The United States, a capitalist imperialist state. And having more arms allows more expansion. More expansion means more wars. For which you then need more arms. A profitable chicken and egg would ensue in a totally incestuous relationship between military industry and governments. Exterminate All the Brutes s1e3: Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing ***** Sky Documentaries 2021
The symbol of all evil: it is something odd, hidden deep behind two words: Hiroshima, Nagasaki. It was said that it was a war against fascism. It was said it was to prevent further American death, but hundreds of thousands died, the accounting is irrefutable. In a chess game, the objective is to checkmate the opponent’s king. All of the pieces then become collateral. Their respective value depends on the strategic value you assign to them. In the present case the King is an emperor, and Japanese death will provide the collateral. Shock and awe. A massacre determined by an algorithm. It came at eight o’clock on August 6th 1945. Nobody was expecting it. They were pawns in a sordid game. Killing at a distance had just taken on a new meaning. No explanation required, no cries tolerated. No pity. ibid.
The Navy seal team members who carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden on May 2nd 2011 were reporting in real time to President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials in the sealed Situation Room. Following the operation, the New York Daily News commented, ‘Along with the unseen pictures of Osama bin Laden’s corpse and questions about what Pakistan knew, intelligence officials’ reasons for dubbing the Al Qaeda boss ‘Geronimo’ remain one of the biggest mysteries of the Black Ops mission.’ Exterminate All the Brutes IV: The Bright Colours of Fascism, HBO 2021
Make America Great again, he said. When exactly was it great? I mean really great? And for whom? ibid.
The limits of superiority: privilege makes you vulnerable, and panic blended with ignorance and bigotry creates anger. Limitless and blinding anger. Everyone else becomes the enemy. The fortress becomes a prison. Everyone else looking in at you. ibid.
This knowledge is a fundamental prerequisite. That is why the narrator can tell him story as he does in Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. He has no need to count the crimes Kurt committed. He has no need to describe them. He has no need to produce evidence. For no-one doubted it. ibid.
Fundamentalist Christianity is on the rise among the electorate of the world’s only superpower, right up to and including the president ... Fundamentalist American Christianity is attacking science, but what is it offering instead? A mirror-image of Islamic extremism: an American Taliban. Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil? The God Delusion, Channel 4 2006
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic. Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Half a million Americans are homeless, and the problem can often be seen at its starkest in the shadows and backstreets of the City of Angels. The Americas with Simon Reeve III, BBC 2019
It means that, in fact, it’s – whether fascist is the right word I don’t know – more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. Peter Singer
There is no civil right. Not even the precious right of citizenship that this administration will not abuse to secure ever greater control over American life. Professor Jack Balkin, Yale University
24.9% of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5%. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor – the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract. Will Hutton
I believe in America. America has made my fortune. The Godfather 1972 starring Marlon Brando & Al Pacino & James Caan & Richard S Castellano & Richard Duvall & Sterling Hayden & John Marley & Richard Conte & Diane Keaton et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, opening scene
This is paradise. This is paradise, I’m tellin’ you. This town’s like a great big pussy just waitin’ to get fucked. I’m tellin’ you. I shoulda come here 10 years ago. I’d have been a millionaire by this time. By this time, I’d have had my own boat, my own car, my own golf course. Scarface 1983 ***** starring Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer & Steven Bauer & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Robert Loggia & Miriam Colon & F Murray Abraham et al, director Brian de Palma, Tony
This country you gotta make a da money first. Then when you getta da money you getta da power. Then when you getta da money, then you getta da woman. ibid. Tony to Chico
This is the problem: what’s wrong with America? American Gangster 2007 ***** starring Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe & Chiwetel Ejiofor & Cuba Gooding jr & Josh Brolin & Ted Levine & Armand Assante & Yul Vazqez & Ruby Dee et al, director Ridley Scott, Bumpy Johnson to Frank
America has become a second-rate power. Wall Street 1987 starring Michael Douglas & Charlie Sheen & Daryl Hannah & Martin Sheen & John C McGinkey & Terence Stamp & James Karen & Hal Holbrook & Sean Young & James Spader et al, director Oliver Stone
Welcome to the United States: home to the best democracy that money can buy. Chris Everard, Illuminati I
The USA has bombed 50 countries since the end of the Second World War. ibid.
