Chomsky equals Trump to Hitler and Mussolini

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(The Real Agenda) Liberals cannot stand Trump because he took away their dream to continue governing the United States for another 8 years with the same insanity shown by Barack Obama. The only difference between the two Liberal options was that under Hillary the US would have certainly gone to war with Russia, while with Sanders the country would become, although for a very short period of time, a socialist utopia.

Swimming in the ocean of mindless criticism of Trump, there are a few politicians and intellectuals who, due to their academic accomplishment, are heard with more attention than the average insane Liberal. However, no academic degree can take away lunacy, can it?

That is the case of Noam Chomsky. He is a very well known American “intellectual” who has written numerous books on the abuses of the State. He wrote insightful manuals on how the media is controlled and how government uses oppressive and coercive practices to keep people in line.

His works, which have been popular for years, became even more popular under the George W. Bush presidency, when the US attacked and destroyed the Middle East.

In a recent press conference in Mexico, Chomsky spoke about the 45th US President, declaring that Trump is a skillful demagogue, who has managed to connect with the “legitimate fears” on the part of society, “as Hitler and Mussolini did.”

“Trump is a phenomenon that reflects the moment in which the country finds itself after decades of policies that have concentrated political and economic power in a few, and that have distorted the capacity of institutions to serve their citizens,” he added.

Chomsky, a Professor Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was invited to Mexico by its flagship university, UNAM, to the lecture series The harassment of civilization. During the event, the “intellectual” identified the US as the reason why drugs are sold with such success.

The rise of the Republican tycoon is, for the 88-year-old linguist who began his political activism against the Vietnam War, the result of emptiness, helplessness and even the humiliation felt by the white working class before the American political establishment. “Especially the Democratic Party, which has forgotten to address material issues.”

The Democratic Party has treated the white working class as stupid 

“Trump has managed to make them feel that he is the only politician who gives them a voice, who defends their traditions and culture. Later, Chomsky constructed bridges in what appears to be his analysis of how Trump is an incarnation of Hitler or Mussolini.

In addition, “he has built an external enemy: Mexicans, Asians, migrants. It is the same logic that Hitler used with the Jews, although obviously neither the Jews were going to destroy Germany nor the migrants will do it with the United States. “

On the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the philosopher interpreted the uncompromising position of the US as an opportunity for the other two partners “Mexico and Canada should take advantage to introduce elements that favor their citizens, such as trade union rights”.

Chomsky piled on the US saying that “the origin of the drug problem in Mexico is the United States”, recalling that from the northern neighbor come the greater demand for drugs and the greater supply of arms.

The emergence of the new social movements against the neoliberal policies of the late nineties, known as anti-globalization, recovered the figure of the veteran philosopher with titles such as “Fear of democracy” or “How do we sell the motorcycle, where the simple language and pedagogical will landed dangers of deregulation of markets, the enthronement of finances and the weakening of unions”.

Applied, for example, to the phenomenon of global warming, his theses sounded this Wednesday in Mexico: “If you are an oil company, your only interest and objective is immediate profit.

In your operative plans you do not conceive that what you are doing can end the life of your children. Everything that does not benefit is considered an externality, something accessory. That is the heart of the capitalist economy, a system that is destined for self-destruction “

As shown in Chomsky’s statements, Liberals still cannot swallow that Trump is occupying the White House. Liberals blame Trump for dangers created via unnecessary wars brought about by men and women from all sides of the political spectrum over the last 50 years.

People like Chomsky have betrayed real Liberals with their support for the false “global warming” debacle and for failing to publicly admit that illegal immigration is indeed a threat to any country in the world, even the United States of America. In these two issues, Chomsky, knowingly or not, sides with the corporations he apparently criticises for seeking profit and little else.

Illegal immigration and so-called global warming are both corporate inventions to seize more power from the people. There is no threat of global warming in the way it is explained by dubious studies and debunked “scientists”. Human activity is not the main cause of any warming, and human emissions are only a small portion of the total CO2 or water vapor that is released into the atmosphere.

