The first thing that the likes of the ignorant Senator Ted Cruz should understand is that Iran is Persian not Arab, and represents an independent civilization going back to the times of ancient Greece.
The first, already alluded to in the article, is that a major part of the imperialist strategy is to force the government of Iran into cracking down hard internally to isolate and eliminate the various Fifth Columns who are used by Israel to set off bombs, assassinate targets and carry out drone attacks. This is exactly what forced the Bolsheviks, their revolution surrounded by hostile forces, to rely increasingly on Cheka, NKVD security measures to put down foreign inspired, financed and armed guerrilla and terrorist attacks. The current regime in Ukraine is a graphic example of the foreign backed terrorists who forced Stalin, for example, into ever more ruthless tactics of suppression.
It is clear that the aim is to drive the Iranian government to adopt policies which will make 'regime change' popular among liberals, if not in Iran then around the world, thus muting opposition to imperialist aggression.
The second point I feel that we need to emphasise is that the Israeli government, which has a firm grip over domestic society, is literally a Fascist regime. Netanyahu and Jabotinsky were fascists and proud to be so. They were sponsored by Mussolini and co-operated, to the extent of military alliance, with the Nazis. They act like Nazis walk like Nazis and smell like Nazis. And eighty years after the defeat of Hitler, these Nazis are openly supported by the descendants of all those European and north American forces which, after 1945, became the main support of imperialism against the threat of the working class movements which, almost alone, had resisted Nazi rule and sought to replace it with a socialist society.
In Hungary Horthy's children rule, just as in Rumania the lineal descendants of the Iron Guard, tarted up with the empty drivelling of Euro-liberalism, preserve the Empire's influence and look eastwards for loot. The case of the Baltic states and Finland is notorious- they celebrate the parts they played in the siege of Leningrad and the Holocaust. Further westwards the theme is the same: in Italy Mussolini's friends rule again, as in France the Vichy fans do, in Germany the business suit may be the fashion now and uniforms discarded but the Fuhrer's Fan Club dominates not only government but its opposition. Everywhere else the sordid past is revived: Sweden's 'neutrality' which made it the Third Reich's armaments supplier, a landbridge to the Finland front and a rest area for the Wehrmacht has been replaced by an active part in the war to preserve imperialism. And the same is true of the rest of the EU, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal are all eagerly dancing in the ranks of the projected Barbarossa Mark II.
As to the UK Starmer is a Chamberlain without the dignity or the family history: Chamberlain was the last in a line of dedicated racist imperialists, whereas the US asset Starmer is a serial traitor now hard at work demolishing his native land- an anglophone Zelensky-in order to show his loyalty to an Empire dominated by Supremacists serving a nihilist oligarchy of cannibals, intent on preventing its prey from choosing life over submission.
Finally might I recommend Huabinoliver@substack's explanation of China's position in the current crisis?
I have thought about your first point that Iran's lax security is likely to get much stronger by necessity. The wonder is why it has not become so up to now in the face of many attacks by the West. I think that Iranians are remember the Shah's repressive state security, the SAVAK, and up to now have rejected replicating it. No longer.
There are so many threads here that it's easy to get sidetracked into a muddled narrative. You have done a masterful job of staying focused and weaving the threads of evidence into a cohesive whole. I applaud and bow in respect.
FYI - I am Jewish and was supportive of the "Israel Project" though the 70's. Movies like "Exodus" (1960) had a strong influence on the way I viewed it. I saw Israel as a "plucky underdog" facing unreasonable\hostile neighbors. I cheered Israeli success in the 6 Day War and later played the AH wargame "The Arab-Israeli Wars (subtitled "Tank Battles in the Mideast 1956–73) when it came out in 1977.
I believed in the idea of "peace through strength" and that a lasting peace could be reached between people of goodwill and tolerance.
Needless to say, my views have changed over time. Judaism is a RELIGION not a "country" or ethnicity. Israel is a product of Western guilt, antisemitism, and geopolitical calculations. It is the last "Crusader Kingdom".
