Webster Tarpley on the American System

by Scott Creighton

Tarpley aptly explains to Alex Jones how Ron Paul’s Austrian libertarianism is nothing more than a repackaging of the neo-liberal Milton Friedman Chicago School of Economics neo-fuadalism. This is what I have been saying for years. Glad to hear Tarpley getting airtime explaining this to Jones. AJ starts off by trying to re-write history pretending that he wasn’t still pushing Ron Paul for president over the last few months when it was clear he couldn’t win. The reason he does that is because he knows and has said that the “Good Doctor” was simply locking his base into a box that was going nowhere so they wouldn’t have an effect on the election. I guess AJ doesn’t want his dwindling viewership to understand he was doing the exact same thing and that RP wouldn’t have been so successful at it if people like AJ and Kokesh weren’t working with him.

It’s a good interview at least at the beginning when Tarpley explains the history of what is called the American System of economics. An outstanding system which created the first majority middle class in human history and made the United States the envy of the rest of the industrialized world. But it also created a pure hatred in the hearts and minds of the oligarchs who knew there were massive profits to be made if only they could convince the people that the extremely efficient and effective system they had was wrong for them and accept a neo-feudal system in it’s place.

It’s hard to watch Jones these days because he is such a ridiculous tool. But, watch it for Tarpley’s explanation of the American System. It’s not “socialism” or “communism”… its ours and it works. Look around you. You have the beginnings of the libertarian/neo-liberal system developing right now. Like it? Look like fascism? There’s a reason for that. Because it IS fascism.

Prometheus Unpackaged: Why?

by Scott Creighton

I saw Riddley Scott’s new film Prometheus this weekend. I was a big fan of his film Alien of which this is the prequel. There are many reviews out there, most of which are pleasantly negative at best and I have to ask myself “why?”

Metacritic gives it 3 stars while their readers overwhelmingly seemed to enjoy it and Rotten Tomatoes gives it only 3.5 while their readers liked it even more.

What is it about this film that makes so many would be critics wish to jump on the disparaging band wagon as if it were the next Battlefield Earth or Starship Troopers? Personally, I liked the film and found what it had to say to be rather interesting for a number of reasons which I will get to later. But first, let’s look at why many didn’t like the film and maybe from that we can figure out what is really pretty good about it.

“Humanitarian War Criminals” in High Office: Was the Houla Massacre Ordered by the Western Military Alliance?

(If we all agree that the people who commit heinous crimes like the Houla Massacre must be removed from power then prosecuted and we are coming to the understanding that it was ordered by the U.S. and her NATO brothers in crime, then what are we actually saying? Read the Army training circular TC18-01 dealing with Special Forces Unconventional Warfare tactics. We had better do something before they commit another atrocity in their efforts to force regime change. And it’s not just the dems in power right now who need to be removed either: “I’m glad that some of the nations in the Gulf, the Saudis, are providing some weapons [to the Syrian opposition]” John McCain. This kind of social depravity is taking a toll on this country in more ways than one. For ourselves and for the rest of the world, we need to force our own regime change and very soon. And we need to do it before the next election.)

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research

It has been established that the Houla massacre, which has resulted in more than one hundred deaths of men, women and children, was not undertaken by the pro-government militia Shabbiha as claimed in chorus and without evidence by the Western media.

Several authoritative reports, including a recent report of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, confirm unequivocally that “opposition” FSA terrorists were behind these atrocities. (Neue Erkenntnisse zu Getöteten von Hula: Abermals Massaker in Syrien – Politik – FAZ, June 8, 2012)

“Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houla’s Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houla’s population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.” (FAZ, op cit. Translated from German).

The FAZ report largely corroborates the report by Russian journalist Marat Musin, which includes detailed testimonies:

 ”When the rebels seized the lower checkpoint in the center of town and located next to the local police department, they began to sweep all the families loyal to the authorities in neighboring houses, including the elderly, women and children.

Several families of the Al-Sayed were killed, including 20 young children and the family of Abdul Razak. The people were killed with knives and shot at point blank range.

Then they presented the murdered [corpses] to the UN and the international community as victims of bombings by the Syrian army, something that was not verified by any marks on their bodies.” (Marat Musin, THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”, Global Research, June 1 , 2012)

These two reports dispel the lies and fabrications of the Western media. Entire pro-government families in Houla were massacred. The terrorists were mercenaries and professional killers operating under the auspices of the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (FSA).