Craig Peterson Jr.'s Blog, page 4
April 26, 2022
Does Representative Government Exist in the United States: Pandemic Authoritarianism?
Is representative government a thing of the past in the United States? Have we begun our descent towards authoritarianism? If you ask partisans of the Democratic Party, the answer would be undoubtedly in the affirmative. President Trump singlehandedly killed democracy with his mean Tweets, lack of response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and elaborate coup that involved sending in unarmed protesters to overthrow the most powerful empire that the planet has ever seen. Partisans of the Republican Party might argue that the dementia-ridden President Biden let his handlers decide policies, manipulated his way through the electoral process to the Oval Office, allowed illegal immigrants to caste votes, and left the troops in panic in Afghanistan; and therefore, mob rule has taken over as the primary form of government.
Whether by design or by accident, the American elites and oligarchs have caused, through their pandemic policies, more Americans to become politically active and in-tune with current events. Some would argue that the crisis highlighted concerns, such as inequalities in racial treatment in the medical field or the need to squash misinformation, that they were not aware of previously, while others have started to see the dangers of permitting a largely unchecked bureaucracy and executive rule over the average lives of Americans. No person in this country could reasonably argue that the federal and state governments have not gained increased power and that the merger of science and state has not become a reality in our "advanced" era.
The threats of heresy, persecution, and state-coerced dogma come not from religious zealots or theocracies, in the traditional sense, but rather, they come from a medical-bio-state. In conjunction with the surveillance state, the quasi-private Federal Reserve System, a federalist police state, self-centered politicians, and the military-industrial complex; the potential for an oligarchy run by scientists, bureaucrats, bankers, investment firms, pharmaceutical companies, and a handful of other elites is stronger now than ever before. The mantras of “follow the science,” “trust the experts,” “shut up and obey,” and “take faith in our institutions” have blinded Americans into submission, and when the authority of the state and the medical community becomes the primary focus in society, tyranny has a chance to set its ugly fangs into the unsuspecting sheep that look to their shepherd in times of great fear.
When President Trump took the non-authoritarian approach of allowing the states to handle their own epidemics in a manner of their choosing, state governors, bent on fulfilling their own egotistical prophecies of fame and excellence, legislated outside of their normal republican authority, and although many of these orders were not technically laws, police were directed to enforce them nonetheless. Even the Biden administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jumped in on the action, by forcing all federal contractors and companies with over one hundred employees to require their workers to get vaccinated (or take weekly tests), suspending rent payments for tenants unable to pay their landlords, and forcing masking requirements on all federal transportation (including airplanes).
The CDC became Biden’s own personal legislature, and those same individuals who claimed that Trump was destroying democracy were jumping for joy at using the executive branch to unilaterally push their medical and political agendas on the populace (without regarding what the people actually want), even arguing that past precedent allowed for vaccine mandates and the bypassing of congressional approval (precedent does not always equal moral or lawful). After all, the CDC was just issuing guidance and rules to keep Americans safe, and the bureaucracy already makes its own policies that affect Americans’ daily lives, so what is the difference with a ravaging disease? In an emergency, the body of elected officials voting on matters of concern were not necessary, because urgency gives justification to violate the separation of powers and the will of the people. Perhaps the problem of government overreach has existed for many years, but now, with more Americans waking up to reality after devastating but superfluous lockdowns and mandates, we have an opportunity to correct our past wrongs. Will we, though?
Governors, such as Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, Phil Murphy, and Gavin Newsome, were eager to try out their new emergency powers that often saw them with the ability to alter or abolish any existing law that got in their way and create new pieces of legislation with the stroke of a pen or the sound of a voice. With a standing police force, surveillance capabilities beyond anything the world has ever seen, and superior technology; the monarchs of the past would have been jealous of the authority wielded by a single man or woman during this time period.
With a monopolistic narrative coming out of the NIH, CDC, White House, and the medical establishment, and supported by the attorney general’s war against unfavorable perspectives (deemed as misinformation) that censored speech (often through social media partnerships), governors had clearance to implement whatever policies without dissent being a factor (again, monarchs of the past had to overtly silence speech with arrests or book burnings, and having the ability of censorship, without the majority even being aware that such a thing was taking place, is not something to be taken lightly).
The governors were hasty in their reaction to the virus, and the executive orders began flying almost immediately. Companies were arbitrarily divided into essential and nonessential categories, and small businesses were forced to close their shops, while large corporations were permitted to operate (in a corporatist arrangement that Democrats opposed prior to the pandemic but thought of as acceptable during an emergency where they were in charge). Stay-at-home orders were issued, and the police were allowed, in some states, to pull over their victims and issue tickets for being out and about in a capacity that did not involve going to the grocery store for essentials or official duties (in Rhode Island, national guardsmen went door to door looking for out-of-staters trying to escape tyranny in their own states, in a violation of due process and unwarranted searches and seizures).
Protests and rallies were outlawed, as this would cause super spreaders to infect large numbers of people (however, some of the strictest governors allowed Black Lives Matter protesters to assemble, while condemning those demonstrating against government lockdowns), and police were known to have arrested people who had parties on their own property (who really owns their property?) or tried to conduct business in the black market (at restaurants, gyms, etc.) caused by the Left’s prohibitions. Freedom to assemble and participate in transactions of one’s own choosing disappeared, as this became limited to the arbitrary dictates of those in charge.
Democrats, who previously favored limiting interactions between police and the public, had no issue utilizing the police for their own ends when it came to enforcing pandemic measures (again, initiated outside of the legislative process). Then, when the vaccines became available, some mayors were thrilled at the ability to flex their muscles by prohibiting free interactions between individuals and denying entry into establishments for those who chose to remain unvaccinated. An apartheid and discriminatory state was something that the Left once opposed, but again, the fear that took over caused them to switch their positions and violate their principles. The Democrats that railed against perceived authoritarianism under Trump succumbed to the very thing they claimed that they opposed, but just this one time, right?
The public health sector and government bureaucrats cried when their mandates were overturned in the courts, and the pushback that Democratic governors received from the “selfish and unscientific grandma killers” and the Republican governors who had had enough of the narrative was viewed as “Neanderthal thinking” and regressive. Even when the state legislatures were shut down due to fear of spreading the virus, the majority of the population, which was in favor of the mandates, cheered on officials who were saving them from certain doom. As the mask-wearing and vaccine-injecting ways of many became a cult, the system of checks and balances that most learn early on in their school years was decimated by executive control.
The Left constantly screamed about how authoritarianism was growing worldwide and how Trump was the epitome of such a system, and yet, it was those same anti-fascists who were forcing their will on the populace through leaders that were not elected by the people to handle a two-year pandemic. In fact, most representatives were elected months or years before coronaviruses and Wuhan were household names, so any idea that “democracy” was even remotely being advocated for by the pro-lockdown crowd is absurd. Science and state merged into a new version of theocracy, as The Science became a new god to be worshipped, adored, and followed.
What representation did the people of the United States and individual states actually have during the pandemic? Where did the ability to address the government with a list of grievances go, being that leaders were going to enforce mandates regardless of what people wanted? Even if the majority did advocate for mandates, why does a simple majority get to dictate what rights the minority must surrender? Who elected governors on the idea of them ruling unilaterally and taking away the rights of free speech and assembly, worshipping in a manner of one’s choosing, voluntarily contracting and transacting with individuals, not being illegally searched or seized for being out of the house, inviting friends and family over to one’s home, bodily autonomy, dressing how one prefers, breathing air unobstructed, not being accused of a crime without due process (everyone was assumed guilty of having the virus), uncoerced injections, working to make a living, traveling for desired goods and services that may not be categorized as essential, protesting unjust laws, believing one’s ideal positions without censorship or disparagement from government entities and partners, operating small businesses, participating in events and celebrating holidays, eating at fine dining (or un-fine dining, like fast food) establishments willing to provide such services, keeping one’s job, making choices over one’s medical decisions, not having to show identification to participate in daily activities, not being forced to become law enforcement agents of the state, and seeing loved ones before they pass?
Why did the anti-fascists, in a twist of irony, demand extreme nationalism and scapegoating against those who did not agree with the narrative, corporate profits of mega corporations over small businesses, the division of economic means into categories, the restriction of movement, control by a dictatorial leader, suppression of speech, police state powers to enforce mandates, and the forcible removal of those not wearing masks or receiving the jab? What happened to the democracy and will of the people that the Covid authoritarians espoused? Where did representation fit into their plans for the country? Why did the minority that opposed government mandates have to suffer devastating consequences without a voice?
Whether by design or by accident, the American elites and oligarchs have caused, through their pandemic policies, more Americans to become politically active and in-tune with current events. Some would argue that the crisis highlighted concerns, such as inequalities in racial treatment in the medical field or the need to squash misinformation, that they were not aware of previously, while others have started to see the dangers of permitting a largely unchecked bureaucracy and executive rule over the average lives of Americans. No person in this country could reasonably argue that the federal and state governments have not gained increased power and that the merger of science and state has not become a reality in our "advanced" era.
The threats of heresy, persecution, and state-coerced dogma come not from religious zealots or theocracies, in the traditional sense, but rather, they come from a medical-bio-state. In conjunction with the surveillance state, the quasi-private Federal Reserve System, a federalist police state, self-centered politicians, and the military-industrial complex; the potential for an oligarchy run by scientists, bureaucrats, bankers, investment firms, pharmaceutical companies, and a handful of other elites is stronger now than ever before. The mantras of “follow the science,” “trust the experts,” “shut up and obey,” and “take faith in our institutions” have blinded Americans into submission, and when the authority of the state and the medical community becomes the primary focus in society, tyranny has a chance to set its ugly fangs into the unsuspecting sheep that look to their shepherd in times of great fear.
When President Trump took the non-authoritarian approach of allowing the states to handle their own epidemics in a manner of their choosing, state governors, bent on fulfilling their own egotistical prophecies of fame and excellence, legislated outside of their normal republican authority, and although many of these orders were not technically laws, police were directed to enforce them nonetheless. Even the Biden administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jumped in on the action, by forcing all federal contractors and companies with over one hundred employees to require their workers to get vaccinated (or take weekly tests), suspending rent payments for tenants unable to pay their landlords, and forcing masking requirements on all federal transportation (including airplanes).
The CDC became Biden’s own personal legislature, and those same individuals who claimed that Trump was destroying democracy were jumping for joy at using the executive branch to unilaterally push their medical and political agendas on the populace (without regarding what the people actually want), even arguing that past precedent allowed for vaccine mandates and the bypassing of congressional approval (precedent does not always equal moral or lawful). After all, the CDC was just issuing guidance and rules to keep Americans safe, and the bureaucracy already makes its own policies that affect Americans’ daily lives, so what is the difference with a ravaging disease? In an emergency, the body of elected officials voting on matters of concern were not necessary, because urgency gives justification to violate the separation of powers and the will of the people. Perhaps the problem of government overreach has existed for many years, but now, with more Americans waking up to reality after devastating but superfluous lockdowns and mandates, we have an opportunity to correct our past wrongs. Will we, though?
Governors, such as Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, Phil Murphy, and Gavin Newsome, were eager to try out their new emergency powers that often saw them with the ability to alter or abolish any existing law that got in their way and create new pieces of legislation with the stroke of a pen or the sound of a voice. With a standing police force, surveillance capabilities beyond anything the world has ever seen, and superior technology; the monarchs of the past would have been jealous of the authority wielded by a single man or woman during this time period.
With a monopolistic narrative coming out of the NIH, CDC, White House, and the medical establishment, and supported by the attorney general’s war against unfavorable perspectives (deemed as misinformation) that censored speech (often through social media partnerships), governors had clearance to implement whatever policies without dissent being a factor (again, monarchs of the past had to overtly silence speech with arrests or book burnings, and having the ability of censorship, without the majority even being aware that such a thing was taking place, is not something to be taken lightly).
The governors were hasty in their reaction to the virus, and the executive orders began flying almost immediately. Companies were arbitrarily divided into essential and nonessential categories, and small businesses were forced to close their shops, while large corporations were permitted to operate (in a corporatist arrangement that Democrats opposed prior to the pandemic but thought of as acceptable during an emergency where they were in charge). Stay-at-home orders were issued, and the police were allowed, in some states, to pull over their victims and issue tickets for being out and about in a capacity that did not involve going to the grocery store for essentials or official duties (in Rhode Island, national guardsmen went door to door looking for out-of-staters trying to escape tyranny in their own states, in a violation of due process and unwarranted searches and seizures).
Protests and rallies were outlawed, as this would cause super spreaders to infect large numbers of people (however, some of the strictest governors allowed Black Lives Matter protesters to assemble, while condemning those demonstrating against government lockdowns), and police were known to have arrested people who had parties on their own property (who really owns their property?) or tried to conduct business in the black market (at restaurants, gyms, etc.) caused by the Left’s prohibitions. Freedom to assemble and participate in transactions of one’s own choosing disappeared, as this became limited to the arbitrary dictates of those in charge.
Democrats, who previously favored limiting interactions between police and the public, had no issue utilizing the police for their own ends when it came to enforcing pandemic measures (again, initiated outside of the legislative process). Then, when the vaccines became available, some mayors were thrilled at the ability to flex their muscles by prohibiting free interactions between individuals and denying entry into establishments for those who chose to remain unvaccinated. An apartheid and discriminatory state was something that the Left once opposed, but again, the fear that took over caused them to switch their positions and violate their principles. The Democrats that railed against perceived authoritarianism under Trump succumbed to the very thing they claimed that they opposed, but just this one time, right?
The public health sector and government bureaucrats cried when their mandates were overturned in the courts, and the pushback that Democratic governors received from the “selfish and unscientific grandma killers” and the Republican governors who had had enough of the narrative was viewed as “Neanderthal thinking” and regressive. Even when the state legislatures were shut down due to fear of spreading the virus, the majority of the population, which was in favor of the mandates, cheered on officials who were saving them from certain doom. As the mask-wearing and vaccine-injecting ways of many became a cult, the system of checks and balances that most learn early on in their school years was decimated by executive control.
The Left constantly screamed about how authoritarianism was growing worldwide and how Trump was the epitome of such a system, and yet, it was those same anti-fascists who were forcing their will on the populace through leaders that were not elected by the people to handle a two-year pandemic. In fact, most representatives were elected months or years before coronaviruses and Wuhan were household names, so any idea that “democracy” was even remotely being advocated for by the pro-lockdown crowd is absurd. Science and state merged into a new version of theocracy, as The Science became a new god to be worshipped, adored, and followed.
