9/11, NSA Spying, the CIA, Wikileaks, Zionism, Psychedelics, the War on Drugs, Censorship, Climate Change, the Ukraine, the Iraq War, and a Whole Lot More

This website is based on a libertarian (in the sense of J.S.Mill) perspective and is opposed to Fascism, Capitalism, Zionism, the Anglo-Zionist Empire, the tyrannical Surveillance State and all who secretly work to cause wars (endless wars) for  heir own advantage and profit. It has over 250 pages concerned with the (obviously) controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 and the subsequent so-called "war on terror", and over 1000 pages on other subjects, including the CIA, the NSA, the Lockerbie bombing, the Waco massacre, the CIA-led coup in the Ukraine, censorship, the Iraq war, the murder of Princess Diana, Wikileaks, religion, psychedelics and the so-called "War on Drugs", plus pages on notable people such as George W. Bush, Maria Callas, Ganesh Baba, Ernst Zündel, Nick Sand and the Dalai Lama. This website asserts the natural right of people everywhere to pursue their lives, interests and pleasures free from harmful social conditioning (propaganda), from exploitation and domination by political and economic forces which seek to enslave them, and from repressive authoritarian governments, rapacious capitalist corporations, mendacious religious organizations, fraudulent international bankers and the unholy alliance among all of these which seeks to deprive everyone else of their freedom, health, wealth, happiness and the full realization of their spiritual potential.

Malcolm X: “I am for truth, whoever tells it.” P. B. Shelley: “Rise like lions after slumber ... Ye are many — they are few.”

What are they afraid of?

The really final edition of the Website-on-Flash-Drive has been published. Get it while you can. You can express your appreciation of the 23 years of unpaid work (1996 to 2019) by the author of this website (Peter Meyer) by purchasing a copy (or two — one for a friend) of the Website-on-Flash-Drive or perhaps all three of his flash drives.

• Dmitri Orlov on the Moon Landings

  What’s harder to do, land on the Moon six times with zero casualties, or fake the whole thing and keep it quiet? The latter is just an exercise in public relations, and PR ain’t rocket science.

  Steps in faking the Moon landings were the following:

  1. Bribe or browbeat the Soviet leadership ... to go along with the fake and to keep it quiet.
  2. Simulate launches of Saturn V rockets ...
  3. Simulate radio communications between flight control center and the flight crew using radio relays.
  4. Falsify lunar rocks supposedly retrieved from the Moon.
  5. Simulate videos and photos supposedly made while on the Moon with the help of Stanley Kubrick.
  6. Destroy a great deal of evidence in order to make the fake harder to prove.
  7. Stonewall all those who kept asking obvious questions for five decades running.

• The Difference Between Sex and Gender

• Extracts from Kunstler’s "Nemesis Rising!"

  And now there is the Epstein matter, which threatens not only former president Bill Clinton, but a cosmos of political, financial, and entertainment “stars” in countless ugly incidents that involve a kind of personal corruption that has no political context but says an awful lot about the obliteration of moral and ethical boundaries by the people who ended up running things in this fretful moment of US history.

• NATO’s Arab Spring and Unintended Deadly Consequences — the latest addition to F. William Engdahl’s Newsletters

• Carlo M. Cipolla: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity  (A synopsis by Corinne Purtill is here.)

  Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, but I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein

• Paul Craig Roberts: The Assange/Manning Cases Discredit Humanity

  The corrupt Western media is against Assange because he shows them up as devoid of an ounce of integrity and devoid of the practice of journalism. ... Washington, which claims to represent the American people, is for war and more war. Bolton intends that the US will, for Israel, attack Iran and create chaos there as was created in Iraq and Libya, and also in Syria prior to the Russian intervention. Under neoconserative and Israeli leadership, America has become a deranged country, distrusted by other governments and considered the primary threat to peace and life on earth.

• Caitlin Johnstone Debunks all the Assange Smears

  Corrupt and unaccountable power uses its political and media influence to smear Assange because, as far as the interests of corrupt and unaccountable power are concerned, killing his reputation is as good as killing him. ... Those of us who value truth and light need to fight this smear campaign in order to keep our fellow man from signing off on a major leap in the direction of Orwellian dystopia, and a big part of that means being able to argue against those smears and disinformation wherever they appear.

• Julian Assange Arrested
  • John Pilger: Assange Arrest a Warning from History
    
  • Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Julian Assange
     
• Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine: A prescient warning of the danger of nuclear war

  Chapter by chapter, Ellsberg describes US plans for nuclear attack that can be triggered by accident, or by intention, very easily, leading to a nuclear holocaust which would wipe out all life on the planet. ... Ellsberg warns that the threat of nuclear destruction has only increased since the end of the Cold War, precisely because the public sense of the dangers has steadily eroded, in addition to the American government’s quest for world hegemony ... [As] Ellsberg’s book so eloquently explains, we are dealing not with individuals who may or may not be mad, but a system which is mad ... Ellsberg ... sees the threat of omnicide, the destruction of the species, as something inherent in the human condition itself ...