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Noam Chomsky: ‘Antifa is Wrong in Principle — a Major Gift to the Militant Right’

Progressive intellectual icon Noam Chomsky has publicly stated that the Antifa movement, while being embraced by the mainstream media after the recent violence in Charlottesville, will only serve to embolden militant right-wing extremists – essentially creating a feedback loop of escalating violence.

“As for Antifa, it’s a minuscule fringe of the Left, just as its predecessors were. It’s a major gift to the right, including the militant right, who are exuberant,” Chomsky told the Washington Examiner.

While the mass media has taken up the cause of portraying Antifa as freedom fighters who defend against “Nazis,” the reality is starkly different, as many of the activists affiliated with the movement consider themselves left-anarchists or socialists, who often wear all black and masks to conceal their identity.

Chomsky said, “what they do is often wrong in principle – like blocking talks – and [the movement] is generally self-destructive.”

Chomsky is likely referring to the repeated violence seen on college campuses, where Antifa violently assaulted anyone attempting to attend events by controversial right-wing speakers, like Milo Yiannopolous, whose speech at the University of Berkley was canceled earlier this year as numerous attendees were violently beaten for simply trying to attend the event. Antifa then proceeded to cause over $100,000 dollars of damage in their subsequent rioting on the UC Berkley campus.

According to a report by Forbes:

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Yiannopoulos had been invited by the Berkeley College Republicans to speak, but announced around 8pm PT on Wednesday that he had been evacuated from the campus due to massive protests. “The hard left has become so antithetical to free speech in the last few years,” he said in a video posted on Facebook.

The event began as a peaceful protest. Some students reported on Facebook that things turned violent when masked individuals not affiliated with the school turned up, though the details of what happened are still unverified. Images on Twitter depicted violent protests with damage to local business.

Fire at Wells Fargo #milo @berkeleyside pic.twitter.com/oDlqu3px4R

— Kevin Kunze (@KunzeFilms) February 2, 2017

on Antifa at Berkley: "according to reports, the protests were peaceful until a group of several dozen… https://t.co/CVzMySebdq

— Kandace (@Canada4Bernie) August 17, 2017

The excuse used by Antifa is that they are smashing “fascism,” while in reality, they are simply attempting to shut down public discourse, through violence, that challenges their ideological views.

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“When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it’s the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is,” said Chomsky, a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “That’s quite apart from the opportunity costs – the loss of the opportunity for education, organizing, and serious and constructive activism.”

While the mainstream media, and some prominent members of the GOP, came out to condemn President Trump’s Tuesday statement at a press conference – where he noted that “both sides” deserved blame – the reality is that both sides are to blame for the steadily increasing violence connected to political speech. Critics believed that the president should have solely singled out white supremacists.

“There was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you’ve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group,” Trump said on Tuesday. “So, you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.”

Make no mistake that what you are witnessing is a self-sustaining feedback loop of violence. As the alt right rose to prominence as a nationalist movement, with overtones of protectionism, which many on the left label as racist (obviously there is fringe minority of racist elements within the larger alt right movement), the hard left felt a rising tide of open bigotry towards minorities and foreigners, which precipitated their attempts to shut down anyone who espouses ideas that conflict with their progressive and inclusive worldview.

In response to seeing people beaten for simply trying to attend a speech, or wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, the hard right began to gain conflict solidarity as a more cohesive movement due to the repeated and continuous assaults on Trump supporters – which interestingly the mainstream media never seemed to condemn nor publicize.

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Mark Lance, professor of justice and peace at Georgetown University, said he views the Antifa movement’s rise as a response to more open fascists organizing.

“I’m seeing more concrete productive discussion between anti-fascists and others on the Left these days than ever before in my life,” Lance said.

“There is reason to think that it will become integrated into an emerging coalition that includes Sanders supporters, democratic socialists, dreamers, the Movement for Black Lives, environmentalists, [and] Native American organizers,” he said.

Lance said Antifa actions “need not be violent confrontation, but most Antifa, in practice, are willing to physically resist fascist marches and defend themselves against fascist attack.”

