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Chapter 6

Propaganda & Ukraine — American Style

Consider the world of mainstream journalists, in particular TV news anchors. There we have a world with echoes of 1984, where what is said must conform to the party line. Any thoughtcrime— such as an anchor commenting onscreen that he doesn’t buy the official story of 9/11, or he thinks Russia isn’t an aggressor — would be quickly punished by the equivalent of death — expulsion from the world of journalism. Thus for the majority of the population we have a tightly controlled, two-tier, mind-control regime. The thoughtcrime dynamic governs what the media says, and the conspiracy-theory dynamic immunizes people against other views. For the majority, the party line (either CNN or FOX) is “truth”as in Orwell’s world, but without the need for Big Brother’s extreme methods.

— Richard K. Moore, Mind Control: Orwell, Huxley, and Today’s Reality

Prior to discussing the propaganda campaign now being waged by the Western mainstream media with regard to the Ukraine, it is necessary to understand what mainstream media is and the optic by which it both views and reports the news.

The mainstream media’s overlord is corporate America. A total of five corporate giants, Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch’s News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS), control 90 % of what is watched, listened to, or read.

The upshot of the above is that if a story, facts, forensic analysis, or the truth, is bad for business — whether business is selling bombs, fighter jets, advanced weaponry (and thus war) or selling advertising (and all the attendant products) — then truth will be victim number one. The truth has been buried so deeply across the corporate media landscape that the current state of affairs has been deemed a “Truth Emergency” (Phillips and Huff 2010).

As reported by Peter Phillips and Micky Huff (2010) of Project Censored with regard to the Truth Emergency:

In the United States today, the rift between reality and reporting has peaked. There is no longer a credibility gap, but rather a literal Truth Emergency in which the most important information affecting people is concealed from view. (Phillips, Huff 2010)

Thus the overarching goal of the various corporate, media, and political elite is to control the narrative of any given topic, situation, and desired result via censorship and propaganda. As a result, a war for resources, regime change, power projection, plunder, and privatization (Iraq), will have a well-defined propaganda and censorship campaign (WMDs, democracy, etc.) to achieve its unstated goals and hide its true purpose via a mountain of lies. The current campaign du jour brings us to the Ukraine.

Over the course of the past several months, with regard to Ukraine, one is continually reminded of the run up to the Iraq war. The glaring lack of actual un-embedded reporters, the absence of substantiated facts or forensic data: the unabashed parroting of White House, State Department, and intelligence agency talking points, and the non-stop parade of retired Generals across the mainstream news circuit, has been déjà vu all over again.

And when war finally did come to Iraq, the various talking points that had been disseminated by the White House, State Department, and subsequently TV anchors, one by one, were exposed for the baseless lies that they were.

The primary and much celebrated cause for going to war with Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), became the first victim as the white-hot projectiles of facts on the ground exploded that canard. The thrilling performance of the secretary of state brandishing a vile of soap powder in the UN Assembly and declaring with absolute certainty that Saddam Hussein, Hitler 9.0, had chemical and nuclear weapons was, in fact, a lie. A lie celebrated at the time by literally every news anchor, pundit, radio commentator, newspaper, and shock jock in America’s mainstream media.

The inevitability of a mushroom cloud rising over some part of the American landscape as launched by Saddam Hussein, Hitler 9.0, as told in the form of a campfire horror story by Bush, Rice, Cheney, Blair et al., was, in fact, the mother of all lies. As were the roving chemical weapons factories, installed within minivans and motorhomes, and the air conditioned, vacation bunkers with satellite TV, shopping malls, and all-you-can-eat cafeterias that were supposedly buried deep within the Afghan mountains.

The experts of the day informed us that the Iraq war would cost us a nifty $50 billion (actually upwards of $3 trillion) and we the people, who ultimately pay for all wars against our will, would be paid back by the revenues from Iraqi oil. Lies, again, that had been parroted non-stop by the mainstream media and, in some cases, so effectively that devotees of certain news networks to this day believe that WMDs were, indeed, found in Iraq. And the payback from Iraqi oil reserves? Well, if you remember the record profits of the various oil companies during that time, you will know exactly who got paid back.

As the lies quickly unraveled, there was always a ready source of new lies — freedom and democracy, women’s rights, etc. The various freedoms would, of course, be instituted at the barrel of a gun, attack helicopters, F-16s, depleted uranium munitions, cruise missiles, predator drones, predawn home invasions, and curfews. It appears that Saddam Hussein’s fault was not imposing democracy forcefully enough upon the citizens of Iraq.

A little more than a decade from the onset of the war in Iraq, the democracy graft has not only failed to take hold, it has violently and, perhaps, terminally infected the host (planned chaos).

Now, as the crisis in the Ukraine unfolds and the mainstream media‘s modus operandi becomes eerily reminiscent of its performance in the Iraq war, two questions arise. Have the media learned anything from “carrying water” for the White House and the State Department? Or is Pravda on the Potomac a more fitting descriptor for the US mainstream media of today?

For the past several months the mainstream media has again marched in lockstep with Official Government Sources (White House, State Department, Pentagon, etc.) with regard to the demonization of Russian President Vladimir Putin (the new Hitler 10.0), Russian “meddling” and “aggression,” and Putin’s vile intentions to reconquer the world or, at least, Western Europe.

The White House, State Department, and their attendant spokespeople, all of whom have professed to mountains of evidence to substantiate their claims, have, to date, relied exclusively on social media. Social media, in the form of Facebook and Youtube clips, has been offered up as “common sense” verifiable proof to document Russian troop movements, missile launches, artillery fire, and Russian Special Forces penetration. What need then is there for sixteen intelligence agencies with $100 billion plus budgets?

Save for a comedy, any serious movie script that had the White House and State Department Officials offering up social media as an intelligence gathering apparatus, capable of providing evidence in a war zone, would be regarded as amateurish and laughable, at best. Yet with the seriousness of a guilty child standing beside a broken vase and lying to her parents, saying that she “didn’t do it,” government spokespersons have offered up as definitive proof Facebook pictures and Youtube videos, while exclaiming, “Duh, it’s like, common sense.”

A clip from a March 6, 2014 CNN interview, pitted Christiane Amanpour, CNN “investigative” reporter and Wolf Blitzer, CNN news anchor, against Professor of Russian Studies, Stephen Cohen, a noted scholar and author of numerous books on Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution. Professor Cohen had, ostensibly, been invited on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show to discuss the situation unfolding in the Ukraine.