this Real News Network interview between chris hedges and jeffrey sachs is great! it provides a much different picture of the cold war, how it began and which side is most to blame for it than the standard anti-communist propaganda that every american is taught to believe. topics include the bay of pigs, the cuban missile crisis, JFK's troubles with the CIA and military leaders, relations with Khrushchev, and desire to end the cold war after the cuban missile crisis, which ended with his assassination, u.s. russian relations after the end of the cold war, breaking of a promise not to expand nato, the american supported ukrainian coup of 2014 leading to the current russian-ukrainian war in which the u.s. is providing massive assistance to ukraine, making it in effect a proxy war, as many have pointed out.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Hedges, Sachs, and Hicks
i agree with sach's fact based assertions that the u.s. has acted like a rogue superpower seeking global hegemony via militarism and intimidation, and that it bears primary responsibility for the current ukraine war. what he says about the eloquence of jfk's peace speech in 1963 is eloquent in itself. he mentions the deep state and the apparent control of big corporate media by the u.s. gov't. i do have a minor quibble with that. i think he perceives american politics as more independent and elite american politicians (like the president) as more powerful than they surreally are. i don't think he gets that both they and the mass media are controlled by a deep state that's essentially supranational, not at all exclusively american, zealously zionist, ruthlessly amoral, violent, and deceitful, and not beholden to any formal political parties or governments. they are what 'conspiracy theorists' like me refer to as 'puppet masters', for they control politicians and governments. i forgot to mention they seem to love wars. i think the 2nd zeitgeist documentary made the point that banksters profit immensely from wars, which suggest they might be the power behind the throne, the deep state executors. sachs doesn't talk about any of this. besides this omission, the points he makes are awesome:
the 60th anniversary of the assassination is fast approaching. i came across a great interview earlier this year of vincent salandria, a young philadelphia lawyer who was one of the most prominent early 'conspiracy theorists who pointed out the vast discrepancy between the facts laid out by the warren commission and it's conclusion that oswald was a lone gunman, but a quick google search failed to locate it just now. perhaps i'll find it again later. for now i'll conclude with this short clip from the late great bill hicks, talking about jfk and the sobering message his assassination can send to any and all future POTUSs that the same thing can happen to anyone who tries to defy the will and power of the deep state:
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