Donald Trump’s fascist strategy

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"The majority of Trump’s own voters did not seek to elect a fascist..."

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]onald Trump extended his fascist attacks on four freshmen Democratic congresswomen yesterday, tweeting that Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley are “horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist.” Denouncing the “Radical Left” and calling the congresswomen “communists,” Trump added, “If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!”

Despite his numerous fascist leanings, many still argue Trump is simply a rightwing populist. Are we looking at a distinction without a difference?


The lack of a true alternative in the Democrat party underscores the bankruptcy of the suffocating duopoly and the need for new effective initiatives in the political arena.

On Sunday, Trump initiated the provocation by tweeting that the four congresswomen—all of whom are US citizens—should “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.” Equating social opposition in general and socialism in particular with support for “terrorism,” he tweeted, “We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country.”

In an editorial board statement yesterday, the New York Times called Trump’s statements a “gambit to distract from his policy fiascoes, his court losses, his political failures.” At a press conference Monday afternoon, the four targeted congresswomen made similar remarks, referring to Trump’s rant as a “distraction.”

This was contradicted by the fact that photographers captured images of written “talking points” Trump used during a Monday press conference. “It’s actually DANGEROUS—because it seems like they hate America,” the prepared notes read. “They want America to be SOCIALIST.”

Extrapolating from these notes, Trump referred to the “love they have for Al Qaeda” and claimed that the congresswomen “hate Jews.” When asked by a reporter whether it concerned him that “white nationalists” are ecstatic over his tweets, Trump replied, “It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me.”

Trump is proceeding according to a deliberate political strategy worked out with the White House’s fascist brain trust, including Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s crackdown on immigrants. He is attacking the four congresswomen with a high level of consistency, repeating political themes common to fascist and far-right political movements.

He equates opposition to his administration and criticism of his personal rule with support for terrorism, paving the way for the criminalization of free speech and critical thought. Trump states that his opponents are “dangerous” and “hate” the nation, suggesting that “complaining” about the policies of the government is treasonous. He presents socialism and communism as foreign ideologies directed against the American people.

These are ideas developed by Nazi theorists such as the jurist Carl Schmitt, who authored the conception of a “state of exception” to justify Nazi totalitarian rule. Lurking behind Trump’s assertion that those who are “not happy” and “want America to be socialist” should “leave” the US is the suggestion that if they fail to do so voluntarily, the government will be justified in rounding them up by force.

The calculated, strategic character of Trump’s statements is underscored by the context in which they are being made. Yesterday, Trump denounced the “far left” for asserting that the administration is detaining immigrants—including children—in unsanitary concentration camps. “They’re not concentration camps, they’re really well run,” he said.

Millions of immigrants—significant portions of the working class in 10 targeted cities—are living in fear of impending raids announced by Trump earlier this month. Last week, he threatened to violate a Supreme Court decision barring him from including a question on citizenship status on the 2020 census. On Monday, the administration imposed a new federal regulation effectively barring Central Americans from seeking asylum in the US—a clear violation of international law.

These actions follow his deployment of thousands of active-duty troops to the US-Mexican border and his declaration of a state of emergency to override Congress and allocate Pentagon funds to build his border wall.

With each of these measures, Trump has used anti-immigrant xenophobia as the tip of the spear to violate basic constitutional norms and establish rule by decree.

Trump and his advisors are attempting to build an extra-constitutional movement linking fascist elements within the state—including tens of thousands of agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—with the minority of voters who support his reactionary policies.

The Democratic Party’s response combines its typical fecklessness with a race-based appeal that blows wind in the sails of Trump’s strategy. The Democratic leadership announced yesterday that it opposes calls from within the caucus to formally censure Trump for his remarks, opting instead to chide Trump with a mild, non-binding resolution upholding Ronald Reagan as an icon of American democracy.

The Democratic Party has mounted no serious opposition to Trump’s dictatorial moves, and voted last month to give him an additional $4.6 billion to fund his war on immigrants.

The Democratic Party-aligned press has responded to Trump’s diatribe by viciously denouncing “white people” in general and working class whites in particular. In an article titled “White identity politics drives Trump, and the Republican Party under him,” the Washington Post yesterday blamed “white grievance” for Trump’s recent statements.

The Post asserted that “a majority of white Americans express some racial resentment in election-year surveys,” citing a Duke University professor to argue that “the feeling of white identity is much stronger among non-college-educated whites than those who went to college.”

In a Monday New York Times column titled “Trump’s America is a ‘White Man’s Country,’” Jamelle Bouie demanded that the Democrats punish racist white voters by distancing themselves entirely from any appeals to white workers.

“What’s more striking than the president’s blood-and-soil racism,” he wrote, “is how Democratic Party elites—or at least one group of them—are playing with similar assumptions. No, they haven’t held out the white working property owner as the only citizen of value, but they’re obsessed with winning that voter to their side.”

Such comments, saturated with hatred for the working class, provide fertile soil for the fascists to argue that the racial politics of the Democratic Party require a racial response from the far right. As Stephen Bannon said in 2017, “[T]he longer [the Democrats] talk about identity politics, I got ’em.”

The Trump government is a government of perpetual crisis, hated and despised by a large majority of the population. It fears above all the growth of working class opposition within the US, initially expressed in the wave of teachers’ strikes and other struggles.

That does not make it less dangerous. Its main asset is its nominal opposition—the Democratic Party. The Democrats are no less petrified over the potential for mass social protest and have devoted all their efforts to containing and diffusing opposition to Trump and his pro-corporate, war-mongering policies.

<> Billions of people across the world are horrified by recent developments in the United States. There is no mass support in the US for jailing children in cages and rule by executive fiat. The majority of Trump’s own voters did not seek to elect a fascist.

The chief task is to harness the social power of workers of all races and nationalities in a common, international fight for social equality. Establishing the unity of the working class requires a relentless struggle against the poison of racial and identity politics, the reactionary ideology of the upper-middle class.

The president’s fascist vitriol does not originate in the mind of Trump the individual. It is the outlook of a significant section of the capitalist class, which is looking to dictatorship to protect its wealth. The fight against fascism requires a fight against its root source—the capitalist system.

 


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The Epstein-Barr Virus and Donald J. Trump

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In the realm of infectious disease, the Epstein-Barr virus is the cause of mononucleosis. In this column, we are talking about a different sort of Epstein-Barr virus and the politico-socio diseases it causes.