• The Saker: The Great Fraud of National Zionism

  National Zionism is a gigantic fraud. It is also the rising political ideology of the West, and that presents a major risk for our entire planet. ... Once the people of a country lose control of their government and the sovereignty of their country is gone, then [and only then] the Zionists will feel they are safe. This theory is (1) racist (2) paranoid (3) sociopathic and, frankly, just plain silly. But this is what the Talmudic worldview produces in a secularized society. A critical assumption of this worldview is that any form of nationalism or even patriotism is dangerous (by definition) unless it is Jewish or Israeli, at which point it is laudable and benevolent (again, by definition). Thus, besides being many other things, Zionism is also a theory of power based on a zero-sum game. Of course “zero-sum” might sound benign until you remember that it implies a total struggle to the end, a total, absolute defeat of the other, a destruction of all your enemies [or potential enemies]. Not something helpful in a multi-polar world with lots of nuclear weapons.

• Smartphones Suck!

• Chronological listings of articles by:

  Peter Meyer John Kaminski Wade Frazier Leonard Spencer

  Gilad Atzmon Richard K. Moore The Saker F. William Engdahl

  
  
• The Bankers' Stealth Coup — and an Appeal from William Engdahl

• Conversation with Christopher Bache (PDF file)

  I ask: how many of our children and grandchildren are going to have to die before we will be willing to make the changes that we are not willing to make today? My visionary experience is that it is going to get very bad, but that through this crisis we will give birth to a radically transformed human being: a human being healed of the scars of war and the terrible things we’ve done to each other through the centuries; a more conscious human being capable of deeper relationships and deeper communion with the creative intelligence of the universe; a more spiritually realized human being.

• Peter Meyer: Australia: A Crypto-Fascist Police State — plus links to relevant articles

• FBaggins: Venezuela — U.S. Modus Operandi — plus links to relevant articles

• Michael McCullough: Religion is Mostly about Sex

• Eric Zeusse: MH17 Turnabout: Ukraine’s Guilt Now Proven

• The Globalist Agenda Explained

  Their goal and end-game of course goes way beyond the destruction of European nations and cultures. It is global. They are busy imposing on the entire world a One World Government, with a One World Bank (an international privately run one just like the US Fed), and a One World Currency, with a of course a one-world UN military force to enforce trading in that currency in the same way that the US military enforces trading in the US petrodollar. This is not theory but fact to any disinterested observer of the globalist movement and its sources.

• Cognitive Dissonance: The Essence of Control is its Concealment

• Gene Editing Golems and Mad Science — the latest addition to F. William Engdahl's Newsletters — including:
  
  • US Gov Backs Dangerous New Genetic Manipulation Approach
  • Is Gene Editing the New Name for Eugenics?
  • Son of Frankenstein? UK Body Backs Human Embryo Gene Editing
  • GMO Lobby Plots to Corrupt EU Court Ruling on Gene Editing
  • China’s Golem Babies: There is Another Agenda

• Recommended Blogs — with a few links to pages about FaceBook and how smartphones can steal childhood.

• George Herbert Walker Bush Dead at 94: He Lived 94 years Too Long

• Paul Craig Robertson: Revenge Is Mine Saith Washington

  What has Assange done? He has done nothing but to tell the truth. He is a journalist who heads Wikileaks, a news organization that publishes leaked documents — exactly as the New York Times published the leaked Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. Just as the publication of the Pentagon Papers embarrassed the US government and helped to bring about the end of the senseless Vietnam War, the documents leaked to Wikileaks embarrassed the US government by revealing Washington’s war crimes, lies, and deception of the American people and US allies. The allies, of course, were bought off by Washington and remained silent, but Washington intends to crucify Assange for the embarrassment and payoff expense he caused the criminal government in Washington. In order to assert authority over Assange, Washington is using the extra-territoriality of US law, a claim that Washington bases not on law but on might alone and uses to violate the sovereignty of independent countries. Assange is a citizen of Australia and Ecuador. He is not subject to US law. Even if he were, he has committed no espionage.

