
by John McMurtry
March 27,
2017
from
GlobalResearch Website
Prof. John McMurtry FRSC is the author of The Cancer
Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Solution and the
three-volume study, Philosophy and World Problems,
UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS),
Paris-Oxford. |

Setting the
Stage of the Press-President War
US ruling ideology and Washington power have become unstuck as never
before.
A war of opposing
certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the
long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both
continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake
news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
US bully pulpits are now beyond show disagreements and successful
media inquisitions of the past. Slanderous accusations long confined
to vilifying the designated Enemy have crept into accusations of the
President himself.
'The Russians are coming'
is returning as the final recourse of smear to stop deviations from
the global program of hugely profitable enemy hate and perpetual
preparations for foreign war.
The ruling big lies of the US money party and corporate
globalization have divided into opposing camps. The Press and the
President denounce each other non-stop on the public stage, while US
dark state agents take sides behind the scenes.
Fake news is the medium of battle.
Tracking the
Real Fake News Built into Corporate Globalization
Beneath the civil war of official narratives, cognitive space opens
for truth long suffocated by 'the Washington Consensus'.
Even the US-led G-20 has
recently agreed not to automatically condemn 'protectionism' as an
economic evil. The battle slogan of transnational corporate rule
over 30 years has been quietly withdrawn on the global stage.
Is the big lie of 'free trade' finally coming to ground? It has long
led the hollowing out of societies and life support systems across
the world in a false mass promotion as "freedom and prosperity for
all".
In fact beneath the
pervasive fake news, a closed-door transnational corporate command
system forces all enterprises across borders into a
carbon-multiplying trade regime with thousands of rules to protect
the transnational corporate looting and ruin of home economies and
environments as the only rights enforced.
Propagandist names and fake freedoms are proclaimed everywhere to
conceal the reality. The corporate-investor regime has stripped out
almost all evolved protections of workers, ecologies and social
infrastructures.
Non-stop liquidations and roboticizations of local
jobs and enterprises are reversed in meaning to 'jobs, jobs, jobs'
and 'higher living standards', the very opposite of the facts.
Destabilization and bombing wars attack resource-rich and air-defenceless
societies outside the circle of treaty subjugation.
False news allows every step. Even the happy-face Trudeau regime is
taken aback by the tidal shift to national priorities. Its ministers
scuttle around the US in near panic to find common cause for
restoring the unaccountable regime.
Multiplying carbon,
disemployment and ecological plunder are ignored throughout in the
longest standing fake news of all - 'economic growth".
In fact, there is no real economic growth in universal life
necessities or reduction of waste. The only growth is of volumes and
velocities of transnational money exchanges, foreign commodities,
and private profits to the top.
'More prosperity for nations and the world' means, decoded, more
transnational corporate-state treaties to deprive nations of their
rights to organization and production for citizens' real needs as
well as organically regulated protection of environments and
ecosystems.
The consequences covered over by pervasively false cover stories are
speeded-up ecocidal extractions, permanent disemployments, and
wastes hemorrhaging into cumulatively more polluted oceans, air,
atmosphere and life habitats.
Corporate-state solutions
of carbon markets for pollution rights have nowhere reduced any of
these life-and-death crises, but only further and selectively
enriched transnational corporations.
As for the Obama solution, "we need more Canadas", fake news again
conceals the reality.
Beneath the global
celebrity hype covering empty and broken promises, Canada's Trudeau
regime is essentially a brand change of PM rhetoric to advance
transnational corporate dictates as 'free trade' and to ensure oil
pipelines out of the most polluting oil basin in the world,
Alberta's tar-sands, are built through water basins and indigenous
lands across Canada and the US.
One cannot help but
observe this is Trump's plan too, and overrides Trudeau's promises
to protect Canada's first peoples.
I recently sent a letter to my local MP requesting evidence for what
PM Trudeau promises over months of repetition that "more free trade"
means,
"a better life for
those in the middle class and those wanting to join the middle
class".
As always, there is no
evidence to support the non-stop false news from the PMO.
Revealingly, the "middle class" turns out to be people making
$180,000 a year slated to get significant tax cuts.
