A Simple Quiz

by Mark Graffis

EDITOR’S NOTE: Being able to score an “A” on this simple quiz should be a requirement before one is permitted to vote in any national election. — Kevin Alfred Strom.

1. In which of these countries are Christians permitted to pray or wear religious symbols in the schools?

A. France

B. United States

C. China

D. Iran

2. In which of these countries do Christians enjoy the most religious freedom?

A. China

B. France

C. United States

D. Iran

3. During the past 20 years, which of these countries’ governments have killed the most civilians of other countries?

A. Syria

B. Iraq

C. Iran

D. United States

4. In which of these countries have the most people died for their religious faith?

A. Syria

B. United States

C. Iran

D. China

5. Which of these countries possesses the least number of weapons mass destruction?

A. United States

B. Britain

C. China

D. Iran

6. Which of these countries possesses the most weapons of mass destruction?

A. Iran

B. China

C. Britain

D. United States

7. Which of these countries does not possess the atomic bomb?

A. United States

B. Britain

C. Israel

D. Iran

8. Which of these countries’ governments is not conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing?

A. China

B. Sudan

C. Israel

D. Iran

9. Which of these countries’ armed forces have not attacked another country for the past 29 years?

A. United States

B. Israel

C. Britain

D. Iran

10. Which of these countries’ armed forces have not attacked another country during the past year?

A. United States

B. Israel

C. Britain

D. Iran

11.  In the past 30 years, which of these countries has killed the most Americans?

A. Syria

B. Pakistan

C. Iran

D. Israel

(The answer to each question is D.)

Patrick J. Buchanan

by Kevin Alfred Strom

PATRICK BUCHANAN utters truths that no one else in the  mediasphere dares utter. For that I admire and like him.

But Buchanan has one foot inside establishment “conservatism,” and, whether due to a desire to placate that segment of his following or because of the wishful and anachronistic thinking that old men are sometimes prey to, he will at times speak as though America was still the old American Republic — as though “conservatives” like Dick Cheney were still “holding the line” against subversion and alien influence — as though America had not long since been converted into the multiracial, multicultural empire that he fears will “arise” — and as though Dick Cheney were any less a faithful servant of the empire than Obama.

A good example of this is his recent column “The Get-Cheney Squad,” in which he justifies U.S. torture of Islamist prisoners-of-the-empire and threats to kill their children because these “rough methods” “saved American lives.” He bemoans “the clamor of a left that will not be satiated until Cheney and Bush are indicted as Class A war criminals.” Wake-up call, Pat: Huge numbers of people who would rather be found dead in a ditch than be called a leftist have come to believe 1) that our wars in the Middle East are illegitimate, and 2) that our ongoing mass slaughter of innocents and anti-Zionists there is unnecessarily creating millions of enemies of America and the West, and 3) that the architects of this madness are indeed war criminals.

The phrase “national security” should today make decent men’s hearts tremble with visions of SWAT-suited JTTF thugs hauling patriots off to federal prison on false charges (as happened to me and many others) and CIA drone missiles roasting every resident of entire apartment blocks (as happened a few weeks ago to little notice in the press except for cheers that “we” “got” a suspected Taliban official along with the unmentioned dead families). Instead Buchanan gets warm flag-waving fuzzies when he hears the phrase.

It seems that, aware as he is of the neocon/liberal-minority/Jewish power nexus, in part of his consciousness he is still a 1960s Cold Warrior with Communists replaced by “terrorists.” In part of his mind America is still America.

IRAN 2009, IRAN 1953: It’s now widely accepted that the coup that installed the hated Shah in power in Iran in 1953 was engineered by Western intelligence agencies, mainly the CIA. The same thing appears to be happening there now, with the exception that the Zionists who now dominate the U.S. actually prefer Ahmadinejad to be in power for a while, as long as that power is tenuous and “we” have the ability to inflame the radicalism and violence of both sides. Their goal: either an engineered “color revolution” or war, either of which — they hope — will result in a puppet government that will be subservient to Israel and welcome “foreign investors” (read: the multibillionaire media elite). Note well the not-too-widely reported fact that independent pre-election polls showed Ahmadinejad a two-to-one victor, a far greater margin than even Obama’s victory in November.