• Chris Hedges: Crucifying Julian Assange

  We learned from the emails published by WikiLeaks that the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two of the major funders of Islamic State. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton paid her donors back by approving $80 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, enabling the kingdom to carry out a devastating war in Yemen that has  ... left close to 60,000 dead. We learned Clinton was paid $675,000 for speaking at Goldman Sachs, a sum so massive it can only be described as a bribe.  ... We learned, because 1,700 of the 33,000 emails came from Hillary Clinton, she was the primary architect of the war in Libya. We learned she believed that the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi would burnish her credentials as a presidential candidate. The war she sought has left Libya in chaos, seen the rise to power of radical jihadists in what is now a failed state, triggered a massive exodus of migrants to Europe  ...and resulted in 40,000 dead. Should this information have remained hidden from the American public? ... “They are setting my son up to give them an excuse to hand him over to the U.S., where he would face a show trial,” [his mother] Christine Assange warned.  ... “Julian could very well be held in Guantanamo Bay and tortured, sentenced to 45 years in a maximum-security prison, or face the death penalty. My son is in critical danger because of a brutal, political persecution by the bullies in power whose crimes and corruption he had courageously exposed when he was editor in chief of WikiLeaks.”

• An Inquiring Mind: The Collected Writings of Peter Meyer is now available on CD-ROM and USB flash drive.

• A “Holy War” Against China — the latest addition to F. William Engdahl's Newsletters

  The goal of the various Islamist Jihad groups the CIA covertly backed, beginning the time of the Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s, was to spread a cancer of radical Islamic terror and fanaticism to displace the tradition of moderate, peaceful Islam across Central Asia and into Xinjiang ... [C]ertain powerful interest groups in the West — banking, industrial, military, and political — came to view Beijing ... as the new emerging Great Enemy. ... A central part of their strategy to derail China and its growing Eurasian presence would be the increased deployment of Islamic fundamentalism of the Gülen, Al Qaeda, and Muslim Brotherhood kind against China, Russia, and all Eurasia ...

• A link to Suspected 9-11 Criminal Coconspirators has been added to Other [9-11] Websites.

• Caitlin Johnstone: Society is Made of Narrative. Realizing this is Awakening from The Matrix.

  Out of the white noise of a failing propaganda machine [The Matrix], a new world is being born, one that respects the autonomy of the individual and their right to self-determination. One that respects our right to collaborate on large scales to create beautiful, healthy, helpful systems without the constant sabotage and disruption of a few power-hungry psychopaths who would rather rule than live.

• A Bankers’ Coup D’état creates a Federal Reserve — the latest addition to F. William Engdahl's Newsletters

  In 1908, a year after the creation of Aldrich's National Monetary Commission, the most powerful bankers in America met in highest secrecy to draw up plans for the greatest financial and political coup d’état in the history of the United States. The plan was to rob from the US Congress its constitutionally mandated powers to create and control money. The coup was to usurp those Constitutional powers in order to serve private special interests, even at the expense of the general welfare of the population of the United States.  ... The Federal Reserve proposed by Glass would control the nation’s money and credit, in direct contravention of Article One of the United States Constitution which vested such control explicitly in the US Congress ...

  The Federal Reserve (which is the source of inflation) was created in defiance of the US Constitution (the supreme law of the land) and thus is illegal. It is an ongoing criminal enterprise, and thus its agents can be and should be arrested and prosecuted under the RICO Act.

• The Myth of Apollo has been updated with links to David McGowan's Wagging the Moondoggie
  and to Bart Sibrel's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon.

• “Democratic Institutions?”: 10 Lessons from history that will destroy your trust in the CIA

• Peter Meyer: An Ecology of Souls

  [W]hen someone smokes a sufficient amount of DMT they experience what appears to be a ‘space’ of some kind which is inhabited by ‘entities’ which appear to be aware of the observer.  ... What they are seeing are the bodies of souls which inhabit a world which is intermediate between the angelic and the human. In the words of Terence McKenna ... those entities constitute “an ecology of souls”.

  
• The Philip Cross Affair, an update to Censorship and Propaganda at Wikipedia.

• Dindu Nuffins: The Origins of “Racism”

  “Racism” is a recently-coined word that has suckered a lot of people into using it at face value, but its origins and history reveal it to be little more than an intentionally-lopsided marxist term of abuse to destroy the natural protective instincts in their one singlemost hated enemy. ... This relatively young word was never intended to be used fairly and evenly against all racial and ethnic categories. It has only been used to target white societies.

  
• EuropeanUnity565: What is Cultural Marxism?

• Philip M. Giraldi: How False Flag Operations are Carried Out Today

  Today’s false flag operations are generally carried out by intelligence agencies and non-government actors including terrorist groups, but [unlike in the past] they are only considered successful if the true attribution of an action remains secret. There is nothing honorable about them as their intention is to blame an innocent party for something that it did not do.

