomenon [‘pandemic’], an unelected global body is going to draw up an internationally binding treaty that overrides the policies of democratically elected nation-states, thus paving the way for one-world totalitarianism.”

Let’s take a detour into the WHO’s Orwellian redefinition of “pandemic” that occurred during the swine flu dress rehearsal. This portentous 2009 Forbes article, The Pandemic Is Political, by Michael Fumento stripped the pandemic bare:

“As evidence continues to mount that swine flu is more of a piglet than a raging razorback, why isn’t curiosity mounting as to why the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic? And definitions aside, why does the agency continue to insist we’re going to get hammered? The answers have far less to do with world health than with redistribution of world wealth.”

That’s not déjà vu—it’s a glitch in the matrix.

But that’s not all. Fumento’s article is worth its word count in plutonium, and I encourage you to read it in full. Cue the timpani:

“Medically, the pandemic moniker is unjustifiable. When the sacrosanct World Health Organization (WHO) made its official declaration in June, we were 11 weeks into the outbreak, and swine flu had only killed 144 people worldwide …

“So how could WHO make such an outrageous claim?

“Simple. It rewrote the definition of ‘pandemic.’

“A previous official definition (and widely used unofficial one) required ‘simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.’ Severity—that is, the number—is crucial, because seasonal flu always causes worldwide simultaneous epidemics. But one promulgated in April just days before the announcement of the swine flu outbreak simply eliminated3 severity as a factor.”

Say what? How awfully convenient that “pandemic” was redefined just in time to label the nothingflu one—and boy, was that a propitious setup for the 2020 live performance when a “pandemic” would be declared for something with a mortality rate equivalent to that associated with “driving between 4 and 82 miles per day” (and that doesn’t even factor in the bloating of death tallies achieved by fiddling with the PCR test cycle thresholds, reporting deaths with not from COVID, murder by protocols, and so on).

Mr. Global really knows how to plan ahead, as is evidenced in the 2016 TrustWho documentary.

And hey, would you believe the swine flu episode led to a “broad expansion of WHO powers, including a degree of direct authority over national health agencies,” which it then used “to leverage more authority and a bigger budget”?

It defies credibility, I know. Even more (or less) surprising is that then–WHO Director-General Margaret Chan pitched the idea of using their newly seized powers to “bring about a global economic and social revolution.”

Here, Fumento links to a September 2009 Copenhagen speech by Chan, but it appears to have been memoryholed. This June 2009 speech gives you a taste of her scaremongering, while this July 2009 speech in Geneva betrays her world-remaking ambitions:

“We are now hearing calls, from multiple world leaders, for transformational changes in the polices that govern the way the world works. The international systems need to be re-engineered to incorporate a moral dimension.”

You can imagine what that “moral dimension” entails—things like “greater fairness,” “fair distribution of these benefits” … basically the usual collectivist führer pontifications on the “greater good” that inevitably lead to bustling crematoria, embalming bookings, and funeral industry boons in Act V—kind of like what is happening now.

Speaking of Chan, she unabashedly admits that the WHO’s hybrid public-private funding model produces pay-for-play corruption:

“Only 30 percent of my budget is predictable funds. Other 70 percent, I have to take a hat and go around the world to beg for money. And when they give us the money, they are highly linked to their preferences, what they like.”

This is the very vulnerability Søren Ventegodt exposed in his 2015 Journal of Integrative Medicine & Therapy article Why the Corruption of the World Health Organization (WHO) Is the Biggest Threat to the World’s Public Health of Our Time:

“Ten years ago WHO changed its financial policy and allowed private money into its system, instead of only funding from the member states. WHO has since been extremely successful in raising funds and is now receiving more than half of its yearly budget from private sources. Bill Gates has for example given more than one billion dollars to the WHO. The new system of private funding of WHO has brought WHO much closer to the pharmaceutical industry.”

Astonishingly, ABC News actually reported on the collusion between the WHO and vaccine manufacturers in the 2010 article World Health Organization Scientists Linked to Swine Flu Vaccine Makers. The lede reads:

“Scientists who advised the World Health Organization on its influenza policies and recommendations—including the decision to proclaim the so-called swine flu a ‘pandemic’ had close ties to companies that manufacture vaccines and antiviral medicines like Tamiflu, a fact that WHO did not publicly disclose.”

