Are you serious about using “Global Research” as an objective source? Look at the fantasies they publish on Srebrenica! Yes, it was all an American imperialist plot, now wasn’t it? Do you know the story of the RSK, or do you get all your “knowledge” from the radicals in Quebec?

http://www.glohttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=795balresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=795

What is really superficial is the analysis which has no value when the root causes are not mentioned. If South Korea is subjected to the same US economic and scientific sanction which has a phony name “UN sanction”, and South Korea is contained through military blockade then South Korea’s living condition will be deteriorated fast. People should remember what happened to Iraq before the invasion where Iraq with natural resources and educated labor force became poor and destitute where the country lost more than 650,000 people due to economic sanction and partial occupation. Targeted countries, such as North Korea, Iran, Syria, Sudan are subjected to severe sanction by the imperialist, Zionist and their servants who are …… IN BLOOD AND AMERICAN IN THOUGHT, for further action. This illegal sanction intends to disrupt the economic life of the country and brings unemployment and hunger and therefore riots, civil disobedience where leads to break down of the society. The first groups who are willing to give in and cooperate with the enemy are those who are designated as “elite” because they have the “education” and the language skill to be able to dissolve into the scum of the empire and “improve” themselves accordingly. Today, we are witnessing many Iranians who are in the business of NGO, to receive money from the intelligent organizations of the imperialist and Zionist, “to work” in many areas such as Women, youth, labor, human rights, and culture due to lack of job opportunities, to bring velvet revolution to speed up the process of the “regime change.” So, how long the puppet Kosovo and the Kurdish terrorists can survive if the imperialist and the Zionist impose the same type of sanction on these slaves? I bet you not long.

And remember when to use “it’s” and “its.”

p.s. go look up white supremacist websites like stormfront.org or davidduke.com

(This is notwithstanding the fact that slowly, inexorably, corruption is creeping in, into all facets of the government, the military, etc. It’s the mathematical (thus ultra-potent) law of increasing entropy, which can only be countered by inputs of energy to diminish it, but that’s a topic for another time).

The elites are not a monolith. What is in the interest to the weapons industry may or may not be in the interest of the oil companies or the coal industry or the banks. What is in the interest of the Irish lobby may not be in the interest of our “special” relationship with Britain. And just like the president is not omnipotent – he’s severely constrained, so are these “elites”.

Anyway, they had this dominoes theory, which made sense at the time (and maybe had some truth to it). So, yes, at the time of the cold war, with the nuclear-armed Soviet Union menacing us, yes, on some level, both Korea and Vietnam were deemed, by some, I believe earnestly, as somewhat of existential threat. Not right away, but down the road, when the whole world turned communist because we were asleep at the switch in korea and vietnam (i am just paraphrasing what they might have been thinking at the time). (Of course, the weapons complex might have wanted a war for their own reasons). So no, there were no sinister meetings in dark rooms finding ways how to screw us all. And guess what, the OTHER side, the Soviets, the Chinese, had the exact same theories and the exact same actions, they mirrored everything we did and vice versa. They saw themselves surrounded and acted accordingly. So, there was no question of vietnam being some economic market for chinese goods (China at the time was piss-poor and couldn’t feed its own people, the author forgets that, forgets Mao Tse Tung and his cultural revolution; and they had not had a friendly history with vietnam, which was mostly a Soviet client state). The Soviets didn’t benefit from vietnam economically (neither did the Chinese from Korea) – they sank enormous sums and aided them with weapons, in accordance with their own domino theory.

If such cables had been intercepted and deciphered, all FDR had to do, was go before the American public and read the cables. Doesn’t such info signify a desire of Japan to enter war with the US? If so, then a state of war factually exists, and once known, it’s out of anyone’s hands, hostilities can begin at any time according to international law. Why would he need to keep anything secret, why would he need to jeopardize the fleet at Pearl Harbor and thus severely jeopardize the eventual outcome of the war? Or, another option, warn the Pearl Harbor commanders the attack was coming. Wouldn’t a frustrated attack be sufficient cause for war, yet leave the US in a much better position?

Let’s look at the situation at that time. The US was woefully unprepared for any large scale war. Its industrial capacity was awesome, but its weapons inventory was minuscule compared to that of Germany, Japan, etc. If anything, FDR might have wanted to postpone entry into the war until these capacities had been built up (but for other reasons, explained above, he wouldn’t have wanted to wait too long). Just look at the awesome power of Japan vs. that of the US. The task force that was steaming toward Pearl Harbor had SIX large, fleet aircraft carriers, only a fraction of the total Japanese inventory. The total number of carriers in the ENTIRE US inventory at the time was 3. The carriers proved to be the decisive factor in the naval warfare, esp. in the Pacific.

But that was not entirely settled at the time. Another view in the naval circles at the time, a continuation of the naval doctrine from previous times, was that the battleship would be the decisive factor. That’s why the battleship limits in the naval limitation treaty of 1922 had been violated by all the Axis countries in the 30s. And yes, the US had quite a few of the battleships itself (which later proved pretty useless in WW2, except for sinking Allied shipping by the Germans). So, it would have been particularly reckless to park (no – double park!!!) a large chunk of the US battleship inventory at Pearl Harbor, if someone had known the attack was coming. And no, you don’t build another battleship, or an aircraft carrier, in a day. Before Pearl Harbor, it took 39 months for a battleship and 32 months for a carrier. Even after, it was 32 and 15.

