How the Washington Post Hides the U.S. Government’s Guilt

Eric Zuesse

On December 21st, the Washington Post headlined “No conclusive evidence Russia is behind Nord Stream attack”, but actually — despite the headline’s suggesting to the contrary — reported zero evidence that Russia is behind the Nord Stream attack, no evidence at all, not even inconclusive evidence. Furthermore, their ‘news’-report refused to say anything about (not even to just mention) any other possible culprit — nothing at all about America, England, Poland, or any other country that possibly MIGHT have actually produced or participated in producing this international sabotage-act (which destroyed billions of dollars of Russian and of German investments that had built those pipelines).

To top off that newspaper’s deceit against its readers, it included the caveat that nullifies any real meaning to what they did report: “Russia remains a key suspect, however, partly because of its recent history of bombing civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and propensity for unconventional warfare. It’s not such a leap to think that the Kremlin would attack Nord Stream, perhaps to undermine NATO resolve and peel off allies that depend on Russian energy sources, officials said.”

That clause “perhaps to undermine NATO resolve and peel off allies that depend on Russian energy sources” provides possible excuses (for the newspaper’s deceit there) that not only are ludicrous and transparently false on their face but that totally ignore Russia’s having consistently been doing everything possible in order to get The West to reverse its recent banning of activation of the just-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and to reverse The West’s sanctions-based halt in fuel-importation via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. All the while during which European leaders were accusing Russia of the (sanctions-mandated) cut-offs in Russia’s fuel-supplies to Europe, Putin and other Russian leaders were urging European nations not to impose or comply with the (sanctions-caused) cut-offs. OBVIOUSLY, destroying both of the biggest means of transporting Russian fuel into the EU intensified, instead of reduced, that banning, and quite possibly made it permanent. The very idea — the lying ‘news’-paper’s implied suggestion — to the contrary of this fact, is idiotic, and assumes the reader’s gullibility and stupidity (i.e., that the reader is too stupid even to notice this logical incongruity).

However, above all, what is heinous in that ‘news’-report is its 100% avoidance of mentioning  ANY  of the evidence that implicates its own Government (the U.S.) in having been guilty of perpetrating that attack — the evidence that I previously summarized here.   

In light of the facts that are set forth and documented there, how can any reasonable doubt exist that the Washington Post’s admission on December 21st — three full months after that sabotage — “No conclusive evidence Russia is behind Nord Stream attack” — constitutes anything other than a confirmation that the U.S. controls the UK and virtually all EU Governments and ‘news’-media and has actually destroyed UK and Europe? This is exactly as the economist Michael Hudson has explained here, summarizing at the end, that: “That is the punishment that Europe will receive from Eurasia. Its leaders have made their choice: to be a U.S. satellite.”

Only idiots can deny it, because all of the solidly established evidence is consistent that this is the truth: the U.S. regime is at war against Europe. Obviously, neither the imperial regime, nor any of its satellites, can honestly be called a “democracy” — all of them are illegitimate, ripe for overthrow, but ‘news’-media such as they have, won’t publicize the fact, nor anything that will make it known to the public. In this sense, then, “regime change” should begin “at home” — in their own countries — but the constant lies prevent this from happening.

America has 900 foreign military bases, including 231 in Germany. Is that for any nation’s defense, or is it, instead (and purely), for aggression (such as to ultimately take over Russia, China, and Iran), really? What have those foreign military bases ever defended their satellite-nations from?

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.