Like the other Crusader Kingdoms, it to is doomed to failure.
I am not Jewish, but like you I grew up with the Israeli-is-wonderful myth, a belief that I learned from the media. A chance encounter in 1969 when I was visiting my in-laws in Pasadena, CA, changed all that. I met a very distinguished looking orange-seller and decided to talk to him. He was a Palestinian refugee and had been a doctor in Palestine. When I said, "Oh, you're from Israel?" he spat. Then he proceeded to tell me the real story of the Nakba that he had experienced.
I think even the western guilt myth is overblown as a reason, it adds a moral dimension i dont think exists.
There was no western guilt towards russians and other slavic people who were also detained and killed enmasse. Especially given russias pivotal role in ending WW2 by resisting nazi attacks.
Ditto communists, gays and trade unionists, any group not viewed favourably by the fascist german government during ww2. No western guilt there.
There seems 2 b a deliberate longstanding effort 2 obscure the suffering of the above groups during german fascist period.
Communists and trade unionists were not celebrated by the Western bourgeoisie, and gays were treated horribly at the time in the West. There were also the Roma, that were outcasts across all of Europe. The Jews had their diaspora in the UK and the US to push their cause. With the return of the Cold War after WW2, the bourgeoisie certainly did not wish to celebrate the 27 million Soviet citizens who died in the defeat of Nazism.
"Guilt" is just another device with which to sway Western publics toward policies that the ruling class support. The underlying reasons are political-economic. Think of all the "humanitarian interventions" and the complete lack of any such interventions when it comes to the Palestinians.
Great analysis and summary. Believe that for all the previous Iranian bluster about an overwhelming response that destroys everything, it was a set up. They were always going to go for the long game. Israel's society is fractured and will crack long before Iran's. Even if the US intervenes, they will play the long, slow-bleed, game. They don't have to blow up every GI in the Middle East. Take some punches and then kill a hand-full. Don't get sucked in. Both Israel and the US are internally weak and divided and will collapse or retreat due to internal pressure. If you liked Vietnam, you're gonna love Iran. Also believe that the truly revolutionary Iranians have always seen the US, not Israel, as their primary enemy. And they're saving some goodies for us.
Thank you Mr Boyd for this excellent piece. Subscribed and sharing. looking forward to reading more of your work.
Many of my people follow the genocidal paths in the middle east with an ancestral identity. Our Nakhba has continued for over 500 years and we still survive. Long live Free Palestine and Long live Iran.
Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea. And hopefully the khazar Talmudic fascist sewer rats' departure on boats will encourage their comrades to do the same, leaving Palestine to the indigenous inhabitants.
Putin able to stand for reelection in 2030 and [Xi] not bothered with such liberal democratic trappings? Trappings indeed. Leadership elections, popularized by warrior bands 40,000 years ago have as much to do with democracy today as they did 40,000 years ago: nothing.
We elect monarchs who are indebted to international money lenders. Does that sound familiar?
USA will not let Israel fall, because it's too valuable as a military outpost. So there will be enough economic and military support to sustain a multi-decade long war of attrition. Revolt inside Israel can be suppressed same as in Ukraine. Namely, everyone, including liberals and ultra-orthodox currently exempt from military service, gets drafted and beaten to death behind closed doors of recruitment centers if they refuse to obey orders. So no problem with manpower.
Unless Trump's mind is really gone, his natural instinct is that of a coward, so my guess is that he will weasel his way out of a full scale war with Iran. In particular, try to avoid sunk aircraft carriers, shot down pilots of valuable B2 aircraft, etc. Trump also knows that closing Strait of Hormuz will be a disaster for the economy, so going too hard on Iran is dangerous for that reason. If USA empties arsenals of missiles and aircraft to supply Israel, neo-cons will face resistance from uniformed military, which is resistance they can't overcome. My guess is USA will somehow try to spin a truce with Iran as a victory. Financial markets (I'm talking about bond, currency, oil, gold markets not the stock market casino) seem to be calm, thus in agreement with me that USA not likely to start a major war.
