By Larry Romanoff for the Saker Blog
In the revelation of propaganda as a tool of public mind control and its use for war marketing, it is worthwhile to examine the historical background of Bernays’ war effort. At the time, the European Zionist Jews had made an agreement with England to bring the US into the war against Germany, on the side of England, a favor for which England would grant the Jews the occupation of Palestine for a new homeland. Palestine did not ‘belong’ to England, it was not England’s to give, and England had no legal or moral right to make such an agreement, but it was made nonetheless. The Jews had created in US President Wilson an intense desire to enter the war, but the American population had no interest in the European war and public sentiment was entirely against participating.
To facilitate the desired result, Wilson created a body named the Committee on Public Information (CPI), to propagandise the war by the mass brainwashing of America. The group was led by a muckraking publicist/advertising man named George Creel, and the CPI was known as “The Creel Commission”, but it appears Creel was only a ‘front’, with little contribution to the events that actually occurred. The CPI was staffed with a heavy slate of psychologists and carefully-selected men from the media, academia, advertising, and the movie and music industries. Two of the most important members were Walter Lippmann, whom Wilson described as “the most brilliant man of his age”, and Edward Bernays, who was the group’s top mind-control expert, both Jews and both aware of the stakes in this game. Bernays planned to combine his uncle Freud’s psychiatric insights with mass psychology, blended with modern advertising techniques, and apply them to the task of mass mind control. Movies were already powerful new tools for misinformation and opinion control, as was radio, and TV would soon be added to this list.
“Wilson’s agreement to create the CPI was actually a turning point in world history, the first truly scientific attempt to form, manipulate and control the perceptions and beliefs of an entire population.” (1) (2) (3)
With Wilson’s authority, these men were given almost unlimited scope to work their magic, and in order to ensure the success of their program and guarantee the eventual possession of Palestine, these men and their committee carried out “a program of psychological warfare against the American people on a scale unprecedented in human history and with a degree of success that most propagandists could only dream about”.
In his 1922 book Public Opinion, Lippmann wrote, “The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event … For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.” And it was this psychological manipulation that these men employed to turn an entire nation of peaceful Americans into rabid war-mongers. (4) (5)
Note to readers: Some part of the immediately-following paragraphs is not mine. They are partially verbatim and partially paraphrasing, of some content I discovered many years ago and, even with diligent effort, I am today unable to locate the original source.
Having received permission and broad authority from the US President to “lead the public mind into war” and, with success threatened by widespread anti-war sentiment, these men determined to engineer what Lippmann called “the manufacture of consent”. The committee first identified all the different ways that information flowed to the population, examined the characteristics of each, and filled every channel with specially-crafted pro-war material. Their effort was unparalleled in its scale and sophistication, since the CPI had the power not only to manufacture false news and distribute it nationally through all channels, but to officially censor news and withhold information from the public. “They produced and distributed many thousands of ‘official’ press releases, virtually functioning as the information arm of the US government and were in fact the major provider of war news to the nation.”
These men wasted no time in organising a vast propaganda network and began flooding the US with anti-German propaganda consisting of hate literature, hate movies, songs, media articles and much more.
Lippmann and Bernays divided their Committee into nineteen ‘divisions’, each responsible for a different type of propaganda, and each utilising the expertise of vast numbers of psychologists, advertising experts, media personnel and movie moguls. (6) (7) The intention was to flood every means of communication with the goal of inciting hatred of everything German and to promote American entry into the war as the only option for patriotic Americans. They filled every part of US print media with anti-German hate propaganda. In the News Division alone, in an average week, more than 20,000 newspaper columns carried entirely false propaganda articles produced by the CPI, promoting hatred of Germany and Germans, describing atrocities that had never occurred and painting the Germans as vicious and inhuman monsters. Lippmann and Bernays not only instituted (compulsory) “voluntary guidelines” for the inclusion of their monstrous tales in all media, but they rigidly enforced a censorship in the American mass media to suppress any contradictory content.
Bernays cleverly realised that much of the public is disinclined to read long articles, and so formed a special division to produce brief rants and sound bytes meant to arouse the loathsome emotions of those with short attention spans. They created a Syndicated Features Division employing popular novelists to produce essays containing the official propaganda, which reached 10 to 15 million people each month. Another division was responsible for the cartoon sections of newspapers and other media, with the stated intention to “mobilize and direct the scattered cartoon power of the country for constructive war work”. They employed thousands of cartoonists who “achieved new heights in hate-mongering”, picturing the Germans as primitive and evil animals who stole, killed or raped everything they encountered.
They created a similar Division for Cinema that resulted in the Hollywood production of dozens of outrageous and virulently anti-German movies, hate films containing completely fictional tales of atrocities and bestialities committed by the Germans. Bernays was the source of movie scenes where “dirty” Germans (and later the dirtier Japanese) machine-gunned brave American pilots while parachuting to the ground. (8) None of these tales were ever true; these and all others were total fabrications. Then, as now, the motion picture industry in the US was entirely controlled by Jews who were eager to assist. One Jewish editorial stated that “every individual at work in this industry wants to do his share . . . through slides, film leaders and trailers, posters and newspaper publicity they will spread that propaganda so necessary to the immediate mobilization of the country’s great resources”.
In addition to movies produced by the film studios, the CPI created its own Film Division which produced 60 or 70 “official” films that were viewed by many tens of millions of people each week. They created an Advertising Division to influence commercial advertisers to insert anti-German war propaganda into newspaper and magazine advertising, with almost every major US publication carrying a large quota of these ads. Then, as today, much of the media was Jewish-owned or controlled, and these men received much free space.
They created a ‘Division of Work with the Foreign Born’ (9) to reach all immigrants in the country in their own languages, and used members of these communities to propagandise their own people, especially targeting all military-age foreigners who might become war conscripts. The CPI hired bi-lingual speakers to target every specific immigrant group in the US, and even had a Sioux ‘Four-Minute Man’ delivering speeches in seven native languages. They specially targeted all Jews in America, providing Yiddish speakers in thousands of theaters and workplaces. There also was a Foreign Section with sixteen divisions, which established offices in over thirty countries, to propagandise the populations of other nations.
Lippmann and Bernays wrote: “It is a matter of pride to the Committee on Public Information, as it should be to America, that the directors of English, French, and Italian propaganda were a unit in agreeing that our literature was remarkable above all others for its brilliant and concentrated effectiveness”.
