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The authors
of World War II were enemies of all human liberty and haters of democratic
government. Their goal was to enslave Westerners through police and military
thuggery. Also, to kill the Jews—all of them. This was not a coincidence. Few can
really perceive it, because our academic system—and hence our
schooling—portray the Holocaust as an aberration born of ‘irrational’ hatred.
Thus, Holocaust scholar Terence de Pres dares to write that “the destruction
of the European Jews had no rational motive whatsoever... This was genocide
for the sake of genocide.”[1] I disagree.
Reactionary power elites mobilized vast resources to kill the Jews because the Jews are important to Western political freedoms. The
long arc of our history stands in evidence. Rolling
that history backwards, consider that the Nazi conquest was the largest, most
violent attack against the modern political grammar of the West, which
includes universal citizenship and suffrage, constitutions, parliaments,
human rights and freedoms for all, separation of Church and State, etc. This
grammar is recent, established in the pan-Western revolutions of 1848, when,
astonishingly, simultaneous uprisings exploded on the streets of almost every
European country, and in the colonies (Part 2). Why did
1848 happen? Largely because 1789 happened. The French
Revolution of 1789 was a profound and extended shock to the Western
aristocrat, a former god now trembling in his breeches as Napoleonic peasant
armies surged out of revolutionary France and conquered everything, undoing
the feudal privileges—based on thuggery—to which he felt so entitled. When
Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815 the relieved Western aristocrats
twisted the screws on the lower classes and tried to turn back the clock.
They were sitting on a powder keg that blew in 1848, when, inspired by the
memory of the French Revolution and its interrupted world-changing goals, the
peoples of the West rose up and forced the power elites to accept a new order
of universal liberal rights and freedoms. (Such humiliation breeds hatred...) Now, whence
the French Revolution? It comes from the European Enlightenment, the
intellectual and ethical movement that from the 17th c. rapidly transformed
many middle and upper class minds, preparing them,
in alliance with the always suffering lower classes, to sweep away the feudal
world. Most educated Westerners understand this. But few
understand this: The Enlightenment was a gift from the
Jewish people (a gift Napoleon repaid by liberating every ghetto in his
path). How so? For the
Enlightenment to happen, the ship of Western scholarship (i.e. the community
of medieval Catholic priests) first had to be steered away from the
superstitious mysticism of Plato (inherited via Augustine) toward the
scientific reasoning of Aristotle. The helmsman doing the steering was the
13th c. Dominican friar Thomas Aquinas, author of the earth-shaking Summa Theologia.
How did he get so smart? By reading a Spanish rabbi: Moses Maimonides. As one
historian explains: “Thomas [Aquinas] exhibits no qualms about borrowing the ideas
of Maimonides in prodigious quantities.”[1a] Maimonides
was astronomer, mathematician, famous medical doctor, and perhaps the
greatest anti-Platonist, pro-Aristotelian philosopher of his generation
(which immediately precedes Aquinas). This consummate genius was also the
foremost Talmudist of his time (arguably of all time), and hence the greatest authority on the Mosaic Law—the
613 commandments of the Law of Moses, contained in the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
Deuteronomy), the legal and political constitution of the Jewish people. “Thomas [Aquinas]... approached the Mosaic Law under the
influence of... The Guide of the
Perplexed of Moses Maimonides. In part three of the Guide, Maimonides seems to argue for the inherent reasonableness
of the precepts of the Torah, attempting to grasp the rational intention
behind the Sinai legislation...”[2] Applying
the Aristotelian rationalism learned from Maimonides, and many of the rabbi’s
specific arguments, the learned friar came to what was, for a Christian, a
startling conclusion: “...that the polity of the Old Testament is in fact the answer
to the question concerning the best regime. Despite Christianity’s view of
the Mosaic law as abrogated, Thomas [Aquinas] attempts to salvage the
political wisdom of the Old Testament by arguing that the Mosaic regime can
still serve as a guide for Christian political thinkers.[3] A radical idea. The law
of the liberated slaves—of those who shook the yoke of Pharaoh (Exodus) to establish an equal and free
society, but were re-enslaved by Christian popes and princes—was the key to
building a just and compassionate Christian
society. As Aquinas became the giant
influence on churchmen, his hero Aristotle gained an authority almost equal
to the Christian Bible, and Europe was firmly nudged in its steady crawl
toward science. But Renaissance thinkers would have to launch a concerted
attack against Aristotle, by then an unyielding dogma that stifled further
progress. The torch that shone the way from the Renaissance into the
Enlightenment was lit by another Iberian Jew: Baruch Spinoza. Thoroughly
modern, Spinoza argued against that prevailing “despotic statecraft,” in
which “the supreme and essential mystery [is] to hoodwink the subjects...
