Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
Huffington Post headlined on December 21st “I Left Increasingly Right-Wing Britain And Now I Don’t Know If I Will Ever Return Home”, but the young woman who wrote it seems to have had no idea of the deep international forces that — as she sadly noted — are driving ever-larger numbers of young Brits, like herself, to relocate to continental Europe. This is part of a long war against Russia that started in her own UK, then took over in the United States on 26 July 1945, and seems likely to intensify greatly in the future, and to propel UK itself even further into America’s anti-Russian orbit, while Europe will ultimately unify increasingly with the rest of the EurAsian continent — including with both Russia and China.
The U.S. Government has actually been behind all of this reorganization of the international political map (as will be documented here in the links to the present article).
The U.S. Government, by means of its coups, overthrew democratically elected progressive governments and replaced them with brutal fascist dictatorships in Thailand 1948, Iran 1953, Chile 1973, Honduras 2009, and Ukraine 2014, just to mention a few U.S.-hired coups; and, now — with the December 12th Tory landslide and resultant inevitability of Brexit — the UK (America’s former colonizer) will itself become just another American colony. Here is how all of this is happening:
On December 14th, CNBC headlined “US isn’t weaponizing the dollar; sanctions are the alternative to war, Mnuchin says” and reported enormously important news, regarding the strategy that the U.S. Government has increasingly been using ever since, in 2012, it imposed (on fraudulent grounds) the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia, and subsequently imposed the many other sanctions regimens used against nations that are either allied with or merely friendly toward Russia. That article also discussed the international alliances which will be involved in a military World War III if this preliminary stage of global warfare (the sanctions-phase) won’t produce the capitulation of Russia and of China, but instead an outright military war becomes resorted-to.
That CNBC article mentioned the U.S. Government is even fighting against some of America’s own allies in order to maintain the dollar as the global reserve currency: “Earlier this year, France, Germany and the U.K. set up the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), which uses euros to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iran. While it’s not shown itself to be economically effective, it’s a sign that even allies are seeking dollar alternatives to rebel against U.S. policies they oppose.” Thus, even U.S.-friendly governments are now straining against the U.S. leash, to become free, no longer mere vassals. However, the Tory electoral victory in UK on December 12th assured that Britain will become more, not less, dependent upon the U.S. during coming years. So, Britain is being propelled away from the EU, and toward America, but Europe could actually end up on the anti-U.S. side.
That article interviewed the U.S. Trump Administration, through U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who said that the U.S. is employing sanctions — and especially is employing secondary sanctions (sanctions penalizing any country that does trade with a country the U.S. sanctions) — as a less costly way than military invasions (of the targeted country), in order to conquer the entire world, including especially Russia and China. Mnuchin’s CNBC interviewer there volunteered to say (at 2:00 in the video-interview there) “Just over the last few days, we didn’t just get a U.S.-China Phase One, we also got a resounding victory for the Tories in the United Kingdom”, and both parts of that cryptic statement will be explained here, because both parts are geostrategically crucial.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is, of course, aware of the U.S. regime’s successes in their long-term plans to win control over the country he leads, and he has been struggling to block these plans. On December 20th, Russia’s RT bannered “Russia & Ukraine sign ‘protocol of agreement’ for gas transit to Europe – Gazprom”, and reported that “After months of tense negotiations and years of legal battles, Moscow and Kiev have made an agreement on extension to the current gas transit agreement, which expires on December 31.” Those “years of legal battles” go all the way back to America’s successful coup in February 2014 that ousted an internationally neutralist and democratically elected Ukrainian Government and installed a rabidly anti-Russian racist-fascist regime in Ukraine, which refused to pay its bills (then around $3 billion) for gas from Russia. Ukraine also was the main route of pipelines supplying Russia’s gas into the European Union. U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2014 capture for the U.S., of Ukraine — the nation having the longest European border with Russia, 1,625 miles — constituted a major coup for U.S. foreign policy, a coup which is equivalent to if Russia were to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Mexico or Canada and take control over that border as a potential location to place its missiles. Obama’s successor Trump is following through on Obama’s successful anti-Russian policy regarding Ukraine, and Trump is even bolder than Obama in telling Europeans to buy costly trans-Atlantic-shipped U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in preference to the far cheaper pipelined gas from Russia. Of course, if European nations were to do that, their increased energy-costs would weaken their economies so much that the U.S. would be unquestionably the king of the world.
On December 21st, RT headlined “Big bully at work: Firm laying Nord Stream 2 pipeline halts all ‘activities’ faced with ‘crushing sanctions’ by US” and reported that the U.S. Congress and the Trump Administration are forcing EU-based corporations to abandon their participations in the completion of the Russia-EU Nordstream II gas pipeline or else lose all their business with the U.S., by their facing what are called “secondary sanctions” against them, the sanctions that are in addition to the direct sanctions the U.S. already has in place against Russia. Secondary sanctions are punishments against any country which violates the trading-bans that are in the primary sanctions, which are against the targeted country (in this case, Russia). Trump and the U.S. Congress (with the support of overwhelming majorities in both houses) have made clear to the EU either to choose the U.S. and UK, or else to choose Russia and China, as being their main trading-partners. The U.S. already has the pro-jihadist governments in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Israel, etc. (all of them against Iran) — and is now especially trying to cement the loyalty of EU nations. Under Trump, America is willing even to employ the first stage of war, the sanctions stage, against the EU, in order to compel this loyalty to the owners of U.S.-based international corporations.
Thus, two global trading-blocs are in the process of being formed by Trump (with the near-100-% backing of both Parties — Democrats and Republicans — in Congress), one centered around the U.S., and the other centered around Russia and the countries that have friendly relations with Russia, including China, Iran, and Venezuela. Three of America’s core allies are UK, Israel, and the royal Saud family who own Saudi Arabia.
