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donderdag 4 maart 2021

Joe Bidens bescherming van de moorddadige Saoedische despoten legt andermaal de werkelijke VS buitenlandpolitiek bloot en die is niet gericht op vrede of democratie

De Biden administratie heeft 'onverwacht' gereageerd op het rapport waarin Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) en andere Saoedische despoten worden veroordeeld voor de moord op Jamal Khashoggi: in tegenstelling tot wat Biden nog afgelopen november durfde te zeggen dat Saoedi-Arabië (S-A) de gevolgen zou voelen van de moord op Khashoggi en dat er een wapenembargo zou worden ingesteld tegen deze reli-fascistische terreurstaat, worden er amper maatregelen genomen. De regelmatige lezer van dit blog weet dat ik e.e.a. al onmiddellijk totaal ongeloofwaardig vond, immers de VS is middels Israël en de eigen o.a. grondstof belangen gebonden aan Saoedi-Arabië en niet in de laatste plaats vanwege de strategische ligging van S-A, de onvoorstelbaar grote wapenaankopen van dit land in de VS plus de haat van de Saoedische dictators tegen Iran, de wederzijdse gezworen vijanden van de VS en Israël, waar de VS zoals bekend alles goedvindt wat Israël flikt, zelfs het op grote schaal vermoorden van ongewapende Palestijnse demonstranten.........

GlennGreenwald heeft een uitvoerig artikel geschreven over de relatie tussen de VS en Saoedi-Arabië en andere dictatoriale regimes. De reguliere westerse media en politici dragen steeds weer het meer dan belachelijke idee uit dat de VS de politieagent van de wereld is en daarbij strijdt voor democratie en vrijheid..... In werkelijkheid interesseert het de VS totaal niet of het te maken heeft met een bloedige dictatuur, zolang deze maar de belangen van de VS behartigt en gehoorzaam doet wat de VS voorschrijft (alweer zoals zo vaak op deze plek gemeld), mag het doen wat het wil met haar bevolking of die van andere landen (zie nogmaals Saoedi-Arabië en bijvoorbeeld een land als Turkije of het Brazilië van Bolsonaro)..... Sterker nog: de VS is zelfs graag bereid om terreur van zo'n land te steunen, zo werkt de VS mee aan de genocide die de S-A uitvoert in Jemen, waarbij intussen al meer dan 500.000 mensen zijn vermoord..... (alleen al meer dan 100.000 kinderen....)

Glenn Greenwald stelt ten onrechte dat dit pas vanaf de Tweede Wereldoorlog het geval is, echter dit gebeurde eigenlijk al vanaf het moment waarop de VS onafhankelijk werd van Groot-Brittannië.......

Greenwald legt de nadruk op Jamal Khashoggi, wat mij betreft is dit vergeleken met de genocide in Jemen een kleinigheid, hoe gruwelijk de moord op Khashoggi ook was (en vergeet niet dat Khashoggi verreweg het grootste deel van zijn werkzaam leven de Saoedische dictatuur heeft bejubeld en gesteund......)

Gelukkig haalt Greenwald de totaal tegenstrijdige behandeling van Julian Assange aan, die wat Biden betreft mag wegrotten in de gevangenis (niet in de laatste plaats daar deze oorlogsmisdaden van de VS openbaarde, die deels werden begaan toen Biden vicepresident was en die daarmee mede verantwoordelijk was voor die ernstige oorlogsmisdaden..... ), terwijl Biden aan de andere kant de behandeling van journalisten op deze manier 'aan de paal wil nagelen' (althans dat zegt), neem nogmaals een figuur als Khashoggi.....

Lees het uitstekende artikel van Greenwald, maar houd in je achterhoofd dat hij Jemen totaal is vergeten, zoals gezegd een land waar Saoedi-Arabië al jaren met de steun van de VS (Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk en o.a. de wapenleveringen van Nederland aan S-A) een afschuwelijke genocide uitvoert....... (hoewel elke genocide minstens afschuwelijk en barbaars is)

Biden's Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy

That the U.S. opposes tyranny is a glaring myth. Yet it is not only believed but often used to justify wars, bombing campaigns, sanctions, and protracted conflict.

