Eric Zuesse – Is Blinken Lying? + How America’s Media Always Accept Their Lying Government

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Is Blinken Lying?

On January 17th at the World Economic Forum of billionaires and their representatives, in Davos Switzerland, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was interviewed by the New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, and here were highlights, with links to facts that are contrary to given allegations or that place the given allegation into a far less favorable light.

SECRETARY BLINKEN In areas like the Middle East, where we have this profound and in many ways gut wrenching challenge right now, here’s what I’m hearing. I’m hearing from virtually every country that they want the United States, they want us present, they want us at the table, they want us leading. (…)

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-2981.0-2983.370

MR FRIEDMAN So one of the things that really strikes me from the outside as a challenge you have right now is that if you don’t respond to something like the attacks of the Houthis on international shipping, international shipping gets completely disrupted, creating inflation all over the world. If you do respond, it enmeshes you and us in a very messy kind of Middle East war. …

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3063.474-3071.135

Why is Ukraine joining the EU, which for me is just hugely important, why is Ukraine joining The West so important, as important as you’ve already described Israel joining The East?

SECRETARY BLINKEN Well, look, I think I like that equation. But fundamentally why is it so important for Ukraine? Because it’s what its people want. (…)

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3099.0-3099.532

And the other thing that I think is less visible is that Ukraine has been a profound strategic failure for Vladimir Putin and for Russia. In so many ways, Putin has precipitated virtually everything he sought to prevent. You now have a Russia that overall is weaker militarily, it’s weaker economically, it’s weaker diplomatically. Europe has severed its energy dependence on Russia. Ukrainians are more united than they’ve ever been. The NATO Alliance it stronger, it’s larger, and it will get larger still in the weeks ahead. (…)

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3107.160-3107.385

And Putin continues to be willing to put his young men into a meat grinder of his own making to try to advance his interests. That’s a profound tragedy for Russia. It’s a profound tragedy for so many who are affected by it. (…)

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3253.0-3263.125

MR FRIEDMAN A country [Even the U.S. Government says that Taiwan is NOT a country but only a province of China] that’s obviously in the news because of a recent election is Taiwan. Taiwan is one of my favorite countries, barren rock in a typhoon laden sea that has amassed these incredible reserves, the world’s best chip companies. So much has changed there, Mr Secretary, over the 40 years I’ve been visiting. There’s just one thing that hasn’t changed, and it’s geography. It’s still a tiny island off mainland China. People who forget their geography sometimes get in trouble, and that wrestling inside Taiwan over that we see in every election, including the last one. How do you see the results of the last election? Because it was a certain balanced result with the KMT maintaining the majority in the parliament, the DPP winning the presidency. How do you see it and how do you hope the US Congress responds to it?

SECRETARY BLINKEN Well, I think what we see in Taiwan on one level is very straight forward. We see a very powerful affirmation of [manipulated] democracy. (…)

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-2967.8-2967.291

https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-conversation-with-thomas-friedman/

https://archive.is/XYi5x

https://theduran.com/is-blinken-lying/

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How America’s Media Always Accept Their Lying Government

Whereas some American media are controlled by Republicans, conservatives, some are controlled by Democrats, liberals. Republican media hide facts that they don’t want their audience to know, and Democratic media hide facts that they don’t want their audience to know, but there are many important facts that all billionaires, the people who control the Government, in both Parties want the public not to know, and so those facts are not in any of the mainstream media, because the US Government lies profusely and is controlled by its billionaires who have funded the careers of virtually all successful politicians in America so as to have control over its Government.

For example, one mainstream medium in America is the National Tax Journal, which is published by the National Tax Association, which Association, on its home page, shows only one item under its “Recent Announcements”, “Statement from the National Tax Association on Racial Injustice”. That topic is one that many billionaires, including virtually all of the liberal ones, but also more than half of the conservative ones, find attractive to promote, because it distracts the public from the even more deep seated injustice in America, which permeates its Government, in both Parties, which is bigotry against the poor instead of against particular ‘Races’. Billionaires are the top class in the increasingly rigidified American caste system, and so they want to fool the public into thinking that the main form of discrimination in the US is based on ‘Race’ instead of on class, because they don’t want there to be a Second American Revolution, this time not against the foreign British aristocracy but against the domestic American one, America’s billionaires and centi millionaires, who virtually own the US Government. By promoting ‘Race’ instead of class as the core form of injustice by the US Government, they encourage war by each ‘Race’ against the others, instead of to encourage the non billionaires to join the class war that the billionaires have long been perpetrating upon the entire American public, everybody less rich than themselves.