The landslide victory, on 12 December 2019, of UK’s libertarian/neoliberal Conservative Party, defeating the post-Tony-Blair, progressive (or democratic socialist), Labour Party, means not only that UK’s exit from the European Union is now inevitable, but that there will soon be massive privatization of public services — such as health, education, and welfare — in UK (thus making it more American); and that therefore U.S. international corporations will increasingly dominate UK, which will become, in effect, America’s 51st state (like Israel already is) and a growing market for U.S. brands. Per-capita healthcare costs will thus likely soar in UK to around the U.S. level (where healthcare already is a vastly overpriced bloated libertarian mess and the worst among industrialized countries), which is, in fact, over twice as costly as in today’s socialized-healthcare UK. Healthcare is a necessity, not a luxury, and so anyone in UK who can afford healthcare will increasingly need to pay the resulting sharply increasing costs, but everyone else will simply get sicker and die younger; life-expectancy there will thus decline, in the new, U.S.-dominated, UK (as is already starting to happen in the U.S. itself). The idea that not socializing a necessity is good instead of bad is stupid; there is already ample historical evidence that that idea is false and creates massive unnecessary suffering, but that’s what UK’s voters opted for.
The Jeremy-Corbyn Labour Party was committed to protecting and improving social services and to allowing another vote on Brexit, but UK’s voters rejected that platform in a landslide on December 12th. The UK’s only future now is with U.S.-based international corporations.
Here is what UK’s elections were actually all about — not only Brexit, but also radical libertarianism/neoliberalism and an exclusive alliance with a similarly ideological (libertarian-neoliberal-fascist-neoconservative-imperialist) U.S.:
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“Jeremy Corbyn reveals dossier ‘proving NHS up for sale’”
Jeremy Corbyn reveals 451-page unredacted document ‘proving NHS up for sale’ – video
27 November 2019, Frances Perraudin
Labour has obtained official documents showing that the US is demanding that the NHS will be “on the table” in talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, Jeremy Corbyn has said.
The Labour leader said the uncensored papers gave the lie to Boris Johnson’s claims that the NHS would not be part of any trade talks, and revealed that the US wanted “total market access” after the UK leaves the EU.
“The uncensored documents leave Boris Johnson’s denials in absolute tatters,” he said at a news conference in London. “We have now got evidence that under Boris Johnson the NHS is on the table and will be up for sale. He tried to cover it up in a secret agenda and today it has been exposed.”
Corbyn said the 451 pages of documents covered six rounds of talks from July 2017 to “just a few months ago”. He said the meetings took place in Washington and London. “We are talking here about secret talks for a deal with Donald Trump after Brexit,” he said.
Responding to the Labour claims, the Conservatives said the documents had already been online for two months and were simply readouts from meetings of the UK-US trade and investment working group. The Tories accused Labour of using the documents to try to divert attention from the issue of antisemitism in its ranks.
On medicine pricing, Corbyn said discussions had already been concluded between the two sides on lengthening patents. “Longer patents can only mean one thing: more expensive drugs. Lives will be put at risk as a result of this,” he said.
He used the example of Humira, used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. “It costs our NHS £1,409 a packet. In the US, the same packet costs £8,115. Get the difference: £1,409 in our NHS, £8,115 in the USA,” Corbyn said. “One of the reasons for US drug prices being on average 250% of those here is a patent regime rigged for the big pharmaceutical companies.”
He added: “Let’s be frank, the US is not going to negotiate to sell its own medicines for less.”
Labour is battling to bring the focus back on to safer ground after Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism came under renewed criticism on Tuesday. [He was called an “anti-Semite” for criticizing apartheid Israel; and U.S. and UK ‘news’-media equate that with anti-Semitism.]
Corbyn avoided apologising to Jewish communities in a TV interview after the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, alleged he had let the poison of antisemitism take root in the party.
Corbyn had previously highlighted heavily redacted documents obtained by Labour campaigners relating to private meetings between UK and US officials discussing health being included in a trade deal. It is understood the party obtained unredacted versions in the last couple of days.
Corbyn said the documents revealed that the UK and US were closer to a deal than hoped. “[Officials] are ready to ‘exchange text’, which is trade-negotiator-speak for it being at a very advanced stage,” he said. “And they say they are ready to, I quote, ‘really take significant further steps’.”
Corbyn said the report from the third meeting said “everything is included [in trade talks] unless something is specifically excluded” and that the US wanted “total market access” as the “baseline assumption of the trade negotiations”.
He said officials had discussed a system to give corporations the power to sue the UK. “This is not only a plot against our NHS,” said Corbyn. “It is a plot against the whole country.”
He pointed to a passage in the documents that suggested the US would prefer a no-deal Brexit. “There would be all to play for in a no-deal situation but UK commitment to the customs union and single market would make a US-UK [free trade agreement] a non-starter,” it reads.
The Conservatives said it was simply fact that it would not be possible to strike a free-trade deal with the US if the UK remained in the single market and customs union.
The international trade secretary, Liz Truss, said: “Jeremy Corbyn is getting desperate and is out-and-out lying to the public about what these documents contain.”
She said it was Corbyn’s belief in “conspiracy theories” that had led him to fail to crack down on antisemitism in his party, pointing to reports that he had called on “western governments” to confront “the Zionist lobby” in a piece written for the Morning Star in 2011.
“People should not believe a word that he says, this stunt is simply a smokescreen for the fact that he has no plan for Brexit and that he has been forced to admit that he wants to increase taxes for millions of families,” she said.
“As we have consistently made clear, the NHS will not be on the table in any future trade deal and the price that the NHS pays for drugs will not be on the table. This sort of conspiracy theory fuelled nonsense is not befitting of the leader of a major political party.”
Labour’s manifesto includes a pledge to increase NHS funding by an average of 4.3% every year of the next parliament, which is more generous than Conservative and Liberal Democrat proposals.
The party has also promised to “end and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next parliament”, as well as offering free annual NHS dental checkups and a new national care service to tackle the social care crisis.
