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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Biden's New Press Secretary Almost Calls Saudis A'Regime'
Published: 2022-06-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_GIx38jSwI
Title: Biden's New Press Secretary Almost Calls Saudis A'Regime'
Published: 2022-06-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_GIx38jSwI
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biden's new press secretary almost calls saudis a regime white house press secretary karine jean-pierre came very close to committing the cardinal sin of referring to a u.s aligned nation as a regime on monday in the official white house transcript of jean-pierre's interaction with a reporter inquiring about biden's upcoming meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman the press secretary's comment reads as follows of course he2/16
will be they will discuss energy with the saudi government however if you watch a video clip highlighted on twitter by causation news's camila escalante you'll notice jean-pierre gets tripped up before the word government with a more accurate transcribing reading something like of course he will be they will discuss energy with the saudi re uh uh government which is hilarious because for imperial spin meisters the word3/16
regime is traditionally reserved for governments which are not aligned with the u.s empire because it suggests that they are undemocratic and authoritarian the theocratic monarchy of saudi arabia is most certainly authoritarian and is the exact opposite of democratic but because it is aligned with the interests of washington that pejorative label is typically avoided at the upper echelons of imperial narrative management whether or not a government4/16
will be affixed with this label has far less to do with its level of oppressiveness than with whether or not it cooperates with imperial agendas in a 2018 article titled a regime is a government at odds with the u.s empire fairness and accuracy and reportings gregory shupak explained quote the function of regime is to construct the ideological scaffolding for the united states and its partners to5/16
attack whatever country has a government described in this manner according to the mainstream press the democratically elected government of nicaragua is a regime cuba also has a regime iraq and libya used to have regimes before the united states implemented regime change north korea most definitely has one as do china and russia when for the media does a government become a regime the answer broadly speaking a6/16
country's political leaders are likely to be called a regime when they do not follow u.s dictates and are less likely to be categorized as such if they cooperate with the empire washington's economic and military partner saudi arabia is described as having a regime far less often than is syria despite its rather regime-like qualities its unelected government represses dissidents including advocates for women and its shia minority7/16
carries out executions at an extraordinary clip including of people accused of adultery apostasy and witchcraft saudi arabia crushed an uprising in neighboring bahrain in 2011 and with its u.s and uk partners is carrying out an almost apocalyptic war in yemen end quote when the imperial spin machine wants to legitimize a government it calls it a government when it wants to delegitimize a government it calls it8/16
a regime it's an effective propaganda technique because in school americans are not taught about the u.s regime they are taught about their government british school children aren't taught about the uk regime they are taught about their government you never hear about the canadian regime or the australian regime when you use a completely different word for the governing body of a nation it sets it apart from9/16
the concept of government you are familiar with in your mind it makes the government sound alien like something that doesn't belong maybe something that needs to be removed when the empire wants to topple a government their first step is to psychologically uncouple it from the nation and its people in the eyes of the western world by consistently using labels that make it look like an alien10/16
occupying force it's not venezuela's government it's the maduro regime oh no a regime how did that regime get in where venezuela's government ought to be watch out venezuelans you've got a regime on your back don't worry we'll come and rescue you from it do you see how it works if you can make a nation's government look like an illegitimate invading force instead of the governing body11/16
which arose from that nation's internal dynamics you legitimize any any attempt to defend that nation from that force up to and including staging coups arming oppositional militias airstrikes sanctions or full-scale ground invasions which because it generally cooperates with the u.s empire the biden administration has no interest in doing to saudi arabia whenever you see a mass media spin piece conducting apolagia for the us government's coziness12/16
with gulf state tyrants like the recent article in the atlantic titled biden is right about saudi arabia you will see the word regime appear exactly zero times we saw this ridiculous mental contortion illustrated in particularly hilarious faction in 2017 when acting assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs stewart jones was asked at a press conference to square the trump administration's handwringing about the quality of13/16
iranian democracy with its friendliness toward saudi arabia jones famously paused for a full 20 seconds before he could even answer you could understand how all this would be difficult for a rookie press secretary to keep track of you can be sure that the previous press secretary jenn saki would have sailed smoothly from the word saudi to the word government without the faintest flicker of conscience like14/16
the cold-blooded reptile she is while we're on the subject how gross is it that presidential administrations all have their own pr spin meisters that's all the white house press secretary is you know someone who works for the white house whose actual job is to manipulate and deceive the public about all the depraved actions of the president it is necessary for them to do this because all15/16
u.s presidents must necessarily engage in nefarious behavior as managers of a tyrannical globe spanning empire and it is necessary to continuously manipulate and deceive the public about these actions because otherwise they would put a stop to them the us government must continuously subvert the will of the people in this way in order to successfully inflict the necessary violence and oppression for maintaining a global empire one