A build-up to World War III is happening. You'll see it verified in those links.
And that's big news, even though it's already months old (specifically since at least 24 July 2014, as I noted on December 7th).
It's not alarmism; it's fact. It is an alarming fact, that's not being published. All that's generally being published in the West is the counter-preparations by Russia. But that's not even half of the real story. And, taken out of context like that, it's a dangerously prejudiced less-than-half. America's aggressive genocide against the residents in the area of Ukraine that had voted 90% for the Ukrainian President whom Obama overthrew is being entirely ignored. Obama is trying to bait Putin into a pretext to invade 'Ukraine' (the separatist area, to defend the people there). But America's press report as if Obama is instead simply defending Ukraine against Putin's 'aggression.' To 'report' that way is to lie. It's to lie about what might be the biggest news of our time. And there's lots else they don't report, so as to enable this to happen. Anyone who pays a cent to traditional 'news' media, and to any of the many 'alternative news' sites that also are participating in this cover-up and massive deception of the public, is rewarding it.
On December 8th, Jonathan Cook at Dissident Voice headlined "Monbiot: A Compromised Critic of Power," and he closed: "Most telling is that [George] Monbiot [of Britain's Guardian] does not even suggest that this area of corporate power [reporters' subservience to the line of command up to their aristocratic masters] needs fixing, let alone propose ways it might be done. That, ultimately, is because he is an employee of a corporation, one that sets implicit limits on what he can write about in relation to an area that is his stated expertise. For this reason, Monbiot is fatally compromised as a critic of the corporations. Not because most of what he writes is not excellent, but because he has to omit from his concerns a central problem he claims to be addressing."
A democracy cannot function like that. Only an aristocracy can, otherwise called an "oligarchy," "plutocracy," "kleptocracy," or "fascism."
Anyone who says that 'the Western democracies' could never instigate World War III are assuming something that has now become false: that the phrase "the Western democracies" refers to something that still exists and that includes the United States. None of that assumption is true any longer.
Our country has changed in a fundamental way.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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