by Eric Zuesse
The tumultuous events that dominate international news today cannot be accurately understood outside of their underlying context, which connects them together, into a broader narrative — the actual history of our time. History makes sense, even if news-reports about these events don’t. Propagandistic motivations cause such essential facts to be reported little (if at all) in the news, so that the most important matters for the public to know, get left out of news-accounts about those international events.
The purpose here will be to provide that context, for our time.
First, this essential background will be summarized; then, it will be documented (via the links that will be provided here), up till the present moment — the current news:
America’s aristocracy controls both the U.S. federal government and press, but (as will be documented later here) is facing increasing resistance from its many vassal (subordinate) aristocracies around the world (popularly called “America’s allied nations”); and this growing international resistance presents a new challenge to the U.S. military-industrial complex (MIC), which is controlled by that same aristocracy and enforces their will worldwide. The MIC is responding to the demands of its aristocratic master. This response largely drives international events today (which countries get invaded, which ones get overthrown by coups, etc.), but the ultimate driving force behind today’s international news is the aristocracy that the MIC represents, the billionaires behind the MIC, because theirs is the collective will that drives the MIC. The MIC is their collective arm, and their collective fist. It is not the American public’s global enforcer; it is the American aristocracy’s fist, around the world.
The MIC (via its military contractors such as Lockheed Martin) also constitutes a core part of the U.S. aristocracy’s wealth (the part that’s extracted from the U.S. taxpaying public via the U.S. government), and also (by means of those privately-owned contractors, plus the taxpayer-funded U.S. armed forces) it protects these aristocrats’ wealth in foreign countries. Though paid by the U.S. government, the MIC does the protection-and-enforcement jobs for the nation’s super-rich. Furthermore, the MIC is crucial to them in other ways, serving not only directly as their “policeman to the world,” but also indirectly (by that means) as a global protection-racket that keeps their many subordinate aristocracies in line, under their control — and that threatens those foreign aristocrats with encroachments against their own territory, whenever a vassal aristocracy resists the master-aristocracy’s will. (International law is never enforced against the U.S., not even after it invaded Iraq in 2003.) So, the MIC is the global bully’s fist, and the global bully is the U.S. aristocracy — America’s billionaires, most especially the controlling stockholders in the U.S.-based international corporations. These are the people the U.S. government actually represents. The links document this, and it’s essential to know, if one is to understand current events.
For the first time ever, a global trend is emerging toward declining control of the world by America’s billionaire-class — into the direction of ultimately replacing the U.S. Empire, by increasingly independent trading-blocs: alliances between aristocracies, replacing this hierarchical control of one aristocracy over another. Ours is becoming a multi-polar world, and America’s aristocracy is struggling mightily against this trend, desperate to continue remaining the one global imperial power — or, as U.S. President Barack Obama often referred to the U.S. government, “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come.” To America’s aristocrats, all other nations than the U.S. are “dispensable.” All American allies have to accept it. This is the imperial mindset, both for the master, and for the vassal. The uni-polar world can’t function otherwise. Vassals must pay (extract from their nation’s public, and then transfer) protection-money, to the master, in order to be safe — to retain their existing power, to exploit their given nation’s public.
The recently growing role of economic sanctions (more accurately called “Weaponization of finance”) by the United States and its vassals, has been central to the operation of this hierarchical imperial system, but is now being increasingly challenged from below, by some of the vassals. Alliances are breaking up over America’s mounting use of sanctions, and new alliances are being formed and cemented to replace the imperial system — replace it by a system without any clear center of global power, in the world that we’re moving into. Economic sanctions have been the U.S. empire’s chief weapon to impose its will against any challengers to U.S. global control, and are thus becoming the chief locus of the old order’s fractures.
This global order cannot be maintained by the MIC alone; the more that the MIC fails (such as in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, …), the more that economic sanctions rise to become the essential tool of the imperial masters. We are increasingly in the era of economic sanctions. And, now, we’re entering the backlash-phase of it.
A turning-point in escalating the weaponization of finance was reached in February 2014 when a Ukrainian coup that the Obama Administration had started planning by no later than 2011, culminated successfully in installing a rabidly anti-Russian government on Russia’s border, and precipitated the breakaway from Ukraine of two regions (Crimea and Donbass) that had voted overwhelmingly for the man the U.S. regime had just overthrown. This coup in Ukraine was the most direct aggressive act against Russia since the Cold War had ‘ended’ (it had actually ended on the Russian side, but not on the American side, where it continues) in 1991. During this coup in Kiev, on February 20th of 2014, hundreds of Crimeans, who had been peacefully demonstrating there with placards against this coup (which coup itself was very violent — against the police, not by them — the exact opposite of the way that “the Maidan demonstrations” had been portrayed in the Western press at the time), were attacked by the U.S.-paid thugs and scrambled back into their buses to return home to Crimea but were stopped en-route in central Ukraine and an uncounted number of them were massacred in the Ukrainian town of Korsun by the same group of thugs who had chased them out of Kiev.
