Germans now call Bush America's Hitler and they should know. Iran, meanwhile, has officially labeled the US army a "terrorist" organization. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what's really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America's Hitler, Bush's Vietnam, and how the US press failed the First Amendment. Bush is accused of accepting 'Ethnic Cleansing'it's been underestimated how much the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) knows. If you follow whatRead the entire article for another eye opener from Seymour Hersh. However unpopular George Bush, the American people are still largely in denial. Multiple choice opinion polls don't have a check box for just how bad things have become.
(IAEA head Mohamed) El Baradei(more...) and the various reports have been saying, the Iranians have claimed to be enriching uranium to higher than a 4 percent purity, which is the amount you need to run a peaceful nuclear reactor. But the IAEA's best guess is that they are at 3.67 percent or something. The Iranians are not even doing what they claim to be doing. The IAEA has been saying all along that they've been making progress but basically, Iran is nowhere. Of course the US and Israel are going to say you have to look at the worst case scenario, but there isn't enough evidence to justify a bombing raid.
The sorry state of America did not happen overnight. It's a case study of the arrogance of power, how power corrupts and maintains itself, how power compromises its opposition with assassinations, bribes, and paid mercenaries.
Iran/Contra almost gave the game away. Ronald Reagan, playing stupid and senile, beat a high treason rap. Nevertheless, Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh believed Reagan himself complicit in a treasonous scheme to sell arms to Iran while laundering and funneling the proceeds to a right wing terrorist organization in Nicaragua.
The underlying facts of Iran/Contra are that, regardless of criminality, President Reagan, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence and their necessary assistants committed themselves, however reluctantly, to two programs contrary to congressional policy and contrary to national policy. They skirted the law, some of them broke the law, and almost all of them tried to cover up the President's willful activities.If that's not a description of high treason, I don't know what is. Yet --Ronald Reagan got off with that scolding paragraph at the end of a lengthy report. May the traitor rest in peace! In the meantime, a POX on the GOP and every Democratic sellout will do nicely.
Former CIA Analyst, Ray McGovern says, of course, it's about oil. It is so much about oil that the US government has consistently subverted legitimate regimes in order to get control of their oil and, hence, control over the price of oil on the spot markets and the price of gasoline at the pump.So why the pressure for a wider war in which any victory will be Pyrrhic-for Israel and for the US? The short answer is arrogant stupidity; the longer answer-what the Chinese used to call "great power chauvinism"-and oil.The issue has grown critical with the ever-growing US dependence on foreign oil. US "problems" with other countries are always with oil producing countries. East Timor barely got a headline in the US. But if Saddam Hussein so much as sneezed, he was likened unto Hitler by folk who actually helped Hitler. Bush's grandfather, in fact, financed Hitler, traded with Nazi-owned companies and plotted a treasonous fascist takeover of the US government. Treason, it seems, runs in the family.--Ray McGovern, CIA Analyst, Bush, Oil and Moral Bankruptcy
The Bush family, sill supported by the Skull and Bones Society, the CIA, and members of the CIA in Skull and Bones forged an alliance with the US oil industry. That's why these Connecticut Yankees are not in King Arthur's court, but in a hell hole called Texas. To be fair to Texas, it was less a hell hole before the arrival of the Bush crime family.
McGovern reminds that a steady supply of oil has always been a US priority. That, and the oil depletion allowance, was a priority with US oil barons, at least as far back as Spindletop. One wonders: how long has the oil industry owned the US government which is in fact the industry's enforcement arm?
The US, when it fails to achieve its goals through traditional diplomatic efforts, has proven itself willing time and again to go to war for oil.
The US felt its "interests" in Iran threatened in 1953 when the government of Iran nationalized its oil. Nevertheless, as McGovern points out, George W. Bush was the first US president to start a major war. Most often the US has employed the secret services of the CIA and, most recently, a mercenary army --Blackwater USA, little more than George Bush's personal army. A Praetorian Guard?The US will not tolerate someone like Hugo Chavez who dares to use oil revenues to improve the lot of the people of Venezuela. When Iran is laid waste to, will the US then strike in Venezuela?
