The Deep State Launches It's First Coup

By

  M. Richard Maxson


This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world today. They continued the OSS policy of attempting to overthrow the government of our foe. The difference was that now we were not at war. The fear of Communism and the ideal that 'the end justifies the means, regardless of international law, the Constitution, or the elected government of the United States. In doing so they created the 'Deep State,” an underlying force that drove U.S. foreign policy clandestinly to what “the brothers believed “was in the best interests of the country. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America and how through their actions they shaped the modern history of the United States and the world.

      John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Emboldened by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries such as Cuba and Iran.

      The first serious foray into regime change was in the 1948 Italian election. The decision to interfere with the general election was greatly influenced by the Cold War that was starting between the United States and the Soviet Union. The National Security Act of 1947, that made foreign covert operations possible, had been signed into law about six months earlier by President Truman. The fear of Communism spreading was initiated earlier and after Czechoslovakia it became the justification to use any means to prevent that from happening. The CIA, by its own admission, gave $1 million to Italian "center parties". They also publishing forged letters in order to discredit the leaders of the Italian Communist Party. They made numerous short-wave radio broadcasts and funded the publishing of books and articles, all of which warned the Italians of what was believed to be the consequences of a Communist victory. The elections were eventually won with a comfortable margin by the Christian Democracy party that defeated the left-wing coalition of the Popular Democratic Front that comprised the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party. 
 
      Awash with optimism and confidence they turned their attention to the mid-east and Syria. The CIA began its active meddling in Syria in 1949—barely a year after the agency’s creation. In March of 1949, Syria’s democratically elected president, Shukri-al-Kuwaiti, hesitated to approve the Trans Arabian Pipeline, an American project intended to connect the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to the ports of Lebanon via Syria, but there was another proposal on the table. Oil from the fields of Iran via Iraq. To Syria's president this was a much more acceptable plan as it involved other Arab states without the infidel U.S. 

 
     Here, is the point in history where the “Deep State” and the “Shadow Government” joined forces for politics and profit. The “men in the shadows” realized that it could use the deep state to remove obstacles that prevented future massive profits and the deep state realized that it could use the backing of industry to finance it's political objectives – an American empire.

      The CIA engineered a coup, the first post WWII coup

in the middle east and it happened without a shot being fired. Replacing al-Kuwaiti with the CIA’s handpicked dictator, a convicted swindler named Husni al-Za’im. Al-Za’im barely had time to dissolve parliament and approve the American pipeline before his countrymen deposed him, 14 weeks into his regime as a puppet of the United States.

       The 'men in the shadows' found out that the handling of these desert tribesmen was not as easy as predicted. This was the first of many, many mis-calculations of the agency through the years. Today, Syria is one of multiple countries currently standing that has not been completely destroyed and transformed by the United States and almost 70 years later, the U.S. still has troops in the country. It was then the cross-hairs turned towards Syria's ally, Iran, who had stood behind the Arab version of the pipeline. Money was there to be made and obsticles were to be overcome, one way - or another.

Is the FISA Court Constitutional?

By

 M. Richard Maxson

      As with the old Soviet Union the United States has a secret judicial body that dispenses it's own form of justice without oversight from any citizen or legislator. It has been given sweeping authority to do as it chooses in issuing warrants for surveilance on everyone clandestinely using national security as it's justification. The thought process that invented this court and continues it's operations to this day and a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment requires judicially issued warrants for all government searches and seizures, and it mandates that those search warrants be based on probable cause of wrongdoing on the part of the person whom the government wishes to surveil and that the warrants themselves specifically describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized.

      In the pre-Revolutionary era, British courts in London secretly issued general warrants to British government agents in America. The warrants were not based on any

probable cause of crime or individual articulable suspicion; they did not name the person or thing to

be seized or identify the place to be searched. They authorized agents to search where they wished and seize what they found. The use of general warrants was so offensive to our Colonial ancestors that it whipped up more serious opposition to British rule and support for the revolutionaries than the "no taxation without representation" argument did. So when it came time for Americans to write the Constitution, they prohibited general warrants in the Fourth Amendment, the whole purpose of which was to guarantee the right to be left alone by forcing the government to focus on bad guys and prohibit it from engaging in fishing expeditions.

