Consider for a moment this timeless quote from George Orwell: “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“… a network of private bankers has taken over control of the international money system… credible evidence is presented of a world power elite intent on gaining
absolute control over the planet and its natural resources, including its subservient ‘human resources’… Economic means have long been used to spark wars, as a pretext and prelude for the money power to stock and restock the armaments and infrastructure of both sides.” – Reed Simpson, M.Sc., American Bankers Association, Graduate School of Banking London School of Economics.
In his 1935 book: “War is a Racket,” highly-decorated marine-corps General Smedley Butler warned the American people of flagrant corruption at the heart of the US war-machine. He decried the grave undue influence of business interests over government decisions, saying:
“War […] is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many […] the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
President Dwight Eisenhower also warned the nation (via a televised address in 1961):
“against the acquisition of unwarranted influence […] by the military industrial complex.”
Since WWII, there have been at least 32 American military conflicts involving dozens of countries [to 2023]. Some of these military conflicts have lasted for over twenty years and some others are still continuing. In other words, the U.S. is a country of perpetual war. War is terribly destructive human activity. Millions of human beings have been sacrificed. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of housing, school, factories, hospitals and other infrastructure facilities have been destroyed in the countries which have been the target of American military attacks.
The forever wars have destroyed the very foundation of freedom and democracy; it has prevented healthy and equitable economic development of the world; it has led to the violation of human rights; it has ruined traditional values of many countries and, above all, it has caused lasting human suffering [and hatred]…. multi-trillion dollar perpetual war has denied and deprived millions of people of decent income, adequate housing, needed foods, necessary health care, safety on the street, reliable infrastructure facilities, essential education and other goods and services needed for descent living.1
The pointless wars fought and the soaring National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) budgets that have bankrolled them didn’t just fall out of the sky. According to OpenSecrets, in 2024 the US defense sector employed 950 registered lobbyists, spending $149.4 million to push the agendas of 385 clients on Capitol Hill.
Of course, these weapons makers also fund both sides of most congressional races around the country to ensure that their interests are protected no matter who voters decide to send to Washington. This is how the corporations that produce the bullets, howitzers, surface-to-air missile systems, and drones that ravage the world’s warzones ensure that demand for their services never diminishes.
The continuity of the US government’s seemingly endless string of threats and conflicts isn’t an accident, it’s engineered. [albeit not often audited]
Unaudited Power [C3]
The Pentagon failed its seventh financial audit in 2024, with 63% of its $4.1 trillion in assets—approximately $2.58 trillion—untracked. From 1998 to 2015, it
failed to account for $21 trillion in spending. With this $21 trillion unaccounted for historically, $165 billion in F-35 overruns, and $125 billion in buried waste, the DoD’s financial mismanagement needs urgent reform. Congress is primarily responsible for overseeing the DoD budget, exercising its constitutional “power of the purse” under Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. So why isn’t it enforcing this mandate?
Globalist Finance-Capital Can’t Get Enough of War. “NATO’s Quest for War”. Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz [B3]
Finance capital has adopted the principle of waging wars for the world, colonies, raw material resources and new markets. Thus, from the hegemons with which they have a symbiotic relationship, they direct their surplus production to underdeveloped states through both borrowing and investments, and demand military intervention when necessary. This situation is carried out in harmony with the achievement of geopolitical goals of the hegemons. As long as geopolitics and finance-capital vision work in harmony, the hegemon continues to impose its global will.
The world of finance and capital [the cult] also uses war as a means of overcoming economic crises it faces.2 While wars overshadow economic crises, they serve as a new revival for the economy. The military industry is one of the leading elements of finance capital. It also wants war. Because as well as being a very lucrative sector, it also makes a great contribution to employment. Therefore, it is always essential for finance capital to create enemies by maintaining the constant threat environment and to increase defense expenditures regularly.
Also refer SCO and BRICS 2025 [B3]
The only military confrontation that is active or threatened is by NATO [and Israel], from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea, Syria, Gaza, the China Sea, Venezuela and North Africa. But the real threat is the West’s neoliberal financialization and privatization, Thatcherism and Reaganomics. The SCO and BRICS (as is now being discussed in follow-up meetings) want to avoid the falling living standards and economies being experienced in the West as it deindustrializes. They want rising living standards and productivity. Their attempt to create an alternative, more productive plan of economic development is what isn’t being discussed in the West.
The great problem, of course, is that the Americans want to blow up the world if they can’t control it and dominate all other countries. Alistair Crooke recently warned that the Evangelical Christian movement sees this as an opportunity for a conflagration that will see Jesus return and convert the world to Christian jihadism. The term “late stage barbarism” is now being used throughout much of the internet for the ethnic supremacy fanaticism ranging from Wahabi jihadists and al Qaeda breakoffs (CIA/MI6 sponsored to be sure) through the Zionists in Gaza and the West Bank, in Africa and in the Ukrainian neo-Nazi revival (with its echoes in Germany’s hatred of Russia) not seen since the Nazism of the 1930s and ‘40s, denying that their opponents are fellow human beings. As an alternative to the SCO, BRICS and Global Majority this barbarism defines the depth of the split in today’s geopolitical alignment.
[It is important to note that while most wars are “economic” [read geopolitical] wars, religion has often been used as a flag to motivate people to fight either for or against various other states. Not ascribing to or understanding religious views held by potential adversaries, especially in these days of less religious input into western culture/s, in no way invalidates any threat from more “extreme” groups or nations, based on Islamic, Talmudic, Christian or even Hindu justifications, etc. What is most troubling is that state violence and the responses to it are increasingly targeting civilians specifically, for a number of reasons. Damage not as collateral, but as ethnic cleansing, genocide and crimes against humanity: ‘No Rules’ warfare, a prerequisite for the potential use of CBRN, weapons of mass destruction ]
The History of War
History and the Art of War. An Extension of Politics: Carl von Clausewitz [B2]
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” [On War, 1832]
He became one of the most important influencers on Realism in International Relations (IR). To remind ourselves, Realism in political science is a theory of IR that accepts war as a very normal and natural part of the relationships between states [and after WWII, of other political actors as well] in global politics. Realists are keen to stress that wars and all other kinds of military conflicts are not just natural [meaning normal] but even inevitable. Therefore, all theories that do not accept the inevitability of war and military conflicts are, in fact, unrealistic.
The War on Gaza: Perpetual Falsehoods and Betrayals in the Service of Endless Deception [C3]
In 2008, Anthony Pagden, Professor of Political Science and History at the University of California … published one of the best books concerning the history of the long and Manichean struggle between East and West; from classical times to the conflicts of the twenty-first century, including the protracted and seemingly insoluble Israeli-Arab and Israel-Palestine conflicts. “The wars between East and West have not only been the longest and most costly in human history, they have also formed the West’s vision of itself as independent, free, secular, and now democratic. They have shaped, and continue to shape, the nature of the modern world”.
Of interest, refer a history of Palestine, a 1885 snapshot from Encyclopædia Britannica [B2]
The concentric attack of the modern West upon the Islamic world (according to Toynbee) has inaugurated the present encounter between the two civilizations, which he saw as “part of a still larger and more ambitious movement, in which the Western civilization is aiming at nothing less than the incorporation of all mankind in a single great society, and the control of everything in the earth, air and sea which mankind can turn to account by means of modern Western technique”. Thus, the contemporary encounter between Islam and the West “is not only more active and intimate than any phase of their contact in the past, it is also distinctive in being an incident in the attempt by the Western man to ‘westernize’ the world – an enterprise which will possibly rank as the most momentous, and almost certainly as the most interesting feature in history, even for a generation that has lived through two world wars.” [‘may you live in interesting times’ – a Chinese curse?]
