Mike Benz: How NGOs and the CIA Hijacked Ukraine
Mike Benz is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. State Department and the current Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online. Benz discusses how the intelligence agencies use "non-governmental organisations" (NGOs) to hijack the civil society of other states, and how the US and its partners seized control over Ukraine. Benz has also given interviews to Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Russel Brand and others.
Thank you so much for sharing this interview, Glenn. Mike Benz has explained how long and how deeply the US foreign policy establishment has been and still is controlled by the CIA, NGO’s, big business, even labour unions with little input by the American public. George Kennan’s “organised political warfare” is alive and well. Mr. Benz’s description of how and why Ukraine’s “democracy” is nothing of the sort and why it is that President Zelensky cannot negotiate a peace deal with the Russians even though he was elected to do just that is most illuminating. Apparently President Zelensky is completely under the thumb of both the US and NATO, who are determined to pillage and plunder the former Soviet Union in all its constituent parts, i.e. both Ukraine and Russia, not to mention the other 13 former republics. Fascinating interview!
It was precisely the security theme that the newly founded Peace and Justice Party (FOR) in Norway persistently pushed in the run-up to the election campaign. But the party received only 0.3 percent of the vote. The Communist Party of Norway received 0.0.
The explanation is typically that the (Norwegian) voters are manipulated by its anti-Russian, imperialist politicians and media.
But unfortunately I do not think that the voters' unfiltered, uncritical receptivity to their messages is a sufficient explanation. In that case, they are unaware of NATO's post-Cold War expansion. It simply cannot be right that ordinary intelligent people cannot reason their way out of the fact that NATO's expansion is directed against Russia, and thus constitutes an increasing security threat to the latter.
As I have argued previously, the justification for the general support of the voters, including unfortunately the explicit or implicit support of the working class, both ideologically - and in the form of the fact that they produce deadly weapons for US-EU capitalism/imperialism - i.e. de-selection of Peace and Justice (FOR), and other anti-imperialist parties, must therefore be supplemented with the hypothesis that the voters' loyalty to the US/EU/NATO must simply be justified by the fact that capitalist-imperialist growth provides them with increased income, and thus increased consumption. So that they can buy even more than they already have, buy more cars and drive the climate completely to a standstill.
The voters therefore implicitly prioritize more consumption over climate and nature. War over peace. Then I can again write that this is the way late capitalism reconstructs the fetishistic, reified/alienating consciousness of ordinary people. – And therefore implicitly, but as is clearly evident, peace, climate concerns, FOR and other anti-imperialist parties opt out, which they associate with falling growth, falling income, and thus a decline in consumption. And here I am talking about the rich and the 3/4 of the population that they have materially integrated into their society. That is, the bourgeois animals who support imperialism's wars and destroy the climate and nature with their cars. And on the contrary, I in no way praise the part of the remaining quarter that would probably like to imitate the 3/4 quarter society, but for various reasons cannot. That is how the pathological reality is.