      If it weren't for Edward Snowden the average American citizen would have never known that there is a special court of federal judges which meets in secret to authorize the government to gather and review millions and millions of phone and internet records. This court, called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court), allows government lawyers to come before them in secret, with no representatives of the public or press or defense counsel allowed, to argue unopposed for more and more surveillance. This is the court which, in just one of its thousands of rulings that the public was not aware of, authorized the handing over of all call data created by Verizon within the US and between the US and abroad to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

     The powers that be are given carde blanche to do what ever they want out of view as nearly all of the thousands of decisions of the FISA court have been classified as top secret. The public is not allowed to know what the decisions are, but public records do show how many times the government asked for surveillance authorization and how many times they were denied. These show that in the last three years, the government asked for authorization nearly 5000 times and they were never denied and in its entire history, the FISA court has denied just 11 of 34,000 requests for surveillance.

      FISA was written in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, which involved illegal domestic spying. The purpose of FISA was to insert the judiciary between the NSA and its targets so as to ensure that there would be a consistent legal basis for the spying. What was that basis? The Supreme Court has long characterized domestic spying as surveillance, and it has characterized surveillance as either a “search” or a “seizure” of communications.

      What the NSA does not tell the FISA court is that its requests for approvals are a sham. That’s because the NSA relies on vague language in a 35-year-old executive order, known as EO 12333, as authority to conduct mass surveillance. The targets today are not just ordinary Americans, it is surveillance of everyone and that includes justices on the Supreme Court, military brass in the Pentagon, agents in the FBI, local police in cities and towns, and the man in the Oval Office. It captures the content of every telephone conversation, as well as every keystroke on every computer and all fiber-optic data generated everywhere within, coming to and going from the United States. This is not only profoundly unlawful but also profoundly deceptive. It is unlawful because it violates the Fourth Amendment. It is deceptive because Congress and the courts and the American people, perhaps even the president, think that the FISA court has been serving as a buffer for the voracious appetite of the NSA.

      In our misguided efforts to keep the country safe, we

have neglected to keep it free. We have enabled a deep state to become powerful enough to control a powerful president. We have placed so much data and so much power in the hands of unelected, unaccountable, opaque spies that they can use it as they see fit even to the point of committing federal felonies. Some members of the deep state have boasted that they can manipulate and thus control the president of the United States by selectively revealing and concealing what they know about anyone, including the president himself.

      This is a perilous state of affairs, brought about by the maniacal passion for surveillance spawned under George W. Bush and perfected under Barack Obama -- all with utter indifference to the constitutional violations and permanent destruction of personal liberties. This is not the government the Founders gave us. It is one far more dangerous to human freedom than perhaps anything that we have ever faced as a Republic.

Our Founding Fathers on the Second Amendment

By

 M. Richard Maxson

      The Founding Fathers were quite clear on their views of the second amendment. With all the “debate” that forces in the shadows continues to disarm America we need to revisit their views.

• "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
  - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

• "The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
  

                                                                                                – Samuel Adams

• "…arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them….”

                                                                                                 –Thomas Paine

 

• "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…”

                                - Richard Henry Lee

• "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

                                                                                                   – George Washington

• "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

                                                                                                 – Thomas Jefferson

• "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

                                                                                                – Thomas Jefferson

• "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”

                                                                                               – George Mason

• "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …”

                                                                                               – Richard Henry Lee

• "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.”
  

                                                                                              - Zachariah Johnson

• "The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” .

                                                                                              – Noah Webster

       To those who claim that this amendment has outlived it's purpose because it was written in a different time or was somehow not meant to be what it says it is we say – NUTS!

PROGRESSIVISM  is the belief that all things in the past are obsolete and only the present and the future is relevant. We say "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." Human knowledge is accumulative. To ignore all of mankind's progress is a form of mental illness.

The Critical Thinking of Constitutional Patriots

By

        Zeno Potas

       It's time to let critical thinking* Constitutional Patriots recite truisms that cut through the propaganda of the Deep State and it's media minions. The truth is what this blog is about. It may not set you free but you won't be able to say that you didn't know.

• "The U.S. media’s approach to Russia is now virtually 100 percent propaganda, to even suggest that there is another side to the story makes you a ‘Putin apologist’ or ‘Kremlin stooge.” 

