by Connor Freeman

Antiwar.com

Citizens across much of the continent are marching in the streets, protesting against inflation, the Western proxy war in Ukraine, as well as the Washington-led sanctions blitz.

As inflation and energy prices continue skyrocketing in Europe, people across the continent are protesting against the war in Ukraine and the anti-Russian sanctions, which have raised living costs to intolerable levels, the New York Times reported Friday.

This is making politicians nervous, as winter approaches. “The resignation on Thursday of Prime Minister Liz Truss sent perhaps the clearest signal yet that political peril awaits those who fail to address inflation and the erosion of living standards, no matter the cause,” according to the Times. Studies are showing significant decreases in support for Kiev and the Western proxy war.

The European Union’s annual inflation rate is currently reaching heights not seen in decades – 10.9%, compared to 3.6% this time last year. This is largely driven by the Washington-led sanctions blitz, which has cut the bloc off from the cheap Russian gas upon which it has long relied. As winter approaches, people are making their voices heard. The demonstrations cut across the political spectrum, with the left, right, union members, and poor people all expressing severe discontent. “Strikes and protests over the rising cost of living proliferate, ushering in a period of social and labor unrest not seen since at least the 1970s,” the report says.

Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he will join a large demonstration demanding peace in Ukraine and an end to military aid shipments. Italians are becoming restless, “the pressure is everywhere. Trade unions want the government to spend more on energy subsidies to help companies like pottery makers, who need to power their furnaces, but also farmers, who are getting slammed on the cost of fertilizers, which are produced with gas or potassium from Russia.”

Last month, Prague saw massive demonstrations of 70,000 people, across the political spectrum, protesting against NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine and rising energy prices caused by the anti-Russian sanctions. In the Czech Republic, the inflation rate is 17.8%.

Home energy prices continue surging in Hungary where inflation is more than 20%. In response, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has “doubled down on his policy of denouncing sanctions against Russia in pursuit of deals with Russia’s state-owned Gazprom for supplies of natural gas.”

In Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, tens of thousands of people are protesting against inflation and support for the proxy war in Ukraine. This is occurring particularly in the eastern states which are “among the country’s poorest, and most conservative.” However, the left is organizing similar demonstrations which “mirror the complaints of the right.” For instance, roughly 1,300 protesters gathered in downtown Leipzig with signs that said “Our country first.”

In France, the gross domestic product will shrink by an estimated $73 billion and there will be a concurrent 1.4 percent drop in purchasing power next year, according to a recent study cited in the report, “with the effect felt largely in poorer households.”

In solidarity with Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron called on French citizens to endure the economic pain concomitant with propping up Kiev and waging the economic war against Russia. Another study cited in the report shows only a third of the French are willing to bear the brunt of the economic consequences associated with these policies. “On Tuesday, France’s main unions led large demonstrations in Paris, with tens of thousands marching for wage increases, and a survey last week by the polling firm IFOP found that support for Ukraine was down about 5 percentage points since May,” the report said.

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Via https://news.antiwar.com/2022/10/23/as-winter-approaches-and-inflation-rises-social-unrest-boils-in-europe/

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

With up to 40% of the Ukraine power grid now down and millions of people without electricity as winter sets in, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are trying to flee the country, as the United States appears to be getting ready to take America to war and start engaging Russian forces.

Could this be the “October surprise” the Biden Administration has been planning in an effort to affect upcoming elections in November?

CBS News reported Friday that the elite “Screaming Eagles,” a light infantry unit from the 101st Airborne’s home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have been deployed to Romania, just a few miles from the Ukraine border.

It is reportedly the first time in almost 80 years that the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe, which brings the number of U.S. troops now in Europe up to around 100,000.

CBS embedded a “reporter” with the unit who produced this report that was aired on Friday:

The English language Russian news publication Sputnik was quick to point out how President Biden has previously promised that U.S. troops would not get involved in the war in Ukraine:

The US Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed the “Screaming Eagles,” has been deployed in Romania to engage in war games just miles from Ukraine’s border. NATO flexing its muscle in close proximity to Russia is fraught with the risk of an incidental conflict which could lead to a fully-fledged war, Sputnik’s interviewees warn.

