Edward Curtin – Off-Guardian Oct 27, 2024
It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, the whole world watched in horror. The events of that day were repeated on television over and over and over again, to the point where they became afterimages lodged in people’s minds.
As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the buildings (see this and this, among extensive evidence), most people thought otherwise, just as they thought that the subsequent linked anthrax attacks were directed by Osama bin Laden when they were eventually proven to have originated from a U.S. military lab (thus an inside job), and, as a result of a massive Bush administration/corporate media propaganda campaign, most Americans supported the invasion of Afghanistan, the subsequent invasion of Iraq, and decades of endless wars that continue to this day, bringing us to the edge of nuclear war with Iran and Russia.
It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history. Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.
All these wars involve the machinations of the neo-conservative clique that in 1997 formed the Project for the New American Century that ran George W. Bush’s administration and whose protégées have come to exert great control of the foreign policies of Democratic and Republican administrations since. It is not that they lacked power before this, as a study of American foreign policy as far back as the Lyndon Johnson administration and its non-response to Israel’s 1967 attack on the U.S. Liberty confirms.
Contrary to the widespread claims that Israel runs U.S. Middle East foreign policy, I think it is important to emphasize that the reverse is true.
It is convenient to claim the tail wags the dog, but it is false.
Israel’s war crimes are U.S. war crimes. If the U.S. wanted to stop Israel’s genocide and expansion of war throughout the region, it could do so immediately, for Israel is totally reliant on U.S. support for its existence – as they like to say, “It’s existential.”
All the news to the contrary is propaganda. It is a sly game of responsibility ping-pong: shift the blame, keep the audience guessing as they hit their little hollow ball back and forth.
Control of the Middle East’s oil supplies and travel routes has been key to American foreign policy for a very long time. Such geo-political control is linked to the United States’ endless war on Russia and the control of natural resources throughout the vast region (a look at a map is requisite), stretching from the Middle East to southwest Asia up through the Black and Caspian Seas through Ukraine into Russia.
In both cases, the attacks of September 11, 2001 and Israel’s genocide of Palestinians whose ultimate target is Iran (America’s key enemy in the region as far back as the CIA’s 1953 coup d’état against Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh), savage wars of extermination have been promoted through decades of carefully orchestrated propaganda.
In the former case, through the mainstream corporate media’s magic of repetitive cinematic images, and in the latter, through their absence. To be shown photos of many thousands of dead and mutilated Palestinian children does not serve the U.S./Zionist’s interests. Propaganda’s methods must be flexible. Show, conceal.
The September 11th attacks and the current genocide, each in its own way, have been justified and paid for with similar but different credit cards without spending limits, the so-called wars on terror waged on the visual credit card of planes hitting buildings preceded and followed by endless pictures of Osama bin Laden, and the genocide of Palestinians on the holocaust credit card minus images of slaughtered Palestinians or any awareness of the terrorist history of the Zionist’s century-long racial nationalist settler movement of “ethnically cleansing” Palestinians from their land.
To know this, one has to read books, but they have been replaced by cell phones, functional illiteracy being the norm, even for college graduates who are treated to four years of wokeness education and anti-intellectualism that reduces their thinking to mush and graduates them with sciolistic minds at best. I am being kind.
The eradication of historical knowledge and the devaluation of the written word are key to ignorance of both issues. Digital media and cell phones are the new books, all few hundred words on an issue conveying information that conveys ignorance. Guy DeBord put it succinctly: “That which the spectacle ceases to speak of for three days no longer exists.” Amnesia is the norm.
To which I might add: that which the mass media spectacle continues to speak of or show images of for many days exists, even if it doesn’t. It exists in the minds of virtual people for whom images and headlines create reality. The electronic media is not only addictive but hypnotically effective, producing cyber people divorced from the material world. News and information have become a form of terrorism used to implode all mental defenses, similar to the floors at the World Trade Center that went down boom, boom, boom.
The war crimes of US/Israel are readily available for viewing outside the coverage of the corporate mainstream media. Most of the world views them, but these are the unreal people, the ones who don’t count as human beings. These war crimes are massive, ruthless, and committed proudly and without an ounce of shame. To face this fact is not acceptable.
Those who pretend ignorance of them are guilty of bad faith.
Those who support either Harris or Trump are guilty of bad faith twice over, acting as if either one does not support genocide or that genocide is a minor matter in the larger scheme of things.
Choosing “the lesser of two evils” is therefore an act of radical evil hiding behind the mask of civic duty.
That it is commonplace only confirms these words from the English playwright Harold Pinter’s extraordinary Nobel Address in 2005:
The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El
Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.
Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
Little has changed since 2005, except that these crimes have increased along with the propaganda denying them, together with vastly increased censorship – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Russia via Ukraine, etc. – all targets of U.S. bombs, just like Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, etc. Now the U.S. has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and the voting public is all worked up over choosing between candidates supporting genocide and the massively expanded Israel attack on neighboring countries. It is a frightening spectacle of moral indifference and stupidity as we await the Israel/U.S. bombing of Iran and Iran’s response.
Yet I ask myself and I ask you: Is there a connection between the voting public’s support for these war criminals and attention deficit disorder, amnesia, and dementia?
