We Are The New Nazi Germany.

And, unlike the Germans, we have no one but ourselves to count on for liberation.

America Is Starting To Resemble Germany Before The Reichstag Fire

June 23rd, 2008 ·

There’s no doubt that we live in political times that are highly charged; Right-wing pundits dominate the radio and TV while the majority of Americans believe that America is heading in the wrong way by a whopping 81%, yet what we are assailed with on a regular basis are the 19% that support the Bush administration and seem intent on starting another war - proof positive that the White House’s propaganda machine and corporate America are bound and determined to have their way in spite of overwhelming condemnation from the majority of America. It seems that “the people” no longer have a voice, ignored by Congress and the Presidency - and a Speaker of The House that for all practical purposes, appears to be a rabid Bush supporter rather than a Democrat - a symptom that America is definitely headed on the wrong path, compliments of a Congress and Judiciary that have turned their back on their oaths of office and seem intent on destroying our economy, our belief(s) in the constitution, and the rule of law.

To the rest of the world, it must appear that America is imploding from within - and our enemies, who are real and standing on the sidelines wondering how to deal with a military giant that seems out of control, are likely in hushed meetings and conferences asking themselves how 19% of the population have obviously taken control over what used to be the world’s premier superpower which now is in disarray and chaos; our Congress is rubber-stamping whatever the Bush administration wants, and Democrats like Pelosi and Hoyer are giving in to a lame-duck that still has the ability to plunge the US into another war that could thrust the Middle-East into a “ball of fire”. We know that the fear of war is real, especially when the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog chief stated that attacking Iran could force him to resign:

ElBaradei: Mideast could burn if Iran attacked

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jun 21, 11:59 AM ET

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief warned in comments aired Saturday that any military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast into a “ball of fire” and lead the country to a more aggressive stance on its controversial nuclear program.

The comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came in an interview with an Arab television station aired a day after U.S. officials said they believed recent large Israeli military exercises may have been meant to show Israel’s ability to hit Iran’s nuclear sites.

“In my opinion, a military strike will be the worst … it will turn the Middle East to a ball of fire,” ElBaradei said on Al-Arabiya television. It also could prompt Iran to press even harder to seek a nuclear program, and force him to resign, he said. MUCH MORE

How have 19% of the right-wing haters of democracy and freedom managed to take-over our airways and are pushing, against the majority of America, for another war that could easily escalate to World War III??? Why aren’t Americans refusing to buy gas that is inflated by oil speculators and staging a general strike, now, while we still have the ability to stop the warmongers from destroying the rest of our economy and sentencing our children to a future that may entail the destruction of democracy and freedom is the United States? I support www.votestrike.com, but they propose to strike on September the 11th, and if you read the news the MSM won’t reveal, it indicates that September the 11th may be too late to stop the carnage that Bush and Cheney are planning while our Congress refuses to honor their oath of office and impeach the traitors that are attempting to destroy the American way of life!

The leading Neo-conservative, Bill Kristol, is stating that Bush will attack Iran if it looks like Obama may win the Presidency. If a general strike is planned for 9-11-08, why do we believe the Bush administration will wait until then to begin their attack - especially when Obama is leading McCain is almost all of the polls?

Kristol: Bush might attack Iran if he thinks Obama will win

By Andrew McLemore, Sunday, 22 June 2008

President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he thinks Senator Barack Obama may be elected, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told FOX News Sunday morning.

Kristol added that if Senator John McCain was going to win the presidency, Bush would “think it more appropriate” to let him deal with the issue.

Senators McCain and Obama have often sparred about whether military force or diplomacy should be the primary way of dealing with Iran, according to an article by the Los Angeles Times. MUCH MORE

Further, an ex-CIA Agent, Ray McGovern, recently published an editorial wherein he stated that an attack against Iran could be launched in “late summer” or “early fall.”

McGovern: Iran attack coming soon

Stephen C. Webster
Published: Sunday June 22, 2008

In a new editorial published by AntiWar.com, former CIA officer Ray McGovern states that he believes “a perfect storm seems to be gathering in late summer or early fall,” when the Bush administration and allies in Israel will launch attacks against Iran.

“This time it will be largely the Air Force’s show, punctuated by missile and air strikes by the Navy,” writes McGovern. “Israeli-American agreement has now been reached at the highest level; the armed forces planners, plotters and pilots are working out the details.”

“Does Conyers not owe at least that much encouragement to those courageous officers who have stood up to Cheney in trying to prevent wider war and catastrophe in the Middle East? Scott McClellan has been quite clear in reminding us that once the president decided to invade Iraq, he was not going to let anything stop him. There is ample evidence that Bush has taken a similar decision with respect to Iran – with Olmert as his chief counsel, no less. MUCH MORE

In a move that is refreshing from the standpoint of accountability, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, is planning to convene a “convention” that will discuss and plan ways of prosecuting members of the Bush administration for War Crimes. While I support this conference wholeheartedly, place yourself in the shoes of Bush and Cheney, and ask yourselves if starting another war and declaring martial law would be a viable method of stopping this proposed “conference” which could easily lead to investigations - and maybe land some of those who have defied our constitution and rule of law into not-so-comfortable prosecutions, and could influence their decisions in regard attacking Iran that are based on their own self-preservation rather than national security!

