ARE WE WITNESSING THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES: ‘Has the Battle for America Begun?’ – “What is unique about this analysis is the author’s contention that the U.S. is being used unwittingly by the European-based financial powers for their own purposes. They know that the U.S. economy is bankrupt, because they have made it so through a quarter century of financial manipulations that have destroyed our manufacturing base and left us horrendously in debt. Now they have suckered us into the last thing we need—a major Asian land war that threatens to bring Russia and perhaps China into the fray. But that’s all right, because once we have exhausted ourselves and courted nuclear retaliation, Europe, which is uniting under the European Union, will likely be left standing, as will Israel…”
Subject: ARE WE WITNESSING THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES: ‘Has the Battle for America Begun?’ – “What is unique about this analysis is the author’s contention that the U.S. is being used unwittingly by the European-based financial powers for their own purposes. They know that the U.S. economy is bankrupt, because they have made it so through a quarter century of financial manipulations that have destroyed our manufacturing base and left us horrendously in debt. Now they have suckered us into the last thing we need—a major Asian land war that threatens to bring Russia and perhaps China into the fray. But that’s all right, because once we have exhausted ourselves and courted nuclear retaliation, Europe, which is uniting under the European Union, will likely be left standing, as will Israel…”
THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES: ‘Has the Battle for America Begun?’ – “What is unique about this analysis is the author’s contention that the U.S. is being used unwittingly by the European-based financial powers for their own purposes. They know that the U.S. economy is bankrupt, because they have made it so through a quarter century of financial manipulations that have destroyed our manufacturing base and left us horrendously in debt. Now they have suckered us into the last thing we need—a major Asian land war that threatens to bring Russia and perhaps China into the fray. But that’s all right, because once we have exhausted ourselves and courted nuclear retaliation, Europe, which is uniting under the European Union, will likely be left standing, as will Israel…”
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Has the Battle for America Begun?
by Richard C. Cook Global Research, May 14, 2008
This article contains several forecasts, including the possible start of a major war with unforeseeable consequences, if the U.S. should happen to attack Iran .
Of course it is in the nature of forecasts to be speculative. There are also forecasts that are intended to serve as warnings and thereby contribute to preventing the events under analysis from ever taking place.
The world’s financial elite, long having made their homes in the metropolises of Western Europe, also with a major branch in New York City , may be the party that is really behind what could be an attempt to start World War III by pitting the U.S. against the Asiatic land powers, most notably Russia
The elite have long viewed control of the vast resource-rich Asian continent as the key to control of the world, with the fulcrum of domination being the oil-rich Middle East . Such a war could begin if the U.S. and Britain follow through by attacking Iran on the heels of the Afghan and Iraq wars and recent military deployments to the Persian Gulf region.
The attack may be nuclear, egged on by neocon extremists in the U.S. and their counterparts in Israel , who may simultaneously carry the attack to Lebanon and Syria . (See Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, “Beating the Drums of a Broader Middle East War,” Global Research, May 7, 2008.) These events are closely tied to the U.S. economic recession now underway and the 2008 presidential election.
What is unique about this analysis is the author’s contention that the U.S. is being used unwittingly by the European-based financial powers for their own purposes. They know that the U.S. economy is bankrupt, because they have made it so through a quarter century of financial manipulations that have destroyed our manufacturing base and left us horrendously in debt.
Now they have suckered us into the last thing we need—a major Asian land war that threatens to bring Russia and perhaps China into the fray. But that’s all right, because once we have exhausted ourselves and courted nuclear retaliation, Europe, which is uniting under the European Union, will likely be left standing, as will Israel .
Note that Israel was created by and owes its primary allegiance to the European financiers, especially those in London , even though the U.S. has been its primary arms supplier and enabler since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. If the financiers, aided by Israel , can instigate a major war to get rid of Russia , along with the U.S. , as world powers, they will have accomplished their aim.