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Little St James Island: All Jeff's, even the U.S. flag. How patriotic! But don't try to go there, unless invited. (Image by Navin75)


[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Epstein-Barr virus, first of all, is the cause of an infectious disease, mononucleosis, which is (interestingly enough in light of what this column is principally about) called the "kissing disease." Its primary symptoms are: fatigue, fever, lack of appetite, rash, sore throat , swollen glands in the neck, and weakness and sore muscles. While in this column we are dealing with a different kind of Epstein-Barr virus, one of the political sort (credit here must go to one of my Twitter mates, JoeInWVa, for identifying it as such [although unfortunately I cannot find the link to that particular cartoon]) some of the symptoms are the same. That is if you broaden the diagnosis to include Sick-of-Trump-and-Barr Syndrome.

But let's look at some of the particularly noticeable socio-political outcomes so far of the Jeff Epstein/Bill Barr virus that has suddenly burst on the scene, not necessarily in order of importance.

· The law firm of Kirkland-Ellis in Chicago is central. It is the world's highest-grossing law firm. It was Bill Barr's firm for a while, although not during the period when it obtained the sweetheart deal for Steve Epstein in Florida. That's why Barr at first recused himself (announcing it to the press) on one day, then quickly un-recused himself the next day (announcing through a DOJ spokesperson). One can just imagine the call from Trump that led to the second event (if that is indeed what happened). This is a clean webmagazine, so I won't conjure up the language Trump likely used. Of course, much more important than Trump's language in that hypothetical call, is whyBarr un-recused himself, whether there was such a call or not. Couldn't have anything to do with being the President's lawyer rather than the U.S. Attorney General and what interest Trump might have in limiting the scope of the current case, could it?

· The Epstein deal in Florida, arranged by the current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta was illegal. If a plea deal is underway, the prosecutors by law are supposed to inform the complainants. They didn't and didn't respond to repeated "what's going on?" inquiries from some of them. Acosta's excuse was that "the times were different." Pardon me? How many African-Americans went to prison for rape back then, and much further back for the same sort, or even a lesser sort, of evidence? No, it was the person charged who was different.

Alexander Acosta. Let's just keep things buttoned up. (Image by Gage Skidmore)

Bunches of prominent people have been associated with Epstein, including Bill Clinton. Clinton's possible (but only possible) cover is that everywhere he goes he is accompanied by Secret Service agents. But who knows what he did or did not do. Nevertheless, the right-wing media are filled with "whaadabouts" as per usual, as if what Epstein did and what Trump said about him years ago were OK, by that standard. It was Bill O'Reilly who years ago established this format, that, you know, two wrongs make a right, for the Right.

One fascinating question is what does Epstein have on all of them, including Trump, and how could he use it this time around. (There is that matter of his phone book, [and this, folks, is from a right-wing source], with 14 numbers for Trump as well as numbers for Ivana and Ivanka in it. Who knew that the tech-limited Trump had that many phones. One wonders if any of them were "smart.") As a matter of fact, did he use what he might have on a variety of folk last time around to secure that sweetheart deal in Florida? And then one must ask why Cy Vance Jr., the New York City D.A. who let off Ivanka and Jared (as well as Harvey Weinstein ), applied to have Epstein's sex offender status in New York City down-graded?

· Then there's the matter of Barr's father and The Dalton School in New York City. Back in the 70s when he was the Headmaster there he (Barr's father) hired Epstein as a math/science teacher . Epstein never went to college and while he had a reputation of being a "math genius" he had no education or training in teaching it to teen-agers. Important? Maybe. Maybe not. I'm sure that media folk will be investigating that one further. Suffice it to say that the father was gone from Dalton within a year or so of his hiring of Epstein, who apparently didn't last long there.

Then there's fictional mystery writer James Patterson's book about Epstein, "Filthy Rich," which came out in 2016. According to an interview with him that I saw on Ari Melber's show, "The Beat," earlier in this week, in the book he covered much of the same ground that the Miami Herald Reporter, Julie K. Brown, did which (her work, that is) led indirectly to the current indictment. However, Patterson, VERY well-known as a novelist, got little attention for his work, at the time.

Widely reported were/are the tactics of Epstein's lawyers, harassment, threats of law-suits, being followed, and etc., applied, among others, to Patterson, who is quite open about it. This from one of the nation's top law firms, to which Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz (now a strong Trump supporter), for example, has lent his name for years. Another Kirkland-Ellis notable was Ken Starr, the Clinton special prosecutor.

· Every defendant is entitled to a legal defense. Every law firm is entitled to choose whom it will represent. Kirkland-Ellis chose to defend a serial sex-offender who over the years did little to hide what he was doing. They didn't have to. And then, just suppose a) Epstein were African-American, b) poor. Wouldn't get Kirkland-Ellis. Hmm.

· Epstein's lawyers now would seem to have a very weak case. If they had a strong one, why would they start right off with attempting to apply the existence of the Florida plea deal in asking for a dismissal, when that deal specifically said that it applied only to South Florida, not to any other Federal jurisdiction. Anyway, there are now the photos and who knows what else taken from Epstein's New York City mansion.

· No one knows the source of Epstein's great wealth. Man, can one speculate on that one. How much cover has he gotten from the wealth --- of whom --- he has managed? It's just fascinating that one of his private islands, in the U.S. Virgins (I'll let that one go), pictured above, for years has been called by the locals "pedophile island."

· Who were the facilitators, besides, apparently, the Epstein's apparently well-known adult girl-friend, for a time at least? What charges might they/will they face? And might they then flip? (Oh boy!)

Are they coming for you, Don? (Image by IoSonoUnaFotoCamera)

Then, finally, speaking of flipping, we come to the Trump involvement. While he is attempting hard to distance himself from Epstein, the media are now really digging, e.g.: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/07/10/trump-hosted-an-exclusive-party-with-jeffrey-epstein-at-his-mar-a-lago-estate-a-new-report-claims-it-was-just-the-2-of-them-and-28-girls/23767340/. With the help of Fox"News", other elements of the Murdoch media empire, The National Enquirer, the vast Right-wing blogosphere, and etc., Trump has survived so many scandals that one is tempted to say, "oh yeah, he'll 'always attack, never defend (learned from Joe McCarthy's lawyer Roy Cohn)' his way through it again." But still, why is Trump so nervous about this case that he had one-half of the virus un-recuse himself?

 

In any case, here we are possibly talking not just about rape, but the rape of minors. If in this instance, one or more witnesses were to come forward, as they already have against Epstein, but against Trump himself, well, that is one he might just not be able to survive, even if every "upright Christian" (really Christian Rightist) Republican in the Congress would be saying nothing more than "but what about Clinton?" And then, supposing, even at this late point in time, Epstein decided to give up one or more very well-known folk, in return for a lighter sentence? Indeed, this version of the Epstein-Barr virus might become historically very infectious.

