First, I have to apologize but the lack of time does not allow me to reply to all your comments. I had to pick some and leave other out. Here we go:
@Tom Burnett: That’s it. I am tired of hearing you refer to America as an ‘AngloZionist’ empire and me and my countrymen as AngloZionists”.
What a stupid comment to make! First, I never referred to you or any Americans as AngloZionists. I spoke about the AngloZionist *empire*. Second, you wrote me in your email that you are Scottish. Good, then at least you should not that you are not Anglo to begin with, but Celtic. As for Zionist, this is not an ethnicity, but an *ideology* which can be shared by Anglos too (Pastor Hagee for example). Besides, had I written about the Anglo Empire or even US Empire would you have been happier?
Seriously, the current Empire was built on what is left of the old British Empire and it is run by what are called the Echelon countries. These are the members of the so-called UKUSA Agreement aka AUSCANNZUKUS or Five Eyes. In other words, this is the Empire of the Anglosphere. Some add France, especially after Mitterrand to this list, giving us the pittoresque abbreviation “FUKUS” (France, UK, US). But the fact that France is not part of Echelon really proves its 2nd class status in the Empire. Israel, however, has a special status. Officially, it is not even an ally of the USA. In reality we all know that the Zionist Lobby has a huge power in the USA and some even speak of a Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG) or Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC). What is undeniable is that the USA vetoed more resolutions than any other UNSC member and that most of those were in defense of Israel. It is also undeniable that when the Israeli Prime Minister speaks at a joint session of Congress he gets more standing ovation that POTUS (29 to 25). I won’t bother multiplying the examples of this, but I submit that the interest of Israel are different than those of the Anglosphere. This is why I speak of a AngloZionist Empire.
You and your countrymen are simply the hostages, the serfs, the cannon fodder and the exploited taxpayer for this Empire. To underscore that I even wrote this in my analysis:
“interestingly, there is definitely a strong anti-regime movement of American patriots out there. These are folks who have the wisdom to differentiate between, on one hand, their country, their people, the ideals upon which the US society was originally built, and, on the other hand, regime in DC and the 1% of the population whose interests this regime works for. Amazing, no?”
Then I also wrote:
“there was no “occupy the Kremlin” movement in the USSR while the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA was very large and widely spread across this huge country. Nor has there ever been a Soviet equivalent of the huge 1990 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. So the American public is nowhere nearly as passive as some think.”
So not only did I never say that American people were AngloZionists, but I even compared their level of resistance to the AngloZionist empire favorably to the Russian resistance to the Soviet Empire.
And yet, you turn all patriotic on me and tell me that you are fed up and want off my mailing list. Sure – no problem. But next time around, make sure you read what it says before having an anger fit, ok?
@AGS:an expression of gratitude that you provide a forum to read and digest information which PROMOTES intellect and thought — not filling empty vessels with lies and deceit. THANK YOU for respecting your readers intellect. In this way we are the oil.
Well, thank you! I try, but it always gets me in trouble as the case with Tom Burnett shows. The topic of Jews seems to make people exceptionally obtuse and as I result I have been accused of being anti-Jewish and of being a Jew. Some manage to read some racist ideas in my posts even though I have even implemented an anti-racist moderation policy. Frankly, there are day when I feel like banging my head against a wall and sob. So yes, I try to treat my readers with respect and I do assume they can read what it says and not begin to hallucinate as soon as they see what I call a “trigger word”, but I promise you that it comes at the costs of having to fight off an army of advancing straw-men and lots of hate mail. All this is to say that your words today really came right on time, as Tom’s email really made me feel rather discouraged.
@Anonymous: Russian military high tech surpasses the Americans’. Have a look at this show of superiority: http://indian.ruvr.ru/2014_04_21/Russian-Su-24-scores-off-against-the-American-USS-Donald-Cook-5786/ The Americans were left wetting their pants.
I hear that rumor but I have yet to see this confirmed, even indirectly, by any credible source. As a former electronic warfare pioneer myself, I can tell you that this is hard to believe as there is going to be a lot more power on a USN ship than on a Russian aircraft, especially at close distance. I am not saying that this is not true, only that I need more confirmation. Also, the story of 27 USN sailors resigning en masse because they did not want to die sounds fishy to me. So if you have any other sources, please let us know.
@Anonymous:direct quotes from a Putin speech/TV presentation or interview from last Thursday (n.b: I have not verified the accuracy of the direct quotes). Would appreciate your thoughts/analysis on the thesis of the post, especially on Putin’s comments (e.g. ““As for me, you know that the decisions we take in a critical situation depend on our experience and values. You know that I worked for the Soviet Union’s KGB, or, more precisely, foreign intelligence, where we were trained in a specific manner that boils down to absolute loyalty to people and the country.”).
First, I can confirm the quote. He said that during his 4 hour long Q&A with the Russian people on TV/radio/Internet. Second, yes, you bet this sentence also did strike me. But you absolutely have to keep in mind that if the KGB was the elite of the Soviet Union, the external intelligence service (called the PGU KGB SSSR) was the elite of the KGB. Also, notice that Putin speaks of absolute loyalty to the people and country and not to the CPSU or the Marxist-Leninist ideology. The PGU officers were the best informed people in the country, often the most intelligent too, and they saw it all happening long before anybody else. I know the PGU rather well because I spent years fighting it in my private life (I was a very busy anti-Soviet activist), years studying it in my professional life (as a military analysts) and after 1991 I met a lot of my ex-opponents, retired and even active duty, some of which became my friends. I can assure you that what Putin says is true, most PGU officers were very patriotic, but I also assure you that a lot of them fully understood how corrupt and cynical the Soviet system had become. Most of these guys were not brain dead propagandized automatons who would blindly believe all the nonsense which the Soviet propaganda would spew at them. They served their country not because of the regime in power, but in spite of it. You probably know Ray McGovern who is ex-CIA, but who is a patriot. That is what a lot of PGU officers were like in the 1980s and 1990s. Putin was truthful in his reply.
@Vediki: Extraction from very famous Russian film “Brat 2″/Brother 2. Pay attention to dialogue between Danila Bodrov, film’s main hero, and an American banker. Where’s force? In money? No, force is in truth.
Oh yes, I love both of these, Brat 1 and Brat 2 – great movies and great music too. But did you know that Danilo quotes Saint Alexander Nevsky who himself was paraphrasing Saint Augustine? Yes, that is true. Research it for yourself if you doubt that.
