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To Survive Psychopathic Leadership, Propaganda Must be Exposed and Debunked

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Twisted Tales about Putin

This attack on Russian ally Syria was certain to evoke a Putin response. A Russian naval base is located on the Syrian coast, and Russia like Syria has remained embattled by Sunni Wahhabists. Russian intervention, unlike ours, was legally invited by the elected, internationally recognized Syrian government. Its rapid success has revealed the murky, hidden agendas of the Western/Wahhabi lynch mob not to end the conflict and save lives but to destroy Syria as a functioning, secular state blocking economic and hegemonic ambitions of its assailants.

As we attacked Syria in 2011-2012, the cumulative $5 billion US project to unseat the Ukrainian government acknowledged by Hillary-appointed State Department officer Victoria Nuland was approaching fruition. This exploded the following year into the "Maidan revolution," to which they knew Putin would also be obliged to respond.

Russia must protect its Black Sea naval fleet at Sebastopol and its commercial fleet access to the Mediterranean via the canal-connected Don and Volga rivers through the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea. To protect its fleet, Russia's treaty-lease allowed 25,000 troops, who spread out to protect Crimean citizens from US-recruited neo-Nazi thugs. Crimean citizens wanted no part of IMF-imposed neoliberal austerity and voted by plebiscite to restore their historic relationship with Russia. No Russian "invasion" or imperial design was involved.

These aggressive Western moves, with more on Hillary's drawing board, require demonization of Putin. In a bizarre 2012 example of staged "soft power" pseudo-events, celebrity and human rights zealots exploited the strategically timed p*ssy Riot uproar. Escorted by film crew, this anarchist quintet shouted anti-Christian obscenities at the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church during a service before the High Altar. Although the church, not the government, prosecuted the case and their sentence was commuted by Putin, anti-Putin rhetoric was later substituted in the video for internet posting to falsely imply government repression. No previous anarchist theatrics using anti-Putin slogans - including public fornication in a Moscow museum and throwing live cats at McDonald's restaurant workers - had been prosecuted.

Elemental public awareness of history and geography easily exposes and debunks most propaganda-infused reports. The largely indistinguishable and hopelessly corrupted duopoly must be demolished along with its subservient, reality-contorting media stenographers. Distrust must be our default setting toward emotionally evocative mainstream "news."

Americans, please vote to protect the many Syrians, Iraqis, Ukrainians, Palestinians, Lebanese (Hezbollah) and others in our imperial crosshairs who cannot vote. Cancel the coronation. Jill Stein will be an honest, rational and ethical woman chief executive.

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BA, Pomona College. Ph.D., clinical psychology. Army psychologist during VN War. Private practice 15 years, specializing in transactional analysis and family systems. Developed ego state psychodrama method. Developed numerous school-based (more...)
 

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