Meandering today I came across a comment that reminded me of something rather important that most people don’t know, and that’s the information contained in the following once-upon-a-time Top Secret document that details how the Outlaw US Empire is going to destroy its own Constitution and International Law. Wow! I hear in the background. Here’s its title: “Policy Analysis Paper, State Department Policy Planning Staff/Council, Subject: The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare, 30 April 1948, [Top Secret]” and
OMFG that means the USA is a Self Confessed outlaw empire.😱 But they would never let that get in the way of a profitable war of course even if the weapons produced are plastic trash.
Thanks Karl, the hypocrisy of their prattle about interfering in elections is sometimes just enraging.
When you link that document to the rapid escalation of coups in South America and elsewhere that also began in 1948, you have a smoking gun. The roots of that doc go back to the middle of WW2 when post-war US dominance was seriously being discussed within State and War Depts. The key: How could Communism be seen as a threat when the USSR was suffering 25 million KIAs and massive destruction of its European area that would take decades to rebuild? And at that time, Mao wasn't seen as powerful as he actually was within China because most intel was filtered through Chaing's KMT mafia. I'm rather surprised yours is the only comment on this thread, although the stats say over 1400 have viewed it.
“Liberation Committees”, this is the blueprint for color revolutions. I read a lot about Operation Gladio recently, the “stay behind” operations in ALLIED countries. I have a copy of William Blum’s Killing Hope on my desk to remind me that however bad you think our government is, you don’t know the half of it. Thanks Karl.
Blum was a great inspiration as were many others. There are some recent books out that look into that time frame where post-war US Imperialism was planned and acted upon, but to get published, too often punches are pulled. Hudson just admitted to that problem in relation to a jointly produced economic paper that challenges the status quo. And that's an old method; Upton Sinclair had to self-publish most of the books he wrote in the 1920s, with "The Goose-step: A Study of American Education," being very informative about how minds were/are molded that's now 100 years old.
Yes, if only someone would continue Bill Blum's work. For now, I suppose it's up to all of us to do what we can to drive home one of Blum's fundamental points: If you think that the US's intentions are good and honest, you're not looking close enough. Thanks to you for what you're doing.
I see myself continuing the work of Blum and many other historians who examined the Outlaw US Empire. Educating people about the genuine reality they're living in and those roots is what I see as the basic steps to generating change.
I agree 100%. Again, thank you for what you're doing. The documents from the nsarchive that you posted are among the kinds of things everybody should read, along with the Project for a New American Century's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" (https://universityofleeds.github.io/philtaylorpapers/pmt/exhibits/638/PNAC.pdf) and the Rand Corporation's "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" (https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf). People should also download copies of these documents and back them up, because they may well be taken out of circulation as history progresses (regresses?). The PNAC's site, for example, is no longer up. It's been replaced by what looks like an Indonesian game site.
Another author whose work should be required reading for all US citizens is Howard Zinn. His _People's History of the United States_ should in fact be the basic high-school textbook on US history.
We need to keep in mind that history is being rewritten each day as it happens - and the people who are doing it are not motivated by a desire to disseminate the truth!
Thanks for the documents Karl, they were fascinating. May be I missed it, but cannot find what 'ERP' referred to.
It's apparent that elements in the US took up the 'imperial baton' from GB along with its 'playbook' so that the occupiers of Palestine mutated from Britain's 'Ulster in the Middle East' into 'America's aircraft carrier' in West Asia.
The Modus Operandi outlined in the two documents do seem to have echoed or reverberated into the present much like an irritating ear-worm of the stuck song variety.
ERP is European Recovery Plan--Marshall Plan--and was certainly part of the political war. Kolko in his "The politics of war: the world and United States foreign policy, 1943-1945" unveiled the initial moves related to that part of the Post-war war showing that the Cold War was already conceived as US policy prior to the war's end. I bought it long ago and used much of it when I taught.
I must say the following thread is quite good. The idea that the USA was destined to rule the world erupted like a weed in Spring after Polk stole half of Mexico and the USA gained the continent. Some like Bernard Devoto saw just how important that was and built his trilogy around it--great prose makes it a joy to read. Try to get original editions.
