TODAY. Zelensky mania ! But are cracks appearing in NATO?

Volodymyr Zelensky gave a stirring address to thousands of adoring fans in Vilnius, Lithuania.

He was at the top of his game – which is whipping up enthusiasm for the coming grand military defeat of Russia.

The NATO summit, though full of adoration for the sainted Zelensky, was just a little less unified in its holy purpose.

Perhaps hole -ey purpose would be more accurate

You see – while it is holy dogma now, that Ukraine must become part of NATO, -the hole in this dogma is becoming apparent. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg spelled it out: Ukraine can join NATO only when Ukraine wins the war against Russia because “unless Ukraine prevails, there is no membership to be discussed at all.”

But of course – no problem!

But wait – there is a problem – Ukraine is not winning this war. That is a realisation that is slowly dawning on some European leaders.

There probably never has been such a media magician as Volodymyr Zelensky. He has put it over politicians, journalists, people world-wide, and especially the suffering people of Ukraine.

But will Biden, Macron, Sunak and the rest just dump Zelensky, when his magic bubble bursts, when it’s all over in Ukraine, and they are forced to accept a negotiated peace with Russia?

That eventual negotiation is better than the other alternative – World War 3.

July 13, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes

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RFK JR IS ANTIVAX, BUT HE IS GETTING SMEARED AND CENSORED BY THE MEDIA IN EVERY OTHER WAY
THIS IS THE MAIN POLICY STATEMENT FROM HIS CAMPAIGN WEBSITE

Its Time to Come Home and Restore This Country RFK jr

It’s time to come home and restore this country. From Rfk jr campaign site. In the long term, a nation’s strength does not come from its armies. America spends as much on weaponry as the next nine nations combined, yet the country has grown weaker, not stronger, over the last 30 years. Even as its military technology has reigned supreme, America has been hollowing out from the inside. We cannot be a strong or secure nation when our infrastructure, industry, society, and economy are infirm. A high priority of a Kennedy administration will be to make America strong again. When a body is sick, it withdraws its energy from the extremities in order to nourish the vital organs. It is time to end the imperial project and attend to all that has been neglected: the crumbling cities, the antiquated railways, the failing water systems, the decaying infrastructure, the ailing economy. Annual defense-related spending is close to one trillion dollars. We maintain 800 military bases around the world. The peace dividend that was supposed to come after the Berlin Wall fell was never redeemed. Now we have another chance. As President, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will start the process of unwinding empire. We will bring the troops home. We will stop racking up unpayable debt to fight one war after another. The military will return to its proper role of defending our country. We will end the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations, coups, paramilitaries, and everything else that has become so normal most people don’t know it’s happening. But it is happening, a constant drain on our strength. It’s time to come home and restore this country. RFK Jr hauls in over $6M since launching Democratic primary challenge against Biden and 3 million in 3 days By: az central July 06, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hauls in over $6 million in fundraising since launching 2024 Democratic primary challenge against President Biden. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought in more than $6 million in fundraising since launching his Democratic presidential primary challenge against President Biden on April 19, his campaign announced on Thursday. Kennedy’s campaign touted that the environmental lawyer hauled in “an average of $1 million a day” for the final three days of the second quarter of 2023 fundraising, which ended on June 30. The campaign reported having $3 million in cash on-hand in their coffers at the end of the second quarter. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TAKES AIM AT MAINSTREAM MEDIA Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kuncinich, Kennedy’s campaign manager, argued that the fundraising is a sign of “the public’s support for a courageous, authentic truth-teller. We are hearing again and again that Mr. Kennedy is catching on because the public is fed up with the media smears. People are answering the attacks by opening up their wallets.”
WILLIAMSON TARGETS DNC OVER ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ BACKING OF BIDEN Rfk jr says he will not support Biden. Rfk jr says he will not support the Ukraine war or any other wars of us aggression. “RFK, Jr. has shown respect for the intelligence of the American people. The more people hear his message, the more he connects,” added Kucinich, who unsuccessfully ran in 2004 and 2008 for the Democratic presidential nomination. Fundraising, along with polling, is a key metric to gauge a candidate’s popularity and a campaign’s strength. The money raised can be used for travel, ads, and to build voter outreach efforts. Kennedy said in an interview last month Rfk jr states that “the mainstream media has dismissed my candidacy as an irrelevancy.”