“President Biden said many times that US troops are not going to get involved in Ukraine. Unfortunately such statements are worthless because history has shown the US does not abide by its commitments and promises,” said Rick Sterling, an investigative journalist and author.

“For example, the US promised to not expand NATO. They did, right up to Russia’s border. The US committed to the JCPOA agreement with Iran. President Trump tore up the agreement. President Obama promised there would be ‘No US boots on the ground’ in Syria. US troops have been there since 2015, stealing the oil from Syria. The US reneged on all these commitments.”

About 4,700 soldiers from the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division have been dispatched by the Pentagon with heavy equipment to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank amid the Russian special operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine. (Source.)

Meanwhile, in further signs that the conflict in Ukraine is quickly escalating, Russian Defense Minister, Sergey Shoigu, has warned that their intelligence sources claim that Ukraine is getting ready to launch a “false flag” dirty bomb attack in their own country, and then blame it on Russia.

Moscow warns Paris of ‘dirty bomb’ provocation risk – The warning of a possible false flag attack by Ukraine came during talks between the Russian and French defense chiefs – RT.com

The Russian defense minister has shared concerns with his French counterpart of a possible provocation by Ukraine with the use of a “dirty bomb”.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergey Shoigu and Sebastien Lecornu spoke by phone on Sunday, discussing “the situation in Ukraine, which is consistently veering towards further uncontrolled escalation”.

Shoigu, in an apparent reference to previous media reports, voiced concerns about a “possible Ukrainian provocation” which could involve the use of a “dirty bomb.”

Earlier on Sunday, RIA Novosti cited “sources in different countries including Ukraine” as saying that Kiev is preparing to detonate “a dirty bomb or a low-yield nuclear weapon” on its own territory. According to the Russian news agency, the goal would be to accuse Moscow of using weapons of mass destruction in a ploy to “launch a powerful anti-Russia campaign”.

The report claimed that two Ukrainian institutions have already been tasked with manufacturing a “dirty bomb,” with the work now at “the final stages.” Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s administration is reportedly engaged in behind-the-scenes talks with British officials in a bid to secure the transfer of nuclear arms components to Kiev.

A so-called dirty bomb uses a conventional explosive combined with radioactive material. While it could not rival a nuclear warhead in terms of power, such a device could disperse a radiation cloud within several kilometers of the explosion.

The talks between Shoigu and Lecornu come days after the Russian defense minister had a rare telephone conversation with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. While the details of the talks are scarce, the sides are said to have discussed “issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine.” (Full article.)

There are also reports that China intelligence is picking up similar signals, as they recently ordered the evacuation of all Chinese citizens still in Ukraine. (Source.)

Further evidence that the U.S. is planning to get involved and directly confront Russian forces comes from reports that retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus has been talking to NATO countries to warn that “the United States may lead a multinational coalition against Russia in Ukraine regardless of NATO involvement.”

He has reportedly given interviews in France and Turkey:

The United States may lead a multinational coalition against Russia in Ukraine regardless of NATO involvement, according to retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus.

In an interview with France’s L’Express on Saturday, Petraeus predicted that Russia could take actions in Ukraine that are “so shocking and so horrific” that direct U.S. intervention would be necessary.

“We are talking about the intervention of the North Atlantic Alliance in the event of an attack on one of the NATO members. But it is necessary to consider the option of using not NATO forces in Ukraine, but multinational forces that have nothing to do with NATO,” Petraeus, who also briefly served as CIA director, said.

“This is a different situation. There is no need to draw red lines in terms of an attack on any NATO country in order to talk about the operation of the 5th article of the charter. You can also respond to challenges as a multinational force led by the United States,” he added.

Petraeus also claimed that Russia has little chance of reversing the trajectory of the conflict in Ukraine thanks to America’s financial assistance.

Additionally, the U.S. has “many options” should Russia decide to launch a nuclear weapon, he said.

Petraeus reiterated his positions in an interview on Turkish media last week.

