Volume 1 - How the US Became Rich
Part 1
© Larry Romanoff, October, 2021
NATIONS BUILT ON LIES VOLUME 1
by Larry Romanoff -- FREE PDF
Part 1 – Foreword, Prologue, Introduction
Foreword
From: James Bacque
Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 9:13 PM
Dear Larry
Thanks for the information--as you guessed
I have encountered much of it myself already. I wish you good luck . . . Be as
moderate as you can in expressing your very important findings. Remember that
hardly anyone knows as much as you do and some of your findings are very
upsetting.
All the best
Jim
Prologue To Volume One
A Brief History of
America That You Won't Learn in a University
One of the more
popular historical myths embedded in the American consciousness by the
propaganda machine relates to the migration of settlers to the New World, the
narrative detailing how hundreds of thousands of the virtuous oppressed flocked
to the dockyards in a headlong rush for freedom and opportunity. There may
indeed have been five or six such persons, but a much larger group was there to
escape the hangman and jailer and an even larger selection were slave traders,
hookers, and budding capitalist scam artists looking for greener pastures. When
we add in the vast numbers hoping to escape justified persecution for their
perverted witches-brew versions of Christianity, the first Americans were
hardly role models for a new nation. The evidence is more clearly on the side
of criminals, losers and misfits, religious whackos and opportunists than on
the mythical oppressed. And, for the record, there is no evidence whatever of
settlers emigrating to America in search of either "freedom" or
"opportunity", at least not within the current meaning of these
words.
Good mental health
was not a prerequisite for European settlers emigrating to the New World. We
are fond of reminding ourselves that Australia was (and mostly still is)
populated primarily with murderers, thieves and sexual perverts, but the
immigrants to America were not noticeably better. Indeed, the inscription on
the Statue of Liberty got the words more or less correct in referring to
"the wretched refuse of your teeming shore". While the Australians
had their serial killers and muggers, the Europeans went one better with their
Christian extremists who spent their weekdays burning witches and killing
Indians, and their Sundays in church thanking God for the opportunity. The
Australians have marginally improved their habits over the centuries while the
Americans have not.
America is widely
accepted, and indeed even prides itself, on being a deeply Christian country,
with 65% or more of the population declaring religion important in their lives.
This would be supported by history, since the major migrations to the New World
consisted of a long list of flaky religious sects whose primary goal in emigration
was the opportunity to build a society entirely based on those isolationist and
extremist heresies. It is probably safe to say that Salem witchcraft was the
seedbed in which the peculiarly American version of Christian theology sprouted
and flourished, and which also served as a practical introduction to mass
hysteria which would later be so usefully applied to the concepts of patriotism
and democracy. The enduring echoes of this religious ancestry have been highly
influential in all of subsequent American history.
The Preamble to the
American Declaration of Independence ("The most famous words in the
English language", if you're American; just another Hello Kitty greeting
card, if you're not), states: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident,
that all White Men were created superior and are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable Rights, the most important of which is slavery". In
the recent history of the modern world, only two nations of people have so
thoroughly embraced slavery as to have practiced it on an immense scale for
hundreds of years: the Christians in America and the Dalai Lamas in Tibet. And
only these two groups so cherished slavery in their hearts they fought a civil
war over the right to maintain it. It is hardly a moral selling point that both
sets of racist bigots lost the war and, while Mao cleaned up Tibet, the racism
and bigotry persisted in America, often violently, for another 200 years and is
still widely in evidence today. Christian virtue does not die easily.
Internationally, the
American government and its leaders function with an absolute amorality, driven
primarily by their commercial Darwinism, their law-of-the-jungle,
might-makes-right philosophy. Yet individually most Americans accept all this
as somehow being righteous and pleasing in the eyes of their god. The vast
network of torture prisons, the numerous governments overthrown, the countless
brutal dictatorships installed and supported, the commercial and military
enslavement of so many populations, the 10 to 20 million civilians massacred,
the constant meddling in the internal affairs of other nations, the so-frequent
destabilisation of governments, the plundering of the resources of so many
nations. All of these are excused, justified, forgiven, often praised, then
quickly forgotten by these moral Christians. Americans may be comfortable with
all this cognitive dissonance, but as Jiddu Krishnamurti aptly wrote, "It
is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society".