An "enforcement" partnership between US big oil interests and the CIA was most certainly forged prior to the murder of JFK who had promised to smash the CIA into "...a thousand pieces" even has he threatened big oil with the loss of their big government hand out: the oil depletion allowance. You almost have to be from Texas to understand just how important that "oil depletion allowance" was to the likes of Clint Murchison and billionaire H.L. Hunt.
If we escalate tensions, if we succumb to hysteria, if we start making threats, we are likely to stampede ourselves into a war [with Iran], which most reasonable people agree would be a disaster for us...I think the administration, the president and the vice president particularly, are trying to hype the atmosphere, and that is reminiscent of what preceded the war in Iraq.The following videos by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
--Zbigniew Brzezinski
" exposes US imperialism, the reasons the US is at war stealing oil in the Middle EastPart I
Part II:The second of a three part speech given to the Veterans For
Peace National Convention, Seattle, WA in August 2006.
Part III: John takes Q & A and discusses actions which can be taken to counter the globalization efforts of the multi-national corporations.
Additional Resouces
- Did the Texas Oil Industry Help Murder JFK?
- Clint Murchison, Jr.
- Oil Depletion Allowance
- Skull & Bones, Texas Oil, and the CIA
- How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
- Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
- America Used To Be Really Goddamn Awesome
- What Democracy?
- The End of Suburbia
- The Good Shepherd
The Existentialist Cowboy
Imperialism
Conservative Lies
Oil Wars
Indict Bush
Why Conservatives Hate America
GOP Crime Syndicate
Iraq
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"One wonders: how long has the oil industry owned the US government, in fact, its enforcement arm?"
certainly it's been somewhat longer than the drug cartels, which moved strongly into the picture in the vietnam era... right now, i would suspect that the "ownership" split is about 50-50, although the drug share is clearly not for public knowledge - unless of course a cia airplane with a very checkered past carrying 4 tons of cocaine just so happens to crash on the yucatan peninsula, and damn near gives the show away... what we do know pales in comparison to what we don't...
Comparisons with Hitler are disgusting. Bush and the Americans are infinitely worse. Back in the 30s, people were told that Hitler wanted to dominate the world. This was a complete lie. In fact, the problem was that Hitler wouldn't let Germany be dominated by anyone else. The reality is that it's the US which aspires to dominate the world - and, indeed, the US seems to have pretty well fulfilled its goals already.
NICE!!!
He explains it well enough that even the fools who think we are spreading democracy can understand it! lol!!!!
Thanks for posting this, Len. I was reading his book but had to stop because it made my already terrible insomnia even worse. I tell my husband all the time how I wish I could unlearn things....everything that Mr. Perkins has told me. Mr. Hersh too.
Very good article.
Yes, the U.S. has become a fascist state, and was in the process a very long time ago. John and Robert Kennedy knew what was going on and were determined to stop it. They had to be eliminated. And it has all gone downhill from there.
The problem we are facing in the U.S. is also happening in the rest of the world. It is just further along in the U.S. But if you look at the UK, they are close.
The main problem is that those who are in power of the governments of the world are psychopaths. This may sound - out there - but it is a fact. And this is what the populace needs to be educated about.
There are a couple sites I go to. One is the SOTT page for news on everything. You can find it here:
http://tinyurl.com/ezvz9
The is a site that talks about Political Ponerolgy: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes and you can find it here:
http://tinyurl.com/z3s2l
If anyone is seriously interested in the subject, this is well worth the read.
Thanks for a well-written article.
I'm sure when Cheneyburton opens its Blackwater-operated re-education camps there will be ample opportunity to unlearn everything.
If you're strong enough to survive very long.
It really is comforting to know that people are paying attention to this and writing about it, even if the media ignores it.
It's not just about oil. See this.