 

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/u-s-deploys-101st-airborne-division-to-europe-as-russia-warns-ukraine-preparing-false-flag-dirty-bomb-attack/

Conjuring Hitler

Guido Giacomo Preparata

Pluto Press (2005)

Book Review

Available free online via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/conjuringhitlerh0000prep_p5u8/

Part 2 (see https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/how-the-anglo-american-elite-created-hitler/ for Part 1)

The second half of this book details the unique privilege enjoyed by private and central banks (the ability to create money out of thin air) and the immense power this gives them.

I was fascinated to learn (from declassified sources) the simultaneous steps taken by the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve to deliberately crash the global economy, both in 1920 and in 1929. Moreover prior to reading this book, I previously had no idea the reason the Bank of International Settlements was created in 1930 was to “privatize” Germany’s reparations under the Versailles Treaty (ie to sell the debt to private investors).

The author also really scrupulously details the role played by the Britain, the US and (surprisingly) the Soviet Union  in financing both the Nazi movement and the rearmament of Germany (in violation of the Versailles Treaty). The primary rationale for the massive Western support Hitler received was a desire to see the Nazis bring down Russia’s Bolshevik government. Stalin’s motivation for supporting the Nazis remains a mystery.

Between 1919-1923, the Nazis were mainly funded by secret German army funds and between 1923 and 1933, by German industrialists. Beginning in 1934 (Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933), they received US corporate funding through Union Banking Corp, which was subsidized by Harriman Brothers under the direction of George W Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush. From 1935 on, the Anglo-German Society (founded by Unilever, Dunlop Rubber and British Petroleum) also heavily subsidized them.

In 1933, the US ambassador to Germany reported to Roosevelt that DuPont, Standard Oil and International Harvester were all heavily invested in German rearmament despite a German law that banned them from repatriating their profits to the US. In 1934-35, Hitler received US airplanes and engines from General Motors. ITT and Ford also invested heavily in the German war industry. By 1941, total US investment in the Nazi war effort was $475 million.

After 1933, Nazi Germany was Britain’s main trading partner, as the UK granted millions in new credit to the Nazis (to create a market for British exports.

Preparata also describes what he refers to as a split between Churchill’s Anti-Nazi Party* and the bipartisan Peace Party, which included overt and covert Nazi sympathizers like Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden and Edward VIII (who subsequently abdicated).

Under Neville Chamberlain, the UK government mandated Czechoslovakia (who had the greater military strength) to allow Hitler to annex their country.

The book also notes that Churchill kept the Nazi appeasers in his cabinet and prohibited the RAF from bombing German land forces or munitions factory during the Battle for France. It remains a mystery how the 1.5 million Anglo/French forces failed to deter the 350,000 Nazi troops who invaded France and how the most powerful Navy in the world failed to maintain an effective blockade against supplies and munitions reaching German forces in France.

Another so-called mystery is the decision (despite US entry into World War II in December 1947) for combined US, UK and French forces to postpone their invasion of Normandy until the Soviet Union had essentially decimated Hitler’s army.

[1] The so-called “Anti-Nazi Party” refers to Churchill’s attempts between 1935-37 to form a cross party anti-Nazi alliance.

And that is a thing we need to fix.

Longtime gatopal™ Jennifer Cabrera has a simple, common sense solution here:

Because this law is an abomination.

It creates ALL the wrong incentives and has swollen the US pediatric vaccine schedule (which used to be 3 well tested vaxxes, MMR, DTP, polio) with ineffective or marginally effective crap lacking valid risk reward and possessing meaningful side effect tails.

The case for several (HPV, flu, rota, pneumococcal) is basically non-extant.

But hey, no liability, no need to worry.

Interestingly, Gardasil does not appear to have this coverage hence the mass of lawsuits.

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Landing in court on this is not, perhaps “the system working” as this vaccine looks to have been approved and marketed on numerous false pretenses and perhaps outright fraud but it at least the system is cleaning up its mess after the fact and discouraging such behavior in the future.

And the covid vaccines put all the others in the shade in terms of corners cut and data looking dodgy. but if we shield them and other things like them from liability, where is the disincentive to act badly? (and if you just said “because the drug companies wouldn’t lie to us!” I have some Denver harbor bonds to sell you.)