with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight as bravely for
slavery as for safety, and count it not shame but highest honor to risk their
blood and their lives for the vainglory of a tyrant.” He passionately
advocated “a free state,” where “deeds only could be made the grounds of
criminal charges, and words were always allowed to pass free.”[4] He prophesied the creation of a republican government based
on universal suffrage to protect the basic rights of the empowered citizen. Political
freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of religion: the
modern Western political grammar was born in Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, a giant influence on
Enlightenment thinkers. Christian
students of Spinoza have often sought to deny him his Jewishness. But though
he was excommunicated by the Amsterdam synagogues for his ‘atheistic’ view of
God, his social and intellectual upbringing were Jewish. In fact, “Spinoza... was greatly influenced by the Maimonidean account
of the imaginative character and political
utility of the prophetic writings in the Bible.”[5]
(my emphasis) This means
that Europe crawled forward towards Enlightenment thanks to a second infusion of Maimonidean thought,
this time via Spinoza. In terms of humanitarian
impact, therefore, Moses Maimonides is probably unrivaled in the entire
history of the West, unless we compare him, as Jewish rabbis often do, with
the original Moses, presumed author of the Torah. The
importance of Spinoza, and his role as a vessel for Maimonidean thought, was
not lost on his contemporary intellectual rivals. Take the German thinker
Gottfried Leibnitz: “Leibnitz in his time
asserted that the foundation of Spinoza’s system can be traced to... [Moses]
Maimonides’ Guide, a book which
[Spinoza] diligently studied.”[5a] Leibnitz,
everybody agrees, “was not a democrat.”[6] He
wished to preserve the feudal aristocracy—which in all of Western Europe was of Germanic
origin [7]—and
re-center it firmly around the pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, “ ‘the born
defender of Christians against infidels,’ ” as Leibnitz
called him.[8]
Since the most persecuted infidels in Europe were the Jews, we may ask:
What did Gottfried Leibnitz, German baron of the Germanic Holy Roman Empire,
think of the Jew Spinoza? “...in the years immediately following [Spinoza’s] death, an
incubation period of modernity, Spinoza’s influence was widely felt. His
ideas, Leibnitz said in 1704, were ‘stealing gradually into the minds of men
of high station who rule the rest and on whom affairs depend, and, slithering
into fashionable books, are inclining everything towards the universal revolution
with which Europe is threatened.’ ”[9] That
“universal revolution” began just 85 years after Leibnitz nervously—and
prophetically—wrung his hands. Leibnitz
was hardly the first reactionary Western aristocrat to worry in this manner. Between
the time of Maimonides and the time of Spinoza, the Church and the European
princes—everywhere of Germanic origin [7]—sought to keep Christians obedient slaves by vaccinating them
against Jewish ideas with horror stories about the ‘God killers,’ a tradition
continued into the Germanic or ‘Gothic’ Middle Ages. Psychological warfare is old. But Jewish
ideas of political freedom influenced Christians anyway. Between the time of
Maimonides and the time of Spinoza, Church diatribes blamed the Jews for
every European movement of liberation: the early dissident movements of
Cathars and Albigensians, the proto-Protestantism
of Jan Hus, the Protestant Reformation, and the Enlightenment. Together with
the Germanic princes all over Europe, the Church created the Inquisition to combat Jewish ideas. Undoubtedly hardest on Jews, the Inquisition
affected everybody, for it turned Europe into a Police State.[9a] The Church
would later also blame the Jews for the French Revolution, the revolutions of
1848, and the accelerated spread of political freedoms in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. The Church was right! Jewish ideas did inspire the Christian movements of European liberation. This was not a coincidence: attacks
against Jews are the traditional means employed
by Western power elites to oppress everybody.