Hypocrisy has always been
a prominent, if not quite endearing, feature of Americans, and especially of
their government. It is Americans who preach democracy and freedom at home
while installing brutal puppet dictators all over the world, who preach free
trade at home while practicing savage mercantilistic protectionism abroad. It
is Americans who espouse human rights at home while building the largest
network of torture prisons in the history of the world. And of course,
preaching that human life is precious at home while murdering millions in other
nations in trumped-up wars of liberation. It is only Americans who moan about
"the appalling loss of 5,000 American lives" in Iraq while killing
one million Iraqis, half of whom were children. It is only the Americans who
use the CIA, NED, USAID and the VOA to pay and prod individuals in other
countries to create internal political dissent, then condemn a government for
cracking down on "innocent dissidents". Maybe one day Americans will
lose their stomach for all this creation of worldwide instability and have
another American revolution. And not before time.
Most Americans are
only dimly aware of their own sordid past, a situation abetted by all the blank
pages in the history books. The portions of US history contained in these pages
have mostly been excised from the historical memory of Americans because they
don't fit the mythical narrative. Most Americans fervently believe their
country was founded on God and Christian virtue, liberty, democracy, human
rights and free trade, but when we dig beneath the propaganda and jingoism we
discover the United States of America was founded on religious extremism,
racism, slavery, genocide, a brutal imperialism and a virulently predatory
strain of capitalism.
These volumes contain
a capsule history of the United States of America with selections that will not
be found in any history book, but that nevertheless consists of facts which are
not in dispute. From here, we will look at some specifics, beginning with how
America became rich. From this point forward, ideology and reality will be in
constant conflict, presenting stark challenges to our uninformed beliefs.
Quiz on American History
a. Which US Secretary of State holds the
World Record for being the most prolific baby-killer in recorded history?
b. Which US General holds the World
Record as the greatest pathological mass killer in modern history?
c. Fidel Castro listed in the Guinness
Book of Records as surviving 638 murder attempts by the US government. For what
was he being punished?
d. The father of which recent US
President conspired with a group of Jewish bankers and industrialists in 1933,
engaging a famous General to amass an army of 500,000 troops to overthrow the
US government and install a fascist dictatorship in America?
e. How many times has the US invaded
Canada?
f. The US has been a nation for about
245 years. For how many of those years has the US been at war?
g. How many democracies has the US
installed in other nations during its lifetime? How many brutal dictatorships
has the US installed in other nations during its lifetime?
h. Japan conducted abominable human
experimentation in China during WWII - Shiro Ishii's infamous Unit 731. Why was
Japan spared war crimes trials?
i. How many Presidents, Prime Ministers
and senior government officials of other countries has the US assassinated for
disobedience or obstruction to hegemony?
j. Which country operates the only
Torture University in the world?
k. For several hundred years,
slave-trading was the highest-paying job in America. What was the
second-highest-paying?
l. Which government for about 100 years
paid a lifetime salary to any citizen who could steal patents and processes
from other countries?
m. Which revered US Supreme Court
justice recommended killing off all Americans of low IQ?
n. The government of which country for
decades silenced political dissidents by performing frontal lobotomies and
turning them into vegetables?
o. Which famous American institution
recommended "mercy killings" of the economically unfit, these to be
performed in local gas chambers?
p. Which American Defense Secretary
gathered 500,000 young men with an average IQ of about 65 and sent them to
Vietnam? How many returned? What was his punishment?
q. Which American Military physician
appeared before Congress in what year, asking for $10 million to fund the
creation of the HIV virus? Did he receive the money?
