Kerry to Kiev as Neocon Washington Post Wails for War

Secretary of State John Kerry, fresh off of his whirlwind tour of the Sunday morning lie factories is heading to Kiev to bolster the illegitimate western backed government that just toppled democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. Kerry has been dispatched with a mandate from the narcissist in chief Barack Obama to ensure that the loathed Russian leader Vladimir Putin is made to lick the star-spangled jackboots of Uncle Sam for his recalcitrance in saving Snowden from one of Obama’s torture black sites and then intervening to stop the war on Syria. The Skull and Bones pedigreed Kerry, with his phony Vietnam war hero mystique and his great wealth from marrying into the Heinz Ketchup family fortune has a full head of steam and the wind in his sails as he will slither into the Kiev HQ of the chosen new boss whose reign is as bogus as those “freedom fighters” that the U.S. state media likes to tout as heroes of democracy while conveniently ignoring that they are chock a block with right-wing extremists, fascists and full blown neo-Nazis.

The entire corrupt domestic media has Kerry’s back – at least as long as his extended stammering about such horseshit as “democracy” and accusing Putin of being the second coming of Satan doesn’t cut into their 24/7 gavel to gavel coverage of the Oscar Pistorious trial. Nowhere is the propaganda of a long ago discredited media spewed forth like so much electronic manure as it is at the Neocon beacon of lies and jingoism that is The Washington Post. Whatever hope that the acquisition of the one-time crown jewel of Operation  Mockingbird by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos would result in a giant enema nozzle being inserted into the building – preferably at the foot of the desk of the as prolific as she is insipid Jennifer Rubin and the bulb being given a good hard squeeze was a false one. But in the age of Obama one is by now used to false hope as well as chump change. The WaPo was in rare form today as it published a call to arms for WW III against the much demonized Putin by its editorial board.

The piece, entitled “President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy” is such an incredible piece of bullshit that any decent managing editor would have fed it directly into the shredder – I only excerpt the lead in as an example of its complete and abject dishonesty:

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which “the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances — these were things of the past. Secretary of State John F. Kerry displayed this mindset on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday when he said, of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, “It’s a 19th century act in the 21st century.”

The reference to Kerry’s comparison to the invasion of Ukraine along with the stunning omission that the United States of America and the George W. Bush administration did EXACTLY this by attacking, invading and occupying Iraq back in 2003. Granted Americans in general really don’t bother reading anything other than the sports sections or the funnies and have the attention span of attention deficit-disorder afflicted gnats but Jesus Christ – that is in and of itself not only a national embarrassment but exhibit A in why the blogosphere and alternative media has been kicking the shit out of consolidated, corporate and state megaphones like the Post.

Also in the WaPo was a vomit inducing manifesto by career lickspittle David Ignatius very imaginatively entitled “Putin’s error in Ukraine is the kind that leads to catastrophe” which if you can manage to get through the first paragraph of this substitute for toilet tissue it is obvious that it is cribbed from centrally distributed talking points notably for the term “revanchist” which is not exactly one that is commonly used. The think tanks have been working overtime to provide scripts for warfare state parrots like Ignatius and his ilk:

Napoleon is said to have cautioned during an 1805 battle: “When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” The citation is also sometimes rendered as “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Whatever the precise wording, the admonition is a useful starting point for thinking about the Ukraine situation.

Vladimir Putin has made a mistake invading Crimea, escalating a crisis for Russia that has been brewing for many months. It might have been beneficial if President Obama could have dissuaded him from this error. But Putin’s move into Crimea appeared to spring from a deeper misjudgment about the reversibility of the process that led to the breakup of Soviet Union in 1991. The further Russia wades into this revanchist strategy, the worse its troubles will become.

I will give Ignatius some credit though in that he did not compare Putin to “The New Hitler” but "revanchist" is a dead giveaway just as the references to "jitters" in reports on our dismal and doomed economy are. 

The WaPo also trotted out the borderline cadaver that is the insane career anti-Russian bigot Zbigniew Brzezinski (Z-BIG) – author of "The Grand Chessboard" as well as the man whose brilliant idea to sucker the hated Russians into Afghanistan as their “Vietnam” during the 1980’s led to the arming of Islamic fanatics including one Osama bin Laden and we all know how that turned out. Why the fuck that these people are given any credibility as “experts” at anything but destroying America is illustrative of how every single institution in this once great country has been polluted over the past forty or fifty years. I excerpt the following from Z-BIG’s asininely over the top “What is to be done? Putin’s aggression in Ukraine needs a response”:

 Regarding the Russian aggression against Ukraine, much depends on what Vladi­mir Putin does next. But what Putin does depends on not only his calculation of the likely NATO (and especially the U.S.) response but also his estimate of how fiercely the Ukrainian people would respond to any further escalation by Russia. And, to complete the circle, the Ukrainian response would be influenced by citizens’ reaction to any further repetition of Putin’s Crimean aggression and by whether the nation believes that the United States and NATO are truly supportive.

