Written by Jaron Pearlman   

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” –William Casey, former CIA Director, from a staff meeting in 1981.

Take the time to read this quote twice.

Consider that a year earlier Ted Turner had founded CNN, the world’s first 24-hour news network. After Ted’s model was established, 24-hour news networks began to pop up everywhere; becoming corporate monoliths in the ever growing docket of American state capitalist companies.

Before long, Americans had their pick of 24-hour propaganda streams that misconstrued and abused the content of their stories at the whim of corporate financiers (which will be examined later).

Currently, the USA is being bombarded with some of the most desperate propaganda since 9/11. With information easily obtainable online through neutral or alternative sources, debate amongst the people is evolving beyond the government approved limits and spilling directly into their muddled agendas.

In response to this inevitability, Main Stream Media (MSM), intelligence agencies and government string pullers have assembled a long list of freedom-haters for Americans to fear.

The most obvious one right now is ISIS (about whom I have written in my article ‘Keep Your Enemies Closer’). As mentioned, there is a very old connection between Sunni/Wahhabi jihadism and industrial powers that emerged in the early 20th century. Namely that the House of Saud was placed in power by the West, and Saudi oil helped the new Arabia become a powerful ally (and proxy) for any western agendas in the Middle East.
Also, post World War I, the name of the game was controlling the former Ottoman Empire.
This meant the Middle East was divided into protectorates, under the watchful eye of nations like France, Russia, Britain and the USA.

Naturally, as time went on, insurgencies arose everywhere in the Middle East, as native peoples struggled in many varying (and sometimes horrific) ways to reclaim sovereignty over their lands. Former allies like Russia and the US began to quarrel economically over Middle Eastern territories as well, sparking additional tensions.

Over time, the West and Saudi Arabia developed a formula to keep control over the Middle East and Western Asia. If a government was installed in the Middle East that was non-compliant with western economic interests, a Sunni/state capitalist coalition would arm, train, recruit, and fund rebels to destabilize the country. This would either demolish national infrastructure (prompting occupation by the USA/NATO/UN), or lead to a coup wherein western economic prospects were priority. This includes the Soviet wars in Afghanistan where the west created the Mujahideen, which ‘became’ Al-Quaeda, which ‘became’ ISIS.

The elephant in the room with this façade is the nations that are targeted in the Middle East, and the common thread among all these rebel groups.

Our oldest enemy, Iran, is a Shia nation, rather than Sunni (which comprises the majority of Islam).
Syria was secular and was comprised of Christians, Muslims, and Jews (among others).
Ba’athist Iraq was also secular.
Afghanistan (pre-western backed coup leading to the Taliban) was secular.

Saudi Arabia is Sunni.
These recurring Middle Eastern insurgents call themselves ‘Sunni’.

These insurgents also claim to want Sharia Law, a very strict and imposing set of religious doctrine that our allies in Saudi Arabia follow.

Granted, the end game here has nothing to do with Sharia Law, or Sunni Muslims, or anything religious at all. The end game has to do with convincing enough people to go to war with the end result being destabilization of the country for international acquisition. The House of Saud uses Sunni Islam as a guise to impose harsh domestic policy, to arm terrorists meant to render other nations asunder, and to work hand in hand with the western plan for the Middle East.

As for ISIS, this is nothing new at all. Aside from photos released of ISIS fighters riding through the desert in new American-made Ford trucks, and various videos of former FSA insurgents rejoicing over American arms in US AID tents there is also a huge smoking gun pointing at the White House.

Seriously, does anyone else remember when Obama wanted to bomb Syria? For once the people of America stood up, renounced their party affiliations, and said a collective ‘NO’. Without the consent of the masses, the neocon liberal commander-in-chief stood down and regrouped with the war hawks of DC.

If they couldn’t make it about intervening for ‘human rights’ against Bashar Al Assad (who was on a murder rampage in response to the previous arming of rebels in Syria from 2010), they would make it about Islamic extremists threatening the west. Organizations like the FSA and Al-Nusra were formally recruited and trained under American military personnel in places like Jordan, Turkey, and Libya. These groups work with and ARE ISIS for all intents and purposes.

