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https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/01/16/false-flags-suddenly-no-longer-a-crazy-conspiracy-theory/

False Flags Suddenly No Longer A Crazy Conspiracy Theory

In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations of false flag operations as conspiratorial nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented imagination of Alex Jones, the US political/media class is proclaiming with one voice that Russia is currently orchestrating just such an operation to justify an invasion of Ukraine.

“As part of its plans, Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating a pretext for invasion,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday. “We have information that indicates Russia has already pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern Ukraine.”

“Without getting into too much detail, we do have information that indicates that Russia is already working actively to create a pretext for a potential invasion, for a move on Ukraine,” Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby told the press on Friday. “In fact, we have information that they’ve pre-positioned a group of operatives, to conduct what we call a false flag operation, an operation designed to look like an attack on them or their people, or Russian speaking people in Ukraine, as an excuse to go in.”

The US government has substantiated these incendiary claims with the usual amount of evidence, by which I of course mean jack dick nothingballs. The mass media have not been dissuaded from reporting on this issue by the complete absence of any evidence that this Kremlin false flag plot is in fact a real thing that actually happened, their journalistic standards completely satisfied by the fact that their government instructed them to report it. Countless articles and news segments containing the phrase “false flag” have been blaring throughout all the most influential news outlets in the western world without the slightest hint of skepticism.

This sudden embrace of the idea that governments can stage attacks on their own people to justify their own pre-existing agendas is a sharp pivot from the scoff which such a notion in mainstream liberal circles has typically received. This 2018 article from The New York Times simply dismisses the idea that the 2014 Maidan massacre was a false flag carried out by western-backed opposition fighters in Ukraine to frame the riot police of the government who was ousted in that coup, for example, despite the existence of plenty of evidence that this is indeed what happened. This BBC article dismisses without argument the idea that the alleged 2018 chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria could have been a false flag carried out by the Al Qaeda-aligned insurgents on the ground to provoke a western attack on the Syrian government, yet there are mountains of evidence that this was the case.

Articles denouncing the very idea of “false flag conspiracy theories” surface routinely in the mass media. Snopes has a whole article explaining that false flags are kooky nonsense without any mention of the fact that this is a known tactic we’ve seen intelligence operatives discussing in declassified documents, like when the CIA considered planting bombs in Miami to blame Castro. I myself was once temporarily suspended by Facebook just for posting an article about false flag operations that are publicly acknowledged to have occurred. People who dare to question the many gaping plot holes in the official 9/11 narrative have often been treated with the same disdain and revulsion as neo-Nazis and pedophilia advocates.

None of this is to say that every theory about any false flag operation is true; many are not. But the way the mass media will instantly embrace an idea to which they’ve heretofore been consistently hostile just because their government told them to to do it says so much about the state of the so-called free press today, and the fact that the rank-and-file public simply accepts this and marches along with it as though talking about false flags has always been normal says so much about the level of Orwellian doublethink that people have been trained to perform in today’s information ecosystem. The way false flag operations were widely considered conspiratorial hogwash until the instant they were reported as real by the media institutions who’ve lied to us about every war is downright creepy.

The problem with preemptive false flag accusations is of course that the side making the claim can simply launch an unprovoked attack and then say “See? They’re staging a false flag to frame our side, just like we said they would!” And then they can present their subsequent actions as defensive in nature, when in reality they were the aggressors and instigators. We are seeing nothing from the obedient western news media to suggest they’d do anything other than uncritically regurgitate such claims into the minds of their trusting audiences.

As the Beltway doctrine that US unipolar hegemony must be preserved at all cost crashes headlong into the reality of an emerging multipolar world, the US government is now more dangerous than it has ever been at any point in its history. We need the press to be holding the drivers of empire to account with the light of truth, and we need the public to be opposing and scrutinizing these reckless escalations. Instead, we are getting the exact opposite. God help us all.

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https://stephenlendman.org/2022/01/14/disturbing-news-on-the-homefront-and-abroad/

Disturbing News on the Homefront and Abroad

In my 9th decade, things never looked more ominous than what’s been going on since 2020 — especially since undemocratic Dems usurped power.