The Unique Status of the U.S. and Russia
The U.S. and Russia are the two great continental powers which up until about a century ago most stood in the way of the rapacity and greed of the international financial elite. The people of both nations have a history of being deeply spiritual, talented and innovative, and rooted in the land. Both nations tried for a long time to keep Western Europe , with its history of economic and colonialist imperialism, at arms length.
Despite the wars and traumas of the 20th century, both the U.S. and Russia remain cultures where ordinary people have struggled to express themselves, to learn, to work, and to excel, even with Russia ’s background of Tsarist and Soviet autocracy. See, for instance, the writings of Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-).
This heritage is much different from that of the Western European aristocratic culture with its rigid class divisions, where an economically powerful oligarchy has controlled society for centuries and has always managed to stay on top despite wars and revolutions.
The aristocratic tradition is most notable in Great Britain , with the incredible wealth of the Windsor royal family and the concentric circles of power and influence which surround it. These circles are made up of a blend of the old nobility with the more recent additions of bankers, financiers, industrialists, government executives, media moguls, and intelligence operatives who continue to control much of the wealth of the world.
The people who settled America fled that predatory aristocratic culture to find freedom. It is less well known how Tsarist Russia resisted Western European domination, but it is a fact that a longstanding alliance among the House of Romanoff, the Orthodox Church, the rural nobility, and the peasantry came together to create a culture that successfully kept that nation free from external control for most of its history.
European Lust for Control of the Middle East
It was really the European elite, both deeply materialistic and coldly inhumane, that was responsible for both of the 20th century’s world wars, for funding the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia , and for bringing about today’s economic crisis that threatens to reduce to abject poverty or even starve perhaps half of the world’s population. Now a third world war threatens, and while it appears on the surface that the immediate cause may be U.S. ambitions in the Middle East , this is a mask for the underlying machinations of the European controllers who are pulling the strings.
These people couldn’t care less if the U.S. is bankrupted or destroyed in a larger Asian conflict while engaged in doing their dirty work. In fact that appears to be the plan. A nation like the U.S. that owes as much money as it does today to foreigners, including China and Japan who purchase close to half our national debt, is no longer master of its own destiny.
The European desire for military conquest of the Middle East dates to the Crusades which started in the 11th century. By the end of the 18th century, Great Britain had planted itself on the eastern terminus of the region through the conquest of India . In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt . World War I saw the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, with Britain and France redrawing the map of an area consisting of almost a million square miles. When Israel was founded in 1948, it became a Western bridgehead.
But today it’s the U.S. , with its bases in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and conquests in Afghanistan and Iraq , that leads the charge. This is so, even though a glance at the map shows how contrary to our strategic interests—and how unimaginably expensive—it is for us to have been drawn into a major open-ended military commitment in this part of the world. Some call it empire. Rational men call it lunacy.
How has this come about? Since the 1970s, the U.S. has been dangerously dependent on Middle Eastern oil and on the OPEC nations to purchase our Treasury bonds. The need to sell our debt abroad came about late in the Vietnam War when our post-World War II trade surplus was reversed and the government went deeply into debt to pay for the war and the growth in income support entitlements.
But there is another explanation for why we are there—pressure from the Jewish lobby. This lobby acts in the U.S. , perhaps unwittingly and certainly against its own interests as U.S. citizens, as a surrogate not only for Israel , but, taking a longer view, also for the European financial elite who backed the creation of a Jewish national state in Palestine in the first place.
Of course many Jews, including sizeable numbers in Israel , themselves no longer believe in policies which have brought them so much ill repute. Increasingly, people of goodwill, including many of the Jewish faith, are coming to understand that neither opposition to the abuses of the financial elite nor questioning the actions of the Israeli state itself is anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic.
But if events continue in the same direction, the Asiatic land powers, now loosely organized through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes China , Russia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , and Uzbekistan , with Iran as an observer, will have had enough. There is a line in the sand facing west as well as east. A major war is clearly on its way which seems to be timed to coincide with the ongoing economic collapse that is undermining the U.S. economy and also threatening to plunge much of the world into famine.
