The American War Upon the World

[Editor]

The American War Upon the World

By: Peter Chamberlin



In researching the events leading to America's downfall, I have had to continually
readjust my understanding of the situation as new information surfaced. Throughout
the entire learning process it has proven especially difficult to determine whether the
CIA determines the secret policies it carries out, or if the agency merely serve as a
loyal tool to the moneymen who control the world from behind the scenes. It is very
difficult to sort out the facts from the fabrication about an ongoing disinformation
campaign while immersed in it.



I used to think that the "new right" was simply a merger between militarist corporate
interests and right wing militant groups, and that the CIA was merely a servant to
whoever was in power. But I have come to realize that the spy agency was
instrumental in creating the "Reagan revolution" and the "neoconservatives" who
were spawned by it. At first it seemed that the confluence of CIA dirty tricks with the
Republican national politics was limited to agents helping-out their former boss. But
it became apparent that there had been a strategic merger between the CIA, the
Republican Party and corporate America.



Names like Nelson Rockefeller and Nelson Bunker Hunt (of the infamous Hunt
brothers) show up as major financiers in the new right "conservative movement."
Researcher Steve Kangas reported (shortly before his murder) on the connections
between radical Republican billionaires and the early neocons, most of whom had
previous CIA experience. Kangas was found shot to death outside the Pittsburgh
offices of right-wing benefactor Richard Mellon Scaife, who gave millions to right
wing groups trying to destroy President Clinton, including the Heritage Foundation
and New Gingrich's Free Congress Foundation. http://msnoh.tripod.com/kang.html
Before Kangas died, he produced a lengthy report titled, "How the CIA Created a
Ruling, Corporate Overclass in America" that may have gotten him killed.

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2008/ ... orate.html




"From 1973 to 1975, Scaife ran Forum World Features, a foreign news service used
as a front to disseminate CIA propaganda around the world. Shortly afterwards he
began donating millions to fund the New Right. The political machine they built is
broad and comprehensive, covering every aspect of the political fight. It includes
right-wing departments and chairs in the nation's top universities, think tanks, public
relations firms, media companies, fake grassroots organizations that pressure
Congress... The CIA also helped create the conservative think tank movement... The
Heritage Foundation opened its doors in 1973, the recipient of $250,000 in seed
money from the Coors Foundation. A flood of conservative think tanks followed
shortly thereafter, and by 1980 they overwhelmed the scene. The new think tanks
turned out to be little more than propaganda mills, rigging studies to 'prove' that their
corporate sponsors needed tax breaks, deregulation and other favors from
government... Using propaganda techniques it had perfected at the Voice of America
and Radio Free Europe, the CIA and its allies turned American AM radio into a haven
for conservative talk shows...The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can
be traced back to the CIA...Its principle creators were [neoconservatives] Irving
Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare,
William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family... these men would take the
propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply
them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the
machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight
communism..."



The radical neocon attack machine was constructed under CIA guidance to
incorporate the political strategies that they had perfected while waging covert
political warfare against our European allies, as well as other friends and enemies
throughout the world. The politics of fear that underlie the "war on terrorism," derive
from the "strategy of tension" that the agency developed in Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension

"A strategy of tension (Italian: strategia della tensione) is a way to control and
manipulate public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological
warfare, agents provocateurs, as well as false flag terrorist actions (including
bombings). According to historian Daniele Ganser, "It is a tactic which consists in
committing bombings and attributing them to others. By the term 'tension' one refers
to emotional tension, to what creates a sentiment of fear. By the term 'strategy' one
refers to what feeds the fear of the people towards one particular group"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension



This terror-based political strategy was called "Operation Gladio."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio Neocons like Michael Ledeen were
recruited from these actual covert operations to serve as spokesmen and political
"hit men" for the united neocon front. Gladio was just a more recent manifestation
of recurring secret CIA plans to overthrow the government of the United States that
eventually leak out, stemming back to at least the era of "Operation North Woods"
(another "false flag" terror attack by CIA/military agents upon Americans, for the
purpose of causing war with Cuba).
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010 ... hwoods.pdf The recently
released "Family Jewels" documents CIA crimes before 1975, including the
involuntary MK-ULTRA LSD experiments upon the American people, which even
included experiments upon children.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs.asp ... wPage=0001



Kangas documented the astonishing gains reaped by the corporate ruling class from
the benefits accrued to them by their merger with CIA interests.



"In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America's wealth. By 1992, they
would nearly double that, to 42 percent — the highest level of inequality in the 20th
century... The CIA has always recruited the nation's elite: millionaire businessmen,
Wall Street brokers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League
scholars... By the 1950s, the CIA had riddled the nation's businesses, media and
universities with tens of thousands of part-time, on-call operatives... Historically, the
CIA and society's elite have been one and the same people. This means that their
interests and goals are one and the same as well...



