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FINANCIAL CENTER RULES THE WORLD 

"The upper spheres of Wall Street overshadow the real economy. The accumulation of large amounts of money wealth by a handful of Wall Street conglomerates and their associated hedge funds is reinvested in the acquisition of real assets. Paper wealth is transformed into the ownership and control of real productive assets, including industry, services, natural resources and infrastructure."

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research

 

"No news broadcast is complete without a summary of the day's events on Wall Street. Yet only two percent of the public owns half of the country's individual stock and bond holdings."

Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon in their book "Unreliable Sources"

 

"Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street."

populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease of Kansas, late 1800s

 

"Because of its dominant position in Wall Street, the [J. P.] Morgan firm came also to dominate other Wall Street powers, such as Carnegie, Whitney, Vanderbilt, Brown-Harriman, or Dillon-Reed. Close alliances were made with Rockefeller, Mellon, and Duke interests but not nearly so intimate ones with the great industrial powers like du Pont and Ford. [Because] ... of the great influence of this "Wall Street" alignment, an influence great enough to merit the name of the "American Establishment," this group could ... control the Federal government and, in consequence, had to adjust to a good many government actions ... [which they had secretly supported ]. The chief of these were in taxation law, beginning with the graduated income tax in 1913, but culminating, above all else, in the inheritance tax. These tax laws drove the great private fortunes dominated by Wall Street into tax-exempt foundations, which became a major link in the Establishment network between Wall Street, the Ivy League, and the Federal government."

Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope"

 

"Plummeting stock prices [in 1929] ruined small investors, but not the top "insiders" on Wall Street. Paul Warburg had issued a tip in March of 1929 that the Crash was coming. Before it did, John D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Joseph P. Kennedy, and other money barons got out of the market.
... Early withdrawal from the market not only preserved the fortunes of these men: it also enabled them to return later and buy up whole companies for a song. Shares that once sold for a dollar now cost a nickel. Joseph P. Kennedy's worth reportedly grew from $4 million in 1929 to $100 million in 1935."

James Perloff in his book "The Shadows of Power"

 

"WaIl Street financed the German cartels in the mid-1920s which in turn proceeded to bring Hitler to power.
The financing for Hitler and his S. S. street thugs came in part from affiliates or subsidiaries of U.S. firms, including Henry Ford in 1922, payments by I. G. Farben and General Electric in 1933, followed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.T.T. subsidiary payments to Heinrich Himmler up to 1944.
U.S. multi-nationals under the control of Wall Street profited handsomely from Hitler's military construction program in the 1930s and at least until 1942.
International bankers used political influence in the U. S. to cover up their wartime collaboration."

Antony C. Sutton in his book "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler"

 

"What the Wall Street bailout does is it takes troubled financial instruments off the balance sheet of the banks and puts them on the balance sheet of the taxpayer at the US Treasury. So it's a bailout of the financial institutions whose recklessness caused the problem. The money is essentially being poured into the coffers of Washington's financial donor base."

Paul Craig Roberts, 2008

 

"New York and London... have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money, and offshore tax havens. Not the Cayman Islands, not the Isle of Man or Jersey. The big laundering is right through the City of London and Wall Street."

Martin Woods, bank money laundering investigator, Observer newspaper, 2011

 

"During a period of a few years beginning around 2007, several thousand employees of stock brokers, banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies, credit-rating agencies, and other financial institutions, mainly in New York, had great fun getting obscenely rich while creating and playing with pieces of paper known by names like derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, index funds, credit default swaps, structured investment vehicles, subprime mortgages, and other exotic terms. The result has been a severe depression, seriously hurting hundreds of millions of lives in the United States and abroad.
No employee of any of these companies has seen the inside of a prison cell for playing such games with our happiness."

Wiliam Blum

 

"Seven men in Wall Street now control a great share of the fundamental industry and resources of the United States... These powerful men were themselves answerable to a foreign power which had been steadfastly seeking to extend its control over the young republic of the United States since its very inception. This power was the financial power of England, centered in the London Branch of the House of Rothschild. The fact was that in 1910, the United States was for all practical purposes being ruled from England, and so it is today [1911]."

"The Seven Men" an article by John Moody - McClure's Magazine, August 1911

 

"[The philosophy of Wall Street financiers was] anything but laissez-faire competition, which was the last system they envisaged. Socialism, communism, fascism or their variants were acceptable. The ideal for these financiers was "cooperation," forced if necessary. Individualism was out, and competition was immoral... compulsory cooperation was their golden road to a legal monopoly. Under the guise of public service, social objectives, and assorted do-goodism it is fundamentally "Let society go to work for Wall Street."

