caitlinjohnstone | The dynamics of the establishment Syria narrative are hilarious if
you take a step back and think about them. I mean, the western empire is
now openly admitting to having funded actual, literal terrorist groups in that country, and yet they’re still cranking out propaganda pieces
about what is happening there and sincerely expecting us to believe
them. It’s adorable, really; like a little kid covered in chocolate
telling his mom he doesn’t know what happened to all the cake frosting.
Or least it would be adorable if it weren’t directly facilitating the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people.
I recently had a pleasant and professional exchange with the Atlantic Council’s neoconservative propagandist
Eliot Higgins, in which he referred to independent investigative
journalist Vanessa Beeley as “bonkers” and myself as “crazy”, and I
called him a despicable bloodsucking ghoul. I am not especially fond of
Mr. Higgins.
You see this theme repeated again and again and again
in Higgins’ work; the US-centralized power establishment which
facilitated terrorist factions in Syria is the infallible heroic Good
Guy on the scene, and anyone who doesn’t agree is a mentally deranged
lunatic.
This is also the model for the greater imperialist
propaganda construct, not just with regard to Syria but with Russia,
North Korea, Iran, and any other insolent government which refuses to
bow to American supremacist agendas. It works like this: first, the oligarch-owned establishment media, which itself is chock full of Council on Foreign Relations members, uses other warmongering think tanks
and its own massive funding to force deep state psyops like Russiagate
and “Saddam has WMDs” into becoming the mainstream narrative. Second,
they use the mainstream, widely-accepted status of this manufactured
narrative to paint anyone who questions it as a mentally defective
tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.