This massacre didn’t play well on local Crimean television. Immediately, a movement to secede and to again become a part of Russia started, and spread like wildfire in Crimea. (Crimea had been only involuntarily transferred from Russia to Ukraine by the Soviet dictator Khrushchev in 1954; it had been part of Russia for the hundreds of years prior to 1954. It was culturally Russian.) The residents of Crimea were terrified; they pleaded for protection by the Russian government. Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, said that if they’d vote for it in a referendum, then Russia would accept them back into the Russian Federation and provide them protection as Russian citizens. On 6 March 2014, U.S. President Obama issued “Executive Order — Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine”, and ignored the internationally recognized-in-law right of self-determination of peoples (though he recognized that right in Catalonia and in Scotland), and he instead simply declared that Ukraine’s “sovereignty” over Crimea was sacrosanct (even though it had been imposed upon Crimeans by the Soviet dictator — America’s enemy — in 1954, during the Soviet era, when America opposed, instead of favored and imposed, dictatorship around the world, except in Iran and Guatemala, where America imposed dictatorships even that early). Obama’s Executive Order was against unnamed “persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine.” He insisted that the people who had just grabbed control of Ukraine and massacred Crimeans (his own Administration’s paid far-right Ukrainian thugs, who were racist anti-Russians), must be allowed to rule Crimea, regardless of what Crimeans (traditionally a part of Russia) might — and did — want.
America’s vassal aristocracies then imposed their own sanctions against Russia when on 16 March 2014 Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to rejoin the Russian Federation.
Thus started the successive rounds of economic sanctions against Russia, by the U.S. government and its vassal-nations. (As is shown by that link, they knew that this had been a coup and no authentic ‘democratic revolution’ such as the Western press was portraying it to have been, and yet they kept quiet about it — a secret their public would not be allowed to know.)
The latest round of these sanctions was imposed not by Executive Order from a U.S. President, but instead by a new U.S. law, “H.R.3364 — Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act”, which in July 2017 was passed by 98-2 in the Senate and 419-3 in the House, and which not only stated outright lies (endorsed there by virtually everyone in Congress), but which was backed up by lies from the U.S. Intelligence Community that were accepted and endorsed totally uncritically by 98 Senators and 419 Representatives. (One might simply assume that all of those Senators and Representatives were ignorant of the way things work and were not intentionally lying in order to vote for these lies from the Intelligence Community, but these people actually wouldn’t have wrangled their ways into Congress and gotten this far at the game if they hadn’t already known that the U.S. Intelligence Community is designed not only to inform the President but to help him to deceive the public and therefore can’t be trusted by anyone but the President. It’s basic knowledge about the U.S. government, and they know it, though the public don’t.)
The great independent columnist Paul Craig Roberts headlined on August 1st, “Trump’s Choices” and argued that President Donald Trump should veto the bill despite its overwhelming support in Washington, but instead Trump signed it into law on August 2nd and thus joined participation in the overt stage — the Obama stage — of the U.S. government’s continuation of the Cold War that U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush had secretly instituted against Russia on 24 February 1990, and that, under Obama, finally escalated into a hot war against Russia. The first phase of this hot war against Russia is via the “Weaponization of finance” (those sanctions). However, as usual, it’s also backed up by major increases in physical weaponry, and by the cooperation of America’s vassals in order to surround Russia with nuclear weapons near and on Russia’s borders, in preparation for a possible blitz first-strike nuclear attack upon Russia — preparations that the Russian people know about and greatly fear, but which are largely hidden by the Western press, and therefore only very few Westerners are aware that their own governments have become lying aggressors.
Some excellent news-commentaries have been published about this matter, online, by a few ‘alternative news’ sites (and that ‘alt-news’ group includes all of the reliably honest news-sites, but also includes unfortunately many sites that are as dishonest as the mainstream ones are — and that latter type aren’t being referred to here), such as (and only the best sites and articles will be linked-to on this):
“Moon of Alabama,” headlining on August 6th “New Sanctions Against Russia — A Failure Of U.S. Strategy”; and, the next day,
“Brandon Turbeville,” bannering “U.S. Sanctions Bill Adds More Targets To The List; U.S. Set To Sanction Itself Into Isolation”; and, on August 8th,
“Viable Opposition,” headlining “Who Is Being Hurt By America’s Anti-Iran Sanctions or How American Companies are Losing in Iran”.
All three of those articles discuss how these new sanctions are driving other nations to separate themselves, more and more, away from the economic grip of the U.S. aristocracy, and to form instead their own alliances with one-another, so as to defend themselves, collectively, from U.S. economic (if not also military) aggression.
Major recent news-developments on this, have included (all here from rt dot com):
July 29th, “Trade war? EU ready for economic counter-sanctions if US anti-Russia bill signed – top officials”.
July 31st, “Berlin calls for retaliation against ‘illegal’ US sanctions on Russia”.
August 3rd, “US sanctions won’t stop Russia’s pipeline project to Europe – analysts”.
August 8th, “Europe needs to fend off expensive American gas – German energy major”.
