OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #218, FEBRUARY 26, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #218, FEBRUARY 26, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett 

Ukraine War: Truth of the Past Depends upon When you Begin and What’s Omitted

 Joe Lauria.  “Help Us Fight the Psyopcracy.”  Consortium News (6-24-24).

It’s not a physical enemy to combat but rather powerful messages lodged in millions of people’s minds. It’s come to rule over us. Read here...

June 22, 2024

Cathy Vogan, executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN Live!, coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy.   And Consortium News is devoted to fighting it.

According to Wikipedia:   “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.  The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives. . . .”  Thus the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as “the news.”  Combating these false constructs of the world through media is Consortium News‘ mission. . . .  [Lauria cites examples from the Vietnam War and ends with Ukraine and Gaza .]

The American people, and by extension people around the world, have been led to believe that an unprovoked Russian madman [Putin] started the war in Ukraine. That’s because they are purposely not told that the war actually began in 2014 after a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev led Russian speakers in Donbass to declare independence, after which the coup government militarily attacked them.   Other facts are removed from the story, such as Russia’s proposed treaties with the U.S. and NATO in December 2021 that would have prevented Russia’s intervention in the Ukrainian civil war.   

The history of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is also whitewashed to lead the U.S. public into believing that Israel is the “victim” that is only “defending itself.”

[I have cited Lauria’s important articles several times in WWW, and this article  deserves the highest recommendation.  Of course, in short pieces on large subjects an author must omit much more than he presents, and that carries the great danger of omitting essential history.  Much that Lauria writes about the US “psyopcracy” was foretold and analyzed by George Orwell in his novel 1984, and in the two decades of the 1970s and 80s and continuing by the Orwell/Doublespeak project of the National Council of Teachers of English with its Journal of Doublespeak, several books, and conferences.   --Dick].