r. When and where was Coca-Cola was
invented?
s. Which famous person invented the
incandescent light bulb? Which the telephone? The most famous American inventor
was Thomas Edison. How many things did Edison invent?
t. We are told Germany killed some 6,000
Jews during WWII. How many Germans were killed in Germany AFTER the end of
WWII?
u. Which famous physicist wrote to
Roosevelt, offering to fund the entire unknown cost of creating the atomic
bomb, stating the funds were already confirmed available?
v. Which famous US President was the
illegitimate son of a Jewish slave trader?
w. Abraham Lincoln's wife was an
inveterate opium addict. Who was her opium supplier?
x. In what year was slavery abolished in
the US?
y. Which US President exposed tens of
millions of US citizens to radiation from open-air atomic tests, then
instructed medics to inform women experiencing leukemia, hair loss, miscarriages,
that they were suffering from "housewife syndrome"?
z. Which famous shoe did Nike design
that set Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman on the road to fame and glory?
Answers
a. Madeleine Albright; Iraq, 500,000
b. Cutis LeMay; about 20 million, give
or take
c. Expelling the Jews from Cuba
d. George Bush
e. Five so far
f. 235
g. Zero. More than 50, and counting
h. Ishii and his entire unit were
transported to the US to teach Americans the pleasures of live vivisections and
other atrocities. Ishii was a Professor at the University of Maryland until his
death decades later.
i. More than 150, and counting
(including Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the UN)
j. The US of A; the "University of
the Americas" in Fort Benning, Georgia
k. Killing Indians
l. The US of A. Amounts of $20,000 to
$50,000, in the 1800s
m. Oliver Wendell Holmes
n. The US of A. (FBI)
o. Carnegie
p. Robert McNamara. Not
many, but the Defense Dept. refuses to release statistics. Made President of
the World Bank.
q. Dr. Donald MacArthur, Deputy
Director, Research and Engineering, Department of Defense. 1969. Yes.
r. The Spanish town of Aielo de
Malferit, 40 years before Coke stole the patent.
s. Joseph Swan, USA, five years before
Edison stole the patent. Antonio Meucci, Italy, five years before Bell stole
the patent. None. All Edison's patents were either stolen, bullied, extorted or
purchased.
t. Between 12 million and 14 million;
some by execution, the bulk by starvation.
u. Albert Einstein, funds offered by
Rothschild and other European Jewish bankers.
v. Abraham Lincoln; the son of A. A. Springs(tein)
and Nancy Hanks. Adopted by the Lincoln family.
w. A Jewish drug dealer named John
Wilkes Booth.
x. Slavery was never abolished in the
US. It just changed form.
y. Eisenhower
z. The Japanese Onitsuka Tiger. Nike
stole the design and began manufacturing in the US. American courts ruled
Onitsuka and Nike could "share" the patent.
Introduction to the
Series
David Edwards was
quoted in the Third World Traveler as having written:
"Even open-minded
people will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes of Noam
Chomsky, Edward Herman, Howard Zinn and Susan George on first encountering
their work; it just does not seem possible that we could be so mistaken in what
we believe. The individual may assume that these writers must be somehow
joking, wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe to
grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us these terrible
things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'. It takes
real effort to keep reading, to resist the reassuring messages of the mass
media and be prepared to consider the evidence again."
This is the condition
we face in dealing with America and Americans today: a blind faith and conviction
based on a century of clever marketing and nationalistic propaganda that is
almost inevitably contradicted by the facts. In truth, there is little about
the US today that is not based on fabricated historical mythologies, buried
history, biased presentations, facts twisted so badly as to be often
unrecognisable. Probably 95% of what Americans 'know' about their nation, its
history and its conduct in international affairs, is wrong, and often violently
wrong. I am not so much concerned with what Americans believe about their own
country, but it is a concern that this enormous compendium of historical
fiction has been marketed to the rest of the world as truth, with peoples in
many other nations believing the same fairytales as do the Americans and holding
that nation in a level of regard that is to say the least undeserved, and often
dangerous for the absence of truths.
