thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-26--Unmasking Washington’s Atlantic Council

Unmasking Washington’s Atlantic Council

Dear readers , For this newsletter I take an excerpt from my book , The Think Tanks which has not yet been published .
The role of private think-tanks , especially in the United States and UK in developing long-term policy for the leading circles or powers that be with names such as Rockefeller , Kellogg , Soros , is poorly understood by the general public .
This is largely by design as the role of those tax-exempt foundations in shaping national and global debates on issues of war or peace , climate change , economics is far from neutral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a think tank called the Atlantic Council and look more closely at this highly influential policy group .
I depend on your support to be able to continue offering my work free , more than ever as politically-biased censorship by the likes of Facebook , Twitter , Google are working intensely to silence critical opinion that differs with their agenda .
Please consider making a support via my PayPal on my website , www.williamengdahl.com as well as buying one or more of my books .
All my best , William Engdahl n June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Cold War by placing Jupiter Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles ( IRBM ) in NATO-member Turkey , along with Jupiter nuclear missiles deployed to Italy as well as Thor IRBMs to the UK -- all nuclear missiles , placed within striking distance of Moscow .
Six weeks later , the Communist regime in East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall that was to divide East and West Berlin for almost three decades until November 9 , 1989 .
What few were told was that the highly provocative forward-stationing of US nuclear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true reason that Khrushchev some months later negotiated stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba some 90 miles from Miami .
Cuba was a response to NATO .
In was in that year , 1961 that leading Cold War circles in Washington founded a new think-tank , the Atlantic Council , to as they put it , “ promote constructive US leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community… ” In plain English , to provide a vehicle to make certain that Western Europe follows US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risked a global nuclear war .
The nature of the Atlantic Council was clear from its very creation by an elite circle of the Cold War US foreign policy establishment .
The founders were mainly part of the Rockefeller faction which had emerged after 1945 as the unchallenged leaders of Washington global economic and military policies .
The person of John J. McCloy was suggestive of the central , clear Rockefeller influence on US policies after the War .
McCloy , a Wall Street lawyer , became the first High Commissioner for Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the pardon of convicted war criminals Friederich Flick , Alfried Krupp , and SS Standartenführer , Martin Sandberger , commander of Sonderkommando 1a of the Einsatzgruppe , and of the Sicherheitspolizei in Estonia who had been sentenced to death for his role in the mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states .
McCloy was later made chairman of the Rockefellers ’ Chase Bank and of the Rockefeller-financed New York Council on Foreign Relations .
He had been in the Rockefeller circle since he was a student at Harvard with David @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the Rockefellers ’ inner circle by McCloy .
[ i ] The persons responsible for creating the Atlantic Council in 1961 were part of those Cold War Rockefeller circles .
They included former Secretary of State Dean Acheson , who was described as the “ architect ” of the Cold War .
Acheson convinced President Truman to send US troops to Korea and he shaped NATO as a US-controlled military force .
Council founders also included Christian Herter , Eisenhower ’ s last Secretary of State , who had been one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Relations in 1919 .
William L. Clayton -- who had been Assistant Secretary of the State Department and served in 1940 as Deputy Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs under Nelson A. Rockefeller—was to play a leading role in the new Atlantic Council .
As well , William C. Foster , former Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration under Truman , responsible for the distribution of Marshall Plan aid that opened Western Europe to US multinationals such as Mobil and Esso Oil of the Rockefeller group .
Foster was later Deputy Secretary of Defense .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ idea to create the Atlantic Council was Theodore C. Achilles , a leading CFR member and a Bilderberg regular who had headed a CIA secret Task Force under Eisenhower to prepare the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that turned into an utter fiasco .
As newly-inaugurated President , John F. Kennedy had been deliberately kept uninformed of the plans by Republican CIA head Allen Dulles .
Achilles had also played a decisive role in drafting what became the NATO Treaty of 1949 .
[ iii ] With such a heritage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Atlantic Council over the decades had become a central organ of pushing a militarist pro-NATO policy on Europe , even after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 , a period when many believed NATO no longer had reason to exist .
Since the beginning of the new century , after September 11 , 2001 , US policy elites around the Rockefellers and their junior partners , the Bush dynasty , clearly shifted the focus of US foreign policy .
The days of the financial domination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the collapse of the Wall Street dot.com stock bubble in March 2000 .
The major banks were in deep crisis .
In that situation , the leading American Oligarchs made a clear decision to use America ’ s unequalled military might as the leading edge of continuing American global supremacy , to use the words of Rockefeller friend , Zbigniew Brzezinski .
The attacks of September 11 provided the new Administration of President George W. Bush the pretext to shift Americans from a focus on financial good times to necessity for wartime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Atlantic Council with its considerable network of influential political voices , beat the drum role for every USA military action since the ill-fated US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001-2003 .
On economics the Atlantic Council is a major backer of the Rockefeller agenda of free trade , including the destructive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ( TTIP ) , Washington ’ s proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States that would in effect create a multinational corporative domination immune from EU or German national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over-riding the sovereignty of national elected governments in favor of dubious claims of trade benefit .