But therein lies the rub…

How can a college student that supports Trumps, and attends a speech by Milo Yiannopoloulos be given a blanket label of being a fascist?

So, is anyone who voted for Trump now considered a racist, fascist or Nazi?

It is important to point out that this is not an endorsement of Trump. While Americans fight amongst themselves, under Trump’s watch, the military-industrial complex is laying waste to the Middle East and the police state is continuously expanding — just as they did under Obama.

While it’s one thing for “Antifa” to physically resist or defend themselves, Lance’s assertions of what has manifested seem disingenuous to the reality seen over the past 16 months, as the majority of the offensive violence was perpetrated against non-violent people whose ideological views are at simply at odds with that of the “Antifa” movement.

While it may be ok to punch an actual Nazi who is threatening you, when did it become ok to punch people for simply attempting to listen, or espouse, ideas you don’t like or find repugnant?

What we see transpiring is blanket label being given to anyone whose views conflict that of Antifa, thus being labeled as a Nazis, racist, or fascist – when in reality the person being assaulted may be none of those things.

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Ironically, this how the actual Nazi movement in Weimar Germany was able to marginalize Jews, labeling them as subhuman and vermin. Essentially, Antifa is operating with similar tactics as they attempt to dehumanize those they want to politically marginalize. Calling them racists, fascists or Nazis, is a means of legitimizing the violence they perpetuate in the name of their political ideology.

No one is condemning the defensive use of force against those attempting to perpetrate violence on others, but using violence to silence those whose politics differ from yours — who are not a violent threat — is when you cross the line from being an anti-fascists to being an actual fascist.

Chomsky: Trump is a Distraction, Used by the Deep State to ‘Systematically Destroy’ America

World-renowned intellectual giant and respected academic, MIT professor Noam Chomsky recently sat down for an interview called ‘A Continuing Conversation with Geographers’. In the interview, he clearly makes his thoughts known regarding the Trump administration’s ongoing media driven pseudo-scandal involving Russia, and specifically concerning Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Chomsky, the author of more than 100 books, including “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” in which he breaks down how U.S. corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion by propagandizing the American people, didn’t mince his words, previously noting:

“It’s a pretty remarkable fact that — first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships.”

“Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways,” said Chomsky. “So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world.”

“So why are the Democrats focusing on this?” he said. “In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump’s programs which is fairly reasonable, the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That’s—the tensions on the Russian border are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed.”

“Just a couple of days ago,” said Chomsky, “the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, came out and said he just can’t believe that so much attention is being paid to apparent efforts by the incoming administration to establish connections with Russia.” He said, ‘Sure, that’s just what they ought to be doing.’”

Continuing, Chomsky said, “So, you know, yeah, maybe the Russians tried to interfere in the election. That’s not a major issue. Maybe the people in the Trump campaign were talking to the Russians. Well, okay, not a major point, certainly less than is being done constantly.”

“And it is a kind of a paradox,” he said, “that the one issue that seems to inflame the Democratic opposition is the one thing that has some justification and reasonable aspects to it.”

Maintaining a similar line of thinking in this most recent interview, Chomsky maintained that the Putin meeting should be seen as a responsible gesture of diplomacy rather than collusion with the Russians. He went on to note that the media would better serve the public interest if they actually focused on what is happening behind the scenes of the Trump administration.

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“What’s going on is a very systematic two-tiered operation. One of them is Trump, Bannon, the effort to try to make sure you capture the headlines, that you’re top of the news, one crazy thing after another just to capture people’s attention. And the assumption is ‘Well they’re gonna forget later anyway.’”

Essentially, Chomsky believes that the contrived pseudo-scandal that is Russiagate only serves as a distraction from the actual scandalous happenings that are taking place on a daily basis in Washington, D.C., and only serve to embolden the “rich and powerful.”

“While everything is focusing on that, the Paul Ryan republicans, who are, in my view, the most dangerous and savage group in the country, are busy implementing programs that they have been talking quietly about for years. Very savage programs, which have very simple principles. One, be sure to offer to the rich and powerful gifts beyond the dreams of avarice, and [two], kick everyone else in the face. And it’s going on step by step right behind the bluster.”