These truths are the
content of these books, the history of the US as it really was then and still
is today, harsh provable truths and documented realities without the vast
comforter of propaganda, jingoism, patriotism and misinformation that blankets
the nation we know as the United States of America. Coincident with what is
truly an almost incomprehensible volume of rose-tinted misinformation about the
US is an equal volume of black-tinted information about the world outside the
US. To the same extent that Americans have been subjected to a century or more
of positive and unforgivably false propaganda about their own nation, they have
also been subjected to enormously false negative propaganda and misinformation
about the world outside their borders.
This series of books
was to a large extent an accident of circumstance which began with my extended
stay in China and the almost immediate realisation that the voluminous negative
flood about China persistently emanating from the Western Zionist media was
entirely false; demonisation and propaganda at their worst, giving Americans
wholly unrealistic and often vicious misinterpretations and misunderstandings
about the realities of China. After viewing a decade or more of this onslaught,
and after writing many series of articles in attempts to correct some of the
more egregious falsehoods, it seemed a book might be a more appropriate format.
But then during ten years or more of historical research, it became apparent
that Americans had been subjected to an even greater campaign of misinformation
about their own nation than about China and other foreign countries.
I then seemed faced
with a two-fold task: to correct - in the eyes of Americans, and perhaps
Westerners generally - some of the more glaring misinformation about China, but
then to correct - in the eyes of Americans - the even more glaring
misinformation about their own country. To further complicate the issues, it
gradually became clear that the world outside the US had been so contaminated
by American historical mythology, jingoism and propaganda that foreigners were
largely living in the same fairyland, insofar as the realities of America were
concerned, as were the Americans themselves. To add to the confusion, it
eventually emerged that the US-based power of the media, of advertising, of
propaganda and misinformation, had contaminated not only the American view of
other nations but the views of the peoples within those nations - to the point
where Russians or Chinese or Vietnamese had been excessively exposed (thanks in
no small part to malignancies like the VOA and Radio Free Europe) to both the
glorified but false images of the US and the comparatively derogatory but false
images of their own nations that had been so heavily propagated by the American
government and the Zionist media to their own people. One book thus became
five.
These books are
intended to provide only a summary of the related topics. Full volumes can, and
have been, written on many of the topics in these chapters. We have seen many
books on the CIA involvement in narcotics or in Tibet, volumes on the
discrepancies in the official 9-11 narrative or the Bush regime torture
prisons, others on the various failings of US democracy or the American
educational system. But these individual offerings, useful as they are, treat
the segments as essentially disparate and unrelated issues where in reality
most of them are integral parts of a deeply-connected whole. My purpose in
these volumes is to present a unified picture to enable readers to see the
entire landscape as a single canvas and appreciate the inter-relationships of
the parts. It is this unified image that will provide a comprehensive
understanding of world events and the forces driving them.
Preface To Volume One
Almost every
individual or family has what we call 'skeletons in the closet', a collection
of perhaps embarrassing or even shameful events, regrettable actions, unsavory
family members, sins we committed that we would rather not confess in public,
things we do not dwell on and would prefer to forget, recognition not only of
our imperfections but reflecting the reality that we not so much make mistakes
as sometimes act with less than honorable motives.
Included in this
category are lies that we tell. Many of these are what we call 'white lies',
usually small avoidances of truth often done for convenience or even a good
cause. No doubt all of us lie on occasion, but there are precious few of us for
whom lies constitute the foundation of our lives, where we are in a real sense
"living a lie". We occasionally encounter people who lie about their
educational credentials or work history, sometimes greatly exaggerating their
accomplishments, and in these instances the lies may serve as an important part
of the foundation of a person's life, perhaps obtaining a highly-paid position
based on entirely false credentials, a life that would in part disintegrate if
all the truths were known. We find this sometimes with con artists, whose very
existence seems built on a vast and intricate weaving of lies, with lives that
would indeed disintegrate if the truths were made public. These latter people
are, in some real sense, "living a lie".