What representation did the people of the United States and individual states actually have during the pandemic? Where did the ability to address the government with a list of grievances go, being that leaders were going to enforce mandates regardless of what people wanted? Even if the majority did advocate for mandates, why does a simple majority get to dictate what rights the minority must surrender? Who elected governors on the idea of them ruling unilaterally and taking away the rights of free speech and assembly, worshipping in a manner of one’s choosing, voluntarily contracting and transacting with individuals, not being illegally searched or seized for being out of the house, inviting friends and family over to one’s home, bodily autonomy, dressing how one prefers, breathing air unobstructed, not being accused of a crime without due process (everyone was assumed guilty of having the virus), uncoerced injections, working to make a living, traveling for desired goods and services that may not be categorized as essential, protesting unjust laws, believing one’s ideal positions without censorship or disparagement from government entities and partners, operating small businesses, participating in events and celebrating holidays, eating at fine dining (or un-fine dining, like fast food) establishments willing to provide such services, keeping one’s job, making choices over one’s medical decisions, not having to show identification to participate in daily activities, not being forced to become law enforcement agents of the state, and seeing loved ones before they pass?
Why did the anti-fascists, in a twist of irony, demand extreme nationalism and scapegoating against those who did not agree with the narrative, corporate profits of mega corporations over small businesses, the division of economic means into categories, the restriction of movement, control by a dictatorial leader, suppression of speech, police state powers to enforce mandates, and the forcible removal of those not wearing masks or receiving the jab? What happened to the democracy and will of the people that the Covid authoritarians espoused? Where did representation fit into their plans for the country? Why did the minority that opposed government mandates have to suffer devastating consequences without a voice?
April 19, 2022
How Does the Bucha Massacre Relate to the Overall Propaganda Machine?
Russia said this, and the United States said that; and CNN claimed this, and The New York Times claimed that. With lots of information swirling around the internet and on the television, how can anyone truly be certain of any of the narratives spewed by propagandists attempting to push their agenda? Certainly, after the numerous lies from Western (and particularly American) propaganda, we should be cautious with any claims coming out of that machine. The White House and its bureaucratic departments would be eager to lie and get us into another war. The Ukrainian media has been consolidated into a single narrative by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s dictatorial order, and the Russian government imprisons anyone who speaks negatively about the war, or even acknowledges it as anything other than a military operation. Furthermore, the Russian-owned RIA Novosti put out an article claiming that all Ukrainians were Nazis, including ordinary citizens, and need to be purged from the land (even killed in some cases, in acts of genocide), which is, of course, ludicrous and highly exaggerated (neo-Nazis do exist in Ukraine and play a vital role in battling the separatist forces, but obviously, average Ukrainians are not far-right extremists that participate in terrorism).
All Americans (and citizens of other countries) should view any news coming out of Ukraine with a healthy dose of skepticism, and this includes alleged Russian atrocities, like Bucha. It should not surprise anyone that Western media was quick to spread online and television accusations of atrocities in the Kiev Oblast city, before an investigation was completed, and it should also not be surprising that Russia, with its own history of spreading disinformation and manipulating narratives for its own purposes, denied that it participated in indiscriminate executions and that the satellite images and evidence of bodies lining the streets were staged. So, here we have a case where it appears that 350 to 500 bodies were, indeed, lying in the street due to murder, but the truth is probably somewhere in between the two narratives (as is often the case).
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been brutal for the civilians that have little say in their political situation, and no matter how rational Russian President Vladimir Putin is in reigning in NATO expansion and American meddling in European affairs, bombing cities and slaughtering civilians, whether accidentally or intentionally, is never justified. However, we the people need the truth, outside of the lies and propaganda. We were lied into the invasion of Iraq, and the fact that Americans still think that we have any moral high ground to collectively condemn Putin’s invasion, after destroying several Iraqi cities and annihilating citizens of that country, shows the power of propaganda as a whole.
Before delving into the specifics of the Bucha incident, it is important to understand that the Biden administration (made up of some of the same individuals who participated in the 2014 coup against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, leading directly to Russia’s rational takeover of Crimea and support of the independence movements in Donetsk and Luhansk) has to convince Americans that war against Russia (whether a hot or cold war, or a proxy war) is necessary, because otherwise, this would be another example of failure in American foreign policy (especially after the support of the 2014 coup). Plus, the defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, need their state-funded cash, and politicians and elites need a new enemy (being that COVID-19, the War on Terror, and the War on Drugs are winding down) to justify more military spending, surveillance on Americans, and measures to crackdown on dissent domestically (gotta get those dangerous right-wing conspiracy theorists and Trump-supporters).
We also have to be aware that presidents that initiate a war are often seen as better presidents than those that do not, and since President Biden is not performing great overall and the economy is in decline with the rapid inflation, a war could be the affair that the administration needs to boost its ratings (since World War II was viewed as the event that ended the Great Depression, World War III might be eyed, though it would be erroneous thinking, as a way to bounce back the economy or reset the global order in line with the World Economic Forum’s vision).
Another thing to keep in mind is that the United States is actively shooting out propaganda from intelligence that is not “rock solid,” in order to paint the picture for American viewing that Russia needs to be combated. How does this not constitute as misinformation? Is it because information that comes from the White House, CIA, or other agencies of the executive branch, regardless of how untruthful, can never be considered incorrect or misleading? Apparently, misinformation only applies to those who oppose the collective narrative.
Zelensky is, of course, out there on a last-ditch effort to rally the West to join in the militarized defense of his country by stating that Russia might retaliate against Ukraine (for the sinking of the Moskva in the Black Sea) with nuclear weapons, because, you know, Putin does not care about Ukrainian lives (I wonder if there will be a Marxist group started, called Ukrainian Lives Matter, or ULM). The nuclear weapons claim comes at a time when the Ukrainian president is collecting evidence of Russian war crimes, like the 900 or so execution-style murders outside of Kiev. The incident in Bucha is predominant among them, but what really happened there? There is conflicting evidence, and most Americans are well aware of the account from the Western perspective, but did the event occur exactly as the White House and others have presented it? This is not to say that Russian soldiers have not committed atrocities in Ukraine, but rather, we should be seeking the truth over false narratives.
For starters, if the majority of the world is against Russia right now, why would Putin order his military to shoot civilians in the open, even if his ultimate goal were genocide? Would he not have had his troops try to hide the bodies to avoid public scrutiny? It is possible that these were rogue soldiers carrying out their own attacks for personal gain, but is that enough to bring NATO into the fray? I mean, the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine was reported to have kidnapped, tortured, and executed citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk, but I guess to the West, this is acceptable behavior when it is done by certain forces. Hypocrisy is a common theme in American foreign policy.
According to independent journalist, Christopher Roach, Ukrainian police and soldiers have been responsible for brutally killing Russian prisoners of war, and this has been verified by The New York Times. According to The Observers of the France 24 network, civilians have been tortured by the Ukrainian security forces, the Azov Battalion (again, a Nazi group), and vigilantes. If Ukrainian militias and forces, with the blessing from Kiev, are executing and torturing civilians, why should we put trust in the Ukrainian government and its sources and sweep these atrocities under the rug (even if the Zelensky regime did not order the attacks, the West is blaming Putin for executions that may not have been issued by his directive)?
Why should we not, at least, question whether it could have been these Ukrainian groups responsible for what happened in Bucha? After all, some of the dead lining the streets were shown to have been wearing white armbands, implying that they were pro-Russian sympathizers or Russian troops, and not pro-Ukrainian civilians. Should we not investigate this incident to the fullest extent before casting blame on the enemy, unless drumming up a case to go to war is the plan? Russia asked for an independent investigation into Bucha, but the West declined. Is this an indication that the United States and others are cognizant that the murders were not conducted by Russian forces, but they would prefer to still use the event as a base for their hawkish propaganda?
While Ukraine blames Russia of committing genocide against it and the Russians blame Ukraine of de-Russifying the country, and circumstantial evidence and videos exist of Russia and Ukraine committing atrocities against one another, in the Bucha incident, the timing seems a bit curious. Christopher Roach brought up the fact that Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk celebrated the victory of Ukrainians over the Russians on March 31 without a single mention of executions or dead bodies in the streets, and the hell-raising over the deaths began on April 2. Did the Security Service of Ukraine (national police) shoot pro-Russian sympathizers or troops during its “clearing operation” of the city on that day? Given the brutality of the Ukrainian forces and militias, how would we even know? I mean, why would the mayor raise a toast to victory if he saw dead bodies all over town? Should he not have been immediately outraged by what Putin’s forces did? Does this mean that the government wanted to hold off on releasing the images and blaming the Russians for some unknown or strategic reason? We cannot know because propaganda flourishes on both sides.
Whether constantly highlighting the Kramatorsk train station attack or the Lviv missile strike, the American government and media will always look for ways to condemn Russia and support its little angel-of-a-democracy in eastern Europe, and although Russia’s invasion is not justified, Americans have no real interest in what happens in a country thousands of miles away. Plus, Putin warned the United States that additional weapon transfers to Ukraine would result in “unpredictable consequences,” showing that both parties are willing to escalate tensions out of pride and for their objectives and agenda. A war is exactly what Americans do not need right now, but let us keep flying our Ukrainian flags (I even saw one flying on someone’s property, where the American and Ukrainian flags were merged into a single flag to show unity between both countries).
Despite what the American Left suggests, democracy is not in danger if Ukraine falls into Russia’s sphere of influence. That is just Cold War-thinking (here we go again with the domino theory) that will bring us closer to nuclear war. Even if the corporate media bombards us with images, some of which could be fake or altered for propaganda purposes, we must resist the urge to seek revenge against Russia by moving our collective desire for war towards a more productive path for humanity. Even if chemical weapons were utilized in Mariupol, as the Biden administration has suggested pre-investigation (giving Americans the perception that it did, in fact, occur), the United States should not be the policeman of the world, and also remember that white phosphorous (a chemical weapon) was used by American forces in Fallujah (let us not sit on our high horse). What happens in Ukraine should stay in Ukraine.
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All Americans (and citizens of other countries) should view any news coming out of Ukraine with a healthy dose of skepticism, and this includes alleged Russian atrocities, like Bucha. It should not surprise anyone that Western media was quick to spread online and television accusations of atrocities in the Kiev Oblast city, before an investigation was completed, and it should also not be surprising that Russia, with its own history of spreading disinformation and manipulating narratives for its own purposes, denied that it participated in indiscriminate executions and that the satellite images and evidence of bodies lining the streets were staged. So, here we have a case where it appears that 350 to 500 bodies were, indeed, lying in the street due to murder, but the truth is probably somewhere in between the two narratives (as is often the case).
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been brutal for the civilians that have little say in their political situation, and no matter how rational Russian President Vladimir Putin is in reigning in NATO expansion and American meddling in European affairs, bombing cities and slaughtering civilians, whether accidentally or intentionally, is never justified. However, we the people need the truth, outside of the lies and propaganda. We were lied into the invasion of Iraq, and the fact that Americans still think that we have any moral high ground to collectively condemn Putin’s invasion, after destroying several Iraqi cities and annihilating citizens of that country, shows the power of propaganda as a whole.
Before delving into the specifics of the Bucha incident, it is important to understand that the Biden administration (made up of some of the same individuals who participated in the 2014 coup against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, leading directly to Russia’s rational takeover of Crimea and support of the independence movements in Donetsk and Luhansk) has to convince Americans that war against Russia (whether a hot or cold war, or a proxy war) is necessary, because otherwise, this would be another example of failure in American foreign policy (especially after the support of the 2014 coup). Plus, the defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, need their state-funded cash, and politicians and elites need a new enemy (being that COVID-19, the War on Terror, and the War on Drugs are winding down) to justify more military spending, surveillance on Americans, and measures to crackdown on dissent domestically (gotta get those dangerous right-wing conspiracy theorists and Trump-supporters).
We also have to be aware that presidents that initiate a war are often seen as better presidents than those that do not, and since President Biden is not performing great overall and the economy is in decline with the rapid inflation, a war could be the affair that the administration needs to boost its ratings (since World War II was viewed as the event that ended the Great Depression, World War III might be eyed, though it would be erroneous thinking, as a way to bounce back the economy or reset the global order in line with the World Economic Forum’s vision).
Another thing to keep in mind is that the United States is actively shooting out propaganda from intelligence that is not “rock solid,” in order to paint the picture for American viewing that Russia needs to be combated. How does this not constitute as misinformation? Is it because information that comes from the White House, CIA, or other agencies of the executive branch, regardless of how untruthful, can never be considered incorrect or misleading? Apparently, misinformation only applies to those who oppose the collective narrative.
Zelensky is, of course, out there on a last-ditch effort to rally the West to join in the militarized defense of his country by stating that Russia might retaliate against Ukraine (for the sinking of the Moskva in the Black Sea) with nuclear weapons, because, you know, Putin does not care about Ukrainian lives (I wonder if there will be a Marxist group started, called Ukrainian Lives Matter, or ULM). The nuclear weapons claim comes at a time when the Ukrainian president is collecting evidence of Russian war crimes, like the 900 or so execution-style murders outside of Kiev. The incident in Bucha is predominant among them, but what really happened there? There is conflicting evidence, and most Americans are well aware of the account from the Western perspective, but did the event occur exactly as the White House and others have presented it? This is not to say that Russian soldiers have not committed atrocities in Ukraine, but rather, we should be seeking the truth over false narratives.
For starters, if the majority of the world is against Russia right now, why would Putin order his military to shoot civilians in the open, even if his ultimate goal were genocide? Would he not have had his troops try to hide the bodies to avoid public scrutiny? It is possible that these were rogue soldiers carrying out their own attacks for personal gain, but is that enough to bring NATO into the fray? I mean, the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine was reported to have kidnapped, tortured, and executed citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk, but I guess to the West, this is acceptable behavior when it is done by certain forces. Hypocrisy is a common theme in American foreign policy.
According to independent journalist, Christopher Roach, Ukrainian police and soldiers have been responsible for brutally killing Russian prisoners of war, and this has been verified by The New York Times. According to The Observers of the France 24 network, civilians have been tortured by the Ukrainian security forces, the Azov Battalion (again, a Nazi group), and vigilantes. If Ukrainian militias and forces, with the blessing from Kiev, are executing and torturing civilians, why should we put trust in the Ukrainian government and its sources and sweep these atrocities under the rug (even if the Zelensky regime did not order the attacks, the West is blaming Putin for executions that may not have been issued by his directive)?
