A Short History of the Neocon takeover of the United States (Part 1 of 4)

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A Short History of the Neocon takeover of the United States

This article is the first part of a four-part series on Truthdig called “Universal Empire”—an examination of the current stage of the neocon takeover of American policy that began after World War II. The other parts are here : 2 3 4

By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
http://www.Truthdig.com
24th April 2017

Part 1 : American Imperialism Leads the World Into Dante’s Vision of Hell

“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.
(Abandon all hope ye who enter here.)”
—Dante, “The Divine Comedy,” Inferno (Part 1), Canto 3, Line 9

Before the missiles start flying between Moscow and New York, Americans had better educate themselves fast about the forces and the people who claim that Russia covered up a Syrian government gas attack on Syrians. Proof no longer seems to matter in the rush to further transform the world into Dante’s vision of Hell. Accusations made by anonymous sources, spurious sources and outright frauds have become enough.

Washington’s paranoia and confusion bear an uncanny resemblance to the final days of the Third Reich, when the leadership in Berlin became completely unglued.

Tensions have been building since the fall of 2016 with accusations that Russian media interfered with our presidential election and is a growing threat to America’s national security. The latest WikiLeaks release [6] revealed the tools the CIA uses for hacking. One theory is that the CIA’s own contract hackers were behind Hillary Clinton’s email leaks and not Russians.

The U.S. has a long reputation of accusing others of things they didn’t do and planting fake news stories to back it up in order to provide a cause for war. The work of secret counterintelligence services is to misinform the public in order to shape opinion, and that’s what this is.

The current U.S. government campaign to slander Russia over anything and everything it does bears all the earmarks of a classic disinformation campaign, but this time is even crazier. Considering that Washington has put Russia, China and Iran on its anti-globalist hit list from which no one is allowed to escape, drummed-up charges against them shouldn’t come as a surprise. But accusing the Russians of undermining American democracy and interfering in an election is tantamount to an act of war, and that simply is not going to wash.

This time, the United States is not demonising an ideological enemy (USSR) or a religious one (al-Qaida, ISIS, etc.). It’s making this latest venture into the blackest of propaganda a race war, the way the Nazis made their invasion of Russia a race war in 1941, and that is not a war the United States can justify or win.

The level and shrillness of the latest disinformation campaign has been growing for some time. But the American public has lived in a culture of fake news (formerly known as propaganda) for so long many have grown to accept fake news as real news. George Orwell saw this coming, and here it is.

As a big supporter of U.S. military intervention in Cuba and an avowed practitioner of “yellow journalism,” in 1897, William Randolph Hearst admonished the illustrator he’d sent to Cuba who’d found no war to illustrate: “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.” Hearst eventually got his war, and America’s experiment in imperialism [7] was off and running.

Americans should know by now that their country’s wars are fertile ground for biased, one-sided, xenophobic, fake news, and the United States has been in a permanent state of war since 1941. Although the targets have shifted over the years, the purpose of the propaganda hasn’t. Most cultures are coerced, cajoled or simply threatened into accepting known falsehoods demonizing their enemies during wartime. But no matter how frequently repeated or cleverly told, no lie can hold if the war never ends.

The legendary cold warrior, Time and Life magazines’ Henry Luce, considered his personal fight against Communism to be “a declaration of private war.” He’d even asked one of his executives whether or not the idea was probably “unlawful and probably mad.” Nonetheless, despite his doubts about his own sanity, Luce allowed the CIA to use his Time/Life magazines as a cover for the agency’s operations [8] and to provide credentials to CIA personnel.

Luce was not alone in his service to the CIA’s propaganda wars. Recently declassified documents reveal the CIA’s propaganda extended to all the mainstream media outlets. Dozens of the most respected journalists and opinion makers during the Cold War considered it a privilege to keep American public opinion from straying away from CIA control.

Now that the new Cold War has turned hot, we are led to believe that the Russians have breached this wall of not-so-truthful journalists and rattled the foundation of everything we are supposed to hold dear about the purity of the U.S. election process and “freedom of the press” in America.

Black propaganda is all about lying. Authoritarian governments lie regularly. Totalitarian governments do it so often nobody believes them. A government based on democratic principles like the United States is supposed to speak the truth, but when the U.S. government’s own documents [9] reveal it has been lying over and over again for decades, the jig is up.

Empires have been down this road before, and it doesn’t end well. Americans are now being told they should consider all Russian opinion as fake and ignore any information that challenges the mainstream media and U.S. government on what is truth and what is the lie. But for the first time in memory, Americans have become aware that the people Secretary of State Colin Powell once called “the crazies” have taken the country over the cliff.