       - Robert Parry
 

• "There’s no reason why the American and the Russian people should be hostile to each other. There’s a history of friendship and working together." 

        - former US Secretary of Defense William Perry

• "One of the tragedies is that we can no longer trust our military, our intelligence services, our politicians. They will manufacture whatever narrative they need to justify an action that they deem to be politically expedient." 

       - Scott Ritter commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, 
         specializing in intelligence

• "I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody can get" from U.S. generals and diplomats. 

       - George Romney, explaining on a TV show why he was changing his position on
         the war in Vietnam.

• "There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” 

      – Senator Daniel K. Inouye
 
 

• "Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means… We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government… This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”  

      – Senator William Jenner 
 

• "We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." 

      - JFK
 

• "As difficult as it was for me, I’ve come to an inescapable and profoundly disturbing conclusion. I believe that an elite group of people and the corporations they run have gained control over not just our energy, food supply, education, and healthcare, but over virtually every aspect of our lives; and they do it by controlling the world of finance. Not by creating more value, but by actually controlling the source of money.” 

      - Foster Gamble
 

• "Democracy is popular because of the illusion of
  
  choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people’s knowledge of the world extends as far as sports, sitcoms, reality shows, and celebrity gossip, democracy becomes a very dangerous idea. Until people are properly educated and informed, instead of indoctrinated to be ignorant mindless consumers. Democracy is nothing more than a clever tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the rest of of us.” 

      – Gavin Nascimento

• "Being patriotic doesn’t mean simply agreeing with your government. Supporting your government, attempting to defend their values, doesn’t mean simply saying yes, okay, whatever you say. In fact, I would argue that being willing to disagree, particularly in a risky manner, is actually what we need more of today. When we have this incredible, often fact-free environment, where politicians can simply make a claim and then it’s reported, without actual critical analysis of what that means or what that effect would be, how do we actually steer democracy, how do we actually guide the boat. But if we have facts, and if we have people who have actually worked with these capabilities who are also participating in their democracy, maybe we can do a little bit better here." 

      - Edward Snowden

 

* Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically. They are keenly aware of the inherently flawed nature of human thinking when left unchecked.   They strive to diminish the power of their egocentric and sociocentric tendencies. They use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers – concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, assess, and improve thinking. They work diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason. They realize that no matter how skilled they are as thinkers, they can always improve their reasoning abilities and they will at times fall prey to mistakes in reasoning, human irrationality, prejudices, biases, distortions, uncritically accepted social rules and taboos, self-interest, and vested interest. They strive to improve the world in whatever ways they can and contribute to a more rational, civilized society while at the same time they recognize the complexities often inherent in doing so.   They avoid thinking simplistically about complicated issues and strive to appropriately consider the rights and needs of relevant others. They recognize the complexities in developing as thinkers, and commit themselves to life-long practice toward self-improvement. They embody the Socratic principle: The unexamined life is not worth living , because they realize that many unexamined lives together result in a chaotic dangerous world.  

The Deep State Silences It's Greatest Foe - WikiLeaks

By

       George Sontag

       He has never been charged with a crime. The false Swedish case against him collapsed and was withdrawn, while the United States has stepped up efforts to prosecute him. His only “crime” is that of a true journalist — telling the world the truths that people have a right to know. Truths of the elite and their “deep state apparatus” that they want to stay in the shadows - unexposed.

       We attempt to shed some light on the crucial case of Julian Assange and why he should finally be freed from further prosecution so that he can continue unfettered the great work WikiLeaks has done as one of the most significant publishers of government whistle-blowers in modern history.

       Assange has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010 on phony charges fabricated by the European elite to silence him. With unstoppable forces against him he fled to the only place in London that he could, the Ecuadorian embassy. From there he has continued to run his WikiLeaks organization much the dismay of many who actively “invent” events to further their agendas.

       There were a lot of actions in support of Julian prior to his going into the Ecuadorian embassy. Ecuador showed principles, ethics and courage in protecting Julian. But now with the change in leadership, the Ecuadorian government is coming under extreme pressure from the “deep state”and appears to be wavering.

