I want to share with you another salient portion of Alex Krainer’s book, Grand Deception: The Browder Hoax. As many of you have discovered, Amazon refuses to sell the book. I found my copy on Apple Books. This attempted censorship is quite revealing. Krainer’s words represent a direct threat to the corporate interests that profit from war. As you read Krainer’s analysis of how much of the U.S. economy depends on preparing for war you will understand why the merchants of death who profit from building grossly expensive weapon systems want to hide these facts from you.
The following is a lengthy quote but it illustrates the gems that fills Krainer’s important work.
“To continue to prosper the military-industrial complex and their financiers depended on a steady supply of enemies, existential threats and fear. During most of the second half of last century the designated enemy No. 1 has been the international Communism in general and Soviet Union in particular. Douglas MacEachin, director of CIA’s Office of Soviet Analysis described in the 1980s the importance USSR’s role as the America’s enemy No. 1: “The Soviet Union is so fundamental to our outlook on the world, to our concept of what is right and wrong in politics, to our sense of security, that major change in the USSR is as significant as some major change in the sociological fabric of the United States itself.”
When the USSR finally collapsed, the American security establishment designated international terrorism as the replacement enemy to justify further increases in military spending and a series of limited wars in the Middle East and parts of Africa. But as the American public grew weary of the multiple, never-ending, unwinnable terror wars in the Middle East, the emergent thinking among Western think tanks shifted in favor of a great war against a major power.”
“The RAND Corporation, an influential member of the military industrial complex, published a report in 2008 advocating war against a major power as a way to stimulate the U.S. economy.[193] The report did not specify the target, but at the time the main candidates were thought to be Iran, Russia, or China. Accordingly, the media and public relations industry close to the MIC launched a subtle marketing campaign to generate public consent for this new and improved idea.
In October 2010, Washington Post columnist David Broder wrote how a war (with Iran) would help solve the economic crisis in the U.S. In 2012, Council on Foreign Relations, another powerful pro-war think tank published an article by Matthew Kroenig, titled “Time to Attack Iran.” [194] Plans to attack Iran seem to have been shelved for a time, but Russia has meanwhile graduated to the spot of the new greatest enemy and most existential threat to the United States. In April 2014, historian Ian Morris penned an article in Washington Post with the preposterous title, “In the long run, wars make us safer and richer.” The article was featured on the Post’s web site with a picture of a nuclear bomb blast with the caption, “War is brutal. The alternative is worse.”[195]”
“Amazingly, Washington Post would have its readers believe that while going to war would be awful, not going to war would be even worse! Not to be outdone, the New York Times gave its own contribution to the worthy cause in June of that year, publishing Tyler Cowen’s article, “The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth.” Cowen strained to convince his readers that warfare isn’t as bad as it used to be, including in his article a chart showing how much battle-related death rates have fallen since the 1950s:”
“As you can see, by 2010 battle related deaths – soldiers plus civilians caught in crossfire – fell to only three persons per million. These compelling figures prove that waging war is now safer than driving cars, giving birth or inhaling secondary smoke. Undeterred, Cowen carries on intellectualizing how, “It may seem repugnant to find a positive side to war in this regard, but a look at American history suggests we cannot dismiss the idea so easily.” Yes, please let’s not dismiss this splendid idea quite so easily.[196] George Orwell was certainly correct in pointing out that “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
“Understanding why Western elites long for another World War is not complicated. The U.S. is the world’s greatest debtor nation. Presently,[197] federal Government’s debt is well over 100% of the gross domestic product (GDP) with additionally some $200 trillion in so-called unfunded liabilities. These liabilities are related to government’s obligations like federal employee pensions, care of military veterans, Social Security and Medicare. They represent the absurd sum of over $640,000 per man, woman and child in the U.S. and more than $1.7 million per taxpayer. These obligations could never be honored even if the economy was registering solid growth. But since the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting economic recession, U.S. economic recovery has been the weakest on record in spite of unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulation that has raised the total credit market debt to 360% of the GDP. These levels of debt have become an impediment to economic growth and made the nation vulnerable to grave social tensions on multiple fronts. Public and private pensions across the U.S. are severely underfunded and hundreds of thousands of retirees are already discovering that they need to continue working in order to sustain themselves in their “retirement” years. Meanwhile, the younger generations are facing a weak jobs market and those of them that attended universities collectively accumulated $1.4 trillion dollars in debt.”
I confess that I was not aware of the RAND report advocating war as the ultimate economic aphrodisiac and the cheerleading by David Broeder to attack Iran in order to boost the lagging U.S. economy in 2010. I initially wondered if these were Babylon Bee articles (Babylon Bee is a satirical website that specialized in skewering the rich and powerful) This was not the product of a weird, perverse comedy sketch by Monty Python. these so-called respectable men were dead serious. Kill thousands in order to create value for shareholders. Sheds new light on the aphorism that “The love of Money is the root of all evil.”
Politics and defense spending are intertwined in ways that most people do not appreciate. I gained some insight into the corruption of this process thanks to my neighbor (when I lived in one of the Washington, DC suburbs). My former neighbor is 15 years younger than me and owns the largest defense lobbying firm in Washington, DC. His job entailed signing up major and minor manufacturers of weapons and military equipment. They paid him hefty monthly fees. In turn, my neighbor–let’s call him “Mr. D”–would wine and dine key members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. He was the man the legislators wanted to see because he could host “dinners” that raised money that was poured in turn to the bank accounts of those members of Congress. Buying influence in Washington is a multi-million dollar business that generates billions for the Defense Industry and has inflicted misery, suffering and death on millions of foreigners.
I am afraid that tomorrow’s election in the United States will not alter the defense incest that dominates Washington, DC. The corrupt system will have to be broken by an outside force. What worries me is that the United States, in a moment of hubris, will find itself in a war with Russia or China and will discover the hard way that the expensive weapon systems will fail or be destroyed quickly on the battlefield. Like an alcoholic at the end of his ropes, the system must hit bottom and admit the addiction. Only then is reform possible.
I got persistent and discovered I could go to Red Pill Press and order the book on their site. Ordered it today.
Thanks RachelK. I guess others found it there too, it’s now ‘available on backorder.’
Krainer’s other book, The Killing of William Browder, is available online in pdf
http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Alex+Krainer&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
Libgen unfortunately does not have Grand Deception: The Browder Hoax.
How those are different? Aren’t them essentially the same, maybe like 1st and 2nd edition ?
Grand Deception is here for free in PDF or EPUB format
https://zoboko.com/book/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax
I am sure someone will be gracious enough to contribute it there soon.
Address is https://www.redpillpress.com/
you can download a PDF of the book for free from https://zoboko.com/download/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax?hash=6f2177de199347682d1a48fd0a41cf77
nice, thx for tip
here is the rand playbook for taking down russia 2019 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
Good link. Hope Larry has read it.
Do you have a link to the board game?
The root of all evil is not the love of money. The root of all evil is the desire to have your will imposed on others. Even if this evil cannot be entirely eliminated, the closer we can get to eliminating it the more peaceful and prosperous society would be. But, unfortunately, society is going in the opposite direction. Having your will imposed on others, more and more, is considered a normal part of living to most people.
Very theologically insightful my brother.
Matthew 6:24
Which would be worse, 1) Your neighbor loves money but doesn’t want to control your life, or 2) Your neighbor wants to control your life because it brings him or her satisfaction?
> 1) Your neighbor loves money but doesn’t want to control your life
Is this sustainable? Won’t it eventually come to the point when to get more wealth he would have to impact your life, so some of your wealth is syphoned to him? Won’t it eventually come to the point he syphoned so muc hof your wealth that you can no more sustain your life?
> 2) Your neighbor wants to control your life because it brings him or her satisfaction?
Would it be a frequent case? Would there be no escape to some better neighborhood?
Would he have means to implement his desires?
Problem with love for money is that it starts slowly, but then it snowballs, and becomes both strong and vast, so when it start controlling yourt life – you have nowhere to escape to.
A control freak can be escaped, or killed. Or, at worst, can be tolerated, because at very least he keeps you alive.