• Where-Wolf: The War of the Deep States

  I strongly disagree with the oversimplified idea that this is strictly a competition between Anglo-Zionist Hegemony and a Multipolar World Order ... The real war being fought is between competing and often heavily intertwoven Deep States, representing ruthlessly competing interests, and of which the UK Rothschild ‘Octopus,’ the US-Centric Rockefeller-Kochs, and the Russian Deep State, which is itself divided between the two Anglo factions [Atlanticists and Eurasianists] already mentioned, are among the most important. ... The other Deep States of significance include the East Asian, based in China, itself divided between Rothchild oriented Hong Kong and Chinese sovereignty oriented Shanghai, and in the MENA region, where both Arab and Persian Deep States play important roles ...

• Amir Nour: 9/11 and the Green Scare: It's High Time for a Paradigm Shift

• The Saker: Newly revealed Russian weapons systems: political implications

  The leaders of the Empire, along with their brainwashed ideological drones ["the American Axis of Evil (i.e. the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Israel)"], live in a world completely detached from reality.  ... And yet, reality exists. No matter how US propagandists have tried to spin it, deny it, obfuscate it or dismiss it, something very fundamental has changed for the United States. One such element of reality which, with time, will start to slowly seep into the minds of the people of the USA is that their beloved ”homeland“ and they themselves are now personally and directly at risk. Indeed, for the first time in history, the United States is now targeted by powerful conventional [i.e. non-nuclear] weapons which can reach any target inside the United States.

  
• Bernado Kastrup: An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem (PDF file)

• The Frank Olson Murder has been revised.

• Newsletters from F. William Engdahl — for those who want to know what really happened and how the world really works

• Richard K. Moore's Operation The Eagle Strikes (2008) has been augmented by further warnings from Paul Craig Roberts (2013, 2014, 2017) and others, but still the sheeple sleep‑walk to their destruction.

• Laird Wilcox: Ritual Defamation

  Defamation is the destruction or attempted destruction of the reputation, status, character or standing in the community of a person or group of persons by unfair, wrongful, or malicious speech or publication.  ... Ritual Defamation ... follows a predictable, stereotyped pattern which embraces a number of elements, as in a ritual.

• United Nations draft treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons — adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on July 7, 2017, by a vote of 122 countries in favour (including New Zealand), one country against (the Netherlands, to its shame) and one abstention (Singapore). The U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia declined to vote. The prohibition goes into effect after ratification by 50 countries.

• Paul Craig Roberts: 9/11 Destroyed America

• Civil Asset Forfeiture — the mark of a totalitarian state

• Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid
  This is the Executive Summary accompanying the report by the UN's Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA).

  This report concludes that Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole. Aware of the seriousness of this allegation, the authors of the report conclude that available evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid as legally defined in instruments of international law.

  The full report, which has been suppressed (censored) after objections (of the usual kind) by the US and Israel, is here.

• A Review of The Culture of Critique by Stanley Hornbeck

  In The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald advances a carefully researched but extremely controversial thesis: that certain 20th century intellectual movements – largely established and led by Jews – have changed European societies in fundamental ways and destroyed the confidence of Western man. He claims that these movements were designed, consciously or unconsciously, to advance Jewish interests even though they were presented to non-Jews as universalistic and even utopian. He concludes that the increasing dominance of these ideas has had profound political and social consequences that benefited Jews but caused great harm to gentile societies.

• Interview with DHS Insider re PedoGate — Victurus Libertas interviews a DHS insider re the CIA, Israel, Russia, Trump and PedoGate

• The Saker: A “color revolution” is underway in the United States

  One of the most amazing features of this color revolution against Trump is the fact that those behind it don’t give a damn about the damage that their war against Trump does to the institution of the President of the United States and, really, to the United States as a whole. That damage is, indeed, immense and the bottom line is this: President Trump is in immense danger of being overthrown and his only hope for survival is to strike back hard and fast.

• The full text of Julian Assange's statement in reply to questioning by Swedish officials at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in November 2016

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, with a comparison to the UN Declaration of Human Rights

  Article 4  Freedom consists in being able to do anything that does not harm others.Thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has limits only to the extent of those which ensure that the other members of society possess the pleasure of these same rights.
  
  Article 16  Any society in which the guarantee of [these] human rights is not assured ... has no legal constitution [basis].

• On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 Hoax and unpunished mass murder of nearly 3000 people links to six YouTube videos from The Corbett Report concerning 9/11 suspects have been added to Relevant [9/11] Pages on Other Websites.

• Eric Zeusse: The Central Issue in the U.S. Presidential Campaign

  This central issue is whether or not to continue to move forward with the American government’s plan, ever since the Soviet Union and its military alliance the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, to extend NATO ... right up to Russia’s borders, surround Russia with NATO nuclear missiles a mere five minutes flight-time to Moscow, and simultaneously build an ... “Anti Ballistic Missile” system to nullify Russia’s retaliatory missiles against an unannounced blitz U.S.-NATO invasion to take over, if not totally eliminate, Russia and its resistance to U.S. power. ...
  
