{"id":2069,"date":"2013-04-10T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2013-04-18T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:19:32","slug":"the-myth-about-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/the-myth-about-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth about \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0April 10, 2013<\/a>
\nRepublished in 107cowgate.com on April 18, 2013<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFreedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.\u201d\u2014Rosa Luxemburg<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whenever the U.S. corporate\/military government, and its corporate-stream media propaganda arm, seek to discredit persons who do not accept their packaged narrative of past and present events, it describes such persons as so-called \u2018conspiracy theorists.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ironically, the United States itself came into being as a nation, due to a successful \u2018conspiracy\u2019 against the British crown. And of course the British Empire referred to those rebellious colonists as \u2018terrorists.\u2019 Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

What is even further ironic is the reality that the U.S. today, in this 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century, is an Empire with over 800 military bases throughout the world. And this Empire is engaged in perpetual wars and\/or military incursions throughout Mother Earth. This is of course a gigantic, ongoing, and active conspiracy against not only the everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people inside the United States, but against the ordinary people of the world.<\/p>\n

The actual conspirators are the corporate\/military power elite of this 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century U.S. Empire, in conjunction with their global puppets. Yet, those who question the legitimacy of this Empire\u2019s actions are depicted and\/or described as \u2018conspiracy theorists,\u2019 malcontents, and of course \u2018terrorists.\u2019<\/p>\n

Moreover, the conspiracy against ordinary people on the part of the corporate-stream media is a conspiracy of disinformation and\/or silence. It is a conspiracy that keeps people ignorant and economically, politically, and socially disempowered. It is a cruel hoax on everyday people in this nation and globally. It is an active conspiracy designed to keep ordinary people lethargic, manipulated, fearful, and ultimately powerless.<\/p>\n

Every conspiracy is not a successful one, such as the 1961, so-called \u2018Bay of Pigs\u2019 U.S. government\/CIA sponsored conspiracy to overthrow the government of Cuba. On the other hand, other conspiracies are insidiously effective such as the U.S.\/CIA and British governments 1953 conspiracy to overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, and the 1973, U.S. corporate-government conspiracy to facilitate the bloody overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean president, Salvador Allende.<\/p>\n

However, in this year of 2013, even as the U.S. government\u00a0continues<\/em>\u00a0to engage in coups\/\u2019regime changes\u2019 and wars of aggression against sovereign nations, there is a very real and active conspiracy right here in this nation between the Wall Street elite-the military elite-the leadership of the Democrat and Republican parties-and the corporate-stream media to distract, hoodwink, politically pimp and economically blood suck the ordinary people in the United States.<\/p>\n

Critically-thinking people in the United States, who dare to question and research for themselves are considered to be, and treated as, subversive pariahs by the power elite. This is because the U.S. elite is fully aware of the\u00a0potential and power of critical thought.<\/em>\u00a0And conspiracies cannot be as effective or successful if they are discovered, exposed, and known. Nonetheless, the conspiracy being carried out against ordinary people in this nation is one being carried out almost in broad daylight\u2014but seen and understood by very few\u2014due to incessant corporate-stream media distraction and disinformation.<\/p>\n

None of the above described realities are mere theories, conspiratorial or otherwise. Rather, the unsubstantiated \u201ctheories\u201d can be found in such egregious nonsense as the fake U.S. claim pertaining to Iraqi \u2018weapons of mass destruction\u2019 and Barack Obama\u2019s fake promises to close Guantanamo and end the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, there is also nothing whatsoever that is fake or theoretical about Obama\u2019s draconian NDAA indefinite detention law (provision 1021) and his outrageous and murderous \u2018Kill List.\u2019 These are\u00a0very real conspiracies<\/em>\u00a0by the corporate\/military power elite against the people of the United States and the world.<\/p>\n

There is nothing mythical about the above described conspiracies, no matter what the U.S. power elite propagates. Remember the poignant words of Rosa Luxemburg, when she said, \u201cFreedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.\u201d So never be intimidated by the smug ignorance on the part of those who banter the term \u2018conspiracy theorists\u2019 at the expense of paying attention to very real and deadly conspiracies. Be critical thinkers, conduct your own research, and come to your own conclusions.<\/p>\n

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward . . . !<\/p>\n

Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0April 10, 2013<\/a>
Republished in 107cowgate.com on April 18, 2013<\/a>
By\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFreedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.\u201d\u2014Rosa Luxemburg<\/p>\n

Whenever the U.S. corporate\/military government, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}