To drive this point home, Chomsky says one need look no further than the configuration of the cabinet:

“Take a look at the cabinet. The cabinet was designed that way. Every cabinet official was chosen to destroy anything of human significance in that part of the government. It’s so systematic that it can’t be unplanned. I doubt that Trump planned it. My impression is that his only ideology is ‘me’. But whoever is working on it is doing a pretty effective job, and the Democrats are cooperating – cooperating in a very striking way.”

While typically the Democratic party would act as a counterbalance to the GOP agenda, in this Trump-era — with a media circus/reality show environment — Chomsky, a leftist, notes that they have simply played into the media hype over Russia. They are taking what would be looked at under almost any other circumstance as acts of diplomacy and attempting to paint them as scandalous.

“Take a look at the focus in Çongress. It’s one of the few decent things Trump has been doing. So maybe members of his transition team contacted the Russians. Is that a bad thing? Recent ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, had a blog where he pointed out that ‘It’s exactly what you should be doing. It’s the job of ambassadors and diplomats coming in. There are serious problems and tensions you want to talk over to see if there’s anything you can do about them. Instead of just building up force and violence.’ That’s what the democrats are focusing on, and meanwhile all these other things are going on and they’re not saying anything about them.”

Over the years, Chomsky has refined what he calls, the ‘propaganda model’ of the corporate mass media. He posits that not only does the media systematically suppress and distort, but when they do present facts, the context obscures the actual meaning. In essence, the mass media uses brainwashing to keep people subservient to large corporate interests.

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Thus, Chomsky’s words should be taken extremely seriously when he recently referred to news stories being pushed in the mass corporate media, about Trump-Russia “collusion,” as little more than “a joke.” In fact, he says that this neo-McCarthyist/anti-Russia propaganda degrades one of the positive aspects of the Trump administration – a drive to reduce hostility with rival nuclear power Russia.

“The media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful societal interests that control and finance them. The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy.” –Chomsky

Watch the full interview with Professor Noam Chomsky below:

Chomsky Exposes Russiagate as Propaganda: ‘It is a Joke’ & ‘The World is Laughing at Us’

World-renowned academic and leftist intellectual giant, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, has historically been hostile to establishment power and privilege – literally writing the book about how consent is manufactured using media to support an elite-driven policy agenda.

Thus, Chomsky’s words should be taken extremely seriously when he recently referred to news stories being pushed in the mass corporate media, about Trump-Russia “collusion,” as little more than “a joke.” In fact, he says that this neo-McCarthyist/anti-Russia propaganda degrades one of the positive aspects of the Trump administration – a drive to reduce hostility with rival nuclear power Russia.

Over the years, Chomsky has refined what he calls, the ‘propaganda model’ of the corporate mass media. He posits that not only does the media systematically suppress and distort, but when they do present facts, the context obscures the actual meaning. In essence, the mass media uses brainwashing to keep people subservient to large corporate interests.

“The media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful societal interests that control and finance them. The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy.” –Chomsky

During a panel discussion with Chomsky on Democracy Now, one of the panelists referenced Chomsky’s commentary on the Trump/Russia collusion being “a joke,” and asked him,

“Could you give us your view on what’s happening and why there’s so much emphasis on this particular issue?”

Chomsky, the author of more than 100 books, including “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” in which he breaks down how U.S. corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion by propagandizing the American people, didn’t mince his words, noting:

“It’s a pretty remarkable fact that — first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships.”

“Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways,” said Chomsky. “So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world.”

“So why are the Democrats focusing on this?” he said. “In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump’s programs which is fairly reasonable, the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That’s—the tensions on the Russian border are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed.”

“Just a couple of days ago,” said Chomsky, “the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, came out and said he just can’t believe that so much attention is being paid to apparent efforts by the incoming administration to establish connections with Russia.” He said, ‘Sure, that’s just what they ought to be doing."”