The neoconservative hitmen and hit-ladies of Washington have a long list of targets that pass from generation to generation. Their influence on American government has been catastrophic, yet it never seems to end. Sen. J. William Fulbright identified their irrational system for making endless war in Vietnam 45 years ago in a New Yorker article titled “Reflections in Thrall to Fear. [10]”

The truly remarkable thing about this Cold War psychology is the totally illogical transfer of the burden of proof from those who make charges to those who question them. The Cold Warriors, instead of having to say how they knew that Vietnam was part of a plan for the Communisation of the world, so manipulated the terms of the public discussion as to be able to demand that the skeptics prove that it was not. If the skeptics could not then the war must go on—to end it would be recklessly risking the national security.

Fulbright realized that Washington’s resident crazies had turned the world inside out and concluded, “We come to the ultimate illogic: war is the course of prudence and sobriety until the case for peace is proved under impossible rules of evidence [or never]–or until the enemy surrenders. Rational men cannot deal with each other on this basis.”

But these were not rational men, and their need to further their irrational quest only increased with the loss of the Vietnam War.

Having long forgotten the lessons of Vietnam and after a tragic repeat in Iraq that the highly respected Gen. William Odom considered “equivalent to the Germans at Stalingrad,” the crazies are at it again. With no one to stop them, they have kicked off an updated version of the Cold War against Russia as if nothing had changed since the last one ended in 1992.

The original Cold War was immensely expensive to the United States and was conducted at the height of America’s military and financial power. The United States is no longer that country. Since the Cold War was supposedly about the ideological “threat” of Communism, Americans need to ask before it’s too late exactly what kind of threat does a capitalist/Christian Russia pose to the leader of the “Free World” this time?

Muddying the waters in a way not seen since Sen. Joe McCarthy and the height of the Red Scare in the 1950s, the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act [2]” signed into law without fanfare by President Obama in December 2016 officially authorizes a government censorship bureaucracy comparable only to George Orwell’s fictional Ministry of Truth in his novel “1984.”

Referred to as the Global Engagement Center, the official purpose of the new bureaucracy will be to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests.”

But the real purpose of this totally Orwellian center will be to manage, eliminate or censor any dissenting views that challenge Washington’s newly manufactured version of the truth and to intimidate, harass or jail anyone who tries.

Criminalizing dissent is nothing new in time of war, but after 16 years of ceaseless warfare in Afghanistan, a Stalingrad–like defeat in Iraq and with Henry Kissinger advising President Trump on foreign policy, the Global Engagement Center has already assumed the characteristics of a dangerous farce.

The brilliant American satirical songwriter of the 1950s and ’60s Tom Lehrer once attributed his early retirement to Henry Kissinger, saying, “Political satire became obsolete [in 1973] when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Kissinger’s duplicitous attempts at securing an “honorable peace” in America’s war in Vietnam deserved at least ridicule. His long, drawn-out negotiations extended the war for four years at the cost of 22,000 American lives and countless Vietnamese.

According to University of California researcher Larry Berman, author of 2001’s “No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam [5],” the Paris Peace Accords negotiated by Kissinger were never even expected to work, but were only to serve as a justification for a brutal and permanent air war once they were violated. Berman writes, “Nixon recognized that winning the peace, like the war, would be impossible to achieve, but he planned for indefinite stalemate by using the B-52s to prop up the government of South Vietnam until the end of his presidency. … [But] Watergate derailed the plan.”

The Vietnam War had broken the Eastern establishment’s hold over foreign policy long before Nixon and Kissinger’s entry onto the scene. Détente with the Soviet Union had come about during the Johnson administration in an effort to bring some order out of the chaos, and Kissinger had carried it through Nixon and Ford.

But while dampening one crisis, détente created an even worse one by breaking open the longstanding internal-deep-state-struggle for control of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. Vietnam represented more than just a strategic defeat; it represented a conceptual failure in the half-century battle to contain Soviet-style Communism.

The Pentagon Papers [3] revealed the extent of the U.S. government’s deceit and incompetence, but rather than concede that defeat and chart a new course, its proponents fought back with a Machiavellian ideological campaign known as the “experiment in competitive analysis” or, for short, Team B.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times in August 2004 in an article titled “It’s Time to Bench ‘Team B’ [4], ” Lawrence J. Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and assistant secretary of defense from 1981 to 1985, came forward on what he knew to be the real tragedy represented by 9/11.