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Here is the main prior history behind that Tory victory:
Back in 1902, the aristocrat Cecil Rhodes, an enormously successful protégé of the European Rothschild family, established The Rhodes Trust, which was based entirely upon Rhodes’s viewpoint, not on that of his Rothschild business-sponsors and investors. Rhodes’s chief agent was W.T. Stead, and page 209 of Sir Frederick Whyte, Life of W.T. Stead, v. II, Ch. 25, stated that “Rothschild would not like that, Stead objected laughingly. ‘When he reads the will and finds that I am in it also, there will be ructions!’ ‘Well,’ said Rhodes, ‘I don’t mind. I shall be gone!” (Unfortunately, only v. I can be directly downloaded online, and it is here. However, v. II can sometimes be found available second-hand online.)
Although his will, which established the Trust, said (p. 39 here) that “No student shall be qualified or disqualified for election to a Scholarship on account of his race or religious opinions,” Rhodes was widely considered to be racist; and, for example, he wrote in 1877, “I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. I contend that every acre added to our territory means the birth of more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence. Added to this, the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars.” That statement is stunning to any person who is sensitive to a person’s logically contradicting him-or-her self; it is shocking logical stupidity. Rhodes simply refused to recognize that imperialism means taking over other countries and therefore means creating wars — the exact opposite of “the end of all wars.” Though Rhodes was a brilliant strategist in business, he was a fool regarding his philosophy, because his moralisms always gave way to his sheer psychopathic greed in actual practise. He continued there by saying that his main goals were “The furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.” And, from the very start of the Rhodes scholarship program, after its first selectees in 1903, the program became, from 1907 onward, almost entirely selectees from the U.S. This reflected not only Rhodes’s determination to bring the U.S. back into the British Empire, but also the very realistic recognition that, going forward into the 20th Century and beyond, the U.S. was going to dominate the world. Therefore, the Rhodes program was designed for UK’s Government and aristocracy to control U.S.’s Government and press. This has been an effort by Britain to reverse the U.S. Revolution, which had been waged against not only Britain but its entire aristocracy, and even against any aristocracy from ever forming in the U.S. (Of course, today’s America is the opposite of their intentions.)
The 12 December 2019 UK elections mean that UK has instead become a vassal of America’s aristocracy. This evil outcome is a humiliation of Cecil Rhodes’s evil dream — it’s a reversal of the master-slave relationship that was championed by Rhodes. He had wanted America to again be ruled by Britain; but, now, instead, Britain will be ruled by America (i.e., by the U.S. aristocracy).
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Anyone who doubts the authenticity of the history behind the present article should consult the brilliantly written and superbly documented blog-post titled “The Round Table”, which is undated and comes from a “Mike McClaughry” and which was actually first posted on “January 23, 2015”. (That author might be this Scientologist; but, regardless, the sources to which his blog-post there about Cecil Rhodes links are high quality.) It lists a few of its sources but fails to link to the main one, which was the 370-page masterpiece by Professor Carroll Quigley, which work had been completed in 1949 but remained unpublished until 1981 (after the author’s 1977 death, because he wanted to be safe against their destroying him). That masterpiece from Quigley is titled The Anglo-American Establishment. On page 326 of the photographed book shown in McClaughry’s article, 311 of the searchable text of the book, appears the list of the 31 original members of the innermost group that controlled the British Empire’s as-of-12-December-2019 doomed expansion-operation, which they had been intending should ultimately take over the entire world:
A. The Society of the Elect
Cecil John Rhodes
Nathan Rothschild, Baron Rothschild
Sir Harry Johnston
William T. Stead
Reginald Brett, Viscount Esher
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
B. F. Hawksley
Thomas Brassey, Lord Brassey
Edmund Garrett
Alfred Beit
Sir Abe Bailey
Albert Grey, Earl Grey
Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery
Arthur James Balfour
Sir George R. Parkin
Philip Lyttelton Gell
Sir Henry Birchenough
Sir Reginald Sothern Holland
Arthur Lionel Smith
Herbert A. L. Fisher
William Waldegrave Palmer, Earl of Selborne
Sir Patrick Duncan
Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand
Philip Kerr, Marquess of Lothian
Lionel Curtis
Geoffrey Dawson
Edward Grigg, Baron Altrincham
Jan C. Smuts
Leopold Amery
Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor
Nancy Astor, Lady Astor
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John Marshall Harlan
J.W. Fulbright
Robert J. Van de Graaff
Robert Penn Warren
Carl Albert
Dean Rusk
Daniel J. Boorstin
John B. Oakes
Howard K. Smith
Walt Rostow
Byron White
Nicholas Katzenbach
Stansfield Turner
Guido Calabresi
Ronald Dworkin
Paul Sarbanes
Richard Lugar
Kris Kristofferson
Joseph Nye
Jonathan Kozol
Lester Thurow
David Souter
David Boren
Walter Slocombe
James Woolsey
Larry Pressler
Bill Bradley
Wesley Clark
A. Michael Spence
David E. Kendall
Terence Malick
Dennis C. Blair
Robert Reich
Bill Clinton
Strobe Talbot
Ira Magaziner
James Fallows
Franklin Raines
Michael Kinsley
E.J. Dionne
Richard N. Haass
Walter Isaacson
Larry Sabato
Russ Feingold
Michael Sandel
Ashton Carter
NancyAnn DeParle
Tony Abbott, PM Australia
Nicholas Kristof
Barton Gellman
Heather Wilson
David Vitter
George Stephanopoulos
Naomi Wolf
Michael McFaul
Susan Rice
David Chalmers
Atul Gewande
Ben Jealous
Jeff Shesol
Cory Booker
Noah Feldman
Bobby Jindal
Peter Beinart
Chrystia Freeland
Eric Garcetti
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rachel Maddow
Jake Sullivan
Jared Cohen
Pete Buttigieg
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The Rhodes Trust organization is extremely secretive and provides no list of its total winners (identifying each winner in each year), which list would reveal the extent to which they had picked from among the tens or hundreds of thousands of applicants the individuals whom the Rhodes Trust had actually helped to become shapers and leaders of their respective professions in the U.S., UK, and their vassal nations. However, the Trust’s known picks seem to be oriented toward leading and shaping the U.S. empire (not actually the British Empire). The selectees carry on the work of Cecil Rhodes; and, now, the U.S. aristocracy (after the 12 December 2019 UK elections) clearly controls the UK aristocracy, which had created the Rhodes Trust (and which currently controls UK’s ‘news’-media through the participating billionaires). This organization’s selectees are not only trained to take over the empire for America’s billionaires but are indoctrinated to respect not only the empire but imperialism itself, and the subordinacy of the empire’s vassal nations, to the imperial center, and the absolute inferiority of other (as Rhodes preached it) “races.”
