The Big MAGA Conservative Lie:
“No More Wars” MAGA Presidency or Make America Bomb Again?
Map of US CENTCOM imperial bases scattered throughout the region
Maps of US National Security State Empire
Even today the US Pentagon strategists use actively use and cite the following conventional strategic map depicting US strategic command regions of the world. Note how little has changed since the days of empires:
US EMPIRE’S WORLD WITH COMMANDERS AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Map of Global US Military Bases (October 30, 2008)Links to an external site.Map of Global US Military Bases (October 30, 2008) This map shows the location of US military bases scattered around the world in 2007. The US has over 190,000 troops and 115,000 civilian employees dispatched in 909 military facilities in 46 countries. The military owns or rents 795,000 acres of land, and 26,000 buildings valued at USD 46 billion.
President Reagan’s national security advisor, General Haig for once telling the truth about why Zionist Israel is America’s Mideast proxy regime.
A mad king’s pointless war is where Donald Trump was always heading
There is no legal or moral justification for Donald Trump's bomb strike on Iran, just the ego of an increasingly delusional president.
Political Comedian George Carlin telling the truth about the “American Dream”
From Vietnam to the Mideast and Back Again:
Propaganda and why Americans buy it every time
The Art of Mass Propaganda and "The War on Terrorism" Propaganda Campaign
Effective Mass Propaganda and the so-called "911 War on Terror."
“Where are those weapons of mass destruction, anyway?”
Moscow blasts US redo of ‘Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’ stunt
Washington has “opened a Pandora’s box” by attacking Iran, Russia’s ambassador told the UN Security Counci
Russia has condemned the United States for its airstrikes and missile attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling them “irresponsible, provocative and dangerous,” and warning that they risk pushing the Middle East toward a large-scale war with potentially catastrophic nuclear consequences.
Speaking at an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Sunday, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused Washington of violating the UN Charter, international law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“The United States has opened a Pandora’s box, and no one knows what consequences may follow,” Nebenzia said, noting that by targeting IAEA-supervised nuclear sites, Washington has “once again demonstrated total disregard for the position of the international community.”
Nebenzia drew a pointed comparison to the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, when then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented false evidence to “justify the invasion of another sovereign state, only to plunge its people into chaos for decades and not find any weapons of mass destruction.”
“Many today feel a strong sense of déjà vu,” he said. “The current situation is essentially no different: we are once again being urged to believe in fairy tales in order to once again bring suffering to millions of people living in the Middle East.”
Russia argued that Tehran has not been proven to be pursuing nuclear weapons development, echoing earlier assessments by US intelligence that were dismissed by President Donald Trump as “wrong.” Nebenzia accused Washington of fabricating a narrative to justify the use of force and of undermining the decades-old diplomatic framework built around Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
The Russian envoy also criticized what he described as the hypocrisy of Western nations that had for days called for “restraint” in the same Security Council chamber, yet failed to condemn Washington for joining Israel in its operation – and even blamed Iran for the escalation.
“We are witnessing an astonishing example of double standards,” he said. “Iran has been and remains one of the most thoroughly inspected states under the NPT, but instead of encouraging such an attitude, it receives bombardments of its territory and civilians by a state that refuses, in principle, to sign the NPT.”
Nebenzia warned that the US strikes undermine the authority of the IAEA and the global non-proliferation regime, and that continued escalation could return the world to an era of uncontrolled nuclear risk.
“This is an outrageous and cynical situation, and it is very strange that the Director General of the IAEA did not say a word about it. Neither has he ever called on Israel to join the NPT,” Nebenzia added.
Calling for urgent action, Russia – joined by China and Pakistan – submitted a draft Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and a return to diplomatic talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
23 Jun, 2025 14:18 Russia Today
Hollywood seeded Iran war narrative for years – Wikileaks
Jewish screenwriters have allegedly pushed the image of an Iranian nuclear threat through film and TV since the early 2010s
Screenwriters in Hollywood who “say they are Jewish” have been planting pro-war narratives about Iran in mainstream entertainment for more than a decade, Wikileaks has claimed.
Israel launched airstrikes on Iran earlier this month, claiming Tehran was close to creating a nuclear weapon. Over the weekend, the US also directly joined the conflict by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities.
In a post on X on Sunday, Wikileaks stated that Hollywood writers “who say they are Jewish” have been “planting the mental seeds for war with Iran for years,” citing productions such as Top Gun: Maverick, Homeland, 24, and The Fifth Estate.
The group shared a clip of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s speech at Oxford Union from 2013. In the video, he discussed The Fifth Estate – a biographical drama about Wikileaks – which opens with a side plot about a fictional Iranian nuclear bomb project.
Assange recalled that the opening scene depicts Iranian scientists in Tehran assembling a bomb, with one character stating that the device could be operational within six months.
“How is it that such a lie got into a script about Wikileaks?” Assange asked, noting that at the time, 16 US intelligence agencies had already found that Tehran did not have a nuclear weapons program.
“It is an attack against Iran,” Assange said, claiming that the scene “fans the flames to start a war with Iran” and served the interests of the “people in the system that want the war.”
Prior to Israel’s latest strikes, both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and US intelligence agencies stated there was no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Nevertheless, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued to insist that Tehran was on the brink of creating a bomb – a claim he has repeated for decades. At the UN General Assembly in 2012, he infamously used a cartoon bomb illustration to warn that Iran was “months away” from a nuclear weapon, and made comparable statements throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
Israel’s attack has drawn international condemnation, including from Russia, which has said the strikes were illegal. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the operation “an unprovoked aggression.”
US involvement in Israel’s campaign has also drawn criticism, with Moscow comparing it to the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, which was started over false claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
US President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran has also met pushback from inside the White House. According to Reuters, Vice President J.D. Vance – an Iraq War veteran – opposed joining the Israeli offensive and warned during internal discussions that Israel was dragging the US into another war.
Why Political comedian George Carlin was right.
Political comedian George Carlin telling truth about America’s Gulf Wars
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
Superpatriot War Propaganda or Are Americans that Politically Stupid?!
If you’re clueless, then please study this book to find the answer
This book is only available online at The Internet Archive which has a short rental textbook you may be able to use: https://archive.org/stream/superpatriotism00pare#mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/superpatriotism00pare
Online Lecture by Author: Professor Michael Parenti, Yale Ph.D. Political Scientist and longtime advocate for an anti-empire America.
Dr. Parenti’s podcast lecture
Superpatriotism is a critical study of a dominant American ideology.
He examines how US leaders and the corporate media propagandize and exaggerate fear to win support for huge arms budgets, global aggrandizement, and the suppression of political dissent at home and abroad.
With critical mature political analysis, Parenti addresses such urgent questions as:
What does it mean to love one’s country?
Why is it so important to be Number One?
What determines America’s “greatness?”
Contents
1 - What Does It Mean to Love Our Country?
2 - "America - Love It or Leave It?
3 - The Importance of Being Number One
4 - Military Patriotism: For Flag and Missile
5 - "USA!" "USA!" Sports for Superpatriots
6 - The Divine Politicos
7 - Messianic Nation
8 - Follow the Leader
9 - Patriotic Fear
10 - The Menace Within
11 - Are the Plutocrats Patriotic?
12 - Support Our Troops (Cut Their Benefits)
13 - Rulers of the Planet
14 - "Why Do They Hate Us?"
15 - Real Patriotism
And the Beat Goes On... But why?
American Corruption of Institutional Political Power
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men."
-Lord Acton
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
Six months into Trump's "No More Wars" presidency, illegally attacks Iran: Israel’s “Rising Lion Operations” paved the way for Trump’s “Midnight Hammer Operation.” June 2025
Pro-MAGA Trump conservatives have been embarrassed to find that their much vaunted “No More Wars” MAGA presidency is in fact a US national security deep state presidency not much different from his predecessors nor his first term in office.
