Preface
written by Jahn J Kassl
translated by Franz
Honored Readers,
While the world turns and while European politicians
(a few exceptions excluded) with asinine-bold devotion (TIPP)
serve the US-Gangster-Imperium
and the Anglo-Saxon corporations,
there are those, who consistently swim
against the mass-media current,
who nail one’s colors to the mast, and who with
all available strength
oppose the “system”, where and how they can.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, year 1939, is
one of these human Beings.
In this actual article Roberts points to the
“racket of war”
and he explains, how much the airheads in Washington,
led by
the probably greatest mass murderer of our time,
Barack Hussein Obama, railroad
this one. If the imperial power
interests are threatened or not, the junta in
the White House
walks ice cold over human lives and declare themselves “lord
over life and death” in their own until now unprecedented hubris.
20 million people, estimated conservatively,
were
killed by the USA since World War II (1945) –
in wars or substitute wars. Not
enough with that.
Today a slight suspicion of “terrorism” is enough to send
human Beings anywhere on earth to the beyond,
using killer drones. And Obama
makes plenty of use of this
murderous achievement of recent time. Every day the
Nobel
Peace Prize Winner gives direct orders for the killing of people!
They
are mostly civilians, who have been targeted,
and that Obama works off a
killing list is no longer
denied by the Mass Media.
Conclusion: Since Obama the
Devil has a Face.
The true perpetrators of all upheavals in this
world are therefore logically sitting in Washington,
while the whole world has
become the victim.
And even if we also know that this system is now
close to dissolution,
to the moment of the actual transfiguration – the moment
of our
ascension into the Light, it is still necessary to call things by their
name, in order to awaken here and there, this or that fellow
human Being:
Because anyone who ignores these facts,
will on judgment day be barely capable
to distinguish the
Light from darkness.
The truth makes us free and foremost: into mature
citizens!
Clarification and knowledge are therefore needed in
every
respect, and this publication of an “unfaltering” one conforms
to this
necessity.
With heartfelt greetings and with love
Jahn J Kassl
Militarist Bunkum
written by Paul Craig Roberts
May 19, 2014
Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are
non-combatant civilians?
That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team
in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a small part
of the human and economic cost. Clearly, wars do not protect the
lives of civilians. The notion that soldiers are dying for us is false. Non-combatants are the main victims of war.
Keep that in mind for July 4th, which is arriving in six weeks.
July 4th is America’s most important
national holiday celebrating
American independence from Great Britain. On July 4th, 1776,
America’s Founding Fathers declared that the Thirteen Colonies
were no longer colonies but an independent country in which the
Rights of Englishmen would prevail for all citizens and not only for
King George’s administrators. (Actually, the Second Continental
Congress voted in favor of independence on July 2, and historians
debate whether the Declaration of Independence was signed on
July 4 or August 2.) In this American assertion of self-determination
citizens of Great Britain were not allowed to vote. Therefore,
according to Washington’s position on the votes in Crimea and
in eastern Ukraine–the former Russian territories of Donetsk and
Luhansk–America’s Declaration of Independence was “illegitimate
and illegal.”
On July 4th all across America there will be patriotic speeches
about our soldiers who gave their lives for their country.
To an informed person these speeches are curious. I am hard
pressed to think of any examples of our soldiers giving their
lives for our country. US Marine General Smedley Butler had the
same problem. He said that his Marines gave their lives for
United Fruit Company’s control of Central America. “War is a racket,”
said General Butler, pointing out that US participation in World War
I produced 21,000 new American millionaires and billionaires.
When General Butler said “war is a racket,” he meant that war is a
racket for a few people getting rich on the backs of millions of dead
people. According to the article in the American Journal of Public
Health, during the 20th century 190 million
deaths could be directly
and indirectly related to war.
190 million is 60 million more than the entire US population
in the year that I was born.
The only war fought on US territory was the war against
Southern Secession. In this war Irish immigrants fresh off the
boat gave their lives for American Empire. As soon as the South
was conquered, the Union forces were set loose on the Plains
Indians and destroyed them as well.
Empire over life. That has always
been Washington’s guiding principle.
America’s wars have always been fought elsewhere–Cuba,
Haiti, Mexico, Philippines, Japan, Germany, Korea, Vietnam,
Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Somalia.
Washington even attacks countries with which the US is not
at war, such as Pakistan and Yemen, and engages in proxy wars.
The article cited above reports: “The United States launched 201
overseas military operations between the end of World War II
and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Not a single one of these wars and military operations had
anything whatsoever to do with defending the US population
from foreign threats.
American independence from Great Britain. On July 4th, 1776,
America’s Founding Fathers declared that the Thirteen Colonies
were no longer colonies but an independent country in which the
Rights of Englishmen would prevail for all citizens and not only for
King George’s administrators. (Actually, the Second Continental
Congress voted in favor of independence on July 2, and historians
debate whether the Declaration of Independence was signed on
July 4 or August 2.) In this American assertion of self-determination
citizens of Great Britain were not allowed to vote. Therefore,
according to Washington’s position on the votes in Crimea and
in eastern Ukraine–the former Russian territories of Donetsk and
Luhansk–America’s Declaration of Independence was “illegitimate
and illegal.”