Why should we not, at least, question whether it could have been these Ukrainian groups responsible for what happened in Bucha? After all, some of the dead lining the streets were shown to have been wearing white armbands, implying that they were pro-Russian sympathizers or Russian troops, and not pro-Ukrainian civilians. Should we not investigate this incident to the fullest extent before casting blame on the enemy, unless drumming up a case to go to war is the plan? Russia asked for an independent investigation into Bucha, but the West declined. Is this an indication that the United States and others are cognizant that the murders were not conducted by Russian forces, but they would prefer to still use the event as a base for their hawkish propaganda?
While Ukraine blames Russia of committing genocide against it and the Russians blame Ukraine of de-Russifying the country, and circumstantial evidence and videos exist of Russia and Ukraine committing atrocities against one another, in the Bucha incident, the timing seems a bit curious. Christopher Roach brought up the fact that Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk celebrated the victory of Ukrainians over the Russians on March 31 without a single mention of executions or dead bodies in the streets, and the hell-raising over the deaths began on April 2. Did the Security Service of Ukraine (national police) shoot pro-Russian sympathizers or troops during its “clearing operation” of the city on that day? Given the brutality of the Ukrainian forces and militias, how would we even know? I mean, why would the mayor raise a toast to victory if he saw dead bodies all over town? Should he not have been immediately outraged by what Putin’s forces did? Does this mean that the government wanted to hold off on releasing the images and blaming the Russians for some unknown or strategic reason? We cannot know because propaganda flourishes on both sides.
Whether constantly highlighting the Kramatorsk train station attack or the Lviv missile strike, the American government and media will always look for ways to condemn Russia and support its little angel-of-a-democracy in eastern Europe, and although Russia’s invasion is not justified, Americans have no real interest in what happens in a country thousands of miles away. Plus, Putin warned the United States that additional weapon transfers to Ukraine would result in “unpredictable consequences,” showing that both parties are willing to escalate tensions out of pride and for their objectives and agenda. A war is exactly what Americans do not need right now, but let us keep flying our Ukrainian flags (I even saw one flying on someone’s property, where the American and Ukrainian flags were merged into a single flag to show unity between both countries).
Despite what the American Left suggests, democracy is not in danger if Ukraine falls into Russia’s sphere of influence. That is just Cold War-thinking (here we go again with the domino theory) that will bring us closer to nuclear war. Even if the corporate media bombards us with images, some of which could be fake or altered for propaganda purposes, we must resist the urge to seek revenge against Russia by moving our collective desire for war towards a more productive path for humanity. Even if chemical weapons were utilized in Mariupol, as the Biden administration has suggested pre-investigation (giving Americans the perception that it did, in fact, occur), the United States should not be the policeman of the world, and also remember that white phosphorous (a chemical weapon) was used by American forces in Fallujah (let us not sit on our high horse). What happens in Ukraine should stay in Ukraine.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
April 13, 2022
The Acquittal of the Michigan Kidnap Plotters Reveals a Deeper Issue
It is clear, especially from the War on Misinformation waged by the White House and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, that the federal government wants to censor speech and create its own monopolistic narratives in order to have control over what information is disseminated and to pacify the populace. This is evident by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) bulletin outlining how certain narratives and “misinformation” (as arbitrarily determined by the federal government, of course), as well as beliefs that pandemic restrictions were unconstitutional or detrimental and that President Biden did not really win the 2020 election, lead to acts of terrorism and need to be stopped.
There is no doubt that our founding fathers fought a war, while being classified by the British Crown as terrorists and traitors, to preserve their rights as Englishmen, and yet, in our modern era, and particularly in the wake of the recent pandemic, we think nothing of handing over the ability of the government to lock us in our homes, shut down small businesses, prohibit free assembly, and force us to show identification to participate in society. Of course, the Tories of the American Revolutionary period would have preferred keeping the peace and considered protests that shook the established order to be disgusting and unwarranted, but radicals, such as Samuel Adams, would not have tolerated the policies forced upon us by state governors (and not even the legislatures) during the COVID-19 fiasco.
We think of ourselves as sophisticated citizens of the American Empire, but in reality, the only way to preserve freedom is to fight for what we believe is right. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. showed us a better way to display our anger at governments, but in the case of the alleged kidnapping of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), attempted to entrap a group of protesters into committing an act of terrorism, all in an attempt to push the narrative that the far-Right is out to get the whole country (most of the country is still unaware that entrapment occurred because the corporate media already convinced people that the alleged plotters were guilty).
Well, it seems like the Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to hang its head in disgrace after it lost two cases against the defendants of the kidnapping plot, and of course, the informants, such as Dan Chappel, who was paid $50,000 to trick his former allies into participating, will never be charged for “attempting” to kidnap the governor themselves (if you work for the government, you are allowed to commit crimes when acting on behalf of law enforcement, and agents get to be above the law when they are on official duties). The informants in the plot “encouraged, coordinated, assisted, or funded various acts that the government cited as evidence of a conspiracy,” and Chappel even tried to get the group motivated again when it started to look like they were losing interest in continuing with the plan (the informant even suggested committing other crimes). It is disgusting, but not surprising, to think that the federal government would orchestrate a heinous plot and ruin the lives of young men who were frustrated with the political climate to further an agenda against the Right. The informants who participated for their own self-interests should also be ashamed of themselves.
It is a good thing that the jurors saw through the government manipulation and acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, because if they had not, these men would have been made an example of, just like the January 6th protesters. Adam Fox and Barry Croft received a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict.
Not only were the men stoned and incompetent to even be able to pull off a stunt like what they were accused of committing, but the plot was not even thoroughly planned. In fact, Fox was about to abandon the mission, and the others considered delaying it. Sinking flustered men who were discussing attacks against the Michigan government (speech does not equal action) and were going to leave the governor stranded out on a lake is not justification to persecute all those who believe in freedom, and even Governor Whitmer had the audacity to say that divisive speech and false narratives are what led to her “near doom.”
She is so worried about extremism spreading and not holding her alleged kidnappers accountable for a crime that the government helped orchestrate in the first place. Why is she not upset with the FBI? Why does she not examine her own authoritarian policies that caused those who value freedom of expression, travel, assembly, and conducting business to become angry and oppose her executive orders? Why did she not get approval through the legislature to shut down businesses? After all, did Thomas Jefferson (or if this was not him, he would have agreed with it) not say, “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
There is no doubt that our founding fathers fought a war, while being classified by the British Crown as terrorists and traitors, to preserve their rights as Englishmen, and yet, in our modern era, and particularly in the wake of the recent pandemic, we think nothing of handing over the ability of the government to lock us in our homes, shut down small businesses, prohibit free assembly, and force us to show identification to participate in society. Of course, the Tories of the American Revolutionary period would have preferred keeping the peace and considered protests that shook the established order to be disgusting and unwarranted, but radicals, such as Samuel Adams, would not have tolerated the policies forced upon us by state governors (and not even the legislatures) during the COVID-19 fiasco.
We think of ourselves as sophisticated citizens of the American Empire, but in reality, the only way to preserve freedom is to fight for what we believe is right. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. showed us a better way to display our anger at governments, but in the case of the alleged kidnapping of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), attempted to entrap a group of protesters into committing an act of terrorism, all in an attempt to push the narrative that the far-Right is out to get the whole country (most of the country is still unaware that entrapment occurred because the corporate media already convinced people that the alleged plotters were guilty).
Well, it seems like the Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to hang its head in disgrace after it lost two cases against the defendants of the kidnapping plot, and of course, the informants, such as Dan Chappel, who was paid $50,000 to trick his former allies into participating, will never be charged for “attempting” to kidnap the governor themselves (if you work for the government, you are allowed to commit crimes when acting on behalf of law enforcement, and agents get to be above the law when they are on official duties). The informants in the plot “encouraged, coordinated, assisted, or funded various acts that the government cited as evidence of a conspiracy,” and Chappel even tried to get the group motivated again when it started to look like they were losing interest in continuing with the plan (the informant even suggested committing other crimes). It is disgusting, but not surprising, to think that the federal government would orchestrate a heinous plot and ruin the lives of young men who were frustrated with the political climate to further an agenda against the Right. The informants who participated for their own self-interests should also be ashamed of themselves.
It is a good thing that the jurors saw through the government manipulation and acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, because if they had not, these men would have been made an example of, just like the January 6th protesters. Adam Fox and Barry Croft received a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict.
Not only were the men stoned and incompetent to even be able to pull off a stunt like what they were accused of committing, but the plot was not even thoroughly planned. In fact, Fox was about to abandon the mission, and the others considered delaying it. Sinking flustered men who were discussing attacks against the Michigan government (speech does not equal action) and were going to leave the governor stranded out on a lake is not justification to persecute all those who believe in freedom, and even Governor Whitmer had the audacity to say that divisive speech and false narratives are what led to her “near doom.”
She is so worried about extremism spreading and not holding her alleged kidnappers accountable for a crime that the government helped orchestrate in the first place. Why is she not upset with the FBI? Why does she not examine her own authoritarian policies that caused those who value freedom of expression, travel, assembly, and conducting business to become angry and oppose her executive orders? Why did she not get approval through the legislature to shut down businesses? After all, did Thomas Jefferson (or if this was not him, he would have agreed with it) not say, “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
April 12, 2022
A Failure of Economic Attacks Against Putin May Be Used Against Citizens
As the Biden administration keeps beating the war drums against Russia and looking under every rock for potential war crimes or chemical weapons attacks, while ignoring the vast number of war crimes committed by the United States government, it continues to issue more executive orders to sanction Russia, outside of the legislative process, of course. In an attempt to sink the Russian economy and coerce the Russian people into overthrowing Vladimir Putin (the president did insist that the Russian leader must go), President Biden, who by his own words admitted that sanctions do not deter the military actions of the leadership of the targeted country, has acted as if sanctions will deter Putin, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other officials have suggested from the beginning. So, Mr. President, which one is it? Do they work, or do they not?
For starters, the European Union, which relies on Russia for approximately 40% of its oil, continues to violate its principles of punishing the big, bad Putin, out of convenience and necessity. While this occurs, Russia still has an advantage and can use its leverage against Western economic attacks.
Right after the Biden administration announced the initial sets of sanctions, along with the EU and a handful of other countries, and cut off some of Russia’s banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China swooped in to assist, with its alternative processing system, the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). The president warned China that it needs to halt Russia’s aggression and that neutrality on the invasion was not an option, so I guess China must bend to American bullying and comply with the demands, right (assuming that China even has the ability to sway Putin’s actions)?
China and India also made up some of the slack in Russia’s economic downturn by purchasing Russian oil in rubles at a discount, per the order by Putin that countries must exchange oil in his country’s currency. It appears that the Russo-Ukrainian War is causing nations of the world to choose between the current United States-led economic order and the new “axis” order led by Russia and China. This, coupled with the growing military alliance of the two superpowers and the arms race between the West and the East, could lead to competing world orders and military confrontation on a massive scale (China is supplying Serbia with missiles; the United States is considering putting nuclear missiles in Poland, in addition to the conventional missiles already located in Poland and Romania, and expanding its quantity of troops in NATO countries; and the American military is attempting to play catch-up with its technology on hypersonic missiles). Even Cold War II would be detrimental to Americans, however, it would be lucrative to the defense contractors that work hand-in-hand with the federal government.
Biden’s new sanctions targeted at Russian oligarchs (to freeze their assets and prevent transactions within the United States and its banking system), new investment within Russia, and critical Russian state-owned enterprises will certainly not deter Putin’s military objectives, and Putin has just recently vowed to continue fighting (at least Biden can be half right and half wrong because he said that sanctions would deter, then changed his mind, and then pushed more through again, in a flip flop type of fashion). In fact, the ruble has recovered to roughly its pre-war value, and the Russian economy is stabilizing (at least for the moment), despite the concerted effort by the world’s most powerful countries to intimidate Russia into surrendering.
Much of the recovery may be due to Putin’s strict financial rules (such as prohibiting his citizens from exchanging rubles for foreign currencies and closing the Russian stock market to foreign investors) and the pegging of the ruble to gold (something that the whole world could learn a lesson from, as a gold standard would likely curb inflation and permanently increase the value of global currencies, including the U.S. dollar). Putin is even subsidizing the wages of some sectors of the economy and considering the nationalization of assets and companies.
A gold standard and replacement of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the world may threaten the plans of the global elite, but on the other hand, maybe the plan is to sink currencies worldwide and replace them with a digital and programmable currency that is to be used by all global citizens. It is difficult to tell what direction the global economy will take, but in either scenario, the average people of most countries will suffer.
Although Russia has seemingly refocused its efforts to the Donbass, perhaps because of military defeats or because its objectives in the western part of the country have been fulfilled (it is difficult to know, being that we only have access to bias news in both Russia and the West). Either way, what is terrifying about this is that many nations in league with the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum (WEF), including the neutral Switzerland (where the WEF is based), have attempted to utilize economic terrorism to destroy the Russian economy and the lives of ordinary Russians.
If the system can be used against Russia, it can certainly be used against any other nation or citizen. We already saw the Canadian government, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seize the bank accounts of those who donated any amount to the Freedom Convoy, and if a supposedly shining beacon of democracy, such as Canada, can get away with preventing transactions of those who have anti-government views, imagine what the future will look like. We also can understand this through the eyes of the recent pandemic, in that the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and many others participated in forced lockdowns, business shutdowns, and vaccine passport systems (denying access to goods and services for those who made a choice over their bodies) over a virus.
The West is starting to look more and more like Russia and China, with its gradual introduction of authoritarianism, and it may not be too long before your ability to buy and sell goods may be linked to how obedient you are and whether or not you support groups that the government arbitrarily declares terrorists (the bulletins issued by the Department of Homeland Security on pandemic resistance and disbelief in the 2020 presidential election results are good examples of how this mentality creeps into the United States' policies). The situation against Canadian and Russian citizens is a warning for those who care to heed it. Freedom of choice is at stake, and the Russo-Ukrainian War is another step closer to the global agenda of totalitarianism.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
For starters, the European Union, which relies on Russia for approximately 40% of its oil, continues to violate its principles of punishing the big, bad Putin, out of convenience and necessity. While this occurs, Russia still has an advantage and can use its leverage against Western economic attacks.