  The path we’re on can end only in one of two ways: Either the U.S. ‘news’ media will get real and start reporting the crucial realities (such as that the aggression in Ukraine wasn’t Putin’s ‘seizure’ of Crimea but the immediately prior coup ... by Obama’s hirees) ... that contradict the official lies and thus might (if we’re extremely lucky) compel the U.S. government to reverse its present course; or else, there will be a surprise blitz attack by U.S.-NATO against Russia, or else by Russia against U.S.-NATO. The closer we get to the end of this matter, the more difficult the former option becomes, and the more inevitable the latter option — a blitz attack (by either side) — becomes. That’s the reality

• Climate Change
  
  
  • Peter Meyer: The Global Warming Scare — Or should we call it “The Global Warming Hoax”?
  
  
  • Richard K. Moore: Climate Variation & its Cosmic Origins

    The emerging electric model of the universe holds the key to understanding the causes of long and short-term climate variation. The pattern of variation has very specific characteristics, characteristics that match the behavior of a noisy electrical circuit. The electric model reveals that the Earth is indeed connected to a cosmic electrical circuit, a circuit that is subject to the kind of noise that could produce the patterns seen in the Earth’s temperature record.

  
  
  • Richard K. Moore: Climate Change & Mind Control
    

    So it’s only necessary to get control over certain research centers, and over the editorial policies of certain journals. From that base of operations emerged the famous ‘climate models’, which are based on the false assumption that temperature rises in line with CO2 concentration.

  
  
  • Monte Hieb: Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
    

    Just how much of the “Greenhouse Effect” is caused by human activity? It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account — about 5.53%, if not. This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

  • Climate Change but no Anthropogenic Global Warming
    A demonstration that there is absolutely no evidence that humans are having any impact at all on the global climate.


• Kirk2NCC1701:
  "The EU is toast" translates into ...
  "EU è Biscotti" — Italy
  "De EU is Zwieback" — Netherlands
  "L'EU est le toast" — France
  "Die EU ist Toast" — Germany
      "Verdammte Scheisse! Englische Schweinhunde!" — Merkel
  "Unia Europejska jest tosty" — Poland
  "LOL" — Russia
      "ROTF, LMAO" — Putin

• The Saker: A Russian Warning

  If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.

• Sacred Reality

  This is something that the Anglo-American Empire fears more than anything else, because it would threaten the very foundations of the system, and the foundations are based on an idea, a concept, which basically tries to tell us that the world as we see it, experience it, is all there is, there is nothing else, science has proven that there is no spiritual force in the world, everything can be reduced to the workings of a machine-type organism, this is what nature is, a machine, existing by accident for its own sake, with no purpose or objective other than to survive at any other’s expense and to satisfy the senses with about as much indulgence as one can acquire, and acquisition is realized by any means necessary, including destruction of any perceived obstacle.This is the insanity at the heart of the Anglo Empire.

• The Saker: Suicide by Reality Denial

  The bottom line of this mess is this: what the US and the EU did in the Ukraine (and elsewhere, really) was fantastically stupid. But the US can afford such mistakes, while the EU clearly cannot.  ... What the EU has done is essentially a form of “suicide by reality denial”. What follows next will have to be regime change, not for one country, but for the entire continent.

• Concerning the Nature of the DMT Entities and their Relation to Us has been updated with over twenty Supplementary Notes, one of which is:

  The Primordial Mind is pure Awareness without awareness of anything, not even of itself. It has two hypostases, one personal and one impersonal. From the Primordial Mind emanates (a) the personal Original (or Universal, Cosmic or Christ) Consciousness and (b) the impersonal Original (or Universal or Cosmic) Energy. The former is characterized by self-awareness, intelligence, knowledge, love, compassion and wisdom (and in fact is the fundamental source of all these). All forms of consciousness other than the Original Consciousness (that is, all souls) are limitations (or restrictions) of the Original Consciousness (and thus essentially are identical with the Primordial Mind). As regards the Original Energy (which is known, obscurely, to modern physics indirectly via the concept of energy), this is what provides coherence and consistency to what appears to souls as external to themselves, and manifests itself to humans (and to all animals) as the natural world, or Nature. Since the Original Energy is a hypostasis of the Primordial Mind, it too possesses awareness, but not in the same way (self-awareness) as the Original Consciousness. The two hypostases could be likened to purusha and prakriti in Hindu Samkhya, or yin and yang in Taoism, or prajna and upaya in Buddhism.

  And there is now a German translation.

