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William Blum

The new Vietnam documentary

At the beginning of Ken Burns’ new documentary on the American war in Vietnam, the narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings.”

The early American involvement in Vietnam can be marked by two things in particular: (1) helping the French imperialists in their fight against the forces led by Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam and (2) the cancellation of the elections that would have united North and South Vietnam as one nation because the US and its South Vietnam allies knew that Ho Chi Minh would win. It was that simple.

[So much for Washington's devotion to freedom and democracy. If 'duhmockricy' doesn't produce what Washington wants, regime change is required to install a government Washington does like. - ed]

Nothing of good faith or decency in that scenario. No misunderstandings. Ho Chi Minh was a great admirer of America and its Declaration of Independence. His own actual declaration of 1945 begins with the familiar “All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But Ho Chi Minh was what was called a “communist”. It was that simple. (See the Vietnam chapter in my book Killing Hope for the details.)

Daniel Ellsberg’s conclusion about the US in Vietnam: “It wasn’t that we were on the wrong side; we were the wrong side.” (emphasis added)

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The Vietnam War was not a mistake. The War in Vietnam was business as usual. Look around. Read Bill's books. Deprogram yourself. -ed

DPRK Ambassador to the United Nations

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The Truth

the whole truth

and nothing but
the truth.

North Korea Ri Young Ho Minister For Foreign Affairs 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47887.htm

NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER RI YONG HO is addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York Saturday, after a week of fiery barbs traded between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stoked tensions over North Korea's nuclear program.

Moments before Ri was set to speak, U.S. Air Force bombers flew in international airspace east of North Korea. The Pentagon said it's the furthest north any U.S. fighters have flown in the 21st Century. 

The speech comes after Ri threatened to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific, and Mr Trump issued an executive order targeting countries that trade with North Korea. At a Friday night rally for Republican U.S. Senate contender Luther Strange in Alabama, Mr Trump derided "little rocket man" — his new favourite term for Kim — and emphasized that North Korea would be dealt with. Earlier in the day, the president tweeted that he, Kim, is a "madman" who will be "tested like never before." In Mr Trump's speech to the U.N. this week, the president said he would "totally destroy" North Korea if the U.S. is "forced to defend itself" or any allies.

Kim, in a rare statement earlier this week, called the president "mentally deranged" and a "dotard," pledging to strike as needed.

"Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation," Kim said in the statement. "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire."


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THE JFK PEACE SPEECH

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I am trying to spread the word.

This speech was made on June 10, 1963. It was spring! The Cold War was defrosting. Kenney and Khruschev were engaged in secret talks. On November 22, 1963, winter began again. Hope was snuffed out in Dallas. Will the forces of evil win? YOU must decide. If you continue to slumber in your coma, they will win. YOU must wake up. There is no one else. YOU have to do it. WAKE UP!

"YOU must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkKnfk4k40

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GRAND STRATEGY II

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I AM REASSURED (SOMEWHAT) that we probably will not all die in a World War. The United States has never launched a war with anyone of equal strength. When great powers have been involved, the United States has always played one against the other. Then, when one side or the other has nearly won a victory, the United States has stepped in, claimed the victory and taken all the loot and all the glory. 

This was certainly the case in both World Wars I and II. The American War of Independence was won for Washington, the man, by France. Before that Washington used Great Britain to defeat France and the Indians! The American Civil War was won by Washington, DC, and not by the North as everyone has been taught. All Americans lost the Civil War, both South and North. Power was centralized in Washington. The constitution the states had ratified was over-written. The United States of America became the garrison state devoted to war that it is now. Today's military-industrial complex was born. President Ulysses S. Grant coined the term "lobbyist" for the industrialists who he watched bribing Congressmen in the lobby of the Willard Hotel in Washington. President Grant was powerless to stop it.