But the USA defarming killed millions who had nowhere to escape. Millions were dying of hunger watching tonnes of unconsumed food posioned and destroyed to keep prices high.
Would they be worse or better controlled yet fed than dead?..
You have to look at the context in which that was written. Mesopotamian kings including the Jews would frequently cancel debts. The Romans on the other hand were notorious creditors; how many plots and civil wars were fought over this issue?
You will recall the story of Marcus Licinius Crassus. This absolute douche-canoe enriched himself by demanding you turn over your property as payment before his firefighters saved it from fire. His greed for gold was so legendary, his Parthian executioners poured it down his throat.
By Jesus’ time the Romans were in control of the Levant.
It’s one thing to be rich in money, which serves no purpose in and of itself. It’s quite another to have a lot of goats.
Where are the Parthians when you need them?
Selling kamikaze drones to the Russians
I agree with your sentiment, and I recently discovered that, according to both Solon and Milton, the source of evil is arrogance.
What got Satan tossed from heaven?–pride, arrogance, the desire for greater status. Money is the tool that serves those vices.
Unfortunately sir, I believe that the powers that be would rather burn everything to the ground and wipe the human race off the face of the earth before they let any reforms take place or give up any of their power
and control. It was only after talking to my older brother, who works at, THE AGENCY, that I realized just how pure EVIL our entire government is, and everyone who works in it. Your thoughts?
“the powers that be would rather burn everything to the ground and wipe the human race off the face of the earth” Fortunately Dalton, that decision is not their’s to take. I’m not a religious person, but know within the wonder and infinite power of creation. There is a Creator and you can call him/it God, Allah, Buddha…whatever, but he is the final arbiter. To summarily take life for financial gain is the ultimate satanic evil and will not go unpunished….life is immortal and does not end when the human form ceases to exist, one day they’ll have a meeting with the real CEO !
Not Buddha. He just was a no nonsense ordinary bloke.
It will take a civil war or s Bastille Day approach to change the system, according to Michael Hudson.
Thanks, Larry. If only the MSM had even the slightest inclination to tell this tale.
Here is another tale, which explains how the US now operates.
Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’
November 6, 2022
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/06/researchers-find-massive-anti-russian-bot-army/
Many if not most alcoholics and addicts hit bottom on the other side of death.
12 step programs list the outcomes of addiction as “jails, institutions, and death”.
I’m pulling for “jail”, personally…
Hell yeah it is.
Greedy creditors enslaving everyone with debt destroys the civil basis of society. Mesopotamian rulers figured this out 4 thousand years ago; Lev 25 is just one example.
The Roman Republic had to learn this the hard way. It’s a damn shame Europe (and thereby America) inherited this system via the Italian Merchant Republics, whose only source of power existed in a ledger book.
You can also read Alex Krainer’s book for free online and download it. I prefer having a book, but for anyone else. It’s all here as an epub or a pdf.
https://zoboko.com/book/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax
Thanks for link. Downloaded. Read chapters 3 and 6 immediately. Eye-opening. I also prefer a paper copy and have Red Pill edition coming in the mail. But I don’t mind getting started w PDF.
Thank you for the link!
From David Mamet’s Heist (2001):
Coffee Cart Man: Hey buddy. You forgot your change.
Joe Moore (Gene Hackman): [Takes the change] Makes the world go round.
Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo): What’s that?
Joe Moore: Gold.
Bobby Blane: Some people say love.
Joe Moore: Well, they’re right, too. It is love. Love of gold.
Thank you again Larry. You are the epitome of a servant of the people.
“War is a racket”, General Smedley Butler.
A good companion piece to General Butler’s short, pithy statement is to be found in Randolph Bourne’s classic, War Is the Health of the State, written in the context of the Great War, what subsequently became known as World War I, since nobody learned anything, and we had another World War. His analysis pivots around the differences and the relations between the Nation, the Government, and the State. Bourne was a classic libertarian, much concerned with the distorting force of the State, and this essay is a distillation of his analysis of this triad. Some things have changed subsequent to his essay, but it still provides a useful analysis.
https://libcom.org/article/war-health-state-randolph-bourne
As a believer, I agree with the verse in the Good Book that says the love of money is the root of all evil. The love of money which can be generated by weapons sales due to war is 100x worse.
Since some people on here seem to be arguing over semantics, we should probably get the Bible verse EXACTLY right. The English Standard Version says;
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.” (1 Tim 6:10a)
Notice it does not say absolutely all evil, but “all kinds of evils.” The horrible behavior of the MIC certainly qualifies in that category.
A friend provided this link to a Hoover Institution’s H.R. McMaster interview with one “Russian Opposition Leader” Milov.
Well, I slagged this dude unmercifully in my response, but alas, he is the sort who gets time, column-inches, attention, and connected contacts.
https://www.hoover.org/research/ukraine-war-and-russian-stability-special-update-totalitarian-states-political-economic?utm_campaign=Cultivation&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=232132475&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8OM6s6WeF45zoz3nAIW0v9SDcDEG-mSOG48vSfwBsU9FwoOXiVBXnHHqa29HjaDXSJ9OAy4Gh_lH1gh8qijR5DOSQaEg&utm_content=232132475&utm_source=hs_email
So much for McMaster having sense enough to spot a poseur and smell lies.
How could anybody who actually even halfway tried to stay current with what is really happening on the ground hold even a scintilla of “hope” that the Ukraine could do other than surrender unconditionally?
One of my recurring mirations to my tiny email list has been what I have referred to as The Machine, or Skynet, but I now find is actually named Perimeter, and informally known as “The Dead Hand.” Until now I could at least hope that following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it had fallen into disrepair and had been abandoned. But it has been continually maintained and updated.
Alas, now no more room for hopium:
https://www.rt.com/russia/565146-what-happens-if-west-nukes/
So what is it? A neural network of sensors that can discriminate among mining and earthworking explosions, volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes, meteor strikes, and air- and ground-burst nuclear detonations. Upon detecting any such, a launch sequence commences of presumed retaliatory nuclear (and surely MIRVed) ICBMs aimed at every important military, financial, and cultural target in the West.
And America is replete with idiotic nincompoop pundits suggesting that “low-yield” first-strike nuclear weapon use would not escalate? How is it that we continue to countenance such encouragers to national suicide by continuing to subscribe to their think tanks, publications, and political factions?
Looking at photos of abandoned military planes on davis mothan mothball yards is sobering , how much of US treasure been spent recklessly for the useless overpriced junks.. and this is not even touching the mothball and junkyards of US navy and US army ..
fast forward today in deindustrialized USA , dying and rotting cities , decadent and perversion rule over the rich hedonist , with only small number of american still holding on their principles.
it feels like the ancient sodom and gomorrah where the pervert and deviant rule the streets and corrupt and greedy govt officials staffed the govt. Where it was said a honest man wont last long in sodom and gomorrah due to the incredible perversion and crueltly that happened every day.
One thing I never realized (until recently) is how exceptional Americans think they are. This is both intentional (on the part of Americans who can find all sorts of reasons why they are exceptional) and “built-in” with the Americans who don’t even try to find the reasons why – they by default think America is exceptional.
Once you understand this premise and start from it, it is only logical that such a country/people would have many “missions” rooted in their God given position of being the best: Mission to wipe out the subhuman native Indian, mission to “take the West”, mission to beat communism, mission to beat terrorism, mission to beat drugs, mission to beat Russia, mission to make everyone genderless, mission, mission, mission.
Missions often mean enemies, by the way, they are almost synonymous.
Then you have capitalism and mega corporations which are proof that capitalism is the only system that works (otherwise corporations wouldn’t be so rich if it didn’t work).
