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Pravda
May 3, 2006
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<http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/> Opinion /
<http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/> Columnists
The Godfather USA
To be an American citizen is very much like being the child of a wealthy and
unscrupulous criminal Godfather, who appears to be kind and generous to
his own children at home, but is unflinchingly treacherous and murderous in
conducting his family business, which is based on coercion,
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/domination/> domination, exploitation, and
violence. The average US citizen enjoys prosperity and relative freedom, but
US prosperity derives in large part from the
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/criminal/> criminal exploitation of, and
frequently the outright murder of, millions of innocent people in developing
countries throughout the world. Most US citizens choose to remain in a
perpetual state of denial regarding the criminal activities of their
government, because they lack the courage and the character to learn and
face the truth. An unquestioning acceptance of the values, motives, and
goals of the <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/US_government/> US government
by the majority of US citizens allows those citizens to be easily fooled and
manipulated by the propaganda presented to them by the US government and by
the US government-controlled Mainstream Media.
>From early childhood, US citizens are raised on a steady diet of pro-US
government <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/propaganda/> propaganda that is
fed to them at school and at home through the media of television, radio,
newspapers, magazines, books, and popular music. The propaganda presents the
US government as an ethically superior exemplar of justice for the entire
world, as an exceptionally generous contributor to global economic
development, and as a benevolent arbiter of world affairs. Furthermore, a
great deal of crucial information about US political history, particularly
regarding events of the past half-century, is not taught in US schools and
is never allowed to appear in the Mainstream Media outlets.
According to the US Census report of 1998, 12.7% of the US population lives
in poverty, 15.7% lack health insurance, and at least 38% of the wealth in
the USA is owned by just one percent of the US population. The personal
wealth of Microsoft CEO <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Bill_Gates/> Bill
Gates exceeds that of the total combined wealth of the poorest 45% of US
households, which amounts to at least 133 million people. The USA has the
highest concentration of individual wealth in all of the industrialized
nations, and about three times that of the second-placed nation for
concentrated wealth, which is Germany. The USA also leads the world in the
number of its citizens who are incarcerated in prisons: one out of
seventy-five US <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/males/> males are in
prison, of whom 68% belong to racial or ethnic minorities. As of 2003, 12%
of the USAs black males in their twenties were living in prison, compared
to 3.7% of the USAs Hispanic males and 1.6% of the USAs white males.
The USA consumes about 25% of the worlds oil and natural resources, but
compared to Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Japan/> Japan, and the nations of Europe,
the USA ranks 21st in the percentage of its Gross National Income that it
gives as Official Development Assistance to developing countries.
The US government wants to act as the worlds policeman, but the USA
behaves like a corrupt cop, using its military might to coerce or to force
other countries into cooperating with the USAs economic and strategic
interests.
The USA is a democracy in name only, because for the past forty years the US
government has been dominated and controlled by a ruling elite of wealthy
individuals and powerful corporations that carefully grooms and selects,
based on the vested interests of that same wealthy elite, most of the
candidates for federal office, including the Presidency. The wealthy
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/ruling_elite/> ruling elite of the USA
maintains their control over the US government through their enforcement
apparatus, which includes all of the US governments intelligence agencies,
operating under the overall leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the creation of the
Office of Strategic Services, which participated in both intelligence
gathering and military activities for the Allies during World War Two. The
OSS established several precedents, including the preferential recruitment
of persons of wealth as agents, a thorough integration of the intelligence
agency with various businesses, the utilization of known criminals as
agents, and direct participation in drug smuggling as a means of
fund-raising, that would continue within the
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/CIA/> CIA, which was created to replace the
OSS shortly after the end of WW2.
The newly-formed CIA drew much of its membership from the ranks of the
disbanded OSS, and the CIA continued the preferential recruitment of its
agents from the wealthy upper class of US society, just as the OSS had done.
The CIA has also integrated itself almost seamlessly with many international
businesses, through hundreds of companies worldwide that act as CIA
assets. Just like a business, each individual regional foreign office, or
Station, of the CIA is referred to within the Agency as an account.
