{"id":29685,"date":"2020-09-27T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=29685"},"modified":"2020-09-27T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:24:18","slug":"military-industrial-complex-of-western-economies-only-survives-by-way-of-nonstop-propaganda-prevarication-and-perfidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=29685","title":{"rendered":"Military-Industrial Complex of Western economies only survives by way of nonstop propaganda, prevarication and perfidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Galloway: Lying industry may be the only sector of Western economies still in full production &amp; TAXPAYERS pay for it<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>George Galloway<\/strong><\/em> was a member of the British Parliament for nearly 30 years. He presents TV and radio shows (including on RT). He is a film-maker, writer and a renowned orator.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29686\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29686\" class=\"wp-image-29686 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/5f6e4cd4203027209f2e8c3b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/5f6e4cd4203027209f2e8c3b.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/5f6e4cd4203027209f2e8c3b-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A White Helmets member after an airstrike in this screen grab taken from a social media video said to be taken in Idlib, Syria on July 16, 2019. \u00a9 White Helmets\/social media via REUTERS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you have ever wondered why Syrian jihadists, or so-called \u2018moderate opposition\u2019, got support from the woke liberal West, a recent leak by Anonymous reveals it\u2019s because Western governments funded this propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it is the sheer childishness of the propaganda which amazes me most, not that our rulers lie about other countries \u2013 I have always known that. But somehow there was a kernel of truth around which the web of lies was spun, for example about life in the old Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>I began to realise the scope of Western ability to literally invent the most baseless lies only in the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003, and only because I knew more about Iraq than any politician in Britain or America and ten times more than the average made-up telly-dolly chuntering through their auto-cued war propaganda. The women presenters weren&#8217;t any better.<\/p>\n<p>This all came flooding back to me when I received an email from Anonymous earlier this week and then read Ben Norton&#8217;s excellent analysis of it all in The GrayZone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1308841911113994242&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fop-ed%2F501739-anonymous-leak-lying-media-promaganda%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1308841911113994242\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If anyone ever wondered how the hordes of head-chopping throat-cutting heart-eating gay-murdering women-hating \u2018Jihadists\u2019 of the Syrian War ever managed to get a fair press in a \u2018woke\u2019 liberal West that gets hot under the lace collar about JK Rowling novels, the answers are all in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freenet.space\/read-blog\/275_op-hmg-trojan-horse-from-integrity-initiative-to-covert-ops-around-the-globe-par.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Anonymous leak<\/a>. The principle answer is that you, the taxpayer, paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. The blizzard of \u2018White Helmets\u2019 (who made it right up to the Oscars to thank everyone who&#8217;d helped them except those that had helped them the most), \u201cchemical-weapons attacks\u201d and all the paraphernalia of a newly \u201cmoderate opposition\u201d in Syria \u2013 was all paid for by YOU. Millions of pounds of British taxpayers\u2019 money\u00a0 was revealed to have been spent secretly on UK support for the throat-cutting coalition of chaos, which for a decade massacred its way across Syria wearing a snow-white Western beard of respectability.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that while the US (or rather its milk-cows in the Gulf) was paying for the lethal-weapons, perfidious Albion was doing what it does best \u2013 lying through its teeth whilst making those being lied to, pay for the privilege. Now that \u2013 thanks to the leaks \u2013 we know this, it should put us on guard for the next one. Yet somehow it doesn&#8217;t, at least not for the purveyors of the news.<\/p>\n<p>The Lazarus-like resurrection (and photo-shoot) of Russia\u2019s opposition figure and Western darling Alexey Navalny after yet another alleged Novichok (believed to be 5-8 times more toxic than VX nerve agent) attack without so much as a tracheostomy to show for it is swallowed whole in yet another anti-Russian public relations offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Grown sane men call my television show to talk about \u2018concentration camps\u2019 in China in which, we are told, \u201ca million Uighur Muslims\u201d are being held and forcibly sterilised. This is despite the allegations being largely based on studies backed by the American government and statements by Western media favourite, German researcher Adrian Zenz. Zenz, who is part of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a US-backed advocacy group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-german-data-diver-who-exposed-chinas-muslim-crackdown-11558431005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">believes<\/a>\u00a0that he is \u201cled by God\u201d on his \u201cmission\u201d against China. Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1199917.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a>\u00a0China\u2019s official statistics the Uighur population in Xinjiang province increased by over 25 percent between 2010 and 2018, while the Han Chinese rose by only two percent.<\/p>\n<p>The lying industry may be the only sector of the Western economies still in full production. No need for furlough or bounce-back loans. The lie-machines never still. No smoke is usually detected from their chimneys, but inside, their pants are well and truly on fire.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/501739-anonymous-leak-lying-media-promaganda\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/501739-anonymous-leak-lying-media-promaganda\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galloway: Lying industry may be the only sector of Western economies still in full production &amp; TAXPAYERS pay for it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}