However, perhaps the best representative example of this phenomenon (the breaking-down of the U.S.-dominant system of alliances), is one of the long-time traditional U.S. allies, the Philippine aristocracy, now turning away from the U.S. aristocracy and rejecting the U.S. aristocracy’s control. On 22 May 2017, RT headlined “‘US, EU meddle in other countries & kill people under guise of human rights concerns’ – Duterte”, and presented Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte explaining why he rejects the U.S. aristocracy’s hypocritical pronouncements and condemnations regarding its vassals among the world’s poorer and struggling nations, such as his.
Of course, none of this information is publishable in the West — in the Western ‘democracies’. It’s ‘fake news’, as far as The Empire is concerned. So, if you’re in The (now declining) Empire, you’re not supposed to be reading this. That’s why the mainstream ‘news’ media (to all of which this article is being submitted for publication, without fee, for any of them that want to break their existing corrupt mold) don’t publish this sort of news — ‘fake news’ (that’s of the solidly documented type, such as this). You’ll see such news reported only in the few honest newsmedia.
The rule for the aristocracy’s ‘news’ media is: report what happened, only on the basis of the government’s lies as to why it happened — never expose such lies (the official lies). What’s official is ‘true’. That, too, is an essential part of the imperial system.
The front cover of the American aristocracy’s TIME magazine’s Asian edition, dated September 25, 2016, had been headlined “Night Falls on the Philippines: The tragic cost of President Duterte’s war on drugs”. The ‘news’-story, which was featured inside not just the Asian but all editions, was “Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War On Drugs”, and it portrayed Duterte as a far-right demagogue who was giving his nation’s police free reign to murder anyone they wished to, especially the poor. On 17 July 2017, China’s Xinhua News Agency bannered “Philippines’ Duterte enjoys high approval rating at 82 percent: poll”, and reported: “A survey by Pulse Asia Inc. conducted from June 24 to June 29 showed that 82 percent of the 1,200 people surveyed nationwide approved the way Duterte runs the country. Out of all the respondents, the poll said 13 percent were undecided about Duterte’s performance, while 5 percent disapproved Duterte’s performance. … Duterte, who assumed the presidency in June last year, ends his single, six-year term in 2022.” Obviously, it’s not likely that the TIME cover story had actually been honest.
But, of course, America’s billionaires are even more eager to overthrow Russia’s President, Putin.
Western polling firms can freely poll Russians, and do poll them on lots but not on approval or disapproval of President Putin, because he always scores above 80%, and America’s aristocrats also don’t like finding that confirmed, and certainly don’t want to report it. Polling is routinely done in Russia, by Russian pollsters, on voters’ ratings of approval/disapproval of Putin’s performance. Because America’s aristocrats don’t like the findings, they say that Russians are in such fear of Putin they don’t tell the truth about this, or else that Russia’s newsmedia constantly lie about him to cover up the ugly reality about him. However, the Western academic journal Post-Soviet Affairs (which is a mainstream Western publication) included in their January/February 2017 issue a study, “Is Putin’s Popularity Real?” and the investigators reported the results of their own poll of Russians, which was designed to tap into whether such fear exists and serves as a distorting factor in those Russian polls, but concluded that the findings in Russia’s polls could not be explained by any such factor; and that, yes, Putin’s popularity among Russians is real. The article’s closing words were: “Our results suggest that the main obstacle at present to the emergence of a widespread opposition movement to Putin is not that Russians are afraid to voice their disapproval of Putin, but that Putin is in fact quite popular.”
The U.S. aristocracy’s efforts to get resistant heads-of-state overthrown by ‘democratic revolutions’ (which usually is done by the U.S. government to overthrow democratically elected Presidents — such as Mossadegh, Arbenz, Allende, Zelaya, Yanukovych, and attempted against Assad, and wished against Putin, and against Duterte — not overthrowing dictators such as the U.S. government always claims) have almost consistently failed, and therefore coups and invasions have been used instead, but those techniques demand that certain realities be suppressed by their ‘news’ media in order to get the U.S. public to support what the government has done — the U.S. government’s international crime, which is never prosecuted. Lying ‘news’ media in order to ‘earn’ the American public’s support, does not produce enthusiastic support, but, at best, over the long term, it produces only tepid support (support that’s usually below the level of that of the governments the U.S. overthrows).
U.S. Presidents never score above 80% except when they order an invasion in response to a violent attack by foreigners, such as happened when George W. Bush attacked Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of 9/11, but those 80%+ approval ratings fade quickly; and, after the 1960s, U.S. Presidential job-approvals have generally been below 60%. President Trump’s ratings are currently around 40%.
Although Trump is not as conservative — not as far-right — as the U.S. aristocracy wants him to be, he is fascist; just not enough to satisfy them (and their opposition isn’t because he’s unpopular among the public; it’s more the case that he’s unpopular largely because their ‘news’ media concentrate on his bads, and distort his goods to appear bad — e.g., suggesting that he’s not sufficiently aggressive against Russia). His fascism on domestic affairs is honestly reported in the aristocracy’s ‘news’ media, which appear to be doing all they can to get him replaced by his Vice President, Mike Pence. What’s not reported by their media is the fascism of the U.S. aristocracy itself, and of their international agenda (global conquest). That’s their secret, of which their public must be (and is) constantly kept ignorant.