Right after the Biden administration announced the initial sets of sanctions, along with the EU and a handful of other countries, and cut off some of Russia’s banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China swooped in to assist, with its alternative processing system, the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). The president warned China that it needs to halt Russia’s aggression and that neutrality on the invasion was not an option, so I guess China must bend to American bullying and comply with the demands, right (assuming that China even has the ability to sway Putin’s actions)?
China and India also made up some of the slack in Russia’s economic downturn by purchasing Russian oil in rubles at a discount, per the order by Putin that countries must exchange oil in his country’s currency. It appears that the Russo-Ukrainian War is causing nations of the world to choose between the current United States-led economic order and the new “axis” order led by Russia and China. This, coupled with the growing military alliance of the two superpowers and the arms race between the West and the East, could lead to competing world orders and military confrontation on a massive scale (China is supplying Serbia with missiles; the United States is considering putting nuclear missiles in Poland, in addition to the conventional missiles already located in Poland and Romania, and expanding its quantity of troops in NATO countries; and the American military is attempting to play catch-up with its technology on hypersonic missiles). Even Cold War II would be detrimental to Americans, however, it would be lucrative to the defense contractors that work hand-in-hand with the federal government.
Biden’s new sanctions targeted at Russian oligarchs (to freeze their assets and prevent transactions within the United States and its banking system), new investment within Russia, and critical Russian state-owned enterprises will certainly not deter Putin’s military objectives, and Putin has just recently vowed to continue fighting (at least Biden can be half right and half wrong because he said that sanctions would deter, then changed his mind, and then pushed more through again, in a flip flop type of fashion). In fact, the ruble has recovered to roughly its pre-war value, and the Russian economy is stabilizing (at least for the moment), despite the concerted effort by the world’s most powerful countries to intimidate Russia into surrendering.
Much of the recovery may be due to Putin’s strict financial rules (such as prohibiting his citizens from exchanging rubles for foreign currencies and closing the Russian stock market to foreign investors) and the pegging of the ruble to gold (something that the whole world could learn a lesson from, as a gold standard would likely curb inflation and permanently increase the value of global currencies, including the U.S. dollar). Putin is even subsidizing the wages of some sectors of the economy and considering the nationalization of assets and companies.
A gold standard and replacement of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the world may threaten the plans of the global elite, but on the other hand, maybe the plan is to sink currencies worldwide and replace them with a digital and programmable currency that is to be used by all global citizens. It is difficult to tell what direction the global economy will take, but in either scenario, the average people of most countries will suffer.
Although Russia has seemingly refocused its efforts to the Donbass, perhaps because of military defeats or because its objectives in the western part of the country have been fulfilled (it is difficult to know, being that we only have access to bias news in both Russia and the West). Either way, what is terrifying about this is that many nations in league with the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum (WEF), including the neutral Switzerland (where the WEF is based), have attempted to utilize economic terrorism to destroy the Russian economy and the lives of ordinary Russians.
If the system can be used against Russia, it can certainly be used against any other nation or citizen. We already saw the Canadian government, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seize the bank accounts of those who donated any amount to the Freedom Convoy, and if a supposedly shining beacon of democracy, such as Canada, can get away with preventing transactions of those who have anti-government views, imagine what the future will look like. We also can understand this through the eyes of the recent pandemic, in that the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and many others participated in forced lockdowns, business shutdowns, and vaccine passport systems (denying access to goods and services for those who made a choice over their bodies) over a virus.
The West is starting to look more and more like Russia and China, with its gradual introduction of authoritarianism, and it may not be too long before your ability to buy and sell goods may be linked to how obedient you are and whether or not you support groups that the government arbitrarily declares terrorists (the bulletins issued by the Department of Homeland Security on pandemic resistance and disbelief in the 2020 presidential election results are good examples of how this mentality creeps into the United States' policies). The situation against Canadian and Russian citizens is a warning for those who care to heed it. Freedom of choice is at stake, and the Russo-Ukrainian War is another step closer to the global agenda of totalitarianism.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
April 5, 2022
What About the Perspective of Donetsk and Luhansk?
As Western media makes claims that the Russian military has suffered such devastating blows that it is in retreat and refocusing its efforts on the Donbass region, the hardships of war continue for the Ukrainian civilians trapped in the fray. By no fault of their own, their cities and livelihoods have been destroyed, while Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in his mansion directing the shots. While the images of dead bodies in Bucha and other towns near Kiev are horrifying, when President Joe Biden calls Putin a war criminal, it is both hypocritical and nationalistic. President George W. Bush invaded Iraq and committed similar atrocities as Putin, and Biden pushing the nation’s narrative to focus on regime change and support for war against Russia will only be detrimental to the American people, if a war is to ensue. Still, rally-around-the-flag cries continue, despite the United States government’s human rights record in the Middle East and lack of any real moral high ground on the Ukraine issue.
What is interesting, though, is that while Americans are focused on Putin’s imprisonment and censorship of dissidents, which is certainly wicked, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, through executive edict, consolidates the news media to a single narrative and prohibits opposition parties from practicing political activities. And yet, the Biden administration and Congress have just pledged an additional $13.6 billion in aid (in addition to Stinger and Javelin systems, grenade launchers, mortars, and other lethal aid that go to the coffers of the defense contractors) to one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. With all of this unconditional support for a non-ally, perhaps we should be aware of the brutality that the Ukrainian regime has committed over the years.
Knowing which belligerents in the Ukraine crisis are more to blame for the deaths and warfare in eastern Ukraine and which side did or did not violate the Minsk I and Minsk II agreements at what time are currently impossible to determine, and Russian and American propaganda abounds, making alleged atrocities difficult to confirm. However, we do know that shortly after the Crimean referendum of self-determination and Russian occupation of the peninsula, the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence (by a margin of roughly 90%, according to the electoral commissions of the separatist regions), and although Russia was unable to recognize the breakaway republics until February 21, 2022, the Russian-speaking majority of the Donbass (of which, a large portion are also ethnic Russians) was fighting to retain their separation status from Kiev. Just like with President Abraham Lincoln’s Union Army against the Confederacy, King George III’s Redcoats against the American colonists, or Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican troops against the Texan revolutionaries, centralized governments do not tolerate violations of their “territorial integrity,” regardless of whether the will of the people would prefer secession or the altering of the status quo conditions of governance. American foreign policy centers around corporate interests and global hegemony, so although officials claim to care about the will of the people in other countries, the reality shows us something entirely different.
Almost immediately after the referendum, the new Western-friendly interim government (formed from the unconstitutional coup supported by Victoria Nuland and company, of the Obama administration), under Alexander Turchinov, and the subsequent presidency of Petro Poroshenko (a chocolate tycoon and corrupt Ukraine oligarch) waged a war against the separatists to force them back into Ukraine. In 2014, the Ukrainian government blocked Crimea’s fresh water source with a dam, leading to lost agricultural production and humanitarian concerns.
Poroshenko, who even put large swaths of the country under martial law and may have done so to postpone the election (but yeah, Ukraine is a shining beacon of democracy, as the United States government claims), even used the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion as part of the National Guard of Ukraine to combat separatist forces (yeah, the United States government aiding Nazis does not quite make the headlines). The Azov Battalion, which was classified as a terrorist group by the United States and had to be given an exemption in order to be funded, has been accused of many human rights violations, and it still operates under the approval of the Ukrainian government. Torture, kidnappings, and executions of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine by Nazis are not a good look on Poroshenko or Zelensky, both of which claim to be the victims.
One could argue that releasing militias to commit terrorist attacks against the populations of Donetsk and Luhansk could serve the purpose of intimidation and provoking genocide without tracing it directly to Kiev. Right-wing militias do plague Ukraine, and this has even been acknowledged by Reuters (though presumably this 2018 admission was to provide evidence of growing fascism and authoritarianism worldwide, in order to make comparisons with Donald Trump). Ukrainian-backed terrorists were even charged with having bombed a café in Donetsk that killed the elected prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko.
Although both sides of the conflict were responsible for deaths and destruction, the difference is that the separatists were interested in defending their homeland from the Ukrainian invaders, so when soldiers sent from Kiev destroyed hospitals, roads, and other infrastructure belonging to the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, it was viewed very negatively by those living in the regions (just like western Ukrainians view Russia’s destruction of their infrastructure as extremely devastating). The people of the Donbass just wanted to left alone and not attacked by Kiev, as brilliantly articulated by Zakharchenko in his announcement of the release of captured Ukrainian soldiers (the separatist leader even allowed them to contact their loved ones while being prisoners of war, and he welcomed them to return as friends, not enemies).
Yet, despite the will of the people, the Ukrainian government continued waging the war for eight years, and Minsk II’s promise of talks on granting special status to Donetsk and Luhansk as semi-independent from the unitary government in Kiev (similar to that of Crimea prior to 2014) never occurred. If decentralization of those two oblasts were to have occurred, perhaps we would not be in the situation in which we find ourselves.
Calling the Ukrainian military campaign to coerce the breakaway republics back into the union a genocide, as Russia has claimed, may be a stretch to some, but consider what citizens of the Donbass have said on the matter. We do have to consider that circumstantial evidence is not always an accurate way to understand a situation, but there are accounts of Ukrainian genocide against ethnic Russians and indiscriminate killings against the people of Donetsk and Luhansk. Citizens of Donetsk have suggested:
“Ukrainian “warriors” are not fighting the Russian army, and they understand this very well, they have always understood it. They kill us purposely. And each of them knows perfectly well that – according to the UN definition – it is genocide.”
“...murderers who justify their desire to kill and to punish disobedient people via cowardly shelling by citing “Russian aggression” and “defending national interests…” – I remember you, the time will come and I will definitely find you… And all your kind, murderers, will be found… All of you will be punished in accordance with what you have done.”
As Americans, we sit here and judge the events unfolding as clear-cut, without considering the nuances involved. Although what Russia has forced upon the Ukrainian people is horrific and should be condemned, the Zelensky and Poroshenko regimes are far from angels. It is all about perspective, and the Biden administration rallying Americans around the nationalistic prospects of war in Ukraine (blood for profit motives) and unconditional support of Kiev will not benefit anyone. Bloodshed is never acceptable, but please consider that the people of Donetsk and Luhansk really do want independence. It is important to remember that there are two sides to every story, and both American (and European) and Russian propaganda will always suggest that the other party committed atrocities, without considering that culpability lies with all belligerents involved in war. We sit here on our high horse condemning Putin for his aggression, but we will not remember how the Bush administration did the exact same thing in Iraq (under as dubious of justifications as Putin utilizes in Ukraine). God will judge the actions of Bush, Biden, Putin, Poroshenko, and Zelensky, alike.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
What is interesting, though, is that while Americans are focused on Putin’s imprisonment and censorship of dissidents, which is certainly wicked, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, through executive edict, consolidates the news media to a single narrative and prohibits opposition parties from practicing political activities. And yet, the Biden administration and Congress have just pledged an additional $13.6 billion in aid (in addition to Stinger and Javelin systems, grenade launchers, mortars, and other lethal aid that go to the coffers of the defense contractors) to one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. With all of this unconditional support for a non-ally, perhaps we should be aware of the brutality that the Ukrainian regime has committed over the years.
Knowing which belligerents in the Ukraine crisis are more to blame for the deaths and warfare in eastern Ukraine and which side did or did not violate the Minsk I and Minsk II agreements at what time are currently impossible to determine, and Russian and American propaganda abounds, making alleged atrocities difficult to confirm. However, we do know that shortly after the Crimean referendum of self-determination and Russian occupation of the peninsula, the oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence (by a margin of roughly 90%, according to the electoral commissions of the separatist regions), and although Russia was unable to recognize the breakaway republics until February 21, 2022, the Russian-speaking majority of the Donbass (of which, a large portion are also ethnic Russians) was fighting to retain their separation status from Kiev. Just like with President Abraham Lincoln’s Union Army against the Confederacy, King George III’s Redcoats against the American colonists, or Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican troops against the Texan revolutionaries, centralized governments do not tolerate violations of their “territorial integrity,” regardless of whether the will of the people would prefer secession or the altering of the status quo conditions of governance. American foreign policy centers around corporate interests and global hegemony, so although officials claim to care about the will of the people in other countries, the reality shows us something entirely different.
Almost immediately after the referendum, the new Western-friendly interim government (formed from the unconstitutional coup supported by Victoria Nuland and company, of the Obama administration), under Alexander Turchinov, and the subsequent presidency of Petro Poroshenko (a chocolate tycoon and corrupt Ukraine oligarch) waged a war against the separatists to force them back into Ukraine. In 2014, the Ukrainian government blocked Crimea’s fresh water source with a dam, leading to lost agricultural production and humanitarian concerns.
Poroshenko, who even put large swaths of the country under martial law and may have done so to postpone the election (but yeah, Ukraine is a shining beacon of democracy, as the United States government claims), even used the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion as part of the National Guard of Ukraine to combat separatist forces (yeah, the United States government aiding Nazis does not quite make the headlines). The Azov Battalion, which was classified as a terrorist group by the United States and had to be given an exemption in order to be funded, has been accused of many human rights violations, and it still operates under the approval of the Ukrainian government. Torture, kidnappings, and executions of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine by Nazis are not a good look on Poroshenko or Zelensky, both of which claim to be the victims.
One could argue that releasing militias to commit terrorist attacks against the populations of Donetsk and Luhansk could serve the purpose of intimidation and provoking genocide without tracing it directly to Kiev. Right-wing militias do plague Ukraine, and this has even been acknowledged by Reuters (though presumably this 2018 admission was to provide evidence of growing fascism and authoritarianism worldwide, in order to make comparisons with Donald Trump). Ukrainian-backed terrorists were even charged with having bombed a café in Donetsk that killed the elected prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko.
Although both sides of the conflict were responsible for deaths and destruction, the difference is that the separatists were interested in defending their homeland from the Ukrainian invaders, so when soldiers sent from Kiev destroyed hospitals, roads, and other infrastructure belonging to the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, it was viewed very negatively by those living in the regions (just like western Ukrainians view Russia’s destruction of their infrastructure as extremely devastating). The people of the Donbass just wanted to left alone and not attacked by Kiev, as brilliantly articulated by Zakharchenko in his announcement of the release of captured Ukrainian soldiers (the separatist leader even allowed them to contact their loved ones while being prisoners of war, and he welcomed them to return as friends, not enemies).
