Burning Aid Trucks In Venezuela Bring Western Propaganda To Light
By
Richard Enos
Richard Enos
In Brief
- The Facts:The burning
of a truck at a closed Venezuelan border gate purportedly bringing
supplies from the West was immediately, and falsely, blamed on Nicolas
Maduro and his forces. The false narrative was widely reported in
mainstream media.
- Reflect On:Can we use these examples to help us discern how our perception is being controlled by mainstream media and the powerful social engineers behind them?
By
now the propaganda ‘playbook’ used by Western powers should be all too
familiar to anyone awakening out of the illusion of mainstream
perception, even those in the beginning stages.
Two particular things that they do have
helped to accelerate this awakening. First, the West keeps using the
same play over and over again, so much so that seeing the pattern is
unavoidable, no matter what the context. Western powers will demonize
the leadership of any country they are not in control of, with
particular emphasis on countries that have resources that those Western
powers covet, and/or hold a strategic area on the geopolitical
chessboard that Western powers want to establish a military presence
within.
Second, the lies and deception behind
their ‘play’ are often getting immediately revealed, thanks to the
capturing of real audio and video of the event. More often than not,
mainstream media is forced to admit that the initial claims on which
their unholy outrage is anchored turned out to be false.
Still–and this is what is
notable–revelations that some of their foregone conclusions were based
on false premises does not dampen their enthusiasm for demonizing their
intended target going forward. They sometimes continue to use the
‘juice’ of the claims even though they have been proven to be false. As
far as propaganda strategies go, they almost seem willing to ground
their arguments on lies in order to whip up support for their cause.
Their calculation is that most of their supporters will simply ignore
reports about what happened when the truth comes out days or weeks
later.
This is the state of the world today,
and this is why this strategy has not yet been relegated to the dustbin
of history. Let’s take a look at the latest iteration of it.
Demonizing Maduro
In Venezuela, the goal is the
demonizing of Venezuela’s current Socialist leader Nicolas Maduro, to
the point that there is popular support for Western military involvement
in the affairs of Venezuela, ending in the installation of a new leader
that accommodates Western economic interests. Reminds me of efforts to
convince people that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad felt the need to gas his
own people to death, including children.
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In Venezuela, the West is actually
trying to convince their audience that Nicolas Maduro is a leader
who believes that killing his own people and burning food and medical
supplies on his country’s doorstep is good politics. They don’t explain
why he does that, they just leave it to our imaginations to see him as
some kind of devil incarnate rather than a human being.
The problem is that these tactics, to
some extent, still work. Western powers keep getting people to believe
it just by saying it over. And over. No matter that they are completely
lying and probably responsible in whole or in part for
the incident itself. For Western powers, there’s probably nothing like a
visual of burning chaos that they can blame on their enemy to get their
supporters riled up for their cause.
What Actually Happened
On February 23rd, trucks from Western
powers allegedly containing food and medicine arrived at a border
crossing between Columbia and Venezuela that was actually closed and
barricaded. The Venezuelan authority did not accept the trucks into the
country, and whether or not they actually contained aid or something
else is a matter of conjecture.
Then, one man among a group of activists
opposed to Maduro on the Columbian side pelted a Molotov cocktail at
the convoy, leading one of the trucks to catch fire. (See video below).
What They Told Us Happened
A brief examination of statements made
on Twitter following the incident by National Security Advisor John
Bolton and re-upped by USAID Administrator Mark Green reveals all we
need to see:
From Bolton’s comments, and then
Green’s, it should be clear that both of these men are guilty of lying
and deceiving for the purposes of perception-building and justifying
illegitimate political action. They know it’s all about perception. For
them, the ends justify the means.
The fact that they are completely
unmoved and unapologetic in the face of revelations that they are
purveying false information, and will forever promote the West’s agenda
with all their vigor is clear and solid proof that truth is antithetical
to their agenda.
History will see people like John Bolton
and Mark Green as the true war criminals of this era, knowingly
deceiving the public and preying upon a vulnerable native population in
order to get their ‘permission’ and support to exploit them.
Mainstream Strategy Called Out
This tweet from Glenn Greenwald
responding to CNN’s Marshall Cohen is a stark and accurate rebuttal of
Cohen’s explanation about how these fabricated stories begin to
proliferate, as outlined in a New York Times article that came out weeks after the incident:
As Greenwald rightly points out, the
mainstream media led by CNN is not the victim of disinformation and fake
news, it is the purveyor of disinformation and fake news. Clearly and
indelibly linked to the agenda of Western Powers and the Deep State, the
mainstream media delights in sounding the clarion with lies that
support the Deep State agenda, while giving muted and reluctant coverage
of the truth, and only when forced to by the inconvenient evidence that
emerges.
For those who might think otherwise,
please don’t read this article as being in support of Nicolas Maduro or
as an endorsement of his policies. It is simply written to draw your
attention to the fact that the coverage of events we receive in the
West does not provide the real information about what is happening in
Venezuela and the day-to-day reality of its people. It is important to
become more widely aware of this and reject this form of biased
journalism in favor of one that employs consciousness, seeks neutrality
and singularly pursues the truth.
The Takeaway
Taking a look at the way mainstream
media is used as the arm for perception-building efforts on the part of
Western powers can be a very effective way of honing our discernment
about bias masquerading as objective fact. Our own power is strengthened
when we question claims, especially those that resonate with our
current perception, and are willing to see the world in a more
sophisticated and nuanced way.
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