America’s aristocracy has almost as much trouble controlling its domestic public as it has controlling its foreign vassals.
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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.
A typical (((Eric Zuesse))) contribution — not one mention of the globalist aristocracy seeking to control the world *cough*JewishSupremacists*cough*.
CTRL + F “Israel”? That’s a negative, captain.
CTRL + F “Zionist”? That’s still a negative, capt’.
CTRL + F “Bank”? No, sir.
Hmmm, aha!
CTRL + F “finance”? Lol. Okay, we finally get a hit.
Apparently the “weaponization of finance” only began in 2014, according to Eric. This writer always engages in severe misdirection. I suppose, in his defense, you could argue that “US Aristocracy” might be a euphemism — but then what about these so-called “vassal aristocracies”? As far as I’m aware, they’re all controlled by Zionism as-well, especially in Europe. So why would the US Zionists be fighting the European Zionists?
One final note on Zuice’s misdirection…
“But, of course, America’s billionaires are even more eager to overthrow Russia’s President, Putin.”
The real aristocracy is worth trillions, not billions, so once again Eric is redirecting our focus from the true enemy.
I agree with you about the”misdirection”
In the last article I read by Zeuasse he blamed middle east terrorism on Sunni Muslims misdirecting readers completely away from the Zionist creation of a global terrorist network.
Now here –
“U.S. Presidents never score above 80% except when they order an invasion in response to a violent attack by foreigners, such as happened when George W. Bush attacked Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of 9/11”
9/11 a violent attack by foreigners?
Is there a thinking person out there anywhere who doesn’t know that the twin towers and building seven were demolished with explosives?
Everyone with half a brain knows who put the bombs in the 3 buildings. It took months of work to wire it all up. It is equally obvious who profited mightily from it.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it
@Alfred (Melbourne)
You, inhabitant within the walls of the empire, hiding between the legs of Smaug, profited from September 11th most of all.
The BRICS, oil nations coming off the dollar, Total Oil coming off the dollar, the Euro becoming the worlds new reserve and the worlds biggest economy, China unifying the Eurasian space. If the dollar continued to fall from use on that rapid trajectory, and that false flag had not happened, right now the US would be in a state of civil war, the same but much bigger than what we now see in Venezuela, or have started an all out world war before it fell too far. And Australia would similarly be in pieces, and conducting a massive economic, political shift towards Eurasia.
Who benefits from being a serf within the gates of the keep? We do.
The debate is nopt ‘Who is to blame’ but ‘How do we uncouple from this edifice on which we in the ‘west” plus Oz and Japan depend for everything without either a big war or the walls falling on us?
I agree with your observation, Flonerd: it’s too bad Eric doesn’t call a spade a spade. At the same time, I have to say that I do very much enjoy Eric Zuesse’s writings in general, the courage of his pro-Russian views and unique investigative skills (great job about exposing the Neocons’/Ziocon’s shenanigans in Ukraine). Eric obviously knows that other authors whom he cites and respects, e.g. Paul Craig Roberts and Moon of Alabama, are critics of Zionism. The fact that he does not shy away from quoting them shows that he’s aware of the problem. Yet Eric very rarely mentions the Z. word. It may in part be imputed to strategy: persuade a larger mainstream (including moderate Jewish) audience, for whom the Z. word smacks (erroneously) of antisemitism: I remember about five years ago, when I had my own red pill moment, I had trouble using the Z. word myself, because it felt so wrong: I had to look up the definition of ‘Zionism’ in several dictionaries and encyclopedias before getting used to using the word without thinking of myself as a xenophobe. In part, the truth be told, Zuesse’s own Jewish identity may be responsible for blinding him to the paramount position Zionism occupies in the United States’ MIC and deep state. Eric Zuesse’s own case, a man I great respect, shows how even the bravest, insightful minds have trouble disentangling themselves from their own tribal roots. This is really tragic. If if it is hard for Eric, just imagine how harder it must be for other ordinary people of Jewish descent who don’t know what’s going on, other than passively absorbing the propaganda churned out by AIPAC and the like, to realize that what they think is sacred is in actuality one of the world’s greatest calamities in the past hundred years.
@ Flonerd
Being direct, that is a really shallow comment. The Jews / moneylenders are a very small part in fueling the greed and destruction of general humanity committed by millions upon millions of willing anglo,saxon etc participants.
His use of the word ‘Aristocracy’ should both interest you and illustrate what I mean. Formation of the last aristocracy in Europe was an intended consequence of the Protestant ‘reformation’ of which there is a chance you are a successor and unapologetic diehard, or your parents were, 450 years later. That reformation / redistribution was identical to the current one whereby, under the existential threat meme, a few in power seized the land, material and cultural wealth held in trust for the people, subjugating and enslaving the masses and setting them against one another.
We are watching a classic Anglo Saxon power grab of the rights and wealth of their own citizenry, with the principle jockeying being among the neo-aristocrats at the top table and for acquisitions abroad. This is what and who Trump is. Russia is an Abbey, not exactly stain free, and this provides a pretext for raiding it, burning the gold off its manuscripts, smashing its imagery, hanging its priests and delivering its melted chalices and ciborium’s to the feet of the king.
