"Regime" And "CCP": Propaganda Tools For Dissociating A Targeted Nation From Its Government by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-04-10 at 03:17:30 )

"Regime" And "CCP": Propaganda Tools For Dissociating A Targeted Nation From Its Government by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Have you ever seen a mainstream news report containing the phrase "the French regime"? How about "the British regime" or "the Australian regime"?

If these phrases look a bit odd, it is because you have never seen them written down before.

Ostensibly the word simply means "a form of government" or "a government in power", but it is generally understood that it has got a kind of negative connotation to it just because of the way it tends to be used.

In theory its meaning is closer to "a bad or authoritarian government", and in practice by the western media it means "a government which disobeys the dictates of Washington,D.C.".

Just look at some recent examples of the way that word has been used in headlines by the mass media:

"Amb. Michael McFaul: Mr. Putins treatment of Mr. Navalny proves "this is a regime that is in decay" by MSNBC on April 8.

"Appeasing Cubas Regime Did Not Work", by The Wall Street Journal on April 2.

"Senior GOP Senators Call BBC "Notoriously Sympathetic to the Iranian Regime" by Newsweek on April 8.

"Hitting Nerve With Kim Jong Un Regime Takes Just a Few Words" by The Wall Street Journal on March 18.

"America Will Only Win When Chinas Regime Fails" by Foreign Policy on March 11.

"At a Hotel in Caracas, Oil Executives Weigh a Return to Venezuela-Promises of more autonomy to tap the worlds biggest crude reserves are drawing the oil industry to meetings with the Nicolas Maduro regime" by Bloomberg on March 19.

A "Regime" Is a Government at Odds With the United States Empire.-FAIR (FAIRmediawatch) August 20, 2018

As Gregory Shupak documented in a 2018 Fair.org article titled "A "Regime" Is a Government at Odds With the United States Empire", this label is seldom affixed to United States allies-even United States allies with extremely oppressive governments like Saudi Arabia-while it is used constantly on empire-targeted governments like Venezuela and Syria.

Mr. Shupak notes that we even see this label abandoned after a targeted government is toppled, with nations like Iraq and Honduras magically transforming from "regimes" to "governments" after they are successfully absorbed into the imperial blob.

The immense disparity between the frequency with which this label is applied to member states of the United States-centralized power alliance compared to how often it is applied to governments which have resisted absorption into that alliance is one of the most blatant ways in which the mainstream western news media outlets help facilitate United States empire building.

This is because mainstream western news media outlets are propaganda.

They exist to advance the agendas of the imperialist plutocratic class which controls them.

When the empire wants to topple a government, their first step is to psychologically uncouple it from the nation and its people in the eyes of the western world by consistently using labels that make it look like an alien, occupying force. It is not Syrias government, everybody! It is the Assad Regime"!

Oh no! A Regime??

How did that Regime get in where Syrias government ought to be?? Watch out Syrians, you have got a Regime on your back! Do nnot worry, we will come and rescue you from it!

Do you see how it works???

If you can make a nations government look like an illegitimate invading force instead of the governing body which arose from that nations internal dynamics, you legitimize any attempt to "defend" that nation from that force. Up to and including staging coups, arming oppositional militias, airstrikes, sanctions, or full-scale ground invasions.

What We Are Really Seeing With All These Anti-China Narratives

"Why are we being told that China is dangerous over and over again day in and day out all of a sudden, while, for example, Israels constant bombing of Syria gets nary a mention?-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 19, 2021

You see this same tactic in the way anti-China spinmeisters have been training their credulous audiences to use the term "CCP" for Chinas government; it is an alien-sounding label most people will not have grown up hearing, so it helps mentally dissociate the government from the nation and its people in the public eye. This despite the fact that the Chinese people overwhelmingly approve of their government. They even deliberately use a weird abbreviation for the partys official English name, the Communist Party of China (CPC).

This is why you constantly hear indoctrinated automatons bleating the mantra "I do not oppose the Chinese people, I oppose the CCP!" They have been trained to help spin Chinas government as an illegitimate force which is occupying China against the will of its people, thereby creating the perception of legitimacy for anything that will be done in the future to target that government.

Of course it can be helpful in certain instances to create such distinctions, but this mantra is not being mindlessly bleated ad nauseum for helpful reasons. It is to help grease the wheels of the slow-motion third world war the United States-centralized power alliance is waging upon the remaining unabsorbed nations.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world.

The agendas to secure this control and shape those narratives look different, but their purpose is always the same: to facilitate the agendas of a ruling class of sociopaths who operate the most deadly and destructive power structure of the face of the earth.

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