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Drone view of Epstein’s island

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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS is a Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at StonyBrookMedicine (NY) and author/co-author/editor/co-editor of over 35 books. In addition to his position on OpEdNews as a “Trusted Author,” he is a Senior Editor, Politics, for The Greanville Post; a Contributor for American Politics to The Planetary Movement and a columnist in otehr leading publications. Dr. Jonas’ latest book is Ending the ‘Drug War’; Solving the Drug Problem: The Public Health Approach, Brewster, NY: Punto Press Publishing, (Brewster, NY, 2016, available on Kindle from Amazon, and also in hardcover from Amazon). His most recent book on US politics is The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022: A Futuristic Novel (Trepper & Katz Impact Books, Punto Press Publishing, 2013, Brewster, NY), and available on Amazon. The book is currently being serialized on OpEdNews.

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The fascists in the White House

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he tirades by President Donald Trump over the past three days have no precedent in the history of the US presidency. Trump, backed by a cabal of advisors in the White House, speaks openly as a fascist, demonizing people of different races and national origins, vilifying socialism, and declaring that those who oppose his administration’s policies are disloyal to the country and should leave it.

Trump has directed his vitriol at Democratic congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. On Sunday evening, he initiated an attack on Twitter, denouncing them as “radical Left Congresswomen” who “speak so badly of our Country” and “hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion.” Trump cited the comments of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham that “AOC [Ocasio-Cortez] and this crowd are a bunch of Communists” who are “Anti-Semitic” and “Anti-America.”

The president added his own comment along this theme Monday afternoon: “We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country,” he tweeted. “IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!”

Perhaps most ominously, during a ten-minute diatribe at the end of a White House media event Monday afternoon to promote American manufacturing, Trump falsely accused Omar of declaring her love for Al Qaeda, which he said was killing American soldiers. The statement was nothing short of an incitement to violence against the representative from Minneapolis, a Somali-American who came to this country as a child and is one of two newly elected Muslim-American congresswomen.

Trump is playing with fire. He is placing the authority of the White House behind violent attacks on the model of the South Carolina church murders, the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, and the attacks on mosques in Southern California. This is under conditions where one Trump supporter sent mail bombs last year to leading Democrats and media figures, and a Coast Guard officer, arrested on weapons charges, was found to have drawn up a death list that includes Ocasio-Cortez, one of Trump’s latest targets.

It is more than a matter of inciting violence against individual opponents. Trump’s campaign of vilification against the Democratic congresswomen has a clear political goal, which goes well beyond his 2020 reelection campaign or these four individuals. He is making an appeal to the most reactionary forces in American society, seeking to build a fascist movement in the United States.


"The Squad"—target of Trump's opportunistic fury. Too bad these women are embedded in the suffocating  folds of the Democrat party, a treacherous formation as criminal and unworthy of trust as the fascistic Republicans, which they repeatedly enable.

Trump is clearly a petulant juvenile zionist oaf, but the alternative, a sneaky and Wall Street/Deep State-owned Democrat Party is not substantially better.

The president of the United States, speaking for significant sections of the ruling class, has declared that anyone opposing the foreign and domestic policy of the ruling class should be subject to prosecution, deportation or physical violence.

US presidents, particularly in the period of Cold War struggle between American imperialism and the Soviet Union, once sought to posture as leaders of the “Free World,” representing a country which long identified itself as being “a nation of immigrants.” Trump discards that pretense. His ideal America would be a brutal police state in which working people are deprived of all rights and the symbols of national “greatness” are a massive wall along the US-Mexico border and the Dow Jones Industrial Average—which he boasted Monday had hit a record 27,000.

Trump’s boasting and bullying are not signs of strength, however, but of weakness and deepening crisis. While he can rely on the leadership of the Democratic Party to collaborate, compromise and prop up his government, there is mounting opposition among working people that threatens a social and political explosion in America. This is expressed in a growing strike movement and in the protests that erupted over the weekend against the impending deportation raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in ten major cities.

Millions oppose this government and everything it stands for, but they are trapped in the framework of the corporate-controlled two-party system, in which the supposed alternative to Trump is a Democratic Party completely identified with Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatus.

The four congresswomen who were the targets of Trump’s Twitter vitriol held a press conference Monday afternoon. Each of the four denounced Trump’s brutal treatment of immigrants in border detention camps and called for his impeachment.

However, in language that was certainly worked out behind the scenes with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, the four congresswomen declared that Trump’s declaration of war against them was a “distraction,” something to be ignored in favor of issues like health care, gun violence, and immigration.

In response to questions from the press, it was notable that none of the four chose to respond to Trump’s denunciations of them as socialists, communists and sympathizers of Al Qaeda. Nor did the four Democrats use the word “fascist” to characterize Trump’s statements of the previous three days, or his actions against immigrant families.

A similar silence on the political character of Trump’s latest rantings prevails in the Democratic congressional leadership, among the Democratic presidential candidates, and in the newspapers and television networks aligned with the Democratic Party, such as the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC.

The only concrete action proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a resolution of disapproval that would condemn Trump’s language while citing President Ronald Reagan—whose right-wing government initiated the ongoing campaign of social counterrevolution and attacks on the working class in America—as a model of civility and tolerance.


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A day after a tweet by President Donald Trump called on “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen” to “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries, the four representatives who are believed to be the target of his attack are speaking out. Reps. Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley are holding a press conference in response to the president’s remarks. During those remarks, Omar called directly for the impeachment of the president. "It is time for us to impeach this president," she said.

The context of Trump’s diatribe is significant. It follows an increasingly public denunciation of the four congresswomen by the Democratic leadership for their failure to endorse a bill granting over $4 billion in funding for Trump to implement his fascistic border policies, which passed with overwhelming Democratic support.

"All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi told the New York Times. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

The media response has bolstered the Democrats by criticizing Trump’s remarks as “racist” and “xenophobic,” while avoiding terms like “fascist” and “Nazi-like,” which would more accurately describe the political significance of his statements and would call into question the complacent and utterly passive response of the Democratic Party.

Perhaps the foulest expression of this media campaign was the op-ed column written by Charles Blow of the New York Times, who criticized Trump from the standpoint of identity politics, declaring, “White people and whiteness are the center of the Trump presidency. His primary concern is to defend, protect and promote it. All that threatens it must be attacked and assaulted. Trump is bringing the force of the American presidency to the rescue of white supremacy.”