Two more items I would like to bring to your attention:
First, do you remember the “Open Letter to President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov” which John posted on Change.org and which I posted here? It got over 600 signatures and was picked-up by the Voice of Russia. Nice, no? I hope that it was shown to Putin and/or Lavrov who deserve to know that some people in the West understand them
Second, I have to apologize for failing on my first day on the job as “stern moderator”. I was in the car and could not read with any attention what Cold N. Holefield posted today. I am so squeezed for time that I do a lot of my blogging with my cellphone as a hotspot and my Nexus 7 Internet Tablet “on the go”, from my car. His posts looked okay at first glance, so I let it pass. Sure enough, he was trolling to his heart’s content and other felt that his crap deserved a rebuttal. I don’t feel like removing his post retroactively, but I will now keep a closer eye on him and other dumb trolls. Sorry about today and gimme some time to learn the ropes of this new activity ;-)
Many thanks and kind regards,
The Saker
PS: I also sometimes work on this blog late into the night. So I apologize for my slow replies, horrible typos, poor grammar and other screw-ups. Last week I calculated that I had a total of 4 nights in a row with only 3-4 hours of sleep. And then I have to work from the car to moderate, answer emails or manage the mailing list, so my mean time between failure is sometimes rather short, and I screw-up. Please keep in mind that this is a one man blog, and that I have a (wonderful) wife, a regular job and three kids all of which should come first. I do the blogging with what is left on the clock and that is often not much. So I plead for your understanding and forgiveness. The Saker
saker, you’re an ace. do whatever you need to do to keep your family happy. the insight you provide in your spare hours surpasses the combined propaganda effort of the mass media to impress your readership.
chapeau!
Thanks for all you do and your time for sure.
Your first comment on this page was for me LOL and this person was the same at MoA and so was the other one mentioned last.
The info and what you have witnesses yourself in this world of WTF is greatly appreciated.
Hello Saker,
thank you for your blog! You provide intelligent discourse and information that goes contrary to what our (CIA/NSA-infiltrated) German media sends.
Best regards,
A German reader and donor!
Saker, I can’t believe you do all that you do! And honestly, I can’t thank you enough.
And here I am making even more work for you, but I just keep going around in circles on how we’re likely to collapse. (Will we collapse? Yes. But I see more of an unending civil war, to no effect other than increased immiseration and unending violence.) So now I’m stewing on a couple of other factors that I think might also mitigate more towards our fighting each other rather than the militaristic oligarchy now running things. First off is our current tendency, again well-inculcated, to react with anger and/or fear rather than analysis and considered thought — we can all see it sometimes right here on the blog. Secondly, there is the policy-brainwashing to which too many of us have fallen victim, you know, the whole idea that government itself is the problem, and deregulation or whatever else benefits the Kochs and other oligarchs will solve everything instead of helping siphon off whatever is left into the pockets of the 1%. And finally, the to-me unbelievable idea that the poor are not only to blame for all of their problems, but not worthy of any assistance whatever, including necessities like food or medicine. I keep thinking there’s a good paraphrase of Martin Niemoller in there somewhere:, “First they ridiculed and denied the unemployed, and I did not speak out because I had a job. Then they ridiculed and denied the impoverishedl, and I did not speak out because I was busy working. Then they ridiculed and denied the hungry, and I did not speak out because I was well-fed. Then they ridiculed and denied me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”
A word of advice, take it or leave it. Don’t use so many exclamation points. Exclamation points are very juvenile and don’t serve much of a purpose.
I like your blog and your perspective, so, don’t take it the wrong way.
Nora said: “I just keep going around in circles on how we’re likely to collapse…”
Nora, I would recommend one author and his two books on collapse. His name is Dmitry Orlov, and the books are: REINVENTING COLLAPSE and FIVE STAGES OF COLLAPSE. He also wrote a very informative article: CLOSING THE COLLAPSE GAP. He also is hosting a blog: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
Also I recommend THE LONG EMERGENCY by James Howard Kunstler and his blog: http://kunstler.com/
Greetings from Singapore:
Saker, you nailed it: It is blatant hipocrisy that brings down empires and people finally became aware of it. I see this daily, when readers of The Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc challenge the media article and identify lies as lies, desinformation as desinformation and warmongering as warmongering. As a matter of fact, German FAZ newspaper is restricting publishing peoples comment on their articles.Curiously enough, the empire is aware that nothing is believed they say, therefore they no longer bother checking ‘evidences’ they produce to justify their points. It is just a shear quantity instead of quality, to keep the noise….
thx Saker
Thanks for the explanation of ‘anglozionist’ term.
Krushchev was not just evil, he was also incompetent. He was incapable of properly organizing the defence of Kiev during WWII. He was also the primary backer for the fraudulent Lysenko. And, on top of all, it was he, with Radek, who instigated the Stalin cult.
Well given your lead off comment let me offer my objection to the term “Anglo-zionist”. I prefer the term US or Western imperialism. US is probably better because today there is really only one imperialist power and that is the US. Then it comes down to who actively supports and consists of US imperialism.
Once upon a time it was the manufacturing sector. No longer the case, since the modern version has decided that the American working classes were getting too much of the returns. The exception being military industries who, through the MIC, are vigorous backers.
Manufacturers in general have been replaced with finance capitalism.
US agriculture (yes that remains an area that depends on selling abroad) and is big in the US economy.
Oil and gas companies of course.
Government institutions including the military, intelligence, and universities and think tanks.
The mass media.
Now we can list Zionism. It has its most visible form in the lobby. Of course I accept that they have made serious penetrations into some of the government agencies, the mass media and especially into the universities and the think tank world.
Why I dislike this term Anglo-zionism so much is that in the above list there are some very powerful players that do not give unconditional support to Israel. They include most of the military, much of intelligence, many university scholars and even some voices in the mass media.
In summary, the Zionist, though a powerful player in the US imperialism enterprise, is just one of many competing voices. What this means is that tomorrow, Israel could collapse catastrophically tomorrow but US imperialism would not be damaged at all. In fact, I think they would come out of such a collapse in even a more powerful position once that albatross around their necks had been removed.
Anon at 22 April, 2014 22:41
Thanks for the links.
If moderation duties are consuming your time for analysis and substantive blog posts then maybe it is time to limit comments to a certain number?
The reality is that time is your most valuable resource and while the comments are often insightful and thought provoking, your analysis is the reason the legitimate readers come here.
The analysis must take priority to moderating comments.
Theodore Svedberg,
I haven’t enough direct knowledge to refute your first two claims re: powerful players in the military or intelligence not giving Israel unconditional support, but I seriously doubt that “many” university scholars would risk their careers as did Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer a few years back; nor do very many openly support students right now daring to speak up for Palestinians. And I certainly wouldn’t say “many” faculty members support the Boycott either: that’s a real career-closer unfortunately. And as for people in the mass media — who?
I think part of it is that the word “Zionism”, if you haven’t used it before, for some reason seems like it’s a pejorative. But it really isn’t, it’s a neutral descriptive term that merely means a supporter of the state of Israel — Christian Zionists, for example, have no problem calling themselves that — and I’m not sure where that negative connotation came from.
I’m still not really satisfied about the first question. Is Anglo-Zionism the same thing as British Israelism? When I do a Google search for the term the first thing that comes up is a Stormfront discussion thread, which doesn’t fill me with confidence. Are there other people besides you using the term who are not racists? If so, could you please cite some?
I live in Canada and our present regime under Stephen Harper can definitely be described as “AngloZionist” (it’s probably the most AngloZionist government in the world right now, actually). But a number of our previous governments, led by people from the French part of Canada, were much less fond of Israel and sometimes voted with the Palestinian side at the UN.
So, it seems to me that historically, Canada is only imperfectly Anglo, and imperfectly Zionist.
So, I’m not really sure that “AngloZionism” is an empire by itself, rather it is maybe an important faction within the empire (like Mr. Svedberg says above).