Finally, when I was growing up in Yugoslavia, everything we watched from America – from John Wayne to Mel Gibson to Sly to Arnold to Tom Cruise to…. was about how Americans are always doing the right thing, always on the side of the GOOD fighting evil. If you watched Clint Eastwood go behind German lines in a WW2 movie, you would think Americans lost 27 million people fighting the Nazis and single-handedly won the war (well, Clint and his 12 buddies did) and the Russians were just busy being evil and killing Poles…
So, now that you have exceptionalism, God given right to missions, propaganda to justify it (always on the side of the GOOD) and capitalism as the perfect system (for the perfect people) – you understand where the MIC fits in – it’s just a small, almost boutique (inthe grand scheme of things) industry you need to enforce/implement/execute the missions. I would venture to say that the 2-party system is probably the bigger industry but I haven’t crunched the numbers yet 😉
However, MIC is not the only tool – as time went on – you have NGOs (color revolutions), WTO, IMF and other organizations via which you can do economic blackmail, big tech (which allows you to monitor everyone while keeping them busy), pharma (which allows you to sedate everyone so they can shop more), 2-party (in reality one party) political system designed to keep people at home in line etc. etc. etc. Did I mention the prison system? But of course, every peoples have some misfits and those go into the PRIVATE prison system in the beacon of democracy – the perfect justice system makes sure of that.
It is all a part of a large machine that has been busy for centuries. The Russians can claim all they want that they are 1,000 years old civilization – they learned NOTHING of subjugating/deceiving their own population (proof is the fall of tsarism and then communism – when will the Russians learn how to do this properly???).
Only now we are getting close to the physical limits of the planet. You cannot just come in and buy up all the farmland, subjugate the peasants and put a military base on and EVERYONE is still happy. In scarcity, you need to totally dominate the subjects and this means they have to BELIEVE you are doing everything for their own good. They have to WANT to sign themselves Larry (he/him/his) and not just Larry. They have to APPRECIATE that you dug up diamonds for $1/day and made $1 million on them and then spent $1,000 on a water line to the village and look at you as if you are God for doing that. They have to firmly BELIEVE that you are on a mission because you are good and you have the qualities they do not have.
Now, if some of these big/little peasant countries rebel? I am afraid this ends up being a recursive reply – go back to the top….
It’s no accident that we hear Bush enacting the war on terrorism as an eternal war. Since most of this terrorism is due to US foreign policy in recent decades… Which is to say, control cause and consequence. The same Bush who, after the attempted coup in Venezuela, made a tour of Latin America where he was tired of repeating to those in government who wanted to hear that war was always the mainspring of the US economy. After all, war is a good thing!
However, not all US wars are triggered by the arms trade. Even if it inevitably happens. The Ukraine conflict was not provokated because of the arms trade! The US went to Ukraine to literally play its hegemony! That Biden promised shortly after his election that he would not change his shift. Which is, by the way, a term he uses a lot. Perhaps an obsession! Like the regime change in Moscow to disconnect the EU and China from Russia’s natural resources! And stop the consolidation of the trans-Eurasia project between Germany, Russia and China, which is already worth twice the US GDP!
Today there is much talk that Germany and even the EU cannot resist without Russian gas. And it’s absolutely true. At least as competitive economies. And
whoever says otherwise lies! But Germany also cannot resist without trade with China. Hence the idea that Sholz went to China with an embassy of businessmen to discuss politics completely ridiculous?!
The book was originally published as “The Killing of William Browder”, and is available for free at archive.org
Alex Krainer’s book is available as a free downloadable pdf file at libgen.rs under the title “The Killing of William Browder.”
To: RG Millson.
Your link to the book is a safer link than the one I posted. I tried mine and led to installing some adblocker software. It could be malware. So it’s not safe. Apologies to anyone who tried it.
Alex and Tom Luongo have been appearing together on podcasts recently
Here’s one with Gonzalo Lira
Tom patiently explains how the Fed has broken away from the old world order and WEF
Alex chimes in regularly
Fascinating stuff
https://youtu.be/hra7CX_5AkA
That was fascinating stuff. Thanks for it.
Apparently, a civil war has errupted in the neo-liberal/globalist banking community. One financial cabal/cartel wants to dominate the world as it is currently constructed, the other wants to rule over a world that has a lot less mouths to feed, roughly 6 billion less, or thereabouts.
Who will win? The side that proves better at the financial hocus pocus side of things of course.
Regardless of which cabal/cartel comes out on top, will their best laid plans prove disastrous for us all? Probably.
As is well known, Ike far-sightedly warned of these dangers in his presidential valedictory. Views similar to Mr Krainer’s have been expressed for *decades* by such as John Pilger and Noam Chomsky.
Given your background, it is refreshing to see you, Mr Johnson, going ‘off reservation’ in the analysis of your society’s deep problems. Regrettably, this level of national self-awareness has yet to be expressed in the legacy/mainstream media or academia or civil service. Meanwhile, the world’s real problems (eg over-population, environmental degradation, resource inequality) are not properly addressed.
My greatest fear is the USA, in desperation at losing its pre-eminence, does a ‘Sampson.’
Best wishes to you and thanks for your efforts.
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Book is for sale on Amazon Germany. While it only has 5 reviews, 3 are 5 star, 2 are 4 star, they are great.
Uk amazon has it at double the price
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0692131957?tag=bookie0a-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1
The Apostle Paul, he had his Saul of Tarsus moment (obviously), the same one I’m hoping the former Atlanticist and possible neo-liberal globalist Vladimir Putin may or may not of had recently.
We will find out here shortly when the ground in Ukraine freezes. It may seem incongruous, but the morale imperative for the leader of the Russian Federation is clear in my opinion, he must must wipe away the wickedness that is prevailing at the moment with a Winter Offensive … or three.
The wickedness in the Ukraine just being a small fraction the greater wickedness that will be, hopefully, at least partially wiped away in these ulra violent martial undertakings.
As a deranged and maniacal leftist of the lunatic kind, also known as a New Deal Democrat, I always found the lead up to the money/evil aphorism in Paul’s letter to Timmy instructive.
1 Timothy 6
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Are the any rich men in the Kingdom in Heaven? My answer to that has always been the same as Jesus, “Are you serious? Hell no, not a single one.”
Welcome to the USA’s “Crisis of the Third Century.” I doubt we’ll ever see an American Aurelian in Fort Fumble.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grand-deception-alex-krainer/1129593643
Has the eBook for only $15,
https://www.kobo.com/gr/en/ebook/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax
for only 13€
Here is Goodreads review of it
Grand Deception: The Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions
by Alex Krainer
3.78 · Rating details · 9 ratings · 2 reviews
From the synopsis of the ebook on Kobo: Bill Browder, the false crusader for justice and human rights and the self-proclaimed No. 1 enemy of Vladimir Putin has perpetrated a brazen and dangerous deception upon the Western world. Mr. Browder uses all of the smarmy language, and all of the tricks of the worst and most vicious sort of CIA propaganda, as we have witnessed its development and application over the last 70 years: demonization and flat out lies, the aims of which are destabilization, chaos, mayhem and “regime change” in Russia. The extent to which intelligent people fall for Browder tales uncritically is astounding.
Browder has been quashing any dissenting voices to his narrative: The Magnitsky Act — Behind the Scenes documentary by Andrei Nekrasov has not been shown because the Browder lawyers had basically attacked everybody involved in trying show it. Alex Krainer’s book The Killing of William Browder: Deconstructing Bill Browder’s Dangerous Deception (now titled Grand Deception: The Browder Hoax) is banned on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble without any due process. A highly intelligent, frank and entertaining take-down of one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the US public and the world – The Magnitsky Act.
Browder’s carefully cultivated and paid for image in the West (he was planning a movie about himself with the Weinstein brothers) is so at odds with the reality exposed here as to make up a kind of horror story effect out of Bram Stoker. Yet the way Alex Krainer tells it is both compelling and convincing. The thing is, no one else has looked at Browder’s story critically. It was accepted as fact, with no corroboration of any sort, by a gullible, and probably complicit, US political establishment.
An even more terrifying question raised by the very existence of this book is: What was the interest of the US Senate and Congress in unquestionably believing this ‘scheister,’ Bill Browder, and using his outlandish and unsubstantiated claims to restart the Cold War and bring us to the brink of nuclear confrontation? As with a documentary about him by Nekrasov, called ‘The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes,’ Browder has armies of lawyers trying to squelch any information coming out about him and the events he fabricated. Understandably, since the story he told is so shabby and full of holes that any light cast on it at all begins to crumble the fabric of it.
