The New Dark Age

23 April 2014 — WashingtonsBlog

War: The Big Picture

All of the talk of war in the Ukraine and Syria is confusing … so here’s an executive summary:

• War is horrible for the economy, and makes the American people poorer

• The American people are overwhelmingly opposed to more war in Ukraine, Syria, Iran and elsewhere

• But you don’t have any say in issues of war or peace. The U.S. is an oligarchy … not a democracy or a republic

• Indeed, opposing war may get you labeled as a terrorist(background)

• War makes a handful in the military-industrial complex and big banks rich

• So endless war is a feature – not a bug – of U.S. policy

• Moreover, empires usually launch wars against up-and-coming rivals, and so the U.S. is headed on a collision course with China

• And the powers-that-be are desperate to ramp up war to distract the population from our economic problems

• The U.S. and NATO will carry out false flag after false flag until they can create a “justification” for war which will people believe

• The neoconservatives planned regime change in  Syria and other countries 20 years ago, and Obama is implementing the same plan.  Indeed, not only are the Neocons back … they never actually left

• But it’s not a party thing.  The Dems have been on board for many years as well.  For example, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama’s foreign policy guru said in 1997 that the U.S. had to gain control of Ukraine

• The American media – including the big “alternative” sites – arealways pro-war – and coverage of Ukraine and Syria is arguablyeven worse than in the run up to the Iraq war – so the American people are not hearing the real story

• Even supposedly “open voting” sites like Reddit routinely censorstories which challenge the status quo in any fundamental way.   For example, Reddit’s front page has consistently carried anti-Russian stories on Ukraine

• Stories which talk about neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian government and U.S. meddling are stopped before they get traction

The REAL Reasons We’re Drifting Towards World War III was originally published on Washington’s Blog