In effect, Blow legitimizes Trump’s claim that he, a billionaire real estate swindler and “reality television” personality, is the authentic representative and defender of the unemployed coal miner in West Virginia or the laid-off steelworker in Ohio, because of a shared skin color.

Billionaires and the workers they exploit, so long as they are both white, have a common identity and privilege, in the opinion of the race-obsessed Timescolumnist (whose income and personal wealth are undoubtedly well beyond those of workers in the deindustrialized Midwest).

Blow blames workers (not the Democratic Party and its hated candidate Hillary Clinton) for Trump’s election and for the ultra-right policies being carried out by his administration. He concludes that “fellow citizens—possibly a third of them” reveal their racism “through their continued support for him.” This is a slander against the working class.

The ongoing wave of strikes in the United States was touched off by thousands of teachers in West Virginia—a state which Trump carried overwhelmingly in 2016—who defied state law, a Republican legislature, and a Democrat-turned-Republican governor to fight for higher pay and secure benefits and against school privatization and charterization. These teachers, and hundreds of thousands of other workers in subsequent strikes and protests, have demonstrated that class, not race, is the fundamental dividing line in American society.

Trump is not the president of “white people.” He is the president who seeks to use racism and anti-immigrant prejudice to divide the working class and maintain the supremacy of Wall Street and the giant corporations. Politicians and pundits who oppose the unity of the working class in struggle against capitalism play right into the hands of Trump and his effort to build a fascist movement in America.

—Patrick Martin


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Glenn Greenwald, Intercept Brasil staff threatened after publishing corruption investigation

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Demonstrators protest in front of the Justice Ministry in Brasilia calling for the release of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the arrest of Justice Minister and former judge Sergio Moro on June 10, 2019. Brazil's Bolsonaro election is product of a "judicial coup" concocted in the US.

June 18, 2019

São Paulo, June 18, 2019--The founder, editor, and other members of the The Intercept Brasil staff said they have received threats on email and social media following their publication of politically sensitive stories this month.


Beginning on June 9, The Intercept Brasil, an independent investigative news website, published a series of stories based on documents, recordings, and private WhatsApp messages leaked anonymously to the news outlet, which raised ethical and legal questions about the conduct of Brazil's justice minister and the chief prosecutor in "Operation Car Wash," the investigation into political corruption that has been ongoing since 2014.

In the days since the stories were published, the outlet's founder, Glenn Greenwald, and his husband, David Miranda, a Congressman with the left-wing Socialism and Liberty Party, have received threats of death and violence which "contained substantial personal and private information about us," Greenwald told CPJ via email.

The Intercept Brasil Executive Editor Leandro Demori and other members of the outlet's editorial team received similar threats, Demori told CPJ.

"The Operation Car Wash investigation is one of the most important stories in Brazil in years, yet it has become a dangerous beat in the country's increasingly polarized environment," said CPJ Central and South America Program Coordinator Natalie Southwick in Mexico City. "Glenn Greenwald and the entire Intercept Brasil team should be able to report on matters of public interest without intimidation and harassment."

Greenwald said the threats he received, mostly via email, "were very graphic, detailed, and thought-out." The threats mentioned the couple's children and dogs, Greenwald told CPJ.

"We are always careful with our security but have had to substantially increase the level of security that we and our family has in light of the journalism I've been doing and the seriousness of the threats we are receiving," Greenwald said.

Demori, who was also one of the reporters on the Operation Car Wash investigation, told CPJ via phone that he has received dozens of threats via email and social media following the investigation's publication, and that he doesn't know who is making the threats, although the outlet's lawyers are studying them to determine their seriousness.

"We get physical threats, such as people writing 'I am going to cut your stomach open with a knife' or 'The hunt is on' but you never know if it is real or just to frighten you," Demori said. "We are monitoring these profiles and trying to identify patterns. We have taken more protective measures, including physical ones. It is controllable right now, but we are worried."

The lawyers have not taken the threats to police, Demori said.

Andrew Fishman, The Intercept Brasil's managing editor, told CPJ that the outlet's website has been targeted by cyberattacks since publishing the exposé.

"Someone is clearly attempting to overwhelm our servers," Fishman said, adding that the website was prepared for such threats and has remained online throughout the attacks.

The Intercept Brasil is a sister news outlet to The Intercept, an investigative news outlet based in New York, where Greenwald is an editor.

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WWII & Holocaust could not have happened without corporate USA rearming Germany to destroy the USSR

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The sixty or seventy million men, women and children didn’t die because of Adolph Hitler, they perished because the wealthy in the US and Western Europe empowered Adolph Hitler to make war.


Class interest and profits uber alles


If there were public awareness of this incontrovertible truth, how would activists within he hundreds of millions of good people who lost loved ones during the Second World War and the Holocaust react?

The Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War forced reduction of the strength of the German army from 4,500,000 in 1918 to 100,000. Its navy was not to exceed 15,000 men, including manning for the fleet, coast defenses, signal stations, administration, and other land services. Heavy weapons armored vehicles, submarines and capital ships were forbidden, as were aircraft of any kind. Compliance with these restrictions was monitored until 1927 by the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control.

1918 to 1929 was a already a time of low economic growth and mass unemployment. The Wall Street Crash during the autumn of 1929 had grave consequences for Germany. German unemployment brought suffering to 20 million people. All over Germany there were people desperate for money needed to feed, clothe and house their families. Many of the homeless were camping out in the parks of Berlin.

There is simply no way an impoverished and utterly demilitarized Nazi Germany, with no air force, a tiny navy, no armored vehicles, no heavy weapons and a small army, could have on its own, built its armed forces up to the most powerful military in the world during the first six years of Hitler’s rule without the colossal and crucial investments in, and joint venturing by, top US corporations in low-wage Nazi Germany – in outright evasion of the Versailles Treaty prohibition of German rearmament. There is no way Hitler could have begun a world war and a multi-nation Holocaust when he did without the mega enormous financial and technical help he received from the United States of America. England and France also cooperated, especially in agreeing to allow the abandonment of the prohibitions on German rearmament. Western media defended the building up of Nazi Germany’s military as only a ‘bulwark’ against the Soviet Union.