 

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (2nd R) welcomes then-US Vice President Joe Biden (C) at the Riyadh airbase on October 27, 2011 (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

A staple of mainstream U.S. discourse is that the United States opposes tyranny and despotism and supports freedom and democracy around the world. Embracing murderous despots is something only Donald Trump did, but not normal, upstanding American Presidents. This belief about the U.S. role in the world permeates virtually every mainstream foreign policy discussion.

When the U.S. wants to start a new war — with Iraq, with Libya, with Syria, etc. — it accomplishes this by claiming that it is, at least in part, motivated by horror over the tyranny of the country’s leaders. When it wants to engineer regime change or support anti-democratic coups — in Venezuela, in Iran, in Bolivia, in Honduras — it uses the same justification. When the U.S. Government and its media partners want to increase the hostility and fear that Americans harbor for adversarial countries — for Russia, for China, for Cuba, For North Korea — it hauls out the same script: we are deeply disturbed by the human rights violations of that country’s government.

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Yet it is hard to conjure a claim that is more obviously and laughably false than this one. The U.S. does not dislike autocratic and repressive governments. It loves them, and it has for decades. Installing and propping up despotic regimes has been the foundation of U.S. foreign policy since at least the end of World War II, and that approach continues to this day to be its primary instrument for advancing what it regards as its interests around the world. The U.S. for decades has counted among its closest allies and partners the world’s most barbaric autocrats, and that is still true.

Indeed, all other things being equal, when it comes to countries with important resources or geo-strategic value, the U.S. prefers autocracy to democracy because democracy is unpredictable and even dangerous, particularly in the many places around the world where anti-American sentiment among the population is high (often because of sustained U.S. interference in those countries, including propping up their dictators). There is no way for a rational person to acquire even the most minimal knowledge of U.S. history and current foreign policy and still believe the claim that the U.S. acts against other countries because it is angry or offended at human rights abuses perpetrated by those other governments.

What the U.S. hates and will act decisively and violently against is not dictatorship but disobedience. The formula is no more complex than this: any government that submits to U.S. decrees will be its ally and partner and will receive its support no matter how repressive, barbaric or despotic it is with its own population. Conversely, any government that defies U.S. decrees will be its adversary and enemy no matter how democratic it was in its ascension to power and in its governance.

In sum, human rights abuses are never the reason the U.S. acts against another country. Human rights abuses are the pretext the U.S. uses — the propagandistic script — to pretend that its brute force retaliation against noncompliant governments are in fact noble efforts to protect people.

The examples proving this to be true are far too long to chronicle in any one article. Entire books have been written demonstrating this. In May, journalist Vincent Bevins released an outstanding book entitled The Jakarta Method. As I wrote in my review of it, accompanied by an interview with the author:

The book primarily documents the indescribably horrific campaigns of mass murder and genocide the CIA sponsored in Indonesia as an instrument for destroying a nonaligned movement of nations who would be loyal to neither Washington nor Moscow. Critically, Bevins documents how the chilling success of that morally grotesque campaign led to its being barely discussed in U.S. discourse, but then also serving as the foundation and model for clandestine CIA interference campaigns in multiple other countries from Guatemala, Chile, and Brazil to the Philippines, Vietnam, and Central America: the Jakarta Method.

When people who want to believe in the core goodness of the U.S. role in the world are confronted with those facts, they often dismiss them by insisting that this was a relic of the Cold War, a necessary evil to stop the spread of Communism which no longer applies. But the fall of the Soviet Union did not even minimally retard this tactic of propping up and embracing the world’s worst despots. It remains the strategy of choice of the permanent bipartisan Washington class known as the U.S. Foreign Policy Community.

And nothing makes that point clearer than the long-standing and ongoing support the U.S. provides to the Saudi regime, one of the most savage and despotic tyrannies on the planet. As the Biden administration is now demonstrating, not even murdering a journalist with a large U.S. newspaper who resided in the U.S. can ruin or even weaken the tight, loyal friendship between the U.S. government and the Saudi monarchy, to say nothing of the brutal repression which Saudi monarchs have imposed on its own population for decades.


An intelligence report released by the U.S. Government on Friday claims what many have long assumed: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally and directly approved the gruesome murder in Turkey of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the subsequent carving up of his corpse with a buzzsaw for removal to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis continue to deny this allegation, but it is nonetheless the official and definitive conclusion of the U.S. Government.