Continuing, Chomsky said, “So, you know, yeah, maybe the Russians tried to interfere in the election. That’s not a major issue. Maybe the people in the Trump campaign were talking to the Russians. Well, okay, not a major point, certainly less than is being done constantly.”

“And it is a kind of a paradox,” he said, “that the one issue that seems to inflame the Democratic opposition is the one thing that has some justification and reasonable aspects to it.”

One need to look no further than the Washington Post to understand how U.S. media frequently serve as an errand boy for U.S. corporate, military and imperial interests. Unsurprisingly, Jeff Bezos, owner of WaPo, is deeply connected to U.S. intelligence/security services, as the holder of a $600 million dollar CIA contract.

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As the Nation reported at the time:

“[Jeff Bezos] recently secured a $600 million contract from the CIA. That’s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently disclosed that the company’s Web-services business is building a ‘private cloud’ for the CIA to use for its data needs.”

Although these connections aren’t enough to prove nefarious collaboration outright, these anomalous relationships seriously call into question the validity of a newspaper that claims to be a paper of national repute.

Moreover, history reveals actual collusion between the CIA and numerous news outlets, including the Washington Post, under a covert program, called Operation Mockingbird, to influence public perceptions by infiltrating newsrooms across America.

In 1977, a former Post journalist, Carl Bernstein, exposed the CIA’s clandestine efforts to infiltrate and subvert the news media, often with the knowledge and assistance of top management at these journalistic outlets. In total, Bernstein reported, over 400 journalists were reportedly involved:

“Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without portfolio for their country…In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.”

Make no mistake that the U.S. mainstream corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion, by propagandizing the American people into believing a false reality, or propaganda model, which serves the plutocratic oligarchy. According to Chomsky, Russiagate is the fake news you have been warned about!

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Chomsky Exposes Russiagate as Propaganda: ‘It is a Joke’ & ‘The World is Laughing at Us’

World-renowned academic and leftist intellectual giant, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, has historically been hostile to establishment power and privilege – literally writing the book about how consent is manufactured using media to support an elite-driven policy agenda.

Thus, Chomsky’s words should be taken extremely seriously when he recently referred to news stories being pushed in the mass corporate media, about Trump-Russia “collusion,” as little more than “a joke.” In fact, he says that this neo-McCarthyist/anti-Russia propaganda degrades one of the positive aspects of the Trump administration – a drive to reduce hostility with rival nuclear power Russia.

Over the years, Chomsky has refined what he calls, the ‘propaganda model’ of the corporate mass media. He posits that not only does the media systematically suppress and distort, but when they do present facts, the context obscures the actual meaning. In essence, the mass media uses brainwashing to keep people subservient to large corporate interests.

“The media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful societal interests that control and finance them. The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy.” –Chomsky

During a panel discussion with Chomsky on Democracy Now, one of the panelists referenced Chomsky’s commentary on the Trump/Russia collusion being “a joke,” and asked him,

“Could you give us your view on what’s happening and why there’s so much emphasis on this particular issue?”

Chomsky, the author of more than 100 books, including “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” in which he breaks down how U.S. corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion by propagandizing the American people, didn’t mince his words, noting:

“It’s a pretty remarkable fact that — first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships.”

“Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways,” said Chomsky. “So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world.”

“So why are the Democrats focusing on this?” he said. “In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump’s programs which is fairly reasonable, the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That’s—the tensions on the Russian border are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed.”

“Just a couple of days ago,” said Chomsky, “the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, came out and said he just can’t believe that so much attention is being paid to apparent efforts by the incoming administration to establish connections with Russia.” He said, ‘Sure, that’s just what they ought to be doing."”

Continuing, Chomsky said, “So, you know, yeah, maybe the Russians tried to interfere in the election. That’s not a major issue. Maybe the people in the Trump campaign were talking to the Russians. Well, okay, not a major point, certainly less than is being done constantly.”

“And it is a kind of a paradox,” he said, “that the one issue that seems to inflame the Democratic opposition is the one thing that has some justification and reasonable aspects to it.”