I would urge millenials to get involved in the next election. Baby boomers, silicon valley moguls that are generation x and gerocrats, own the largest portions of everything now. We must work together, to stop the gerontocracy and oligarcies in their tracks. Millenials have been through the dot-com bust. 911. They have been through the patriot act. The Bush-cheney police state. Red, yellow, and green light terror alerts. Millenial have been through DIck Cheney and the neocon PNAC-Middle east enemies of america PLAYING CARDS
They have been through, the world destroying, destructive, imperialism, that has continued since Bush-cheney, with Obama and Libya, Trump and most of the world and now Biden in Ukraine. There was The creation of the police state entitity DHS From The Patriot act under GW BushThe banking and housing collapse of 2008 and proceeding bailouts from Bushs mess, that was mismanaged by Obamas neoliberal Banking and Corporate bagman, Larry summers, to make sure insolvent crooked banks, wallstreet hedgefunds were bailed out to add 18 trillion dollars to the US debt.
Millenials continue to live through ongoing economic stagnation and enforced economic inequalities, perpetuated by the neoliberal oligarchs corporations, and the corrupt political elites.. The economic ruin has been caused by corrupt politicians, including the autocrats and gerocrats in congress, from the dnc corporate and gop corporate machines, that are contributing, so heavily to destroying the us and destabilizing the world.

For Republicans and corrupt democrats, it’s never been about the debt of the USA or ending devastating military conflict. It has never been about domestic tranquility. As the arch neocon Dick Cheney said, “Reagan taught us that the debt doesn’t matter.” It’s about re-allocating the federal budget to the people who put you in office: arms makers, BANKERS, wallstreet, the military. oil companies, slumlords, tech giants. Military, oligarch and corporate funded think tanks run the show in washington. If you don’t have a lobbyist, a PAC or a dark money conduit, you don’t count for a damn thing in Washington dc. America and the world is paying the price of this.
Neocons from pnac thinktanks, that are funded by the military industrial complex, are rotated through every administration of the two party war duopoly. The neocons run Biden . Their think tanks and focus, are heavily funded by arms makers and the military. The warmonger neocons, run the show of the puppet, warmonger Biden.
Their goals are out of touch with anything that is rational. They are nota preventing the escalation of this potential world war and nuclear confrontation, they are encouraging it.

Dedollarization and Inflation are Wrecking the USA

Lazy americans, only read and listen to the propaganda of the compromised, american medias. Tragic situation. The fact that you already see dedollarization and dollar deflation in mexico, while trying to exchange dollars for pesos. This is a red flag. The inflation in the usa is a red flag. Biden and the neocons are creating much economic hardship in the usa.
Goverment statistics in the usa, are not very accurate, in showing real poverty or unemployment/underemployment statistics. For example, Government statistics on unemployment are deceitful. They do not include people that have not sought, or had employment or full employment in the past 9 month or for the last 5 years . Millenials living at home. Homeless, disabled. People on retirement, that need a job to survive. Underemployed Gig workers.Underemployed People working under the table ..

If there are 45 percent of the people in Florida, living close to and below poverty levels, then there are a lot more people in the usa than the 13 percent poverty rate, asserted by the us government. There are people living close to, or at poverty, plus the 13% the government admits. Even at 13 percent, there are 43,290,000 people in the usa, living at or below poverty levels. If 45 percent of Floridians are living near and, at poverty levels, then the over all poverty in the usa is probably closer to 20 percent, for people living paycheck to paychech, at poverty levels, and below poverty levels, across the usa.

Child Poverty: More Than Half of Florida’s Children Are Living in or Near Poverty – American Children’s Campaign
https://iamforkids.org/child-poverty/

“Nearly half (45%) of working Floridians are living in or near poverty, or in households that are one missed paycheck or lost job away from affording basic needs. Nearly two in 10 (17%) of Florida children live below the federal poverty line, which means earning less than $26,500 per year for a family of four, ranking Florida as 35th among the other states. The majority of these children (71%) are Black or Latinx. Children living in poverty are more vulnerable to low academic achievement, dropping out of school, abuse and neglect, behavioral and socioemotional problems, physical health problems, and developmental delays.One-Fifth of Florida’s Children Don’t Know Where they will get their next meal”

“175 billion sent by Biden to Ukraine for a proxy war 4800 miles away. If the usa and europe stopped sending money, armaments and equipment to Zelensky in Ukraine, the war would probably end in a week. The so-called Ukrainian counteroffensive is failing. The Ukrainians are Running out of troops, supplies and ammunition even with supplies from Nato nations and the USA. Meanwhile. Russian armament factories have kicked into high gear.”

