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.
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What elements, are both Jones, and Tarpley missing, in the historical “when America was great and Free” fantasy that they both,
go on, and on about ? NON -WHITE PEOPLE !!
The first Nations People, that where being displaced, robbed, and murdered by the millions? How about Black People from Africa ?
Millions of People kidnapped, enslaved, treated like the lowest kind of animal.
Tarpley and Jones both, have HUGE, UGLY, obvious gaps, in the
white washed, Walt Disney , America they both long to return to.
The only problem is, it never was.
AS George Carlin put it, “the truth about the American dream is, you have to be asleep, to believe in it.”
But everyone is asleep anyway. The game was rigged since the slaughter of the neanderthals. Blame can be laid on every inch of earth. Mercy exists only in the heart. Not in some philosophy.
It was great and free for about ten years. After the great evils were forgotten. What we are concerned with presently is the return of great evils. So we fight them in the present; we cannot change the past.
Marvin Gaye – Mercy, Mercy Me
That is another topic all together. The point is to dispel the myth of Austrianism and libertarianism. Everybody already knows about the things you’ve just mentioned. What is there to talk about? Not that it makes anything better, but none of that is exactly new…
The point IS to tell the truth. Ignoring,and, or, not caring ,about the TRUE history, of the most viscious, two faced, war mongering, imperial beast, that is the USA,… is a reactionaries game.. You’re right matt, none of this is new, in fact, it’s on going., but I doubt, you have ever set foot on a Rez. What is there to talk about ? How about genocide?
Yawn ! You are so right! “History does not matter” None of, ” THIS”
is “NEW”(a real trick for history). All you white boys settled this LONG ago huh ? Can we please get back to Webster discussing (white) AMERICAN politics, and pretend that the people to whom this land belonged, and the bloodied backs (on whom this great fiction was built)
of millions of black people, never existed. There was no new deal on the reservation. Fuck your midddle class fantasies. These were handed to you by your masters. You’ve got to kill your colonizer Matt.
Starting with the one in your head.
aww shit. Now they’re coming for you, and you’re still chasing your tail.
That Kennedy, was a real cool guy! This son, of a capitalist robber baron, was going to save us all! It’s so great, to ignore history, I can say stuff like this all day !!
Furthermore:
The Roach Motel at the End of the Universe
I’m trying but I can’t remember slavery being legal since the New Deal. What Tarpley (not AJ, he’s just trying to continue with the libertarian distraction and fraud) is talking about was a reaction to the robber baron days of old and the London economic model of “free trade” which of course was based on a number of exploitative tricks, not the least offensive was slavery. If you wish to talk about modern day slavery, well, the unregulated, big-business loving neo-liberal/libertarian model embraces the notion quite readily. What do you think the for-profit prison industrial complex is or the so called “free-trade zones”? That’s modern day slavery. Or you can talk about the state by state plans to force people to work for companies like WalMart for 90 days or so in order to get their unemployment and welfare checks or food stamps. That’s slavery as well. Point that Tarpley makes is though the country certainly wasn’t perfect during it’s heyday when the middle class grew to record numbers and the so-called American Dream was coming close to being a reality for most (home ownership, sending kids to college, could live off one job and actually have a life outside of scrounging for money),we were fixing our problems. The middle class had financial and economic power. The structures had to listen to the will of the people unlike now. The civil rights act was passed, Medicare was created. Hell, Kennedy was looking to kill the cold war and spend the money instead on the well being of the people not the MIC. We were heading in the right direction because with a strong middle class, the will of the people was being done. Then along comes the Powell Memo of 1971 and that made it perfectly clear they had a different agenda for us.
Was it perfect? No. It was a process. Now it’s a different process, one that seeks to roll back decades of hard fought victories in favor of a return to a robber baron system… they just call it something else these days.
What is “neo-fuadalism” mentioned in the first sentence of the article?
I really enjoyed Tarpley’s talk. Seems to me that the olegarchs have always been in control though. Many of the early US economic policies were to protect their interests. We need to do now is accept that the fact that two American centurys don’t represent the “America ideals” that we seek. That’s why I like the Occupy movement. They want to throw out the system and design it anew. They have not failed.
The are an incipient movement for change.
Tarpley is very intelligent, but he doesn’t have the full picture.
Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn’t a great guy. He was a 33rd Degree Freemason and a member of the Knights of Pythias, a smaller (but still powerful) secret society with Masonic roots. His own son-in-law has stated that his policies were written by the CFR.
He comes from the Roosevelt-Delano bloodline, which is of extreme power. His cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, was automatically given the presidency after the assassination of President William McKinley. The ‘lone nut’ accused of being behind the assassination was quickly traced to the anarchist movement, despite the fact that anarchist leaders had forced him to leave after it became quite obvious to him that he was a government plant. He was executed soon after the assassination, indicating that no one was really interested in his side of the story. Roosevelt used the assassination as a pretext to crack down on anti-government points of view. Interestingly, the accused assassin was briefly a member of the Oneida Community, the same cult that President James Garfield’s assassin (and his father), Charles Guiteau, belonged to. Guiteau had shot Garfield after just learning how to use a handgun weeks before, and claimed to be acting on orders from God (mind control). That same Oneida Community became an active component of the military-industrial complex during the wars. It had been created by John Humphrey Noyes, who came from a powerful media family that controlled the Chicago Evening Star for decades. Among his relatives was a founder of the Associated Press.
Tarpley’s views on the drug war are completely police-state. Free the weed.
I don’t think that his point is that FDR was a hero. He accurately describes how the United States thrived under the conditions set by what he calls the American System, partially set up by FDR and then continued all the way up to Nixon (who is correctly considered the last truly liberal president we had which is a sad state of affairs)
It is true that FDR had shall we say “questionable” ties in his past, but so did every single president that I know of (I could be wrong on the earlier ones)
Fact is, the establishment allowed him to hold the office. Things haven’t changed that much since this country was founded.
But in his case, like in the case of JFK, an odd thing happened in the Oval Office; at some point and for various reasons, sometimes presidents (Nixon included and you see what happened to him) make a few choices that aren’t in the best interests of the big financial houses that put them in place.
What happened to Kennedy when he decided to start ratcheting back the cold war and promising to spend more on the people as opposed to the MIC, is a matter of historical fact (just watch or read his speech from July 1963 on the subject)
As far as FDR is concerned, remember Smedley Butler and the Business Plot? They had a plan for him as well.
FDR had his flaws. But to diminish the system that clearly worked because of the foibles of one of it’s earliest architects is a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater; it just doesn’t make good sense.
We know from the historical record that this country was MUCH stronger and more just during the period in which the American Economic System was in place. The middle class grew and was active both politically and economically. People had the opportunity to send their kids to college. People could work one job and have their families at home more, together more. People could envision home ownership and a decent retirement at an age where they could actually enjoy it.
And by that I mean they could finally live in a manner free of worry and fear and desperation after a lifetime of hard work. Hardly an “entitlement’ if you ask me.
Don’t get caught up in the admonishments of FDR because of his past associations. If the elites really loved him and what he was doing, I doubt they would have planned to overthrow his presidency with a military coup and possibly kill him in the process.
tarpley is my top pick when it comes to political and economic analysis