Is a World War About to Start or Has It Already? [B2]
The immediate purpose of the Federal Reserve [in 1913] was to provide Great Britain and France with the money to fight Germany in WWI. The Federal Reserve was, above all, central to [creating] an Anglo-American objective to take over the world. The purpose of this takeover was to expand the grip over the world economy of the empire of usury. It was through usury, which had been prohibited in Europe during the Middle Ages and by the Islamic religion since its founding, that the world’s bankers have confiscated the wealth of every nation in which they have been allowed to dominate. Usury requires the constant generation of surplus profits to feed the bankers’ greed. Military force is the means by which the proceeds of usury are secured.
The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) program for global military dominance has been the overriding U.S. geopolitical objective ever since [WW2]; always, of course, on behalf of the Money Power [the cult] with the US providing the military might. It is said that “all wars are economic.” The U.S. has chosen to attain its economic goals by brute force, no longer by means of hard work, diplomacy, or cooperative venture. It has seen most of the other nations of the world as its enemies or subjects, but above all, as debtors to its banks. Hence its ‘Forever Wars’ and the current prodding for WW3.
The True History of World War II [B2]
From its earliest origins, the mainstream Zionist movement led by Israel’s founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had always had leftist roots and a Marxist ideology, but during the early 1930s there also appeared smaller, rightwing Zionist factions. These eventually gave rise to the Likud Party that currently governs Israel, and their early leaders of that era included future Israeli Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir. Rather than Marxism, these factions drew their political inspiration from Mussolini’s Fascist Italy and Hitler’s Nazi Germany, with one of their top ideologists even writing a weekly newspaper column under the heading “Diary of a Fascist.” Thus, it was not entirely surprising that after World War II broke out, Shamir’s small Zionist faction made repeated attempts during 1940 and 1941 to enlist in the Axis Powers as their Palestine affiliate. Shamir offered to undertake a campaign of sabotage attacks and espionage against the local British forces, hoping to share in the political booty after Hitler’s inevitable triumph. [Note: while this appears to be at odds with the mainstream Jewish movement that sought from 1933 to destroy Germany following its success in Russia with Bolshevism, the cult almost always financially supports both sides in a war]
Reverted History: How an International Jewish Plot Gave Us WW2 [F3]
Here’s what really happened: international Jewish financiers, who long had controlled much of the wealth of Europe – and had by the 1930s seized control of the US monetary system and its media, and overthrown the entire government of Russia – saw Germany’s revolutionary new economic system as a threat to their global power. So, they used their influence over the ‘Great Powers’ at the time to crush it in its infancy, along with its allies. They were in a rush to do this before the world took notice that Germany’s new system would cut these financiers from their long-held power positions in media and international finance, and deprive them of the ultimate source of their economic power – usury – which was abolished by National Socialism [and helped transform Germany into an economic powerhouse].
For Germany, as it was for several European nations at the time, communist revolution was the greatest threat to the social order – and communism was well-known to be a Jewish movement. For them to react in a radically self-defensive manner after learning about, and in some cases personally witnessing, widespread torture, starvation, and genocide of white Europeans by a Jewish ideological movement [in Russia] was, at the very least, understandable. As it turns out, millions of Germans died in the five years AFTER 1945 from starvation and ethnic cleansing, with estimates ranging from nine to 37 million people. In “Crimes and Mercies“, meticulous Canadian historian James Bacque presented all the detailed statistics, and summarized: “More than nine million Germans died as a result of Allied starvation and expulsion policies in the first five years after WW2 – a total far in excess of the figures actually reported. That these deaths occurred at all is still being concealed and denied, especially by Western governments” [Source: “Crimes and Mercies“, James Bacque, 2nd edition (2003), Introduction, page 3 of PDF]. Supported by:
- James Bacque – Crimes and Mercies (1997, 2003): Main focus: 9-10 million German Civilians starved to death under the Morgenthau Plan, JCS1067, in 1945-50
- James Bacque – Other Losses (1989): Main focus: 1.5 million German POW-Civilians genocided by the USA and France
- Thomas Goodrich – Hellstorm (2010): Main focus: 3.81 million Ethnic-German Civilians genocided during WW2 (e.g. in Dresdenin Feb 1945)
- Erich Maschke – “Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges” (On the History of the German POWs of WW2) (1965, 1973): Main focus: 1.1 million Ethnic-German POW-Civilians genocided by communist Russia
- Konrad Adenauer (later Chancellor), March 1949 speech in Bern : Main focus: 7 million German Refugees who perished while fleeing Ethnic Cleansing in the East
- Foreign-minister Willy Brandt (later Chancellor), 1969 speech to German parliament: Focus: 1.5 million German POW-Civilians genocided by the USA and France
Two World Wars and Hitler: Who Was Responsible? [C2]
The ineluctable conclusion they have drawn:
Germany was not responsible for the First World War in any shape or form. Thereafter, Hitler and the Nazis (utter disasters for Germany and the world) were fomented and funded by the very same group of Anglo American elites who were responsible for the 1914-18 war. They very deliberately created the terrible hunger, dreadful living conditions, and resentment in Germany in the immediate post First World War years that encouraged fascist reactionaries such as Hitler to come to the fore. They positioned British and American intelligence agents directly alongside … Hitler to coach him and groom him for power. They played a major role in burning the Reichstag that enabled Hitler to seize dictatorial power and destroy democracy. They funded Hitler and the building of his massive Nazi war machine. They encouraged Hitler to invade Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. They sent Hitler 26 tons of gold belonging to Czechoslovakia. They deliberately spurned all approaches by the German resistance for help in removing Hitler. In short, they deliberately created the “monster” that led Germany to disaster.”3
Why does this history matter now? It matters because, as awful as the Nazis were, those who gave succour to them, then used and duped them, have won. That tells us everything we need to know about the value system of the Anglo-American Establishment. In fact, no sooner had the curtain closed on their European blood bath of World War 2 than the Anglo-American Establishment sent a message to Russia and the world. True to their values, that message was written in blood – the blood of hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens in Hiroshima and Nagasaki whose lives were extinguished in August 1945 under the pretext of defeating an already defeated Japanese army. The message was clear: “we have not finished.”
It matters because nearly every single major blow to freedom since 1945 has the fingerprints of this fiendish cabal on it. There is a transparent through-line from two world wars and Hitler to the destruction of Ukraine and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza today. [See How a Religious Jew Aids the Ukrainian Army [C3]]
It matters because the Anglo-American Establishment’s successors have not yet succeeded in a mission that gives new meaning to totalitarianism – the total control of humanity and the earth’s resources. In 2003, an influential member of the Anglo-American Establishment, the billionaire David Rockefeller, wrote in his memoirs:
“Some even believe we [the Rockefellers] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United states, characterising my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I’m proud of it.”4
Also refer The Roaring Twenties and the Depression [B3]
US banks and investors also continued to make huge amounts of money through financing German rearmament. In addition to loans from Morgan and Chase—both now Rockefeller-controlled banks—Germany profited from cash infusions and partnership agreements with IBM, General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, Du Pont, and Standard Oil. According to a 2001 research report by the Ford Motor Company, at the start of World War II, 250 American companies owned more than $450 million worth of German assets. Among these companies were Standard Oil, Woolworth, IT&T, Singer, International Harvester, Eastman Kodak, Gillette, Coca Cola, Westinghouse, United Fruit, Ford, and GM. There are still people today who sing the praises of the Nazi “economic miracle” bringing Germany back from the Great Depression and providing full employment. But if you look at American loans and industrial investment you get an idea of where this “miracle” came from.