(The pattern goes back to antiquity, when the totalitarian Roman Empire
exterminated the Mediterranean Jews to forestall a revolution.[10]) Starting in
the 19th c., the color of Church anti-Jewish propaganda acquired a
distinctively modern hue. In 1825,
the Italian Father Ferdinand Jabalot claimed, in a
widely distributed booklet, that ‘the Jews’ were a vast conspiracy
controlling the economic power and secretly become a After the
shock of 1848 the Church became more explicit: the Jews, it accused, were
undermining the moral order of ‘Christian Civilization’ by injecting liberal ideas such as freedom of the
press and democratic government into European thought.
The Jews had authored the French Revolution, and to achieve further
‘nefarious’ ends they were taking control of the money and of the law itself,
of governments even, becoming the ‘oppressors’ of Christians.[12] By the turn of the 20th c. this was
rolled into The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion, a Tsarist forgery that would soon become the centerpiece of Nazi
propaganda in the Third Reich. This ‘Third Reich’ in its very name claimed successor
status to the Prussian Hohenzollern Empire, founder of unified ‘Germany’
(Second Reich), and to the Germanic Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages
(First Reich). Allied with other eugenicist—which is to say German supremacist (Part
5)—allies,
industrialist Henry Ford distributed the barely mutated Church propaganda of The Protocols within Hitler’s Germany
and throughout the world.[13] The
propaganda worked, and turned millions against the Jews. Recruited
urgently thus against the bearers of the political tradition—long-neglected
within the Christian Bible—which had finally begun to liberate them,
Westerners supported the fascists who destroyed their hard-won freedoms in
order to ‘protect themselves’ from the ‘Jewish peril.’ We have
come full circle. The
reactionary power elites that plunged us into WWII in order to abolish the
hated Enlightenment and re-enslave Westerners always understood that Jewish thought had freed their former
slaves. The Holocaust was not a coincidence. It was revenge. And it was
practical politics. For if the Jews remain, the people will rise again. Western
political history has not ended. The authors of WWII were proximately the German Nazis and their
European allies but ultimately the
eugenicist and self-consciously ‘Anglo-Saxon’ (i.e. Germanic) power elites in
the US and Great Britain (Part
5). These elites were never deposed, and they established a
postwar psychological (or political) warfare regime with which to continue
the fight against the Enlightenment (Part 1).
Their mass media thus represents the Israeli Jews as oppressors, and their
foreign policy routinely undermines the security of the Jewish State (Part
8). It is not a coincidence.
_____________________________________________________ Related Readings The Horizontal Society, by José Faur The Origins of the Messianic Ideal, by Robert Wolfe THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEST, by Francisco Gil-White The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion THE MODERN ‘PROTOCOLS OF ZION’ _____________________________________________________ Footnotes and Further Reading [1] Prologue
to: Steiner, J.-F. (1994 [1966]). Treblinka. New York: Meridian.(p.x) [1a] Kries, D. (1990). Thomas Aquinas and the Politics of Moses. The Review of Politics, 52(1), 84-104. (p.89) [2] ibid. [3] ibid.
(p.84) [4] The full excerpt
reads like this: (18) But if, in despotic
statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects,
and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of
religion, so that men may fight as bravely for slavery as for safety, and
count it not shame but highest honour to risk their
blood and their lives for the vainglory of a tyrant; yet in a free state no
more mischievous expedient could be planned or attempted. (19) Wholly
repugnant to the general freedom are such devices as enthralling men's minds
with prejudices, forcing their judgment, or employing any of the weapons of
quasi-religious sedition; indeed, such seditions only spring up, when law
enters the domain of speculative thought, and opinions are put on trial and
condemned on the same footing as crimes, while those who defend and follow
them are sacrificed, not to public safety, but to their opponents' hatred and
cruelty. (20) If deeds only could be made the grounds of criminal charges,
and words were always allowed to pass free, such seditions would be divested
of every semblance of justification, and would be separated from mere
controversies by a hard and fast line. SOURCE: A Theological and Political Treatise, by Baruch Spinoza (Chapter
1) [5] Nadler, S. (2009). The Jewish Spinoza.
