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Paul Craig Roberts Rages: Truth Is Now A Crime Against The State
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
The entire Western edifice rests on lies. There is no other foundation. Just lies.
This makes truth an enemy. Enemies have to be suppressed, and thus truth has to be suppressed.
Truth comes from foreign news sources, such as RT, and from Internet sites, such as this one.
Thus, Washington and its vassals are busy at work closing down independent media.
Washington and its vassals have redefined propaganda. Truth is propaganda if it is told by countries, such as Russia and China, that have independent foreign policies.
Propaganda is truth if told by Washington and its puppets, such as the EU Observer.
The EU Observer, little doubt following Washington’s orders, has denounced RT and Sputnik News for “broadcasting fabrications and hate speech from their bureaus in European Union cities.”
Often I appear on both RT and Sputnik. In my opinion both are too restrained in their reporting, fearful, of course, of being shut down, than full truth requires. I have never heard a word of hate speech or propaganda on either. Washington’s propaganda, perhaps, but not the Russian government’s.
In other words, the way Washington has the news world rigged, not even independent news sites can speak completely clearly.
The Western presstitutes have succeeded in creating a false reality for insouciant Americans and also for much of the European Union population.
A sizable percentage of these insouciant peoples believe that Russia invaded Ukranine and that Russia is threatening to invade the Baltic States and Poland. This belief exists despite all intelligence of all Western governments reporting that there is no sign of any Russian forces that would be required for invasion.
The “Russian invasion,” like “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections,” like “Assad of Syria’s use of chemical weapons against his own people,” like “Iranian nukes,” never existed but nevertheless became the reality in the Western media. The insouciant Western peoples believe in non-existent occurrencies.
In other words, just to state the obvious noncontroversial fact, the Western “news” media is a propaganda ministry from which no truth emerges.
Thus, the Western World is ruled by propaganda. Truth is excluded. Fox “news,” CNN, the NY Times, Washington Post, and all the rest of the most accomplished liars in world history, repeat constantly the same lies. For Washington, of course, and the military/security complex.
War is the only possible outcome of propaganda in behalf of war. When the irresponsible Western media brings Armageddon to you, you can thank the New York Times and the rest of the presstitutes for the destruction of yourself and all your hopes for yourself and your children.
EU Bashes “Russian Propaganda”
Western major media march to the same drummer – dutifully regurgitating managed news misinformation garbage, willfully burying hard truths on issues mattering most.
Alternative sources beholden to truth and full disclosure operate by different standards – engendering ire among Western nations wanting their high crimes suppressed – bashing sources revealing them.
The EU Observer (EUO) claims independent credentials while supporting policies responsible news sources denounce.
Independently reporting hard truths isn’t its long suit. Its editor, Lisbeth Kirk, is the wife of former Danish European Parliament member Jens-Peter Bonde. Human Rights Watch’s European and Central Asian advocacy director Veronika Szente Goldston calls its journalists “the most in-your-face in Brussels.”
EUO irresponsibly bashed Russia’s Sputnik News and RT International – two reputable sources for news, information and analysis – polar opposite Western media propaganda.
It shamelessly called their reporting valued by growing millions “broadcasting fabrications and hate speech from their bureaus in EU cities.”
It touted plans by EU officials to counter what they called “use and misuse of communications tools…play(ing) an important role in the dramatic political, economic and security-related developments (in) Eastern (European countries) over the past 18 months.”
It drafted a nine-page “action plan” intended to convey “positive” messages. It’ll increase funding to blast out Europe’s view of things more effectively.
It wants EU policies promoted in former Russian republics the old-fashioned way – by repeating Big Lies often enough until most people believe them.
A new EU foreign service cell called East StratComTeam operating by September will run things – functioning as a European ministry of propaganda.
It’ll “develop dedicated communication material on priority issues…put at the disposal of the EU’s political leadership, press services, EU delegations and EU member states.”
Material circulated in Russia and other EU countries aims to let news consumers “easily understand that political and economic reforms promoted by the EU can, over time, have a positive impact on their daily lives” – even though precisely the opposite is true.
It wants so-called benefits Europeans enjoy explained to people continent-wide. Will millions of unemployed, underemployed and impoverished people buy what’s plainly untrue from their own experience?
Sputnik News, RT, US independent sources like the Progressive Radio Network and numerous others steadily gain audience strength at the expense of scoundrel media people abandon for good reason.
Growing numbers want truth and full disclosure on things affecting their lives and welfare. Politicians in Western countries want ordinary people treated like mushrooms – well-watered and in the dark.
RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said “the European Union is diligently trying to stifle the alternative voice of RT, at a time when in Europe there are hundreds of newspapers, television channels and radio stations, which set out only one point of view on what is happening in the world.”
The BBC is Fox News with an English accent. US so-called public radio and broadcasting are no different – telling listeners and viewers everything except what they most need to know.
Simonyan explained “Britain (has) an entire army brigade of 1,500 men…whose tasks include the fight against Russia on social networks. NATO has a task force aimed at countering Russian influence throughout the world.”
“Only recently, Deutsche Welle launched a 24-hour television channel in English to counter RT. At the same time, nearly all the major Western media, including the BBC, DW and Euronews have long disseminated their information in the Russian language, while Radio Liberty, funded directly by the US government, broadcasts in Russian.”
“(I)f after all this, the EU still complains that they are losing the ‘information war’ against Russia, perhaps it’s time to realize that” growing numbers of people are fed up with being lied to.
People want reliable sources of news, information and analysis unavailable through mainstream Western sources using propagandists masquerading as journalists.
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he's definitely a fuck, a "rasit", and a cunt, but "communist?"
you've spent too much time in fuku if you confuse corporatist leach with communist.
OK Facist but that's my final offer.
Fact or Fiction?
We have met the enemy,and the enemy is,telling of the truth...
So sayeth out gubbermint, who has hidden, buried, suppressed, silenced, distorted, covered-up and denied telling us the truth.
Supposedly, us mere mortals and useless eaters cannot handle the truth. That we are not worthy, equal or capable of making our own decisions or use good judgement...
Truth be told, when the people find out the true extent of how much they have been lied to, there will be heads rolling, quite literally.
Old communist USSR saying: “The government lies to us and pretend it is the truth. We pretend to believe the lies”
" Old communist USSR saying: “The government lies to us and pretend it is the truth. We pretend to believe the lies” "
This may have been the case behind the 'Iron Curtain' in the past but at present, I don't think it applies to the 'insouciant' (as PCR put it) populations of the West or the former Warsaw Pact countries, now members of NATO. Imho, at least 9 in 10 people in the U.S. do believe in the USG/MSM propaganda or simply do not care.
They also used to say "They pretend to pay us; we pretend to work."
What I don't get is what's the use of shutting down true media when everyone already knows the scum bankers and pedophile oligarchs have taken over Washington D.C. and the military. Like dude, its going to take several generations before anyone will believe in the FEDS again. By that time they'll all be in prison and the more criminal acts they do the worse it will be for them. It's a lot easier for them to switch sides, inform on their cohorts, and bring at least half of the thieves to justice. I have hope.
Until there comes a time when no-one turns out to vote, we are doomed.
What would happen if no-one showed up to vote?
Ideas please...
Politics always wins an election.
I will tell you what would happen if no-one showed up. Heres the example: They would simply lie. In Florida in the 2000 election, the county had 1,780 registered voters and 1,923 voted for Bush. They would simply lie about "no one" showing up.
As long as the source code is hidden you will never know who people voted for.
Yes very true
the problem is-- everyone doesn't know.
A matching article posted by ZeroHedge earlier today:
Former Senator Slams Washington As Corrupt "Sewer", Calls For Outraged Young Americans To Revolt
Yes, Jorgen, I too thought that those 2 articles matched each other very well!
Are you just figuring that out that the truth is a crime against the state?! What took you so long!? Saudi Arabia orchestrated 9/11 and they are our ally. Can't expose them. Have to keep that part of 9/11 report secret. Doctors are forced to lie to abortion patient about abortions telling them they are dangerous when they are not. Can't tell them the truth. Gotta lie about that. Edward Snowden is the greatest hero this country has ever seen, Julian Assange is next. Where would we be without them?
Saudi Arabia carried out 9/11 but it was orchestrated and planned by Mossad.
Everything our government does is for the benefit and advancement of the Tribe's agenda.
The end goal is a transnational corporatocracy that takes a piece of every transaction globally. The ultimate climax of wealth without work.
They don't even want a kid mowing a neighbors lawn without them getting a cut of the payment.
It gets better. Research the U and K symbols found on all kinds of store products, including on detergents.
There is an Invisible sales tax embedded in the purchase price, the money of which goes to clerical elite of a specific Tribe. They, in turn, spend it on all kinds of 'projects'.
To underscore the level of servitude that has been bred into the Sheeple... If the Church used a similar trick/scam (manifested by an R or a C), you'd never hear the end of it in the MSM or Halls of Power. The Sheeple, by contrast, will merely "Turn the other cheek". Just as desired, expected and indoctrinated by centuries of conditioning by its Secular and Clerical Elite.
