politics for the 99%

Published on Global Research.ca, by Julie Lévesque, Dec 17, 2014.

… The myth of the Good War:

Every time Westerners’ approval for war is required, the myth of the good war surfaces: the Second World War was a good war, a necessity to quench Hitler’s blood thirst. Pauwels tears this myth apart, uncovering the vicious nature of the western elite.  

The reasons for the US involvement in World War II lie in the social-economic conditions of the time, not in an outpouring of compassion destined to save humanity from fascism. The US elite was actually in favor of fascism, a very convenient tool to crush the mass revolutionary movement embodied by the Russian Revolution and the USSR.

WWII was in fact a continuity of WWI. “We are always told that WWI started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but it’s not true”, Pauwels says. It is indeed a well established myth carried on by various sources, whether history is written by “thousands of eminent experts, scholars, and leaders” like in Encyclopedia Britannica, or by just about anybody, like in Wikipedia:

The outbreak of war: … //

… Both WWI and WWII had two dimensions: the vertical dimension, namely the rivalry between empires, and the horizontal one, class warfare, Pauwels explains.

These wars were actually the best way for the western elite to cope with the ever growing revolutionary and democratic movements fueled by dire economic conditions and which threatened the established order.

In Nietzsche’s view for example, Pauwels says “war was the solution against revolution, since in a war, there are no discussions, like there is in a democracy. In a war, the minority, the elite, decides and the majority, the proletarians, obey.”

For members of the elite like Malthus, “the system could not be the cause of poverty since they were profiting from it. The cause of poverty was the poor: there were too many of them. Therefore the solution to poverty and threatening revolutionary movements was simply to eliminate poor people and what better solution than war to kill poor people?”

After WWI though, “revolution was no longer a simple idea but rather something concrete: the Soviet Union.” That’s when fascism came to the rescue. “Fascism was the instrument used by the elite to further the objectives of 1914, namely put an end to revolutions and communism.”

Communism and socialism were gaining worldwide momentum after WWI. “The German industrial and financial elite wished to crush the revolutionary movement and destroy the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler was their instrument.”

According to popular belief Western leaders were defending democracy, engaged in a war against Germany to save humanity from fascism and the US involvement in the war led to the downfall of Hitler’s war machine. Nothing is further from the truth. “Hitler was supported by other European countries and the US because they wanted him to destroy the USSR, the cradle of the revolution.” The exact opposite occurred: it was the USSR that defeated Nazi Germany, losing over 20 million souls in the battle.

The US even recruited the best Nazi scientists, technicians and engineers to work for them after the war. That piece of history called Operation Paperclip (picture below) has yet to find its way in Encyclopedia Britannica … //

… (full text).

Links:

NATO’s four star General Philip Mark Breedlove’s equivocal replies to softball questions about the long war, on Intrepid Report, by Jim Miles, Dec 18, 2014;

Jeb Bush: The Forest Gump of Financial Improprieties? on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Dec 18, 2014;

Imperialism and the Politics of Torture, on The People’s Voice, by James Petras, Dec 18, 2014;

Ruble continues recovery before Putin’s Q&A, on Russia Today RT, Dec 18, 2014;

The tragic ends of the CIA’s madams, on Intrepid Report, by Wayne Madsen, Dec 18, 2014;

We Are Eight Years Old, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Dec 18, 2014;

EU Parliament Recognizes Palestinian Statehood, on The People’s Voice, by Stephen Lendman, Dec 18, 2014;

The Revolution Is Being Televised, on The Real News, by Paul Jay, continuously;

Thieves Yell “Police” Before Invading Home, Shooting and Robbing Resident, on Activist Post, Dec 17, 2014;

Pope Francis unexpected hero of US-Cuba relations breakthrough, on Russia Today RT, Dec 17, 2014;

Psaki misspoke: Obama not yet signed new anti-Russian bill, on Russia Today RT, Dec 17, 2014;

Brazil Truth Commission Releases Report, on The National Security Archive – Electronic Briefing Book No. 495, by Peter Kornbluh, Dec 10, 2014: National Security Archive hails efforts by investigators, victim’s families to uncover truth: Obama Administration to Declassify Hundreds of Secret U.S. Records For Report Follow-up – Report released on International Human Rights Day; names hundreds of perpetrators;

Podemos – the political upstart taking Spain by force, on ROARmag, by Carlos Delclós, Dec 9, 2014: Some frequent questions about the political singularity that now leads the polls in Spain. Just who are
Podemos? (/External Links) … and could they be a force for change?

34 Bilder, die uns unsere gesamte Existenz neu bewerten lassen! auf TransInformation.neet, 22 Nov 2014;

Pope Francis warns human greed will destroy world, on Russia Today RT, Nov 21, 2014;

No, Virginia, Mitt Romney Did Not Pay 14.1% in Taxes in 2011 as He Claims, He Paid Less, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 25, 2012;

Des paroles et des actes: Mélenchon vs Jacques Attali, 23.36 min, mise en ligne par Charles Ménage, le 23 avril 2013 … dans l’émission Des Paroles et des Actes le jeudi 25 avril 2013

… and this:

• SCHILLER – Sonne (the sun) – Live (HD 720p), 141.00 min, uploaded by klararyc Ryc, April 3, 2013 … and many other videos in autoplay.