By John Pilger, teleSUR
25 March 16
Donald Trump is a maverick, unlike Hillary Clinton, argues John Pilger.
have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask,”Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini,” they say, “You mean the swimsuit. Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini Island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 – the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for 12 years.Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter.
Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo.” The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.
On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.” A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies” – each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.
Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.
I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us. The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions” of democratic societies. He called it an “invisible government.”
How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the center of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons.” People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
It was all fake. He was lying.
The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over 30 years is more than $1 trillion.
A mini nuclear bomb is planned. It is known as the B61 Model 12. There has never been anything like it. General James Cartwright, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, “Going smaller (makes using this nuclear) weapon more thinkable.”
In the last 18 months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War II – led by the United States – is taking place along Russia’s western frontier. Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.
Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union – has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian-speaking minority.
This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.
In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – next door to Russia – the U.S. military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.
What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China.
Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of a “threat.” According to Admiral Harry Harris, the U.S. Pacific commander, China is “building a great wall of sand in the South China Sea.”
What he is referring to is China building airstrips in the Spratly Islands, which are the subject of a dispute with the Philippines – a dispute without priority until Washington pressured and bribed the government in Manila and the Pentagon launched a propaganda campaign called “freedom of navigation.”
What does this really mean? It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China. Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California.
I made a film called, “The War You Don’t See,” in which I interviewed distinguished journalists in America and Britain: reporters such as Dan Rather of CBS, Rageh Omar of the BBC, David Rose of the Observer.
All of them said that had journalists and broadcasters done their job and questioned the propaganda that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; had the lies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair not been amplified and echoed by journalists, the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened, and hundreds of thousands of men, women and children would be alive today.
The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or China is no different in principle. To my knowledge, no journalist in the Western “mainstream” – a Dan Rather equivalent, say – asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.
The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear-armed bombers.
This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.
In 2015, in high secrecy, the U.S. and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea military exercise in recent history, known as Talisman Sabre. Its aim was to rehearse an Air-Sea Battle Plan, blocking sea lanes, such as the Straits of Malacca and the Lombok Straits, that cut off China’s access to oil, gas and other vital raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.
In the circus known as the American presidential campaign, Donald Trump is being presented as a lunatic, a fascist. He is certainly odious; but he is also a media hate figure. That alone should arouse our skepticism.
Trump’s views on migration are grotesque, but no more grotesque than those of David Cameron. It is not Trump who is the Great Deporter from the United States, but the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama.
According to one prodigious liberal commentator, Trump is “unleashing the dark forces of violence” in the United States. Unleashing them?
This is the country where toddlers shoot their mothers and the police wage a murderous war against black Americans. This is the country that has attacked and sought to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and bombed from Asia to the Middle East, causing the deaths and dispossession of millions of people.
No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of America’s wars (almost all of them against defenseless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
In 1947, a series of National Security Council directives described the paramount aim of American foreign policy as a world substantially made over in America’s own image. The ideology was messianic Americanism. We were all Americans. Or else. Heretics would be converted, subverted, bribed, smeared or crushed.
Donald Trump is a symptom of this, but he is also a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn’t want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system whose vaunted exceptionalism is totalitarian with an occasional liberal face.
As presidential election day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies – just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about “hope.” And the drool goes on.
Described by The Guardian columnist Owen Jones as “funny, charming, with a coolness that eludes practically every other politician,” Obama the other day sent drones to slaughter 150 people in Somalia. He kills people usually on Tuesdays, according to the New York Times, when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone. So cool.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton threatened to “totally obliterate” Iran with nuclear weapons. As secretary of state under Obama, she participated in the overthrow of the democratic government of Honduras. Her contribution to the destruction of Libya in 2011 was almost gleeful. When the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, was publicly sodomized with a knife – a murder made possible by American logistics – Clinton gloated over his death: “We came, we saw, he died.”
One of Clinton’s closest allies is Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, who has attacked young women for not supporting Hillary. This is the same Madeleine Albright who infamously celebrated on TV the death of half a million Iraqi children as “worth it.”
Among Clinton’s biggest backers are the Israel lobby and the arms companies that fuel the violence in the Middle East. She and her husband have received a fortune from Wall Street. And yet, she is about to be ordained the women’s candidate, to see off the evil Trump, the official demon. Her supporters include distinguished feminists: the likes of Gloria Steinem in the U.S. and Anne Summers in Australia.
A generation ago, a post-modern cult now known as “identity politics” stopped many intelligent, liberal-minded people examining the causes and individuals they supported – such as the fakery of Obama and Clinton; such as bogus progressive movements like Syriza in Greece, which betrayed the people of that country and allied with their enemies.