Journal of the History of Ideas, 70(3), 491-510. (p.498) [5a] Waxman, M. (1929). Baruch Spinoza's Relation to Jewish
Philosophical Thought and to Judaism. The
Jewish Quarterly Review, 19(4), 411-430. (p.411) [6] Riley,
P. (1994). "New" Political Writings of Leibniz. Journal of the History of Ideas,
55(1), 147-158. (p.149) “After the ‘Western’ Roman Empire came to a
close towards the end of the 5th c., it was German military
aristocrats who became overlords of the non-Roman, non-German populations
formerly under the Roman boot. The new German lords were Visigoths in Spain;
Ostrogoths and Lombards in northern Italy; Franks
in what is now France, most of Germany, and the Low Countries; Anglo-Saxons
and then also Normans in Britain. The Scandinavians in the north, never ruled
by Romans, were also German. When Charlemagne, German-speaking conqueror of
most of Europe, was crowned ‘Holy Roman Emperor’ by Pope Leo III in the year
800, the Empire was reborn as a Germanic
affair, and the European nobility was founded on the basis of land grants to
Charlemagne’s Germanic military allies all over Europe. In the second half of the 19th c., this proud memory of
Germanic ancestry became the solidary glue for Western power elites finding
common cause against the (to them) horrifying imposition of democratic civil
liberties and human rights in the modern world.” [8] Yapp, M. E. (1992). Europe in the Turkish Mirror. Past and Present, 137(The Cultural and Political Construction of Europe - November), 134-155. [9]
Carroll, J. (2001). Constantine's
Sword: The Church and the Jews. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (p.412) [9a] As one historian explains, for the case of Spain: “...racial legislation was introduced to ‘purify’
the upper regions of society. Statutes of limpieza de sangre [‘purity of blood’] were
passed banning descendants of Moors and Jews (especially the latter) from
universities and religious orders. The Inquisition effectively controlled
their enforcement and progressively extended their scope... [T]he fact that
virtually everyone of any importance was vulnerable increased its
power.”—Johnson (1976:306) What established itself in Spain,
under Church administration, was the following combination: 1) an ideology
that identified Jews not as a religious movement but as a filthy race whose
blood was to be eradicated; 2) the accusation that behind any undesirable
political or religious movement was the hand of Judaism; 3) a totalitarian
State that made of everyone a suspect and used that climate of terror to
impose uniformity and control; and 4) a campaign to find clandestine ‘Jews,’
especially in the upper classes, alleging by implication that the clandestine
‘Jews’ somehow controlled the levers of power. The great Spanish pedagogue Juan Luis Vives wrote that “ ‘We live in
such difficult times that it is dangerous to speak or remain silent.’ ” One
of his pen pals, Rodrigo Manrique, wrote: “ ‘Our
country is a land of pride and envy and, one may add, of barbarism; one
cannot there produce any culture without being suspected of heresy, error,
and Judaism’ ” (Johnson 1976:307). Sound familiar? SOURCE: Johnson, P. (1976). A History of Christianity.