Bernays’ Speaking Division organised a group known as the “Four-Minute Men’, 75,000 volunteers who gave speeches provoking hatred and fear of Germany and Germans, and urging war. They used farmers to appeal to farmers and businessmen to businessmen, with short, rousing speeches filled with imagery. These were so emotionally-loaded they often had dreadful consequences, in thousands of instances mobs gathering afterward and vandalising German homes and businesses in their city. (10) In total, their speakers gave nearly 8 million speeches to more than 300 million Americans, all provoking hatred of Germany and Germans, and urging war. (11) (12) (13) (14) (15)
A continuing atrocity is that even today misinformation sources like Britannica and the Smithsonian, and many American history websites, carry articles claiming “the CPI’s representatives, known as four-minute men, traveled throughout the U.S. urging Americans to buy war bonds and conserve food.” (16)
The Committee particularly targeted women, establishing a major Women’s Division, from fear that women “might constitute a subversive element in the nation, detrimental to wartime unity and the smooth functioning of [mandatory military conscription]”. They created a womens’ Four-Minute Man division to speak at womens groups and matinees to counteract the resistance to sending their sons and husbands to war. They inserted themselves into many women’s magazines where they controlled the cover and much of the internal content, encouraging women to send their sons to war, claiming he would return as “a man” instead of a corpse. The Ladies Home Journal, once the most inoffensive of publications, had many covers with dirty anti-German posters and most every issue with patriotic articles written by Bernays’ staff extolling the sacrifices of war.
One of Bernays’ mind-control divisions was responsible for popular music, the CPI hiring thousands of songwriters to create songs with anti-German lyrics, these playing constantly on the nation’s radio stations. Another division was responsible for public library content, tasked with the removal of any books favoring Germany, including the works of famous German authors and philosophers. Everything favorably German was censored, removed from public accessibility, or destroyed.
Perhaps the division most indicative of the moral bankruptcy of these men was their work with public school children. They heavily utilised psychologists in programs to spread hatred of Germany throughout America’s public school system where small children were taught the full gamut of Bernays’ hateful propaganda, then used as travelling salesmen to visit other schools and spread the hatred to their classmates, delivering totally fabricated tales of German atrocities to other small children. Uncounted thousands of children were organized as Four Minute Men speakers, with more than 200,000 schools participating. Bernays’ psychologists did their work well: American children became not only hate-filled but terrified of Germans. After these inflamed propaganda sessions, many American children demonstrated their “patriotism” by groups attacking German-Americans and stoning them, sometimes being congratulated by local newspapers for “doing their duty”. The ‘patriotic’ Boy Scouts of America contributed to the effort by regularly burning bundles of German newspapers that were on sale, and Germans were regularly insulted and spat upon by other citizens.
Bernays’ group published many thousands of children’s books and comics containing the most vile and hateful propaganda lies. Libraries sponsored anti-German childrens’ ‘story hours’ that used hate propaganda supplied by Bernays. Sunday school children were given coloring books depicting and encouraging violence against Germans.
Bernays’ Public literature attacked everything German in America, including schools and churches. In many schools the German language was forbidden to be taught to “pure Americans”, and administrators were urged to fire “all disloyal teachers”, meaning any Germans. The names of countless towns and cities were changed to eliminate their German origin: Berlin, Iowa became Lincoln, Iowa. German foods and food names were purged from restaurants; sauerkraut became ‘liberty cabbage’ and German Shepherds became ‘Alsatians’.
All American orchestras were ordered to eliminate from their performances any music by classic German composers like Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. In some states, the use of the German language was prohibited in public and on the telephone. German professors were fired from their universities, German-language or German-owned local newspapers were denied advertising revenue, constantly harassed, and often forced out of business.
Bernays instituted a program of questioning the patriotism and loyalty of all Germans in America, including those who had lived there for generations. He created a plan that enlisted volunteers to gather information on Germans, forming a semi-official organisation named the American Protective League that eventually had more than 200,000 members deputised as FBI agents to “police” community loyalty. This group and others “investigated” every German, and soon every person with anti-war views, as prima facie evidence of treason.
Germans were forced to gather in public meetings and denounce Germany and its leaders. They were forced to purchase war bonds and publicly declare their allegiance to the US flag. As Bernays’ rhetoric reached dangerous levels, the anti-German hysteria and violence increased proportionately. Many Germans were forcibly removed from their homes, often torn from their beds during the night, taken out into the street and stripped naked, beaten and whipped, then forced to kneel and kiss the American flag. Many were tarred and feathered, then forced to leave their cities or towns. Some were lynched from trees. Priests and pastors were dragged out of their churches and beaten for giving sermons in German. (17) (18) (19) (20)
The anti-German hysteria had people seeing spies everywhere, with House and Bernays greatly inflaming this trend by preparing Wilson’s infamous “Flag Day” speech (21) (22) where he claimed “The military masters of Germany have filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and have sought to corrupt the opinion of our people”. Newspaper editors were screaming that all Germans were spies who were poisoning American water supplies or infecting medical shipments to hospitals, and that most “ought to be taken out at sunrise and shot for treason”. The Saturday Evening Post, one of America’s most popular and influential magazines, announced that it was time to rid America of Germans, “the scum of the melting pot”. Congressmen recommended hanging or otherwise executing all Germans in America, State Governors urging the use of firing squads to eliminate “the disloyal element” from the entire state. The US Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels stated that Americans would “put the fear of God into the hearts” of these people.
According to Bernays, the key was to dehumanise and demonise the German people by filling American minds with fabricated tales of horror. The compliant media, largely Jewish-owned, obediently carried fake stories of poisoned candy being dropped from airplanes, German soldiers skewering babies like shish kebabs, the raping of nuns, and so much more. Eventually, the stories were accepted as true and the public’s natural resistance to war was overcome. From his uncle Freud, Bernays learned that a particularly effective strategy for demonising Germans was the use of atrocity stories. According to Harold Lasswell:
“So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations that every war must appear to be a war of defense against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about who the public is to hate. A handy rule for arousing hate is, if at first they do not enrage, use an atrocity. It has been employed with unvarying success in every conflict known to man.” (23)
The CPI used every weapon available to spread their message to, as Creel would later say, “turn the American people into one white-hot mass (of hatred) . . .” Their psychological travesty so indoctrinated the public that daily life in America became infused with hatred and with Americans automatically conditioned to disgust and hatred for all things German.
They succeeded, and not only in the US. Teams of the same Jewish ‘specialists’ were following the same script in most other nations, all instilling massive hatred for Germans who, in every nation were vehemently portrayed as evil incarnate, simply from the fact of their German origin. In countries all around the world, the media spread the same message of hatred against Germany and the Germans.