Looking ahead in the new year and what’s likely to follow, nothing in prospect looks positive — most everything negative that’s likely to worsen ahead.

Following rejection of Russia’s security demands by the Biden regime and US-dominated NATO vassal states, Russian defense officials laid out a plan of action in response to US-led alliance aggression if things turn out this way.

According to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, Russia’s military strategists presented options to Vladimir Putin under a worst case scenario.

While Moscow seeks peace, not war, Ryabkov said while nothing is confirmed, no action plan can be ruled out.

The option “of foreign military policy is the cornerstone of ensuring this country’s powerful influence in the world.”

Russia’s policies depend “on actions of” the US war party.

Putin spoke “out many times…about what activities” Russia may employ in response to menacing US actions. 

“If things go completely in the direction of provoking Russia and further strengthening the military pressure on us by the US,” an appropriate response will follow, said Ryabkov.

Putin prioritizes “an agreement.”

Yet he knows that in dealings with the US-dominated West, nothing positive took place that stood the test of time.

No evidence suggests that what never occurred before throughout the post-WW II period is possible ahead.

If past is prologue, reality looking ahead shows no US-led Western prospect for improving relations with Russia or other nations free from its control — just the opposite.

Weeks earlier, Sergey Lavrov noted that increasing numbers of US/Western forces, weapons, and equipment are being deployed along Ukraine’s contact line with Donbass with likely escalated war in mind.

If occurs and spills into Russian territory, Putin will have protect the security of his country by responding in an appropriate way.

Separately in late January, so-called Robin Sage drills are scheduled to take place in North Carolina.

Army recruits will engage in simulated guerrilla warfare against seasoned veterans.

They’ll “carry out reconnaissance mission, conduct raids, and organize ambushes against an “illegitimate government” with intent to topple it.

The exercise also aims to train future special forces.

Similar drills have been going on periodically for decades to simulate war on Russia and other US invented enemies.

The exercise is considered a Special Forces Qualification Course final exam.

According to retired Special Forces warrant officer Steve Balestrieri involved in running the drill:

“Special Forces candidates have to meet up with and make rapport with a third-world nation guerrilla force, train them up, and then work by, with, and through that guerrilla force to conduct combat operations against a numerically superior enemy occupying force.”

Retired green beret John Black said Robin Sage is “supposed to be brutal.”

Deployed behind simulated enemy lines to meet up with a partnered force, the exercise simulates no-holds-barred warfare against a fictional enemy.

Separately on Tuesday, the Biden regime’s Justice Department is establishing a domestic terrorism unit to combat an invented threat that’s part of its overall fear-mongering campaign.

According to fake news by assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen:

“We face an elevated threat from domestic violent extremists (sic). 

They “seek to commit violent criminal acts in furtherance of domestic social or political goals (sic).”

They’re “motivated by a mix of ideologies and personal grievances (sic)…racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies (sic).”

“We also remain vigilant to the persistent threat from international terrorist groups, particularly al-Qaida and ISIS (sic).”

So called domestic and foreign terrorists are invented to demonize segments of society targeted for elimination.

Or they’re elements used as proxy foot soldiers to advance Washington’s imperial aims.

Post-9/11, Muslims at home and abroad were Washington’s main invented enemies.

Today it’s virtually everyone opposed to its imperial aims, including truth-tellers on vital issues.

Biden regime’s education secretary Miguel Cardona compared parents involved in protesting against unacceptable policies by local school boards to domestic terrorists. 

What’s going on is cracking down on justifiable dissent against US policies that no one should tolerate — notably ones related to kill shots and all else flu/covid.

At home, all-out war is ongoing to eliminate unwanted segments of society, destroy what remains of greatly eroded freedoms, and transfer maximum wealth to privileged Americans by stealing it from most others.

Abroad, all nations free from US control are targeted for regime change by whatever it’ll take to achieve its diabolical aims.

The nation I grew up in long ago no longer exists.

Tyranny on a fast track toward becoming full-blown replaced it.