You can get around this exemption by pfinding phraud, but should this really be necessary (especially when they hide the data and thus could have all sorts of little gems in it that the public had not seen)?

So how about we end this harmful “safe harbor” instead?

There is NO good consumer protection reason for this act. it’s a license for pharma to misbehave and it eliminates accountability and incentive to test properly. if you want to jab your drugs into kids, you need to own the side effects.

If you fail to predict or disclose risks, you own the ill outcomes instantly and forever.

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Via https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/repeal-the-national-childhood-vaccine

Port of LA imports haven’t been this low in September since 2009

Easy Money

Greg Miller

September is usually a strong month for West Coast imports as U.S. companies bring in their year-end holiday goods. Not so in 2022.

On Wednesday, the Port of Los Angeles reported its lowest import total for September since 2009, amid the Great Recession. The day before, the neighboring Port of Long Beach posted its weakest import total for September since 2016.

Imports to Southern California ports are falling fast because shippers have shifted volumes to East and Gulf coast ports, fearing disruptions from West Coast port labor negotiations. Simultaneously, volumes are now pulling back nationwide due to falling demand.

Holiday imports ‘dropped precipitously’

“In the month of September is where the real story lies,” explained Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, during a news conference on Wednesday.

Earlier this year, imports of durable goods bought heavily during the pandemic — furniture, appliances, etc. — began pulling back. In September, declines were heavily driven by reductions in holiday goods, as well.

“September is traditionally a high-volume month for end-of-year products,” said Seroka. “Think toys and games, clothing, footwear and other products. Those holiday gift items dropped precipitously compared to last September, mainly because they came in earlier. This year our peak season was in June and July, as savvy importers moved up the arrival of these goods to bring some certainty back to when they could get to market.”

Asked by American Shipper how October’s volumes are shaping up versus September’s, he said they will be “probably about the same or a little bit lighter. It’s going to be a soft October.”

LA September imports down 15% vs. August

The Port of Los Angeles reported total throughput of 709,873 twenty-foot equivalent units in September, down 21.5% year on year (y/y). Exports came in at 77,680 TEUS, up 2.6% y/y, while empties totaled 288,731 TEUs, down 19.8% y/y.

Loaded imports to Los Angeles totaled just 343,462 TEUs, down 26.6% y/y. Imports fell 15.1% sequentially versus August, following a 16.7% drop in August versus July.

Los Angeles’ imports reached their highest level this year in May. September imports were down 31.3% compared to that month. Imports in September were the lowest for any month since May 2020, when the U.S. was in the midst of COVID-19 lock downs.

Long Beach September imports down 11% vs. August

The Port of Long Beach reported total throughput of 741,823 TEUs for September, down 0.9% y/y. Exports came in at 112,940 TEUs, up 1.9% y/y, and empties totaled 286,212 TEUs, up 7% y/y.

This morning, British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation after only 6 weeks in office.

Much of the legacy media cited a “Tory revolt,” leading the Free World normies to believe that perhaps some kind of freedom rebellion has occurred.

In fact, just the opposite is true. Truss, they say, stepped out of line by proposing a “risky plan” to cut taxes.

Today’s U.K. tories believe in what amounts to communism + tax cuts, but the tax cuts are negotiable. And with a global recession and economic crisis underway, the Oxbridge-educated, World Economic Forum-groomed U.K. politicians ousted the British PM after only 44 days.

British political observers now believe that a man named Rishi Sunak, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, is the tory frontrunner to replace Truss as prime minister.

Sunak went to Oxford, and he speaks like this:

“The challenge of climate change is clear, and it is urgent. We need to ensure a positive and fair transition to net zero.”

In other words, out with the old marionette, and in with the new.

But it’s not just the U.K. that has this issue.

Every country in the Anglosphere has a puppet “in charge” of the government. And the major “opposing” parties are largely captured by the same Build Back Better, Great Reset, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Climate Crisis, etc. agenda. The Free World has become a globalist uniparty for authoritarian control.