In Brazil, anti-German demonstrations and riots consumed the country, with German businesses being destroyed and Germans being assaulted and killed. The Brazilian press carried Bernays’ intensely anti-German atrocity propaganda, stimulating demonstrations that were very ugly anti-German affairs. In some cities, hundreds of businesses, schools and homes were burned. In Porto Alegre, almost the entire German district was burned to the ground. In others, almost all German assets were seized. (24)
In almost every nation, the German-language press and use of the German language completely disappeared during the war from fear of reprisal, as did all German schools and most businesses. None re-opened. In Canada and Australia, many names of towns or streets were changed to eliminate their German origin. In Britain, France, and Canada also, thousands of people were falsely interned and their apartments and shops most often looted. They didn’t miss any opportunity; in one case, they found a photo of a German soldier with a child on his knee and published it with the caption, “One wouldn’t believe I have just killed the mother.” The Jews’ atrocity war propaganda in Canada was almost as bad as in the US, with even the military vandalising German businesses, and all Germans not imprisoned having to register with the government. (25)
The UK was as bad as the US. Persons bearing a German name were driven to despair, driven out of their positions and their businesses ruined. The Guardian archives document that anti-German riots in England were remarkable for their destruction and violence. “Some Germans were pursued into their homes by the mob and pitched through the windows into the street, others were ducked in troughs, and others had their clothing stripped off their backs.” (26) The anti-German hysteria became so severe that King George V had to change his German name of ‘Saxe-Coburg’ to ‘Windsor’, and relinquish all his German titles. (27)
Most Americans are aware that during the (again Bernays-induced) national hysteria during the Second World War the US government forced more than 100,000 US-born Japanese into concentration camps, but history has deleted the fact that many more Germans were interned in concentration camps in the US prior to and during the First War. German Mennonites who refused the draft as conscientious objectors were given prison sentences for as long as 30 years, and many died from abuse and torture in US prisons. Not only were Germans imprisoned, but all their assets were confiscated, this during both world wars, and not only personal assets but entire corporations owned by Germans were simply seized and sold. The government amassed more than half a billion dollars in seizures, nearly equivalent to the entire national budget at the time. Bayer in America was auctioned off on its own doorstep, to a friend of the Administration. (28) In fact, the US military entered every country with a German corporate presence and claimed ownership of all German assets. This portion is of such consequence I have dealt with it in detail in a separate article. (29)
While Bernays was “making the world safe for democracy”, that safety was not meant for Americans. Under the coaching of Col. E. M. House who was Wilson’s Jewish handler, Wilson passed oppressive legislation including the Espionage Act and Sedition Act that were prepared by Bernays, were entirely fascist in content and which made illegal anything that might hinder American entry into the war. Freedom of speech and assembly, and press freedom virtually disappeared from America during this time, it eventually becoming illegal to say or write anything critical of the US government, its officials and even its “symbols”.
Any expression of objection to American entrance into the war would result in a fine of $10,000 (ten xyears’ average wages at the time) or 20 years in prison, with much of the policing power given to what were in effect private vigilante groups like the infamous American Protective League that operated virtually without oversight. The suppression of public opinion and of dissent, and the control exercised on anti-war communication was universal. The Espionage Act stated “Every letter, writing, circular, postal card, picture, print, engraving, photograph, newspaper, pamphlet, book, or other publication, matter or thing of any kind containing any matter which is intended to obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States is hereby declared to be non-mailable.” Nothing was permitted that might prevent the successful recruitment of American soldiers for a war that only the Jews wanted.
Because of Bernays, atrocity propaganda, the deliberate spreading of fabricated evils and inhuman war crimes became the foundation of the Committee’s efforts. With all of this and much more, Bernays and Lippmann turned America into a hotbed of hatred for the entire German population, accomplishing the goal of the Zionist Jews to use the US military as a tool, their own private army in the European war to fulfill their ambition for Palestine, and thus these two men changed the course of history.
Of course, the causes and aims of the propaganda were far more evil than anything the supposed ‘enemy’ had contemplated, but the goal was to not only invent an enemy but to make that enemy “appear savage, barbaric, and inhumane”, and thus worthy of destruction. This process has been followed many dozens of times in recent history, the latest being the US-Israeli destruction of Iraq, Libya and Syria. Usually, the compliant media repeat and embellish the stories without attempt at confirmation and, in virtually every instance, later attempts to confirm the atrocity tales prove fruitless with researchers able to uncover no evidence whatever of the events. Think of Iraq’s gassing of hundreds of thousands and burial in mass graves and the tales of Libyan Viagra; these and many others proved groundless fabrications – typical atrocity propaganda. Prior to the Iraq invasion, stories appeared of Saddam using wood shredders to eliminate political opponents and dissidents but, as always, researchers later determined there was no evidence whatever to support those horrendous allegations. Thanks to Bernays, there were World War One tales of Germans cutting off the breasts of every woman they encountered, of eating babies, of rendering the bodies of massacred Jews for fat and glycerine to make weapons, tales of a tub-full of eyeballs collected by the Nazis. After the war, Bernays openly admitted that he used fabricated atrocities to provoke hatred against Germany. It appears the media will cooperate in propagating the most fantastic lies, and the people will believe almost everything they read.
Bernays and his group produced thousands of posters containing lurid descriptions of these fake atrocities (30), to say nothing of the newspaper articles, cartoons and so much more, but the historical record of this years-long tapestry of lies and hate has been quite well buried. It is possible to find copies on the internet of many wartime posters, but this collection has been well sanitised with virtually all of the genuinely evil and dirty productions apparently lost to history. The narrative today in the history books casually dismisses all this as “an innovative use of graphic arts to stir patriotism”, but it was hatred rather than patriotism that was being stirred, and both America and the Jews will one day need to openly face this entire reprehensible chapter of history.
The official story is that after World War One, propaganda developed such a poor reputation that the US Congress terminated the Committee in disgust, “ending these activities amidst great controversy”, and refused to bother with funding to preserve and archive its vast collection of hate literature and propaganda, but the truth is that the White House, Congress and the Committee conspired to eliminate or destroy much of the evidence of their crimes. There exists a section of Records of the Committee on Public Information in US Government archives (31), but little of use remains, the more dangerous elements all sanitised. And in fact, far from developing a bad reputation, Bernays and his propaganda methods became widely popular with governments and large corporations for both consumerism and the control of public perception during peacetime.
This wouldn’t be the last time Lippmann and Bernays would use these techniques against Germany. This massive attack was repeated little more than ten years later to destroy Germany and push it into yet another war the Germans didn’t want. In the 1930s, the same Jewish European bankers with largely the same agenda wanted the US to join another war they planned to initiate against Germany. In 1933 they embarked on an extensive worldwide commercial war intended to destroy Germany financially, with newspaper headlines screaming “Judea Declares War on Germany”. They had already induced in Roosevelt “an intense desire for war”, but were having the same problem again with the unwilling American public. And they employed precisely the same solutions, this time demonising Hitler.
