Russian government spokesman Dmitry Petsov recalled the “U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell with supposed vial of Iraqi anthrax, February 2003. It was no surprise that when two Persian Gulf oil tankers were attacked last Thursday, “Gulf of Tonkin” immediately spiked on Google, while right-wing sites played up claims of a false flag attack. To call the massacre of schoolchildren a “false flag operation,” as Jones and Fetzer have done, is itself a vicious lie that treats the victims and survivors as an enemy, a demonstration of cruelty proven to drive traffic.īecause false-flag thinking is both a right-wing media meme and a reality of geopolitical struggle, distinguishing between the two is urgent more urgent than ever. Thanks to Alex Jones, James Fetzer and other hucksters, “false flag operation” now signifies a treacherous machinations by unseen forces to dupe unwitting Americans. Once the jargon of military and intelligence professionals, the term “false flag operation” has entered the American vocabulary. It is the propagation of a vicious lie–the false attribution of a deed to the enemy–so as to justify war.įrom the explosion on the Maine battleship in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the supposed attack on U.S Navy ships in Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 to the bogus story of Iraqi anthrax in 2002, American advocates of war have falsely attributed heinous crimes to target regimes for the purposes of justifying U.S. The oil tanker Front Altair after alleged June 13 attack (Credit: USNI News Video)Ī “false flag operation” is a time-tested technique of intelligence services.
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