“The reports of the Sept. 11 commission and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence missed the real problem facing the intelligence community, which is not organization or culture but something known as the ‘Team B’ concept. And the real villains are the hard-liners who created the concept out of an unwillingness to accept the unbiased and balanced judgments of intelligence professionals.”

End of Part 1

Part 2, traces Team B’s hard-liners back to their roots in the Fourth International, the Trotskyist branch of the Communist International and the Machiavellian culture of American philosopher and political theorist James Burnham, whose present-day disciples threaten to ignite a third world war.

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are the authors of “Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story,” “Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire” and “The Voice.” Visit their websites at invisiblehistory.com and grailwerk.com.

Citations
1. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/american_imperialism_world_dantes_vision_of_hell_20170424
2. /forums/topic/white-house-signs-the-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-into-law/
3. https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers
4. http://articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/08/opinion/oe-korb8
5. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Peace-No-Honor/Larry-Berman/9780743217422
6. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21718562-agency-which-exists-find-out-secrets-fails-keep-them-wikileaks-embarrasses
7. http://fch.fiu.edu/FCH-2006/Spivey-A%20Visual%20Conversation.htm
8. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-and-the-media-50-facts-the-world-needs-to-know/5471956
9. http://www.alternet.org/story/149393/wikileaks'_most_terrifying_revelation%3A_just_how_much_our_government_lies_to_us
10. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1972/01/08/reflections-in-thrall-to-fear

[Anonymous 42]

We’re not facing the same Russia as before, they’ve been preparing for nuclear war all along while we blew fortunes manipulating the world into a NWO stranglehold.

Smile for the flash! It’s gonna get real sunny one day.

The MAD (mutual assured destruction) policies of yesterday may only apply to us one sunny day…

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Anonymous wrote:

We’re not facing the same Russia as before, they’ve been preparing for nuclear war all along while we blew fortunes manipulating the world into a NWO stranglehold.

Smile for the flash! It’s gonna get real sunny one day.

The MAD (mutual assured destruction) policies of yesterday may only apply to us one sunny day…

As the authors say and also in a previous post by Charles Hugh Smith the sanity of these warmongers is in question. Regardless of what the US administration does – these crazies actually think they can win a nuclear war.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22558]

Yumbo. I believe you do not realize how much information you are leaving out.

Look up the “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. You are talking some of the subsidiary groups, but not those pulling the strings.

If you want to go back to where the current globalist plan started, you have to go back to the 1830’s, concerning the build up to first Opium War in the 1940’s and what groups in Britain pushed for the Opium Wars with China.

But, the argument could be made that the current globalist order began at the end of the Thirty Years Wars (roughly 1618 to 1648), and the mass European colonialism to the Americas that war sparked by millions of Europeans fleeing the madness of that mercenary war of looting and death.

The aftermath of the Thirty Years War saw the fall of the old establishment in Europe held during the middle-ages and the rise of new power trying to dominate each other.

Due to the European colonialism of the Americas during that era, this creating a new front in European politics in both economically and in war. Also, this was the first time geopolitical dynamics were introduced in the modern era.

Before then, except for a few invasions by various Asia armies, trading with Asia nations on the Silk Road, and the continued wars between christians and muslims in parts of southeastern Europe and western parts of the middle-east, European powers were mostly confined to Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire around 500AD

Note, that the Eastern Roman Empire did not fall until the taking of Constantinople by the muslims in 1453AD during the later part of the middle-ages.

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Fascinating.
A lot of information to process.
Outstanding service Yumbo!
Professional work brother.

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Faust For Science wrote:

Yumbo. I believe you do not realize how much information you are leaving out.

Thank you and your points are well noted.

Firstly this is a short history – a primer if you will – for the neocon timeframe after WWII. The authors have intentionally done this to focus on certain aspects of the neocon expansion over others – specifically from the Cold War Era onwards.

I agree that the full picture goes back much farther – to the Rothschilds in fact. The current work is more focused.

There is a reason for the timeline as the agenda after WWII is about the actual takeover by the neocon power structure and transition phase to Team B. This is the critical bit.

I hope you would be able to look at the forthcoming parts that shed light on the thrust of the full article. Thanks for your great comments ans perhaps you wold like to make further ones as we go on.

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Hitman wrote:

Fascinating.
A lot of information to process.
Outstanding service Yumbo!
Professional work brother.

Thanks – appreciated. I am just the messenger.
I hope you liked it and please look at the citations they are fascinating.

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Y_ wrote:

Thanks for your great comments ans perhaps you wold like to make further ones as we go on.