In all of this, Lippmann and Bernays were not working independently or without guidance. Prior to their massive ‘war effort’ in the US, they had operated a successful pilot test case in the UK, using British newspapers owned by their controllers, primarily Rothschild, to determine the efficacy of their methods. You may want to think about this next sentence and apply it to recent world events. “They (Bernays and his group) practiced revealing fabricated stories of atrocities, false accusations of terror and brutality against any nation or people they wanted the public mind to view as “the enemy”, then tested and evaluated public reactions to their manipulations of this false propaganda.”
Compare those words with George W. Bush’s demonisation of Iraq, the sordid tales of mass slaughters, the nuclear weapons ready to launch within 15 minutes, the responsibility for 9-11, the babies tossed out of incubators, all the fake propaganda against Saddam and Iraq to get the public mind onside for an unjustified war launched only for political and commercial objectives. Compare them to the demonisation of Khaddafi in Libya, his supplying of Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women, the long list of fabrications and lies to get the public onside for yet another war launched for more political and commercial objectives. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and dozens of other demonisations followed this same template, usually culminating in wars and invasions. It was Bernays who created “war marketing”, the theory and the template for the manipulation of public opinion, the plan and pattern for the propaganda and lies that the US government would use repeatedly for the next century to successfully deceive the American public about its motivations and actions in more than 100 military adventures, and to blind everyone to the tragic results of America’s brutal foreign policy. This is the man Americans celebrate today as “the father of Public Relations”.
The plan to mass-engineer public opinion began in a propaganda factory at Wellington House in London in the early 1900s, with Lords Northcliffe and Rothmere, Arnold Toynbee, and of course our two war-marketing geniuses Lippmann and Bernays. It was from this source that the scheme was hatched to force the Rothschild’s privately-owned Federal Reserve banks onto the US Congress, and that trained and coached Lippmann and Bernays on the methods of molding American public opinion to push the US into the First World War for the promotion of Zionism. Bernays’ book ‘Propaganda’ offers a clear vision of his training, not only for war marketing but for the pathology of American consumption, automobiles, the hysteria of patriotism and much more.
Funding reportedly came from the UK Royal Family, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, and eventually included the formation of trans-Atlantic relationships. At various periods, memberships in the Tavistock Institute, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Rothschild’s Round Table, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Stanford Research Institute, the Trilateral Commission and NATO, were interchangeable. They also created the ideology for the large American Foundations like Rockefeller and Carnegie that today play a silent but major role in population management.
Wellington House eventually morphed into the Tavistock Institute, which was created at Oxford University in London by the founders of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Round Table (Rothschild again), and was essentially a kind of mass brainwashing facility beginning as a psychological warfare bureau. It was the Tavistock Institute’s studies in psychological programming that were used to create and then exploit a grand mass hysteria during the cold war, evoking fearful delusions of a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union that even led to millions of Americans building bomb shelters in their back yards. In Tye’s biography of Bernays (32), he wrote that
“It is impossible to fundamentally grasp the social, political, economic and cultural developments of the past 100 years without some understanding of Bernays and his professional heirs.”
Many dirty things emerged from this rat’s nest of Satan-worshippers, one being Britain’s Psychological Warfare Bureau which hatched a plan to destroy Germany not by attacking the military but by virtual genocide of the population. It seems that international bankers owned munitions plants and other valuable military targets on both sides of the war fence, and wanted their property maintained in working order in spite of the war. The solution was saturation bombing of the civilian population to collapse the morale of the German people. These ‘scientific sociologists’ determined that the destruction of 65% of German housing, usually including its occupants, would be sufficient to achieve such a collapse. This was the origin of the fame of the British aviation hero “Bomber” Harris, who carried out these night raids – always at night – that culminated in the fire-bombing of Dresden. The explanation of night raids is usually given as safety for the bomber crews, but its purpose was mostly to engender more terror among the civilian population. Working class housing areas were targeted because they had a higher density and firestorms were more likely.” This would disrupt the German workforce and Germany’s ability to produce war materials in its defense. Harris’ widespread deliberate massacres of German civilians – and those by the Americans as well – were desperately kept secret from the public and still appear nowhere in history books in useful detail or with any sincere attempt to accurately estimate civilian casualties. As I pointed out elsewhere, this was the plan that US General Curtis Lemay was following, the same low-level night raids attempting to exterminate the populations of Japan and Korea.
Everything we have seen, read, or heard in the past 70 years that demonised other nations, usually leading to military intervention or “color revolutions”, stems from this template by Lippmann and Bernays originally to support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine and to promote the agenda of Zionism. This template has been in constant use by the US government since the World War I, ‘engineering consent and ignorance’ in the American and Western populations to mask nearly a century of atrocities, demonising innocent countries and peoples in preparation for 60 or 70 politically-inspired ‘wars of liberation’ fought exclusively for the financial and political benefit of a handful of European bankers, using the US military as a private army for this purpose, resulting in the deaths and miseries of hundreds of millions of innocent civilians.
It does not appear widely-known, but the intense anti-German propaganda surrounding World War I (and also World War II) had an aim additional to the seizure of Palestine, and this was the destruction of the culture and the very soul of Germany. Churchill was clear on this matter, stating “This war is for the soul of the German people.” It was largely successful. There is no question that Bernays’ propaganda had a devastating effect on Germans and their cultural heritage. (33) Germany today is a cowed nation, still humiliated and still paying billions in reparations for crimes it never committed, in large part because the propaganda has never ceased. Even today, movies and TV programs depict Germans as cold robots lacking humanity, and we were recently treated to a widely-publicised revelation that Hitler had been cursed with a “twisted micro-penis”. Few peoples today are ashamed to admit their national heritage, but no Germans boast of being German. Where in America do we find German beer halls and restaurants, German churches or newspapers? In 2004, The Guardian published a review of a book titled “The loneliness of being German”. (34) This is not an accident.
In one CPI publication, Professor Vernon Kellogg asked “Will it be any wonder if, after the war, the people of the world, when they recognize any human being as a German, will shrink aside so that they may not touch him as he passes, or stoop for stones to drive him from their path?” (35) No wonder at all.
In this context, you may care to read my recent article titled “The Anger Campaign against China”, (36) and think of the physical and other attacks ethnic Chinese are experiencing today in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and other Western nations. Consider the accusations of ‘genocide’ in China’s Xinjiang, China’s ‘cover-up’ and full blame for COVID-19, all the (undocumented) tales of spying, of IP theft, of prison camps, of forced abortions, of being ‘Communists’, and much more. Only the atrocity details have changed; all else is the same. Bernays’ template is being followed to the letter, in preparation for World War III.