Of course, if Trump's mind really gone, all bets are off. Government insiders often want war because war is very beneficial to them in terms of money, power, social prestige, excitement. Insiders get the upside of war, ordinary people get the downside. And once insiders taste the benefits of war, they refuse to give those benefits up, and so will do anything to continue war. What is true already in Ukraine and Israel could also be true in USA soon.
The war with Ukraine led me to pay attention to global politics and the global empire. Demonstrating against the Vietnam war at Berkley in the 1960's was a long time ago.
During the "pandemic" the corruption of medicine became apparent. The corruption in politics has been obvious for years but, for me, it took the Ukraine war and the genocide in Palestine to show the corruption in the US Rules Based Order.
Even with hours and hours on Moon of Alabama, and previously listening to, and reading Michael Hudson, it took his recent interview to understand how the US has manipulated the international financial system to enable changing the US to a financial economy at the expense of the Rest of the World, RoW. Trump has accelerated the US empire decline. I have not read "super imperialism" whose first edition was in 1974 that laid out the argument.
"Michael Hudson: The Collapse of America's Economic Empire"
Excellent compilation of what this war-making is really about. From my studies and life experience, I would offer some minor corrections.
First, "Iraq was doing the US Empire’s dirty work, the massive cost of which drove Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait (after being given the nod by the US) to gain new revenues." As I recall from the news at the time, Iraq confronted Kuwait because of its illegal 'horizontal drilling' that passed under the Iraqi border to tap oil deposits inside of Iraq proper. Finding no redress from the usual international agencies, and apparently given the 'green light' by the US Ambassador to Iraq, Saddam invaded. [I never understood why the Collective West was so favorable to a despotic, hereditary king put in power by the British]
Second, China has a democratic system quite unlike Western liberal democracy. It is a bottom-up system where the voting takes place at the most local level, then proceeds up level, level by level, all the way to the top where the Chinese President is elected by what looks like a committee, but is actually as representative, or more representative, than Western liberal democracy. Plus, the system is bribery proof and inexpensive.
Iraq was desperate to raise revenues to pay off its debts accumulated during the war with Iran, and Kuwait's horizontal drilling just exacerbated the situation. The other OPEC nations were also not willing to restrict output to raise prices to help Iraq.
I used the term "liberal democratic trappings" in the pejorative sense. China's processes for giving voice to the public will, and to make the state responsive to its concerns, offer greater democracy than any Western oligarch-controlled "democracy.
I agree that this article makes sense and Is important.
But there isn't much indication about the earlier British phase in the development of zionism.
The US is heavily influenced by Britain. And was during the 19th-20th centuries
The american members of the angloamericam elites, Pilgrim Society, were instructed to undereducate the american people so the wages could be lowered to Britains level.
And the US oligarchy followed those instructions to dumb down the US.
I apologise for often having mentioned these things before for those who have seen my commenting on the web.
But I insist that the facts below should not be forgotten:
Lord Palmerston committed to purge american (patriotic and, I take it, somewhat christian) freemasonry resulting in the establishment of Scottish Rite - an entirely different species.
According to Mathew Ehret the purge happened between 1826 and 1840
During that period the Skull and Bones at Yale was also established. It is assumed to have originated in Germany and had a hegelian outlook. According to Antony Sutton this hegelian method, in the 20th century, materialised in the form of support for both fascism and communism in order to provoke other countries to demand that a world government (led by the anglosaxons?) would emerge in order to stop the resulting permanent wars.
I havent seen much evidence about there being otherwise any german influence. Seems to me it would facilitate for the anglosaxons to attract german americans to anglosaxon freemasonry.
This hegelian idea wasnt unique to the nominally american Skull and Bones. It may be just as much associated with British power of balance strategy of pitting rivals against each other.
From other sources (Dillon: Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked) it became known around 1885 that Palmerston had secretely become the worlds leading freemason in 1837, the year before Victorias coronation.