Consequently: history, going forward, will now be a contest between, on one side, the U.S. and UK aristocracies, versus, on the opposed side, the aristocracies of the EurAsian Continent. Because of the results of UK’s December 12th elections, the ties that bind European nations to the U.S. regime are even likelier to unravel than was the case prior to December 12th. This will be good news for Iran, Russia, China, and Turkey, but bad news for NATO, EU, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and U.S. ‘allies’ (vassal-operations or dependencies) in general. In other words: the dream of the U.S. imperialists, which Barack Obama stated often by his bold assertion that “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation” — meaning that every other nation is “dispensable” — is even more shattered now than it was when he was in office. By winning UK so overwhelmingly on December 12th, America’s aristocracy becomes considerably likelier to lose the vastly larger prize of EurAsia.
The Western Hemisphere, except for U.S. itself, will be weak vassal nations, and Africa will be even more extremely so. Those weaker nations will now need to ally themselves with either U.S.-UK, or else Eurasia. That’s their choice, going forward.
Here are excerpts from Cecil Rhodes’s 1877 “Confession of Faith”:
I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives. I contend that every acre added to our territory means in the future birth to some more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence. Added to this the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars. …
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. …
Even from an American’s point of view just picture what they have lost, look at their government, are not the frauds that yearly come before the public view a disgrace to any country and especially their’s which is the finest in the world. …
Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. … More territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honourable race the world possesses.
To forward such a scheme what a splendid help a secret society would be a society not openly acknowledged but who would work in secret for such an object. …
In every Colonial legislature the Society should attempt to have its members prepared at all times to vote or speak and advocate the closer union of England and the colonies, to crush all disloyalty and every movement for the severance of our Empire. The Society should inspire and even own portions of the press for the press rules the mind of the people. …
For fear that death might cut me off before the time for attempting its development I leave all my worldly goods in trust to S. G. Shippard and the Secretary for the Colonies at the time of my death to try to form such a Society with such an object.
In that same year, 1877, when he was not yet a wealthy man, he first drafted his will. He revised it up until his death in 1902.
Here is the opening of Quigley’s 1981 masterpiece, The Anglo-American Establishment:
One wintry afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to flow consequences of the greatest importance to the British Empire and to the world as a whole. For these men were organizing a secret society that was, for more than fifty years, to be one of the most important forces in the formulation and execution of British imperial and foreign policy.
The three men who were thus engaged were already well known in England. The leader was Cecil Rhodes, fabulously wealthy empire-builder and the most important person in South Africa. The second was William T. Stead, the most famous, and probably also the most sensational, journalist of the day. The third was Reginald Baliol Brett, later known as Lord Esher, friend and confidant of Queen Victoria, and later to be the most influential adviser of King Edward VII and King George V.
The details of this important conversation will be examined later. At present we need only point out that the three drew up a plan of organization for their secret society and a list of original members. The plan of organization provided for an inner circle, to be known as “The Society of the Elect,” and an outer circle, to be known as “The Association of Helpers.” Within The Society of the Elect, the real power was to be exercised by the leader, and a “Junta of Three.” The leader was to be Rhodes, and the Junta was to be Stead, Brett, and Alfred Milner. In accordance with this decision, Milner was added to the society by Stead shortly after that meeting we have described.[1].
The creation of this secret society was not a matter of a moment. As we shall see, Rhodes had been planning for this event for more than seventeen years. Stead had been introduced to the plan on 4 April 1899, and Brett had been told of it on 3 February 1890. Nor was the society thus founded an ephemeral thing, for, in modified form, it exists to this day.
So, what had begun as a plan to globalize the UK empire by means of attaching the U.S. to it, has by now become a vassalage of UK to U.S., which vassalization will produce an asset-stripping of the UK state, and a resultant soaring impoverishment of the UK public, which population the U.S. and UK international corporations will then drain, thus creating a greatly increased emigration from the UK.
The UK empire has thus come crashing down.
Rhodes, the first of the “neoconservatives” (or promoters of an all-encompassing U.S.-UK Empire) had made his fortune on the giant Kimberly Mine in South Africa, the world’s biggest diamond mine. And South Africa during its racist apartheid era happens also to point the way toward what the future UK might become.
The great 1989 movie A Dry White Season is a meticulously accurate reconstruction of South Africa during the apartheid period, and of the way that Blacks were treated there (not only in that movie but in the reality). The way that Blacks were treated there, by South Africa’s U.S-backed apartheid Government, could turn out to be the way that all but the few wealthiest UK ‘citizens’ (actually royal subjects) will be treated by the U.S.-backed UK’s Government, in UK’s future. But, unlike in South Africa, revenge by the public would then produce in UK a very bloody revolution, which would be destructive, not the “Truth and Reconciliation” result that occurred in South Africa. This is only the beginning (and though that news-report on December 13th which is linked-to by that “This,” has an anti-leftist, pro-conservative slant, its videos display the start of what is likely to grow into a full-fledged revolution in UK). Fascism isn’t pretty, and it doesn’t always end in the peaceful way that it did in Franco’s Spain, or in apartheid South Africa. Sometimes, it ends more like France’s monarchy did during the 1789-99 French Revolution — with one imperialistic dictatorship giving rise to yet another. This revolution will probably happen to UK before it happens to U.S. If it does, then U.S. will probably bloodily put down the revolution in UK, but if that happens, then only a control over the ‘news’-media that’s even more total than what currently exists in U.S. would be able to prevent a revolution from resulting in U.S. — and such extremely total control over the media is unlikely anywhere.