Moon of Alabama.
Also mentioned in Truthout, Hindustan press of India, Asia Times, various international media

The american media spews out daily/weekly propaganda and lies about the ukrainian war. Lazy americans don’t bother to check other sources.

The usa has sent 175 billion dollars to Ukraine and billions of dollars worth of equipment, including cluster bombs. There are american and nato advisors, in the Ukraine. They are aiding in a war against Russia.

The economy in the usa is terrible . There is very high inflation of essential products, in the USA and, european Nato Counties: like Germany, France, and the UK.
India is buying oil and gas from Russia and reselling it to European NATO allies. The corrupt Zelensky-Ukrainian-regime, is buying oil from Russia and selling it to eastern european countries and India, at a profit.
Russia is in the top three largest producers of Oil. Gas and Uranium in the world. Russia is the top uranium producer and exporter, in the world. There are no sanctions for any European Nuclear countries, to buy Uranium, from Russia.

The usa funding of the ukraine proxy war, and world economic disruption from that war, has kicked off high inflation in the usa . This has prompted BRIC countries(india, russia, china, brazil and their allies in africa and south america that will join the brics soon. MEXICO WANTS TO JOIN THE BRICS) to dedollarize and trade in Yuan and Rubles, which is causing deflation of the dollar internationally and International dedolarization. CHINA HOLDS THE LARGEST PART OF THE BONDS FOR THE 30 TRILLION DOLLAR AMERICAN NATIONAL DEBT. WHY IN THE HELL ARE THE NEOCONS LIKE BLINKEN AND SULLIVAN IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, ANTAGAONIZING THE CHINESE WHO COULD DUMP US BONDS QUICKLY TO CAUSE THE USA TO DEFAULT, AND DESTROY AMERICAS CREDIT RATING, LEADING TO A BANKING CRISIS AND STOCK MARKET CRASH. The largest Taiwanese political party is aligned with Mainland China. A large segment of Taiwanese professionals and laborers, commute to China to work. The Taiwanese are expected to vote to reunite with China, next year.

BRIC COUNTRIES AND THEIR ASSOCIATES, ARE TIRED OF THE US MILITARY AND DOLLAR BULLYING. THEY ARE TIRED OF THE USA APPLYING CAPRICOUS SANCTIONS AGAINST THEM USING DOLLAR HEGEMONY

Deflation, the Ukraine proxy war, and
Corporate Profitflation, and rising interest rates are driving high inflation in the usa. This is leading to hyperInflation and a recession, in the USA.
Monthly Rents and mortgages are unaffordable for many middle class people and below, in America.

The Ukraine, is 4800 miles from the usa. Russia is not a direct threat to the territorial borders of the usa.

Lazy americans only read and listen to the propaganda, of the usa media from sources like CNN, Usa today, Huffpost, NPR, NBC, CBS, THE NYT, API, ABC news, and others, that the ukraine, is winning a war against Russia. Ukraine, is badly losing it’s war aganst, Russia. Russia has now geared up, massive aramament factorries that run 24/7 in Russia and Siberia. Russia has cyber capabilities, communication and drone capabilities that are on par with China and the USA. Russia has hypersonic weapons that surpass Nato capabilites to manufacture OR, shoot down.
Russia now has the best jets in the world. Russia now has hypersonic missiles and cruise missile, that the usa cannot touch.
Even with the Wagner division gone, Russia now has the most battle hardened, and eperienced troops in the world . RUSSIA HAS NO TERRITORIAL ASPIRATIONS IN EUROPE, IT SIMPLY WANTS TO PROTECT RUSSIAN SPEAKERS IN THE SMALLER SWATH OF THE UKRAINE, THAT IS THE EAST UKRAINE. Russia says it will not allow Nato to place more NATO nuclear weapons so close to the heart of Russia IN that NATO wants to place, in West Ukraine.
If Biden cut off financial aid, military aid and hardware to Ukraine, many reputable analysts, say the Ukraine war would end in a week (Asiatimes, Truthout, Hindustani Times, Counterpunch, East Asian Journal, the Quincy Institute, Newsweek, Tass, Brazilia Press, Financial times).
The USA is escalating the Ukraine proxy war with cluster bombs, that kill and maim children for years afterwords, where they are dropped because, many do not explode on impact and remain in the same places, when wars are over and troops are gone. The usa is sending poisonous, radioactive depleted uranium munitions to the ukraine, that cause lingering birth defects, and cancer for generations. Red line crossed against the Russians.

