Caitlin Johnstone, who wrote an article last month titled “The rising threat of nuclear war is the most urgent matter in the world,” posted an article on RT Wednesday titled:
“We’re told US’ only option is to escalate aggression against Russia & China. It’s a LIE, detente IS possible.” Most importantly, Johnstone provides a powerful demonstration of the absolute subservience of the media to the war party.
Johstone looks at the interview of Secretary of State Tony Blinken on “60 Minutes,” called “the most successful television broadcast in history” by CBS. Blinken, who is doing his best to live up to the satanic standards of Mike Pompeo, was interviewed by Norah O’Donnell, who, Johnstone demonstrated, was a “perfect illustration of the fact that modern mainstream reporters are only allowed to ask confrontational foreign policy questions of US officials when demanding to know why they aren’t being more hawkish and aggressive.”
Blinken had offered his normal lie that the Biden policy was not to stop China’s rise, or put China down, but only to defend the (undefined) “rules based order”. O’Donnell then asked the following questions:
“I know you say the goal is not to contain China, but have you ever seen China be so assertive or aggressive militarily?”
“Do you think we’re heading toward some sort of military confrontation with China?”
“Let’s talk about human rights. Describe what you see is happening in Xinjiang that maybe the rest of the world doesn’t.”
“If Xinjiang isn’t a red line with China, then what is?”
“The Chinese have stolen hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars of trade secrets and intellectual property from the United States. That sounds like the actions of an enemy.”
“And so did President Biden tell President Xi to cut it out?”
“China thinks long term, strategically, decades in advance. Is America just caught up on the latest fires here and there, and we’re not thinking long term, strategically, and as a result, China will surpass us?”
“What is the administration going to do about Hong Kong?”
“Then why not boycott the 2022 Olympics in Beijing?”
Johnstone notes: “The US is whipping up fear of China because Washington simply cannot contemplate a world it does not dominate. We are meant to take it as a given that the only option available is to continue increasing aggressions with these two nuclear powers. This is a lie, and it is insane.”
She concludes: “I am often accused of having sinister loyalties to the Kremlin or to the Communist Party of China…. The reality, though, is that I simply do not consent to having my life, the life of everyone I love, and the life of everyone I share this planet with gambled on some idiotic American supremacist value that serves nobody but the powerful. There is no good reason we can’t lay down our arms and collaborate with other nations in friendship, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.”