The Jews are opportunists among these brutal people, and always have been.
This is all about the formation of an untouchable aristocracy, not the Jews alone. Tell me, who will make the decisions in a one world government, when you are asked to vote pitting your interests in eg Winconsin against the wishes of the Bangladeshi’s? Go ask the un-elected neo-aristocrats of the EU’s Council.
Simple question. Who owns the media? Who owns the FED? Who owns the banks? Who owns Hollywood? Who owns trough shell companies most of the so called western companies? Who are the Neocons? The point is, your comment is a distraction. Yes we can agree that there is some people which is probably not Jewish in a sense of jewish racial laws. But these people you mentioned are like minded people and embedded in a zionist network. They support openly Jewish supremacy called Zioinism. You dont understand who is the goyim and who is the choosen one. Your comments of an anglo saxon power grab is rubbish considering the fact that Washington is completely controlled by ZOG as we can witness every day.
Well, Washington is controlled by ZOG and many, many other interested parties, like pharma, agri business etc, both of whom are more deadly to you personally than ZOG.
I am saying that it is convenient to point the finger at a single group all of whose whose activities you are a massive beneficiary of (presuming you are an American or westener) within the empire. The vast empire, resources and personel of the MIC are not all Jews. Most of them are like you. And most of the people at the top are NOT Jews. They were 2 of the five founders of the Fed. They are part of the power problem, not it entirely.
We fail to address the problem in our own society if we externalize it. Hilary Clinton, as an anglo saxon, chose to facilitate all that is evil in the world, including subverting Jews, marxists, businesses etc.
@Proper Gander
Now you’re engaging misdirection on misdirection.
London has been controlled by Zionist banksters since at least the Napoleonic wars. I’ll leave you with this tidbit — guess who financed Cromwell’s revolution? And guess who always finances so-called revolution.
You need to take a closer look at things ;)
@ flonerd
It takes more than a loan from a jew to lop off a kings head. It takes the initial wish to do so, before the loan is arranged. You are blaming those that aide and abet evil as being of greater blame than the perpetrator of an evil act. It is as if all men would be sinless if it were not for the jews lending money.
The great error (singular) of the Jews is the rejection of their own prophets and finally their own Messiah and, related to this, attempting to formulate the teachings of the Messiah – the brotherhood of man and the commonality of resources – into a political manifesto (Maxism) while excluding the role of divine grace and a higher moral authority. I think we can blame them for that, to their great pity.
But to blame a banker for Europes aristocrats enslaving their own people and throwing them at each other in wars is an artful piece of self deception?
Who was it that nailed the hands of 11 year old boys to Glasgow mill tables for failing to complete their 16 hour shifts. It wasn’t a devil, or the devil. It was the exercise of unrestrained human free will. We are all capable of it.
You are baking a misdirection cake and sticking a strawman on top :D When did I let any shill or puppet off the hook? I am highlighting where the author misdirects on the main problem of Jewish International finance and their search for supremacy, an issue he always singularly avoids. Redirecting the discussion back to the so-called “Western aristocracies” is a discussion about a meaningless, phantom conflict.
By all means wear the horse-shirt and keep self-flagellating over the crimes of the gentiles — I’m going to keep my focus on those who have destroyed nation after nation. These international financiers are fighting a cultural war using debt as a weapon of enslavement — they take complete control over a host culture and then engage in rapacious destruction.
The US and Europe are Zionist Occupied Governments. This means that the lawmakers, the money makers and the culture makers are all in thrall to the needs and whims of Zionism. The mainstream media is a massive manipulation machine used to herd the sheople into destroying themselves — just ask Edward Bernays, nephew of the “Freud dude”. He spelt it out, plain and simple.
For example, most recently this massive manipulation machine got us all into the so-called “War on Terror” — this entire enterprise was implemented by Zionists for Zionists. The whole thing is a giant, deadly fabrication that continues to this day. In the meantime trillions are siphoned off by the giant magic-money making machine, and most of us dumb, stupid goy will never notice. In fact in most Western countries is it now a crime to point out the real aristocracy ;)
The author is playing with shadow puppets; he always does this in his articles.
I’ll leave you with another tidbit — do you know who ran the main enterprises of the British Empire? For example, the slave trade or, say, the opium trade that destroyed China? These guys weren’t just waiting in their offices, they were out there running things, infiltrating institutions, changing laws and cultures for their own ends. Sure they even betrayed Germany and brought the US into the First World War. And if you read the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, they were up to their necks in such conspiracies throughout the 19th Century as well.
I’m ramblin’. We’ll never agree on this one. I think you are misguided to pursue a narrative that purports to examine schisms in Western “aristocracies”. The West is run by Zionists with a massive cultural and financial noose around the necks of every one of us.
You are looking for excuses, Flonerd. Sure, the jews have a political idea of the Messiah, and dream of and work towards a territorial post Messiah power structure rather than a spiritual one. But they are not that powerful, and never have been. Moneylenders are only ever one default away from losing their shirt – or as history shows, their land.
