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America Keeps Claiming Governments It Hates Are Paying Bounties On US Troops In Afghanistan
"This brings the total number of governments against which this exact accusation has been made to three: China, Iran, and Russia." https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/america-keeps-claiming-governments
"This brings the total number of governments against which this exact accusation has been made to three: China, Iran, and Russia." https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/america-keeps-claiming-governments
We're now getting mass media reports that yet another country the US government doesn't like has been trying to kill US troops in Afghanistan, with the accusation this time being leveled at China. China joins Russia and Iran in being targeted with this exact unproven narrative.
The report by @axios is already being circulated into public consciousness by mass media outlets like CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/30/politics/china-us-forces-afghanistan/index.html
It is co-authored by @BethanyAllenEbr, whose career lately has been focused on churning out extremely aggressive narrative management about China for a liberal audience, including a ridiculous hit piece on @TheGrayzoneNews. https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/msm-smear-merchants-target-critics-of-establishment-china-narratives-efcbe9c503aa
This eagerness to help manipulate public perception of America's number one geopolitical rival has seen Allen-Ebrahimian rewarded with plenty of attention from "sources" who shower her with endless career-amplifying "scoops".
https://www.axios.com/authors/baebrahimian/
https://www.axios.com/authors/baebrahimian/
Back in August, it was Iran we were being told is trying to use proxies to kill US troops in Afghanistan. https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1295307572023627777
Before that it was Russia this same accusation was being leveled at, with mainstream news media shamelessly regurgitating claims by anonymous spooks and then citing each other to falsely claim they'd "confirmed" one another's reporting back in June. https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/this-russia-afghanistan-story-is-western-propaganda-at-its-most-vile-abe6084845f2
The story was sent so insanely viral by narrative managers eager to pressure Trump on Russia during an election year that when the top US commander in Afghanistan said in September that no evidence had turned up for this claim, it was completely ignored. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1305547377437224960
To this day the liberal commentariat still babble about "Russian bounties" as though they're an actual thing that happened. https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1343676354097799169
Three imperialism-targeted nations, same exact accusation. Pretty soon they'll be telling us that bounties are being paid on US troops by China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Hezbollah, WikiLeaks, Jimmy Dore, and the entire staff of World Socialist Website.
The "Bountygate" narrative was one of the most brazen psyops we've seen rammed straight from the US intelligence community into public consciousness with no lube in recent years, and it was so successful that they're just spraying it all over the place now.
It is not a coincidence that the information landscape is so confusing and bizarre right now.
A multipolar world should not be a frightening prospect--it's been the norm throughout the entirety of human civilization minus the last 30 years--but after the fall of the USSR the drivers of the US power alliance decided that US global hegemony must be preserved at all cost.
Drastic measures will be undertaken to try and retain hegemony, and propaganda campaigns is being rolled out with increasing urgency to grease the wheels for those measures.
Meanwhile we've got nuclear-armed nations brandishing armageddon weapons at each other with increasing urgency and unpredictability because a few imperialists decided the entire planet should be governed from Washington DC.
This, to put it gently, is an unsustainable situation.
This, to put it gently, is an unsustainable situation.