Can you imagine ABC or any other mainstream outlet even daring to whisper such heresy today? As Deltron 3030 predicted back in 2000, the news is now A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Microsoft Inc. So are the high-impact journals—as Dr. Tess Lawrie exposed, the digital fingerprints reveal, and Dr. Pierre Kory is documenting in his riveting series The Criminal Censorship of Ivermectin’s Efficacy by the High-Impact Medical Journals.

While we’re on the topic of high-impact journals, The Lancet just published a limited hangout Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic chaired by Jeffrey Sachs. This article blames the most embarrassing public health policy failure in history on things like “the shortfall of global funding,” “the lack of coordination among countries regarding suppression strategies,” “the poor enforcement of appropriate levels of biosafety regulations,” and “the failure to combat systematic disinformation.”

It wasn’t that the WHO was incompetent, corrupt, in the thrall of China, lying, following pseudoscience instead of science, rejecting successful treatment protocols, or fulfilling population reduction orders. Of course not. It was just that they didn’t have enough money and power!

Coincidentally, that’s what Klaus Schwab muse Yuval Noah Harari thinks, too:

“The skeleton of such a global anti-plague system already exists in the shape of the World Health Organization and several other institutions. But the budgets supporting this system are meagre, and it has almost no political teeth. We need to give this system some political clout and a lot more money, so that it won’t be entirely dependent on the whims of self-serving politicians.”

2022 Forbes—a far cry from the 2009 magazine that had the cojones to publish the Fumento article—added snarky backup singers to the Lancet article (while also ironically reinforcing the swine flu myth Fumento had previously destroyed), reminding us that the poor WHO “isn’t exactly swimming in money” and drumming up the pandemic treaty as the solution to COVID clusterfrack.

Single-source-of-truth WEFer and New Zealand Tyranness Jabcinda Ardern is chiming in right on script:

“When crisis is upon us, we cannot and will not solve these issues on our own. The next pandemic will not be prevented by one country’s efforts but by all of ours. Climate action will only ever be as successful as the least committed countries as they pull down the mission of the collective.

“And that’s why on pandemic preparedness, we support efforts to develop a new global health legal instrument, strengthened international health regulations, and a strong and empowered World Health Organization.”

Admittedly, more money and power might have helped them cover up their lies better.

So while the legacy media and pharma-captured journals manufacture consent for the pandemic accord, the WHO is pressing forward with what the blazingly brilliant Neil Oliver describes as “the single, greatest global power grab that any of us has seen in our lifetime.”

Tedros used his July 14, 2022, University of Edinburgh laureation acceptance speech for his honorary doctorate as an opportunity to drive the point home:

“I hope you will give your support for the endorsement of a pandemic accord or a pandemic treaty, which will be a generational agreement that can safeguard our children and the children of our children. 

“Because this won’t be the last global health emergency.

“And we can all take action now, from our own experience.

“You see, I think that even the trauma of this pandemic has a good use.…

“Remember what it felt like to be helpless and scared.”

Yes, they want us to always remember what it felt like to be helpless and scared. We have now been conditioned to obey on command, and they expect us to instantly melt into submission the next time they cry “Emergency!” In other words, W.H.O.PNOSIS:

Let’s #StopTheTreaty Together

Thankfully, you, dear readers, are immune to their spells, and you can try to shake others out of their W.H.O.PNOSIS by adding your voice to the hundreds of millions of others who are ready to #StopTheWHO, #ExitTheWHO, and #ScrewTheWHO.

Join us in sending out an SOS to the world. Let’s hope that someone gets our message in a bottle.

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I’ll send an SOS to the world
I’ll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle (Yeah)
Message in a bottle (Yeah)

A year has passed since I wrote my note
I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life, but love can break your heart …

Walked out this morning, don’t believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I’m not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways looking for a home

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Source: Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

"Nordstream Sabotage – Deeper Dive" by Kit Knightly

 

Nordstream Sabotage – Deeper Dive

Kit Knightly

In the most recent edition of New World Next Week, James Corbett cites my recent article on the Nordstream sabotage, but politely disagrees about the irrelevance of attribution.