Sure.

Some people believe the globalists are at the high of their power right now. The truth is they are in decline. The height of their power was between the 1960’s and the 2000’s. Such as the rise of the European Union.

The mark of their fall can be traced to the economic collapse of 2007. Since then the globalist control institutions have been kept in life support through printing currency from nothing by the tens of trillions in the form of bail out. But, that is only a temporary fix for them.

Presently the globalists has been unable to continue their agenda much with them playing defense in maintaining the “status quo” over the rise of nationalism movements across the world.

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Faust For Science wrote:

Some people believe the globalists are at the high of their power right now. The truth is they are in decline. The height of their power was between the 1960’s and the 2000’s. Such as the rise of the European Union.

The mark of their fall can be traced to the economic collapse of 2007. Since then the globalist control institutions have been kept in life support through printing currency from nothing by the tens of trillions in the form of bail out. But, that is only a temporary fix for them.

Presently the globalists has been unable to continue their agenda much with them playing defense in maintaining the “status quo” over the rise of nationalism movements across the world.

100% agree. Thank you.

[Anonymous 14]

Thanks Yumbo, another great thread. Neocon Imperialism to me is akin to that of a scared psychopathic arms dealer in your neighborhood who slaughters nearby families on a whim, usually based on lies, and only after a long campaign of demonizing them, then goes on to slaughter those who are not in his pocket who want to get weapons to defend themselves from his insanity. Oh, and my taxes pay for it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Neocon Imperialism to me is akin to that of a scared psychopathic arms dealer in your neighborhood who slaughters nearby families on a whim, usually based on lies, and only after a long campaign of demonizing them, then goes on to slaughter those who are not in his pocket who want to get weapons to defend themselves from his insanity.

Crazy? Yes. Dangerous? Very much so.
Solution? I don’t think anyone knows JB.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Homerun buddy.

I’d recommend, empire of debt, by bonner?

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

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Jan Sobieski wrote:

Homerun buddy.
I’d recommend, empire of debt, by bonner?

Thanks.
That’s a really good read and highly recommended. Thank you for that. (Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin of Agora Financial).

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Great post Yumbo; however the premise that a nuclear war is not “winnable” is dependent upon what constitutes a “win”. To the crazies with their fingers on the trigger a “win” simply means they survive and remain in some kind of power–nothing else matters to them. Thus a “win” as sane people would define it is impossible but a “win” as THEY define it is not only possible but desirable. That is the scary part.

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PistolPete wrote:

Great post Yumbo; however the premise that a nuclear war is not “winnable” is dependent upon what constitutes a “win”. To the crazies with their fingers on the trigger a “win” simply means they survive and remain in some kind of power–nothing else matters to them. Thus a “win” as sane people would define it is impossible but a “win” as THEY define it is not only possible but desirable. That is the scary part

For you and me bro’ that would be the only way we would define a win.

I am looking at what Paul Craig Roberts said in a previous post on the crazies here (/forums/topic/paul-craig-roberts-sauron-rules-in-washington/).

He says the neocon crazies believe that a pre-emptive nuclear attack from NATO European and Asian sites with the US defence shields to counter any retaliation will make Russia and China submit rather than take the risk of complete destruction.

The strike time of missiles harboured in Romania for example is less than 5 minutes to Russian bases. Or in South Korea. Think McCain. He would do it.

From what I am reading elsewhere and Putin’s recent interview (that was never published on MSM) we know this may be a real possibility. Putin is preparing for war along these lines. (See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09GBjzxYymQ)

We know that Russia and China will never capitulate and they have alternate ways to survive. They have prepared a long time for this.

The crazy idea of a ‘winnable’ nuclear war is what the neocon fairyland looks like. Of course they may believe in the trillion dollar underground bunkers they have built as a last resort as well. I do not know.

However there will be no-one left to lord over at that point.

[Anonymous 11]

Great job, Yumbo.

The fact neocons argue in favor of nuclear war is proof of their insanity. Do not for one second think our nuclear adversaries have not already countered their poorly concocted strategies. Let us enjoy the fruits of neocon “success”. There are actually functioning human slave markets in Libya now thanks to neocons.

If you’ve ever seen the shadows cast against walls by the vaporized Japanese victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that’ll be what I’ll become.

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Anonymous wrote:

If you’ve ever seen the shadows cast against walls by the vaporized Japanese victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that’ll be what I’ll become.

Thanks.
Yes – I have seen that. I still think they were the lucky ones after seeing the survivors.

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