The CIA was to be much, much more than an intelligence-gathering agency. The
CIA was given the authority to initiate and conduct its own military
operations, and also to establish fully-functioning businesses of whatever
kind it chose, legal or illegal, throughout the world. Furthermore, the CIA
was to be answerable only to the President and to the National Security
Council. Those freedoms placed the CIA largely outside the law, and
prepared the way for the CIAs eventual domination of the entire US
government. The CIA-engineered assassination of President John Fitzgerald
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Kennedy/> Kennedy in 1963 was a military
coup that effectively marked the death of real democracy in the USA.
Many people within the ranks of the CIA, the US military, and the US
government resented President Kennedy because Kennedy refused to authorize
direct US military support for the CIAs 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of
Castros <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Cuba/> Cuba, support that might
have prevented the Invasions costly failure. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco,
Kennedy fired the top three men at the CIA: Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell,
and General Cabell, whose brother was the mayor of Dallas, Texas, where
Kennedy was later to be assassinated. Kennedy also announced his intention
to withdraw US forces from South Viet Nam, which was another one of the
CIAs pet projects. After Kennedys assassination, his successor, Lyndon
Baines Johnson, met with the US militarys Joint Chiefs of Staff at the
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/White_House/> White House, where Johnson
made his first Presidential decision: to escalate the involvement of US
troops in the Viet Nam War.
In 1977 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that a lone
gunman did not kill President Kennedy, but instead that Kennedy was shot by
at least two snipers, one of whom delivered the final, fatal shot to
Kennedys right temple from the famous grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza.
Marita Lorenz testified to the HSCA that in November 1963 she had
accompanied CIA agent Frank Sturgis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and a couple of
Cuban immigrants with a small arsenal of firearms on a road trip from Miami,
Florida to Dallas, Texas, where they met with CIA agent E. Howard Hunt and
Jack Ruby at a Dallas motel. In 1994 James Files (also known as James
Sutton) confessed that he had served with a team of snipers working under
orders from US government agents to assassinate Kennedy, and that he
personally had fired the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy from a hidden
position behind a fence on the grassy knoll.
In addition to the assassination of President Kennedy, there is considerable
evidence of CIA and/or FBI involvement in the political assassinations of
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Martin_Luther_King/> Martin Luther King,
Malcom X, Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., and others.
In support of the success of the USAs international business interests, the
CIA has subverted and disrupted the democratic process in Italy, Iran, Iraq,
Guatemala, Haiti, Ecuador, Zaire, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Indonesia,
Greece, Uruguay, Cambodia, Bolivia, Australia, Angola, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and many other countries. Using propaganda,
rigged elections, extortion, blackmail, sabotage, assassination, death
squads, and torture, the CIA has deposed democratically-elected leaders and
governments throughout the world and replaced them with ruthless right-wing
dictators who were more accommodating to US business interests.
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Saddam_Hussein/> Saddam Hussein was
twenty-two years old when he was hired by the CIA to serve on a six-man team
that tried to assassinate Iraqs Prime Minister Qasim, who had stated his
intention to nationalize Iraqs oil industry and to decriminalize Iraqs
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Communist_Party/> Communist Party. When the
assassination attempt failed, Saddam escaped to Egypt, where he remained in
frequent contact with the US Embassy and the CIA. In 1963, after Baath Party
agents, supported by the CIA, succeeded in killing Qasim, Saddam returned to
Iraq. In 1980 Iraq attacked Iran, starting the Iran/Iraq War, during which
the USA openly sold arms and provided logistic support to Iraq, while the
CIA secretly sold arms to Iran, using Israel as a go-between. More than one
million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers were killed in the Iran/Iraq War, which
also took a heavy economic toll on both countries. The Iran/Iraq War, one of
the longest and deadliest wars of the 20th Century, served the purpose of
weakening and punishing two of the USAs major rivals for the control of the
Middle East and its massive oil reserves.
On July 29th, 1991 the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, met with Saddam
Hussein at his Presidential Palace in Baghdad, where Glaspie assured Saddam
that the USA would not interfere or intervene if Iraq invaded Kuwait, which
many Iraqis considered to historically be a part of Iraq. Four days later
the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied Kuwait. In January and February of 1991
a US-led military coalition representing the United Nations assaulted the
Iraqi forces in Kuwait, and in the desert borderland of northern Kuwait and
southern Iraq the US-led force slaughtered more than 100,000 Iraqi troops
with only minimal losses to the coalition forces.