Antony C. Sutton in his book "Wall Street and FDR"

 

"I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."

General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant, 1935

 

"Three of Wall Street's major financial consortiums, those controlled by the J.P. Morgan, Rothschild, and Rockefeller interests, agreed to split the 1912 Republican vote by backing former President Teddy Roosevelt against the isolationist incumbent, William Howard Taft. The plan was to help Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson. The understanding was Wilson would help create a Federal Reserve bank system and an income tax after his election, listen to his backers in creating his cabinet, and be mindful of the importance of intervention on behalf of the United Kingdom in case of world war with Germany.
... Once in office, Wilson implemented each of the four Wall Street goals in ways that resonate through history to the present. In essence, a Democratic presidential candidate did Wall Street's bidding through his top aide, Colonel Edward Mandel House.

Andrew Kreig

 

"Revolution is always recorded as a spontaneous event by the politically or economically deprived against an autocratic state. Never in Western textbooks will you find the evidence that revolutions need finance and the source of the finance in many cases traces back to Wall Street."

Antony Sutton in his book "America's Secret Establishment", 1983

 WAR

KILLING HOPE FOR THE THIRD WORLD

"The permanent possibility of war is the foundation for stable government; it supplies the basis for general acceptance of political authority. It has enabled societies to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has ensured the subordination of the citizen to the state, by virtue of the residual war powers inherent in the concept of nationhood. No modern political ruling group has successfully controlled its constituency after failing to sustain the continuing credibility of an external threat of war."

from "Report from Iron Mountain"

 

"The war against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

George Orwell

 

"The Democrats, like the Republicans, are pledged to an even bigger U.S. military. It's good for business, if your business is war or war-related, and it's good for votes - especially the votes, active support, and political contributions of the growing group of Americans whose livelihoods, and claim to some sort of social status, depend on the continuation of our foreign policy of perpetual war."

Justin Raimondo, 2008

 

"The armed forces have embedded themselves so deeply into the country that they have almost become the country. America is little more than a funding mechanism for what may be called the military-industrial-intelligence-media-Israeli complex. Some of these entities belong to the military (NSA). Some depend on it (Lockheed-Martin). Some use it to their own ends (Israel), But the military is the central infection from which the other symptoms flow. Congress? A storefront, a subcommittee of the Knesset. Factories, jobs, contracts, towns depend on military spending. "

Fred Reed, 2018

 

"The military/industrial/governmental complex is perfectly positioned to profit handsomely from both the endless war on terror and the privatization of public resources, with nary a complaint from government officials and next to no meaningful media coverage of the long term ramifications of such 'profit centers'."

Geraldine Perry, 2009

 

"Since 1945, what you call the military-industrial complex has been a terribly important vehicle in American development. It has been the center of what we call military Keynesianism. It's the one sector where deficit financing was thoroughly permitted, and it was the one sector under Reagan that expanded immensely and has never been let go of, in spite of the end of the Cold War."

David Harvey, 2009

 

"Retired senior officers with financial ties to the military-industrial complex teamed up with the Pentagon to sell the case for war on the major news networks. Ultimately, the rottenest apples are at the top of the barrel, and that's certainly the case in the military. The men involved in the military analyst program were, by and large, retired generals, many of them retired four-stars. They were sending American kids into harm's way to line their own pockets."

Jeff Huber, 2009

 

"President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the increasing power and influence of the military industrial complex and it seems his worst fears have come true. He believed in a strong national defense, but warned that the building up of permanent military and weapons industries could prove dangerous if their influence got out of hand. After all, if you make your money on war, peace does you no good. With trillions of dollars at stake, there is tremendous incentive to keep the decision makers fearful of every threat in the world, real or imagined, present or future, no matter how ridiculous and far-fetched."

Ron Paul, 2009

 

"An evolving military-industrial complex, a partnership of interlocking government and corporate networks, has used public wealth to enrich itself. The manufacturing part of this complex rarely produces anything people live in, wear, or eat - armaments do not meet civilian needs. In fact, there exists a dramatic gulf between a healthy economy and a social order based on military spending."

Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes, 2010

 

"Washington has a vested interest in preserving the status quo, no matter how much it costs or where it leads. For the military-industrial complex, there are contracts to win and buckets of money to be made. For those who dwell in the bowels of the national security state, there are prerogatives to protect. For elected officials, there are campaign contributors to satisfy. For appointed officials, civilian and military, there are ambitions to be pursued."