Well, as his first six months in office already revealed Trump’s First War Lie on his campaign trail and later while assuming office: “No More Wars” appears to be leading America into another all-out Mideast catastrophe.
In fact, as evidenced in his “Big Beautiful Bill”, Trump is merely continuing the long American presidential tradition of pouring multi-billions into the US national security deep state military industrial complex.
In Search of Enemies: "No More Wars" Trump's Deceptive Foreign Policies
Trump's Pivot to Asia
China ‘existential threat’ to US – CIA deputy director — RT World News
Or maybe, Trump’s US national security deep state empire is a Threat to the World.
So, what did Trump do next? He continued Obama/Biden’s deep state “Pivot to Asia.” He merely shifted his seemingly chaotic foreign policy emphasis by first continuing to designate China “as number one threat” while scrambling around throwing up ad hoc ludicrous tariffs that did more to harm the American consumer than China or anyone else.
China ‘existential threat’ to US – CIA deputy director
China’s economic might makes the Asian nation a unique challenge as the US competes with it for global influence, CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis has said.
“China is the existential threat to American security in a way that we really have never confronted before,” Ellis said in an interview with Axios on Wednesday. Unlike with the Soviet Union, the current competition is primarily unfolding along economic lines, he explained.
Ellis said technological supremacy in fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, semiconductors, and advanced energy storage will ultimately determine the outcome of the geopolitical contest.
He outlined the CIA’s evolving priorities in an era where traditional methods of human intelligence gathering face increasing limitations. There has to be an “evolution in operational tradecraft,” Ellis stated. “While some of the tools and techniques from the 1960s or 70s might still work today, a lot of them need to be updated and refreshed.”
To meet the challenge, Ellis said the agency is recruiting an “elite workforce” with advanced scientific and engineering expertise, emphasizing a drive to build “the ultimate meritocracy at the CIA.”
Beijing has repeatedly accused Washington of clinging to a “Cold War mentality” and seeking global dominance instead of embracing a multipolar world based on cooperation and mutual benefit.
The US and China remain embroiled in a protracted trade dispute, which has escalated under the administration of President Donald Trump following the imposition of tariffs on imports of Chinese products. Beijing has responded with countermeasures.
Following the latest round of talks, both sides issued a joint statement pledging to resolve their disagreements through “mutual opening, continued communication, cooperation, and mutual respect.”
This week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated the Trump administration’s intention to shift its attention from European affairs to China.
“Every dollar we spend on this [Ukraine] conflict in Europe is distracting both our focus and our resources away from the potential for a much more serious, much more cataclysmic confrontation in the Indo-Pacific,” Rubio told lawmakers during a Senate hearing.
Moving on…. From China Syndrome to Syrian Syndrome
Syrian Domino Fall
Trump Helps Overthrow Assad's Syrian Government
Next, Trump sucked up to Bibi Netanyahu, and, in payback for AIPAC’s multi-million campaign bribe monies, he continued Biden’s military aid for Bibi’s Zionist Israeli Gaza Genocide operations while collaborating with Israel to overthrow Russian/Iranian backed Assad Syrian secular nationalist government and replace him with Trump's new Jihadis terrorist ally, aka, Syria’s current president, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, who was until recently regarded by the US as a senior figure in Al-Qaeda in Syria supported by US forces and Türkiye - al-Sharaa, a guy with a blood stained $10 million bounty posted on his head by the FBI.
While all this was happening, Trump, through his Israeli-backed Jihadi proxies, delivered the final overthrow of Assad’s Syrian government while later shaking hands with the blood thirsty Islamic jihadi terrorist, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, who was instantly rebranded as “moderate rebel” now wearing an Armani silk business suit and tie.
Trump shakes hands with US’s “moderate jihadi terrorist”, aka, “a good guy”
Trump considered him “a good guy, a strong young man.” Indeed. This terrorist was and has been staunchly supported by both US and Israeli deep state regimes for years in their mutual endeavor to do “a Libya number” on Assad’s Syria. And they were successful.
So, it was no coincidence, US President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he intended to lift all sanctions on Syria which he declared during his Middle East tour at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh, the decision signaled America’s continued support for anyone willing to ally with Trump's Zionist-led Mideast policies.
When State Terrorists Meet: US/ Israeli and Mideast Bromance and Their Mutual Anti-Iranian Holy War
When Petro-dollars talk, B.S. Walks! Trump shakes hands with MBS, Saudi Arabia’s leading financier of jihadi terrorist militias
Trump's Hypocritical Double Dealing with Two Fellow Hypocrites: Israel and Türkiye so long as they're both against Iran.
Erdogan, probably the supreme hypocrite of both claims to support Palestine while doing business with Israel along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, two other regimes support the region's Jihadist terrorist militias.
Bibi’s “Abraham Accords”: When Zionist Israeli terrorists collaborate with Gulf State terrorists, one big happy anti-Iranian family
Trump's vision for Syria is basically the same as Israel's, compliant proxy regime that will join in their anti-Iran crusade. Thus, he is attempting to collaborate with both Türkiye and Israel, laying the groundwork for an economic partnership despite ideological differences so long as they tow the US-Zionist policy line against Iran.
The goal is to prevent friction among US allies and to forge a unified front against Iran and other hostile forces.
Syrian leader threatened by militants who put him in power – WaPo — RT World News
Gulf benefactor may settle some of Syria’s foreign debt – Reuters
Saudi Arabia reportedly plans to pay off the $15 million Damascus owes the World Bank Apr 14, 2025 18:39
‘This isn’t war. It’s genocide’: Why the world is silent about massacres in Syria FEATURE
Survivors of the violence against the Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities shares their stories with RT Mar 15, 2025 18:12
Militant groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Damascus in December, toppling the government of Bashar Assad Feb 5, 2025 02:00
One Man’s Terrorist is another’s “Freedom Fighter” especially if they’re Americans.
“Terrorism” is generally used by US and western elites as a propaganda term used to divert attention away from the real state terrorist regime, the US national security state (USNSS).
US/Zionist state terrorism must be hidden as much as possible.
Mass US/Zionist/EU mass ethnic cleansing, aka, genocide, will be censored from the World Community in order to proceed with impunity by murdering journalists, civilian witnesses so as to continue to hide massive crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Now on to the next domino to fall: Iran or Iraq?
From Vietnam to the Mideast and Back Again:
And the Beat Goes On... But Why?
Superpatriot War Propaganda
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
Trump simply ignored them.
While Iranians were negotiating with the US for a new nuclear deal that would allow Iran’s right to peacefully develop civilian nuclear research and production, the US and Israel were behind the scenes cynically using a series of peace negotiations as a front while secretly preparing to attack Iran’s civilian nuclear sites.
The first attacks came when Israel attacked Iran codenamed “Operation Rising Lion” during the first round of US-Iran diplomatic negotiations over Iran’s legal right to enrich uranium for peaceful civilian nuclear use. During this period, public opinion polls showed a vast majority across the political spectrum were against any US involvement in a war against Iran. America's "No More War Peace" President simply ignored them.
While planning his strike, Trump also simply ignored and sidelined his own DNI Tulsi Gabbard and many other intelligence analyses including the UN IAEA’s Grossi who all claimed that there was zero evidence of Iran’s peaceful civilian uranium enrichment program nearing the completion of weapon’s grade uranium and an impending development of a strategic nuclear missile.
TRUMP’S MAGA SLAVES TO MIGA, MAKE ISRAEL GREAT AGAIN
Trump shakes hands with Bibi, his campaign funder and Zionist Israeli terrorist who’s “defending western civilization” while slaughter thousands in his Gaza Genocide operation.
Nonetheless, our much vaunted “No More War” MAGA Zionist president soldiered on with a cabal of US national security deep state elites beholden, coincidentally, to Bibi’s AIPAC spy network infiltrated throughout both the US national security state and Congress working feverishly in bribing and conning their way into convincing the American people that Iran poses an existential threat to world civilization and only “Rising Lion” Bibi can save us all. Same happened under George W. Bush’s Iraq WMD war liars.