Bush ‘war crimes conference’ to convene in Mass., plan prosecution of admin. officials

Stephen C. Webster
Published: Sunday June 22, 2008

On September 13-14, 2008, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, plans to convene a ‘convention’ at the school’s facilities; the attendees of which will plan strategies to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes.

“This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred,” stated Velvel in a press release. “It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth.

“We must try to hold Bush administration leaders accountable in courts of justice. And we must insist on appropriate punishments, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940’s.” MUCH MORE

If you read all of these stories and meld them together, it reveals the “big picture” of a country that seems hell-bent on starting another war, and if you consider the flooding in the Mid-West, which is guaranteed to raise our food prices even more, the food riots that have been occurring in other countries could easily come home to roost in the United States! The Associated Press published an article entitled “Everything seemingly is spinning out of control.” In my opinion, the AP did a wonderful job in taking most of the recent events and which have Americans wondering “what’s next” and demonstrated that indeed, we are all in for some extremely rough times, and to start a war when disaster is literally on our doorstep is insanity, and life in these United States could change forever if the “people” don’t wake-up and take action that will force Congress to protect the people, not corporate America or Israel! There comes a time when we have to protect ourselves, because if we don’t, we will not be in the position to help others - but will join them in their misery! Remember, it’s the United States that traditionally comes to the rescue of nations that are suffering from famine or disease, but who will come to our aid? Historically speaking, the U.S. is at an all-time low in global opinion, and several countries would gloat and revel in our demise, not reach-out to help. The Bush administration has destroyed our credibility and the United Sates is now one of the least trusted nations on earth, so isn’t it time to make back-up plans so we don’t wind-up as another third-world nation and suffer accordingly? Below are a couple of excerpts from the AP story mentioned above, and it’s sobering stuff, words we should all consider and act upon instead of believing that “it could never happen to us.”

Food is becoming scarcer and more expensive on a worldwide scale, due to increased consumption in growing countries such as China and India and rising fuel costs. That can-do solution to energy needs — turning corn into fuel — is sapping fields of plenty once devoted to crops that people need to eat. Shortages have sparked riots. In the U.S., rice prices tripled and some stores rationed the staple.

American University historian Allan J. Lichtman notes that the U.S. has endured comparable periods and worse, including the economic stagflation (stagnant growth combined with inflation) and Iran hostage crisis of 1980; the dawn of the Cold War, the Korean War and the hysterical hunts for domestic Communists in the late 1940s and early 1950s; and the Depression of the 1930s.

“All those periods were followed by much more optimistic periods in which the American people had their confidence restored,” he said. “Of course, that doesn’t mean it will happen again.”

The above article is intense and is a must-read if you’re hoping that things will get better, because right now, there’s absolutely no evidence that it will, and if recent patterns persist, it will get much worse before it gets better - and if we add another war to the mix, you can bet that America will never be the same again!

I don’t like to be the harbinger of bad news, but if you read all of the articles that are quoted above, our situation is dire, and another “Reichstag Fire” appears to be simmering, ready to destroy everything our forefathers fought and died for; complacency is a disease, and in this case, the damage it will inflict on you and your families may be irreversible, so now is the time to take action - and if you don’t, the future will be one that we brought upon ourselves by refusing to listen to reality which isn’t knocking on the door, but is attempting to break it down while Congress still stubbornly refuses to impeach or do anything else that will halt the coming disaster that is aimed directly at America!

Remember, it is “we the people” that make this country run, and when enough of us wake-up and understand that Bush and Cheney are bent on destroying everything we cherish, including your own family, failing to take action is a guarantee that tomorrow will be far worse than today, and from my viewpoint, “today” may be the last chance we have at stopping an inevitable march to disaster and doom.

William Cormier

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Don't Say You Were Not Warned!

August 15, 2007

We've Seen All This Before

By Ernest Partridge

"What happened [in Nazi Germany] was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it...

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it... Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted'..."

Milton Mayer
They Thought They were Free .

First, the Busheviks warned of the growing threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. But when they ran that flag up the pole, few in the media and the public were found to salute.

So now, we're told that the Iranian government is training and sending lethal weapons to the Shiite "insurgents." And so, in his press conference last Thursday, George Bush warned the Iranians that "there will be consequences for people transporting, delivering ... highly sophisticated IEDs [improvised explosive devices] that kill Americans in Iraq." This is just fine with Dick Cheney who, according to McClatchy newspapers, is eager to attack Iran and is winning the struggle with the diplomats to convince Bush.