Moving from
individuals to nations, there are a few countries in the world that fit this
latter category, one being the United States of America - a nation and a people
that are in every sense living a lie, with virtually the entire foundation of
beliefs, of actions, of history, of national pride, of citizenship, based on
things that are not only not true but constitute an all-encompassing network of
fabricated historical myths. This is not an idle claim, and is not an
accusation that can be made against many other countries. I know of no place
regarding the US where we can look and not find the landscape littered with
falsehoods and supported by an enormous scaffolding of myths, half-truths,
buried facts, boldly revised history, nationalistic propaganda and magnificent
outright lies. It is true that most nations sugar-coat some parts of their
history, but the US is almost unique in the world in being a nation that is
genuinely built - and almost entirely built - on a foundation of lies.
With most other
nations, if all their historical and political lies were fully exposed with all
truths openly documented, they would still survive. But for Americans, the
existential threat would be unbearable and I do not believe the US could
survive as a nation if all its historical truths were unveiled and confirmed,
in a manner by which Americans were compelled to confront them as fact, where
denial was not an option.
As two minor
examples, we have the now well-documented fact that the US government abandoned
several thousand prisoners of war in Vietnam, men held back by the Vietnamese
pending the American payment of the agreed war reparations of several billions
of dollars. The US government had no intention of paying the money and so
walked away from the table, leaving the men behind. Many veterans attempted to
bring this to public attention, even testifying before Congress; many had
unshakable proof of their claims, but the government - and the media - ignored
them until recently when all the factual details emerged in second-tier
internet news sites and could no longer be avoided. A much greater existential
threat lies in the truth of Pearl Harbor, where it is no longer a secret,
except to Americans, that Roosevelt knew not only of the impending Japanese attack
(which he had carefully and deliberately provoked), but that he knew precisely
the location and course of the Japanese fleet and the date and time of the
attack. Roosevelt and his aides held back this information from their own
high-level military at Pearl Harbor, sacrificing those lives for the greater
objective of a "justified" entry into both theaters of the Second
World War.
I believe there are
almost no Americans with the emotional capacity to face this brutal truth,
either philosophically or emotionally, and yet similar evidence virtually
floods the available information sources. I would repeat here David Edwards'
words that "we will become angry with them for telling us these terrible
things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'." Yet
these things have always been true about the American government. It wasn't so
long ago that declassified documents revealed Operation Northwoods, where the
CIA proposed to shoot down a planeload of American college students and a US
space shuttle launch, using those as justification to invade Cuba and remove
Castro. The US government has both proposed and executed dozens of these
atrocities over the years, all hidden from the American mind and heart with the
compliance of the media. Pearl Harbor was by no means the worst of these, but
few Americans will be able to deal with these truths of their nation.
Many other events are
perhaps less brutal but no less breathtaking in their dishonesty. All the tales
of how the US became rich, the jingoistic mantras of ingenuity and innovation,
of wealth resulting from freedom and democracy, hard work and fair play, are
entirely false, and repugnantly so. America became rich through a program of
organised violence encompassing hundreds of years, through centuries of unpaid
slave labor, military invasions, and the bullying and plundering of weaker
nations. The propaganda of the benefits of American-style capitalism follows
this same pattern, but Americans are fed this pulp from birth and no longer
have the intelligence to see the truth. The US government statistics on items
like inflation, unemployment, GDP and more, are the most misleading and
dishonest of all nations today. The propaganda machine tells us otherwise, but
one need only look at the facts. The US has for the last century been the
largest perpetrator of espionage in the world, this activity provably including
commercial espionage on a grand scale for more than a century, but the
propaganda machine lays this accusation on other nations while claiming a
desire to collect only information on terrorists. An enormous lie of a
magnitude almost too large to comprehend or refute.