Trump official to The Grayzone: CIA’s Ratcliffe acts as ‘Mossad stenographer’ on Iran - The Grayzone
US and Zionist Israel’s Massive “Peace” Deception: Trump’s Iran Diplomacy as One Big Fat Cover
During Iran’s ongoing diplomatic efforts to address Israel’s illegal attack on nuclear sites, both US and Israeli elites continued a drumbeat of nuclear threat propaganda meant to influence public opinion against Iran and provide for a false justification for an eventual attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Trump secretly continues to organize and plan the illegal attack on Iran even while the UN Security Council diplomatic negotiations were going on with his US UN rep continuing the Trump/Bibi Big Iran Nuke Lies:
Dorothy’s Freudian Slip: Telling the Truth in front of entire World Community about Israel
Ambassador Dorothy Camille Shea, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the United States, speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security at the United Nations headquarters on June 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. © Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Truth be told: “Israel is a terrorist” - Trump’s own US United Nations Ambassador Dorothy Shea’s Freudian Slip.
US ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea stated at a UN Security Council meeting on Friday (20 June 2025 prior to Trump's weekend bombing campaign) that Iran must be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb, despite IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi recently saying the agency found no evidence that Tehran is pursuing such a weapon. Analysts say Washington’s narrative resembles past efforts to justify regime change in the Middle East.
Publicly, Trump claimed to be seeking a peaceful resolution over Iran’s peaceful civilian nuclear program. All the while, he was cooperating and coordinating and supplying Israel with weapons and intelligence in support of Israel’s Rising Lion Operation’s initial aggression; Trump then under his “Operation Midnight Hammer” launched his midnight 21 June surprise attack on Iran which now directly involved the US in a direct illegal act of aggression.
Prior to the attack, President Trump had already authorized a war plan against Iran and issued orders for the impending night attack to take place weekend of 21-22 June 2025.
The US aerial strikes on Iran were an “incredible and overwhelming success” and “obliterated” the country’s “nuclear ambitions,” according to US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The Pentagon chief made the remarks on Saturday evening during a large press conference alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine to detail the attack, codenamed “Operation Midnight Hammer.”
Iran has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes – Putin
The IAEA has confirmed that there is no evidence of Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, the Russian president has said Jun 21, 2025, 07:59
Moscow blasts US redo of ‘Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’ stunt
“Doing the dirty work for us.”
“Doing the dirty work…” something Germany, like the US, has a long bloody history of “doing.”
In the aftermath of Israel’s first act of aggression against Iran, Germany’s Merz ironically and correctly characterized Israel’s attack as “doing the dirty work for us.” Apparently, Merz was not only speaking for Germany but for the entire EU/NATO regime.
PHOTO: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. © Omer Messinger / Getty Images (Germany’s Merz praises Israel for doing ‘dirty work for us’: The German chancellor has endorsed the ongoing Israeli strikes against Iran Jun 18, 2025. )
The “dirty work” in question was yet another Israeli war crime in the service of “us” being the US and the collective west, i.e., not only for Germany but for the entire EU/NATO regime, apparently, since they are suffering under self-inflicted financial losses in their failed support of Zelensky's corrupt Ukrainian regime. So, I think that Merz's meaning simply meant that big bucks American "No More War" President Trump could shell out the usual multi-billions in support of another costly Mideast catastrophe.
Israel’s “dirty work” also includes the US and collective west’s support of the horrendous Gaza Genocide operations, yet another in a long historical chain of massive war crimes and crimes against humanity.
From Genocide Joe to Genocide Donald. US Zionist Gaza Genocide Operations Continue.
Miko Peled: the Israeli apartheid state must be dismantled to end the Gaza genocide
Trump Addresses the Nation
In order to justify his unilateral attack of illegal aggression on Iran, Trump simply replayed the George W. Bush great Iraq WMD lies which provided the justification for the US illegal invasion and war against Iraq in 2003. Trump merely replayed a time worn fear propaganda that has at least since 1945 provided repeated rationales for acts of aggression either as covert or overt wars or inventions across the globe.
Israel first led the way with initial illegal attacks on Iran’s nuclear and civilian infrastructure, which allowed Trump to gauge the extent of Iran’s reaction after which Trump would authorize a secondary US illegal attack.
According to after action reports, Trump's strikes on the Iranian civilian nuclear sites marked the first time combat use of the US GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bomb, which was deployed by B‑2 Spirit stealth bomber. Like the US Vietnam and Iraq wars, America's deep state Pentagon militarists got another big chance to use another illegal war as its "war laboratory." No doubt, to coincide with Bibi's own series of "war labs" as IDF testing grounds for mass slaughter, e.g., Gaza Genocide "war lab", Syrian "war lab", and the Lebanon "war lab."
Probably why Trump proudly exclaimed in his national after-action war speech while gloating:
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.
Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that’s so. I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either peace, or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. There’s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight. Not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.
Trump hails ‘spectacular’ US raid against Iran (FULL SPEECH) — RT World News
READ MORE: Iran accuses US of violating nuclear treaty with airstrikes
Washington strikes Iranian nuclear sites: What we know so far — RT World News
Trump hails ‘spectacular’ US raid against Iran (FULL SPEECH)
American War Congress: Lapdogs for America's Forever Wars
US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798 - Geopolitical Economy Report
Trump's War Against Iran is merely another in a long series of America's Forever Wars
One of the myths of the US is that Presidents need an authorization from Congress before committing acts of aggression.
Historical records shows that both parties of congress have since the establishment of the US, have been more lapdogs than watchdogs when it comes to presidential war powers.
The Rise of the cold war US National Security State Empire.
World Map of US and UK Government Interventions Since 194
How do we know this fact? A simple glance at the history of US wars of empire from its continental expansion in the early 1800’s into the 1900’s finds that US presidents have unilaterally used force to conquer their designated “enemy.” The “enemy” being anyone getting in the way of American Manifest Destiny to conquer other’s lands and strategic resources and get away with it.
Nothing New Here: Another Congressional MAGA Warhawk and Chickenshit
Trump’s act of illegal aggression against Iran praised by Congressional Leadership who would’ve given blanket authorization to continue illegal war while his AIPAC Zionist handlers were watching this catastrophe unfold.
House Speaker Mike Johnson reacted to President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran by praising the president’s leadership, saying that “this is what peace through strength looks like.”
Calling it “a really, really big day,” and “historic,” Johnson also said that calls from other lawmakers for a War Powers resolution potentially limiting the president’s authority to issue further strikes on Iran was “kind of a moot point now, isn’t it?”
Pro-regime change US senator hails ‘our’ military strikes on Iran - Another Trump MAGA Deep State Warrior
US Senator Ted Cruz, Washington, DC, March 27, 2025. © Nathan Posner / Anadolu via Getty Images
Congressional war hawks both democrats and republicans supported Trump's Operation Midnight Hammer illegal attack against Iran while others such as so-called "progressive" Senator Sanders demanded that Trump seek "congressional authorization."
What's interesting this episode is that it finally reveals how utterly inept and cowardly the US Congress is - meaning, even if Trump sought such "authorization" he would probably get it since majority of congress under republican control would have given the authorization in the same way congress cow towed the George W. Bush's Iraq war authorization from both sides of the aisle.
So, based on the long, bloody historical record of US 20th and 21st century invasions, interventions, mass bombings, mass slaughter including the current Gaza Genocide, which until now, Congress has merely whined about it but has not the guts to force through a complete band on any further US Presidential cooperation with Israel's genocidal policies.
Bottomline: Americans and world community may protest, rant and rave all they want, but until there's a radical systemic institutional change in the entire US national security "deep state" and the US Constitution, America will continue with its forever wars and the World Community will continue to suffer for it.