Etienne Clementel had a most interesting key aide from 1915 until the proceedings at Versailles were finished. Namely, a certain Jean Monnet, a.k.a. “The founder of Europe”. 21 Not only that, in April 1919, Monnet was a key liaison between American visitors of the Versailles Peace Conference, including Thomas W. Lamont and Edward G. Miner 22, looking to establish the ICC, and Clementel. 23 In no small part though through Monnet, a group of British, German and French businessmen and political representatives – including the earlier-mentioned Eugene Schneider II and Andre Francois-Poncet – visited the United States to establish the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the expenses of the trip paid for by the American Chamber of Commerce. 24
This is quite important information, because the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the Council on Foreign Relations both tie their earliest joint history to a May 30, 1919 meeting between American and British participants of the Versailles Peace Conference at the Hotel Majestic in Paris. 25 In this very same period the same elites were busy setting up the International Chamber of Commerce. We can’t talk in much more than general terms, because the details of meetings except the one on May 30, 1919 are not available. We can make a few obvious connections though:
- Key ICC founder Thomas W. Lamont also was a founding member of the CFR.
- ICC co-founder Jean Monnet first got to know John Foster Dulles and his younger brother Allen Dulles – both college friends of David Rockefeller 26 – at Versailles, where they were working as staffers. 27 John too was a founding member of the CFR. Allen Dulles joined the CFR in 1927, rising to the position of CFR president in later years.
“We all hate Hitler and want to stop him [but] then we must cease furnishing war supplies to the axis–not only as a government but as businessmen–and this includes Standard Oil and subsidiaries. … How about the shipments to the Axis from [Standard Oil’s] Humble’s Aruba? What has been the activities of Standard Vacuum in the Orient in fueling the bombers of the Japanese aggressors…? Does Mr. Rockefeller disclaim all liability in connection with the operation of Standard Societa Italo-Americana Pel Petrolio [funding Mussolini’s conquests]? [Or the] Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft [funding Hitler]?”
May 1, 1941, Congressional Record, p. A2054, Congressman Bernard J. Gehrmann of Wisconsin, ‘Rockefeller’s Anguish’.
Standard Oil was a key founder in 1919-1920 of the ICC, with Rockefeller in-law Winthrop Aldrich representing the Rockefeller fortune in the ICC throughout the 1930s and 1940s as honorary president and chairman.
“World Peace! … I wholeheartedly admire [Mr. Josef Stalin’s] unselfish, untiring efforts to raise the standards of living of the 160,000,000 people within the confines of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union [where] there exists natural resources far greater in value than the known natural resources of the balance of Europe. …
“I revisited Russia… I could find nowhere anyone who knew of or said he believed in any organized resistance against the Soviet Government throughout the Russian land. … The penal system of the Soviets has abolished all punitive elements. The whole method of detention is educational and correctional.”Nov. 24, 1933, [above] words of two American speakers, including from Col. Raymond Robins – an old conspirator at the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution together with Morgan representative William Boyce Thompson – to the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, months before Stalin’s “Great Purge”. (PDF) ICC committee member Averell Harriman sat on the board, as well as the dais that night, alongside the heads of J. P. Morgan & Co. and countless corporations looking to invest into the Soviet Union.
“The totalitarian state which has shocked the conscience of America is the product of economic concentration through the corporation… If you seek the reason for the appearance of dictators like of Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin you will find it in this precise fact: that under the corporate system, unregulated, there has developed an economic concentration which has made the creature more powerful than the creator.” Dec. 29-30, 1938, Handbook of the Association of American Law Schools, p. 121.
Eventually, in 1953, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, respectively became Eisenhower’s secretary of state and CIA director, through which they became major pushers of European unification. Already before that, in 1948, Allen Dulles, alongside a variety of Rockefeller elites, was founding vice chairman of the National Security Council, CIA, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations funded American Committee on United Europe (ACUE). 38 In 1955 the ACUE helped rally support at the highest levels for Jean Monnet’s newly-established Action Committee for the United States of Europe 39, stacked with emerging Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission elites,40 and with some of the funding coming from the Ford Foundation.41
Without a doubt it’s possible to find latter-day ties between the ICC and groups such as Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission. An off-the-shelf example would be founding Trilateral Commission member and close David Rockefeller ally Peter Peterson, who was the ICC’s US council chairman in 1978-1979, the same period that Henry Kissinger gave a speech to the ICC. This term of Peterson was between his (founding) Trilateral Commission membership and him co-founding his Blackstone Group in 1985, as well as him chairing the CFR from 1985 to 2007 in succession to David Rockefeller. Blackstone and BlackRock are related historically but are now two distinct companies. BlackRock originated in 1988 as “Blackstone Financial Management” and was part of the Blackstone Group until they split in 1994 due to differences in their business models and strategies. While they share a common origin, they operate independently today, with BlackRock focusing on investment management and Blackstone on private equity and alternative investments.
“The National Security State”: Parts 1 & 2. Chapter 12 from “Our Country, Then and Now” [B3]
World War II was the “Good War”—right? We all know that the good guys—us—kicked the bad guys’ butts—them. We know who the bad guys were—the Germans and the Japanese. Thousands of war movies have told us that. And we taught the bastards a lesson, didn’t we? It was mainly the British who firebombed the major German cities, reduced them to smoking rubble, but we joined in. We did the same to the citizens of Tokyo, and we dropped nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Why then, if it was such a “good war,” have we been fighting endless wars ever since? Korea was a “good war” too, right? Vietnam was also a “good war,” I guess. Then we fought Desert Storm against Iraq. Then we bombed and dismembered Yugoslavia. Both “good wars” of course. And so was the “War on Terror,” with the destruction wreaked on Afghanistan, Iraq again in 2003 on the pretext that they had WMDs—which they didn’t—and then Libya. And we still have forces in Syria.
Now we’re conducting another “good war,” our proxy war against Russia over Ukraine; a Ukraine whose government we created in an illegal coup in 2014 and have armed to the teeth and egged on ever since. And America’s president [Biden, when this book was published] and our incredibly sophisticated propaganda media are once again telling us that it’s all the other guy’s fault. It’s always “unprovoked aggression.” Always, just like in the killing of the Sioux Indians.
World War 3 next?
Militarism and Organized Crime: U.S. Neocolonialism and Mass Poverty. Stephen Sefton [C2]
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the US ruling class was able to impose a new world economic structure because its country was the only world power that had not suffered massive destruction of its economy. The European powers that defeated Nazi Germany were highly indebted to the US government, so they had to accept the international financial policies imposed through the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, controlled by the US elites. Only the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China and their allies remained independent of the Western financial system. This system allowed the elites to develop strong neo-colonial economic control over the majority of the world.
Later, with the US war against Vietnam and the consequent abandonment of gold as a guaranteed support to the US dollar, the other countries of the world have had few alternatives other than buying US assets with the dollars they have to accumulate since it is the main international reserve currency. As several economists have explained, since 1971, the majority of the world in practice has been financing the wars and militarism of the US elites and their allies. Their US assets can be weaponised against them [like happened to Russia in 2022].
