by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche PAC:

If you have been following the ongoing coup against the President, you know by now that its “events” are not things in themselves, they are part of a constructed narrative, a British information warfare effort whose objective is to drive this President from office. So, it is with the most recent series of “events”: the conviction of Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of Michael Cohen, John McCain’s absurd and orchestrated funeral, Bob Woodward’s outrageous new round of political pornography aimed at the President, and now, the anonymous op-ed from a “senior official” in the Trump Administration published September 5th, on the opinion page of the New York Times.

The New York Times’ Op-Ed gutless wonder claims to be a member of the “resistance” inside the Administration and doubles down on Woodward’s ludicrous fake portrait of the President as an unhinged child from whom the nation must be protected. The Times says it is protecting the identity of this creep to save his or her job, to wit, to ensure that he or she can continue outright sedition against the President of the United States. The Op-ed lauds John McCain and explicitly references the President’s alleged rage at being boxed in to more sanctions against Russia based on the Sergei Skripal poisoning hoax in Great Britain. As Glenn Greenwald appropriately commented, “The irony in the op-ed from the NYT’s anonymous WH coward is glaring and massive: s/he accuses Trump of being “anti-democratic” while boasting of membership in an unelected cabal that covertly imposes their own ideology with zero democratic accountability, mandate, or transparency.”

At the same time, the British have undertaken new strategic provocations against Russia, both carrying the label “poison.” Charges were announced September 5th by Teresa May against two “Russians” for the Skripal poisoning. A new false flag chemical attack in Syria which is to be blamed on the Assad regime and Vladimir Putin has also been in the works for several days. Undoubtedly the Brits will now escalate, calling for new military actions against Russia and threatening the world with a new war. Senator Chuck Schumer gave the game away over the weekend when he said that impeachment must come now, “sooner rather than later.” To accomplish this, a whole series of events have been planned between now and the U.S. Midterm elections. At the very least, they aim to depress and suppress the turnout of pro-Trump voters and jack up the increasingly Jacobin base of the Democratic Party. God only knows what will launch from this crowd if the now imminent financial collapse occurs, in Schumer’s words, “sooner rather than later.”

These are desperate actions by an Empire which has sought to oust the sitting U.S. President for almost two years, to no avail. Each new attack exposes more and more of the apparatus and machinery by which the U.S. population was tamed following 9/11, the financial crash of 2008, and prior to their revolt in the 2016 presidential election. The backfire potential in these crazed actions is enormous and we aim to stoke the fire. Organize, vote, convince your friends and neighbors to vote, register new voters. These aspiring viceroys stand on the verge of a huge defeat if we do our job. Do it with humor and ridicule directed toward the “resistance,” the overrated self-important professional windbags who already have done almost irreparable damage to our republic under Bush and Obama, while claiming to be now its most sacred defenders.

The current round of potentially deadly nonsense began right after the President was experiencing a notable uptick in his approval, even within the rigged polls. The “blue wave” forecast for the Midterm elections was fading. Anyone not living in a cave knows that if the Democrats prevail in the Midterms, the President’s impeachment will be launched in the House with the very corrupt Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller providing the pretext. As we have repeatedly stated, the reason for this coup is very clear. Trump threatens the world-wide Anglo-Dutch monetarist empire, the sponsors of what people mistakenly call the Deep State, or the Establishment. At this very moment, that Empire teeters on the edge of a new and thunderous financial collapse. Trump promised to end the American role of world policeman and to build a modern manufacturing and farm economy here, replacing the bread and circuses Wall Street regime which has devastated the country. He wants viable economic and security relationships to Russia and China, not the drive to inevitable war fostered by the Obama and Bush Administrations. At the same time a new paradigm of relations between nations, under the rubric of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative is proceeding, rapidly, to replace the decadent Anglo-Dutch Empire and its grip on the world’s finances and resources. Instead of free trade, outsourcing, cheap labor, and austerity, whole formerly impoverished nations and continents are being developed with modern infrastructure. In the past few days, huge new infrastructure and development initiatives were announced between China and most countries on the African continent. Trump’s early endorsement of the American System of political economy, fundamental scientific research and space exploration, and his pledge to build large scale infrastructure signals the very real possibility of an entirely new order of international relationships where China, Russia, the United States, and others collaborate on physical development of the world. This is why, according to Chuck Schumer, the Senator from Wall Street, impeachment must occur “sooner rather than later.”

Now, let’s take these recent propaganda stunts in reverse order, to better unwind their intended cascade effect on the popular mind.

Bob Woodward, The Post and the New York Times

Forget about Bob Woodward, the pompous darling of the Washington establishment, who the press loves to celebrate ever since he and Carl Bernstein functioned as human dead drops for the leaks from the FBI and others which brought down Richard Nixon. In all of his books, Woodward has always relied on anonymous sources, primarily from the U.S. intelligence community, who leak salacious bits of gossip to him for their own political and institutional purposes. Christopher Hitchins famously called Woodward, “the stenographer for the rich and the powerful.” In the case of George W. Bush that meant propping up and giving substance to perhaps the most mentally vacant President in U.S. history and supporting the Iraq War and the other disastrous military interventions which wrecked the U.S. military and much of Southwest Asia. Woodward’s much ballyhooed account of a deathbed conversation with former CIA Director Bill Casey has been widely debunked as fabricated and drew a rare public rebuke from President Ronald Reagan who called Woodward an outright liar. This is why President Trump is right to ask whether the New York Times., “senior Trump official” actually exists or is simply another Woodward “source.” Woodward’s book on the 2008 bailout of Wall Street, following the collapse which broke most of the country and destroyed our middle class, is a vicious lie, painting the totally corrupted officials of the Bush and Obama Administrations as well-intentioned public servants.

