If you have arrived here from the internet to this page first, please start with the article at
the top of page one.
More Detail:
For anyone interested or curious about these Alex Jones/Infowars video uploads, they are being placed online for
a few reasons. Firstly, these videos were all once Adobe Flash files embedded on my website with an article,
Adaptation & Conformity—The Selling Out of Alex Jones/Infowars. Now that Flash has been discontinued,
these videos needed to be uploaded. I regret doing this because isolating them from the article could cause
potential confusion as to whether or not I am supporting Jones' remarks. The images within each video serve to make
it clear; however, to understand the proper context, I highly recommend you read the article, Adaptation &
Conformity—The Selling Out of Alex Jones/Infowars.
In the article, I point out several inexcusable things Jones has done to substantiate the title; his flip
flopping on foreign policy issues which essentially supported direct and indirect murders by Donald Trump; his rank
hypocrisy in doing the same things for which he has publicly called for others to be arrested; his dividing
Americans with left vs right politics after having exposed the two party system as a false paradigm and a means of
balkanizing true resistance to despotism; his twisted support for the apartheid state of Israel and its ethnic
cleansing of the Palestinian people; his bigoted statements about Muslims; his turning a blind eye to the greatest
humanitarian crisis in the world, as Donald Trump sold Saudi Arabia weapons to aid in their war of genocide against
the Yemeni people; his habitual practice of yellow journalism, to the point that he publicly ranted and declared
without proof that the US was getting ready to nuke China; and on another occasion of his fear inducing
sensationalism, he titled a broadcast and sported a thumbnail image that nukes were dropped to reveal later that it
was only a simulation. These are just a few of his condemnable actions covered in the presentation. If there were
not video evidence of all this, the average person would not believe it, which is the second reason why these
videos are being uploaded and the article highlighted.
Thirdly, and the biggest reason for bringing this all back out, is to show the affect the media has on the
public, as it relates to the statements an individual made to Jones back in 2011. Adaptation &
Conformity—The Selling Out of Alex Jones/Infowars, centers around a banker that Jones met in 2011, who talked
to him for three hours on a plane, making the endeavor to bring about world order alluring. He felt that the global
elite have already won because of how malleable the public is in conforming to their machinations. Quote, "They
[the public] will adapt to whatever we do. Don't you understand not all adaptation is good?...We win, you
lose...They'll muddle through everything and there's no way out of it." Unfortunately, the banker's words are
painfully accurate, having just seen the entire world go along with the Covid-19 scamdemic (the biggest fraud ever
perpetrated) facilitated by the media. Thus, I am confident in saying that this article is more relevant now than
when it was first written in 2019. For it demonstrates a reality many might find harsh but need to be reminded
of when receiving news from their favorite venue—namely, the voices you trust as truth right now may not be; and
even if they are today, they may not remain so tomorrow.
Therefore, get informed by reading, Adaptation & Conformity—The Selling Out of Alex Jones/Infowars.
I encourage you to share it with a link to the presentation, and to be proactive in opposing the unscrupulous
practices (psywarfare) done by the media (mainstream and alternative) by holding them accountable or withdrawing
your support or both.
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28. Alex Jones “I’m Ready to Die” - Exclusive Interview After Being Banned. Published on
YouTube: Valuetainment Channel, Sep 13, 2018.
@ 57:48:00 "I knew when Trump was elected election
night... I've completed
my work."
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29. Trump's Ties to Russia - Part 1- From #Watergate to #Russiagate. Published on YouTube:
Blackstone Intelligence Network Channel, Dec 10, 2018.
30. Trump's Ties to Russia - Part 2- The Russian Mafia. Published on YouTube: Blackstone Intelligence Network
Channel, Dec 15, 2018.
31. Trump's Ties to Russia - Part 3- Mafia Money Laundering. Published on YouTube: Blackstone Intelligence
Network Channel, Dec 18, 2018.
32. I'm in Love With Donald Trump (But Today is Opposite Day) #MAGA #DrainTheSwamp. Published on YouTube:
Blackstone Intelligence Network Channel, March 14, 2018.
33. How Trump Helps the Mafia to Launder Blood Money. Published on YouTube: Blackstone Intelligence Network
Channel, Mar 14, 2019.
