March 16, 2022
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Fox News, Ukraine and
the Onset of the New World Order
Friends,
I have been writing and saying in numerous essays and articles
published since 2013 that Fox News (that is, the news portion of the media
operation) serves as a propaganda voice for the Neoconservative globalists of
the managerial Deep State.
That much should be clear simply by tuning in for just a few
minutes to view Fox News’ over-the-top coverage of the Ukrainian conflict.
It’s nothing new.
Two prominent examples immediately come to mind. Both
primetime announcer Bret Baier, author of a potboiler praising Ulysses Grant, and
Brian Kilmeade, author of an unserious volume praising the collaboration of
Abraham Lincoln and radical revolutionary Frederick Douglass, serve as a
zealous “amen corner” for American intervention globally. (Both books were no
doubt written with critical collaboration from “ghost writers”)
And who can forget the unbridled globalism (and anti-Trumpism)
of the late Charles Krauthammer, and his boast that after the fall of
Communism, “we now live in a unipolar world,” controlled essentially by
American business and political elites and the US state department, and anyone
who stands in our (their) way must be taught “a lesson in American democracy?”
Just as our Federal government had “saved” the Union in
1861-1865 by beating down those unprogressive racist Confederates and their
traitorous leaders (e.g. Lee and Davis), so now America must go round the world
to “enlighten” it about all the wonders and blessings of our form of liberal
democracy.
Whether in Syria, where Fox was joined at the hip to the late
John McCain’s frenzied calls for the United States to intervene against the
legitimate and Christian-supported government of President Bashar Assad (as
McCain stood on the ground arm-in-arm with ISIS-connected guerrillas), or its
plea that American soldiers must stay in Afghanistan long after the imposed twenty-year
US “experiment in democracy” had been deemed a failure, or now with its
unbelievably propagandistic coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, Fox News is
not adverse to employing disinformation and extreme emotionalism in the causes
it advances.
As I do each morning, but only for a few disagreeable minutes,
Tuesday (March 15) I switched on “Fox
& Friends.” The program ended with the network offering its viewers a
performance by pop singer Vladimir John Ondrasik of his new “patriotic” song:
“Can One Man Save the World?” As I listened to Ondrasik and the words of his
song, the motivation and object were apparent: the embattled president of
Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, has become the new “savior of the world,” indeed a
near-perfect, holy, Christ-like figure, sent from Heaven to lead the peoples of
the earth into a new age, annealed in democracy, freedom, and accompanying exaltation…despite
the fact that the country he leads is probably the most corrupt and
undemocratic in Europe.
And Brian Kilmeade, seizing the moment and deeply affected by
Ondrasik’s cloying paean, almost genuflected in homage. Here was “the Abraham
Lincoln of Ukraine,” leading his beleaguered nation against those awful pro-Russian
secessionists in Donetsk and Lugansk provinces which have declared their
independence from Kiev (the flag these states have adopted is modeled
on the Confederate Battle Flag) and against the forces of the
new Satan himself, Vladimir Putin, brooding and mentally-deranged, crouching in
the dark recesses of the Kremlin.
But Volodymyr Zelensky—who is he really? Well, he is a comedian
and former performing drag queen who was literally plucked out of nowhere to
become the current president of Ukraine. Archbishop Carlo Vigano’, former
Apostolic Nuncio in the United State for the Catholic Church and an highly
informed observer of Eastern European cultural and political matters, offers
this picture:
Zelensky’s
performances as a drag queen are perfectly consistent with the LGBTQ ideology
that is considered by his European sponsors as an indispensable requirement of
the “reform” agenda that every country ought to embrace, along with gender
equality, abortion and the green economy. No wonder Zelensky, a
member of the WEF [World Economic Forum]
(here), was able to
benefit from the support of Klaus Schwab and his allies [including George
Soros] to come to power and ensure that the Great Reset would
also be carried out in Ukraine…. In his homeland, many accuse him of having
taken power away from the pro-Russian oligarchs not to give it to the Ukrainian
people, but rather to strengthen his own interest group and at the same time
remove his political adversaries.