It is interesting that in political discussions we can talk about “the Americans”, “the US”, “the British”, “the Russians” and “the French” etc and everyone seems to accept that we are talking about the dominant power elite within or behind the governments of these nations. But if you introduce the words “Jew” or “Zionist” into a description of the power elite, we get all sorts of objections about “not all jews etc” Or as with Tom Burrnet, ‘I am not a zionist’ (I’m paraphrasing). Why is that? Why are jews different in this case?
Theodore Svedberg makes the same mistake assuming that Saker when using the term “Anglo/Zionist” is including everybody who has any influence within the power elite. He also appears not to understand the central role of banking in the power elite and the central role of jews within banking. Hence, the inclusion of the term Zionist
Theodore goes on to say, “Now we can list Zionism. It has its most visible form in the lobby. Of course I accept that they have made serious penetrations into some of the government agencies, the mass media and especially into the universities and the think tank world.
Zionists haven’t ‘made inroads’ into these institutions, they own them and as Nora points out, there may be opposition to the zionist controllers but they do not voice it which is the critical point.
A final point, Tom, Theodore and others such as E, though they sound reasonable, have turned this discussion into one about the term “Anglo/Zionist” with “Zionist” being the offending part. This is one of the tactics of paid hasbarats. Hasbarats do this to distract the readers from the words of the author of the post. They pick one word or phrase and try and turn it into a controversy.
These commenters may be quite innocent of being hasbarats but they are still distracting from Sakers extremely important point that an empire will fall because it has lost credibility; that Truth will indeed set us free.
Please pay him the respect he deserves and address your comments and links to the heart of his post and practise critical thinking and attention by not getting distracted by minutiae.
Saker, your point on hypocrisy as the empire killer is as good an explanation as I’ve heard about the perils facing the United States. Bush II’s strangeness and violence was approved by consensus at a very few key moments and those were likely rigged. A majority of both parties and independents opposed invading Iraq until weapons inspections were complete. Bush/Blair had to lie about WMD. The lie was so ineffective, Bush had to steal the 2004 election.
But, Obama was to be different (except for the few who understood the deal he made with Wall Street before the primaries). That came into focus when Obama led McCain back to the capital to assure that the 2008 bailout package passed. That’s called “moving to the center, ” something we’re used to. Surely, though, many were sure that Obama would not replicate the Bush violence and vulgarity. Actually, Obama’s record is qualitatively worse. Libya was pure fabrication. Syria adventure lies are exposed regularly. … and now, the Ukraine atrocity.
The dissonance and hypocrisy and dissonance are florid. By March 2012, 60% of United States citizens opposed any aid to Syria, 75% were opposed to aid to Israel were Israel to initiate a first strike against Iran, and 50% wanted troops home from NATO. Nevertheless, Obama and Kerry carry on the violence and vulgarity. Watch for an “America First” presidential candidate with strong support to end “foreign entitlements.” That’s the last, best hope to end the rampage of the neocons.
Keep up the great work!
Good news!
I just noticed that MOA seems to be working again. Now those web sayanim trying to stifle discussion about Jewish zionists and manipulate the this site into another MOA site, can return “home” and to their favourite pass time of spotting the unsanctioned anti-zionist.
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If moderation duties are consuming your time for analysis and substantive blog posts then
WHY MODERATE AT ALL?
Especially since you say you do not wish any censorship.
Let the grown-ups decide what they want to read.
Michael Collins, I think we’ll be watching in vain; at this point at least I can’t imagine any candidate possibly putting together a statewide, much less national campaign having taken such a position. A lot can change between now and then but right now neither party would possibly permit it. (And Ron Paul’s idiot son has already backed away from, you know, his father’s best positions.)
Also, if anyone is ever curious about us fracking for Ukraine, here is a pdf of a study commissioned by the League of Women Voters.
http://www.lwvny.org/advocacy/natural-resources/hydrofracking/2014/Marcellus-Resource-Assessment-NY_0414pdf.pdf
The executive summary: Ain’t. No. Way., for lots of reasons.
Saker,
It seems that there are a few people that have their undies in a bunch of the term “Anglo-zionist”.
How many of you have heard about the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs???
Well that entity changed it’s name in 1959 to AIPAC- the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Here’s an example of what they can do:
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/02/the-best-congress-aipac-can-buy/
For those naïve enough to believe that “there are some very powerful players that do not give unconditional support to Israel”, there are 2 words that debunk that theory:
USS Liberty
Meezer
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“Michael Collins “said…
Saker, your point on hypocrisy as the empire killer is as good an explanation as I’ve heard about the perils facing the United States. Bush II’s strangeness and violence was approved by consensus at a very few key moments and those were likely rigged. A majority of both parties and independents opposed invading Iraq until weapons inspections were complete. Bush/Blair had to lie about WMD. The lie was so ineffective, Bush had to steal the 2004 election.
Michael if you could get / or somebody from the readers here / the “uncensored” speech from the evening of the 9/11 disaster made by Mr.Bush/ Jr. there is the answear. In this speech there is only “one” sentence which is very true and important, the rest is just a simple lie
The obvious, personal, universal, inevitable, undeniable hypocrisy of the AngloZionist Empire is the USD. The collapse of the petrodollar system will precipitate crisis of legitimacy, power, and authority of the AngloZionist Empire by destroying the USD monopoly exorbitant privilege as the hegemonic entity.
It is the role of USD as reserve asset in the Central Bank System and the USD’s petrodollar pricing monopoly which is the Achilles heel of the AngloZionist Empire.
The collapse of this mechanism of control and privilege will force the people of the USA to acknowledge the fraud and hypocrisy of the USD, USA government, Federal Reserve, and USA exceptional-ism when the twenty percent of USA citizens who staff the deep state and still have incomes and assets are bankrupted by the collapse of dollar denominated assets.
This internal and external USD collapse will ignite the crisis which will destroy the capacity of the USA to serve as a cats-paw for the AngloZionist Empire.
One poster claims the USD cannot be replaced, because it is the only market big enough to absorb big money. This is wrong! The USD privileged role is based on promises-to-pay which cannot be satisfied in a world without economic growth. The USD denominated debts, which are someone else’s asset will default or they will be made nominally whole by printing and hyperinflationary destruction of the USD.
The Euro, Ruble, Yuan, Gold will all serve together as a legitimate replacement for the system of USD extortion which has held the world captive since Breton Woods some seventy years ago.
All dollar denominated debt paper will burn and the fire will destroy the USA, but the AngloZionist Empire will probably survive in the new system after the reset. The USA has been conned by the AngloZionist oligarchs who are now in the process of abandoning the USA.
If you don’t like this system, you probably won’t like whats coming. The free riders are soon finished and the world will get back to honest business and labor. The thieves of finance will have to provide value or they too will burn in the fire of USD Hypocrisy.
Bye-Bye-American-Pie!
Dear Saker,
Your blog is part of my daily “must reads”. However, your readers don’t want you to collapse.
You mentioned in one of your previous posts that you were working on a post-graduate thesis. Please don’t neglect that.
