by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 27, 2018

Before the events of 9/11, I knew that the Vietnam War was based on a lie that cost millions of innocent civilian lives, 58,220 American lives and countless wounded; but I still held out a belief of the good war like WWII. Later I learned that WWII and WWI were both based on lies too. I then read Smedley Butler’s ‘War is a Racket’ and listened to James Perloff’s excellent lecture on the major wars of the 20th Century and discovered that the United States was not about spreading democracy and freedom, but about a hidden force of economic and geopolitical interests who orchestrated these wars for their own personal agendas.

To tie all this together I read Quigley’s ‘Anglo-American Establishment’ which gave me a front row seat to how war and other matters of state were actually conducted behind the figure heads we see in our history books. Most of these people like Alfred Milner were completely unknown to me, yet Milner was one of the most important historical figures of the 20th Century. I read even more… I read about the Reece Committee report on tax exempt foundations and discovered that the wars were extended or shortened by the powerful behind the presidents and other so called heads of state. I’ve learned a lot since 9/11… too much to put here, but I’ve not forgotten our brave soldiers who have sacrificed so much for an ideal, even if this ideal was based on lies and deception. This ideal is still good… the idea of spreading freedom and liberty is good and the willingness to serve and sacrifice for this ideal is noble. The problem is that we have been lied to and deceived. We are sacrificing, but we are not spreading freedom and liberty but death, destruction and the financial or geopolitical interests of people we have never heard of.