Trump's rogue elephant charge on Washington-led lies, war, and
dispossession of the working class is no solution to life-blind
corporate globalization. Trump in office is a US nationalist
oligarch commanding policies even more blindly rapacious in
despoliation of the environment and transferring far more public
wealth to the rich.
The common ground of all our lives, collective life capital, does
not exist for any government in 'the free world' or any policy of
'globalization'.
The lies that must be
promulgated to advance the private corporate agenda are built into
its transnational command system from the beginning.
Out of the
Ruling Memory Hole with the Internet Commons
Joining the dots shows that every step of US money-party
'globalization' has, in fact, been driven by fake news.
No corporate media tolerance has been given in a quarter of a
century to any voice demanding accountability to the common
life-ground of citizens. A new game of numbers has proceeded
instead.
At most, a euphemistic
'climate change' has been endlessly debated while the totalizing
destabilization of human and planetary life cycles remains without a
name or collective response.
Only more profitable
market panaceas which do not reduce any pollution continue to divert
from the deepest degenerate trends destroying the planetary life
host.
On the upside, the big lies of 'free trade' and 'humanitarian wars'
have been called into official question for the first time by the
Trump presidential campaign, and he has been elected against the
official line. Yet opposing camps are still at each other's throats.
So the perpetual fallback on accusing the long-designated foreign
enemy is triggered by the fallen establishment.
The fake news chorus of
Russia's aggressions now includes collusion of the Trump
administration with its officials to win the US election.
This mainspring diversion
from reality is called back from the dead witch-hunts of the past.
As then tool, facts do not count, only accusations do. The official
media line is almost predictable: Russia is behind Trump's election
victory.
As always, reverse
projection is the mass-psyche operation to blame an official Enemy
to divert attention from the life-and-death facts. The Enemy is once
again accused of doing what the US has always done worse as the
reason for attacking It. Russia is the usual placeholder in this
reverse-blame operation.
The 2016 US election of
Trump is the latest variation.
Meanwhile throughout the election and its aftermath, the new
transnational internet commons including Wiki-leaks over a decade
has increasingly laid bare the greatest propaganda machine in
history now in many-leveled crisis.
The long normalized
half-truths, one-sided slanting of the facts, and non-stop fallacies
of inference are coming out into the open as never before. The
pretexts and lies for US imperial bullying and war are exposed
beyond any corporate-media gate.
This time the accusation is "interference and attack on the US
presidential election" with no evidence of wrongdoing or vote
manipulation whatsoever. Yet as in the long past, the method is
smear with no evidence for the accusations.
Ever more media
repetition and shadowy insinuation does the job. It has always
worked before, why not again since all the other media buttons
pushed on taking down the Trump peace initiatives with Russia and
opposition to globalization of US jobs have failed.
Having wondered during the election campaign whether we could be
"friends with Russia" and promoted diplomatic relations into his
administration, Trump can be named as the enemy in hiding to be
rooted out.
The real problem the fake
news never mentions is that he threatens the cornerstone of the US
war state over 70 years.
So when Trump won the election with his heresy still intact, the
ever-ready accusation of evil-Russia connection moves into high gear
although the target is the opposite of communist and an epitome of
capitalist riches and connections.
We see here the historical
mind-lock compulsion to blame the Enemy Russia and smear whoever
dissents from it, even if it is a bully-capitalist president.
There are very big stakes
in keeping the game going.
Yet the no-profit and unpaid analyses from the internet commons have
no such ulterior motive and interest in false accusations. With more
objectively informed analysts than the commercial press and
unimpeachable facts like WikiLeaks going to tens of millions of
readers across the world, the genie is out of the bottle.
The official grand
narrative and its normalized big lies are coming apart at the seams.
So blame as usual is diverted onto the accepted Enemy, now conniving
with Trump to attack the 2016 US presidential election. Beneath the
fake news, the fact is that positive diplomatic relations with
Russia not only threaten to stop the highly profitable permanent war
against it, but spike the longest pretext for US war and military
domination now moving through Ukraine.
The free internet commons cannot be gagged for telling the truth.
Freedom of speech in the US cannot be openly stopped without fatal
loss of legitimacy of rule.
So the rest follows.
All the non-corporate and
non-profit messages from the critical sites on the internet commons
which are speaking against the US war state inside are now vilified
as 'fake news'.