But beyond a few trivial and inconsequential gestures (sanctioning a few Saudis and imposing a visa ban on a few dozen others), the Biden administration made clear that it intends to undertake no real retaliation. That is because, said The New York Times, “a consensus emerged inside the White House that the cost of such a breach, in terms of Saudi cooperation on counterterrorism and in confronting Iran, was simply too high.” Biden officials were also concerned, they claimed, that punishing the Saudis would push them closer to China.

Not only is the Biden administration not meaningfully punishing the Saudis, but they are actively protecting them. Without explanation, the U.S. withdrew its original report that contained the name of twenty-one Saudis it alleged had “participated in, ordered, or were otherwise complicit in or responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi" and replaced it with a different version of the report that only named eighteen — seemingly protecting the identity of three Saudi operative it believes to have participated in a horrific murder.

Even worse, the White House is concealing the names of the seventy-six Saudi operatives to whom they are applying visa bans for participating in Khashoggi’s assassination, absurdly citing “privacy” concerns — as though those who savagely murder and dismember a journalist are entitled to have their identities hidden.

Worse still, the U.S. is not imposing any sanctions on bin Salman himself, the person most responsible for Khashoggi’s death. When pressed on this refusal to sanction the Saudi leader on Sunday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed — falsely — that “there have not been sanctions put in place for the leaders of foreign governments where we have diplomatic relations and even where we don't have diplomatic relations.” As the foreign policy analyst Daniel Larison quickly noted, that is blatantly untrue: the U.S. has previously sanctioned multiple foreign leaders including Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, currently targeted personally with multiple sanctions, as well as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the now-deceased Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.

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It cannot be disputed that Biden has quickly and radically violated his campaign pledge: “I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them, we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are." As even CNN noted: “It was a far cry from a comment in November 2019, in which Biden promised to punish senior Saudi leaders in a way former President Donald Trump wouldn't.” Even the new administration’s early announcement that they would cease helping the Saudis wage war in Yemen was accompanied by a vow to continue furnishing the Saudi regime with “defensive” weapons.

It is in instances such as now — when U.S. propaganda becomes so unsustainable because the government’s actions diverge so glaringly from the mythology, such that the contradictions cannot elude even the most partisan and gullible citizens — that White House officials are forced to be candid about how they really think and behave. When they see the Biden administration protecting one of the most despicable regimes on the planet, they are left with no choice: nobody will believe the standard fictions they typically spout, so they have to defend their real mentality to justify their behavior.

And so that is exactly what Psaki did on Monday when confronted with the glaring disparities between Biden’s campaign vows and their current reality of coddling the Saudi murderous despots. She admitted that the U.S. is willing to tolerate and support even the most barbaric tyrants. “There are areas where we have an important relationship with Saudi Arabia” and Biden, in refusing to harshly punish the Saudis, is “acting in the national interest of the United States.


Now, there are some who believe that the U.S. should be indifferent to the human rights practices of other governments and should simply align and partner and even install and prop up whatever dictators are willing to serve U.S. interests, regardless of how tyrannical and repressive they are (what constitutes “U.S. interests,” and who typically benefits from their promotion, is an entirely separate question). In the past, many have advocated this view explicitly. Jeane Kirkpatrick catapulted to Cold War-era fame when she insisted that the U.S. should support pro-U.S. right-wing autocrats because they are preferable to left-wing ones. Henry Kissinger’s entire career as an academic and foreign policy official was based on his “realist” philosophy which was explicitly welcoming of despotic regimes that were of use to “U.S. interests” as defined by the ruling class.

At least if there is that sort of candor, the real scheme of motives can be engaged. But the laughably false conceit that the U.S. is motivated by a genuine and profound concern for the freedom and human rights of others around the world and that this noble sentiment is what animates its choices about who to attack, isolate and sanction, or befriend, support and arm, is so blatantly propagandistic that it is truly stunning that anyone continues to believe it.

And yet not only do they believe it, it is the predominant view in the mainstream press. It is the script that is non-ironically hauled out every time the U.S. wants to go to war with or bomb a new country and we are told that nobody can oppose this because the leaders being targeted are so very bad and tyrannical and the U.S. stands opposed to such evils.