Then, to cement the deal, MSM began pumping out fear stories about ISIS 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; with FOX News (whose parent company NEWSCORP has Saudi Prince Al-Waleed al Saud as it’s second largest shareholder) and CNN predictably at the helm (Al-Waleed also owns a significant portion of Time Warner).
Now we see ISIS helping the West tear down what remains of secular Syria, and stopping the new Iraqi government from getting a foothold in geopolitics (we can’t have another Saddam refusing US dollars for oil can we?). As we watch images designed to disturb and enrage us here in the west, ISIS is securing western assets. Among these aren’t just the intensely valuable geography for both trade and military application; but also the rich oil fields in northern Iraq’s Kirkuk and the old Mosul-Haifa pipeline that fueled the Allies in WW2.

Obama and the powers that be now have their war with or without consent of the public, much like Bush did.
Interestingly enough, the US Congress (our most viable representation) hasn’t even declared war since WW2, but I can think of a lot of wars since then.

ISIS is also serving as a distraction. The issues underway in Ukraine are indicative of something much deeper and unsettling: how millions across the world watched in real-time as peaceful pro-EU protests turned into a full-on coup with mercenaries trained and hired by NATO affiliates (covered in my article Trade Battles Revisited).

When Ukraine was posed between the Russian Customs Union and the EU, it was in essence a threat to align with western economic interests. Upon the Ukrainian governments refusal of the EU proposal, entities like the CIA, US State Department, NATO, and MI6 began the typical destabilization process used in the Middle East.
The only difference was the choice of zealotry. Rather than employing Sunni jihadists they chose the neo-Nazi (Nationalist Socialist) Svoboda and the Azov Battalion; whose symbols literally have the Nazi Black Sun and an Emblem of the SS das Reich.

When the eastern portion of the nation halted the coup from Kiev, a new propaganda campaign emerged accusing Russia of an invasion on Ukraine.

There are so many things wrong with this its hard to find a place to start.

First off, Kiev was the first capital of Russia. Ukrainians are people of the Rus. Also, after gaining its independence from Russia, Ukraine was given its eastern territories and the Crimean Peninsula in by the Soviet Union.

Because of this, not only are the vast majority of eastern Ukrainians ethnically Russian, but they actually voluntarily harbor one of Russia’s most valuable naval ports at Sevastopol in the Black Sea. Hence, why Crimea is so important for both trade and military applications- just like Syria (which also had a Russian naval port at Tartus).

The attempt on Ukraine’s sovereignty also signifies more eastward NATO expansion. Despite promises from Reagan to Gorbachev, NATO was not limited after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact- in fact it continued expanding eastward, steadily. This now includes ten independent nations who were previously provinces of the Warsaw Pact. Several other eastern nations joined NATO from the remains of Yugoslavia; including Croatia and Slovenia.

Now that this expansion is at Russia’s door, once again the warmongers of the world wait to make the bait and switch:

Should Russia not intervene in Ukraine it will be surrounded by NATO members that will eventually encroach on Russian autonomy.
Should Russia actually intervene it will effectively be at war with the west and the USA.

So far, we have heard on MSM that Russia has invaded Ukraine several times this year. Yet no actual media confirms it. The MSM news buzzards continually preempt any real Russian military decisions in order to spook people, and to give America something to fear other than itself.

It’s obvious that the EU vote was simply NATO in sheep’s clothing, and they planned to assimilate the Ukraine- one way or another.

Meanwhile western sanctions placed on Russia could have the opposite effect of what is intended.

The very heart of the rising east/west tension isn’t just land disputes over broken nations. It harbors the beginnings of a massive paradigm shift of global proportions.

As the world has globalized, the nations of Western Europe and the New World have begun a trend towards destabilization of currency- that is to say money isn’t tied to a feasible worth, such as gold. This has enabled the stimulus spending that has made much of the world so connected and civilized, but at a deadly cost.
Federal Reserve inflation of the US dollar that is used for world currency in the IMF and World Bank inevitably lowers its worth.
This assures an eventual crash in the worth of the US dollar and every nation propped up by it.

