The Noble Lie

The audio is originally from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Please listen to the outro for information on how to support them. Here is the blurb from TUC’s site.

Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for the London Independent, received an exuberant welcome when he came to the Bay Area in December 2006. He spoke on civil war in Iraq and Lebanon and the ongoing denial of the genocide of one and a half million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.

Even though he consistently criticizes the New York Times they described him as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain” He has over thirty years of experience in international reporting. His best-selling books, based on his field notes and recordings, offer strong criticisms of Middle Eastern governments as well as British and United States government foreign policy. He spoke on December 14, 2006, in Oakland, CA.

If the topics covered on this weblog have interested you so far, I thought you might be interested in this collection of DVDs that are not available for online viewing.

People have to make a living. Unfortunately, the people who need this information most will be the hardest-pressed to afford it. If you can, buy these materials, show them to people you know, and spread the word. Here, I am simply linking to their websites so you can learn more from the horse’s mouth.

• The Future of Food (THE most important issue of our age)
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• ACLU Freedom Files
• In Debt We Trust
• Vaccines: The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices
• Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings
• Richard Dawkins - Growing Up in the Universe

If you have any good DVD documentary picks, list them in the comments section.

Here is Gen. Smedley Butler’s famous retirement letter from the United Fruit corporation — excuse me, I meant the United States military. He was a 30s era general who saw the machinations of industry controlling the machinations of military, for their own selfish ends. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

• http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

This was the same guy who was approached by industrialists to help them with a fascist coup against the U.S. Government. Not only did he refuse, but he ratted the bastards out. Of course, since “the bastards” were the wealthy industrialists who control the US economy (names such as Prescott Bush), nothing happened to them.

I wish I could find a good documentary on the history of warfare and standing armies. Maybe I should make one. I think it could be very illuminating. In the old days, they were called soldiers of fortune, because only money-worshipping mercenaries would go from country to country slaughtering at the order of others in those days. Now in the days of scientific conditioning, we can turn your gentle son or daughter into a ruthless killer, scientifically.

The people who declare wars aren’t stupid. These fine, upstanding, philanthropic gentlemen watch their profits soar during war. More importantly, society is more malleable and more willing to be obedient and accept drastic transformation (Hitler and Mussolini, the New Deal, the Patriot Act, notice how often these things happen during wartime?) much more readily. Finally, war is well-known as a population control valve, and it was after the UN declared war on war that they said they would have to take new steps to keep the population down, to replace what they saw as the “beneficial” population control effect of warfare.

War is a slaughterhouse for human cattle. It’s one of the places we’re sent to die for profit after we’ve been fattened up.