To me that underlines who really was Britains most powerful individual from the beginning of the Victorian era.
Since the period after 1837 was full of novel British organised efforts to bring about colonisation of Palestine it is interesting that high freemasons on the continent for about a decade after 1837 continued to write letters to the former world leader of freemasonry - codename nubius, who was a nobleman from Rome.
According to Dillon and also according to the archive of Quatuor Coronati research Lodge, nubius, the predecessor of Palmerston, was murdered. According to Dillon in 1837
According to said Lodge in 1846.
But one freemason, codename:Piccolo Tigre, wrote in that year, in a cryptic letter in Italian addressed to nubius, something I interpret to mean 'if I dont get paid I wont write more letters'.
I assume therefore that it was a period when Palmerston organised this to hide his leadership while he was busy with organising zionism.
Palmerston wasnt involved in that before 1838 but during the 1840s to 1860.
And since Palmerston was not in the Cabinet during several of those years (from 1841-1846) his hidden role as the Grand Patriarch of freemasonry is important. This enabled him to send notices to any Lodge in the world and the brothers would be very attentive.
In 1843 Lord Palmerston helped bring about B'nai B'rit. the jewish branch of freemasonry.
In 1845 the book British Israelism was published.
However the British project for making jews colonise Palestine was already put forth in 1585 by Thomas Brightman and since Fitzgerald and Gould have claimed that the beginning of the British Empire may be dated to the time after the Dawson Wars in 1583, Brightmans piece looks well timed as part of a burgeoning imperial project.
Since the jews were expelled after 1290 nominally for around 400 years, Brightman's suggestion seems to me as part of that imperial project.
To omit this longstanding very British background for Zionism and only remembering Scofields role seems to me to be a little bit too convenient for those who hope to maintain an appearance of Britains role of just sitting on the fence, watching.
In those years Sir Francis Drake and others made statements in tune with coopting the jews and simultaneously giving a hint that the British themselves would like to, in a way, capture even the jewish identity. And in the 19th century 300 years later, this was also underlined by the myth of British Israelism.
In Gibraltar Messenger they add that there were two separate branches through which the Americans and the British had ancestry back to Israelites.
In that context the proposers seemingly contradict themselves but I think they actually want people to believe that the original Israelites were also gentiles.
Best article I've read so far on this issue. The problem the west has is that zionists have totally infiltrated western governments and financial institutions not to mention their intelligence agencies.
Having stupidly allowed this to happen, washing their hands of Israel does not seem like an option. Who knows what damage Isreal may cause western nations internally should the zionists feel 'let down' by the west? This is the real conundrum for Trump & co imo, what will does evil, crazy zionist lunatics do to us?
I hope Miriam Adelson spits out her organic coffee when the time comes and Trump says no more bibi. It has to happen. America first or lose the electorate.
Her and her husband have fully inculcated their children into being uber-Zionists, so even if she chokes on her coffee the children will carry on the "good work". Raised in Western US rich Jewish ghettos and regularly taken to Israel, they had very little contact outside rich Zionism throughout their formative years. Their father was disappointed that he served in the US Army and not the IDF, she was born in Tel Aviv and served in the IDF. A wannabe Israeli and an Israeli cosplaying as Americans while influencing US elections and foreign policy.
The Adelsons also had a huge influence in Israel, supporting the extremism of Netanyahu and others with their vast wealth, Miriam still owns the largest newspaper there, with a son owning an Israeli basketball team. They have done huge amounts of damage both in the US and in Israel.
Israel will only be dealt with when the US is weaker and the rest are stronger. It is too useful an attack dog for the capitalist ruling class to give it up. AIPAC is an influence organization and does have an impact, but only because its focus is aligned with US ruling class interests.
An excellent summary of a very complex story.
I would add two points.