One need to look no further than the Washington Post to understand how U.S. media frequently serve as an errand boy for U.S. corporate, military and imperial interests. Unsurprisingly, Jeff Bezos, owner of WaPo, is deeply connected to U.S. intelligence/security services, as the holder of a $600 million dollar CIA contract.

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As the Nation reported at the time:

“[Jeff Bezos] recently secured a $600 million contract from the CIA. That’s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently disclosed that the company’s Web-services business is building a ‘private cloud’ for the CIA to use for its data needs.”

Although these connections aren’t enough to prove nefarious collaboration outright, these anomalous relationships seriously call into question the validity of a newspaper that claims to be a paper of national repute.

Moreover, history reveals actual collusion between the CIA and numerous news outlets, including the Washington Post, under a covert program, called Operation Mockingbird, to influence public perceptions by infiltrating newsrooms across America.

In 1977, a former Post journalist, Carl Bernstein, exposed the CIA’s clandestine efforts to infiltrate and subvert the news media, often with the knowledge and assistance of top management at these journalistic outlets. In total, Bernstein reported, over 400 journalists were reportedly involved:

“Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without portfolio for their country…In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.”

Make no mistake that the U.S. mainstream corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion, by propagandizing the American people into believing a false reality, or propaganda model, which serves the plutocratic oligarchy. According to Chomsky, Russiagate is the fake news you have been warned about!

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Noam Chomsky: If Trump Support Drops, US May See ‘Staged Terrorist Attack’

With President Trump’s approval rating sinking below even the nadir of presidential favorability, it stands to reason only a paucity of the billionaire’s campaign pledges have been addressed as originally promised — and although typical for modern U.S. presidents, his base has begun to grow weary of hollow vows.

The country is indisputably on edge.

Assurances to drain the swamp resulted in flooding the void with bankers and corporate elite of the same ilk — if differing political stance — as the previous administration. Others — such as The Wall, or the mass deportation of improperly-documented immigrants and criminals, or the wonky, derogatorily-termed Muslim Ban — only loosely follow what Trump championed in the run-up to the election.

And then there’s Obamacare.

Resentment the president might indeed fail to overhaul Washington’s political establishment now rumbles at a slow boil around the nation — even among members of Trump’s adopted GOP — and that could be treacherous, admonished illustrious academic, Professor Noam Chomsky, in an interview with AlterNet editor-at-large, Jan Frel.

Asked whether the president’s support base will continue backing each new measure or admit he hasn’t lived up to expectations, Chomsky explained,

“I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come to recognize, that the promises are built on sand. There is nothing there.

“And I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come to recognize, that the promises are built on sand. There is nothing there.”

But it’s what the itinerant political analyst added that should send chills down the collective American spine:

“I think that we shouldn’t put aside the possibility that there would be some kind of staged or alleged terrorist act, which can change the country instantly.”

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Since September 11, 2001, just about any act of violence that could be pawned off on terrorism has been, so the idea an event would be manufactured — rather from scratch, or opportunistically — to distract from the mess that is Washington and garner emotional support for unpopular military operations not only isn’t unrealistic, it’s happened before.

Consider the Vietnam War.

Granted, the national political climate leaned toward the opposite side of the aisle over half a century ago, but the U.S. government tends only to recycle and repurpose methods proving efficacious — and the Gulf of Tonkin was one such operation.

Because the Gulf of Tonkin incident — which fomented U.S. involvement in Vietnam — never actually happened.

“On 2 August 1964,” wrote U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Pat Paterson for Naval History Magazine in 2008. “North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats attacked the USS Maddox … while the destroyer was in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin. There is no doubting that fact. But what happened in the Gulf during the late hours of 4 August — and the consequential actions taken by U.S. officials in Washington — has been seemingly cloaked in confusion and mystery ever since that night.”

Documents declassified and released in 2005 and 2006 evince the Maddox hadn’t come under attack at all — and officials scrambled to assess the situation and opportune exploding chaos to their advantage.

To President Lyndon Johnson, that meant the signing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution — the legislative catalyst for full involvement in Vietnam.

