Caitlin Johnstone: Intelligence sources say biggestthreat to US is actually US policy
15 Apr, 2021 17:34
/ Updated 9 hours ago
By Caitlin Johnstone, an
independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is here and you can follow her
on Twitter @caitoz
A new “threat assessment” by
the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United
States today, followed by Russia, Iran and North Korea.
This has of course led to blaring news
headlines like “China poses the biggest threat to the US, a new
intelligence report says” from The New York
Times, instead of something a little less propagandistic like “Here’s
who the CIA wants you to be afraid of in order to advance its geostrategic
power agendas.”
The report makes a bunch of
evidence-free assertions which serve no purpose other than to help manufacture
consent for the movement of expensive weaponry around the globe at the
facilitation of unscrupulous
war propaganda firms like The New York Times. Not only that, but I can now report that
this US intelligence threat assessment is squarely contradicted by my own
intelligence source.
Far from being threatened in
any meaningful way by Beijing, Moscow, Tehran or Pyongyang, my intelligence
source tells me that the greatest threat facing the United States today is
actually the policy and behavior of the US itself.
My source informs me that
infinitely more threatening to Americans than China is their own government’s
policy of maintaining more and more severe domestic austerity measures and
relying on a racist, violent and increasingly militarized police force to bash
its most impoverished populations into line instead of simply helping them. The
fact that America’s primary system of care for those who fall through the
cracks is its immense
prison-industrial complex poses a far greater threat to America than
Russia, Iran or North Korea ever will.
“When prison has become your
country’s social safety net and you’re incarcerating at a rate unseen anywhere
else in the world, it is not the time for you to worry about Kim Jong Un,” the intelligence
source tells me.
But this crushing poverty
and authoritarianism is necessary when a nation is the hub of a globe-spanning
empire and its rulers need to make sure the populace remains too poor, busy and
propagandized to begin interfering in the mechanics of the war machine. If
Americans began using the power of their numbers to force their political
system to cease hemorrhaging money and resources into interminable occupations
and ever more expensive acts of military expansionism so that people could be
cared for at home, the empire would fall. And that would make the imperialists
sad.
According to my source, the
real threat to America today is the standing policy of overextending US
military commitments in a futile effort to maintain unrivaled unipolar
planetary hegemony on a world that is forever out of control while
impoverishing and oppressing Americans at home, all to preserve a failed
competition-based model of mass-scale human behavior that our species needs to
evolve beyond anyway.
Okay, my intelligence source
is between my ears.
Anyone with a brain can see
that there is no real threat to the United States from outside US borders. US
unipolar domination might be under threat from an ever-changing world in which
empires are always temporary. Imperialism’s days might be numbered. Capitalism
may be on the way out. But the US itself is not being threatened on the world
stage by any foreign actor.
The US government is the one
threatening nations with obliteration if they do not obey its dictates, not the
other way around. Nobody is threatening America.
Your own intelligence
sources will, with some rigorous usage, tell you that the real threat to
America comes from oligarchs, imperialists and war profiteers who see the US
government and its historically unprecedented military force as a tool for
expanding power and wealth no matter what the human cost might be.
We can trust our
intelligence sources on that matter, my friends. Our story is much
better-sourced than any we’ll ever see in The New York Times.
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