Why would they want to fight Japan – and Germany (which would have automatically entered the war on behalf of Japan per the Axis treaties), with one hand tied behind their back? A two-ocean war, a several-continent war, with battle tested, well prepared opponents who seemingly could do nothing wrong in war, severely handicapped? Then you must believe that your elites are Gods (the American exceptionalism again), who could predict and control the future with such mastery, precision and certainty. (So what happened in the meantime, how did this magic capability evaporate all of a sudden?)

This conspiracy theory of FDR’s foreknowledge is nothing new. For example, it is discussed (and debunked) on page 69-70 in the book “The Two-Ocean War” by Samuel Morison, copyright 1963. (Yes, there were cables – from the US ambassador in Tokyo, speculating on the Japanese capability to “rush headlong into a suicidal conflict with the US”, and “Japan’s resort…to war measures…may come with dramatic and dangerous suddenness.” This was November 3, 1941. This translates into foreknowledge of attack on Pearl Harbor?)

And, by the way, at one point the writer states that “over 3,000″ American servicemen perished at Pearl Harbor, while a bit later he states the number at 2,900 something. That indicates a lack of care and proof reading the article. The whole article is full of bold assertions, but very little evidence, we’re supposed to trust whatever appears in non-traditional media.

So much of this article is an excursion into revolutionary fantasyland. The above entry should enlighten on the Muhajadin; to suggest that the Clinton “regime” (!!) was responsible for importing them into Bosnia requires a fertile imagination. Atrocities in Bosnia have been extensively documented. If HL is somehow in denial about mass graves, he can input mass graves bosnia into Google and will get more than he bargained for.

As a typical propagandist, Petras finds a few “sources” that would confirm his red-colored view of the world and simply glosses over all others. Stinnett’s work has been thoroughly debunked. Here’s an especially telling commentary by a cryptologist:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3926/is_200004/ai_n8892100

Much has been written as well about the origins of the Korean War, and it is grotesque, as well as unscholarly to use the terminology of Petras to try to insinuate a sinister U.S. plot to take over Korea, north or south. Even a high school student studying world history knows that the June 25, 1950 attack by North Korea was preceded by Dean Acheson’s famous statement that Korea lies beyond the sphere of U.S. strategic interests.

For the complete documentary record of the origins of the Korean War, please see:

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The%20Korean%20War

they didn’t find american-made mass graves in iraq either, so no american attrocities must have occurred there. so, the left’s claim of 1 million dead there due to our invasion must be untrue, right? i am not justifying the iraq thing, just using your faulty logic.

This is the description of those who have accepted, the “civilizing mission” of racists and warmongers who are pleased with those who are ……….. IN BLODD AND AMERICAN IN THOUGHS. Majority of elite of “developing countries” under the influence of major power have an image similar to this: “we are incapable of independent thought….” Because these people have been trained in the so called leading educational system of a dominant power and frankly their status as “elite” requires them to be dependent, servant and” incapable of morality and qualms of conscience.” These people have internalized the myth that is not equal to those who represent the civilizing mission rubbish and therefore they have accepted these people’s remedy to control their Feeling of INFERIORITY.
Let me tell you that against these inferior, servant and immoral people are many who never accept this image as THEIR OWN IMAGE and actually they are fighting against oppressor and their enablers in the “developing countries” because they know the history of the empire and imperialism for the past 500 years and their policies in the colonies where they want to bring the indigenous population under control and therefore these people are determined by working together to maintain their destiny under their own control and cut the hegemony of those who want to bring every nation with their resources under their control to support WORLD GOVERNMENT of racists and mass murderers to reduce people to nothing but a petty consumer, if they can afford it, and themselves as producer and owner who dictate rules of the game.
One of the old tools of the empire is “divide and conquer” which is used today in the targeted countries like Iran, Sudan and other countries besides occupied Iraq. Iraq has a soft partition now. This was the plan from the beginning. In fact the “new middle east” is based upon a divided and partitioned regional countries and creation of Kurdistan, a spy network of Israel, to weaken Iraq as an Arab state to improve Israel position in the region and make it easier to build Israel as a “regional power” against Iran which has historically been a regional power and more likely is going to remain as the regional power in the Middle East.
What is the gain out of the partition of Yugoslavia? The only beneficiary is the empire. What does Kosovo, with 2 millions do? Kosovo is not able to become a great nation. Kosovo and other microscopic states where have been separated since the break down of Yugoslavia never going to be a great nation. But it is good for the empire to have many microscopic states in the UN to act as its allies to help the empire’s vicious goals. Examples are numerous around the world. Look at the divided Arab land where heads of the Arab states are nothing but puppets. The reason for partition and division is to weaken any movement that might challenge their power. It is easier to control and manipulate them. That’s why the United States extension of the British Empire is afraid of China and Russia and always they try to prevent these powerful states to work together. They want a weak Iran in the region to be able to control the country and its resources for their own plan against stronger states.