Your sister,
I agree with the last Anonymous poster, there’s no need for moderation. Let the rabid race nationalists, whether white or Jewish purvey their bullshit. Let them fill the air of the Vineyard with their malodorous miasma.
We’re all mature enough to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Having said all that, I agree that your AngloZionist Empire terminology is well deserved and accurate.
However, the Zionist component is always going to be more promiscuous than the Anglo. If China supplants the U.S. as the sole superpower, they will curry favor and seek influence with the People’s Republic just as they did, alternatively with the Ottoman Empire, France, Germany, Great Britain, the U.S., and the Soviet Union in creating the Jewish state.
The poison of disillusionment and cynicism injected by Khrushchev and his clique acted slowly, but surely, and by the time Leonid Brezhnev came to power (1964) it had already discreetly permeated all of Soviet society.
This is a very interesting argument. Don’t forget rising disillusionment in the 60’s and 70’s was a worldwide phenomenom, not restricted to the Soviet Union or eastern Europe. Much of it was a response to technological change. I don’t believe there is any distinction between the cynicism of Khrushchev and Stalin — or Churchill and Roosevelt for that matter. Although they stood under different banners, all are members of the same ruthless ruling clique that existed in all societies throughout history. All chose to use technology and mass media against their own people, a historic perogative of the ruling class going back to the first written scripts.
The conflict we are witnessing today should can placed in a larger context. One civilization (Russia) tends to embody the idealistic values of Plato as set against the dominant relative values of Aristotle in the West. Dostoevsky vs. Tolstoy also works. Empowered by technology, relativistic thinking has become cancerous to our species.
I believe that the nations of the East and West are on a similar trajectory. Disillusionment was also high in the West in the 90’s. The difference was that living standards were better in so-called capitalist countries so people were less motivated to see through the lies of their leaders. The Soviet collapse forced the Russian people into a long and difficult readjustment. The West is now due for its own readjustment exactly one generation later.
Average Russians withstood an ass kicking in the 90’s the same way they withstood 70 years of ass kicking by the Bolsheviks and by the Czars for centuries before. They have have grown wiser in their understanding of how history works and Putin embodies this wisdom more than any other leader today.
Putin has calculated that to represent the interests of his people he must do so on a global scale. The Anglo-Americans are attempting to construct a global matrix which will effectively enslave the whole world. Putin has decided to rally all the people who have been disempowered by this system including mostly sedentary producers tied to their local geography. Against them are the nomadic parasitic globalists and their minions who profit by acting as middle men and taxing the productive work of everyone forced into their system.
Reading the comments section of websites like ZeroHedge it quickly becomes obvious that Putin has tapped into the undercurrent of frustration and disgust with the Anglo-Zionist establishment. Their unpredictable, counterproductive or just plain stupid actions show they are panicked by the rapid collapse of their power. We are living through the most dangerous moment in human history considering the ways we are capable of destroying ourselves, although we have been through this many times before. Yesterday Mahmoud Abbas said the Holo-con was the greatest tragedy in history. To me this says he knows what is coming for his people. He is desperate to avoid giving the lunatic Israeli government an excuse to demolish al Aqsa and finish the job of cleansing Palestine. These are mad sick people.
I am grateful that Russia is again both willing and capable of carrying the burden of saving humanity from itself one more time. I am grateful not because I am disloyal to my country (Canada) but because I see that the Anglo-Zionists are planning exactly the same for me as they are for Palestinians.
@E said: Is Anglo-Zionism the same thing as British Israelism?
I copy/paste my comment from the previous post:
@ I am tired of hearing you refer to America as an ‘AngloZionist’
Oh, yes, perhaps is better to call it British Israelism:
British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a doctrine based on the hypothesis that people of Western European descent, particularly those in Great Britain, are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The doctrine often includes the tenet that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the line of King David…
The movement has never had a head organisation or a centralized structure. Various British Israelite organisations were set up across the British Empire and in America from the 1870s; a small number of such organisations are still active today”
What about “When Scotland Was Jewish”? (By Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates).
Description
“Te popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But could it be that a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored or unknown for centuries? This book argues just such a case, maintaining that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that much of the population, including several national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers, were of Jewish descent. They describe how the ancestors of these persons originated in France and Spain and then made their way to Scotland’s shores, moors, burgs and castles from the reign of Malcolm Canmore to the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition”.
WizOz
23 April, 2014 00:33
@ 23 April, 2014 02:52
Now this blog is getting a larger readership (and this is only the beginning!!!) it will become more and more a target. To leave an increasing amount of trolling, stupid and racist comments will hurt the reputation of this blog. It makes the comment section unreadable, like the comments on RT.
One tip for the Saker: on the right sidebar are many quotes, paypal info, etc. Perhaps a few links to very short articles about the definition of controversial topics like ´anglo-zionists´ might be useful, otherwise every other new reader will bring this topic up in the comments.
Michael Collins,
The only “America First” candidate out there is Rand Paul.
Unfortunately for Rand, the GOP establishment is out to get him. Here’s an article written by a prominent Libertarian & Anti-War author:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/04/17/the-establishments-war-on-rand-paul/
As you can see from article, it isn’t just the GOP Establishment/Neocons that are out to get him:
“The progressives hate him because he is the most likely candidate – at the moment – to be facing Hillary Clinton in 2016, and they know they’ll have a hard time selling a candidate who still refuses to second guess her 2003 vote for the Iraq war. So the two groups have a common enemy – which, in politics, is enough to cement a working alliance between two supposedly antithetical forces.
It’s the War Party’s worst nightmare: a serious presidential contender who’s serious about fighting for civil liberties and a noninterventionist foreign policy (along with a dose of good old fashioned dose of economic common sense).”
Meezer
@james, well, you have a good point. I didn’t discuss Saker’s main thesis in my post (that total hypocrisy is what will bring the empire down, since no one will defend it when it gets into real trouble) because I am in agreement – it doesn’t seem controversial to me. I’m sorry, I should’ve made that clear.
By the way, Dmitri Orlov (in several books and at his blog, ClubOrlov) has been writing about the uncanny similarities between the pre-collapse USSR and the USA for some time. Maybe some here are familiar with his work.
I commented on the term “AngloZionist” because I see Saker use it all the time, but it doesn’t make sense to me. Let us say that there is such an alliance between Anglos and Zionists – I don’t understand what could possibly be motivating it, after all this time. Why should Western countries stick their necks out for Israel so much, at such personal cost? Is there an IDEOLOGICAL motivation, or is it merely about money (that is, that Zionists are rich and fund campaigns)? If it is merely about money, could not the Chinese (for example) some day fill the role that the wealthy Zionists fill today? Is there something that would prevent that scenario?
I understand that some fundamentalist Christians (like Stephen Harper, though he doesn’t like to admit it in public) believe that they have to support the Zionist project in order to bring about the Apocalypse/Second Coming. Is that really what’s driving this alliance? Or is that not the main reason?
@Anonymous 23 April, 2014 03:52
I agree that the US has been used as a cat’s paw. It has excelled at wrecking economies and nations, and at no apparent net gain to itself as a nation, beyond the fueling of vanities among national players who may even have thought they were in charge.