He argues that this kind of event will have definite geopolitical ramifications, and as such the identity of the culprit becomes important information. (I will embed the full video, below as the two Jameses are always worth watching.)

I respect James’ work immensely and in the alternate media world there’s probably no one I am more likely to agree with as a general rule, but here I must return that polite disagreement in kind.

Now, I do not doubt there will be “geopolitical ramifications”, but in a post-Covid world we need to ask what that means in real terms.

Yes, this will likely mean “tougher sanctions”, or Russia being declared a “terrorist state”. Maybe the war will “intensify”. Maybe Russia’s allies in China or India or Iran will face sanctions too.

But have we not already established that the sanctions are not really designed to hurt Russia, but the West’s own economies?

That the war is being used to excuse and exacerbate the economic downturn already deliberately created by the “pandemic”?

And does that not, in turn, mean that any geopolitical ramifications will be translated ultimately into further excuses to wear down the economic foundations of our society?

I would argue any such reaction could be more accurately described as a shadowplay of conflict, a puppet show for our consumption.

This is not a nihilistic or sweeping dismissal, borne of childish contrarianism.

I’m not saying “both sides of the conflict are the same so what does it matter who wins or which crimes are committed by which side”.

I’m saying, aside from whatever personal or petty gripes, ambitions, power plays may run through the hierarchy, and no matter how much blood is spilled, ultimately there is no conflict between them, and through cooperative complicity, both “sides” are equally responsible for every act within the Great Reset narrative.

To paraphrase Iain Davis in a recent comment, global governance has a management structure akin to any major corporation, and though individual managers or vice-presidents may seek personal advancement or pursue private rivalries, they are all ultimately answerable to the owner of the company, and all working toward the same overarching goal.

We can debate about the extent or complexity of the rivalries but we can’t afford to lose sight of the fact they only go so far, and beyond that point there is unity of purpose. They tell the same lies, they promote the same covert tyrannies. None of them are our friends.

Elsewhere, there have been a lot of comments comparing my sentiments to Noam Chomsky claiming the assassination of JFK or 9/11 truth movements don’t matter, but I suggest that’s a false comparison.

Chomsky was pretending it didn’t matter in order to avoid taking a position, and in his calculated passivity he was de facto supporting the official narrative.

I’m not taking a position supporting the mainstream, or endorsing any official narrative. As it happens, in this case, there are two official narratives, and I’m simply challenging them both.

Chomsky was avoiding looking deeper. I’m saying we need to look deeper, and not get distracted by surface-level questions that ultimately have unknowable answers.

We know the CIA had JFK killed, the evidence is clear. The fact we’ll never know exactly who pulled the trigger does not change that.

We know that 9/11 was an inside job, any other explanation is a physical impossibility. That we’ll likely never know exactly who planted what explosives where does not signify.

In both cases those questions are not only impossible to answer, but actually draw focus away from the important points: The identity of those ultimately responsible, and the political agenda the events served.

In both cases, we already have the most important information, and I suggest we already have the most important information on the Nordstream sabotage, too:

• We know that the global elite is committed to breaking and remaking the world.
• We know that almost every global government is cooperating with that plan.
• We know that they have been working together all across the globe, for at least the last two years, to sabotage the economy and in particular the cost of energy.
• And we know that (allegedly) blowing up Nordstream plays right into that agenda.

Would knowing the specific names and nationalities of the people directly responsible for the sabotage change any of that?

If a Russian planted the bomb, does that mean NATO are the good guys? If an American did it, are the Russians heroes again?

Sure they will promote various versions and use them to hook us into various fear or loathing scenarios – in hopes of distracting us from the real question –

The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, The Mafia, keeps ’em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents ’em from asking the most important question: why?
JFK (1991)

It all comes back to the fake binary, the illusion of difference and delusion of choice.

The “official story” will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way or the other and is not intended to. Resolution is not desired. Instead, Team A will encourage us to blame Team B, and vice versa. The MSM will report evidence implicating Russia, while other evidence suggesting NATO were responsible will be “leaked”. Both narratives will be fed just enough to keep the argument going for as long as required and in any direction chosen.

That’s the nature of the false binary, its very purpose, to divide and distract and create controlled dissent alongside managed controversy.

Maybe Russia “did it”, maybe the US “did it”, but since it can be reasoned that they’re working together towards the same ends I say again, what difference does that ultimately  make?