This is a meticulously scrupulous research of a fascinating tale whose protagonist has all the traits of a fiendish movie villain. Needless to point out, in the cacophonic pandemonium of relentless anti-Russian propaganda that permeates both political and mass-media scene in the West throughout 2017, Bill Browder, by trade a vulture investor, is depicted as akin to a holy warrior against the Devil himself, the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In our increasingly insane world a fascinating tale of William Browder’s role in pushing the Magnitsky Act, that was passed in the U.S. Senate in order “to punish those suspected of being involved in the death of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky,” might have eluded you. The Magnitsky Act that has passed the Congress on 3rd of January, 2012 resulted in blacklisting of five Russian nationals on 9th of January, 2017 and elevated Bill Browder, at least in his own eyes, to the status of a global human rights activist.
Enters “Grand Deception: The Browder Hoax” and shatters that delusion. Krainer mercilessly dissects Browder’s tale in the most minute details and, as he examines Browder’s numerous statements, he portrays Browder as he truly is: not a magnanimous human rights champion but rather a wicked purveyor of (other man’s) tragedy and salesman of (his own) self-aggrandizing fantasies. Bill Browder seems to me as a somehow cartoonish villain who makes us chuckle even while we shudder. (less)
Every day I realise more and more that Nineteen Eighty Four was an instruction manual.
War means peace, doublethink, Newspeak, and all.
We are way past Orwel’s worst dreams.
Oh, sure 🙂
https://twitter.com/hannaliubakova/status/1506579132368437253
Since becoming a world evonomic and industrial power circa 1900 (paraphrasing Comte de Mirabeau and echoing Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, and Assange), America is not a nation with a military industrial complex, but a MIC that controls nations. We are at the precipace of the collapse of that hegemony. Pray God that we the people, and the world, survive.
Check out the series of articles called “Prussiagate” by Will Zoll on Substack. Its free. And you will understand the historical and modern roots of this insane Ukranian war…and why it is ginned up by powerful psychopaths we call leaders and an invisible hand.
https://prussiagate.substack.com/
typo in the headline?
Utterly depressing! BTW, the book can be purchased at the publisher’s website, Red Pill Press.
Thanks, Larry…I think.
At varsity here in South Africa I studied Computer Science and Economics (don’t ask what happened to the mathematics). In my final year I had one annoying American professor for one Economics course, he kept on going on about how brilliant the US and UN and IMF were, and how structural adjustment was all any Third world country required. He was like recruiting us to go work for the UN, it was just so wonderful. But my gut feel was just against this guy, especially when he insisted on including one of his dumb books into the curriculum. I remember writing one quote from someone in during the exams about how capitalism requires a war or an earthquake every now and then to get rebuilding going again to keep on functioning. Its like the planned obsolescence of cars and gadgets, washing machines, etc, today, you have to buy a new one every few years because the current one falls apart, and so you keep capitalism going indefinitely. But now instead of just cars or washing machines you also need entire cities and nations flattened so that the cycle of capitalist wealth building can begin renewed again. I failed that guy’s course utterly and had to do study something extra the following year while working in IT to complete my degree.
To be honest, I don’t think that they (people with real power) care about money at all – money in general is just a trap for weak minded which they use as one of the carrots in their carrot&stick arsenal to rule over other people.
What they care about is using money as one of the tools that can help them create world where their every wish and goal is respected.
For good example, I will now use Putin (even tho he is not one of those people on the West with real power, he has real power in RU) – why would he need money at all? While on power, he can have everything he needs without spending a dime of his own.
People often talk about him having 2 bilion or 200 bilion or gazilion usd hidden somewhere – is there really any smart man in the world that thinks that if Putin is deposed from power that he would be able to enjoy those gazillion usd?
Is there really any smart man that thinks that Putin really needs gazillion usd after he leaves the power? If he gives up power willingly to a successor, he could easily live in relative luxury just from presidential/premier pension. If he is deposed, and especially violently deposed, he would most likely end up dead (anywhere in world, you cannot really hide that well), in prison, or if very lucky, in exile in some strong country like China, but most of his external hidden assets would be frozen & stolen because without real power to defend it, his treasury would be ransacked by pretty much everyone, and especially governments and such.
So to get back to this topic, I don’t think that they are using wars because of money (for which they know all too well that it can be taken or devaluated pretty easily), they are in the business of ruling over people, and as such, war provides additional very powerful tool in their carrot&stick arsenal, because they could use it for buying or intimidating of peons that they can then use to rule over others
So, then… Is Putin a root of all evils? If he is not, can it be related that he considers the whole Russia to be his power and wealth, not some money bag that can be alienated from people and places and moved away leaving ashes behind?
How did you get to conclusion that Putin is root of all evil from my post? 😀
From my point of view (as far as I know, and I could be wrong), he has real power and he is working to the best of his abilities in interest of his people and his country.
– Could someone else be better? Probably yes, but not may people
– Is he good for other countries? Not sure, maybe, for some (West in general, but some others as well) he surely is bad
My point and opinion is that it is not West’s MIC that is guiding policies (especially not for sake of few billions here and there), but people with real power are using MIC – as well as many other companies/organizations, etc, to pursue their plans, therefore money and war are just some of the means (tho some of the main means) used to achieve their desired goals.
Good link. Larry will find RAND even more “interesting.”
Larry,
when I try to go on your website with my smartphone and google, it doesn´t let me through for pretended safety reason.
If I use duckduckgo , I get through
My, my, what a surprise! The Great Google being evil, despite their own advice not to be, you know, evil…
They have been leaders in Cancellation, not really a surprise when you examine who they are, and who they serve. They are on the continuum with Amazon, Twitter, etc. Great power expressing itself through great evils. Dark times, my friends. Approach the light, and cherish it wherever you find it.
I downloaded Krainer’s book and began to read it. I was intending to print out the lot. Thank God I didn’t pay money for it.
However, having read a few chapters it is clear Krainer is no intellectual giant.
His dissection of Browder’s book is lightweight, replete with assertion, fantasy and self serving observations.
Anyone who thinks this book is worth a moments consideration is a couple of chads short of a valid ballot card.
I’m sure you also enjoy eating used toilet paper too
All datastreams have utility for those of various facility with various purposes, as is always the case, hence without “benefit” of pre-mastication for some:
“As you read Krainer’s analysis of how much of the U.S. economy depends on preparing for war you will understand why the merchants of death who profit from building grossly expensive weapon systems want to hide these facts from you.”
Mr. Krainer’s analysis forms a component function of the strategic question “What are The United States of America and how are they facilitated ?” but as a function of the component’s framing/scope is limited in outlining lateral networks of facilitation to a degree of obscuring, and thereby delaying/limiting, strategic opportunities of transcendence.
“As you read Krainer’s analysis of how much of the U.S. economy depends on preparing for war you will understand why the merchants of death who profit from building grossly expensive weapon systems want to hide these facts from you.”
In illustration, the framing of the above sentence where “preparing for war” is followed in close proximity to “merchants of death” may tend for some, as functions of connotations, to restrict the definition of war to things that go bang, thereby obfuscating the following lateral network of facilitation :
“on preparing for war, the participants practice various aspects of war including competition inherent within their social relations and methods derived therefrom.”
This is not an unalloyed disadvantage in regard to “ways of thinking” as illustrated in http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57326.htm, the framing of contributions to many blogs, including “The US empire has the most sophisticated narrative control system ever devised” blurb of http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57326.htm , and hopes described as “strategies” by opponents through over-extension predicated upon attempting to bridge doubt by belief iterations encouraged/pre-masticated by “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident.”
plus
https://sonar21.com/can-the-united-states-fight-a-two-front-war/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/11/larry-on-military-industrial.html
in what some may evaluate as of being in ascending order in terms of utility, whilst some others may evaluate the order of ascendence in terms of utility differently as a function of their facility derived from their experience within specific divisions of labour.
Your contention of:
“Anyone who thinks this book is worth a moments consideration is a couple of chads short of a valid ballot card.”
may be derived from your experience within specific divisions of labour, which may have been achieved by your complicity through “voting”.
MirrorGazers,
Those who linger and dwell before their own reflection are destined to the fate of Narcissus, having no notion of an ascendancy of utility, fixated on reflections and ideations that have ethereal foundations.
