off-guardian | It was two years ago, early in the Trump administration, when The New
Yorker and Salon, among many others, were asserting in no uncertain
terms that there was no deep state in the United States, and so Trump
had nothing to fear from that quarter since it was a figment of his
paranoia.
Kit Knightly, writing in the Off-Guardian, brilliantly demolished this spurious propaganda at the time in a must read reminder of how tricksters play their games.
The corporate mass-media has recently discovered a “deep state” that
they claim to be not some evil group of assassins who work for the
super-rich owners of the country and murder their own president (JFK)
and other unpatriotic dissidents (Malcom X, MLK, RK, among others) and
undermine democracy home and abroad, but are now said to be just fine
upstanding American citizens who work within the government
bureaucracies and are patriotic believers in democracy intent on doing
the right thing.
This redefinition has been in the works for a few years, and it
shouldn’t be a surprise that this tricky treat was being prepared for
our consumption a few years ago by The Council on Foreign Relations.
