<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">"Something is going on" is Donald Trump's formulation of what elsewhere is known as a "hermeneutics of suspicion." In the politics of present-day America - perhaps the most propagandized society in history - that suspicion may be all too well confirmed, because of the US government's need to mask what it is really doing from the only enemy it really fears - the US public.</div><div class=""><br class="">In a nutshell, what's going on in US government war-making around the world is a long-standing alliance with those who are supposed to be that government's main enemy, jihadists or 'radical Islam,' the perpetrators of 9-11, who were formed by the US in the 1970s to harass the Russians (the CIA's 'Operation Cyclone'), and now are once again allied with the US government in pursuit of the latter's real goal in the Mideast - control of the region's energy flows, which the US needs as a weapon against its economic rivals around the world.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For this record of Obama administration' duplicity and its real goals, see especially</div><div class=""><br class="">~ Justin Raimondo, “‘Something is Going On’ – And It’s Worse Than You Thought” <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/…/something-going-worse-thought/" class="">http://original.antiwar.com/…/something-going-worse-thought/</a><br class="">~ Andrew Cockburn, “A Special Relationship: The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again” http://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/a-special-relationship/<br class="">~ “Military to Military: Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war” <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/%E2%80%A6/n01/seymour-m-h%E2%80%A6/military-to-military" class="">http://www.lrb.co.uk/…/n01/seymour-m-h…/military-to-military</a></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">and the discussion of the Democrats' tactics, below. —CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>