But your line of thinking will never, and I mean will never never, come close to solving the current, past and future geopolitical problems if you do not first acknowledge the fallen nature of all humanity, and that the battlefields of Gettysberg and Persepolis, the slave trade and the cottonfield owner, the legislator, abortionist and the woman, the lender and the warmonger, the porn magnate, the actor and the viewer all fail the test, each in their way.
The article is right in its limited scope – that there is a war among the neo aristocrats, as Trump demonstrates: a man who was otherwise completely excluded from the top tier of billionaires by reason of his cultureless belligerent stupidity has catapulted himself onto the top table. Among them are a good few Jewish (and other) bankers, plus people like Berlosconi, a few Chinese, Russians, Hungarians, Africans. Every creed and colour with a common fallible character when presented with a moral choice.
And you keep looking in the wrong places ;)
Jews are THAT powerful. They own the US and Europe governments and all its branches (education, Courts, FED, etc) and of course the media!
((( The Tribe))) is the ” decider” . Their wealthy Shabbos Goys are their servants too.
It is not called the “Anglo-Zionist alliance” for nothing by the Saker, among others.
I use a wider definition which is the “Western-Zionist alliance”.
The Western elite and their supporters in the West are in a clear “alliance” with the Zionist Jews and other non-Jewish Zionists…We are talking about anyone who identifies himself as a Zionist Jew, regardless of them being originally a Jew or not.
Any writer or thinker who does not clearly identify, define and connect this issue with the situation in which the world finds itself in is either (1) afraid to speak/write this truth or is (2) in a state of denial.
If this truth is a major point and a key factor that is driving many issues in the world today, can a writer/thinker/scholar who omits this point still be considered trustworthy or reliable? Can we still retrieve valuable information from such a person ?
This is up to the reader to decide.
Just remember that unfortunately we are living in a time where people all around the world are afraid to speak the truth for whatever reason.
Trump is not a fascist. A very stupid remark utterly diminishing the article.
And the rest of the piece wanders about aimlessly hoping to land on some island of cogency.
Weak stuff for the Vineyard’s high standards.
Well, he’s not exactly an anti-fascist either — that would have made him a total pariah to his Exceptional and Indispensable Pindo society of morbidly obese übermenschen. War-monger, fear-monger, racist bigot — it’s fun he doesn’t get the Ziomedia’s unstinting approval.
He is, if one is so impolite as to quibble about detail, T Man is a parasitic apparatchik to fascist enterprise, ie he has walked in footsteps of exploitative class that, generally, sucks and deposits via graft with the primary fascists.The definition being that of el Dulce, mergine state and corporation. He and his family feeds off the detritus from this mechanism…so, ok, he’s not a fascist.
Walks with them. Close ‘nuf. It’s not science, Comrade. It’s chatter.
The overall thesis seems to revolve ’round the gradual assertion of economic and political self-interests among the several servile and occupied states and the elites the support them – the krauts being a prime example….
In this, his perception seems to be solid. They do rebel…do they not?
Later…
LZ
@solon
“Trump is not a fascist”
Fascism is the unification of state (including monetary) and corporate power.
In what way does he resist this? is he not a part of this?
One example will do.
“The ‘news’-story, which was featured inside not just the Asian but all editions, was ‘Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War On Drugs’ , and it portrayed Duterte as a far-right demagogue who was giving his nation’s police free reign to murder anyone they wished to, especially the poor.”
Sounds quite interesting. Far-right demagogues giving carte blanche to armed thugs against downtrodden and oppressed people are a dime a dozen among Western stooges worldwide. Must be quite amusing to Duterte hearing the Ziomedia condemn him for allegedly doing what a Western colonial government always does to deserve its foreign sponsorship. Most likely, he should feel quite tempted to reply:
“That’s right. And I’m working to take my country into the Sino-Russian orbit as a conscious and overt anti-poor government line. China and Russia don’t promote poverty in their partner countries, if that’s what you mean by being an enemy of the poor.”
” /…/ during the Soviet era, when America opposed, instead of favored and imposed, dictatorship around the world, except in Iran and Guatemala, where America imposed dictatorships even that early.”
Pindo genocidal rule predates the 1950s by a very long shot. Started right at home to continue in the Philippines and Latin America. The US saw to it that Spain and Portugal remained fascist for 30 long years after 1945; tormented by Franco and Salazar. And waged the genocidal terror war against the Korean people, propping up their despicable fascist puppet Syngman Rhee.
I served in the US military during the Cold War. I was a true believer, in that America was almost always the good guy and was almost always trying to do the right thing. The way that America abused its power in the years since 1991 has forced me to re-assess the validity of that belief. Still, I believe that America was better than the alternatives, when it was being challenged by a viable competitor in worldly matters. So, I want the world to become a multi-polar planet just as much, albeit for different reasons, than those who regret the demise of the Soviet Union.