All the other wars were significant mismatches with the big bully usually beating up the little guy. The western American Indians were destroyed by the Seventh Cavalry. The eastern, southern and midwestern Indians had already been crushed. Before the Civil War, the Mexicans lost half their country in the war which the United States had engineered (1846-48). Washington launched its world-wide empire with the Spanish-American War. Vigorous American heroes smacked down the decrepit Spanish Empire. But the bully didn't always win. The mighty U.S.A. hasn't won a war since 1945. Nevertheless, Washington has always declared victory anyway along with proud clarions broadcast about how it had saved the world at great cost to itself. That's what it did after Korea and Vietnam. Hollywood makes movies. TV and print news blankets the world. Academics write books. Deep State actors — war contractors, the military and intelligence community, Wall Street, the banks too big to fail, the bureaucracy, and the Democratic and Republican establishments —  who really run things are engorged.

Burp.

Everyone always believes them! The losers are always happy to support the next American wars as Japan and Germany have been doing since 1945. American propaganda is splendid! Everyone wants to fight for freedom and duhmockrisy.

The former world hegemon that had been enthroned for centuries, the British Empire, was destroyed by World Wars I and II even though the British thought they had won both. Some still do. Their champion, Winston Churchill, was considered to be a 'drunken bum' by his ally and supposed friend, FDR. An alcoholic Churchill led the British Empire to its grave. Read David Irving. The British were the big losers of the 20th century, completing what began in 1776. Great Britain's end began with the War of 1812 — which had no clear winner — but Great Britain did acquire a treacherous back-stabbing ally when the two decided to kiss and make up. British people still think the U.S.A. is their best friend! "Americans saved us from Hitler and Russia," they sigh gratefully. The Royal Navy decorated Admiral Ernest J. King who hated the British, and most particularly, hated the Royal Navy! 

Level heads rule in Russia and China today. Crazy people rule in Washington. They are led by their blow-hard puppet, known to his enemies as Agent Orange. The neocons who control Washington could ignite the powder keg we live in. The neocons are smoking crack and playing with matches. 

Americans themselves must wake up and throw the bums out. It is up to you, my friends. Where is Jerry Rubin now that we need him?  We need you. We need an American Revolution. Support Information Clearing House and AntiWar.com.

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HISTORY RE-WRITTEN

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KEN BURNS' DOCUMENTARY, the Vietnam War, tells viewers the war was a tragedy. It was a mistake, he says. That is Burns' theme. Ngo Dinh Diem, his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu and his sister-in-law, known as the heartless Madam Nhu were evil people who exploited the South Vietnamese people, Burns tells us. Was it a mistake? From 1945 onward, the United States of America has always installed and supported people exactly like Diem. There have been dozens of them all around the world. Read historian William Blum for a detailed chronicle. The United States has been a dirty dealer throughout its life. Here are a few examples.

The Shah of Iran (1953) was installed after Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown by a coup that was personally organised by Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of President Theodor Roosevelt (R). The Somoza dynasty ruled Nicaragua from 1927 to 1979. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) was told that Somoza was a son of a bitch, the President replied, "Yes, but he's our son of a bitch." The Republic of China was led by Chiang Kai-shek 1928-1975. He was driven from the mainland by Mao in 1949. Syngman Rhee was America's strongman in Korea when the Korean War began in 1950. The Zionist entity that dares to call itself "Israel" has had unequivocal U.S. support since 1948. Fast forwarding to the present, Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian Nazis now rule the Ukraine after a CIA coup d'état ousted democratically-elected Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Georgia preceded Ukraine. They are part of the United States' on-going war on Russia.

The Vietnam debacle was business as usual.

Napalmed Vietnamese children (AP, Saigon) Kim Phuc centre

Today, the Donald J. Trump regime threatens to re-open the Korean War "to save the world," again. This madness never stops.

The Killing of History
By John Pilger

I watched the first episode in New York. It leaves you in no doubt of its intentions right from the start. The narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings”.

The dishonesty of this statement is not surprising. The cynical fabrication of “false flags” that led to the invasion of Vietnam is a matter of record – the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in 1964, which Burns promotes as true, was just one. The lies litter a multitude of official documents, notably the Pentagon Papers, which the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg released in 1971.