Connection with the 2008 Presidential Election
The war scenario is unfolding now and will likely accelerate as we approach the November presidential election. The actions underway appear to be designed to present any new president with a fait accompli, where corrective action is no longer possible. It would be the last and worst of the catastrophes visited on our nation by the revolutionary cabal of George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and the neocon shock troopers who took over when the Supreme Court awarded Bush the presidency after the 2000 Florida election debacle. Within nine months came the 9/11 attacks, followed by wars against Afghanistan and Iraq using off-the-shelf plans. Next came the Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Acts.
Now in 2008 the three remaining presidential candidates are all compromised. Hillary Clinton, with her husband Bill, have long been servitors of that branch
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Iran Declares War on the Dollar = More War for America
by Jake4Constitution, Libertymaven.Com,. May 15th, 2008.
“Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” - John McCain. America gears up for another Hitler blitzkrieg.
And Fu** your Yellow Ribbon.
“The dollar has completely been removed from our oil trade ….Crude oil customers have agreed with us to use other currencies (in the trade),” Iran’s Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard earlier today, although Iran had stopped selling oil in dollars in December 2007. America replied today by moving another aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, ostensibly not for further bombings of Iraqis. Asked if the carrier move went hand in hand with the rising U.S. rhetoric against Iran, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, I don’t see it as an escalation. I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder
Preemptive warring against Iran will further secure Israel’s security and possibly America’s oil supply, both goals of which I reject as they just seem to be missing from the Constitution. The attack should secure the World versus America/Israel, possibly not a bad thing right now, as we continue attacking whichever country in the region at our pleasure. There is NO “AL-QAEDA” in Iran, they DO NOT HAVE nukes or “weapons of mass destruction.” And even if they did, or are trying, who could possibly blame them with a massive occupational army-with- their-deaths-written-all-over-it next door? And why aren’t we trying diplomacy? My expectations of my own country talking instead of threatening is very low, but how about China, Russia, Europe? Will they just let us have our way? Just like Chamberlain, Stalin, and Daladier let Hitler have his way.
Viewpoint
After the attack, America will be finally exposed as no better than Hitler’s attacks on Iran-Poland and Iraq-Czechslovakia. Our leaders will all be war criminals (or just committing another war crime, as you like). Our entire Congress, minus the Representative from Texas and a select few others, will need replacement. I voice doubt that there will even BE a vote of any type in Congress this time around, so powerless and spineless are the Pelosi Democrats of 2006 and the Bush die-hards.
On March 20th America’s FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) issued a warning to the world banking system to shut out “all banks domiciled in Iran, and their branches and subsidiaries abroad.” The advisory goes on to charge Iran with state-sponsored terrorism: “Iran’s anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism deficiencies are exacerbated by the Government of Iran’s continued attempts to conduct prohibited proliferation relation activity and terrorist financing.”[1,2] This is backed by the March 3rd UN Security Council Resolution 1803 to punish Iran for alleged nuclear bomb efforts.[3] This builds on the FinCEN October 2007 advisory charging Iran is responsible for “money laundering, terrorist financing and weapons of mass destruction proliferation financing.”[4] The WMD allegation is reminiscent of the lies told prior to invading Iraq and is conspicuously missing in the March advisory. This is most likely due to the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate published by the US Director of National Intelligence that assesses “with moderate confidence Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007″[5] - the NIE was just a minor speed bump for the Bush administration.
Remember, our naïve Bush Global War on/of Terror policy to other nation-states is you are either ‘With Us or Against Us.’ Now Europe, China, Russia and all other countries can choose sides.
Also remember Osama Bin Laden of Al-Qaeda has not been spotted in either Iran, Iraq, or Israel yet for that matter!
However, this is the just the international version of the domestic Clinton Iran sanctions of 1997 (Executive Orders 13059, 12957, 12959) “confirming that virtually trade and investment activities with Iran by US persons, wherever located, are prohibited.”[6] (Off topic but I was heartened to see the USA did slightly ease the sanctions in 2000 to allow US Citizens to purchase Persian rugs, dried fruit, and caviar.)