All that said, I also believe that this writer is deluded to think that the ‘deep-state’, Zionist, globalist, military industrial complex, etc. are going to give up any measure of the control that they have over the 34 nations that make up the OECD. Nor are they in any danger of being forced to do so. All the populist political movements in Europe and South America and here in the USA have been crippled or co-opted by this ‘aristocracy’, as it is called by this writer.
It will take a great and sustained effort, led by a great political entity whose own aristocracy is will to make great sacrifices and to take great risks to their own lives and personal fortunes, in order to change the balance of power in the world from what it is now. So far, not even Putin and the oligarchs who remain loyal to him are ready to take that risk and face the consequences of failure. The Xi Jinping and his princelings in China are not ready either.
In my estimation, only the movement to create a Second Caliphate -economically as weak as they are- is demonstrating such a commitment. If you recall the incredible sacrifices made by the Russians in their effort to beat back the Nazis, and before that the years of suffering imposed upon the Russian people by the Bolsheviks in their effort to create a “model society”, you can get a sense of the effort that will be required to take down the one-world / new world order.
The desire of the Crimeans to reunite with Russia is not new. The Crimeans asked the Ukraine government for independence immediately following the separation of Ukraine from the USSR. The request was rejected. The issue was always unresolved until the Ukro-Nazi coup forced the situation. The ‘exceptionalist’ ahistorical USA totally ignored the Crimean position. I guess this just confirms the fact that the US oligarchs see countries simply as a combination of resources for plunder and a leader, compliant or otherwise.
They voted for it twice from 1991 until they separated in 2014, following that third vote.
Thus, three elections, thrice they wanted to go back home to Mother.
Putin enabled their return.
Then there are aristocracies that don’t consider themselves as vassals of the US. But who make the fatal error of letting their economies depend a lot on the US. They always end “paying a price” for that foolish move. Its coming time for China to realize their mistake:
https://www.rt.com/usa/399601-us-china-copyright-trade/
When you “dance with the devil” there is always a price to pay.
do you know that more than 50% of all patents/IPs are filed in China in the previous years?
google it.
the price will be paid by US companies that will be denied access to the 1.35 BILLION
big chinese marketplace.
and maybe all countries worldwide start nationalizing US-owned factories.
those are ill-gotten gains anyways, bought/built with printed debt money.
3 trillion dollar denominated bills in the Chinese foreign reserves bank account is quite a big calculated counter balance to that risk. It is the Chinese ‘assured mutual destruction’ arsenal.
Of course, if they sell those into the ‘open’ market (other peripheral central banks would have to try to absorb them / buy them up to prevent hyper inflation at the core/ US dollar) for aggressive reasons, you already know that war is going to happen.
I see the neo cons trying to push the Chinese into a position where they must sell their dollar bills for internal financial reasons, eg to prop up their economy and currency from aggressive international shorting, or to fund a war eg Korea and India, so that the dollar counter-arsenal is reduced. Korea-India border issues are the US’s attempts to pull China into the equivalent of an Afghanistan. Financially, not militarily ruinous.
Otherwise China’s debt is perfectly manageable, given their trade surplus.
China government debt is internal, unlike the US debt which is held external (due to world reserve currency status), mostly in China, Japan, Germany, Oil producing states. Much of the US aggression and policy is based on protecting the US dollar, as the elite do not want to loose the ‘privilege’ of the US reserve currency money printing press. When combined with a MIIC economy (the US economy is largely based weapon/war/intel based), one can see US has multiple reasons for war and to pressure compliance from its debt holders. What holds this together is the US allows foreign investment in US stock markets – 100% tax free. This keeps Wall Street purring along for the most part. It makes US company’s way over valued in the markets as well.
China mostly, Russia to a lesser extent are disconnecting slowly from the US dollar hegemony, and the elite are basically threatening to ‘knock over the whole table’ – war – to prevent that. A mess really. As this plays out US allies will move to the ‘other’ side, to avoid going down with the ship. The US will kick, scream and threaten them, but will ultimately fail, then the US dollar will no longer be the global reserve.
My guess is we will see this in the next five years, the elite will find a new printing press elsewhere, and the US will experience first hand, third world economics.
very good article – thanks Eric Zeusse – and Saker for posting it –
I object to describing the criminals who run our Western world as an “Aristocracy” (power to best). The ancient Greeks had more suitable designations: Plutocracy (power to the wealthy) or Kleptocracy (power to the thieves); or, if you prefer a more neutral word, Oligarchy (rule by a few). Aristocracy has connotations of “noblesse oblige”: honour, courage, leadership, loyalty, good taste; qualities of which our current Western rulers are totally devoid. Their god is Mammon and their Gospel is Greed.
“Greek is like lace: a gentleman gets as much of it as he can”. — Dr. Samuel Johnson
The aristocracy has always been corrupt. It has never been ‘the best’. You’ve been suckered by them.
In previous eras, they corruptly received not only lands to rule over, but titles, and passed those on corruptly to their heirs, who never earned those things and in most cases earned nothing — it was all inherited, both the wealth and the titles. Without corruption, no aristocracy can exist. You’ve been fooled.