Biden’s protection of bin Salman is not, to put it mildly, the first post-Cold-War example of the U.S. lavishing praise, support and protection on the world’s worst tyrants. President Obama sold the Saudis a record amount of weapons, and even cut short his state visit to India — the world’s largest democracy — to fly to Saudi Arabia along with top officials in both political parties to pay his respects to King Abdullah upon his death. Our Snowden reporting in 2014 revealed that the Obama-era NSA “significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies,” with one top secret memo heralding “a period of rejuvenation” for the NSA’s relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Defense.




When she was Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton notoriously gushed about her close friendship with the brutal Egyptian strongman supported for 30 years by the U.S.: “I really consider President and Mrs. [Hosni] Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States.” As Mona Eltahawy noted in TheNew York Times: “Five American administrations, Democratic and Republican, supported the Mubarak regime.”

Both the Bush and Obama administrations took extraordinary steps to conceal what was known about Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attack. Indeed, one grand irony of the still-ongoing War on Terror is that the U.S. has bombed close to ten countries in its name — including ones with no conceivable relationship to that attack — yet continued to hug closer and closer the one country, Saudi Arabia, which even many D.C. elites believed had the closest proximity to it.

When President Trump hosted Egyptian dictator Gen. Abdul el-Sisi in the White House in 2017, and then did the same for the Bahraini autocrat (to whom Obama authorized arms sales as he was brutally crushing a domestic uprising), a huge outpouring of contrived indignation spewed forth from the media and various foreign policy analysts, as if it were some radical, heinous aberration from U.S. tradition, rather than a perfect expression of decades-old U.S. policy to embrace dictators. As I wrote at the time of Sisi’s Washington visit:

In the case of Egypt and Bahrain, the only new aspect of Trump’s conduct is that it’s more candid and revealing: rather than deceitfully feign concern for human rights while arming and propping up the world’s worst tyrants — as Obama and his predecessors did — Trump is dispensing with the pretense. The reason so many D.C. mavens are so upset with Trump isn’t because they hate his policies but rather despise his inability and/or unwillingness to prettify what the U.S. does in the world.

And all of this is to say nothing of the U.S.’s own despotic practices. The U.S. has instituted policies of torture, kidnapping, mass warrantless surveillance, and due-process-free floating prisons in the middle of the ocean where people remain in a cage for almost 20 years despite having never been charged with a crime. The Biden Justice Department is currently trying to imprison Julian Assange for life for the crime of publishing documents that revealed grave crimes by the U.S. government and its allies, and is attempting to do the same to Edward Snowden. One need not look toward the barbarism of U.S. allies to see what propagandistic dreck is the claim that the U.S. stands steadfastly opposed to authoritarianism in the world: just look at the U.S. Government itself.

And yet, somehow, not only do large numbers of Americans and most corporate journalists believe that mythology, they are well-trained to divert their attention away from the abuses of their own government and its allies — which they could do something about — and instead obsess over repression by governments adversarial to the U.S. (which they can do nothing to change). That’s what explains the U.S. media obsession with denouncing Putin and Maduro and Assad and Iran while devoting far less attention to the equal and often-more-severe abuses of their own government and its “allies and partners.” Nobody captured this dynamic and the motives behind it better than Noam Chomsky, when asked why he devotes so much time to the crimes of the U.S. and its allies rather than those of Russia and Venezuela and Iran and other U.S. adversaries:

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that: namely, I can do something about it. So even if the US was responsible for 2% of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2% I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment.
That is, the ethical value of one's actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

But this propagandistic mythology that holds that the U.S. only embraces democrats and not despots is too valuable to renounce — even when, as Biden is doing now with the Saudis, the glaring falsity of it is rubbed in people’s faces. It remains a key ingredient to:

  • justify wars and bombings (how can you oppose our bombing of Syria when Assad is such a monster or why would you object to our war in Libya given all the bad things Gaddafi does?);

  • keep people satisfied with protracted and dangerous conflict with chosen adversaries (of course Russia is our enemy: look at what Putin does to journalists and dissidents);

  • allow citizens to feel good and righteous about the U.S. Government (sure, we’re not perfect, but we don’t hang gays from cranes like they do in Iran); and, most importantly of all,

  • distract Americans’ attention away from the crimes of their own ruling class (I’m too busy reading about what’s being done to Nalvany — by a government over which I exercise no influence — to care about the civil liberties abuses by the U.S. Government and those government with whom it aligns and supports).

