{"id":90881,"date":"2017-04-24T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90881"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:32:25","slug":"who-will-tell-the-people-that-fascism-has-come-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/who-will-tell-the-people-that-fascism-has-come-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Tell the People (That Fascism Has Come to America)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Corporations Rule the World, Thank the CIA and the Media Disinformation Campaign<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWho will tell the people that free speech is a ruse
\nThe corporations run the country and then they make the news
\nIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimes
\nWho will tell the people that we’re living in these times?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2013 David Rovics, July 2001<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need a trial to judge all those who bear significant responsibility for the past century – the most murderous and ecologically destructive in human history. We could call it the war, air and fiscal crimes tribunal and we could put politicians and CEOs and major media owners in the dock with earphones like Eichmann and make them listen to the evidence of how they killed millions of people and almost murdered the planet and made most of us far more miserable than we needed to be. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, we wouldn\u2019t have time to go after them one by one. We\u2019d have to lump Wall Street investment bankers in one trial, the Council on Foreign Relations in another, and any remaining Harvard Business School or Yale Law graduates in a third. We don\u2019t need this for retribution, only for edification. So there would be no capital punishment, but rather banishment to an overseas Nike factory with a vow of perpetual silence.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Sam Smith (Editor, Progressive Review)<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 1995 David Korten wrote a book titled \u201cWhen Corporations Rule the World\u201d. One reviewer began his summary of the book by writing: We have been seduced by \u2018corporate libertarianism\u2019, which demands that all political, economic, and civic barriers to the free reign of corporate interests be removed. <\/em>(I would add that all moral barriers are to be removed as well.)<\/p>\n

Capitalist gurus on Wall Street (and your local investment advisors as well) tell us repeatedly that the \u201cmarkets\u201d (that are worshipped by the over-privileged \u201cinvestor\u201d classes among the elite 1%) prefer economic stability, which is best provided by fascist\/police state dictatorships, monarchies or one party pseudo-democratic governments that are peopled with obedient, brain-washed citizens that can be manipulated to be good consumers of addictive substances, addictive entertainment, celebrity worship and other increasingly unaffordable corporate \u201cconsumer goods\u201d that are heavily advertised on the ubiquitous corporate-owned media.<\/p>\n

Social democratic governments such as those espoused by Senator Bernie Sanders and Vice President Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) ideally have as their leaders politicians who sincerely desire for their citizens fairness, security, well-being, fair wages, leisure, humane employment standards, good health, good nutrition and good education; and they also want those benefits to accrue to minorities, the oppressed and the disadvantaged as well.<\/p>\n

Sadly, social democracies are roundly hated by the over-privileged investor classes that prefer privatizing all goods and services because their fortunes would be threatened if they had to pay increased taxes that would, in their opinion, be \u201cwasted\u201d on things that would mainly benefit others, such as affordable healthcare, affordable housing, affordable (and healthy) food, and living wages. The other thing these capitalist elites fear is the possibility that the 99% that have chronically victimized by the 1% will actually start voting in elections. So, to counter that possibility, there have been pre-installed the mechanisms for rigging elections which can be easily triggered if the threat of true democracy rears its head to threaten our pro-corporate\/pro-war one-party system.<\/p>\n

So, recently having come across a number of new (and some old) quotes that illustrate my thesis (that the danger of corporatism and its twin, fascism\/perpetual war, are no longer just future possibilities), I list some of them below for readers to decide for themselves how serious the threat is. The first is a song that was written by singer-song-writer David Rovics a few months before the provable false flag operation that has bamboozled \u2013 and continues to bamboozle (thanks to the CIA and the media) – hundreds of millions of patriotic Americans for the past 16 years. (Everything the reader needs to know to really understand what really happened on 9\/11\/01 is at: https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/09\/duty-to-warn-the-15th-anniversary-of-the-crime-and-cover-up-of-the-century-91101\/<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

“Living In These Times”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lyrics and Music by David Rovics \u2013 July 2001<\/em><\/p>\n

The CIA is pushing crack in the ghettoes of LA
\nWhile the food crops in Colombia get sprayed by the DEA
\nThe FBI is reading your email with something called the \u201cCarnivore\u201d
\nAnd the rich are getting richer while the poor are staying poor<\/em><\/p>\n

They’re launching nuclear-powered ships up into space
\nOne little accident could wipe out half the human race
\nAnd they’re putting radioactive waste into your silverware
\nOr maybe your toaster and perhaps your wheelchair.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Air Force is bombing people in Iraq every other day
\nThey don’t like the government so the children have to pay
\nThe ozone hole is spreading and the sheep are going blind
\nWhile the US spends more on arms than the rest of the world combined<\/p>\n

Journalists are getting fired from San Jose to Atlanta
\nWhen they write about reality, not a fluff piece for Fanta
\nA death threat every week and sometimes life is short
\nWhen the truth is too dangerous for someone to report<\/em><\/p>\n

(Chorus)<\/p>\n

Who will tell the people that free speech is a ruse
\nThe corporations run the country and then they make the news
\nIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimes
\nWho will tell the people that we’re living in these times?<\/p>\n

The cancer rates are skyrocketing though people are smoking less
\nIf you live near a nuke your life is bound to be a mess
\nClean water’s almost gone everywhere on earth
\nAnd what’s left they want to privatize and see how much it’s worth<\/p>\n

