Psycho Pompeo Exits With Nary A Scratch Of Media Criticism On Him by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-01-19 at 04:22:54 )

Psycho Pompeo Exits With Nary A Scratch Of Media Criticism On Him by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

My eclectic news feed looks odd as the hours count down to the end of the Donald Trump administration. Westerners are largely celebrating the exit of Donald Trump himself, whereas with those I follow from areas targeted by United States imperialism, the man they are happiest to see the back of is Mike Pompeo.

It looks very bizarre, as this part of our weird collective adventure comes to an end, how Mr. Pompeos tenure first as Central Intelligence Agency Director and then Secretary of State were almost entirely unmarred by criticism from the political-media class. This is after all a man whose word and deed have been easily more depraved than Donald Trumps during this profoundly corrupt administration, yet both rank-and-file Democrats and rank-and-file Republicans have been kept only dimly aware of his existence amidst the nonstop scandalous shrieking about the president and his other goons.

This is the man who has spearheaded all of this administrations most depraved initiatives, like its latest Yemen sanctions which the United Nations World Food Programme executive director says is "literally is going to be a death sentence to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of innocent people", its Venezuela regime change ops which have starved untold tens of thousands of civilians to death, its murderous brinkmanship with Iran, and its world-threatening cold war escalations against Russia and China.

The man who openly boasted about lying, cheating and stealing in the CIA. The man who privately said the United States would intervene to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from becoming Prime Minister in the United Kingdom. The man who admitted the United States is slamming Iranians with starvation sanctions to force them to rise up against their government. The man who designated WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service" as Julian Assanges imprisonment was being orchestrated.

This person is disgusting.

You could hardly find a worse specimen of human life than Mike Pompeo.

Yet amid all the mainstream news medias relentless histrionics about the Donald Trump administration, criticism of Trumps own Secretary of State has remained a rare sight there, and shrill vitriol like that to which we have become accustomed with the rest of Donald Trumps inner circle has never existed. After all this time and after all his depraved actions, he is walking away with nary a scratch of media criticism on him.

This is because Mike Pompeos depravity is the "normal" kind. The kind we are all meant to be used to. The psychotic, mass murdering United States of American exceptionalist imperialism that the billionaire news media exists to protect and facilitate.

You do not bite the hand that feeds you, and you do not attack the man who serves the same empire as you. Gotta maintain that access journalism. This could be your next president, after all.

Mike Pompeos exit provides a very short respite between the time he leaves for whatever lucrative neocon think tank gigs he winds up with and the time he re-emerges from the sea like Cthulhu to once again try to devour the world. He will be replaced as secretary of state in that interim by Tony Blinken, who is another psychopath because that is a job requirement.

The United States Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War, which would be a much more honest label today for a military which virtually never operates in any way that could be described as defensive. An even more suitable name would be the Department of Eternal War.

The State Department was meant to be the counterpart to the War Department, focusing on diplomacy and peace. What ended up happening as the United States government morphed into a globe-spanning empire dependent on endless violence and aggression is that the State Department wound up focusing more and more on manufacturing interventionist narratives on the world stage to gin up international support for starvation sanctions, proxy wars and war coalitions.

So in practice the United States ended up with two war departments: the DoD and the State Department. Which is why you have seen the nations Secretaries of State becoming more and more jingoistic and psychopathic, to the point where some sort of antisocial personality disorder is really a job requirement for the position. Hence Psycho Mike.

I wish humanity a pleasant sigh of relief on Mr. Pompeos exit.

Please enjoy it as much as possible until the Biden administration does whatever horrifying things it is going to do, and until the eldritch monster re-emerges from the sea.

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