Geopolitics becomes a lot easier if we can discern repeating patterns. For example, the common thread through the crises in Ukraine, Libya and Syria is a clever but ruthless playbook of regime-change. This stratagem of toppling governments while appearing noble should perhaps be called the “geopolitics of crocodile tears.”
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par Admin · Published 26 septembre 2017 · Last modified 29 septembre 2017
It’s intriguing to hear people calling capitalists in Russia “oligarchs” when according to scholars the whole United States is considered an oligarchy today. There is a hypnotic spell to some of the words that are used against “enemies” of the western hegemony…
A short e-book that should be mandatory reading in schools, not to mention that it can change your life by sharpening your understanding of your family, friends, colleagues, used car salesmen, congress critters, special interest activists and so on, up to the President.
In the Atlantic, in 2014, Ukrainian Nazis were dismissed as a “phantom menace”. Luke Harding wrote a (brilliantly argued) column in the Guardian saying that “there weren’t any Nazis in Ukraine because one of the Maidan protesters was Jewish.” Politico magazine mocked “Putin’s Imaginary Nazis”, whilst US News warned against Russia’s “Neo-Nazi Propaganda”. The Guardian simply headlined: “Don’t believe the Russian propaganda about Ukraine’s ‘fascist’ protesters!” There never were Nazis in Ukraine.
Except now there are.
The Overton Window is a concept in political sociology referring to the range of acceptable opinions that can be held by respectable people. « Respectable » of course means that the subject can be integrated with polite society. Respectability is a strong precondition on ability to have open influence in the mainstream. Thus the Overton window becomes a mechanism of political control.
The search for truth is as old as civilization. Aristotle approached this challenge through what he called the development of potentiality to actuality, which examined truth in terms of the causes that act on things. This approach is as relevant today as it was two millennia prior, and its application to the problem of ascertaining fact from fiction regarding Khan Sheikhun goes far in helping unpack the White House statements regarding Syrian chemical preparations.
Nous avions déjà parlé dans ces pages de l’association Project Veritas de James O’Keefe, qui s’était signalée en 2009 par la révélation d’un vaste réseau de corruption, étendu sur tout le territoire des États-Unis sous les auspices d’une association abondamment financée par les deniers publics, ACORN. Cette fois, Project Veritas a les grands médias en ligne de mire…
“Hybrid war” is an expression that is much used of late. It has two opposing meanings which must carefully be distinguished. The first is the way the term is commonly used; that use is imaginary; the second is the way it is not used; that use is factual. – By Patrick Armstrong
« The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. » – By John Pilger
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and « rendition ». – By John Pilger
"L'outil de base pour manipuler la réalité est la manipulation des mots. Si vous pouvez contrôler la signification des mots, vous pouvez contrôler les gens qui emploient les mots" - Philip K. Dick
"Une idée fausse ne cesse pas d'être fausse parce qu'elle est à la mode." - G.K. Chesterton
"Le grand crime du libéralisme, c'est d'avoir tellement détruit le tempérament de la société qu'elle ne peut rien supporter, ni le bien, ni le mal." - Juan Donoso Cortés
"L'iniquité commise en ce monde ne produit pas ses fruits immédiatement, mais comme la terre, quand la saison en vient, en avançant peu à peu, elle éradique l'homme qui l'a commise... La justice, si elle est détruite, détruira ; préservée, préservera ; elle ne doit donc jamais être violée." - Lois de Manu, 1200 av. J.‑C
"Pour tous les problèmes complexes, il y a une solution simple.
Et elle est toujours fausse." - H. L. Mencken
Comment et à quel point les politiciens et les milieux d'affaires ont appris à manipuler la société de consommation de masse. Un film indispensable.
The Century of the Self (Le Siècle du Moi), VOSTFRUne chronologie magistrale de la dissolution de l’économie libérale de la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale à nos jours, et du Japon jusqu'à l'UE.
Princes of the yen, le pouvoir des banques centrales, VOSTFRC’est toute la face cachée de la corruption financière internationale qui va défiler devant vos yeux avec ce documentaire primé sur un immense paradis fiscal, la City de Londres… et cette toile d’araignée englobe la France au même titre que de multiples autres pays.
La Toile d’Araignée: le Second Empire Britannique, VOSTFR