How Democrats Are Deceived by Eric Zuesse!
(2020-07-10 at 15:32:54 )

How Democrats Are Deceived by Eric Zuesse!

Democrats are deceived in basically the same way that Republicans are, but by a different group of billionaires.

Noah Shachtman is the Editor-in-Chief of the Democratic Party billionaires Daily Beast "news" site. On 29 October 2018, he headlined there, "Why The Daily Beast Matters Now More Than Ever", and the article sub-headed "Journalism today has to paint in bright colors, have a sense of wit, and give up any attachments to the powerful. It is gonzo or go home." So, he and his site is "gonzo," and they "give up any attachments to the powerful." At least they say they do.

He opened:

Maybe Mr. Putins spies were onto something.

In June 2015 - nine months before targeting the Hillary Clinton campaign, and a full year before the world learned about their hacking of the DNC - Russias military intelligence division tried to hack the accounts of journalists, including a number of Daily Beast reporters and alumni.

(Sure - the reason Hillary lost is not Hillary - it is Putin! Just like the reason Donald Trump will not win is not Donald Trump - it will be "them!", whomever "they" will be.)

That Democratic Party site considers Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, etc., to be enemies of America; and Israel, Poland, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc., to be the United States of Americas allies. They do not say why, but they do.

Mr. Shachtman and his site are propagandists for every invasion of every country whose head-of-state is not allied with the United States against Russia. (So too are Republican sites - but their central bugaboo is "China!")

It is so simple, really. Saddam Hussein was not anti-Russian, so he got knocked off. Muammar Gaddafi was not, so he also did. Bashar al-Assad is not anti-Russian, so "regime change" there is still being tried.

Nicolas Maduro is not anti-Russian, so the United States of America is trying to grab Venezuelas oil and is blockading Venezuela.

Viktor Yanukovych was not anti-Russian, so United States of American "news"-media such as The Daily Beast portrayed him as being pro-Russian and even as being an enemy, even though he was neither but was just trying to keep Ukraine "neutral" or not hostile toward either America or his next-door-neighbor Russia.

On 12 April 2010 Yanukovych met the United States President at the White House, to which Barack Obama had invited him, but Mr. Yanukovych refused Barack Obamas suggestions that Ukraine join the United States of Americas alliance against Ukraines next-door neighbor Russia.

On 2 July 2010, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mr. Yanukovych held a joint press conference in Kiev, where she said:

"We discussed ways that Ukraine and the United States can deepen and expand our strategic partnership, moving forward with the work of the United States-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission that I co-chair...

And the United States welcomes Ukrainian parliaments decision to approve foreign military exercises on Ukrainian territory in 2010 and we thank Ukraine and the Ukrainian people for your important contributions to NATO and other international security operations. .. And as I said, we are grateful for Ukraines contributions to NATO security efforts and other peacekeeping operations around the world.

And we look forward to the joint United States-Ukraine military exercises. And we also support a relationship with Russia that is in Ukraines interest that helps to further what President Obama has called the resetting of relations with Russia."

But finally Mr. Yanukovych turned down the United States-EU proposed alliance with Ukraine against Russia, the proposal that Ukraine join the EU and abandon its trade with Russia.

Though the reason for his having turned it down was stated in United States-allied "news"-media as being that he was allied with (his next-door-neighbor) Russia against the United States of America, the actual reason was that America and its EU had set the deal up for Ukraine to bleed $160 billion which it did not have.

The whole deal was a set-up to stir "Maidan demonstrations" against him, which would serve as a cover for a Central Intelligence Agency coup that would install a rabidly anti-Russian Government in Ukraine.

Until that coup, Mr. Shachtman had been the Executive Editor for News at the (anti-Russian) Foreign Policy magazine. He had ranked #3 on the executive staff there.

The Baeack Obama Administrations planning for the coup to regime-change Ukraine started in 2011. It was planned on the basis that Mr. Yanukovych would turn the EUs offer down. Mr. Yanukovych did that on 20 November 2013. The Central Intelligence Agency-edited and written Wikipedia claims that the "Ukrainian revolution" (actually coup) started the following day. It was started by the "demonstrations on the Maidan Square" in Kiev, and they "began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kiev." That started it; the United States regimes plan to take over Ukraine did not. According to Wikipedia.

On 5 December 2013, a pro-Russian news-site, Voltairenet, headlined "Jihadists in charge of crowd control in Kiev protests", and it was true - that was part of the plan. Then, eight days later, on December 13th, Noah Shachtmans reporter on the scene in Kiev, bannered "The Fight for the Maidan: How long can Ukraines protesters hold out against Yanukovychs thugs?"

That counterforce from the Government was also part of the plan (to make Ukraines democratically elected Government look bad). The "thugs" were the police of the democratically elected Government, and not the Central Intelligence Agencys hired goons (who were not even mentioned by Mr. Shachtmans hired "journalist").

Back before the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Shachtman had been a lowly "Contributor" to a digital "news" site "Tech Central Station," which billed itself as "Where Free Markets Meet Technology" and this was actually a MIC (military-industrial complex, or United States "defense" contractor financed) propaganda site.

On 22 January 2003, two months before the United States of America invaded and destroyed Iraq, that "contributor" headlined there, "Predator or Prey?" and opened: "Predator drones are the high-tech darlings of the new war. Too bad they are so slow, dumb, noisy, and near-sighted that almost anything stronger than a peashooter could take them down." "Defense" spending needs to be increased - that was the pitch.

Tech Central Stations top person was its Editor-in-Chief, Nick Schulz, who since at least 2014, is with the United States Chamber of Commerce, which is overtly right-wing (no mealy-mouthed Democrat).

The Daily Beast is owned by IAC Corporation, whose Chairman is the billionaire Barry Diller. On 7 January 2020, the Republican billionaires neoconservative magazine National Review headlined "Chelsea Clinton Made Millions on Boards Run by Clinton Mega-Donor", and that was referring to the Democratic neoconservative Diller. (All billionaires are neocons - not a one of them donates to progressive candidates. And all progressives are against imperialism; that is a core of progressivism.)

In the United States of America, even "entertainment" news is often used in order to boost sales for corporations such as Lockheed Martin - Americas megacorporations whose main or only customer is the United States Government itself.

On the July 4th edition of NPRs "All Things Considered" was a plug for a movie that aims to persuade viewers that Americas invading troops need more and better weapons; the movie is called "Outpost”" and it is filmed in Afghanistan.

The interview (which is free publicity for it that is funded by NPRs donors) had Sacha Pfeiffer interviewing its director, Rod Lurie.

It was a skillful sales-pitch for the movie, and for the entire MIC that it promotes. It is not enough that the United States Government already spends around half of the entire worlds annual military expenditures.

More, more!! Conquest is costly. (Even when it fails to conquer.)

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