Rename The Secretary Of State The Secretary Of Hypocrisy by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-08-17 at 21:56:06 )

Rename The Secretary Of State The Secretary Of Hypocrisy by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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United States Secretary of State Tony Blinken tweeted in celebration of Pakistans preparations for "free and fair elections" on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that the United States pressured Pakistan to oust its popular democratically elected prime minister Imran Khan last year.

"Congratulations to new Pakistan Interim Prime Minister anwaar..kakar," tweeted Blinken. "As Pakistan prepares for free and fair elections, in accordance with its constitution and the rights to freedom of speech and assembly, we will continue to advance our shared commitment to economic prosperity."

An article published by The Intercept last week titled "Secret Pakistan Cable Documents United States Pressure to Remove Imran Khan" revealed evidence that the United States State Department which Blinken heads had placed pressure on the Pakistani government to remove Khan from office in March of last year.

A leaked document reports that State Department official Donald Lu issued blatant threats to Pakistans ambassador to the United States that "it will be tough going ahead" for Pakistan if Khan was not ousted but "all will be forgiven" if he was, saying the United States and its European allies did not like the prime ministers "aggressively neutral position" on the Ukraine war.

The following month Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote, and he now sits in prison, officially barred from politics for five years.

Congratulations to new Pakistan Interim Prime Minister @anwaar_kakar. As Pakistan prepares for free and fair elections, in accordance with its constitution and the rights to freedom of speech and assembly, we will continue to advance our shared commitment to economic prosperity.-Secretary Antony Blinken (SecBlinken) August 16, 2023

The authenticity of the document has been begrudgingly confirmed by Pakistani officials opposed to Khan, yet prior to its publication by The Intercept the United States State Department had denied what was revealed by its contents on multiple occasions.

Last month State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said unequivocally that "the United States does not have a position on one political candidate or party versus another in Pakistan or any other country," which is plainly contradicted by the revelations in the document.

Obviously if you have got officials from the worlds most powerful, violent and destructive government telling your country "it will be tough going ahead" if its prime minister is not removed from power but "all will be forgiven" if he is, that is brazen interference in the democratic processes of that nation. Yet here is the head of the State Department babbling about the wonderful "free and fair elections" in Pakistan.

Earlier this month the State Department put out another doozy on Twitter (or whatever we are calling it now), quoting Blinken saying "Governments that violate human rights are almost always the same ones that flout other key parts of that order - such as invading, coercing, and threatening other countries, or breaking trade rules."

All of which the United States government of course does regularly.

Such glaring hypocrisy is standard for United States secretaries of state, because their job entails continually using concepts like democracy and human rights not as values that they wish to promote, but as political cudgels to be used against their enemies.

This was explained in stark detail in a leaked 2017 State Department memo in which warmongering swamp monster Brian Hook was seen explaining how the United States government views "human rights" to then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson - a newcomer to the DC underworld at the time. Hook told Tillerson that human rights violations should be forcefully criticized in Americas enemies, and overlooked in nations that bow to the dictates of Washington,D.C.

"One useful guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy is that allies should be treated differently - and better - than adversaries," Hook wrote, naming China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran as examples of adversary nations who should be aggressively criticized for human rights violations, and naming Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines as examples of United States-aligned nations where human rights violations should be overlooked.

The memo was labeled "SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED", which is a good designation for information about something that is not really a secret in Washington,D.C. but they would still definitely prefer people did not pay much attention to.

SecBlinken: "Governments that violate human rights are almost always the same ones that flout other key parts of that order - such as invading, coercing, and threatening other countries, or breaking trade rules." The United States will continue to take a stand for human rights for all.-Department of State (StateDept) August 4, 2023

Since we know this is the established orthodoxy in the United States State Department, it is no wonder that secretaries of state are always speaking in ways that run directly counter to the actions of their own government.

The United States empire does not care about democracy or human rights, it cares about power and control. Paying lip service to democracy and human rights is just one of the ways they manufacture the illusion of moral authority while diplomatically undermining the governments they do not like.

For this reason it would perhaps be better to refer to the State Department as the Hypocrisy Department, and the secretary of state the secretary of hypocrisy. Or maybe the secretary of hypocritical finger-wagging, if you want to get fancy about things!!

The State Department was originally meant to be the counterpart to the War Department. The War Department (later renamed the Department of Defense to keep things from being too obvious) was meant to focus on war, and the State Department was meant to focus on diplomacy and peace.

What ended up happening, as the United States power structure 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 Department of Defense 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 almost a job requirement for the position.

But that is just what the United States empire is at this point in history: a giant, planet-sprawling bully with a severe personality disorder!!

The United States empire has all the personality characteristics of a malignant narcissist - it sees people as resources to exploit instead of as humans to relate to, it communicates to manipulate and control rather than to connect and understand, and anyone who does not center its desires as a priority above all else becomes its enemy!!

Could not ask for a better face to place on that operation than Antony John Blinken!!

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