Atheneum (USA): Simon & Schuster. [10] A fully documented
account of how the revolutionary content of Jewish law threatened the
oppressive ancient Romans may be found here: [11]
Historian David Ketzer explains that “[Jabalot’s] booklet
resurrected many of the traditional Catholic accusations against the Jews:
Jews were guilty of deicide, and were crazed with lust for lucre and the
desire to bring about the ruin of Christians. So intense was their hatred of
Christianity that no evil was too great for them: ‘They wash their hands in
Christian blood, set fire to churches, trample the consecrated Host... kidnap
children and drain them of their blood, violate virgins,’ and so on.” These
were ‘traditional’ accusations, leveled against the Jews throughout the
Middle Ages (resulting in many mass killings of Jews). But the booklet also
contained accusations with a more political
and therefore ‘modern’ flavor. While Jews, in the Christian imagination,
continued to be the same thieves, con-men, murderers, and vampires of yore,
always searching for the opportunity to deceive and harm Christians because
their sacred books supposedly demanded precisely this, it was now added that
they were a vast political and economic conspiracy. “ ‘In many parts of our land the Jews
have become the richest property owners. In some cities money cannot be had,
except through them, and so great has the number of mortgages they hold over
Christians become, that it is only barely that the Christians have not yet
become their vassals.’ ” Thus, “Along with the traditional Catholic charges, Jabalot’s text provides some of the germs of what would
become the major focus of later nineteenth-century Catholic characterizations
of the Jews. Wherever they live, wrote the Dominican, the Jews ‘form a state
within a state.’ Unless Christians act quickly, the Jews ‘will finally
succeed in reducing the Christians to be their slaves. Woe to us if we close
our eyes! The Jews’ domination will be hard, inflexible, tyrannical...’ ” Then as
now the evidence hardly mattered. As Kertzer points
out: “The year was 1825. Jews had not yet been given equal
rights in any part of Italy, nor in most of the rest of Europe.” SOURCE: Kertzer, D. I.
(2001). The Popes against the Jews: The Vatican's role in the rise of
modern anti-semitism. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf. (pp.64-65) [12] Pope Pius IX, better known to many as
Pío Nono, was temporarily
ousted from the Vatican in the revolutions of 1848, and he blamed the Jews for his troubles. In 1864 the
pope published his Syllabus of Errors
to express eighty propositions denouncing everything modern. “In the eightieth proposition, a cover-all
denunciation, he declared it a grave error to assert that the ‘Roman Pontiff
can and should reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern
civilization.’ ”—Cornwell (1999:11) Behind
every objectionable thought, movement, or group—and for Pius IX these were liberal thoughts, movements, and
groups—were always the Jews: the “synagogue of Satan” (Kertzer
2001:126-28). Pius IX
would launch a concerted antisemitic propaganda campaign that would be
continued by his successors. “The most influential Catholic periodical anywhere in
the world—founded at the request of Pope Pius IX and supervised by the popes
and their secretaries of state—was the Jesuit biweekly, Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization]. The Jesuit journal kicked off
its long campaign against the Jews in December 1880 with a series of
thirty-six fiercely anti-Semitic articles which were published over the
following forty months. ...Here we see one of the most common themes of
Catholic writings on the Jews in the late nineteenth century. The argument
goes something like this: We told you to keep the Jews in the ghettoes, to
prevent them from coming into contact with Christians, and yet you ignored our
warnings and gave them equal rights. Now look what’s happened! Thanks to the
Jews, religion is everywhere threatened and social disorder spreads. Our only
hope of restoring social harmony and economic security is to bring back the
special laws that kept them in their place. ...As others were coming to terms with the changes
that, since the French Revolution, were transforming European society, the
Vatican was lashing out ever more indignantly against them. Pius IX had
pioneered this path in the 1860s with is Syllabus of Errors, condemning
modern ideas. When the elderly pontiff, having served as pope for thirty-two
years—longer than any of his predecessors—died in 1878 his successor, Leo
XIII, continued to portray himself as a ‘prisoner of the Vatican.’ But something
happened under Leo XIII—who himself served for a quarter-century—that would
transform Church views of the Jews in a dramatic and deadly way.
Increasingly, it was the Jews who were portrayed by the Vatican as the
masterminds of the conspiracy aimed at the Church’s destruction. …Civiltà Cattolica’s anti-Jewish campaign,
coming when it did, proved crucial to the rise of modern anti-Semitism.