Introduction – If America Dissolves – http://10.16.86.131/if-america-dissolves/
Part 1 of 5 – Bernays and Propaganda – http://10.16.86.131/bernays-and-propaganda/
Part 2 of 5 – This current essay
Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 30 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English-language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. His full archive can be seen at https://www.moonofshanghai.com/ and http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/
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Notes
(2) https://theconversation.com/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-76270
(3) https://www.history.com/news/world-war-1-propaganda-woodrow-wilson-fake-news
(4) https://www.amazon.com/Public-Opinion-Original-Walter-Lippmannn/dp/1947844563
(5) https://archive.org/details/publicopinion00lippgoog
(6) https://propagandacritic.com/previous-version-propaganda-critic/articles/ww1.cpi.html
(8) Cinema as an imperialist weapon: Hollywood and World War I; https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/08/holl-a05.html
(9) https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1917-72PubDip/comp1
(12) https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/03/11/anti-german-hysteria-city-during-wwi/98895422/
(13) https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWantigerman.htm
(14) http://www.revisionist.net/hysteria/index.html
(15) http://www.revisionist.net/hysteria/german-triangle.html
(16) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wilson-asks-for-declaration-of-war
(18) https://journal.historyitm.org/2013/10/17/feathered-and-tarred/
(19) https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2014/05/wwi-and-german-americans.html
(20) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4992032/Germans-AMERICA-World-War.html
(21) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-president-woodrow-wilson-gives-flag-day-address
(22) https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/president-wilson-proclaims-flag-day-224127
(23) http://www.revisionist.net/hysteria/cpi-propaganda.html
(24) https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=historyfacpub
(26) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/anti-german-riots-lusitania-1915-first-world-war
(27) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-25450726
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You have the wrong enemy—it will be Russia. As for political criticism of how the CCP runs its country, THAT is not hate speech so we can have a discussion of issues. You made a good historical presentation and then you made an illogical leap. sorry…I don’t buy it. And my lived experience does not corroborate your claim.
I live near San Francisco where there is a large Chinese community the elders of which have been attacked recently and often by street thugs who happen to come from nearby poorer neighborhoods. The protective societies in this community will soon see to that these cease regardless of propaganda. By the way, the propaganda from the Club 69 elites of SF is targeted at “white people” even though all the attackers have been so-called “people of color”.
However, I do get or used to get ..”.What about Russia? ” from my former liberal friends ( alas, no more) and when I’d say that it was a canard and there was no proof, I’d get the dubious stare and furrowed brow. When I’d say, ” You are being lied to and emotionally manipulated”. that’s when the fights would begin.
I think that the Bernays folks have become much more multi-dimensional these days and I’d like to get deeply psychological and speak of internalized thought form which the media is implanting into everyone’s subconscious–at least those who subject themselves to what passes for “news” these days. I’m not sure how they are doing it—maybe using some kind of survivor guilt or “burdensome elders threaten the tribe’s survival “program at a reptilian brain lever or maybe some low level electronic vibration encoded into Wi-fi. ( I have none of that crap in my home, by the way) I recently had an argument with a 48 year old niece about how if something is not to be found on the internet, it does not mean it did not happen or does not exists. Seriously. She reluctantly conceded my point but not her argument.
I’ve heard two muttered sentences from the older people around me:
1. “I think they want us old people dead.”
2. “Thank God I won’t be around much longer.”
These are the same people who will seek out the vaccine, by the way. Whereas I appreciate your scholarship, I think you are at least 70 years behind the times on what the psychologists, media manipulators, political psychopaths and professional narcissists/actors are using against us these days. It gets down to this: they are retraining the brain from infancy/childhood and they are redefining the physical space in that they are making your world of maneuver concomitant to a screen in front of you.
Makes me want to go out for a walk…
Anti-Russian propaganda is much older in America than you think and much more ingrained. Ditto for Europe. Germany was not shy to apply it.
There has undoubtedly been an improvement in methodology and strategies that we can’t perceive.
I believe the repetition of certain key words is having a twin effect – of increasing cynicism and mental fatigue in older generations. While creating and reinforcing a sympathetic weak-minded conformity in the young.
Words like “guilt” “toxic”, “offensive”, “together”, “abuse” “identify” and “fairness” to name a few..
They’ve almost lost any meaning now outside of their direct relevance to this formative idea – That culture, society, finance, government, all of it is right now in the middle of some great change. That the future lays before before us like a great (green?) light and it’s a foregone conclusion. Inevitable. Ask anyone 17 what matters.
This future without racism and without need and without want. Where people simply spend the money they receive from the competent government they’ve created on all the new tech and games and content they want. It’s glorious!
And if an enemy is needed, don’t look outside any borders, it won’t be found there. The enemies will be the backward thinking, flag waving, gun-toting polluters who still think we’re living in the distant past. Like 1990 or something.
These enemies can be caricatured and targeted and cancelled, and of course censored. I mean, how will we know who the enemy is? They’re the ones being kicked off and shut up of course!! That’s the only reason anyone would be silenced right? Because they’re wrong.
I’m impressed by your willingness to document your apparent and if so, magnificent ability to share your beliefs without shame.
Me thinks it out to be a human right.
Larry Romanoff has the right enemy AT THAT TIME. The forces employed by Edward Bernays and Walter Lipmann are the same forces that NOW are employed against Russia and, to a lesser extent so far, against China. Until Nixon changed the dynamics, China was always cast as an enemy from the time of the Korean War and after Chiang Kai-shek was driven out of China by Mao.
I well-remember as a child in the Nineteen-Thirties wondering why Germans were so evil while we British, who are of Germanic stock (Angles and Saxons), were not. I later realised how we were all brainwashed to hate Germans and Japanese, and to ridicule rather than hate Italians.
Now, it is the turn of Russia and China to be given the “Bernays (Jewish) treatment” of all out propaganda warfare. The denigration of Chinese and Russian vaccines is a good example of how despicable the West is.
I currently wonder about the relationship between Russia and Israel, how many Russian oligarchs are Jews, and why Russia goes so easy on Israeli attacks in Syria.
Great informative piece! Can’t wait for the next three. I’m also 95%+ German, for whatever it’s worth.
In response to terranam13 above:
1. “I think they want us old people dead.”
Yes, they do. I’m quite sure of that now. Those of us who aren’t rich, anyway.
2. “Thank God I won’t be around much longer.”
I pretty much feel the same way, although I’m sure it will be longer than I think. If nothing else, I simply won’t have the money to hang around until I’m 90, or whatever. Not that I want their vaccine(s) either. Never would have imagined it would all turn out like this, but I guess that was just a failure of imagination on my part. I feel much worse for the young these days than I do myself. My generation had it pretty damn good, for better or worse. In order to enact the kind of population reductions they’re looking for a good portion of the young will need to be sacrificed as well. The bottleneck approaches ever faster now.
