Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:04:18 +0200
Washington's Secret Agendas
by Paul Craig Roberts |
September 30, 2014
One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the
constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive
the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
Paul Craig RobertsThe public fell for the lie that the Taliban in
Afghanistan are terrorists allied with al Qaeda. Americans fought a war for
13 years that enriched Dick Cheney's firm, Halliburton, and other private
interests only to end in another Washington failure.
The public fell for the lie that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had "weapons of mass
destruction" that were a threat to America and that if the US did not invade
Iraq Americans risked a "mushroom cloud going up over an American city."
With the rise of ISIS, this long war apparently is far from over. Billions
of dollars more in profits will pour into the coffers of the US military
security complex as Washington fights those who are redrawing the false
Middle East boundaries created by the British and French after WW I when the
British and French seized territories of the former Ottoman Empire.
The American public fell for the lies told about Gaddafi in Libya. The
formerly stable and prosperous country is now in chaos.
The American public fell for the lie that Iran has, or is building, nuclear
weapons. Sanctioned and reviled by the West, Iran has shifted toward an
Eastern orientation, thereby removing a principal oil producer from Western
influence.
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93The public fell for the lie that Assad of Syria used "chemical weapons
against his own people." The jihadists that Washington sent to overthrow
Assad have turned out to be, according to Washington's propaganda, a threat
to America.
The greatest threat to the world is Washington's insistence on its hegemony.
The ideology of a handful of neoconservatives is the basis for this
insistence. We face the situation in which a handful of American
neoconservative psychopaths claim to determine the fate of countries.
Many still believe Washington's lies, but increasingly the world sees
Washington as the greatest threat to peace and life on earth. The claim
that America is "exceptional and indispensable" is used to justify
Washington's right to dictate to other countries.
The casualties of Washington's bombings are invariably civilians, and the
deaths will produce more recruits for ISIS. Already there are calls for
Washington to reintroduce "boots on the ground" in Iraq. Otherwise, Western
civilization is doomed, and our heads will be cut off. The newly created
propaganda of a "Russian threat" requires more NATO spending and more
military bases on Russia's borders. A "quick reaction force" is being
created to respond to a nonexistent threat of a Russian invasion of the
Baltics, Poland, and Europe.
Usually it takes the American public a year, or two, three, or four to
realize that it has been deceived by lies and propaganda, but by that time
the public has swallowed a new set of lies and propaganda and is all
concerned about the latest "threat." The American public seems incapable of
understanding that just as the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth,
threat was a hoax, so is the sixth threat, and so will be the seventh,
eighth, and ninth.
Moreover, none of these American military attacks on other countries has
resulted in a better situation, as Vladimir Putin honestly states. Yet, the
public and its representatives in Congress support each new military
adventure despite the record of deception and failure.
Perhaps if Americans were taught their true history in place of idealistic
fairy tales, they would be less gullible and less susceptible to government
propaganda. I have recommended Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick's
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recommend Stephen Kinzer's
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kId=S3PVZY6M6JOZDIZY> The Brothers, the story of the long rule of John
Foster and Allen Dulles over the State Department and CIA and their
demonization of reformist governments that they often succeeded in
overthrowing. Kinzer's history of the Dulles brothers' plots to overthrow
six governments provides insight into how Washington operates today.
In 1953 the Dulles brothers overthrew Iran's elected leader, Mossadegh and
imposed the Shah, thus poisoning American-Iranian relations through the
present day. Americans might yet be led into a costly and pointless war
with Iran, because of the Dulles brothers poisoning of relations in 1953.
The Dulles brothers overthrew Guatemala's popular president Arbenz, because
his land reform threatened the interest of the Dulles brothers' Sullivan &
Cromwell law firm's United Fruit Company client. The brothers launched an
amazing disinformation campaign depicting Arbenz as a dangerous communist
who was a threat to Western civilization. The brothers enlisted dictators
such as Somoza in Nicaragua and Batista in Cuba against Arbenz. The CIA
organized air strikes and an invasion force. But nothing could happen until
Arbenz's strong support among the people in Guatemala could be shattered.
The brothers arranged this through Cardinal Spellman, who enlisted
Archbishop Rossell y Arellano. "A pastoral letter was read on April 9, 1954
in all Guatemalan churches."