Many decades later, very little has changed. Tragedies are still perpetrated over petty economic concerns, and prominent anti-war voices remain few and far between. Powerful nations still wage endless wars of attrition in the poorest places on earth, to pursue … fiscal goals. Today, the US elite ensures the US and its allied vassals continue to support constant wars to keep Eurasia fragmented, to dominate the rimland geopolitics, to weaken the international transportation corridors led by China and Russia, and to break the influence of organizations such as BRICS and the SCO, in order to maintain its hegemony with finance capital.
Against Whom Should the Real War Be? [F3]
“The coming war is inevitable. But between whom? The just war must be between the illegitimate globalist liberal elites and the people. The rebellion of the silent and oppressed majority worldwide. The wrong war will be between countries or nations.” Unfortunately, with the bursting of the global financial bubble after 2008, we are heading full speed towards that “wrong” war. The war has already begun. The globalist liberal elites used Ukraine as bait for Russia and their hired killers incited Israel to commit genocide against Palestine.
Now, they are planning a new war between Turkey and Israel in Syria, using the PKK. Provocations are also increasing in the Mediterranean, via Cyprus and the Aegean. These are the oligarchic structure that has been controlling the US and Europe from behind the scenes. These are the bankers who have profited from every war since Napoleon. Their names are sometimes Rothschild, sometimes Warburg, sometimes Rockefeller, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, etc. Erdoğan’s coalition partner Bahçeli, who once labeled anti-Western and anti-NATO Eurasianists as “Eurussians” and declared them Russian agents, has now proposed a “CRT” alliance: China, Russia, and Turkey!
Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War [B2}
Picture the Cold War as a high-stakes chess game where the U.S. and Soviet Union competed for global control, but direct moves risked catastrophe. The U.S. turned to covert regime change—secretly orchestrating coups, rigging elections, or backing rebels—to replace unfriendly governments with pro-American ones, as in Iran’s 1953 coup or Guatemala’s 1954 ouster of Jacobo Arbenz. These 64 covert operations, versus just 6 overt ones, aimed to secure U.S. power quietly, avoiding the costs of open war while countering Soviet influence.
Today, it’s also Indonesia for some reason,5 [for joining BRICS maybe?]6 and probably Nepal and Venezuela. Also refer the Role of Snipers in the Arab Spring and Maidan Protests [F3]
Driven by security needs—weakening rivals, preventing Soviet alliances, or dominating regions like Latin America—the U.S. used tactics like the CIA’s support for Poland’s Solidarity or assassination plots against Cuba’s Fidel Castro. But these moves often backfired, sparking civil wars, as in the Dominican Republic, or blowback, like Afghanistan’s Mujahedeen fueling terrorism. Today, cyber tactics and democracy promotion, as in Ukraine’s 2014 protests, continue this strategy, but secrecy is harder, and instability remains a risk.
The US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II [B2]
This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos. The American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also responsible.
In the latter wars there were between nine and 14 million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan. But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention. The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.
The 36 reporters who brought us the Twin Towers’ explosive demolition on 9/11 include, by network, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Cynthia McFadden; CBS’s Harold Dow, Tom Flynn, Mika Brzezinski, and Carol Marin (appearing on WCBS); NBC’s Pat Dawson and Anne Thompson; CNN’s Aaron Brown, Rose Arce, Patty Sabga, and Alan Dodds Frank; Fox News’ David Lee Miller and Rick Leventhal; MSNBC’s Ashleigh Banfield and Rick Sanchez; CNBC’s John Bussey, Ron Insana, and Bob Pisani; WABC’s N.J. Burkett, Michelle Charlesworth, Nina Pineda, Cheryl Fiandaca, and Joe Torres; WCBS’s John Slattery, Marcella Palmer, Vince DeMentri, and Marcia Kramer; WNBC’s Walter Perez; New York 1’s Kristen Shaughnessy, Andrew Siff, John Schiumo, and Andrew Kirtzman; USA Today’s Jack Kelley; and two unidentified reporters (1 and 2) who attended a press conference with Mayor Giuliani and Governor Pataki.
The widely held belief that the Twin Towers collapsed as a result of the airplane impacts and the resulting fires is, unbeknownst to most people, a revisionist theory. Among individuals who witnessed the event firsthand, the more prevalent hypothesis was that the Twin Towers had been brought down by massive explosions.
This observation was first made 14 years ago in the article, “118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers.” A review of interviews conducted with 503 members of the New York Fire Department (FDNY) in the weeks and months after 9/11 revealed that 118 of them described witnessing what they interpreted that day to be explosions. Only 10 FDNY members were found describing the destruction in ways supportive of the fire-induced collapse hypothesis.
Also refer Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed The World [C2]
As you read Christopher Bollyn‘s ‘Solving 9-11: The Deception that Changed the World‘, you will understand just exactly who and what foreign political interest actually attacked us on September 11, 2001. These foreign political interests with their traitors (George Washington referred to these types as tools and dupes) inside our U.S. political establishment attempted to deceive us in order to pursue their foreign-sponsored political will and expansionist policies in the Middle East.7
As you read, the real perpetrators of the 9-11 attacks will become apparent, and they will be identified. The motive will become clear, and you will see this peg as a natural fit. You will understand that our country is filled with ―ambitious, corrupted, and deluded citizens (in positions of political power, office holders, judges, the press, etc.) who devote themselves to the foreign nation, and have sacrificed the interests of their own country, with popularity, gilding, [and] with the appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation. You may even find yourself supporting a new investigation into the attacks of 9-11.
ISGP is primarily interested in the following areas of research: Manipulation of the 9/11 hijackers by the international security services, most notably the CIA and Saudis, but also the Pakistanis and possibly Ukrainian GRU firm ‘Far West‘. Evidence for controlled demolition of WTC 1, WTC 2 and WTC 7. The presentation of absolute proof of numerous major flaws in the official NIST investigation, to the point that we at the very least can speak of criminal negligence on behalf of the NIST investigators – and more likely of a criminal conspiracy to hide the truth.8
… it can’t be ignored that the WTC complex was controlled by hardline Zionist interests – Lewis Eisenberg, Larry Silverstein and Frank Lowy – and if anything was brought into the towers that was not supposed to be there, then they should be considered the first line of suspects.
“All the intelligence services of America and Europe know well the disastrous attack had been planned and realized by the Mossad…” — Francesco Cossiga, former president of Italy, Corriere della Sera (Nov. 30, 2007). Also refer Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals [F6]
The NYPD chief who oversaw the police response to the 9/11 attacks was Bernard Kerick. Kerick contradicted reports of Israeli agents arrested in NYC on 9/11 and put a stop to information coming out of his police departments. Less than two weeks before 9/11, on August 26, 2001, Kerick was in Israel meeting with billionaire Eitan Werthemeir who gave him a ”$250,000 interest free loan.” On November 8, 2007, Kerik was indicted by a federal grand jury in White Plains, New York on charges of tax fraud, and making false statements to the federal government about the $250,000 he received from Wertheimer. Prosecutors also accused Kerik of receiving about $236,000 from Jewish real estate mogul Steven C. Witkoff between 2001 and 2003. [Small world. Witkoff is now Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East and special envoy for Peace Missions]
Surprisingly, the BBC cast doubt on the official government story early on by reporting on September 23, 2001 that five of the nineteen ‘hijackers’ had turned up alive and well in places like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, and had been nowhere near New York City or Washington D.C. on the morning of 9/11. Some insight into what an operation like 9/11 entails was provided shortly after the attacks by Eckhart Wertheback, a former president of Germany’s domestic intelligence service Verfassungsschutz. Wertheback told investigative journalist Christopher Bollyn in late 2001 that “the deathly precision” and “the magnitude of planning” would have necessarily required the “fixed frame” of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a “loose group” of terrorists like al-Qaeda. A short while later a second former chief of German intelligence, Andreas von Bulow, told Bollyn: “The planning of the attacks was technically and organizationally a master achievement. … to hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes and within one hour, to drive them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers, this is unthinkable, without years of support from state intelligence services.”