And fortunately, I have nothing to do with the American gerrymandered voting system, my observations on the deficiency in chads being from a long distance.
“Those who linger and dwell before their own reflection are destined to the fate of Narcissus, having no notion of an ascendancy of utility, fixated on reflections and ideations that have ethereal foundations.”
That has been proven regularly through implementation by some, and experienced by others, although not necessarily perceived as such by some others through bridging doubt by belief -ideations that have ethereal foundations – in hope of attaining comfort; known to some practioners as the kangaroo option.
“may be derived from your experience within specific divisions of labour, which may have been achieved by your complicity through “voting”.”
“I have nothing to do with the American gerrymandered voting system, my observations on the deficiency in chads being from a long distance.”
The reference to voting was not restricted to “American” but refers to the whole concept of transferring agency to others through various vectors, not restricted to capitalism or representative democracy, which require transcendence through time, as do prevalent notions of “the individual”, to facilitate social relations based upon mutual co-operation to attain mutual co-operative purposes – there being no magic bullets, whilst pre-fabricated solutions are not, nor can be available, although some tend not to agree rendering themselves in increasing significant part agreement/mutation incapable and exceptional.
One tool of exceptionalism is individuation by name as can be noted throughout blogs by the usage of “pseudonyms”, whilst MirrorGazers remains a subject designation for filing purposes, since content is of more significance than source to avoid “curve balls”.
Narcissus mutuated, but it is unlikely that the coercive social relations, within which co-operation is facilitated by co-ercion in various forms and intensities, presently designated “The United States of America” can mutate, and hence requires to be transcended.
To be fair, I’ve only read the chapters on Browder’s book.
Perhaps Krainer gets better and a little more convincing.
But from what I have already seen I think I might take up your suggestion in preference.
You don’t have to read all of Alex Krainer’s well researched book on the crook Browder, you only have watch Browder under oath in the Prevezon Case, which began as a plot with former US Attorney Preet Bharara, to create a legal president in order to enshrine Browder’s Magnitsky fable into US case law. Browder falsely accused Russian national Denis Katsyv of receiving a whole $800,000 out of the mythical $230m “Russian Tax Fraud”, “investigated by Magnitsky”.
..except, as everything else about Browder, it was all a fabrication.
Lawyers for Katsyv tried to serve Browder three subpoenas, he was finally caught outside NBC New York, after telling the judge he was out of the country.
This is everything you need to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoH17pPJmHY&list=PLd4Mlks-hYL-IZUOi7EHujFNrGcv5gl8p&index=5&t=690s
I think Browder’s ultimate game is to try to vindicate his communist roots. His grandfather moved to the Soviet Union. Like the Hank Williams Jr. song, “It’s An Old Family Tradition.”
EXCELLENT !
On a less intellectual note we live on and in a open sewer infested with cockroaches.
But people still wonder why intelligent life from outer space never makes contact, go figure.
Note🫣 the TickTack UFO fuzzy clip. Both the pilots involved, featured in a Hollywood Navy vid called…” Another Day in Paradise.”
The pilot chick expressed her pleasure at dropping bombs on folks!
The male pilot is one Ballzee fighter jock. He retired from the navy and launch his UFO retirement career. Click, share, subscribe, or is he on a navy retainer, more like?
They both pop up for the TickTac scary clip, more funding needed to support a “Space Force “and fight tonight, up there, somewhere……funny that.
Yes Larry, it is all about money and it is evil. When you have more money than you know what to do with, evil power is all that is left.
Martin Armstrong has written a lot about Browder and Magnitsky.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/?s=browder
For a listing of some other interference the CIA has run try “Killing Hope US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”
It’s even been going on longer than that “Overthrow America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq”
Although the book is not offered on Amazon.com, I was able to find it on Amazon.ca.
While Alex Krainer’s book is not available on Amazon.com, I was able to find it on Amazon.ca
Link to a free download of Grand Deception: https://zoboko.com/download/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax?hash=6f2177de199347682d1a48fd0a41cf77
Revelations 13: The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.
My interpretation on that part is that ten crowns and seven heads means individuals and organizations from the West like: George Soros, Rotschild family, Obama, Clinton, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, NATO, Rand Corporation, MIC, WEF, Pfizer … and the list keeps going.
The Beast is the West obviously.
“As you read Krainer’s analysis of how much of the U.S. economy depends on preparing for war you will understand why the merchants of death who profit from building grossly expensive weapon systems want to hide these facts from you.”
Mr. Krainer’s analysis forms a component function of the strategic question “What are The United States of America and how are they facilitated ?” but as a function of the component’s framing/scope is limited in outlining lateral networks of facilitation to a degree of obscuring, and thereby delaying/limiting, strategic opportunities of transcendence.
“As you read Krainer’s analysis of how much of the U.S. economy depends on preparing for war you will understand why the merchants of death who profit from building grossly expensive weapon systems want to hide these facts from you.”
In illustration, the framing of the above sentence where “preparing for war” is followed in close proximity to “merchants of death” may tend for some, as functions of connotations, to restrict the definition of war to things that go bang, thereby obfuscating the following lateral network of facilitation :
“on preparing for war, the participants practice various aspects of war including competition inherent within their social relations and methods derived therefrom.”
This is not an unalloyed disadvantage in regard to “ways of thinking” as illustrated in http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57326.htm, the framing of contributions to many blogs, including “The US empire has the most sophisticated narrative control system ever devised” blurb of http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57326.htm , and hopes described as “strategies” by opponents through over-extension predicated upon attempting to bridge doubt by belief iterations encouraged/pre-masticated by “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident.”
Larry,
For what it is worth here is some information that might be useful to your readers. Using DuckDuckGo I found the following URL
https://zoboko.com/book/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax
I was able to download the book in PDF format from there free. I did not have a chance to read through all the reader comments in your blog at the time of this posting. Perhaps someone already mentioned this.
Thanks! Worked for me too! Hopefully i didn’t get a cocktail of viruses to boot.
love your blog Larry.i hope i dont offend by pointing out that you should think long and hard about protecting the identity of those to whom you refer.did you break a confidence or otherwise reveal something not in the public domain?if not then you are perpetuating “OMERTA”.you did not reveal anything about Mr.D that was not revealed when you said “Lobbyist.viruses and bacteria cannot stand the light of day.The names are changed to protect the innocent,think about that.they must be called out for good or evil.Larry,you must call a spade a spade!
That is why I did not mention his name or the names of his specific clients.
Lots off people seek money for itself without knowing it’s only a social construct, the for-use value of money is nil, the only point of money is being a common referent to value things.
Dying or killing for it is nearly never displayed as such. At war, you died for your country, your god, your morals values, some lands for your children to grow in or whatever shit the people profiteering from it will try to convince you to give your life for.
My grand’ma changed nationality five time during her life without ever moving and the thing she learn me is whatever the moneyfull are doing , the only one paying for it are the poor folks who can’t run from them. SO , for the poor to survive , the riches have to die first : this is the never told part of her story.
Why is it, the folks in the think-tanks do the thinking and the rest of us get thunk?
Why is it, that those who bleat the most for more wars, never participate as boots on the ground at the pointy end? Like, if they’re so keen, give em some guns or clubs at let them have a go.
Why is it, that the sons of war-mongers and MIC profiteers have many ways to evade military service, often in Ivy league colleges studying political science or other crap, living the lives of spoiled frat brats while regular Joe’s get sent off to become cannon-fodder?
As for American exceptionalism, there’s nothing really exceptional about it. The Brits used to harp on about “the whiteman’s burden” to justify the Empire, other European nations used similar rationalisations to justify their empires to themselves. I guess its human nature that the cannon-fodder usually don’t want to think of themselves as “the baddies”.
Thanks for a great article, and to those posting links to the downloads.
Money is not evil, nor is the love of money. Certain ideas about money are evil. Honest money is a beautiful thing to behold. When properly used it facilitates the billions of transactions that people all over the world make with each other resulting in a higher and higher standard of living for the ordinary working person. The fatal error we have made is to put the creation and control of money in the hands of the state where we all see how corrupt and devalued it has become.
