A distinguished professor at GMU and former Dubya CIA Director, Michael Hayden, lusting for another 15 minutes of fame, recently expressed the idiotic view that Donald Trump was the equivalent of the Rosenbergs—another Atom Bomb Spy. I guess Hayden qualifies as Deep State, although Shallow State would seem to fit the case better. Imagine how dumbfounded countries with serious Intel services, countries like Russia and China, must be by Hayden’s performance. They must be muttering, Man, without nukes these guys are nowhere!
Now, as if to definitively confirm that he’s only fit for the shallow end of the Intel pool, Hayden “liked” the following tweet—from a newspaper writer:
They really do hate us. And by “they” I guess I mean the GOP Establishment. Or maybe I missed reports of prominent Republicans eviscerating Hayden.
Matt Taibbi—not a Republican—offers the pretty obvious response:
Given that, during his inexplicable tenure in high level positions of the Deep State, Hayden engaged in all kinds of illegal actions against Americans—not just al Qaeda terrorists—one wonders whether Hayden would now be in favor of turning the drones loose on, say, parents attending school board meetings. You know—domestic terrorists, as defined by your FBI and DoJ. Does this tell you more than you ever suspected about the kinds of people who rise to great bureaucratic heights in the American Empire?
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, some goof named Mike Pence—not a Republican, but he says he knows some—called on his “Republican friends” to stop criticizing the FBI. That’s the 11th commandment of the Deep State these days: Thou shalt not criticize the FBI. The longer version includes something about not saying sh*t when you have a mouth full of it.
Laura Ingraham had a nice chat with Tucker Carlson about both of these incidents the other night. Tucker explains who that “concubine” is:
"his lack of probity and integrity with a knee-jerk emotionalism resonant of a school-girl"
That pretty much sums up the personality type that rises to the top of bureaucracies--membership in the mean girls' club, regardless of gender.
Keep Your Saw Sharp
Using Michael Hayden...and Merrick Garland...and Dick Cheney... and "Joe Biden" himself to defend the Biden Administration seems crazy and, increasingly, desperate. As do many, if not virtually all, of "Joe Biden"'s domestic and foreign policies. Certainly, the continuing efforts of the West to somehow win the war in Ukraine seem a fool's errand. Is it possible that the entire house of lies is coming down?
A theme which is attracting considerable attention both here and elsewhere is the extent to which the Western "globalist" powers, led, of course, by the United States are engaged in a 'war' to maintain global hegemony. The main opponent today is Russia, as evidenced by the conflict in Ukraine, but there are indications that other nations, including China and India, and the rest of the BRICs, and other countries, as well, such as Saudi Arabia, are increasingly opposed to the global hegemony of the U.S.
A few days ago Russia held the 10th annual Moscow Conference on International Security. On this occasion both Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave speeches explaining the foreign policy of Russia and Russia's view of current world events.
Putin was utterly blunt in condemning the actions of the United States and NATO and in describing his view of the world situation. He said (in verbatim translation),
"The situation in the world is changing dynamically and the outlines of a multipolar world order are taking shape. An increasing number of countries and peoples are choosing a path of free and sovereign development based on their own distinct identity, traditions and values.
These objective processes are being opposed by the Western globalist elites, who provoke chaos, fanning long-standing and new conflicts and pursuing the so-called containment policy, which in fact amounts to the subversion of any alternative, sovereign development options. Thus, they are doing all they can to keep hold onto the hegemony and power that are slipping from their hands; they are attempting to retain countries and peoples in the grip of what is essentially a neocolonial order. Their hegemony means stagnation for the rest of the world and for the entire civilisation; it means obscurantism, cancellation of culture, and neoliberal totalitarianism."
You can read his entire address here: https://archive.ph/VIfLL
Defense Minister Shoigu made similar remarks.
Of course, the Russian perspective on the world military-political situation is little noted in the Western media. I searched extensively for reports of the Moscow Conference on International Security this morning and could only find a Washington Post article attributed to an AP writer.
Here: https://archive.ph/HLfRq
But this does not mean that Russia's increasingly formally articulated view of the meaning of the war in Ukraine and the conflict with the West is going unnoticed. The astute London-based commentator, Alexander Mercouris, devoted a large portion of his daily videocast to the subject a day or two ago. You can watch it here: https://rumble.com/v1gcy61-putin-shoigu-pitch-russia-as-main-opponent-of-globalisation.-part-2.html
There is also evidence that other countries outside the U.S. sphere of influence/dominance are increasingly moving towards the Russian perspective. We can see this in some of the actions taken by China recently (although China's position is undoubtedly complex and difficult), as well as other of the BRICs countries, some African countries and even the strange bedfellows of Iran and Saudi Arabia.
I offer all of the foregoing to Mark and his readers simply for the purpose of showing how domestic opposition to the Coastal Elites and the Deep State, as extensively documented on this site, and international opposition to what Putin calls the "western globalist elites" may be coalescing around certain agreed upon facts and principles. It appears that these "elites" are increasingly engaged in a desperate effort to hold on to (what Putin calls) hegemony and power both at home and abroad...at all costs.
How else to explain the increasing irrationality of "Joe Biden"'s domestic politics where, for example, his agents raid the home of the ex-President in search of a crime or raise taxes to reduce inflation, and "his" foreign policy where billions of dollars are printed to prolong a war in the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe which is causing tens of thousands of deaths and which, objectively, cannot be won. Of course, there are many, many additional examples, many of which Mark and his commenters are chronicling.
Where does this all lead? In all likelihood to greater turmoil, divisions, dissent, and, yes, violence, before there is any resolution. But it is hard for me to believe that the increasing evidence of venality, dishonesty and wrongdoing of the 'elites' does not eventually do them in. As Michael Smith, another blogger here on Substack, has written,
"Truth will out. Reality exists. Natural laws and natural rights exist. But perhaps the greatest advantage is that this weaponized state is so centralized, when one part falls, it all falls. That is the greatest weakness of a totally [politicized] state, it is just as fragile as it is powerful. The greatest of redwood trees have been felled by a single saw cut in the right place."
https://michaelsmith.substack.com/p/keep-your-saw-sharp
Perhaps we are closer to victory than we think.