Self-absorption, a kind of “me-ism,” became the new zeitgeist in privileged western societies and signaled the demise of great collective movements against war, social injustice, inequality, racism and sexism.
Today, the long sleep may be over. The young are stirring again. Gradually. The thousands in Britain who supported Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader are part of this awakening – as are those who rallied to support Senator Bernie Sanders.
In Britain last week, Jeremy Corbyn’s closest ally, his shadow treasurer John McDonnell, committed a Labour government to pay off the debts of piratical banks and, in effect, to continue so-called austerity.
In the U.S., Bernie Sanders has promised to support Clinton if or when she’s nominated. He, too, has voted for America’s use of violence against countries when he thinks it’s “right.” He says Obama has done “a great job.”
In Australia, there is a kind of mortuary politics, in which tedious parliamentary games are played out in the media while refugees and Indigenous people are persecuted and inequality grows, along with the danger of war. The government of Malcolm Turnbull has just announced a so-called defense budget of $195 billion that is a drive to war. There was no debate. Silence.
What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?
Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
This is an edited version of an address by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled “A World War Has Begun.”
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After reading John Pilger's address I thought about guns, drugs, money and how an obscure Arkansas Governor became President of the United States:
THE BOYS ON THE TRACKS
“I didn’t understand the power of the political machine back then, but after being persuaded by the FBI to assist in an investigation they opened in 1994, I learned of connections to the CIA, Mena, and drug-smuggling,” she wrote in a recent letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal. “I finally understood; to solve the train deaths case would be to expose the crimes of Mena, and no government agent who has come close to doing either has survived professionally.”
http://www.wnd.com/1997/05/874/
And right in Gordon Duff's own backyard…
"Hillary Clinton, while one of the chief litigators of the Rose law firm and wife of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, was a director of Lafarge corporation, whose Marblehead, Ohio subsidiary Standard Lafarge is said to have been utilized in the transport network to ferret machine tools and nose cones out of Pittsburgh and into Canada for shipment to Iraq." (Part 19: Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions Spying.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060913042301/http://nick.assumption.edu/WebVAX/other/Grabbe3Nov96.html
As the 1992 presidential race reached its final days, Bill Clinton promised that, if elected, he would appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations by congressional Democrats that the U.S. government had secretly been aiding the Iraqi weapons buildup-and perhaps even its nuclear weapons effort-and then engaging in a cover-up to hide its handiwork. Repeatedly challenging President Bush for the Republican "tilt" toward Iraq in the 1980's, Clinton vowed that no political considerations would cloud the investigation. The Clinton team took the issue so seriously that vice-presidential candidate Al Gore, in a landmark speech, called the Iraq scandal "worse than Watergate."
http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=527
"That the two political parties should represent opposed ideals and policies. . . is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical . . .The policies that are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in detail, procedure, priority, or method. "
Arkansas becomes a major center of gun-running, drugs and money laundering. The IRS warns other law enforcement agencies of the state's "enticing climate." According to Clinton biographer Roger Morris, operatives go into banks with duffel bags full of cash, which bank officers then distribute to tellers in sums under $10,000 so they don't have to report the transaction.
"Larry Patterson, an Arkansas state trooper, testified under oath that there were 'large quantities of drugs being flown into the Mena airport, large quantities of money, large quantities of guns.' The subject was discussed repeatedly in Clinton's presence by state troopers working on his security detail, he alleged. Patterson said the governor 'had very little comment to make; he was just listening to what was being said.'"
1991
An IRS memorandum reveals that even at this late date "the CIA still has ongoing operations out of the Mena, AR airport. "
The American Spectator magazine publishes an article by L.D. Brown, a former member of Clinton's Arkansas State Police security detail, in which he describes participating in two secret flights from Mena in 1984, during which M-16 rifles were traded to Nicaraguan Contra rebels in exchange for cocaine. Brown also claims that Clinton knew of the activity.
http://prorev.com/connex.htm
If AA was born after 1950, someone had better check his DNA. He may well be another "Jeffrey Lash" and of questionable (human?) origin.
AA: "Soon we will have Zero Point Energy and can begin our transformation to an age of plenty."
Translation: The ANTI-Christ is coming soon! (as soon as THEY have trashed the Constitution and DISARMED Americans – see Jim Fetzer and "Mass Shooting" HOAXES).
Walmart!
PPPPS Phil Schneider (along with others) engaged ALIENS in underground combat and lost a few fingers while doing so (YT). He (mistakenly) believed that there are "good" ALIEN Races. There is no such creature as a "good" ALIEN. THEY have a SATANIC origin and nature (Revelation 2:9).