The United States has, in spite of the Constitution and its supposed constraints, become a quasi-totalitarian state. Professor Antony C Sutton, author Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
The Federal Reserve system and these bankers are responsible for the demise of America. And if we ever want to win this battle, we must shut down this Federal Reserve system. And we must shut down these bankers and restore sound money to this country ... There has to be an uprising. Aaron Russo, interview Alex Jones
The Federal Reserve has created this massive inflation in America. It means the American worker has to keep making more money to keep up with the cost of living ... Because of the inflation they have created they have now allowed other countries to out-compete us ... So we’ve lost our manufacturing base ... We provide nothing to the world any more. ibid.
Americans, mobilise! Stand together. Stand tall. Tell government you’re as mad as hell. No longer cooperate with the government. Do not accept the national ID card. Do everything in your power to restore freedom and your individuality back to America. Stop being a country run by the institutions for the institutions. ibid.
In order to survive, nations need strong intelligence services. But the idea that the CIA is primarily an intelligence-gathering operation is itself one of the agency’s greatest propaganda triumphs. Despite its name, the Central Intelligence Agency's main purpose is, and has always been, carrying out covert operations involving economic warfare, rigged elections, assassinations and even genocide. The CIA is also expert at distorting intelligence to justify its own goals, and this ‘disinformation’ leads to dangerous illusions among our policymakers. But covert operations are its life’s blood. The litany of illegal, murderous CIA activity is enough to chill the bones of anyone who cares about liberty and justice. As long as the CIA exists, our government can break any law it chooses in the name of national security. Mark Zepezauer, The CIA’s Greatest Hits 2002
It might come as a shock to many people but the form of government we have in this country today basically is socialistic – we have social programs for everything ... But instead of the benefits going to the people, the benefits go to the corporations ... We have socialism geared to benefit the multinational corporations ... This is pushed along by a fervent nationalism – what’s good for GM is good for the country – our country, right or wrong, and we’re going to take our form of democracy to other countries and if you don’t like it we’ll invade you and occupy you ... That tells us that the form of government that we’re operating under today is national socialism ... a form of fascism ... Benito Mussolini himself said that fascism isn’t really the proper term, it more correctly should have been called Corporatism. That is simply when you have the corporations running the county and controlling the government ... In those countries ... the state took over the corporations; in the United States today the corporations have taken over the state, but the end result is the same. Jim Marrs, cited One Nation Under Siege
The problem today is there’s no place to go. We’re going to have to turn and we’re going to have to confront Big Brother and we’re going to have to struggle if we are going to maintain our individual liberty and freedom. Jim Marr
The point of public relations slogans like Support our Troops is that they don’t mean anything ... That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about. Noam Chomsky
To an extraordinary extent by comparative standards the United States is a business-run society, which means that human rights are subordinated to the overwhelming, overriding need of profit for investors. Decisions are placed in the hands of unaccountable private tyrannies, which means that even if formal democracy practices exist as they do, they’re of peripheral significance. The government is ... the shadow cast by business over society. Noam Chomsky, Class War: The Attack on Working People
They can attack anybody they decide to call a potential threat – sometimes that’s called preventive war but even that’s not fair because they’re allowed to invent the threat. Noam Chomsky, University of Colorado 5th April 2003
There’s very lively debate about whether the Bush administration downgraded the so-called War on Terror in favor of its ambitions in Iraq. This was based on revelations by recent Bush administration officials, which I’m sure you’ve seen ... They consciously increased the threat of terror in order to achieve their goals in Iraq. Noam Chomsky, Imperial Grand Strategy
The repression launched by the Wilson Administration successfully undermined democratic politics, unions, freedom of the press, and independent thought, in the interests of corporate power and the state authorities who represented its interests, all with approval of the media and elites generally, all in self-defence against the ‘ignorant and mentally deficient’ majority. Much the same story was re-enacted after World War II, again under the pretext of a Soviet threat, in reality to restore submission to the rulers. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
Within the US, the major issue remains the unravelling of the society under the impact of the Reagan-Bush social and economic programs. These reflected a broad elite consensus in favor of a welfare state for the rich even beyond the norm. Policy was designed to transfer resources to privileged sectors, with the costs to be borne by the general population and future generations. Given the narrow interests of its constituency, the Administration has no serious proposals to deal with the consequences of these policies. ibid.