Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by
right-wing American businessmen
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with
the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were
alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America,
(owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush's
Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the
policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest
ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
General Smedley Butler's 1935 book, "War Is a Racket,". For an
online version, recommended by Ron Paul, click on:
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm. After his
retirement from the Corps, he was a popular speaker at gatherings of both
veterans and pacifists.
George W Bush's
grandfather also participated in the
failed coup of business
titans against President Roosevelt. They had planned to replace our democracy
with a fascist regime modeled after Adolf Hitler's.
Interestingly enough, it's much easier
to find out details of the Bush family's
dealings with the Nazis than it is to
uncover the simple, biographical fact that
the Bush dynasty has been hardwired into
the finances of the Pentagon since
Day One.
McCarthy accused President Eisenhower of being a Communist. Few people agreed with him.
There is a brief history of McCarthyism at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism.
See the film Point of Order
which consists of film footage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. It
appears that the Catholic Church was a force for the big red scare. The
cold war was a religious war.
In 1968, Nixon and his operatives were determined
that they wouldn’t get outmaneuvered again. As the race entered its final weeks,
their great fear was that President Johnson would negotiate a settlement to the
Vietnam War and thus push Vice President Hubert Humphrey over the top to victory
The evidence is now clear that the Nixon campaign
dispatched Anna Chennault, a fiercely anti-communist Chinese-American, to carry
that message to South Vietnamese president Nguyen van Thieu. From
Consortium News
Iran released hostages minutes after the
Reagan inauguration, and shortly
after arms shipments continued.
Circumstances
appeared that the Reagan campaign made a deal with the Iranians NOT to release
the hostages until after the election. Gary Sick describes the events in his
book "October Surprise". The Bush I administration
stonewalled efforts to access
records.
The thesis of Kirby's excellent introduction is that the Cold War was one of
history's great religious wars, 'a global conflict between the god-fearing and
the godless'. (p. 1) It was a war in which 'Christianity was appropriated by
Western propagandists and policy-makers for their anti-communist arsenal' (p.
2), nowhere more so than in the USA. But in addition, as this volume
demonstrates, Christianity was not simply a tool of psychological warfare.
Church leaders were not merely pawns in a political game; they were active
participants. Their flocks were not only recipients of propaganda; for millions
religious faith was central to their lives. This fact is most vividly
demonstrated in the several chapters that deal with the Catholic Church and Pope
Pius XII during the early years of the Cold War.
Since its landmark publication in 1980, /A Peoples History of the
United States/ has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million
copies and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful
book, /A Peoples History/ triggered a revolution in the way history is
told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men
in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up.
Now Howard Zinn, historian Paul Buhle, and cartoonist Mike Konopacki
have collaborated to retell, in vibrant comics form, a most immediate
and relevant chapter of /A Peoples History/: the centuries-long story
of America's actions in the world. This short animated
video explores US expansionism from Wounded Knee to the invasion of
Iraq, stopping along the way at World War I, World War II Central
America, Vietnam and the Iranian revolution.