Most recently , the Atlantic Council has played a decisive role in the mainstream media one-sided coverage of the US-instigated right-wing coup d ’ etat in Ukraine and in the new demonization of Russia that has led to destructive EU sanctions against Russia that pushed the Germany economy to the brink of recession by early 2015 .
To understand what the Atlantic Council represents today and to explain their consistent support for a de facto Washington imperialist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ follow the money that funds their think-tank activities .
According to their website , as of January 2015 , the Atlantic Council was financially supported by the USA Pentagon and USA intelligence community .
While they refuse to say amounts , they acknowledge it receives financial support from the US Department of the Air Force ; US Department of the Army ; US Department of the Navy ; US National Intelligence Council .
As well the US State Department and Energy Department contribute to the Council .
As well , NATO itself is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pro-US think-tank , it is notable that it also takes donations from foreign governmental bodies including the EU Commission .
[ iv ] Of course Brussels would never mention to Europe ’ s citizens that their taxpayer dollars were going to support a Washington propaganda lobby .
In addition to government funding , the Atlantic Council admits to receiving money from an array of corporate sponsors that includes the world ’ s largest military industries .
The list includes Lockheed Martin , Boeing , Northrup Grumman , Raytheon , Textron , leading helicopter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Council ’ s financial donors also include the German arms maker Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Airbus Group .
An indication of its true orientation as no longer a German bank representing German interests but , especially since the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen in November , 1989 , part of the Anglo-American “ establishment , ” Deutsche Bank is listed as one of the largest contributors to the Atlantic Council , a member of their elite Global Leadership Circle .
[ v ] Other major financial supporters of the Atlantic Council include the global media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ L.P..
It includes major tax-free foundations including Germany ’ s Bertelsmann Foundation of the huge Bertelsmann publishing empire ; the Carnegie Corporation of New York , the MacArthur Foundation , the Rockefeller Brothers Fund , Rockefeller & Co. , and the Smith Richardson Foundation .
The Smith Richardson Foundation , from the fortune of Vicks Vaporub , was one of the major funders of the Washington neo-conservative warhawk think tanks that were behind the aggressive military policies of the Bush Administration as well as the neo-conservative policies of President Obama , especially in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vi ] The Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council reads like a Who ’ s Who of Washington war politics of the past four decades .
The board includes such infamous names as Henry Kissinger and former National Security Adviser and member of the strategic consultancy Kissinger Associates , Brent Scowcroft , who heads the Council ’ s International Advisory Board .
The former chairman of the Board until he was named Obama ’ s Defense Secretary was Senator Chuck Hagel .
Past Board chairmen included NATO Supreme Allied Commanders for Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lauris Norstad .
[ vii ] It includes Richard Armitage , former Deputy Secretary of State under George W. Bush ; former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt who now is tied to the neo-conservative CSIS in Washington and to Textron .
It includes former NATO Europe commander General Wesley Clark ; General James L. Jones ; General Colin Powell who was Bush Secretary of State during the 2003 Iraq invasion ; neo-conservative architect of the Afghan and Iraq wars under Bush , Zalmay M. Khalilzad ; Bush Under Secretary of Defense , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Project for the New American Century that laid out a strategy in 2000 for a war against Saddam Hussein well before September 11 , 2001 .
[ viii ] In sum , the Atlantic Council is one of the most influential and least known policy think-tanks for a Washington global military power projection or what the Pentagon calls Full Spectrum Dominance .
Another highly influential Washington think-tank that has had particularly disproportionate influence on Berlin politics of the Federal Republic is the Aspen Institute , where what is termed by some “ soft @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mailed fist of a Washington global agenda gone awry .

William Engdahl
Dear readers, For this newsletter I take an excerpt from my book, The Think Tanks which has not yet been published. The role of private think-tanks, especially in the United States and UK in developing long-term policy for the leading circles or powers that be with names such as Rockefeller, Kellogg, Soros, is poorly understood by the general public. This is largely by design as the role of those tax-exempt foundations in shaping national and global debates on issues of war or peace, climate change, economics is far from neutral. Here I take a selection about a think tank called the Atlantic Council and look more closely at this highly influential policy group. I depend on your support to be able to continue offering my work free, more than ever as politically-biased censorship by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google are working intensely to silence critical opinion that differs with their agenda. Please consider making a support via my PayPal on my website, www.williamengdahl.com as well as buying one or more of my books. All my best, William Engdahl
Washington’s Atlantic Council
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n June 1961 the US initiated a dramatic escalation of the Cold War by placing Jupiter Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) in NATO-member Turkey, along with Jupiter nuclear missiles deployed to Italy as well as Thor IRBMs to the UK--all nuclear missiles, placed within striking distance of Moscow. Six weeks later, the Communist regime in East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall that was to divide East and West Berlin for almost three decades until November 9, 1989.
What few were told was that the highly provocative forward-stationing of US nuclear missiles within minutes of Moscow was the true reason that Khrushchev some months later negotiated stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba some 90 miles from Miami. Cuba was a response to NATO.