Just before 9/11, an inordinate amount of put options were bought on United Airlines (UA) and American Airlines (AA). A put option is placed on stocks whose future value is thought to be headed for an immediate decline. Something like 95% of UA’s put options were bought on September 6th 2001, and 115,000 shares of AA were bought on September 10th. These purchases were 25 times higher than normal. The company that handled all the put options was AB Brown Investment Bank, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. As reported in the UK’s Independent (Oct. 14, 2001), “To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the ‘put options’ — where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall — . . . was headed until 1998 by Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.” AB Brown and Alvin Krongard both had strong links to the Israeli state through their connections to Yair Shamir’s company, Scitex. Krongard’s wife, Sheryl Gordon, was a long-time employee of ‘Rothschild Asset Management‘.
In December 1998, Philip Zelikow, Ashton Carter and John Deutch (all Jewish) authored a report for [the CFR journal] ‘Foreign Affairs‘ titled ‘Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger‘. The report’s first section, ‘Imagining the Transforming Event,’ warned that catastrophic terrorism is coming to America, perhaps as early as “next month,” and details how America should respond, as well as how the country could change as a result. Philip Zelikow wrote that a catastrophic terror attack on America (such as the destruction of the World Trade Center) would be a “transforming event,” a “watershed event in American history” that would, “like Pearl Harbor…divide our past and future into a before and after.” The “after” would feature “draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force.” [and leading to the Iraq war, and numerous others]9 10
Zelikow, who wrote his PhD dissertation on ‘The Creation and Maintenance of the Public Myth,’ was appointed Executive Director of the ‘9/11 Commission‘ by George W. Bush. Both Ashton Carter (Sec. of Defense under Obama) and John Deutch (Director of the CIA 1995-96) were senior partners of ‘Global Technology Partners‘, an exclusive affiliate of ‘Rothschild North America‘, when ‘Catastrophic Terrorism’ was written. Deutch pleaded guilty to mishandling government secrets in 2001 and was pardoned by Bill Clinton during his last day in office.
On the morning of 9/11, Ehud Barak, a former prime minister of Israel, commando in the elite ‘Sayeret Matkal‘, and chief of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), was conveniently situated in the BBC studios in London ready to tell the entire world who was responsible for the day’s attacks. At a time of extreme chaos when nobody was supposed to have any idea what was going on and the most sophisticated intelligence/surveillance apparatus the world has ever known was rendered inept an astonishing four times in one day, there was Israel’s former prime minister indicating he knew who did it — “Osama bin Laden” — and that he knew where he was hiding — “Afghanistan.” He then announced it was time for America to launch an “operational, concrete war against terror” in the Middle East, exactly as Israeli strategists had been planning for decades! This explanation of events, delivered from BBC studios mere moments after the attacks and long before the gathering of any evidence had begun, became the official narrative unquestioningly accepted by politicians and media alike. It has never changed.11
“September 11, 2001, marked the official end of the American republic or what remained of it. Granted, America was always an oligarchic republic with some democratic checks and balances, and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 stripped America of its economic sovereignty, but now it was truly over. Following the Mossad/US Deep State-orchestrated 9/11 attacks, the police state, endless war, corruption, torture, psyops, and looting ramped up with no internal safeguards left to resist the onslaught. The ‘Greater Israel Project’ became a key component of US foreign policy, as Jewish Zionists held the dominant faction within US oligarchy.”
The CIA’s war-before-war: From Iraq to Iran [C3}
On 11 September, the very same day of the terror attacks– and despite the fact that Washington immediately identified Afghanistan-based Al-Qaeda leaders as the culprits – CIA director George Tenet authorized the creation of the Iraq Operations Group (IOG), led by covert ops veterans Luis Rueda and John Maguire. Within 24 hours, the two were drafting a blueprint for the destabilization of Iraq. Codenamed DB/ANABASIS (“DB” being the CIA’s cryptonym for Iraq), the plan was activated long before any formal declaration of war, and well before the American public was groomed to support the spurious allegation of WMDs in Iraq.
The CIA’s above de facto coup strategy aims to destroy unity and morale as precursors to outright war. Washington and Tel Aviv hope that Iran, like Iraq before it, collapses from within under pressure from a disillusioned population. Maguire once said that DB/ANABASIS was about “settling scores” with Saddam. This attitude – reducing foreign policy to vendettas – still dominates US strategic circles. Inside the Pentagon and CIA, figures view Iran through the lens of the 1979 hostage crisis and Tehran’s support for the Iraqi insurgency and Taliban (and now Hezbollah and Gaza and Iran’s membership of BRICS).
Also refer How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health [B2]
War’s destruction of economies, public services, infrastructure, and the environment leads to deaths that occur long after bombs drop and grow in scale over time. This report reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. The total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting, though the precise mortality figure remains unknown. Some people were killed in the fighting, but far more, especially children, have been killed by the reverberating effects of war, such as the spread of disease.
The report examines the devastating toll of war on human health, whoever the combatant, whatever the compounding factor, in the most violent conflicts in which the U.S. government has been engaged in the name of counterterrorism since September 11, 2001. Rather than teasing apart who, what, or when is to blame, this report shows that the post-9/11 wars are implicated in many kinds of deaths, making clear that the impacts of war’s ongoing violence are so vast and complex that they are unquantifiable.
Also refer If Osama bin Laden Didn’t Do 9/11, Then Who Did? and The Unanswered Questions of 9/11 [both C3]
America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama’s reign [C3]
In 2016, US special operators could be found in 70% of the world’s nations, 138 countries – a staggering jump of 130% since the days of the Bush administration. Looking back at President Obama’s legacy, the Council on Foreign Relation’s Micah Zenko added up the defense department’s data on airstrikes and made a startling
revelation: in 2016 alone, the Obama administration dropped at least 26,171 bombs. This means that every day last year, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. While most of these air attacks were in Syria and Iraq, US bombs also rained down on people in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. That’s seven majority-Muslim countries. [the Greater Israel Project in action]
President Obama has claimed that his overseas military adventures were legal under the 2001 and 2003 authorizations for the use of military force passed by Congress to go after al-Qaida. Refer “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”12 But today’s wars have little or nothing to do with those who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. [Unless it was Israeli Zionists as alleged. Of note, PM Bibi Netanyahu visited 500 al-Qaida fighters recovering in an Israeli hospital in September 2014 – see below]
Craig Whitlock’s “The Afghanistan Papers,” reveals how American generals and high-ranking officials believed the war in Afghanistan to be unwinnable, but misled the public through false testimony to keep the war going because every day of hostilities meant millions in profit for weapons manufacturers. Industry, politics, and the army collude in broad daylight to extract more profit from war than could ever be had in times of peace.