Thomas Edison,
revered in American history books as one of the most prolific inventors of all
time, never invented anything. The stories about him are fabricated historical
myths, as are the cherished legends of the Wright Brothers making the first
powered flight or Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone. Coca-Cola was
a world-famous Spanish product stolen and patented by US pharmacist John
Pemberton, with the US government refusing to recognise the prior patents.
Tales of American inventiveness and IP are almost 180 degrees from the truth,
with solidly documented proof that the US stole more IP from more countries
than did any other nation, by orders of magnitude, paying $20,000 to $50,000 to
anyone who could accomplish such a theft, at a time when even $20,000 was a
lifetime salary for an average person. This pattern is consistent in every area
and every field of endeavor in American society. The entire history of the US,
as described in the history books and repeated incessantly by everyone from
Hollywood to various Presidents, is almost all false, and the parts not false
are almost always misrepresented. The nation of America and all of its people,
are truly living a lie.
The entire thread of
"Democracy" and "democratic values" is one of the greatest
serial lies ever told. American history books, and American minds, are filled
with tales of the US "making the world safe for democracy" by
battling tyranny everywhere and installing democratic governments, but this has
never happened even one time. While the propaganda machine was flooding the
imaginary world with tales of democracies, the US was flooding the real world
with brutal military dictators that would permit US multinationals and banks to
pillage their countries. All the theory of the US' fabled democracy, the
government by the people, the checks and balances, is false, with the truth in
the open but Americans so indoctrinated nobody seems able to see. Furthermore,
the US government has made it illegal to teach many of these truths in
America's public schools.
All the propaganda of
moral superiority, of concern for human rights, are, as we will see, lies in
their entirety. The US is not only not morally superior, but has the worst
human rights record of all nations excepting one, in recent centuries.
Americans have many tales - almost all false - of other nations committing
wartime atrocities while their own government and military were committing far
worse and heavily censoring the media to prevent that knowledge from escaping
custody. Almost no Americans know of the vast massacres committed by their
military in the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Iraq. Human rights
atrocities began from the first days of the white settlers landing in North
America, and have never ceased. Ever since the US outsourced to other countries
its human rights atrocities, it has boasted to the world of its moral
righteousness in human rights leadership, but all was based on lies, deception
and marketing. The world's only "torture university" - the infamous
School of the Americas, the decades of cruel and even savage atrocities
inflicted on so many of the world's nations, have been lost in the American
propaganda of goodness.
The US heavily
promotes its fictitious position as the world's policeman, but it has never
once acted in such a capacity. No nation has ever been protected or defended
from anything by the US, but many dozens have instead been ravaged and
destroyed by this same imaginary angel of mercy. Everything about the US
protecting any part of the world, is an outright lie. American heads are filled
with tales of American goodness rescuing these populations from tyranny, but
the hundreds of US military interventions have been undertaken to beat down
indigenous populations who were rebelling against American imperialism, poverty
and death. The US Congressional Record lists these interventions as
"protecting American interests" without providing details on
precisely what interests were being protected, by what means this
"protection" was being inflicted and, most importantly, why America
had any "interests" in those nations in the first place.
The US government has
not only lied about every war and foreign military intervention, but has most
often created false-flag events to accompany the lies and create fictitious
justifications for belligerent action. The American entry to World War One was
promoted by perhaps the greatest woven tapestry of lies ever created, thanks to
Lippman and Bernays, a project that involved literally millions of lies told
over a period of years, sufficient to brainwash an entire population into
hating an innocent country. The promotion of World War Two was not better in
any respect. The Americans have done this since the destruction of the warship
Maine in Cuba's harbor more than a century ago, and have never ceased these
enormous self-inflicted injuries. Lies used to justify more lies.
