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Paulo Aguiar's avatar

You’d think the idea that the U.K. might’ve tried to maneuver the U.S. into war with Iran would be front-page material for weeks. Instead, it got buried.

Makes you wonder how many other decisions were tilted that way, how much "American" foreign policy is really just outsourced muscle for someone else’s grand strategy.

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jsarnak's avatar

When our Politicians legalized bribery, what is called lobbying, it put our armed forces up for sale and the bankers have gladly used it to threaten and murder anyone who won't bend the knee. It is disgusting to look at Lindsey graham, Mitch McTurtle, and our newest John McCain -Dan the patch Crenshaw. All of these scumbags have sold their influence to whoever pays, as long as it is NOT the American citizen

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AJnz's avatar

Remember that Washington D.C. is not a part of USA! It belongs with the City of London and the Vatican.

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Elle's avatar

It’s been that way since WW1 after Wilson allowed the private central banking cabal to control the money supply, headquarters in the City of London. British government is also subjected to their lead.

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John P Malynowsky's avatar

Truth

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John Day MD's avatar

The seat of empire has "diversified" since the early 20th century, especially after Bretton Woods.

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John Day MD's avatar

The owners and butlers are all mixed up and spread around to improve the safety of the owners through invisibility.

It may be a mistake to think of nation-states as the entities which are guiding history in "their interests" these days.

"Transnational elites" is a useful concept.

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Realist's avatar

"You’d think the idea that the U.K. might’ve tried to maneuver the U.S. into war with Iran would be front-page material for weeks. Instead, it got buried."

If Britain in any way tried to maneuver the U.S. into war with Iran, it was due to British Zionists.

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Stella Bryan's avatar

Wonderful article and reminder of the suffering of those who fought for freedom. For sure Britain (I am English born) has a lot to answer for and seems to always be in service to the banker cabal while the British people struggle to pay for electricity and keep their farms running. Both the US and the UK, along with most Western countries, are not in service to the people at this time and our freedoms are being encroached upon more and more no matter what party is in the whitehouse.

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William Pritting's avatar

Anglo-American Rewriting of US History

The Anglo-American Establishment is responsible for the rewriting of US History and controlling how US History is taught throughout the educational system!

Through the largess of their foundations the Rockefellers, Carnegie, Mellon, Vanderbilt, Morgan and Guggenheim Foundations colluded to begin the process of designing our current public education system.

The Guggenheim Foundation agreed to award fellowships to historians recommended by the Carnegie Endowment. Gradually, through the 1920’s, they assembled a group of twenty promising young academics, and took them to London. There they briefed them on what was expected of them when they became professors of American history. That twenty were the nucleus of what was eventually to become the American Historical Association. The Guggenheim Foundation also endowed the American Historical Association with $400,000 at that time.

By 1950 the Rockefeller Foundation endowed Columbia Teachers College in New York City, formerly named the Russell’s Teacher College, produced one-third of all presidents of teacher-training institutions, one-fifth of all American public school teachers, and one-quarter of all superintendents.

J.D Rockefeller and family additionally funded and founded the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University (which focused on offering only postgraduate and postdoctoral education), the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health as well as the Rockefeller University Press.

They also controlled, and continue to maintain ownership control in, school textbook companies and scholastic literature copy rights used in the public school systems thus being able to direct the historical narrative used in schools through Guggenheims American Historical Society.

Additionally, through use of political favors and influence as well as the structuring of public educational taxes through property ownership, these few NGO Foundations were able to mold educational policy and control the flow of funds to school districts and community colleges at the Federal levels.

https://open.substack.com/pub/william3n4z2/p/anglo-american-rewriting-of-us-history?r=1kb28q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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bulent's avatar

Independence Day should be renamed. Pretend you won day.

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William Pritting's avatar

Independence was won with the defeat of British General Cornwallis by General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781, but the war has never ended….

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PaPa's avatar

The United States is still fighting the American Revolution. We the people vs. they the ruling-connected-protected class.

1694 - The Bank of England was founded. War and conflicts ever since.

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Mike Moschos's avatar

The postwar transformation you're circling around was deep, radical, and contrived! Over just a quarter of a century, with some important parts (the academe, media) frontloaded, there was a comprehensive redesign of the political-economic system itself and the gradual installation of deeply false historical narratives. From roughly the 1830s to sometime after ww2, the United States operated with a genuinely decentralized, participatory, and federated system, regional and local capital structures, locally governed education and science, mass-member democratic and republican parties with real public access and civic embeddedness, institutions that allowed for serious bottom up coordination. The transformation did more than rewrite history: it systematically dismantled that older decentralized structure and replaced it with centralized, technocratic governance, consolidating decision-making into elite aligned national institutions and rewriting the history of the 19th and early 20th centuries to erase our old pluralistic and democratic nature and then teach us history in ways that make it seem like centralization was inevitable or secretly always present

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Victor's avatar

Alex, thanks for this. I was not at all aware of this part of the history of the US; i.e., the sacrifices made by many of the founding fathers.

