Joe Lauria at Consortium News headlined on February 21st, “Apparent US Intel Meddling in US Election With ‘Report’ Russia is Aiding Sanders”, and he noted that,
If the story is true and if intelligence agencies are truly committed to protecting U.S. citizens, the Sanders campaign
would have been quietly informed and shown evidence to back up the claims.
Instead the story wound up on the front page of the [Washington] Post, “according to people familiar with the matter.” Zero evidence was produced to back up the intelligence agencies’
assertion.
“It is not clear what form that Russian assistance has taken,” the Post reported. That would tell any traditional news
editor that there was no story until it is known.
Instead major U.S. media are again playing the role of laundering totally unverified “information” just because it comes
from an intelligence source. Reporting such assertions without proof amounts to an abdication of journalistic
responsibility. It shows total trust in U.S. intelligence despite decades of deception and skullduggery from these
agencies.
Despite the untrustworthiness of the intelligence agencies that had told President George W. Bush that they would be
able to present to the American public a “slam-dunk” case that Saddam Hussein had WMD and was to blame for the 9/11
attacks, and despite their similar serial lying up to the present time, Senator Sanders issued a public statement that “Unlike Donald Trump, I do not consider Vladimir Putin a good friend. He is an autocratic thug who is attempting to
destroy democracy and crush dissent in Russia.” Regardless of whether he actually believes that Putin is an “autocratic thug,” his saying this was necessary in the
context of the ceaseless anti-Putin propaganda in America’s ‘news’-reporting and from America’s ‘intelligence’ agencies,
all of which have for decades been effectively controlled by America’s billionaires, who are now terrified that Sanders
might actually become President. Their agents are consequently smearing him. America’s hundreds of billionaires ARE
America’s Deep State, and those hundreds of individuals are the only people who are actually represented by their media and ‘our’ Government.
This is the reason why we invaded and occupy and destroyed Iraq, all on the basis of lies.
This is the reason we invaded and destroyed Libya, all on the basis of lies.
This is the reason why we hired Al Qaeda in Syria to lead the hundreds of jihadist groups that have since been trying to overthrow and replace
Syria’s secular non-sectarian President Bashar al-Assad.
None of the American billionaires’ fronts — not the CIA, nor any others — have publicized, but they instead all have
hidden, all of these realities and basically all of the really important historical events during the past twenty years
which shape the international world in which we all are living. Democracy in America is impossible under such
circumstances as this.
Back in 2002, Sanders was able to refuse to authorize George W. Bush to invade Iraq and yet still not have his career in
Congress destroyed by that ‘unpatriotic’ (actually courageously patriotic) act. But in today’s environment, any member of Congress who fails to demonize Vladimir Putin is ‘unpatriotic’ — as if the Cold War which
was ended by Russia in 1991 has secretly continued by America ever since — which it HAS.
America’s billionaires are even more opposed to ending the Cold War than they are opposed to increasing taxes on the
rich up to international standards for industrialized nations. They will accept high taxes — and during the 1950s the
super-rich accepted even a 90% marginal rate of taxation — but they will not, under any circumstances, accept ending America’s recent quest to replace the U.N as the basis of international law and order; they DEMAND that
the U.S. Government, which they control, must control the entire world, including Russia. This is essential to their all-encompassing global empire, the global
dictatorship by America’s international corporations. That is the core belief of the Deep State, and no Sanders
Presidency will be able to succeed unless a President Sanders will strip America’s billionaires of the control they
enjoy over the American Government through the Deep State. The Deep State is the U.S. billionaires; it is the control they have over the U.S. Government. Only by ending that control will America’s Deep State be brought to an end. Sanders is the only viable U.S. Presidential candidate who
authentically does threaten the billionaires’ control over ‘our’ government; and the only way that he will be able to succeed is by
destroying their Deep State, their control over the Government and over their press or ‘news’ media. This is an internal
U.S. war, right now, between the Deep State and not only Donald Trump on the right (who constantly caves to their
demands) but also Bernie Sanders on the left (who has yet to be in a position really to challenge their control over
America).
So: how can Sanders do it, if he becomes the President? Fight like hell and be willing to sacrifice even himself, if
need be, so as to destroy their control over America. Be what Trump only pretends to be. This is the only way that it might be able to be done. Sincerity. Determination. Mono-focus. And great courage. Never backtracking.
Right now, America accounts for about half of the entire world’s military expenditures, and that can’t go on if America is to take care of its real problems. Those corporations, such as Lockheed Martin, are
not going to yield without there being now a second American revolution, a revolution of control. It will have to be a
total revolution of control — not just over Wall Street, and not just over the hedge funds, and not just over the
private equity funds, and not just over the healthcare system, and not just over the universities, and not just over the
private foundations and other ‘non-profits’ (which largely privatize to billionaires the decisions as to what ‘needs’ to
be done for the good of the entire country). Why do billionaires get tax-breaks for funding ‘nonprofits’ which expand
their own power not only over commerce but especially over national priorities and the government itself? The corruption
is so deep and so pervasive.
Right now, the corruption is focused on getting the Democratic Party’s superdelegates, instead of the voters in the primaries and caucuses, to choose whom the
Party’s nominee for the U.S. Presidency will be.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.