CHAPTER 6
6-49 American global empire
6-49a Pax Americana
“Coming to grips with U.S./CIA activities in broad numbers and figuring out how many
people have been killed in the jungles of Laos or the hills of Nicaragua is very difficult.
But, adding them up as best we can, we come up with a figure of six million people
killed-and this is a minimum figure. Included are: one million killed in the Korean War,
two million killed in the Vietnam War, 800,000 killed in Indonesia, one million in Cambodia,
20,000 killed in Angola ... and 22,000 killed in Nicaragua. These people would not have
died if U.S. tax dollars had not been spent by the CIA to inflame tensions, finance covert
political and military activities and destabilize societies.”
John Stockwell, CIA official in the 1960s and 1970s
“The American elite’s unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial
entitlement and dominance -- based ultimately on war, the threat of war and the profit
from war -- is one of the defining characteristics of our age. Our political and media elite
cannot conceive of an end to empire. Our elites and their courtiers cannot imagine life
without a permanent war for global dominance, fueled by a gargantuan war machine spread
across hundreds and hundreds of bases implanted in more than 100 countries.”
Chris Floyd
“Since the late 1940s, the United States has been deliberately engaged in an imperial
project, and anyone who would hold the office of the presidency has to be willing to serve
that end. All presidents have to promote the national security state, both domestically and
in American foreign policy, if they wish to attain and hold on to power.”
Morris Berman
“The basic and generally agreed U.S. plan is unilateral world domination through absolute
military superiority.”
Anatol Lieven, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it’s hard for Americans
to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it
garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any
moment.”
Tom Engelhardt
“Under the banner of nuclear non-proliferation, the US Administration’s (Barack Obama)
objective is to gain a monopoly over the stocks as well as the production of nuclear materials.”
Michel Chossudovsky
“The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and
embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok.”
William Rockler, Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor
“The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.
That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of
civilians. (The bomb killed more than 150,000 civilians in this Japanese city with a
population of 400,000.)
President Harry Truman, August 9, 1945
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the Pentagon had been pursuing a
military strategy for domination of the entire planet. It was called by the Pentagon,
‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ and as its name implied, its agenda was to control everything
everywhere including the high seas air, space and even outer space and cyberspace.”
F. William Engdahl
“The real motivation behind US military interventions during the cold war was not Soviet
deterrence but the crushing of popular, indigenous nationalist movements for independence,
and the establishment of US control over strategic regions.”
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed from his book “Behind the War on Terror”
“The U.S. military acts in the interests of the corporate and financial elite, and those
countries that do not submit to American economic hegemony are deemed enemies,
and the military is ultimately sent in to implement “regime change.”
Andrew Gavin Marshall
“America is the largest debtor nation, and at the same time it is the world’s creditor.
”Creating money out of thin air”, while at the same time imposing the U.S. dollar as a
global currency constitutes the ultimate instrument of conquest and imperial domination.
... The U.S. monetary system is supported by the most powerful military power on earth.
The dollar is backed by U.S. military might, which constitutes a means for displacing
national currencies and imposing the U.S. dollar. In this regard, the Federal Reserve’s
overwhelming powers of money creation constitute an essential lever of an imperial
monetary agenda.
... The Western banking system controls a worldwide electronic banking network.
The control of money creation at a world level constitutes the ultimate instrument of
economic and social domination. The creation of fiat money provides a command
over the real economies of countries worldwide. The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO
imperial design is to override and destroy national currencies.”
Michel Chossudovsky in the book “The Global Economic Crisis”
“Stop talking so much about democracy and instead support dictatorships of the right
if their policies are pro-American.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, 1954
“Through slick Madison Avenue marketing techniques and careful study of genuine
protest movements, the US Government had perfected techniques for ‘democratically’
getting rid of any opponent, while convincing the world they were brought down by
spontaneous outbursts for freedom.”
F. William Engdahl
“The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert
action arm of the President’s foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or
supports foreign governments while reporting “intelligence” justifying those activities...
Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American
people are the primary target audience of its lies.
... The Agency’s task is to develop an international anti-communist ideology.
The CIA then links every egalitarian political movement to the scourge of international
communism. This then prepares the American people and many in the world community
for the second stage, the destruction of those movements. For egalitarianism is the
enemy and it must not be allowed to exist.”
Ralph McGehee in his book “Deadly Deceits”
“The “war on terrorism” purports to defend the American Homeland and protect the
“civilized world”. It is upheld as a “war of religion”, a “clash of civilizations”, when in
fact the main objective of this war is to secure control and corporate ownership over
the region’s extensive oil wealth, while also imposing under the helm of the IMF and
the World Bank, the privatization of state enterprises and the transfer of the countries’
economic assets into the hands of foreign capital.”
Michel Chossudovsky
“It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and
teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any
amount of money on arms.”
John Stockwell, CIA official in the 1960s and 1970s
“If the Agency (CIA) actually reported the truth about the Third World, what would
it say? It would say that the United States installs foreign leaders, arms their armies,
and empowers their police all to help those leaders repress an angry, defiant people;
that the CIA-empowered leaders represent only a small faction who kill, torture, and
impoverish their own people to maintain their position of privilege.”
Ralph McGehee in his book “Deadly Deceits”
6-49b Conclusion 1
What is said here, is currently happening in Venezuela, as well in Cuba and some
countries that did not want to join the power of the Americans. By creating unrest
in a country and setting people against each other, you get dissatisfied people.
We also see that happenning very briefly on our islands, where we have more and
more violence and killings, if we are to believe the newspapers and the press.
They are the ones who now pay considerable attention to that and have forgotten
that we always have these things around us. But now, the press has the freedom to
write about it. The top again benefits of it, because the more fear the more
submissive to that fear, the better they can impose restrictions.
“Almost from the beginning, the CIA engaged not only in the collection of intelligence
information, but also in covert operations which involved rigging elections and
manipulating labor unions abroad, carrying on paramilitary operations, overturning
governments, assassinating foreign officials, protecting former Nazis and lying to
Congress.”
Former Senator George McGovern, 1987
“In every country, embassies are used for spying. So, it would be dumb for a
country to put its real intelligence-gathering officers inside an embassy or consulate
or attaché’, because that is the first place a hosting nation is going to look for spies.
So, the number one place the United States and other countries place their
intelligence-gathering officers and informants is NGOs. In Russia, Central Asia,
the Caucasus, and elsewhere in the world, United States’ NGOs - over 90% of
them - are operations bases for the CIA.”
Sibel Edmonds
6-49c Conclusion 2
This last quote I can confirm in our local politics. The Cabinet of the Governor
and their bureau send encrypted messages to the Netherlands each day, but also
receive coded instructions from the Netherlands. The true spies as I have
experienced myself come from businesses or people who come here as a temporary
employee in setting up projects. They have carte blanche for three to six months,
and for a long time the old market in Punda was a popular place to gather information.
Much espionage is done under the trusts, business and then in particular the
companies owned by “mysterious” foreigners and the movements of politicians.
In fact, it was so bad that at some point there was a government, where, yes, one
politician was within the limits of the norm of self-enrichment. At that time our Prime
Minister made millions with allocating land and businesses, and all were transferred
to America and South America. The Netherlands had a total picture of the mega
scams of all ministers but nothing was done because it was known that the successors
were in the same group. Thus the Netherlands kept up the then incumbent government.
But, in a short time the government and their politicians were gone and some were
quickly assigned the role of scapegoat. Case closed! Until today, the global politics
is affiliated with money, power and drugs and many politicians are trapped in using
cocaine. What we see in any government.
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