{"id":33009,"date":"2018-03-31T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33009"},"modified":"2018-03-31T07:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:47:18","slug":"americans-trust-our-intelligence-agencies-should-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33009","title":{"rendered":"Americans Trust \u2018Our\u2019 Intelligence Agencies. Should We?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Americans Trust \u2018Our\u2019 Intelligence Agencies. Should We?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The record is clear that \u2018our\u2019 (that is, the ruling Establishment\u2019s) intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, have lied to the public many times, actually lie routinely \u2014 but these lies are always revealed only decades later, by historians, which is too late, because the damage was already done. Think, for example, of just two of the now-famous cases,\u00a0Iran 1953<\/a>, and\u00a0Chile 1973<\/a>, in both of which instances the US Government ended a democracy abroad, and established a brutal dictatorship there (the Shah in Iran, and Pinochet in Chile) \u2014 but what good can a historian do, when the Government and its \u2018news\u2019-media were persistently lying, and they had fooled the US public,\u00a0at the time<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 which is all that\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0counted (and ever\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0count)? Can a historian undo the damage that the Government and its propaganda-agencies had perpetrated, by means of their lies, and coups, and invasions? Never. But this Government, and its propaganda-agents, claim to\u00a0defend\u00a0democracies, not to\u00a0end\u00a0them. Can it actually\u00a0be\u00a0a democracy, if it\u2019s doing such things, and doing it time after time?<\/p>\n

Something\u2019s deeply wrong here. Government by deceit, cannot be a democracy. And, yet, the public still don\u2019t get the message, even after it has been delivered to us in history-books. By then, it\u2019s no longer in the news, and so only few people really care about it. The message of history is not learned. The public still accepts the ongoing lies \u2014 the new lies, in the new \u2018news\u2019, for the new atrocities.<\/p>\n

During the period after the Soviet Union, and its communism, and its Warsaw Pact military alliance, all ended in 1991, the US-and-allied historical record (all now\u00a0after\u00a0the Cold War has supposedly been over) is even worse, and is even more clearly evil, because the ideological excuse that had formerly existed (and which was\u00a0only\u00a0<\/em>the excuse, and not the reason, in most cases, such as in Iran, and in Chile) is gone.<\/p>\n

Iraq in 2003 was a particularly blatant demonstration of the US-Government\u2019s psychopathy regarding foreign affairs. So: let\u2019s consider this example (hopefully, to learn a lesson from it \u2014 which still hasn\u2019t yet been learnt):<\/p>\n

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Americans Trust \u2018Our\u2019 Intelligence Agencies. Should We? The record is clear that \u2018our\u2019 (that is, the ruling Establishment\u2019s) intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, have lied to the public many times, actually lie routinely \u2014 but these lies are always revealed only decades later, by historians, which is too late, because the damage was already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[19613,4102,3386,135,204,4394,379,441,442,2864,1426,655,8203,827,834,5906],"class_list":["post-33009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-american-public","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-chile","tag-cia","tag-democracy","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-government","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33010,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33009\/revisions\/33010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}