August 28, 2017
Paul Craig
Roberts
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In the
United States, facts, an important element of truth, are not important. They
are not important in the media, politics, universities, historical
explanations, or the courtroom. Non-factual explanations of the collapse of
three World Trade Center buildings are served up as the official explanation.
Facts have been politicized, emotionalized, weaponized and simply ignored.
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As David
Irving has shown, Anglo-American histories of World War 2 are, for the most
part, feel-good histories, as are “civil war” histories as Thomas DiLorenzo and
others have demonstrated. Of course, they are feel-good only for the victors.
Their emotional purpose means that inconvenient facts are unpalatable and
ignored.
Writing the truth is no way to succeed as an author.Only a small percentage of readers are interested in the truth.Most want their biases or brainwashing vindicated.They want to read what they already believe. It is comforting, reassuring.When their ignorance is confronted, they become angry.The way to be successful as a writer is to pick a group and give them what they want.
There is
always a market for romance novels and for histories that uphold a country’s
myths. On the Internet successful sites are those that play to one ideology or
another, to one emotion or the other, or to one interest group or another. The
single rule for success is to confine truth to what the readership group you
serve believes.
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(ED Note: PC Roberts: Keep this in
mind when you receive shortly my September quarterly request for your support
of this website. There are not many like it. This site does not represent an
interest group, an ideology, a hate group, an ethnic group or any cause other
than truth. This is not to say that this site is proof against error. It is
only to say that truth is its purpose.)
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Karl Marx
said that there were only class truths. Today we have a large variety of
truths:
~ truths for feminists,~ truths for blacks, Muslims,~ Hispanics, homosexuals, transgendered,~ truths for the foreign policy community that serves the military/security complex,~ truths for the neocons,~ truths for the One Percent that control the economy and the economists who serve them,~ truths for “white supremacists,” itself a truth term for their opponents.
You can add to the list. The “truth” in these “truths” is that they are self-serving of the group that expresses them. Their actual relation to truth is of no consequence to those espousing the “truths.”
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Woe to you
if you don’t go along with someone’s or some group’s truth. Not even famous
film-maker Oliver Stone is immune. Recently, Stone expressed his frustration
with the “False Flag War Against Russia.” http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/oliver-stone-im-angry-false-flag-war-against-russia/ri20590
Little doubt that Stone is frustrated with taunts and accusations from
completely ignorant media talking heads in response to his documentary, Putin,
based on many hours of interviews over two years. Stone came under fire,
because instead of demonizing Putin and Russia, thus confirming the official
story, he showed us glimpses of the truth.
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The
organization, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, published a report
that completely destroyed the false accusations about Trump/Russian hacking of
the US presidential election. The Nation published an objective article
about the report and was assaulted by writers, contributors, and readers for
publishing information that weakens the case, which the
liberal/progressive/left in conjunction with the military/security complex, is
orchestrating against Trump. The magazine’s
audience felt that the magazine had an obligation not to truth but to getting
Trump out of office. Reportedly, the editor is considering whether to
recall the article.
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So here we
have left-leaning Oliver Stone and leftwing magazine, The Nation, under
fire for making information available that is out of step with the self-serving
“truth” to which the liberal/progressive/left and their ally, the
military/security complex, are committed.
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When a
country has a population among whom there are no truths except group-specific
truths, the country is so divided as to be over and done with. “A house divided
against itself cannot stand.”
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These “white supremacists” have become epitomized by statues of Confederate soldiers and generals. All over the South, if local governments are not removing the statues, violent crazed thugs, consumed by hate, attempt to destroy them.
ED Noor: The statue of David Levy Yulee in Florida is not likely to be taken down. This great Jew of the Confederate States. According to Michael Hoffman:
The white liberal/progressive/left leaders of divisive Identity Politics have little ~ if any ~ comprehension of where the movement they think they lead is headed.At the moment the hate is focused on the “alt-right,” which has become “white nationalists,” which has become “white supremacists.”
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These “white supremacists” have become epitomized by statues of Confederate soldiers and generals. All over the South, if local governments are not removing the statues, violent crazed thugs, consumed by hate, attempt to destroy them.
"In the halacha of the Babylonian Talmud, there is one law for gentiles and another for Jews, a distinction which the "revolutionary left" seems to observe and respect when it comes to memorial sculpture in honour of this Confederate slave-driver."
