- France and Germany's refusal to sanction the Iraq war
was popular with their voters and with anti globalization activists. But
could their stand have been self-interested?
-
- Rodney Atkinson, a respected British opponent of globalization
actually supports Tony Blair on the Iraq war and casts it in a surprising
new perspective.
-
 He sees the war in terms of the century-old rivalry between
Germany and England (and US) for Middle East domination.
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- In books and web site http://www.freenations.freeuk.com
Atkinson warns that the German "political class" has not lost
its appetite for expansion. He says the European Community is a barely
disguised projection of German imperialism, a political recrudescence of
the cartels behind Nazi expansion.
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- In his book, "Europe Comes Full Circle" Atkinson
reveals that the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which defined the European Union,
is practically identical to Hitler's 1942 plan for a "European Economic
Community." He says the "destruction of 15 democratic constitutions,
15 national parliaments, 12 national currencies and 12 central banks by
the European Union was brought about by the same forces twice defeated
in the first 50 years of the 20th century."
-
- In his book "Fascist Europe Rising" Atkinson
says European fascism fixated on the term "New World Order" in
the 1930's-40's because it denoted "power, global ambition, order
(i.e. control) and contempt for democratic nationhood."
- Atkinson compares current French-German cooperation to
the Vichy Nazi arrangement. After Dunkirk, he says the Germans and French
agreed that Europe would be one state controlled by Germany with France
as junior partner. For example, ex President Francois Mitterand was honoured
by the Vichy regime and former Finance Minister Jacques Delors belonged
to the French equivalent of Hitler Youth. Both were architects of the EU.
-
- "Multiculturalism" and "diversity"
can also be traced to the Nazi policy of "volksgruppenpolitik,"
- i.e. nations can be broken down by promoting their constituent
ethnic groups.
-
- "Germany's increasing domination of Europe is based
on destroying those states that have proved to be stable non-racial nations
like the UK, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia,"
- Atkinson writes. Only one country will not break apart
for it consists of one "volk" only, namely Germany.
-
- This may explain the tolerance given the national aspirations
of Mexican Americans in the US Southwest. The US may be dismantled too.
-
- Interestingly, Germany's vision for the Middle East is
the same as Israel's: splintering Arab nations along ethnic lines so none
are strong enough to challenge global control.
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- FACTORING THIS IN
-
- Obviously the Europeans had economic ties to the Sadaam
Hussein regime. Iraq owed Germany $4.3 billion and Russia $12 billion.
Next to Russia, France is Iraq's biggest creditor. http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/worldnews/asia/iraq120203.htm"
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- It is useful to see the war not simply in terms of US-Israeli
expansion but also in terms of a dispute over who will be top dog in the
new world order, the US or Europe. In these terms, some might say the US-UK
gambit was brilliant. The US neatly pre-empted its rivals and now controls
the world's first and second largest petroleum reserves.
-
- On the other hand, Muslims are aroused in opposition
to the United States. Already there are signs the US might placate them
at Israel's expense. It might establish a Palestinian state and require
Israel to withdraw to its 1967 borders. This would test the true power
of the "Jewish lobby."
-
- Rodney Atkinson is obviously motivated by well-founded
suspicions of German intentions. Living in England he doesn't see that
the US is just as repressive as Europe. There isn't much to choose between
the two.
-
- He will be disappointed to learn that Tony Blair may
use his enhanced popularity as a result of this war to force the UK to
adopt the Euro.
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- THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD WAR TWO
-
- World War Two was good business for the world's cartels.
It gives the term "internationalism" a new, true dimension.
-
- For example, did you know that American convoys to England
were reinsured in Nazi Germany? The German insurance company had the details
of cargoes and departure times; and these were passed on to Nazi Intelligence.
-
- James Martin relates this anecdote in his book <i>"All
Honourable Men"</i> (1950) which is out-of-print and not in
used bookstores. (I got my copy through an interlibrary loan.) Martin was
head of the economic warfare branch with the US Dept. of Justice and later
with the Economics Division of the US Military Government in Germany.
-
- In the Munich Reinsurance Company files, Martin also
found "bundles of photographs, blueprints and detailed descriptions
of whole industrial developments in the U.S., many of them obtained through
insurance channels. Together they made up the vital statistics of our war
economy." (23)
-
- Martin tells how in the 1920's New York bankers such
as Dillon Read & Company and Brown Brothers Harriman (where Prescott
Bush was President) helped consolidate German industry into giant cartels
such as the United Steel Works and I.G. Farben. Less than 100 men linked
with the Deutsche and the Dresdner Banks controlled 2/3 of Nazi industry.