In the 19th and early 20th Century, gold and silver were money as they had been for thousands of years, not because states, the political elites declared it so, rather because people in their everyday transactions saw that gold held its value through time. Gold had to be mined and minted, it was a beautiful, rare and virtually indestructible metal. It could not be printed willy nilly, “money” created from nothing. Which made it rather difficult for states to come up with the money to wage world wars or to create the behemoth standing armies of today that are used in their perpetual wars for perpetual peace. Quite logically the war mongers, the imperialists, the dishonest bankers decided to eliminate gold and silver as money, to completely remove it from all trade and replace it with a fiat or state mandated currency. (the last link to gold was removed in 1971.) The result: A world now drowning in debt, inflation, and on the brink of another world (nuclear) war and a population that thinks the root of all evil is money or the love of it.
Reading this I thought of Orwell long before he gets quoted. Winston Smith’s job in 1984 was to replace “Eurasia” in back copies of the paper of record (The London Times) with “East Asia” to make it look like the new war enemy was the same as the old one.
That makes so much more sense now that “back Copies” are internet archives and manipulatable, and knowing that East Asia was Soviet Union expanded into continental Europe (with UK as an outlier, Air Force One, for Oceania/US) and East Asia was China sphere.
General Smedley Butler said it best, “War is a Racket”
Michał Kalecki pointed out in 1943 that the Right prefers spending on warfare rather than welfare because it stimulates the economy without redistributing wealth and power from the capitalists to the workers. https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf
This “war is good for business” stuff from RAND very much follows what Mark Twain described in “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”: https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/sitting.html
Although the MIC and the money associated with it plays a role, there is a more dominant factor. For example, neocon David Broeder desire to start a war with Iran is driven by his “Israel First” agenda. Use US taxpayers $s and US lives to implement Richard Perle’s Clean Break Plan. Although the defense contractors may have a large lobbying footprint in DC, it pales in comparisons to Israel’s. The US foriegn policy is completely driven by the neocon agenda. That’s why the dancing Israelis danced at the downing of the world trade center. It was a boon for the neocon agenda. One can not understand the US’s feckleless foriegn policy without understanding this link.
Here’s an actual interview of Alex Krainer by someone from the Schiller Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqx6eeCt6s
I totally agree with your last paragraph. The US will learn the lesson the worst way possible. The system is entirely compromised. It doesn’t matter who is in Washington DC. The puppet must fulfill the orders of those that work in the backstage.
I really hope and pray for this, that another solution appears, and the world does not become apocalyptical as we can now see on the horizon.
Jesus was enraged once, and only once. Why? Because the private bankers and money launderers in the temple weren’t practicing MMT.*
Matthew 21:12-13
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
If money is the root of all evil, then one can assume that those that create money at usurious rates of interest, with the express purpose of holding all that those that dare come before them in permanent debt bondage, are some evil sons-of-a-bitches indeed.
Michael Hudson, who has been cast out of his own house for holding patriotic views, answers rapidfire questions from extremely radical elements that believe that sovereign governments should be just that, sovereign.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/11/real-progressives-live-with-michael-hudson-the-destiny-of-civilization.html
Enjoy him while you can. Michael is 83, and while his mind is still extraordinary, it can’t go on forever, as nothing can. And that mind is unquestionably, the finest one my country has produced in my lifetime.
*MMT, also known as Sovereign Banking, and, Public Banking for the Commons. Me, I just think of it as, Banking for Patriots.
MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) is the old canard of something for nothing. Printing money and spending it (i.e. counterfeiting) is a way of stealing which is why it is illegal for individuals. Having ths government do it, will just guarantee the the masses will be fleeced for the benefit of the politically well connected. IMHO
The alternative to MMT is printing money and then loaning it out with interest.
Those really are the only two options, you can print money and spend into existence, or you can print money and loan into existence
Unless you want to return to a hunter-gatherer barter economy, which although I would be all in favor, I don’t think would mesh that well with the rapid paced modern civilization we are enjoying at present.
I would also submit, that interest bearing money printing, which is the system we have now, among its many evils, leads to hypersonic inflation, best charactized by the 1.5 quadrillion dollar derivatives market (yes, that’s quadrillion with a q), derivatives being best described as, “financial weapons of mass destruction” by none other than billionaire globalist extraordinaire, Warren Buffet.
The hypersonic infationary attributes of printing with interest are due to the nature of the exponential. Compound interest is after all, an exponentiate.* And obviously, interest is how great nation-states can be quickly and forcibly saddled by their masters with 31 trillion dollars worth of debt obligations, and its citizens, once rich and prosperous, can find themselves, almost in the blink of an eye, suddenly 16 trillion dollars in arrears.
Personally, I am an anti-neo-liberal/anti-globalist, and as such, I believe that when you allow money printing to be the monopoly domain of the international banking conglomerates of the neo-liberal globalists, there is a good chance your nation-state, and mine happens to be the United States of America, will be reduced by these neo-liberal globalists to the status of a whorehouse.
If they’re lucky.
But hey, a vast majority of my fellow citizens greaty prefer the whorehouse model of money printing, as they all seem greatly satisfied to live in one, so who am I to judge.
*As is leverage. Private banks fracking money over and over again at 10 to 1 leverage ratios and beyond, is the exponentiate that most resembles tetration in the natural world I believe, tetration being best described as, “doublings over time as time doubles back at you.”
Love for the money is commonly known as greed. Greed is not the root of all evil, only of the majority of it.
Larry,
I don’t know where to begin. I am overwhelmed with all of this. I have been opposed from the beginning to endless war but I’ve not been aware of all these details. I’ve never known of Krainer or Browder.
Ironically, I was at the Richland, Mississippi Tractor Supply literally about a week ago and they allow religious solicitors to set up at their front door on a regular basis. I don’t like it one bit. So, upon passing them and before they could hawk their stuff, I said, “Money is the root of all evil.” The quit witted solicitor retorted, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
Do you or anyone here, have Krainer’s email address? I want to interview him at RT if I get the job as a host. And I want to at least ask Browder for an interview just to be fair. Does anyone have Browder’s email address?
This is redundant but worth repeating. Y’all are way ahead of the average American who does not have a clue about any of this. This is my real value at RT, i.e., I would start at an elementary level and ask simple questions to build a comprehension as to what is really going on.
Also, out of curiosity, why would you shield the “Mr. D’s” identity? I guess that’s a Spook thing but I’m a journalist and I want answers.
Lastly, do you agree that after a fair trial Western elites who long for another World War, should be hung by their necks until dead?
P.S. I just tweeted to Krainer:
RebelArmy.com is for sale – $2 billion
@RebelArmydotcom
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If RT hires me as a Host, will you grant me an interview?
Jim Giles
Very recently I heard a press release by a Ukrainian interest group in a northern state, stating that people should support Ukraine because Russians are raping and murdering Ukrainians.
Most people implicitly believe such garbage. They are totally captive to propaganda. The evil of the manipulators operating with impunity in the recesses of the MIC is staggering, the worst of the worst. Human lives are hardly worth a thought. “The corrupt system will have to be broken by an outside force. ” This kind of evil cannot stand for long. I agree that the handwriting is on the wall. The big wake up call is on its way. It is just a matter of time. That is the only way for the system to be changed. It will be a great reset, but not as globalist, one world government architects have planned.
Also worth reading:
1) “Report from Iron Mountain”,Lewin, (1967). This ‘satire’ mocked a ‘government think tank which concluded that if ‘peace broke out’ then the world economy would collapse.
2)”Boyd, the Fighter Pilot who changed the Art of War”; Coram (2004). In short, Boyd’s argument was if one was going to build a fighter plane, then build a fighter plane and don’t try to convert a Mack truck into an F-1 racing machine. Check out the history of the F-15, 16, & Warthog. DOD, though, hasn’t learned anything : https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/11/07/us-air-force-seeks-the-aircraft-equivalent-of-a-swiss-army-knife/
> “The Soviet Union is so fundamental to our outlook on the world
Quote: When Mr. Gorbachev began the reforms that destroyed the Soviet Union, he said, referring to the U.S.: “We’re going to do something terrible to you. We’re going to deprive you of an enemy.” Twenty-nine years later, it’s clear he was right. Without the ideological challenge of the Soviet Union, we have become immersed in internal conflicts and have made an ideology out of them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210418203420/https://freedomxlaw.com/soviet-politics-american-style/
““We’re going to do something terrible to you. We’re going to deprive you of an enemy.”