PPPS If the ALIENS were friendly, THEY would not be hiding in 100+ DUMBs (Deep Underground Military Bases) throughout America, Russia and other places!
PPS The Essenes, who anticipated the "War of the Worlds" between the Sons of Darkness (ALIEN RACE) and the Sons of Light (part of the HUMAN RACE) [see the "War Scrolls"] were just a few hundred years early. That WAR has just begun!
PS 4 corium (melted nuclear cores or storage pools) are still underground on the loose in Fukushima, poisoning the groundwater, atmosphere, Pacific and the entire planet with lethal doses of nuclear radiation! Israeli Zionist Slimeballs "engineered" the Fukushima nuclear disaster, part of the ALIEN AGENDA to make the human habitat (Earth) uninhabitable.
Apparently, the big AA here has never heard of or read James Preston, PhDs stuff. He is clueless about David M. Jacobs, PhD and his "Walking Among Us" evidence. He's never listened to the William Pawelec interview. David Icke is somewhat "off base" but has a lot of the ALIEN stuff right. Jeff Rense is close to target about the ALIENS. Edward Snowden is "right on the money" when he exposed the ALIEN influence on the Federal Gov't (since the 1950s, at least). Tom Montalk has the ALIEN AGENDA almost figured out.
So the nutcase here is the big AA, posing as an Activist Angel – but is really a Luciferian (Deceiving and Fallen) Angel, if anything angelic!
If the ALIENS were benign or friendly, why would THEY be hiding in the Darkness? THEY would intervene to stop the criminals now running America (into the ground)! The fact is that THEY CONTROL TPTB or whatever else you want to call THEM (Illuminati, Ruling Elite, City of London, etc.).
The Christ (Messiah) whose Resurrection we celebrate today said: "I know the blasphemy of THEM which say THEY are Jews and are not, but are the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN!" (Israeli Zionist Slimeballs, AGENTS of the ANCIENT ALIEN RACE of SATAN).
Moderator, I am officially asking that you have Godsend limit his screaming fear porn to one comment per post.
He fills this section up with his ranting, and I believe legitimate friends of Jim and people with interesting things to say are discouraged by his hijacking and scary alien psy op.
Please? I am the biggest fan of Jim there is, and even I get discouraged when I see 50 posts by this bible thumping nut case.
Maybe if we ask nicely, he will self moderate? All his screaming posts say the same thing…. perhaps he'd like to spend his time more wisely, like with a bullhorn at his local thrifty-mart?
DEAR READERS
Please continue to comment here and just ignore "Godsend" and his screaming fear porn.
The fact is that we have a galactic family that is there to help us, and Psy Operatives like Godsend troll sites spreading the ridiculous "ET's are biblical demons" meme. He is also a click whore, hoping to get you to go to his absurd sites that fortunately are being moderated off when he posts links.
Our ET brethren have free energy, molecular synthesis, anti grav and a basic understanding of the nature of reality; we are all a part of God and therefore the Golden Rule is much more golden than "bible" people like Godsend can fathom with their limited fairy tale mentality.
Google "Pravda and X files" and translate. You will see what Russia's media has told us. ET's are real, but we are like children to them. We are not very interesting to talk to, but they want to keep us from hurting ourselves or others.
They stepped in to stop Fukushima from destroying the earth, and are now working to stop WW3 and keep the stupid bible "armageddon" people from getting their destructive probable time line.
Rejoice all. Keep watching. Soon we will have Zero Point Energy and can begin our transformation to an age of plenty.
PPS VIRUSES (ebola and others) are also creations of the ALIEN AGENDA! THEY have INFESTED the Medical, "Big Pharma" and Illegal Drugs industries!
There's more – A LOT MORE!!!
PS The ALIENS have decided to (eventually) NUKE the Human Race out of existence, while destroying the Human Habitat (Earth) with nuclear radiation (Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc. – many more nuclear "accidents" to come!). GMO is another ALIEN idea – part of the ALIEN AGENDA. THEY now control EVERYTHING – especially the MSM!
The War Of The Worlds Has Begun – the ALIEN RACE against the HUMAN RACE! The nefarious political leaders described in this article are ALL involved (consciously or otherwise) on the side of the ALIENS in a war to EXTERMINATE THE HUMAN RACE. THEY LIVE (mostly in Tel Aviv) and THEY are WALKING AMONG US. Jeffrey Lash was just 1 specimen of the new and improved hybrid, humanoid, reptilian ANCIENT ALIEN RACE of SATAN!
Hillary is from Hell! Drumpf is a DECOY!