Founding a NATO think-tank lobby
In was in that year, 1961 that leading Cold War circles in Washington founded a new think-tank, the Atlantic Council, to as they put it, “promote constructive US leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community…” In plain English, to provide a vehicle to make certain that Western Europe follows US global policies even if US military policies risked a global nuclear war.
The nature of the Atlantic Council was clear from its very creation by an elite circle of the Cold War US foreign policy establishment. The founders were mainly part of the Rockefeller faction which had emerged after 1945 as the unchallenged leaders of Washington global economic and military policies.
The person of John J. McCloy was suggestive of the central, clear Rockefeller influence on US policies after the War. McCloy, a Wall Street lawyer, became the first High Commissioner for Germany. In that role he was responsible for the pardon of convicted war criminals Friederich Flick, Alfried Krupp, and SS Standartenführer, Martin Sandberger, commander of Sonderkommando 1a of the Einsatzgruppe, and of the Sicherheitspolizei in Estonia who had been sentenced to death for his role in the mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states. McCloy was later made chairman of the Rockefellers’ Chase Bank and of the Rockefeller-financed New York Council on Foreign Relations. He had been in the Rockefeller circle since he was a student at Harvard with David Rockefeller. Henry A. Kissinger was brought into the Rockefellers’ inner circle by McCloy. [i]
The persons responsible for creating the Atlantic Council in 1961 were part of those Cold War Rockefeller circles. They included former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who was described as the “architect” of the Cold War. Acheson convinced President Truman to send US troops to Korea and he shaped NATO as a US-controlled military force. Council founders also included Christian Herter, Eisenhower’s last Secretary of State, who had been one of the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1919.
William L. Clayton--who had been Assistant Secretary of the State Department and served in 1940 as Deputy Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs under Nelson A. Rockefeller—was to play a leading role in the new Atlantic Council. As well, William C. Foster, former Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration under Truman, responsible for the distribution of Marshall Plan aid that opened Western Europe to US multinationals such as Mobil and Esso Oil of the Rockefeller group. Foster was later Deputy Secretary of Defense. [ii]
The initiator of the idea to create the Atlantic Council was Theodore C. Achilles, a leading CFR member and a Bilderberg regular who had headed a CIA secret Task Force under Eisenhower to prepare the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that turned into an utter fiasco. As newly-inaugurated President, John F. Kennedy had been deliberately kept uninformed of the plans by Republican CIA head Allen Dulles. Achilles had also played a decisive role in drafting what became the NATO Treaty of 1949.[iii]
With such a heritage, it was no surprise that the Atlantic Council over the decades had become a central organ of pushing a militarist pro-NATO policy on Europe, even after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a period when many believed NATO no longer had reason to exist.
Military advocacy today
Since the beginning of the new century, after September 11, 2001, US policy elites around the Rockefellers and their junior partners, the Bush dynasty, clearly shifted the focus of US foreign policy. The days of the financial domination of the dollar were in deep decline after the collapse of the Wall Street dot.com stock bubble in March 2000. The major banks were in deep crisis. In that situation, the leading American Oligarchs made a clear decision to use America’s unequalled military might as the leading edge of continuing American global supremacy, to use the words of Rockefeller friend, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The attacks of September 11 provided the new Administration of President George W. Bush the pretext to shift Americans from a focus on financial good times to necessity for wartime sacrifice for the declared War on Terror. The Atlantic Council with its considerable network of influential political voices, beat the drum role for every USA military action since the ill-fated US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001-2003.
On economics the Atlantic Council is a major backer of the Rockefeller agenda of free trade, including the destructive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Washington’s proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States that would in effect create a multinational corporative domination immune from EU or German national laws, a form of corporate dictatorship over-riding the sovereignty of national elected governments in favor of dubious claims of trade benefit.
Most recently, the Atlantic Council has played a decisive role in the mainstream media one-sided coverage of the US-instigated right-wing coup d’etat in Ukraine and in the new demonization of Russia that has led to destructive EU sanctions against Russia that pushed the Germany economy to the brink of recession by early 2015.
Follow the money
To understand what the Atlantic Council represents today and to explain their consistent support for a de facto Washington imperialist agenda, it was only necessary to follow the money that funds their think-tank activities.
According to their website, as of January 2015, the Atlantic Council was financially supported by the USA Pentagon and USA intelligence community. While they refuse to say amounts, they acknowledge it receives financial support from the US Department of the Air Force; US Department of the Army; US Department of the Navy; US National Intelligence Council. As well the US State Department and Energy Department contribute to the Council. As well, NATO itself is a financial supporter. For such a pro-US think-tank, it is notable that it also takes donations from foreign governmental bodies including the EU Commission. [iv] Of course Brussels would never mention to Europe’s citizens that their taxpayer dollars were going to support a Washington propaganda lobby.
In addition to government funding, the Atlantic Council admits to receiving money from an array of corporate sponsors that includes the world’s largest military industries. The list includes Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, Textron, leading helicopter and drone producer. Notably, the Council’s financial donors also include the German arms maker Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Airbus Group.
