Phil
Butler heeft een artikel geplaatst New Eastern Outlook (NEO) (wat ik
overnam van Information Clearing House) waarin hij de VS analyseert als een duivels imperium dat erop gericht is haar
macht te vergroten ten koste van andere landen en hun bevolking,
vooral te zien hoe men in de Trump administratie en de geheime diensten van de VS spreekt over Rusland, China, Iran, Venezuela en
Noord-Korea.
Butler
richt zich met name op Rusland, nadat hij heeft geconstateerd dat
er geen sprake is van een echte democratie in de VS, zoals er 'ook geen'
sprake is van vrijheid of dat de VS burger ver uitsteekt boven de
rest van de mensheid, zoals men daar onder een groot deel van het volk gelooft. (overigens veel Nederlanders geloven ook dat zij meer zijn dan de rest van de wereldbevolking)
Hoe is
het mogelijk dat de VS de ondergang wenst van Rusland, terwijl er
nooit een oorlog is geweest tussen deze landen, een oorlog met grote
grafvelden vol met VS militairen en toch roept men victorie als
blijkt dat de vruchtbaarheid van de Russen steeds meer te wensen
overlaat, zo verzucht Butler......
Butler
wijst op de mediaorganen van Rupert Murdoch die Rusland keer op keer
demoniseren, wat volgens hem te wijten is aan het feit dat Murdoch en
zijn News Corp in 1998 samen met een oligarch Boris
Berezovsky
de
Russische maatschappij wilde manipuleren, waarbij zich ook spuugrijke
figuren als Ted Turner voegden, echter aan deze avonturen maakte
Putin een eind door oligarchen te vervolgen en hen in feite dwong het
land te verlaten. Volgen Butler is dat de reden dat News Corp en andere mediaorganen Rusland demoniseren. Overigens Butler heeft het niet voor
niets over News Corp, daar meerdere oligarchen News Corp steunen voor de
demonisering van Putin en Rusland.
Heb
een paar reacties toegevoegd onder het hieronder opgenomen artikel,
waarin men o.a. Butler verwijt ontwaakt te zijn uit een diepe coma en
dat hij vergeet de rest van de reguliere media in de VS te noemen,
die even hard op de Anti-Russische propagandatrommel roffelen, wat
mij betreft heeft dat laatste in deze reactie geen punt, immers Butler noemt dit wel met de volgende zin:
And Murdoch, the man referred to as “the
man whose name is synonymous with unethical newspapers,” is but one
of the privateers hell-bent on taking his share of Russia if Putin
fails'. Wel fijn dat Drew Hunkins in deze reactie een fiks aantal mediaorganen noemt, je kan wat dat betreft de reguliere mediaorganen niet genoeg aan de paal nagelen, mediaorganen die 'iets' te vaak de woorden fake news (nepnieuws) durven te gebruiken, terwijl dit geïnstitutionaliseerd is
bij diezelfde media...... (en ja dat geldt ook voor die media in ons
land, van NRC tot Telegraaf en van de 'onafhankelijke' NOS tot WNL......)
Vergeet voorts niet dat deze
media zonder uitzondering in handen zijn van steenrijke figuren die
aandelen hebben in de meest lucratieve bedrijven: waarvan de belangrijkste wel die van de
wapenindustrie is (aangevuld met oliemaatschappijen en de farmaceutische industrie, Ap*)
Voorts is er een reactie te lezen waarin wordt gesteld dat er wel degelijk een oorlog
plaatsvond tussen de VS en Rusland, dit tijdens de revolutie in
Rusland, waar de VS en andere westerse landen Rusland hebben aangevallen om de
'communistische revolutie' de nek om te draaien, ofwel een in feite
illegale oorlog die werd georganiseerd en vooral werd gesteund door de
VS......
Onder het hieronder opgenomen artikel kan je klikken voor een 'Dutch vertaling', dat neemt wel enige tijd in beslag.
U.S.