What’s most remarkable and alarming about all this is not how dangerous it is — though it is dangerous — but what it reveals about how easily propagandized the U.S. media class is. They can watch Biden hug and protect Mohammed bin Salman one minute, send General Sisi massive amounts of arms and money the next, announce that his DOJ will continue to pursue Assange’s imprisonment, and then somehow, after seeing all that, say and believe that we have to go to war with or bomb or sanction some other country because it’s the role of the U.S. to protect and defend freedom and human rights in the world. If the U.S. Government can get people to actually believe that, what can’t they get them to believe?

© 2021 Glenn Greenwald
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See also:

'My Resignation From The Intercept' 

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles. 

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Zie ook: 'Een uitlevering van Julian Assange aan de VS zal een definitief einde maken aan de persvrijheid en dat wereldwijd' (o.a. met links naar berichten over Jemen en censuur)

'Jamal Khashoggi was geen groot criticus van de Saoedische dictatuur en bepaald geen held' (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over Khashoggi)

'Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, 'na een geldig verzoek' op grond van Saoedische wetgeving....' (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over westerse censuur) 

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Zie wat betreft de genocide die in Jemen wordt uitgevoerd: 'Joe Biden (VS president) zegt oorlog in Jemen te willen stoppen, echter 'de oorlog tegen terreur' in Jemen gaat gewoon door' (en zie de links in dat bericht)

'Blok (VVD 'minister' van BuZA) wenst in VN geen oproep tot wapenboycot te doen i.z. Jemen, in de VS blokkeerde huis van afgevaardigden een debat over de genocide in Jemen' (en zie de links in dat bericht) (nogmaals een teken dat je vooral niet op de VVD moet stemmen!!)

'Van Dueren, de Nederlandse ambassadeur 'in Jemen' slaat de plank bijna volledig mis.......' (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Mijn excuus voor het geringe aantal labels, de ruimte is beprekt >> voor een aantal gemiste labels, kan je het zoekvlak rechtsboven aan de pagina gebruiken, als je bijvoobeeld Donald Trump invoert kan je onder het eerste bericht wel met dat label alsnog op die naam klikken, zodat je het overgrote deel van de berichten met deze fascistische schertsfiguur te zien krijgt.

donderdag 4 februari 2021

Biden komt verkiezingsbeloften niet na: zo blijft de VS oorlog voeren en de genocide in Jemen steunen

Biden was tegen het geven van $ 2,000.-- voor Coronahulp aan iedere volwassen burger in de VS, zoals Trump wilde (ook een groot aantal Republikeinse politici was tegen Trumps voorstel), hoewel Biden daar een vreemde draai maakte en beloofde dat iedere VS ingezetenen in de volwassen leeftijd $ 1,400.-- extra zou krijgen (bovenop de in afgelopen december beloofde $ 600.--), daardoor dacht het volk dat Biden uiteindelijk toch voor het geven van een cheque was van in totaal $ 2,000.--. Echter volgens zeggen is die eerder beloofde $ 600,-- niet uitgekeerd, zodat men uiteindelijk geen $ 2,000.-- zal krijgen maar $ 1,400.--....... Hoe kan je mensen nog zwaarder belazeren, vergeet niet dat het overgrote deel van de VS bevolking door de Coronacrisis zo in de problemen zit dat zelfs $ 2,000.-- de spreekwoordelijke druppel op de gloeiende plaat is.......

Ook deportaties van 'illegale vluchtelingen' gaat gewoon door onder Biden, inclusief de kooien voor kinderen van deze mensen (die overigens al onder Obama zouden zijn gebruikt.......)

Wat betreft Iran heeft Biden nog niets gezegd over het weer deelnemen aan de P5+1 nucleaire deal (of JCPOA) en het is onwaarschijnlijk dat dit zal gebeuren, het ziet er naar uit dat de sancties 'gewoon van kracht blijven....' 