An indication of its true orientation as no longer a German bank representing German interests but, especially since the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen in November, 1989, part of the Anglo-American “establishment,” Deutsche Bank is listed as one of the largest contributors to the Atlantic Council, a member of their elite Global Leadership Circle. [v]
Other major financial supporters of the Atlantic Council include the global media groups, Thompson Reuters, Bloomberg, L.P.. It includes major tax-free foundations including Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation of the huge Bertelsmann publishing empire; the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller & Co., and the Smith Richardson Foundation. The Smith Richardson Foundation, from the fortune of Vicks Vaporub, was one of the major funders of the Washington neo-conservative warhawk think tanks that were behind the aggressive military policies of the Bush Administration as well as the neo-conservative policies of President Obama, especially in Syria, Libya and Ukraine. [vi]
Those in Charge
The Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council reads like a Who’s Who of Washington war politics of the past four decades. The board includes such infamous names as Henry Kissinger and former National Security Adviser and member of the strategic consultancy Kissinger Associates, Brent Scowcroft, who heads the Council’s International Advisory Board. The former chairman of the Board until he was named Obama’s Defense Secretary was Senator Chuck Hagel. Past Board chairmen included NATO Supreme Allied Commanders for Europe, General Andrew J. Goodpaster and General Lauris Norstad. [vii]
It includes Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State under George W. Bush; former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt who now is tied to the neo-conservative CSIS in Washington and to Textron. It includes former NATO Europe commander General Wesley Clark; General James L. Jones; General Colin Powell who was Bush Secretary of State during the 2003 Iraq invasion; neo-conservative architect of the Afghan and Iraq wars under Bush, Zalmay M. Khalilzad; Bush Under Secretary of Defense, Dov S. Zakheim, part of the Project for the New American Century that laid out a strategy in 2000 for a war against Saddam Hussein well before September 11, 2001.[viii]
In sum, the Atlantic Council is one of the most influential and least known policy think-tanks for a Washington global military power projection or what the Pentagon calls Full Spectrum Dominance.
Another highly influential Washington think-tank that has had particularly disproportionate influence on Berlin politics of the Federal Republic is the Aspen Institute, where what is termed by some “soft power” is the velvet glove hiding the mailed fist of a Washington global agenda gone awry.
Endnotes:
[i] Wikipedia, Martin Sandberger, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sandberger
[ii] Atlantic Council website, History, http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/history
[iii] Ibid.
[iv] Atlantic Council Website, Supporters, http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/support/supporters
[v] Ibid.
[vi] Ibid.
[vii] Atlantic Council Board of Directors, January 6, 2015, Atlantic Council Board Directors
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors
[viii] Ibid.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-26--Trump-obsessed Democrats busily glorifying scumbag John Bolton

hat else is new in the fetid Democrat corral ?
Nothing !
That 's what .
Same old stinking corruption and lies .
Do n't be shocked .
NEVER be shocked at how low-down and dirty US politics can get .
If Republicans are testament to the sorry fact that the most obviously repulsive and corrupt parties can hold traction and win elections in America , the Democrats are hardly a real alternative .
Never were .
They are still as corrupt as the party they pretend to oppose ( actually the GOP a knowing partner in a long-running disinformation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ democratic choice in the USA ) .
So , as usual , unable by their servility to Wall Street and , in general , as a major—the major— instrument of the American plutocratic establishment these days ( vide their effusive embrace of the Pentagon , warmongering in all directions , and the still proliferating alphabet soup of sordid intel agencies ) , and , the most cynical slap , their shameless de facto collaboration with Trump , they rely on blatant hypocrisy and crumbs from the table for their programmatic positions .
Indeed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have buried the last vestiges of a tepidly-principled class struggle approach to politics , and substituted identity politics , what political sophistos for very good reason used to call in the 1980s `` wedge issues '' .
Identity politics is really a no brainer , even from a semi-awake ruling class type .
See , by allowing their media and political whores to make a great deal of noise about racial injustice , gay persecution , women 's oppression and so forth , all merely symbols with no substantive content , the ruling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that , ZERO , power and suffers no economic cost whatsoever at the end often day .
Sure , some totally absurd , gratuitously criminal and obnoxious social rules , like prohibition of gay marriage or women 's access to the corporate ladder 's top positions and even the military brass ( something fought for by misguided bourgeois feminists ) , are relaxed or eliminated , to the displeasure of medieval conservatives , the crowd whose obtuseness and moral bankruptcy guarantee a culture of professional dishonesty in US politics , and , yea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enacted , piecemeal or in waves ( Civil Rights Act of 1964 ) but haphazardly enforced , or only paid abundant lip service while most racist practices—especially by police—continue virtually unchallenged , or worsen , all very much now under the radar , as it were , ever since political correctness seemed to cleanse the dining table of decomposing offal—but that is largely an illusion , as the more recent cases of George Floyd , Trayvon Martin , Tamir Rice , Michael Brown , Eric Garner , Philando Castile , Breonna Taylor and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happens because the US population , besides being profoundly disoriented , have no political or economic representation worth a damn .