There is simply no way an impoverished and utterly demilitarized Nazi Germany, with no air force, a tiny navy, no armored vehicles, no heavy weapons and a small army, could have on its own, built its armed forces up to the most powerful military in the world during the first six years of Hitler’s rule without the colossal and crucial investments in, and joint venturing by, top US corporations in low-wage Nazi Germany – in outright evasion of the Versailles Treaty

Regarding a depression so great that it threatened the status quo and required fascism and war, one need not read Marx to understand private capital will withdraw when profitability is too low to sustain the privileges and power of the ruling upper class. America’s great independent economist Thorstein Veblen assumed depression to  be “the normal condition in a business-enterprise economy, to be relieved in periods of excitation caused by stimuli not intrinsic to the system, for example, war, expansion abroad, etc.”[from The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen]

Hitler had emphasized Germany’s need for ‘Lebensraum’  (‘living space’), insisting Germany’s 19th century motto ‘Drang Nach Osten’ (‘push to the East,’ a slogan designating German expansion into Slavic lands), must become a reality. All this was strikingly proclaimed by Hitler in his book Mein Kampf, [1] which by 1939 had sold 5.2 million copies in eleven languages. [Britannica]

Hitler’s uncompromising lethal condemnation of communism and the very existence of Wall Street’s archenemy, the socialist Soviet Union, would have to have impressed the US and European wealthy, whose ‘rule by the rich’ was threatened by socialist fervor and riots at home for their failure to have prevented the ongoing Great Depression with tens of millions suffering even from lack of food. Newsreels of massive and violent riots in many US cities can be seen on YouTube at ‘Riots Across America – The Great Depression.’ 

Below are excepts from British American scholar Anthony B. Sutton’s ‘Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler,’ Chapter One – ‘Wall Street Paves the Way for Hitler.’ ( Anthony Sutton was research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973.)

“The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations before 1940 can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities. For instance, in 1934 Germany produced domestically only 300,000 tons of natural petroleum products and less than 800,000 tons of synthetic gasoline; Yet, ten years later in World War II, after transfer of the Standard Oil of New Jersey hydrogenation patents and technology to I. G. Farben, Germany produced about 6 1/2 million tons of oil — of which 85 percent was synthetic oil using the Standard Oil hydrogenation process. 


Germans were brought to Detroit to learn the techniques of specialized production of components, and of straight-line assembly. The techniques learned in Detroit were eventually used to construct the dive-bombing Stukas …. I. G. Farben representatives in this country enabled a stream of German engineers to visit not only plane plants but others of military importance. Contemporary American business press confirm that business journals and newspapers were fully aware of the Nazi threat and its nature. 


The evidence presented suggests that not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) –with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involving Europe and the United States. 

Synthetic gasoline and explosives (two of the very basic elements of modern warfare), the control of German World War II output was in the hands of two German combines created by Wall Street loans under the Dawes Plan.


The two largest tank producers in Hitler’s Germany were Opel, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors (controlled by the J.P. Morgan firm), and the Ford A. G. subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Detroit. The Nazis granted tax-exempt status to Opel in 1936, to enable General Motors to expand its production facilities. Alcoa and Dow Chemical worked closely with Nazi industry.


General Motors supplied Siemens & Halske A. G. in Germany with data on automatic pilots and aircraft instruments. As late as 1940, Bendix Aviation supplied complete technical data to Robert Bosch for aircraft and diesel engine starters and received royalty payments in return.


In brief, American companies associated with the Morgan-Rockefeller international investment bankers were intimately related to the growth of Nazi industry. It is important to note ” that General Motors, Ford, General Electric, DuPont and the handful of U.S. companies intimately involved with the development of Nazi Germany were — except for the Ford Motor Company — controlled by the Wall Street elite — the J.P. Morgan firm, the Rockefeller Chase Bank and to a lesser extent the Warburg Manhattan Bank.”

No one will regret the time spent in reading Anthony Sutton’s ‘Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler,’ 1976, available gratis on the Internet (PDF). Sutton was economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute from 1968 to 1973

Given the general public ignorance regarding Wall Street responsibility for WW II, Sutton’s book invites our flabbergasted attention:

  1. Wall Street-Nazi Collaboration in World War II; American I.G. in World War II; Were American Industrialists and Financiers Guilty of War Crimes?

  2. Conclusions: The Pervasive Influence of International Bankers; Is the United States Ruled by a Dictatorial Elite? The New York Elite as a Subversive Force; The Slowly Emerging Revisionist Truth.

Beginning in 1935, GM built a factory in Berlin for the purpose of manufacturing “Blitz” trucks for the Wehrmacht. Ford began building similar trucks around the same time, but GM was the number one producer of the vehicles that were vital for the quick conquests of Poland, France, and much of the Soviet Union. Albert Speer, the minister of armaments and war production, claimed that the rubber GM supplied was the key to the ability of the Germans to wage war the way they did. [2]

Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938. (Dearborn, Michigan)

In July 1938, before the outbreak of war, the German consul at Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner. General Motors and Ford controlled 70 percent of the German car market at the outbreak of war in 1939 and rapidly retooled themselves to become suppliers of war materiel to the German army. American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.[2] In 1998, it came out that the Third Reich was providing Ford’s factory in Cologne with 1,200 Russian slaves.[3]

Your author would never buy a Ford or General Motors built automobile.

In 1941, Alcoa had a monopoly on aluminum in addition to owning a massive amount of America’s electricity production and other minerals. It sent so much of its aluminum product over to Germany that when the US involvement in the war began, there was a massive aluminum production shortage in America. Alcoa essentially sold the Axis powers much of the material to build their war machines. [The Nazi Hydra in America. Suppressed History of a Century – Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich, Glen Yeadon with John Hawkins, Progressive Press, 2008]

During the early 1930s, Fritz Thyssen ran a business that he used to help finance Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Brown Brothers Harriman was a subsidiary company that he used as a base of American operations. Prescott Bush, father of Ex-President George Bush and of course grandfather of Ex-President George W. Bush, was on the board of directors for BBH and his business dealings continued until his company’s assets were seized by the federal government in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. [Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust Paperback – February 16, 2009, by Edwin Black

Dow Chemical was one of the companies that provided an insane amount materials for the Nazis, including not only raw materials but also American technological innovations in regards to oil refinery.

The Chase Manhattan Bank’s form of colluding with the Reich was particularly heinous. It functions as the bank for foreign transactions for fascist Vichy France, and because Carlos Niedermann, Chase’s representative in Paris, had very good personal relations with the Nazis, he agreed to their requests that the bank seize the assets of at least one hundred Parisian Jews that were considered especially worth pursuing by the Reich. This doubtless helped the Gestapo capture those people. Chase Manhattan was hardly alone in this, though. In 1998, the company was part of a suit demanding reparations from J.P. Morgan and Citibank for the millions of dollars stolen during the war.

