by Joe Martino, The Pulse:
Should we believe what we’re being told about war given the US’ history of lies about them? Does this behavior also shed light on possible intentions behind the deception during the COVID era?
I wanted to bring attention to this piece I wrote back in 2016 (below) when our work was being done through our brand Collective Evolution.
It’s a piece about the time the US spent about half a billion dollars creating propaganda during the Iraq war. At the time, I found this piece to be incredibly powerful because it illustrated how far governments will go to shape domestic and global opinion.
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How do we know propaganda or carefully shaped narratives aren’t used on the domestic public to mislead them into supporting senseless wars? *Rhetorical question.*
In my view, a misinformed public plus the lack of ability for citizens to directly vote on key issues means you do not have democracy. In most countries, the idea of democracy is merely an illusion, a pacifier placed into the mouths of citizens to make them feel they are in control of the direction of their country.
Here in 2023, we are being told a great deal about the Ukraine and Russia war. but should we truly believe the Western perspective on this war given the history of lies about previous wars? Remember the weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist?
How should we make sense of what we’re being told about war by our governments given we must bring these examples (and many more) into the picture?
My feeling is that mainstream analysis is often naive in real time, and only becomes wiser 10 – 15 years later when the truth becomes completely undeniable. Perhaps it’s time we stop buying into mainstream claims in real time, and instead be more curious about what really might be going on. An expanded and holistic perspective is necessary to understand why these wars, and false flags, happen.
Pentagon Paid PR Firm Over $500 Million to Create Fake Terrorist Videos
Published Oct 3, 2016
“We need to make this style of video and we’ve got to use Al-Qaeda’s footage . . . We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.”
These were the specific instructions given to employees of a UK PR firm responsible for creating fake terrorist videos as part of a top secret propaganda mission paid for by the Pentagon — a mission that cost over half a billion dollars.
This story came to light thanks to a former employee of the firm, Martin Wells, who came forward to talk about his time working on the project.