I incline to think the currency “reset” of the world will be relatively calm, a new Bretton Woods.
There will be much sound and fury of course, signifying nothing.
I’ve even read that the massive flow of gold to China is to allow that nation to take its place at the global table as an equal – but I’m not sure what is cause and what is effect in that scenario.
Personally, I pray for the peaceful humiliation and humbling of my nation, America as we call it. The people are really very good, and with a transcendent spiritual streak that deserves a tranquil returning to the humus, to grow strong again.
We all have our dreams ;)
“I commented on the term “AngloZionist” because I see Saker use it all the time, but it doesn’t make sense to me. Let us say that there is such an alliance between Anglos and Zionists – I don’t understand what could possibly be motivating it, after all this time. Why should Western countries stick their necks out for Israel so much, at such personal cost?”
Simple. Because Anglo elites are dominated by Zionists.
It’s that simple. The U.S. isn’t run by vaguely anti-Semitic WASPS. They, by the way, never had a strong group identity anyway.
It’s dominated by an elite, of which the most cohesive group are Zionist Jews.
I’m afraid I cannot accept hypocrisy to be a reasonable explanation for imperial failure. Hypocrisy is the mothers milk and life blood of empires. Any government for that matter. I’ve been hearing people unabashedly complaining that all politicians are liars and grifters for as long as I can remember, and I’m pretty old.
What citizens of an empire care about is getting their share of the swag. When the hypocrites can’t deliver, the citizenry start to lose their enthusiasm for the imperial project. Empires are about resources and trade. In the case of USSR, they had plenty of resources, but both the external and internal trade produced inadequate swag to keep the masses contented. When my brother took his family to Russia on vacation, sometime during the Brezhnev era, they were often approached by young Russians wanting to buy their Levis. They were often wearing jeans, but they weren’t Levis. Marketing works, even on the beneficiaries of communism. Most of the government’s budget went to its MIC (just like the remaining empire). I once heard they called it The Amalgamated Metal Eaters. When, in spite of all that expenditure, they failed to win the Afghan war I think that destroyed their faith in the imperial project.
When an empire goes to war, three outcomes are possible and two of them are bad.
1. It can win and bring home lots of swag.
2. It can lose and be subjugated by the enemy.
3. It can win, but discover there was no swag or it was destroyed.
Our empire hasn’t seen a number 1 outcome in many decades. Number 2 hasn’t been a serious possibly since that same period. Number 3 is now a continuous affair.
Jen Psaki can lie her ass off to the press until hell freezes over and I doubt the majority of imperial citizens will care at all. When fuel and cheeze doodles come to made from unobtainium, the empire will have a serious problem. Happening a lot sooner than anyone would like. But not soon enough to keep the pretty blue ball crawling with life.
If moderation duties are consuming your time for analysis and substantive blog posts then
WHY MODERATE AT ALL?
Especially since you say you do not wish any censorship.
Let the grown-ups decide what they want to read.
None of those demanding censorship has yet explained why they demand censorship.
CENSORSHIP IS SIMPLY NOT NECESSARY.
Where-Wolf “Yesterday Mahmoud Abbas said the Holo-con was the greatest tragedy in history.”
Don’t you know, the “Palestinian street” thinks Abbas is a Jew.
I appreciate your blog a lot. However, the last posts on the Empire is rather thought provoking, but exaggerated. In the greater scheme of things, there is a enormous strength in the US (maybe less so in the EU). The ‘old order’ in the US may fall, but the country strength will stay. One big difference between US & Soviet Union is that the US has technological lead in several hi-tech areas. There is still no alternative to Intel & AMD, and although alternative to Microsoft/ Apple exists, it is still quite a bit worse. Also, US has huge investments all over the world. From certain angles, cracks are visible (especially in economy with severe misaligement of available resources) but these are far too few to collapse the structure sooner than in some 20-30 years (for example a single big event such as dollar collapse – which becomes imaginable nowadays – will not really collapse the US, but will lead to reforms). As such, hopefully US will reform beforehand and not allow the disaster to happen. In peaceful circumstances, the US would have to lose the competitive edge first – only subsequently it may cease its empire position.
Dear Saker:
You write: „I do a lot of my blogging with my cellphone as a hotspot and my Nexus 7 Internet Tablet “on the go”, from my car.“.
Pleeeeeeeeeeease don’t do it while driving!!!
You are needed alive. OK?
Yes I know, I am sounding like an old auntie. But after all, that’s what I am.
Saker again thank you for your blog. Your efforts are a light shining in a very dark place.
As for the crux of the thesis on USSR’s collapse and parallels with US Empire, yes hypocracy is the core of the problem and a very large case of Empire yelling do as I say and not do as I do. This anti social, civilized behaviour on the part of Empire is part and parcel of what Empire is, be it historic or modern forms. Maybe, like with multinational corporations, it is a symptom of mass and distortive behaviour resulting from such.
Now days though, the masses of people are being better able to talk with each other and see the Emperor standing without any close and their naked hypo racy there for all to see.
I personally believe it is the money system that is the vehicle for such abuse and the rest grows from such a rotton foundation. Needed in a new globally humane existence is a monetary system that is for all people of this Earth, one not controlled by private interests and not born from debt and enabling slavery. I often wonder if such a system was the goal of Gadaffi and what he was trying to enable for Africa???
Someone on a previius thread asked of NATO trying to press Finland into membership, well they and the media in Finland are trying. The media here trumps up all.manner of Russophobia confusing the actions of USSR with modern Russia yet historically the Finns were more subjegated by Sweden than Russia and Russia gave them independence. For NATO, luckily at this time, Finns still see value in self defence and self reliance. A strong compulsory conscript military. In discussions with Finns and mention of Russian strength relative to Finland, I have to point out history of Finns against Soviets and also Hezbollah against Israel in 2006. Strong well equipped light infantry is key and working with terrain to advantage. Big toys that military commanders love are useless as is the current airforce with F18’s against Russia aircraft. On top of all this, it has to be pointed out that there isn”t much in Finland resource wise that Russia woukd be interested in and looking out for ones neighbours is a better way to exist than antagonizing them.
For those calling for no moderation, please repudiable blogs require comment moderation so to disuade garbage dumping in the comments section to discredit the blog. It is not an easy job and maybe it could be delegated but it is required. Saker though, you have other commitments and they also must have your attention but thank you again so much for your insights and those of other commentators here.
Justin
for the “donald cook incident” i read in russian media that a system called “Хибины” was used on the su-24 and that the pentagon indirectly confirmed it by saying, the crew had been demoralized.
i coudn’t find any information about such a system, bit considering the interception of drones over crimea and in iran with older russian equipment wouldn’t make it impossible.
maybe someone here knows more..
regards,
Ralph
Anglozionists does seem to get offended by being labelled as such but much more so the occasional visitors from occupied Palestine, i guess…
Mikhas.
@ Dearest Nora,WizOz and вот так.
Love your insights like WizOz and вот так. All three of you have great insights and excellent posts. Keep up the good work.
A good book before 9/11 is: The Handmaid’s Tale written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1985.
“Set in the near future, in a totalitarian Christian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid’s Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
In her book, the above was blamed on Muslim fanatics.