I find it a tangled web as to how much the "City" and various British institutions still have influence over the US, or is it a convenient smokescreen for what is the real takeover by the US starting after WWI with debt owed by Britain to the US. The UK is a decrepit shadow which is exposed by current events. The US appears to have taken a similar direction.
1. There has been an argument/proposition that capitalism is necessarily imperialistic.
2. National debt is State debt and fixed in place.
3. Capitalists represent private profit/wealth and once that wealth is transferable across national borders it becomes 'international'.
4. A national imperial project, such as GB, built via capitalism produces, over generations, a class of transnational 'capital entities' whose identity and philosophy diverges from its nation of origin and developes international ambitions. Much like fleas moving from dog to dog.
5. The 'tangled web' is then portrayed by the 'decrepit shadow' as 'influence' as a 'convenient smokescreen' for internal propaganda purposes. Much like Blinkin's asinine statement just before he left the PRC, which was just bit of electioneering propaganda to that section of the North American electorate that such a message appeals to.
Since the US does appear to have 'taken a similar direction' one may assume that it too will experiece capital flight that will be sold to Americans as 'influence' as a 'convenient smokescreen' for it's international impotence.
One could wish for a longer life just to see it happen ;o)
You might also consider that this is a generational plan, not just across the US, but one of global pitch and power. Think, for example, of Albert Pike's (infamous) letters to Giuseppe Mazzini, now labelled conspiracy theories, but which were actually available in the British Museum until 1978 / 1988. In those letters written around 1870 he described three world wars, and gave the backgrounds to each. Well, the first two went exactly as predicted (planned?), and the third seems just around the corner.
Think also how we in Europe have largely been disarmed, and how personal safety has now become the burden of the state, which may be acceptable in a state run by the people for the people. And of course we all know that's BS.
For example, in the UK there was the Hungerford massacre (1987), and then later the attack on a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland (1996), both of which resulted in the banning of automatic or semi-automatic weapons, and then handguns.
But if you see these events as salami slices in a generational plan, then maybe David Icke's ongoing exposure of the modern Hegelian dialectic problem, reaction, solution is right (and obvious). The dialectic goes like this:
1. The government creates or exploits a problem in which attributes blame to others.
2. The people react by asking the govt for protection and help (safety and security) to help solve the problem.
3. Then, the government offers the solution that was planned by them long before the crisis occurred.
That's why we had 9/11 (New American Century, and all that), but with unconstitutional invasion of privacy all couched as security and public safety.
I just don't think this is just the US: I think it's global, it's driven by those corporations, banks, or other entities which own our governments.
And personally I make the case that it is totally in line with Ephesians 6:12:
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places", the current owners of Earth (but not for ever, and not for long, I think).
No, not global; Western almost exclusively. Asia is quite different except for the Hindus. and the Burmese tribes. And then there's Africa. IMO, the dysfunction resides in the West. Hypotheses of why that is are many, fill books and accumulate on shelves, not always read, but to show off. For about 3,000 years, the West's been all about Plunder. That would have ended with the Peace of Westfalia but the new lands to plunder got in the way, so it continued. The confrontation with Russia then the Cold War made Plunder in the usual manner too expensive, so the financializing process was added to the Imperial tool bag as it was much cheaper. In 1949, China was added to the roadblock along with Russia and a bunch of newly liberated colonies. Conflict then rose to the point where it was far too expensive unless some excellent ruse could be devised, like 911/Operation Northwoods. Then the Neoliberal method finally became the majority money power ethos and the hollowing out of the West began. The end of the trail's now reached and all further attempts at plunder will now fail, so only Neoliberal Parasitism remains for those driving the bus. So, it's back to Feudalism for the West unless the people stop the process.
That's a question; and an expected US breakup/civil war with a fractured union take place. And if so, what for the rest of its satellites, kind of like Roman garrison's left to fend for themselves.
OMFG that means the USA is a Self Confessed outlaw empire.😱 But they would never let that get in the way of a profitable war of course even if the weapons produced are plastic trash.
Thanks Karl, the hypocrisy of their prattle about interfering in elections is sometimes just enraging.
