The organising principle of any society, Mr Garrison, is war. JFK ***** 1991 starring Kevin Costner & Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones & Kevin Bacon & Laurie Metcalf & Gary Oldman & Michael Rooker & Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau & Joe Pesci & John Candy et al, director Oliver Stone, Mr X to Garrison
Let’s remember, the CIA’s job is to go out and create wars. Jesse Ventura
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent. America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund. When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. Paul Warburg, Council on Foreign Relations, 17th February 1950
There are two rules of war that have not yet been invalidated by the new world order. The first rule is that the belligerent nation must be fairly sure that its actions will make things better; the second rule is that the belligerent nation must be more or less certain that its actions won’t make things worse. Martin Amis, article The Guardian 4th March 2003 ‘The Palace of the End’
His [Adam Weishaupt] idea was to bring in the best and the brightest, and try to gain control of the world so they could solve world problems. He really had his glorious ideas. And it sort of went awry. It took an evil direction. They really control everything of significance throughout the entire world that goes back to the Civil War in the United States ... They’ve financed every war since about 1800 – both sides. Gaylon Ross, author & researcher
Tony Blair attended a Bilderberg meeting before he became prime minister. Bill Clinton attended a Bilderberg meeting before he became President of the United States. Before. They’re vetted to be allowed to become the leaders of their nations. They decide who will go to war. Where the wars will be. How long the wars will last. Who will finance the wars. Gaylon Ross, televised interview
They’ve funded both sides of almost every war, and of course they’re getting the interest off of the loans that they’ve given the various governments of the wars that they’ve actually helped stimulate and create. Dr Michael Coffman
The dirty little secret is that both Houses of Congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund. When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. Robert Reich, USA Today 7th January 1999
The money-changers plunged Britain into a series of costly wars. William T Still, The Money Masters, 1996
It was not unusual for privately controlled central banks to finance both sides in a war. ibid.
War is the biggest debt generator in history. ibid.
War to create debt and dependency. ibid.
In America J P Morgan was the sales agent for war materials to both the British and the French. ibid.
For international bankers there is nothing more profitable than war. The Big Picture – FINAL
When Operation Desert Storm was launched in early 1991 … I reminded myself just how greedy the superpowers of the world had become for crude oil. Britain’s Forgotten Wars with Tony Robinson I: A Storm in the Desert, Channel 4 2021
‘A lot of the families feel very forgotten.’ ibid. Mal Craighill, RAF
The seeds of the Gulf War were sown years before, rising out of the ashes of another conflict that had raged in the region. ibid.
A voice reported to be Saddam Hussein announced on Iraqi radio, ‘the Mother of all Battles has begun.’ ibid.
The Balkans, what we tend to call the former states of Yugoslavia, have been a battleground for thousands of years … The former Soviet states began to crumble, and a delicate peace was broken … The most uncivil of civil wars raged. Britain’s Forgotten Wars with Tony Robinson II: Bloodshed in Bosnia
Yugoslavia: Around 100,000 people lost their lives during the three-year-old bitter, brutal and bloody war. ibid.
Many leaders in the West weren’t sure how to intervene in his highly charged and highly sensitive conflict. ibid.
In the 1950s Britain was reeling from a major financial crises brought about by the Second World War … We started suffering from a huge identity crisis as we entered this brave new post-war era. Britain’s Forgotten Wars with Tony Robinson III: Suez
Britain and allied France had no intention of giving up control of the Suez Canal. When Egypt seized the canal, cool heads should have prevailed. ibid.
The 1956 invasion of the Suez canal zone turned Britain from a global superpower into an international embarrassment all in the space of just nine days … The soldiers on the ground had to face the consequences. ibid.
The Malayan Emergency is a forgotten conflict … a communist uprising that tied commonwealth troops down for almost a decade … The conflict is hardly ever talked about. Tony Robinson, Britain’s Forgotten Wars IV: Malaysia
Over 10,000 people were killed and at least 400,000 were forced into internment camps. ibid.
Internment camps became known as ‘new villages’. ibid.
Reports from the Korean War are still vivid in my mind … For three years the country was in turmoil as the Cold War heated up. And despite the fact that nearly five million people were killed, the bloodshed in Korea has become known as the Forgotten War. Britain’s Forgotten Wars with Tony Robinson V: Korea
‘We lost 1,106 troops, which is more than Afghanistan, Iraq and the Falklands put together.’ ibid. Alna Guy, Britain army
The UN force was made up from over 20 countries. ibid.
‘We can Estimate that 40,000 troops and service personnel probably served in Korea during the three years of the conflict.’ ibid. historian
And so it comes to pass that in November 1950 Chinese forces pour into North Korea and change the entire complexion of the war. ibid.
Kenya: What I was told was a lie … Mau-Mau represented a radical reaction to a series of economic, political and social changes brought about by the British rulers for their own gain … A bitter and bloody war had been fought on the way to Kenya’s independence. Britain’s Forgotten Wars with Tony Robinson VI: Mau-Mau
The British would rather choose to forget … The freedom fighters took an oath to expel the white man from their homeland. ibid.
Kenya had been colonised ever since the British East Africa Company arrived towards the end of the nineteenth century. ibid.
The workers were repressed while the land owners lived a life of luxury. ibid.
‘Kenya also had an apartheid system that was imported by the British and by white settlers.’ ibid. Anna Adima, York University
The British officially declared them to be terrorists. ibid.
Guerrilla warfare had broken out in Kenya. ibid.
War on the streets of Europe. People living in fear. The Ukrainians are fighting back. There are questions about Vladimir Putin’s state of mind. What he does next could change the fate of millions. Panorama: Putin’s War in Ukraine, BBC 2022
Putin feared Ukraine, Russia’s nearest neighbour, would join Nato and demanded that it never should. ibid.
He [Putin] declared two pro-Russian areas in eastern Ukraine independent states. The West imposed economic sanctions. ibid.
The greatest threat to our existence has always been ourselves. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? Youtube 14.17, Second Thought online 2021
One large scale conflict could easily annihilate not our own species but possibly all life on earth. ibid.
War and conflict has reshaped nations and devastated entire generations. And with a duty to protect and provide for their citizens, many nation states down the ages have fallen short. Conflicts dominate history and yet wars, why they started and how they were fought, are constantly disputed. Wars and myth-building go hand in hand. History’s Greatest Myths s1e3: War and Conflict
Pearl Harbor: A myth that would cast the US president as a traitor and a liar … The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise offensive, Roosevelt said. Unprovoked and without warning. But was that true? ibid.
A story that involved deception and myth-making used to justify starting a war. February 5th 2003: US Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations. ibid.