Myth: The US was forced to declare war on Japan after a totally unexpected Japanese attack on the American naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On account of Japan’s alliance with Nazi Germany, this aggression automatically brought the US into the war against Germany.
In Afghanistan, the opium market made a dramatic comeback immediately following the U.S. invasion in October 2001. Not only was the opium trade restored, it surged drastically – rising from a production level of 185 tons under the Taliban (before the production ban) to 3,400 tons in 2002.
« The US markets itself as having an inclusive identity that’s capable of uniting its many disparate parts into a singular whole. Its unofficial motto, “E Pluribus Unum”, proudly proclaims that “out of many, one”, further signifying that this ideal functions as a cornerstone of the American ideology. In what makes for a very peculiar case of ideological doublethink, while the US insists on exporting its “democratic” model abroad, it hypocritically employs a calculated pick-and-choose approach to which countries should retain the “E Pluribus Unum” domestic identity component of its system and which should incorporate the “E Unum Pluribus” geostrategic innovation. »
This piece was published right before Macron’s win in the French 2017 presidential elections. It nevertheless presents some very interesting predictions for the future of France and the EU, by one of our economically liberal voices (« Liberal » here is used in its true sense, i.e, proponents of free-market policies against Statist control of the economy).
One of these masterful journalistic pieces one keeps for reference. Published in April 2016. – « As this newspaper first reported when the treasure became available, one memorandum dated July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Inteligence Agency. »
Three years after the start of the conflict between Kiev and the separatist region of Donbass, no solution is in sight. Ukrainian President Piotr Poroshenko blows hot and cold, hesitating between the establishment of a firm blockade and the restoration of controlled economic ties. On the Donetsk side, the population is organizing, awaiting a hypothetical military intervention.
« In the European Theatre, World War II ended in early May 1945 with the capitulation of Nazi Germany. The “Big Three” on the side of the victors – Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union – now faced the complex problem of the postwar reorganization of Europe. The United States had entered the war rather late, in December 1941, and had only started to make a truly significant military contribution to the Allied victory over Germany with the landings in Normandy in June 1944, less than one year before the end of the hostilities. When the war against Germany ended, however, Washington sat firmly and confidently at the table of the victors, determined to achieve what might be called its “war aims.”
« The more aggressive the Americans are the sooner they will see the final collapse of the dollar as the only way for the victims of American aggression to stop this aggression is to get rid of the dollar. As soon as we and China are through with the dollar, it will be the end of the United States’ military might. »
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”– Karl Rove
Well… not quite.
« North Korea is the only country in the world to have been systematically blackmailed by US nuclear weapons going back to the 1950s, when hundreds of nukes were installed in South Korea. I have written much about this in these pages and in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Why on earth would Pyongyang not seek a nuclear deterrent? But this crucial background doesn’t enter mainstream American discourse. History doesn’t matter, until it does—when it rears up and smacks you in the face. «
Documentaire : Century of the Self (Le Siècle du Moi)
Comment et à quel point les politiciens et les milieux d'affaires ont appris à manipuler la société de consommation de masse. Un film mondialement salué pour la qualité de sa recherche. Indispensable.
Documentaire : Princes of the yen, le pouvoir des banques centrales
Une chronologie magistrale de la dissolution de l’économie libérale dans toute la zone d'influence des USA, Europe de l'Ouest comprise, de la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale à nos jours.
Documentaire : La Toile d’Araignée
Comment les machines à blanchiment d’argent, les paradis fiscaux des îles Caïman et autres places financières extraterritoriales d'aujourd'hui sont-ils nés ? C’est toute la face cachée de la corruption financière internationale, toute la mécanique de l'évasion fiscale à grande échelle qui va défiler devant vos yeux avec ce documentaire primé… et cette toile d’araignée englobe la France au même titre que de multiples autres pays.
"L'outil de base pour manipuler la réalité est la manipulation des mots. Si vous pouvez contrôler la signification des mots, vous pouvez contrôler les gens qui emploient les mots" - Philip K. Dick
"Le grand crime du libéralisme, c'est d'avoir tellement détruit le tempérament de la société qu'elle ne peut rien supporter, ni le bien, ni le mal." - Juan Donoso Cortès
"Une idée fausse ne cesse pas d'être fausse parce qu'elle est à la mode." - G.K. Chesterton
"L'iniquité commise en ce monde ne produit pas ses fruits immédiatement, mais comme la terre, quand la saison en vient, en avançant peu à peu, elle éradique l'homme qui l'a commise... La justice, si elle est détruite, détruira ; préservée, préservera ; elle ne doit donc jamais être violée." - Lois de Manu, 1200 av. J.‑C
"Pour tous les problèmes complexes, il y a une solution simple.
Et elle est toujours fausse." - H. L. Mencken