When you link that document to the rapid escalation of coups in South America and elsewhere that also began in 1948, you have a smoking gun. The roots of that doc go back to the middle of WW2 when post-war US dominance was seriously being discussed within State and War Depts. The key: How could Communism be seen as a threat when the USSR was suffering 25 million KIAs and massive destruction of its European area that would take decades to rebuild? And at that time, Mao wasn't seen as powerful as he actually was within China because most intel was filtered through Chaing's KMT mafia. I'm rather surprised yours is the only comment on this thread, although the stats say over 1400 have viewed it.
“Liberation Committees”, this is the blueprint for color revolutions. I read a lot about Operation Gladio recently, the “stay behind” operations in ALLIED countries. I have a copy of William Blum’s Killing Hope on my desk to remind me that however bad you think our government is, you don’t know the half of it. Thanks Karl.
Blum was a great inspiration as were many others. There are some recent books out that look into that time frame where post-war US Imperialism was planned and acted upon, but to get published, too often punches are pulled. Hudson just admitted to that problem in relation to a jointly produced economic paper that challenges the status quo. And that's an old method; Upton Sinclair had to self-publish most of the books he wrote in the 1920s, with "The Goose-step: A Study of American Education," being very informative about how minds were/are molded that's now 100 years old.
Yes, if only someone would continue Bill Blum's work. For now, I suppose it's up to all of us to do what we can to drive home one of Blum's fundamental points: If you think that the US's intentions are good and honest, you're not looking close enough. Thanks to you for what you're doing.
I see myself continuing the work of Blum and many other historians who examined the Outlaw US Empire. Educating people about the genuine reality they're living in and those roots is what I see as the basic steps to generating change.
Looks like I am now a 1 percenter. 😉 I have new website to peruse.
There's a large mass of documents at the NSA. Excellent source material!
I agree 100%. Again, thank you for what you're doing. The documents from the nsarchive that you posted are among the kinds of things everybody should read, along with the Project for a New American Century's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" (https://universityofleeds.github.io/philtaylorpapers/pmt/exhibits/638/PNAC.pdf) and the Rand Corporation's "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" (https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf). People should also download copies of these documents and back them up, because they may well be taken out of circulation as history progresses (regresses?). The PNAC's site, for example, is no longer up. It's been replaced by what looks like an Indonesian game site.
And of course everyone should read Bill Blum's books, starting with the bible, "Killing Hope - US Military and CIA interventions since World War II" (https://archive.org/details/pdfy-y_8iHigC3Ms5TngF). Thankfully, Blum's site is still being maintained (https://williamblum.org/books/west-bloc-dissident).
Another author whose work should be required reading for all US citizens is Howard Zinn. His _People's History of the United States_ should in fact be the basic high-school textbook on US history.
We need to keep in mind that history is being rewritten each day as it happens - and the people who are doing it are not motivated by a desire to disseminate the truth!
I also suggest "Empire as a Way of Life" by William Appleman Williams and most of his other works.
The respect of bourgeois institutions and its laws is only demanded from the working class.
That's why the working class has formed and is forming alternatives.
Thanks for the documents Karl, they were fascinating. May be I missed it, but cannot find what 'ERP' referred to.
It's apparent that elements in the US took up the 'imperial baton' from GB along with its 'playbook' so that the occupiers of Palestine mutated from Britain's 'Ulster in the Middle East' into 'America's aircraft carrier' in West Asia.
The Modus Operandi outlined in the two documents do seem to have echoed or reverberated into the present much like an irritating ear-worm of the stuck song variety.
ERP is European Recovery Plan--Marshall Plan--and was certainly part of the political war. Kolko in his "The politics of war: the world and United States foreign policy, 1943-1945" unveiled the initial moves related to that part of the Post-war war showing that the Cold War was already conceived as US policy prior to the war's end. I bought it long ago and used much of it when I taught.
I must say the following thread is quite good. The idea that the USA was destined to rule the world erupted like a weed in Spring after Polk stole half of Mexico and the USA gained the continent. Some like Bernard Devoto saw just how important that was and built his trilogy around it--great prose makes it a joy to read. Try to get original editions.
Thanks Karl, that makes things clearer, as do those two documents that outline US policy since WWII.