Joe Biden, Liz Truss’s coming replacement, Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, and Anthony Albanese, along with the forces seeking to replace them (except for some elements of the GOP, arguably) all remain committed to an anti-liberty agenda that imposes globalist ruin upon humanity.

What happened to the Free World? It’s difficult to pinpoint, and remains debatable, when exactly the notion became a complete illusion, and when virtually all of our representatives were captured by anti-human forces.

But it has become quite clear that these issues will not be resolved through the ballot box. In order for humanity to flourish once more, solutions must be found outside of the political system.

In 2022, the Anglosphere that once represented the Free World is nothing but an illusion. On the bright side of the global power grab that was COVID Mania, and the brutal authoritarian actions imposed by Anglosphere governments, was the awakening of millions of minds to this unmistakable reality.

The “Free World” has been completely captured by anti-human forces. Now, more than ever, solutions must be found far removed from the ballot box.

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Via https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-free-world-isnt-looking-so-free

Kit Knightly

OffGardian

We at OffG – and many of our fellow alt media sites – have been reporting for over a year now that the Covid “vaccination” campaign will never end.

In short, you will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”.

That much was obvious once health institutions around the world started “updating” their definition of the term.

Israel. America. Britain. New Zealand. Australia…they all did it, and it came as no surprise.

From the beginning, the “pandemic” has been created, policed, enforced and perpetuated through nothing but rhetorical tricks and manipulative language. News names for old things. New definitions for old words.

“Covid” has always been nothing but a pandemic of terminology. The fluid nature of “fully vaccinated” is just another example.

It has already ballooned from “double-jabbed” to “boosted” and “double-boosted”, and with new “vaccines” expected for all the variants, it doesn’t look like any end is on the horizon.

As I said, you’ll never really be “fully vaccinated”…and now they’re admitting it.

In yet another attempt at control through language manipulation, there’s a push on to completely scrub the term “fully vaccinated” from the Covid discourse.

Yesterday NBC News ran this piece, which headlines:

It’s time to stop saying ‘fully vaccinated’ for Covid, experts say—here’s why

Before going on to claim:

If you still say “fully vaccinated” for Covid, it’s time to stop. With new boosters on the market and an ever-evolving virus, experts say the term no longer means being the most protected you can be. They point to two, far more appropriate alternatives to use in this current phase of the pandemic

They also recommend “adjusting your vocabulary” with their suggested new alternative: “up to date”, a frank admission that the Covid boosters will keep on coming, potentially forever.

Essentially, having spent 18 months convincing millions of people to get “fully vaccinated”, they’re now messing with language again to reverse course and strip that designation away.

Meaning all those people who dutifully took their clot shots are not only no longer considered “fully vaccinated”, but never will be, and are now not even allowed to use that phrase because it creates a false impression.

The good news is that vaccine uptake is slowing – it has been for months – and this transparent effort to lay the ground for future booster campaigns will likely fall flat on its face.

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Via https://off-guardian.org/2022/10/22/experts-now-admit-you-will-never-be-fully-vaccinated/

Conjuring Hitler

Guido Giacomo Preparata

Pluto Press (2005)

Book Review

Available free online via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/conjuringhitlerh0000prep_p5u8/

Part 1

This fascinating book presents a wealth of research into 1) the plot hatched by British intelligence in 1898 to destroy Germany via an industrial-scale war, 2) the Anglo-British plot to end the regime of Tsar Nicholas II by financing communist and Bolshevik militias in 1917, 3) the political chicanery behind the 1919 Versailles Treaty that officially ended World War I, 4) the careful grooming and financing by British intelligence of National Socialist Workers Party founder Adolph Hitler starting in 1924 (following his release from prison), 5) the real reason the Allies invaded the Soviet Union in January 1918, 6) the role of the Anglo-American banks in crashing the global economy in 1929 and 7) the role of British and American banking and corporate elites in rearming Germany after 1933 (in violation of the Versailles Treaty).

I’ve divided this review in two halves. Part I covers history from the unification of Germany in 1871 to 1929. Part II begins with the decision by the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve to crash their respective economies in 1929.