T H E
M O B
Trump's Ties to Russia - Part 1 - From #Watergate to #Russiagate
-
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Premiered Dec 10, 2018
Richard Nixon enjoyed strong support from his base during
Watergate. But by the end of the special prosecutor's investigation, Nixon's
support had vanished. In this video, we discuss parallels between the Watergate and
#RussiaGate investigations.
Trump's Ties to Russia - Part 2 - The Russian Mafia -
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Premiered Dec 15, 2018
Most media outlets present personal, anti-Trump bias as if those
opinions were facts. In this series, I am presenting highly-sourced information
related to the #RussiaGate scandal. If you want to understand the facts without all
the media spin, then this series is for you.
Trump's Ties to Russia - Part 3 - Mafia Money Laundering -
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Published on Dec 18, 2018
This episode focuses on Trump's dirty real estate deals with
Russian mafia and other criminals in the 1980s. For sources, see the end of the
video." #RussiaGate
I'm in Love With Donald Trump
(But Today is Opposite Day)
#MAGA #DrainTheSwamp
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Premiered March 14, 2018
Do YOU love Donald Trump? Tell me in the comment section!
THE JEWISH
MAFIA
DONALD J. TRUMP
How Trump Helps the Mafia to
Launder Blood Money
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Published on Mar 14, 2019
Donald Trump has a decades-long history of doing business with
mobsters from both the Italian and Jewish mafias. Trump was 1 of only 2 real estate
moguls in all of New York City who allowed organized crime families to purchase
hundreds of millions of dollars in Trump properties using anonymous shell
companies.
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"There's a real war going on in the elite right now, dont' think Trump just did this on his
own. He was recruited by "patriots" in US Intelligence Agencies for a FACT...Trump was recruited by the US
Army. That's a big secret but you deserve to know...you deserve to understand what's really going on."
- Alex Jones, Alex Jones Show 1-22-18 -
34. CORSI EXPOSES TRUTH - TRUMP RECRUITED BY MILITARY!!! Published on YouTube: JustInformed Talk
Channel, Apr 11, 2018.
35. Dr. Steve Pieczenik on the Soft Coup and the Counter Coup in the US. Published on YouTube: sacredheartsvideo
Channel, Nov 3, 2016.
36. Dr Steve Pieczenik & ALEX JONES Soft Coup and the Counter Coup. Published on YouTube: Dr Steve Pieczenik
Channel, Oct 4, 2017.
[COMMENT]
Where was this grand covert intelligence agency "patriot movement" when Ron Paul ran for
president?
CORSI EXPOSES TRUTH - TRUMP RECRUITED BY MILITARY!!!-
JustInformed Talk
Published on Apr 11, 2018
Details @ 6:24
Dr. Steve Pieczenik on the Soft Coup and the Counter Coup in the
US
sacredheartsvideo
Published on Nov 3, 2016
Dr. Steve Pieczenik, cofounder of Delta Force and much more on the Soft Coup and
the Counter Coup in the US, the coming election and the revolt of the intelligence community and
their revealing the truth about the Clintons and some of their allies and the crimes they have
committed and their true agenda.
Dr Steve Pieczenik & ALEX JONES Soft Coup and the Counter Coup
Dr Steve Pieczenik 2017
Published on Oct 4, 2017
Dr Steve Pieczenik & ALEX JONES Soft Coup and the Counter Coup in the US
October 04,2017
"Donald Trump was elected because he
believes in The Constitution" -- Jerome Corsi --
STOP THE BLOODSHED BY HOLDING MEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR
BREAKING THEIR OATHS TO GOD & COUNTRY
"...this war in Yemen, though, is
not legitimate.It's illegal.
It was started by the Obama administration and continued and emphasized by the
Trump administration. It's illegal. It's brutal. "
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
The Real News Nov 6, 2017
“A lot of people at least the corporate media, the western media, the establishment media - whatever you want to
call it - tend to tell us that this is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran...Is that true?”