@ Dearest WizOz and вот так.
I have a small request from both of you. Can you please sign your names at the top like Nora does, so the post shows it is from you at the beginning of the post.
Kindest regards,
A Shia Muslim.
@Anonymous: “Russian military high tech surpasses the Americans’. Have a look at this show of superiority: http://indian.ruvr.ru/2014_04_21/Russian-Su-24-scores-off-against-the-American-USS-Donald-Cook-5786/ The Americans were left wetting their pants.”
Saker: I hear that rumor but I have yet to see this confirmed, even indirectly, by any credible source. As a former electronic warfare pioneer myself, I can tell you that this is hard to believe as there is going to be a lot more power on a USN ship than on a Russian aircraft, especially at close distance. I am not saying that this is not true, only that I need more confirmation. Also, the story of 27 USN sailors resigning en masse because they did not want to die sounds fishy to me. So if you have any other sources, please let us know.
Saker:
On a related topic: what are your thoughts regarding the belief of many (imo completely misguided) folks that, in Sept 2013 during the recent showdown in the Med over Syria, the Russian forces “shot down” or “brought down” 2 missiles which many (misguided folks) seem to believe were fired by the US.
I’m talking about the 2 missiles the Israelis claimed that THEY fired as a test, and about which the Russians released a statement saying that they “Detected the launch of 2 ballistic weapons in the Eastern Med”
Hello Saker,
Congratulations for your blog which deserves to become a most renowned resource.
As a French citizen(if this word means anything yet), living in Paris, one of the most intellectually zombified city in the world, your insightful analyses on geopolitical issues bring a fresh draught, a gasp of air between two “pro-western” propaganda raids.
The road to the recovery of our sovereignty, stolen by this Empire of Stupidity and its henchmen, is certainly long. But you ‘re definitively paving it.
Thanks
Guillaume
Hi Saker
Mr. Holefield is the kind of person we have to put up with in the US, and they are the majority. Not interested in learning or expanding their thought process outside of their own personal interests. Sad, but I work in New York City with very intelligent people, and they have the same closed minds.
What can you do?!! We are constantly bombarded with lies (of omission, if nothing else) and that is the only input these folks get. Most have never heard of the US backed coup in Ukraine, as the news always assumes there is a legitimate government there.
Happy St. George’s Day.
If moderating a series of dogfights in comments become burdensome, it would be better to close the comments altogether. People of various views could continue to read your articles without being able to use your site to fight with each other.
Hey Saker,
You are welcome anytime in the Middle East and Africa for vacation.
Lifetime membership for you.
E said
“
I commented on the term “AngloZionist” because I see Saker use it all the time, but it doesn’t make sense to me.”
Well, E, that’s not Saker’s fault. Saker has explained his use of the term two or three times already. You shouldn’t be criticizing something you admit you don’t understand. It is better to first start searching for the knowledge you don’t have like asking questions as you have now done.
You asked, “Why should Western countries stick their necks out for Israel so much, at such personal cost?””
to which Cahokia succinctly replied,“Simple. Because Anglo elites are dominated by Zionists.
“
I’ll add to that. Bankers produce 97% of all our money/currency out of thin air or as book/computer entries, if you like. This ability to create and control the amount of a nation’s money supply gives bankers enormous economic power. This economic power inevitably leads to political power.
Here are some articles that I have written pertaining to banking power and the threat that Russia poses to that power. here,
here and here
Also here is an article explaining the level of control of the media that jewish zionists have.
Anonymous@ 5;49
why moderate at all?
Because unfortunately due to the behaviour of certain individuals backed by whomever, moderating becomes absolutely necessary in order to have a rational discourse
If moderating was not enacted in some cases, complaints could be made to google, most likely by the trashy trolls and the blog would be shut down as in disappeared
Why moderate;
because some trolls when they set their mind to destroying a blog will turn the blog into a filthy cesspool of foul language, innuendo and sexually explicit terminology.
None of which adds to the conversation.
That is why bloggers must maintain control of their blogs
This is site is great!
james right on!!
We need to stay focussed!!!
Trolls who needs them?!!!!
On so many many sites you have to wade through too many of them to get to the real stuff!!!!!!!!!!.
As they used to say Sorry no timewasters!!
And I can’t stand grownups who let their kids make a nuisance of themselves in the name of freedom!!!!!
Every meeting needs a good chairman sorry chairperson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. NIL CARBARUNDAM,
DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN.
This was a nice post, Saker, very human, in some parts quite amusing (in that doleful Russian style of humour which I recognise well), thank you.
As to this anglo-zionist business, first of all, some commenters want to collapse it into ‘British Israelism’. This was a small cult with a nonsensical theory that the English were the true Jews, strictly for idiots and cranks. Of course the English elite have all sorts of semi-masonic, semi-kabbalistic secret societies (as Larouchean Jeffrey Goldberg chronicled many years ago), but this entertaining fantasy activity on the part of the elite doesn’t reflect the real ‘Zionist power configuration’ (in Petras’ term) particularly well.
The Alex Jones crowd are also credulous about the superstitions of the US elite; they take them far too seriously, at face value, whereas to the elite these are just whimsical pastimes (Bohemian Grove and its giant Owl ritual, which is patently escapist, yet Jones talks of it as if it were hideous paganism with child sacrifice thrown in)…
The facts have to be discovered from less superstitious sources, if I may say so. For instance, you will find that Connie Bruck has written a whole series of devastatingly frank, lengthy and detailed articles about the Jewish-USAian elite for the New Yorker. She can say things that others could not, because hers are self-congratulatory articles intended for upper-middle-class readers who already know the score. Scroll down from the bio and take a look. One thing you’ll have to admit is that many right-wing Zionist Jews are most emphatically non-religious, and they are being honest about this, I’m certain: it’s been a conspicuous feature of right-wing Zionism since Jabotinsky.
PS to my previous comment about superstition, and more generally: the commonest tendency in what passes for anti-imperialist pop writing in the USA and elsewhere, seems to me to be an attempt to mobilise christians qua christians against the empire. Excuse the lower-case ‘c’, but I do not capitalise the names of religions. I consider them all to be primitive, emotional and misguided. To construct a political strategy on the basis of religion is to guarantee failure, and you are welcome to ransack the history of any period to disprove that. The reason is that religious categories are inherently mystificatory and cannot be held stable in any sort of confrontation, but will always be sold out, because it is so easy to make any religion seem to support or oppose anything one wishes. By the way, I quoted a Larouchean, and in that connection you may be interested to know that Larouche himself (now hopelessly senile), is a christian, as was his hero, Leibniz.
@Anonymus 23 April, 2014 05:35
I am afraid that in fact there was never an “imperial project” in Russia. Russia has not lost the war in Afghanistan and it was not that “failure” which brought down the Soviet Union, no matter what Zbugzhinski might believe. It was a genuine desire for changes in Russia, but these changes were never understood as licence for the international Jews to loot unimpeded the country, even in exchange for “genuine” Levy jeans (or MacDonald’s for that matter).