Infested with libertarianism and fierce individualism from the cradle on up , economic democracy is actually feared by many Americans .
What they have therefore is elaborate simulacra , a constantly simmering charade that reaches boiling point every four years , although the imposture sometimes rises in temperature during interregnums , such as we saw with the utterly fraudulent Russiagate .
The US really has not had a detectable opposition party to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , contrary to their ubiquitous propaganda enshrined in the Civics 101 catechism , itself undergirded by the US exceptionalism mythology , all the US sheeple have , this bestest of all democracies ever , this best of all possible worlds , is a single party representing the interests of the obscenely rich 0.001 % of the population and their very well heeled retainers .
In sum an illusion .
With that in mind , please watch Rachel Bevins in this delightfully lucid denunciation of the sham represented by the Democrats ' vindication of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should not pick a dog in this fight as both Trump and Bolton remain indistinguishable in their repugnant criminality .
BTW , Rachel 's page on Facebook was deleted arbitrarily by FB about two years ago , charging her with `` inauthentic behavior '' ( absurd ) and `` spam '' even more absurd since Rachel basically published her own work.—PG

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hat else is new in the fetid Democrat corral? Nothing! That's what. Same old stinking corruption and lies. Don't be shocked. NEVER be shocked at how low-down and dirty US politics can get. If Republicans are testament to the sorry fact that the most obviously repulsive and corrupt parties can hold traction and win elections in America, the Democrats are hardly a real alternative. Never were. They are still as corrupt as the party they pretend to oppose (actually the GOP a knowing partner in a long-running disinformation show, that we actually have a democratic choice in the USA). So, as usual, unable by their servility to Wall Street and, in general, as a major—the major— instrument of the American plutocratic establishment these days (vide their effusive embrace of the Pentagon, warmongering in all directions, and the still proliferating alphabet soup of sordid intel agencies), and, the most cynical slap, their shameless de facto collaboration with Trump, they rely on blatant hypocrisy and crumbs from the table for their programmatic positions. Indeed, for many decades now, Democrats have buried the last vestiges of a tepidly-principled class struggle approach to politics, and substituted identity politics, what political sophistos for very good reason used to call in the 1980s "wedge issues".
Identity politics is really a no brainer, even from a semi-awake ruling class type. See, by allowing their media and political whores to make a great deal of noise about racial injustice, gay persecution, women's oppression and so forth, all merely symbols with no substantive content, the ruling class loses zero, let me repeat that, ZERO, power and suffers no economic cost whatsoever at the end often day. Sure, some totally absurd, gratuitously criminal and obnoxious social rules, like prohibition of gay marriage or women's access to the corporate ladder's top positions and even the military brass (something fought for by misguided bourgeois feminists), are relaxed or eliminated, to the displeasure of medieval conservatives, the crowd whose obtuseness and moral bankruptcy guarantee a culture of professional dishonesty in US politics. And, yea, some token anti-racist measures are also enacted, piecemeal or in waves (Civil Rights Act of 1964) but haphazardly enforced, or only paid abundant lip service while most racist practices—especially by police—continue virtually unchallenged, or worsen, all very much now under the radar, as it were, ever since political correctness seemed to cleanse the dining table of decomposing offal. Unfortunately, as we all know, that is largely an illusion, as the more recent cases of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor and many others painfully attest.
All this happens because the US population, besides being profoundly disoriented, have no political or economic representation worth a damn. Infested with libertarianism and fierce individualism from the cradle on up, economic democracy or egalitarianism in any form is actually feared and suspected by many Americans. What they have therefore is elaborate simulacra, a constantly simmering charade that reaches boiling point every four years, although the imposture sometimes rises in temperature during interregnums, such as we saw with the utterly fraudulent Russiagate. The US really has not had a detectable opposition party to the reigning oligarchy for generations. Thus, contrary to their ubiquitous propaganda enshrined in the Civics 101 catechism, itself undergirded by the US exceptionalism mythology, all the US sheeple have, this bestest of all democracies ever, this best of all possible worlds, is a single party representing the interests of the obscenely rich 0.001% of the population and their very well heeled retainers. In sum an illusion. With that in mind, please watch Rachel Bevins in this delightfully lucid denunciation of the sham represented by the Democrats' vindication of John Bolton, and how the people should not pick a dog in this fight as both Trump and Bolton remain indistinguishable in their repugnant criminality. BTW, Rachel's page on Facebook was deleted arbitrarily by FB about two years ago, charging her with "inauthentic behavior" (absurd) and "spam" even more absurd since Rachel basically published her own work.—PG


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-27--The Aryan Myth – The Origin of “White” People

his is the key racist myth underpinning conquest and domination in the West .
The basic story begins in 15century England , but in fact it ultimately traces back to Tacitus .
The Aryan race just suddenly appears in history roughly around where Iran is today .
Allegedly unique , Aryans were described as tall and blonde , with rounder heads than other “ races , ” such characteristics assumed to be evidence of superiority .
