Over
Cosby is gelukkig al genoeg geschreven en ben blij dat de schoft tot
een onvoorwaardelijke gevangenisstraf is veroordeeld, hier de link naar het hele artikel van Johnstone.
Johnstone
gaat in haar betoog over op de andere rol van de massamedia
in de VS bij het hersenspoelen van het volk in voorbereiding op weer een andere illegale oorlog, dan wel hen voor te liegen over acties bijvoorbeeld van een land als
Rusland. (overigens gebeurt hetzelfde in de EU en dus ook in Nederland, zo worden we bijna dagelijks keihard voorgelogen over de oorlog in Syrië.....)
Hier
het laatste deel van het artikel dat Johnstone schreef, zie ook de 4,46 minuten durende leuke video met een geanimeerde, duidelijke uitleg van Noam
Chomsky's: 'The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine' die onder het artikel van Johnstone is te vinden, deze video werd ingesproken door de uitstekende journalist, auteur en presentator Amy Goodman:
If Society Understood Sovereignty, It Would End Rape Culture, Imperialism, And Propaganda
Power,
when you get right down to it, is ultimately about control. The
ability to control other human beings and decide what happens to
them. The more control you have over human lives, the more power you
have. Some exert totalitarian control over their spouse and their
children, and within their homes they are all-powerful. Some exert
control over entire groups of nations, and have the power of life and
death over entire populations. Those individuals are the most
powerful people in the world.
But
in order to have control over another person, you must necessarily
violate their personal sovereignty. You must find a way to get your
will to override their own will for their own lives in order to
control them, be it by physical force, legal compulsion,
psychological manipulation, or rape drugs. This is why
power-facilitating narratives advanced by governments, religions,
education/indoctrination systems, and mass media outlets have aways
explained to their audiences why it is in their best interest to
subvert their personal sovereignty over their lives, their bodies,
their reproductive systems, and their minds.
President
Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton is a PNAC founder, a
lead architect of the Iraq invasion, and once threatened
to murder a diplomat’s sons for
standing in the way of the rape of Iraq. He is the neocon’s neocon,
and his respect for both national and personal sovereignty is so
nonexistent that I would not be the slightest bit surprised to learn
that he has raped his wife or anyone else. Sovereignty is such a
non-thing in Bolton’s reality tunnel that he
recently claimed that
Russia giving Syria air defense systems to defend its own airspace
“would be a significant escalation by the Russians,” and added
that US troops are going to remain in Syria “as long as Iranian
troops are outside Iranian borders, and that includes Iranian proxies
and militias.”
To
be clear, the US military is in Syria without the permission of the
Syrian government, while the Iranian military and its so-called
proxies are there at the invitation of the Syrian government to help
combat the terrorist forces which have overrun the nation with the
help of the US-centralized empire. Bolton is the kind of guy that
crashes your party uninvited, drinks all the punch and knocks over
the snack table, and when your boyfriend asks him to leave, he tells
you he’s not leaving until your boyfriend leaves first. That’s
essentially what he’s saying.
The
gall it takes to say that your military will continue illegally
occupying a sovereign nation for as long as its allies continue to do
the thing that allies do is such a grotesque perversion of the
concept of sovereignty that if more Americans had a better
understanding of that concept John Bolton would have caused national
outrage by saying it. But of course he didn’t, because they don’t.
It’s just assumed that America is entitled to decide what sovereign
nations do with their own allies, and that it is allowed to invade
and occupy their land to force them to comply.
”Iran treats Iraq like it’s not an independent nation. Iran sees Iraq as a transit point for weapons and a training ground for its proxies. Iran seeks to keep Iraq economically weak. Why? Because Iran wants to use a weak Iraq to illicitly fund its terrorist activities.” pic.twitter.com/yDtxIUIAed
The worst part was that time in 2003 when Iran invaded Iraq, killed a million people and destabilized the entire region, which they manufactured consent for by lying to the public about weapons of mass destruction. We all remember Iran doing that, right?twitter.com/USUN/status/10…
Americans
accept this gross violation of sovereignty because they have been
propagandized to accept it by
the mass media machine which
spends all day every day manufacturing
support for
the agendas of those who control the most humans. But this is a
violation of Americans’ mental sovereignty, in exactly the same way
slipping a rape drug into a woman’s drink is a violation of her
sexual sovereignty. Just as Bill Cosby made it his life’s mission
to try and manufacture the illusion of sexual consent from women
using rape drugs, the most powerful people in the world have been
using the mass media to try and manufacture the illusion of consent
for their agendas of war, oppression and ecocide.
It
is not America’s place to tell Syria and Iran what they’re
allowed to do inside one another’s borders any more than it’s the
government’s place to tell a woman what she can and cannot do
inside her own body, whether that be having sex with whom she pleases
or having an abortion if she decides that’s in her best interest.
It is not the plutocrats’ place to slip manipulative narratives
into the minds of the masses any more than it was Bill Cosby’s
place to slip rape drugs into a woman’s drink. It is not America’s
place to invade a sovereign nation and occupy its land to force it to
obey its commands any more than it was Bill Cosby’s place to insert
his penis into a drugged woman.
Power
depends on systematic and relentless violations of sovereignty in
myriad forms around the world, which is why powerful people act like
such disgusting, rapey creeps all the time. In a healthy world, which
I firmly believe we can create, a deep understanding of sovereignty
in all its forms will replace this toxic dynamic in which the rapey
fingers of power are constantly inserting themselves into lives,
minds and nations in order to dominate and control them. In such a
society, everything from rape to imperialism to propaganda will stand
out like a black fly on a white sheet of paper and be expelled like a
pathogen by a healthy immune system.
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Zie ook:
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'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'
'List of wars involving the United States'
'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'
'VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië......'
'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO.........'
'VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........'
'De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??'
'De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht'
'Terreuraanslag in Iran moet acties uitlokken die de VS tot een oorlog met Iran 'dwingen''
