Thread by @LarsDenmar

When (fake) sociology & historiography are used to control the present.

My resource page on The Real Nazi History: corporate power behind Hitler
homosociologicus.com/history-of-20-…

@johnpilger @PiersRobinson1 @Ian56789 @NeilClark66 @markcurtis30 @freedomrideblog @medialens @FAIRmediawatch

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"Inherent in such [US] attempts [1940s] to police a world empire were two req.s: First, a widespr propaganda campaign to make empire appear benevolent, necessary, essent. democratic, inherently “American,” & therefore unquestionable in legitimate debate. counterpunch.org/2014/08/08/ame…

"Even before the final shots of WWII were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the US ag its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide." openroadmedia.com/ebook/Blowback…

“This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War” (Publishers Weekly). openroadmedia.com/ebook/The-Phoe…

"... in June 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the aptly named Pentagon Papers, shifting blame for the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War from the CIA to the military, while distracting public attention from the investigations of the CIA’s Phoenix Program" counterpunch.org/2003/03/08/wil…

"Many of the estimated 10,000 Nazis who settled here were involved in the worst aspects of the Holocaust. - Fascinating and infuriating corrective to the American mythology of the “Good War”." amazon.com/Nazis-Next-Doo…

"It’s been more than 50 years since A. Dulles resigned as director of CIA, but his legacy lives on. Btw 1953-61, under his watch, the CIA overthrew the gov.s of Iran & Guatemala, invaded Cuba, and was tied to the killing of Lumumba, Congo’s first democr.."

"David Talbot describes a JFK administration more besieged by domestic enemies than has been previously realized, from within the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, and the mob. It is ag this dark backdrop that he charts the emotionally charged journey of RFK.." amazon.com/Brothers-Hidde…

"As early as 1943, senior Nazi officials were making preparations for Germany’s defeat. Disillusioned by military setbacks and Hitler’s increasingly unhinged leadership, chief architects Bormann and Himmler headed a top secret program.." (Book 1944) amazon.com/Nazis-Go-Under…

"Drawing on Am and Eur intel docs, Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape op was based at the pres palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Eichmann and Mengele. (..) on the compl of the Vatican, the Arg. Catholic Church, Swiss auth..
amazon.com/Real-Odessa-Br…

"Three groups made overtures to these Muslims: the Nazis, the Cold Warriors, and the Islamists. So the story carries us from the past to the present, a microcosm of all our mistakes with Islam since the 1940s." amazon.com/Mosque-Munich-…

"Using direct evidence from his unrivaled range of Arab sources, he describes how the West -- mostly the CIA -- sponsored Islamic fundamentalism in the 1950s and `60s in an effort to contain Nasser and thwart Soviet designs on the region, ..."
amazon.com/Brutal-Friends…

"The power elite officially endorsed the Muslim Brotherhood in May of 1979 at the Bilderberg meeting held in Austria (Engdahl 171). At this meeting, British Islamic expert Dr. Bernard Lewis suggested that endorsing the Muslim Brotherhood would allow ..."
conspiracyarchive.com/2014/11/24/wes…

"Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Britain and the United States’ true role in the world and the so-called order imposed by the Anglo-American alliance." - @johnpilger
amazon.com/Great-Deceptio…

"In this ground-breaking book, Mark Curtis reveals the covert history of British collusion with radical Islamic and terrorist groups. Secret Affairs shows how governments since the 1940s have connived w militant forces to control oil res and overthrow govs amazon.com/gp/product/B07…

"Curtis argues that Britain is an 'outlaw state', often a violator of intern. law and ally of many repressive regimes. He reasons not only that Britain's foreign policies are gen. unethical but that they are also making the world more dangerous and unequal amazon.co.uk/Web-Deceit-Bri…

"Simpson argues that while genocide is still widely practiced today, it is usually tolerated by those who benefit from it through the theft of land and natural resources. The cycle of genocide can be broken, he maintains, through..."
amazon.com/Splendid-Blond…

"... Monsanto produced the military herbicide Agent Orange (..) In more modern times, a division of Bayer was accused of ‘knowingly’ selling HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, and has paid millions in damages in legal settlements.” journal-neo.org/2016/05/21/bay…

"In 1946-1947 the Finance Division of the Office of Military Gov. (OMGUS) recommended that Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank leaders be tried as war criminals and barred from ever holding positions of impo in German econ & pol life. But.. officials both banks...[became key figures]

"Simpson's ... providing these docs in English for the first time since the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946–47, is both straightforward and timely. (.) suggests that a deliberate decision by political leaders had buried these documents until recently." rienner.com/title/War_Crim…

"Who gave NATO the right to rule the world?
This author elucidates how the Western elite, many of whom were Hitler supporters, rescued a vast number of Nazi hierarchy and placed them in positions to continue the many decades long fight against Russia." voltairenet.org/article174656.…

