The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-07-14 at 00:56:49 )

The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Genocide walrus John Bolton outright admitted to planning foreign coups with the United States government in conversation with CNNs Jake Tapper on Wednesday. That is coups, plural.

While arguing that the Capitol riot on January 6th of last year was not an attempted coup but rather just Donald Trump stumbling around trying to look after his own interests, Mr. Bolton hastened to pull authority on the matter when Mr. Tapper suggested that he might not be correct about how coups work.

"I disagree with that," Mr. Bolton said. "As somebody who has helped plan coups d etat - not here, but, you know, other places - it takes a lot of work, and that is not what [Donald Trump] did."

Places. Plural.

Mr. Tapper just let Mr. Boltons remark slide like he did not just admit to something extraordinarily fiendish, but did eventually follow up with a request that the former National Security Advisor elaborate.

"I do want to ask a follow up," Mr. Tapper said. "When we were talking about what is capable, or what you need to do to be able to plan a coup, and you cited your expertise having planned coups."

"I am not going to get into the specifics," replied Mr. Bolton with a chuckle.

"Successful coups?" Mr. Tapper asked.

"Well, I wrote about Venezuela in the book," Mr. Bolton answered. "And it turned out not to be successful - not that we had all that much to do with it, but I saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn an illegally elected president, and they failed. The notion that Donald Trump was half as competent as the Venezuelan opposition is laughable."

"I feel like there is other stuff you are not telling me, though," Mr. Tapper responded.

"I am sure there is," Mr. Bolton said, grinning like he just finished boiling a puppy.

Mr. Tapper pursued the matter no further, because he is a propagandist first and a journalist second, and he would be acutely aware that Mr. Bolton was saying things that you are not supposed to admit to on television.

Mr. Boltons sole admission to coup plotting runs counter to his comments about the United States governments failed attempt to oust President Nicolas Maduro while he was facilitating that bizarre operation under the Donald Trump administration, telling reporters in 2019 that the empires Venezuela shenanigans were "clearly not a coup."

In other examples of the United States empire just rearing its ugly head right out in broad daylight, an excellent new report by Alan MacLeod with Mintpress News shows that Facebook-Instagram parent company Meta has been hiring dozens of people who previously worked in the United States intelligence cartel to help regulate what content gets seen on the social media giants platforms. Some were hired from straight out of the Central Intelligence Agency or had (officially) left the agency very recently.

The CIA used to infiltrate the media. Now the CIA is the media.

This trend of openly hiring United States intelligence veterans to help teach the public what thoughts to think about the world began a few years ago in the legacy media, and now we are seeing it in the new media as well.

This is part of a broader trend in which many of the ugly things the United States empire used to do in secret it now does openly with the aid of propaganda spin.

In addition to attempting coups right out in the open as we saw in Venezuela and just giving intelligence insiders positions of influence within both new and old media institutions, you have got things like the United States government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own founding officials was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly.

We see NEDs fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the western power alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Ukraine to Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang, to the imperial propaganda firm known as Bellingcat.

Rather than manipulate world narratives and foment discontent from behind the veil of hidden identities and cutouts as in CIA tactics of old, NED just manipulates them openly by pouring funds into narrative management operations which benefit the empire while framing it as promoting democracy and human rights.

To further #humanrights & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004.-
NEDemocracy (NEDemocracy) December 10, 2020

Then you have got things like United States of American officials telling the press that the United States government has been circulating disinformation about Russia and Ukraine, Biden administration officials saying the proxy war in Ukraine is being used to "weaken" Russia and that they are fine with United States brinkmanship with Russia causing global recession and hunger, and western officials telling the press that Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel.

What the empire has found is that you do not need to hide as much from public visibility as long as you can manipulate what people think they are seeing. If the public is sufficiently propagandized and consent has been adequately manufactured, you can get away with just proclaiming some random guy the president of a foreign country and seeing if you can manipulate the rest of the world into playing along with you.

If your narrative control is strong enough, you can even keep the empire running smoothly when information gets out into the open that you would rather stay hidden.

Very often these days major stories about imperial malfeasance will come out that simply have no impact, either because the mainstream news media unite to ignore them or because they spin those revelations as coming from someone bad or not containing important information.

People tend to overrate the power of the United States war machine and underrate the power of the United States propaganda machine.

While the United States military finds itself losing a war to the Taliban, the awesome power of its propaganda engine has people marching in perfect alignment with the will of the oligarchic empire.

When I was in an abusive relationship, the more ground down and submitted I became the more my abuser would flaunt his abusiveness in the plain light of day. Toward the end he was just outright admitting he was a sociopath and a manipulator and openly telling me he was going to do monstrous things to me before he did them, because he was that confident that he had me wrapped around his finger.

Luckily, he was wrong. And hopefully the empire is wrong as it makes this same calculation with all of us.

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