Andrew Bacevich, 2010

 

"Because of the enormous dollar potential of the war in Vietnam to the great military-industrial complex of the United States and because of other threats to the power elite, it had become absolutely necessary, for them, to bring about a coup d'etat (JFK assassination) on the streets of Dallas."

L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, 1996

 

"The military-industrial complex today finances and dominates both political parties, as well as dominating our international policy."

Peter Dale Scott, 2011

 

"President Eisenhower recognized that the United States was turning into a military-industrial-congressional dominated national security state. And the Republicans have cheered that transmogrification. They've gained their political power from helping it move in the right direction when it needs to be moved. The Republican Party leadership live, drink, breath and sleep the military-industrial complex. They love war because it keeps them in power."

Lawrence Wilkerson

 

"The so-called war on terror has been a monumental fraud from the very start. The U.S. military-industrial complex needs terrorists in order to necessitate neo-colonial expansion abroad and domestic oppression at home, which is why the U.S. government does its best to create and sustain them in virtually every corner of the Middle East and North Africa."

Paul Joseph Watson, 2014

 

"The ideology that military activities may become a profitable enterprise leads to the realization that peace is the main enemy of the military-industrial complex. The military-industrial complex would be put out of business by lasting peaceful conditions because the development, production, marketing and use of military equipment would be not needed."

Julie Lévesque, 2014

 

"'Controlled' wars tend to safeguard the fortunes of war profiteers and beneficiaries of military spending - mainly the military-security-industrial complex and major banks."

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, 2014

 

"The ability of private military companies who profit massively from war to finance elections, lobby the government and manipulate public opinion represents a dangerous evolution of the military-industrial complex."

Jeremy Kuzmarov, 2014

 

"American leadership is ruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intent of creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a conscious diversion away from the criminality happening domestically. As an added bonus, the intelligence-military-industrial complex makes an incredible sum of money. The end result: serfs are distracted with inane nationalistic fervor, while the "elites" earn billions."

Michael Krieger, 2015

 

"Once the Cold War ended, the ruling class sought enemies to keep their military-industrial complex and Wall Street financiers enriched and happy. 9/11 was used to further that agenda, as the war on terror will never end. Perpetual conflict is a chief goal of the establishment. Both parties continue to promote war and increase the profits of the military-industrial complex."

blacklistednews.com, 2015

 

"Continuing small wars (or the threat thereof) are essential for the corporate component of the military-industrial-congressional complex. These companies have no alternative means to survive."

former Pentagon insider Franklin C. "Chuck" Spinney

 

"The American citizenry has no say over the military-industrial complex, which is autonomous and out of control. If the Complex wants war with Russia or China, we will have war with Russia or China.
The military-industrial complex drives foreign policy, and in directions of no benefit to America or Americans.
We are being forced to pay through the nose for endless wars that do more to fund the military industrial complex than protect us, pork barrel projects that produce little to nothing, and a police state that serves only to imprison us within its walls."

Fred Reed, 2018

 

"The profits behind the war industry are what drives the demand for war.
Enemies are always needed, and the corporate media will tell us how evil the new enemy is. If it's not communism it's terrorism.
For those who direct the war industry, terrorism is much more flexible than communism or other so-called enemies.
The United States will always be at war because war is so profitable."

Christian Sorenson

 

"War is the consumer of last resort. Wars can burn up excess capacity, shift global markets, generate monopoly rents, and return future labour to a state of helplessness and reduced."

Cathal Haughian

 

"American leadership is ruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intent of creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a conscious diversion away from the criminality happening domestically. As an added bonus, the intelligence-military-industrial complex makes an incredible sum of money. The end result: serfs are distracted with inane nationalistic fervor, while the "elites" earn billions."

retired U.S. Major General Robert H. Scales

 

"The United States has become the largest single seller of arms and munitions on the planet."

Chris Hedges

 

"I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1910-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914
In China in 1927 l helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
I had a swell racket. l was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents."

General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant, 1935

 

"Wealth concentration is only one aspect of our increasingly kleptocratic system. War profiteering by corporations is another."

William J. Astore

 

"Since the keystone of the international banking empires has been government bonds, it has been in the interest of international bankers to encourage government debt. The higher The debt the more the interest. Nothing drives government deeply into debt like a war; and it has not been an uncommon practice among international bankers to finance both sides of the bloodiest military conflicts."

Gary Allen in his book "None Dare Call It Conspiracy"

 

"There are factions in many governments that crave a state of endless war because that is when power is least constrained and profit most abundant."

John Jay

 

"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
... I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the benefit of the banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China, in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."