The administration’s drumbeat for more war was arrogantly restated by Vice President Cheney on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq invasion on March 19th, and more diplomatically by Ms. Perino from the White House on March 20th, although the questions pertained to the Iraq surge (a “major success” per Cheney) instead of Iran. The video below is worthwhile.[7]
ABC Reporter: “Two-thirds of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.”
Vice President Cheney: “So?”
ABC Reporter: “So? You’re not – You don’t care what the American people think?”
Vice President Cheney: “No…”
The “Surge” has disintegrated into hundreds more Iraqi sectarian and American deaths since, pushing the American soldier death toll to 4,007 and an estimated over 1 million Iraqi dead.[8,9]
The foreign policy ‘expert’/interventionalist Brzezinski, architect of the Soviet-Afghan War during the Carter administration[10] and advisor to a major Democratic presidential candidate, (while calling for an end to the Iraq war, which I applaud) stated to the US Senate in February 2007:
“If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted bloody involvement in Iraq, the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large. A plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks; followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure; then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a “defensive” U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.” [11]
So perhaps the next step is either launching of direct hostilities or a terrorist attack that the US can blame Iran for. Perhaps even tantamount to the 1933 Reichstag burning, a “false flag” attack that Hitler staged to sieze control of the German government.[12] (For those unfamiliar with the term, a “false flag” attack or false story is used by one side against another to take control of events, or provide an excuse for aggression. One hypothetical example would be: during nation X and Y peace talks, government X colludes to ultimately attack itself, blaming the government Y. The reasoning is the attack, while harmful to X, will give rise to a “greater good” as X can now righteously take action against government Y. Former US MI Captain May has an article here for more thoughts.[13])
As I have stated in other articles below, the actions against Iraq but also Iran and Afghanistan violates the Constitution of the United States of America, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 as only Congress has the right to declare War.[14]
One last thought is the resignation of CENTCOM Admiral Fallon (supreme commander of all troops in the Middle East) on March 11th is rumored to be due to the nixing of a Fallon-brokered peace plan to withdrawal from Iraq and establish peace with Iran.[15] Ironically the Iranian, Russian, and Chinese parts of the alleged deal may have completed by the unanimous agreement to the March 3rd UN sanctions referred to at the top of this article.[3]
I call for immediate withdrawal of all United States Armed Forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and a declaration of non-aggression towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and all other countries of the world. I call for the issuing of a Letter of Marque to seek out and detain Osama Bin Laden for the American deaths of 9/11 and aboard the USS Cole.
Next, my recommendations
1 - Watch Ron Paul’s speak on Foreign Policy and the job of the Commander-in-Chief here. [link edited for length] He accurately explains how to “change the world within weeks” by withdrawing all troops from Iraq and warns of the upcoming attacks on Iran.
2 - Join DownsizeDC.org. Use [link edited for length] to contact your Representative and Senators and Stop an Attack on Iran. Check out the site for other causes, such as stopping National ID, and their signature idea “Read the Bills Act” to require that every bill be read into the public record before its voted on.
Lastly, the idea I promised to win the Presidency.
Although the presidential campaigns of Mike Gravel and Ron Paul continue, I propose that they look ahead and discuss mounting a backup campaign with other Voices for Freedom such as Jesse Ventura, Dennis Kucinich, and Michael Scheuer. Sort of a Founding Fathers Part Deux – without a team effort, there are questionable-at-best chances that any of these individuals by themselves would succeed against the MSM- blessed, “top tier” candidates. For the record, I would also choose fellow Nolan Chart columnists Jahfre Fire Eater, Jake Morphonios (no relation), and John Armstrong to represent myself on this team.
Think this a good idea? Or just don’t want a war with Iran? Feedback, positive or negative, is always welcome.
Peace!
Jake, Yet Another Champion of the Constitution
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
As always, unlike the NFL, the author grants full permission to allow any accounts of, rebroadcasts, retransmissions, repostings in part or full of this article to your blog or anywhere else in order to promote the Restoration of our Republic.
