This week brings us two new blockbuster books: Woodward’s “War,” in which he offers the critical new information that Trump has engaged in seven lengthy phone calls with Putin since leaving office, and Christopher Steele’s “Unredacted,” the story of his critical “Steele Dossier” filled with accounts about the depths of Putin’s influence over Trump in 2015.
In the 1960s, the Soviet KGB did some fascinating psychological experiments. They learned that if you bombard human subjects with fear messages non-stop, in two months or less most of the subjects are completely brainwashed to believe the false message to the point that no amount of clear information they are shown to the contrary can change their mind.
We are now at a point where those methods have matured and been applied on a mass scale in the United States such that the world’s foremost democratic nation is on the brink of internal demolition.
The Soviet-Russian psychological warfare against the U.S. has escalated to a massive degree since the 1960s, when it was first introduced here and took the form of anti-establishment cult proliferation culled from disaffected so-called “counterculture” youth reacting against the Vietnam war and establishment reactions against a rising civil rights movement.
Broadly speaking, that was the environment that interacted in parts with other anti-establishment currents, such as organized crime families, that nurtured the cynical New York attorney-mob sociopathic crook Roy Cohn’s Donald Trump project. Cohn, you may recall, was Sen. Joe McCarthy’s right hand man in the latter’s Red Scare assault on democracy of the early 1950s.
So, in the early 1970s, in the pretext of a U.S.-Soviet “detente,” thousands of vicious Soviet organized crime thugs were allowed to migrate to the U.S. under the cover of a wider effort to ease the movement of people. These thugs competed with traditional U.S.-based organized crime groups and in that context, the Soviet-influenced U.S. institutions, such as the Communist Party USA, abandoned their progressive agendas and took hard right turns.
In the wake of the crushing defeat of McGovern in 1972, and the subsequent Watergate drama, they coalesced anti-establishment postures while introducing some of the more extreme elements of Russian-inspired rising postmodernist philosophical, sociological and psychological currents that challenged even some of the most fundamental elements of facts and basic reality.
Among the more consequential cults that grew in that era was the political one associated with the self-styled socialist economist Lyndon LaRouche, known in those early years as Lyn Marcus. I have extensive first hand knowledge of how that operation served, among other things, as a test tube case for the kind of ways in which the cultish Trump/MAGA/GOP effort now has gnarley grip on millions of Americans. The LaRouche factor still exists as a generally overlooked go-between between Moscow and the MAGA movement and as a tiny pro-Trump cheering section in the U.S.
It was the LaRouche publication, The Executive Intelligence Review, that broke the news in 1987 that following a trip to Moscow, KGB-Putin elements concluded that Trump would be their preferred man, their highly compromised man, in the U.S. to eventually seek the U.S. presidency.
The Trump/MAGA movement remains fueled and reinforced by extensive networks of influence more directly aligned with Moscow in the U.S. today. The Voice of America recently issued a list of such agents of Moscow influence and disinformation operating within America’s political system. The names reported under the byline of Drew Pavlou include these:
Scott Ritter, Tucker Carlson, John Mearsheimer, Jackson Hinkle, Jimmy Dore, Russell Brand, Ray McGovern, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Max Blumental, Alastair Crooke, Glenn Greenwald, Danny Haiphorg, Chay Boweg, Adrien Bocquet, Clayton Morris, Eva Karene Bartlett, Brian Berlette, Douglas MacGregor, Larry Johnson, Richard Sakwa, Jeffrey Sachs, Pepe Escobar, Stanislav Krapivinik, Wyatt Reed, Andrew Napolitano, Sonja Van Den Ende.