Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unacceptable. The years of disruption, conflict and provocation preceding it, orchestrated by the USA, is also unacceptable. But as soon as that provocation is successful – and war breaks out – any reference to it magically disappears. That’s if much of it even made it into the western mainstream media.
The same ‘magic’ that dissolved/dissapeared concern about [claims of] WMD’s and the overwhelming public opposition to the invasion of Iraq as soon as it started. We were told we must support the troops. The USA has turned disruption, instability and provocation into an artform over the years with their regime change activities around the world. They and their allies/ vassal states have been in an almost constant state of war since WWII.
In his speech at the end of his term of office, President Eisenhower warned the world about the people who’re profiting from that almost constant state of war; the military-industrial complex. But nobody listens to those exit speeches, they’re from yesterday’s men. In any case it was already too late, the foxes were in charge of the hen house.
The second largest industry in the world is armaments and 46 per cent of that global industry is in the USA. 46 per cent of the second largest amount of money in the world can afford a very large chunk of the finest democracy money can buy, and its equally affordable mainstream media.
The constant war-mongering of their foreign policy and mainstream narrative has been very lucrative for some; $750 billion out of the public trough just this year, and even more now that war has conveniently broken out again. Imagine how much new equipment Europe will buy as they ship their old equipment to Ukraine.
I’m not a fan of Putin or authoritarian regimes generally, my anarchist licence would be immediately revoked. But I’m definitely not a fan of this illusion of democracy and a free press that is manipulating the mainstream narrative to have us constantly war-mongering for arms-makers’ profits. We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and it’s not the one you think. It’s the plague of war – and the USA is the virus.
The finest democracies and mainstream media money can buy come as a job lot, both sides are owned and the owners don’t care who you vote for. Either way they win, the military-industrial complex still runs foreign policy and will continue war-mongering for profit.
This scam is right before us, in plain sight, cloaked only in a manipulated mainstream narrative; the same one that assures us we live in a democracy with a free press.
We need a different game with different rules, because this emperor has no clothes.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