A third, unofficial
protagonist has entered the battle with no private profit or career
motive or corporate boss to serve and a wealth of proven
professional knowledge and talent at work.
It has to be denounced to
sustain the big lies of the ruling money-war game which is in
deepening crises and conflicts all the way to the unprecedented US
President-Press civil war.
The Harvard
Proclamation of a New Memory Hole
The innermost fount of US ideology and war, Harvard University, has
now stepped in.
It is officially naming
and denouncing US-critical internet sites for 'fake news'.
Not even the medieval Church went so far in its Index Librorum
Prohibitorum of prohibited writings. It was at least innocent of
scientific method and openly declared its dogmas. Not Harvard.
Underneath notice, all the sites it attacks are internet commons,
and none are financed by private corporate donors and captive
institutions while Harvard and the corporate media are.
This is the
real battle agenda underneath, the long war to privatize the news
for profit as everything else with anti-establishment internet
criticism now the target.
In the background, Harvard University has long propagated an
unexamined academic method.
It normally cuts off any
faculty or learned source of opposition to the private corporate
rule of America and the wars of aggression to impose it on the
world. Accordingly, the underling grand narrative equations of the
US is Good and the designated Enemy is Evil is not questioned.
It is presupposed.
Malevolent motives are always assumed of the designated Enemy, down
to Harvard-produced geostrategic economic and war models. So when a
host of internet commons sites challenge the grand narrative
framework, Harvard and satellites denounce them to stop people
reading them.
A long list of critical
sites is accused without criteria, proof or evidence as all
spreaders of 'fake news'.
What is not recognized here is that only on the internet commons can
the process of truth be free from ruling pressures to control
message for external sponsors.
Here there is no commercial-profit condition to speak and write, and
no livelihood dependence on private profit. There is no inducement
to avoid life-and-death issues in academic obfuscation or ad-vehicle
style. Internet authors not on the payroll can be free of the game
of all games behind the scenes - enriching the rich further with no
life-coherent criterion of truth.
These underlying conditions of the internet commons and free speech
itself cannot be recognized by the academy or the corporate press
without undercutting their proclaimed status as the only legitimate
founts of truth.
The internet commons is a
new world of competitive capacities to research, understand and
disseminate not bound by private money patronage (as over centuries
in Harvard University).
When challenged in this way, Harvard (and the official press) are
set back on their heels.
They cannot think the
facts through because their instituted presumptions have long been
what they must presuppose and not question to acquire their
credentials and pay for public speech. They must attack what calls
all this into question if it effectively speaks truth to power to
expose or de-legitimate the ruling system narrative as false.
Harvard and the US press
thus follow the reigning method of reverse projection. They accuse
the effective opposition of 'fake news'.
The most revealing fact here is that Harvard authority as other
academic administrations proceed in name-calling without any valid
argument or demonstration - the very basis of reasonable conclusion.
Yet this is such a long
tradition of presumptive accusation allowed against anyone
designated as the Enemy, and anyone else exposing the falsehood of
the ruling US story of moral superiority over all others and God's
blessing to lead the world by force or money.
This is why only dissenting sites from the official storyline of US
freedom and rightness in all things are accused as 'fake news'.
Accusation of opposing positions is so well-worn into conditioned
brains that endless repetition locks it in as self-evident.
This is why attributions
of vile motive are automatic from Harvard or the New York Times for
any outside leader opposing US interference in their countries
including elections. US hypocrisy here is staggering, but
unreported.
In fact, Harvard's
life-blind elite of war criminal geo-strategists, economic modelers
and so on are fawned upon within the wider corporate rule they
serve.
None can engage critical facts and thought challenging the US moral
superiority assumptions because they have never been required to
consider them.
So they denounce them as
once the Church denounced apostasy. In the end, US system worship is
a war-state religion. It eliminates all enemies to its right to
rule. Its globalizing system institutes the market laws of God.
War crimes are
God-blessed justice.
Freedom of
Speech, the Process of Truth, and the US Constitution
Led by senior academics, journalists and technical expertise, the
internet commons provide for the first time impartial witness and
free speech open to public examination and circulation across
borders.
They are free from
corporate-rank dictate and private copy-right control.