Echoes of US Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Catastrophes
Even US Combat Veterans Want to Stop “No More Wars” Zionist Trump’s Iran War
Veterans For Peace condemns the unilateral, immoral, and criminal U.S. bombing on the sovereign nation of Iran.
June 21, 2025 will be remembered as the day the U.S. once again chose war over diplomacy, unleashing consequences we may come to regret. The United States deliberately carried out an unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of Iran in total violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the U.S. Constitution. This is not only a provocation—this is a moral failure.
The pretext of Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons is a familiar lie.
Just like Iraq in 2003, we are being dragged into war based on deliberate deception. The aggressors in this reckless escalation are the United States and Israel. They have lit the fuse for a wider regional war, putting U.S. service members and countless civilians in immediate danger. As veterans who know the tragic cost and futility of war, we urge all people of conscience to reject this madness.
Veterans For Peace Condemns U.S. Attack on Iran - Calls for Nationwide Protests
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Finale
Some Thoughts re: Results of Quadrennial Electoral American Dog ‘n Phony Show Will Trump-47th “Make America Great Again”?
333 million people in the US. And we ended up with these two? How did that happen?
Will Trump-47th “Make America Great Again”?
It depends on how one defines “Great”.
Democrats’ slogan was “Exceptionalism”.
Republicans’ slogan was “Greatness.”
Adding up these Duopoly slogans = “Exceptional + Greatness”?
What’s historical record reveal?
From Vietnam to the Mideast and Back Again:
Superpatriot War Propaganda
The Art of Mass Propaganda and "The War on Terrorism" Propaganda Campaign
Effective Mass Propaganda and the so-called "911 War on Terror."
“Where are those weapons of mass destruction, anyway?”
Propaganda and why Americans buy it every time:
Why Political comedian George Carlin was right.
And the Beat Goes On... But why?
Political comedian George Carlin telling truth about America’s Gulf Wars
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men."
-Lord Acton
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
When presidents lie to make a war
Fifty years on we know the trigger for war with Vietnam was a fiction. Will it be another 50 before we know the truth about Iraq?
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
Source: John Prados, The White House Tapes. (New York: The New Press, 2003)
On August 2, 1964, the American destroyer Maddox, on patrol off the coast of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, was attacked by several North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The attack happened hours after South Vietnamese raiders struck at two targets on the North Vietnamese coast as part of a U.S. program of graduated covert pressure against the North that was known as Operations Plan (OPLAN)-34A. This marked the beginning of a series of events that has come to be called the Tonkin Gulf incident.
The Maddox was actually on an intelligence mission off the northern coast, carrying with a van of extra communications and electronics gear along with a complement of specialists from the Naval Security Group, a naval complement to the National Security Agency. Their task was to intercept North Vietnamese communications. The ship was in international waters when attacked, but had been inside territorial waters claimed by North Vietnam when Hanoi's torpedo boats were sent to sea. Vietnamese authorities have disclosed that the response was ordered by local commanders without reference to Hanoi. The Maddox did not expect any attack-the mission commander had been briefed in Taiwan previously that there would be none - but she was also completely unaware of the provocation to North Vietnam that had occurred simultaneously in the form of the OPLAN-34A strikes. There was no real surprise, however. The North Vietnamese torpedo boats' communications were intercepted, as well as the orders sending them out, and the craft were detected as they approached the U.S. warship. In the ensuing battle two of the three boats were sunk and the third badly damaged, with no losses to the Maddox. The action in the Tonkin Gulf took place in the afternoon local time, which was before dawn in Washington, and by early morning in the capital there was a scramble to decide what to do about the situation.
The Truth About Tonkin
Questions about the Gulf of Tonkin incidents have persisted for more than 40 years. But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Types of Manipulative Power
“The War on Terrorism” or “The US War of Terrorism”
When the so-called “War on Terror” Propaganda Wears Thin
Declining use of 'war on terror'
As Britain's Secretary for International Development Hilary Benn says that the UK government no longer uses the phrase "war on terror", BBC News website world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds looks at the use and now the disuse of this phrase.
New name for 'war on terror'
The Bush administration is abandoning the phrase "war on terror" to better express the fight against al-Qaeda and other groups as an ideological struggle as much as a military mission.
The 911 Terrorist Attacks as a Pretext for Expanding US Power Globally
Manipulation - A Case Study: Propaganda and the Political Word Problems with the so called "War on Terrorism."
The Bush administration's strategy for the invasion and conquest and subsequent occupation of Iraq involved the following combination of Power:
Economic Power as Economic Warfare: Using economic sanctions to starve the Iraqi economy and its people of vital resources.
Military Force: The mass deployment of the entire array of US military power that included the Pentagon, the intelligence community, private military industrial corporations, and US allies' military power such as Britain's and other in the "Coalition of the Willing."
Propaganda Campaigns: The mass marketing of war against Iraq was a critical component for the entire operation. An effective slogan was needed in order to 'sell the war' to the American people and a world audience. Thus, Bush used a nonphysical use of power in which the agent exercising power over a second agent conceals the aims and intentions motivating the exercise of power. After the 911 attacks, official mass propaganda monopolized the term "war on terror"; yet over time, it began to lose its currency and became more of a problem than an effective propaganda tool.
"By accepting the facile cliche that the battle under way against terrorism is a battle against evil, by easily branding those who fight us as the barbarians, we, like them, refuse to acknowledge our own culpability. We ignore real injustices that have led many of those arrayed against us to their rage and despair." [Chris Hedges in Gurtov 23, Global Politics in the Human Interest.]
Manipulation - a sub-category of persuasion where one person hides their aims and intentions. Here language is used to motivate people into mass action or to change their ideas without their knowledge of the speaker’s intentions or aims or agenda.
Forms of Manipulation
Political Campaigns
Political Speeches
Political PropagandaPersuasion and mass manipulation are two other non-violent or non-coercive forms of power deployed in order to persuade people to believe and act a certain way that generally benefits the propagandist. The political and commercial propaganda, or what is normally called "marketing" is a form of propaganda that seeks to use sophisticated messages and powerful symbols to mobilize public opinion or persuade consumers to buy products or citizens to buy into US national security state wars.
Buying the War, Bill Moyers Journal
Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln wearing a flight suit and delivered a speech in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner. He was hailed by media stars as a "breathtaking" example of presidential leadership in toppling Saddam Hussein. Despite profound questions over the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House's claim that the war was won. MSNBC's Chris Matthews declared, "We're all neo-cons now;" NPR's Bob Edwards said, "The war in Iraq is essentially over;" and Fortune magazine's Jeff Birnbaum said, "It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the broadest context.”
Joe Biden Was Instrumental in Launching the Iraq War
February 21, 2020
Source: Joe Biden Was Instrumental in Launching the Iraq War
STORY FEB 18, 2020
New Film Shows How Biden Played Leading Role in Push for U.S. to Invade Iraq
Lying for Empire: How to Commit War Crimes With a Straight Face by David Model
Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, G. H. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush. No president has been publicly tried for committing a war crime. Yet these presidents have committed them while invoking threats of Communism, terrorism and the loss of American lives. To win popular support for these foreign adventures, these presidents have lied to the American people, resulting in the loss of millions of innocent lives as in Vietnam or Iraq. These actions clearly violated international law and constituted war crimes. David Model is a professor of political science and economics at Seneca College in Toronto. He has previously written People Before Reversing the Corporate Agenda and Corporate Understanding and Challenging the New World Order .
Why Endless Wars for Empire?
From the Vietnam Wars to the Mideast Wars
Why is it difficult for Americans to Learn that War is a Racket?
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
― Tacitus
“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
― Julius Caesar
Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel's independence and recognition by President Truman.