To this reporter’s knowledge (which, however, might be incomplete), the first-ever public report that the U.S. regime is using sanctions as the preliminary and cheaper stage toward a possible military invasion was here (from me on 27 May 2019). What Mnuchin on December 14th said, to CNBC, provides the first official confirmation that this reporter has yet seen of this now not-only-established but even officially acknowledged fact. It is now, officially, the U.S. regime versus, actually, the entire rest of the world, and sanctions are the first line of attack. This is an even more-aggressive official assertion of that “Amerika über alles” than was Barack Obama’s repeatedly asserted “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.” There it is, in black and white: to the U.S. regime, every other nation is “dispensable.” Cecil Rhodes, and the prominent followers in his tradition, such as George Soros, couldn’t have said it better. Trump likewise is in that tradition, though his rhetoric is quite different.
Right now, EU media appear to be reluctant to report that the U.S. regime is exceeding the bounds of the post-WW-II alliance — reluctant to report that America is going overtly hostile. For example, whereas, on December 22nd, the very top of the home-page of Russia’s RT headlined “Oh, really? US envoy to Germany says Nord Stream 2 sanctions ‘EXTREMELY PRO-EUROPEAN’ despite Berlin & EU criticism”, Germany’s Deutsche Welle was still ignoring the problem (underplaying, when not simply ignoring altogether, that “Berlin & EU criticism”), and, on its home page, didn’t show even a single headline which related to this momentous matter concerning the future for all Germans. Perhaps they’re hoping there’s hope, and think that reporting the current reality would be ‘premature’ at the present time. But isn’t the current reality what the “news” is supposed to be reporting? Why aren’t they?
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
I think you underestimate the British people, even if you accurately evaluate UK wastrels in ‘power’.
The UK Brexit vote had nothing to do with pro US sentiment and everything to do with exiting the EU. Had the Labour party maintained their pro Brexit 2017 manifesto, the election result eould have been different.
The British people do not want to be a Us colony, they wish to trade freely across the globe. They want neutrality, they do not want more wars and killing Americans in London would be a higher oriority than killing harmless Arabs thousands of miles away.
We do not hate Russians and would rather have Vladimir Putin as our Prime Minister than Boris Johnson or Donald Trump. Why? He is competent and he serves his people, he builds his national economy up and does not waste money on wars of imperialism.
Mr Zuesse should actually come over and talk to thousands of real Britons, not believe that UK media- and UK politicians actually lead and represent. They lead noone and represent foreign masters…
What the British people want and what they are going to get are two different things.
If it was anyone but the British, you’d have a point. Lot’s of people have brought the seemingly willing British horse to water, but it hasn’t drank. And don’t forget that the British are perfectly capable of removing even very popular leaders if they are not in tune with the common will. An excellent example is Winston Churchill in the 1946 election. And if push comes to shove, well history suggests that pushing the British people is a bad idea. Take Charles I, for instance.
I give the pig Johnson 18 months, max 24. Once he’s served his purpose (Brexit) he will be given the boot.
If what you say is true, then how and why did Boris Johnson win a landslide electoral victory?
I think Rhys is implying that a landslide for Boris does not mean a true landslide for all of Boris’s program.
Furthermore, over at Craig Murray’s blog and not just there, serious doubts as to the reliability of these election results have been expressed and parsed. It has been pointed out that a relatively small margin of Tory votes somehow was distributed in just such a way as to lead to small majorities in enough districts to give the Tories a “landslide.”
Katherine
When Corbyn came to power it sparked a resurgence in Labour membership and everyone knew what Corbyn was about, they didn’t reject his socialism, but the working class also wanted Brexit and unfortunately Corbyn, like so many intellectuals just had to condescend to the working class and so got rejected. The “left” offers no vision for the working class today and no future for them just a shoulder shrugging “Those jobs arent coming back and if you don’t go to university you’re a racist”
The British Empire sent thousands of soldiers to their deaths in the Bohr War so that Cecil Rhodes could have more goldmines. They also invented concentration camps in South Africa which killed 40,000 women and children. Cecil’s little club was based in Oxford, and Churchill became a member and helped the club plan and prepare for WW1 ten years in advance. All of those British soldiers were killed all for Cecil’s little club, and the killing continued in WW2 which was just a continuation of their plan. This is what the British people tolerated when their Empire was run by others.
The average Brit has zero control over their country, they only have an illusion of control through the sham and staged elections they take part in. Previous Anglo establishments have perfected the guilded cage of social control via conditioned illusions. On this point I truly admire and respect the skill and sophistication they have exhibited to control society: making China’s hamfisted overtly authoritarian mechanism of social control look embarrassingly insecure, crude and primitive in comparison. The irony is that the average Chinese, in many areas, have more personal freedom than the average Anglo plebeian, but both the Chinese plebe and the the Anglo plebe are convinced that that the western/Anglo plebe is free or freer, such is the sophistication and maturity of the system of lies and illusion of western liberal democracies, particularly the Anglo version. (A Chinese policeman is far less likely to use violence or cause a fatality on a Chinese suspect than his American counterpart; you’re far less likely to get arrested or be harassed by Chinese police than by American police, Chinese police and local authorities have far more tolerance, discretion and autonomy to resolve conflict instead of arrest, shakedown and convict than the utterly corrupt US/Anglo system that has a conviction rate in the 90% range: 90% conviction is clear proof that the system is autocratic and totalitarian in practice and the Anglo common law slogan “innocent until proven guilty” is a sick joke (it ought to be “guilty unless you’re rich or connected enough to prove it – and if you blasphemed against the system, even that won’t be enough”) )
If you really think your elite fears you, the average Brit, then your delusion is complete. Your country is going to be even more of an American satrapy than it already is (did know your country cannot fire it’s nuclear missiles without receiving permission from the US and the required launch codes, did you know that both the nuclear warheads and the missiles are supplied by the USA.) if you think the US is going to allow your tiny dependent island to trade freely with any nation, you are in for a very traumatizing awaking. If the US has demonstrated their ability to impose their will on China to kowtow to their geopolitical diktat (using only American financial systems leverage), what do you think they will do your much weaker country?