However, despite signing the resultant resolution, even the president had no legitimate reason to believe the second attack on the Maddox had ever occurred, as Johnson candidly admitted to then-press secretary Bill Moyers one year after the attacks,

“For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there.”

The Gulf of Tonkin incident occupies no unique spot in governmental manipulation of the populace — nor does the U.S. stand alone in States employing false flag events and deftly-crafted outcomes from organically occurring incidents.

But, as Chomsky points out, growing ambivalence with the Trump administration’s multitudinous disappointments and failures in just the first few months — coupled with an abysmal approval rating, 36 percent, worse than the absolute rock bottom experienced by either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama throughout the duration of their administrations — the timing seems ripe for a convenient mishap to lure the disaffected back to the fold.

Whether or not the famed academic’s prognostication comes true has potentially months to play out — but in the meantime, it would be prudent to examine any questionable events to discern fact from propaganda — and to be wary of unsubstantiated statements from unnamed officials.

End of the US Empire: Russian Warships Just Arrived in the Philippines

January 6, 2017   |   Darius Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — Notable American foreign policy critic and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, has stated numerous times that the United States’ power has steadily been declining since the end of World War II. As Chomsky notes, in 1945, the United States had “literally half the world’s wealth, incredible security, controlled the entire Western Hemisphere, both oceans, [and[ the opposite sides of both oceans.”

In that context – and in the context of the United States waging war in multiple countries across the globe with the most advanced military technology in the world – it is hard to understand how this has happened. But Chomsky is not wrong.

Beginning with what was referred to as the “loss of China” in the 1940s, the United States slowly began to lose areas of Southeast Asia, which led America to brutally launch the Indochina wars. As Chomsky notes, by destroying South Vietnam in the heavily criticized Vietnam War — a move designed to prevent Vietnam from achieving independence and perhaps becoming a Communist state — the U.S. sent a message to the rest of Indochina that if a nation attempted to break free of U.S-European control, it would likely be bombed into oblivion. The strategy worked at the time; as Chomsky notes, by 1965, every country in the region had dictatorships that were prepared to rule in a way suitable to America’s foreign policy interests. As recent developments in the Asian region have shown, however, the success of this bully-style strategy has been short-lived indeed.

Regardless, the United States has also lost South America. According to Chomsky, the “loss” of South America is easily observable:

“One sign is that the United States has been driven out of every single military base in South America. We’re trying to restore a few, but right now there are none.”

Over the course of the last few decades, the United States has begun to lose the Middle East, as well. In Iraq, the United States helped support Saddam Hussein’s rise to power and went so far to support his war of aggression against neighboring Iran. Then, the U.S. turned its back on Hussein, attacking Iraq in 1991 under the presidency of George H.W. Bush. As a result, the U.S. learned at least one valuable lesson from bombing Iraq in the early nineties: that Russia was not going to intervene in America’s ambitions in the Middle East.

The Middle East was, therefore, ripe for the taking, and this continued to be the case up until the Syrian war. What people fail to understand, however, is that the United States is not bombing the Middle East into submission because of its immense power, but because it is losing its power, influence, and control throughout the region.

As should be quite clear to anyone following the conflict, Russia has replaced the United States as judge, jury, and executioner (and supposed peace broker) in the five-year Syrian war, successfully retaking the major city of Aleppo from NATO-backed rebel groups.

Russia’s advances in the Middle East have spilled over to the rest of the world. In October of last year, the U.S. officially “lost” its stranglehold over the Philippines. Though it was previously seen as an integral ally U.S. ally vital to countering China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region, the Philippines openly and proudly boasted about their new ties with Russia and China.

As it transpires, the Philippines has put its money where its mouth is. Russian warships arrived in Filipino territory this Tuesday. According to the Philippines’ Navy, the visit is merely a “goodwill visit,” but the future of joint exercises is to be discussed. A report from Russia’s state-run Sputnik News seemed to contradict this, stating the ships were there specifically to conduct joint exercises with Philippine forces for the purposes of fighting maritime piracy and terrorism.