Without the Sugar Coating: Wishing Ill Will On Our World
By
Phil Butler
June 18,
2020 "Information
Clearing House"
- As an American, it’s hard to admit things are not as they seem.
Democracy, that ideal we were taught as children to worship, it turns
out to be only a fancy idea. Like all the other noble, fancy, ideas
in history, the illusion of true freedom makes these edges of our
existence warm and safe. Even while we live in a deadly, cruel, and
unpredictable world. American’s are supposed to be different. Or so
we were told. But we are no different from citizens of any ancient
empire.
I was
reading this morning a story on the Wall Street Journal, which is
supposed to be a financial newspaper. The title, especially given the
situation in the world now, slapped me hard across the face. The
title read:
“Pandemic
Upends Putin’s Plans to Raise Russia’s Dwindling Birthrate”
“What
are they wishing for here?” this is what I asked myself. For, you
see, this is what editorial is, a mirror into the desired effect. As
journalists or analysts were are trained to present cases and Rupert
Murdoch’s newspaper trains its cause toward the destruction of the
evil billionaire’s enemies. And the Australian born American media
mogul hate Vladimir Putin and Russia. He wants the Russian people to
die out, and his scribes spend their days writing a bible about how
it can happen. Come on, it’s not so difficult to see.
You
can’t read the whole story of wonderful infertility in Russia.
Because the Wall Street Journal has a paywall. This fact not only
ensures that Murdoch gets his twenty pieces of silver, but it also
certifies that the audience of bankers, brokers, and politicians who
consume WSJ content get what they want. An old testament to a world
where Russia is a history chapter in the New World Order’s religion
of greed and chaos.
But why?
Doesn’t every American wonder how we’ve managed to go nowhere in
the more than seven decades since World War 2? Black lives still
don’t matter in the US? And neither do, red, yellow, brown, Slavic,
Celtic, Christian, or Muslim ones anywhere. And least of all, do
Russian children matter – but why? When did Russia attack America?
Where are the dead and buried in America’s wars with the USSR or
Russia? Are the memorial cemeteries secret? Has the liberal order
that’s run things hidden from us the very premise on which we base
our almost religious fear and hatred of a people?
No.
There are no battalions of dead warriors from the Russo-American war.
Because there never was such a war. I wonder why we can’t ask “why”
on that one? Oh, I am sorry. It’s because Australian-American
billionaires and golf playing American presidents protected us from
the evil Putin and the war-hungry Ruskies! Yeah, I forgot.
I want
to end this observation today with a couple more questions. First,
and foremost, how can we Americans stand idly by and watch the
foundations of our country destroyed? How can we fight amongst
ourselves over problems that should no longer exist, while the
purveyors of every evil we ever fought against, they are thriving in
their ivory towers? Second, how did we get to be so mean and nasty?
Or, were we always hoping Russians or Iranians or Chinese people
would have more hardship? And Murdoch, the man referred to as “the
man whose name is synonymous with unethical newspapers,” is but one
of the privateers hell-bent on taking his share of Russia if Putin
fails.
I won’t
delve too deeply into Murdoch’s Russian ventures but ousted
oligarch Sergei Pugachev and many others align with the News Corp
dictator. The thrives Putin uncovered and banished from Russia are
the henchmen who would butcher her people for their gold. Here’s
where it
started, back in 1998, when News Corp. made the move to influence
Russia the way it influences the west. You may recognize another
famous name from the UPI story, which begins:
“Media
mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has entered the Russian
market, joining with Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky in a venture
holding exclusive rights to sell advertising time on two major
Russian television networks, ORT Channel 1 and TV-6.”
Murdoch,
Ted Turner, and other media moguls had
their sights on expanding their propaganda/advertising businesses
into Russia back when. Eventually, Vladimir Putin’s straight game
of preserving Russia for Russians ran contrary to their plans, they
pulled out, and we see the revenge they take every time we pick up a
newspaper or turn on the TV.
