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</figure></iframe></div></div></figure><p id="67b5">There is, therefore, no legitimate reason for any thinking person to believe anything they’re told about what’s happening in that country. As soon as you know the CIA is involved in any situation, you know you can’t look at it separately from the smoke and mirrors that these lying, torturing, warmongering psychopaths have inserted in between what’s actually happening and the public perception of what’s happening. All you know for certain is that there is an organization bent on deceiving you into supporting a coup that the US intelligence/security machine has been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw">pursuing for a long, long time</a>, and that its involvement in the nation in question has escalated.</p><p id="3785">A casual exploration of its history will tell you that there is no reason whatsoever to give the Central Intelligence Agency the benefit of the doubt in any area, ever. If you find out that they are ramping up operations against any government, think of the most depraved thing you can imagine them doing and then subsidize it with billions of dollars. Whatever pops into your head when you do that will likely be much closer to what’s actually happening than whatever the mainstream media tells you.</p><p id="1a6a">The science of psychologically manipulating the masses <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-war-on-sensemaking-900086bca636">has been in research and development for more than a century</a>, and the CIA is at the cutting edge of it. No matter how clever you think you are, they’re more clever. You cannot outfox them in this area, so the only rational position is intense, relentless doubt and skepticism.</p>
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<h2>Great News, Everyone! The CIA Has Promised To Become “Much More Vicious”!</h2>
<div><h3>It’s not often that I get to be the bearer of good news at my humble little gig here on Medium, but readers will be…</h
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</div><p id="9509">Am I advocating paranoia? Absolutely. When you know that there is a highly trained firm of manipulators whose agenda is to deceive the world about what is happening in a given country, they are necessarily forcing you to be paranoid about everything you hear about that country. That isn’t our fault, it’s theirs. This necessary paranoia is a product of the psychological abuse that they are inflicting upon us, and it is good and right to hate them for it. Let the hatred expunge any sympathy which might keep you from mistaking any evil from being beyond their capability. The CIA will do anything it takes to advance their agendas. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program#Reported_torture">Anything</a>.</p><p id="cf33">The current president has <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-anti-iran-deal-cabinet-ff9c519c1c57/">surrounded himself with Iran hawks from the very beginning of his administration</a>, from James Mattis, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/james-mattis-iran-secretary-of-defense-214500">once listed</a> America’s top three concerns as “Iran, Iran, Iran,” to Mike Pompeo, who <a href="https://readmedium.com/great-news-everyone-the-cia-has-promised-to-become-much-more-vicious-a822786684d">recently promised</a> to make the CIA into a “much more vicious agency” (God knows how). Many of my Trump-supporting readers are keeping the faith that this won’t be another instance like Syria despite the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-protests-donald-trump-michael-dandrea-us-opposition-hassan-rouhani-reform-violence-riots-a8141271.html">many glaring similarities</a>, but please don’t keep faith in the CIA. That is never, ever a reasonable thing to do.</p><p id="5143">The CIA’s job is to start wars, stage coups, and lie to you. I don’t know if we’ll be able to prevent them from staging yet another evil regime change intervention in yet another Middle Eastern country, but by damn we can at least make it hard for them. Stay intensely skeptical at all times about all things Iran. Don’t feel bad about being a bit paranoid on this issue. Don’t let them suck you in. Thank you.</p><p id="63df">_______________</p><p id="0752"><i>Thanks for reading! My work here is entirely reader-funded so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, liking me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CaitlinAJohnstone/">Facebook</a>, following me on <a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz">Twitter</a>, bookmarking my <a href="http://caitlinjohnstone.com/">website</a>, throwing some money into my hat on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4445783">Patreon</a> or <a href="http://paypal.me/caitlinjohnstone">Paypal</a></i>,<i> or buying my new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Field-Guide-Utopia-Preppers/dp/064823455X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8">Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers</a>.</i></p><figure id="b63f"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*4timDZLSYCpYiOTBamaRjA.png"><figcaption><i>Bitcoin donations:1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</i></figcaption></figure></article></body>