American Democracy Is A Hoax | The Rulers Of America Are Not The People

Paul Craig Roberts | PaulCraigRoberts.org

In Ed Curtin’s collection of essays that I recently reviewed, he explains in an essay, “Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms,” who created and maintains the fictionalized narrative-controlled world in which Americans live in ignorance of the real operating agendas. 

Curtin says it is the CIA, not the media or the Internet companies or the politicians, who controls the narratives.  The CIA’s own overlords are the powerful financial and corporate interests on which American success depends. Curtin’s account parallels US Marine Commander General Smedley Butler’s confession that he and his US Marines were the enforcers in Latin America for the United Fruit Company and the New York Banks.

There is endless documented evidence for Curtin’s conclusion. Much has been written about the CIA’s “Operation Mockingbird,” now described by CIA media assets, such as Wikipedia, as “alleged operation.”  Beginning in 1950 the CIA began using bribes, such as “leaks” to American media that were designed to influence American and foreign opinion with controlled narratives that advanced secret agendas.  The CIA’s “leaks” made the careers of reporters who could attest to their editors “CIA source” and make the front page if not the headlines. Most journalists regarded as influential are CIA assets.

More recently, Udo Ulfkotte’s book, Bought Journalism, revealed that he, an editor at Germany’s largest newspaper, and most significant journalists in Europe are CIA assets.  This was confirmed by Otto Schulmeister, editor-in-chief and publisher of Austria’s Die Presse. His own CIA connections were revealed.

We know it also from Stephen Kinzer’s book, The Brothers, which gives us the story of how US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles used the State Department, CIA, and American and foreign journalist to serve the corporate clients of their powerful law firm.

Today, of course, the many proven facts are dismissed by the whore media and Wikipedia as conspiracy theory.  The CIA’s assets continue to do their assigned job of controlling the narratives.

Curtin endorses Douglas Valentine’s statement in his revealing book, The CIA As Organized Crime: “The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy.”  In his own words, Curtin adds:

“The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state’s ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, the same as they have done for an international audience.  We have long been subjected to this ‘information warfare,’ whose purpose is to win the hearts and minds of the American people and pacify them into being victims of their own complicity, just as it was practiced by the CIA in Vietnam and by the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, etc, on the American people over the years as the American warfare state wages endless wars, coups, false flag operations, and assassinations at home and abroad.  . . .  the roles that the CIA and the corporate mainstream media play cannot be distinguished from each other.”  

And still millions of dumbshit Americans sit in front of TV “news” and submit to their indoctrination. A people this stupid cannot survive in freedom.

In The Secret Team, Fletcher Prouty documented that the CIA has placed operatives in every agency of the US government. Frances Stonor Saunders (The Cultural Cold War) and Joel Whitney (Finks) explained how CIA officers Cord Myer and Frank Wisner operated secret programs that converted supporters of the First Amendment into voices for censorship. We have seen the results.  We have a fake tale of 9/11, fake tales of our wars in the Middle East, a fake tale of Covid and the Covid “vaccine,” a fake tale of “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” a fake tale of “Iranian nukes” but not a word about Israeli nukes.  We are victims of a massive lie machine.  

Curtin reminds us that not long ago the New York Times gleefully reported that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has been documenting for years the adverse effects on children of vaccines, was “barred from Instagram over false virus claims.” The woman, Jennifer Jett, who wrote the line did not use the word “alleged.” How would Jennifer Jett or Instagram have the slightest qualification to know Kennedy’s claims are false?  

What we see here is media being used by Big Pharma to discredit a highly knowledgable source.  For years I have been watching highly credible experts discredited by media operatives of zero accomplishment. Nobodies of whom no one has ever heard become the experts.

As far as I can tell, the last two generations of graduates of the US educational–in reality brainwashing–system were not taught to read. They can recognize a limited number of words, but they cannot master the meaning of the words on the page.  This is partly by design and partly the results of integrated schools that demand equal racial performance outcomes.  The ruling elite finds it much easier to deceive and to control people who cannot understand what they read. As it is not permissible for white and Asian ethnicities to perform better as a group than blacks and Hispanics, standards are reduced to the point that everyone can have the same grade.

I recently attended a high school graduation ceremony in north Florida. 41% of the graduating class were Summa Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, and Cum Laude.  What do you think the explanation is?  A hot spot of genius genes, or standards dropped to hide racial differences in educational performance? In a few more years, 100 % of the graduating class will be Summa Cum Laude, and the distinction will mean nothing.

In the Autumn 2023 issue of City Journal, Renu Mukherjee reports the destruction of America’s elite high schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in northern Virginia, Stuyvesant High School, and Bronx High School of Science. The schools had strict entrance tests to ensure that the students admitted were capable of benefitting from the expensive and demanding experience.  As Asians and Whites comprised most of the student bodies, educational standards based on merit have been declared racist by the DEI tyrants that rule us and have control over American education.  

In place of entrance tests, each middle school in the geographic area is allowed a share of the admissions. Perhaps from there it becomes a lottery. Whatever, the result is to drop the percentages of the most qualified and to raise the percentages of the least qualified. For the least qualified to graduate with an equal share of the honors, the standards must be lowered.  In the interests of DEI the elite preparatory high schools are being destroyed.  The fact that elite high schools succumbed to the propaganda that merit is racist foretells the demise of American science and engineering. As time passes the US will become dependent on Chinese, Indian, and Russian immigrants for its science and technology.