Arguing about it could easily become the equivalent of debating whether OJ Simpson (allegedly) stabbed his wife with his left hand or his right.

In my view. we have to look at the war in Ukraine in this context – not simply as a real war on its own terms, but as a new front in the wider war against all of us that started with Covid.

In that context Ukraine becomes another horrible, callous piece of theatre. A cynical sacrifice that creates and then “justifies” – as Covid “justified” – shortages and price gouges and, let’s be honest, anything else in their anti-human agenda.

As the months go by the distraction will spike up talking points, they will progressively up the ante to trick people into remaining engaged.

They may even play the World War III card, scaring people with the shadow of a mushroom cloud, so that months down the line when we’re still here, people will be relieved to have survived the scare intact.

They’ll be poor and cold and hungry, but so happy to be alive they won’t even notice.

Source: OffGuardian

Only Adult Children Still Believe US Propaganda" by Edward Curtin

 

Only Adult Children Still Believe U.S. Propaganda

September 30, 2022 ejcurtin  14 Comments

It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration is hell-bent on destroying Russia and will risk nuclear war in doing so.  It has already started World War III with its use of Ukraine to light the final match.  The problem is that reasonable people are in very short supply, and, as Ray McGovern recently wrote in “Brainwashed for War with Russia,” the Biden administration and their media lackeys

… will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China …. Most Americans are just as taken in by the media as they were 20 years ago, when they were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They simply took it on faith. Nor did the guilty media express remorse – or a modicum of embarrassment.

Many good writers – all of whom are banned from mainstream media – have  made clear why the corporate media propaganda about the US/NATO war against Russia via Ukraine is false and egregiously dangerous.  The government of the U.S.A. is led by morons in the demonic grip of the “The U.S. Should Rule the World” ideology.  It is nothing new.

I don’t wish to debate the facts, for that is a fool’s game created to suggest there is something to debate.  For the evidence is clear, except to the public in the grip of propaganda-induced ignorance or those elites who never learned from the ancient Greek goddess Nemesis that dark Furies will destroy those who in their hubris push the limits.  The Biden administration has already done that, while President Biden mutters inanities as if he were a mafia boss wandering the streets in his pajamas and slippers.  The recent sabotaging of Nord Stream 2 is another example of the treacherous road we are traveling, as Diana Johnstone makes clear in her recent article, “Omerta in the Gangster War.”

For years, the U.S.- run NATO has moved military forces and bases into countries encircling Russia. This includes weapons that can very quickly be converted to nuclear use. This, as I’ve pointed out before, is tantamount to Russia doing the same in Mexico and Canada, and let’s add Cuba as well.  We know what the U.S. response would be, but when President Putin and his government objected and said this is a betrayal of previous agreements, he was dismissed as if he were a child making things up.

In 2014, when the U.S. engineered a coup in Ukraine, bringing into power neo-Nazi elements, and Russia protested this coup on its western border, Washington mocked such concerns. Every time Russia has complained about such provocative moves, the U.S. has dismissed them as inconsequential.

For years the U.S. has supported the Ukrainian killing of the Russian speaking peoples of eastern Ukraine, and finally, when Ukraine had amassed forces to invade the Donbas region, the Russian government had had enough and sent troops into the region to defend this area.  Thus the hypocritical West played at outrage that what they had created was finally backfiring.  Russia was cast as the guilty party for invading Ukraine.  And now a full-fledged U.S. war against Russia is out in the open and it will become more dangerous as it continues.  Nuclear annihilation becomes a very real possibility as the Biden administration continues to push the envelope.

There will be no end to the war in Ukraine because the U.S. is intent on doing everything in its power to try to bring Russia to its knees.  It is madness on its face, but then insane people are in charge. In this process, everyone is expendable, friends, foes, and anyone who stands in its way, including the U.S.’s supposed European allies whose leaders seem intent on destroying their own countries.

Perhaps ironically – but I think not, as a knowledge of history confirms – the volte-face of the American liberal class with its promotion of the new Cold War, censorship, the CIA, and FBI and the so-called progressive Democratic politicians in the U.S congress, including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, embracing and voting for war with Russia via Ukraine, should be no great surprise. These people, and their Republican counterparts, with rare exceptions here and there, live on desolation row and flip when so ordered.  But “nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row,” in Dylan’s words, because it’s the social disease we inhabit, and like fish in water, many know nothing else.