Eventually the US will lose its ability to browbeat real powers like China, India and Russia (already Russia is relatively immune due to their enormous military power, weapons technology lead, and excellent intelligence services), even at one point they might lose relative influence over the EU states, but never over Britain and the other weak Anglo states/vassals, ie Canada, Australia and NZ.
You’ll have to judge, in the coming years, whether swapping control of your domestic systems to the US Federal Government over the Brussels bureaucracy was the lesser evil.
Sadly my experience is at least 70% of Uk population is russophobic to the extent they would be happy to see Russia neutralised or even worse in some manner. A lot of the remainder is deeply suspicious.
The EU and US are not antipodes they are twin. The EU is controlled through NATO and the ongoing occupation of Europe. The US occupies Europe through a number of vassal states the most subservient of which is the UK and Germany in the west, and the uber-Petainist regimes in the East, Poland, Romania, both recipients of US medium range nuclear missiles as well as the staunch pro-American Balitic mini-states. The UK is the mid-Atlantic bridge between the Anglo-American hegemon and the Euro vassal states.
Yes, that’s true, but what Brits will now be getting is even more vassalage to the U.S. regime than what the residents in EU member-nations have.
Since all are in NATO, Francis Lee’s take may be the truer situation.
That is, (IMO) membership in the EU is not definitive for the UK’s being a stepping stone to Europe (although it was that in a number of ways).
I know from reading (also for work) that NATO membership = Phase 1; EU membership = phase 2, of “integration” into Europe. And, yes, the weapons and command systems are all integrated.
So by controlling NATO command and hardware infrastructure I do believe that the USA can continue to control Europe regardless of what Britons think or do. And control the UK, or whatever it becomes. Because of the military and intelligence installations and also of course because of the close relationship between the two intelligence “communities.” In fact, they seem to be one “hive.”
Hence the I believe the emphasis on getting Ukraine into NATO. First. Maybe EU memberships comes never, but that doesn’t matter in Battleground Ukraine. They are “just” a geostrategic piece. NATO forward position. The living standard of the Ukes is of no interest/consequence to “indispensables” in DC and London.
Thus, Turkey’s purchase of Russian missile system or whatever it is they recently purchased is like cutting off the pusher. Where the Brits used opium to control China in the 19th Century, the USA uses advanced weaponry to control all “member” states.
Consequently IMO political protest/action/demos/whatever should be targeted at actual weapons installations and getting free of USA weaponry and NATO.
That is worm’s-eye view from here.
Katherine
My article here is predicting the breakup of NATO.
I certainly hope you are right.
But the USA will fight this tooth and nail, since a NATO breakup would be the nail in the coffin of USA world hegemony.
That might be why they are cutting Erdogan a lot of slack.
Partly to keep the veil in place that (maybe) hides NATO vulnerability??
Like, whistling past the graveyard . . .
If so, then Erdogan knows this.
(Of course, the USA might “retreat” to a NATO type of structure in this hemisphere. Which is what it seems to be aiming for in Latin America. First political breakup/overturnings, then NATO imposition/integration, then economic “integration” with the rules being made in DC. )
Wondering Worm . . .
Katherine
Nothing says the writing is on the wall better than the rabidly anti-Russian Poles chosing Migs instead of F-35s.
And the apparently educated few shall intelligently, for better for worse, decide about the well-being of the great unwashed not only in their home countries, but if possible elsewhere too. You can’t possibly achieve this goal by letting ignorant masses vote with eyes that see at best extremely little, but evidently by stealth, subterfuge and covert means. What the people don’t know won’t hurt them!
British geographer, Halford Mackinder, once stated that ‘the nation that controls the ‘Heartland’ or ‘World Island,’ Eurasia, will control the world!’ Never forget that this coveted and vitally important region contains two-thirds of Mother Earth’s wealth:) The auld enemy, Russia, knows this and has the military prowess to take an eyes that are bigger than your tummy bite out of this huge eurasian cake. China too with its One Belt One Road Initiative or Silk Road project to connect Vladivostok with Lisbon. A multi-polar world has been born.
Just like the WW1 Berlin to Bagdad german world stage challenger railway link was fiercely contested by british ‘intellectuals,’ so it will be the case here too. No doubt using the usual allied-funded and trained allied terrorist groups as part of this ordo ab chao Standard Operating Procedure power play. To better control nations, you must have dominion over the planet’s natural resources. To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs. Nation’s peoples will suffer horribly and collateral damage will alas be the sacrificial lamb:(
‘Control the oil and you control a nation or groups of nations.’ Henry ‘kiss of death’ Kissinger.
‘No US rival in Eurasia will be tolerated.’ Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The fight for ultimate unipolar world management is on. The UK’s great unwashed has inadvertantly selected the divine Uncle Sam to be its below the belt and dirty tricks partner. To further civilise, spread neoliberalism and positively influence billions of poeple’s lives!
Fasten your seatbelts and let’s get ready to ruuummble:)
Let’s get this right.
1.) CIA (OSS-UK) creates the EU post WW2.
2.) UK joins the EU to give it credibility
3.) UK leaves the EU, so it doesn’t have to live under rules of Brussels
4.) Cog-Dis loyalists say this is all real.
5.) France joins the Frexit, because ah-well France is also an ANZ client state that never intended to live under EU rules.
Saker sez “EU is owned by USA, USA is owned by Israel”
So who owns Israel? Saker never says
Israel is owned by the trans-national plutocracy
The Saker
Fair enough.
But TNP, is just like “Deep State”, it has no meaning, at least ANZ has real meaning all can agree on.