Osama bin Laden is another enemy of the USA who began his career as a CIA
asset, brokering the exchange of arms and heroin between the Afghani
Mujahideen and the CIA during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. During
the 1990s bin Laden provided financial support and recruited fighters for
the Kosovo Liberation Army, an organization that smuggles heroin and cocaine
into Europe. The KLA also receives protection and support from the CIA and
the US government.
The CIA has participated in a major and an ongoing way in international drug
smuggling, using its own private airline called Air America to bring
heroin and marijuana out of Southeast Asia during the Viet Nam War, bringing
cocaine into the USA as part of the illegal Iran-Contra operation during the
1980s, and now, once again, smuggling heroin out of
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Afghanistan/> Afghanistan. The CIA
currently utilizes several airfreight companies that pose as Christian
charities to ferry cocaine from Latin America into the USA and heroin from
Afghanistan into Europe and the USA.
Beginning in the late 1940s with Operation Mockingbird, the CIA infiltrated
all of the major media outlets in the USA, by forming alliances with
publishers and media moguls, and by hiring hundreds of journalists to work
as CIA stringers and propagandists. Today the major media outlets in the USA
are owned and controlled by a very limited number of wealthy individuals and
corporations, and the USAs Mainstream Media presents a uniformly biased
version of national and international news, full of lies and omissions, that
conforms closely to the US governments own dogma and propaganda.
The CIA and the FBI also infiltrated the civil rights and anti-war movements
of the 1960s and 70s in an attempt to derail those movements and discredit
their leaders.
In his famous Farewell Speech of 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned
US citizens against the growing power of what he called the
Military/Industrial Complex, an unholy alliance of big business and the
military which Eisenhower said was already well on its way to subverting the
ideals and the principles of US democracy. Today, fifty per cent of the
annual budget of the US government is spent on the military and the military
debt. The many industries that support the US military are dependent on the
US governments pursuit of a continual state of warfare, as now exemplified
by the USAs manufactured, never-ending War on Terrorism. War is
essentially a business, and the essential business of the USA is war.
Prescott Bush, the father of the USAs 41st President and grandfather of the
USAs current, 43rd President, served as a US Naval Intelligence officer
during World War One. After the war, Prescott Bush worked for the Brown
Brothers Harriman Bank of New York, which bankrolled the Nazi rise to power
in Germany from 1920 to 1942, when the US government finally ordered the BBH
Bank to cease its illegal financial support for the rearmament of Germany.
Like his <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Nazi/> Nazi clients and friends,
Prescott Bush was an active white supremacist who hosted, along with his
friend George Walker, another ancestor of ex-President George Herbert Bush
and President George Walker Bush, the Third International Congress of
Eugenics in New York City in 1932.
The young Richard Nixon was a protégé of Prescott Bush, and after
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/WW2/> WW2 Nixon worked with Project
Paperclip to bring hundreds of Nazi scientists and industrialists into the
USA. Nixon was also Senator Joseph McCarthys partner in the famous
Red-baiting witch hunts of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
during the early 1950s. Nixon authorized the infamous Watergate burglary, in
which the burglars and their associates included CIA agents Frank Sturgis,
Bernard L. Barker, and E. Howard Hunt, who were assisted by Cuban exiles
with CIA connections. All of them had been associated with the Bay of Pigs
Invasion or the Kennedy assassination, or with both.
Prescott Bushs son, George Herbert Bush, owned the Zapata Oil Company,
which included an island 30 miles from Cuba that served as the staging area
for the CIAs Operation Zapata in 1961, which became known afterward as
the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Although he denies being there, George H.
Bush was photographed standing in front of the Texas Schoolbook Depository
just after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas on November 23rd,
1963. A declassified document from the office of former FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover which is dated November 29th, 1963 mentions George Bush of the
Central Intelligence Agency. George H. Bush was named Director of the CIA
in 1976, although he denied having ever served the CIA in any capacity.
During his term as Director of the CIA, Bush gave exclusive private
briefings on the future of the world energy market to the executives of
Brown Brothers Harriman Bank and to the board of directors of the Chase
Manhattan Bank, which was obviously an act of conflict of interest.