'The CIA is the President's secret army,' Noam Chomksy correctly points out that its
real mission was 'deterring democracy.' From corrupting elections to overthrowing
democratic governments, from assassinating elected leaders to installing
murderous dictators, the CIA has virtually always replaced democracy with
dictatorship. It didn't help that the CIA was run by businessmen, whose hostility
towards democracy is legendary. The reason they overthrew so many democracies
is because the people usually voted for policies that multi-national corporations didn't
like: land reform, strong labor unions, nationalization of their industries, and greater
regulation protecting workers, consumers and the environment... Even when the
communist threat was real, the CIA first and foremost took care of the elite...Since
the end of the Cold War, Washington has been abuzz with talk about using the CIA
for economic espionage... Remember, the CIA is an instrument of the President; it
only carries out policy...



The CIA's contacts with big business quickly spread. The agency showed a
preference for international companies, public relations firms, media companies, law
offices, banks, financiers and stockbrokers. The CIA didn't limit its activities to
recruiting businessmen; sometimes the CIA bought or created entire companies
outright... By allying itself with the business community, the CIA received the funds
and ability it needed to remove itself from democratic control... the CIA began a
mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide scale,.. The
agency wanted these journalists not only to relay any sensitive information they
discovered, but also to write anti-communist, pro-capitalist propaganda when
needed... By the early 50s, CIA Director Allen Dulles had staffed the CIA almost
exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale. (A disproportionate
number of CIA figures, like George Bush, come from Yale's "Skull and Crossbones'
Society)."



Today, after thirty years running roughshod over America, this unholy alliance of
ruthless businessmen and cold-blooded spies has brought the world to the very
edge of the precipice. Their policy has amounted to waging economic warfare
against the American people, the purposeful de-industrialization and off-shoring of
American vital industries and jobs has drained the life from our economy into their
off-shore bank accounts. The foolish anti-tax policies enacted by the Bush
Administration to accelerate that transfer of wealth has accelerated the collapse of
the global economy, as well as our own. The shaky status of our bankrupted
economy can best be seen in the desperate measures now being prepared to
stave-off the certain economic collapse that we have caused. The $100+ economic
boost represents a complete break with Bush economic doctrine, giving every
American $250 and Republicans giving-up the hotly contested Bush tax cuts.

"The stimulus plan taking shape in Congress is likely to include targeted tax cuts and
rebates for middle- and low-income Americans, tax breaks for business, and
spending for unemployment insurance and food stamps...GOP leaders said they
would not insist on an extension of Mr. Bush's tax cuts, set to expire in 2010... "
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0118/p01s01-uspo.html



The dire military straits, in which the unholy neocon alliance have trapped us, can
best be demonstrated by the news that Congress is now debating legislation to
reinstate the national draft. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-393



H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 10, 2007

"To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to
perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian
service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize
the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet
end-strength requirements of the uniformed services..."



This comes after six years spent fighting a war without end that is as much a war
against American democracy as it is against Islamic extremism. The truth about our
alleged enemy, "al Qaida," is that there is no international terrorist conspiracy by that
name, killing Americans and our friends by the hundreds.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... a&aid=7787 "Al Qaida" is a CIA
fabricated enemy, created as an opponent for the CIA-created "neocon" supermen,
intended to embed an invisible terror army amongst the people, in order to
perpetually justify waging war upon the people. 9/11 was a declaration of war by the
CIA conspirators upon the people of the United States and the military forces that
defend us. The US Army should be hunting the real CIA terrorists.



The CIA National Intelligence Estimate on Iran is disinformation, intended to both
throw the people off the trail of their crimes and to provide a backdoor confirmation of
an Iranian nuclear weapons program. The upcoming Iran war should be seen as the
CIA opening another front in its war against the Pentagon. They will not relinquish
control of America's foreign policy to anyone, even if they have to destroy America in
the process. What does the internationalist agency care, if the "homeland" gets
toasted, as long as they hold the rest of the world in their hands?



The war on Iran is too important to the plotters' time sensitive grand design; if the
war cannot be started over the nuclear issue, then another pathway will open (a
backdoor approach to starting the war through Pakistan will serve just as well). The
neocon Congress and their President have fully submerged American sovereignty in
their dual-allegiance to the state of Israel, as demonstrated by yesterday's news that
Congress has followed Bush's lead and rejected the American NIE in favor of
intelligence provided by the Israeli Mossad.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -iran.html
With the recently-announced joining of US/Israeli missile defenses
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1277 and discussions on a possible
military pact with Israel,
http://www.mortyscabin.net/modules.php? ... e&sid=1916
comes word that Bush and Olmert have been making plans to blockade the Syrian
coast,
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/01/17/b ... ian-coast/
as a means to counter growing Russian influence in the region, setting up a
US/Russian confrontation, for the sake of reassuring Israel.