Yet, despite the will of the people, the Ukrainian government continued waging the war for eight years, and Minsk II’s promise of talks on granting special status to Donetsk and Luhansk as semi-independent from the unitary government in Kiev (similar to that of Crimea prior to 2014) never occurred. If decentralization of those two oblasts were to have occurred, perhaps we would not be in the situation in which we find ourselves.
Calling the Ukrainian military campaign to coerce the breakaway republics back into the union a genocide, as Russia has claimed, may be a stretch to some, but consider what citizens of the Donbass have said on the matter. We do have to consider that circumstantial evidence is not always an accurate way to understand a situation, but there are accounts of Ukrainian genocide against ethnic Russians and indiscriminate killings against the people of Donetsk and Luhansk. Citizens of Donetsk have suggested:
“Ukrainian “warriors” are not fighting the Russian army, and they understand this very well, they have always understood it. They kill us purposely. And each of them knows perfectly well that – according to the UN definition – it is genocide.”
“...murderers who justify their desire to kill and to punish disobedient people via cowardly shelling by citing “Russian aggression” and “defending national interests…” – I remember you, the time will come and I will definitely find you… And all your kind, murderers, will be found… All of you will be punished in accordance with what you have done.”
As Americans, we sit here and judge the events unfolding as clear-cut, without considering the nuances involved. Although what Russia has forced upon the Ukrainian people is horrific and should be condemned, the Zelensky and Poroshenko regimes are far from angels. It is all about perspective, and the Biden administration rallying Americans around the nationalistic prospects of war in Ukraine (blood for profit motives) and unconditional support of Kiev will not benefit anyone. Bloodshed is never acceptable, but please consider that the people of Donetsk and Luhansk really do want independence. It is important to remember that there are two sides to every story, and both American (and European) and Russian propaganda will always suggest that the other party committed atrocities, without considering that culpability lies with all belligerents involved in war. We sit here on our high horse condemning Putin for his aggression, but we will not remember how the Bush administration did the exact same thing in Iraq (under as dubious of justifications as Putin utilizes in Ukraine). God will judge the actions of Bush, Biden, Putin, Poroshenko, and Zelensky, alike.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
March 28, 2022
The Biden Administration’s Lies About Russia and Ukraine
When President Biden said, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” at his speech in Warsaw, Poland, this should have sent chills down the spine of anyone who has been paying attention to the geopolitics of the last three decades. Aside from the fact that he should have kept the quiet part to himself, remember that the United States government has been participating in regime change operations of noncompliant countries for several years. The Russian government may hear this and automatically think that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) are conducting anti-government activities within Russia’s own borders. A White House spokesperson, as well as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, was quick to jump on this and correct the possible Freudian slip by downgrading the statement to the idea that Vladimir Putin “cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors.”
Even the corporate media focused on how dangerous the president’s comments were for peace and diplomacy, and when put into context with the history of American foreign policy, it is a pretty safe bet that there is some type of coup against the Kremlin being planned or acted out at this very moment. Putin can now take this as ammunition to further rationalize his unjustified attack on Ukraine and reciprocate accordingly.
Of course, Blinken would deny that active operations are taking place in Russia, but the speed in which Biden was corrected reminds me of the response from the White House and Doctor Anthony Fauci after Nicki Minaj made her naughty statements about the COVID-19 vaccine. Just like when Surgeon General Vivek Murthy waged his war against misinformation (and continues to do so), the propaganda and censorship coming out of the federal government suggests that there are certain narratives and facts that officials would prefer the public not to know about, in regards to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The Biden administration has been fumbling and covering up mistakes in order to present the official narrative properly, but are people starting to see through the government’s lies?
After the federal government and the corporate media denied that American-funded biological laboratories existed in Ukraine and considered any suggestion of such a thing as misinformation, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, under senatorial pressure, admitted that there was research being conducted in such laboratories and that the United States and Ukraine were worried that it could fall into Russia’s hands, thus validating what “conspiracy theorists” had been saying. Did the government apologize and reverse the classification of misinformation? I suspect that you know the answer, but what is interesting is that shortly after this exchange, the narrative moved quickly to the idea that Russia would use these “nonexistent” labs to launch chemical or biological weapons against Ukraine because it was allegedly losing in its goal to capture the weaker country, due to the bravery and will of the Ukrainian military.
Immediately, there are a couple problems with this theory. First, Russia’s stated goals are to demilitarize and de-Nazify the country and then pull back (explaining why Russia only deployed a small portion of its large military and reserves, is moving slowly, and has bombed strategic military sites and not captured cities west of the Dnieper River), and although the Kremlin could very well be lying about this, a Russian high-ranking military official, Sergei Rudskoy, claimed that the new primary objective was to secure Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts because the Ukrainian military had been weakened to the point where it could no longer threaten his motherland. The Biden administration cannot prove that Putin’s intentions are to annex all of Ukraine into its territory, and speculating on this only adds to the other false narratives being pushed.
Second, if those labs (that actually exist), which are a collaboration between the United States and Ukraine, are solely for mitigation efforts and are not being used for chemical or biological weapons research, why are both governments so worried about what happens to the work? Are they afraid that Russia will find the cure to the diseases being studied first and take all of the credit for itself? If Russia already has chemical weapons programs, as is claimed, why does it need Ukrainian ones to discover new deadly pathogens? If the United States and Ukraine are worried about their research being stolen, would this not imply that both countries were working on something dangerous and that they do not want Russia to use their own weapons against them? If a Russian invasion was imminent, as Biden claimed, why was the research not moved out of those labs before the invasion? Better yet, after enduring two years of hardships from government lockdowns because of a lab leak in Wuhan, what exactly is being researched in Ukraine, and why are the American and Ukrainian governments not being held accountable for the dangers that lurk in the facilities? It seems that the federal government has been caught in another lie that it is desperately attempting to cover up and present in a less sinister manner that the public would believe.
Aside from the research in those labs, what was brought to light from all of this was that Biden, who initially said there would be absolutely no American troops deployed to Ukraine, changed his tune in regards to chemical weapons usage. As stated above, the Biden administration is attempting to paint the Russian operation as an abysmal failure, which then portrays the invader as desperate and willing to resort to less conventional styles of warfare. The president has been pushing the idea that Russia will use chemical weapons (again from the labs that allegedly do not exist), and if such an action occurs, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would respond “in kind” and “make that decision [to use military force] at the time.”
What is left out of the conversation is that the Ukrainian government (and the United States, if sick and twisted officials wanted war) would have the motivation to rally the world to take military action against Russia, thus, the possibility of a false flag operation committed by the Zelensky regime is not out of the realm of possibility. However, if Biden can paint the narrative that Russia will definitely use chemical weapons before a false flag is performed (if it is, indeed, a false flag), Americans would be automatically convinced that it was Putin (and be persuaded to take military action), regardless of what is actually true. We saw this during the American invasion of Iraq, where the Bush administration convinced the majority of the country that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in order to drum up support for the war (even though it was all just a lie based on less-than-thorough and sinister evidence). Nationalistic propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Similar to the alleged Russian chemical weapons attack that is inevitable, the president has warned of upcoming cyberattacks that will, without a doubt, be orchestrated by Putin. However, what he leaves out is that the United States, China, and many other countries regularly participate in cyber warfare and exchange attacks against one another. Therefore, if we are to blame Russia for the next big strike, we should ensure that its culpability can be proven. Given Operation Northwoods and other actions of the United States government, charges of a false flag would not be unwarranted. Plus, as discussed previously, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been preparing countries and corporations for supply chain disruptions resulting from cyberattacks. The WEF’s Event 201 simulated a coronavirus outbreak and pandemic response just months before SARS-CoV-2 started spreading in Wuhan, so is its Cyber Polygon exercises an indication of what is to come?
Biden has been claiming that because Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish that Nazis are not a problem in Ukraine. However, this simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the Azov Battalion was incorporated into the National Guard of Ukraine in time to wage a brutal campaign against the Donetsk and Luhansk separatists. Far-right militias do run rampant in Ukraine, but when the corporate media does acknowledge their presence, it just says that even though Nazis do exist, it is not a big deal or of particular concern (yet, a small number of Nazis in Trump rallies are automatic condemnations of the rallies themselves). Maybe American-funded Nazis play a small part in the overall ranks of Ukraine’s military and government (the Svoboda Party is still active, though) and de-Nazification does not justify Putin’s invasion, but playing it off like they do not exist does a great disservice to the American people (if Americans knew that they were funding Nazis in Ukraine, perhaps they would not be so kind towards those who make those policies).
In Biden’s speech in Poland, he also alluded to something false that most of his followers will eat up: that the United States has been absent from European affairs and that nonintervention “comes back to haunt” us. For starters, when has the United States not been involved in European affairs? NATO expansion, which is cited as a security concern by Russia, began immediately after the end of the Cold War and continues to this day. The United States has permanent troops stationed on the continent and has been building missile systems in Poland and Romania. In addition, the United States was actively involved in the 2014 coup against the democratically-elected government led by Viktor Yanukovych and has been supplying the new Western-friendly Ukrainian (puppet) government with money and weapons ever since. I would hardly consider that nonintervention, but either way, covert and overt actions around the world have caused issues that come back around in the form of deadly weapons or unfavorable leaders, so it is incorrect to suggest that refraining from direct actions (often violent) is actually what causes Biden’s haunting scenario (if you do not believe me, research what actions in Somalia have caused).
The corporate media and government officials have been making the claims that Ukraine is an innocent country and a thriving democracy built on freedom and the rule of law. Although utilizing violence and coercing weaker nations into compliance is something that is never justified, it is interesting that Ukraine ranks as the 58th most corrupt nation on Earth (Russia is slightly more corrupt, though), according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, so it is not correct to suggest that Ukraine is a flourishing democracy. As mentioned above, the democratically-elected government was overthrown in violent protests and replaced by Nuland’s very own interim government. Yes, Ukraine has elections under the new government, but it was American (and Russian) meddling that caused the situation in which we now find ourselves.
In addition, President Zelensky does not abide by traditional democratic norms. In Biden’s speech, he said that freedom of assembly, press, and speech were necessary components of democracy, and yet, Zelensky outlawed, through executive edict, opposition parties from all political activities (he even jailed an opposition leader prior to the invasion). He went even further by consolidating all television networks (ones that are privately owned) into state propaganda to unify the wartime message. Either quelling speech and press independence in this manner falls within Biden’s definition of freedom, or he is ignoring it for his own political agenda. There is all of this talk about how Putin imprisons those who spread information unfavorable to the government (this is wrong too), but Zelensky is doing the same thing and still being praised for his bravery and supported unconditionally.
The Biden administration has been imposing economic sanctions on Russia since the invasion began, and he implied that these punitive measures would halt the Russian war machine. However, in a recent press briefing, the president admitted that “sanctions never deter” and that the real purpose was to unite Europe around a single cause and keep nations on track with the condemnation of the invasion. This switcheroo on the narrative is telling of the real intentions of the United States government. In fact, the plethora of sanctions against enemy nations throughout the years have been implemented in order to make life so miserable for the average people of the targeted country that they would want to overthrow their leadership. This jives with Biden’s comment that Putin must be removed from office, and perhaps economic terrorism is the real goal. Biden bragged that Russia’s economy is about to tank from the eleventh strongest in the world to below the top twenty mark because of the united effort to punish the innocent Russian people, and this is absolutely abhorrent. For equivalency, perhaps Putin should have sanctioned the American people and their economy when the Bush administration destroyed Iraq. Regardless, sanctions do not dissuade tyrannical leaders from changing course, and the officials of the affected country find ways around them, to the detriment of the people.
After leveling cities to the ground and causing refugees and casualties on a massive scale in Iraq, the United States government does not have the moral high ground to condemn Putin’s invasion. Let us hope that peace talks prevail; and it remains to be seen if Zelensky accepts Ukrainian neutrality, a guarantee that the country will never enter NATO, recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and freedom of determination for Donetsk and Luhansk. What other lies and misrepresentations can the Biden administration dish out to the public while trying to appear devoid of unethical behavior and dubious intentions? Perhaps the new world order that Biden mentioned (perhaps by mistake) is not something that we should celebrate, and with the WEF’s Great Reset coming into play, the people of the world should reject the global totalitarianism that is sold under the guise of promoting freedom and equality. The Covid pandemic and the unified effort to destroy Russia are just the beginning of what is to come. Let us hope that nuclear war is not on their agenda.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
Even the corporate media focused on how dangerous the president’s comments were for peace and diplomacy, and when put into context with the history of American foreign policy, it is a pretty safe bet that there is some type of coup against the Kremlin being planned or acted out at this very moment. Putin can now take this as ammunition to further rationalize his unjustified attack on Ukraine and reciprocate accordingly.
Of course, Blinken would deny that active operations are taking place in Russia, but the speed in which Biden was corrected reminds me of the response from the White House and Doctor Anthony Fauci after Nicki Minaj made her naughty statements about the COVID-19 vaccine. Just like when Surgeon General Vivek Murthy waged his war against misinformation (and continues to do so), the propaganda and censorship coming out of the federal government suggests that there are certain narratives and facts that officials would prefer the public not to know about, in regards to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The Biden administration has been fumbling and covering up mistakes in order to present the official narrative properly, but are people starting to see through the government’s lies?
After the federal government and the corporate media denied that American-funded biological laboratories existed in Ukraine and considered any suggestion of such a thing as misinformation, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, under senatorial pressure, admitted that there was research being conducted in such laboratories and that the United States and Ukraine were worried that it could fall into Russia’s hands, thus validating what “conspiracy theorists” had been saying. Did the government apologize and reverse the classification of misinformation? I suspect that you know the answer, but what is interesting is that shortly after this exchange, the narrative moved quickly to the idea that Russia would use these “nonexistent” labs to launch chemical or biological weapons against Ukraine because it was allegedly losing in its goal to capture the weaker country, due to the bravery and will of the Ukrainian military.
Immediately, there are a couple problems with this theory. First, Russia’s stated goals are to demilitarize and de-Nazify the country and then pull back (explaining why Russia only deployed a small portion of its large military and reserves, is moving slowly, and has bombed strategic military sites and not captured cities west of the Dnieper River), and although the Kremlin could very well be lying about this, a Russian high-ranking military official, Sergei Rudskoy, claimed that the new primary objective was to secure Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts because the Ukrainian military had been weakened to the point where it could no longer threaten his motherland. The Biden administration cannot prove that Putin’s intentions are to annex all of Ukraine into its territory, and speculating on this only adds to the other false narratives being pushed.