Chevron is gunning down the students of Nigeria
\nTurning the land to waste while the babies die of diphtheria
\nAnd the weather’s getting hotter, the world’s forests are on fire
\nPretty soon Brazil will be one giant funeral pyre<\/em><\/p>\n

(Chorus)<\/p>\n

One in three adult Americans cannot read or write
\nAnd their children go to bed hungry every night
\nAnd two million US citizens are rotting behind bars
\nAnd while they’re there they’re working hard building parts for cars<\/p>\n

And the Army’s running torture schools to keep the earth controlled
\nAnd they’re relocating Navajos so they can mine some extra coal
\nOur taxes pay McDonald’s to sell tumors in Shanghai
\nWhile a hundred thousand poisoned vets are just about to die<\/em><\/p>\n

(Chorus)<\/p>\n

And the people are resisting wherever you may go
\nAnd this is the single biggest fact they don’t want you to know
\nFrom New Delhi to New Mexico there are battles going on
\nAnd the darkest hour is just before the dawn<\/p>\n

And in Berkeley and New York they’re raiding radio stations
\nTrying to turn the voice of the people into the voice of the corporations
\nWill we seize the airwaves, wipe the sweat off of our brow
\nStand and face the beast and shout, “Democracy Now!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.”<\/em> \u2013 Benito Mussolini (\u201cIl Duce\u201d), Founder of the National Fascist Party (1921 -1943) and Dictator of Fascist Italy until his assassination in 1945)<\/p>\n

“Fascism is a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”<\/em>\u00a0 — American Heritage Dictionary 1983<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.\u201d<\/em> — President John Quincy Adams (1825 \u2013 1829)<\/p>\n

“I am sick and tired of war. \u00a0Its glory is all moonshine.\u00a0 It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.\u00a0 War is hell.” — <\/em>General William Tecumseh Sherman 1865<\/p>\n

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” \u2013 <\/em>President Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906<\/p>\n

\u201cYet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist.\u201d–\u00a0<\/em>George Orwell<\/a>\u00a01936<\/a> (Among Orwell\u2019s other famous quotes are these: \u201dIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.\u201c <\/em>and “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”<\/em>)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Henry A. Wallace, Vice President under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1941-1945)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.\u201d\u00a0\u2013<\/em>\u00a0Henry A. Wallace<\/p>\n

\u201dThe American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity… They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection\u2026<\/em>Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion\u2026They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0—\u00a0Henry A. Wallace<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power\u2026Among us today is growing a concentration of private power without equal in history.\u201d\u00a0— <\/em>President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 \u2013 1945)<\/p>\n

“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we do about peace – more about killing than we do about living.” — <\/em>WWII General Omar Bradley 1946<\/p>\n

\u201cWe annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.\u00a0 This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications\u2026In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military\/industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.\u201d — <\/em>President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1961<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important topic on earth: peace. What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children \u2014 not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women \u2014 not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 President John F. Kennedy, in his profound, anti-fascist American University commencement address, 10 June 1963. (Five months later he was assassinated.)<\/p>\n

\u201dThose who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who COUNT the votes decide everything.\u201d<\/em> — Joseph Stalin<\/p>\n

“Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”<\/em> \u2013 Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923 (Hitler committed suicide in 1945)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them.\u201d<\/em> — Adolf Hitler – Dictator of Nazi Germany\u00a0 (1933 \u2013 1945)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat good fortune for those in power that the people do not think.\u201d<\/em> — Adolf Hitler
\n\u201cThe fascist state must not forget that all means must serve the ends; it must not let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called \u201cfreedom of the press\u201d\u2026it must make sure that (the media) is placed in the service of the state.\u201d<\/em> — Adolf Hitler<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and\/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.\u201d<\/em> — Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi “Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rank and file is usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly… it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.\u201d<\/em> — Joseph Goebbels \u2013 committed suicide in 1945<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They\u2019re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There\u2019s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>—<\/em>\u00a0Noam Chomsky<\/p>\n

\u201cThe primary function of mass or mainstream media is not to give the public objective information about events in the world but to\u00a0\u2018<\/em>manufacture\u2019 consent<\/em><\/a>\u00a0about events in the world\u2026that\u00a0<\/em>the power elite<\/em><\/a> (which runs the U.S. mainstream media) would like there to be among the public.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Co-authors Noam Chomsky\u00a0and\u00a0Edward Herman\u00a0in \u201cManufacturing Consent\u201d (1988)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.\u201d
\n<\/em>—\u00a0Sinclair Lewis<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy \u2026 The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy -nor does the United States.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013<\/em> Boutros Boutros-Ghali,<\/em> Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996<\/em><\/p>\n

_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Kohls is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. He writes a weekly column for the Duluth Reader,\u00a0the area\u2019s\u00a0alternative newsweekly magazine. His columns deal with the dangers of American fascism, corporatism, militarism, racism, malnutrition, Big Pharma\u2019s psychiatric drugging and over-vaccination regimens, and other movements that threaten the environment, prosperity, democracy, civility and the health and longevity of the populace. Many of his columns are archived at <\/em>http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/gary-g-kohls<\/a>; http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&p=2;<\/a> or at https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/search\/?q=gary+kohls+articles<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Corporations Rule the World, Thank the CIA and the Media Disinformation Campaign –
\n\u201cWho will tell the people that free speech is a ruse
\nThe corporations run the country and then they make the news
\nIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimes
\nWho will tell the people that we’re living in these times?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}