Reply #7: More than any other intelligence agency on the planet, the CIA's... [View All]

[newswolf56]

primary allegiance has always been to global capitalism, with the interests of the government of the United States taking very much a second place and the people of the U.S. an extremely distant third.

This is admittedly opinion only, but the evidence is nevertheless more than conclusive, starting with the betrayal of U.S. political interests in China (backing the criminal Chang Kai Chek over Mao); Iran (the downfall and murder of Mossedegh); Cuba (the alienation of Castro on behalf of United Fruit, Domino Sugar and Texaco); Vietnam (no explanation necessary); the Congo (the murder of Patrice Lumumba); Chile (the murder of Allende); the Cold War (keeping the fear and hate at maximum intensity to serve the interests of capitalism by fostering the economic destruction of the Soviet Union) etc. ad nauseum. This is not to mention its domestic activities -- again in service to capitalism -- which include clandestinely agitating the Red Scare and destroying the Counterculture (Operation CHAOS), not to mention its suspected involvement in the politically pivotal (and therefore coup-like) assassinations of the 1960s.

Most other intelligence agencies truly serve their own national interests (rather than global capitalism), which is why in many instances their "product" is so superior to the CIA's.

The huge and virtually total conflict between the pro-corporate interest of the CIA and the public interest of the U.S. has always been evident to those of us who pay attention to such things, but now -- chiefly because the death of Soviet Communism was the death of any functional alternative to capitalism -- the conflict is becoming more obvious to the public because of worsening economic conditions: capitalism merely reverting to its pre-Russian Revolution savagery, and the CIA responding accordingly.

As to missing the clues on 9/11, ask yourself who this helped: George Bush, capitalism's ultimate achievement, as measured both in concentration of wealth (outsourcing, downsizing, pension-theft, wage-reduction, skyrocketing prices, genocide by destruction of the social safety net etc.) and disempowerment of non-wealthy Americans (CAFTA, indentured servitude disguised as bankruptcy reform, unrestricted illegal immigration ad nauseum).