Furthermore, Greenspan lies in his book that the attack on Iraq was ‘all about oil’. That was a factor, as we know from Richard B. Cheney’s activities, but it was by no means the primary motive: and by emphasising that the control of Iraqi oil was THE motive, this financial operative has contributed materially to the ongoing OBFUSCATION operations which baffle the naïve financial media. Nothing is ever solely about resources: the only motive for all of this hellish activity is MONEY.
THE ATTACK ON IRAQ: A BANK RAID BY BANDITS
We have long since pointed out that the attack on Iraq represented a bank raid. The immediate financial objectives of the White House were twofold:
1. To seize control of the Central Bank of Iraq, steal its gold and its cash, and through White House control of the Central Bank:
2. To procure the installation of compliant General Management at Rafidain Bank, which had long been used by Saddam Hussein and his family as their own private resource. According to British intelligence, this institution held at least $100 trillion of derivative-derived fiat money ‘assets’ and contracts in March 2003, with the assets located mainly in London. Naturally, we have been unable to establish whether the British confiscated these ‘assets’, but any such confiscation would induce no surprise. If this happened, it may even account, in part, for the White House-directed stealing of The Queen’s gold during the unscheduled UK banking shutdown on 29th-30th March this year – an ‘Act of War’ perpetrated against the United Kingdom by the United States (with traitorous inside assistance at the Bank of England) which has not been rectified. The UK and foreign media have failed to report this heist, to their absolute disgrace.
The attack on the Central Bank of Iraq was closely controlled, and after the institution had been raided and seized, at least 100 US special operatives (by some reckonings, considerably more) were deliberately sacrificed to ‘enemy fire’ in order for this bank raid to be covered up.
The deliberate and cynical sacrificing of these agents is known about thanks to eyewitness reports of the atrocity, which have survived scrutiny.
All of which leads us, finally, to broader considerations as they emerge from these exposures.
But first, let us recall that if Messrs Paulson, Cheney, Bush Jr. et al had not shiftily reneged on their undertakings and had instead fulfilled their formal obligations towards Ambassador Leo Wanta by ensuring that he could take economic receipt of the $4.5 trillion Settlement – on receipt of which, the latent Wanta claim on the remaining $23 trillion (base funds) would be released (as we have explained) – the US Treasury would by now have received windfall tax accruals in excess of $8.0 trillion, while massive US domestic infrastructure projects, repairs and other desirable end-uses such as the proper funding of Amtrak, could have been well advanced; and the Republican Party, which President George Bush Jr. evidently couldn’t care less about (see below), would not be facing virtual annihilation in 2008, as we warned on 2nd September 2006 would be the case and is now a certainty (absent the Wanta Settlement).
landers53 said...
Yes, the U.S. has become a fascist state, and was in the process a very long time ago. John and Robert Kennedy knew what was going on and were determined to stop it. They had to be eliminated. And it has all gone downhill from there.
It's tragic that JFK's murder could not have been prevented. It's doubly tragic for our nation and the world that the complete truth has yet to be learned. It was, I'm afraid, an UN-holy Trinity that did it: the CIA, the Oil Industry, and the Nixon-wing of the GOP! Bush Sr himself was in Dallas, hanging around just outside the School Book Depository Bldg on the very morning of the murder. Nixon, Bush Sr's sponsor, later referred to the "Cuban" thing in one of the White House transcripts. An interesting story may yet be told one day.
Anonymous said...
It's not just about oil. See this.
Everything you write is correct. But it IS all about oil in that oil is the "new" gold. When Keynes wrote, gold was still an international standard. Nixon could never have succeeded in taking the US off the gold standard in the early 70's if there had not been an international commodity against which the various currencies might be pegged de facto.
Great comments, and thanks for posting and sharing with us.
The last hurrah may occur before
George leaves office next year. It is up to Cheney to decide what that will be. SInce everything about public policy is kept in secret and no one seems to care. That is scary and spooky. The people who should be caring for the American people are the ones
ignoring Cheneys adventures. And that is scary..
I keep hoping we are about hit critical mass, in terms of citizens who realize that it's all about Empire, not freedom, and who have had enough.
Are we there yet?
fillip said...
