It’s not a physical enemy to combat but rather powerful messages lodged in millions of people’s minds. It’s come to rule over us.
TV broadcast, 1964. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
By Joe Lauria
Cathy Vogan, executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN Live!, coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy. And Consortium News‘ existence is devoted to fighting it.
According to Wikipedia:
“Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives.”
William Casey, C.I.A. director under Ronald Reagan, said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Thus the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as “the news.” Combating these false constructs of the world through media is Consortium News‘ mission.
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U.S. intelligence officials feed journalists disinformation to create a false narrative that is intended to mislead the public and cover-up what is actually taking place.
The constant reinforcement of these lies becomes entrenched in the public mind and after time comes to be accepted as unquestionable truth.
Here’s an explanation of how the C.I.A. did it in Vietnam:
Through such operations, the American people were led to believe for years that the United States was winning in Vietnam, when it was actually losing, as the Pentagon Papers proved.
Since then, many examples have followed of completely false stories being planted into people’s minds to start and keep a war going, the fake WMD narrative in Iraq perhaps the most infamous.
Today the wars people are being fooled about are in Ukraine and Gaza.
Sometimes a psyop doesn’t involve inserting false information, so much as leaving out what’s true.
Blind Faith (Eden Gallanter/Creative Commons)
The American people, and by extension, people around the world, have been led to believe that an unprovoked Russian madman started the war in Ukraine.
That’s because they are purposely not told that the war actually began in 2014 after a U.S.-backed overthrow of the elected government in Kiev led Russian speakers in Donbass to declare independence, after which the illegitimate government militarily attacked them.
Other facts are removed from the story, such as Russia’s proposed treaties with the U.S. and NATO in December 2021 that would have prevented Russia’s intervention in the Ukrainian civil war.
And now the psyopcracy is deluding Western Europe into believing Russia is about to attack them.
The history of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is also whitewashed to lead the U.S. public into believing that Israel is the “victim” that is only “defending itself.”
Robert Parry, the founder of this website, in March 2017 wrote the article, “How US Flooded the World with Psyops,” in which he reported for the first time:
“Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens, a structure that expanded U.S. influence abroad and quieted dissent at home.
The documents reveal the formation of a psyops bureaucracy under the direction of Walter Raymond Jr., a senior CIA covert operations specialist who was assigned to President Reagan’s National Security Council staff to enhance the importance of propaganda and psyops in undermining U.S. adversaries around the world and ensuring sufficient public support for foreign policies inside the United States.”
So many people are subject to psyops that telling the truth becomes a formidable task. You become the one that is out of step. You are the one that seems to be mad.
Consortium News‘s 30-year mission since 1995 has been to fight against psychological operations that have come to rule over Americans and other peoples, convincing them of all manner of falsehoods, such as that the U.S. is motivated by humanitarian and democratic principles rather than naked greed and a lust for domination.
And that the Ukraine war was unprovoked and Israel is just defending itself.
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“when everything the American public believes is false.”
We’re almost there.
Conversely the same ?
“when everything false the American public believes is true.”
Did someone once write about a “rose” called by another name ?
I don’t believe I just said that .
Happens in Canada as well. Little wonder the public have a warped view, if any. Our media avoid all things Gaza and Ukraine. For several years we have been blocked on the CBC news web from commenting on articles. And Russia or China are hyped as “the enemy”. That tells us something.
1984
I see this happening in my own country. It seems to me that the Afrikaners who are very religious and believe in the first testament are totally with Israel and believe that Russia and China are those evil people on the other side of the world.
every war is sustained by lies -right now the conflict in Ukraine looms large but theres also Oct 7 ,Iran Israel, the coming war with China .The manipulation of public consent by the war state which killed JFK,RFK and MLK where the profits are…
Fascinating truths about Vietnam which JFK wanted to exit of course,LBJs NSAM 273 already written before the assassination.In the eyes of the CIA staying in Vietnam was making $s 10,000,000s for US imperialists-Americans have yet to get their heads around this scam though Magas may have realised Trump is just an extension of the theme. China knows youre coming.
It is important to understand that much of the propaganda is directed at US government personnel; congress, people in the state dept., etc. They must be kept onboard with the US agenda, so they are a primary target of the psyops. It is one reason why congress people can’t answer simple questions that pertain directly to the policies they are pushing, they actually don’t know the real answer. The Corporate-Owned-News (CON) is the spearhead of the propaganda system aimed at not just keeping the public onboard, but also the government personnel that make US policy.
But it’s worse than that. The brainwashing starts with the schools system. Many of the people pushing for wars have no idea where the countries they wish to destroy are, or their history, or culture. Ignorance enables the psychopaths. Maybe it’s time to start educating the kids about the big wide world outside of America ?
Well, if the Congress etc were at all hip, they’d know the stuff they get is corrupted badly and their staff would be directed to read alternative sources…..if they are that gullible without checking their sources then they have no business being in office…
Couldn’t agree more with you. The Congress as an institution could no longer duck behind corporate-funded MSM, especially not in our current age of alternatives-rich Social Media !
Sums it all up succinctly as usual.
Psyopracy. Hope to see that word incorporated in the Oxford English Dictionary soon!
A very apt term, to be honest.
Psyopcracy is the new democracy!