Dmitry Trenin: World War III has already begun [B2]
For Russia, the pre-war period ended in 2014. For China, it was 2017. For Iran, 2023. Since then, war – in its modern, diffuse form – has intensified. This is not a new Cold War. Since 2022, the West’s campaign against Russia has grown more decisive. The risk of direct nuclear confrontation with NATO over the Ukraine conflict is rising. This war involves the world’s leading powers: the United States and its allies on one side, China and Russia on the other. It is global, not because of its scale, but because of the stakes: the future balance of power. The West sees the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia as existential threats. Its counteroffensive, economic and ideological, is meant to put a halt to that shift. The war is no longer about occupation, but destabilization.
The new strategy focuses on sowing internal disorder: economic sabotage, social unrest, and psychological attrition. The West’s plan for Russia is not defeat on the battlefield, but gradual internal collapse. Its tactics are all-encompassing. Drone strikes target infrastructure and nuclear facilities. Political assassinations are no longer off-limits. Journalists, negotiators, scientists, and even their families are being hunted. Residential neighborhoods, schools, and hospitals are not collateral damage – they are targets. This is total war. This is underpinned by dehumanization. Russians are portrayed not just as enemies but as subhuman [like in Gaza]. Western societies are manipulated to accept this. Information control, censorship, and historical revisionism are used to justify the war. Those who question the dominant narrative are labelled traitors. [this narrative control – banning so-called mis- and dis-information – applies to all the cult’s depopulation strategies]
CIA Director William Casey told President Ronald Reagan in 1981 that “we will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American people believe is false.” Cook writes that, since Casey uttered those statements, the CIA has been working with the rest of the national security state, including government supported think tanks, mainstream media and non-profits like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Atlantic Council, to further Casey’s goal with the support of internet giants like Google and Wikipedia.
“The CIA wants to create a “depleted world population of compliant zombies, drained of creative energy, incapable of independent thinking, riddled with fear, obedient to every conditioned impulse, running from every virus, hating every designated enemy, parroting the mass media, spending as advertising directs, numbed by drugs and medication, and ready to die at the whim of their masters,” according to Cook.
Also refer “Wake Up! This Is What’s Really Happening” – [B1] Whitney Webb reports on links between state corruption, corporate power, and intelligence networks.
and Who is behind the drug trade? [F3]
Explaining why he believes the US is targeting the drug supply [like in Venezuela today] rather than the drug demand, Krapivnik said, “The US government, on different levels, makes money off the drug trade. All major US banks would collapse if they were denied drug money, big drug money. That’s where it gets laundered. It all goes right back to the US and gets laundered, and they’re making money off of it,” he said. “So, there’s already an incentive system in the US financial system … to support a drug trade.” Related: Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor, The Guardian, 13December 2009. As well as big finance, Krapivnik believes the deep state [CIA] is also behind the drug trade.
“By the way, the same financial interests in London and New York City that want to destroy Russia –destroy its state, destroy the government, turn it into a globalist paradise, introducing millions of non-Europeans into Russia–the same globalists who wanted to strip Russia of its resources, they are the ones who want to get control of the oil and gas resources in the Middle East, and especially in Iran. They want to break it up into small parts that they can then treat as vassal states of the Greater Israeli state–which in reality is a vanguard for the globalist victory that they’re hoping to achieve in the Middle East.” by Col Doug Macgregor.
“That the US dollar standard that I called the Treasury bill standard of international finance had replaced the gold standard, and that essentially locked other countries into the financial support of American spending abroad, and that going off gold essentially removed the limit on (US) military spending.” by Michael Hudson.
Imagine what’s happening in the Near East now, when the Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates all have huge holdings of US securities [as a result of decades of selling oil in US dollars]. They’ve seen the United States grab Russia’s savings, they’ve seen the United States through England confiscate Venezuela’s gold holdings. They’re fearful of acting in any way that would oppose the current US buildup against Iran because anything they do–whether it’s to support the Palestinians or to support Iran or anything that is at odds with US diplomacy in the Near East–would result in the United States holding all of their savings in its own pocket under their control, able to freeze them or confiscate them at will. That’s the power that America has as a debtor over other countries, and that’s why Trump has said any attempt to de-dollarize is an act of war, today, just as they were told 50 years ago. [Hence the ‘war’ on BRICS]
The proxy war on Russia via Ukraine supplanted the “Covid Era” [reporting on cases went MIA from February 2022]
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity on Avoiding War in Ukraine (2021) [B2]
We wish to draw your attention to the dangerous situation that exists in Ukraine today, where there is (as at Apr 7, 2021) growing risk of war unless you take steps to forestall such a conflict. At this juncture, we call to mind two basic realities that need particular emphasis amid growing tension between Ukraine and Russia. First, since Ukraine is not a member of NATO, Article 5 of the NATO Treaty of course would not apply in the case of an armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Second, Ukraine’s current military flexing, if allowed to transition into actual military action, could lead to hostilities with Russia. We think it crucial that your administration immediately seek to remove from the table, so to speak, any “solution” to the current impasse that has a military component. In short, there is, and can never be, a military solution to this problem. [This advice presumed that war was not an intended outcome]
Jacques Baud: The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine [B2]
The cultural and historical elements that determine the relations between Russia and Ukraine are important. The two countries have along, rich, diverse, and eventful history together. This would be essential if the crisis we are experiencing today were rooted in history. However, it is a product of the present. The war we see today does not come from our great-grandparents, our grandparents or even our parents. It comes from us. We [the west] created this crisis. We created every piece and every mechanism. We have only exploited existing dynamics and exploited Ukraine to satisfy an old dream: to try to bring down Russia. Chrystia Freeland’s, Antony Blinken’s, Victoria Nuland’s and Olaf Scholz’s grandfathers had that dream; we realized it. The way we understand crises determines the way we solve them. Cheating with the facts leads to disaster.
The New World Order that is being prepared under the pretext of war in Ukraine [B2]
The [military] conflict in Ukraine was not opened by Russia on February 24, [2022] but by Ukraine a week before. The OSCE is a witness to this. This peripheral conflict had been planned by Washington to impose a New World Order from which Russia, then China, were to be excluded. Don’t be fooled!
Also refer The South China Sea: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode. “The West is Talking about War in the Pacific” [C3]
British Defense Secretary John Healey said that Britain is ready to fight if a conflict breaks out in the Pacific. He stated that, as in the past, they would fight alongside Australia. This statement was covered in Taiwanese newspapers for three days; propaganda was spread that they were not alone. While the West is so confident and loudly talking about war in the Pacific, it is unaware of China’s secret J-20 fighter jets flying overhead. Chinese state television broadcast another exercise video. The exercise took place in the Tsushima Strait, a narrow and heavily monitored channel separating South Korea and Japan. The area is within range of a dense network of radar systems belonging to the US, Japan, and South Korea, including the US THAAD missile defense system. Despite being monitored by such dense radar coverage, the radars failed to detect China’s stealth jets, the J-20s. The Tsushima Strait is strategically important in terms of China’s efforts to prevent possible foreign intervention in a conflict in Taiwan.
Exercises in the Pacific continue unabated. While the Chinese and Russian navies prepare for a five-day exercise in the Sea of Japan, the US Air Force is also conducting the “Resolute Force Pacific 2025” exercise in places such as Hawaii, Guam, and Japan, as well as in international airspace. The US Air Force described this exercise as “the largest combat exercise in the region.” While the first chain of islands in the Pacific is heavily arming itself against China, the US is not neglecting its bases on the second island chain. The US Navy is establishing a new logistics center in Palau, located on the second island chain, to serve as a depot where its ships can refuel, reload, and rearm. This will allow American warships to enter the narrow channels of the Pacific island nation and dock there.