Iran's President Ahmadinejad flashes a victory sign after being reëlected by a wide margin. Before the election, even Western opinion polls showed him winning two to one. What is the real source of the post-election chaos?

added commentary by Kevin Alfred Strom

ACCORDING TO physicist and writer James Miller, the four forces pushing for war with Iran are:

1) ISRAEL (The Israel Lobby is working overtime to get Americans to fight another war on their behalf. The work of the CIA and MI6 is clear in fomenting chaos in Iran and yet another “rainbow-colored revolution” in a country currently without Zionist supervision.);

2) NEOCON GLOBAL IMPERIALISTS (The neocon goal is to expand the American empire and help their Israeli friends and cousins. Forty per cent. of the world’s energy comes from Middle East oil. Both Zionists and neocons are overrepresented in the American mass media — Fox News is the most egregious example — so reasoned voices for peace are seldom heard.);

3)  THE OIL LOBBY (There is big money to be made by tapping into Iran’s massive crude oil reserves.); and

4) THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (That is, war profiteers — war is big business, very big. War profiteers simply accuse their critics of being “unpatriotic” and “standing in the way of freedom and democracy.” The happy-face rainbow-colored revolution would also establish the “right” of Western media moguls to set up their multibillion-dollar propaganda mills in the the conquered territory, too, effectively controlling any nascent “democracy.”)

It is to the shame of the U.S. Congress and the honor of Congressman Ron Paul that his was the sole “no” vote opposing the recent sabre-rattling “condemnation” of Iran.

Soon, I predict, Western intelligence will provoke or cause an “intolerable outrage” — allegedly committed by Iran — justifying an all-out push for war. For the sake of peace and freedom, I pray that they do not succeed.

A NEW BOOK has just come out which says many of the same things that European and American racial-nationalists have been saying about the Middle East for decades — but this time it comes from someone inside the establishment, and it’s sure to shake up what is left of an independent intellectual class in the US. It’s entitled Guilt By Association and the author is Jeff Gates, who, according to his online biography, “served seven years as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance” and is an “author, educator, attorney and adviser on financial policy to thirty-five countries.”

The message of the book is that extremely wealthy Jewish organized crime groups interlocked with political Zionism have managed to control the American political process in Israel’s favor — and to the detriment of the United States — for nearly a century, beginning with the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Without referencing him, Gates’ latest work appears to confirm much of the information that Jewish insider (and defector from Zionism) Benjamin H. Freedman revealed in his many speeches and writings. I’ve worked over the years to gain a wider audience for Freedman, so it is gratifying to see another former insider to the corruption that is Washington politics come forward with facts that the powerful would rather keep hidden.

Here’s the press release from the publisher:

In an explosive new book, a former counsel to the U.S. Senate explains how America lost control of its foreign policy to pro-Israeli elites and extremists.

In an account covering presidencies from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush, the author chronicles the influence wielded by pro-Israeli agents operating inside administrations over the past century regardless of party.

Harry Truman, a political product of organized crime from the 1920s, recognized Israel in 1948 over the strenuous objections of Secretary of State George Marshall and the entire U.S. foreign policy and intelligence establishment. Like Bush, Truman was a Zionist Christian predisposed to favor the agenda of the Zionist state. Like Truman, Bush was advised by a cadre of pro-Israeli advisers who favored Tel Aviv’s expansionist goals.

With this game-changing analysis, Guilt By Association shows how the U.S. became a casualty of those skilled at waging war by way of deception. In the Information Age, war is waged by what Defense Secretary Robert Gates calls “the people in between.”

Between the facts and a misinformed public, asserts author Jeff Gates, are those such as CNN announcer Wolf Blitzer and New York Times reporter Judith Miller who displaced the real facts about Iraqi WMD with what people could be deceived to believe.

The scope, scale and duration of this duplicity, Gates documents, exerted virtual control over serial presidencies. Even more disturbing, Guilt details how pro-Israeli candidates are screened, prepped, positioned and funded for public office by a transnational network aligned around shared goals. What Guilt documents is less an overt conspiracy than non-transparent ideological alignment around values inconsistent with democracy’s commitment to transparency and informed choice.

This provocative account documents how the 2008 elections offer only the latest presidential field in which both candidates are the product of pro-Israeli networks whose goals conflict with America’s interests.

A widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker, political advisor and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide, Jeff Gates’ previous books include Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. Endorsers for these books include CEOs, heads of state, legislators, educators, commentators and Nobel laureates.