On July 4th all across America there will be patriotic speeches
about our soldiers who gave their lives for their country.
To an informed person these speeches are curious. I am hard
pressed to think of any examples of our soldiers giving their
lives for our country. US Marine General Smedley Butler had the
same problem. He said that his Marines gave their lives for
United Fruit Company’s control of Central America. “War is a racket,”
said General Butler, pointing out that US participation in World War
I produced 21,000 new American millionaires and billionaires.
When General Butler said “war is a racket,” he meant that war is a
racket for a few people getting rich on the backs of millions of dead
people. According to the article in the American Journal of Public
Health, during the 20th century 190 million
deaths could be directly
and indirectly related to war.
190 million is 60 million more than the entire US population
in the year that I was born.
The only war fought on US territory was the war against
Southern Secession. In this war Irish immigrants fresh off the
boat gave their lives for American Empire. As soon as the South
was conquered, the Union forces were set loose on the Plains
Indians and destroyed them as well.
Empire over life. That has always
been Washington’s guiding principle.
America’s wars have always been fought elsewhere–Cuba,
Haiti, Mexico, Philippines, Japan, Germany, Korea, Vietnam,
Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Somalia.
Washington even attacks countries with which the US is not
at war, such as Pakistan and Yemen, and engages in proxy wars.
The article cited above reports: “The United States launched 201
overseas military operations between the end of World War II
and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Not a single one of these wars and military operations had
anything whatsoever to do with defending the US population
from foreign threats.
Not even Japan and Germany posed a threat
to the US.
Neither country had any prospect of invading the US and
neither country had any such war plans.
Let’s assume Japan had conquered China, Burma, and Indonesia.
With such a vast territory to occupy, Japan could not have spared
a single division with which to invade the US, and, of course,
any invasion fleet would never have made it across the Pacific.
Just as was the fate of the Japanese fleet at Midway, an invasion
fleet would have been sitting ducks for the US Navy.
Assume Germany had extended its conquests over Europe to
Great Britain, Russia and North Africa. Germany would have been
unable to successfully occupy such a vast territory and could not
have spared a single soldier to send to invade America. Even the
US superpower was unable to successfully occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, countries with small land areas and populations in comparison.
Except for its wars against the South, the Plains Indians, Haiti,
Spain, Panama, Grenada, and Mexico, the US has never won a war.
The Southern Confederates, usually outnumbered, often defeated
the Union generals. Japan was defeated by its own lack of military
resources. Germany was defeated by the Soviet Union. The allied
invasion of Normandy did not occur until June 6, 1944, by which
time the Red Army had ground up the Wehrmacht.
When the allies landed in Normandy, three-fourths of the
German Army was on the Russian front. The allied invasion
was greatly helped by Germany’s shortage of fuel for mobilized units.
If Hitler had not allowed hubris to lead him into invading the Soviet
Union and, instead, just sat on his European conquests, no allied
invasion would have been possible. Today Germany would rule all
of Europe, including the UK. The US would have no European Empire
with which to threaten Russia, China, and the Middle East.
In Korea in the 1950s, General Douglas MacArthur, victorious
over Japan, was fought to a standstill by third world China.
In Vietnam American technological superiority was defeated
by a third world army. The US rolled up mighty Grenada in the
1980s, but lost its proxy war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Is there anyone so foolish as to think
that Grenada or the Sandinistas were a
threat to the United States, that North
Korea or North Vietnam comprised threats
to the United States?
Yet, the Korean and Vietnam wars were treated as if the fate
of the United States hung in the balance. The conflicts produced
voluminous dire predictions and strategic debates. The communist
threat replaced the Hitler threat. The American Empire was at risk
from third world peoples. Dominoes would fall everywhere.
Currently Washington is at work overturning President Reagan’s
accomplishment of ending the Cold War. Washington orchestrated
a coup that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine and installed
a stooge government. Washington’s stooges began issuing threats
against Russia and the Russian speaking population in Ukraine.
These threats resulted in those parts of Ukraine that were formerly
part of Russia declaring their independence. Washington blames Russia,
not itself, and is stirring the pot, demonizing Russia and recreating
the Cold War with military deployments in the Baltics and Eastern
Europe. Washington needs to reinvent the Cold War in order to justify
the hundreds of billions of dollars that Washington annually feeds
the military/security complex, some of which recycles in political
campaign donations.
In the United States patriotism and militarism have become
synonyms. This July 4th find the courage to remind the militarists
that Independence Day celebrates the Declaration of Independence,
not the American Empire. The Declaration of Independence was
not only a declaration of independence from King George III but
also a declaration of independence from unaccountable tyrannical
government. The oath of office commits the US officeholder to the
defense of the US Constitution from enemies ”foreign and domestic.”
Neither country had any prospect of invading the US and
neither country had any such war plans.
Let’s assume Japan had conquered China, Burma, and Indonesia.