It is now well-known
and not in dispute that US officials told more than 900 separate lies to
justify the invasion and destruction of Iraq. The same is true with Libya, and
with Syria today. The same is true of the destruction of Yugoslavia, another
devastating military adventure based 100% on lies. All of the so-called
"color revolutions" and other similar were not initiated to protect
local populations from dictators but to punish unwilling nations for resisting
the brutal American-style capitalism that was ravaging their shores. Ukraine,
Russia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela,
Nicaragua, and so many more nations have been under attack by the US government
simply for resisting colonisation, but stillborn American minds believe they are
God's representatives pressuring "the bad guys". Every part of
American foreign policy and foreign involvement is covered with a carpet of
lies, the media assisting in subversion and burying of the truths.
It would be useful to
collect a catalogue of lies told by American presidents, Secretaries of State
and other high officials, and publish these alongside the true facts. Consider
this statement by George Bush made in 2003, just as his vast international
kidnapping and torture regime was running at top speed: "The United States
is committed to the world-wide elimination of torture and we are leading this
fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the United States and
the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and
prosecuting all acts of torture and in undertaking to prevent other cruel and
unusual punishment. I call on all nations to speak out against torture in all
its forms and to make ending torture an essential part of their
diplomacy." Name one president of any country that has told a greater lie
than this one by George Bush.
The US government and
its agencies boast to the world about their freedom of speech while condemning
censorship in other nations, yet the US is probably the most heavily censored
of all countries. The fact that the media are willing conspirators does not
change the fact that all news and public content is heavily controlled and that
95% of what Americans "know" about their own nation and the world, is
false. The US news media invariably present only one side of events that
proselytise the current political agenda, leaving the American people
hopelessly in the dark about the true facts. This is so true that one US
columnist noted that only 4% of Americans have any awareness of the immense brutality
perpetrated on the people of Palestine by the state of Israel for the past 70
years. American history books and other educational materials consist largely
of historical myths, propaganda about the goodness of America, about the
badness of other nations, lies about the foundation and entire history of
America itself. Hollywood is one of the worst criminals in this regard, with
virtually every movie containing historical content being little more than a
twisted propaganda film, satisfying one ideology or another while totally
misleading Americans on the truths of their own nation. Stephen Spielberg's
recent 'Lincoln' movie is one such example, but there are hundreds of others.
The US, the one
nation in the world stridently claiming an absolute freedom from propaganda,
brainwashing and censorship, is in fact and reality the nation most overwhelmed
with precisely these attributes. We will see irrefutable evidence that American
schoolchildren are exposed to extensive indoctrination virtually from birth in
terms of politics, capitalism, consumerism, patriotism, moral superiority,
American exceptionalism and so much more. We will see that this indoctrination
and brainwashing are so extensive that the American view of itself and its
place in the world bear almost no comparison to reality, to the extent that
this vast gulf between beliefs and reality constitutes a national mental
illness. Given the enormous cognitive dissonance in America today, one can
conclude only that Americans are the most deluded people on earth.
And in the end, this
is the reason the US Department of Homeland Security has built its 800
detention centers and purchased its three billion bullets, the same reason that
many (Western) columnists are openly suggesting that the rampant abuse of
power, the entrenched corruption and feeding from the public trough, the
persistent plundering and terrorising of nations with civilian casualties in
the millions, "has become so widespread, so deeply entrenched and so
increasingly bold, that the only possible remedy is a revolution".
American and European columnists are becoming increasingly vocal in actually
recommending another American revolution, convinced that only a popular
uprising of the population acting in concert would have the power to reverse
this tide. Until then, America, unlike almost every other nation in the world,
will continue to be a nation built on lies.
Part Two of Six will contain: Colonisation, Labor and Slavery
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Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 32 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chapt. 2 — Dealing with Demons).
His full archive can be seen at https://www.moonofshanghai.com/ and http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/
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