Second, if those labs (that actually exist), which are a collaboration between the United States and Ukraine, are solely for mitigation efforts and are not being used for chemical or biological weapons research, why are both governments so worried about what happens to the work? Are they afraid that Russia will find the cure to the diseases being studied first and take all of the credit for itself? If Russia already has chemical weapons programs, as is claimed, why does it need Ukrainian ones to discover new deadly pathogens? If the United States and Ukraine are worried about their research being stolen, would this not imply that both countries were working on something dangerous and that they do not want Russia to use their own weapons against them? If a Russian invasion was imminent, as Biden claimed, why was the research not moved out of those labs before the invasion? Better yet, after enduring two years of hardships from government lockdowns because of a lab leak in Wuhan, what exactly is being researched in Ukraine, and why are the American and Ukrainian governments not being held accountable for the dangers that lurk in the facilities? It seems that the federal government has been caught in another lie that it is desperately attempting to cover up and present in a less sinister manner that the public would believe.
Aside from the research in those labs, what was brought to light from all of this was that Biden, who initially said there would be absolutely no American troops deployed to Ukraine, changed his tune in regards to chemical weapons usage. As stated above, the Biden administration is attempting to paint the Russian operation as an abysmal failure, which then portrays the invader as desperate and willing to resort to less conventional styles of warfare. The president has been pushing the idea that Russia will use chemical weapons (again from the labs that allegedly do not exist), and if such an action occurs, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would respond “in kind” and “make that decision [to use military force] at the time.”
What is left out of the conversation is that the Ukrainian government (and the United States, if sick and twisted officials wanted war) would have the motivation to rally the world to take military action against Russia, thus, the possibility of a false flag operation committed by the Zelensky regime is not out of the realm of possibility. However, if Biden can paint the narrative that Russia will definitely use chemical weapons before a false flag is performed (if it is, indeed, a false flag), Americans would be automatically convinced that it was Putin (and be persuaded to take military action), regardless of what is actually true. We saw this during the American invasion of Iraq, where the Bush administration convinced the majority of the country that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in order to drum up support for the war (even though it was all just a lie based on less-than-thorough and sinister evidence). Nationalistic propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Similar to the alleged Russian chemical weapons attack that is inevitable, the president has warned of upcoming cyberattacks that will, without a doubt, be orchestrated by Putin. However, what he leaves out is that the United States, China, and many other countries regularly participate in cyber warfare and exchange attacks against one another. Therefore, if we are to blame Russia for the next big strike, we should ensure that its culpability can be proven. Given Operation Northwoods and other actions of the United States government, charges of a false flag would not be unwarranted. Plus, as discussed previously, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been preparing countries and corporations for supply chain disruptions resulting from cyberattacks. The WEF’s Event 201 simulated a coronavirus outbreak and pandemic response just months before SARS-CoV-2 started spreading in Wuhan, so is its Cyber Polygon exercises an indication of what is to come?
Biden has been claiming that because Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish that Nazis are not a problem in Ukraine. However, this simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the Azov Battalion was incorporated into the National Guard of Ukraine in time to wage a brutal campaign against the Donetsk and Luhansk separatists. Far-right militias do run rampant in Ukraine, but when the corporate media does acknowledge their presence, it just says that even though Nazis do exist, it is not a big deal or of particular concern (yet, a small number of Nazis in Trump rallies are automatic condemnations of the rallies themselves). Maybe American-funded Nazis play a small part in the overall ranks of Ukraine’s military and government (the Svoboda Party is still active, though) and de-Nazification does not justify Putin’s invasion, but playing it off like they do not exist does a great disservice to the American people (if Americans knew that they were funding Nazis in Ukraine, perhaps they would not be so kind towards those who make those policies).
In Biden’s speech in Poland, he also alluded to something false that most of his followers will eat up: that the United States has been absent from European affairs and that nonintervention “comes back to haunt” us. For starters, when has the United States not been involved in European affairs? NATO expansion, which is cited as a security concern by Russia, began immediately after the end of the Cold War and continues to this day. The United States has permanent troops stationed on the continent and has been building missile systems in Poland and Romania. In addition, the United States was actively involved in the 2014 coup against the democratically-elected government led by Viktor Yanukovych and has been supplying the new Western-friendly Ukrainian (puppet) government with money and weapons ever since. I would hardly consider that nonintervention, but either way, covert and overt actions around the world have caused issues that come back around in the form of deadly weapons or unfavorable leaders, so it is incorrect to suggest that refraining from direct actions (often violent) is actually what causes Biden’s haunting scenario (if you do not believe me, research what actions in Somalia have caused).
The corporate media and government officials have been making the claims that Ukraine is an innocent country and a thriving democracy built on freedom and the rule of law. Although utilizing violence and coercing weaker nations into compliance is something that is never justified, it is interesting that Ukraine ranks as the 58th most corrupt nation on Earth (Russia is slightly more corrupt, though), according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, so it is not correct to suggest that Ukraine is a flourishing democracy. As mentioned above, the democratically-elected government was overthrown in violent protests and replaced by Nuland’s very own interim government. Yes, Ukraine has elections under the new government, but it was American (and Russian) meddling that caused the situation in which we now find ourselves.
In addition, President Zelensky does not abide by traditional democratic norms. In Biden’s speech, he said that freedom of assembly, press, and speech were necessary components of democracy, and yet, Zelensky outlawed, through executive edict, opposition parties from all political activities (he even jailed an opposition leader prior to the invasion). He went even further by consolidating all television networks (ones that are privately owned) into state propaganda to unify the wartime message. Either quelling speech and press independence in this manner falls within Biden’s definition of freedom, or he is ignoring it for his own political agenda. There is all of this talk about how Putin imprisons those who spread information unfavorable to the government (this is wrong too), but Zelensky is doing the same thing and still being praised for his bravery and supported unconditionally.
The Biden administration has been imposing economic sanctions on Russia since the invasion began, and he implied that these punitive measures would halt the Russian war machine. However, in a recent press briefing, the president admitted that “sanctions never deter” and that the real purpose was to unite Europe around a single cause and keep nations on track with the condemnation of the invasion. This switcheroo on the narrative is telling of the real intentions of the United States government. In fact, the plethora of sanctions against enemy nations throughout the years have been implemented in order to make life so miserable for the average people of the targeted country that they would want to overthrow their leadership. This jives with Biden’s comment that Putin must be removed from office, and perhaps economic terrorism is the real goal. Biden bragged that Russia’s economy is about to tank from the eleventh strongest in the world to below the top twenty mark because of the united effort to punish the innocent Russian people, and this is absolutely abhorrent. For equivalency, perhaps Putin should have sanctioned the American people and their economy when the Bush administration destroyed Iraq. Regardless, sanctions do not dissuade tyrannical leaders from changing course, and the officials of the affected country find ways around them, to the detriment of the people.
After leveling cities to the ground and causing refugees and casualties on a massive scale in Iraq, the United States government does not have the moral high ground to condemn Putin’s invasion. Let us hope that peace talks prevail; and it remains to be seen if Zelensky accepts Ukrainian neutrality, a guarantee that the country will never enter NATO, recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and freedom of determination for Donetsk and Luhansk. What other lies and misrepresentations can the Biden administration dish out to the public while trying to appear devoid of unethical behavior and dubious intentions? Perhaps the new world order that Biden mentioned (perhaps by mistake) is not something that we should celebrate, and with the WEF’s Great Reset coming into play, the people of the world should reject the global totalitarianism that is sold under the guise of promoting freedom and equality. The Covid pandemic and the unified effort to destroy Russia are just the beginning of what is to come. Let us hope that nuclear war is not on their agenda.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
March 16, 2022
Anyone Who Questions the Ukraine Narrative Is a Russian Agent, Because Nuance Is Not Allowed
The Ukraine crisis is setting up to be a dramatic movie much like the COVID-19 one, as we have our very own Anthony Fauci character to use semantics to avoid addressing the issue of American funding of biological research facilities, an Andrew Cuomo figure (Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky might soon be a face on t shirts and other memorabilia) to charm the ladies and act like a paternal badass for the men, a corporate media and government propaganda machine to convince the populace to support the new cause for the sake of patriotism, and a fight against “misinformation” to create soft censorship of those who disagree with the mainstream narrative; and yet, Americans eat it up and fall for it all over again (“hook, line, and sinker,” as liberal commentators like to say in reference to Donald Trump and information that runs contrary to the narrative of Covid and Ukraine). Here we go again.
The government, media, and left-wing pundits are now on a mission to label anyone who does not play ball with the Biden administration’s narrative as a Russian agent or a naïve and misled soul who is a useful idiot for Putin and his propaganda. Basically, agree with us, or you are a tool of the enemy. There is no nuance or critical thinking to many of these people, and they seem to suggest that you are simply spitting Putin’s hot fire for not following the crowd. However, it is, in fact, possible to condemn what Putin is doing in Ukraine and also try to understand the situation and arguments put forth by Russia in order to wish for a diplomatic solution that does not result in further bloodshed. Instead, people blindly spew out the gospel put forth by officials and newscasters. To many, questioning the narrative is as foreign as Ukraine itself. Let us just hope that this remains at ridicule and charges of being quacks or Russian agents, and that it will not include free trips to an American version of the gulags.
Watching Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who was actively involved in the 2014 coup against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, squirm when being asked if Ukraine had chemical or biological weapons was reminiscent of the times when Senator Rand Paul caused Dr. Fauci to get heated and go on the defensive when asked about gain-of-function research in Wuhan and how he conspired to silence unpopular experts who authored the Great Barrington Declaration. In the senatorial hearing, instead of simply stating that Ukraine did not have chemical or biological weapons that were funded by the United States government, Nuland admitted that there was some biological research being conducted that she was nervous about Russia confiscating.
Officially, the United States does have bio-labs in Ukraine to research the mitigation of agents that could be used on the battlefield or spread to the populace, but given the United States’ history of lying, experimentation on people (Tuskegee Syphilis Study, MK Ultra, and Operation Northwoods), and violent acts around the globe, would it be a stretch to suggest that perhaps some of this may be for nefarious purposes? This is not to say that the United States and Ukraine were conclusively planning to commit genocide against ethnic Russians or utilize chemical weapons against separatists in the Donbass, as Russia would suggest, but rather, we the people should be entitled to transparency in the government without charges of being in league with Putin. Since the government spent money on campaigns to mislead the public during the Covid crisis and ensure that truthful information did not gain traction (for example, Fauci and the corporate and social medias tried their best to label the lab leak idea as a baseless, right-wing conspiracy theory, until it was later revealed that it was actually very plausible and could then be accepted into the everyday discussion), it seems very reasonable to be skeptical when the government and media quickly dismiss bio-labs in Ukraine as Russian and Chinese propaganda. It is very cute on the part of officials, but some of us can see through the deception.
Perhaps it is ultimately nothing and Putin is utilizing this argument in a similar manner that President George W. Bush did against Saddam Hussein, but on the other hand, maybe there is something to it. We cannot know unless we question and demand answers. Interestingly, there seems to be a petition that had been circulating throughout Ukraine to have the government there halt the American-funded bio-lab research because it was potentially dangerous. Perhaps, after enduring the hardships of the last two years and because of Fort Detrick’s anthrax attack against Americans in 2001, we should discontinue such research or demand increased safety protocols (under public scrutiny) and not label truth-seekers as Putin apologists and supporters, as Tulsi Gabbard was recently.
Even though Congress loosened regulations against funding Nazi groups in 2015, the United States stood in unity with Ukraine by vetoing annual United Nations resolutions “combating the glorification of Nazism” and sent weapons and financial aid to Ukraine’s National Guard, which includes the Nazi Azov Battalion, and Ukraine has the ultranationalist Svoboda political party; the corporate media still claims that you are a Russian agent if you suggest, like Reuters did in 2018, that Ukraine has a troubled present (and past) with far-right extremist elements in its own government. It will be admitted that, of course, neo-Nazis exist and are part of the government in some capacity, but that does not mean that the problem is something worth invading Ukraine over. Perhaps that is true, and again, I do not support the bombing against Ukrainian cities, but it is important to understand why the Russian military has engaged in these attacks.
One Nazi flag raised at a Trump rally or at the Canadian Freedom Convoy was enough to classify the movements as fringe and full of white supremacy to taint the image of the participants, however, we allow Nazis to work with the Ukrainian government, and it is supposed to be no big deal (ironically, Trump got impeached for withholding funds from Ukraine that were supporting Nazis). Under the current political climate, if you even suggest that Ukraine is plagued by Nazism, you are working for the Bad Man himself and participating in whataboutism (yeah, who cares if Nazis are imbedded in the Ukrainian government, because we can only focus on the narrowminded view that Putin is attacking, and nothing else).
As President Zelensky (who apparently grew another “y” in his last name, just like Kiev became Kyiv) continues to press Congress to implement a no-fly zone that would inevitably lead to armed conflict between the United States and Russia (but what does he care about such risks, as long as his country is temporarily protected?), we must seriously ask ourselves if we are ready for World War III (Zelensky has suggested that World War III may have already begun, and he wants to create a new NATO (U24 or “United for Peace” association, perhaps reminiscent of the Allied forces pitted against the new Axis powers of Russia and China). President Biden has just called Putin a "war criminal," which may be used as justification for the United States and Europe to antagonize Putin further and cause the war that he claims to want to avoid (why is the Biden administration busy sanctioning Putin but not engaging in serious diplomacy?). It is still possible to prevent the worst-case scenario, however, domestically, I fear that the propaganda war will continue to be waged in order to silence the minority. The good news about censorship in our time is that we still have the illusion of choice, as our numerous networks and outlets for information are being manipulated from behind the scenes, instead of in front of our eyes. After all, at least Nicki Minaj and Tulsi Gabbard were not hauled off to prison for their naughty opinions.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
The government, media, and left-wing pundits are now on a mission to label anyone who does not play ball with the Biden administration’s narrative as a Russian agent or a naïve and misled soul who is a useful idiot for Putin and his propaganda. Basically, agree with us, or you are a tool of the enemy. There is no nuance or critical thinking to many of these people, and they seem to suggest that you are simply spitting Putin’s hot fire for not following the crowd. However, it is, in fact, possible to condemn what Putin is doing in Ukraine and also try to understand the situation and arguments put forth by Russia in order to wish for a diplomatic solution that does not result in further bloodshed. Instead, people blindly spew out the gospel put forth by officials and newscasters. To many, questioning the narrative is as foreign as Ukraine itself. Let us just hope that this remains at ridicule and charges of being quacks or Russian agents, and that it will not include free trips to an American version of the gulags.