-
- These cartels financed the Nazi Party. In particular,
they funded the SS Waffin, the elite corps directly responsible to Hitler.
The SS ran the concentration camps. The cartels benefited economically
from the "extermination through work" program. (85)
-
- "Prewar movies had pictured the goose stepping Nazis
as the absolute masters of Germany," Martin writes." Our...questioning
of Alfred Krupp and his works managers erased that impression. Adolf Hitler
and his Party had never been allowed quite to forget that they had depended
on the industrialists to put them in office, and that in future they could
go further with the industrialists' help than without it." (83)
-
- The Nazi cartels were all linked to American corporations
such as Du Pont, Standard Oil, General Motors, ITT and General Electric.
In 1944, Martin found 3600 agreements between German and American companies
that denied critical raw materials and patents to the United States in
favor of the Nazi war effort. (13)
-
- Martin realized that the enemy was not a political but
an economic power. "We began to summarize our picture of an enemy
that could survive a military defeat because it did not need or use military
weapons." (13)
-
- That enemy survived the war and prospered because its
American associates protected it. Martin describes how Dillon Read banker
General William H. Draper was put in charge of the Economics Division and
thwarted Martin's investigation of American-Nazi links. Draper's first
priority was to rehabilitate German industry and industrialists. Confirming
Rodney Atkinson, Martin concludes:
-
- "Except for its military outcome, the Nazi experiment
appears to have been a success in the eyes of its original sponsors. The
unity of German business and finance in backing the Nazis was matched only
by the precision with which the Nazi government moved in to support the
aims and interests of the dominant financiers and industrialists. They,
in turn, have been waging a hard postwar fight to keep the economic lines
of the Nazi system intact." (291)
-
- The war was also a success for the Nazi's US partners.
During the five war years, the 60 largest corporations in the US more than
doubled their total assets. (296)
-
- In conclusion, we have to avoid the tendency to seek
good guys and bad guys. We can assume all governments are projections of
elite economic power; all are instruments of a bizarre program to dehumanize
and enslave us. There is no reason to cheer one side or another.
-
- We can cheer because the Iraq war was relatively short,
and our long anxious winter is over.
-
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- Henry Makow, Ph.D. is the inventor of the board game
Scruples and author of "A Long Way to go for a Date." His articles
on feminism and the new world order are found at his web site www.savethemales.ca
He enjoys receiving comments at henry@savethemales.ca
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- Comment
-
- From Horst
- horst@nakis.gr
- 4-15-3
-
- Dear Mr Makow,
-
- To the conclusion of your article, I can only subscribe
fullheartedly!
- But the things you say about Germany and Europe make
me extremely weary.
-
- One little correction to begin with:
-
- Germany is not an ethnic monolith. Just as in any other
country I know, there are
- many different people who are proud of their distinct
ethnic and cultural
- heritage and there is (mostly friendly) difference between
those people.
- For example Bavaria has even its own constitution, which
in a few points
- is contradicting the federal German one. Bavarians (I
am Bavarian) are usually
- black haired and somewhat stocky built as opposed to
the northern blonde
- and tall people. Bavaria is catholic, whereas in central
Germany (Saxony)
- protestants are the majority.
-
- Germany is called a federal republic for exactly such
reasons.
-
- It is true that German Capitalists are often playing
a bullying role in the EU,
- but Germany pays over 60% of the EU's budget, much to
the displeasure of
- the German people whose standard of living has declined
significantly in
- recent years. Besides that, it should be noted that globalism,
WTO, etc. are
- coming from the USA, the European multis joined that
game a little later.
-
- Finally, it is a huge difference between conquering and
occupying another
- country and exerting nonviolent political influence.
-
- The European democracies would never have allowed an
European invasion
- of the middle east for whatever conceivable reason.
-
- Saddam chose to have th EURO as oil and reserve currency
for reasons of his
- own and the US invaded to preempt the total abandoning
of the Dollar as oil
- currency; at least this is one of the major reasons for
the war.
-
- What i find so unbearably stupid about all that war for
oil is the fact that in a few
- years the planet runs out of oil anyway. The truly wise
thing would have been
- to invest all that money and energy into developing renewable
and cheap
- replacements for oil. By going to war they have postponed
the catastrophe
- just for a few years and it will hit even harder then.
-
- Best regards,
- Horst Hartmann
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