In consequence, the internet commons are liberated from private
corporate profit as controlling goal. Those who know what they are
talking about can speak truth to dogma and power without words to
appease editors, business boards and ad revenues.
Truth itself is
not defined, but its principle of process is a more inclusively
consistent taking into account towards life-coherent conclusion
Despite Google black-holing of radical legal facts, CIA penetration
of Wikipedia, and so on, the internet commons' freedom of speech is
far beyond anything guaranteed in the US constitution.
In fact, the 'sacred US
Constitution' that all presidents give oath to "preserve, protect
and defend" guarantees in the end only freedom of public speech to
private money demand.
Long before the Supreme Court's 2010 decision reverse-titled as
"Citizens United", the US constitution was structured to one
overriding end - to remove prior limits to private-money right over
all else, including to begin, the rule of British law and the lands
of the first nations West of the Appalachians.
This is why no common life interest exists in the US Constitution
from the start.
People's universal human
life necessities of water, food, protection and liveable environment
are ruled out a-priori. This is why civil rights themselves were
first federally enforced by the 'commerce clause' protecting freedom
of commercial bus passengers including blacks to cross borders.
It is also why the Fourteenth Amendment to protect the equal rights
of freed slaves ended up being the legal basis for private-profit
corporations and wealthy funds to acquire the constitutional rights
of living persons (e.g., to freedom of speech for big money to buy
elections and to avoid government access to financial records).
Even the iconic rights of "life, liberty and happiness" turn out to
be in fact only private market rights which allow corporate 'fictive
persons' to unlimited money wealth, protection against public
redistribution, and the freedom of private wealth alone to speak to
America by buying corporate self promotions and election attack ads.
The US Constitution fix goes all the way back to 1787.
As professor of
constitutional law at Chicago's iconic Kent College of Law,
Matthew Stanton, explains in personal correspondence:
"[The fix] goes all
the way back to the 1787 coup where the 39 signatories to the
Constitution sequestered themselves in a Philadelphia meeting
house, with locked doors and shuttered windows, to ostensibly
make adjustments to the Articles of Confederation, but instead
delivered an entirely new document that enabled creating a
federal system centralizing control of the economy by propertied
wealth".
Russia the
Enemy: the Deus ex-Machina of Fake News
We may recall that the corporate-press and Wall-Street-enriched
candidate for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, started the
accusation of 'fake news' to explain her defeat.
As establishment mask of
the politically correct masses with the money-war party as her
paymaster, Clinton blamed her fall in the 2016 US election on the
new enemy she saw arising against the official story and herself.
When the 'glass mirror'
story line did not take, she joined forces with the corporate media
on another plane.
'Fake news' misled Americans.
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The New York Times
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The
Washington Post
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the TV Networks,
...and other establishment tale
tellers saw pay-dirt far beyond Clinton's failed bid for president.
In fact, the corporate mass media were losing marketability by the
escalating appeal of free social media. The once all-powerful press
propaganda system has been increasingly deserted. The 'fake news'
story provided a media base to condemn free internet news and
commentary as immoral.
The 2016 election became
the leverage for a big market grab back.
Very soon it was not just 'fake news' to spike news cycles and
subscriptions. War as peace and corporate globalization as freedom
found its long place of rule - the enemy of Russia to blame. Now the
news can be that Russia hacked and attacked the lost 2016 election.
Russia may be a hollowed-out shell by global corporate and oligarch
dispossession.
But it can still continue
as pretext for US-NATO war crimes and aggression reverse-blamed on
it. As the European breadbasket and newly discovered fossil-fuel
rich nation, Ukraine is a very big prize.
Now in Ukraine's US-led
coup aftermath and ethnic civil war, evil Russia can be an ace card
again to accuse for attacking the US election.
Since Russia led by Putin is drawing the line as in Crimea to
support the Russia-speaking region against US-led war crimes under
international law (documented in previous articles), all roads
connect. "Russia's uncontrolled aggression" is reverse-projected
onto the victim again in a glorious new use.
Reverse blame it for
interference in the US election of Trump and kill Russia-US peace
initiatives at the same time.
No fact is required to
verify the accusation, and no law broken is needed to insinuate
treason of whoever relates with Russia's officials in peace
initiative. It can work even against an elected US president.