According to reports coming out of Israel, the Republican Party is even more
supportive of the "Jewish state" than are its own leaders.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull


"The President this week explicitly called Israel a Jewish state and that any
agreement between Israel and the Palestinians must establish Palestine as a
homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish
people. This signals a complete rejection of the Palestinian right of return that
derailed the Clinton Camp David talks in 2000..."



With Bush busily destroying all the groundwork from past peace negotiations, it
becomes more than obvious that he is just as determined as ever to strike Iran for
Israel, before he leaves office. It is also obvious that the full Congress has turned
their backs on the will of the American people in this determination. The false sense
of jubilation expressed by many on the left and the right was premature. The war
with Iran is still on, it will just be a little more difficult to instigate, than before. But the
war gremlins are working overtime to provide the needed justification for a wider war.
Israeli officials are now claiming that a rocket fired into Israel by Palestinians
originated in Iran.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=5958 Hamas is but an appetizer. The
Revolutionary Guard will be the main course.



Anyone who saw the pictures of Bush (the man who believes that he is the hand of
God in restoring "God's people" to the Holy Land) begins to understand – Bush is on
a "mission from God." Did you see him tear-up, when he said that he wished that he
had been there to "bomb Auschwitz?" He shed no tears for the poor Palestinians
when he told them to stop hoping that Israel will pull back to the 1967 borders, which
Israelis have dubbed the "Auschwitz borders." He has wedded himself to Israel's
idea of the "two-state solution," which will one day be revealed to mean a Palestinian
state in Jordan and a "Jewish state" from the Jordan River to the sea.



Bush the alcoholic former party animal, who credits Billy Graham with "saving" him
from himself, has no choice but to do God's will. Remember, Bush once admitted
that God had told him to strike Afghanistan and Iraq. Now God has ordered him to
make peace in the Holy Land. Bush's idea of "peace" is the peace of the grave.



The Bush push to force "peace" upon the Palestinians requires that every party be
bound to the terms of his road map for peace, which is clearly slanted in Israel's
favor. It will take many years to implement the major restructuring of Mideastern
society to one that is favorable to the will of Bush. This means that he doesn't intend
to leave office. His role as messiah will require that he remain in power for a long
time. He is convinced that God wants him to start Armageddon.

The US war on terror has been, in reality, a machine for sowing terror, intended to
force the people who are inclined to self-defense, to become terrorists.
Kidnappings, targeted assassinations, military attacks, and the making of entire
populations into refugees, are tactics intended to alienate individuals and drive them
to vigilantism. Terrorists are defined as those who take up arms to defend against
US attacks and occupation. The driving purpose of the war on terrorism has been to
uncover would-be terrorists (those who would resist America), by forcing radicalized
men to violently act upon their beliefs. The use of "death squads" and militias to
instigate conflicts is a plot to flush-out the hidden commitments to family and country
that would drive angry young men to oppose America's violent designs upon their
property.

It is the same wherever this covert foreign policy of fomenting civil war is being
implemented. This plan that has been hatched by our "leaders" is pure evil. It cannot
be allowed to proceed. That is exactly what the GWOT (global war on terrorism)
does, it requires that those governments who join with the US in its offensive attack
upon the world, agree to wage low-level war against their own people, until the
people rise-up in a true civil war. Whether it is a straight-out insurgency that is
ignited, or a religious conflict, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that the
government agrees to oppress its own people in the name of "fighting terrorism."

This sorry state of affairs is the brainchild of new world order geniuses like Zbigniew
Brzezenski, who hatched the idea of reviving Islamic jihadism and turning it into a
political weapon, inspiring a generation of Islamic insurgents armed and trained with
modern weaponry and demolition skills. The idea was to indoctrinate millions of
devout Muslims with militant Wahabi doctrine, dispensed in Saudi madrassas in the
mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan's badlands (utilizing radical Islamist
textbooks printed for the CIA in the USA), is bearing fruit today. The new generation
of thirty-something Taliban leaders, like 34 year-old Baitullah Mehsud (accused of
assassinating Benazir Bhutto), are products of the madrassa indoctrination. The
University of Nebraska-Omaha jihadi textbooks began arriving in the Saudi/Pakistani
madrassas when Mehsud and his pals were about ten years old.

It is little wonder that there are so many Islamists wanting revenge upon America,
considering the suffering we have inflicted upon the families of the war dead, the
refugees and the "disappeared." The US campaign to save its economy by waging
war upon the world will clearly succeed in raising a large portion of the earth's people
in opposition to us. When conditions deteriorate to that point, American survival will
depend upon our leaders' willingness to liquidate that very large protesting portion or
the earth's people.