...[A] few themes were endlessly repeated... As history has shown, the Jesuit
[author of the articles] wrote, ‘if this foreign Jewish race is left too
free, it immediately becomes the persecutor, oppressor, tyrant, thief, and
devastator of the countries where it lives’... Also,
…‘The Jews—eternal insolent children, obstinate,
dirty, thieves, liars, ignoramuses, pests, and the scourge of those near and
far—...immediately abused [their newfound freedom] to interfere with that of
others. They managed to lay their hands on... all public wealth... and
virtually alone they took control not only of all the money... but of the law
itself in those countries where they have been allowed to hold public
offices.’ ”—Kertzer (2001:135-37) Starting
in 1890, the Church’s campaign through Civiltà Cattolica became even more intense when Father Raffaele Ballerini wielded the pen. “The Jews, he wrote, ...had
rejected and murdered the Messiah, and believed that they were themselves
divinely ordained to rule the world. ‘The whole Jewish race... is conspiring
to achieve this reign over all the world’s peoples.” Ballerini
everywhere saw Jewish monopolies and usury that oppressed Christians, and
especially Catholics (Kertzer 2001:143) In the
words of another historian: “In 1890 Civiltà Cattolica
again turned its attention to the Jews in a series of articles republished in
pamphlet form as Della questione ebraica in Europa
(Rome 1891), aimed at exposing the activity of the Jews in the formation of
the modern liberal nation-state. The author charged that ‘by their cunning,’
the Jews instigated the French Revolution in order to gain civic equality,
and thence they insinuated themselves into key positions in most state
economies with the aim of controlling them and establishing their ‘virulent
campaigns against Christianity.’ The Jews were ‘the race that nauseates’...
The pamphlet concluded by calling for the abolition of ‘civic equality’ and
for segregation of Jews from the rest of the population.”—Cornwell (1999:28) SOURCES:
Kertzer, D. I. (2001). The Popes
against the Jews: The Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti-semitism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Cornwell, J. (1999). Hitler's pope: The secret history of Pius XII. New York: Viking. [13] Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Russian Tsar’s secret police, the Okhrana, produced a hoax that accused ‘the Jews’ of controlling all of the governments of Europe, and the United States, in addition to leading all the revolutionary movements, plus the capitalist enterprises. The document was called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and it pretended to be the minutes of a secret meeting conducted by a circle of super-powerful Jews who in secret controlled everything. These supposed Jewish elders absurdly represented themselves as evil in the document, and explained to each other how they were going to destroy ‘gentile [read: Christian] civilization.’ They were just up to no good. In producing this hoax, the Tsar’s people were trying to prevent the revolution that was brewing by distracting the oppressed Russian masses with the danger that this especially oppressed and destitute minority, ‘the Jews,’ supposedly posed for everybody. The revolution was not averted, but the hoax of The Protocols had for consequence a series of pogroms, which is to say episodes of vandalizing and sacking of Jewish communities in the Russian Empire, including widespread massacres that cost tens of thousands of Jewish lives. The Protocols subsequently became a bestseller all over Europe and the United States, quite despite the fact that in 1921 Phillip Graves from the Times of London published a front-page demonstration that it was a cut-and-paste job from three works of fiction, but especially from Maurice Joly’s Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a political analysis of Napoleon III’s repressive regime that had absolutely nothing to do with Jews, one way or another. In order to show this, Graves put excerpts from Joly’s Dialogues in Hell and from The Protocols side by side so that readers of the Times could see that they were practically identical. To no avail. The Protocols continued to sell madly all over the Western world thanks to the sponsorship of wealthy antisemites such as Henry Ford and many others. The anti-Jewish hysteria continued to grow, and when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany he made The Protocols required reading in German schools. In this way, a large multitude of ordinary Westerners was made to believe that they were in mortal danger from ‘the Jews’: the so-called ‘Jewish Peril.’ This
fearful hysteria prepared the ground for extermination. Read more: Cohn,
N. (1981). Warrant for genocide: The myth of the Jewish world-conspiracy
and the Protocols of the elders of Zion. Chico, CA: Scholar's Press. Ben-Itto, H. (2005). The Lie that Wouldn’t Die: The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion. London: Vallentine
Mitchell. “THE
MODERN ‘PROTOCOLS OF ZION’: How the mass media now promotes the same lies
that caused the death of more than 5 million Jews in WWII”; Historical and
Investigative Research; 25 Aug 2005; by Francisco Gil-White |
█ 0. Introduction The
present series of articles amounts to a primer. It contains strategic