Fifty percent German here, jawohl!
Prussian, actually.
I expect that birth rates are down already. Haven’t seen any data o that, though.
Lockdown could of course result in higher birthrates among those who already have mates.
But surely fewer unions are being created.
This is better than actually sterilizing people via a shot, although the result, de facto sterilization via outlawing socializing, dating, etc., is the same.
A sidelight on the subject of demonization of Germans in the USA:
The cookbook classic, The Joy of Cooking, was written by a Irma Rombaer, a German American woman whose family were pillars of the important German American community in St. Louis. These German communities were politically progressive. Many Germans who ended up in the Midwest had had to flee for their lives after the revolutions of 1848. Rombauer’s father was the American consul in I believe Hamburg for five years. Many American baking traditions actually are German, being recipes supplied by German women and their cooks that were first made available in the Joy of Cooking.
Sorry, that should be Irma Rombauer.
An account of Irma Rombauer, her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, and the history of The Joy of Cooking mentions the attacks on Germans, German culture, and German American communities in the Midwest such as in St. Louis and Cincinnati.
Katherine
Growing up I always overheard my father who was Croatian always mentioning and talking about the word propaganda. Now I know why. Thanks Romanoff.
Further to this as far as Christianity is concerned what a failure we have been in upholding truth. Neither Lippman nor Bernays would have ever been successful if we had but paid attention to the words of the Bible.
Wow, what joy it must have brought the international bankers and these two murderers to see Christians slaughter each other on the battlefield. Can’t you just hear them saying quietly to each other they’re just Christians.
By the way further to what I wrote when it comes to the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s which was the work of God literally in judgment upon America I have always been on the lookout for the more of why?
You Mr. Romanoff are providing it in spades!
I guess now I’m going to have to rewrite a book with many important inclusions! Dam you Romanoff.
Thanks and Gog and Magog have got nothing to do with either Germany and Russia!!!
“For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mark 4:22
Custer died for our sins? I get it. Let me go and refresh the various nations of my people with this thrilling news. We died in the name of Christ. I think I’m popping a bone already.
Thank you Mr. Romanoff, for this very important article!
To the previous commenters: The question of who the next “Germans” are, whether it be the Chinese, the Russians, or old people may be contentious, and I do not know the answer, but what people should also keep in mind is this:
Once lies have taken root in the minds of people, they are passed on in many unobtrusive ways to the younger generations that mostly elude people. And nobody is safe from this.
In an article published on this blog last year on the topic,- amongst other things,- of the traditional German prejudice against the Slaves, I admitted to the existence of something like an underlying conception in German culture, of the “primitive and cruel, and therefore inferior Slaves”. I, however, insisted that this is not something that Germans of my generation believe in or think about, and was scolded for that by some of the established commenters here.
That notwithstanding, I hold the conviction that these kinds of concepts or habits or patterns of thought are often incorporated into culture and passed on without people noticing it, unless they are of a very reflective character, as few are.
As a slandered nation after WWI, Germans gave birth to the monster of nazism, and today we Germans are always just one small step away from being slandered as nazis, if we should dare to have the “wrong” opinion. And under “Mutti” Merkel, we have “advanced” now to a total “basketcase nation.”
The slanderous lie is a weapon of mass destruction: It harms the slandered and the ones that believe the lie, for generations to come. Maybe the latter is harmed more than the former.
And so the lie is a gift that keeps on giving. A gift from hell.
Again my heartfelt thank you for this article!
Thank you mr Romanoff.
Great piece and complement to the previous one that already mentioned bernays. The world need to know about him, his kind and their methods.
I am continually amazed that Americans miss the obvious. The answer to bigotry is satire of that same bigotry. From Shakespeare onwards satire was the weapon that most angered and frightened the bigots. George Carlin and today Jimmy Dore were and are satirists.
A strong and extreme example I will post here which have passed the censors on twitter an youtube as well as many other sensitive social media operations and their aim is to destroy the mainstream media’s reporting. That US audiences are so superficial and educationally unsophisciated is exactly why such dumbells on CNN and elsewhere have an audience …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3czFJxV3Z4&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=JohnHagan
A very informative article. Many of the details are known, although this article does give them a broad explanation. However, the Germans cannot – retroactively – be pronounced innocent of any aggression. After all, they did invade countries in both world wars. How many Polish and Russian civilians perished during the Second World War and under what circumstances ? How many Germans supported this ? And yes, historians go out of their way to conceal the role of Western bankers and Governments in both driving and supporting German aggression, both to conquer the East (Russia) and to have Germany being ruined in the process. For example, Holland remained “neutral” during the First World War, as the Western Allies used it to ship food to the German military, which in 1915 was ready to sue for peace due to lack of food. Sweden remained “neutral” in both world wars, yet supplied Germany with all the iron ore it needed, the same being the prime raw material. The Western Allies did not prevent this, as German industry had to function.
The point I am trying to make is that Germans and Germany cannot be absolved of their guilt for both world wars, although, of course, their guilt is neither greater nor lesser than that of the combined West which then, as now, is dreaming of invading and breaking up Russia, all for the sake of plundering and preventing Russia and China having any political and economic power.
Since the banker sponsored Napoleon failed in his invasion of Russia, Germany was permitted to unify, industrialize and then attack Russia on two occasions, with the bankers hoping it would complete their task and one at which Napoleon failed. Germany was the perfect candidate, due to it’s history.
Fate decreed that Germany be situated in Central Europe and have some of the worst agricultural land in Europe. This led to Slavic lands in the East becoming a target for aggression, and not only during both world wars, but centuries before that. Berlin and all the “German” lands east of Berlin used to be Slavic. The name of Berlin is derived from the Slavic word “Brljin”. The word “untermensch” is German, and it means “subhuman”. It was used to describe Slavs, and this old hatred towards the Slavs goes back to Roman times. It did not requite too much encouragement for new aggression’s against the Slavs.
History is a complex subject. Unfortunately, countries have a nasty habit of applying selective history when describing certain events, creating a totally false picture. And yes, the West did encourage Germany to fight two world wars, the biggest effort directed before and during the Second World War (Wall Street invested heavily in German industry after World War One, while the bankers opened the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, on the German border; it was this Bank which financed a certain Adolf Hitler, whose suicide in 1945 is highly questionable). However, in no way can German support for both world wars be ignored, especially when it came to it’s aggression in the East. And finally, what do we have today ? Angela Merkel stating that the Nord Stream -2 gas pipeline is not a political question (ie. Germany needs Russian gas), while both Angela Merkel and her Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stating that the Navalny false flag comedy is a political affair. Germany even had one of it’s diplomats expelled for participating in pro-Navalny demonstrations in Russia. What was that German diplomat doing in the streets of Russia ? Encouraging insurrection ? Testing if Drag Nacht Osten might still have a chance ? Obviously.