Putin’s thuggish tactics in seizing Crimea offer some hints regarding his planning. He knew in advance that his thinly camouflaged invasion would meet with popular support from the Russian majority in Crimea. He was not sure how the thin and light Ukrainian military units stationed there would react, so he went in masked like a Mafia gangster. In the event of serious Ukrainian resistance, he could disown the initiative and pull back.

His initial success may tempt him to repeat that performance more directly in the far eastern provinces of Ukraine proper. If successful, the conclusive third phase could then be directed, through a combination of political unrest and increasingly overt use of Russian forces, to overthrow the government in Kiev. The result would thus be similar to the two phases of Hitler’s seizure of the Sudetenland after Munich in 1938 and the final occupation of Prague and Czechoslovakia in early 1939.

Why is it that these Goebbels wannabes never apply their sick and dishonest Hitler and Nazi analogies to themselves?

That was a jeremiad befitting of Mein Kampf as a rallying cry to destroy an enemy that only truly exists within the deranged psyches of those most likely to lead the planet into a nuclear cataclysm and what the Christian Zionist zealots who buy into all of the insanity call the “end times” which they covet. Not that it matters to them that Jesus is NOT coming back and all of us – saints and sinners, believers and non-believers, liberals and conservatives and us and them are going to be incinerated. The unlucky ones will be left wander the nuclear wasteland like the walkers in "The Walking Dead" or any of those other very popular zombie-apocalypse flicks but it will really be like “The Road” only with iPads that no longer function due to the busting back to the stone age punishment inflicted upon us all by those choked with hubris, megalomania and the presstitutes and propaganda mills that keep them in power.

Like his buddy Henry Kissinger, Brzezinski should have long ago been euthanized or parked in an insane asylum where he could deliver his diatribes to the fellow lunatics or the rubber walls of the padded room in which he belongs but as such practices are not tolerated in a ‘civilized’ society the very least that could be expected is that he be exiled to a place like Stormfront I know that the Pox on the Potomac was hit by a winter snowstorm again today giving the sucklers and chiselers of our bloated authoritarian government yet another day off to sit around in their jammies and deliver their silly but dangerous babble on the internet but Bezos semi-officially became our own version of Julius Steicher today.

My God, if the man has any principles whatsoever he would brave the weather and fire the entire sordid lot tomorrow morning just as the wretched Obama should do in giving Kerry his pink slip – what a national embarrassment this stammering buffoon has become - it becomes increasingly evident why he got his ass kicked by Bush in 2004.

WA-PO Fascists Rush to Defend Unconstitutional NSA Spy Programs

Organized opposition to the reigning in of the NSA Stasi was preordained and the usual suspects being neoconservative warmongers with zero respect for either the Constitution nor any concept of an America that is not on a permanent war footing are squealing like stuck pigs. With the reverberations to this week’s ruling by Federal Judge Richard Leon that only one of the myriad NSA programs  being the metadata gathering and storing for as yet to be revealed mysterious future use of bulk telephone records of millions was “Orwellian” and “likely unconstitutional” and then the tepid (but better than nothing) report of Obama’s NSA review panel beginning to finally batter the Stasi at Fort Meade the pitched defense has begun. The front lines of the war for public opinion are of course the D.C. neocon propaganda beacon that is The Washington Post. Not that the paper doesn't publish the occasional piece of excellent journalism, Barton Gellman has reported on the NSA casting the rogue intelligence operation in a considerably less favorable light than his colleagues in the teeming snakepit of an editorial section and Dana Priest has also has outstanding work to her credit like the Top Secret America series. However in the sewer that is the Washington beltway the paper is the preeminent news source although the cheesy tabloid style Politico is closing ground.