After his election Zelensky closed
seven opposition television channels, suppressed the opposition press,
and arrested and accused the leader of the major opposition party in Ukraine,
Arsen Medvedcuk, of treason, while naming his friends and associates to
powerful and lucrative high positions in the government.
And this is the man that Nancy Pelosi holds up as “the
champion of democracy” and for whom Brian Kilmeade blubbers his unreserved
admiration as another Abraham Lincoln.
Since 2014, the seceded republics of Donetsk and Lugansk have
suffered approximately 14,000 civilian casualties at the hands of organized and
irregular Ukrainian troops. But no Western media carry news of those outrages.
Instead, what American viewers get are graphic images of
hospitals, maternity wards and civilian apartments destroyed, it is repeated
incessantly, by Russian missiles and long-range artillery fire.
Yet, careful investigation of those purported “war crimes”
should cause viewers to doubt what they are seeing. The first question that arises
is: why would the Russian Army specifically target civilians and
hospitals, for all the world to plainly see, when already they are receiving
such negative press in the West? Indeed,
with nearly 20% of the Ukrainian population ethnically Russian and stated Russian
war aims to pacify and win over at least portions of the country, such mindless
attacks would seem counter-productive.
And that brings us to the tactic of various irregular groups
fighting at the behest of the Ukrainian government, such as the fanatical Azov
Battalion militia group (trained
by the CIA) and other violent nationalist formations which have engaged in
terrorism against Russian civilians since 2014. Part of the strategy of such
groups is to stage false flag operations, to occupy a hospital, for instance,
and use it as a base for sniper fire against Russian regulars. Then, when the
Russians fire back, to show vivid images to eager Western reporters of the “war
crimes” committed by those hated Russians. Nothing gets the attention and
sympathy of American viewers more than scenes of dying innocent mothers with
their young babies, savagely slaughtered by those evil Orc-like demons from the
cold north. And nothing makes better fodder for Ukrainian propagandists than
those images spread across American HD wide-screens.
As Archbishop Vigano’ has
observed (March 6):
It is dismaying to
see with what hypocrisy the European Union and the United States – Brussels and
Washington – are giving their unconditional support to President Zelensky,
whose government for eight years now has continued to violently persecute
Russian-speaking Ukrainians with impunity (here), for whom it is
even forbidden to speak in their own language… And it is scandalous that they
are silent about the use of civilians as human shields by the Ukrainian army,
which places anti-aircraft positions inside population centers, hospitals and
maternity wards, schools and kindergartens precisely so that their destruction
can cause deaths among the population.
Investigative journalists, Glenn Greenwald (on Substack), and Chronicles
magazine assistant editor Pedro
Gonzalez (March 7), have documented the incredibly large number of
such instances, of horribly tragic attacks seemingly aimed at civilians,
supposedly by the Russian army, only on closer inspection to have been
committed by Ukrainian irregulars—who thereupon can utilize the unquestioning
bias and favorability of the Western media to present
their version widely:
…while the Western
media shows images of the video game War Thunder (here), frames from the
movie Star Wars (here), explosions in
China (here), videos of
military parades (here), footage from
Afghanistan (here), from the Rome
metro (here) or images of
mobile crematoria (here), passing them off
as real and recent scenes of Russian “war crimes,” the reality of the war in
Ukraine is ignored because it has already been decided to employ the conflict
as a weapon of mass distraction that legitimizes new restrictions of freedoms
in Western nations, according to the plans of the World Economic
Forum’s Great Reset and the United Nations’ Agenda 2030.
And then, as intended, comes the outrage of American viewers,
the feverish calls in Congress “to establish a no-fly zone” over Ukraine (an
insane idea embraced by Republicans Lindsey Graham and Adam Kinzinger, which
would lead undoubtedly to World War III) or to assassinate President Putin of
Russia.