Or is this embrace of the demonic twins’ – US/Israel – foreign policy a sign of something far worse? A death wish?
Soul death?
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Edward Curtinis an independent writer whose work has appeared widely over many years. His website is edwardcurtin.com and his new book is Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.
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The UK has more cameras on them than anyone else in the world
expect Israels borders to palestine, this is watched so much as they let in Hamas to butcher them
but they fought back using many old w w 2 rifles abandoned after the war
The Royal mail has hidden cameras in the changing rooms washrooms and even the toilets, think on this for a moment/
Jenrick accuses ministers of complicity in a ‘racist institutional cover-up’ over mass migration costs
Story by Gordon Rayner
Robert Jenrick has accused ministers of being complicit in a “racist institutional cover-up” over the costs of mass migration.
The former housing minister who is running to be the next leader of the Conservative party said the public were “sick of the wool being pulled over their eyes” on the economic and social costs of net migration, which reached 685,000 last year. He accused the Government of refusing to publish proper statistics on crimes committed in the UK by foreign nationals “out of misplaced fear of harming social cohesion”.
Mr Jenrick said no field of policymaking is as “shrouded in secrecy” as that regarding migrants. While he says the report by the Office for Budget Responsibility last month found low-skilled migrants are costing the country more in benefits, healthcare and pensions than they pay in tax.
Thousands marched in support of Tommy Robinson wanting to stop government people trafficking
Among the migrants are criminal gangs those needing complex NHS operations homosexuals men in pink trousers and people just wanting to live on benefits
Several petitions reached number 10 this week to deport anyone with a criminal record
One must/should ask Who attacked first on October 7th, 2023? As far as I know, it was not Israel.
This is the best analysis of what is happening in the Middle East now, and has long been happening there, thanks to US direct engagement, that I have come upon. Thank you, Edward Curtain, and thank you, Off-Guardian. And thank you, Rixon!
Yes..
Well…
… with you all inhabiting the empire of the jewes you can expect the same..sooner or later…particularly the zionist churchians…you see old lefty wonks like Curtains would like you to believe that you are somehow ‘complicit’ in the slaughter, which means you are associated or participating in a ‘crime’…
but the Truth is you are actually perpetrating the crime itself…well..not you personally, but the Juntas that actually run your shitholes…
and I’m afraid it will only expand..but then again five billion imbeciles have had themselves injected with cancer..so that’s a tough one to beat..ain’t it..
or had you forgotten?…
You are the ‘jewes’ in case you haven’t yet worked it all out….
“….Israel is totally reliant on U.S. support for its existence”
What the author misses is that the U.S. is totally reliant on the (((Federal Reserve))) for its own existence… and we all know who controls the money-spigot at that entity… and therefore “calls the tune”…
Ditto UK vis a vis BOE
No, this is junk, because you don’t talk about who it is that is running the US, their media, their government (both sides), their military, their legal systems, ALL OF IT. jews.
The Left will kill every White person in the world before admitting that Whites have no political power
A commenter here says royal mail has cameras in the changing rooms and toilets this is true and breaks several laws
i worked there and was disgusted with this
RAISING TAXES TO PAY FOR MIGRANTS
Reeves WILL raise taxes because she needs to pay for the cost of new migrants –
says Sir John Redwood
• Rachel Reeves is planning plenty of tax rises. It’s not because the economy was weak when she took over.
Growth in the first half of this year was the fastest in the G7 after the poor Covid years. Inflation was back down to 2%. It is not because the Conservatives were planning to spend a lot more after the election. It is because she wants to spend a lot more which she did not tell us about before the vote. Rachel Reeves ( rachel thieves ) is planning plenty of tax rises. The new government has increased the numbers coming in
and cancelling the Rwanda deterrent and speeding up the process of granting illegal arrivals the right to stay. This acts as a draw for others to come as they can see there is a great payoff, one worth risking a dangerous boat journey from criminal gangs and toerag politicians
Thus spoke Marrano on behalf of his beloved global swarm, “don’t blame kikes, they are only trying to please white goyim, their masters”.
How can you think that America controls anything, when America is fully under Jew control?
The Pirate State of Israel is just a legality, created for political purposes. Anybody who imagines that the Jews who staff the Israeli state in the middle east dictate to the kike’s who own and operate America and the UK is simply wrong, although they are all part of the same criminal organization, so it doesn’t make much difference.
I do not fully concur with Mr. Curtin’s logic. The US was fully taken over by the money changing international banking Pharisee Khazarian Mafia (KM) in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Board, a private entity run by the international banking system.
Since, it has been the tail (the KM) wagging the dog (US). In 1892, when the first wave of Jews immigrated to the Palestine, several million of them immigrated to the US. Through them gained enough of a majority, for the KM to assume control of all US finances.
American foreign policy was moulded to conform with the KM’s desires to control the Mid East oil supplies. Reference the article, https://noirg.org/articles/how-the-synagogue-of-satan-became-israel-from-sugar-to-cotton-to-oil/
Mr. Curtin looks at land masses as though they represent the people responsible instead of those who ultimately control the masses.
Remove the usurers, and one removes the problem and the rest fall in line.
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; thus they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore thus saith HaShem: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk upright; for it shall be an evil time. Micah 2:1-3 (Jewish Publication Society)