Mr. Gorbachev was never an original thinker but always a seeker of attention misinterpreting the remarks of others – hence known to some as the smoozer from Stavropolsky oblast.
Mr. Gorbachev was quoting the person whom he and others believed was his mentor – Mr. Yuri Andropov – who made a statement in 1969 in a meeting without any American’s present in a different form which I approximate as – “We’re going to do something terrible to them. We’re going to seem to deprive them of an opponent.” the definition of them not being restricted to “the United States of America” whilst the statement was based upon co-operative analyses not restricted to Mr. Adropov from at least August 1968 onwards, and why in 1991 some went to Children’s World to stock up on mirrors.
Mr. Gorbachev’s facilities rendered him incapable of making such a statement or analysis or strategy whether co-operatively or not, and this was a component part of the reasons why Mr. Andropov allowed others to believe that Mr. Gorbachev was his protege.
“We’re going to do something terrible to you. We’re going to deprive you of an enemy.”
Mr. Gorbachev was never an original thinker but always a seeker of attention misinterpreting the remarks of others – hence known to some as the smoozer from Stavropolsky oblast.
Mr. Gorbachev was quoting the person whom he and others believed was his mentor – Mr. Yuri Andropov – who made a statement in 1969 in a meeting without any American’s present in a different form which I approximate as – “We’re going to do something terrible to them. We’re going to seem to deprive them of an opponent.” the definition of them not being restricted to “the United States of America” whilst the statement was based upon co-operative analyses not restricted to Mr. Adropov from at least August 1968 onwards, and why in 1991 some went to Children’s World to stock up on mirrors.
Mr. Gorbachev’s facilities rendered him incapable of making such a statement or analysis or strategy whether co-operatively or not, and this was a component part of the reasons why Mr. Andropov allowed others to believe that Mr. Gorbachev was his protege.
“https://web.archive.org/web/20210418203420/https://freedomxlaw.com/soviet-politics-american-style/”
“archives” are often subject to tampering and hence are often vectors of “misinformation”, whereas some are framed by design to facilitate “misinformation”, primarily by “statistics”, although some seem to continue to rely upon World Bank statistics to describe conditions in “Russia” between 1991 to 1995, perhaps in emulation of Mr. Gorbachev and his associates relying on Gosplan statistics to describe “The Soviet Union” in the period from 1985 to 1990?
I at first checked Amazon and was shocked to discover it was unavailable. Really? There has to be something to it in order for them to want to censor it.
We have been at “war” with Russia since 1917. I assembled a playlist of short videos about this perpetual conflict.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA3ijso0hT26JDeUbJfq3V9CrpBXsP6R
Thanks very much for the videos, especially the Ukraine 2014.
You may simply write to Alex and he’ll send you a free, downloadable pdf
“You can download a copy of Grand Deception from the following link:” https://zoboko.com/book/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax
Thanks, Roger, it’s a pity one cannot reward him for it.
Here’s Alex Krainer talking to the Schiller Institute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqx6eeCt6s
Good work!
I’d add to your bibliography writers from the left who have been tracking ‘military Keynesianism’ for decades. Seymour Melman’s ‘Pentagon Capitalism’ was one of the first, and Baran and Sweezy in their book ‘Monopoly Capitalism’ provided a framework that the editors at Monthly Review have been using since c 1950. And then, of course, there was I. F. Stone. More recently Christopher Lane in his ‘The Peace of Illusions’ has found it necessary to retrieve the work of William Apple man Williams to try to understand why we saw no ‘peace dividend’ after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
It may be that you would prefer not to raise the profile of writers on the left, but in the present crisis we need all the voices and sources we can muster. In any case, keep at it!
Larry your insights are almost like a dark addiction to me, finding myself looking forward to another revelation of terrible hypocrisy and evil perpetrated by the MIMC of the USA as the chief implementer of Deep State globalist policy objectives. My reading list is growing from Michael Hudson’s economic insights to Andrey Martyanov’s military, economic and geopolitical views, the Duran daily summaries and last but not least your analyses which have, more than any other, sparked outrage from the Deep State lackeys on LinkedIn. A minority of the clowns there hate you and me also for promoting your views. It just shows how you must be absolutely on point with your analyses to get the minority crazies so upset. Keep up the great work – much respect. Greetings from Eastern Canada.
Power corrupts….. absolute power corrupts absolute. Money is just a medium of exchange…..the value or object of exchange will change over time and space But will ultimately confer power to holders of the objects of value. Plants grow towards light….nature’s natural laws bind all living things together but also make nature totally predictable and therefore controllable. The global economies owe trillions of dollars to who exactly? and how much money is needed to placate the need for more money? It’s not money it’s power and control and is now they are so totally corrupted that we the masses must invoke the First Law of Nature and that is self preservation before they destroy us all
Grand Deception is available as ebook on Kobo.
The problem is *they* are the addicts, but *we* will pay the price. I just assume everyone high enough in the political and corpo classes has an escape plan to some distant and plush location should the county collapse.
We need to stop these people before that. They cannot be allow to get away with it, or it all just happens again and again, generation after generation.
We need to identify whatever psychopathy these creatures possess, develop tests for it, and never let their ilk have power over us ever again. And I don’t want to hear the “well, we sometimes need people like this to blah blah blah.” We tried that. Clearly it doesn’t work.
“And I don’t want to hear the “well, we sometimes need people like this to blah blah blah.” We tried that. Clearly it doesn’t work.”
Evaluation is primarily a function of purpose and to a lesser degree a function of facility.
Consequently some within the “We” tried that and believe that it can work – maybe this time we’ll be lucky refers.
This emulates the behaviours of the Brezhnev politburo and associates in regard to Afghanistan in 1979 despite Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the behaviours of Mr. Gorbachev and his associates in regard to the viability of “reforming the Soviet Union” in the period from 1985 to 1990 despite 1947 to 1954 and subsequent in Ukraine, 1956 in Hungary and Poland, 1968 in Czechoslovakia, and some apparently presently representing, in the hope of regular presents, in “The United States of America”.
“And I don’t want to hear the “well, we sometimes need people like this to blah blah blah.” We tried that. Clearly it doesn’t work.”
Evaluation is primarily a function of purpose and to a lesser degree a function of facility.
Consequently some within the “We” tried that and believe that it can work – maybe this time we’ll be lucky refers.
This emulates the behaviours of the Brezhnev politburo and associates in regard to Afghanistan in 1979 despite Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the behaviours of Mr. Gorbachev and his associates in regard to the viability of “reforming the Soviet Union” in the period from 1985 to 1990 despite 1947 to 1954 and subsequent in Ukraine, 1956 in Hungary and Poland, 1968 in Czechoslovakia, and some apparently presently representing, in the hope of regular presents, in “The United States of America”.
For any Australians tuning in – I got an eBook copy of “Grand Deception: The Browder Hoax ” through Booktopia for about $AU20.00. Have read the first two chapters. In the first Krainer warns that his opening chapters may be a bit tedious (and yes he is correct) – but its worth reading them to get the background.
We are inside a paradigm shift that will not resolve itself for years. In reference to what comes out of it, Dugin has written about the same “useless eaters” that Harari adresses very differently. And that is that he sees them operating small farmsteads. Joseph Cambell said that progress is the myth of our time. It’s a Ponzi scheme. If you don’t put the brakes on, it’s crash and burn one day. Hollywood tells you that we are going to live as gods in the stars and galaxies so you never need to think about how people will survive on earth in the thirty third century.
It’s doubtful whether the industrial/military (now also financial) complex yearns for a global war, that carries the risk of the US mainland getting hit, nobody can predict with any certainty what the reaction of the American public would be if powerful missiles were to flatten assets, kill people on the American soil.
What the complex needs is regional conflicts, the more of them and the longer lasting the better.