"The Nuremberg Pharma Tribunal of 1947/48 records document that WWII was planned & prepared in this building in Frankfurt, Germany – the headquarters of IG Farben. (.) it finan the rise of the Nazi party and its prep for the military conq of Europe & world profit-over-life.org/about/slr/01_h…

"[DuBois] chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial and documents the evidence presented in this book (..). He charges I.G. Farben with being knowingly an active arm of the Wehrmacht in taking over property and enslaving the people of Europe... [and for...]" kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j…

"The Tribunal consisted of a series of 13 trials, the first one against the “main war criminals” entitled “The USA, France, UK & USSR v. Goering et al.” This trial took place between 1945-46 and ended with long prison sentences or the death penalty for most of the perpetrators."-

"Interestingly, it was this 1. trial ag the pol. & mil. figureheads of the Nazi regime that has been generally portrayed as “The Nur. Tribunal.” This is hist inacc.. it has defl att away from the real “war criminals” who.. had financed the rise of the Nazis & the prep. for WWII."

Instead of being executed like the 'famous' Nazis the IG Farben convicted at the Nuremberg Trials were released within some years in prison to rise again in the German society.

"The Disgraced Managers of IG Farben [also source for the two previous quotes]
profit-over-life.org/about/intro.ht…

”Baron von Schnitzler, head of Farben.. admitt, ‘For 12 years the Nazi foreign policy and the IG foreign policy were largely insep. I [Dubois, Nuremb Prosec] also concl that Farben was largely resp.’ As regards slaves, in one camp alone Farben used over 300.000, 200.000...died."

"From 1941 to 1943 100.000 Farben workers went to the gas chambers. The maximum sentence imposed on any director was eight years, the average three. (..) most of them (now) back in power.” academic.oup.com/ia/article-abs…

"The US prosecution during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals made clear that neither the rise of the Nazis, nor WWII nor the holocaust would have been possible without the financial and logistical support of IG Farben." profit-over-life.org/about/historic…

"After 60 years where students and teachers alike have been deprived of any information about the corporate background of WWII, it is time that the textbooks of history, as well as political and social sciences, are re-written." profit-over-life.org/infos/report_o…

"The Nuremburg trials were fixed. The US Justice Dep did it. (.) For 60 years, the US Dep of of Justice has remained the legal shield of the Arab-Nazi network, known as the Muslim Brotherh. Am is the only major nation still refusing to designate the Brotherh as a terrorist group"

"Fully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II." amazon.com/Americas-Nazi-…

"Many of the estimated 10,000 Nazis who settled here were involved in the worst aspects of the Holocaust." amazon.com/Nazis-Next-Doo…

CIA has corrupted not only the milit., but Am’s pol & judic systems; & through its secret control of the media, the CIA’s power to create the offic version of history has left vets of Vietnam War, as well as ev. subseq gen of Americans, in state of neur delusion. - Doug Valentine

"...the growth of an unrepres. and unaccount. state within the state has been a product of the 20. cent. Its growth was, paradox., actually aided by the unpopul. of security & policing agencies; forced by this into the lowest poss. visibility.." EP Thompson, The Secret State,1978

"We are in the hands of an organ. of crooks. they are politicians, generals, manufacturers of armaments, and journalists. All of them are anxious for unlimited expenditure, and go on inventing scares to terrify the public and to terrify Ministers of the Crown." Lord Welby, 1908

"In 2010, almost a decade into this secret war with its voracious appetite for information, the Washington Post reported that the national sec state had swelled into a “fourth branch” of the federal gov ― with 854,000 vetted officials, 263 security orgs.." truthout.org/articles/explo…

"Professor Simpson concluded that the book on which Dr. Noelle-Neumann's academic reputation rests, ''The Spiral of Silence'' (University of Chicago Press, 1984), is riddled with totalitarian ideology." nytimes.com/1997/08/27/us/…

Perhaps the only endorsement on our 'reputable' media, you'll get from me:

Read Seumas Milne @SeumasMilne in the Guardian - on Britain, Russia, Ukraine, Syria etc. Milne is now working for Jeremy Corbyn.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For MSM Omission is Key

"It is clear that the progr's host, Ira Glass, was well aware of the US role in the Guatemalan genocide - he travelled to Centra Am & protested US war crimes in the region. & yet Glass chose not to mention his own country's deep involvement in the crimes"

"Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, @mtaibbi supplied a rare and refreshing chall to this standard claim for the media’s role:

‘All journalism is advocacy journalism. No matter how it’s presented, ev report by ev reporter advances someone’s point of view' globalresearch.ca/all-journalism…

Don't trust the @theintercept - but those who enlighten you about such things, like @_whitneywebb
mintpressnews.com/intercept-with…

I consider Chomsky a destructive voice

I know that it takes time to come to such a conclusion. But read and listen to Harold Pinter and Doug Valentine @dougvalentine77 on the US' REAL 'Foreign Policy' to know, what Chomsky never tells you. & expl such+:

counterpunch.org/2013/09/16/the…

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