Biden and Trump

Biden voted with the warmongers for Iraq. Biden is run by the neocons, now. Their think tanks and focus, are heavily funded by arms makers and the military. The warmonger neocons, run the show, of the puppet, figurehead Biden. Their goals are not rational. They are not preventing the escalation of ww3 and nuclear confrontation; they are encouraging it.

THE FASCIST Trump AND THE BIPARTISAN Betrayer BIDEN

The Biden administration is sending cluster bombs and depleted uranium to ukraine to maim and irradiate women and children. Biden and his neocons are ratcheting up tension the between usa- russia, and china. It is pushing the nato closer to ww3 and probable nuclear war. Biden just hired the worst neocon war criminal in history, Abrams. ELLIOT ABRAMS WORKED UNDER TRUMP WITH THE GOAL OF TOPPLING THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVT In VENEZUELA, TO STEAL THEIR OIL. TRUMP BRAGGED ABOUT IT. Abrams has organized death squads in latin america for the usa, for 43 years.
Biden promised relief for the people, of the usa, at a time when 60 percent of the country can ill afford or, cannot really afford the high rent or mortgages. Biden’s neocons are steadly, inflaming relations with China, as well as escalating the war in Ukraine It could well go to ww3 and the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been sent to Ukraine from the USA for a proxy war, that is escalalating.
BIDEN and the republicans just negotiated a trillion a year or more budget deal, for unlimited military spending, including nuclear spending and nuclear bombs. Biden and the Trump republicans, decided to cut domestic spending to the bone, cutting millions of kids off medical. No more food assistance for many kids, disabled poor people, or working poor people.
The $175 billion spent to support the war, in Ukraine, could help the US nation, solve a wide range of domestic issues. The murderous military spending, consumes resources, desperately needed in the usa with bridges and hiways collapsing. With numerous toxic rail derailments. Demented, warmonger, Biden is causing hyperinflation with its proxy war policies,military spending policies.
Deranged fascist, criminal Trump is beating Biden in the polls, because, of Biden’s backsliding lies, and expensive proxy war. BIDEN has compounded the messes, Trump created. Many americans need help including working families and middle class families, whose expenses are rising from inflation, high private medical insurance cost, high housing costs. There is so much pressure on so many americans, in so many ways . The people at the largest end of the pyramid, are bearing the brunt of it.

From Common Dreams News and Official Government Figures

1. Help needed by 90,000 people who die each year for lack of health insurance.

2. 35 million impoverished children in the USA. Child Poverty: More Than Half of Florida’s Children Are Living in or Near Poverty – American Children’s Campaign for kids.org/child-poverty/.

3. HELP needed for 2 million homeless people, half of which are over 50 and elderly. People sleeping rough.
Tent cities. Squatters People sleeping on the streets. Buses pick up children from homeless camps, in many cities, in the usa , to take them to school. People living in cars. Homeless working people living in shelters, people couch surfing and itinerantly sleeping rough. Working people that are truly or virtually homeless. Young people and elderly people living in slum, single-bedroom apts with several other people, when they can. The average rent for a one-bedroom apt anywhere is the usa is 1000 a month. Hundreds of homeless people a day die, in conditions that cops would throw people in.jail for, for animal abuse
TRUMP SAYS HE WILL.ROUND UP ALL HOMELESS PEOPLE AND PUT THEM IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO DIE

4. A 100 million people in medical debt, MANY ENDING UP WITHOUT HOUSING SERCURITY. A handful of hedge funds in the usa including blackrock own the majority of apartm3nt and housing rentals in the usa. Rents, and mortgage payment prices, are monopolized across the usa with smaller slum lords follow suit.

5. 33 million people mired in student debt at 8 to 12 percent compounded interest. People with 35 thousand dollar student loans that they took out 25 years ago and have paid 300 a month on for 25 years, owe 120,000 dollars on the original 35,000-dollar loan. That is unbridled, parasitic usury.