• The Saker: Putin's Biggest Failure

  I believe that Putin is acutely aware that his real power basis is not primarily the Russian military or the security services, but the Russian people. This, in turn, means that for him to take any action [against the Russian 5th Column], especially any dangerous action, he must secure an almost unconditional level of support from the Russian people. That, in turn, means that he can only take such risky action if and when the crisis is evident for all to see and that the Russian people are willing to have him take a risk and, if needed, deal with the consequences.

• A long quotation from Eric Wargo's article “Dreams and the Art of Memory” has been added to Record of Dreams, with a comment by Peter Meyer.

• Wendy McElroy: "War is the Health of the State" — Its Meaning

  [Randolph] Bourne's essays written in opposition to World War I ... are not typical of anti-war literature. ... The thrust of Bourne's essays is to attack the sanctity of war by showing how it leads to the moral collapse of society by kicking out the props (the principles) of peaceful interaction upon which society rests. ... Bourne addressed the less tangible, though arguably more significant, costs of war. ... In  converting World War I into a holy war, the intellectual and psychological groundwork was being laid for future instances of what he termed "the sport of the upper class" — global conflict.

  Which brings to mind what Shakespeare has Gloucester say in King Lear: "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods [the global elite] — They kill us for their sport."  Now is the time (for the sake of future generations and indeed for all life on Earth) to eliminate the global elite completely, with no possibility of their return.

• Christopher Bollyn: Suspicions about the Russian Plane Crash

  The Russian aircraft went down south of Al Arish, near the border of Israel, very close to Israel's main cyberwarfare and computer hacking facility, Unit 8200, located on Kibbutz Urim.  ... This Israeli spy facility would have had the ability to monitor and communicate directly with the aircraft's navigation system — without the knowledge of the crew.  ... The fact that the pilot's last communication, from 30,000 feet, reported a malfunction in the airplane's wireless devices and that he asked for an emergency landing indicates that the airplane may have been in the process of being hacked externally through its satellite wireless connection.

• Vladimir Putin's 2015 Speech at the Valdai Club

  Recently the United States conducted the first test of the anti-missile defence system in Europe. What does this mean? It means we were right when we argued with our American partners. They were simply trying yet again to mislead us and the whole world. To put it plainly, they were lying. It was not about the hypothetical Iranian threat, which never existed. It was about an attempt to destroy the strategic balance, to change the balance of forces in their favour not only to dominate, but to have the opportunity to dictate their will to all: to their geopolitical competition and, I believe, to their allies as well. This is a very dangerous scenario, harmful to all, including, in my opinion, to the United States.

• Peter Meyer: Peru Travel Diary

  Accompany the brave and intrepid explorer as he ventures into the wild and little-explored regions of Chiclayo, Chachapoyas, Tarapoto, Tingo Maria, Pucallpa, Huánuco, Satipo and Huancayo.

• Sophie McAdam: Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling

  In an interview with the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ ... Edward Snowden spoke in detail about the spying capabilities of the UK intelligence agency GCHQ. He disclosed that government spies can legally hack into any citizen’s phone to listen in to what’s happening in the room, view files, messages and photos, pinpoint exactly where a person is ... and monitor a person’s every move and every conversation, even when the phone is turned off. ... It’s one more reason to conclude that smartphones suck. And as much as we convince ourselves how cool they are, it’s hard to deny their invention has resulted in a tendency for humans to behave like zombies ... and prevented us from communicating with those who really matter (the ones in the same room at the same time). Now, Snowden has given us yet another reason to believe that smartphones might be the dumbest thing we could have ever inflicted on ourselves.

• President Vladimir Putin's 2015 Address to the United Nations General Assembly

  [I]nstead of learning from other people’s mistakes, some prefer to repeat them and continue to export revolutions, only now these are “democratic” revolutions. Just look at the situation in the Middle East and Northern Africa ... what was the actual outcome? Instead of bringing about reforms, aggressive intervention rashly destroyed government institutions and the local way of life. Instead of democracy and progress, there is now violence, poverty, social disasters and total disregard for human rights, including even the right to life. I’m urged to ask those who created this situation: Do you at least realize now what you’ve done? But I’m afraid that this question will remain unanswered, because they have never abandoned their policy, which is based on arrogance, exceptionalism and impunity.

• Peter Meyer: Concerning the Nature of the DMT Entities and their Relation to Us

  I suggest that before each of us humans became incarnate organisms in this natural world we were entities in the DMT World, and that during foetal development in the womb we made a transition from the DMT World to this world. ... [Or in other words] that an intelligent being in the DMT World, which is a “soul” in the sense discussed above in connection with Origen's cosmology, may be born in a human body, and that in fact most of us were once souls inhabiting the DMT World who have been incarnated in this way.