It’s not to the extent that they talk about it at all. MSNBC ignored this
conflict for two years as Fair showed. But, now that they are talking about it; what they need to point out is that
the Houthis have been winning for two reasons: One is that they actually recommandeer billions of dollars of
weapons the US supplied the deposed and dead dictator Saleh. And worked along side the Yemeni army which was
formerly supplied by the US not Iran. Iran is supplying some political and media support but not the weapons that
our government and the Saudis claim. So the idea of a proxy war is
false. The Houthis are an endogenous nationalistic resistance force that is fighting against a
puppet government that poses an existential threat to them!”
--Rick Sanchez & Max Blumenthal--
The ABC’s of the War in Yemen with Max Blumenthal. RT, Nov1, 2018
"...The reality is far grimmer. The Saudi war on Yemen isn't really motivated by the failed
political process or the Shia-Sunni divide in the first order. The Saudis attacked to
either annex Yemen in its entirety or at least a passage to the ports in the south of Yemen. What Saudi Arabia
wants is a direct way to the Arabian sea that prevents the dependence on the [Bab Al-Mandeb] strait between Yemen
and Djibouti to facilitate its oil exports. The agreement with Iran came into that and so did
the war in Syria. The latter turns around a pipeline from Qatar to Turkey for market share in Europe by ousting the
Islamic pipeline from Iran to Syria agreed upon by Assad and Iran. Religion is not involved in this. The Sunni-Shia
divide is used by the US to justify the destabilization and fragmentation of Syria by causing a civil war - along
the same lines as the civil war in Iraq and Libya: to oust the presidents of these countries in punishment for not
submitting to US dictate."
-- Saurav Dutt, Journalist -- Yemen and the Saudi Blood-soaked Box of Tricks, April 23 ,2017
Boyle explained that the Saudis and their allies in the Gulf Arab Emirates wanted to
establish full control over the entire Arabian peninsula and also of the choke point region at the head of the
Persian, or Arabian Gulf through which all oil exports, including those of Iran and Iraq were shipped by sea. “They
want to control the entire Saudi Peninsula, all its resources, and the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait through which all the
oil and gas to Europe must pass,” he said.
-- Vanessa Beeley, Journalist -- YEMEN: “Saudis, Emiratis and USA are Inflicting a War of Genocide Against the Houthis"
- Prof. Francis Boyle
"The UN embargo/blockade against Yemen and the Yemenis violates
Genocide Convention article II (e): Deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in part."
--Prof.
Francis A Boyle-- YEMEN: A
Genocidal War Against Children and Civilians Sanctioned by the UN, US, UK & NATO
"They're killing lots of people. ... The greatest humanitarian
tragedy since World War II."
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
The Real News Nov 6, 2017
"This support to the Saudi-UAE effort to wage this war in Yemen,
though, is not legitimate. It's illegal. It was started by the Obama administration and continued and emphasized by
the Trump administration. It's illegal. It's brutal. "
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
The Real News Nov 6, 2017
"There's no defense. It's a brutal, bloody war, as I pointed out. It's a major humanitarian
disaster, and the United Stateshas no business participating in it. It's
that clear. It's that simple."
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
The Real News Nov 6, 2017
'US & UK can stop Yemen war today, but they love Saudi
money' --Hussain
Albukhaiti, Journalist --
Whitney Webb Interview The Ignored Yemen Genocide: "18.4 Million People Are Starving To Death" The Last American Vagabond Published on Nov 1, 2018
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37. Former Marine Colonel’s Wife: Kay Griggs, Sleeping With The Enemy [Unedited]. Published on
Youtube: Facundo Soares Gache Channel, Oct 17, 2015.
"The highest levels of the Marine Corps and the Army in those special operations levels, the individuals are
actually in the Mob. ...It's all to sell weapons;
it's all about weapons sales; it's all about drugs; it's all about funny money."
-- Kay Griggs --
Mrs. Griggs, formerly married to U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Raymond Griggs
Kay Griggs Reveals Evil Underbelly of Military & Govt - MUST SEE!!! FULL Interview 1998
[EDITED]
American Movement
Published on Aug 3, 2014
This interview conducted by Pastor Strawcutter is unbelievable! Mrs. Griggs,
formerly married to U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Raymond Griggs tells of her personal experience
living with a Marine who is said to have an important role regarding our military - and to hear how
he mistreated her, and the stories he told her, are astounding! This is the complete interview. She
covers alot of ground here.
