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At his first White House performance with other senior officials of the incoming Reagan administration, freshly appointed (but veteran covert action operative) intelligence chief William Casey told President Reagan and the others assembled:“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Hard to believe? Read below what an eye-witness has attested to: “I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director William...

“The claim that Russia attacked America during the 2016 presidential election is both exceedingly dangerous and a complete falsehood,” says Stephen Cohen on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay…TRNNIs Russian ‘Meddling’ an Attack on America?Paul Jay interviews Stephen CohenSee alsoThe arrest of Julian Assange was an act of revenge by the US government that strikes at the heart of journalism….Asia TimesYou have the right to always remain silentPepe Escobar A recently declassified CIA document...

The current Deep Throat War is more like the case of a fractioned Deep State out for revenge on Trump via its media arm. The one-two tie-in – Woodward’s book and the “resistance” Op-Ed – looks increasingly like a sophisticated psy-ops – a prelude for a Deep State white coup.... It would be hard to dismiss the President when he says: “I’m draining the Swamp, and the Swamp is trying to fight back.” It would be hard to dismiss the President when he says: “I’m draining the Swamp, and the...

OP-EdArmstrong EconomicsWhat Politics Regards us as the Great Unwashed & We the Subjects not People Martin Armstrong

Short backgrounder on the recent film, "Shock and Awe."How the neocons hijacked US policy with lies.Armstrong EconomicsWhy Did the USA Invade Iraq?Martin Armstrong

Nothing more sickening and offensive than the hypocrisy of a nation claiming to be the pinnacle of democracy and freedom while moving inexorably towards a state that embraces authoritarianism. And no, I do not mean that Donald Trump is the culprit. He is not. He is a weak man masquerading as a strong man while the BORG aka the Deep State pushes onward with its agenda to quash the spirit of liberty that once infused this great country. He is more a victim than an instigator.... Sic Semper...

Rallying the world to cut off Russia from the world stage and cripple its economy has been been a goal of the US power establishment since the collapse of the Soviet Union, so there’s no reason to believe that even the people who are making the claims against Russia actually believe them. The goal is crippling Russia to handicap China, and ultimately to shore up global hegemony for the US-centralized empire by preventing the rise of any rival superpowers. The sociopathic alliance of...

Robert Paul Wolff is largely correct here, but "the deep state" cannot be equated with bureaucracy as a political factor ensuring constancy and stability, as Max Weber described. He apparently did not so a search on the term "deep state," which seems to have originated with respect to Turkish state and intelligence services and senior administration under Kemal Ataturk. In Russia is this is known as the siloviki (senior career intelligence and military) and nomenklatura (senior...

Gina Haspel is just the type of status-quo choice that Donald Trump promised not to make. She’s not a swamp-drainer. She’s a swamp thing. Trump doesn't have what it takes to confront the US siloviki. LobeLogThe Banality* of Haspel John Feffer* "Banality" is an allusion to Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil.

In the wake of last week’s cruise missile attack on Syria, there was a joke going around the internet saying that it doesn’t matter who Americans vote for, they always wind up getting John McCain as President of the United States. The humor derives from the fact that the past three presidents all ran for office committed to reducing America’s interventionism overseas but once in office they reversed course and expanded US military commitments worldwide, turning them into facsimiles of John...