Phil Butler -- The Looming Dark Age of Business Warfare

29.12.2019 Author: Phil Butler

The Looming Dark Age of Business Warfare

Column: Politics

Region: USA in the World

The United States of America is waging an undeclared war on Russia. It’s a war for empire, a struggle to keep in place a system that can never be sustained. And it’s a conflict that will ultimately lead to a new dark age. This is a report about the unusual business that foreign policy has become.

I woke up the day after Christmas with a strange new sense of the current world crisis. Walking down the street to my office I felt a strange urgency to check my news feed. A second after clicking my desktop to life the reason for the urgency popped up, another Bloomberg bit by Putin hater Leonid Bershidsky struck me strangely. The story was about pipelines tilted to create heroes of anti-Putin Russophobes. But something more came from the financial newspaper page. Gas streams, the competition, the whole “versus” situation we see ourselves in now. There is was!

Putin Haters – Subliminal Messengers

Bershidsky is pretty good as a writer. And he knows a bit about the banksters and the plans to chop up Russia into resource blocks for BP, Exxon, and the others. Mr. Putin’s rescue of Russia’s legacy is a foregone conclusion now, but the “west’s” play has never really been spotlighted before now. Let me cite Bershidsky on how “Putin’s Grand Gas Project Makes Sense Now.” The former Managing Director of Russia’s KIT Finance Investment Bank tells Bloomberg readers:

“In the space of just a few momentous weeks, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most ambitious projects — a Russian natural gas export system to match the new geopolitical reality rather than the Cold War-era one — has taken its final shape. It will probably last, without major change, until the end of Russia’s run as a top energy exporter.”

He then goes about rewriting history as if the western hegemony waged an economic war on Russia and Putin in self-defense! Bloomberg View has become the bible of alternative creation and truth. Fortunately for those of us with brains, the “facts” actually do reveal what is happening in this undeclared war on Russia. Mr. Putin has had to adjust Russia’s energy export system to counter Washington’s monumental sanctions war. Yes, I said “sanctions war.”

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Column: Society

Region: Europe

Since just before the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia I’ve been a media analyst focused on the most widespread and belligerent propaganda campaign in the history of the world. Never in human history has there been more control of a singular message. Yes, the Nazis maintained such control over the Third Reich. And it’s true the Chinese Communists under Chairman Mao flipped the light switch of truth on and off alternatively. However, these regimes did not hold a candle to the blistering and blinding brainwashing that our western mainstream media radiates today. What we are witnessing is almost on the level of total mind control, even to the point of herding humanity to its own doom. For those of us who somehow woke up out of the trance, the sheer magnitude of control almost cauterizes the brain.

Truth Sucking Octopus

For more than four years now independent and alternative media have investigated and uncovered the tentacles of this misinformation octopus. But the head of the beast, the purpose and soul behind the dark eyes focused on Russia, Putin, anyone or anything in opposition to the so-called “new order” has remained obscure. We can certify the technocrats and banking elites stand behind these new world crises, but discovering any single kingpin running the new war on Russia has proven difficult. We can easily spot the “agents” of the world order in key reporting positions. The narrative of “versus Putin” is, I guess, the antithesis of pro-Putin or Russia agnostic reporting. Gurus have risen, authors like at the New York Times’ Steven Lee Meyers. And each one has his or her own credential, like Meyers’s book “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin.” Reading this author’s Putin fantasy reminds us of the broken record spinning on the globalists’ stereophonic turntable, the mind-numbing tune going something like this:

He has stifled his political opponents and enriched friends and cronies. He annexed a chunk of Ukraine, threw moral and military support to Syria ’s dictator in a brutal civil war and tried to tip the scales in an American presidential election. For the second time in barely a decade, he stands accused of orchestrating the exotic poisoning of an exiled former intelligence operative in Britain.

Like all the other suction cups on this octopus’ information tentacles, these alleged journalists lie. They mislead. They obscure the counter narrative. They hide the other side of reasoning from us all. In Meyer’s most recent “story” there is no mention of the ousted Russian oligarchs who are cronies of Jacob Rothschild, for instance. And if you are a person of reason at all, you must ask; “How can this be?” Indeed, if Vladimir Putin is cushioning the world to comfort Gazprom oligarchs, then who do killers like Yukos Oil pirate Mikhail Khodorkovsky bow to? Furthermore, who is it that is “stifled” on the other end of the reality spectrum? I know you see my point.

Meyers and all the rest side with those who would overthrow the legitimate regime of President Bashar Hafez al- Assad. He and the other experts not only condone the manufactured civil war in Syria, they fight on the side of the creators of it. They cover up any hint of the truth of Syria. You must see this, for it is Vladimir Putin who bashed the menace that was ISIL. Have you not noticed there are no New York Times headlines about this terrorist menace any longer? I do not even have to argue this for anybody intelligent enough to read.

The New York Times and the rest, they simply do not employ anyone who would argue for a Russian. Hillary Clinton can leave a trail of slime 24,000 miles long in her path, but western journalism simply mops up behind. In America the narrative is so strong an ordinary person cannot possibly snap out of the trance. Putin, Putin, Putin is the cause of everything bad. And the global empowerment of the elite untouchables goes forward at breakneck speed. Barack Obama and Donald Trump can play international hit men for this order, they can sanction the assassination of the likes of Assad, Muhammar Gaddafi, or Iraq Saddam Hussein in broad daylight, but no one at the New York Times accuses them of killing off a double agent to make it look like Putin is a killer. You must see the idiocy of their chronicle! Hillary Clinton rigged the Democratic National Convention, but Vladimir Putin is accused of tampering with our democracy! Is realism even registering at all?

Putin Fingers the Switch

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The UK's recent diplomatic row is by no means an isolated case, geopolitical analyst Phil Butler told Sputnik, referring to the mounting pressure exerted by the West on Russia over the past years. Judging by the level of the West's saber-rattling, a third world war is now closer than at any time since the 1962 Caribbean crisis, Butler opined.

The sort of rhetoric Prime Minister Theresa May and the British Parliament used when accusing Moscow of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal has not been leveled at Russia since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s, geopolitical analyst Phil Butler told Sputnik.

"Looking at President Trump's seeming eagerness to jump on board, combined with his appointing the psychotic John Bolton as National Security Advisor, the picture does not look good at all. The level of aggression has simply ratcheted up many notches. I am sure this is why Mr. Putin warned the world of Russia's new and devastating weapons. The Kremlin surely knows more than any of the rest of us. Short answer, World War III is closer than at any time since [US President] Kennedy and [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev sorted things out," the geopolitical analyst highlighted.

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Following the poisoning of former MI6 asset Skripal in Salisbury, British Prime Minister Theresa May rushed to point the finger of blame at Russia, although the investigation into the case is far from being completed. In addition to disrupting high-level diplomatic ties with Moscow and expelling 23 Russian envoys from the UK, the British leadership called upon the US and European countries to follow in its footsteps.

As a result, the White House tweeted Monday that 23 countries agreed to expel 137 Russian diplomats over the Skripal poisoning case. However, 11 EU member states, namely, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia, have not demonstrated "solidarity" with London and refused to boot out Russian envoys.

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Today, President Trump ordered the expulsion of dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the U.S. and the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle. With these steps, the U.S. and our allies and partners make clear to Russia that its actions have consequences.

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​According to Butler, one should not view the recent diplomatic row as an isolated case, "when in fact the West has unleashed a large scale onslaught on every front against Russia and [President] Vladimir Putin."