Kay Griggs - Sleeping With The Enemy [UNEDITED]
Facundo Soares Gache
Published on Oct 17, 2015
Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife, Talks Again About Military Assassin
Squads, Drug Running, Illegal Weapon Deals And Sexual Perversion Deep Within The Highest Levels Of
U.S. Military And Government.
For 11 long years, Kay Griggs heard all the messy details from her military
husband, usually while he was drinking before going into one of his drunken stupors. First going
public in 1998 in an eight hour video interview with a truth-seeking Michigan pastor and FM radio
broadcaster, she now is back after 9/11 to warn Americans to beware of the evil lurking within the
highest levels of government, bound and determined to destroy America. July 25, 2005.
(Continued Below)
Kay Griggs
interviewed by Jeff Rense
Reasonable Doubtt
Published on Jan 13, 2015
"Kay Griggs, former marine colonel's wife, talks about Military assassin squads,
drug running, illegal weapon deals and sexual perversion deep within the highest levels of U.S.
military and government."
(Continued) Kay Griggs - Sleeping With The Enemy
[UNEDITED]
...Katharine ‘Kay’ Griggs knows what it’s like to have a gun pointed in her face. She knows what
it’s like to have her face slapped, her bones broken and her nose bloodied by her former bully of a husband, an
active Marine Colonel and a man who she claims is “above the law and literally gets away with murder.”
Jay Dyer on The Godfather Trilogy and How The World Really
Works
thkelly67 Published on May 7, 2015
Jay Dyer, host of the eclectic and eponymous website
Jay's Analysis discusses his article "A Family Operation: How The Godfather Trilogy Details Real
Conspiracies" and other related topics including false flag terror, secret societies and the
Masonic infiltration of the Catholic Church
Virginia court documents and photos of her battered arms and legs tell the sad and brutal
physical story of her failed marriage, a tumultuous 11 year roller coaster ride ending in 1999.
But the real story for public consumption isn’t the private divorce court details. It is the secret
military information about drug running, weapon sales, sexual perversion and assassination squads she learned
firsthand from her husband, U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Raymond Griggs, now remarried and living in Mirror Lake,
NH.
This isn’t the first time Griggs is going public with her story about government mob-like hit
squads and the sexually perverted secret “cap and gown and skull and bone society” her husband belonged to along
with other high-ranking Marine officers and pubic officials.
She first went public in 1996 after receiving death threats, being rescued by Sarah McClendon,
former senior member of the White House press corps, who believed her story and took Griggs under her wing, giving
her a place to stay and important advice about how to stay alive when dealing with military operatives.
“I became a whistle blower and received death threats,” said Griggs this week in an extended
telephone conversation from her Tidewater, VA. home. “I finally wound up living for safety reasons with Sarah, the
dean of the White House Press Corps, who had been with every president since FDR and was in Army intelligence and
also an attorney's daughter from Texas.”
Advised by McClendon to go public without being able to get the mainstream media to listen, she
traveled to Adrian, MI on the advice of a friend to do a long extended taped interview with Pastor Rick
Strawcutter, a preacher and owner of a 500 watt pirate FM station at 99.3 on the dial in Lenawee County.
Strawcutter, who believed in free speech radio and empowering the public with the truth, produced
two extended interviews finally released in 2000, one being a two hour version called “Sleeping With The Enemy” and
the other an unedited eight hour version available at www.kaygriggstalks.com.
Since then Griggs said she went back to her Virginia home, tried to piece her life together and
essentially talked to private groups or anybody who would take the time to listen.
Now this week Griggs decided to tell her story again, saying “I will keep repeating it to anyone”
and adding after 9/11, the war in Iraq, the London bombings and the fear of terrorism, the “American people are at
a point were they are ready and willing to hear the truth.”
Although they may be shocked, Griggs said the “truth will set you free,” even if it means facing up
to the highest form of corruption, including sexual perversion and government sponsored mob-like hits orchestrated
by high-ranking military and government officials.
