In
an atmosphere of mass hysteria and paranoia (like the one we’re
living in at the moment), the authorities’ narratives do not have
to make sense, or stand up to any type of real scrutiny. Their
primary purpose is not to deceive, but rather, to demarcate an
ideological territory of acceptable belief, expression, and emotion
to which “normal” people are expected to conform. Beyond the
boundaries of that territory lies the outer darkness of “abnormality”
and “extremism,” which no “normal” person wants anything to
do with. To avoid being cast into this outer darkness, people will
conform to the most absurd and paranoid nonsense you can possibly
imagine. The global capitalist ruling classes know this, which is why
they don’t care if you disprove their narratives on Twitter or some
“disreputable” website they’ve rendered virtually invisible
anyway. They are not debating the facts or the truth … they are
marking the boundaries of that “normal” territory, and herding
frightened people into it.
by
CJ Hopkins
So the
global capitalist ruling classes’ War on Dissent is now in full
swing. With their new and improved official narrative, “Democracy
versus the Putin-Nazis,” successfully implanted in the public
consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on
delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly
absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.
The
Democratic Party is suing Russia, the Trump campaign, and Wikileaks
(seriously … they’ve filed an actual lawsuit in an actual court
of law an everything) for launching “an all-out assault on
democracy” by publishing the DNC’s emails, “an act of
unprecedented treachery,” according to Party Chairman Tom Perez.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, having already spent the last six
years in a room in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid being
arrested by the British authorities, extradited to the United States,
and imprisoned for the remainder of his natural life, has been cut
off from the outside world in order to prevent him from further
“interfering” with democracy by expressing his opinions.
In
Syria, where the “international community” has been battling the
“global terrorist threat” by supporting moderate jihadist
militias intent on overthrowing the government and establishing a
fundamentalist theocracy, the corporate media have been hard at work
sanctifying the official story of the “chemical weapons attack”
in Douma. According to this story, Bashar al-Assad, an uncooperative
brutal dictator whom the corporatocracy has been trying to replace
with a more cooperative brutal dictator, dropped a lot of chlorine
gas bombs (and possibly sarin, the deadly nerve agent), onto a house
full of innocent babies. He did this on the eve of victory over those
moderate jihadist militias the “international community” has been
supporting in their eight-year attempt to take over his country,
slaughter him and his entire family, mount their severed heads on
spikes, implement nationwide Sharia law, and then go out hunting
homosexuals and heretics to gruesomely behead on YouTube. The
evacuation of these freedom fighters was already being negotiated,
but Assad didn’t want to miss his last chance to sadistically gas a
lot of women and children and have the Western corporate media
broadcast his war crimes throughout the world, or something more or
less along those lines.
This
gratuitous baby-gassing massacre could not be allowed to go
unpunished, so Emmanuel Macron and other senior members of the
“international community” hauled Trump in off a golf course
somewhere (or wrestled him away from the Gorilla Channel) and ordered
him to order a completely pointless one hundred fifty million dollar
series of “retaliatory” missile strikes on assorted uninhabited
buildings containing zero chemical weapons and of absolutely no
strategic value. The corporate media and their paid menagerie of
military experts and other talking heads took to the airwaves to
celebrate this demonstration of international “resolve,” as did
investors in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics.
The
celebrations were short-lived, however, as the corporate media needed
to immediately turn their attention to aggressively countering the
malicious disinformation campaign being waged by the infamous
International Putin-Nazi Propaganda Network (i.e., anyone capable of
critical thinking). Reports by journalists actually in Syria, like
Robert Fisk of The Independent, casting doubt on the official story
needed to be strenuously ignored, ridiculed, and delegitimized. Fisk,
a respected, award-winning journalist who has covered the Middle East
for over four decades, had clearly been duped by his Putin-Nazi
minders into publishing pro-Assad propaganda. Just as clearly, any
actual Syrians contradicting the official story (which the corporate
media had scrupulously fact-checked with the US military and
intelligence agencies) had been intimidated into doing so by
Putin-Nazi-Assadist death squads.
But Fisk
and the Syrians are small potatoes compared to the discord-sowing
threat posed by the International League of Assad-Loving Twitter
Conspiracy Theorists, a decentralized network of “anti-Western,”
“pro-Assad,” extremist traitors led by people like Sarah
Abdallah, a shadowy figure whose current whereabouts the BBC is still
trying to pinpoint (and presumably report to MI6), and Vanessa
Beeley, an independent journalist who writes about Syria for an
“extreme right” website, speaks to “fringe groups,” and has
appeared on RT, which the BBC is at pains to remind us is a
“state-owned” media organization.
This
nefarious network of dissension-sowers is also responsible for the
“4000 percent increase” in Putin-Nazi propaganda in the wake of
the Poisoned Porridge Attack that “Russia” carried out in
Salisbury in March, in which operatives allegedly smeared the
doorknob of a former Russian intelligence officer and his daughter
with oatmeal laced with Novichok, “the deadliest nerve agent ever
devised,” instead of, well, you know, just shooting the guy, or
throwing him out of an upper-floor window. Despite the potency of
this lethal nerve agent, which, for some reason, “can only be made
in Russia,” both victims are expected to completely recover.