    

       They have effectivly isolated Assange and cripled his organization. They have cut off Julian’s Internet, effectively his lifeline. He has been living in that small room for so many years, and now they are trying to make it a little smaller. They have done more than cut off the Internet, they have cut off the phone. Ecuadorian authorities have placed a blocker on all communications at the embassy. Perhaps worst of all, he is denied visitors despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release.

This shut down of crucial communication devices, obviously challenges Wikileaks publishing activities and undermines the crucial work of this incredibly important global news and publishing service.

       Under its previous president, the Ecuadorian government bravely stood against the bullying might of the United States and granted Assange political asylum

as a political refugee. International law and the morality of human rights was on its side. Today, under extreme pressure from Washington and its collaborators, another government in Ecuador justifies its gagging of Assange by stating that “Assange’s behavior, through his messages on social media, put at risk good relations which this country has with the UK, the rest of the EU and other nations.

 

      The US spent some $87 million to bring down the presidency of Rafael Correa, who gave Julian political asylum from US threats against his life and liberty. Meanwhile, the US military was moving into Ecuador with plans to increase the pressure to hand Julian over to the US. There is massive pressure on the new president which has caused the change in his status. By April of 2017, with the “deep state” now in control, they were firmly in the position to go after Julian. Mike Pompeo, who has now been promoted to Secretary of State, wants to arrest Julian once and for all. He threaten to arrest Assange, in violation of two UN rulings and their own laws, as soon as he walks out of the embassy. John Bolton has just been appointed National Security Advisor and has suggested that the US government should wage a cyber war against WikiLeaks for revealing Clinton emails and the CIA hacking scandal.

       WikiLeaks revelations on the increasing false flag events that are occurring around the word were unacceptable. The leaked emails of John Podesta that revealed the direct connection between the Clinton Foundation and organized jihadism in the Middle East, the WikiLeaks revelations of collateral murder that Chelsea Manning leaked that informed people all over the world of how wars are conducted by their own governments, and the apparent propaganda around this Sergei Skripal poisoning in the UK. That was been found not to be conclusively related to Russia. We are at a rather critical stage with Russia and Julian’s safety and freedom. The two situations are related. For example, the day before Julian’s communications with the outside world were cut off, one of the members in the UK parliament asked, “Isn’t it about time we took some action against the Ecuadorian embassy?” He wasn’t happy about Julian tweeting about the government response to the attack in Salisbury. Julian’s doubts have since proven justified, with the lab in Porton Down now stating categorically that there is no evidence to connect Russia with the attack.

       There is a particular cruelty being imposed on Julian Assange because he is the embodiment of dissent which is missing across the political spectrum in Western countries. He has become the enemy to the elite and their governments in the West. What we are seeing is the latest in a long campaign against WikiLeaks that seeks to criminalize investigative journalism. A document which WikiLeaks published from 2008 made it clear that an organization within the Pentagon laid down what the plan would be as far as WikiLeaks was concerned. The strategy was to destroy trust in WikiLeaks and destroy its editor. That was the plan ten years ago and that plan is now being carried out.

       London, Syria, Spain, Ukraine, reporting the truth has brought the hammer down. What is happening to Julian is part of a very aggressive campaign against democracy, against dissent. At the moment, that campaign is at a critical stage. We are witnessing a massive provocation of Russia. We have the biggest military build-up since World War II on the western borders of Russia. At the same time we have the biggest military build-up since World War II in the Pacific. The issue here is that the dominance of the United States and the Deep State is being challenged.

       "Three petitions have now been sent to the president of Ecuador, one from a group of former US intelligence officers supporting Julian, one from a group of world thinkers, and one from the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil. It is also important to get involved in actions, such as the internet vigil “Reconnect Julian,” where truthful journalist worldwide and ordinary people have joined together to pressure the US not to lean on Ecuador to silence Julian.” - Christine Assange

       "I have been a journalist for a long time and I always regarded journalism as involving a certain duty to find a way of telling the truth. Finding the facts out and giving them to the public. This was long before people were called investigative journalists, because all journalism should be investigative, with the object of finding out the

truth. Julian Assange is being mistreated in this way because he is doing what a true journalist should do. He is finding the truth about those who seek to manipulate and control our lives, and by telling that truth, calling them to account. For that, he is being subjected to a form of torture. Being denied all contact is a form of torture. Julian needs our support more urgently than ever.” - John Pilger

WORLD-WIDE PETITION TO RELEASE ASSANGE

      We ask that his basic human rights be respected as an Ecuadorian citizen and internationally protected person and that he not be silenced or expelled. If there is no freedom of speech for Julian Assange, there is no freedom of speech for any of us — regardless of the

disparate opinions we hold. We call on President Moreno to end the isolation of Julian Assange now.