There was no good faith. The faith was rotten and cancerous. For me — as it must be for many Americans — it is difficult to watch the film’s jumble of “red peril” maps, unexplained interviewees, ineptly cut archive and maudlin American battlefield sequences.

In the series’ press release in Britain — the BBC will show it — there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans. “We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying.  How very post-modern.

All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American media and popular culture behemoth has revised and served up the great crime of the second half of the twentieth century: from The Green Berets and The Deer Hunter to Rambo and, in so doing, has legitimised subsequent wars of aggression.  The revisionism never stops, and the blood never dries. The invader is pitied and purged of guilt, while “searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy”. Cue Bob Dylan: “Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?” [With God On Our Side]

I thought about the “decency” and “good faith” when recalling my own first experiences as a young reporter in Vietnam: watching hypnotically as the skin fell off Napalmed peasant children like old parchment and the ladders of bombs that left trees petrified and festooned with human flesh. General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to people as “termites”.

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VIETNAM WAR

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We learn from history that we do not learn from history. 
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
- Otto von Bismarck

http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/

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ANYONE WATCHING this documentary can see that what is happening today has happened before — just the other day, in fact. Perhaps, most cannot see. When one doesn't know where one is going, JUST STOP. Of course, the leaders always think they know where they are going. The rest do what they are told.

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UKRAINE 101

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What is going on in the Ukraine started in February 2014 — as much as anyone can say anything started or ended on a specific date —while Russian President Vladimir Putin was watching the Winter Olympics in Sochi. 

Pepe Escobar analyzed the situation three months later. The essentials have not changed since then. I'll let him speak for himself.

Pepe Escobar

May 07 2014 "ICH" - "RT" - The IMF has approved a $17 billion loan to Ukraine. The first $3.2 billion tranche has arrived on Wednesday.


It’s essential to identify the conditions attached to this Mafia-style “loan.” Nothing remotely similar to reviving the Ukrainian economy is in play. The scheme is inextricably linked to the IMF’s notorious, one-size-fits-all “structural adjustment” policy, known to hundreds of millions from Latin America and Southeast Asia to Southern Europe. The regime changers in Kiev have duly complied, launching the inevitable austerity package – from tax hikes and frozen pensions to a stiff, over 50 percent rise in the price of natural gas heating Ukrainian homes. The “Ukrainian people” won’t be able to pay their utility bills this coming winter.

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GRAND STRATEGY

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Ukrainian pipeline system used to supply Russian gas to Europe

THINGS ARE GOING TO GET HARDER for Ukrainians this winter. Washington has shut down Russian gas and oil exports to Europe. That is why the CIA took over the Ukraine. Ukraine is no longer getting Russian oil and gas. How will Ukrainians stay warm this winter? How will they get electricity? They will burn coal! They won't buy coal from Russia or the Donbass. They will buy it from the United States! It will cost more than twice as much plus the cost of shipping. This will help American coal producers. American environmentalists want to shut down the American coal industry. Where will Ukrainians get the money to buy American coal? Washington will loan them the money! Where will Washington get the money to loan to Ukraine? Washington will print it! How will Ukraine repay the loans? They will sell everything to American banks and businesses for next to nothing. Soon Ukrainians will be serfs. Everything will be owned by ten or twelve people in New York City! That is American vulture capitalism at work! That's the plan for everyone.

BUT THE STORY MAY ACTUALLY BE DIFFERENT
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/russia-agrees-supply-winter-gas-ukraine-eu-150925233556668.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/12/30/for-europe-bound-gas-russia-successfully-by-passing-ukraine/#bd770803255d

http://euromaidanpress.com/2017/02/10/russia-gearing-up-for-third-gazprom-war-against-ukraine-to-silence-of-eu/#arvlbdata

THEN AGAIN, IT MIGHT NOT BE DIFFERENT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38435.htm

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709141057383894-ukraine-us-coal/

Many more essays

SUE! Statins!

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The cholesterol campaign continues. Don't believe a word your doctor says about lowering your cholesterol or the danger of saturated fat. This will tell you why your doctor is full of shit. With apologies to the few good doctors I know and there are not many of them.

http://suestatins.com

Truth never gets old. Truth is eternal.