Yours truly would not have the stomach to open an account in a Chase Manhattan bank.

How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany even throughout World War II is detailed in “Trading With the Enemy: An Expose of The Nazi-American Money-Plot 1933-1949″ by Charles Higham; Hale , London, 1983. Charles Higham is the son of a former UK MP and Cabinet member.

Behind the patriotic propaganda that encouraged the working class to slaughter each other, war means business as usual for international capital. Higham starts with an account of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland a Nazi-controlled bank presided over by an American, Thomas H. McKittrick, even in 1944. While Americans were dying in the war, McKittrick sat down with his German, Japanese, Italian, British and American executive staff to discuss the gold bars that had been sent to the Bank earlier that year by the Nazi government for use by its leaders after the war. This was gold that had been looted from the banks of Austria, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia or melted down from teeth fillings, eyeglass frames, and wedding rings of millions of murdered Jews.”

Standard Oil shipped enemy fuel through Switzerland for the Nazi occupation forces in France. On September 22,1947, Judge Charles Clark delivered the final word on the subject. He said, ”Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its relationships with I.G. Farben-after the United States and Germany had become active enemies.” The appeal was denied. [The Treason Of Rockefeller Standard Oil During World War II By The American Chronicle, February 4, 2012]

I.T.T. helped supply the rocket bombs that marauded much of London; and I.T.T. build the Focke-Wulfs that dropped those bombs. Long and shocking is the list of diplomats and businessmen alike who had their own ways of profiting from the war. After the war, I.T.T. and General Motors both received tax deductions for the damage to their factories in Germany from  Allied bombing.

The bottom line is that, while British and US soldiers were dying at the hands of thee Nazi war machine, and Jews were being exterminated in their thousands, British and US companies which had invested in post-WW I Germany continued to sympathize and trade with the Nazi regime. The bombs that leveled so many British cities and killed so many women and children, may well have been manufactured in Germany, but it was largely British and US money that provided Hitler with the parts, and the fuel to dispatch them to allied targets.[5] Both at the Normandy landing and in Russia many Nazi tanks had GM motors and downed German planes were found to have GE engines.

The Duke of Windsor, former Edward VIII, with Hitler.

Britain was America’s closest ally. During the year 1936, the King of England and the British Empire was for certain a greater follower of Hitler than most Germans. During the occupation of France, the then Duke of Windsor, asked the German forces to place guards at his Paris and Riviera homes – and they did. His pro-Hitler statements, while Governor of the Bahamas during the war had to be hushed up. Even as late as 1970 he spoke affectionately of Hitler.[6]

That the Second World War was a ‘good war,’ a clear fight against what a madman had brought about, has been a major and fundamental deception solidified in Wall Street owned media and movies. So pervasively universal is the deception that even the outcry of the German Counsel for the Defense in his summation at the major Nuremberg trial, heard in the block buster American movie Judgement at Nuremberg, (with Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Marlena Dietrich) made little impression, Where is the responsibility of those American industrialists, who helped Hitler to rebuild his armaments and profited by that rebuilding?!! Are we not to find the American industrialists guilty? shouts actor Maximilian Schell in defense of the Nazis on trial.

Seven years before the outbreak of WWII, during this rearming of Germany, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the last wealthy aristocratic insider US President, wrote to his confidant Colonel House “as you and I know, this government has been owned by a financial element in the centers of power since the days of Andrew Jackson.” (Jackson was US president a hundred years earlier). While Roosevelt was permitted to tax the wealthy in order to enact Social Security, Unemployment Compensation and have the government put the unemployed to work in CCC Camps and the Works Projects Administration, Roosevelt at the same time had to have been aware all his cronies among the wealthy owners of America’s top corporations were investing and joint venturing head over heels in Nazi Germany.

The Nazi’s frightening early on murderous, violence against Germany’s Jewish population did not deter the titans of US industry from empowering Hitler militarily for war against Russia. In any case, the upper echelon of American high society in general was clearly anti-Jewish. From the roll modeling elite, strong anti-Jewish  sentiment was reflected down and throughout the country. It was usually more viciously and outspokenly demonstrated among the working classes. As a seven year old, your author upon missing a shot playing marbles in the schoolyard remembers cursing the wayward marble with “Jew bastard!” without knowing the meaning of either word. Though these wealthiest of investors and bankers on Wall Street and eminent CEOs of America’s major corporations could not have foreseen that their empowering Nazi Germany militarily would bring about Hitler’s 1941 orders to kill all Jews in Nazi occupied Europe, they knew of the inhuman persecution of Jews in Germany that began immediately upon Hitler’s accession to power in 1933.

Edwin Black, in his ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ raises the important question of whether Hitler’s destruction of the Jews would have happened as rapidly as it did and claimed as many victims without the harvest of deadly information recorded by the Hollerith machines, on IBM punch cards. IBM/Dehomag employees worked for the Nazi death bureaucracy.  In 1933, International Business Machines began providing Germany with punchcard machines that functioned as precursors to modern computers and databases. Documents have since been uncovered that show that as late as 1941, IBM was working in tandem with the Reich to liquidate Jews from Holland. IBM employees were training SS personnel how to use their machines to record the movement, sorting, and mass execution of large numbers of undesirables, at times right in the headquarters of death camps.[Hitler’s Willing Business Partners, by Jack Beatty, April, 2001, Atlantic Monthly]

Similar to IBM and GM’s automotive rivals, General Motors was sued by Holocaust survivors for assisting the Nazi war machine.

During the trials at Nuremberg after the war it came out in testimony that the German translation of Henry Ford’s ‘The International Jew’ was required reading for the Hitler Youth.

(Not that it means anything, your author would never buy a Ford or General Motors built automobile.)

The Chase Manhattan Bank’s form of colluding with the Reich was particularly heinous. It functioned as the bank for foreign transactions for fascist Vichy France, and because Carlos Niedermann, Chase’s representative in Paris, had very good personal relations with the Nazis, he agreed to their requests that the bank seize the assets of at least one hundred Parisian Jews that were considered especially worth pursuing by the Reich. This doubtless helped the Gestapo capture those people. Chase Manhattan was hardly alone in this. In 1998, Chase was part of a suit demanding reparations from J.P. Morgan and Citibank for the millions of dollars stolen.

(Yours truly would not have the stomach to open an account in a Chase Manhattan bank.)