The first, already alluded to in the article, is that a major part of the imperialist strategy is to force the government of Iran into cracking down hard internally to isolate and eliminate the various Fifth Columns who are used by Israel to set off bombs, assassinate targets and carry out drone attacks. This is exactly what forced the Bolsheviks, their revolution surrounded by hostile forces, to rely increasingly on Cheka, NKVD security measures to put down foreign inspired, financed and armed guerrilla and terrorist attacks. The current regime in Ukraine is a graphic example of the foreign backed terrorists who forced Stalin, for example, into ever more ruthless tactics of suppression.
It is clear that the aim is to drive the Iranian government to adopt policies which will make 'regime change' popular among liberals, if not in Iran then around the world, thus muting opposition to imperialist aggression.
The second point I feel that we need to emphasise is that the Israeli government, which has a firm grip over domestic society, is literally a Fascist regime. Netanyahu and Jabotinsky were fascists and proud to be so. They were sponsored by Mussolini and co-operated, to the extent of military alliance, with the Nazis. They act like Nazis walk like Nazis and smell like Nazis. And eighty years after the defeat of Hitler, these Nazis are openly supported by the descendants of all those European and north American forces which, after 1945, became the main support of imperialism against the threat of the working class movements which, almost alone, had resisted Nazi rule and sought to replace it with a socialist society.
In Hungary Horthy's children rule, just as in Rumania the lineal descendants of the Iron Guard, tarted up with the empty drivelling of Euro-liberalism, preserve the Empire's influence and look eastwards for loot. The case of the Baltic states and Finland is notorious- they celebrate the parts they played in the siege of Leningrad and the Holocaust. Further westwards the theme is the same: in Italy Mussolini's friends rule again, as in France the Vichy fans do, in Germany the business suit may be the fashion now and uniforms discarded but the Fuhrer's Fan Club dominates not only government but its opposition. Everywhere else the sordid past is revived: Sweden's 'neutrality' which made it the Third Reich's armaments supplier, a landbridge to the Finland front and a rest area for the Wehrmacht has been replaced by an active part in the war to preserve imperialism. And the same is true of the rest of the EU, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal are all eagerly dancing in the ranks of the projected Barbarossa Mark II.
As to the UK Starmer is a Chamberlain without the dignity or the family history: Chamberlain was the last in a line of dedicated racist imperialists, whereas the US asset Starmer is a serial traitor now hard at work demolishing his native land- an anglophone Zelensky-in order to show his loyalty to an Empire dominated by Supremacists serving a nihilist oligarchy of cannibals, intent on preventing its prey from choosing life over submission.
Finally might I recommend Huabinoliver@substack's explanation of China's position in the current crisis?
I'm not a Tariq Ali fan but his NLR piece, available here, on Iran is very good: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar
I have thought about your first point that Iran's lax security is likely to get much stronger by necessity. The wonder is why it has not become so up to now in the face of many attacks by the West. I think that Iranians are remember the Shah's repressive state security, the SAVAK, and up to now have rejected replicating it. No longer.
Excellent analysis.
There are so many threads here that it's easy to get sidetracked into a muddled narrative. You have done a masterful job of staying focused and weaving the threads of evidence into a cohesive whole. I applaud and bow in respect.
FYI - I am Jewish and was supportive of the "Israel Project" though the 70's. Movies like "Exodus" (1960) had a strong influence on the way I viewed it. I saw Israel as a "plucky underdog" facing unreasonable\hostile neighbors. I cheered Israeli success in the 6 Day War and later played the AH wargame "The Arab-Israeli Wars (subtitled "Tank Battles in the Mideast 1956–73) when it came out in 1977.
I believed in the idea of "peace through strength" and that a lasting peace could be reached between people of goodwill and tolerance.
Needless to say, my views have changed over time. Judaism is a RELIGION not a "country" or ethnicity. Israel is a product of Western guilt, antisemitism, and geopolitical calculations. It is the last "Crusader Kingdom".
Like the other Crusader Kingdoms, it to is doomed to failure.