“Of course, Washington’s logic is riddled with absurdity. To claim
that its forces are acting in self-defense overlooks the glaring reality that the US-led
military coalition has no legal mandate whatsoever to be in Syria in the first place. Its forces are in breach of
international law by operating on Syrian territory without the consent of the government in Damascus and without a
mandate from the UN Security Council."
- Finian Cunningham - (Article) Syria: US Flagrant Aggression is Absurdly Described as'Self-Defence'
-
38. Bombs Away! US Airstrikes Every 12 Minutes? Published on YouTube: Ron Paul Liberty Report
Channel, Jun 21, 2018.
Bombs Away! US Airstrikes Every
12 Minutes?
RonPaulLibertyReport
Streamed live on Jun 21, 2018
The number of US airstrikes overseas has skyrocketed under President Trump, reaching an average
of one every 12 minutes. And we're not even officially at war! Who is being killed by these airstrikes? Who's being
separated from their parents (permanently) by these airstrikes? Why does it seem no one wants to talk about it?
Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media voiced moral
outrage when Russian warplanes killed civilians in Aleppo but has gone silent as U.S. warplanes slaughter innocents
in Mosul and Raqqa, notes Nicolas J S Davies.
By Nicolas J S Davies
April 2017 was another month of mass slaughter and unimaginable terror for the people of Mosul in Iraq and the
areas around Raqqa and Tabqa in Syria, as the heaviest,
most sustained U.S.-led bombing campaign since the American War in Vietnam entered its 33rd month.
The Airwars monitoring group has compiled reports of 1,280 to 1,744 civilians killed by at least 2,237 bombs and missiles that rained down from U.S. and allied
warplanes in April (1,609 on Iraq and 628 on Syria). The heaviest casualties were in and around Old Mosul and West
Mosul, where 784 to 1,074 civilians were reported killed, but the area around Tabqa in Syria also suffered heavy
civilian casualties.
In other war zones, as I have explained in previous articles (here and here), the kind of “passive”
reports of civilian deaths compiled by Airwars have only ever captured between 5 percent and 20 percent of the
actual civilian war deaths revealed by comprehensive mortality studies. Iraqbodycount, which used a similar
methodology to Airwars, had only counted 8 percent of the deaths discovered by a mortality study in occupied Iraq
in 2006.
Airwars appears to be collecting reports of civilian deaths more thoroughly than Iraqbodycount 11 years ago, but
it classifies large numbers of them as “contested” or “weakly reported,” and is deliberately conservative in its
counting. For instance, in some cases, it has counted local media reports of “many deaths” as a minimum of one
death, with no maximum figure. This is not to fault Airwars’ methods, but to recognize its limitations in
contributing to an actual estimate of civilian deaths.
Allowing for various interpretations of Airwars’ data, and assuming that, like such efforts in the past, it is
capturing between 5 percent and 20 percent of actual deaths, a serious estimate of the number of civilians killed
by the U.S.-led bombing campaign since 2014 would by now have to be somewhere between 25,000 and 190,000.
(Article Continues Below)
Heartbreaking Video Footage from
Syria
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Published on Sep 26, 2017
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The Pentagon recently revised its own facetious estimate of
the number of civilians it has killed in Iraq and Syria since 2014 to 352. That is less than a quarter of the 1,446
victims whom Airwars has positively identified by name.
Airwars has also collected reports of civilians killed by Russian bombing in Syria, which outnumbered its reports of
civilians killed by U.S.-led bombing for most of 2016. However, since the U.S.-led bombing escalated to over
10,918
bombs and missiles dropped in the first three months of 2017, the heaviest bombardment since the
campaign began in 2014, Airwars’ reports of civilians killed by U.S.-led bombing have surpassed reports of
deaths from Russian bombing.
Because of the fragmentary nature of all Airwars’ reports, this pattern may or may not accurately reflect
whether the U.S. or Russia has really killed more civilians in each of these periods. There are many factors that
could affect that.
For example, Western governments and NGOs have funded and supported the White Helmets and other groups who
report civilian casualties caused by Russian bombing, but there is no equivalent Western support for the reporting
of civilian casualties from the Islamic State-held areas that the U.S. and its allies are bombing. If Airwars’
reporting is capturing a greater proportion of actual deaths in one area than another due to factors like this, it
could lead to differences in the numbers of reported deaths that do not reflect differences in actual deaths.