As the liberal wing of it said, in the person of its Warren Buffett, “There’s Class Warfare, All Right, but It’s my Class, the Rich Class, that’s Making War, and We’re Winning.” He told this to the conservative Ben Stein reporting in the aristocracy’s New York Times, on 26 November 2006, but that newspaper wouldn’t let readers access the article online, and instead preferred to make it available online only to its subscribers until 21 February 2010 at the earliest or 15 March 2010 at the latest. And the statement that Buffett made there is true, as was subsequently documented in that article from a Democratic Party news site that removed this article because of its documenting what the billionaires, both Democratic and Republican, require to be hidden. But the 31 March 2019 issue of Forbes headlined “Reimagining Capitalism: How The Greatest System Ever Conceived, and Its Billionaires, Need To Change” and reported “‘America Works, and It works Now Better than it Ever Worked,’ Buffett says.” Better for himself and other billionaires, that is. But not for the bottom 90%, and it worked lousy for the bottom 50%, and still worse, economic decline, for the bottom 25%. But to the liberal Buffett, that’s still “Better than It Ever Worked.” So. all that America’s billionaires can give to their dictatorship’s class war, other than the mere hypocritical lip service that Buffett and other Democratic Party billionaires give to it to show that they are ‘Progressive’, is yet more of their funding of the careers of the most skill fully corrupt politicians to represent them in Washington, continuing to fund such lying politicians, and the billionaires’ media.

In other words, both Democratic and Republican successful politicians are successful because they are financed by billionaires and centi millionaires, not because they are good for the public.

So, for example, here, mainly from US and allied media that aren’t owned or otherwise controlled by America’s super rich, but also from UK billionaires’ media that support the UK and US. Governments, and also from US Democratic Party media against Republican politicians, is how the billionaires’ media hide the Government’s lies that are against nations that those controlling owners, America’s, and UK’s, super rich, want to conquer and want for US, and UK tax payers to be left holding the bag in order to fund the US and UK billionaires’ war to control not merely the US Government but the entire planet.

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“How the West is Laundering Lies Through ‘Experts’ to Target Gaza”

Brian Berletic analyzes

Government Lies get Pumped by Its Funded Non Profits. Then get pumped by ‘News’ media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nqRcDRTVs

https://web.archive.org/web/20231102005500/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nqRcDRTVs

The New Atlas, 24 October 2024

https://www.afr.com/world/middle-east/the-26-year-old-analyst-who-shaped-the-world-s-view-of-gaza-20231020-p5edqh

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“Mainstream Media Lies About US Wars In Iraq Wear On”

Another blatant MainStream Media lie.

How Israel’s war in Gaza became a tangled crisis spanning the Middle East, Washington Post, January 17, 2024

(…) Roughly 2.500 US personnel are based in Iraq, with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani saying that their presence is needed to help stop the Islamic State from regaining ground. (…)

Reality

Baghdad Seeking ‘Arrangements’ to End Deployment of International Coalition, Asharq Al Awsat, December 29, 2023
Iraq: PM says Government to Start Process of Removing US Led Forces, MEE, January 5, 2024
Iraq Decision to End US Military Presence ‘Irreversible’, Sudani – ABNA, January 6, 2024
Iraq Preparing to End Presence of US Led Coalition, says PM Mohamed Shia Al Sudani, WION via MSN, January 10, 2024
Exclusive-Iraq seeks quick exit of US forces but no deadline set, PM says, Reuters via AOL, January 10, 2024
Iraq Seeks Quick Exit of US Forces, Sudani, ABNA, January 11, 2024
Iraq Discusses Security Cooperation with NATO, Iraqi News, January 17, 2024

The meeting addressed the withdrawal of the international coalition forces in Iraq, which the government included in its agenda following the development achieved by the Iraqi forces.

The Iraqi Prime Minister also talked about the need to end the mission of the international coalition in Iraq through dialogue to ensure a smooth transition of its duties.

Al Sudani explained that Iraq does not mind cooperating with the countries of the international coalition in fields of armament, training, and equipment within the framework of bilateral ties that unite Iraq and the coalition’s member countries. (…)

Moon of Alabama, January 18, 2024

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/mainstream-media-lies-about-us-wars-in-iraq-wear-on.html

https://archive.is/S3W00

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“Unofficial Translation of US Iraq Troop Agreement from the Arabic Text”

“Article 5 Ownership of Property”

Iraq owns all the buildings and installations, the non transferable structures on the ground that are located in the areas and installations agreed upon, including those the US utilizes, constructs, changes or improves.

At withdrawal, the US will return all the installations and the agreed upon areas allocated for the use of the US combat forces

(…)

“All US forces are to withdraw from all Iraqi territory, water and airspace no later than the 31st of December of 2011.”

(…)

“It is not permitted to use Iraqi land, water and airspace as a route or launching pad for attacks against other countries.”

(…)

“This agreement is valid for three years unless it is terminated by one of the parties before that period ends in accordance with item (3) of this article.”

This agreement is not to be amended unless by formal written approval of both parties and in accordance with the constitutional procedures in both countries.

The validity of this agreement will terminate after one year from the date that either of the two parties receives written notification for termination.

McClatchy Newspapers, November 18, 2008, 07:03 PM

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24511081.html

https://archive.is/j8Lku

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“Barack Obama: All US Troops to Leave Iraq in 2011”

All US troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year, President Barack Obama has announced.