As for the British, they were captured centuries ago by the City of London - a particular well-known banker, whose family to this day rule Britain behind the scenes. This family was resonsible for the Balfour Declaration, marshalling the zionists in America to use their influence to manipulate America into WWI and WWII, propagandised the world to accept the zionist thugs who stole Palestinian land by violence and have been responsible for untold misery in the world since, and have now, since Lyndon B Johnson made their way into the government of the USA and have ruled America since.

The British Empire was never the "British": it was from its beginnings the "Rothschild Empire".

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William Pritting's avatar

We “MAGA” citizens of the USA celebrate our Independence Day of July 4, 1776 not so much as our independence from being 13 colonies of the British Empire, but as our independence from the Venetian ideologies of Imperialism, “one-sided” free trade, and the master-slave relationship of subordination.

The British Empire was created from the Venetian conquest of England in 1688 that is fallaciously called “The Glorious Revolution.”

The British government today is still the cronies of their Venetian puppet-masters.

The Venetian puppet-masters are still in pursuit of achieving their quest for a One-World Global Empire, i.e. a fascist “British East India Company” where the Banksters & Corporatists own everything and their administrative minions run the global government as a business through top-down dictates and decrees.

The only two obstacles standing in the way of the Venetian Imperialist Fascist Oligarchy from realizing their fantasy dream are the two independent sovereign nationalist superpowers of the USA and Russia.

Actually, to be more precise, the only two obstacles standing in the Venetian’s way are Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump!

INDIVIDUALISM VS. COLLECTIVISM

https://open.substack.com/pub/william3n4z2/p/individualism-vs-collectivism?r=1kb28q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Vonu's avatar

Reading the Declaration of Independence might make the intelligent person realize that King George treated Americans better than their own government has for a long time.

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John Day MD's avatar

It was the East India Company that made the big problems, and the Bank of England, but the focus remained on the "King".

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Redstar 6198's avatar

Alex - as I’ve mentioned beforehand, you are the History teacher I wanted at school! Thankfully I never believed the books….

Great work and keep it up, learning so much

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Alex Krainer's avatar

Thank you Redstar!

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Wotan's avatar

Very informative article. All the "rebels" believed in the cause of freedom for individuals and the country and in many cases paid an enormous price. I am not certain that such men still exist - I could not name one. And it should not be forgotten that the adjective "perfidious" was regularly used in relation to the British and in some cases may still apply today.

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JMButler's avatar

'Perfidious' was the epithet used by the French, who of course never exerted their own type of traitorous strategy when it was convenient. Britain was strong, and they were jealous.

One has to consider the source as well as the language.

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Wotan's avatar

"Perfidious" is not a French word, its origin is the Latin word "perfidiosus". Britain was known throughout the world as "perfidious Albion", mainly because they tended to break every treaty. Obviously, the French were in the same category, but for some reason were not given the same description.

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John Day MD's avatar

"Norman French" were Vikings who conquered Normandy, and later England.

"England" is land-of-the-Eng, another Germanic group of wayward conquerors which had come before "William of Normandy", as he was more politely called.

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JMButler's avatar

From AI : The phrase 'Perfidious Albion', referring to Britain as treacherous, is widely attributed to Augustin Louis de Ximénès, a French-Spanish playwright, during the French Revolutionary Wars in the late 18th century. He is believed to have used the term in his poem "L'Ère des Français". The term was later adopted by others .... Touché!

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Wotan's avatar

Thank heavens for AI. What would we do without it? It still does not change the fact that the adjective is of Latin origin.

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JMButler's avatar

We wouldn't use the French term! Obviously the closest translation we could find, which just happens to have a Latin root

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Davy Ro's avatar

Im a British citizen but I live far from London & it's elitist members of the aristocracy. In fact the region Im from is like a completely different country. But I've worked a lot & had to go to London on many many occasions over the decades. If you know what you're looking for & how these people who I believe are the dark forces. Just seemlessly blend into the shadows. I honestly believe it's all a big game to them . One big adventure for them to be involved in. To feel important & be like their hero. Their hero is James Bond a fictional character, admittiddly created by an ex MI6 officer. What do these people ultimately achieve for Britain? They cost staggering amounts to operate their schemes. But what return do they give for their country? A country on the verge of financial collapse. After how many decades of these dark forces & their failed schemes? Take a look at the brand new chief of MI6. She has a history, that will bring confrontation & terrorism on a scale that could define Britain's bleak future. These dark forces have been drunk on power for to long, they're suffering from a huge dose of self importance. They've always been good at manipulating weak people.

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PJT's avatar

It is high time that their sacrifice be recognized and their names and heritage honored in the way it merits. That, far more than barbecues and fireworks should be the stuff of the 4th of July.