I might go farther, why not say “Trans-National Kleptocracy”, as even 40+ years ago we all realized that it wasn’t a Plutocracy ( rule by elite ), but by common criminal mafia’s like J-Mafia, I-Mafia, Triad-Mafia, Yakuza-Mafia.
But surely, not until names are named do we really have our TNP-K truly defined, I would start with Bush, Cheney, all the Worlds private mercenary army corporation’s like “Blackwater”, HRC & Co, all the well defined Foundation’s like Clinton-Foundation, estimated to have $8B USD parked in Qatar.
Trans-National – Yes, its TN because it has a broad scope, like ANZ or for that matter “East Indian Company”, which is almost 400 years old, but the model is still 100% accurate. Rule by the rich Plutocrats not sure, they’re like Bambi in the road of the head-lights, just look at Soros, or Dalio, any of the major billionaires like Buffet, they’re afraid, afraid of losing it all.
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( This is why I disagree with the notion that our world is controlled by the ‘rich’, simply because I have known ton’s rich, and they’re always pussy’s. )
Plutocracy
A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631. Unlike systems such as democracy, capitalism, socialism or anarchism, plutocracy is not rooted in an established political philosophy
The Kleptocrats fear-not, like the Batman movie, where the Joker say’s “Some men just like to see it burn, they don’t care about money”. I really think that our TNP-K allows the psychopaths/sociopaths to rise to the top, and call the shots, the Plutocrats are just lucky lotto winners, guy’s that make Billions, are just guys who were in the right place, at the right time. That’s the secret to wealth. But common criminal Mafia theft like Israel-Murder-Inc, that’s well planned real estate fraud&murder. Just like recent HK riots were mostly financed by real-estate kingpins ( criminals ).
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[ Now carefully study the word Kleptocracy, and BINGO its exactly what we have a Trans-National-Kleptocracy. Now lets start giving out names and corporate titles ]
Kleptocracy is a government with corrupt leaders that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political powers. Typically, this system involves embezzlement of funds at the expense of the wider population
This is an interesting take on the concept that NATO’s greatest achievement is pushing Russia into an alliance with China. The world wars were waged to keep Germany from aligning with Russia.
With evil, rotten filth such as NATO, the only good coming out amounts to unintended side effects. The power of die-hard Russophobic imbeciles has its limits, especially when their adversary has the wits and the guts to confront them tenaciously.
Looking back, Kaiser Wilhelm II was precisely the same kind of Russophobic offal as Mutti Merkel and, of course, Adolf Hitler. With Wilhelm the II as Germany’s ruler, there was zero reason to fear any rapprochement between Russia and Germany. Wilhelm II, like Hitler, was a die-hard Western supremacist and racist, itching for land-grabbing even though Germany had no need for it.
The Anglosphere Vs. Eurasia.
That is what this political development is all about.
But then again, the Anglo Americans have historically had almost a visceral hatred of Eurasia.
From Halford MacKinder to Nicholas Spykman to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Anglo Americans have, in almost stalker-like fashion, focused their imperial geostrategy on demonizing, destabilizing, dividing, and subjugating their Eurasian opponents.
Behind all the propaganda pretexts, that is what World War 2, the Cold War, the (fake) War on Terrorism, and now the New Cold War have been really driven by.
In short, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
And now under Tory control, Airstrip One’s subordination to the United States of Oceania has been secured.
The sun will never set on the Anglosphere Empire!
Even this mainstream media mouthpiece admits Boris Johnson’s belief in this ambition:
A Diminished Nation in Search of an Empire
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/24/boris-johnson-dreams-anglosphere-european-union-empire-colonialism/
America remains a British colony, and is fighting in most cases British wars. China and Russia historically are British foes. Remember the Bolsheviks(Russians) killed a cousin of the British king. Basically governments are just puppets, the real power are the secret societies you refer to. And when Gold replaced silver in America as money, that marked the takeover of the US by the British Empire. One of the Rothchilds said control of money is key, they do not care who is on the throne anywhere, as long as they control the money, they are in charge.
Ultimately the political culture of the US and the UK are like chicken and egg, but, not as in the question -which comes first-, but as in the description of two different stages of the same thing, that will reproduce each other to Kingdom Come. So for us, the non-Anglos of the world it shouldn’t matter who is the colonizer and and who the colonized is among the two countries, because for us it won’t really change, not in the dynamics of domination, nor in the struggle for liberation. Understand that language and law are to political culture what longitude and latitude are to geography: they tell you where you are. I would also go as far as saying that in civilizational terms all Anglos of all colors and creeds (don’t fall into the race trap) of native speakers of the English-language who live in countries under a system of law rooted in Saxon common law, are really Englishmen and Englishmen in denial, except… for the women of course who would be Englishwomen and Englishwomen in denial: England is the root, the rest of the Anglo-sphere is the rest of the plant.
Understandably both the Brits and the gringos, and the rest don’t want to hear this, claiming this or that piece of diversity. Never been a fan of the beauty of small differences. These always tend to play into the hands of the powers that be. I prefer the contrasts stark, bold and clear.
The US is the Empire of Plowing and Plundering so all its vile acts are no surprise.
The article mentions the UK, Israel, and Saudis as core US allies. Their money and dual passport holders also have substantial control over US foreign policy.
By turning over their sovereignty to the ‘markets’ (neoliberal economics) the US and UK in effect have put themselves under the control of the corporations and their rich and powerful elites. Their military is their enforcer. The value of human life is of no value to them and their interests.
There is nothing in the West to deflect these trends. The EU keeps putting off confronting the US. The only hope I see is the coalescing multifarious East that is rising that has already checkmated the West. I personally have given up on the West (by West I mean the US and its Anglosphere and EU vassals).
Boris Johnson security state authorizing MI5 to murder, torture or kidnap people. (source: RT).
These politicians are totally out of touch with reality, don’t have any idea of who or what
they represent, and only think of their own safety, the blockage of factual matters to reach the public who has elected them on their behalf, so this is utterly corrupt.
It is supposed to be an alignment with US practices.