At the same time, the US's own record attacking other nations'
elections and societies is thereby erased as well - continually
orchestrating mass-murder and dictatorship to sabotage the electoral
process from Vietnam and Chile to Ukraine in 2010 and Latin America
social democracies since.
If it were a story of reverse projection by a mass-murderous
psychopath, it would be too much to believe. Yet it now runs the US
news cycle as the big story unfolding with no evidence of US
illegality, force, or non-compliance with international law.
The accusations run by
themselves in US media culture and across the empire.
So as 2017 Spring breaks,
endless media insinuations of treason seep into the populace from
corporate media sites across borders with backrooms and Congress
setting up for another presidential inquisition.
It is interesting to observe two precedents. Past inquisitions were
unfolded soon after Bill Clinton said in India, "it's time to level
up rather than down in global trade" and Richard Nixon founded the
Environmental Protections Agency, stopped corporations from
outsourcing US jobs, and made peace with China as Trump sought with
Russia.
The ludicrous hypocrisy, factual vacuum, and war-drums of
blame-the-enemy go into high-volume operation again, led by an
attack-dog media against the elected US president whose only action
has been to have business-like relations with Russia. Few observe
the immense stakes of the US media and war establishments in this
process.
Cui bono? - who benefits?
- is the question never asked.
What's new? The perpetual red herring of 'Russia aggression' takes
everyone's eyes off the ball - including the continuing US-drone
mass murder and ecological wars built into the Trump agenda.
Canada's oil and mining
corps and big banks sneak behind the pervasive fake news with a
smiling Trudeau front. NATO demands more money behind Trump now
fulsomely praising what he earlier campaigned on as "obsolete", as
he has done with the CIA he also condemned.
Those hoping for a new
departure under Trump from the big lies and war crimes as normalized
operations watch in a combination of horror and hilarity.
Who connects the dots? Beneath official notice, the ruling goal of
US empire is blind to its consequences of human and planetary life
ruin. It has to cover itself in false news to carry on. This is why
fake news is not a temporary phenomenon of the Trump era.
It is the necessary veil
of illusion of an eco-genocidal system.
The symptoms and trends
are everywhere. But a US-led prism of false inversions of reality
regulates consciousness, perception and reaction to 'steer the
course'.
This is true of both sides of the Trump divide, and also in
corporate Canada as the US's largest trading partner, branch-plant
and resource cornucopia. What is new is that the ruling illusions
are divided against themselves at the top of the US political and
ideological system.
The Trump phenomenon
reflects the rupture. The US empire is in deep crisis from its
cumulative destruction of social and natural life support systems.
Its carcinomic
multiplication of private money demand with no tie to the production
of means of life is the reality beneath all the false news.
Nothing is life secure. The 'global security system' protects only
money values and sequences through life hosts. Peoples everywhere
compete to make it go faster to survive. The ruling concept of
'economy 'inverts the systematic depletion, degradation and
despoliation of the life capital of organic, social and ecological
life.
Universal necessities of
human and fellow life are stripped, polluted and wasted as
'efficiencies'.
President Trump has gone into the political ring to fight it out
with the political establishment on a nationalist capitalist level.
He is losing money in the short term. But his program in office is
completely eco-blind, and the opposing mass media follow suit.
All they can focus on is
demonizing normal relations with the official Enemy Russia.
Meanwhile Trump has all
but abolished the EPA and cut off all federal funding for
restoration of the Great Lakes, the most important source of fresh
water heritage on the planet.
These supreme crimes under international law are recognized by none
on stage. In Canada, a Nazi progeny and neo-Nazi supporter of the
violent coup and civil war in Ukraine is made Foreign Affairs
Minister and hustles her connections throughout the US to keep the
attack-Russia juggernaut going as in the past under a continuous
barrage of ethnic prejudices and fake news.
The pattern is clear but unspoken.
The Enemy Russia is the
auto-pilot of fake news to divert from US and client leadership
failure on almost every level. Relations of mutual respect with
Russia's ambassador are 'collusion' and taboo.
The Reality
Beneath the Questions not Asked
How does disclosure of Hillary's Clinton's apparatus theft of the
Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders get blamed on Russia?
