Posted originally on Jun 2, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

I distinctly remember 8th-grade history class, perhaps because of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the kids’ war caught the headlines and everyone’s attention. I was about 11 years old at the time. I recall walking with my friends, and we were all discussing nuclear war. So, perhaps against that backdrop, in history class, the teacher brought up the Spanish-American War and how the media helped create that war to sell newspapers. That statement I always remembered. Perhaps she, too, made that connection because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was my first lesson in Fake News. Little did I know at that tender age that I would stumble upon a frequency that dictates life, that the New Yorker Magazine called – The Secret Cycle. From that Cuban Missile Crisis, the target was the start of the War Cycle once again in 2014, with the Ukrainian Revolution, which the Neocons orchestrated.

The constant lies the press from RussiaGate to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election that Hillary claimed she really won, succeeded in convincing 70%+ of Democrats that Russia was our #1 enemy. All of that fake news has left a scar upon the United States that is still with us as the media continually bashes Trump and elevates Zelensky to the level of George Washington.

There were even proposals to place a marble bust of Zelensky in the Capitol Building, alongside those of Washington and Jefferson. It was embarrassing to be an American and display such stupidity. Who made such a proposal? None other than the other Neocon from South Carolina, alongside Lindsey Graham, the Neocon Joe Wilson made the proposal for the bust of Zelensky.  The world would be a lot safer if South Carolina were expelled from the Union.

It was the media that created the Spanish-American War. As with all cycles, we have returned to the trend of yellow journalism, which is based on sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Pulitzer and Hearst went head-to-head. I remember grade school history class blaming the Spanish-American War on fake news. There is one such story that male Spanish officials were strip-searching American woman tourists in Cuba looking for claimed messages from rebels. This was the front page of Hearst’s newspaper showing what has become known as “yellow journalism,” whereby the illustration was by Frederic Remington and published in the New York Journal on February 12th, 1897.

Hearst’s New York Journal was called out for this fake news by its rival Joseph Pulitzer’s, New York World,  reporting that this story was erroneous and its graphically illustrated strip-search of a woman aboard a U.S. passenger steamer was fake. The Journal article was written by Richard Harding Davis, who reported that Spanish authorities boarded the U.S. steamer, the Olivette, as it prepared to leave Havana and searched several passengers for contraband. Among the passengers was a young Cuban woman named Clemencia Arango, whose brother was a leader in the insurgency against Spanish rule. The Journal’s article was ambiguous, implying the woman was strip-searched by men, which was created by the accompanying illustration of Frederic Remington.

The New York World attacked the Journal’s fake news, quoting Arango as denying that men had strip-searched her. That task, she said, had fallen to a matron, or “inspectress.”The Journalist Davis, in a letter to the World, then blamed Frederic Remington for having drawn “an imaginary picture” and insisted his dispatch had not reported that men had conducted the search.

Nevertheless, this story of the strip search discredited the Journal as being unreliable and prone to publishing “fakes” and other thinly documented reports. Welcome to the present, where the New York Times and Washington Post seem to be carrying on in the same unreliable manner as well as ABC, CBS, NBC, and, of course, CNN. All we hear is how Russia invaded Ukraine “unprovoked,” and this time, they are cheering on World War III with every breath they take.

Trump has come out and stated that Zelensky has lied, and they never informed the US before they attacked Russia’s nuclear bombers for the EU, so they can invade Russia, which has been the plan all along. I have explained that both Germany and Japan are two economies that are shrinking.  The risk of default in Europe is actually German, as is the case with Japan. Merz is gun-ho on war because he understands that Germany is in dire condition and is at risk of defaulting. This is why they have abandoned their austerity all for war.

CNN ran a story written by Gleb Garanich of Reuters. The anti-Trump pro-war attitude is so clear. He wrote:

When it comes to ending the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s statements and social media posts have become meaningless.

Receding chances for a ceasefire and peace deal soon will depend instead on whether he finally finds the steel to reinforce his rhetorical lashing of President Vladimir Putin over the weekend with action.

The Kremlin is betting he won’t.

It dismissed Trump’s frustration with the most intense Russian drone attacks on Ukraine as a symptom of “emotional overload.” And experience suggests Putin can get away with calling the US president’s bluff. After all, Trump’s Truth Social critique of the Russian leader as “crazy” on Monday was leavened with a characteristic rebuke of the victim — Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Still, the intensifying Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians appear to be a deliberate Russian test for Trump, a week after his hyped call with Putin, which made no progress toward peace despite the White House spin.

The second wave of the Cuban Missile Crisis had a turning point on December 5th, 2022, which was the formal implementation date for the $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil imposed by the G7, the European Union, and Australia. This was a significant economic measure aimed at limiting Russia’s revenue from oil exports to fund its war, while theoretically maintaining Russian oil’s flow to the global market.

We have pushed Putin into a corner. Either he gets aggressive, or he will be replaced. This is Russia’s Pearl Harbor. The youth will respond just as they did in the USA. This is what NATO has been praying for – WWIII, and they are praying that Putin attacks anything in NATO. They have crossed every red line Putin has drawn, trying to get him to attack. The media is cheering the destruction of the West as if we can obliterate Russia without ever suffering a single blow. Is this to sell advertising again? Or is this just brainwashed journalists thanks to Hillary’s lies?