False-flag bombings and murders are a common tactic of the
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/intelligence/> intelligence agencies of
Britain, Israel, Russia, and the USA. Members of British intelligence
participated in some of the murders and bombings that were committed by the
Irish Republican Army. In the famous Lavon affair of 1954, Israeli
Terrorists bombed several buildings in Egypt, but one of the bombs went off
prematurely and an Israeli bomber was captured, which led to the arrest of
an Israeli spy ring. Abu Nidal was an agent-provocateur who assisted the
Israeli Mossad by organizing hijackings and Terrorist attacks in order to
foster the illusion of international Arab Terrorism. In 1999 Moscow police
caught members of the Russian FSB planting bombs in an apartment building in
an attempt to enflame sentiment against the rebel Chechens.
Stoking the fires of war in support of the USAs Military/Industrial Complex
is a primary function of the CIA, which has worked cooperatively with the
British, Israeli, and other governments to create the bogeyman of an
Islamic Terrorist threat. A 1998 German public television documentary
revealed that some of the main suspects in the Berlin disco bombing of 1986
had been working for the CIA and the Israeli Mossad. According to federal
court records, FBI agent-provocateurs organized and allowed the 1993 bombing
of the World Trade Center to proceed. There is also considerable evidence
indicating that FBI and ATF agents participated in the 1995 bombing of the
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
The attacks on the <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Twin_Towers/> Twin
Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11/2001; the anthrax
letter attacks against two US Congressmen in October, 2001; the Spanish
railway bombings in March, 2004; the London subway bombings in July, 2005;
and the Bali bombings of October, 2002 and October, 2005 all show evidence
of having been perpetrated by the USA and its allies, who are intent on
generating animosity against the Islamic world.
The US governments 9/11 false-flag attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon
involved a coordinated effort by the CIA, the White House, the NSA, the FBI,
NORAD, the Pentagon, and other federal agencies, along with the ongoing
complicity of the USAs major media outlets. The Israeli Mossad was also a
likely accomplice to the 9/11 attacks, as indicated by evidence that
demonstrates Israeli foreknowledge of those attacks. Since 9/11, the USAs
intelligence agencies have been further integrated under the overall
leadership of the CIA, another step toward the formation of a monolithic US
secret police with a global reach. Recently the arrest and rendition by
the CIA of so-called Terrorist suspects throughout the world to
undisclosed locations, often against the protests of the nations where the
arrests take place, show us that not only does the USA fancy itself to be
the worlds policeman, but the CIA also wants to be the worlds secret
police.
Many US citizens who oppose the aggressive right-wing domestic and foreign
policies of President George Walker Bush and the Republican Party still have
a naïve faith that the opposition Democrat Party will turn the country
around with a return to more Liberal policies if the Democrats are voted
back into office. However, the ruling elite of the USA controls both of the
major US political parties, which it manipulates like a pair of hand
puppets. The Harriman Bank heiress, Pamela Harriman, was the chief
contributor to the Democrat Party for thirty years, until her death in 2001.
Pamela Harriman bankrolled the two Presidential campaigns of Democrat
William Jefferson <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Clinton/> Clinton, who
supported the CIAs Iran/Contra drugs and arms smuggling through the airport
at Mena, Arkansas while he was Governor of that State. During the 2004
Presidential election, the candidates of both major political parties were
both the wealthy sons of CIA men, both graduates of Yale, both members of
Yales secretive and elitist Skull and Bones Club, and both espoused a
belief in the USAs manufactured threat of global Islamic Terrorism.
The USA has all the ingredients of fascism: an intimate marriage of
government, big business, and the military, in which the national media
exclusively disseminates government-approved propaganda, and a ruthless,
extra-legal and international secret police that enforces the policies of
the ruling elite. Fascism in the USA is an accomplished fact, and it has
been for the past forty years.
What can US citizens do to change the situation? Not much, short of
revolution, because the entire US government and both of the two major US
political parties are irredeemably corrupt. To bring about meaningful
reform, the USA would need to abolish the CIA, require a full vote of
Congress for any overseas military activity, restrict foreign aid to
democracies with a proven human rights record, and eliminate financial
contributions to politicians and their causes from lobbyists.
But fantasies of political reform are for dreamers, because corruption is
the way of the world. For their own personal good, concerned citizens should
study the secret history of the USA, and share that knowledge with those who
will listen. And if they are ethical they should avoid, in every way
possible, supporting the US government.
Gregory F. Fegel
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