How Nuclear Threats Are Being Used To Realize Orwell’s Prophecy

In George Orwell’s fictional timeline of the events that led up to the world from 1984, nuclear weapons were used to drastically remake society following World War II. At mid-century, describes the novel, a series of atomic bombs exploded all at once in various parts of the world. If the bombings continued, the leaders of the world knew, society be destroyed, and with it their power. So they gave authority to a cabal of radical totalitarians, who then created a meticulously maintained global hierarchy that was enforced by surveillance and endless war.

We’re almost at that point now, except the totalitarians are already in power. They’ve had command over government since around the start of the Cold War, when the military industrial complex began to wage perpetual war and the CIA was created. Their takeover has accelerated in the last seventeen years with the expansion of military and intelligence powers, the creation of the surveillance state, and the start of the professedly eternal “War on Terror.” We’re coming to a point where it solidifies into a global dictatorship that’s enforced by exaggerated nuclear threats.

I’m not being hyperbolic. I’m paying close attention to the current statements and actions of the deep state. I see the announcements from authorities, based in fabricated “Russian hacking” charges and renewed Cold War fearmongering, that Russia has “committed an act of war.” I see the American people, now mainly liberal Democrats, processing this mass hysteria campaign and getting behind a serious nuclear standoff. And I see the liberal “resistance” to Trump being silent when the president prepares nuclear missiles against Russia.

When you see a TV pundit compare “Russian interference” to 9/11, or see National Intelligence Director Dan Coats testify that Russia and China need to be countered on the “battlefield,” or see war politicians hype up a nonexistent threat of a North Korea first strike, you’re witnessing a ruling class fear campaign for the nuclear age. As the media has fixated on these manufactured threats for the last year or so, the premonitions to an Orwellian future have appeared with barely any opposition or discussion: the military budget has been raised $160 billion this year without any debate; online companies and the government have imposed massive censorship against dissenting media; corporate and military power have been expanded under a president who’s handed the complex decision-making over to
his sinister advisors.

Politically exploiting fears isn’t the sole reason for the government’s manufacturing nuclear crisis, but like in the last cold war, the dark change in the political atmosphere is clear. As communities around the country are scared by the media’s nuclear warnings, and even as monthly nuclear siren testings are now happening in Hawaii, the population has become distracted from the authoritarian takeovers and more willing to go to war. January’s false nuclear alarms that happened in Hawaii and Japan, supposedly both made by accident (and, by supposed coincidence, within a week from each other), show how far world governments might take this stoking of nuclear fears.

And where this could all lead is shown right in our mainstream foreign policy conversations. “A diabolical discourse is unfolding,” writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky this week in Global Research. “The so-called ‘more usable’ tactical nuclear weapons (B61-11, B61-12) with an explosive capacity between one third and twelve times a Hiroshima bomb are heralded (by scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon) as ‘peace-making’ bombs, ‘harmless to the surrounding civilian population because the explosion is underground.’ These are the weapons which are contemplated for use against North Korea (or Iran) in what is described by the Pentagon as ‘a bloody nose operation,’ with limited civilian casualties. And the corporate media applauds.”

Like the War on Terror, this new cold war is no doubt meant to last indefinitely. When Trump is eventually exonerated for the theatrical “Russian collusion” charges or is replaced, as Max Blumenthal has predicted, the political establishment will exclusively use the Russia “threat” to attack the left. And so the cycle of cold war escalations and McCarthyism has been reset. The difference now is that there are computerized mass surveillance and high-tech propaganda systems which even Orwell did not anticipate.

The first step to avoiding this future is to continue informing people about the state’s deceptions through alternative media. Because, as 1984 said, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”