In New
Orleans someone with money bused in thugs from outside flying banners that
apparently are derived from a communist flag to confront locals protesting the
departure of their history down the Orwellian Memory Hole.
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ED Noor: The same manufactured outrage over public statues by far right Bolsheviks aka Antifa, BLM, etc, is not just in the US of A. This same madness is taking place in Canada (above), Australia, The UK, anywhere that liberalism has taken control. It is about the removal of all history so that it can be rewritten according to the approved playbook. In Canada the government just quietly began changing statues, names of buildings, etc. Although when they changed a major government building to a more PC name, they did work for bragging rights. It is easier to change the names on buildings than to make reparations to those making claims. Only now that the hatred has enveloped much of the US do we see defacement.
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What happens
when all the monuments are gone? Where does the hate turn next?
Once non-whites are taught to hate whites, not even self-hating whites are safe.
How do those taught hate tell a good white from a bad white? They can’t and they won’t. By definition by Identity Politics, whites, for now white heterosexual males, are the vicimizers and everyone else is their victim. The absurdity of this concept is apparent, yet the concept is unshaken by its absurdity. White heterosexual males are the only ones without the privilege of quotas.
~ They and only they can be put at the back of the bus for university admissions, employment, promotion, and only their speech is regulated.
.~ They, and only they, can be fired for using “gender specific terms,” for using race specific terms, for unknowingly offending some preferred group member by using a word that is no longer permissible.
.~ They can be called every name in the book, beginning with racist, misogynist, and escalating, and no one is punished for the offense.
Recently, a
professor in the business school of a major university told me that he used the
word, girls, in a marketing discussion. A young womyn was offended. The result
was he received a dressing down from the dean. Another professor told me that
at his university there was a growing list of blacklisted words. It wasn’t
clear whether the list was official or unofficial, simply professors trying to
stay up with Identity Politics and avoid words that could lead to their
dismissal. Power, they tell me, is elsewhere than
in the white male, the true victimized class.
ED Noor: The strongest move to "dumb down" American males was perpetrated by the most beloved cartoon series of all time, The Simpsons. Bart Simpson and his anti social attitudes created a culture that took pride in ignorance.
For years commentators have recognized the shrinking arena of free speech in the United States. Any speech that offends anyone but a white male can be curtailed by punishment. Recently, John Whitehead, constitutional attorney who heads the Rutherford Institute, wrote that it is now dangerous just to defend free speech. Reference to the First Amendment suffices to bring denunciation and threats of violence. Ron Unz notes that any website that can be demonized as “controversial” can find itself disappeared by Internet companies and PayPal. They simply terminate free speech by cutting off service.
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For years commentators have recognized the shrinking arena of free speech in the United States. Any speech that offends anyone but a white male can be curtailed by punishment. Recently, John Whitehead, constitutional attorney who heads the Rutherford Institute, wrote that it is now dangerous just to defend free speech. Reference to the First Amendment suffices to bring denunciation and threats of violence. Ron Unz notes that any website that can be demonized as “controversial” can find itself disappeared by Internet companies and PayPal. They simply terminate free speech by cutting off service.
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It must be
difficult to teach some subjects, such as the “civil war” for example. How
would it be possible to describe the actual facts? For example, for decades
prior to the Union’s invasion of the Confederacy North/South political conflict
was over tariffs, not over slavery.
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The fight
over which new states created from former “Indian” territories would be “slave”
and which “free” was a fight over keeping the protectionist (North) vs. free
trade (South) balance in Congress equal so that the budding industrial north
could not impose a tariff regime. Two days before Lincoln’s inaugural address,
a stiff tariff was signed into law. That same day in an effort to have the
South accept the tariff and remain in or return to the Union ~ some southern
states had seceded, some had not ~ Congress passed the Corwin amendment that
provided constitutional protection to slavery. The amendment prohibited the
federal government from abolishing slavery.