In
America, and in much of the so-called “west”, a subculture of
thought, academia, journalism, and business has taught anti-Russia
narrative for generations now.
However,
what concerns me is not deep think, Cold War policy still going on
behind the scenes in Washington and Moscow. What bothers me is how we
Americans allow such unfair and improper relations to go on. Russia
was never a real enemy, only a contrived perceptual opponent made so
by our imperialist drive for control. The United States, more than
any other country in the world, has become rich and powerful at the
expense of the world, not alongside the world. This is an
incontrovertible truth. But a truth any “Trumpster” would fight
to the death to hide. We create so much harm and destroy so much
goodwill believing in these lies. We condone things like races of
people just “dying out” – and THIS is what those headlines
mean.
This is
not the country I went into the armed forces to defend. This is not
the country may parents, grandparents, and ancestors pledge
allegiance to their entire lives. Americans are not supposed to be
unfair, cruel, bad sports, and ruthless. We’re just not supposed to
be.
Phil
Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist
and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent
bestseller “Putin’s
Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for
the online magazine “New
Eastern Outlook.” -
"Source"
-
Een reactie van Scribblguy:
"This
is not the country I went into the armed forces to defend."
You were in an American armed forces that protected this
nation? When did that happen? From where I sit the armed forces have
always been and still are tools of aggression, not defense for the
USA!
Gringolandia:
This
was before he woke up to the truth, at least i sure hope so.
Participant 2943:
"Americans
are not supposed to be unfair, cruel, bad sports, and ruthless."
Some of us are. Some are not - same as people in every other country,
except that the U.S. is more so because it has a culture of violence
- more than many other countries do.
Drew
Hunkins:
"As
journalists or analysts were [sic] are trained to present cases and
Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper trains its cause toward the destruction
of the evil billionaire’s enemies. And the Australian born American
media mogul hate [sic] Vladimir Putin and Russia. He wants the
Russian people to die out..."
Not by a long shot is it only Murdoch's FOX boys who loath Russia. It's also PBS News Hour, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, NY Times, WaPo, Newsweek, UK's Daily Mail, UK's Sun, Time, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, all of commercial radio, most of Big Tech and Silicon Valley and at least a hundred other Western news sources and outlets.
En
nog eens Drew Hunkins:
"There
are no battalions of dead warriors from the Russo-American war.
Because there never was such a war," Actually there was."
Soon after the Bolsheviks swept into power a group of Western
capitalist nations -- including a sizable amount of U.S. soldiers --
violently invaded Russia to try and subvert and destroy the fledgling
socialist govt.
This chapter of American aggression against
the Russian people has been largely forgotten.
Imagine it the
other way! Imagine if the Soviet Union circa 1933 invaded the West
Coast of the U.S. and killed thousands of civilians during their
march to subvert the American capitalist exploitation of the U.S.
working people. There would be hundreds of songs, monuments, statues,
documentaries and holidays to this day in honor of this hypothetical
war.
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Het is dan ook een schande dat farmaceuten miljarden kregen
toegestopt om een vaccin tegen COVID-19 te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze
daar meer dan genoeg reserves op de plank hebben liggen...... Reserves opgebouwd door
het uitbuiten van patiënten met de verkoop van veel te dure medicijnen, terwijl de marketingkosten voor die medicijnen 30 keer hoger zijn dan de ontwikkelingskosten van die medicijnen...... Sterker nog: deze famraceutische maffia presteert het zelfs om medicijnen die al jaren op de markt zijn, rustig zover in prijs te verhogen dat deze 500% hoger ligt dan de oorspronkelijke prijs...... Zeker wat betreft westerse oliemaatschappijen is m.i. verdere uitleg overbodig, behalve dan het volgende: aandeelhouders die kapitalen verdienen aan de vernietiging van de aarde...... (al hebben deze aandeelhouders, zoals 'ons' koningshuis en onze pensioenfondsen, het laatste jaar fiks pech wat betreft de prijs die voor olie wordt betaald)