Gendzier also shows that U.S. consuls and representatives abroad informed State Department officials, including the Secretary of State and the President, of the deleterious consequences of partition in Palestine. Yet the attempt to reconsider partition and replace it with a UN trusteeship for Palestine failed, jettisoned by Israel's declaration of independence. The results altered the regional balance of power and Washington's calculations of policy toward the new state. Prior to that, Gendzier reveals the U.S. endorsed the repatriation of Palestinian refugees in accord with UNGA Res 194 of Dec. 11, 1948, in addition to the resolution of territorial claims, the definition of boundaries, and the internationalization of Jerusalem. But U.S. interests in the Middle East, notably the protection of American oil interests, led U.S. officials to rethink Israel's military potential as a strategic ally. Washington then deferred to Israel with respect to the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, the question of boundaries, and the fate of Jerusalem—issues that U.S. officials have come to realize are central to the 1948 conflict and its aftermath.
About the Author and Scholar
Irene L. Gendzier, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 1964; M.A., Columbia; B.A., Barnard College), is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, an Affiliate in Research at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and a research affiliate of the MIT Center for International Studies.
You'll understand easily why the US admin is complicit or even pushing for the Genocide in Gaza.
The Long Bloody Legacy of EMPIRES
1914 Mideast Imperial Map
Dividing the Political Map of the World into an Economic Map between the North and 'Global South' or 'Developing Countries' has a long and tragic history based on EMPIRE's conquests and colonialism, racism and xenophobia. [See this 1914 Mideast Imperial Map]
The imperial conquest and competition for the control over the world's fossil fuel, aka, oil and natural gas, reserves has one of main reasons for what has been called 'The Great Game of Empires.' You'll note the majority of these 'black gold reserves' lay in regions of The Global South spanning from the Mideast, throughout the Asia-Pacific basin and the Latin American continent. In our journey through this course, you will learn how the wars and interventions of the Global North have and still rage over this vital yet deadly commodity and the millions killed to control it for profits.
From the Middle East to Asia: Western Colonial Empires Carve Up the Global South
Trump urges petroleum producers to ‘keep oil prices down
23 Jun, 2025 18:15 Russia Today Trump urges petroleum producers to ‘keep oil prices down’
Sergeant Hollis’ War
"What's Democracy Got to Do with It?"
It wasn’t until our next to last night in Iraq that we’d find someone who could truly understand just how little America’s objectives had changed since Kennan’s time. *
After three intense days embedded with the U.S. Army in an area north of Baghdad, we are placed on a dangerous “presence patrol” that takes us into Samarra, a hotbed of anti-American violence. That night, after surviving the exercise without incident, we start talking to Sergeant Robert Hollis, a thirty-five-year-old tank commander. Standing in front of a poster of Britney Spears posing with NFL football players, he begins deconstructing the historical parallels between the Second Punic War and the battle he’s been fighting.
“The Romans took the fight to them,” he explains. “That’s what we’re doing here. They wouldn’t field a credible army on the field of battle, so we came into their homeland.”
Sgt. Hollis is something of legend in his division, as a fast-talking, hip-hop autodidact from Alabama who spouts off about the Romans any chance he can get. The other guys don’t seem to know whether what he’s talking about is pure bull, or pure genius. Either way, he cracks them up. Tonight, he’s getting serious, and some start listening in.
“The reality is even the Roman Empire had to fight to secure its way of life,” he says. “When America says liberation, we mean capitalism. It’s about globalization. It’s about expansion of markets. We have to stabilize new and emerging markets in order to secure resources.”
As he talks, a group of plainclothes Special Forces operatives lock and load their weapons and check their radio headsets.
He continues, “Can you tell mothers and brothers and sisters that your sons and daughters are dying for capital goods? No, you cannot. You have to make sure you tell them you are fighting for moral, ethical reasons.”
Then Sgt. Hollis offers a final bleak yet depressingly accurate assessment of the operation’s prospect for success.
“Will we win the hearts and minds of people? Maybe not in this generation. But you have to think in the long term. Maybe not in fifty years, maybe not in one hundred years. There’s no hate. The problem is one side must win; one side must lose. The war must be won in Afghanistan, and it must be won here to improve our way of life.”
The problem is not will we win, but what we will have become when we do.
Anthony Lappe, Stephen Marshal, “Sergeant Hollis’ War,” in True Lies, Guerrilla News Network pp.141-142, 2004.]
America Has a Lot to Learn From the Roman Empire's Fall - Truthdig
Related Study References:
Making the World Safe for Capitalism: How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed by Christopher Doran
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13169477-making-the-world-safe-for-capitalism
The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND MUCH MORE RESEARCH
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East Toby Craig Jones, The Journal of American History, Vol. 99, No. 1, Oil in American History (June 2012), pp. 208-218
https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/99/1/208/854761?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.globalresearch.ca/middle-eastern-wars-have-always-been-about-oil/5510640
2003-2013: Iraqi Resistance, America’s “Dirty War” and the Remaking of the Middle East
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-real-reason-americans-dont-care-about-the-costs-of-war/
Modern Imperialism
Neoimperialism and The Cold War 1945 - 1991
‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/5/how_to_hide_an_empire_daniel
Rise of the Modern US National Security Empire
U.S. Global Containment Strategies and the Post-World War II Globalization of Corporate Capital
Dawning of the Cold War and the Rise of U.S. Strategic and Economic Supremacy
and the Rise of the US National Security State (USNSS) Presidential Doctrines.
U.S. Containment Policies were not only meant to "contain" the alleged Soviet threat of "world domination", which in reality was based on an exaggerated 'threat' conjured up by U.S. 'red scare' propaganda campaigns such as 'McCarthyism', but to contain the threat of national independence movements that threatened market access to U.S. multinational corporate interests in the South.
Many of the newly decolonized nations of the Global South fought national liberation struggles formed by local guerrilla communist movements and independence movements seeking to be free from historical colonial domination and capitalist market controls. [Read also Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ]. The cold war era was predominantly fought over the the Global South with the USNSS and its strategic alliances NATO, SEATO, CENTO and OAS as regional proxy allies mostly rightwing civilian or military regimes meant to suppress internal opposition especially from 'Wars of National Liberation and Decolonization’ movements in the Global South that threatened US access to strategic resources and markets.
The creation of the so-called global "communist conspiracy" or "falling domino theory" which stated that if Global South states were allowed to go down a unilateral path of free elections and independence then U.S. and western control of these states would be threatened. So, the early cold war "containment policy" outlined in various U.S. secret planning documents, principally National Security Council Memorandum 68, NSC 68, established a strategy for the expansion of the American military industrial complex which would keep America on a "permanent war footing" after World War II and provide an arms trade market for U.S. defense corporations. The strategy was to keep the U.S. capitalist market system from going into a post-war depression.
[See terms: ARMS TRADE; MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. ]
[References: Creating the “Red Scare” was a major propaganda strategy: see Frank Kofsky, Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation; also See PHW Part 7, chapter 9 'The Cold War'; also read Untold History of the United States chapter 5 9]
Another major secret strategic plan was Policy Planning Study 23, PPS 23 by the head of the 1948 State Department's planning staff, George Kennan wherein he wrote:
[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population....In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity....To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are than hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
Kennan's strategic vision was meant to provide a rationale for aggressively expanding U.S. empire into the Global South. His planning document was kept secret from the American public because if disclosed would have revealed the true nature of presidential policies: the use of U.S. military power to support multinational corporate expansion into foreign markets. Instead, U.S. Presidents touted 'democratization' as mere sloganeering in their cold war propaganda statements in order to manipulate American public opinion and garner public support for dramatically increasing defense spending and expanding the new evolving national security state. [See herein related reports John Stockwell on CIA Secret Wars in the Global South and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
According to Prof. Chomsky’s analysis of early cold war planning,
PPS 23 was, of course, a top-secret document. To pacify the public, it was necessary to trumpet the idealistic slogans (as is still being done constantly), but here planners were talking to one another.
Along the same lines, in a briefing for US ambassadors to Latin American countries in 1950, Kennan observed that a major concern of US foreign policy must be the protection of our [i.e. Latin Americas] aw materials. We must therefore combat a dangerous heresy which, US intelligence reported, was spreading through Latin America: the idea that the government has direct responsibility for the welfare of the people.