Since about the mid-80s last century, most of the American manufacturing capacity that formed the basis of the country’s post WW2 hegemony has been moved offshore (mostly to China) except for the design, manufacture and servicing of military hardware and software, the tools of killing are still produced to large extend inland.
The companies engaged in it can be found in everyone one of the fifty States of the Republic, the sector employs by the broadest definition (from those that supply the laces of the military boots to the men serving in the military) over 10% of the US workforce of 160m, every 401(k) of those in employment has in it the stock and shares of the companies involved in making the military gear.
Could any American politician seriously argue for the curtailment of the sector’s hold on the American foreign policy if the outcome were to inevitably lead to much reduced employment, a noticeable cut in the value of individual pension plans, and above all the loss of the remuneration and benefits in kind of the top layer of the military companies’ management and the multiplicity of advisory boards populated by former politicians and top federal or state employees?
In one respect what the military sector turns out – the tanks, the missiles, the ammo – is no different from the manufactured cars, fridges, or foodstuff in that it has to be consumed (or amortised), a company cannot keep on producing cars or growing tomatoes then storing the stuff up forever any more than a company making military gear can manufacture and store fighter planes or boxes of ammunition without making use of them, that’s not doable, live military exercises are not enough to dispose of the manufactured tools of killing.
The cars as well as the fighter planes had to be used up to be replaced often by more up-to-date and more expensive models, the same goes for the military ‘perishables’ the ammo.
The one key difference between consumer stuff and the military hardware is that the consumer of the former is the common man, competition exists, pricing is important, the customer of the military hardware is the Government, prices matter less, often not at all as competition is minimal and the Treasury can either tax or borrow the cash required.
Conflicts of any size, but as many as possible and the bigger the better, are therefore a must for the American Republic, they’re inevitable, hence the new 2022-23 Defence budget of $777.7bn, bigger than the money spent on defence by the next ten countries (also roughly the same as the US Medicare budget).
One can see only one way out of this predicament, a full destruction of the contemporary regime, the system must be smashed either internally through a civil war, or the job has to be carried out by an external enemy, not unlike it was impossible to reform the Soviet model of governance, it had to implode, it’s equally out of any possibility to rectify the American one.
“Kill thousands in order to create value for shareholders.”
Sounds like a perverse version of the broken window fallacy. Let’s call it the Broken Human fallacy. And it occurs on both sides. My little brother was sniped through the spinal cord 15 years ago in Iraq looking for those “WMDs” that that asshole Bush 43 later joked about and is now a quadripalegic, unable to move his body below his shoulders. He joined the Army to serve his country and came back broken physically and mentally as well. Damn these merchants of death. Damn the John Boltons of this world. Damn. Them. All. To. Hell.
“Grand Deception:The Browder Hoax” in a must read book, and Alex Krainer is also a really nice guy, who has a wide knowledge of the finance industry.
There is a far quicker way to demonstrate that Browder is a crook and con-artist.
Browder falsely accused a Russian national Denis Katsyv of money laundering, and gave all his fake information to US Attorney Preet Bharara, in what became known as the Prevezon case. After running away from three subpoenas, Browder was ordered by the judge to be deposed on 15 April 2015.
Browder’s videotaped deposition tells the whole story. The most suppressed deposition never to be mentioned by the media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoH17pPJmHY&list=PLd4Mlks-hYL-IZUOi7EHujFNrGcv5gl8p&index=5&t=690s
On a related topic:
The Real Story about Bill Browder and the Trump Tower Meeting. |by Brett Harris | Medium
https://bretthar123.medium.com/the-truth-about-the-trump-tower-meeting-and-bill-browder-7049f9d03475
Browder is a nasty piece of work who should be indicted for Obstruction of Justice.
Larry, you ought to re-read your title. It’s very poor grammar.
I would assume you prefer at the least a modicum of professionalism in your site.
I wondered about the title too.
But I think Larry is very professional.
His site like all others can be improved. I continue to recommend a forum. It would intensify and focus debate much better.
What a great post! Sadly, I think you are right. The Midterms will change nothing, as I have written here. https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/midterms-a-bloodletting . I am Canadian. But it is the same in Canada. Just as it is in the UK, Oz’, and NZ—the entire Anglosphere.
As for Cowen’s article, the graph from Pinker’s book is based (as you show) on a study at SFU on BATTLEFIELD deaths, very narrowly defined if you look at the study.
Pinker’s representation of this has been widely criticized by no less than Nassim Taleb (and others).
Pinker is a best-selling writer of books that peddle a personal worldview based on a very limited knowledge of history, anthropology, psychology, zoology, and philosophy—despite Pinker’s Harvard credentials, not that a position in Harvard is meaningful in any way. Pinker’s speciality is Generative Grammar, a theory that Chomsky created in the 60s that all languages, however different, were generated by a “universal” logic, hardwired in the brain. The theory has never been proven. And decades of attempts have never produced a useful “generative grammar”. Even Chomsky has pretty much give up on the theory as he presented more than half century ago. Not Pinker, of course.
Pinker is a believer in “Exceptionalism”.
He thinks that the bulk of mankind are brutes and they must be controlled and directed by elites of exceptional minds; ie. like his. His fans include Bill Gates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
He insists that the last 50 years have been years of peace. As if Iraq, the wars in Africa and Asia never happened.
It is true that the US suffered minimal casualties. In Iraq, the US military lost about 7000 casualties but only a small proportion of these were “battlefield” deaths. They include accidents, terrorism, and the like.
The US says it doesn’t count civilian casualties, so they hard to estimate and estimates range from 500,000 to well over a million in Iraq alone, with more deaths due to cancer caused by US use of DU munitions, disease, etc. Overall life expectancy under Saddam was about 70. Under the US occupation, it dropped to 68.
If you add up the death toll in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and now the Ukraine, you see that war is not benign – except for the “exceptional” nations – the US, the UK, Canada, and Oz’. It’s simple: “you must die so I can live”.
Larry,
If you had a forum, an obvious thread this evening would be the election.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/11/seat-flipped-in-florida/
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I speak for George Washington and he disapproves of foreign wars.
Can we talk you into opposing American hegemony?
Shoulda listened to Washington and stayed the course.
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There is a word that riles the one interested in accuracy and honesty, not the fastidious: it is the word “defence”.
Is the military department of the US seeking to secure the defence of the realm, now and in the past 80 years? Was the Korean war a war of defence? And Vietnam, Panama, Granada, Serbia, Iraq, et al? If so, whose defence? The people? not a whiff of gun powder ever reached the shores of the US from any country, near or far away; not a whisper of sanctions or blockades ever disturbed the ears of any US official.
What or who is to be defended by the military of defence then? Since the old warrior revealed it to us many a year ago, we can be sure that the same scheme prevailed to this very day: “war is a racket”, i.e, the defence of the racket – at home and abroad – is the whole purpose of such malodorous contraption.
However, the proper and honest term to be used then, by the commoners of the world, is “the ministry of (imperial) war”; nothing else will do.
(In the old days they were more honest – their ministries of war were called “War Ministry”)
And a related issue: Since any war of aggression, any war for the preservation or extension of an iniquitous empire (corporate-fascism; social depravity, political perversion) causes the spilling of much innocent blood, any profit from such warfare is blood money – a horrendous burden of guilt at that unavoidable day of judgement.
An add to discussion on crook browder from helmer/komisar; unfortunately komisar is in interview form but matt ehret provides extensive detail on komisar’s site.
Komisar has been tracking browder’s history of criminal activity for years; browder has an extraordinary ability to manipulate the press and thus escape arrest. His lies before the neo cn Senate Foreign Relations committee let to the hoax, magnetski act.
There is some credence to the allegation that browder’s manipulation has caused the Russiapohobia and the insanity and stupidity of the ineffective sanctions.
http://johnhelmer.org/money-laundering-in-russia-sanctions-war-against-russia-hands-up-bill-browder/#more-70236
Among the few WannabeFascist Elites that want war as a source of wealth is/was POTUS Shrub (Dubya) Bush who seriously remarked to a late President of Brazil that the best way to restore wealth to the Brazilian economy would be to finance a war. Like his Grandpa, who profited mightily selling to Nazis during WW2, Shrub seriously believes this.