The question is not
asked. The Washington mass media and visible Congress focus instead
on accused "collusion with Russia" with very big stakes in the new
inquisition show.
Suspicions without
substance run free in the mass media once the designated Enemy is
smeared onto the target, even if elected president.
Who knows that the US
joined the armed forces of Britain, colonial Canada and Japan to
crush the 1917 Russian Revolution on behalf of the Czarist
autocracy and Western capitalism?
More deeply, who
names the governing objective behind all the shows of force and
accusation over a century since?
To be managed
successfully, attention must be diverted from the facts of US-led
war crimes and public looting within and without US empire
proclaimed as 'world freedom'.
The new President and his Exxon Secretary of State seek
business-like relations with Russia.
Very big powers are
coming into conflict over business and war within the US empire. Big
oil in both leviathan countries are pitted against the US
Enemy-and-smear establishment which has long run the show with big
oil formerly leading it.
Now transnational big oil
in the US and Russia are leading out of the blind alley of war
against each other which has so totally failed to bring benefits to
either side in the long term, and has almost reversed civilization.
The dots again are not joined. The completely counter-productive war
against Russia to keep the US money-war state going is deepened by
Wall Street.
The falling price of oil
is driven beneath notice by Wall Street which has successfully
short-future-traded oil down to establish its money-printing powers
by debt as supreme over its rival substitute, while diverting
everybody's attention from the greatest fraud in history still
going.
Observe that Wall Street
remains untouched even from its multi-trillion dollar heist from
public and pension coffers from 2007 on.
Blame Russia is the normal chorus which Wall Street benefits from as
the ultimate leader of the ruinously anti-productive money-war
system.
It pays off so well to,
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the money party
in more public dollars appropriated by its control and issue
of money debt for everything that exists
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the pervasive
military-industrial complex which never gets reversed even
in the peace after the planned destruction of the 'Evil
Empire'
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the corporate
mass media in front turning the fake news system over
continuously to promote, idealize and divert from the global
empire's war and occupation powers
The neo-con and
neo-liberal war strategists alike are built into the dark state as
managers uniquely dependent on Russia as the Enemy.
So it is in all their self-maximizing interests to sustain perpetual
accusations of some enemy's evil as the great cover-up story of US
empire and it inherited war-crime system. Joined to despotic local
oligarchies, this axis dismantles ever more societies for corporate,
bank and military plunder and jackal payoffs everywhere (including
the academy).
There is no limit or
borders to the established system invasion, and all is at the
expense of public treasuries and of life support systems across
domains.
President Trump does not break the fatal ruling cycle. He demands
that vassal states should pay for their US military protection, a
new global extortion supporting new NATO oligarchies against change
which accompanies his stripping of environmental protections to pay
for more war powers.
Trump behind his populist
bluster is a paradigm example of instituted US capitalist greed and
aggression.
Yet the fact that hate of
the Enemy is smeared even onto him for not hating Russia too reveals
the ultimate pretext of the US-NATO war machine.
Behind the US-led
perpetual arms build-up, border threats and bombings of mostly
innocents across the globe while blaming the terrorists for the
horrors now built into the global 'growth' system is fake news as
continuous cover story. The war-criminal drone mass murders continue
on unnoticed.
The bank looting of
public wealth is instituted more broadly. The universities, health
systems and public infrastructures are privatized for profit with no
life criteria of outcomes.
Trump is dispossessing the American common wealth for big US money
in line with the Reagan public-looting machine before him. It
drained public revenues into a black hole of US debt, blamed acid
rain on trees, and portrayed orchestrated mass murderers of
socialists in Afghanistan and Nicaragua as 'freedom fighters'.
What has changed in the
corporate media's fake-news today?
Trump in office is the opposite of the anti-establishment candidate
he promised to be. He wars on the US Environmental Protection Agency
(its only collective life protective organization). He fractions
corporate taxes in a giveway to the rich beyond Reagan's
$500-billion tax cut.
He privatizes the
public's falling infrastructure for speculators and developers'
long-term private tolls, profits and control for private profit at
taxpayers' expense.
Who in the corporate media or Congress questions any of it?