For a People to be truly free, they must first shed all Illusions, Lies, Pretenses, Myths and Fables. Hint: you know something's up when your Deity wants you to be poor and submissive, but his Father wants His People to be wealthy and strong. Fascinating.
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A big question is "What is in the 28 Pages" the the public is not allowed to see that a couple of congressman have read in a private room without a notepad , phones to take pictures of and to sign a gag order to not reveal the contnents of!
These two congressman have calle don all of congress to read these 28 pages and ask for them to be made public.
But then again we are talking about CON-GRESSMAN who probably never want the truth out.
In what way did Saudi Arabia orchestrate 9-11? Are you saying there were commercial plane crashes?
Snowden and Assange have both stated that 911 happened exactly as Bush said it did. Neither have ever questioned the planes or its non existant debris. Assange and Snowden are patsies.
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Yes I find that very odd that Snowden and Assange believe!
Snowden and Assange are patsies. ALL the governments, military, media, religions, and commerce of the world are involved with the staged war on terror. Even 14 years later it allows any country in the world to kill anyone they wish for any reason as long as I can say "terrorism".
Thats an important power to have? And because the WOT is a never ending war.....the elites can kill for thousands of years based soley on the staged lies of 911 and terrorists aboard supposed planes. Understanding that there were no commercial plane crashes on 9-11 would end the war on terror.
Anyone should be very skeptical about so-called news he/she hears and sees because the context and background is what makes news true of false.
Obviously, what going on now in the western MSM is nothing short of Goebbels-like black propaganda, paranoid delusions of reality and relatively mild RT bias is nothing in comparison.
In general though funding source should be a guide about bias of the news stories but in specific way such as corporate news companies should not be trusted about markets, economy and corporation, state run news companies should not be trusted about their governments that sponsor them.
In other words don't trust western media talking about western corporations and governments and do not trust Russian and Chinese media when talking about their own corporate or governments.
That's reasonable guidance.
The problem is that most Americans do not speak foreign languages and resigned to follow western elite dominated English speaking news outlets while there is plethora of reliable direct information on UTube or small independent websites, from witnesses or amateurs truly dedicated to journalist profession with all the dire consequences of speaking against power. Such dedication is alien for all the presstitutes.
Remember nobody has monopoly for truth but you. So think, analyse, conclude and most of all learn.
Just look around you, locally, inquire, investigate, break through stereotypes, cliches, conventions, innuendos and so-called absolute truths, filter out all the external news using your own experience and your own moral judgments.
Do not be afraid to say I have insufficient, untrustworthy data to conclude anything, that's integral part of knowing and understanding. And only then you may acquire reasonable worldview that resembles reality.
The problem is that such worldview won't be pretty but rather disturbing at every level and many have no courage to confront it so instead immerse into world of righteous hallucinations.
Western dissidents would have a much stronger case if they stood for an independent
point of view that did not bow down to any side's imperialism or propaganda. Go independent
or go home. Running for comfort to RT is a fool's errand.
PCR is HOW OLD?
He just realized this NOW?
(the lies)
Seriously?
FEDGOV has been and is and always will be about bullshitting the peons into thinking they NEED FEDGOV. FEDGOV , working together with their masters, the banksterz is a scam. Always was...always will be.
He's been saying this stuff for years. How young are you and did you know that youth and ignorance don't have to be synonymous?
Yep I wonder why now.
The true enemy of the state is the truth that people can exist and prosper without the state.
Disagree. It's not a question of the presence or absence of a government, but the presence or absence of democratic government "Of, By and For the People".
Because, as history has shown us, there will always be ambitious Robber Barons, who would rather get rich quick by organizing bands of unemployed ex-soldiers and mercs, and rob, plunder and tax the homesteaders, farmers, craftsmen and small merchants, than to do an honest day's work.
Ditto for snake oil salesmen, sheisters, quacks, con-artists, murders, thieves, bully ranchers or Oligarchs, etc. -- all of whom cannot and will not be kept from spreading like weed, w/o some form of government.
Note that "The purpose of Government, is for it to do for its people that which they cannot do for themselves". It is naive or delusional to think that this is not so.
IT'S TUESDAY! SO OF COURSE EVERYTHING'S OK, IT'S TUESDAY! GO TO SLEEP AND GET READY TO DO YOUR JOB ON WEDNESDAY! IT'S TUESDAY!
IT'S TUESDAY!