Oké niet echt nieuws daar veel al bekend was in de aanloop naar de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS en voor de inauguratie van Biden tot president, zoals de steun voor de sancties tegen Venezuela, die al aan meer dan 50.000 mensen het leven hebben gekost...... Hare kwaadaardigheid Kamala Harris zei al voor de verkiezingen dat het beleid ten aanzien van Venezuela en Iran niet zou veranderen en Biden zei dat het beleid van de Trump administratie t.a.v. die landen slap was, terwijl de sancties van de Trump administratie al aan zoveel mensen het leven hebben gekost...... (hoe de sancties hebben bijgedragen aan de dood van Iraniërs is niet bekend maar ook dat moeten er enkele tienduizenden zijn......)

De genocide die de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uitvoert in Jemen (met politieke en militaire steun van de VS en Groot-Brittannië) behoort al evenmin tot de zorgen van Biden, hoewel hij een voorlopige stopzetting van wapenleveranties aan Saoedi-Arabië heeft aangekondigd, ziet het er niet naar uit dat hij die reli-fascistische staat de duimschroeven zal aandraaien en reken maar dat de wapenleveranties binnen afzienbare tijd zullen worden hervat, er wordt simpelweg enorm veel verdiend aan deze terreurstaat........ (over de militaire hulp bij het uitvoeren van de genocide heeft Biden al helemaal niets gezegd, dus deze zal gewoon nog steeds plaatsvinden, o.a. middels hulp bij de zeeblokkade van Jemenitische havensteden, zodat humanitaire hulpgoederen via die weg amper of niet de zo geterroriseerde Jemenitische bevolking kunnen bereiken.....)

De reguliere pers, die welkom is in het Witte Huis voor persconferenties van Bidens woordvoerder Jen Psaki, mag geen directe vragen meer stellen, maar moet deze van tevoren inleveren, om te voorkomen dat Psaki met een 'houten bek' staat en antwoorden schuldig moet blijven, ofwel weg beloofde transparantie en reken maar dat echt de moeilijke vragen niet ter tafel zullen komen, zoals de hiervoor aangehaalde zaken, waaronder de beloofde cheque voor Coronahulp van in totaal $ 2,000.---...... Ach het gaat hier om reguliere (massa-) media in de VS en die zijn zelf al heel goed instaat om zaken te verzwijgen en andere verzonnen zaken als geweldig nieuws te brengen......

Zoals gezegd: er verandert maar weinig in Washington, al zal Biden lang niet zoveel Twitterberichten de wereld insturen, ziet het ernaar uit dat hij een veel agressievere buitenlandpolitiek zal voeren, inclusief het voeren van illegale oorlogen......

Lees het volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone die dieper op de stof ingaat en verder meldt dat Psaki onder andere uit de wind wordt gehouden (zoals gezegd: alleen van te voren ingediende vragen worden beantwoord...) om vragen te vermijden zoals die over Janet Yellen, de nieuwe minister van financiën, die onder vuur ligt vanwege haar spreekbeurten voor Citadel (een hedgefonds dat bedrijven leegvreet), waarvoor ze $ 800,000.-- ontving..... Daarnaar gevraagd begon Psaki te 'babbelen' over Yellen en dat het zo geweldig is dat ze eerste vrouw is op die positie, zonder de vraag te kunnen beantwoorden.... Terecht stelt Caitlin dat gezien eerlijkheid over beleid de Trump administratie daar beter aan voldeed dan wat Biden tot nu toe laat zien......:

Everything About The Biden Administration Is Fake

by Caitlin Johnstone

Jen Psaki

A new exclusive from The Daily Beast titled "White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance" reports that the White House press corps is being pressured tovoor de inauguratie van Biden tot president provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes even mainstream media journalists uncomfortable.

While it’s a relief to see briefings return, particularly with a commitment to factual information, the press can't really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions they want,” one White House correspondent told The Daily Beast. “That's not really a free press at all.”

It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it for the [White House Correspondents Association] for them to deal with it,” another source reportedly said.

While Obama's deputy press secretary Eric Schultz calls the move "textbook communications work" designed to ensure that Biden's press secretary has answers ready instead of having to "repeatedly punt questions", clearly the reporters on the job feel differently.

"The requests prompted concerns among the White House press corps, whose members, like many reporters, are sensitive to the perception that they are coordinating with political communications staffers," writes the Beast.