Of interest: Nordstream – Anatomy of Dante’s Explosion [C2] [Was a Nuke really used in September 2022?]
Even with (the) most conservative estimates one arrives at an explosive charge of 185t TNT equivalence (with statistical uncertainty of 60 tons). Finally and importantly, the seismic waveforms show no resemblance with conventional underwater explosions but rather with nuclear underground explosions as is evident from a comparison with the seismic data of a North Korean Nuclear Test. In fact it is precisely these seismic fingerprints that are regularly used to reliably identify nuclear tests. And finally, the estimated size of the detonation energy lies in the reported range of tactical thermonuclear weapons. Despite their enormous energy release these are fairly small devices and may weigh less than 100kg. [It is also noted that the device was placed in a trench that ‘pointed’ at Kaliningrad]
The Collapse of Dollar Hegemony Could Lead to World War III [B3]
The British Empire and today the American Empire were both founded on bank-created debt. Global warfare, including the West’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, are manifestations of this financial imperative. It is no accident that the US hedge fund BlackRock is in the process of buying up the assets in Ukraine now that Ukraine has been depopulated by the war. This is what they wanted to do with Russia when they “enticed” Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022 then imposed sanctions. Russia was supposed to collapse, but it didn’t happen.
World War III approaches – just as planned [F3]
Zelensky is an acolyte of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF), the organization behind the ‘Great Reset’. The WEF’s Klaus Schwab bragged about helping
elect him and his equivalent Canadian puppet, Trudeau. Just about every rich and famous player has been to Ukraine. And came back with even more money. From Bill Gates to Joe Biden, from George Soros to the Clintons. They all know that Ukraine is open for business. If, as speculated by some, there exists an oligarchical plan of massive human depopulation, then engineered wars are an ideal way to achieve that. It has happened before. In the First World War, 21.5 million died, of which 13 million were civilians. The civilian deaths were largely caused by starvation, exposure, disease, military encounters, and massacres. In the Second World War, 40-50 million died, the largest of any war. Currently, we are seeing the advanced stages of just this, as the US and its NATO allies have been maneuvering for many years for a world war with Russia. They yell that it is to protect ‘freedom and democracy’ as they extort the wealth of both the perceived victim and aggressor.
Sanctions Kill as many as wars, and even more Children [B2]
Sanctions are restrictive foreign policy tools that are commonly applied to broad economic transactions, with the punitive aim of coercing behaviour change, such as stopping human rights violations or promoting democracy. According to the Global Sanctions Database, the frequency and duration of sanctions have consistently grown since 1950, while their success rate of achieving the stated aim remains at about 30%. The research analyzed data from 152 countries over a 10-year period and found the mortality toll of sanctions to be comparable to that of armed conflict. Economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths (95% CI 367 838–760 677) annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106 000 deaths). This finding aligns with a previous article in The Lancet Global Health showing the lethal effects of aid sanctions—sanctions specifically targeting development assistance in low-income or middle-income countries—which resulted in a 3·1% increase in infant mortality and a 6·4% increase in maternal mortality annually between 1990 and 2019.
Sanctions lead to either debt and/or devastation and famine or, sometimes, to revolution and/or war. A quarter of all countries were subject to some type of sanctions from 2010 to 2022 [with the majority located in Africa]. The case of Venezuela also illustrates the lethal impact of sanctions. After the U.S. imposed sweeping economic restrictions in 2017 and further escalated them under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, the country plunged into a historic depression. Between 2012 and 2020, Venezuela’s economy contracted by 71 percent—three times the depth of the Great Depression in the U.S.—with tens of thousands of deaths directly linked to the sanctions, according to multiple studies.
Children under five are especially vulnerable. Sanctions increase rates of malnutrition, making children more likely to die from otherwise treatable illnesses such as measles, pneumonia, and diarrhea.
The study’s findings are consistent with prior research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and other institutions that show sharp rises in mortality during economic recessions [as caused by sanctions]. Critics argue that U.S. sanctions violate both international and domestic law. They are considered collective punishment under the Geneva and Hague conventions and are illegal under the Charter of the Organization of American States. U.S. law also requires that sanctions be imposed only in response to a “national emergency” caused by a foreign threat—criteria rarely met in practice.
So-called sanctions (and trade blockades) and currency devaluation are weapons of mass destruction, often applied prior to economic restructuring or military obliteration, just as “winning hearts and minds” is a weapon of economic occupation. And see: “Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons — This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will.” By Whitney Webb, MintPress News, 7 February 2019.13
Now, the focus is returning to the Middle East
Multipolarity: A World Reborn [F3]
So the Zionist influence on the west is central to the present world order and while largely concealed behind the scenes it is uppermost in directing the foreign policy of the unipolar system and its constant flow of regime changes and wars, and by now it should be clear that the governments of the US and the UK are, in effect, Zionist. So their every act has to pass through a filter: will this affect Israel? Western governments’ support for the Gaza genocide, then, is after all no mystery.
The people of the USA seem to be waking up to the truth about their nation and perhaps the tide will now turn there, and it may start to give priority to its own internal issues which are serious and getting worse: for example, one in eight people now receive food stamps.
More than 500 jihadists cared for at the Ziv Medical Centre (in Israel) [B2]
Several journalists who were participating in a media tour organised by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) were able to visit the Ziv Medical Centre, in Zefat (North Israël). One stayed with some of the patients in order to hear their stories. She was thus able to confirm that more than 500 were members of Al-Qaïda, wounded during the fighting in Syria. The jihadists had kidnapped the UN observers from the Philippines and Fiji charged with keeping an eye on the cease-fire line in occupied Golan. During negotiations for their release, the United Nations paid a ransom to Al-Qaïda which was then transferred to a bank account without provoking any international inquiry in order to identify the beneficiary. Finally, the Blue Helmets retreated, so that … the Israeli and Syrian armies were separated not by the UNO, but by Al-Qaïda. In September 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created a photo-op in this hospital when he came to visit and praise the Al-Qaïda jihadists. [this support is still happening]
The central figures in this Global Elite (the cult) are members of the Rothschild family [and its associates] who have operated at the center of this Elite since the late 18th century and exercise staggering control over many key aspects of the global economy, starting with banking, energy, weapons, mining, infrastructure (including railways), media and biotechnology. Their estimated wealth exceeds $US100 trillion. Since the beginning of their reign, the Rothschilds have acquired a vast global network of income-producing assets by investing in a phenomenal variety and number of ventures, usually leaving another name prominently on display of any newly acquired asset, including those acquired or partly acquired as a result of saving a corporation from bankruptcy, such as Donald Trump’s resort.14 15
As noted above, two industries that the Rothschilds dominate are banking and the weapons industry. It is well-documented that the Rothschilds have helped finance both sides of most wars since the Napoleonic wars in the early 19th century. [They were also important in the establishment of Israel as a state in the early 20th century]
In these circumstances, the Rothschilds profit from weapons sales to most or all parties to all wars as well as from the loans to buy the weapons and the loans to pay for reconstruction post-war.