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Two days
later in his inaugural address, which seems to be aimed at the South, Lincoln
said:
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
Lincoln’s
beef with the South was not over slavery or the Fugitive Slave Act. Lincoln did
not accept the secessions and still intended to collect the tariff that now was
law. Under the Constitution slavery was up to the states, but the Constitution
gave the federal government to right to levy a tariff. Lincoln said that “there
needs to be no bloodshed or violence” over collecting the tariff. Lincoln said
he will use the government’s power only “to collect the duties and imposts,”
and that “there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the
people anywhere.”
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Here is
Lincoln, “the Great Emancipator,” telling the South that they can have slavery
if they will pay the duties and imposts on imports. How many black students and
whites brainwashed by Identity Politics are going to sit there and listen to
such a tale and not strongly protest the racist professor justifying white
supremacy and slavery?
So what happens to history when you can’t tell it as it is, but instead have to refashion it to fit the preconceived beliefs formed by Identity Politics? The so-called “civil war,” of course, is far from the only example.
In its
document of secession, South Carolina made a case that the Constitutional
contract had been broken by some of the northern states breaking faith with
Article IV of the Constitution. This is true. However, it is also true that the
Southern states had no inclination to abide by Section 8 of Article I, which
says that “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excises.” So, also the South by not accepting the tariff was not
constitutionally pure.
Before history became politicized, historians understood that the North intended for the South to bear costs of the North’s development of industry and manufacturing.
.The agricultural South preferred the lower priced goods from England. The South understood that a tariff on British goods would push import prices above the high northern prices and lower the South’s living standards in the interest of raising living standards in the North.
.The conflict was entirely economic and had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery, which also had existed in the North.
Indeed, some
northern states had “exclusion ordinances” and anti-immigration provisions in
their state constitutions that prohibited the immigration of blacks into
northern states. http://slavenorth.com/exclusion.htm
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If freeing
slaves were important to the North and avoiding tariffs was important to the
South, one can imagine some possible compromises. For example, the North could
have committed to building factories in the South. As the South became
industrialized, new centers of wealth would arise independently from the
agricultural plantations that produced cotton exports. The labor force would
adjust with the economy, and slavery would have evolved into free labor.
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Unfortunately,
there were too many hot heads. And so, too, today.
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ED
Noor: Then, as now, the same folks, backed by Rothschild money and ‘inspiration’,
were fomenting and financing both North and South, urging war. One does not see
their monuments being taken down!
ED Noor: This article headlining Time Magazine is by Joel Stein, the same man who wrote the infamous article "Who Runs Hollywood? C'mon." in which he bragged about Jewish ownership of American media.
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In America there is nothing on the horizon but hate. Everywhere you look in America you see nothing but hate.
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In America there is nothing on the horizon but hate. Everywhere you look in America you see nothing but hate.
Putin is hated.Russia is hated.Muslims are hated.Venezuela is hated.Assad is hated.Iran is hated.Julian Assange is hated.Edward Snowden is hated.White heterosexual males are hated.Confederate monuments are hated.Truth-tellers are hated.“Conspiracy theorists” are hated.No one escapes being hated.
Hate groups
are proliferating, especially on the liberal/progressive/left. For example,
RootsAction has discovered a statue of Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol and
urges all good people to demand its removal. Whether the level of ignorance
that RootsAction personifies is real or just a fund-raising ploy, I do not
know. But clearly RootsAction is relying on public ignorance in order to get
the response that they want.
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In former
times when the US had an educated population, everyone understood that there
was a great effort to reconcile the North and South and that reconciliation
would not come from the kind of hate-mongering that now infects RootsAction and
most of the action groups and websites of the liberal/progressive/left.
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Today our
country is far more divided that it was in 1860. Identity Politics has taught
Americans to hate each other, but, nevertheless, the zionist neoconservatives
assure us that we are “the indispensable, exceptional people.” We, a totally
divided people, are said to have the right to rule the world and to bomb every
country that doesn’t accept our will into the Stone Age.
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In turn the
world hates America. Washington has told too many lies about other countries
and used those lies to destroy them. Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia,
and large chunks of Syria and Pakistan are in ruins. Washington intends yet
more ruin with Venezuela currently in the cross hairs.
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Eleven years
ago Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resonated with many peoples when he said
in his UN speech:
“Yesterday at this very podium stood Satan himself [Bush], speaking as if he owned the world; you can still smell the sulphur.”
It is
difficult to avoid the conclusion that America is a font for hatred both at
home and abroad.
