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Freedoms in U.S. are being chopped away piece by piece, day for day. Because of the military might no one will be able to help once the “Sweet Dictatorship” is in place.

March 24, 2013   ·   0 Comments

Corporations are in complete control of the United States and are engaged in the colonizing and programming of the minds of Americans. Through subliminal and psychological manipulation, omission, demonization and fear they continue to enslave the American populace into becoming subservient slaves to the corporate, military, security state. Long time peace activist Bruce Gagnon, gives his views on this and more in an interview with the VOR.

Robles: The Obama Administration has announced that their missile defense plans now include a base on the East Coast of the United States. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about that?

Gagnon: Yes. In addition to the existing missile defense sites that the US and NATO are deploying around the world, there has, already been for some time, since the Bush Administration, missile defense deployments in California at Vandenberg Air Force Base and also in the state of Alaska.

The Obama administration just announced that they are going to deploy 17 additional missile defense interceptors, these are underground-based mid-course missile defense systems. So, 17 of them will go into Alaska. And then, an East Coast base, will also be constructed either in northern Maine or in northern New York State.

This is being justified as a response to both Korean and Iranian missile testing, nuclear weapons, nuclear missile testing which of course we know is absurd because neither North Korea or Iran have the capability to reach the United States with a long-range missile today. And we know that Iran has no nuclear weapons. Clearly, the United States is expanding its missile defense program that is really aimed at Russia and China, and using the pretext of North Korea and Iran.

Robles: Aren’t Americans asking any questions? I mean they are putting up all this stuff all over Europe, supposedly to contain that same “threat”. Aren’t they admitting that all that stuff is useless if they are trying to put missiles up on the East Coast or in the United States?

Gagnon: I wouldn’t say it is useless. These systems really aren’t about defense whatsoever.

Robles: That’s exactly what I’m driving at, I mean, if it was a defensive system and they got in Europe; what would be the use of putting it on the East Coast of the United States? So… Americans have no questions about that?

Gagnon: Americans aren’t allowed to really have that information. For example, the news release that I sent to you, will not be covered in media in the United States, they just won’t talk about it. They won’t talk about how these systems are key elements in US first strike attack planning, and are really not at all about Iran and North Korea, but in fact they are aimed at Russia and China.

This won’t make it into the dialogue in this country. So, the American people really can’t be expected to have an opinion or comment on an issue that they aren’t given any information about. And that’s why we are working so hard to try to get this information out to the people, but it is difficult.

We have to through these very small and weak alternative media institutions in this country, which are helpful obviously to us, but they don’t have the power to reach the American people the way the mainstream media or the corporate media does, but that media, those doors, are essentially closed.

Robles: Does everybody believe that North Korea and Iran are really threats to the United States?

Gagnon: Well, I think increasingly, slowly but surely, more and more American citizens are beginning to figure out that our Government feeds us a pack of lies. The problem though is: what do we do about it? We have this corporate-dominated congress of the United States. We have the corporations fully in control of the Obama Presidency.

And so, having an impact on this corporate strangulation of our democracy is really difficult. It is difficult for us to change policy in this country because the corporations now control virtually all the levers of power. We’ve had a capitalist takeover of our Congress. They’ve drowned democracy in America. So, it is very dispiriting and disheartening to many American people as we are now going over the 10th anniversary of Bush’s “Shock and Awe” in Iraq. And we see Obama continuing really the same policies of the Bush Administration when it comes to foreign policy, military policy. And so, it is extremely disheartening to the people how do we get out there and change that. And that is, as an organizer, our biggest struggle today.

It is not so much always convincing people that our side of the story is true. Our more difficult challenge is to get people to act on it because they really feel overwhelmed and under control. And clearly the American people have been colonized, their minds have been colonized and their political process has been colonized by this corporate oligarchy.

Reminder

Robles: Isn’t it strange that now, in this day and age, Americans have to look to Russia for freedom of speech or freedom of press when 25-30 years ago people believed it was the opposite?

Gagnon: As I was waiting to do this interview with you, I was thinking that very thing. How ironic for me and my life! I’ve been an organizer since the early 80s. So I was in the peace movement during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and I remember going on radio, radio in my community where I lived, and trying to defend, the idea of peaceful negotiations with the former Soviet Union.

And so, how ironic it is to me today, absolutely, that the best media coverage we can get is from; RT, Russia Today Television and your radio station, it is absolutely amazing.

Robles:  Wow. Things have changed.

Gagnon: No, I think things are becoming more clear. Things are becoming more clarified for many people in this country. The illusion is washing away. The Hollywood façade, the illusion of democracy is finally fading away and people are really beginning to see what stands behind it, and who stands behind it. They are beginning to see the face of the corporate domination.

But again, what is the next step? How do you then move people to successfully take that down and put the people back in power again? That’s the struggle of our moment.

Robles: Putting people in power sounds something Socialistic or Communistic. (Laughs)

Gagnon: (Laughs) Yes, or Christian, or… you know, there are lots of ways to look at it.

Robles: Well, anything that’s people based will be demonized as being Communist or something evil. I’m just further contrasting the situation.

Gagnon: I’ve been doing kind of a study watching television commercials and seeing how the various corporations selling their products are trying to get rid of this idea of cooperation and sharing within, even the family! As these commercials are showing family members competing with each other for the last piece of chicken or for the last soda. They are trying to redefine what it means to be a human being in this country for the people.

 This is john Robles, you were listening to part 1 of an interview with Mr. Bruce Gagnon – the coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. You can find part 2 and the rest of this interview on our website at English.ruvr.ru. Thanks for listening, and as always we wish you the best, wherever you may be! 

John Robles
VOR

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