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OUR FUTURE IS COMING FAST

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"By dealing in other currencies than the US dollar, including in gold, world demand for the dollar will rapidly decline and so will the dollar’s significance as a world reserve currency.

"Some 20 years ago, about 90% of all reserves were established in US dollar denominated assets. Today, this figure is less than 60% and shrinking. Once dollar-denominated reserves fall below 50%, abandoning the dollar as reserve currency worldwide may progress rapidly. That’s when a last-ditch effort by Washington to save the dollar hegemony may come in the form of a new gold-standard – at the cost of the countries that hold dollar reserves.

"The western economy today and for the last at least 100 years has been based on a fraudulent, debt-driven privately-owned and manipulated monetary system – on fiat money. When in reality, it should be the economy of a nation or a region that makes and backs the monetary system.

"If I may, I predict that in the foreseeable future, it will not be gold or other minerals that back a monetary system, but the economy itself; the strength of a country’s – or association of countries’ – socioeconomy that determines the monetary system. The strength of an economy will be determined by indicators well beyond the linear GDP; they will include societal values, such as education, health services, and behavioral values, like how a society deals with the environment, natural resources and conflict resolutions.

"This is what I believe the new Eastern Economy, based on China and Russia – the Economy of Peace – will offer to the world as an alternative."

- Peter Koenig 

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LETTER TO YULIIA

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Dear Yuliia,

YOU ARE WISE to avoid the news, especially Ukrainian news. It may be even more slanted than our news. There was an earthquake in Mexico yesterday. Fifty-four were killed at last count. The New York Times reports thirty people have been killed by Hurricane Irma. Florida's Governor has asked everyone to evacuate the state of Florida. Sounds pretty bad. The news reports this stuff 24/7. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) found a Canadian girl on an obscure island in the Caribean. They interviewed her and also her mother in Vancouver, BC! Wow the CBC must be everywhere!

But they are not in Syria where hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions have been driven from their homes since the "civil war" broke out a few years ago. Nobody cares about them because they don't know about them. Why not? Because they are not supposed to know what is going on. What is going on, you wonder? The United States decided to destroy Syria a few years ago after they had destroyed Iraq and Libya. The United States recruits, funds, trains and equips the people fighting the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. The "rebels" are supported by the Saudis, the Persian Gulf emirs, Israel, and Turkey. Most of these "freedom-fighters" are not Syrians. They are invaders. Their leaders are Iraqis who used to run the Iraqi military and the Iraqi government for Saddam until the United States replaced them with Shiites. These "rebels" are a CIA secret army.

Israel doesn't care about Muslims as long as they are killing each other. Israel is happy to help them do that! The Saudis subscribe to the Wahhabi branch of Islam. They believe anyone who is not Wahhabi should be killed (especially other Muslims), so Washington has married the Saudis (and the emirs) up with the Israelis. Turkey is an unreliable partner in this menage a trois. Turkey is obsessed with the Kurds who want their independence. The Syrian government invited the Russians to help them fight the invaders. (Assad is regularly elected by >90% of the Syrians but that doesn't matter to Washington which only pretends to support democracy.)

Reagan asked Gorbachev what the Soviet people would do if the United States were hit by a calamity. Gorbachev answered that they would rush to help them. They would do whatever they could do to help. That defrosted the Cold War. Reagan and Gorbachev became friends. But the Cold War was really good for the American war business so they had to get it started again. They have, but Russia no longer plays the game. Russia refuses to go to war. Trump campaigned to normalize relations with Russia and to close down the American empire. They didn't assassinate Trump but they did castrate him. Trump is surrounded by his enemies. He has no support and no real power. The Deep State is always in control.

So now you know some of what is going on. The United States as we have known it is going to the boneyard of empires to join the Soviet Union, the British Empire and the rest. There is hope. 