Partial list of signatories (in alphabetic order):

• Pamela Anderson, actress and activist
• Jacob Appelbaum, freelance journalist
• Renata Avila, International Human Rights Lawyer
• Sally Burch, British/Ecuadorian journalist
• Alicia Castro, Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom 2012-16
• Naomi Colvin, Courage Foundation
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political theorist
• Brian Eno, musician
• Joseph Farrell, WikiLeaks Ambassador and board member of The Centre for Investigative Journalism
• Teresa Forcades, Benedictine nun, Montserrat Monastery
• Charles Glass, American-British author, journalist, broadcaster
• Chris Hedges, journalist
• Srecko Horvat, philosopher, Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25)
• Jean Michel Jarre, musician
• John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• Lauri Love, computer scientist and activist
• Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, Presidential advisor
• John Pilger, journalist and film-maker
• Angela Richter, theater director, Germany
• Saskia Sassen, sociologist, Columbia University
• Oliver Stone, film-maker
• Vaughan Smith, English journalist
• Yanis Varoufakis, economist, former Greek finance minister
• Natalia Viana, investigative journalist and co-director of Agencia publica, Brazil
• Ai Weiwei, artist
• Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer and activist
• Slavoj Žižek, philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities

       "He has been effectively imprisoned in a very small space without sunlight for going on six years now,” a spokesman for WikiLeaks stated. “He is not even given right of passage to a hospital.”

Truman Recognizes the Deep State's Treachery

By

M. Richard Maxson


This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      The clandestine agency initiated by President Harry Truman to aid the United States in information gathering quickly morphed into an entity that today is the main proprietor of 'The Deep State.” It began to take control of the nation in the 1950's and clamped down tightly after the assassination of President Kennedy. They now control the path of our country and our nation's fate. It's tentacles reach far and wide across all media and information in the western world. With a hail of smoke and mirrors everyday Americans have no idea what is really going on in the world today.

      The executive branch of our government are mere puppets of the Deep State. The current President has been like a monkey wrench that was thrown into the machinery that is the Deep State. He, like JFK had ideas on how to handle them. He was warned by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” As of this writing, it appears the President Trump has caved.

TRUMAN

      President Harry S. Truman, who spearheaded the establishment of the CIA right after World War II, to better coordinate U.S. intelligence gathering. But the spy agency had lurched off in what Truman thought were troubling directions. He stated years later, “the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency … and what I expected it to do would be charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without Department ‘treatment’ or interpretations.” He wrote “the most important thing was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions. I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. … It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government. Not only shaping policy through its control of intelligence, but also “cloak and dagger” operations, presumably including assassinations.” Truman stated that the CIA had worked as he intended only “when I had control.” The Washington Post published the op-ed in its early edition on Dec. 22, 1963, but immediately excised it from later editions. Other media ignored it.

      Even so this was so important to Dulles that he invented a pretext to get himself invited to visit Truman in Independence, Missouri. On the afternoon of April 17, 1964, Dulles spent a half-hour one-on-one with the former president, trying to get him to retract what he had written in his op-ed. Hell No, said Harry.

      Not a problem, Dulles decided. Four days later, in a formal memorandum of conversation for his old buddy Lawrence Houston, CIA general counsel from 1947 to 1973, Dulles fabricated a private retraction for Truman, claiming that Truman told him the Washington Post article was “all wrong,” and that Truman “seemed quite astounded at it.”

In a June 10, 1964, letter to the managing editor of Look magazine Truman restated his critique of covert action, emphasizing that he never intended the CIA to get involved in “strange activities.”

      Retired Admiral Sidney Souers, whom Truman had appointed to lead his first central intelligence group, read the piece and sent a “Dear Boss” letter applauding Truman’s outspokenness and blaming Dulles for making the CIA “a different animal than the one I tried to set up for you.” He lamented the fact that the agency’s “principal effort” had evolved into causing “revolutions in smaller countries around the globe.”