EXCLUSIVE: White House reporters say Biden's staff is asking for their questions in advance, before Jen Psaki's televised press briefings. https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-reporters-say-biden-team-asked-them-for-questions-in-advance 


Having questions in advance would indeed be a good way to help insulate press secretary Jen Psaki (for whom liberals are already developing an unwholesome celebrity crush) from hard questions. This would avoid sticky situations like when Psaki deflected inquiries about treasury secretary Janet Yellen's conflict of interest with the Citadel controversy by babbling about Yellen being the first woman in her position and claiming that receiving $800,000 in speaking fees from that company is no reason for her to recuse herself.

So this is just one more item on the steadily growing pile of fake things about this administration. Everything about it is phony. This is the Astroturf Administration.

Biden and his cohorts point-blank lied about sending out $2000 checks.

Deportations are continuing unimpeded despite all the campaign pledges to the contrary.

The kids in cages that made Rachel Maddow cry on air during the Trump administration are still in their cages and will remain there for the foreseeable future.

Re-entering the Iran nuclear deal seems as far off as ever, with the administration continuing Trump's "maximum pressure campaign" even as Tehran says the US ending its cruel sanctions is a precondition to resuming the deal.

Biden still hasn't taken any solid steps to end the horrific war on Yemen, or even to end US facilitation of the slaughter as he promised on the campaign trail (he could have taken major steps toward doing this the day he took office and chose not to).

While this president hides from the press due to his rapidly deteriorating ability to answer questions in complete sentences, the mass media churn out think pieces about how taking himself out of the spotlight is actually a brilliant political move.

As Our Hidden History recently put it, "We got sold a sack of political oregano."

We got sold a sack of political oregano https://t.co/LQ9UeqnJsr
Our Hidden History (@OurHiddenHistry) February 2, 2021

And that's all the US empire ever is, really: a murderous, tyrannical planetary oppressor covered up by varying degrees of dishonesty. During the Trump administration the depravity was a little more honest about itself, now during the Biden administration it's a little more dishonest. The only major change is the thickness with which the makeup is slathered over the skull.

Everything about life in our current world order is dominated by phoniness. Our culture is manufactured by Hollywood. Our dominating political structure is manufactured by think tanks. Our perceptions of what's going on in the world are manufactured in Langley and Arlington. The whole thing is so fake and stupid. We've got to figure out a way to snap out of these artificial boxes they are placing over our minds and these perceptual filters they are placing over our eyes, and birth something real and authentic into our world.

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Caitlin Johnstone | February 2, 2021 at 4:49 am | Tags: administration, biden, Jen Psaki, journalism, Politics | Categories: Article, News | URL: https://wp.me/p9tj6M-2sI

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Zie ook: 'De VS oorlog tegen 'landelijk terrorisme' is een definitieve stap naar een volledige politiestaat.......

'A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead' (een artikel van Information Clearing House geschreven door Philip Giraldi)

'Rob de Wijk (HCSS) met zijn 'oneindige wijsheid' over Biden en Trump

'Joe Biden 'van zins de Keystone XL pijpleiding te stoppen''

'Joe Biden belazert het volk en de rel op Capitol Hill leidt tot Patriot Act II: totale controle op het volk, ofwel de vorming van een totale politiestaat'

'De roep om censuur na de stormloop op het Capitol zal ook links keihard treffen' (met aandacht voor het feit dat Joe Biden in feite de eerste Patriot Act heeft geschreven.....)

'Trumpisme en fascisme eindig je niet met censuur en andere autoritaire maatregelen, maar door de condities te veranderen die e.e.a. mogelijk hebben gemaakt' (en zie de links in dat bericht)

'Rellen op Capitol Hill: burgeroorlog in VS dichterbij dan de laatste 155 jaar en de roep om censuur klinkt harder dan ooit

'Joe Biden heeft het Coronasteunpakket voor de arme bevolking gesaboteerd'

'Edward Snowden over Silicon Valley censuur en andere zaken die de persvrijheid en de vrijheid in het algemeen in gevaar brengen

'Om ons thuis, de planeet, te redden moeten we de westerse oorlogsmachine stilleggen

En terzijde: 'American Psychosis' (een kort artikel en korte video op ICH met Chris Hedges)