I find it a tangled web as to how much the "City" and various British institutions still have influence over the US, or is it a convenient smokescreen for what is the real takeover by the US starting after WWI with debt owed by Britain to the US. The UK is a decrepit shadow which is exposed by current events. The US appears to have taken a similar direction.
WRT whether it's 'influence' or 'smokescreen':
1. There has been an argument/proposition that capitalism is necessarily imperialistic.
2. National debt is State debt and fixed in place.
3. Capitalists represent private profit/wealth and once that wealth is transferable across national borders it becomes 'international'.
4. A national imperial project, such as GB, built via capitalism produces, over generations, a class of transnational 'capital entities' whose identity and philosophy diverges from its nation of origin and developes international ambitions. Much like fleas moving from dog to dog.
5. The 'tangled web' is then portrayed by the 'decrepit shadow' as 'influence' as a 'convenient smokescreen' for internal propaganda purposes. Much like Blinkin's asinine statement just before he left the PRC, which was just bit of electioneering propaganda to that section of the North American electorate that such a message appeals to.
Since the US does appear to have 'taken a similar direction' one may assume that it too will experiece capital flight that will be sold to Americans as 'influence' as a 'convenient smokescreen' for it's international impotence.
One could wish for a longer life just to see it happen ;o)
It's already happening. Fleas are already jumping off. Exit Blinken enter Mr Musk.
When you look at the mouthpieces that pass for US decision makers I wonder at how they manage to cobble sentences together.
LOL
You might also consider that this is a generational plan, not just across the US, but one of global pitch and power. Think, for example, of Albert Pike's (infamous) letters to Giuseppe Mazzini, now labelled conspiracy theories, but which were actually available in the British Museum until 1978 / 1988. In those letters written around 1870 he described three world wars, and gave the backgrounds to each. Well, the first two went exactly as predicted (planned?), and the third seems just around the corner.
Think also how we in Europe have largely been disarmed, and how personal safety has now become the burden of the state, which may be acceptable in a state run by the people for the people. And of course we all know that's BS.
For example, in the UK there was the Hungerford massacre (1987), and then later the attack on a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland (1996), both of which resulted in the banning of automatic or semi-automatic weapons, and then handguns.
But if you see these events as salami slices in a generational plan, then maybe David Icke's ongoing exposure of the modern Hegelian dialectic problem, reaction, solution is right (and obvious). The dialectic goes like this:
1. The government creates or exploits a problem in which attributes blame to others.
2. The people react by asking the govt for protection and help (safety and security) to help solve the problem.
3. Then, the government offers the solution that was planned by them long before the crisis occurred.
That's why we had 9/11 (New American Century, and all that), but with unconstitutional invasion of privacy all couched as security and public safety.
I just don't think this is just the US: I think it's global, it's driven by those corporations, banks, or other entities which own our governments.
And personally I make the case that it is totally in line with Ephesians 6:12:
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places", the current owners of Earth (but not for ever, and not for long, I think).
No, not global; Western almost exclusively. Asia is quite different except for the Hindus. and the Burmese tribes. And then there's Africa. IMO, the dysfunction resides in the West. Hypotheses of why that is are many, fill books and accumulate on shelves, not always read, but to show off. For about 3,000 years, the West's been all about Plunder. That would have ended with the Peace of Westfalia but the new lands to plunder got in the way, so it continued. The confrontation with Russia then the Cold War made Plunder in the usual manner too expensive, so the financializing process was added to the Imperial tool bag as it was much cheaper. In 1949, China was added to the roadblock along with Russia and a bunch of newly liberated colonies. Conflict then rose to the point where it was far too expensive unless some excellent ruse could be devised, like 911/Operation Northwoods. Then the Neoliberal method finally became the majority money power ethos and the hollowing out of the West began. The end of the trail's now reached and all further attempts at plunder will now fail, so only Neoliberal Parasitism remains for those driving the bus. So, it's back to Feudalism for the West unless the people stop the process.
That's a question; and an expected US breakup/civil war with a fractured union take place. And if so, what for the rest of its satellites, kind of like Roman garrison's left to fend for themselves.