      There is a massive shift in consciousness occurring. The veil that blinds the masses in so many ways is becoming transparent. Our thoughts and feelings about our world are changing. We are definitely living in a time where new information and evidence will conflict with long-held beliefs about our world and about what our country has become.

The Deep State Ignites the Fuse of World War

By

       PhillipTodd



      The “Men in the Shadows” also known as “The Deep State and Shadow Government” are people that are complete strangers to you. Their only connection with you is (a) to profit from funds extracted from you by the government, and (b) to keep you ideologically befuddled and factually misinformed so that you will not cause any major difficulty for them in their conduct of perpetual war. But aside from these two connections, nothing connects the great majority of Americans with the warfare state. It runs on its own, answering to no one other than themselves and have a thriving pipeline to the county's and the taxpayers’ bank accounts. You pay for all of this endless death and destruction, average American, but you get less than nothing out of it. In short, you are a sap for evil and designing intriguers. If you are reflexively “supporting the troops,” you might want to reconsider playing the fool and having your intelligence insulted daily in the process.



If you are an American, have you asked yourself these questions?

1. What purpose of mine is served by the U.S. government’s making war in Iraq?
2. What purpose of mine is served by the U.S. government’s making war in Afghanistan?
3. What purpose of mine is served by the U.S. government’s making war in Syria?
4. What purpose of mine is served by the U.S. government’s making war in Yemen?
5. What purpose of mine is served by the U.S. government’s making war in Africa?
6. What purpose of mine would be served by the U.S. government’s making war in Iran?
   

   Unless you are an unusual American, and if you are honest, your answer in each case would be, No purpose of mine is served by such war making but the elite, the Deep State does have purpose. 
 
      It was the CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, soon to be Secretary of State, confirming that it was the CIA that concluded that the Syrian government was behind these attacks. Or should we simply just say the Deep State, which seems to now have completely taken a hold of Donald Trump‘s administration, as with most presidents before him. 
 

      We know that presidents don’t really call the shots, and this is exactly what they find out when they get into office. It seems their hands are tied, and they are forced to make moves for others and then claim the decisions as their own. This is why their rhetoric and promises drastically change once they get into office. Perhaps Trump underestimated the strength of the deep state and thought he could do more?

    

    History professor Richard Dolan explains that President Trump “comes in as an outsider to the entire system, and is vastly more disruptive than Hillary Clinton could ever possibly have been. Whether or not he’s actually going to be a disrupter anymore is looking less and less likely.,” as he succumbs to the Deep State. “I see Donald Trump as being checkmated already by the national security community.” Trump has now pretty much followed through on everything that Hillary Clinton would have been doing.”

                             SEEING THROUGH THE LIES

      When someones does get a chance to relay the truth they are either discredited or censured as happened to Jonathan Shaw, the former Commander of British Armed Forces in Iraq, who dares to go ‘off script’ while being interviewed by Sky News, when he is abruptly cut off…

General Shaw was saying before he was so rudely interrupted…

“…the debate that seems to be missing from all this – and this was mentioned by the [Russian] ambassador – is what possible motive might Syria have to launch a chemical attack at this time and in this place…

The Syrians are winning, don’t take my word for it, take the American military’s word for it. General Vogel, the head of CENTCOM, said to Congress the other day that ‘Assad has won this war and we need to face that’, and the tweet by Trump last week that ‘America had finished with ISIS and were going to pull out very soon’…

and then suddenly you get these accusations of a chemical attack…”

      If you read news from outside the stranglehold of the western media you will find that the amount of evidence showing what is really happening with regards to the attacks in Syria is overwhelming. Various truth seeking politicians and academics are laying it out for people bluntly, these are fabricated events created by the western military alliance, the Deep State, in order to justify the infiltration and bombing that is currently taking place in Syria. Many fear that they are lighting the fuse for World War III. The actions of the United States confirm that they were preparing for an all out war or at the very least, trying to destroy the evidence before the facts could be verified. Here are headlines and comments from around the world that contradict the limited (even most NATO countries wash their hands of) western reports.