Completely agree your meritorious statement Alex, sad that Americans today are so ignorant of the real cost paid by those who had the foresight, vision, wherewithal and importantly dream to not live as slaves, vassals of a empire, who believed truly in being free irrespective the price, ask yourself this.. how many in modern America would today be so willing to sacrifice themselves, family and everything they possess to secure freedom, I fear the answers and result would make for rather grim reading … it will not be until the populace in the United States truly get on board with and fully understand exactly what was needed as you rightfully opine and write, to ensure statehood for the United States of America enabling them to break the shackles that bound them to the English Crown, part of an empire to be used, abused, played with at whim, that they, the American people will awaken from the slumber they find themselves in, their republic and all it stood for literally having been destroyed before them yet few if any are aware or importantly aware of the impact of this decline, the loss of true freedom, the slide into the Dollarcracy they’ve become and all that entails… time I believe they awaken from their actual existence in the “Truman Show”

Then and only then is there a chance as you correctly point out that they might truly break free and regain that which has been both lost and taken from them, now as back then, there existed usurpers within who did not support independence, only about 18% of the population of the day fully backing the independence movement the rest of the nation undecided or preferring to hedge scared of the prospects of cutting the umbilical cord that inexorably had bound them to the Crown… the same ratios exist now as then, another reason why this decline has been allowed to occur except in the reverse to what had been achieved 1774-6 as the usurpers presently within comprised the wealthy elites, corporates, financiers, the globalists they with no real allegiance to any place, nation or state save for where they rest their heads, earn a living have all but destroyed everything those you rightfully name paid so dearly to achieve… that is the saddest realisation of all.. one of many factors contributing to the present decline..just saying

Kia Kaha (Stay strong) From New Zealand

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Alex Krainer's avatar

Thank you PJT!

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Richard Williams's avatar

A damned fine article that should adorn the front pages on both sides of the pond.

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rg's avatar

Hello Alex,

Thanks for this article, and for all of your work. Your conversation with Nima yesterday was rich with insights that I think are likely correct and which I'm not hearing from other commentators. In this fast-moving geopolitical environment, updates like that can never be "canonical", but yesterday's conversation had that kind of quality, to my mind. It's a rare example of a commentary on breaking news that I intend to listen to for at least a second time in order to further absorb its content.

Far too many of our better observers are obsessed with the truth-value of Trump's claims about the US bombing operation in Iran. Far too few are noting that Trump is saying that the problem is solved. There is doubt that there ever was a problem. There is almost no doubt that Trump's factual claims about the bombing are false. But he is saying that he considers the problem solved. This is enormously important, as you and only a few others are emphasizing. I would also say that your hypothesis about what is happening between Trump and Netanyahu is, I think, highly astute.

On another topic (and I apologize to those who don't appreciate the off-topic comment), I also listened to your two-part conversation with Crypto Rich and Lauren the astrologer. I have been looking into astrology for about the last year-and-a-half. I think most of us know that the big barrier to entry to astrology is the question whether it "works", and how it could be that it works. Many of us also know that astrology is not a discipline similar to engineering. The components of astrology are very numerous, and it can't be that each of them lines up perfectly, or at all, with the reality of a personality or of events in the world.

My view is that it's like a palette, with the colors being the symbolism associated with the planets, the signs, the aspects, and the other components. It's a palette on which we can paint pictures using our own creativity, and my experience is that doing this yields uncanny results much more often than would happen if the components of astrology were random and arbitrary. It's fun to do, and it has afforded me many meaningful insights into people, and in some cases into historical phenomena.

I also believe that the components of a person's natal horoscope, for example, reside on a spectrum of strength. An approximate semi-sextile between two planets is weak, while an exact conjunction between two planets will be intensely strong. For example, I know someone who was born on the day of a solar eclipse, meaning that on that day the Sun and Moon passed through an exact conjunction. In my approach, I look for the strongest components of a chart. I have done some computer programming to automate this with aspects, which as you know are angles between planets (and other things like the Ascendant).

I'm curious as to what are the strongest components of the birth charts of people that I know, or of public figures such as yourself and many others. I gather from your many interviews that you were born in the early 1970s in Croatia, but Grok tells me that your date of birth is not out there in the open-source world. Some people don't want to make their dates of birth public, but if you're not one of them, or if you'd be willing to send it to me privately, I will put together a very concise commentary focusing on what I regard as the strongest features of your chart.

Also worth noting is that when we have someone's time of birth, we know things with more precision. The Moon moves about 12 degrees every 24 hours, and some of the other planets move somewhat within each day. For example, I had an uncle who was born on a day when the Sun moved from one sign into the next in the late afternoon, and I might never know what his Sun sign actually was.

Cheers, and thanks again for everything.

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Alex Krainer's avatar

Thank you RT!

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Rick Janes's avatar

"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war."

This quote by Julian Assange triggered Tony Blair, because the former so neatly exposed the game at hand!

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Peter Fill's avatar

Hello Alex, absolutely spot on. Truth and real History will prevail. Thank you for posting. The Old Man

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Alex Krainer's avatar

Thank you Peter!

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MoreMore's avatar

It's not about nation states and you know it. Not back then, nor today. It's about the money handlers, try to look up the shareholders of f.i. Vanguard. Or check the balance sheets of the BIS.

Let me save you your precious time, you won't be able to.

And btw., Russia gate was instigated by the Dutch "intelligence", the AIVD.

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Alfred Nassim's avatar

"after the failed attempt to push the US into a war against Iraq."

Iran

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