• Peter Meyer: Ayahuasca Report

• Henry A. Giroux: The Plague of American Authoritarianism

  The renowned political theorist Sheldon Wolin ... claimed that in the United States an emerging totalitarianism has appeared in form different from what we have seen in the past. Instead of a charismatic leader, the government is now governed through the anonymous and largely remote hands of corporate power and finance capital. Political sovereignty is largely replaced by economic sovereignty as corporate power takes over the reins of governance. The more money influences politics, the more corrupt the political culture becomes. Under such circumstances, holding office is largely dependent on having huge amounts of capital at one’s disposal, while laws and policies at all levels of government are mostly fashioned by lobbyists representing big business corporations and financial institutions.

• The Saker: Europe in Free Fall

  • The 28-member EU makes no economic sense
  • The EU is on the verge of a social and cultural collapse
  • The EU is just a colony of the United States unable to defend her own interests
  • The EU is in a deep political crisis

• The Saker: MH-17 One Year Later

  US and Russian AWACS aircraft are always present when a conflict occurs anywhere near Europe.  ... Besides their AWACS, the Americans and Russians also use their space-based satellites to monitor any conflict zone.  ... I would expect the US could provide much more data than just radio intercepts. And yet the US has provided exactly nothing. There is only one logical possibility for that otherwise bizarre US refusal to provide any data at all: the US data points to the “wrong” party. In other words, the fact that the US is not releasing any data at all is, by itself, an indirect proof that the Ukrainians did it.

• New links have been added to The Myth of Apollo.

• Ernst Zündel and the Zündel Heresy Trial has been updated with two comments to a Saker article about France’s CRIF-run regime.

• Alberto Miatello: World Trade Center Collapse as Inelastic Collision

  [We] can mathematically prove that neither the collapsing top of WTC2 nor (especially) the top of WTC1 could have crushed a mass significantly larger than its own. The top 30 collapsing floors of WTC2 could destroy — at most — 33 more floors beneath, and the 12 collapsing floors of WTC1 could barely possess the energy to crush 15 more floors beneath [after which the collapse would stop].

• Gun Control

• Dr Alan Sabrosky: Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: The Road to 9/11 and Beyond

  [Only] two intelligence agencies had the expertise, assets, access and political protection to execute 9/11 in the air and on the ground: our CIA and Israel’s Mossad. Only one had the incentive, using the “who benefits” principle: Mossad. And that incentive dovetailed perfectly with the neo-cons' agenda and explicitly expressed need for a catalytic event to mobilize the American public for their wars, using American military power to destroy Israel’s enemies.

• Gun Control

• Saker Community promotional video

  Censorship in Australia

• Additional links to articles concerning The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) plus links to articles concerning The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and The Trade In Services Agreement (TISA)

• Censorship in the United Kingdom

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the TPP, the TTIP and the TISA

• Milena Rampoldi Interviews Gilad Atzmon

• The page New Declaration of Independence has been updated with excerpts from John W. Whitehead's article Battlefield America: The War on the American People.
• The U.S. National Security Act of 1947, the Origin of "Plausible Deniability" and the Assassination of JFK

In the course of experimenting in the dark truth of JFK's death, the ongoing, deepening historical hypothesis of this book [JFK and the Unspeakable] has been that the CIA coordinated and carried out the president's murder. That hypothesis has been strengthened as the documents, witnesses, and converging lines of inquiry have pointed more conclusively at the CIA. Yet understanding that the CIA coordinated the assassination does not mean that we can limit the responsibility to the CIA. To tell the truth at the heart of darkness in this story, one must see and accept a responsibility that goes deeper and far beyond the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA was the coordinating instrument that killed the president, but the question of responsibility is more systemic, more personal, and more chilling. Thomas Merton described it rightly as the Unspeakable.

• Political Assassinations in the US, 1972-2011
• To the page entitled Why Obama Lost His War in Ukraine has been added some extracts from Robert Parry's excellent summary of the events in Eastern Europe during the twelve months since the February 2014 putsch in Kiev, Nuclear War and Clashing Ukraine Narratives.
• The Saker: Brainwashed Zombies and Hypocrites

  Did you notice how all these Takfiri freaks "just happen" to have had plenty of contacts of all sorts with Western security services?  It's like a Ku Klux Klan meeting in the USA: for ten hooded participants you have two morons and eight Federal agents working undercover.  Same exact deal for these Takfiris.  And then the two morons do something really really bad, and the eight Federal Agents "just happen" to vanish into thin air (or "commit suicide").  Does that have anything to do with Islam?  Of course not.  It has everything to do with the deep state and the covert manipulation of probably every single terrorist group on the planet.