First-generation super-wealth is usually ‘earned’ by legal crimes, or else by illegal crimes that weren’t prosecuted. All inherited wealth is unearned, and the passage of a parent’s wealth to his and her children is the basis for rigidifying a nation’s class-structure and for concentrating more and more wealth among fewer and fewer people. No one can respect the aristocracy and believe in democracy. Anyone who respects the aristocracy respects unprosecuted criminality.
@ Dr. NG Maroudas
‘Greek is like lace: a gentleman gets as much of it as he can.’
Dr. Johnson’s wit and satire is often lost on the non-English. The pun here is knowing that English people hate learning foreign languages, even in his day, don’t care for foreign cultures, including Classical except if there is loot for a stately home, mock men who wear lace, and by ‘lace’ is referring to ‘a bit of skirt’.
It is very witty only because it states exactly the opposite of your contention, namely, that without compunction, by guile, theft, deception and force, an English gentleman takes what is not on offer.
@propergander. You have caught me out, I must confess to being British but not English. However, Gutenberg online Boswell Life of Johnson, note [77] to Chapter 4:23 reads: “It should be remembered, that this was … written in 1799, when lace was very generally worn.” (to show that one was a gentleman).
I suppose the modern view would be more like this: ‘Greek and Latin,’ said Porson, ‘are only luxuries.’
Which reminds me that another mark of the aristocrat is respect for tradition. In contrast, our modern masters assure us, “History is bunk. This is the end of history – from now on you will live only in an endless consumerist present”.
I agree with your original comment that the title ‘aristocrat’ for this set is wrongly applied, and also that this tallies with your second point – that everything is being ripped apart, even roots and meanings and traditions of words.
Bosworth is not right, in my view. The press at the time of this quote would have been full of Lord Elgin’s attempts to legally lay his hands on the marble figures of the Parthenon, which he did 2 years later in 1801. At this time is was a sign of a gentleman to fill his new pile built on the profits of Imperial plunder, with stolen artifacts from the classical world. Everyone was vying for the greatest collections.
Perhaps the triple trickery of Johnson’s saying hints more at that characteristic of the English aristocracy – to have fun taking what is not yours – than at contemporary dress to which he is also alluding. In this sense the Anglo ‘aristocracy’ and their historical behavior does suit the US neo-cons.
I am from the international and American aristocracy both by birth As such I have been US deep state targeted to be killed as close to a normal death as possible, my children, if any, the same way, kept from ever returning to my state of birth, Netherlands. My 2 sons 100% American but by Dutch law, fully eligible through me for Dutch passports. Since when it was discovered late my sons were doing well, peparing to enter the world, the youngest was followed and watched carefully as his new profession scared the US Deep State. Art, documentaries, photographs, the technical tools of the graphic arts. He had grades of Summa Cum Laude all through his ten years at SCAD in Savannah, GA, USA.Scad campus fronts on the Gulf of Mexico and he was photographing daily when the BP oil rupture happened, his choice of documentary for a further degree was a documentary called Project 54 (51?)about the alliens from outer space. Both criminalised projects unknown unlawful to normal citizens.
He was killed, poisoned with 12 heavy metals in his food. He was dead in 2014, the autopsy was not returned from the laboratory until three months later.Older son and family ready to move here last Sept. denied his US Passport in Sept 2016. His one son autistic from medication a shrink gave his pregnant mother. US need security the family line would be disrupted if not destroyed.
The serious attempts to kill me using the brain chip happened in 2015, 2016.
An interactive Brain chip was inserted in my brain 2012.
I surmise it was expected I would return to the US. Both sons still alive.
I disagree that the European aristocracy is facsist. Our European famiy goes back to the year 500 in Ireland, a chief’s family. There are many such dynasties across Europe holding Europe’s histories within their archives. Archives the US has been stealing and rewriting since the end of WW11 if not
before. Duttch archives have been altered as have the Japanese ones.
The European aristocracies deny the US aristocracies because the United States aristocracies are
not real at all. Simple.
I don’t get it, Suzanne.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think anyone should be killed for producing ANY documentary, but who needs ANY of these hereditary”aristocracies” ?
They are “the best”?…..rule by the best……
They can be relied upon to do “what is best” for all humanity??
Experience indicates the opposite.
Not that some nobility haven’t been truly noble.
But “noble” birth is ZERO guarantee of noble character. I’d say it’s more of a serious handicap, in that regard.
Some other form of “REAL” is what counts, IMHO.
“The tumultuous events that dominate international news today cannot be accurately understood outside of their underlying context, which connects them together, into a broader narrative — the actual history of our time. History makes sense, even if news-reports about these events don’t. Propagandistic motivations cause such essential facts to be reported little (if at all) in the news, so that the most important matters for the public to know, get left out of news-accounts about those international events.”
I didn’t get further than this opening paragraph. I read it three times, just to make sure that it was real. Brain stultifying stuff. History’, is made by human beings. People, that is, living, dynamic,warm people, (if you are cold you are a corpse, dead.) I don’t know about the rest of the article, but this paragraph was not alive by the time I got to it.
This is a weird article. Lots of pretty good analysis of the crumbling American empire, but a bizarre blindspot regarding Russia. It’s like the mirror image of the American corporate media.