Can the US accept a multi-polar world before it is too late?

The US unipolar world order is coming to an end. They’ve lost in Syria, and their failing neoliberal system has given rise to President Trump, making them a global embarrassment. 

This is what all the ‘Russian meddling’ propaganda, the ‘fake news’ agenda, and subsequent internet censorship, is about - the US power establishment have their heads in the sand; they are losing their grip over the world, and are seeking to delay the inevitable. Russia is the distraction, and the means of manufacturing consent for censorship, a final desperate attempt to control the populace.

I think it was always inevitable really - for this unipolar world order to fully come to fruition, the big adversaries, China and Russia, would need to submit. Let’s hope that the power structures in the US are able to accept the implausibility of this, asap. With NATO on Russia’s borders, and military bases gradually surrounding China, let’s hope that they do so before it is too late.

RT ‘deranking’

Manipulating the visibility of particular news outlets, at the request of government, is definitely not censorship. It’s totally pro democracy and pro free speech. Yes. I am a pliable humanoid and I will believe whatever you say Mr Eric. Those media outlets with a long history of war propaganda are definitely the most truthful of all. I will only read them. Thank you.

The Imperial Hypocrisy Of Demonising RT

Western elites and media are now condemning the Kremlin for retaliatory measures against western funded media in Russia, after the US forced RT to register as a ‘foreign agent’, yet these elites and media kept silent about, or even supported, the attacks on RT.

The outlets being targeted by Russia, such as Voice Of America, are proven to propagate for US interests, in Latin America, for example.

It is such grotesque, imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, that they manage to twist a retaliatory measure by the Kremlin into an attack on ‘press freedoms’ in Russia, and that they stay silent about the long history of disinformation by western and corporate funded media outlets to foment support for coups and regime change in target countries, (often with the aim of installing a far worse regime).

When Trump slams the war-propagating corporate media, (albeit generally for partisan reasons), ‘liberals’ go berserk about attacks on press freedoms. But when it comes to international or alternative media being attacked - nothing.

Are we on a slippery slope? Eventually, are all perspectives from Pentagon-designated ‘enemy’ countries to be silenced? Are western citizens to be fed a monotonous stream of Pentagon and corporate propaganda, so that consent, for war etc, remains easy to manufacture?

The fact is, the Russian perspective is not represented remotely fairly in western corporate media (ditto other ‘enemy’ nations), so unless we do want to just stay in a bubble of Pentagon and corporate propaganda; unless we do want to allow the US to continue getting away with murder; to continue encircling Russia and China with military bases thus increasing the likelihood of a global calamity, we should all be standing up for RT, and speaking out against censorship. If we don’t, I fear for the future.

The US is considered to be, by far, the greatest threat to world peace (Gallup poll 2013). All those unfortunate enough to have been born into ‘enemy’ countries, need us to stand up for them - that is what RT does, often by employing journalists who, as per Noam Chomsky’s theory, have been pushed out of mainstream outlets for not towing the party line; a line which so often happens to match up with that of the Pentagon/State Department.

The US have been, and still are, bombing, destabilising, and invading countries around the world. This has been the way of things since World War 2 and, since the fall of the Soviet Union, nothing has stood in their way. There has been no counterbalance to the US, unipolar, neoliberal world order. A re-assertive Russia (with backing from China and others) now offer this counter, and until they show signs of imperial actively, (rather than defensive, as in Ukraine and Syria), I will trust Putin when he says that he simply desires a fair, multi-polar world. (NB. this does not mean that I love Putin!).

Whatever happens in the future, remember - America, not Russia, created these new tensions between the two countries, as there is little evidence of ‘Kremlin meddling’ in the 2016 US election, or of RT being untruthful, (at least, in comparison to western corporate media!).

Kremlin meddling, or a set up?

It makes perfect sense that Putin would have wanted Trump to beat Hillary, and for Leave to beat Remain. In Russia’s position, with NATO expanded to their borders & potential direct conflict in Syria with Hillary’s proposed no-fly-zone, the US would have done far worse than a social media campaign! 

But I still think it more likely that this is either a set up by the US, or carried out by other actors in Russia (not the Kremlin). Or a bit of both. Few people thought Trump/Leave would win. Unless Putin is a fortune teller, neither did he. To meddle would have been a huge risk, as obviously the US/UK would find out, with big repercussions (as we now see).

And obviously, if they did meddle in these relatively minor ways, it is absolutely ridiculous for the constantly meddling (and invading) US/UK to be playing the victim!!

Russia-gate deception

It’s frightening witnessing such mass deception; seeing so many supposedly respectable journalists fall in line. If you still have trust in mainstream media, why? They are by far the guiltiest of ‘fake news’; full of careerist sheep, unable to speak out against a tide of deceit, as to do so sees you branded a dictator apologist, a conspiracy theorist, a genocide denier, a Kremlin troll, etc. And quite possibly, fired. 

It seems Russia-gate is just the latest example in a long history of propaganda campaigns. This is by William S Herman, (co-author of Chomsky’s ‘Manufacturing Of Consent’), who passed away a few days ago.

Did Yeltsin kill journalists too?

More journalists in Russia were murdered under corrupt US puppet Boris Yeltsin than under Putin. 

Did he get blamed for them as Putin does? No. Because he was a compliant stooge who let the US/corporations plunder Russia for all it was worth.

All non-compliant world leaders/governments are demonised, (via corporate media propaganda), to manufacture consent for sanctions and war.

What happened to Al Jazeera is now happening to RT

During the Iraq War, the US/UK tried to silence Al Jazeera, for telling the other side of the story re the invasion, (even bombing their offices/transmitters in Baghdad. And they did the same during the Afghanistan invasion, bombing AJ offices in Kabul). 

Similarly, they are now trying to silence/discredit RT and Sputnik, for telling the other side of the story re the Syrian war, the Ukrainian war, Kremlin meddling... i.e. for debunking Pentagon propaganda.

Iran on notice?

Yemen is being destroyed by Saudi and the US, (with U.K. bombs), yet one retaliatory rocket, from the allegedly ‘Iranian backed’ Houthis, gets an almost top news slot on BBC.

Also today, the pro Saudi Lebanese PM resigned, in so doing condemning Iran for ‘sowing fear and destruction’.

Are the CIA/Neocons and Saudi, with the compliant mainstream media, trying to manufacture the threat of ‘Shia terrorism’ from Iran, to create a pretext for invading Iran?

I’m pretty sure Iran, like most of us, just want the western imperialists to get the fuck out of the Middle East.

Don’t Let Them Silence Us

I hope everyone realises by now how laughably absurd it is to blame Russia for the disillusionment throughout much of the western world in the imperial, neoliberal system. And how laughably absurd it is for global terrorists the US of A to be harping on about a few Facebook ads or whatever, (that we don’t even know were Kremlin sponsored).

How many people have been killed by US-led meddling, (drone bombs, covert arming of terrorists, assisting Saudi in Yemen, etc), whilst Russiagate has dominated the headlines? For how long will we allow ourselves to be distracted? 

I imagine most of the world is laughing at this monstrous hypocrisy.

If you care about democracy and freedom of speech, ignore this nonsense, and instead start speaking up about censorship - government collusion with big tech to subjugate anti-US imperialism/anti-neoliberal news sources. Do you want to think for yourself or be told what to think?

We can only gain control of the narrative; from the corporate powers that manipulate/control the media and politicians, if ordinary people speak up on mass. Don’t let them silence us. 

We need a peaceful revolution!