US planners call that idea Communism, whatever the actual political views of the people advocating it. They can be Church-based self-help groups or whatever, but if they support this heresy, they’re Communists.
This point is also made clear in the public record. For example, a high-level study group in 1955 stated that the essential threat of the Communist powers (the real meaning of the term Communism in practice) is their refusal to fulfill their service role that is to complement the industrial economies of the West.
[pp. 9-10, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Noam Chomsky, 1986 1992]According to James Petras, Globalization Unmasked, chapter 4:
From the 1930s to the mid-1970s, U.S. imperialism in Latin America was constantly challenged by nationalist, populist and democratic socialist regimes and movements. Generally, these challenges were reformist rather than revolutionary, in that they called into question elements of the imperialist project but no the whole system.
In the 1930s and 1940s, President Cardenas of Mexico nationalized U.S. petroleum interests, while Vargas in Brazil, Person in Argentina and the Popular Front in Chile Promoted national industry under protective trade barriers, initiating a widespread movement towards the nationalization of strategic industries in the region. In the 1950s, Guatemalas president Arbenz expropriated United Fruit land and redistribute it among the peasants, provoking a CIA-led coup against his administration a radical-nationalist revolution in Cuba that challenged imperial hegemony in the region. The 1960s and early 1970s saw the emergence of populist, nationalist and democratic regimes and movements through the continent. This long half century of social and political advance led to significant social and economic legislation that legalized trade unions, provided basic social benefits and extended public education and health are to substantial sectors of the industrial working class, public employees, and a in a few cases (Chile, 1970-73) the peasantry.
Intervention and Exploitation: US and UK Government International Actions Since 1945
Central America and Mexico | South America | Caribbean | Europe | Africa | Middle East | Asia | Australia and The Pacific Islands
US / UK Global Invasions, Interventions and Wars Against the World
Originally, the categories of First, Second and Third Worlds were used by the US and its allies during its cold wars against the Global South to designate the following:
First World aka "The North" or "The West" A term now rarely used that refers to the group of nation-states that possess advanced industrial economies. World system "core states"
" The North" or "The West", or "'First World' Economies" or "Economically Developed Countries" [EDCs] or "Industrialized 'Democracies'" These are generally "western" industrialized capitalist nations of the world (North America, Western Europe UK, France, Germany, EU members, Japan, New Zealand) that represent so-called "developed economies."
Second World Formerly communist industrial societies of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. World systems semi-periphery states
The Second World [Transitional Developing Countries "TDCs"] The term "Second World" or "Transitional Developing Economies" is a phrase that was used to describe the former soviet or "communist" states within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence (Russia/CIS/ Eastern Europe) or those countries that had centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe.
"The South", or Third & Fourth Worlds [Less Developing Countries "LDCs"] These are economies, such as some in South Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, vary depending on level of national income (GNP). also see 3rd World Traveler on history of corporate powerLinks to an external site. ; Third World; Definitions and Descriptions.
Third World & Fourth World Societies in which industrial production is only developed to a limited degree. Many of these societies were former colonies of industrial states. The majority of the world's population (over 70 percent) live in these economic regions consisting of areas of in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. World systems peripheral states.
also see 3rd World Traveler on history of corporate power; Third World; Definitions and Descriptions.
Using the 'First, Second, Third or Fourth Worlds' categorization assumes another hierarchy and the false conception of 'worlds' as a division of humanity when in fact some scholars see one humanity divided up conceptually or ideologically. These categories were developed principally by 'western,' specifically, US political scientists and analysts during the cold war era to distinguish the growing number of post-colonial national liberation movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia that were forming new independent sovereign states under the rise of eastern nationalisms and were designated at different levels of economic development as 'poor emerging economies' and labeled 'Third or Fourth World' states or regions. This cold war era biased terminology was controlled primarily by US elites and strategists in their rationalizations for fighting 'communism' anywhere and everywhere which was actually a cover for fighting for access to strategic resources and controlling regional markets which was a throw back to the early US imperial 'gunboat diplomacy.'
Even today the US Pentagon strategists use actively use and cite the following conventional strategic map depicting US strategic command regions of the world. Note how little has changed since the days of empires.
Maps of US National Security State Empire
Even today the US Pentagon strategists use actively use and cite the following conventional strategic map depicting US strategic command regions of the world. Note how little has changed since the days of empires:
US EMPIRE’S WORLD WITH COMMANDERS AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Map of Global US Military Bases (October 30, 2008)Links to an external site.Map of Global US Military Bases (October 30, 2008) This map shows the location of US military bases scattered around the world in 2007. The US has over 190,000 troops and 115,000 civilian employees dispatched in 909 military facilities in 46 countries. The military owns or rents 795,000 acres of land, and 26,000 buildings valued at USD 46 billion.
THE EVOLUTION AND EXPANSION OF THE US NATIONAL SECURITY STATE (USNSS) AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Do We Spend So Much on the US Military Industrial Complex?
The Business of War
Who waged hundreds of America’s wars?
"Why is the United States constantly going to war?"
Who are America's Friendly Dictators?
Throughout much of the 20th century and particularly during the Cold War era and right up until today, US President have staunchly supported anti-democratic regimes and their dictators in order to provide US military and economic access and control over the Global South and its natural resources and people.
America's Allies - THE FRIENDLY DICTATORS.
Meet the Friendly Dictators - three dozen* of America's most embarrassing "friends", a cunning crew of tyrants and corrupt puppet-presidents who have been rewarded handsomely for their loyalty to U.S. interests.
Traditional Dictators seize control through force and often are self-styled "Generals." Constitutional Dictators hold office through voting fraud or severely restricted elections and are frequently mouthpieces for the military juntas which control the ballot boxes.
Both types of dictators are covered here, along with a few tyrannical kings. but don't look for "enemy dictators" (communists and the like) in this set of cards. These are America's allies, strange and undemocratic as they may be.
US Friendly Fascists. have been at various times supported by western EMPIRES principally by both European and Japan and the US, see America's Friendly Dictators. list, and other western regimes in order to block non-aligned revolutionary anti-capitalist movements that threatened the strategic control of Core States.
Fascism: the Real Story by Michael Parenti also study Superpatriotism chapters 3 -4, 8- 10.
Washington Connection & Third World Fascism - E Herman and N Chomsky.
Trading with the Enemy - C Higham.
Blowback - C SimpsonLinks to an external site.
The Splendid Blond Beast - C Simpson.
Trilateralism - the Trilateral Commission and World Management.
Rise of western Fascism and Nazism and the Crisis of the Global Capitalist system:
What is Fascism - Benito Mussolini, 1932.
Throughout much of the 20th century and particularly during the Cold War era and right up until today, US President have staunchly supported anti-democratic regimes and their dictators in order to provide US military and economic access and control over the Global South and its natural resources and people.
America's Allies - THE FRIENDLY DICTATORS
A Short List of America's Friendly Dictator Allies
Many of the world's most repressive dictators have been friends of America. Tyrants, torturers, killers, and sundry dictators and corrupt puppet-presidents have been aided, supported, and rewarded handsomely for their loyalty to US interests.
Traditional dictators seize control through force, while constitutional dictators hold office through voting fraud or severely restricted elections, and are frequently puppets and apologists for the military juntas which control the ballot boxes. In any case, none have been democratically elected by the majority of their people in fair and open elections.
They are democratic America's undemocratic allies. They may rise to power through bloody ClA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other US agencies.
US military aid and weapons sales often strengthen their armies and guarantee their hold on power. Unwavering "anti-communism" and a willingness to provide unhampered access for American business interests to exploit their countries' natural resources and cheap labor are the excuses for their repression, and the primary reason the US government supports them. They may be linked internationalIy to extreme right-wing groups such as the World Anti-Communist League, and some have had strong Nazi affiliations and have offered sanctuary to WWll Nazi war criminals.