A masterpiece of propaganda, the pastoral letter misrepresented Arbenz as a
dangerous communist who was the enemy of all Guatemalans. False radio
broadcasts produced a fake reality of freedom fighter victories and army
defections. Arbenz asked the UN to send fact finders, but Washington
prevented that from happening. American journalists, with the exception of
James Reston, supported the lies. Washington threatened and bought off
Guatemala's senior military commanders, who forced Arbenz to resign. The
CIA's chosen and well paid "liberator," Col. Castillo Armas, was installed
as Arbenz's successor.
We recently witnessed a similar operation in Ukraine.
President Eisenhower thanked the CIA for averting "a Communist beachhead in
our hemisphere," and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave a national
TV and radio address in which he declared that the events in Guatemala
"expose the evil purpose of the Kremlin." This despite the uncontested fact
that the only outside power operating in Guatemala was the Dulles brothers.
What had really happened is that a democratic and reformist government was
overthrown because it compensated United Fruit Company for the
nationalization of the company's fallow land at a value listed by the
company on its tax returns. America's leading law firm or perhaps more
accurately, America's foreign policy-maker, Sullivan & Cromwell, had no
intention of permitting a democratic government to prevail over the
interests of the law firm's client, especially when senior partners of the
firm controlled both overt and covert US foreign policy. The two brothers,
whose family members were invested in the United Fruit Company, simply
applied the resources of the CIA, State Department, and US media to the
protection of their private interests. The extraordinary gullibility of the
American people, the corrupt American media, and the indoctrinated and
impotent Congress allowed the Dulles brothers to succeed in overthrowing a
democracy.
Keep in mind that this use of the US government in behalf of private
interests occurred 60 years ago long before the corrupt Clinton, George W.
Bush, and Obama regimes. And no doubt in earlier times as well.
The Dulles brothers next intended victim was Ho Chi Minh. Ho, a nationalist
leader, asked for America's help in freeing Vietnam from French colonial
rule. But John Foster Dulles, a self-righteous anti-communist, miscast Ho as
a Communist Threat who was springing the domino theory on the Western
innocents. Nationalism and anti-colonialism, Foster declared, were merely a
cloak for communist subversion.
Paul Kattenburg, the State Department desk officer for Vietnam suggested
that instead of war, the US should give Ho $500 million in reconstruction
aid to rebuild the country from war and French misrule, which would free Ho
from dependence on Russian and Chinese support, and, thereby, influence. Ho
appealed to Washington several times, but the demonic inflexibility of the
Dulles brothers prevented any sensible response. Instead, the hysteria
whipped-up over the "communist threat" by the Dulles brothers landed the
United States in the long, costly, fiasco known as the Vietnam War.
Kattenburg later wrote that it was suicidal for the US "to cut out its eyes
and ears, to castrate its analytic capacity, to shut itself off from the
truth because of blind prejudice." Unfortunately for Americans and the
world, castrated analytic capacity is Washington's strongest suit.
The Dulles brothers' next targets were President Sukarno of Indonesia, Prime
Minister Patrice Lumumba of Congo, and Fidel Castro. The plot against
Castro was such a disastrous failure that it cost Allen Dulles his job.
President Kennedy lost confidence in the agency and told his brother Bobby
that after his reelection he was going to break the CIA into a thousand
pieces. When President Kennedy removed Allen Dulles, the CIA understood the
threat and struck first.
Warren Nutter, my Ph.D. dissertation chairman, later Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs, taught his students that for the
US government to maintain the people's trust, which democracy requires, the
government's policies must be affirmations of our principles and be openly
communicated to the people. Hidden agendas, such as those of the Dulles
brothers and the Clinton, Bush and Obama regimes, must rely on secrecy and
manipulation and, thereby, arouse the distrust of the people. If Americans
are too brainwashed to notice, many foreign nationals are not.
The US government's secret agendas have cost Americans and many peoples in
the world tremendously. Essentially, the Foster brothers created the Cold
War with their secret agendas and anti-communist hysteria. Secret agendas
committed Americans to long, costly, and unnecessary wars in Vietnam and the
Middle East. Secret CIA and military agendas intending regime change in
Cuba were blocked by President John F. Kennedy and resulted in the
assassination of a president, who, for all his faults, was likely to have
ended the Cold War twenty years before Ronald Reagan seized the opportunity.
Secret agendas have prevailed for so long that the American people
themselves are now corrupted. As the saying goes, "a fish rots from the
head." The rot in Washington now permeates the country.
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