World Leaders Condemn Attack on Syria as US Threatens Additional Airstrikes

Trump Bombs Syria, Violating Domestic and International Law

US-led strikes in Syria without UNSC mandate a violation of international law

      US President Donald Trump's decision to rain missiles down on Damascus in the early hours of Saturday, along with the UK and France, was not sanctioned by the United Nations, and bypassed an on-the-ground fact-finding mission into the alleged April 7 gas attack in Eastern Ghouta. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was scheduled to begin its on-site investigation on Saturday.

Responding to the US-led airstrikes on Damascus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that all countries are obliged to "act consistently" with the UN Charter. "There's an obligation, particularly when dealing with the matters of peace and security, to act consistently with the Charter of the United Nationals and with international law in general."

Numerous international bodies and governments are now convening to take stock of the situation.

Goal of Syria strikes was to prevent chemical watchdog's fact-finding mission in Douma

Syria airstrikes will not deter chemical weapons inspectors – OPC

A fact-finding mission by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog will continue in Syria despite airstrikes carried out on the country hours earlier by the US, UK, and France.

Evidence put forward in the agency’s report revealed the gas was most likely released to the north of the settlement. However, it did not attribute blame to the April 2017 attack, which was carried out in an area not controlled by the government of the Syrian Arab Republic at the time.

UK's involvement in Air Strikes Did Not Get Parliamentary Approval

      UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn "Bombs won't save lives or bring about peace,” the Labour leader said in a withering statement about the strikes, which he labelled “legally questionable.”
"Britain should be playing a leadership role to bring about a ceasefire in the conflict, not taking instructions from Washington and putting British military personnel in harm’s way,” Corbyn continued.
"Theresa May should have sought parliamentary approval, not trailed after Donald Trump.”
The concerns come as the first poll carried out after yesterday's raids showed that the public believe Mrs May's action was wrong by a majority of almost two to one.

US nuclear 'Doomsday Plane' goes AIRBORNE amid fears of WAR with Russia

Thousands of US Troops and Marines Arrive in Jordan Near Syrian Border

Armada of US warships steaming toward Middle East

 

Russian Navy chief threatens US warship near Syria with TORPEDO ATTACK: 'We have no fear'

 

WW3 fears as US and Russia draw up attack options

War Fever Heats Up As Russians Burn Effigies of Trump

"When both Russia and America nuke each other, survivors in our country will suffer from the shortage of water, of food supplies, of gas, millions of refugees will crowd roads from all over the country, move to villages, just to find some shelter,”Russian Orthodox Poliakov said, describing the nuclear war between Russia and United States.

Trump supporters slam decision to launch strikes against Syria

• The fact that the CIA has a center dedicated to “foreign subversion and instability” – as well as the CIA’s documented penchant for regime change confirms that the decades-long effort to destabilize Syria parallels the agency’s efforts to destabilize other regimes throughout the world in order to replace them with governments they believe to be more sympathetic to U.S. interests. . . .These destabilization efforts are often carried out with little, if any, regard to their impact on civilians who are often caught in the crossfire. As the 1986 report and the 2006 cable both note, the Assads brought periods of “unprecedented stability” to Syria. The CIA and U.S. government have nevertheless chosen to pursue an agenda of destabilization. Nearly seven years later, the death toll in the West’s efforts to oust Assad is set to top half a million and has helped to create the largest refugee crisis since World War II. - Whitney Webb

• Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham both questioned Trump’s decision

• Alex Jones broke down in tears while speaking out against the military action. “We’ve made so many sacrifices and now he’s crapping all over us. It makes me sick."  

• Conservative commentator Ann Coulter also shared her opposition to the strike.

 
      The truth is that over a 100 cruise missiles were fired on Saturday morning local time at three mostly empty military installations, including one research and two storage facilities in airstrikes that last no more than 70 minutes. Citizens of the world react:

     

     We’re in the midst of something that’s never happened in human history. Since the birth of the industrial revolution, our planet is plagued by war. In the midst of it all, what has really transpired behind the scenes — and the true causes of these conflicts — has been hidden behind a screen of misinformation and secrecy.The "men in the shadows" are winning. The question is, how many of us will survive?



UPDATE

OAN Investigation Finds No Evidence of Chemical Weapon Attack in Syria