Shock, Awe … and Silence
To put the 79,000
bombs and missiles with which the U.S. and its allies have bombarded Iraq and Syria since 2014 in
perspective, it is worth reflecting back to the “more innocent” days of “Shock and Awe” in March 2003.
As NPR reporter Sandy
Tolan reported in 2003, one of the architects of that campaign predicted that dropping 29,200 bombs and
missiles on Iraq would have, “the non-nuclear equivalent of the impact that the atomic weapons dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on Japan.”
When “Shock and Awe” was unleashed on Iraq in 2003, it dominated the news all over the world. But after eight
years of “disguised, quiet, media-free”
war under President Obama, the U.S. mass media don’t even treat the daily slaughter from this heavier,
more sustained bombardment of Iraq and Syria as news. They cover single mass casualty events for a few days, but
quickly resume normal “Trump
Show” programming.
As in George Orwell’s 1984, the public knows that our military forces are at war with somebody
somewhere, but the details are sketchy. “Is that still a thing?” “Isn’t North Korea the big issue now?”
There is almost no political debate in the U.S. over the rights and wrongs of the U.S. bombing campaign in Iraq
and Syria. Never mind that bombing Syria without authorization from its internationally recognized government is a
crime of aggression and a violation of the
U.N. Charter. The freedom of the United States to violate the U.N. Charter at will has already been politically
(not legally!) normalized by 17 years of serial aggression, from the bombing of
Yugoslavia in 1999 to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, to
drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.
So who will enforce the Charter now to protect civilians in Syria, who already face violence and death from all
sides in a bloody civil and proxy war, in which the U.S. was already deeply complicit well before it
began bombing Syria in 2014?
In terms of U.S. law, three successive U.S. regimes have claimed that their unconstrained violence is legally
justified by the Authorization for the Use of
Military Force passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001. But sweeping as it was, that bill said only,
“That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations,
organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred
on September 11th, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of
international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
How many of the thousands of civilians the U.S. has killed in Mosul in the past few months played any such role
in the September 11th terrorist attacks? Every person reading this knows the answer to that question: probably not
one of them. If one of them was involved, it would be by sheer coincidence.
Any impartial judge would reject a claim that this legislation authorized 16 years of war in at least eight
countries, the overthrow of governments that had nothing to do with 9/11, the killing of about 2 million people and
the destabilization of country after country – just as surely as the judges at Nuremberg rejected the German defendants’ claims that they invaded Poland,
Norway and the U.S.S.R. to prevent or “preempt” imminent attacks on Germany.
U.S. officials may claim that the 2002 Iraq AUMF legitimizes
the bombardment of Mosul. That law at least refers to the same country. But while it is also still on the books,
the whole world knew within months of its passage that it used false premises and outright lies to justify
overthrowing a government that the U.S. has since destroyed.
The U.S. war in Iraq officially ended with the withdrawal of the last U.S. occupation forces in 2011. The AUMF
did not and could not possibly have approved allying with a new regime in Iraq 14 years later to attack one of its
cities and kill thousands of its people.
Killing For Peace? More Civilian
Deaths Now Than Under Obama
RonPaulLibertyReport
Streamed live on Oct 19, 2017
Changing rules of engagement, increased bombing runs, and granting field officers more authority
to call in drone strikes has resulted in far more civilian casualties in the ongoing US wars in Afghanistan and the
Middle East. Will this acceleration lead to quicker victory? Or is it planting the seeds for yet more expansion of
the war?
Caught in a Web of War Propaganda
Do we really not know what war is? Has it been too long since Americans experienced war on our own soil?
Perhaps. But as thankfully distant as war may be from most of our daily lives, we cannot pretend that we do not
know what it is or what horrors it brings.
This month, two friends and I visited our Congresswoman’s office representing our local Peace Action affiliate, Peace Justice Sustainability Florida, to ask her to
cosponsor legislation to prohibit a U.S. nuclear first strike; to repeal the 2001 AUMF; to vote against the
military budget; to cut off funding for the deployment of U.S. ground troops to Syria; and to support diplomacy,
not war, with North Korea.
