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Aaron Dykes ~ No One Will Hold Kissinger Accountable

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Truthstream Media May 31 2013

The skullduggery of Henry Kissinger is well known, but little has been done about it.

As the unofficial envoy of the Rockefeller Empire and a member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, Aspen Institute, Bohemian Grove, Trilateral Commission, etc., Kissinger is at the heart of the power structure and closely tied to many underhanded deeds as well as big plays for global power.

As National Security Advisor under presidents Nixon and Ford, and for a time also concurrently Secretary of State under the same presidents, Kissinger wielded enormous power and effectively operated on behalf of the shadow government agenda – often over the president’s head.

Informally, he has continued shaping policy as a top advisor to numerous high level figures, including presidents and cabinet members, since his official time in office during the 1970s.

The case for war crimes and crimes against humanity outlined by Christopher Hitchens (including killing as many as half a million civilians in the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War), as well as his participation in various assassinations, coups and destabilization efforts throughout the world contrast sharply with his status as arecipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, ostensibly for negotiating the withdrawal of American forces in Vietnam (as dubious and hypocritical as the prize has proven to be).

Moreover, via National Security Study Memorandum NSSM 200, Henry Kissinger made it official U.S. foreign policy to underwrite forcible depopulation and outright genocide in the developing world, including recommendations to use “food as a weapon” (including withholding food aid to induce compliance with global population targets). The implications of this ongoing policy are both staggering and far-reaching.

Despite lawsuits and threats of extradition, as well as requests to formally answer questions over his role in the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile, including the murder of a general, and with warrants for his arrest in Chile, Argentina, Spain and France, Heinz “Henry” Kissinger remains above the law.

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Chris Hedges ~ McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul

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Truthdig | October 21 2012

Democratic PartyIn the summer of 1972, when I was 15, I persuaded my parents to let me ride my bike down to the local George McGovern headquarters every morning to work on his campaign. McGovern, who died early Sunday morning in South Dakota at the age of 90, embodied the core values I had been taught to cherish. My father, a World War II veteran like McGovern, had taken my younger sister and me to protests in support of the civil rights movement and against the Vietnam War. He taught us to stand up for human decency and honesty, no matter the cost. He told us that the definitions of business and politics, the categories of winners and losers, of the powerful and the powerless, of the rich and the poor, are meaningless if the price for admission requires that you sell your soul. And he told us something that the whole country, many years later, now knows: that George McGovern was a good man.

McGovern, even before he ran for president, held heroic stature for us. In 1970 he attached to a military procurement bill the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, which would have required, through a cutoff of funding, a withdrawal of all American forces from Indochina. The amendment did not pass, although the majority of Americans supported it. McGovern denounced on the Senate floor the politicians who, by refusing to support the amendment, prolonged the war. We instantly understood the words he spoke. They were the words of a preacher.

“Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave,” he said. “This chamber reeks of blood. Every senator here is partly responsible for that human wreckage at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval [hospitals] and all across our land—young men without legs, or arms, or genitals, or faces or hopes. There are not very many of these blasted and broken boys who think this war is a glorious adventure. Do not talk to them about bugging out, or national honor or courage. It does not take any courage at all for a congressman, or a senator, or a president to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Vietnam, because it is not our blood that is being shed. But we are responsible for those young men and their lives and their hopes. And if we do not end this damnable war those young men will some day curse us for our pitiful willingness to let the Executive carry the burden that the Constitution places on us.”

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Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall ~ Cycles Of A Nation Called America (4 of 4)

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News With Views | August 19 2012 | Thanks, Minty

[Note: This is article 3 of a four part series. You can read part 1 here, part 2 here. and Part 3. The original article explaining the differences between Actives and Passives is here.]

Active investors innovate… they are the independent business owners of the world. Passives build on the creative energies of the Active group. Passive investors like things “big” because big is safer than small. Actives are risk managers; Passives are risk avoiders who use the words “risk taking” rather than “risk management.” Actives are conservative; Passives are liberal.

In the fall of 1970, Henry Kissinger made a secret trip to China. Nixon met with the Chinese communists in 1972 to discuss international trade (and to give them intelligence information about the Soviet Union). American economic stability began to be dependent upon and controlled by international, not national, markets. A new phenomenon emerged: the military-industrial complex. Change was in the wind and change is disliked by those with low-risk management skills (Passives).

In 1960, traditional social values were rejected by Hippies and Yippies … a fitting end to a Passive cycle. A drug culture emerged and the Active cycle began that very year. When we move into an active cycle, we almost always have an economic base change (never when going from Active to Passive). In 1960, we moved from an industrial/manufacturing base to technology, information, and service. In the late 1980s, George Herbert Walker Bush began talking about a “New World Order.” Americans didn’t like it and he lost his Presidential bid for re-election.

Traditional political values were questioned. Previously unheard of demonstrations against America’s military and political involvement in the Vietnam War – a war started by Passives and ended by Actives – were almost daily occurrences. Non-traditional civil rights for minorities caused rebellion in our streets. Those who fought in Vietnam were spat upon by Passives as they returned from their military service. Passives ran away to Canada. Active citizens inherited in 1960 a government grown too big, too arrogant, and too motivated by power to control.

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Paul Craig Roberts ~ How Liberty Was Lost

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Paul Craig Roberts | April 24 2012

Branch DavidiansWhen did things begin going wrong in America?

“From the beginning,” answer some. English colonists, themselves under the thumb of a king, exterminated American Indians and stole their lands, as did late 18th and 19th century Americans. Over the course of three centuries the native inhabitants of America were dispossessed, just as Israelis have been driving Palestinians off their lands since 1948.

Demonization always plays a role. The Indians were savages and the Palestinians are terrorists. Any country that can control the explanation can get away with evil.

I agree that there is a lot of evil in every country and civilization. In the struggle between good and evil, religion has at times been on the side of evil. However, the notion of moral progress cannot so easily be thrown out.

Consider, for example, slavery. In the 1800s, slavery still existed in countries that proclaimed equal rights. Even free women did not have equal rights. Today no Western country would openly tolerate the ownership of humans or the transfer of a woman’s property upon her marriage to her husband.

It is true that Western governments have ownership rights in the labor of their citizens through the income tax. This remains as a mitigated form of serfdom. So far, however, no government has claimed the right of ownership over the person himself.

Sometimes I hear from readers that my efforts are pointless, that elites are always dominant and that the only solution is to find one’s way into the small, connected clique of elites either through marriage or service to their interests.

This might sound like cynical advice, but it is not devoid of some truth. Indeed, it is the way Washington and New York work, and increasingly the way the entire country operates.

Washington serves powerful private interests, not the public interest. University faculties in their research increasingly serve private interests and decreasingly serve truth. In the US the media is no longer a voice and protection for the people. It is becoming increasingly impossible in America to get a good job without being connected to the system that serves the elites.

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