My opinion on the alleged North Korean hacking has
morphed. Amy Goodman from
"Democracy Now" (Link here
or below.) interviewed two experts on North Korea. Both had entirely different
analyses from the mainstream corporate media including the "liberal"
MSNBC.
It is unlikely to me, now, that N. Korea hacked into
Sony's computer system. While it is not
impossible I am, however, inclined to believe North Korea was a convenient fall
guy. There are larger intertwined
economic and powerful nation state interests which may have had US/Asian balance
of power issues and even the omnipresent US military industrial complex
realities at its core.
The Sony hacking is, perhaps, either an inside job by
a disgruntled employee(s) OR was perpetrated by a lone wolf or wolves for
reasons not yet clearly known. Information on the relationship between Sony and
the US government is more clearly illuminated in the "Democracy Now” segment.
I believe the US may
be taking advantage of the Sony computer hack for political reasons. The Korean War (1950-1953) and US foreign
policy and economic interests in that Asian neck of the woods cannot be ignored. Moreover, the mainstream media has vested
interests in ratcheting up the alleged North Korean threat to thereby cement
our large Asian footprint, the alleged humanitarian democratic value of which
the American public is quick to swallow.
The difference between the MSNBC analysis of the
alleged N. Korean hack and the analysis of "Democracy Now's" experts
is wide. Which view is true? I cannot
know but seems unlikely to me, now, that N. Korea – isolated nation that it is –would
have had the technological capability and expertise nor the national self-interest
to institute the hack despite what the FBI says. One must not forget our government lies and it
does so all the time.
Where are the
weapons of mass destruction used to justify the invasion of Iraq leading to the
ultimate destabilization of the Middle East, the killing of hundreds of thousands
and the exiling of millions?
My motto: Question everything. Howard Zinn’s motto for any foreign policy entanglement: Ask the question who profits and why? I ask and so should you.