Today’s WaPo alone features a veritable holiday stocking bursting at the seams with fear-mongering, a prominently featured column, a joint effort led by former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey parses a boatload of legalistic bullshit in order to discredit Leon’s ruling – you have to give it to Mukasey, at least he is consistent in his contempt for the Constitution. The piece ends with the standard lie that turning America into a fascist police state is necessary to keep the sheep safe: “Most Americans willingly accept less privacy in exchange for the conveniences the Internet makes possible. But Leon’s analysis means that U.S. intelligence agencies cannot protect Americans from foreign threats using the same analytical tools that private companies employ”.  And any column that starts off with the following just cannot be taken seriously:

“A federal judge’s ruling Monday that the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) bulk telephone metadata collection is “likely” unconstitutional is wrong on the law and the facts. It conflicts with the opinions of 15 other federal judges who have sat on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and approved the NSA’s metadata collection 35 times since 2006.”

The FISA court of course is a secret court where there is no representation present from civil liberties advocates nor attorneys arguing the opposite side. It is what it is, an official rubber stamp on the ever growing expansion of the government’s power to control the lives of the citizenry. It takes a real legal contortionist to pull some bizarre interpretation of the Constitution out of his ass that supports the existence of secret courts, this is truly a man who would be in good company in the service of Hitler’s Gestapo or Stalin’s NKVD.  But that is what the neocons have always been about, using the memes of the foreign menace to cloak the real threat to Americans which is the fascist bent of our very own government and the revolving door of fifth-columnists the likes of Mukasey who like termites have spent decade gnawing away at our cherished freedoms. Complementing the neocon former A.G. is the always reliable shill for the PNAC/Clean Break manifestos of the eternal Middle Eastern war that is Jennifer Rubin, a propagandist as loathsome as she is prolific.

Rubin, when she isn't openly lying she is smearing libertarians, embracing Obama whenever his policies and statements are steeped in the rebooting of the Cold War and backing up swine like Mukasey with drivel like this vomit inducing bit "The NSA review report should be tossed in the trash" in which she refers to a "pre 9/11 mindset" and backs Mukasey's defense of the secret FISA court that is not included within the U.S. Constitution from which I excerpt:

The House and Senate intelligence committee chairmen also will be highly skeptical of the report. In a curt statement, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) already declared, “Though I am still studying the details, I have serious concerns with some of the report’s 46 recommendations. Any intelligence collection reforms must be careful to preserve important national security capabilities. I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Congress to enact meaningful reforms in the near future.”

Like Rogers, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been a responsible defender of the NSA program. In response to the much-criticized district court ruling holding the program unconstitutional, she issued a detailed rebuttal pointing out that the ruling “differs from those of at least 15 separate federal district court judges who sit, or have sat, on the FISA Court and have reauthorized the program every 90 days — a total 35 times in all” as well as another district court judge from California. After pointing out that the Supreme Court will have the final say, she noted, “Those of us who support the call records program do so with a sincere belief that it, along with other programs, is constitutional and helps keep the country safe from attack. I believe the program can benefit from additional transparency and privacy protections — including additional public reporting and added court review provisions which were recently adopted by the Senate Intelligence Committee in the bipartisan FISA Improvements Act.”

There you have it, any column that not only defends secret courts but also hard core and corrupt fascists who use their plum congressional committee chair positions to wage war against the American people cannot be taken seriously.

While the NSA is defended the insipid Charles Kraüthammer wages a rearguard attack on – groan – Obamacare, the massive corporate scam that has deftly been repackaged as a Bircheresque communist takeover of America by longtime, well paid propagandists looking to rouse the rabble for a 2014 storming of the polls. Obamacare sucks, has been falsely sold as healthcare reform when it is nothing but a taxpayer subsidized gift to the parasitic insurance industry and has provided greedy corporations with the perfect opportunity to jettison those inconvenient drags on annual executive bonus amounts that are employee dependents. Only in a country as dumbed down as this one does this pass for communism, socialism or Marxism when it is what it is and that is fascism – a merger of corporate and state power, just like the ongoing government support of financial markets with 85 billion a month in free gambling money to Wall Street casinos. That all three systems do nothing but redistribute wealth to a corrupt, entrenched elite with varying degrees of the use of state power against those not connected is rarely if ever noted. But Kraüthammer has bills to pay too so the flogging of the dead horse continues and I have yet to see the sleazy bastard critique the loss of civil liberties under the rogue surveillance machine run by the NSA.

The Washington Post has long been one of the most sordid sources of big state propaganda in the land and has for too long been able to live off of the laurels of the Watergate reportage that led to the downfall of Richard M. Nixon. It was former publisher Philip Graham who was recruited by the CIA's Frank Wisner for Operation Mockingbird the agency's prototype program to transform media into state propaganda organs. The WaPo's legacy of collaborating with the deep state intelligence agencies will continue as the torch is now passed to the new owner, Amazon's Jeff Bezos who has sealed a $600 million deal to provide the CIA with cloud services.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.