They had an unparalleled commitment to law and freedom , and conquered everything in their path as they moved continually westward - west being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up in the Black Forest region of what we know of today as Germany .
There they became the Teutons , a perfect race .
But difficulties set in because some of them inter-married with nearby peoples who were not Teutonic , so they lost blood purity and the race degenerated .
That ’ s how the `` dirty ” and dark-haired people of the Mediterranean came to be .
Meanwhile , the good Teutons ( i.e.
, the racially pure ones ) just exterminated everyone , thus preserving their superior blood-line .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Saxons and went to the English channel , crossed it , and exterminated everyone on the other side , although they didn ’ t manage to kill all of the Celts , some of whom remained around Ireland , but apart from that they did a pretty thorough job of wiping out race competitors .
After that , the colonists came to America , continuing the journey West , and that ’ s how “ we the people , ” founded the finest , freest country the world has ever seen , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ We ” refers to Anglo Saxons ( at least the wealthy ones ) , a world conquering race .
This appears in Thomas Jefferson ’ s writings , and is universal in the 19th century .
Jefferson and others thought we ought to go back to the 8th century , when they supposedly had the perfect system of law and justice , before the race was poisoned by immigration to England from elsewhere than the Norman Conquest .
The supposed superior racial characteristics of the Aryans/Teutons were quite precisely defined , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t think that the Germans qualified .
He said they were a little too swarthy , and they didn ’ t pick up “ our ” customs properly .
And he saw the Native Americans as an obviously inferior race , which meant that it was right to exterminate them .
Teddy Roosevelt claimed that they were actually the beneficiaries of being exterminated , as were the Filipinos when the U.S. invaded and conquered the Philippines in 1898 , killing some 200,000 inhabitants of the islands .
In Roosevelt ’ s view , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause of producing a superior race .
( Roosevelt 's favorite term was `` English-speaking race , '' not Anglo-Saxons , as he could not count himself among the Anglo-Saxons ) .
So racism in the U.S. is not just anti-black racism , it goes far deeper than that .
That ’ s why every wave of immigrants has been treated with vicious racial abuse .
The Irish were considered like dogs when they first arrived .
Restaurants had signs saying “ No Dogs or Irish.
” The average life span of an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Jews and Hungarians ( “ Huns ” ) were treated the same way , everyone from Southeastern Europe was .
The worst case was that of the Chinese , who suffered total racial exclusion under the Racial Exclusion Act .
But then came the move to the West , “ we ” conquered the national territory and later Mexico , fulfilling our “ Manifest Destiny ” as a superior race .
Then came 1898 , and Washington stole Spain ’ s colonies , which were in revolt , conquering the Philippines and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that point Teddy Roosevelt made one of his important contributions to racist theory , which laid the basis for the later Pacific War with Japan .
He designated the Japanese “ honorary Aryans.
” They looked yellow , but they really weren ’ t , he said , so they could be “ civilized , ” and they could sort of pave the U.S. way into China and the East , and the empire would keep going until it circled the Earth and got Aryans back to their original homeland , that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was .
This fantastic tale is the ideological justification for white supremacy , and it ’ s widely believed , especially in ruling circles .
On TR and the phrase `` English-speaking race , '' see Thomas G. Dyer , `` Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race , '' ( Louisiana State University Press , 1980 ) , pps .
28-9 The most popular religion in the country , faith in Anglo Saxon blood holds that descendants of select German tribes carry a genius for self-government , nation building , technology , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to soar over the “ lower races ” for 1500 years .
“ We are Teutons , God ’ s kings of men , ” asserts Colonel Robert Bingham , ex-Confederate officer from North Carolina .
Like so many others he believes that manhood , suffrage , and personal responsibility are exclusively Anglo-Saxon achievements .
He confidently asserts that “ every step towards the higher freedom [ was ] won in the best blood of our race.
” Anglo-Saxonists thrill to the conquest of the world ’ s “ waste spaces ” by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roosevelt rates the annihilation of the Indian nations an inspiring demonstration of the Anglo-Saxon “ race destiny ” to dominate less virile peoples .
This race potency permitted the original U.S. Colonists to exterminate the indigenous peoples as part of their Christian duties , with religious leaders explaining that their victims were outright Satanic creatures “ having little of Humanitie but shape.
” Anglo Saxonists admire Admiral Dewey ’ s smashing of the dark-skinned Spanish “ dons ” at Manila Bay , believing it an expression of the “ incarnate tradition of Anglo-Saxon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ superior traits of the “ masterful fighting races.
” The decrepit , outgunned Spanish fleet reflected nothing more than an inferior blood line .
Anglo Saxonism enjoys the backing of the new racial sciences , which posit that racial categories are fixed and final , though still curiously susceptible to corruption via the horrors of hybridization .
Indeed , since civilized values are progressively destroyed by inter-breeding with the mongrel hordes streaming through American ports like a river of genetic sewage , racial amalgamation is said to be the deadliest threat confronting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alarm takes hold of popular discourse , with increasing references to the “ race problem , ” “ race war , ” and the “ higher races.