On a similar note, Ray McGovern has also recently reminded those who pay attention to him that The New York Times, as is its tradition, is promoting the U.S. war against Russia just as it did with the Vietnam War in the 1960s.  Little changes is his theme, no apologies are ever offered, and the readers of the most famous American newspaper and CIA conduit are asked to swallow daily doses of propaganda that are so egregiously obvious that only children would be fooled.  Sadly, the United States has become a country of children, Babes in Toyland who never realize that at the end of the plot the gun is reversed and is aimed at them.  And it’s not funny.

A century ago in the years before World War I, American progressive intellectuals, as Stuart Ewen writes in PR: A Social History of Spin:

… had espoused the Enlightenment dictum that people – at least middle-class people – were essentially rational, capable of evaluating information and then making intelligent decisions.  In the context of the CPI [the U.S, Committee on Public Information, a large propaganda apparatus set up in April 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson to sell the American entry into the war against Germany as necessary to ‘Make the World Safe for Democracy,’ whose members included Edward Bernays, the propagandist and so-called father of public relations] ‘public opinion’ became something to be mobilized and managed; the ‘public mind’ was now seen as an entity to be manufactured, not reasoned with.

Faith in reason was abandoned in favor of psychological manipulation of emotion and the use of unreason – the “night mind” – which became the template for future propaganda and the application of psychological techniques, a forerunner of the CIA’s MKUltra and Operation Mockingbird.  As the crackdown on dissent increased with passage of the 1917 Espionage Act (under which Julian Assange is falsely charged today) and then the Sedition Act in 1918, many so-called progressives embraced the authoritarian imposition of state controls on dissent, just as they do today.  An important exception was Randolph Bourne, who in 1917 castigated these turncoats in his blistering essay, “War and the Intellectuals.”  “Socialists, college professors, publicists, new-republicans, [and] practitioners of literature,” he wrote, “had assumed the iniquitous task of ‘riveting the war mind on a hundred million of the world’s people.’”  Today such people debate whether they should be called liberal or progressive.  I say, call them warmongers of the lowest order.

I remember when I was an impressionable child and television had only a few channels.  This was in the years between the Korean War and the one against Vietnam. There was a movie that was repeated on television regularly: Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring the amazing performer Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan, the Irish-American composer/lyricist/playwright, who, in the years before WW I was known as the man who owned Broadway and whose statue stands in Times Square in New York City.

Child that I was, I saw the film many times and was mesmerized.  My emotions rose with every viewing.  My heart strings vibrated to the tunes of “Over There” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.”  I marched proudly to WW I with Cagney/Cohan.  This was a movie that appeared in 1942 to promote the WW II war effort by using the lies about WW I to do it.  But oh what fun!  And the stirring songs – fodder for a child.  And this was before the CIA completely owned Hollywood.

Yet I grew up.  I am no longer a child.  I have studied and seen through the propaganda of The New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, Fox News, The Guardian, Hollywood, etc.

Many of those I know have not.  They believe in the unbelievable. They still live in what Jim Garrison called the “Doll’s House” and accept what Harold Pinter termed “a vast tapestry of lies.”  Pinter said in his 2005 Nobel address what has not changed an iota since about the U.S.’s murderous foreign policy:

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

When I was a child, I was hypnotized by “Yankee Doodle Dandy.”

I’ve grown a bit.  McGovern and Pinter are right; little has changed – Vietnam, WW I, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iran, Nicaragua, El Salvador, China, etc.  And of course, Russia, always Russia, at whose heart the weapons are always aimed, fiendish Russia that must be destroyed to make the world safe for the predators that pose as lovers of democracy and international law.

When President Kennedy, deeply chastened by the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, spoke about real peace and democracy at American University on June 10, 1963, he was the last American leader to recognize that international relations had to undergo a radical change, especially in the nuclear age.  Demonizing other countries had to give way to dialogue and mutual respect.  He said:

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children–not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women–not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

Five months later the CIA made sure his voice was stilled.  Such sentiments have been verboten ever since.

Only children still believe the America propaganda and its war machine.

Source: Edward Curtin