(So now we know who killed Seth Rich, right ?) Yeah, ultimately responsible would be Barack Obama or the Democrat Party as seeing themselves as representing the national security blocking factual matters of information to reach the people.
An interesting article, but at the end of the day, I see no advantage for he UK in being a vassal of the US over the EU, and vice-versa.
If a multi-polar world can evolve that is functional and not evil, then the Euro’s should wisely join the Russian sphere of influence and maybe this zone can extend from Spain to China. That truly would be an accomplishment, but very very tough to achieve at this point.
“If a multi-polar world can evolve that is functional and not evil, then the Euro’s should wisely join the Russian sphere of influence and maybe this zone can extend from Spain to China. That truly would be an accomplishment, but very very tough to achieve at this point.”
Yours is a beautiful vision for our suffering planet.
‘Functional’ and ‘evil’ are intrinsic to the human condition. As we well know, anyone who stands up for the higher good of his or her fellow human beings /community, is an ‘impediment’ to the objective of our global masters and is removed without mercy.
Stay true to your vision anyway
”The Tories accused Labour of using the documents to try to divert attention from the issue of antisemitism in its ranks.”
Hopefully, yes. When the Zionazis start their usual smears and slanders on subjects of absolute zero substance and relevance, bringing up something highly significant and incriminating is precisely the right thing to do. Not that the totally rotten corpse of UK and EU political institutions would have anything against ditching the NHS. With regard to the EU, Sweden is an excellent case in point with its horrendous corruption wasting staggering amounts of taxpayer money on what is nothing but a functionless ’prestige’ hospital while the standard of its national public healthcare is deteriorating year after year.
The ”choice” between the US and the EU is pure fiction. Were it not for the ascendancy of Russia and China, this entire brawl about antisemitism and Brexit would never have come about.
We are naming names wow! I love this blog. Thank you Eric Zuesse and the Saker. The wealth of information and knowledge, where can one find so much in one place.
I read somewhere that Rhodes was a freemason but wanted his own secret society that went further than them and so the creation of the round table which became the capstone of their pyramid? The illuminated ones?
You know its one thing to establish secret societies if such were meant only for the brotherhood of man as the Freemasons teach. However, when one starts to apply religious connotations to it well then it becomes something else entirely. That is why for me if not for all of us who care for the brotherhood of mankind for a boys club like them to worship an idol named ‘jahbulon’ is a sin of such magnitude that truly it can only be compared to the idolatry of Israel herself from the 6th Century BC. These people are involved in wickedness of a nature that is unequalled in the world really. I don’t understand how anyone can claim a nation to be the exceptional nation when Israel of old was or was supposed to be the exceptional nation and yet paid a terrible price for her idolatrous ways. My God have we learned nothing? Truly the dog returns to its vomit and for the world I’m afraid the hope of people like Rhodes and those who follow in his train will be one of total finality.
You know if England became great wasn’t it because of people like John Wesley and those who followed in his train converted the people from their sins to righteousness? He along with his fellow brothers were betrayed! Betrayed by the very university Oxford of all places?
How can a people so well educated with so many great schools, colleges, universities and a history like theirs and a people today so totally and completely ignorant of everything called God and religion is astounding, criminal actually? If I ever visit England which I have no desire to do it will be only to visit the grave site of Wesley and ripping up the grass with by bare fingers I’d scream towards heaven you and we have been betrayed by the money power for reasons that are just criminal really!
Please stop going off-topic. Any further will go to trash. Mod.
Rhodes? Needs to be thrown where he belongs in the dustbin of history!
And we need to return to Christ! It is the only answer!
“Europe – OBEY! Or you’ll never do business with USSA (The Planet’s BIGGEST BANKRUPT!) ever again!”
If THAT threat wasn’t so hilarious, it’d just be funny! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
My Advice To Europe? Tell the AmeriKan THUGogracy to “SHOVE IT!”
Back in 1902, the aristocrat Cecil Rhodes, an enormously successful protégé of the European Rothschild family, established The Rhodes Trust, which was based entirely upon Rhodes’s viewpoint, not on that of his Rothschild business-sponsors and investors. Rhodes’s chief agent was W.T. Stead, and page 209 of Sir Frederick Whyte, Life of W.T. Stead, v. II, Ch. 25, stated that “Rothschild would not like that, Stead objected laughingly. ‘When he reads the will and finds that I am in it also, there will be ructions!’ ‘Well,’ said Rhodes, ‘I don’t mind. I shall be gone!” (Unfortunately, only v. I can be directly downloaded online, and it is here. However, v. II can sometimes be found available second-hand online.)
I disagree with you that Cecil Rhodes was not firmly attached to and controlled by Rothschild.
After all, most of Rhodes’ 7 wills (acc. to Caroll Quiqley) trickled back into Rothschild’s control and established as well the Roundtable political establishments extension into organs RIAA, CFR for USA and so on around the british sphere of influence.
Rhodes also financed the education of their political establishment by Rhodes Scholarship , and was the basis for further extensions into similar arrangements for the planet. One find gigantic proof of corruptions of world governments and organisations that are controlled from a central core that has been greatly expanded on today. Just a few examples: Ursula von der Leyen, London School of Economics, George Soros London School of Economics, Pierre Trudeau, LSE, Bill Clinton Rhodes Scolar. The Round Table was connected to the Fabian Society who established LSE through the Coefficients Club (Fabian) frequented by everyone in the Round Table and included the nobility as well.
But you say it yourself, or rather let Rhodes say it: Stead: “Rotshcild would not like that” Rhodes: “I don’t mind. I shall be gone! ”
Meaning that someone not liked by Rothschild should not be in the wills at all, a fact recognized by Stead, but that Rhodes would be dead so he did care that much about it . I repeat that, Rhodes decided just a little bit by his own will, because it would be discovered when he was dead.
Not only financial….both Browder and Kordokovsky made personal representations to UK Defence committee to ensure their two bits of view against Russia were used to reinforce the UK Policy military narrative in lockstep with NATO.