BF ” What was that German diplomat doing in the streets of Russia ? Encouraging insurrection ? Testing if Drag Nacht Osten might still have a chance ? Obviously.” Germany seems pretty “fckd up” trying to play both sides, The US/NATO by helping to stage Navalny false flag and at the same time trying to keep NS-2 going on. My guess is tha the ruling in Germany do truly despise Russia, and Slavs in general, think only German attitude, actions with the Ukraine conflict, the dismemberment of former Yugoslavia. They want to keep the NS-2 is because is vital for Germany as industrial nation otherwise they would be even more aggressive against Russia. My conclusion then Russia has nothing (good) to expect from US/Europe any longer best to look east.
B.F.
Please, it is DRANG nach Osten!! “Drag” is not a German word.
The background stories to both world wars are more complex than you suggest, and were driven more by conspiracies of small numbers of actors than most people suppose.
Regarding WW1 I recommend Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War, by Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor.
Machinations to get a war going with Germany originated at the highest levels of the British aristocracy and foreign office—the new money and press power, one might say. Not with the royal family, who were not only German themselves but also close relatives of the German kaiser.
The Boer War was a dry run.
Very interesting, very well written, and pretty well documented; draws heavily on Carroll Quigley, so, many secondary sources. I have not read the Quigley books, so do not know how Quigley documents his books. Many important documents were destroyed to cover traces, such as all documents and correspondence on Sir Natty Rothschild, who was at the center of these machinations.
Matthew Ehret has a new essay out. In it he notes that Chrysta Freeland, a Ukrainian Canadian Rhodes scholar, has had herself named to the board of directors of the World Economic Forum (the Great Reset driver). Rhodes was a prime mover in the creation of the Secret Elite, which engineered the Boer War. Rhodes created the scholarships in order to create an Anglo-British elite to run the world. That is the relevance of the new Freeland-WEF connection.
Katherine
Anonymous
My apologies for misspelling the word “Drang”. As for the two world wars, a I will briefly reiterate what I have written. Western bankers and politicians are equally guilty of starting the two world wars as was Germany, whose hatred of Slavs and aggression against Slavic lands are historical facts. Any positive relationship which Russia may establish with Germany will be a relationship based on mutual interest. Russia can never trust Germany, as proven by history.
Anonymous Katherine your right.
The more I learn of history the more I see the hidden hand and tragically there still there. Reading Hidden history was an eye opener for me and I was pretty sceptical before reading it.
Its no accident that Hitler, Mussolini and Franco all came to power as if by magic.
Correction needed re “Not with the royal family, who were not only German themselves but also close relatives of the German kaiser. ”
It turns out that Edward VII was a vital participant in the Secret Elite that planned the war against German for at least a decade before it actually began.
Queen Victoria and of course her husbank, Prince Albert, were very Germanophile and Victoria was also close to her grandson Wilhelm. But Edward hated the Germans (his wife was Danish and hadn’t gotten over the loss of Schleswig Holstein to the Germans) and apparently hated Wilhelm. Wilhelm was very perceptive, according to the Hidden History account—many diary entries and letters show that he early on realized that secret moves were being undertaken to undermine him and his reich. But he lacked the wiliness of a Bismarck (whom he foolishly set aside) in effectivley countering the machinations against Germany that he perceived— spearheaded by his cousin, Edward.
The basic reasons to take out Germany: economic competition. the Brits were used to being on top and intended to stay there, and that required destroying Germany. The buildup was planned out over at leaset a decade and included a complete retooling of the British military apparatus. Defninitely worth reading not only for the fascinating historical record but for the many lessons to be inferred concerning the current demoniztion of both Russia and China. The people have to be made to hate the chosen adversary via constant propaganda.
Katherine
Germany wants Russian gas, NS2, but only from a subservient Russia who does not oppose the West’s urge to expand at the expense of Russian interests into the east. They want Russian gas but only from a Russia that is broken up, exploited and put in her place (as untermensch) by the West.
The by Russia foiled West’s regime change attempt in Belarus motivated German authorities to punish Russia and play along with the Navalny hoax.
A very British coup. Clips from the author’s text:
“The plan … began in … Wellington House in London in the early 1900s, with Lords Northcliffe and Rothmere, Arnold Toynbee, and … two war-marketing geniuses Lippmann and Bernays… to force Rothschild’s privately-owned Federal Reserve banks onto the US Congress, and … to push the US into the First World War for the promotion of Zionism. …
Funding reportedly came from the UK Royal Family, the UK Rothschilds and … eventually included … memberships in the Tavistock Institute, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Rothschild’s Round Table…
Wellington House eventually morphed into the Tavistock Institute, which was created at Oxford University near London by the founders of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Round Table (Rothschild again)…”
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What Bernays did was show the weakness of the human brain and its susceptibilities. I have often written of the brain’s compulsive reaction to thrills, or excitement, hence sex, gambling, greed etc., but Larry Romanov makes clear the importance of a different element: the reaction to “atrocity propaganda”, a form of excitement, the excitement of the abhorrent. We suspend belief to enjoy the thrill of scandal.
What I have still failed to ‘get my head around’ is: Why Jews? Christianity’s and Islam’s dislike of usury explain Jews and money, but why their racial evil? Of the three monotheistic religions, what is fundamentally different about Judaism that it spawns such hatred?
Possibly selected for over centuries and even millennia of endogamy.
Did it ever occur to Mr. Romanoff that Bernays and Lippmann psychological propaganda was reversing the anti-semitic propaganda that spread for millennia throughout Europe and across the globe, based on the myth that “the Jews” murdered Jesus, a Jew himself, because he publicly went after the money changers among them and they, in turn, collaborated with their own high priests and the Roman rulers of colonized Israel in crucifying Jesus by nailing him to the Catholic cross? One could say that Bernays and Lippman were similarly taking their historical anger out on the Christian world, followed by Hitler taking his revenge against Jews by the holocaust’s extermination of millions of them. Before the crime against Jesus, other nations and “civilizations” perpetrated capital crimes and retaliated against each other, usually sparked by a turbulent few’s followers and a catastrophic war. As a rule, the followers died or were wounded and tortured. When punishment was visited upon the few, it was an insignificant retribution. Is that what life is supposed to be about?
The American propaganda machine (aka the so-called American Free Press) is based on Madison Avenue and the marketing industry, which goes back at least a century to people like Edward Bernays.