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME
:)
I usually ask,,,,where's the proof?? It amazes me the MSM is full of unsunstantiated indictments and accusations (Putin, Assad and other enemy individuals and states) spoonfed to the masses. People need to start asking questions and looking for the truth.
truth is a lie.
lies are truth
accept you are brain washed.
Oh please! Truth has NEVER been the objective in Western world. The Vietnam war was started on lies exactly the same way thr Iraq war was started on lies. nothing ever changes. Hate to point this out but this guy worked for Reagan, one of the biggest mythological figures of American history. Bet Paul NEVER talked like that when he worked for Reagan. Now that he is retired and cannot be hurt he dares to open his mouth.
So you see an old man who has erred in the past but has come to see the light at least to some degree and your reaction is to attack him?
FYI: WWI started with Sarajevo provocation and WWII started with Gleiwitz provocation. All lies about who was responsible for them.
Truth has NEVER been the objective in Western or Eastern (or Northern or Southern) world. There, fixed.
Saying that ONLY the West lies is itself propaganda. Get it, now?
As far as becoming an "informed citizen" goes, I live by this golden rule: THERE IS ONLY PROPAGANDA, SO DIVERSIFY SOURCES ACCORDINGLY. It takes me a long time to develop an opinion on most things, and I never assume anybody's selling me "the truth". But while I may never fully know what's truly going on elsewhere in the world, it's still highly valuable to know what the various players want me to think.
Thank You!
"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State." --Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident.
Commie countries were trapped behind an Iron Curtain. The West is trapped behind a Digital Curtain.
I've applauded and waxed lyrical on PCR's other articles but now he is scaring me...... Because it's probably the first time I haven't been able to make any criticisms 3 times in a row on any author. It's like he has read my mind and written everything that bubbles upto to surface. Uncanny.
Alright, media control isn't new (Operation Mockingbird) and war time propaganda is not surprising in a nation permanently, perpetually at war with something/someone to feed its MIC. BUT he says it well, he says it accurately and it needs to be said by men of his calibre often and robustly.
The frustration I've felt at the msm is allayed somewhat by news vendors like RT (& of course ZH). One may view them as contrarian indicators - eastern propaganda, if you like - but as I've posted numerous times, I use RT as my first port of call on an important event because unlike the monochromatic bullshit, outright lies and lies by omission I get from the likes of the BBC, RT ALWAYS TELLS BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY - they may not emphasize the Western side, but they will never omit it. And I've tested out this theory on dozens of breaking news items. It is an absolute travesty of the truth that the compulsive liars of this world, the msm and its political midgets, have been attacking RT as a "Propaganda" channel.
Some accuse PCR as "controlled opposition", often leaving a rosy homily at the end to give hope to the disaffected. I doubt that very much. He seems to me as though he is fed up, right up to the eyeballs, with all the hypocrisy, corruption, fraud, warmongering, lies and propaganda as I am, surveying the world around him and seeing it all out in the open - most times the criminals don't even bother to hide it any more. He doesn't need to bring any negative attention to himself in retirement after a distinguished career. But just like me, just like all of you who posted today - you did not have to bother but your moral instincts have been so abused that you felt the need to do it. So it must be with him and I understand that perfectly.
It's a sign of our weakness as Western dissidents, this running to RT for cover, for the supposed "Truth."
It's weakness, not strength. Wake up people, propaganda comes from ALL sides.
Down voted you there.
You have no idea who listens to RT, why they listen to it, and what they take from it. All you can say is that you don't trust RT, and provide reasons for that disposition.
"Truth comes from foreign news sources, such as RT", fuck off Roberts you clown, at least ZH dosnt refer to this brainwashed fool as "Dr" like he refers to himself in a grandiose way.
Any educated person knows RT is just a propaganda mouthpiece of Vladamir Putin the evil cunt
Roberts wouldn't know truth if it bit him on the arse. His is the post of a man who's done big wrongs in his life and is close to death; he wants atonement for the shit carried out under his watch.
Oh wow. Now there's an ad hominem right there.
Under his skin now are you?
Most acknowledge the difference in numbers (1 vs 99%) and asset distribution but fail to realize the implicit revelation of strength.
We are the majority! We allow the minority!
Mankind's RPM has been increased steadily and in stealth - limiting our thinking, analysis, retrospective. The notion and values of Family have been softly murdered. Without identity, culture, traditions, we can be broken apart and re-purposed for slavery even in the information age.
They have made one mistake, the same as always through time: Greed. For the greedy, living as parasite will ultimately not suffice and an extra dimension must be crossed. We're there.
