[THS] !!!! Paul Craig Roberts: Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

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Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

By Paul Craig Roberts

January 08, 2010 "ICH" -- What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber
plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe
Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem
far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11.

If we are to believe the U.S. government, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged al-
Qaida "mastermind" behind 9/11, outwitted the CIA, the NSA, indeed all 16 U.S.
intelligence agencies as well as those of all U.S. allies including Mossad, the National
Security Council, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, Airport Security four times on one
morning, and Dick Cheney, and with untrained and inexperienced pilots pulled off
skilled piloting feats of crashing hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers,
and the Pentagon, where a battery of state of the art air defenses somehow failed to
function.

After such amazing success, al-Qaida would have attracted the best minds in the
business, but, instead, it has been reduced to amateur stunts.

The Underwear Bomb plot is being played to the hilt on the TV media and especially
on Fox "news." After reading recently that The Washington Post allowed a lobbyist to
write a news story that preached the lobbyist’s interest, I wondered if the
manufacturers of full body scanners were behind the heavy coverage of the
Underwear Bomber, if not behind the plot itself. In America, everything is for sale.
Integrity is gone with the wind.

Recently I read a column by an author who has a "convenience theory" about the
Underwear Bomber being a Nigerian allegedly trained by al-Qaida in Yemen. As the
U.S. is involved in an undeclared war in Yemen, about which neither the American
public nor Congress were informed or consulted, the Underwear Bomb plot provided
a convenient excuse for Washington’s new war, regardless of whether it was a real
attack or a put-up job.

Once you start to ask yourself about whose agenda is served by events and their
news spin, other things come to mind. For example, last July there was a news report
that the government in Yemen had disbanded a terrorist cell, which was operating
under the supervision of Israeli intelligence services. According to the news report,
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told Saba news agency that a terrorist cell was
arrested and that the case was referred to judicial authorities "for its links with the
Israeli intelligence services."

Could the Underwear Bomber have been one of the Israeli terrorist recruits? Certainly
Israel has an interest in keeping the US fully engaged militarily against all potential
foes of Israel’s territorial expansion.

The thought brought back memory of my Russian studies at Oxford University where
I learned that the Tsar’s secret police set off bombs so that they could blame those
whom they wanted to arrest.

I next remembered that Francesco Cossiga, the president of Italy from 1985-1992,
revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, a false flag operation under NATO
auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
The bombings were blamed on communists and were used to discredit communist
parties in elections.

An Italian parliamentary investigation unearthed the fact that the attacks were
overseen by the CIA. Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated in sworn testimony
that the attacks targeted innocent civilians, including women and children, in order
"to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

What a coincidence. That is exactly what 9/11 succeeded in accomplishing in the U.S.

Among the well-meaning and the gullible in the West, the supposition still exists that
government represents the public interest. Political parties keep this myth alive by
fighting over which party best represents the public’s interest. In truth, government
represents private interests, those of the office holders themselves and those of the
lobby groups that finance their political campaigns. The public is in the dark as to the
real agendas.

The U.S. and its puppet state allies were led to war in the Middle East and
Afghanistan entirely on the basis of lies and deception. Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction did not exist and were known by the U.S. and British governments not to
exist. Forged documents, such as the "yellowcake documents," were leaked to
newspapers in order to create news reporting that would bring the public along with
the government’s war agenda.

Now the same thing is happening in regard to the nonexistent Iranian nuclear
weapons program. Forged documents leaked to The Times (London) that indicated
Iran was developing a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have been revealed as forgeries.

Who benefits? Clearly, attacking Iran is on the Israeli-U.S. agenda, and someone is
creating the "evidence" to support the case, just as the leaked secret “Downing
Street Memo” to the British cabinet informed Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government
that President Bush had already made the decision to invade Iraq and "the
intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

The willingness of people to believe their rulers and the propaganda ministries that
serve the rulers is astonishing. Many Americans believe Iran has a nuclear weapons
program despite the unanimous conclusion of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies to the
contrary.

Vice President Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives fought hard with limited
success to change the CIA’s role from intelligence agency to a political agency that
manufactures facts in support of the neoconservative agenda. For the Bush Regime
creating “new realities” was more important than knowing the facts.

Recently I read a proposal from a person purporting to favor an independent media
that stated that we must save the print media from financial failure with government
subsidies. Such a subsidy would complete the subservience of the media to
government.

Even in Stalinist Russia, a totalitarian political system where everyone knew that there
was no free press, a gullible or intimidated public and Communist Party enabled
Joseph Stalin to put the heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution on show trial and execute
them as capitalist spies.

In the U.S. we are developing our own show trials. Sheikh Mohammed’s will be a big
one. As Chris Hedges recently pointed out, once government uses demonized
Muslims to get the new justice (sic) system going, the rest of us will be next.

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