The Trudeau regime to the north imitates the new massive scheme of
privatizing public infrastructure. But it disguises it in terms of
public investment in public goods.
The big banks and
speculators on both sides of the border are the winners whatever the
corporate media and state cover story. The common wealth is sold off
under pervasive fake news masquerading as responsible and for the
public good.
But the drive-wheel
policy mechanisms for ever more dismantling of the living earth and
redistribution of more public wealth upwards to the rich march on
beneath conscious comprehension.
Trump does not hide the privatization for profit of America's public
infrastructure and stripping of public health and environmental
protection policies once he has rising stockholder support in
office.
The Trudeau Liberal party
masqueraded as the social democrat NDP in promising whopping public
investment to win the election, but when in office lets the giant
privatization boondoggle trickle out in sunny avoidance of the
facts.
The monumental schemes of robbing the commonwealth at every level
are led by slanted and selective reports through every step across
ever more domains. But a constant across US empire is Russia the
Enemy to justify it all.
In the deepening life
support crises of this ruling axis, Russia's projected 'attacks'
still lead the show.
The Life-Blind
Moral DNA of US Rule
With no common ground but belief in God's blessing over all nations
and the greatest killing machine in history to enforce it, US
ideology may seem to be a psychopathic rationalization writ large.
Yet the US national morality tale governs perception so that the
a-priori life-blindness is not recognized even by philosophers.
The US continues to be
ruled at home and abroad without life-value ground or compass. So as
the US-led global market system multiplies its demands on organic,
social and ecological life systems, it moves inexorably towards a
few multibillionaires with more wealth than 99% of the population,
steering planetary depredation to ruin as freedom and growth.
How else would a global cancer system behave?
Yet almost none recognize
that this system overrides life requirements at every level. The
reformer Trump selects for even more wealth and power to the home
rich. He attacks evolved environmental research and regulations with
no better alternative.
He seeks to repeal
Obamacare with no public option considered. His nationalist and
cost-cutting program is essentially life-blind.
The baseline of crisis goes all down to the moral DNA of the US
project and its evolved economic, political and ideological system.
The innermost value driver is long presupposed without question by
even US moral philosophers and social scientists as the first
principle of their models.
Atomic self-maximization
towards more private money-value without limit is the meta-program.
In consequence, the 'global free market' the US leads and imposes
has no feedback loops to protect human or planetary life against
hollowing them out for transient commodities, private profit and
wastes on every level.
The ruling system is
structured only to ensure more money demand and commodities to those
who have money to pay. Any accountability to universal life
necessities is ruled out a-priori from the US Constitution, ruling
market doctrine, and received theories.
As I have commented in articles prior to his presidency, "Trump is
America come to meet itself".
But the US cover story
has not yet been decoded in its master functions of legitimation and
idealization. What makes the eco-genocidal system acceptable to
human consciousness is an ultimate story line and moral syntax that
transforms it into heroic liberty, individualism and moral
supremacy.
This moral syntax has been imprinted into US empire since its
original revolution against Britain to invade the America West to
the Pacific Ocean to appropriate and destroy all the life and life
support systems of the developed first peoples there as 'freedom',
'development' and 'self-defense'.
What is required for the
grand narrative's success is to hide the reality of continuous
eco-genocide by continuous false representations as the virtue and
truth others fail to understand.
This first principle the justifying morality tale entails the second
- that an alien Enemy must always be blamed for the system's
destructive attacks on barriers and resistance to it.
Conversion of all life
and life support systems to limitless self-maximization of the US
system and its richest citizens then proceeds under cover of fake
news with wars of acquisition and control represented as courageous
and beneficent for all.
For-profit private corporations are the ever more empowered legal
vehicles of this transnational system which is set to select for
systematic self-maximization of the rich by all market, state and
war means that can be constructed to enable it, starting with the US
Constitution (as explained above).
This set-point is built
into the legislative, judicial and executive branches so that today
the system outcome is a constitutionally ordered money-party control
of all three branches of government as well as the funding systems
of social sciences and philosophy.
Fake news in the widest sense provides a continuous cover story to
mask and justify the underlying program which is not seen - the
money-war party's limitless take from life within and without the US
that depends on a designated Enemy as perennial pretext to strip the
US and global commonwealth against effective opposition or change.
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