Biden promised to help stem the suffering. Instead he cut 7 million kids and disabled people off medicaid. Millions of disabled and children, cut off food assistance. Biden’s phoney, half-baked lies, about student-debt relief, have failed to materialize. Thanks to Biden’s bipartisan treachery with republicans, it will not materialize. Biden was complicit with Trump republicans, to cut social spending, in favor of unchecked military spending. He has broken all of his promises. He is going along with the worst pipeline and drilling nightmares possible. More subsidies to the oil industries that are not as bad as Trump’s but, major letdowns. The Biden administration has done nothing about the massive tax cuts to the superwealthy and corporations, railroaded through under Trump. More bipartisan enabling by this terrible leader, as he destroys his base support, the fascists grow stronger. Trump bragged about a rally in Pa, with several thousand people two weeks ago. Biden’s approval rating has gone down to 32 percent. Why, in the usa are our only choices, two very old compromised, reactionaries? One a fascist. The other a backsliding warmonger. This is the usa.

The usa is sending jets that can strike inside of russia.
The russians know that the cluster bombs, jets, depleted uranium munitions are escalations by NATO in Ukraine. The ukraine, is also threatening, to bomb the largest nuclear power plant in europe , that has 6 nuclear reactors. The Ukrainians are qaccusing the russians, of wanting to blow it up .
The Ukraine and USA have accepted responsibility for blowing up the Russian Nordstream gas Pipeline by Norway, (Seymor Hersh, Msn news) The ukrainian army has lost 160,000 men and it is losing it’s phoney coutneroffensive badly with, the Russian Wagner group not there anymore. 15 million, have fled the Ukraine.

It does not get any worse than this

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/kiev-inflating-regional-conflict-into-world-war-iii-russian-envoy-warns-us-101688712799513.html

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The Dissolution of NATO May Be the Only Way to Prevent WWIII

Posted on July 13, 2023

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Dennis Kucinich

The proxy war of the US vs. Russia in Ukraine could easily develop into World War III. The litany of dangerous weaponry presaging a direct, full-scale war between the U.S. and Russia is instructive: The most advanced tanks, F-16s, depleted uranium munitions, cluster bombs, and even discussion of “tactical” nuclear weapons are thrown into an already toxic admixture, always open to further miscalculation.

This is not to absolve Russia of the invasion. One cannot ignore the dialectic of conflict, which left unchecked, will lead to a greater disaster than has already befallen the people of Ukraine.

Key to this miasma is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, whose principal European members are committed to a total war with Russia, but on the U.S.’ tab.

NATO military strategies have lacked cohesion and coherence and have led to stasis on the battlefield. Victory over Russia has occurred in the western media, but not on the battlefield. There will be no ceasefire because trickery is no longer an option.

NATO officials will look to escalate the war. The U.S. knows it cannot. Clearly Europe needs a new security architecture which includes Russia with security guarantees for all member states. How can this be achieved with NATO resistance to an end to the war?

As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gathers to deliberate in Vilnius, Lithuania, one item that should be on the agenda is the sunsetting of the treaty which established NATO.

The dissolution of NATO itself may be the only way to prevent wider war and to stop the United States and the world from being plunged into the abyss of a wider, cataclysmic war.

Here are (at least) 10 reasons why NATO ought to be disbanded:

1.     NATO, formally known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, (headquartered in Brussels, Belgium) was formed April 4, 1949, to protect Europe against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ended on December 25, 1991. NATO fulfilled its founding purpose thirty-two years ago.

2.     NATO, has far exceeded the geographical boundaries of the North Atlantic. It has expanded its membership to include nations in the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.

3.     As an expansionist military organization, NATO has extended its military activities far beyond the North Atlantic to Afghanistan, the Gulf of Aden, Iraq, Libya, Darfur, Sudan, and off the Horn of Africa. It has even flown airborne early warning and control systems (AWACS) over United States air space.

4.     The founding purpose of NATO was as a defensive alliance. Article One from the North Atlantic Treaty, which established NATO, reads as follows:

“The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.”

5.     NATO is an instrument of war, contravening the founding purpose of the 193-member United Nations, formed in 1948 “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”

6.     NATO operates under the color of international authority, while threatening to bring “the scourge of war” to the world. It has aggressively asserted itself, in reliance on the assets of the United States of America, without which it would be a nullity. NATO’s rejection of diplomacy, its unbridled commitment to regime change, its support for ongoing escalation, is a threat to the peace of the region.

7.     NATO’S global pretensions are on full display. On July 10, 2023, it presumed to deliver a warning to China.NATO’s Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg, said “The Chinese government’s increasingly coercive behavior abroad and repressive policies at home challenge NATO’s security, values and interests.”