• New links have been added to Julian Assange, Wikileaks and Cablegate

  It is absolutely disgraceful that Julian Assange has in effect been held under house arrest in London for over six years (as of November 2018) with no end in sight. The government of Sweden dropped its extradition request years ago, and the U.K. government is using the pretext of breaking bail in order to extradite Assange to the U.S., where he would probably be tortured and would certainly be jailed. Much praise is due to the government of Ecuador (under the former president, Rafael Correa) for providing Assange with protection from extradition to Sweden and consequent extradition to the U.S. The government of the U.K. is, to its shame, just a tool of the Americans. And the government of Ecuador (under the current president, Lenin Moreno) has also shown itself to be a spineless, immoral tool of the U.S. by denying Assange any meaningful contact with the outside world. And to its shame also, the government of Australia (a U.S. vassal state) has done absolutely nothing to help or protect Assange (an Australian citizen) or to protest this blatant injustice.

• Larchmonter 445: China-Russia: The Double Helix (PDF file, 277 KB)

  The Saker: I find Larchmonter 445's image of a double helix particularly appropriate because what we are witnessing here is the birth of a new geopolitical "life form" so to speak, an informal alliance of two countries which goes much deeper than most regular alliances do: what we are seeing is the mutual agreement to establish a full-spectrum geostrategic symbiosis between two civilizational realms as both Russia and China are what used to be called 'empires' in the past but which today are what I call "civilizational realms": multi-ethnic, multi-national and multi-religious ex-empires whose influence extends beyond their current national borders and whose international strategic "weight" makes them far more akin to continents then to countries. ... I would argue that this is by far the single most important political development since the end of WWII and probably the most important one in this century.

• The Saker: Important appeal for help to all Russian speakers!

  By now it must be clear to everybody that what is taking place today is not just some "Cold War v2" or some "East-West tensions", but a full-scale total war not just between Russia and the USA but between the entire Anglo-Zionist Empire and the Resistance (led by Russia and the BRICS). ... If Russia loses this war, the Empire wins the planet.  And if Russia wins, that will be the end of the Empire. It is really that simple.

• Vladimir Putin's 2014 Speech at the Valdai Club

  The measures taken against those [countries] who refuse to submit [to US dictates] are well-known and have been tried and tested many times. They include use of force, economic and propaganda pressure, meddling in domestic affairs, and appeals to a kind of ‘supra-legal’ legitimacy when they need to justify illegal intervention in this or that conflict or toppling inconvenient regimes. Of late, we have increasing evidence too that outright blackmail has been used with regard to a number of leaders. It is not for nothing that ‘big brother’ is spending billions of dollars on keeping the whole world, including its own closest allies [including Germany], under surveillance.

• Paul Craig Roberts: Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?

  The inability of the Russian and Chinese governments to come to terms with the threat posed to their existence as sovereign countries by the neoconservative insistence on American world hegemony makes nuclear war more likely. If Russia and China catch on too late in the game, their only alternative will be war or submission to Washington’s hegemony. As there is no possibility of the US and NATO invading and occupying Russia and China, the war would be nuclear.

• Eric Zuesse: Why Obama Lost His War in Ukraine

• Russian Report on MH17 Shootdown

  The conclusion is inescapable: MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. The party responsible for the deaths of 298 people was not the Donbass separatists but rather the Ukrainian junta, possibly with the foreknowledge and involvement of the United States.

• Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Tamiflu and Donald Rumsfeld has been updated for The 2014 Ebola Outbreak.
• The Saker: Russia's Fifth Column
• Richard K. Moore: Mind Control: Orwell, Huxley and Today's Reality

  The 'conspiracy theory' meme was launched by the CIA in the wake of the JFK assassination ... [and] the public began to learn about the existence of 'conspiracy theorists'. These are people, the story goes, who suffer from paranoid delusions, and sane people should pay no attention to anything they say. If someone even looks at any of those ideas, their own mental stability comes into question.  ... Since then, the conspiracy-theory meme has been carefully nurtured and expanded ...[and] has been very successful in immunizing the majority of the population against the revelations available on the Internet, especially regarding 9/11. Any story not appearing in the mainstream media must by definition be a conspiracy theory, and anything that sounds like a conspiracy theory should be scoffed at and ignored.

• Brian Cloughley: Sanctions rebound to hit Europeans

  The West's malevolent sanctions on Russia were not imposed because Russia had in any way affected the well-being, economic circumstances, territorial integrity or social structure of the United States or of any nation that jumped on the US sanctions' bandwagon. There was no question of enforcing sanctions because Russia's actions anywhere in the world had impacted adversely on one single citizen of any Western nation. But they were imposed, anyway, just to try to make things difficult for Moscow and to try to ratchet up tension between Russia and the West.