The crimes of the corporate state are rapidly catching up to them. There will be "hell
to pay," when the people realize the true face of the organization of thieves and
murderers that calls itself the "American government." The takeover of democracy
and the initiation of world war through the commission of the largest terrorist attack
in history on US soil, are crimes beyond measure. We the people will destroy the
terrorist government that has taken us over from within. The world waits with baited
breath to learn whether we will bring this government down before or after the real
conflagration begins.

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Bloody fantastic article, where did you find it? For the first time I'm glad I'm >42

[Editor]

Bloody fantastic article, where did you find it? For the first time I'm glad I'm >42

tio, Glad you liked the article.

WPN are fortunate to have Peter as a direct contributor. You can say we got the article from the author's keyboard.
WPN are also fortunate to have Anna Fabian contributing an article today :

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142
Collective Punishment in the Gaza Strip- a rogue states siege against a civilian population

[Red Dawn]

"Butchering Iraq - Bush and Blairs Crusade"...

http://tinyurl.com/3dumxf

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Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering
America's Forgotten Vietnamese Victims
By Nick Turse
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174885/ ... a_lost_war

When I ask if there are any questions he'd like to ask me or anything he'd like to say to Americans, he has a quick response. He doesn't ask for money for his pain and suffering. Nor for compensation for living his adult life without a leg. Nor vengeance, that all-American urge, in the words of George W. Bush to "kick some ass." Not even an apology. His request is entirely too reasonable. He simply asks for a new leg. Nothing more.

The Real "Surge" of 2007: Non-Combatant Death in Iraq and Afghanistan
Neta C. Crawford, Catherine Lutz, Robert Jay Lifton, Judith L. Herman, Howard Zinn January 22, 2008
http://www.cceia.org/resources/articles ... /0003.html

I have spent the entire morning watching the http://www.usdoj.gr/ post having just read the Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism" globalresearch article. Maybe we could ask the BBC if we could fill the 'dead' air on BBC3 or BBC4...

[Red Dawn]

01.28.08

"Why McCain Would be Worse Than Bush"...

http://tinyurl.com/ywr2jq


01.29.08

"The End of American Liberty"....

http://tinyurl.com/2z88kj

[Editor]

I have spent the entire morning watching the http://www.usdoj.gr/ post having just read the Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism" globalresearch article. Maybe we could ask the BBC if we could fill the 'dead' air on BBC3 or BBC4...

If there was enough volunteers to keep a 24*7 internet talk radio blog running, I would be v. interested ...

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Ed, doesn't look like we have enough people to do the internet TV thing yet..

Bombs Away Over Iraq
Normalizing Air War From Guernica to Arab Jabour
by Tom Engelhardt
Global Research, January 31, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... a&aid=7944

Jaw dropping...

Russia to rearrange troops due to U.S. missile shield
Global Research, January 31, 2008
RIA Novosti - 2008-01-30
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... a&aid=7945

depressing.

Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
The ‘War on Terror’ Licenses a New Stupidity in Geopolitics
The language loved by Bush and Musharraf has translated into a global disaster bringing death and misery to millions
by Simon Jenkins
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6732/

good read.

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Whoever wins the presidency will most likely fail to take on the unholy trinity of arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, and Congress
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Sunday, 10 February 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 80404.html

The raw figures are mind-boggling. The official Pentagon budget for 2009 runs to $515bn (£265bn), or around 4 per cent of America's total economy (the equivalent figure for Britain is 2.5 per cent), and about the same size as the entire output of the Netherlands. Throw in an expected $150bn of supplementary outlays and you've got defence spending larger than Australia's entire gross domestic product.

Even that may be an understatement. Add in various "black items", such as military spending tucked away in other parts of government, and some claim that America's total annual spending on the military now exceeds a trillion dollars – roughly half the entire British economy.

Appearing "soft" on national security can be fatal, as Democrats know only too well after their stinging defeats in the 2002 mid-terms and the presidential election of 2004. Hillary Clinton has been trying to establish herself as a hawk ever since, while Barack Obama knows full well he also has to convince in the role of commander-in-chief. In short, even a liberal Democratic President will hesitate before taking an axe to the Pentagon budget. But he should.

The US simply does not get value for its defence dollars. The Pentagon is still fighting the Cold War, not the terrorists who rely on infiltration and ambush rather than submarines and strategic bombers. Yet for all the money Bush has lavished on the military since 9/11, Iraq has stretched America's armed forces to breaking point.

"The US simply does not get value for its defence dollars." the understatement of the millenium.

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The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, February 11, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... a&aid=8048
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and intend to nuke everyone. I suggest fabricating a nappy like garment out of, perhaps, a large towel before reading this one