8.     NATO is not an independent body. More than 50% of NATO’s budget is paid for by the U.S., yet NATO’s Brussels leadership presumes to implicate the U.S. in wider war, a matter of Constitutional concern to the U.S. Congress.

9.     NATO members are required to pay 2% of their GNP for NATO membership.   This has turned NATO into an arms bazaar, at the expense of the social and economic needs of the people of its member states, leading to the militarization of Europe.

10. NATO is helpless to protest policies which are antithetical to European social and economic concerns. The destruction of the Nordstream Pipeline, has enabled US interests to price-gouge Europeans for energy. US sanctions policies have cut off European access to markets, further crippling economic growth.

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Via https://denniskucinich.substack.com/p/the-dissolution-of-nato-may-be-the/

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Attacks on RFK Jr. as “Conspiracy Theorist” Show Hallmarks of CIA Disinformation

Posted on July 13, 2023

• [Source: foxnews.com]

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

Covert Action Magazine

Whether One Agrees or Disagrees With Aspects of His Outlook, the Media is Clearly Slanted Against Him

In January 1967, the CIA sent a memo (marked “SECRET,” “RESTRICTED,” and “DESTROY WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED”) to its army of media “assets” secretly embedded in virtually every area of U.S. communications.

This army of covert operatives (exposed as “Operation Mockingbird” in a historic 1977 Rolling Stone article by Carl Bernstein) extended all the way up to world famous columnists, bureau chiefs, managing editors, newspaper publishers and CEOs of major radio and television broadcasting networks.

What did the CIA’s secret memo instruct its media assets to do?

Entitled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report,” the memo provided guidance for countering “conspiracy theorists” who challenged the Warren Report’s false conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.

It recommended the strategy of smearing critics of the Warren Report by describing them as being financially motivated; or having “anti-American, far-left or communist sympathies,” or being hasty, inaccurate or ego-driven in their research.

Sound familiar? Although five decades old, the tactics recommended by the memo seem chillingly current, a virtual operating manual for how the present-day CIA tries to smear and discredit anyone who dares to question official government propaganda.

Although the specific term “conspiracy theorist” pre-dates the JFK assassination, it was enthusiastically embraced and deployed by the CIA as one of its most powerful psychological weapons, to be wielded against anyone who suspects the government of secret wrongdoing. It is an effective way to silence dissenting voices by marginalizing them and leaving them open to ridicule.

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Ever since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his candidacy for the Presidency on April 19, mainstream media have attacked him with the very same tactics outlined in the CIA’s secret memo of 1967.

This is not surprising since Kennedy has re-invoked the ghosts of Earl Warren and Lyndon B. Johnson, who set up the Warren Committee, by publicly asserting that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone assassin of his uncle (JFK), and that his father had considered the work of the Warren Commission to be a “shoddy work of craftsmanship.”

According to Kennedy Jr.: “the evidence that the CIA murdered my uncle is overwhelming, I would say, beyond a reasonable doubt. As an attorney, I would be very comfortable arguing that case to a jury. I think that the evidence that the CIA murdered my father is circumstantial but very, very, very persuasive. Or very compelling. Let me put it that way—very compelling. And of course the CIA participation in the cover-up of both those murders is also beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s very well documented.”

Kennedy has criticized the CIA for other major crimes that it carried out during the Cold War, tweeting out, for example, an article from Truthout about MK-ULTRA (unethical drug testing) and its abuse of black and indigenous children. Kennedy stated in the tweet that: “CIA conspiracy theories are not just ‘right wing’ and they are not just theories.”

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A characteristic hit piece in the June 26 New York Times by columnist Farhad Manjoo was titled “It’s Not Possible to ‘Win’ an Argument With Kennedy.” The subtitle read: “Conspiracy theorists don’t care about facts, just attention.”[1]

Manjoo started the article by asserting that, in the summer of 2006, he entered a debate with Kennedy about the 2004 election, which Kennedy claimed had been stolen from John Kerry.

Manjoo said that Kennedy’s position was based on reckless claims and did not hold up—though in fact Kennedy was presenting considerable evidence to corroborate his view.

As he outlined at the time, nearly half of the six million American voters living abroad never received their ballots, and a consulting firm hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.