Watching Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who was actively involved in the 2014 coup against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, squirm when being asked if Ukraine had chemical or biological weapons was reminiscent of the times when Senator Rand Paul caused Dr. Fauci to get heated and go on the defensive when asked about gain-of-function research in Wuhan and how he conspired to silence unpopular experts who authored the Great Barrington Declaration. In the senatorial hearing, instead of simply stating that Ukraine did not have chemical or biological weapons that were funded by the United States government, Nuland admitted that there was some biological research being conducted that she was nervous about Russia confiscating.
Officially, the United States does have bio-labs in Ukraine to research the mitigation of agents that could be used on the battlefield or spread to the populace, but given the United States’ history of lying, experimentation on people (Tuskegee Syphilis Study, MK Ultra, and Operation Northwoods), and violent acts around the globe, would it be a stretch to suggest that perhaps some of this may be for nefarious purposes? This is not to say that the United States and Ukraine were conclusively planning to commit genocide against ethnic Russians or utilize chemical weapons against separatists in the Donbass, as Russia would suggest, but rather, we the people should be entitled to transparency in the government without charges of being in league with Putin. Since the government spent money on campaigns to mislead the public during the Covid crisis and ensure that truthful information did not gain traction (for example, Fauci and the corporate and social medias tried their best to label the lab leak idea as a baseless, right-wing conspiracy theory, until it was later revealed that it was actually very plausible and could then be accepted into the everyday discussion), it seems very reasonable to be skeptical when the government and media quickly dismiss bio-labs in Ukraine as Russian and Chinese propaganda. It is very cute on the part of officials, but some of us can see through the deception.
Perhaps it is ultimately nothing and Putin is utilizing this argument in a similar manner that President George W. Bush did against Saddam Hussein, but on the other hand, maybe there is something to it. We cannot know unless we question and demand answers. Interestingly, there seems to be a petition that had been circulating throughout Ukraine to have the government there halt the American-funded bio-lab research because it was potentially dangerous. Perhaps, after enduring the hardships of the last two years and because of Fort Detrick’s anthrax attack against Americans in 2001, we should discontinue such research or demand increased safety protocols (under public scrutiny) and not label truth-seekers as Putin apologists and supporters, as Tulsi Gabbard was recently.
Even though Congress loosened regulations against funding Nazi groups in 2015, the United States stood in unity with Ukraine by vetoing annual United Nations resolutions “combating the glorification of Nazism” and sent weapons and financial aid to Ukraine’s National Guard, which includes the Nazi Azov Battalion, and Ukraine has the ultranationalist Svoboda political party; the corporate media still claims that you are a Russian agent if you suggest, like Reuters did in 2018, that Ukraine has a troubled present (and past) with far-right extremist elements in its own government. It will be admitted that, of course, neo-Nazis exist and are part of the government in some capacity, but that does not mean that the problem is something worth invading Ukraine over. Perhaps that is true, and again, I do not support the bombing against Ukrainian cities, but it is important to understand why the Russian military has engaged in these attacks.
One Nazi flag raised at a Trump rally or at the Canadian Freedom Convoy was enough to classify the movements as fringe and full of white supremacy to taint the image of the participants, however, we allow Nazis to work with the Ukrainian government, and it is supposed to be no big deal (ironically, Trump got impeached for withholding funds from Ukraine that were supporting Nazis). Under the current political climate, if you even suggest that Ukraine is plagued by Nazism, you are working for the Bad Man himself and participating in whataboutism (yeah, who cares if Nazis are imbedded in the Ukrainian government, because we can only focus on the narrowminded view that Putin is attacking, and nothing else).
As President Zelensky (who apparently grew another “y” in his last name, just like Kiev became Kyiv) continues to press Congress to implement a no-fly zone that would inevitably lead to armed conflict between the United States and Russia (but what does he care about such risks, as long as his country is temporarily protected?), we must seriously ask ourselves if we are ready for World War III (Zelensky has suggested that World War III may have already begun, and he wants to create a new NATO (U24 or “United for Peace” association, perhaps reminiscent of the Allied forces pitted against the new Axis powers of Russia and China). President Biden has just called Putin a "war criminal," which may be used as justification for the United States and Europe to antagonize Putin further and cause the war that he claims to want to avoid (why is the Biden administration busy sanctioning Putin but not engaging in serious diplomacy?). It is still possible to prevent the worst-case scenario, however, domestically, I fear that the propaganda war will continue to be waged in order to silence the minority. The good news about censorship in our time is that we still have the illusion of choice, as our numerous networks and outlets for information are being manipulated from behind the scenes, instead of in front of our eyes. After all, at least Nicki Minaj and Tulsi Gabbard were not hauled off to prison for their naughty opinions.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
March 14, 2022
Ukraine May Have the Spotlight, But the U.S.-Supported Bloodbath in Yemen Continues
While the world looks at the casualties and refugees caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an even worse human rights catastrophe wages on in Yemen. Just like with Ukraine, the United States has contributed towards the atrocities in the Yemeni Civil War, as well as in many other places, and the status quo foreign policy will continue to haunt the American historical record forever.
The nightmare in Yemen has resulted in more than 150,000 deaths (maybe even as high as 377,000, if all factors are considered), of which, 14,500 (by some reports) were civilians (10,200 were children, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF). As the fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis, which control much of the country, and the U.S.-backed Saudi and Emirati forces, which are acting to reinstall the coalition-friendly government under President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, continues, it is estimated, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that 19 million people will be unable to obtain the necessary food to survive by the end of the calendar year, of which 2.2 million will be children and 161,000 will be starving.
Although the United States has never declared war in Yemen or against the Houthis, and all action has been taken through executive action, the federal government has exacerbated the situation by utilizing civilian-killing drone strikes and supporting the bloodbath of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, U.S. airstrikes have killed at least 1,020 to 1,389 people (at least 174 to 225 civilians are included) between 2004 and 2020 under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump in operations against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), both of which have increased their presence due to American involvement in the region. President Biden continues the airstrikes to this day.
You would think that a famine-stricken country would be spared the air power of the American military, but never underestimate the lack of compassion and irrational inability to purge the land of terrorists. This is typical American foreign policy: if something fails time and time again, keep trying, because maybe eventually, the military-industrial complex’s weapons will work to eradicate the enemy and not encourage retaliatory actions in return.
Because of the oil sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Biden administration, which previously announced that it was ending its support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE in regards to its war in Yemen (but did not cut off backing entirely), is in the process of high-fiving both Mohammad bin Salman and Mohammad bin Zayed by requesting an increase in oil production to cushion Americans’ wallets enough to not have to take such a political hit at home for unconstitutionally implementing sanctions that hurt average Americans and Russians alike (it has not gone through the legislative process, nor has it utilized due process to seize assets and resources from foreign leaders and businesses, and ironically, it may end up warming up to the enemies of Iran and Venezuela).
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have blockaded Yemen for years, which has caused countless civilian casualties, and still, the United States does not cut off its support and weapons transfers to the human rights violators. Earlier this year, both kingdoms destroyed a detention center, killing or injuring 200 people, and a telecommunications building, which knocked out internet access for the entire country; and of the 24,876 Saudi and Emirati-led air raids against Yemen, the Yemen Data Project has estimated that this has led to 19,196 civilian casualties.
Even though Saudi Arabia and the UAE continue to bomb the poor country into oblivion, the only way that the Biden administration will get the Saudis and Emiratis to agree to increased oil production would likely be to boost weapons sales to both kingdoms to resume their slaughtering of thousands of people. Although this is a tough spot for an American president to be in, this conflict should not be supported in any way by the United States, but the reality of the situation and the history of U.S. involvement would suggest that prudence will not prevail in Washington, D.C.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
The nightmare in Yemen has resulted in more than 150,000 deaths (maybe even as high as 377,000, if all factors are considered), of which, 14,500 (by some reports) were civilians (10,200 were children, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF). As the fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis, which control much of the country, and the U.S.-backed Saudi and Emirati forces, which are acting to reinstall the coalition-friendly government under President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, continues, it is estimated, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that 19 million people will be unable to obtain the necessary food to survive by the end of the calendar year, of which 2.2 million will be children and 161,000 will be starving.
Although the United States has never declared war in Yemen or against the Houthis, and all action has been taken through executive action, the federal government has exacerbated the situation by utilizing civilian-killing drone strikes and supporting the bloodbath of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, U.S. airstrikes have killed at least 1,020 to 1,389 people (at least 174 to 225 civilians are included) between 2004 and 2020 under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump in operations against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), both of which have increased their presence due to American involvement in the region. President Biden continues the airstrikes to this day.
You would think that a famine-stricken country would be spared the air power of the American military, but never underestimate the lack of compassion and irrational inability to purge the land of terrorists. This is typical American foreign policy: if something fails time and time again, keep trying, because maybe eventually, the military-industrial complex’s weapons will work to eradicate the enemy and not encourage retaliatory actions in return.
Because of the oil sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Biden administration, which previously announced that it was ending its support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE in regards to its war in Yemen (but did not cut off backing entirely), is in the process of high-fiving both Mohammad bin Salman and Mohammad bin Zayed by requesting an increase in oil production to cushion Americans’ wallets enough to not have to take such a political hit at home for unconstitutionally implementing sanctions that hurt average Americans and Russians alike (it has not gone through the legislative process, nor has it utilized due process to seize assets and resources from foreign leaders and businesses, and ironically, it may end up warming up to the enemies of Iran and Venezuela).
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have blockaded Yemen for years, which has caused countless civilian casualties, and still, the United States does not cut off its support and weapons transfers to the human rights violators. Earlier this year, both kingdoms destroyed a detention center, killing or injuring 200 people, and a telecommunications building, which knocked out internet access for the entire country; and of the 24,876 Saudi and Emirati-led air raids against Yemen, the Yemen Data Project has estimated that this has led to 19,196 civilian casualties.
Even though Saudi Arabia and the UAE continue to bomb the poor country into oblivion, the only way that the Biden administration will get the Saudis and Emiratis to agree to increased oil production would likely be to boost weapons sales to both kingdoms to resume their slaughtering of thousands of people. Although this is a tough spot for an American president to be in, this conflict should not be supported in any way by the United States, but the reality of the situation and the history of U.S. involvement would suggest that prudence will not prevail in Washington, D.C.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
March 9, 2022
The War on Covid Misinformation Is Evolving?
As the Biden administration wages a dangerous economic war against the Russian people and Putin replaces Omicron in the top spot of the what-you-should-fear charts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has loosened its mask guidance to eliminate the need in most areas, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams has terminated the vaccine passport system for the city. The Covid narrative may be changing, but some of the underreported news is chilling. Just like with the war against Covid misinformation, you can bet that a similar government-corporate campaign will occur to prevent the speech of those who are deemed Russian agents (some of us actually have Putin on speed dial, you know, and talk to him every night before bed). However, the news has gotten worse, as the smear campaigns, controlling of the narrative, and corporate censorship have evolved into potentially more dangerous waters.
Glenn Beck’s Blaze Media recently reported that the federal government spent $1 billion dollars to convince viewers of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Newsmax, and “hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations” that the Covid vaccine was “safe and effective” (the constantly echoed propaganda line from the government and corporate media). In addition to purchasing advertisements, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a campaign to get celebrities to spread of the gospel of vaccination through television and social media (maybe that is why the White House was so angry with Nicki Minaj for formulating her own opinion). So, many of those sad, sob stories in the media about people regretting the vaccine and dying of the virus were likely staged or overemphasized for persuasive purposes (this is not to say that the virus was not dangerous for some or did not cause deaths).
After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its bulletin and classified anyone who questioned the official Covid narrative as a potential terrorist, it should have become clear to anyone who was paying attention that the federal government was and is waging a war against its citizens and crafting a narrative for what is and is not acceptable speech. Using taxpayer money to influence what people see, censoring information through government-corporate partnerships, and discouraging people from thinking for themselves or believing anything other than what the official narrative suggests are abridgements of free speech and thought. Although it should be clear that politicians and the populace at large care little for the Constitution or First Amendment protections, the government is not permitted to monopolistically create a narrative and punish those who would prefer to protest against it.
However, this is just scratching the surface of what may be to come, pertaining to free speech, privacy, and ability to access services. After declaring a war against misinformation months ago, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ordered Big Tech firms to hand over data from “social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems” in order to capture details on the information, demographic breakdowns, and how many individuals were impacted by the “misinformation.” This is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, in that people are guaranteed privacy, corporations cannot be compelled or bribed to participate in unwarranted and unspecific searches, and searches cannot be unreasonable (spreading information that the government does not like is not a crime, yet). The Biden administration has not issued a warrant that describes the details of why individuals’ data is being seized, but yet, the government will get away with it, as most Americans focus solely on Ukraine and are not interested in “minor inconveniences,” as is the term that liberal commentators like to call every Covid measure.
Aside from what should be clear unconstitutional violations, does anyone really think that this will end at a Covid database for analysis on unfavorable information, given the history of NSA and FBI surveillance (and other agencies, like the CIA, which is again spying on Americans domestically)? Will this not expand into creating government watch lists for those who are capable of critical thinking outside of the propaganda? We have No-Fly and terrorist watch lists, in which Americans are stripped of their rights outside of due process, so it is not difficult to perceive that special lists would be established for those with certain political views or those making medical choices.
We have also seen some cities implement vaccine passports to deny people access to assemble at places of their choosing (another First and Fourth Amendment violation that was enforced by companies at the order of the government) and the termination of individuals from their jobs for simply making a personal and medical choice over their bodies, and in Canada, the authoritarian Trudeau regime froze the bank accounts of anyone who donated to the Freedom Convoy. If you can be denied access to goods and services and have your personal accounts seized for having political and social opinions contrary to what the government would prefer, there is no end to the tyranny that will unfold. President Biden has even issued an executive order against the decentralized cryptocurrency, in order to regulate something that may challenge the almighty U.S. dollar (we cannot have that, now).