NORTH KOREA WANTS PEACE. They have signed treaties that the U.S. has broken. They have developed nukes so they won't be destroyed like Saddam and Gaddafi. During the Korea War, the North says about a third of the North Korean people were killed. Everything was bombed flat. General Douglas MacArthur was sickened by what the U.S. had done. North Korea has every reason to be afraid. No one knows that because the Zionist media inverts the truth here. Russia and Japan will sign a peace treaty soon! They can be friends if they are not friends already! Abe and Putin were talking about North Korea at the sumit in Vladivostok. China and Russia say there will be no war on the Korean peninsula. The South Korean President wants peace. Koreans everywhere want unification. South Koreans want the Americans OUT. So do the Japanese and the Filipinos and the Germans and the French and the Scots. And me!

During the Presidential election last year, North Korea (DPRK) officially endorsed Donald Trump! Trump has no friends in Washington. He should not forget his friends in Pyonyang!

Love,
- Morley

PEACE

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Charging into machine gun fire on the Western Front.

The Great War (WW I) was called the War to End All Wars. It actually launched a century of wars (1914 - 2014) if you are British or (1917 - 2017) if you are an American. This includes WW II, the bloodiest war ever.

Is peace not possible? 

NORTH KOREA WANTS PEACE. They have signed treaties the US has broken. No one knows that because the Zionist media inverts the truth. Russia and Japan will sign a peace treaty! They can be friends if they are not already! Abe and Putin are talking about North Korea in Vladivostok. China and Russia say there will be no war on the Korean peninsula. The South Korean President wants peace. Koreans everywhere want unification. 

Only Washington likes things as they are. 

PRAY. Prayers are answered. There is hope.

IMPOTENT

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IMPOTENT

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

IS THE WORLD HEGEMON really impotent? Do all the levers of power really control nothing? But doesn't the hegemon control everything? Doesn't it control money and what people think? Is "the most powerful military the world has ever known" actually worthless? Can we really ignore the man behind the curtain? 

After Washington closed Russia's embassy, consulates and slapped more sanctions onto everyone, Russian diplomats today are openly saying these things (in Russian, of course).

“We beat them is Syria, we beat them in the Ukraine, they lost Afghanistan, they lost Iraq, their Navy apparently does not know how to use a radar, their soldiers are terrified to fight somebody capable of resistance, they failed to impress not only China but even the North Koreans who are openly laughing at them. Hezbollah laughs at them. Even Venezuela refuses to be scared! The Iranians openly threaten them with consequences if they back out of the deal they signed. Even Pakistan is openly expressing its disgust with the USA. Ditto for Turkey. Heck – the Americans are losing on all fronts and the very best they can do is try to feel good about illegally harassing our diplomatic personnel! Pathetic, lame, losers!” Патетические, хромые, неудачники!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47752.htm

Russia beat them in Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and Chechnia too. Washington's goal is to draw Russia into a war. The NATO chief has confirmed that the world is at its most dangerous point in 30 years. Thanks to NATO and warmongers in Washington, it is! The warmongers have grown fat and happy selling "defence" to idiots who don't need to be defended. False flag attacks take many forms.

"The most powerful military the world has ever known" didn't win the Korean War (1950-53); it lost the War in Vietnam (1955-75) and arguably it did not win WW II or WW I. (Others did most of the work. You can look it up.)

Oh, the Germans have filed to divorce the U.S.A. Who will be next? France? Italy? Spain? Portugal? Ireland? Sweden? Great Britain?

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OCEANIA 1984

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OCEANIA 1984 2017

GEORGE ORWELL'S dystopian novel, 1984, depicts three mega nations at perpetual war. Many readers in the West considered the Soviet Union to be Oceania with Joseph Stalin to be Big Brother. They could not imagine that they, themselves, lived in the evil empire. Ronald Reagan could not imagine that. With the Soviet Union gone since 1991, there is no one else to blame for the world's evils. We in the West stand out like a sore thumb. This map clearly illustrates the situation in the novel.

1984

Big Brother never was Joseph Stalin in Orwell's novel. He always was friendly old Uncle Sam who has been leading us all to extinction by "freeing everyone to death."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47730.htm

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