Think what you can do to help. Even if just translating sites with the truth to your native language, talking to your family and friends about this money and debt scheme. Or do you work with sensitive information and can confidentially expose the crimes? Or do you actually work within the media? Are you a stand up comedian or an artist, you get the idea.
There is absolutely NO EXCUSE to ignore the calling - if you feel it, you know you can help and you should.
Love you all - good luck.
You're preaching the United Nazi dogma.
My nation is not dead. When I'm dead you can say what you want. Until then, FUCK YOU.
Bring Herschel Walker to the line. He'll so scare the shit out of the opposition that their plans will utterly collapse.
Utterly. He doesn't even have to play, just having him on the line is enough. But when he plays, I'll count the players he steps over, the way I always have: CRUNCH. CRUNCH. CRUNCH.
Whenever I was in a hard place, I said to myself, CRUNCH. CRUNCH. CRUNCH.
Life is not a promise, but here I am, still. I did it. I won. Oh by the way you're all using my fuel injection, and you didn't pay for it.
Get legal? Lets go.
Time reveals deception. But do we have the time to wait for the truth?
Better I think to celebrate the good in humanity and accept the evil like one accepts thel laws of physics. Spend your life railing against human nature and you reach the end tired and frustrated.
If it wasn't for NeoCON propaganda, the USSA "news" media would be a silent void.
lucky western media is not jew-owned right mr bloomberg?
Listening to Fox news the other morning going to work. All they could talk about was "the new wedge issue in society" It was 100% propaganda designed to me from anyone else and destroy any critical thinking while enforcing the the government knows best. I was horrified, therer is no news now, just state propaganda. Plan accordingly
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Nevermind
I see many comments about PCR. Is it necessary?
If you want to find fault with someone, then we can find fault with everyone. There are no Buddha among us.
Once you are part of this world, you are part of the shit. that's it.
PCR is not talking about lies. It was there all along. PCR is talking about the US war against people who seek truth.
RT comment section is full of trolls, that you cannot find in any other place. It is clearly a paid group working day and night to smear the website and its articles.
The world it seems is divided between 2 "truths". Take the Yemen war for example. RT, PressTV, VeterensToday,FarsNews all refer to rebelliion within Saudi territory, Israeli F-16 Jets being shot down, hundreds of saudi soldiers fleeing or joining Yemen forces etc.
But in western media it is all about big victory for Saudi forces, and how generals in Yemen are defecting, etc.
I do not see Russians doing anything against western media. In fact Itar Tass, Russia Insider, RT and also PressTV often report what western media publish and side by side also refer to other reports from the field with photos.
And unlike BBC, or NYT, their photos have not been found to be doctored. Unlike western media which had to apologise for using "wrong" photo by mistake, the Russian, iranian and Chinese media seem to have the real photos.
So, what is there to argue? The man PCR is just right. get over your own ignorance and prejudice and start talking about what matters. The US Government and western media are in collusion. That much is very clear.
The sheeple crave a master. Lies enable trust in their masters. The sheeple know themselves as stupid. They crave someone to think and take responsibility for them. Lies are a sedative.
I emailed PCR about a year ago. He is an intellignet and humble man. I was honest in my email when I told him that I was impressed with his writing. I told him that, at first, he wasnt getting the entire picture, but now you are really getting it PCR. He wrote me back and said "with all my experience, and being naive, just think how naive the general population is". I have watched PCR grow over the years, and I respect him greatly. He was grown up brainwashed just like the rest of us, but he broke through the matrix and became one of the best authors on the internet. About a year ago, he was going to retire. But many came to him, including me, and urged him to not reture. Then Gerald Celente picked him up and ever since then PCR has really taken off, and his articles are everywhere on alternative new internet. I promise you, PCR doesnt need or want the money, and he could not care less about fame. He is doing this for his children and grandchildren.
And I like Ron Paul too....hah
It is not surprising that our government lies on a regular basis, as do other governments. It can be beneficial for the people governed. What amazes me is that liberals not only believe the lies from liberal governments, but think that it is evil for conservatives to question them...even though the government's lies are pernicious not only for conservatives but for all the people governed, including liberals of all races and creeds.
During the fifties and sixties the USA sponsored Radio Liberty to broadcast 'the truth' to the USSR, the Russians retaliated by jamming the broadcasts. How times have changed, now Russia has their own news channel, RT, and it is odd to hear the Western powers denouncing this 'blatant propaganda' and demand action to silence this station.
Especially since RT is vastly closer to "the truth" than any mainstream outlet in the USSA.
I these Secrets are given to some, not all and this is done by the elected to represent us, the people, then those whom Missrepresented Us should be charged and do Hard Time. "MissRepresentation"