The propaganda works its magic. Not only is American corporate
enterprise terminating all its business ventures in Russia, while most of the
world, led by the United States state department and its Neocon apparatchiks,
does the same, but anything or anybody in any way who dissents from the dogmatic
establishment viewpoint on the conflict is “cancelled” or denounced as a
“traitor” (e.g., Mitt Romney’s vicious attack on former Representative Tulsi
Gabbard’s quite factual words as “treasonous”).
Have we not heard this chorus before? Is our memory so short
that we cannot recall the unceasing examples of Russophobia during the Trump
presidency? And yet many of the same “conservatives” who strongly and rightly
resisted the disinformation percolating for the past six years, now accept the
words, the photo montages, and the reporting of the same media and government
voices as absolute, incontrovertible gospel?
Our news media decries censorship in Russia; the Russians,
they say, are only presenting one side to their population. But, let me ask, is
not the American media doing exactly the same thing? Are not their strident
voices—and not just that of the brain-dead Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger—demanding
that any dissenter, even the mildest and most circumspect (e.g., Tucker
Carlson), be censored, throttled, even imprisoned for “thought crimes”?
Even such internationally-famed artists and cultural icons as
the Russian orchestra conductor Valery
Gergiev and soprano Anna Netrebko are immediately fired, their
contracts summarily terminated by practically all American and Western
institutions they were to grace with their talent because they
won’t openly and forthrightly denounce and condemn their
home country and its president. And, more, the dozens of DVDs and compact discs
of their performances are now disappearing from sellers, or prices for their
works are now reaching astronomical figures.
Not even during the hottest moments of the Cold War was such
extreme censorship exercised.
Yes, it IS censorship, perhaps less open and more subtle, but
there just the same, progressively accomplishing its goal of silencing and
punishing anyone who demurs.
The American pot is calling the Russian kettle black.
Far too many Americans do not comprehend the fundamental
issues involved in this conflict. Of course, Ukrainians are fighting Russians,
and the near-totality of the West is both condemning the Russians and aiding
Ukraine. But Ukraine is only a pawn in a much larger global game. Our managerial
and foreign policy elites, despite their professed anguish over the blood being
shed tragically in that corner of Eastern Europe, do not actually care about
the poor Ukrainians living in besieged Kiev or the poor Russians living in the
war-torn Donbas. What is important to them is, above all, the major effort and
push for a globalist “Great Reset” using the Ukrainian conflict to finally
accomplish their objective of bringing the entire world in accord with their plans
for a New World Order. And to do that, Russia, which now stands athwart their
designs, must be diminished and brought into line.
As international leaders from Klaus Schwab, head of the World
Economic Forum, to George Soros, with his multiple international NGOs, to various
government officials in Kiev have declared (in the words of Ukrainian
parliamentarian Kira
Rudik to Fox News): “We know that we are not only fighting for Ukraine, but also
for the New World Order.”
And
that new order is not that of the traditional Christian West. Nor is Volodymyr
Zelensky the “one man who can save the world.” That Man suffered on a
Cross for us 2,000 years ago.
Amen, Boyd.
ReplyDeleteCan confirm that you get it right. Unfortunately many don't.
ReplyDeleteExcellent assessment. Cowardly ideologues' banging on war drums always drown out reasoned and measured calls for moderation and peace.
ReplyDeleteDr. Cathey,
ReplyDeleteAs you have related, Zelensky is no saint. Nor is Putin, from all accounts.
So, why are we taking any side in this conflict, seeing that there are bad actors everywhere? I can understand why the War Party is taking the side of Ukraine, but why do normal Americans have to go along with this?
I am sorry you're getting so much flack from people who should know better, and should trust our government less than they, apparently, do.
it is so bad that i cannot even watch fox or any channel but fox especially has such hatred of putin and russia its iraq all over again by the same cast of characters. even carlson and igraham have tamed down and are agreeing with the narrative .and col davis has also bowed down to the cabal.
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