The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, describes the reaction to Kristallnacht in the US: Kristallnacht, (German: “Crystal Night”), the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms.

“President Franklin Roosevelt condemned the pogrom, recalled the U.S. ambassador from Germany for ‘consultations,’ and extended the visitors’ visas of the approximately 12,000 German Jewish refugees who were then in the United States.  But at the same time, FDR announced that liberalization of America’s tight immigration quotas was ‘not in contemplation.’  The Christian Science Monitor echoed Roosevelt’s position, telling its readers that prayer, not more immigration, was the best response to the persecution of German Jewry.  


– In the wake of Kristallnacht, humanitarian-minded members of Congress introduced legislation to aid German Jewry.  A bill sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) and Rep. Edith Rogers (R-Mass) proposed the admission of 20,000 German refugee children outside the quotas.  Nativist and isolationist groups vociferously opposed the Wagner-Rogers bill. Typical of their perspective was a remark by FDR’s cousin, Laura Delano Houghteling, who was the wife of the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration: she warned that ‘20,000 charming children would all too soon grow into 20,000 ugly adults.’  February, 1939, the Wagner-Rogers bill died in Congress. Roosevelt refused to take a position on it. 


– On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, with 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. 743 had been waiting to receive US visas. The Cuban government refused to admit them. Some passengers on the St. Louis cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge. Roosevelt never responded.’ 254 of the passengers returned to Europe would perish in the Holocaust.


– Four months before Kristallnacht, the Roosevelt administration had organized a conference in Evian, France, and invited delegates from 32 countries to discuss the Jewish refugee problem.  But the delegates reaffirmed their unwillingness to liberalize their immigration quotas, and the British refused to even discuss Palestine as a possible haven. One German newspaper’s comment on Evian stands out:
  ‘We can see that one likes to pity the Jews…but no state is prepared to … accept a few thousand Jews.  Thus, the conference serves to justify Germany’s policy against Jewry.’”

 On May 18, 1942, The New York Times reported, but on an inside page, that Nazis had machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia.  By this date, millions had been gassed.

In the June 10,1944 issue of Nation Magazine, Editor I. F. Stone wrote “For the Jews – Life or Death? – regarding a weak proposal to make so called ‘free ports’ of army camps in the US for refugee Jews.

The longer we delay the fewer Jews  there will be left to rescue, the slimmer the chances to get them out. Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 European Jews have been killed since August, 1942, when the Nazi extermination campaign began.”

The most violent persecution, brutal arrests and internment had been done openly in a world basically owned and run by the ‘democratically’ elected legislatures of white industrialized nations, nations that had earlier used their edge in arms manufacture to conquer, colonize and exploit the whole non white population of the world. When the difficult to believe newsreels and newspaper photos of the indescribably inhuman conditions inside the camps, of heaps of hundreds of naked bodies and of the cremation ovens were seen, they did not awaken a change in the of the long standing fierce antipathy and prejudice toward Jews which sustained an attitude of opposition to the entry of Jews, even as survivors of the Holocaust, into the USA, in spite of the wide open spaces it contained. 

The rearming of Germany made possible Hitler’s invasions of twenty-two countries and brought world war to Asia, for Japan would not have dared to attack and declare war on the United States of America without it being able to count on an alliance with an awesomely powerful rearmed Nazi Germany, plus Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania, which all declared war on the USA immediately after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The Second World War and the Holocaust, which made the rich speculators of Wall Street owning America the sole world superpower, is estimated to have taken the lives of 60 to 70 million men, women and children. As already mentioned, within this total were the 28 million citizens, men, women and children, of the Soviet Union, which had been the target goal for the rearming of Germany by a consensus of the wealthiest American and European capitalists. A further plus for Wall Street was that half the cities of Wall Street’s designated archenemy, socialist model USSR, lay in ruins. 

We are fortunate to have Finian Cunningham’s excellently written description of the mega deception that underlies most subsequent deceptions in our post-WW II world.  A world of deceit by media managed public ignorance and dis and mis information.

“The Western public, inculcated with decades of brainwashing versions of history, have a particular disadvantage in coming to a proper understanding of the world wars…

A very different ‘version’ of history has been concealed, a ‘version’ that puts the Western rulers in an altogether more pernicious category from their ordinary citizens.


European fascism headed up by Nazi Germany, along with Mussolini in Italy, Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal, was not some aberrant force that sprang from nowhere during the 1920s-1930s. The movement was a deliberate cultivation by the rulers of Anglo-American capitalism. European fascism may have been labeled “national socialism” but its root ideology was very much one opposed to overturning the fundamental capitalist order. It was an authoritarian drive to safeguard the capitalist order, which viewed genuine worker-based socialism as an enemy to be ruthlessly crushed.


This is what made European fascism so appealing to the Western capitalist ruling class in those times. In particular, Nazi Germany was viewed by the Western elite as a bulwark against possible socialist revolution inspired by the Russian revolution of 1917. 


It is no coincidence that American capital investment in Nazi Germany between 1929-1940 far outpaced that in any other European country, … The industrial rearmament of Germany (despite the strictures of the Versailles Treaty signed at the end of World War One, which were ignored) was indeed facilitated by the American and British capitalist ruling classes. When Hitler annexed Austria and the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, it was ignored. This was not out of complacent appeasement, as widely believed, but rather out of a far more active, albeit secretive, policy of collusion. British Conservative leader Neville Chamberlain and his ruling cohort were intent on giving Nazi Germany a “free hand” for eastward expansionism. 


The real target for the Western sponsors of the Nazi war machine was an attack on the Soviet Union in order to destroy, in their view, the source of international revolutionary socialism. In the 1930s, the very existence of capitalism was teetering on the edge amid the Great Depression, massive poverty and seething popular discontent in the US, Britain and other Western countries. The entire Western capitalist order was under imminent threat from its own masses.
This is the historical context for the Western-backed rise of European fascism.


Look at some of the undisputed figures from the Second World War… Some 14 million Red Army soldiers died in the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany, compared with less than 400,000 military each from the US and Britain. These figures tell us where the Nazi German war effort was primarily directed towards – the Soviet Union, as the Western imperialist rulers had hoped in their initial sponsoring of Nazi and other European fascist regimes during the 1930s.
  [Quoted from Finian Cunningham’s article ‘World War II Continues… Against Russia,’ PressTV, 5/10/2014]

Why had Soviet leaders and writers, even during the onslaught of lies in anti-Soviet propaganda during the Cold War, never held the West responsible for WW II in having rearmed Germany, intending (as Hitler threatened) the destruction of the USSR? This has been a mystery to this archival research peoples' historian. All the investments and joint venturing of US (and European) corporations building up Hitler’s Wehrmacht to the world’s number one military in only six years are documented in both business records and the tax records of US, German and other nations and are in great part located on the Internet with quite comprehensive statistics, a modest amount of which are presented in this tract.

