First published at 23:32 UTC on February 24th, 2019.
The term "civil society" is particularly sinister these days. When we hear this term it is likely that the person wielding it is receiving money from the US State Department, a Washington think tank (or three), a US defense contractor (or …
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The term "civil society" is particularly sinister these days. When we hear this term it is likely that the person wielding it is receiving money from the US State Department, a Washington think tank (or three), a US defense contractor (or three), an Israeli lobby group (or twelve), a US intelligence agency (or privatized versions thereof) or one the many instruments of insider power from any of the previously mentioned groups that have infested every crevice of the mainstream media these days.
If you know the history and purpose of these shadowy operatives like the State Department alumni, Victoria Nuland, who wield these terms, you will see these them magically transformed into meanings that are the cynical diametric opposites. Nuland soiled the office of the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs during the Obama days Used this term to reign in war and regime change in the Ukraine.
This and many terms before it, such as freedom, democracy, human rights and the "liberal order" to name just a few, get gobbled up by the legions of special interests groups, swarms of parasitic lobbiests and scores of State Department rats, then systematically perverted, then spat out as propaganda, psy-ops and false flags - their meanings changed, their innards gutted of any actual relationship to their original meanings. But the term civil society is particularly insidious because it is code for war. we can't even legitimately ascribe the term imperialism to their efforts because nothing they do even remotely benefits this nostalgic notion of an empire - they're all their to line their pockets, or bank accounts of the interests who pull their strings and who they eagerly do the bidding for. But this is not anything resembling an empire any more.
In the zionist neo-con/neo liberal parlance the term "civil society" is a call to escalate arms spending, unleash the dogs of perpetual war, herald in IMF and World Bank imposted debt slavery - it is their clarion call fo..
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