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The Follies of the Economic Hitmen Re-Animating the World's Economy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
November 24, 2004
In John Perkins' otherwise notably useful Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, there are four systemic errors concerning the principles of physical economy, and one, added point of curious unclarity, concerning his references, there and elsewhere, to the meaning of the events of September 11, 2001.
Error Number One:
First, and foremost, he greatly exaggerates the place of the United States of America in the authorship of operations associated with what he identifies as "The Economic Hitmen."
The precedent for, and actual root of the operation which he otherwise describes fairly, is typified by those operations run by that Venetian financier oligarchy's Florentine House of Bardi which led into the so-called New Dark Age of Europe's Fourteenth Century. The notorious Bardi agents nicknamed "Biche" and "Mouche," were the leading Venetian "economic hitmen" of that century.
The organization behind the contemporary operations Perkins describes, is the direct descendent of that same Venetian financier oligarchy, which operates today under its current guise as the Europe-based, international, Anglo-Dutch Liberal financier oligarchical system, of which today's United States, like today's second-generation economic hitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger controller George Shultz, is merely a leading subsidiary instrument.
The U.S.A. has certainly played the most conspicuous role in operations associated with what Perkins identified as the Economic Hitmen, but there is a grave error of assumption in arguing, or even implying that the motive for this role by the U.S. was authored from within the bounds of the U.S.A. itself. Unfortunately, only those who were adults during World War II, are likely, without assistance, to recall the relevant ways in which the world has changed since author Perkins was born; it is typical of Perkins' generation to miss the crucial point here.
The U.S. which had been led in recovery by President Franklin Roosevelt, had emerged from the war as the world's only stable economic power, and as the head of the world system which emerged from the aftermath of that conflict. Therefore, if anyone wished to do something important against the world at large after 1945, that someone had to find a way of gaining controlling influence over the power embodied in the post-World War II U.S.A.
Over the interval since the death of Roosevelt, a series of breaking developments has taken down the U.S. policy-structures by which Roosevelt had led in saving the U.S.A., and Roosevelt's U.S.A. had saved the world. These changes in control over U.S. policy, came chiefly in discrete increments of destructive shifts in policies. This includes, notably, the processes unfolding following the terrifying events of 1962-63 and the 1964, fraudulent launching of the official U.S. war in Indo-China, and with the developments of 1971-81 under the leadership of National Security Advisors Henry A. Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. The George Shultz whom Perkins justly fingers as a very bad man of his story, was a key figure, if, like George's father, often somewhat behind the scenes, in the relevant dirty doings throughout that period and following.
Under the changes unleashed beginning the middle of the 1960s, the U.S. was put through a process of transformation from being the world's leading producer nation, toward a transformation into an internally despoiled "post-industrial utopia," sucking the blood of the world in a fashion recalling the reign of "bread and circuses" in a self-doomed ancient imperial Rome. Thus, the U.S. ceased, more and more, to act in expression of its own national interests, and acted increasingly, instead, as an expendable tool of a new role assigned to it, within a process of so-called "globalization" conducted by a utopian alliance among a concert of international financier-oligarchical forces.
These forces were, in the main, the same network of international financier-oligarchical entities, once known as the Synarchist International, which had created modern fascism in the image of Alessandro Cagliostro's and Count Joseph de Maistre's Napoleon Bonaparte, and had swallowed up the nations of western and central continental Europe into the Nazi system over the interval from banker Volpi di Misurata's Mussolini coup of 1922, through the close of the war in Europe.
In the course of a show-trial-like, exemplary treatment of some Nazis, we of the allied powers never uprooted the higher level of that financier-oligarchical cabal which, itself, had been behind the creation and direction of 1922-1945 fascist power which Hitler came to direct in Europe, as in control over Mexico's Synarchists, and elsewhere. Under U.S. President Truman and later, we absorbed them, with much of their ill-gained financial holdings intact, into the post-war system. They are back, in force, today, with figures such as George Shultz and his Vice-President Dick Cheney now performing relevant services to that same pack of financial rats.
It is that international financier oligarchical entity which has used the U.S. as the obvious keystone, and even often a virtual puppet, of a concert of international forces which have used, and still use the U.S.A. as a leading chess-piece on the global board of play. Thus, the U.S. today is, itself, more often more played by a global financier oligarchy from above, than the player. To maintain that arrangement between chessboard and player, it is convenient to accuse the Queen, who is being used on the board, of being the one to be considered as the actual player.
Today's popularized name for this process of destruction, and absorption of the U.S.A. and other nations, is "globalization," otherwise known by such names as the European "stability pact," a murderous pact ruinously inserted into the Maastricht agreements. On this world chessboard of today, there are enumerably numerous players, including even heads of governments, who, in reality, show little more actual free will than the mere chess pieces which are being played from behind the table-top.
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