October 24, 2023

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America once proudly honored the “rule of law,” but nowadays, it looks more and more like the “rule of lies” would be a more appropriate definition.  I am speaking here not necessarily about “lying Joe,” but about lies generated by the whole government system.

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Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone puts it bluntly: “When you live under an empire that’s held together by lies, you’ll be asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid b——-.”  She mentions the top ten, from her point of view, “dumbest things the propagandists of the U.S.-centralized empire try to get us to swallow.”

I believe she misses a few, including crucial ones that are directly related to the U.S.’s 21st-century wars and the current proxy war in Ukraine that has a high potential to escalate into nuclear WW3.

  1. “NATO is not moving one inch eastward.”  This lie, according to George Kennan, the eminent architect of the Soviet “containment” strategy and a former ambassador to the Soviet Union, would “inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies” in Russia and therefore was “a fateful foreign policy error.”  New York Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan added that “it would open the door to the nuclear war.”

  1. “Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”  This whopper led to endless Middle East wars, resulting in huge human and material losses, as well as the rise of ISIS.  According to the Brown and American University research document “The Costs of War,” it led to over 940,000 deaths due to direct war violence and an estimated 3.6–3.8 million people who have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, plus 38 million war refugees and displaced persons.  The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion.

  1. “Trump-Putin Collusion.”  This is the so-called Russiagate fake story, which was actually collusion among lying politicians, intelligence officials, and media who tried to get Hillary Clinton into the White House.  This lie succeeded in destroying Trump’s presidency along with its declared goal of improving U.S.-Russia relations.

  1. “Hunter Biden’s laptop has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”  This lie was promoted by Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign manager Antony Blinken, 51 top U.S. intelligence servicemen, and the media, which helped “the Big Guy” get elected.

  1. Military and financial backing of Ukraine “for as long as it takes” is meant to support that country’s democracy, when in reality, the goal was to weaken Russia, who dared to reject the U.S. claims to global hegemony.

However, the most outrageous and endlessly repeated lie is that if Putin wins in Ukraine, he will then move farther West, and eventually to the U.S.