They usually grow rich, while their countries' economies deteriorate and the majority of their people live in poverty. US tax dollars and US-backed loans have made billionaires of some, while others are international drug dealers who also collect CIA paychecks. Rarely are they called to account for their crimes. And rarely still, is the US government held responsible for supporting and protecting some of the worst human rights violators in the world.
Abacha, General Sani ----------------------------Nigeria
Amin, Idi ------------------------------------------Uganda
Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia
Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba
Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal ----------------------------Brunei
Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa
Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil
Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti
Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala
Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan
Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras
Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador
Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam
Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia
Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti
Duvalier, Jean Claude-----------------------------Haiti
Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King ---------------------Saudi Arabia
Franco, General Francisco -----------------------Spain
Hitler, Adolf ---------------------------------------Germany
Hassan II-------------------------------------------Morocco
Marcos, Ferdinand -------------------------------Philippines
Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez ---El Salvador
Mobutu Sese Seko -------------------------------Zaire
Noriega, General Manuel ------------------------Panama
Ozal, Turgut --------------------------------------Turkey
Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza ---------------Iran
Papadopoulos, George --------------------------Greece
Park Chung Hee ---------------------------------South Korea
Pinochet, General Augusto ---------------------Chile
Pol Pot---------------------------------------------Cambodia
Rabuka, General Sitiveni ------------------------Fiji
Montt, General Efrain Rios ---------------------Guatemala
Salassie, Halie ------------------------------------Ethiopia
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira --------------------Portugal
Somoza, Anastasio Jr. --------------------------Nicaragua
Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -------------------------Nicaragua
Smith, Ian ----------------------------------------Rhodesia
Stroessner, Alfredo -----------------------------Paraguay
Suharto, General ---------------------------------Indonesia
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -----------------------Dominican Republic
Videla, General Jorge Rafael ------------------Argentina
Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed ----------------------Pakistan
And What Does the US National Security State and the CIA’s “Secret Wars” have to do with them?
CIA Secret Wars included U.S. "counterinsurgency" operations of secret assassinations, torture and terrorism were to continue in Latin America and the Middle East well after the Vietnam defeat.
Corruptions of Empire
THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA
CIA covert operations, war crimes and Friendly Dictators in Vietnam and Beyond
"John Stockwell CIA Secret Wars"
THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA, Lecture
John Stockwell on CIA Secret Wars in the Global South.
John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action."
As a Marine, Major Stockwell was CIA paramilitary intelligence case officer in the Congo Crisis, Vietnam & the Angolan War of Independence. Beginning a career in '64, he spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in '68, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in '70, before being transferred to oversee Vietnamese Tay Ninh province intelligence operations. He was awarded a CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until Saigon's '75 fall.
In December of 1976, Stockwell resigned from the CIA, opposed to the methods & results of CIA paramilitary operations in the Third World & testified before Congressional committees. Two years later, he wrote the exposé 'In Search of Enemies', about that experience & its implications. He claimed the CIA was counterproductive to national security & that its secret wars afforded no benefit. The CIA made the Angolan MPLA to be an enemy despite the fact the MPLA wanted relations with the USA & hadn't committed aggressive acts.
In 1978, on TV's '60 Minutes', he claimed CIA Director William Colby & National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had systematically lied to Congress about CIA operations. Stockwell was one of the 1st professionals to leave the CIA to go public. The CIA retaliated by suing him in the 4th District Court in Washington DC. Part of the suit intended to eliminate the possibility of selling the story for the purpose of making a movie & required future publications be submitted for CIA review.
Unable to afford contesting the case, Stockwell filed for bankruptcy in Austin, TX. After the litigation was processed thru bankruptcy, the CIA dropped the suit. His book is useful for researchers & journalists interested in uncovering information about the conduct of US foreign policy in Africa & Asia. For example, the book tells of a CIA officer having Patrice Lumumba's body in his car trunk one night in then Elizabethville, Congo. Stockwell mentions in a footnote that at the time he didn't know the CIA was documented as having repeatedly tried to arrange Lumumba's assassination. His concerns were that, although many CIA colleagues had integrity, the organization harmed national security & its secret wars harmed innocents.CIA Support of Death Squads, by Ralph McGehee, Posted on RemarQ, 9 October 1999
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy
Covert Action | National Security Archive (gwu.edu)
COVERT OPERATIONS FAIL MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, SO WHY DO LEADERS ORDER THEM?
CovertAction Magazine | Exposing Covert Action Since 1978
NATIONAL SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWERS
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book, 'Inside the Company: CIA Diary', detailing his experiences in the CIA.
Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. A co-founder of CovertAction Quarterly, he died in Cuba in January 2008.The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence by Victor L. Marchetti, John D. Marks
Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam by Frank Snepp
Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America
by A.J. LangguthThe Pentagon Papers and the Secrets of the Vietnam War
US President's Authorize Torture and Terrorism
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about his new book, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. The book takes a look behind the public story of President Bush’s “war on terror” and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. Hersh provides a new account of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal that he exposed last spring and of where, he believes, responsibility for the scandal ultimately lies. [includes rush transcript]
A U.S. court martial in Baghdad last weekend sentenced a soldier to eight months in jail for maltreating and conspiring to maltreat Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.
Specialist Armin J. Cruz confessed to forcing three naked inmates at Abu Ghraib jail to crawl along a floor before making them simulate sex acts. Cruz was spotted in a photo taken during abuses committed in October. He is the eighth American soldier to be charged over the abuses but the first from military intelligence.
Cruz pleaded guilty to conspiracy and maltreatment of prisoners and has agreed to testify against others charged in more serious cases of mistreatment at the U.S.-run prison west of Baghdad.
Counter: Total Cost of War on Terror
Psychologists Collaborated with CIA & Pentagon on Post-9/11 Torture Program, May Face Ethics Charges
A Torturer’s Confession: Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator Speaks Out.
Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator: Because of Trump & Cruz, Door Still “Wide Open” for U.S. to Torture.
Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator: Because of Trump & Cruz, Door Still “Wide Open” for U.S. to Torture
A Torturer’s Confession: Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator Speaks Out
American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
Alfred McCoy, Back to the Future in Torture Policy - TomDispatch.com
From Vietnam War Resistance and the Mideast: More Soldiers in Revolt
Rules of Engagement
Jason Lemieux Rules of Engagement
Adam Kokesh Rules of Engagement
Jason Hurd Rules of Engagement
Hart Viges Rules of Engagement
Winter Soldier | Iraq Veterans Against the War (ivaw.org)
Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress
“What Have We Been Doing?”: Decorated Veteran Aaron Hughes to Return War Medals at Anti-NATO Protest
Revolt of the Generals - Like General Butler, Today's Generals Dissent
Major General John Batiste Gives Congressional Testimony Condemning Senior Bush Administration Official's Mismanagement of the Iraq War
Major General John R.S. Batiste at the DPC Hearing
Sep 25, 2006
Major General John R.S. Batiste, U.S. Army (Ret.) was senior military assistant to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and commander of the 1st Infantry Division, and served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. This is his testimony from the DPC hearing on Capitol Hill.
Caitlin Johnstone: Tens of millions of people displaced by the ‘War On Terror’, the greatest scam ever invented
A new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of America’s so-called “war on terror” since 9/11.
That is a conservative estimate of a number that may actually be somewhere between 48 million to 59 million.
That number, “at least 37 million”, happens by pure coincidence to be the exact same number of Americans reported to suffer from food insecurity because their government spends their wealth and resources killing and displacing people overseas.
This inconvenient revelation, which was actually reported on by the New York Times for once, is causing conniptions for all the right people, with the Washington Post’s neoconservative war propagandist Josh Rogin ejaculating, “The @nytimes should be ashamed for running this as ‘analysis.’ Blaming the U.S. for the displacement of 7 million Syrians is crazy and dishonest. Way to launder anti-American propaganda.”
