SOL: This year old article from SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 about Trump by an excellent International journalists Finian Cunningham, was
an accurate forecast of Trump’s political future. HOWEVER, the American
“establishment's” MSM has assaulted Trump with every possible political
weapon available for a year now and not only has Trump survived against
attacks from members of both political parties, but even impossible
odds to still became President of the United States. What could
eventually turn HIS American voters against him just may end up being
his own doing. The Neocons and members of the “establishment” that he
has chosen to surrounded himself is steering him into huge obstacles
causing too much confusion as to his position on real issues. It seems
that Trump has now taken a detour from his original bumpy “road to
change” to an old worn country road so deeply grooved that makes it very
difficult to steer his administration out of this establishment’s very
deep ruts. It makes those that put him into the White House to begin
questioning what direction he is attempting to lead us and if we will
still be ruled by the same “Deep State” we voted against. ONLY TIME WILL
TELL!
Political Assassination - the American Way
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Donald
Trump has entered a political kill zone. And the American establishment
is lining up to take him out. We are talking here in virtual terms - at
least thus far.
Nowadays,
political assassination by US powers-that-be does not necessarily
involve physical liquidation of the individual deemed to be an enemy
of the state. Who needs all that blood and controversy? Especially when
character assassination achieves the same desired end result — that is,
elimination of target from the public domain.
The
fierce media crossfire that the Republican presidential contender is
being subjected to leaves little doubt that this is a concerted effort
to destroy this politician.
In
the past week, we have seen a fusillade of vilification fired at the
New York property tycoon-turned presidential hopeful. Everything, it
seems, has been thrown at him, from his Slovenian-born wife's alleged US
visa violations, to his bullying of crying babies at rallies, to his
serving as an unwitting agent for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
It's so transparent and preposterous, it is almost hilarious.
Evidently,
the US corporate news media are out to bring Trump down in spite of his
stubborn support among ordinary Republican voters. It is obvious that
the Washington establishment has determined that Democrat rival Hillary
Clinton is the preferred choice to protect their privileged interests
as the next occupant of the White House.
And
the US media — as a pillar of the establishment — is doing its bit
to eliminate Trump from the supposedly free presidential election due
in November by aiding and abetting in assassinating his character in the
eyes of the public.
It
is ironic really given that there is so much more sordid stories to be
reported on Clinton, given her involvement in warmongering, clandestine
regime-change operations and abuse of state secrecy for her own
self-aggrandizement with foreign sources of money.
The
latest sign that the secretive US Deep State — Pentagon, CIA, FBI, Wall
Street financiers — is moving to install their White House candidate is
the letter published this week by some 50 senior Republican "national security experts" who endorsed Clinton while eviscerating Trump.
Yes, that's right, Republicans backing a Democrat. Which just goes to show the uniformity of interests.
The
signatories included former CIA director Michael Hayden, ex-chief
of homeland security Michael Chertoff, both of whom served in the George
W Bush administration, as well as John Negroponte who was a former
director of national intelligence and alleged purveyor of death squads
in Central America during the 1980s.
The joint anti-Trump letter followed the publication only days ago of an oped piece in the New York Times by another ex-CIA head, Michael Morell in which he lambasted Trump as a Russian stooge.
All
of these figures are intimately connected to the US Deep State and all
are unanimously pillorying Trump as a "dangerous threat to American
national security".
For
his part, Trump rebuffed the latest volley of vilification by saying
that the list of national security "experts" are responsible
for creating the Iraq war, the loss of American troops' lives and the
rise of terrorism across the Middle East. Cheekily, he thanked them
for all going public with their names so that the American people can
hold them to account for foreign policy disasters.
However,
the point here is that the campaign to discredit Trump is not just some
haphazard run of bad luck on the candidate's part for mis-steps and
mis-speaks that he may have issued on the hustings trail.
The
intense, concerted nature of the campaign to destroy Trump demonstrates
how the Washington power structure, including the corporate media, is
setting him up for character assassination.
This is the kind of political liquidation that the American plutocracy excels at.
A
few decades ago, American "executive action" — or "termination
with extreme prejudice — involved, more often than not, literally
murdering the individual target.
The
most notorious case is that of President John F Kennedy who was
assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Around that time, several
other foreign political leaders were also killed by American state
agents, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo, Rafael Trujillo of Dominican
Republic and Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. Political murder was,
still is, par for the American course.
The
late New Orleans attorney, Jim Garrison, who probed the JFK
assassination, said that the primary reason for his murder was that the
president was working to end the Cold War with Russia. Kennedy was
quietly using backchannels with Russian counterpart Nikita Krushchev
to implement ambitious plans for nuclear weapons disarmament.
JFK
had also flatly rejected secret proposals presented by the Pentagon
for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union. He was in addition
closing down CIA-sponsored terrorist operations in Cuba and he had
declared a withdrawal of US troops from the nascent Vietnam war.
In
this way, Kennedy had entered the political kill zone, as far as the
powerful, unelected Deep State was concerned. His policies were
threatening huge vested interests of military manufacturers, Big Oil and
Wall Street financiers. Hence, the CIA and its contract killers were
deployed to eliminate the "problem".
Donald
Trump shares two aspects with JFK. Like Kennedy, the business magnate
is independently wealthy, which allows him to speak his mind
without apparently having to ingratiate himself with powerful sponsors.
Secondly,
and more importantly, Trump has repeatedly pitched his election
platform against the relentless build up of the US-led NATO military
alliance in Eastern Europe, as well as overseas deployment of American
forces, and, in particular, Washington's policy of hostility
towards Russia.
Trump
has called for the normalization of relations with Russia. His foreign
policy position is anathema to the Washington establishment which
requires — as an absolute necessity — the demonization of foreign
countries as "national security threats" in order to maintain the
gargantuan US militarized economy. In short, the American Deep State
thrives on continual war-making. War is a permanent function of bankrupt
American capitalism.
This
systemic dysfunction is what the Cold War with Russia was and continues
to be about — the pumping of trillions of dollars into corporate and
financial elites, who get away with the scam because of their lackeys
among the political and media channels.
Anyone who defies these powerful American interests is liable for termination. They have entered the kill zone.
In former times, the American methods of termination with extreme prejudice routinely involved physical elimination.
Five
decades after JFK, the US methods of political assassination have
evolved to become more sophisticated. Character assassination may
suffice most of the time. No need for contract hitmen or messy public
enquiries. Media hitmen will do.
The target just needs to be placed in the crossfire of a media barrage, with no let up in negative shots.
Any
foreign leader who likewise becomes a "problem" for US power interests
is also targeted similarly. Russia's President Putin being perhaps the
best example of this.
As
the US presidential election approaches over the next three months,
just watch how the shadowy powers in Washington mobilize to take Trump
out of the race.
For taking out political enemies with extreme prejudice is the American way.
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