Many Americans erroneously and naively believe that because there are many corporations to transact with and multiple news outlets to get information from, that choice actually exists. However, choice is an illusion, because as has been discussed, corporations work together with the government or accept payments to get in line with the agenda (plus, BlackRock and Vanguard also control most of the Fortune 500 companies, so most goods and services are provided through consolidated efforts). This fascist arrangement will become more evident as time progresses and we march onward towards the Great Reset, and China’s Social Credit System may not remain in the East for long. We already see conservatives and libertarians being shamed and investigated for having divergent views, and politically-motivated witch hunts and surveillance of individuals are becoming a reality. Is there no end in sight for the growing totalitarianism?
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
Glenn Beck’s Blaze Media recently reported that the federal government spent $1 billion dollars to convince viewers of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Newsmax, and “hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations” that the Covid vaccine was “safe and effective” (the constantly echoed propaganda line from the government and corporate media). In addition to purchasing advertisements, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a campaign to get celebrities to spread of the gospel of vaccination through television and social media (maybe that is why the White House was so angry with Nicki Minaj for formulating her own opinion). So, many of those sad, sob stories in the media about people regretting the vaccine and dying of the virus were likely staged or overemphasized for persuasive purposes (this is not to say that the virus was not dangerous for some or did not cause deaths).
After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its bulletin and classified anyone who questioned the official Covid narrative as a potential terrorist, it should have become clear to anyone who was paying attention that the federal government was and is waging a war against its citizens and crafting a narrative for what is and is not acceptable speech. Using taxpayer money to influence what people see, censoring information through government-corporate partnerships, and discouraging people from thinking for themselves or believing anything other than what the official narrative suggests are abridgements of free speech and thought. Although it should be clear that politicians and the populace at large care little for the Constitution or First Amendment protections, the government is not permitted to monopolistically create a narrative and punish those who would prefer to protest against it.
However, this is just scratching the surface of what may be to come, pertaining to free speech, privacy, and ability to access services. After declaring a war against misinformation months ago, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ordered Big Tech firms to hand over data from “social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems” in order to capture details on the information, demographic breakdowns, and how many individuals were impacted by the “misinformation.” This is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, in that people are guaranteed privacy, corporations cannot be compelled or bribed to participate in unwarranted and unspecific searches, and searches cannot be unreasonable (spreading information that the government does not like is not a crime, yet). The Biden administration has not issued a warrant that describes the details of why individuals’ data is being seized, but yet, the government will get away with it, as most Americans focus solely on Ukraine and are not interested in “minor inconveniences,” as is the term that liberal commentators like to call every Covid measure.
Aside from what should be clear unconstitutional violations, does anyone really think that this will end at a Covid database for analysis on unfavorable information, given the history of NSA and FBI surveillance (and other agencies, like the CIA, which is again spying on Americans domestically)? Will this not expand into creating government watch lists for those who are capable of critical thinking outside of the propaganda? We have No-Fly and terrorist watch lists, in which Americans are stripped of their rights outside of due process, so it is not difficult to perceive that special lists would be established for those with certain political views or those making medical choices.
We have also seen some cities implement vaccine passports to deny people access to assemble at places of their choosing (another First and Fourth Amendment violation that was enforced by companies at the order of the government) and the termination of individuals from their jobs for simply making a personal and medical choice over their bodies, and in Canada, the authoritarian Trudeau regime froze the bank accounts of anyone who donated to the Freedom Convoy. If you can be denied access to goods and services and have your personal accounts seized for having political and social opinions contrary to what the government would prefer, there is no end to the tyranny that will unfold. President Biden has even issued an executive order against the decentralized cryptocurrency, in order to regulate something that may challenge the almighty U.S. dollar (we cannot have that, now).
Many Americans erroneously and naively believe that because there are many corporations to transact with and multiple news outlets to get information from, that choice actually exists. However, choice is an illusion, because as has been discussed, corporations work together with the government or accept payments to get in line with the agenda (plus, BlackRock and Vanguard also control most of the Fortune 500 companies, so most goods and services are provided through consolidated efforts). This fascist arrangement will become more evident as time progresses and we march onward towards the Great Reset, and China’s Social Credit System may not remain in the East for long. We already see conservatives and libertarians being shamed and investigated for having divergent views, and politically-motivated witch hunts and surveillance of individuals are becoming a reality. Is there no end in sight for the growing totalitarianism?
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
March 7, 2022
The American Iraqi Hypocrisy in the Russo-Ukrainian War
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine persists and bombings devastate several cities and towns across Ukraine (Kherson has already been captured); we have seen roughly 1.7 million refugees be forced to leave their homes and over 1,000 civilians dead or injured. The Ukrainian people are suffering greatly, but the United States has some culpability in the atrocities being committed by Vladimir Putin (NATO expansion, involvement in the 2014 coup, and deployment of troops to countries that border Russia).
The United States has even supported the National Guard of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi unit, Azov Battalion, through CIA training, weapons transfers (after Congress removed obstacles that were prohibiting support for Nazi groups), and vetoing of UN resolutions “combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism” (these have been vetoed every year since 2014 to stand in unity with Ukraine); and Putin’s excuse of de-nazifying Ukraine may not be much of an exaggeration. Although the Russian invasion should be condemned, the United States’ moral compass may need a slight adjustment too, as our campaign in Iraq was not all that different from what Russia is doing.
Americans are changing their social media profile pictures, putting up signs of unity for Ukraine, getting rid of anything with the word “Russian” in it (will Russian dressing be the next victim in the “freedom fries” purge?), banning Russian cats and human athletes from competitions, and referring to Putin as the new Hitler (do some want this to be World War III?). After we spent two years under the thumb of authoritarian leaders forcing us to stay home, not assemble at churches and small businesses, don face diapers, and receive the jab in order to go to work or enter restaurants; our society is now jumping on the newest nationalistic bandwagon to stand with Ukraine or be classified as an unpatriotic genocide-lover (under Covid, you were an unscientific, grandma-hating and selfish hick).
Social media corporations are even considering banning certain information that is deemed as misinformation (here we go again) or propaganda from Russia. In recent years, charges of “Russian agent (asset)” were thrown at those who were anti-war or attempted to understand the nuances involved in actions taken by Russia, but in the upcoming days, I fear that this will get worse (Red Scare Communist witch hunts and McCarthyism?).
As Americans become propagandized and conditioned into accepting that their own military members will be required to join the fight (unless cooler heads prevail), we must remember that most Americans (not all) supported our invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq and bombing of its cities, while at the same time, we condemn what Putin is doing (liberals’ new favorite term of “whataboutism” in regards to this concept, which is an excuse to justify what the United States has done and not critically think about how our involvement has contributed towards what we are seeing, is really their own form of deflection of the hypocrisy that they seem to hold dear). We cannot have any moral standing in the world if we participate in the same types of things as the tyrants that we condemn ourselves.
Images of constant bombing in Kiev and other cities have been flashed across the corporate media to convince Americans that they need to be angry and support Ukraine, but back in 2003, the American military overwhelmed Baghdad with Tomahawk cruise missiles and bombs ("shock and awe"). Explosions filled the air with huge clouds of “smoke and flame,” and the citizens screamed with terror, as their city was destroyed. General Tommy Franks admitted that the plan was to intimidate the Iraqi population and government into surrendering (the actual definition of terrorism), and elsewhere, blasts were felt in Dohuk, Kirkuk, and Mosul. In Fallujah, the American military used chemical weapons (white phosphorous) to flush out enemies, in a mission that caused hundreds of thousands of casualties and refugees. So, when we see similar smoke clouds billowing in Kharkiv, Mariupol, Odessa, and Lviv, let us remember that our government did the exact same thing to a sovereign country that did not harm us in any way.
In addition to the 200,000 confirmed civilian deaths from the American invasion of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of additional deaths were the result of economic sanctions between 1990 and 2003. Sanctions are always claimed to be deterrents against the regime in power and a diplomatic method of waging war against enemies, but, in reality, they are meant to prevent supplies from reaching the target country (often, even including food and medical supplies) to cause harm on the residents and get them to rebel. The ones imposed on Iraq were claimed to have killed anywhere from 500,000 to 1.5 million civilians (The Lancet puts the estimate at 567,000 children alone), and yet, only raw force was able to pry power from Saddam Hussein.
Fast-forward to today, the Biden administration, through executive edicts outside of the legislative process, has imposed an array of sanctions against Putin’s government and the Russian people, who now may be unable to pay bills due to being cut off from the major global processing system (SWIFT) and having the Russian ruble devalued (as well as Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Google Pay being discontinued). Although Russians will likely not have it as bad as Iraqis and Putin will move his country closer to China for financial and monetary necessities, we should not try to play the moral high ground with the Ukraine crisis, especially because we implemented policies that killed a lot of people ourselves and are continuing it to this day. If sanctioning is the appropriate response against a foreign power invading a weaker nation, should the Russians not have sanctioned us during the Iraq War to halt President Bush’s war machine and harm Americans so they would demand an end to the fighting or overthrow the United States government? Oh, it was different, you say. How so?
This is a big issue: that we can only look at our country as good and Russia as bad. There is no attempt to understand the complexities, and this pride could be the death of a lot of Americans, as we move closer to war with Russia. Most Americans cannot even comprehend the idea that our meddling in foreign affairs has come back to haunt us many times, and if Russia is not allowed to perform regime change in Ukraine (we do not really know if this is the objective), the United States should not be allowed to violently install friendly governments either. As a country, we need to have a serious discussion about involvement overseas and the hypocrisy of our foreign policy. As Matthew 7:5 states, “first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
The United States has even supported the National Guard of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi unit, Azov Battalion, through CIA training, weapons transfers (after Congress removed obstacles that were prohibiting support for Nazi groups), and vetoing of UN resolutions “combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism” (these have been vetoed every year since 2014 to stand in unity with Ukraine); and Putin’s excuse of de-nazifying Ukraine may not be much of an exaggeration. Although the Russian invasion should be condemned, the United States’ moral compass may need a slight adjustment too, as our campaign in Iraq was not all that different from what Russia is doing.
Americans are changing their social media profile pictures, putting up signs of unity for Ukraine, getting rid of anything with the word “Russian” in it (will Russian dressing be the next victim in the “freedom fries” purge?), banning Russian cats and human athletes from competitions, and referring to Putin as the new Hitler (do some want this to be World War III?). After we spent two years under the thumb of authoritarian leaders forcing us to stay home, not assemble at churches and small businesses, don face diapers, and receive the jab in order to go to work or enter restaurants; our society is now jumping on the newest nationalistic bandwagon to stand with Ukraine or be classified as an unpatriotic genocide-lover (under Covid, you were an unscientific, grandma-hating and selfish hick).
Social media corporations are even considering banning certain information that is deemed as misinformation (here we go again) or propaganda from Russia. In recent years, charges of “Russian agent (asset)” were thrown at those who were anti-war or attempted to understand the nuances involved in actions taken by Russia, but in the upcoming days, I fear that this will get worse (Red Scare Communist witch hunts and McCarthyism?).
As Americans become propagandized and conditioned into accepting that their own military members will be required to join the fight (unless cooler heads prevail), we must remember that most Americans (not all) supported our invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq and bombing of its cities, while at the same time, we condemn what Putin is doing (liberals’ new favorite term of “whataboutism” in regards to this concept, which is an excuse to justify what the United States has done and not critically think about how our involvement has contributed towards what we are seeing, is really their own form of deflection of the hypocrisy that they seem to hold dear). We cannot have any moral standing in the world if we participate in the same types of things as the tyrants that we condemn ourselves.
Images of constant bombing in Kiev and other cities have been flashed across the corporate media to convince Americans that they need to be angry and support Ukraine, but back in 2003, the American military overwhelmed Baghdad with Tomahawk cruise missiles and bombs ("shock and awe"). Explosions filled the air with huge clouds of “smoke and flame,” and the citizens screamed with terror, as their city was destroyed. General Tommy Franks admitted that the plan was to intimidate the Iraqi population and government into surrendering (the actual definition of terrorism), and elsewhere, blasts were felt in Dohuk, Kirkuk, and Mosul. In Fallujah, the American military used chemical weapons (white phosphorous) to flush out enemies, in a mission that caused hundreds of thousands of casualties and refugees. So, when we see similar smoke clouds billowing in Kharkiv, Mariupol, Odessa, and Lviv, let us remember that our government did the exact same thing to a sovereign country that did not harm us in any way.
In addition to the 200,000 confirmed civilian deaths from the American invasion of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of additional deaths were the result of economic sanctions between 1990 and 2003. Sanctions are always claimed to be deterrents against the regime in power and a diplomatic method of waging war against enemies, but, in reality, they are meant to prevent supplies from reaching the target country (often, even including food and medical supplies) to cause harm on the residents and get them to rebel. The ones imposed on Iraq were claimed to have killed anywhere from 500,000 to 1.5 million civilians (The Lancet puts the estimate at 567,000 children alone), and yet, only raw force was able to pry power from Saddam Hussein.
Fast-forward to today, the Biden administration, through executive edicts outside of the legislative process, has imposed an array of sanctions against Putin’s government and the Russian people, who now may be unable to pay bills due to being cut off from the major global processing system (SWIFT) and having the Russian ruble devalued (as well as Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Google Pay being discontinued). Although Russians will likely not have it as bad as Iraqis and Putin will move his country closer to China for financial and monetary necessities, we should not try to play the moral high ground with the Ukraine crisis, especially because we implemented policies that killed a lot of people ourselves and are continuing it to this day. If sanctioning is the appropriate response against a foreign power invading a weaker nation, should the Russians not have sanctioned us during the Iraq War to halt President Bush’s war machine and harm Americans so they would demand an end to the fighting or overthrow the United States government? Oh, it was different, you say. How so?
This is a big issue: that we can only look at our country as good and Russia as bad. There is no attempt to understand the complexities, and this pride could be the death of a lot of Americans, as we move closer to war with Russia. Most Americans cannot even comprehend the idea that our meddling in foreign affairs has come back to haunt us many times, and if Russia is not allowed to perform regime change in Ukraine (we do not really know if this is the objective), the United States should not be allowed to violently install friendly governments either. As a country, we need to have a serious discussion about involvement overseas and the hypocrisy of our foreign policy. As Matthew 7:5 states, “first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
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