He ordered a complete withdrawal from the country, nearly nine years after the invasion under President George W Bush.

About 39.000 US troops remain in Iraq, down from a peak of 165.000 in 2008.

The US and Iraq were in “Full Agreement” on how to move forward, Mr Obama said, adding “The US Leaves Iraq with our Heads Held High.”

“That is How America’s Military Efforts in Iraq will End.” (…)

BBC, 21 October 2011

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15410154

https://archive.is/lfE0i

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“Obama Announces the Full Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq but Fails to Persuade Nouri Al Maliki to Allow US to Keep Bases There”

Ewen MacAskill in Washington

The US suffered a major diplomatic and military rebuff on Friday when Iraq finally rejected its pleas to maintain bases in the country beyond this year.

Barack Obama announced at a White House press conference that all American troops will leave Iraq by the end of December, a decision forced by the final collapse of lengthy talks between the US and the Iraqi government on the issue.

The Iraqi decision is a boost to Iran, which has close ties with many members of the Iraqi government and which had been battling against the establishment of permanent American bases. (…)

Maliki, though he has been criticised in the past for being too close to Iran, had wanted to keep some US troops in Iraq to help train Iraqi security forces and to help in the event of a resurgence of sectarian violence. But he had to bow to pressure from pro Iranian politicians and others in his coaliton government who wanted all US troops out.

Obama was ambivalent on the issue, seeing a total withdrawal as a good sell to a US public tired of war. But the Pentagon had wanted the bases, and the president reluctantly sided with the military staff.

It will be a major logistical exercise, moving not only the remaining 39.000 US troops but mountains of equipment from bases that are the size of small American suburbs, complete with coffee shops, bowling alleys and cinemas. (…)

The Guardian, Fri 21 Oct 2011 15.37 ED

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/21/iraq-rejects-us-plea-bases

https://archive.is/H4Mlr

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“US to Send 600 More Troops to Iraq to Help Retake Mosul From ISIS”

Washington – President Obama has authorized sending an additional 600 American troops to Iraq to assist Iraqi forces in the looming battle to take back the city of Mosul from the Islamic State, United States officials said on Wednesday.

The announcement means that there will soon be 5.000 American troops in Iraq, seven years after the Obama administration withdrew all American troops from the country. Donald J Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has criticized both Mr Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, for that decision. (…)

New York Times, 28 September 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/world/middleeast/obama-troops-iraq.html

https://archive.is/HUcnw

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“Donald and Melania Trump visit US troops in Iraq on Christmas Trip”

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have made an unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq.

They travelled there “Late on Christmas Night” to thank troops for “Their Service, Their Success and Their Sacrifice“, The White House said.

Mr Trump said the US had no plans to pull out of Iraq. (…)

BBC, 27 December 2018

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46687909

https://archive.is/3LJ2q

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“Invaders, Allies, Occupiers, Guests: A Brief History of US Military Involvement in Iraq”

For the past 17 years, the United States has maintained a military presence in Iraq. On Friday, Iraq’s prime minister asked the United States to send a delegation to discuss a mechanism for withdrawing US troops. In response, the US State Department said it was ready to “Recommit to Our Strategic Partnership, Not to Discuss Troop Withdrawal.”

[Getting US troops out of Iraq might not be that hard, say experts]

More so than at any point since the rise of the Islamic State in 2014, foreign troop presence in Iraq is now in question. Iranian backed militias and politicians want US troops to leave to strengthen Iran’s influence, and many anti government protesters, who have been filling Iraq’s streets for months, want both the United States and Iran out to overhaul the corrupt and sectarian political system set up after the US led invasion in 2003.

Analysts warn that this impasse will only strengthen the remnants of the Islamic State, which the United States says its troops are on the ground to combat. (…)

Washington Post, 11 January 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/11/invaders-allies-occupiers-guests-brief-history-us-military-involvement-iraq/

https://archive.li/QqvOD

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“Iraq Is the One War Zone Trump Doesn’t Want to Leave”

Kathy Gilsinan is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covering national security and global affairs

The president’s resistance to withdrawing from the country boils down to three of his main enemies ISIS, Iran, and Obama.

Donald Trump has harangued generals at the Pentagon over what he’s called the “Loser War” in Afghanistan and their failure to end it. He has dismissed Syria as “Sand and Death,” and complained that the United States was supposed to be there for only a “Short Term Hit.” He has sought and failed to get rapid pullouts from both places. But he hasn’t made any such promise for Iraq. In fact, he has recently made the opposite case, that the roughly 5.000 US troops there must stay.

When the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel US troops last month,out of anger at the brazen strike that killed an Iranian general in Iraq without its government’s approval, Trump vowed not to leave at all, and threatened sanctions if forced to do so. (…)

Defense One, 3 February 2020

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/02/iraq-one-war-zone-trump-doesnt-want-leave/162832/

http://archive.li/tmJJD

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest 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 US 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.
Eric Zuesse blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/.

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