historical knowledge minimally sufficient to abandon the ‘Establishment
model’ of geopolitical processes and to begin constructing an alternative
model that will explain and
predict the world of international relations. The alternative model
agrees with the Establishment model that the Middle East ‘Peace Process’
is important, but disagrees about almost everything else. In the
alternative model, the US-Iran nuclear deal makes perfect sense. It
may or may not agree with you, but it will no longer surprise you. █ 1. Psychological
warfare, communication research, and the media PSYOPs originally refers to psychological warfare operations conducted by the
military against the enemy. But PSYOPs have domestic applications as
well. We review here historian Christopher Simpson’s documentation of how
social science was corrupted in the United States so that power elites could
bend ‘democracy’ to their will using psychological warfare. █ 2. Political grammar
: ¿How does psychological warfare work? Psychological
warfare is governed by grammatical rules. Power elites with a good
command of such rules can deploy psychological warfare to manipulate citizens
into doing things they otherwise wouldn’t—even into destroying their own
liberties. We here explain the basic operation of Western political
grammar, created in 1848, and how it may be manipulated. █ 3. Principal-Agent Theory
(PAT), the citizen, and the State Principal-agent theory (PAT) examines how
‘principals’ can manipulate ‘agents’ to do their bidding. It has been applied
to political behavior but, perhaps not too surprisingly, in such a manner
that it will not challenge the perception that Western States are functioning
democracies whose governments are duly responsive to the citizenries. Here we
explore an alternative picture that takes into account
what power elites can do through psychological (or political) warfare. █ 4. Is US geopolitics meant to
strengthen or weaken democracy? The study
of geopolitics is meant to account for the foreign policy behaviors of
the various States. However, geopolitical scholars have certain taboos about
which kinds of hypotheses may or may not be entertained. In particular, the
prevailing political grammar in the Western media and academic system appears
to rigorously forbid that anybody question the purity of intention of
those making foreign policy decisions in Western states. Why? █ 5. The goals of the US power
elite in historical perspective The US
power elite’s most important players were responsible for setting up the
US psychological warfare regime after World War II (Part 1). These same
players had a major hand in precipitating the onset of World War II. This
information is of some importance in evaluating the probable aims of US
power-elite geopolitics today. But it is next to impossible to pursue this
analysis because the US power elite role in causing World War II has been
almost completely expunged from historical education.. █ 6. US postwar
policy toward Nazi war criminals Few people are aware that the US government recruited Nazis after
WWII. And most of the aware believe this was just a handful of Nazi
scientists employed in rocket development (Operation Paperclip). In fact, the
US government shielded from justice a giant multitude of Nazis—including many
war criminals who had bathed themselves in innocent blood—and used them to
create the postwar US intelligence infrastructure. This affected both
domestic and foreign policy. The self-imposed silence of the Western media
on this topic is diagnostic of the psychological warfare regime that
dominates. █ 7. The aims of the
US power elite in WWII Certain important events surrounding the causes and aftermath of World
War II may be recruited to defend a model of the US power elite as
pro-Nazi. This model naturally needs to provide satisfactory special
reasons for important behaviors of the same power elite that appear anti-Nazi.
But the same applies to the Establishment model: it must provide satisfactory
special reasons to explain why, if the US power elite has been anti-Nazi, it
involved itself so intensely with sponsorship and then recruitment of Nazis.
We examine these issues here. █ 8. US foreign
policy in the Arab-Israeli conflict Given US power elite’s sponsorship of the eugenics movement, which
became German Nazism, and the same US power elite’s creation of the
postwar psychological warfare regime, it is reasonable to ask whether US
postwar foreign policy has been consistent with the aims of the
eugenicists and the German Nazis, namely, to destroy democracy and to kill
Jews. That is the question we ask here. █
9. Why do enemies of democracy attack the Jews? Shoa
(‘the Holocaust’) was a horrific slaughter and a Crime Against
Humanity, but it was not an historical aberration. As Western
historical processes go, the mass-killing of Jews may be the most recurrent
and stable. Those who killed the Jews in World War II were enemies of human
liberty. This, too, is not new. In the history of the West, whenever the Jews
are under attack, everybody’s liberties are in danger. What explains this?
One simple fact: for 2500 years, Jewish thought has been the engine of
Western political liberation, and Western enemies of liberty have always
understood this. |
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