I am not Jewish, but like you I grew up with the Israeli-is-wonderful myth, a belief that I learned from the media. A chance encounter in 1969 when I was visiting my in-laws in Pasadena, CA, changed all that. I met a very distinguished looking orange-seller and decided to talk to him. He was a Palestinian refugee and had been a doctor in Palestine. When I said, "Oh, you're from Israel?" he spat. Then he proceeded to tell me the real story of the Nakba that he had experienced.
I think even the western guilt myth is overblown as a reason, it adds a moral dimension i dont think exists.
There was no western guilt towards russians and other slavic people who were also detained and killed enmasse. Especially given russias pivotal role in ending WW2 by resisting nazi attacks.
Ditto communists, gays and trade unionists, any group not viewed favourably by the fascist german government during ww2. No western guilt there.
There seems 2 b a deliberate longstanding effort 2 obscure the suffering of the above groups during german fascist period.
Communists and trade unionists were not celebrated by the Western bourgeoisie, and gays were treated horribly at the time in the West. There were also the Roma, that were outcasts across all of Europe. The Jews had their diaspora in the UK and the US to push their cause. With the return of the Cold War after WW2, the bourgeoisie certainly did not wish to celebrate the 27 million Soviet citizens who died in the defeat of Nazism.
"Guilt" is just another device with which to sway Western publics toward policies that the ruling class support. The underlying reasons are political-economic. Think of all the "humanitarian interventions" and the complete lack of any such interventions when it comes to the Palestinians.
Time for the US to experience a regime change.
Great analysis and summary. Believe that for all the previous Iranian bluster about an overwhelming response that destroys everything, it was a set up. They were always going to go for the long game. Israel's society is fractured and will crack long before Iran's. Even if the US intervenes, they will play the long, slow-bleed, game. They don't have to blow up every GI in the Middle East. Take some punches and then kill a hand-full. Don't get sucked in. Both Israel and the US are internally weak and divided and will collapse or retreat due to internal pressure. If you liked Vietnam, you're gonna love Iran. Also believe that the truly revolutionary Iranians have always seen the US, not Israel, as their primary enemy. And they're saving some goodies for us.
Thank you Mr Boyd for this excellent piece. Subscribed and sharing. looking forward to reading more of your work.
Many of my people follow the genocidal paths in the middle east with an ancestral identity. Our Nakhba has continued for over 500 years and we still survive. Long live Free Palestine and Long live Iran.
Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea. And hopefully the khazar Talmudic fascist sewer rats' departure on boats will encourage their comrades to do the same, leaving Palestine to the indigenous inhabitants.
100% agree, camarada. #DelRioalMar #fromtherivertothesea.
Putin able to stand for reelection in 2030 and [Xi] not bothered with such liberal democratic trappings? Trappings indeed. Leadership elections, popularized by warrior bands 40,000 years ago have as much to do with democracy today as they did 40,000 years ago: nothing.
We elect monarchs who are indebted to international money lenders. Does that sound familiar?
USA will not let Israel fall, because it's too valuable as a military outpost. So there will be enough economic and military support to sustain a multi-decade long war of attrition. Revolt inside Israel can be suppressed same as in Ukraine. Namely, everyone, including liberals and ultra-orthodox currently exempt from military service, gets drafted and beaten to death behind closed doors of recruitment centers if they refuse to obey orders. So no problem with manpower.
Unless Trump's mind is really gone, his natural instinct is that of a coward, so my guess is that he will weasel his way out of a full scale war with Iran. In particular, try to avoid sunk aircraft carriers, shot down pilots of valuable B2 aircraft, etc. Trump also knows that closing Strait of Hormuz will be a disaster for the economy, so going too hard on Iran is dangerous for that reason. If USA empties arsenals of missiles and aircraft to supply Israel, neo-cons will face resistance from uniformed military, which is resistance they can't overcome. My guess is USA will somehow try to spin a truce with Iran as a victory. Financial markets (I'm talking about bond, currency, oil, gold markets not the stock market casino) seem to be calm, thus in agreement with me that USA not likely to start a major war.
