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Fighting The Psyopcracy

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/27/fighting-the-psyopcracy/

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/25/how-us-flooded-the-world-with-psyops/

https://twitter.com/CathyVoganSPK/status/1606447615230771200

It is a hard thing to combat because it’s not a physical enemy but
rather messages that lodge themselves in millions of people’s minds.
And it has come to rule over us.

Cathy Vogan, the executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN
Live!, recently coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or
psychological operations: psyopcracy.   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.”

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.

Blind Faith (Eden Gallanter/Creative Commons)

Today the war people are being fooled about is in Ukraine. Sometimes a
psyop doesn’t involve inserting false information, so much as leaving
out what’s true.

The American people, and by extension people around the world, have
been led to believe that an unprovoked Russian madman started the war
last February.

That’s because they are purposely not told that the war actually began
in 2014 after a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev led Russian speakers in
Donbass to declare independence, after which the coup government
militarily attacked them.

Other facts are removed from the story, such as Russia’s proposed
treaties with the U.S. and NATO last December that would have
prevented Russia’s intervention in the Ukrainian civil war.

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.”

    A psyopcracy?
    — Cathy Vogan (@CathyVoganSPK) December 24, 2022

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.