The 2008 housing bubble (and the resulting global economic crash) proves this point pretty well.

The crash itself alerted some autonomous nations of the world to the shady dealings between Wall Street, international investment banks, and the Federal Reserve. The response has not been reported widely in the west, but there is a wide push back towards standardization of money and global currency. Among the nations spearheading this are Russia, China, and Iran, all of whom (claim) to have kept their gold reserves still stocked.

Here lies the ultimate reality of this situation.

Russia and China each have (approximately) 1,100 tons of gold in their reserves. In 2010, Iran claimed to have 500 tons, 200 of which may have been bought from Turkey.
The USA claims a whopping 8,150 (approximate) tons- but there is a problem.

After both World Wars (particularly WW2), nations around the world were convinced by the Federal Reserve to keep their gold/bullion in the safe keeping of the new military superpower; the USA. This gold, from all over the world, was added to (what the Federal Reserve considered) ‘American’ assets; used to provide lending leverage, used as collateral for investments, and likely even used for spending capitol.
Since this made actual holdings in American gold hard to calculate, debasing of the dollar was easy throughout the 20th century (as the USA made its dollar global), and eventually the gold standard died completely in 1971.

(On a side note, consider that in 1933, after an economic bust similar to 2008, all privately held gold/gold certificates were stripped from the American people by FDR and given directly to Federal government.)

So- the Federal Reserve and US Federal government has gold of its own, gold from all over the world, and gold taken from American citizens. This gold is used to ‘lend’ to prominent companies in the US political periphery for a wide array of sordid reasons. Inflation, unlimited spending, and bailouts have resulted in accruing the most national debt in the world (at 14.3 trillion US dollars).
This arrangement has never received even so much as an audit, even though it props up the entire world.

Recently, many nations across the world have been questioning if their reserves are still there. Germany most notably asked for its 674 tons of gold back in 2013- and received only 5 tons in 2014, after being denied completely for an entire year. Other nations, like Venezuela and Australia are now experiencing the same thing; being refused and eventually shortchanged.

It is becoming internationally obvious that the US (and western) economy is full of hot air, and that there is almost certainly NOT 8,150 tons of gold in the US. While perhaps other nations are lying about their reserves too, none are so obvious as the USA.

The majority of this gold held by the Federal Reserve has likely been channeled for decades into companies like JP Morgan, Bear Sterns, Citi Group, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, and others.

How this relates to rising East/West tensions is obvious. The East is certain that between their massive nations, gold could be re-standardized and surpass the overextended western-fiat market. Groups like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are working actively to ‘de-dollarize’ the world, and implement a new international currency that is pooled from several nations (rather than just one, fiat-currency nation).

This would mean a very troubling economy in the West. Real job markets have been usurped to other nations by free trade agreements. The US dollar would be severely undervalued compared to a newly standardized currency.

Going back to analysis of the world at war, Vladimir Putin repeatedly said that strikes against Syria were strikes against Moscow. Ukraine is literally at Russia’s front door.
These conflicts are meant to menace and incite the East; to either warn the other superpowers to stand down or goad them into a war where they can be put into submission (either economically or militarily).

Take a minute to think.

Where did the US get the clout to create an annual ‘defense’ budget of $640 billion and rising (dwarfing China at $188 billion)?
Why are weapons manufacturers like Boeing, Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin funding presidential AND congressional campaigns on both political sides (yes, including Obama)?
How did Americans pay for all these ‘new’ wars when their economy has been in a downturn?
With a budget of $640 billion a year, a presence in 153 countries, and 600 (appx) bases globally, how could we not find one man in a cave in Afghanistan, or easily crush any insurgency?
Why won’t the USA give other nations back their gold?
Why (despite a recent bill going through the House of Representatives) has the government and Federal Reserve refused an audit of their gold holdings?

Why would former CIA Director William Casey say something like that?

Why indeed.