Tragically, their cat and guinea pigs, having also managed to survive
the attack, were slowly starved to death by the police, presumably
out of an abundance of caution.
In any
event, according to the diligent, authoritative investigative
journalists at The Guardian, following this brazen porridge attack,
“automated bots” “based in Russia,” like @Partisangirl and
@Ian56789, spread Putin-Nazi disinformation to millions of unknowing
Twitter users in an attempt to “undermine the international system”
(whatever that’s supposed to mean). As it turns out, @Partisangirl
is just a human being and not a robot at all, and @Ian56789 is just a
feisty British pensioner who is tired of being routinely lied to by
the government and the corporate media … unless, of course, he’s
a sleeper agent just posing as a feisty pensioner, which he hasn’t
been able to conclusively disprove to the satisfaction of the
corporate media. (Watch Ian being interrogated by a Sky News Russian
Bot-Hunting Team and judge his loyalties for yourself!).
These
are just a few examples of how the global capitalist ruling classes
and their mouthpieces in the corporate media have been generating an
atmosphere of mindless hysteria and paranoia in the service of
drawing “a line in the sand” between neoliberalism (i.e., global
capitalism) and any and all forms of dissent therefrom. They’ve
been at this, relentlessly, for almost two years now, since they
recognized they were being confronted with a bona fide widespread
“populist” insurgency against the hegemony of global capitalism,
not just in the Greater Middle East, but right in the heart of the
Western empire.
I’ve
been writing about this since 2016, so I’m not going to try to
rehash all that here. The short version is, Western societies are
being divided into two opposing camps … two extremely broad
ideological camps, both of which encompass the traditional political
division into left and right. Let’s call camp number one “the
Normals” (i.e., those who support and conform to the values and
ideology of global capitalism, regardless of whether they identify as
conservatives, liberals, neoliberals, neoconservatives, or anything
else). Let’s call camp number two “the Extremists” (i.e., those
opposing global capitalism, or not conforming to its ideology,
regardless of whether they identify as socialists, communists,
anarchists, fascists, anti-fascists, jihadists, or whatever).
While,
of course, real political conflict still takes place within each of
these two broad camps, the global capitalist ruling classes are less
concerned with the “left/right” equation than they are with
“Normal/Extremist” equation. This is the battle they are fighting
currently. Short some sort of miraculous event, it is a battle they
are going to win. They are going to win it by demonizing anyone
opposing global capitalism as one or another form of “extremist”
… an Islamic terrorist, an Antifa terrorist, a white supremacist, a
Black identity extremist, an anti-Semite, a conspiracy theorist, an
Assad apologist, a Russian bot, a Putin-Nazi propagandist … or
whatever. It doesn’t really matter which labels they use. The point
is, anyone not conforming to the global capitalist version of reality
is an enemy of all that is normal and good.
In an
atmosphere of mass hysteria and paranoia (like the one we’re living
in at the moment), the authorities’ narratives do not have to make
sense, or stand up to any type of real scrutiny. Their primary
purpose is not to deceive, but rather, to demarcate an ideological
territory of acceptable belief, expression, and emotion to which
“normal” people are expected to conform. Beyond the boundaries of
that territory lies the outer darkness of “abnormality” and
“extremism,” which no “normal” person wants anything to do
with. To avoid being cast into this outer darkness, people will
conform to the most absurd and paranoid nonsense you can possibly
imagine. The global capitalist ruling classes know this, which is why
they don’t care if you disprove their narratives on Twitter or some
“disreputable” website they’ve rendered virtually invisible
anyway. They are not debating the facts or the truth … they are
marking the boundaries of that “normal” territory, and herding
frightened people into it.
This
article in Haaretz by Alexander Reid Ross, a lecturer at Portland
State University who has been publishing (or attempting to publish) a
series of rather paranoid pieces smearing people he disagrees with as
neo-Strasserist sleeper agents, provides an extreme but clear example
of what Western governments and the corporate media have been doing,
albeit on a much subtler level. Read the piece through if you can
possibly stand it. You will be told how people like Michael Savage,
Rania Khalek, Alex Jones, Breitbart’s entire UK office, Cenk Ugyur,
Max Blumenthal, Caitlin Johnstone, Glenn Greenwald, The Nation‘s
Stephen F. Cohen, Tucker Carlson, Vanessa Beeley (again), various
British fascists, Jeremy Corbyn, and that modern-day Rasputin, Lyndon
LaRouche, are all parts of the insidious Putin-Nazi plot to … well,
I’m not sure, exactly, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do
with killing Jews and gassing babies.
Would
you like to be associated with people like that … Assad-loving,
Putin-supporting Nazis? No? Then stop and think very carefully before
sharing, “liking,” or commenting on this essay.
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