Of course, if Trump's mind really gone, all bets are off. Government insiders often want war because war is very beneficial to them in terms of money, power, social prestige, excitement. Insiders get the upside of war, ordinary people get the downside. And once insiders taste the benefits of war, they refuse to give those benefits up, and so will do anything to continue war. What is true already in Ukraine and Israel could also be true in USA soon.
Good points about Trump's decline.
He looks awful: fat, slow, sad.
How does such a man so easily survive an assassination attempt.
Easy. The attempt was staged.
The war with Ukraine led me to pay attention to global politics and the global empire. Demonstrating against the Vietnam war at Berkley in the 1960's was a long time ago.
During the "pandemic" the corruption of medicine became apparent. The corruption in politics has been obvious for years but, for me, it took the Ukraine war and the genocide in Palestine to show the corruption in the US Rules Based Order.
Even with hours and hours on Moon of Alabama, and previously listening to, and reading Michael Hudson, it took his recent interview to understand how the US has manipulated the international financial system to enable changing the US to a financial economy at the expense of the Rest of the World, RoW. Trump has accelerated the US empire decline. I have not read "super imperialism" whose first edition was in 1974 that laid out the argument.
"Michael Hudson: The Collapse of America's Economic Empire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY5L0GEkQwU
Excellent compilation of what this war-making is really about. From my studies and life experience, I would offer some minor corrections.
First, "Iraq was doing the US Empire’s dirty work, the massive cost of which drove Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait (after being given the nod by the US) to gain new revenues." As I recall from the news at the time, Iraq confronted Kuwait because of its illegal 'horizontal drilling' that passed under the Iraqi border to tap oil deposits inside of Iraq proper. Finding no redress from the usual international agencies, and apparently given the 'green light' by the US Ambassador to Iraq, Saddam invaded. [I never understood why the Collective West was so favorable to a despotic, hereditary king put in power by the British]
Second, China has a democratic system quite unlike Western liberal democracy. It is a bottom-up system where the voting takes place at the most local level, then proceeds up level, level by level, all the way to the top where the Chinese President is elected by what looks like a committee, but is actually as representative, or more representative, than Western liberal democracy. Plus, the system is bribery proof and inexpensive.
Iraq was desperate to raise revenues to pay off its debts accumulated during the war with Iran, and Kuwait's horizontal drilling just exacerbated the situation. The other OPEC nations were also not willing to restrict output to raise prices to help Iraq.
I used the term "liberal democratic trappings" in the pejorative sense. China's processes for giving voice to the public will, and to make the state responsive to its concerns, offer greater democracy than any Western oligarch-controlled "democracy.
Appreciate the effort you put into this Roger. Well done - very useful.
I agree that this article makes sense and Is important.
But there isn't much indication about the earlier British phase in the development of zionism.
The US is heavily influenced by Britain. And was during the 19th-20th centuries
The american members of the angloamericam elites, Pilgrim Society, were instructed to undereducate the american people so the wages could be lowered to Britains level.
And the US oligarchy followed those instructions to dumb down the US.
I apologise for often having mentioned these things before for those who have seen my commenting on the web.
But I insist that the facts below should not be forgotten:
Lord Palmerston committed to purge american (patriotic and, I take it, somewhat christian) freemasonry resulting in the establishment of Scottish Rite - an entirely different species.
According to Mathew Ehret the purge happened between 1826 and 1840
During that period the Skull and Bones at Yale was also established. It is assumed to have originated in Germany and had a hegelian outlook. According to Antony Sutton this hegelian method, in the 20th century, materialised in the form of support for both fascism and communism in order to provoke other countries to demand that a world government (led by the anglosaxons?) would emerge in order to stop the resulting permanent wars.
I havent seen much evidence about there being otherwise any german influence. Seems to me it would facilitate for the anglosaxons to attract german americans to anglosaxon freemasonry.
This hegelian idea wasnt unique to the nominally american Skull and Bones. It may be just as much associated with British power of balance strategy of pitting rivals against each other.