Brutal, Chaotic War – Norms, Conventions and Laws of Conduct Are Being Erased [B2]
We stand on the cusp of what might be termed Chaotic War. Not the formula used by Israel often in the past to intimidate adversaries; this is different. Israel’s aim, firstly, is to destroy the norms, conventions and laws of warfare; to create geo-political anarchy in which anything goes, and by which, with the White House frustrated, yet acquiescing to each norm of conduct obtrusively trodden underfoot, allows Netanyahu to grip the U.S. bridle and lead the White House horse to water, towards his regional End of Times ‘Great Victory’; a necessarily brutal war – beyond existing red lines and devoid of limits. [Call it what it is – Depopulation]
Trump and the Storm of the Century [B2]
One thing is certain: If America joins Israel in its war against Iran, the outcome will be a geopolitical showdown that could dramatically alter the world as we know it. It is the storm of the 21st century and, for the moment, the American ship of state is sailing right into it. At a minimum, Trump should demand answers from his civilian and military advisors to four important questions:
- What is the strategic cost to the American people if Washington declines to participate in a regional war begun by Israel?
- What is the American purpose in waging war against Iran?
- How will U.S. military power achieve the objectives?
- What is the desired end state? What does the President want Iran and the region that surrounds it to look like when the fighting ends?
Target Tehran: Setting Up a New Chapter in the Fake “Global War on Terror”. Prof Anthony Hall [C2]
The media’s preoccupation with the new war pitting Iran against Israel and its partner in crime, the United States, briefly marginalized coverage of the genocidal assault still underway in Gaza and the West Bank. Yet another variation of the sporadic ceasefire chorus is being raised in this context as June becomes July. This genocidal assault now reaching Iran was initially justified on the basis of a premeditated con job presented to the world on October 7, 2023. That engineered [false-flag] event created the initial burst that has enabled War Lord Benjamin Netanyahu to move from one invasion to the next in his sleazy and self-serving effort to evade prosecution by law the enforcement officials in his own country. What does law enforcement mean any longer in the capital of a criminal country dispensing genocide as its primary day-to-day preoccupation? In the latest stage of the blood-curdling genocide, the occupying power lures its starving subjects to food distribution sites only to shoot the selected survivors of the estimated 400,000 Palestinians already exterminated since Oct. 7, 2023.
Israel – Iran: The Confrontation [B2]
Indeed, while we in the West are unaware of it, Iran was the victim, in 1917-1919, of the largest genocide of the First World War. 6 to 8 million people died of starvation out of a population of 18 to 20 million, or between a quarter and a third of Iranians. Iran, although neutral, was crushed by the British armies, against a backdrop of rivalry with the Bolsheviks and the Ottomans. This horror has left a traumatic memory that is still very present in Iran. There is no doubt for an Iranian that the United Kingdom is his country’s primary enemy. [followed by the US and Israel]
Israel’s Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future [B2]
Israeli soldiers have testified that they are being ordered to shoot into crowds of starving Palestinians queueing for food at these hubs – explaining why dozens of Palestinians have been killed daily for weeks on end. Those hubs, run by the misleadingly named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, were in part the brainchild
of the Boston Consulting Group, the same management consultants caught this month plotting to turn Gaza into Trump’s Palestinian-free “Riviera of the Middle East”. Doubtless other contractors, using largely automated systems, will control the camp’s interior until, in the Israeli government’s words, “an emigration plan” can be implemented to expel the population from Gaza.
Heading for a Nuclear Solution?
A Day That Will Live in Infamy [B2]
On the 21st of June 2025, a day that will live in infamy, President Trump led the American People to War with Iran. Trump’s message to Americans? Striking Iran’s three nuclear facilities is all that U.S. Forces will do. Unless, of course, the Iranians have the temerity to strike back. In that case Trump promises to destroy Iran. Ridiculous. Washington has launched its own Pearl Harbor operation. US Air and Naval Power executed rehearsed strikes against a few “critical” Iranian targets. Then, American Forces pulled back, ostensibly waiting for Tehran to capitulate much like the Japanese in December 1941. Trump’s mindset echoes Israel’s thinking when it attacked Iran last week, but Iran did not collapse after Israel’s earlier surprise decapitation attack.16
[What could be some potential consequences of bombing nuclear enrichment sites? Were any environmental considerations taken into account?]
Also refer Ionizing radiation and cancer: The failure of the risk model – Chris Busby [B3] and
Evidence for the use by Israel of a neutron uranium warhead in Palestine and Lebanon [B3] and more recently.17 and even
Ground Zero: The Nuclear Demolition of the World Trade Centre (F3]
Michael Hudson: War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world [B2]
Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and which is now threatening to engulf the Middle East in the most violent war since Korea. That logic is so aggressive, so repugnant to most people, so much in violation of the basic principles of international law, the United Nations, and (even) the U.S. Constitution, that there is an understandable shyness in the authors of this strategy to spell out what is at stake. [hence Gaza]
What is at stake is the US attempt to control the Middle East and its oil as a buttress of US economic power, and to prevent other countries from moving to create their own autonomy from the U.S.-centered neoliberal order administered by the IMF, World Bank, and other institutions to reinforce U.S. unipolar power.
Also refer Can Trump’s Iran Policy Be Saved? [C3] and
The whole notion of Make America Great Again, Make the Empire–the American Empire–Great Again, MAGA and MEGA, are personal psychological commitments of President Trump. He thinks winning war at home and abroad is the essence of MAGA and that means escalation control. We don’t need to go into the detail of how he thought he had attacked Iran, and he used the word “obliteration” eight or 10 times within a 10-minute speech on the so-called US raid on the Iranian nuclear plants. Obliteration is the final outcome of escalation control.
Second, you’ve heard his rhetoric of ‘I’ve made peace between India and Pakistan.’ That’s a nonsense. But if we if you want, we can talk about each of these. … Each one of these things … is a psychological assertion of the expansion of the US empire. And for Trump it’s an exhibition of personal power expressed both domestically and on the foreign platforms. So there’s no intention to do anything like accept de-escalation in that sense.
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So Why the Forever Wars? Ask your private central bank manager:
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-perpetual-war-six-questions/5822008 ↩︎
- The Roaring Twenties and the Depression ↩︎
- Jim Macgregor & John O’Dowd, Two World Wars and Hitler: Who Was Responsible?, Trine Day LLC, 2025, Afterword, Pg 662 ↩︎
- Jim Macgregor & John O’Dowd, Two World Wars and Hitler: Who Was Responsible?, Trine Day LLC, 2025, Afterword, Pg 665 ↩︎
- https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/01/07/brics-adds-indonesia-member-economy/ ↩︎
- https://youtu.be/IJQ5LwCdKR0?si=tZhBFE29x2dOt4qy ↩︎
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/language-mind-control-911/5900051 ↩︎
- ISGP’s 9/11 Study Center ↩︎
- https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/bush-911-and-roots-iraq-war ↩︎
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/usa-us-post-911-wars-caused-4-5-million-deaths/5893215 ↩︎
- https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/ ↩︎
- https://archive.org/details/youtube-V3HPGFV7wpU ↩︎
- https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708/. ↩︎
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2016/12/08/trump-and-his-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-a-look-at-25-years-of-connections/ ↩︎
- https://anr.news/state-of-affairs/wilbur-ross-the-king-of-bankruptcy-worked-as-bankruptcy-advisor-for-rothschild-investments-for-25-years/ ↩︎
- https://youtu.be/SJxuwpqLW3g?si=ZvYU9QOae4bScWVK ↩︎
- https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/new-israeli-uranium-bombs-evidence-from-beirut/ ↩︎