” David F. Schmitz , Thank God They 're On Our Side - The United States & Right-Wing Dictatorships 1921-1965 , ( University of North Carolina , 1999 ) p. 24 John Higham , Strangers In The Land - Patterns of American Nativism 1860-1925 , ( Atheneum , 1973 ) p. 132-3

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his is the key racist myth underpinning conquest and domination in the West. The basic story begins in 15century England, but in fact it ultimately traces back to Tacitus. The Aryan race just suddenly appears in history roughly around where Iran is today. Allegedly unique, Aryans were described as tall and blonde, with rounder heads than other “races,” such characteristics assumed to be evidence of superiority. They had an unparalleled commitment to law and freedom, and conquered everything in their path as they moved continually westward - west being the direction of greatness – and ended up in the Black Forest region of what we know of today as Germany. There they became the Teutons, a perfect race. But difficulties set in because some of them inter-married with nearby peoples who were not Teutonic, so they lost blood purity and the race degenerated. That’s how the "dirty” and dark-haired people of the Mediterranean came to be. Meanwhile, the good Teutons (i.e., the racially pure ones) just exterminated everyone, thus preserving their superior blood-line.
The good Teutons became the Angles and the Saxons and went to the English channel, crossed it, and exterminated everyone on the other side, although they didn’t manage to kill all of the Celts, some of whom remained around Ireland, but apart from that they did a pretty thorough job of wiping out race competitors. After that, the colonists came to America, continuing the journey West, and that’s how “we the people,” founded the finest, freest country the world has ever seen, with slaves to do the work. “We” refers to Anglo Saxons (at least the wealthy ones), a world conquering race. This appears in Thomas Jefferson’s writings, and is universal in the 19th century. Jefferson and others thought we ought to go back to the 8th century, when they supposedly had the perfect system of law and justice, before the race was poisoned by immigration to England from elsewhere than the Norman Conquest.
The supposed superior racial characteristics of the Aryans/Teutons were quite precisely defined, so much so that Benjamin Franklin didn’t think that the Germans qualified. He said they were a little too swarthy, and they didn’t pick up “our” customs properly. And he saw the Native Americans as an obviously inferior race, which meant that it was right to exterminate them. Teddy Roosevelt claimed that they were actually the beneficiaries of being exterminated, as were the Filipinos when the U.S. invaded and conquered the Philippines in 1898, killing some 200,000 inhabitants of the islands. In Roosevelt’s view, these were sacrifices embraced in the glorious cause of producing a superior race. (Roosevelt's favorite term was "English-speaking race," not Anglo-Saxons, as he could not count himself among the Anglo-Saxons).
So racism in the U.S. is not just anti-black racism, it goes far deeper than that. That’s why every wave of immigrants has been treated with vicious racial abuse. The Irish were considered like dogs when they first arrived. Restaurants had signs saying “No Dogs or Irish.” The average life span of an Irish man was under 20 years old. Jews and Hungarians (“Huns”) were treated the same way, everyone from Southeastern Europe was. The worst case was that of the Chinese, who suffered total racial exclusion under the Racial Exclusion Act. But then came the move to the West, “we” conquered the national territory and later Mexico, fulfilling our “Manifest Destiny” as a superior race. Then came 1898, and Washington stole Spain’s colonies, which were in revolt, conquering the Philippines and then moving on to China. At that point Teddy Roosevelt made one of his important contributions to racist theory, which laid the basis for the later Pacific War with Japan. He designated the Japanese “honorary Aryans.” They looked yellow, but they really weren’t, he said, so they could be “civilized,” and they could sort of pave the U.S. way into China and the East, and the empire would keep going until it circled the Earth and got Aryans back to their original homeland, that is, Iran, or wherever it allegedly was. This fantastic tale is the ideological justification for white supremacy, and it’s widely believed, especially in ruling circles.
Sources: Noam Chomsky, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155578524082282
On TR and the phrase "English-speaking race," see Thomas G. Dyer, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race," (Louisiana State University Press, 1980), pps. 28-9
1900: USA
Anglo-Saxonism
The most popular religion in the country, faith in Anglo Saxon blood holds that descendants of select German tribes carry a genius for self-government, nation building, technology, and conquest, which has allowed them to soar over the “lower races” for 1500 years.
“We are Teutons, God’s kings of men,” asserts Colonel Robert Bingham, ex-Confederate officer from North Carolina. Like so many others he believes that manhood, suffrage, and personal responsibility are exclusively Anglo-Saxon achievements. He confidently asserts that “every step towards the higher freedom [was] won in the best blood of our race.”
Anglo-Saxonists thrill to the conquest of the world’s “waste spaces” by the U.S. and Great Britain. Theodore Roosevelt rates the annihilation of the Indian nations an inspiring demonstration of the Anglo-Saxon “race destiny” to dominate less virile peoples. This race potency permitted the original U.S. Colonists to exterminate the indigenous peoples as part of their Christian duties, with religious leaders explaining that their victims were outright Satanic creatures “having little of Humanitie but shape.”
