BABYLON (USA) VS RUSSIA: HACKING ALLEGATIONS

Should the press and American citizenry be concerned when US administrations are so quick to cite Intel reports to justify their aggressive policies towards other nations?

​In an age of fake geopolitical news and in an age in which rumors of war are passed off as factual intelligence reports, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” seems to be a nice show. 

I saw some fair coverage on it regarding the allegations of Russian hacking and interference in the 2016 US Presidential Elections. By ‘fair”, I mean that the show seemed to consider impartially perspectives of both the supporters and critics of the intelligence findings that supposedly implicates Russia.

Going back to CNN’s question about whether or not the media (and, I would add, American citizens) should share Donald Trump’s skepticism of the Intel report, the answer really should be YES! As the judicial principle goes, any accused person or party remains innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Here, as mentioned in the show, are three (3) reasons to distrust these sort of intelligence assertions (but there are much more than three reasons to be honest):

1. Wrong intelligence assertions made by the US government regarding the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in 1964 that led to direct involvement and military escalation by the US in Vietnam. According to a NSA (National Security Agency) historical study that was declassified in 2005, it turned out that the second incident (dated August 4) never happened, and that the first incident (dated August 2) was falsified to make the North Vietnamese seem like the aggressor. 
2. The 2002 build up to the Iraq War that saw the Bush administration push dubious intelligence assertions that Saddam Hussein had WMDs and was an imminent threat to Europe and America. No such weapons were ever found. Some would say the real reason the Bush administration got rid of Saddam was to preserve America’s petro-dollar regime by stopping him from selling Iraqi oil in Euros and switching said sales back to the USD.  
3. White House assertions in 2013 that the NSA was not gathering (harvesting) intelligence on the American people. But this was later proved to be false. 

Party Role Reversals

One underlying characteristic regarding the use of intelligence reports by American administration is be the Republican Party-Democratic Party duopoly that prevails in the US.

One of the guests that was interviewed on this episode of “Reliable Sources” was of the opinion that for the 3 reasons mentioned above, the public should not be so quick to trust “intelligence reports” pushed by the mainstream media and the White House. He said that the party roles have been reversed. During the two terms of the Bush Junior administration, the incumbent Republicans supported intelligence assertions that suggested Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Democrats on the other had were skeptical of those intelligence reports. But now it is the reverse. The incumbent (in terms of the White House) Democrats are citing intelligence reports to push forth their pre-determined anti-Russia agenda, while the opposing Republicans are predictably skeptical of said intelligence findings.

It seems to me that the incumbent parties are somehow co-opted by the formidable New World Order (NWO) political machinery to push forth their destructive globalist foreign policies, while the opposition parties tend to be more truthful about the shortcomings of the incumbent administrations.

How do you see it? Should we willy-nilly believe Obama’s anti-Russian allegations, or should we be skeptical that this is another “rumor of war” designed to legitimize the warmongering policies of the globalist powers that be? Even if the allegations are true, should the war hawks in the executive and legislative branches of the American government be so cavalier about the prospect of war with Russia? Russia is not Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Libya that the US and NATO can so easily push around. Surely the prospect of an all-out (probably nuclear) war between the two superpowers should be a last resort…

Either way, it is my hope and prayer that the truth, righteousness and peace always prevails in the media and corridors of political and socioeconomic power. It is my hope and prayer that fake news and fake intelligence reports designed to push the nations to unnecessary wars will not succeed.