When one of my friends explained that he’d fought in Vietnam and started to talk about what he’d witnessed
there, he had to stop to keep from crying. But the staffer didn’t need him to go on. She knew what he was talking
about. We all do.
But if we all have to see dead and wounded children in the flesh before we can grasp the horror of war and take
serious action to stop it and prevent it, then we face a bleak and bloody future. As my friend and too many like
him have learned at incalculable cost, the best time to stop a war is before it starts, and the main lesson to
learn from every war is: “Never again!”
Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump won the presidency partly by presenting themselves as “peace” candidates.
This was a carefully calculated and calibrated element in both their campaigns, given the pro-war records of their
main opponents, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. The American
public’s aversion to war is a factor that every U.S. president and politician has to deal with, and promising peace
before spinning us into war is an American political tradition
that dates back to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
As Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering
admitted to American military psychologist Gustave Gilbert in his cell at Nuremberg, “Naturally, the
common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That
is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship.”
“There is one difference,” Gilbert insisted, “In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through
their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
Goering was unimpressed by Madison‘s and Hamilton’s cherished constitutional safeguards. “Oh, that
is all well and good,” he replied, “but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Our commitment to peace and our abhorrence of war are too easily undermined by the simple but timeless
techniques Goering described. In the U.S. today, they are enhanced by several other factors, most of which also had
parallels in World War Two Germany:
–Mass media that suppresspublic
awareness of the human costs of war, especially when U.S. policy or U.S. forces are
responsible.
–Amedia
blackout on voices of reason who advocate alternative policies based on peace, diplomacy
or the rule of international law.
–In the ensuing silence regarding rational alternatives, politicians and media
present“doing
something,” meaning war, as the only alternative to the perennial straw man of “doing
nothing.”
–The normalization of war by stealth and deception, especially by public figures otherwise seen as
trustworthy, likePresident
Obama.
–The dependence of progressive politicians and organizations on funding from labor unions that have
become junior partners in the military industrial complex.
–The political framing of U.S. disputes with other countries as entirely the result of actions by the
other side, and the demonization of foreign leaders to dramatize and popularize these false
narratives.
–The pretense that the U.S. role in overseas wars and global military occupation stems from a
well-meaningdesire
to help people, not from U.S. strategic ambitions and business interests.
Taken altogether, this amounts to a system of war propaganda, in which the heads of TV networks bear a
share of responsibility for the resulting atrocities along with political and military leaders. Trotting out
retired generals to bombard the home front with euphemistic jargon, without disclosingthe heftydirectors’ and
consultants’ feesthey collect from weapons manufacturers, is only one side of this
coin.
The equally important flip-side is the media’s failure to even cover wars or the U.S. role in them, and
their systematic marginalization of anyone who suggests there is anything morally or legally wrong with America’s
wars.
The Pope and Gorbachev
Pope Francis
recently suggested that a third party could act as a mediator to help resolve our country’s nearly
70-year-old conflict with North Korea. The Pope suggested Norway. Even more importantly, the Pope framed the
problem as a dispute between the United States and North Korea, not, as U.S. officials do, as North Korea posing a
problem or a threat to the rest of the world.
This is how diplomacy works best, by correctly and honestly identifying the roles that different parties are
playing in a dispute or a conflict, and then working to resolve their disagreements and conflicting interests in a
way that both sides can live with or even benefit from. The JCPOA that resolved the U.S. dispute with Iran over its
civilian nuclear program is a good example of how this can work.
This kind of real diplomacy is a far cry from the brinksmanship, threats and
aggressive alliances that have masqueraded as diplomacy under a succession of U.S. presidents and secretaries
of state since Truman and Acheson, with few
exceptions. The persistent desire of much of the U.S. political class to undermine the
JCPOA with Iran is a measure of how U.S. officials cling to the use of threats and brinksmanship and
are offended that the “exceptional” United States should have to come down from its high horse and negotiate
in good faith with other countries.