Prior to reading Conjuring Hitler, I had no idea British Foreign Office elites were plotting as early as 1898 to decimate newly unified Germany[1] militarily, politically and economically. According to Preparata, the influential academic and politician Halford MacKinder[2] (1861-1947) was highly prone to anti-German conspiracy theories. He somehow convinced the British Foreign that a Russo-German alliance was plotting to replace the UK as the de facto global super power.

The British political establishment chose to target Germany, rather than Russia, in part because it was more accessible and in part due to grave concerns about Germany’s growing industrial strength, their heavy investments in the Middle East and their colonies in Africa (Northwest Africa, Togoland, Cameroons and Tanganyika), and the Pacific (Solomon, Marshall and Caroline Islands).

Knowing that Germany would have to be “dragged” into war (because they would never initiate a first strike), in 1904, the UK entered into strategic treaties with the countries surrounding it. They hoped to launch a short (few months) war in which Germany would be immobilized with simultaneous attacks on two fronts. France signed the first treaty in 1904, after the UK granted them sole jurisdiction over the contested colony of Morocco.  In 1907, the UK signed a similar military pact with Russia, granting them jurisdiction over northern Persia and promising them Constantinople and the Bosporus Straits (following the anticipated defeat of the the Ottoman Empire [3]).

In May 1914, President Woodrow Wilson’s chief foreign advisor notified him that Britain, France and Russia were preparing to ambush Germany via a false flag event in Eastern Europe. A month later an anarchist linked to Serbian intelligence assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary) with the approval of the Russian government.

After Serbia rejected the Austrian ultimatum for an formal Serbian-Austrian investigation, Austria declared war and invaded Serbia in late July. After three unsuccessful attempts to negotiate an end to Russian military mobilization, Austria’s military ally Germany declared war on the Allies and invaded Belgium.

Despite their significant initial success against the French, the Germans were totally unprepared for the industrial scale warfare launched by the allies, and between 1914 and 1917 the Germans and Allies were virtually stalemated.

Beginning in 1915, Germany embarked on a conspiracy to finance (with two tons of gold) a revolutionary militia (ie the Bolsheviks) to destabilize the Russian government. In early 1917, the German government arranged for Lenin’s release from prison in Zurich and his safe passage through Germany.

In May 1917, when Czar Nicholas II (after heavy Russian losses) signaled his intention to for peace, Jack Morgan (son of J P Morgan who previously financed the February Revolution via the Red Cross War Council)[4] shifted his support from Kerensky and the Mensheviks to the Bolsheviks.

According to Preparata, by April 1917 the Allies were close to defeat, and the US, facing massive financial loss in the face of British defeat,[5] agreed to enter the war.

According to a declassified State Department memorandum, after the new Bolshevik government withdraw Russian forces from the front, the Allies worried the anti-Bolshevik White Russians would ally themselves with Germany. For this reason, they opened a second front in January 1918 by invading the USSR. At the same time, Britain secretly double crossed their White Russian allies by hiring the Cossack Semenov to cut off provisions to the White Army.[6]

The book also details the torturous Versailles negotiations, resulting in the punitive war reparations imposed on the Germans.[7]

[1] In 1871 most of the German-speaking states unified as the German Empire under Emperor Wilhelm I (formerly King Wilhelm of Prussia).

[2] MacKinder is best known for the “World Island Theory” of global dominance (followed slavishly by Anglo-American policy makers to the present day), which asserts that whoever controls the “heartland” of the Eurasian land mass controls the world. See To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

[3] In August 14, the Ottoman Empire signed a secret alliance with Germany and Austria, and they entered the war with a surprise naval attack on Russia on October 14, 1914.

[4] Jacob Schiff and other Wall Street opponents of the Tsarist regime had been financing Russian revolutionary socialists since 1905. See Who Financed the Bolshevik Revolution?

[5] With a German victory, Morgan stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Beginning in the last quarter of 1916, the Allies were totally dependent on the US to finance the war.

[6] Wall Street financiers were still providing weapons to the Bolsheviks in early 1918.

[7] Prior to reading this book, I had no idea the US Senate refused to ratify the Versailles Treaty and that the US negotiated a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921.