Sure Josh, it’s not like the extremist forces who flooded Syria with the goal of toppling Damascus were backed by the US and its allies and sprung into existence as a direct result of the regional destabilization caused by western interventionism in the name of fighting terror. Oh wait no that’s exactly what happened.
Costs of War: After 9/11 Attacks, U.S. Wars Displaced at Least 37 Million People Around the World
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001. The Costs of War Project at Brown University also found more than 800,000 people have been killed since U.S. forces began fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen, at a cost of $6.4 trillion to U.S. taxpayers. “The U.S. has played a disproportionate role in waging war, in launching war and in perpetuating war over the last 19 years,” says report co-author David Vine, a professor of anthropology at American University
Official review exposes how US reconstruction of Afghanistan was built on death, fraud and lies 19 Aug, 2021
Where has the money gone? - Report
The bulk of the money spent in Afghanistan has been on counter-insurgency operations, and on the needs of troops such as food, clothing, medical care, special pay and benefits.
The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than Over 144 Nations Combined
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
Afghanistan war cost more than $2T and 240,000 lives, report
The Costs of War Project estimates nearly $300 billion spent so far on caring for Afghanistan veterans. (Cpl. Alejandro Pena/Marine Corps)
16 Aug, 2021
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani addresses the nation in a message in Kabul, Afghanistan August 14, 2021. © Afghan Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS
The Western-backed former Afghan leader, Ashraf Ghani, departed his country with so much money that it couldn’t all fit on his helicopter, and he was forced to leave some cash at the airport, the Russian Embassy in Kabul has said.
Speaking to RIA Novosti, its spokesman Nikita Ishchenko dubbed Ghani’s escape an “eloquent characterization” of the fall of the “regime.”
“Four cars were stuffed with money. [They] tried to fit all the money on the helicopter, but not all of it fit. Some of the money was left lying on the tarmac,” he explained, without elaborating how he obtained the information.
Costs of the Afghanistan war, in lives and dollars
At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America’s longest war. Ordinary Americans tended to forget about it, and it received measurably less oversight from Congress than the Vietnam War did. But its death toll is in the many tens of thousands. And because the U.S. borrowed most of the money to pay for it, generations of Americans will be burdened by the cost of paying it off.
Here’s a look at the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, by the numbers, as the Taliban in a lightning offensive take over much of the country before the United States’ Aug. 31 deadline for ending its combat role and as the U.S. speeds up American and Afghan evacuations.
Much of the data below is from Linda Bilmes of Harvard University’s Kennedy School and from the Brown University Costs of War project. Because the United States between 2003 and 2011 fought the Afghanistan and Iraq wars simultaneously, and many American troops served tours in both wars, some figures as noted cover both post-9/11 U.S. wars.
American service members killed in Afghanistan through April: 2,448.
U.S. contractors: 3,846.
Afghan national military and police: 66,000.
Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states: 1,144.
Afghan civilians: 47,245.
Taliban and other opposition fighters: 51,191.
Aid workers: 444.
Journalists: 72.
At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America’s longest war. Ordinary Americans tended to forget about it, and it received measurably less oversight from Congress than the Vietnam War did. But its death toll is in the many tens of thousands. And because the U.S. borrowed most of the money to pay for it, generations of Americans will be burdened by the cost of paying it off.
Here’s a look at the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, by the numbers, as the Taliban in a lightning offensive take over much of the country before the United States’ Aug. 31 deadline for ending its combat role and as the U.S. speeds up American and Afghan evacuations.
Much of the data below is from Linda Bilmes of Harvard University’s Kennedy School and from the Brown University Costs of War project. Because the United States between 2003 and 2011 fought the Afghanistan and Iraq wars simultaneously, and many American troops served tours in both wars, some figures as noted cover both post-9/11 U.S. wars.
THE LONGEST WAR:
Percentage of U.S. population born since the 2001 attacks plotted by al-Qaida leaders who were sheltering in Afghanistan: Roughly one out of every four.
American service members killed in Afghanistan through April: 2,448.
U.S. contractors: 3,846.
Afghan national military and police: 66,000.
Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states: 1,144.
Afghan civilians: 47,245.
Taliban and other opposition fighters: 51,191.
Aid workers: 444.
Journalists: 72.
AFGHANISTAN AFTER NEARLY 20 YEARS OF U.S. OCCUPATION:
Percentage drop in infant mortality rate since U.S., Afghan and other allied forces overthrew the Taliban government, which had sought to restrict women and girls to the home: About 50.
Percentage of Afghan teenage girls able to read today: 37.
Date Congress authorized U.S. forces to go after culprits in Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: Sept. 18, 2001.
Number of times U.S. lawmakers have voted to declare war in Afghanistan: 0.
Number of times lawmakers on Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee addressed costs of Vietnam War, during that conflict: 42
Number of times lawmakers in same subcommittee have mentioned costs of Afghanistan and Iraq wars, through mid-summer 2021: 5.
Number of times lawmakers on Senate Finance Committee have mentioned costs of Afghanistan and Iraq wars since Sept. 11, 2001, through mid-summer 2021: 1.
Amount President Harry Truman temporarily raised top tax rates to pay for Korean War: 92%.
Amount President Lyndon Johnson temporarily raised top tax rates to pay for Vietnam War: 77%.
Amount President George W. Bush cut tax rates for the wealthiest, rather than raise them, at outset of Afghanistan and Iraq wars: At least 8%.
Estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020: $2 trillion.
THE WARS END. THE COSTS DON’T:
Amount Bilmes estimates the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans: more than $2 trillion.
Period those costs will peak: after 2048.
New Multipolar World Arising
What the Historical Record of USNSS Intervention seems to reveal
Wherever Americans go, catastrophe is sure to follow…
There was once a saying by an American army officer in Vietnam who was cited as saying something similar back then:
“Wherever Americans go, communism is sure to follow…” April 30, 1975 seemed to have proven that saying correct. What he meant was that USNSS hegemony was premised on its own strategic selfish interests in order to gain access to resource rich markets in the Global South while supporting corrupt rightwing torture-terror regimes. Today, the strategy no longer can be maintained with a straight face. The gig is up on USNSS empire.
Yet the USNSS empire remains an atrocity generating institution. A rogue empire swaggering around the global in search of new enemies to target along with coveted strategic resources in which to enrich the imperial homeland.
But for how long now that since the US-backed Ukraine “Euromaidan Color Coup”, aka, “Color Revolution” of 2014 and the relentless expansion of NATO eastward?
2022 was the year the old USNSS unipolar world self-declared US “rules based order” started changing into today’s emerging multipolar/multilateral world under the aegis of the Russian-China Eurasian Alliance with its Global South partners following suit.
Both Russia and China along with the Global South know too well both Sgt. Hollis’ war and Butler’s imperial experience as a foot soldier doing the dirty work of US empire. History is returning with a vengeance.
The Global South has a long memory.
Maybe its time to end empire and become a true democracy.
Maybe Butler was correct… remember Past is Prologue.
"War is a Racket"
by Major General Smedley Butler on US Empire & Interventionism
Left to right -Capt F.H. Delano, SgtMaj John H. Quick, LtCol W.C. Neville, Col J.A. Lejeune, and Maj S.D. Butler in Vera Cruz, Mexico
Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General -United States Marine Corps [Retired], was born in West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881, educated at Haverford School, married Ethel C. Peters, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1905. He was awarded two congressional medals of honor, for capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914, and for capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917.
He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1919. He joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the Boxer Rebellion in China, saw action in Central America, and in France during World War I was promoted to Major General. Smedley Butler served his country for 34 years, yet he spoke against American armed intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations. Throughout his life, Butler demonstrated that true patriotism does not mean blind allegiance to government policies with which one does not agree. In Oct. 1, 1931 General Butler retired
War Is a Racket (Excerpt)
Smedley Butler on Interventionism
-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
WAR IS A RACKET. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
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