WizOz
@Anonymus 23 April, 2014 05:35
I am afraid that in fact there was never an “imperial project” in Russia. Russia has not lost the war in Afghanistan and it was not that “failure” which brought down the Soviet Union, no matter what Zbugzhinski might believe. It was a genuine desire for changes in Russia, but these changes were never understood as licence for the international Jews to loot unimpeded the country, even in exchange for “genuine” Levy jeans (or MacDonald’s for that matter).
WizOz
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140414/DEFREG02/304140021/Pentagon-Condemns-Provocative-Russian-Military-Action-Against-US-Navy-Ship
Superb blog – thanks for all the effort and information. Спасибо за всё
E, “Why should Western countries stick their necks out for Israel so much, at such personal cost?”
Cahokia responded quite well, I think, but no, in terms of any benefit to We The People it does not make sense and in the Middle East in particular it has been to our own detriment. Also add in about $121 billion to date in aid — here, look at the figures: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf Then Google PNAC (Project for a New American Century and consider our past and present military “adventures” and ask cui bono?
Most fundamentalist Christians don’t really read the Bible, they read the Scofield-annotated version, a Zionist scam perpetrated on the ignorant, and mostly they just read the annotations which were designed to get them to support the current state of Israel. And I think this is really creepy but the Zionists don’t mind at all that what Christian Zionists are *really* supporting is a) trying to MAKE the Apocalypse happen by getting all Jews everywhere into Israel, where b) all but 144,000 will then be divinely zapped but c) the true-believing Christians will get Raptured right out of their skivvies and up to Heaven. Harper comes from that kind of background but I think ample campaign funding really cemented his views — Jews are a tiny part of the population but provide a HUGE proportion of campaign funding as well as access to all sorts of networks of power that Harper would never otherwise dream of attaining.
Also, there’s something to be said for just plain old guilt-tripping — European Jews were persecuted, not constantly but often enough over a couple thousand years, and certainly a large number were enslaved and died 1938-45 while very few people stuck out their necks to help them. (They generally did better in Muslim countries and, despite the propaganda claiming otherwise, in Russia.) For what happened post-WWII, read Norman Finkelstein, “The Holocaust Industry” — and realize that he’s a quite capable historian who could not even keep a job at a Catholic university (DePaul) after it was published. But the Chinese are not an Abrahamic faith like Judaism, Islam and Christianity, so they don’t particularly care about the OT or Jews except strictly what they can offer as business partners. I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying as far as the Chinese filling the current Jewish role — although Diaspora Chinese certainly did and do do play the same middleman role (merchant, tax collector, etc.) throughout E Asia and also S Africa that European Jews did in Europe, those people were and are not our MOTU (Masters Of The Universe), the 1%. How will the Chinese end up treating us? In whatever way benefits them at the time, I guess, but they won’t come from within our society and culture, from being simultaneously different from but yet a part of us, but having an almost primal loyalty since 1948 to another country. That loyalty is, however, waning among the younger generations.
E, “Why should Western countries stick their necks out for Israel so much, at such personal cost?”
Cahokia responded quite well, I think, but no, in terms of any benefit to We The People it does not make sense and in the Middle East in particular it has been to our own detriment. Also add in about $121 billion to date in aid — here, look at the figures: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf Then Google PNAC (Project for a New American Century and consider our past and present military “adventures” and ask cui bono?
Most fundamentalist Christians don’t really read the Bible, they read the Scofield-annotated version, a Zionist scam perpetrated on the ignorant, and mostly they just read the annotations which were designed to get them to support the current state of Israel. And I think this is really creepy but the Zionists don’t mind at all that what Christian Zionists are *really* supporting is a) trying to MAKE the Apocalypse happen by getting all Jews everywhere into Israel, where b) all but 144,000 will then be divinely zapped but c) the true-believing Christians will get Raptured right out of their skivvies and up to Heaven. Harper comes from that kind of background but I think ample campaign funding really cemented his views — Jews are a tiny part of the population but provide a HUGE proportion of campaign funding as well as access to all sorts of networks of power that Harper would never otherwise dream of attaining.
Also, there’s something to be said for just plain old guilt-tripping — European Jews were persecuted, not constantly but often enough over a couple thousand years, and certainly a large number were enslaved and died 1938-45 while very few people stuck out their necks to help them. (They generally did better in Muslim countries and, despite the propaganda claiming otherwise, in Russia.) For what happened post-WWII, read Norman Finkelstein, “The Holocaust Industry” — and realize that he’s a quite capable historian who could not even keep a job at a Catholic university (DePaul) after it was published. But the Chinese are not an Abrahamic faith like Judaism, Islam and Christianity, so they don’t particularly care about the OT or Jews except strictly what they can offer as business partners. I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying as far as the Chinese filling the current Jewish role — although Diaspora Chinese certainly did and do do play the same middleman role (merchant, tax collector, etc.) throughout E Asia and also S Africa that European Jews did in Europe, those people were and are not our MOTU (Masters Of The Universe), the 1%. How will the Chinese end up treating us? In whatever way benefits them at the time, I guess, but they won’t come from within our society and culture, from being simultaneously different from but yet a part of us, but having an almost primal loyalty since 1948 to another country. That loyalty is, however, waning among the younger generations.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/23/putins-dilemma/
A Shia Muslim,
Thank you. I am quite honored.
Anonymous 7:11
I just wish you were right about US technological superiority but it’s not reflected in current research and the situation will only get worse due to not just the amount but also the way funding is now distributed. Federal funding for basic scientific research — the engine which drives technological advancement — has been stagnant for many years and much research is now dependant on outside/profit-motivated funding (i.e., drug studies for Big Pharma). I.e., although important, it’s not basic at all, and contributes nothing to new knowledge. As a result, productive laboratories and institutes in all scientific areas are being set back for years or even closing for lack of resources while funding is being increased in both Europe and Asia. It’s actually a cause of great concern.
And Saker, I second Old Auntie: Pleeeeease don’t blog while driving! We. Need. You. Too. Much. (Your family does too!) (old ladies be old ladies, but that doesn’t mean we’re not right!) ;~)
@james
I read your comment with interest and learned a new term – hasbarat. However, I appreciated saker taking time to explain his use of the term: anglozionist. I find it useful to understand how a term is defined by the author so I can better understand the argument. Until I read how he defines the term, it was somewhat confusing.
“I can assure you that what Putin says is true, most PGU officers were very patriotic”
This reminds me a remark I have heard during Perestroika times: “I have recognized that the USSR is finished when I have heard that KGB guys have accepted bribes.”
@wonderful and kind ladies:Ok. I promise not to blog and drive, but relax, I usually do my blogging when the car is stopped. I have, on occasion, done some quick moderating while in motion, but I promise not to do so from now on (-: for me a lady’s wish is always my command :-)
@EVERYBODY: While the Asia Times has already picked up some of my post here on past occasions, I am especially happy that they did so with my recent piece about hypocrisy, empires and the Ukraine which they have published here: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-230414.html. The reason why I am especially grateful to the AT editors is that I think that this piece is particularly important because it makes the case that the single most powerful weapon of the Empire (its ability to lie, brainwash and propagandize) will also be the source of its eventual and inevitable downfall. I realize that this is a controversial opinion and that many will disagree, but at least I want to put the idea out there and with this AT publication a much bigger audience will be exposed to it and that really makes me happy :-)
Kind regards to all,
The Saker
“I don’t believe there is any distinction between the cynicism of Khrushchev and Stalin — or Churchill and Roosevelt for that matter. Although they stood under different banners, all are members of the same ruthless ruling clique that existed in all societies throughout history.”