From other sources (Dillon: Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked) it became known around 1885 that Palmerston had secretely become the worlds leading freemason in 1837, the year before Victorias coronation.
To me that underlines who really was Britains most powerful individual from the beginning of the Victorian era.
Since the period after 1837 was full of novel British organised efforts to bring about colonisation of Palestine it is interesting that high freemasons on the continent for about a decade after 1837 continued to write letters to the former world leader of freemasonry - codename nubius, who was a nobleman from Rome.
According to Dillon and also according to the archive of Quatuor Coronati research Lodge, nubius, the predecessor of Palmerston, was murdered. According to Dillon in 1837
According to said Lodge in 1846.
But one freemason, codename:Piccolo Tigre, wrote in that year, in a cryptic letter in Italian addressed to nubius, something I interpret to mean 'if I dont get paid I wont write more letters'.
I assume therefore that it was a period when Palmerston organised this to hide his leadership while he was busy with organising zionism.
Palmerston wasnt involved in that before 1838 but during the 1840s to 1860.
And since Palmerston was not in the Cabinet during several of those years (from 1841-1846) his hidden role as the Grand Patriarch of freemasonry is important. This enabled him to send notices to any Lodge in the world and the brothers would be very attentive.
In 1843 Lord Palmerston helped bring about B'nai B'rit. the jewish branch of freemasonry.
In 1845 the book British Israelism was published.
However the British project for making jews colonise Palestine was already put forth in 1585 by Thomas Brightman and since Fitzgerald and Gould have claimed that the beginning of the British Empire may be dated to the time after the Dawson Wars in 1583, Brightmans piece looks well timed as part of a burgeoning imperial project.
Since the jews were expelled after 1290 nominally for around 400 years, Brightman's suggestion seems to me as part of that imperial project.
To omit this longstanding very British background for Zionism and only remembering Scofields role seems to me to be a little bit too convenient for those who hope to maintain an appearance of Britains role of just sitting on the fence, watching.
In those years Sir Francis Drake and others made statements in tune with coopting the jews and simultaneously giving a hint that the British themselves would like to, in a way, capture even the jewish identity. And in the 19th century 300 years later, this was also underlined by the myth of British Israelism.
In Gibraltar Messenger they add that there were two separate branches through which the Americans and the British had ancestry back to Israelites.
In that context the proposers seemingly contradict themselves but I think they actually want people to believe that the original Israelites were also gentiles.
Best article I've read so far on this issue. The problem the west has is that zionists have totally infiltrated western governments and financial institutions not to mention their intelligence agencies.
Having stupidly allowed this to happen, washing their hands of Israel does not seem like an option. Who knows what damage Isreal may cause western nations internally should the zionists feel 'let down' by the west? This is the real conundrum for Trump & co imo, what will does evil, crazy zionist lunatics do to us?
A heretical bible from a heretical bible.
I hope Miriam Adelson spits out her organic coffee when the time comes and Trump says no more bibi. It has to happen. America first or lose the electorate.
Her and her husband have fully inculcated their children into being uber-Zionists, so even if she chokes on her coffee the children will carry on the "good work". Raised in Western US rich Jewish ghettos and regularly taken to Israel, they had very little contact outside rich Zionism throughout their formative years. Their father was disappointed that he served in the US Army and not the IDF, she was born in Tel Aviv and served in the IDF. A wannabe Israeli and an Israeli cosplaying as Americans while influencing US elections and foreign policy.
The Adelsons also had a huge influence in Israel, supporting the extremism of Netanyahu and others with their vast wealth, Miriam still owns the largest newspaper there, with a son owning an Israeli basketball team. They have done huge amounts of damage both in the US and in Israel.
That is quite unfortunate. Then our only hope is to create an environment where it’s career-ending if a lawmaker is found taking AIPAC money.
Israel will only be dealt with when the US is weaker and the rest are stronger. It is too useful an attack dog for the capitalist ruling class to give it up. AIPAC is an influence organization and does have an impact, but only because its focus is aligned with US ruling class interests.