“You can choose to cooperate with United States of America or to cooperate with Russia,” Russian Rear Admiral Eduard Mikhailov said, speaking at the Manila Harbor.“But from our side we can help you in every way that you need. We are sure that in the future we’ll have exercises with you. Maybe just maneuvering or maybe use of combat systems and so on.”

Mikhailov also seemed to indicate that other players in the region, such as China and Malaysia, would coordinate with the potential training exercises within the next few years. Russia has also offered the Philippines sophisticated weaponry, including aircraft and submarines.

The United States has only one move left: surround Russia’s borders with NATO troops and missiles, which they are doing quite rapidly. Sooner or later, however, the United States will have to admit its very real decline in world standing and will have no choice but to learn to coordinate global affairs with the likes of Russia and China.

Let’s face it — what is the alternative?

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Noam Chomsky Exposes the ‘Propaganda Model’ Used to Control the U.S. Population in 6 Minutes

Do you believe what you read in the media?

Has it ever occurred to you that it could be a system of propaganda designed to limit how you imagine the world?

Unbeknownst to most Americans we are currently living in Orwell’s nightmare. A 1984-style reality where propaganda rules — where thought is controlled — and where most people are blissfully unaware of this thought control even taking place.

World-renowned academic, and intellectual giant, Noam Chomsky, has historically been hostile to establishment power and privilege. Over the years, he refined, what he calls, the ‘propaganda model’ of the media. Not only does the media systematically suppress and distort, when they do present facts, the context obscures the actual meaning. In essence, the mass media uses brainwashing to keep people subservient to large corporate interests.

Freedoms of thought and expression are thought to be central to the western system of democracy – or so we are taught to believe from a young age. So to some, the idea that we live in an Orwellian reality may cause a measure of cognitive dissonance. But to Noam Chomsky, who’s devoted his life to questioning western state power, the idea of a truth seeking media is simply a work of fiction.

Essentially, U.S. mainstream corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion by propagandizing the American people. Chomsky, in his book “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” detailed how U.S. media frequently serve as an errand boy for U.S. corporate, military and imperial interests.

“The media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful societal interests that control and finance them. The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy.” –Chomsky

It should be noted that Chomsky has become the enemy de jour of the mainstream media after exposing them as a propaganda wing of government. He is almost never given airtime on mass media, appearing only infrequently on RT and Democracy Now. Chomsky’s message was too dangerous, so, of course, they need to use the power of mass media to silence the broad distribution of his crucial message.

Subsequently, in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, Facebook has been targeted by behind the scene oligarchic forces that largely control society, and, their respective government representatives, such as President Obama, as being partially responsible for the outcome of the election through the spread of misinformation.

In reality, the opposite is true, as this election cycle saw social media allow people to peer through the facade of mass media and see factual information presented by non-corporate news entities, such as the plethora of emails released by WikiLeaks. Note that the mainstream news attempted to ignore these releases and not report on them as a means of shaping public discourse. The even went so far as to declare reading them illegal. 

Essentially, the gatekeepers of information were not able to do their job as propagandists efficiently as there was a counter narrative of truth that overcame the usual methods of controlling the public narrative.

This has resulted in a push to have Facebook censor “fake news” as forwarded by controversial liberal professor Mish Zimdars, who released a “fake news” list that featured “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical ‘News’ Sources.”

The problem is that only two of those modifiers suggest actual fake news —”false” and “satirical.” The other two words are judgment calls that we make, ourselves, as informed readers. Note that this is precisely the type of propaganda Chomsky warned about.

In light the recent move to censor “fake news” on Facebook, his message has become even more important. While many people welcome the censoring of clearly fallacious new stories, there is an insidious nature in the manner in which ideologically based news sites have been lumped in with satire and false news.

There is a clear and present danger of a massive censorship regime that includes legitimate, ideologically based, news content on Facebook — an extremely slippery slope to traverse once venturing down the path of stifling the free flow of information.

In the video below, listen to Chomsky break down how this subtle but powerful system of control works to influence and control the narrative of political discourse in the Western world — and brainwash entire nations into subservience in the process.