Today, the tentacles of this propaganda machine dominate and control the very “reality” of the Anglo-American and Western worlds (or what the Saker calls Zone A).
And the ultimate product that this American propaganda machine seeks to sell is not a commercial item or service or even a political candidate.
The ultimate product is WAR.
And God knows, Americans know how to sell their wars.
However, American wars are not merely conventional or nuclear wars but Hybrid Wars based on significantly on massive media demonization of an official Enemy State–or what some call an Enemy Image.
Americans will instinctively demonize any nation that stands in the way of American world domination, which in US NewSpeak is called the Free World or the Rules-Based Liberal Democratic World Order.
Like most modern advertising, the American propaganda machine is based on niche marketing:
– For American Liberals (and some Moderates), the Enemy Image is Russia, which the USA demonizes through a barrage of idiotic marketing psyops like the Alexei Navalny protests, Sergei Skripal poisoning, MH-17 shootdown, cyber-hacking, and of course RussiaGate … all in order to whip up this target audience into a frenzy of hate.
– For American Conservatives (and some Moderates), the Enemy Image is China, which the USA demonizes through a barrage of idiotic marketing psyops like the Hong Kong regime change operation, Uighur “genocide” and concentration camps, Covid-19, and “Debt Trap” economics … all in order to whip up this target audience into a frenzy of hate.
– In the War on Terrorism, America’s Enemy Image is Islam, which the USA demonizes through a barrage of idiotic marketing psyops like Islamic Evil-Doers Hate Our Freedoms, Muslims want to impose Sharia law on the USA, and a little staged false-flag event called Sept. 11th … all in order to whip up a target audience into a frenzy of hate.
– In the first Cold War, America’s Enemy Image was Communism, which the USA demonized through a barrage of idiotic marketing psyops like … you get the picture.
Rinse and repeat, ad infinitum.
Through it all, the vast majority of the American people will happily swallow and regurgitate whatever idiotic marketing psyops the American “Free Press” is peddling concerning a target demographics’ preferred Enemy Image at a given moment.
Deep down, the only thing that unites the United States of America is fanatical hatred of an external Enemy Image–similar to Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984 and its Two Minutes of Hate campaigns.
America’s rallying cry of “United We Stand” is a lie.
America’s true rallying cry is “United We Hate.”
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2021/02/15/max-blumenthal-on-us-foreign-policy-meddling-propaganda-more/
I do not believe this bullshit!
“A little-known Shiite militant group that calls itself Saraya Awliya al-Dam, which translates as “Guardians of Blood Brigade” in Arabic, has claimed responsibility for the attack, and pledged further strikes against “American occupation” forces in Iraq.” -Sputnik News
Just like Sadam Hosseine had WMDs! Same old recycled bullshit!
It is more likely a concerted effort between the CIA, the Mossad, Blackwater, and the MEK which Republicans decided to ally with, because America never met a terrorist group that it didn’t like!
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202102171082104474-pentagon-to-present-biden-with-retaliation-options-after-rocket-attack-on-us-army-base-in-iraq/
Andrea Iravani
Dear Mr. Romanoff,
I commend you once again for your excellent second article on the British shaping of propaganda in the U.S. But you seem to believe that the “Jews” were largely responsible for WWI (“Jewish European bankers set up WWI” and WWI was a “war that only the Jews wanted” and they pushed for WWI in order to promote Zionism”. )
The British created WWI to eliminate the “German threat”, the increasing industrial competition that was proving the weakness of the Empire. America was brought in, in 1917, because England and France were on the verge of collapse. Certainly, the great majority of Jews were against the war; many were in socialist or communist organizations that fought against the war.
You repeat the notion that powerful Zionists manipulated the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration granting the Zionists a homeland. It was quite the other way around: the Foreign office used the Zionists as an excuse to create a Jewish state that would become a “marcher-lord” against potentially “unruly” Arab populations. The Israelis have dutifully performed that role for the Anglo-American Empire and its Seven Sisters oil cartel. The Zionists were chosen as a “divide and conquer” operation against the Arabs, not because they were Jews per se, but because it was an efficient way to rule the Middle East. You remember that the Middle East was carved up by Britain and France in the 1915 Sykes-Picot Agreement (where Britain got all the oil).
I don’t know what you mean by “Rothchild’s privately owned Federal Reserve banks”. A very small minority of U.S. banks were owned by Jews, not to mention owned by the Rothchilds. You mention Toynbee, Northcliffe, and Rothermere as being part of the various British Institutions that used Bernays and Lippman to conduct propaganda, But none of those three were Jewish. In fact,Northcliffe and his brother Rothermere were violent anti-Semites, propagators of the anti-Semitic “Protocols”, praised Hitler and covered up his crimes.
One last note: Father Gapon in Petersburg in 1905 did not attempt to create a Bolshevik revolution. He was employed by the Tsarist secret police to lead a large gathering of workers for fear they might harm the government. Unhappily, Soldiers were not clued in, and shot hundreds of the marchers.
“He was employed by the Tsarist secret police to lead a large gathering of workers for fear they might harm the government”
Phenomena are/were never homogenous including those at Fontanka in 1905.
Father Gapon was an agent/useful fool of Mr. Zubatov but not all in the Okhrana agreed that Mr. Zubatov’s “strategies” would fit their purpose.
“Unhappily, Soldiers were not clued in, and shot hundreds of the marchers.”
Not all were unhappy in front of the Admiralty in January 1905, including the one who gave the order to shoot, and various others affecting the useful foolery of Mr. Zubatov..
As for the other “soldiers” you appear immersed in overestimations of their significance and opportunities of clued-inness.
These notions of “unhappiness” had/have interesting trajectories from the Okhrana via the SD and CIC to the CIA.
I truly appreciate this article since it sheds more light and complements the “Plutocracy” documentary series
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/plutocracy-political-repression-usa/
However, I find that Romanoff falls into the same Barneys trap, (Removed, you mis-represent the author/article. Mod.) since the information manipulation from elites do not need to get that distortion.
Not all “Jews” are Zionists. I’d say that half of them are not religious, and at least a third don’t care much for Israel. Just a minority would play such dirty tricks in order to move ahead a covert elites’ agenda. Instead of saying “The Jews had created in US President Wilson an intense desire to enter the war”, it would be more accurate to say “Those Jew individuals aligned to the elites created in US President Wilson an intense desire to enter the war”. It’s not just a small detail.
Similarly, not everything that was happening before 1917 or before 1939 in Germany was devoid of tragic racism and antisemitism. There were positive as well as negative contributions from Germany. before, and after the war. An example of a positive one was the booming of art, architecture and philosophy during the first third of the 20th Century, while a negative one was the traditional Prussian military culture which spread destruction and lack of humanism all around Europe and Latin America.