Nonsense, there’s more that one “ruling clique”. And Hitler made war on Stalin when he could have just as easily formed an alliance with him to take over the world.
Saker, I am particularly pleased,too, that AT has picked up your article. It makes a devastating point and deserves the wider coverage.
E said your point was obvious and it is once it is ‘voiced’. That is the essence of those ‘aha’ moments – someone bringing into sharp definition what you already know. Your words expressed that very well and brought to light the reasoning and foundational law underpinning the essential weakness and eventual demise of lies and evil.
“The reason why I am especially grateful to the AT editors is that I think that this piece is particularly important because it makes the case that the single most powerful weapon of the Empire (its ability to lie, brainwash and propagandize) will also be the source of its eventual and inevitable downfall”
Again, very well expressed and congratulations.
According to RT:
> Ukrainian oligarch and multibillionaire Igor Kolomoysky[..]’s deputy Filatov also said the servicemen at the Mariupol military base, who on April 16 killed three people and injured 13 more during an attempted storming allegedly inspired by the anti-government activists, have been paid 500,000 hryvnas ($43,000).
Any other confirmation for that? That looks like a stupid thing to do overtly.
Honk
Dear Saker, Your dedication to this excellent blog is quite extraordinary. And– noting that your article in Asia Times was # 1 on ATs ‘most read’ list–it is paying off.
Like some other posters I am uncomfortable with constant references to Zionism; zio-this. zio-that, even zionazi. The power of the Israeli lobby in this country rests on two facts: (a) An estimated 40% of all political contributions entering American politics come from Jewish Americans and (b) the media, especially the most influential dailies, are owned, or controlled by Jewish families/investors.
Thus it is that every year when AIPAC holds its annual meeting, we are treated to the vomitus spectacle of politicians vying with each other to express their undying love of Israel. Thus it is that not one major American daily would dare to print the articles of peace advocates Uri Avnery and Gideon Levy that appear in Haaretz.
But what we need to remember,even as would be Republican pres candidates utterly debase themselves going before gambling mogul Adelson in Las Vegas begging for money, a disproportionate percentage of the best and most progressive members of the Congress are Jewish.In the House (Cantor is the only Republican)most Jewish members oppose Obama’s foreign policy. Grayson of Florida, the most ferocious of them, quite often–I think this is significant–cosponsored bills with Ron Paul.In the Senate, the most outspoken Senator(with Feingold gone) Bernie Saunders of Vermont is Jewish, Boxer of CA is, Tammy Baldwin of Wisc..the list goes on.Feinstein (CA) the quintessential rich Jewess is the odd person out.
No one can sensibly question that the rich right wing Jews (like Adelson) are a menace to all of us and that Israel, whose politics are dominated by the same people, is a terrible albatross. But lets not forget that Jewish–Americans overall are decent and progressive,certainly the most pro-environment bloc, probably the most anti-war. AIPAC (now losing force) and financial criminals like Adelson and the neo-cons like Nuland are drumming up a real current of anti-semitism in this country. Once unleashed, like the dogs of war,it will not readily be restrained.
Twitter chatter about armed insurrection at a Ukraine Govt (sic) controlled army base. Looking forward to next SitRep.
Dear Saker,
Mike Whitney’s post today in CP is quite pessimistic about Putin’s options. your take on that?
Let me second joe6pac’s recommendation of Mike Whitney’s CounterPunch article, and point out that Zbiegnew Brzezinski is the son of a Polish nobleman who conveniently sat out WWII as Ambassador to Canada. Imo he wants not just his daddy’s title and lands, but a new-old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth/Satrapy with borders extending past Belarus, Lvov and probably even Kiev. (Why no, I don’t like the guy; why do you ask?)
I’m not sure I totally agree with Whitney’s conclusions, though they’re less grim than they were in his last piece, but he does seem to set the situation out fairly clearly, and grim it is indeed.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/23/putins-dilemma/
Today’s RT interview with Sergey Lavrov is online now …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3FihkBjbms&wide=1
Hoping for commentary today on the increasing militarization of the standoff. It is being reported that the Russian jet that buzzed the American destroyer in the Black Sea was successfully able to disable the ship’s targeting radar and then repeatedly did simulated attack runs.
The Russian ultimatum and military exercises announced today escalates the situation as the US has begun deploying limited numbers of troops to Eastern Europe and again demanded that Russia essentially surrender (which Russia will not do).
Neither side seems to have left themselves a way out without complete loss of face. Seems very dangerous to me…
Posters at zeroH with claimed military background/expertise dismiss the ability of a fighter to disable the ships targeting systems (based on the power required not being physically possible to install on a jet I guess). Well then, would a potential enemy threat be allowed to gain attack position if the system were operational?
and if the Russians really have such capability would they be inclined to reveal it in the current situation? If the story is true then the situation is extremely serious IMO.
tom garrett,
Tammy Baldwin had one Jewish grandfather and I don’t think she was raised in the faith; no matter though: Baldwin, Sanders, Boxer, Cantor and Grayson are all staunch supporters of Israel. They’re in good company of course since, with very few exceptions, congresscritters of any faith who dare oppose Israel tend to lose their jobs rather quickly.
@ Nora said,
“Let me second joe6pac’s recommendation of Mike Whitney’s CounterPunch article, and point out that Zbiegnew Brzezinski is the son of a Polish nobleman ….”
Yes, the same Zbiegnew Brzezinski who was the National Security Adviser to Peace Loving President Jimmy Carter the peanut farmer from Georgia, who torpedoed the dreams of Palestinians through Camp David.
Yes, the same Zbiegnew Brzezinski who created Taliban and Al-Qaeda and brags about bring the downfall of USSR.
BTW, have you read the The Handmaid’s Tale. It is who Margaret Atwood, who predicted the 9/11 in 1985, the neocons seeing the downfall of USA:
“The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic military dictatorship formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America.
Beginning with a staged terrorist attack (blamed on Islamic extremist terrorists) that kills the President and most of Congress, a movement calling itself the “Sons of Jacob” launches a revolution and suspends the United States Constitution under the pretext of restoring order. They are quickly able to take away all of women’s rights, largely attributed to financial records being stored electronically and labelled by gender. This allows the new rulers to freeze women’s bank accounts (the story also takes place in a future of a cashless society utilizing electronic money which leaves them with no funds after this), then outlaw employing them.”
@Rambeau: verily, thine eyes shall see!
http://www.e-news.in.ua/news/8413-vynuzhdennyy-bunt-v-93-otdelnoy-mehanizirovannoy-brigade.html#comment
Apparently the work of Sneaky Russian Saboteurs. Or as I tell a former colleague from my time in UA: here’s your parachute and rifle; go out and fight!
He used to be such a nice boy, but something has eaten away part of his brain…