Anglo Saxonists admire Admiral Dewey’s smashing of the dark-skinned Spanish “dons” at Manila Bay, believing it an expression of the “incarnate tradition of Anglo-Saxon seamanship,” just one of many superior traits of the “masterful fighting races.” The decrepit, outgunned Spanish fleet reflected nothing more than an inferior blood line.
Anglo Saxonism enjoys the backing of the new racial sciences, which posit that racial categories are fixed and final, though still curiously susceptible to corruption via the horrors of hybridization. Indeed, since civilized values are progressively destroyed by inter-breeding with the mongrel hordes streaming through American ports like a river of genetic sewage, racial amalgamation is said to be the deadliest threat confronting the white race.
A rising tone of alarm takes hold of popular discourse, with increasing references to the “race problem,” “race war,” and the “higher races.”
Sources:
Kent, Noel J., America In 1900, (M. E. Sharpe, 2000) pps. 98-9
David F. Schmitz, Thank God They're On Our Side - The United States & Right-Wing Dictatorships 1921-1965, (University of North Carolina, 1999) p. 24
John Higham, Strangers In The Land - Patterns of American Nativism 1860-1925, (Atheneum, 1973) p. 132-3


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-27--Caleb Maupin debunks libertarianism

Caleb Maupin debunks libertarianism

Few ideologies are more insidious and disastrous to society than libertarianism , but its popularity continues in the US , @ @ @ @ @ in an alternate universe , and the power of a multitude of billionaires , their @ @ @ @ @ and the fact it remains the core value of capitalism , aka `` the American @ @ @ @ @ The affluent—especially their children—lap it up , and there are far too many who become @ @ @ @ @ absolute freedom , a social impossibility .

Editor's Note:
As usual, Caleb Maupin does a pretty good job here, but a couple of things may further elucidate why Libertarians are badly misguided. For one thing, they are—in itself an impossibility—as no one can dismiss the historical record and its lessons (duly and reasonably observed, of course). Ahistoricism refers to the fact that libertarians dream of a perfect market that never was, the one usually described in "neoclassical economics 101", taught by gurus like Paul Samuelson. The doctrine of neoclassical economics that most libertarians accept as sacred scripture tell people that capitalism can be quite OK if left to its own devices without government meddling, but have no real answers to the multitude of questions and problems that quickly crop up when the market is allowed to run wild according to its own unfettered dynamic. The unresolvable issues range from the provision of healthcare to the masses, to dependable and equitable social safety nets, to the establishment of efficient transportation systems, public education, housing for all, not to mention decent and fair remuneration for labor rendered, and so on. But more embarrassingly, they have no answer to the fact that ANY perfect market—the God they worship— will eventually succumb to the collapse of one of its supposed major pillars, perfect competition. It is in fact competition—the serpent that eats itself by the tail—that brings about monopoly, that is, the end of real competition, not to mention the rise of huge megacorporations at the root of oligarchic capitalism and de facto corporatism.
Consider, for example, that in the 1890s the US boasted thousands of car companies. Hard to believe? Says none other than the Wikipedia, hardly a communist venue:
1900 different companies were formed, producing over 3,000 makes of American automobiles . World War I (1917–1918) and the Starting with Duryea in 1895, at least. World War I (1917–1918) and the Great Depression in the United States (1929–1939) combined to drastically reduce the number of both major and minor producers. During World War II, all the auto companies switched to making military equipment and weapons. However, by the end of the next decade the remaining smaller producers disappeared or merged into amalgamated corporations. The industry was dominated by three large companies: General Motors Ford , and Chrysler , all based in Metro Detroit . Those "Big Three" continued to prosper, and the U.S. produced three quarters of all automobiles in the world by 1950 (8.0 million out of 10.6 million). ( Automotive industry in the United States, Wikipedia
By the 1950s the list had been cut to less than 10, with the "Big Three" —Ford, Chrysler and GM—dictating terms to much of the industry. What happened? Competition—along with social, economic, technological and political change no one can fully control or predict— had killed most of the companies alive in 1900 in the normal process of commercial war. Indeed, price wars, bankruptcies, mergers and phaseouts took their toll, not to mention the almost infinite accidents of fate befallng any living entity: proximity to markets, fashion twists, access to corrupt politicians, easier access to financing, access to cheaper and/or superior labor pools, natural advantages (raw materials), and superior designs and/or superior advertising. For any or many of these reasons, the industry had seen a dramatic attrition, from a vigorous, competitve market with numerous firms to a handful. Libertarians simply refuse to look at such facts.
As for the idea that there is such a thing as a superior, benign capitalism where the government plays no role or is actually a friend of the capitalist, that's precisely what the capitalists had from the 1890s on in most parts of the Western world, and that's what they still have, albeit in its most powerful and malignant form. So "that" model has already been tried and found wanting. —P. Greanville


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-27--What is Antifa? (Debunking Myths About Antifa)

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Debunking the 3 Biggest Myths About Antifa by Spencer Sunshine .
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