American propaganda rags are already out to get Tulsi Gabbard — evidently because we cannot let realistic peacemongers rock America's mass slaughter boat
© 2024 Peter Free
14 November 2024
Dusting off the Joe McCarthy-Hillary Clinton — 'you're a Russian agent' — ploy
If We the People have any enemies at all, they are local.
Foremost among those, are our intelligence agencies. Which for years have been prompting an anti-Constitutional state of perpetual war abroad — and in-your-pajamas surveillance — at home.
The United States' mainstream media, Deep State-controlled propaganda rags — every one of them — diligently advance these forms of Orwellian enslavement, every day.
For example, below are Yahoo and The Hill obediently going after President Trump's selection of anti-warmongering Tulsi Gabbard to head national intelligence:
In Gabbard, Trump selected a figure who has floated numerous conspiracy theories that defy the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence agencies she would oversee.
She has routinely espoused narratives likewise peddled by Russia.
Gabbard is also likely to be a tough sell, and is expected to face opposition from a number of former high-ranking national security and intelligence officials.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence prepares the President’s Daily Brief, summarizing information collected among the 18 intelligence agencies so that the president can make key national security and foreign policy decisions.
Gabbard has made a slew of pro-Russia comments that have prompted criticism on both sides of the aisle.
She shared disinformation accusing Ukraine of creating biological weapons — a narrative pushed in Russian media — prompting Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) to accuse her of spreading “treasonous lies [that] may well cost lives.”
And she also faulted the Biden administration for failing to acknowledge what she said were “Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO” as the latter country was being invaded in 2022.
Her 2017 visit with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia who was accused of using chemical weapons on his own citizens during the country’s civil war, also prompted backlash.
© 2024 Rebecca Beitsch, Trump stuns with Gaetz, Gabbard picks, The Hill (via Yahoo!news, 13 November 2024)
Let's contrast what is actually true . . .
. . . as against The Hill's integrity-mashing insinuations.
First — the Ukraine-based, US-funded biolabs did exist . . .
. . . according to the Pentagon.
Naturally, say these sources, those 46 labs were constructed (with US money) for peaceful purposes.
We are, after all, everybody's kindly friend:
Since 2005, the U.S. has partnered with Ukraine through the Pentagon’s Biological Threat Reduction Program. The purpose is "to support peaceful and safe biological detection and diagnostic capabilities and to reduce the threats posed by pathogens," according to a March 2022 government fact sheet.
The Defense Department’s Cooperative Threat Reduction program "has provided technical support to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health since 2005 to improve public health laboratories, whose mission is analogous to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," Weber said.
With regard to the 46 facilities, the government fact sheet said the U.S. has:
"Worked collaboratively to improve Ukraine’s biological safety, security, and disease surveillance for both human and animal health, providing support to 46 peaceful Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and disease diagnostic sites over the last two decades. The collaborative programs have focused on improving public health and agricultural safety measures at the nexus of nonproliferation."
In March, the Pentagon said much of the same, adding that the program has invested about $200 million in Ukraine, "supporting 46 laboratories, health facilities and diagnostic sites" and that it has "improved Ukraine’s biological safety, security and surveillance for both human and animal health."
While the U.S. is providing support for Ukraine, the labs are owned and operated by the Ukrainian government, Robert Pope, director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Department, previously told PolitiFact.
"Specifically, we make the labs more secure from accidental or intentional release, provide diagnostic equipment, train personnel on the use of the equipment, and train them how to detect potential outbreaks," Pope said.
"DTRA not only does this with Ukraine, but also with partners in over 30 countries, at their request, to assist with safe disease detection and diagnosis."
© 2024 Bill McCarthy, The facts behind the Russian, right-wing narratives claiming Hunter Biden funded biolabs in Ukraine, PolitiFact (01 April 2022) [April Fools' Day, appropriately enough]
Let's contemplate the scope of these American statements.
At the outset, do notice how the United States tried to cover up its funding of the Chinese lab that allegedly may have released COVID-19 into the world.
That financing took place, ostensibly so as to evade US legal prohibitions against 'gain of function' research being done in the US proper.
Thus, on this Ukraine biolabs topic, I suspect that Gabbard may be correct in her suspicions.
For instance, no country, especially like comparatively poor and excessively corrupt Ukraine — happily located right on the Russian border — needs 46 separate biological laboratories funded by the (arguably reliably malicious) US Pentagon.
Ask yourselves, whenever (in History) did the Pentagon fund peaceful research, that was not intended to be used in war, or in overturning a foreign regime?
Predictably, the US press covered these considerations up, just as soon as Russia made the biolabs-bioweapons allegations.
Just Google 'Ukraine biolabs'. You will come up with an astonishingly long string of miss-the-main-point denials about why the US would fund 46 biolabs in a Nazi-led nation bordering on Russia.
The generally self-righteous and easily manipulated naivety of the American public — and its mentally jackbooted leadership — is mind-boggling.
Second — the Syrian chemical weapons-use accusation was long-ago disproved
Only to be revived now, so as to slime Gabbard with one of the US Propaganda Machine's many falsities.
Third — Gabbard is exactly correct (strategically speaking) . . .
. . . about the origin of Russia's 'special military operation' in Ukraine.
The US provoked this war by de facto wedging NATO right up to Russia's borders.
Not to mention the 14,000 Russians that Ukraine killed, over a period of eight years, before the Russians finally reacted.
You can imagine what the United States would have done, if Russia or China were killing Americans in Canada and Mexico and, simultaneously, massing a hostile army on our borders.
This US-instigated Ukraine War has been so viciously hypocritical in foundation — on our American part — as to astonish anyone of reasonably sound moral and strategic mind.
Yet, America's vassalized sheep continue to believe the Empire's falsity-based justifications for the slaughter that we initiated.
So, yes
If telling the truth makes one a figurative Russian agent, Gabbard is one.
So am I.
As is everyone else, who is nauseated by The Empire of Lies' accelerating fall into the (metaphorical or not) Devil's morality-killing clutches.
The American Empire characteristically smears people . . .
. . . who display stout loyalty to truth and ethical integrity.
Those traits, philosophically inconveniently for American neocons, are notable bases of what was once called 'Western Civilization'.
From all this, we can conclude that the United States' oligarchic empire is — with nefarious intent — destroying Western Culture's civilizational accomplishments from the inside.
We should (but probably will not) see that unbridled avarice, a deadly sin, destroys all.
The moral? — These cancerous neocon vermin . . .
. . . will not stop doing Satan's work.
It is time to call the Darwinian equivalents of Orkin and Terminix.