Eric Zuesse
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On March 20th, Russia’s RT News headlined “US announces more weapons for Ukraine”, and reported that, “The US Department of Defense announced on Monday that it will send Ukraine another $350 million worth of military aid. The further supplies come as Ukraine reportedly gears up for a spring offensive, despite suffering heavy losses in Donbass. The package is the 34th tranche of military aid doled out to Ukraine by the US since August 2021. … The US has given Ukraine more than $32.5 billion in military aid since last February, out of more than $110 billion allocated by the administration of US President Joe Biden for military and economic assistance to Kiev.”
Some reader-comments there were against Russia’s Government, such as “Trish: What a disaster for Russia, the sooner Putin goes the better.” But others were instead against America’s Government, such as “TBTB: And the US says it is not party the war? It instigated it with NATO expansion to Russia’s borders, a coup in Ukraine to install a neo-Nazi proxy regime, arming it, training it, financing it, providing it with war plans and intelligence, plus mercenaries and diplomatic support. If this is not being party to the conflict, at minimum, then when Russia hits back no one should be surprised. It is self-defense. It has already knocked out a US sophisticated spying drone that was collecting intelligence on live combat and passing it to its neo-Nazis to kill Russians.”
Whereas the comment from “Trish” is similar to many that I have read at U.S. news-sites, the one from “TBTB” is so fundamentally different from that American norm so that it raises the question as to whether it is reflecting information that appears on Russian news-sites but not on American ones. If that is the case, then why would that be so? Is it because the comment reflects realities that are hidden in U.S. news-media, or instead because it reflects non-realities that are prohibited to be published in the U.S.?
If it reflects realities that are hidden in U.S. news-media, then why would ANY realities be hidden in U.S. news-media? Should they be?
If it instead reflects non-realities that are prohibited to be published in the U.S., then who is doing this censorship and who ought to be legally authorized to make such censorship-decisions in the U.S.? Is there a severe need in the U.S. for new legislation which will delineate how news-censorship in the U.S. is to be done? Would it be best to continue the current legal standard in America that censorship in America is ONLY a private right of publishers, and NOT a right that America’s Government has? Since 95%+ of the news that Americans receive is from organizations that are controlled by America’s fewer-than-a-thousand billionaires, is almost all of the censorship in America being done on behalf of those fewer-than-a-thousand billionaires? If so, then how is that affecting U.S. politics and the Government itself?
America’s Founders, who wrote the U.S. Constitution including its First Amendment, gave no indication that when they wrote and the states passed into law the First Amendment, the objective was to give America’s richest one-hundred-thousandth of the U.S. population in the future the exclusive ultimate power to censor the news that the American public will be receiving.
Of course, this is an enormous problem in America if the reader-comment is entirely true that “The US … is not party the war? It instigated it with NATO expansion to Russia’s borders, a coup in Ukraine to install a neo-Nazi proxy regime, arming it, training it, financing it, providing it with war plans and intelligence, plus mercenaries and diplomatic support. If this is not being party to the conflict, at minimum, then when Russia hits back no one should be surprised. It is self-defense. It has already knocked out a US sophisticated spying drone that was collecting intelligence on live combat and passing it to its neo-Nazis to kill Russians.” That would then be a deeply and dangerously dysfunctional U.S. Government. Would it be an authentically Constitutional U.S. Government?
However, if that reader-comment is false, then why has no evidence been presented to the American public that each one of that comment’s clauses and assumptions is false? Would not even that indicate a very deep dysfunctionality to today’s American press? If the comment is false, why have all U.S. news-media not, in regard to each of its clauses, disclosed evidence that it is false?
Either way, have not America’s news-media failed? And, if the news-media have failed, then isn’t America’s Government even worse — and constantly violating its Constitution? Or: Did America’s Founders WANT there to be a widely deceived American public?
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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.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
“U.S. news-media, 95%+ of it”, is controlled by WHO ? You Eric just keep not telling the truth, but always the same “American Billionaires”.
You’re clearly scared that they’ll come after you, right ?
WHO are those you NEVER mention ?
One American Billionaire is not scared to say it:
The Cult of Moloch.
Moloch is most frequently in Leviticus. Here is a passage from Leviticus 18:21, condemning child sacrifice, “Do not allow any of your children to be offered to Molech.”
1-You shall have no other God’s before me.
2-Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images
Your assumption that 95+% of America’s news-media are controlled by billionaires who are Jews is false, and the evidence that I have seen is that around 30% are controlled by billionaires who are Jews, and 70% are controlled by billionaires who are not Jews; but what is relevant to causation here is that 100% of America’s news-media are controlled by billionaires. The ultimate censors (controllers and managers and editors and producers) of America’s news work for billionaires, most of whom are, in fact, Christians, but their religion isn’t what has placed them in control; their being billionaires is.
It is easy to substantiate your assertion, Eric. Anyone interested can easily look up the top ten or fifteen media moguls and find them listed.
Those non-Jewish Masonic elites are not Christians.
the founder of an online publication The Online, Joshua Topolsky, asked Musk: “Do you think it’s in the interest of powerful people to A: support a free press that exposes their lies, or B: tear it down so their lies are easier to tell?”
Musk responded: “Who do you think *owns* the press? Hello.”
The entrepreneur was non-specific and opted not to answer dozens of follow up questions. Just more of jarno’s sick mind making fallacious associations . facts don’t matter, only his sickness is important to him.
Eric’s questions are exactly the ones that should be asked in a _first_ round, followed by further probing into the broad scope of factors that made this hijacking possible. However, I also see another problem that is perhaps even bigger: the ability of the population to think rationally. The Founding Fathers are usually invoked when talking about the political state of of the country — but who did the Founding Fathers invoke? They didn’t have a previous generation of “Founding Fathers” to reach back to: they had to think for themselves when working out a new model for society. They… Read more »
I became a follower of The Duran because of the intellectual pursuit of truth I found adhered to by contributors who also had the capacities required of that pursuit. Thank you Alexander, Eric and Steve for your abilities and contributions.
In the present instance it isn’t “ignorance is a matter of choice” It is bigotry is a matter of choice and considerable effort in assembling misleading information.
Anti-Putin trolls like ‘Trish’ are not much of my concern – the factual errors in their commentary speak for themselves and are easy to debunk. Looking at the RT comment section (which has been described as the “Russian fanclub in America” by at least one person) there are those who, while not anti-Putin, think that the world outside of NATO or the EU should somehow resonate to the Republican Party’s (?) stance on reality – that is, how it can relate with Trump, MAGA folks and “own the libs” malarkey. One example is Trump’s “warning” to Germany about reliance on… Read more »
The war in Ukraine is not Russia verses Ukraine, it’s US v Russia. The American government gave Putin no choice but invade in an act of self defence. The US government is selling the war to the American people via propaganda in the media, claiming Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union. Biden doesn’t want the truth to be reported, the media is his mouth piece.