COLD WAR
1. The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite, 1945-1963, Michael Swanson, 2013.
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“Harry Elmer Barnes As Revisionist of the Cold War,” Murray Rothbard, 1970. This article first appeared in Arthur Goddard, ed., Harry Elmer Barnes: Learned Crusader (Colorado Springs: Ralph Myles, Publisher, Inc., 1968). Find a list of his books here.
Herbert Spencer brilliantly realized that the advance of mankind from barbarism to civilization could be summed up as a shift from “military” to “industrial” society. Yet, in the twentieth century, we have starkly reverted to the military way; in so doing, we have repudiated the very humanism, the very principles of peace and freedom, upon which a modern industrial system ineluctably rests. This has truly been, in the words of Harry Elmer Barnes’ friend and revisionist colleague, F. J. P. Veale, an “advance to barbarism.”
I liked this quote from Rothbard. It reminded me of Ayn Rand’s Anthem,
Nineteen Eighty-Four was not simply a jeremiad against socialism, still less against the Communist wing of socialism; it was a prophetic attack on the collectivist despotism made possible everywhere by war, foreign intervention, and the garrison state.
This was good.
In his devastatingly prophetic book, Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell points out that one reason why it is possible for those in authority to maintain the barbarities of the police state is that nobody is able to recall the many blessings of the period which preceded. . . The great majority of [Western people today] have known only a world ravaged by war, depressions, international intrigues and meddling, vast debts and crushing taxation, the encroachments of the police state, and the control of public opinion by ruthless and irresponsible propaganda. . . .
This was excellent,
In his devastatingly prophetic book, Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell points out that one reason why it is possible for those in authority to maintain the barbarities of the police state is that nobody is able to recall the many blessings of the period which preceded. . . The great majority of [Western people today] have known only a world ravaged by war, depressions, international intrigues and meddling, vast debts and crushing taxation, the encroachments of the police state, and the control of public opinion by ruthless and irresponsible propaganda. . . .
Military state capitalism is engulfing both democracy and liberty in countries which have not succumbed to Communism. . . . During the years since 1937, the older pacific internationalism has been virtually extinguished, and internationalism has itself been conquered by militarism and aggressive globaloney. Militarism was, formerly, closely linked to national arrogance. Today, it stalks behind the semantic disguise of internationalism, which has become a cloak for national aggrandizement and imperialism. . . . The obvious slogan of the internationalists of our day, who dominate the historical profession as well as the political scene, is “perpetual war for perpetual peace.” This, it may be noted, is also the ideological core of “Nineteen Eighty-Four” society. . . .
Saturday, July 16, 2022. First time I’d ever heard of the Venona Papers. These documents basically were created by the Army Intelligence, the precursor to the NSA, one who was a communist and who was involved in espionage activities in the United States, who was a double agent, and so forth. Oh, what fun. First time I’d heard of the Venona Papers was from this guy, Dr. Joseph Farrell. who’s written some interesting book titles. One of his books cited was “The Third Way, The Nazi International, European Union, and Corporate Fascism, Joseph P. Farrell, 2015. The interviewer cites the book, The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944, J.M Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy, Ed Conway, 2015.
Walther Funk amalgam of patent law. Amazing parallels to the European Union. Funk was the ultimate Keynesian. EU amalgam of patent law. Large cartels. Administration for fiat run scheme. This is Breton Woods. Harry Dexter White on the Venona transcripts of communists. Funk sponsored IG Farben, sponsored a study, titled Velcron Cartel,” which in German means “World Space Cartel.” It was a book that they published in 1942, at the height of WWII, and you had all sorts of experts contributing to the document. What the document was was a playbook, a template for the European Union. You can read this document and compare the structure of the European Union.
Wikipedia does a decent job of breaking the Cold War into its constituent parts:
“Containment and the Truman Doctrine, 1947-1953”
“Crisis and Escalation, 1953 to 1962”
“from Confrontation to Detente, 1962 to 1979”
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