The late great actual investigative reporter, Robert Parry, took Woodward to task for not reporting the Richard Nixon crime which caused the Watergate coverup: Nixon’s deliberate sabotage, using Henry Kissinger and others, to subvert the Viet Nam Paris peace talks, prolonging the Viet Nam War for years in order to win the 1968 presidential election. This successful game cost thousands of U.S. and Vietnamese lives. Woodward had the story at the time, exclusively, but chose not to report it. Writer Joan Didion best summed up Woodward and his “work” in a famous essay published in the September, 1996, New York Review of Books. She said that after Watergate, “measurable cerebral activity” in Woodward’s books was virtually absent and that the books have “a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.” She calls his method, “political pornography.” The Washington Post, now in the hands of Resist member and pirate capitalist Jeff Bezos, was, for years, owned by the Graham family and functioned purposely throughout the post war period as a psychological warfare and propaganda vehicle for the CIA and intelligence community. Complementing the Time’s effort at sedition, the Post coverage of the Op-Ed by the gutless “senior official” had the headline, “Sleeper Cells Have Now Awoken.” As for the New York Times.— Well, any one who is literate can cite their early support for Mussolini and Hitler and their history as the propaganda vehicle of record for Wall Street and the City of London. The Post and the Times have only been outpaced by CNN and MSNBC as purveyors of hate against this President.

The McCain Death Extravaganza

John McCain died and deserved a decent funeral based on his war record and his long, if destructive, public service. McCain and others in Washington’s arrogant and narcissistic elite decided before his death, however, to use McCain’s demise to advance the coup against the President, and to make claims about the late Senator and themselves which are totally and utterly false and delusional. The funeral was a national media extravaganza achieving a status normally only enjoyed by former Presidents. It was, according to New Yorker Magazine, also the “biggest resistance meeting yet.” President Donald Trump was not invited so that the cowards in the funeral crowd, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush, could freely take potshots at the President. McCain picked these leaders of the country’s descent into hell deliberately, to romanticize his death, and to trash talk the current President, albeit, in eloquent and lofty language and knowing allusions. In effect, they wrapped the murderous crimes of empire in the American flag.

McCain was a protégé of neo-Conservative founder Senator Henry Scoop Jackson, a crazy servant of the British imperial agenda who
constantly sought military confrontation with Russia. The British were so enamored of Jackson’s views that they have dedicated an entire society of British intelligence spooks to him, the Henry Jackson Society. The former incarnation of this group was the Committee on Present Danger and the Project for a New American Century in the United States. Leading members of both groups hastily retreated to British mother ship after they led the mobilization for the failed and disastrous Iraq War here in the U.S. Sir Richard Dearlove, who has shepherded Christopher Steele and other British aspects of the coup against Donald Trump, is a leading member of this group. Funding for McCain’s political adventures came from his second wife, whose brewing company fortune was completely mixed up in Arizona mob and mob funding during its earlier years.

With respect to McCain’s activities, Max Blumenthal characterized them accurately in the August 27th Consortium News:

“McCain did not simply thunder for every major intervention in the post-Cold War era from the Senate floor. . . He was uniquely ruthless when it comes to advancing imperial goals, barnstorming from one conflict zone to another to personally recruit far right fanatics as American proxies. . . In Libya and Syria, he cultivated affiliates of Al-Qaeda as allies, and in Ukraine, McCain recruited actual sig-heiling neo-Nazis. . . Following the NATO orchestrated murder of Libya’s leader, McCain tweeted: “Qaddafi on his way out, Bashar Al Assad is next.”

He backed the installation of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood to govern Egypt, another failed and insane project. More than $5.6 trillion was spent chasing John McCain’s idyll of democracy in Southwest Asia. Six thousand seven hundred Americans died, more than 50,000 were wounded, entire countries were reduced to rubble with accompanying genocide against their populations, the largest mass human migration ever was sent into Europe resembling something akin to the desperate mass flights of the Middle Ages.

It is these horrific actions by McCain, not the myth peddled at his funeral, which is the source of the conflict between Trump and John McCain, and between Trump and George Bush and Barack Obama. Trump promised to end the imperial policy of endless religious and population wars and Wall Street bailouts, and the voters responded resoundingly by electing him President.

The Manafort and Cohen Convictions

The media posited that these two events, one by trial, one by plea, gave Robert Mueller new found credibility and “momentum’ at a point where both were dissipating extremely rapidly. This claim, like the others we have examined here, has no relation to reality.

Mueller’s problem is that his entire investigation has been revealed to be permeated with illegality and dubious Constitutional premises. As the result of investigations by Congress, we know that as of December, 2015 British intelligence agencies were frantically signaling their fears about Donald Trump to Obama Administration intelligence officials, primarily the CIA of John Brennan. The British were demanding that Trump be taken out by whatever means because he was “soft on Russia.” They were demanding that Trump be taken out by criminalizing the idea for which the American people ultimately voted, a rational relationship, rather than war, between the U.S. and Russia.

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