I keep hoping we are about hit critical mass... Are we there yet?
Sadly, no! The Democratic opposition has not yet drawn blood! To do so, requires they tell the truth. If they dared tell the truth, they would lose the special interest money they get, even though it's a mere sop compared to what is funneled into the GOP.
The very system is corrupt. To be honest, I don't know what "critical mass" it will take to change things. Nothing changed in Berlin until the Russians occupied Berlin.
Len, on a parallel (slightly off-topic), the following, which might inspire a new article...
On Bush, Armageddon, Dominionism and Joel's Army
There is a fairly large body of evidence that Bush is a Methodist-in-name-only for the benefit and fooling of the American public, but is most likely part of Joel's Army. The linked article was written by someone who has a deep personal experience of that kind of coercive, dominating and brain-washing phony religion (and therefore is in a position to write about it) which not only claims to believe in Armageddon, but is actively organizing itself to create, promote and provoke and materialize its vision of Armageddon.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have actually led themselves to believe that they would be raptured and saved from a global nuclear holocaust, so much so that they might even be actively pursuing to bring one about.
OIL has only been a byproduct of a much larger picture. I like McGovern. His mentioning of Israel in all this will never happen.If not dead,he would be off msm in a second. Nobody wants to notice the 800lb ape in the room
I think it's probably the other way 'round. Oil is central while everything else, while important, is peripheral. If oil were suddenly taken out of the equation, every technological economy would simply collapse, billions would die. Manufacturing and high tech would collapse. Subsistence economies might survive at a very, very basic level.
Here's why its all about oil:
America’s budget deficit, Social Security liability, trade deficit, negative balance of payments, ballooning home mortgage amounts, humongous credit card and personal debt and absolute no desire to pay for anything right now is actually hiding behind the glamorous legendary American image of the twentieth century. People in the world still believe US dollar is more safe than gold. But that belief can disappear soon if world economy tanks, crude oil hits 100 Euro per barrel, oil cartel decides only to accept euro for oil and as a result US defaults on international interest payments. It will be dark day for the world if that ever happens.
Nixon took the US off the gold standard, probably because he knew that the US could not cover a run on gold held, presumably, in Ft. Knox. But the US economy, save for his recession, was still doing well and there was no world wide panic. Secondly, the US still had a manufacturing base, the US still had a steel industry.
Nixon is famous for having gone to China, a trip and "deal" that had been set up by Bush Sr who told me personally that he ate dog lips in the Forbidden City.
That trip seems to me to have been the beginning of America's long, slippery slide. Having opened up to US investments, China now has the US by the short hairs. No longer producing oil of its own, the US tries to control the flow of oil by way of oil "technology". My first college, btw, was famous for pioneering a "Drilling Technology" curriculum which was attended by Saudi and Kurwaiti "royals".
I might have been richer had I attended that school. But I was in hip deep in philosophy with a major in broadcasting. I did manage to put several semesters of economics under my belt.
I don't wish to beat a dead horse --but the importance of oil to the the world's economies cannot be emphasized sufficiently. A collapse of the dollar will simply trigger a catastrophic world wide depression and there is nothing that can stop it. And, if oil is suddenly traded in Euros, the dollar WILL collapse.
A worldwide trading system under the auspices of the WTO and central banks controls currency exchange rates through a system of mutual cooperation. That system will simply collapse overnight.
America's only leverage is, in effect, a simple message: if we go down the tubes, so goes the world. Certainly, China, alone, could pull the plug tomorrow but would lose its lucrative exports to the US in the bargain. In effect, China, eager to build up a huge, modern economy, is willing to simply let the dollar do a slow slide, obviously hoping to make adjustments along the way. China has nothing to gain by a worthless dollar.
So --while Bush puts the screws to the world, he does so from a position of weakness, counting upon a rest of the world that is, at least, as corrupt as he is. Having made a Faustian pact with US oil barons and imperialists, the central banks must keep us afloat or go down with the ship. In the end, it may not be a matter of choice! How much longer can the world banking community paper over an increasingly cockeyed balance sheet?
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