Surviving Capitalism (Not) : CIA’s Brainwashing Mayhem is in the Full Swing in the EU

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, November 25, 2016

CIA’s Brainwashing Mayhem is in the Full Swing in the EU

Click here to access article by Grete Mautner from New Eastern Outlook.

It must be clearly understood that a web of deception is always being created by the CIA in those regions and in those periods when specific Washington’s actions may become the cause of serious criticism and may lead to the manifestation of one’s independence from the United States. For this purpose, the White House annually allocates billions of dollars to the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, the CIA and countless NGOs to spread disinformation. However, such steps are not causing alarm among European politicians, that are subjecting their people to vassal dependency on Washington and its position.

Mautner doesn't really offer any evidence that the CIA is active in the new campaign of anti-Russian propaganda in Europe, but the author reminds us of the CIA's similar disinformation campaign in the 1950s called Operation Mockingbird. And Mautner does tie this current campaign to a major US ruling class "think" tank article written for The Henry Jackson Society just prior to when the current campaign was launched in Europe. Once again we see that the origins of major policies lie in US secret capitalist ruling class organizations.