At the root of these dangerous policies, as historian William Appleman Williams wrote in The Tragedy of American
Diplomacy in 1959, lies the mirage of supreme military power that seduced U.S. leaders after the
allied victory in the Second World War and the invention of nuclear weapons. After running headlong into the
reality of an
unconquerable post-colonial world in Vietnam, this American Dream of ultimate power faded briefly, only to
be reborn with a vengeance after the end of the Cold War.
Much as its defeat in the First World War was not decisive enough to convince Germany that its military
ambitions were doomed, a new generation of U.S. leaders saw the end of the Cold War as their chance to
“kick the Vietnam syndrome” and revive America’s tragic bid for “full spectrum dominance.”
As Mikhail Gorbachev lamented in
a speech in Berlin on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2014, “the West, and
particularly the United States, declared victory in the Cold War. Euphoria and triumphalism went to the heads of
Western leaders. Taking advantage of Russia’s weakening and the lack of a counterweight, they claimed monopoly
leadership and domination of the world, refusing to heed words of caution from many of those present here.”
This post-Cold War triumphalism has predictably led us into an even more convoluted maze of delusions, disasters
and dangers than the Cold War itself. The folly of our leaders’ insatiable ambitions and recurrent flirtations with
mass extinction are best symbolized by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock, whose hands once again stand at two and a half minutes to midnight.
The inability of the costliest war machine ever assembled to defeat lightly-armed resistance forces in country
after country, or to restore stability to any of the countries it has destroyed, has barely dented the domestic
power of the U.S. military-industrial complex over our political institutions and our national resources. Neither
millions of deaths, trillions of dollars wasted, nor abject failure on its own terms has slowed the mindless spread
and escalation of the “global war on terror.”
Futurists debate whether robotic technology and artificial intelligence will one day lead to a world in which
autonomous robots could launch a war to enslave and destroy the human race, maybe even incorporating humans as
components of the machines that will bring about our extinction. In the U.S. armed forces and military industrial
complex, have we already created exactly such a semi-human, semi-technological organism that will not stop bombing,
killing and destroying unless and until we stop it in its tracks and dismantle it?
Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On OurHands: the American
Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He also wrote the chapters on “Obama at War” in Grading the 44th President:
a Report Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a Progressive Leader.
In 2009, less than two months after Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, Alex Jones/Infowars
released a documentary (The Obama Deception) exposing him as a mask used by the corrupt
power elite to instigate and provide cover to their machinations. Central to this presentation was
the “real” executive power structure. “…The president serves the military industrial complex,
itself owned by the international bankers.” However, in 2017, though Donald Trump was a puppet like
his predecessor, Alex Jones promoted him as a maverick outside of this systemic corruption that has
plagued America since Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the phrase, “Military Industrial Complex.” Using
the war in Yemen—which has produced the greatest humanitarian crisis on earth—as a case example,
The Trump Jones Deception shows how both men were yet another mask of deceit worn by the
corrupt establishment.
In 2009, less than two months after Barack Obama was inaugurated as president,
Alex Jones/Infowars released a documentary (The Obama Deception) exposing him as a mask
used by the corrupt power elite to instigate and provide cover to their machinations. Central to
this presentation was the “real” executive power structure. “…The president serves the military
industrial complex, itself owned by the international bankers.” However, in 2017, though Donald
Trump was a puppet like his predecessor, Alex Jones promoted him as a maverick outside of this
systemic corruption that has plagued America since Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the phrase,
“Military Industrial Complex.” Using the war in Yemen—which has produced the greatest humanitarian
crisis on earth—as a case example, The Trump Jones Deception shows how both men were
yet another mask of deceit worn by the corrupt establishment.
Under the rubric of Zionism, the dispossession
of Palestinians and annexation of their land has for decades been hidden in plain sight, along with Israeli
apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Though tourism flows in steadily to "The Holy Land," masking these egregious past
and present events from scrutiny, has been and is nothing short of Orwellian. The Zionist state of Israel is a
totalitarian state, whose ideologues' sentiments match those advocating world government. As Rev. Chuck Baldwin
exclaims, "For all intents and purposes, the Globalist agenda (the New World Order, call it what you will) and the
Zionist agenda, are one and the same." The Trump Jones Deception 2, demonstrates this fact, and the way in which
both Donald Trump and Alex Jones are a part of it.