Just as cum laude distinctions are losing their meaning, so are US presidential appointments.  It formerly meant something to be appointed an Assistant Secretary.  It no longer does.  After Biden’s DEI appointments, which included sexual perverts, the honor that was associated with the appointment and its Senate confirmation is no longer there.  The same has happened to the judiciary.  The incompetent two-bit punk ideologues that Congress has appointed to the bench are hardly to be respected.  They are the enemies of justice and the American people.  They are currently busy at work overturning the presidential election.  Little wonder the ruling establishment let Trump win.  They knew that they could stop him cold with the judiciary and move him in their direction with advice that gives him “broader perspectives.” 

Maga-Americans should consider that if President Trump refuses to accommodate the ruling establishment, he faces the possibility that the mid-term elections will be stolen for the Democrats.  Again in charge of Congress, they will impeach and convict Trump.  Then indict him and his government, terrorize his supporters, and establish DEI Woke Truth over America.

The end of the Founding Fathers experiment could be very near.

But don’t expect dumbshit Americans to realize that. They are easy pickings because they are implicated by their own complicity.

Are Americans Still Americans?

This question came to mind from reading Edward Curtin’s essays, “At the Lost and Found,” (Clarity Press, 2025), in which he shares with readers his intellectual encounters with the rising criminality of the governments of the United States since the 1960s. Edward Curtin is a decent person with a sense of justice and a moral conscience, traits more common in his time than today.  I found his moral responses reassuring, and wonder if recent generations would respond in the same way.

Curtin, I suspect, was a member of the old moderate left, which was concerned with fairness and pushing a reform here and there.  Today this left remains only in its elderly remnants.  The modern left is not reformist.  It is revolutionary, committed to using law, government, and media to overthrow traditional society and replace it with a Sodom & Gomorrah Tower of Babel in which merit is regarded as a white racist tool. 

Today the left, as epitomized by the Biden regime, pushes DEI over merit, sexual perversity over love between a man and a woman, sexualization of young children, demonization of white people as racists, and ideology over truth. Today for the left the truth resides in the ideological agenda, not in facts.

Despite the digital revolution, the Internet, social media, email, and texting, the acquisition of truthful information has become ever more difficult.  The reason is that for almost all parties concerned, it is the agenda that is important, not the facts.  A consequence is that, unlike in the past, today we live in narratives orchestrated to serve agendas. As Curtin puts it, “we are living in a pretend society” in which truth is not present.

Curtin’s essays, like my own, vary in quality, but every decent person will enjoy escape from social media into thought about what is happening to us.  I am not going to attempt to organize Curtin’s essays around a theme.  I am going to limit my comments to two of his essays. 

The first is about what has become of Christmas.  As my readers know, for several decades it has been my habit to republish my Christmas essay, “The Greatest Gift of All,” to remind people that Christianity gave us freedom and meaning in our lives.  In the Massachusetts town in which Curtin and his wife live, Christmas fireworks are a feature.  As he and his wife inside their home sit holding and trying to calm the family dogs, “sentient animals with deep feelings,” who are quaking uncontrollably, Curtin thinks of “children in Gaza quivering in fear as the Israelis bomb them night and day in savage attacks” and thinks of “the visceral sense of what those Palestinians  must be feeling as they hold their trembling children” who are declared by Israel’s leader to be “useless objects.”  

It is America’s shame that the entire government of the United States, including President Trump, the media, and the brainwashed and indoctrinated hapless American population  accept the destruction of a people, even enable it with weapons and money and deportation of persons with sufficient moral conscience to protest the genocide of a nation.  Curtin has every right to raise the question, what kind of people have Americans become?

The second essay is about Curtin’s “Known Knowns,” which consists of the massive lies that the US government has based its rule upon, regardless of whether Republican or Democrat, since the 1960s.  In a mere 8 pages Curtin presents the history of the US government’s degeneration into evil kept in power by lies.

He begins with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and goes on to Allan Dulles who engineered slaughter of one million Indonesians, the orchestrated Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal orchestrated by the CIA to drive Nixon from power, the neoconservatives’ Iran-Contra scandal, the orchestrated Persian Gulf War, the Clinton regime’s bombing of four countries in four months –Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, the 9/11 false flag attacks on the World Trade Center, the George W. Bush regime’s fake “war on terror,” used to strip Americans of civil liberties and to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama who institutionalized the warfare state and bombed seven countries, Trump who allowed the deadly Covid vaccine to be imposed on us and subjects the conscience of America to the support of Israel’s genocide of Palestine, and Biden who engineered the anti-Russian coup in Ukraine, renewed war with Russia, and imprisoned American citizens for exercising their constitutional rights.

From the standpoint of the American Establishment, the problem with Curtin’s indictment is that it is true.  

In today’s America, to tell the truth is becoming an indication of treason for which whistleblowers, allegedly protected by federal law, are being imprisoned. This is not changing under Trump. Instead, it is expanding.  If you criticize Israel, you are deported. Thus, under the Trump regime, if you speak the truth about Israel, you are considered an enemy of the state.

Americans really do need to think about how they arrived at this position.  Curtin’s essays will help you.

Related: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/27/are-americans-still-americans/

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