The only plausible answer as to why Russians haven’t openly and logically held the United States responsible for the second world war and the genocidal Nazi invasion of their country is the shame for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. However, given the obviousness of the colonial powers heavily arming Nazi Germany under such a pathetic excuse as to make Nazi Germany only a “bulwark against communist Soviet Union,” and then refusing all entreaties of the Soviets to form a protective alliance in the face of Hitler’s ever increasing power and belligerence, Stalin’s surprise signing a non-aggression pact seems to have been a last resort defense of Russia, a prudent effort to gain some precious time to perfect Soviet rearmament.

Were the Soviets to wait for Hitler’s attack, openly prepared by US, UK and France’s rearming of Germany against the terms of the Versailles Treaty and refusing to unite with the Soviet Union in opposing Hitler?

In his book, Mission to Moscow, (later a film as well with Walter Huston), US ambassador to Russia from 1936 to 1938, Joseph Davies, chronicles the desperation of the Russians in 1937, unable to get a defensive alliance with England and France, and fully aware that the rearming of Germany was directed at the Soviet Union most obviously not meant to be only a ‘bulwark.’ By the surprise non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, Stalin derailed for the moment the West’s plan to have Hitler invade the USSR. This gained the Soviet Union the time to build the tanks in the East that would later defeat the Nazi invasion. What Hitler called “a war of extermination” in Western Poland began only one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Hitler would again call for “a war of extermination” with the German invasion of the USSR, June 22, 1941, at the same time calling for the eradication of Jews. Russian President Vladimir Putin in his most recent comment on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 2014[8] shifts the blame for the Nazi-USSR pact away from the Soviets and on to the West’s emboldenment of Hitler with the Munich Agreement.

The arming of Nazi Germany for an attack on the Soviet Union was a continuance of the  colonial powers policy of total  destruction of Soviet Russia since its inception. In 1917,  after suffering more dead than the other empires in a colonial powered First World War, Russians had overthrown their Tsar and their capitalists, and had declared a socialist government. Russians established a revolutionary government as a consequence of intolerably horrendous suffering during the First World War. Almost immediately, fourteen armies of twelve  capitalist nations, former WW I allies of Russia, invaded in support of a desperate regime change civil war that failed but took the lives of millions, three million from typhus alone. The US sent two armies, one to Murmansk, the other to Vladivostok. There are official US Army photos of Americans standing over dead Bolsheviks* posted in the margins of Wikipedia articles, Polar Bear Expedition and the American Expeditionary Force Siberia. *’Bolshevik’ in Russian means ‘majority’ referring to past voting results during a Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress) Churchill declared that Bolshevism must be “strangled in its cradle.” [Cover Story: Churchill’s Greatness,. Jeffrey Wallin 2006-10-04 at the Churchill Center]

The capitalist arming of Hitler, seems to have been a sign of a desperate, to the point of illegality, continuance of the mortally destructive intentions of the US and other colonial powers since 1919.

The Cold War after the Second World War saw the colonial powers invading and bombing  most of their colonies or ex-colonies, or fostering proxy wars between forces backed by the colonial capitalist powers against revolutionary independence movements backed by the Soviets and the socialist block.

That the Second World War Was A ‘Good War,’ ‘Good’ Triumphing Over ‘Evil,’ has been a Gargantuan Deception, Ominously Conditioning All of Humanity to Tolerate Profitable Genocide Ad Infinitum!

REAFFIRMING THE BARE TRUTH:

  • If no rearming of a Nazi Germany led by Hitler, then no Second World War
  • If no Second World War,
  • then no multination Holocaust of six million Jews among a Holocaust total of eighteen million Europeans (the war took approximately 80 million lives in total):
  • If no multination genocide of Jews, then no 250,000 displaced Jewish survivors refused refuge

All the German crimes, the crimes that were committed by Stalin and those committed by the US and Britain in fire bombing entire German and Japanese cities, happened during the world war that was made possible by the enthusiastic rearming of Germany for a singular purpose.

The Second World War, Wall Street made possible, ended with the Wall Street-owned United States of America having become the mega wealthy first ever world’s single super power, while its socialist nemesis, the Soviet Union lay devastated, its major cities half destroyed and 28 million of its citizens dead.

What might have been different all these subsequent years? if the world had been aware that investments and joint venturing by America’s large corporations had made the Second World War and the Holocaust possible?

END NOTES

  1. In Mein Kampf, Hitler unequivocally stated a German necessity to invade Eastward, and several passages in Mein Kampf regarding Germany’s Jewish citizens are undeniably of a genocidal nature. Mein Kampf was published in July of 1926 and sold a quarter million copies before Hitler came to power.  In it, Hitler announced his hatred of what he believed to be the world’s two evils:Communism and Judaism.
  2.  Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration, By Michael Dobbs Washington Post, November 30, 1998

      3   [Ford ‘used slave labour’ in Nazi German plants, By Simon English, The Telegraph, 11/3/2019 1,200 Russian slaves.

  1. The Coca-cola Company Under the Nazis, University of Virginia xroads.virginia.edu
  2. But it was largely British and US money that provided Hitler with the parts. … General Motors’ collaboration with both the Nazi-controlled chemicals giant“, … As author Rodney Atkinson points out in his book, Europe’s Full Circle
  3. 1997 titled The Windsor File, Written by Paul Sweet, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer and historian involved in the eventual publication of the papers, details the duke’s Nazi associations and the long, ultimately unsuccessful effort at suppression.
  4. Hitler’s Willing Business Partners, 4/2001, Jack Beatty, a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples' historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents. Articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India and the US; now resides in NYC. First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; The Greanville Post; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Countercurrents, Kerala, India; Minority Perspective, UK; Dissident Voice, Uruknet; Voice of Detroit; Ethiopian Review; Palestine Chronicle; India Times; Mathaba; Ta Kung Bao; China Daily; South China Morning Post; Come Home America; OpEdNews; HistoryNews Network; Vermont Citizen News have published his articles; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign: (King Condemned US Wars) and website historian of Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign. featuring a country by country history of US crimes and laws pertaining. Studied history at CCNY, Columbia U., U. Puerto Rico, Dolmetscher Institut Munchen, Germany.

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