With such a vast territory to occupy, Japan could not have spared
a single division with which to invade the US, and, of course,
any invasion fleet would never have made it across the Pacific.
Just as was the fate of the Japanese fleet at Midway, an invasion
fleet would have been sitting ducks for the US Navy.
Assume Germany had extended its conquests over Europe to
Great Britain, Russia and North Africa. Germany would have been
unable to successfully occupy such a vast territory and could not
have spared a single soldier to send to invade America. Even the
US superpower was unable to successfully occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, countries with small land areas and populations in comparison.
Except for its wars against the South, the Plains Indians, Haiti,
Spain, Panama, Grenada, and Mexico, the US has never won a war.
The Southern Confederates, usually outnumbered, often defeated
the Union generals. Japan was defeated by its own lack of military
resources. Germany was defeated by the Soviet Union. The allied
invasion of Normandy did not occur until June 6, 1944, by which
time the Red Army had ground up the Wehrmacht.
When the allies landed in Normandy, three-fourths of the
German Army was on the Russian front. The allied invasion
was greatly helped by Germany’s shortage of fuel for mobilized units.
If Hitler had not allowed hubris to lead him into invading the Soviet
Union and, instead, just sat on his European conquests, no allied
invasion would have been possible. Today Germany would rule all
of Europe, including the UK. The US would have no European Empire
with which to threaten Russia, China, and the Middle East.
In Korea in the 1950s, General Douglas MacArthur, victorious
over Japan, was fought to a standstill by third world China.
In Vietnam American technological superiority was defeated
by a third world army. The US rolled up mighty Grenada in the
1980s, but lost its proxy war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Is there anyone so foolish as to think
that Grenada or the Sandinistas were a
threat to the United States, that North
Korea or North Vietnam comprised threats
to the United States?
Yet, the Korean and Vietnam wars were treated as if the fate
of the United States hung in the balance. The conflicts produced
voluminous dire predictions and strategic debates. The communist
threat replaced the Hitler threat. The American Empire was at risk
from third world peoples. Dominoes would fall everywhere.
Currently Washington is at work overturning President Reagan’s
accomplishment of ending the Cold War. Washington orchestrated
a coup that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine and installed
a stooge government. Washington’s stooges began issuing threats
against Russia and the Russian speaking population in Ukraine.
These threats resulted in those parts of Ukraine that were formerly
part of Russia declaring their independence. Washington blames Russia,
not itself, and is stirring the pot, demonizing Russia and recreating
the Cold War with military deployments in the Baltics and Eastern
Europe. Washington needs to reinvent the Cold War in order to justify
the hundreds of billions of dollars that Washington annually feeds
the military/security complex, some of which recycles in political
campaign donations.
In the United States patriotism and militarism have become
synonyms. This July 4th find the courage to remind the militarists
that Independence Day celebrates the Declaration of Independence,
not the American Empire. The Declaration of Independence was
not only a declaration of independence from King George III but
also a declaration of independence from unaccountable tyrannical
government. The oath of office commits the US officeholder to the
defense of the US Constitution from enemies ”foreign and domestic.”
In the 21st century Americans’ worst
enemies are not al Qaeda, Iran, Russia, and China.
America’s worst enemies are our own presidents who
have declared repeatedly that the orchestrated
“war on terror” gives them the right to set
aside the civil liberties guaranteed to every
citizen by the US Constitution. Having stripped
US citizens of their civil liberties, executive branch agencies are
now stocking up vast amounts of ammunition, and the Department of
Agriculture has placed an order for submachine guns. The Department
for Homeland Security has acquired 2,717 mine-resistant armored
personnel carriers. Congress and the media are not interested in
why the executive branch is arming itself so heavily against the
American people.
During the entirely of the 21st century–indeed, dating from the
Clinton regime at the end of the 20th century–the executive branch
has declared its independence from law (both domestic and international)
and from the Constitution, Congress, and the Judiciary.
The executive branch, with the help of the Republican Federalist
Society, has established that the office of the executive is a
tyranny unaccountable to law, domestic or international,
as long as the executive declares a state of war, even a war
that is not conducted against another country or countries but
a vague, undefined or ill-defined war against a vague stateless
enemy such as al Qaeda, with which the US is currently allied
against Syria.
Al Qaeda now has a dual role. Al Qaeda is Washington’s agent for
verthrowing the elected Assad government in Syria and al Qaeda
is the evil force against which US civil liberties must be sacrificed.
The illegitimate power asserted by the Office
of the President is not only a threat to every
American but also to every living being on
planet earth.
As the article cited above reports: “Approximately 17,300 nuclear
weapons are presently deployed in at least 9 countries, many of
which can be launched and reach their targets within 45 minutes.”
It only takes one fool–and Washington has thousands
of fools–and all life on earth terminates in 45 minutes.
The neoconservative belief that the United States is the
exceptional, indispensable country chosen by history to
rule the earth is a belief full of the arrogance and hubris
that lead to war.
Keep your likely fate in mind as you watch the military
bands and marches on July 4th and listen to the hot air
of militarism.
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