Additionally in New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots and, in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched George W. Bush’s victory in the Electoral College, local officials purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines, and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency.[2]

Manjoo says that he was a reporter at Salon during the 2004 election cycle and investigated Kennedy’s theories about the election and concedes that Kennedy was right that the 2004 election was “rife with irregularities,” particularly in Ohio.

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However, another expert, journalist Craig Unger, who wrote a biography of Republican Party kingmaker Karl Rove, suggests that Kennedy may have been correct and that Kerry was cheated out of an election victory when voting data in Ohio was inexplicably switched over to a technology service company, SmarTech, after the news networks had called Florida for George W. Bush.

The shift coincided with serious anomalies that saw an increase in votes favorable to Bush, who decisively won the state.[3]

With regard to vaccines, Manjoo in his column admits that “some vaccines have serious side effects,” which is Kennedy’s position, but again smears him as a “conspiracy theorist” on this matter without either effectively articulating or challenging his views on the topic.

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Kennedy is also routinely disparaged for “cavorting with right-wing figures.”[4] This inverts the old smear of being a Marxist or of the far-left, primarily because the right wing is now identified with “conspiratorial views” and criticism of the CIA and “deep state,” as Kennedy has pointed out, and is also much stronger than the left.

That Kennedy’s political supporters include libertarians opposed to what they consider coercive medical practices and government surveillance, and that he is branding himself as a candidate capable of bringing together Americans on the right and left, should not generally be considered a bad thing; it makes sense for someone who wants to win people’s votes.

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg acknowledged that Kennedy was bringing together a “coalition of the distrustful” cutting across traditional “divisions of right and left” and that this is “giving him surprising strength in many polls.”[5]

On June 26, The Atlantic ran a characteristic hit piece on Kennedy titled “The First MAGA Democrat: Robert Kennedy Jr. is Feeding America’s Appetite for Conspiracies,” which scoffed at Kennedy’s sensible belief that “Ukraine is engaged in a ‘proxy’ war” and that Russia’s invasion, although “illegal,” would not have taken place if the United States “didn’t want it to.”[6]

On June 22, Slate ran another typical smear piece right out of the CIA’s playbook by Molly Olmstead entitled “RFK Jr.’s Conspiracy Theories Go Way Beyond Vaccines.” The subtitle of the article was: “The 2024 candidate sure is a man of, um, ‘ideas.’”

Kennedy is indeed a man of ideas; but not in a negative way. By any objective measure, his book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (New York: Skyhorse, 2021), is an impressive feat of scholarship that sold more than a million copies.

The book provides a deeply researched account of the corruption of Anthony Fauci and Big Pharma along with insightful analysis about the CIA’s involvement in and cover-up of lethal and unethical Gain of Function research and germ warfare practices that date to the era of the Cold War.

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When another reporter used the term “anti-vax” to describe Kennedy, former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Kennedy’s campaign manager, responded that the term was a “left-handed smear” and “a clipped assessment that has been used for political purposes by the adherents of the pharmaceutical industry,” when Kennedy stands for vaccine safety.

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In her Slate piece, Olmstead claims that Kennedy has progressed from being an anti-vaxxer to advancing more conspiracies, such as one that “Wi-Fi radiation from cellphones causes cancer—or, more specifically, ‘Wi-Fi radiation’ from cellphones causes ‘cellphone tumors.”

In fact, there is a growing body of scientific research that verifies these latter concerns, including by highly reputable scientists like Dr. Joel Moskowitz, director of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Family and Community Health, who has been on a decades-long quest to prove that radiation from cell phones is unsafe, which he says most people do not want to hear because they are addicted to their smart phones.[9]

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Jan Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, which has published some of Kennedy’s writings, characterized him as a “crusader much like his father: pursuing justice and fairness for people….The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

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The refrain about Kennedy and his father and uncle’s assassination was nevertheless echoed in a) a New York Times article by Rebecca Davis O’Brien on June 29, b) a New Yorker article by David Remnick entitled “The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,”[10] c) a New York Magazine profile by Rebecca Traister that calls Kennedy’s ideas on the assassination “unproven to ludicrous to dangerously irresponsible,” and d) in yet another New York Times piece on July 6 by Anjali Huynh, which invokes the authority of the widely discredited Warren Commission.

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Kennedy’s vilification in the media, ironically, may be one major source of his popularity across the country in an electorate that no longer has much faith in the mainstream media.

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Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/12/attacks-on-rfk-jr-as-a-conspiracy-theorist-show-all-the-hallmarks-of-cia-disinformation/

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