That an attack on Iran would be an unmitigated disaster seems not to trouble Bush and Cheney, who steadfastly refuse to take counsel from the "reality-based community." First of all, Iran is a country with twice the area and four times the population of Iraq, and with an intact and well-provided military. Next, the Iranians reportedly have advanced missiles at the ready capable of sinking a billion-dollar aircraft carrier and bottling up the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes a fourth of the world's supply of petroleum. Furthermore, China, an ally of Iran, obtains a significant portion of its petroleum from Iran and will surely not sit still for this. And China, if sufficiently provoked, can dump its dollar credits and embargo its exports to the US, which will surely bring on a depression that would make the thirties pale in comparison.

And what of the rest of the industrialized world? They have seen the US violate international law by launching two unprovoked wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Would they tolerate a third? Contrary to the Bushite megalomania, "the outside world" is not helpless. Even though the US military budget is greater than that of all the rest of the world combined, the United States can be brought to its knees without a shot being fired. (See my The Vulnerable Giant). An attack on Iran just might be the final straw.

When Bush and Cheney fed us a pack of lies to justify the attack on Iraq – the aluminum tubes, the WMDs, the Saddam/al Qaeda alliance, the African uranium -- the mainstream media, including the "newspapers of historical record," The New York Times and The Washington Post, swallowed them whole. And when Colin Powell presented these lies to the UN Security Counsel, the mainstream media was unanimously gullible.

The Editorial response of The Los Angeles Times was typical:

Piling fact upon fact, photo upon photo Wednesday, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell methodically demonstrated why Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein remains dangerous to his own people, Iraq's neighbors and, potentially, the Western world.

And the Washington Post:

Mr. Powell left no room to argue seriously that Iraq has accepted the Security Council's offer of a 'final opportunity' to disarm. And he offered a powerful new case that Saddam Hussein's regime is cooperating with a branch of the al Qaeda organization that is trying to acquire chemical weapons and stage attacks in Europe.

So now it is starting all over again: unsubstantiated allegations against the next victim-state, as preface to the next disaster. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me – you can't get fooled again." (GWB). Unfortunately, it appears that the mainstream media might be fooled again.

If so, then once again we have refused to heed Santayana's oft-quoted warning: having failed to learn from history, it appears that we Americans are about to repeat it.

As I reflect upon the behavior of the mainstream media prior to the Iraq war, and perchance prior to the pending attack on Iran, I am reminded of William L. Shirer's account of German public opinion and the part of the Nazi press in shaping it in August, 1939, the month preceding the attack on Poland and the outbreak of World War II. Is Shirer sending a warning to us today?

You be the judge.

"In Berlin ... a foreign observer could watch the way the press, under Goebbels' expert direction, was swindling the gullible German people. For six years, since the Nazi "coordination" of the daily newspapers, which had meant the destruction of a free press, the citizens had been cut off from the truth of what was going on in the world... For Germans who could read English or French, there were occasionally a few copies of the London and Paris journals available, although not enough to reach more than a handful of persons. (Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 563-4).

In Berlin, on August 10, 1939, Shirer wrote in his diary:

How completely isolated a world the German people live in... A glance at the newspapers yesterday and today reminds you of it... Whereas all the rest of the world considers that the peace is about to be broken by Germany, that it is Germany that is threatening to attack Poland... here in Germany, in the world the local newspapers create, the very reverse is maintained ... What the Nazi papers are proclaiming is this: that it is Poland which is disturbing the peace of Europe: Poland which is threatening Germany with armed invasion.

Shirer then quotes headlines in the German press:

"Complete chaos in Poland – German families flee – Polish soldiers push to the edge of the German Border!" (Berliner Arbeiterzeitung, August 26, 1939)

"Whole of Poland in War fever! 1,500,000 men mobilized! Uninterrupted troop transport toward the frontier!" (Voelkischer Beobachter, August 27, 1939)

Four days later, following a staged "attack"on a German radio station by SS troops in Polish Uniforms (Shirer, 595), the Wehrmacht crossed the Polish border, and France and Britain, in alliance with Poland, declared war on Germany.

The last grave threat to our Constitutional order, Nixon and Watergate, was undone by a resourceful, courageous and independent press. No doubt Cheney and the corporate oligarchs behind the Bushevik junta, reflecting upon the Nixon fiasco, must have thought: "The next time we must have the press on our side." Mission accomplished!

If Bush and Cheney decide to attack Iran, and thus bring about the collapse of the American economy and perhaps the onset of another world war, we can't say that we were not forewarned. If not by the mainstream media, then by the few remaining voices of sanity in the press, the internet, and the international media.

And by history.

Authors Website: http://www.crisispapers.org

Authors Bio: Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. Partridge has taught philosophy at the University of California, and in Utah, Colorado and Wisconsin. He publishes the website, "The Online Gadfly" (www.igc.org/gadfly) and co-edits the progressive website, "The Crisis Papers" (www.crisispapers.org). His book in progress, "Conscience of a Progressive," can be seen at www.igc.org/gadfly/progressive/^toc.htm .

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