Major General Medley Butler

"The revolving door between government defense leadership positions and leadership positions in the defense contracting community has become a fixture of Washington life.
... The military defense industry's tendency toward consolidation, especially in the last quarter century, has given a few individuals greater influence. In 2006, only a dozen or so companies around the world accounted for the majority of international defense revenues... The leaders of the largest military defense industry firms emerged as a clique of powerful individuals, each with his own ties to government.
... These leaders play a dominant market role and assumed the responsibility once held by public institutions for decisions that play a role in shaping a nation's defense doctrine. They are particularly active a advocates of expensive weapons systems such as carrier battle groups, major aircraft, and high-tech space weaponry, all of which are both profitable and offer maximum prestige to service leaders. Real change and reevaluation are resisted."

David Rothkopf

 

"Capitalism requires World War because Capitalism requires profit and cannot afford the unemployed."

Cathal Haughian

 

"Endless war has ruined our economy. It benefits a handful of elites, while levying a tax on the vast majority of Americans.
Congress members - part of the super-elite which has made money hand over fist during this economic downturn - are heavily invested in the war industry, and routinely trade on inside information perhaps even including planned military actions.
No wonder the American government is making the state of war permanent, and planning to unleash new, widespread wars in the near future."

www.globalresearch.ca

 

"The arbitrary nature of war expenditures and of other military activities make them ideally suited to control the essential class relationships. Obviously, if the war system were to be discarded, new political machinery would be needed at once to serve this vital subfunction. Until it is developed, the continuance of the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organization of power."

from "Report from Iron Mountain"

 

"Wars are fought to control strategic routes, to open markets, and to gain access to natural resources."

George Draffan

 

"Since World War II, 90 percent of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a third of them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage. They are the nature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They hate us because every day, we are funding and committing crimes against humanity.
The so-called 'War on Terror' is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources for Western nations. This is sending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries. This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, and to most of the world, we are the terrorists.
... Our soldiers don't sacrifice for duty, honor, and country. They sacrifice for Kellogg, Brown, and Root. They don't fight for America-they fight for their lives and their buddies beside them because we put them in a war zone. They're not defending our freedoms-they are laying the foundations for permanent military bases to defend the freedoms of ExxonMobil and British Petroleum. They're not establishing democracy; they're establishing the basis for an economic occupation to continue after the military occupation has ended."

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, in a speech to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, April 27, 2006

 

"The dangerous patriot is the the one who drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions. He is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory. Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism, which identifies numerous enemies who can only be dealt with through military power and which equates the national honor with military victory." -

American lawyer and U.S. Navy Reserve CommanderJames A. Donovan

 

"As the Founders all recognized, nothing vests elites with power - and profit - more than a state of war." 

Glenn Greenwald

 

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

James Madison

 

"The Rothschilds became incredibly wealthy during the nineteenth century by financing governments to fight each other."

Gary Allen in his book "None Dare Call It Conspiracy"

 

"The war on terrorism is not only a war against innocent people in other countries, but also a war on the people of the United States: a war on our liberties, a war on our standard of living. The wealth of the country is being stolen from the people and handed over to the superrich. The lives of our young are being stolen. And the thieves are in the White House."

Howard Zinn

 

"The global elite thrives on war and widespread human misery, on death and destruction by design."

Prof. Mujahid Kamran

 

"An acceptable economic surrogate for the war system will require the expenditure of resources for completely nonproductive purposes at a level comparable to that of the military expenditures otherwise demanded by the size and complexity of each society... A viable political substitute for war must posit a generalized external menace to each society of a nature and degree sufficient to require the organization and acceptance of political authority... A credible substitute for war must generate an omnipresent and readily understood fear of personal destruction. This fear must be of a nature and degree sufficient to ensure adherence to societal values to the full extent that they are acknowledged to transcend the value of individual human life."

from "Report from Iron Mountain"

"The CIA manages the highly lucrative international drug smuggling business.
Ever since the Iran-Contra Affair of the 1980's when CIA got caught red-handed running drugs for guns during the Reagan years, and financing, arming, and training death squad commandos throughout Central America, the US government has always played an integral and active role in covert drug smuggling operations generating over the decades trillions in drug money revenue laundered through the central banking cabal.
The CIA controls and manages global drug smuggling from the Afghan poppy fields to the coca plantations run by Central-South American-Mexican drug cartels that supply and feed the constant demand for illicit drugs into both North America as well as Europe. "

Joachim Hagopian

 

"The corporate economy and the military are codependent, and the military has become an integral and permanent part of the global - and especially the U.S. - economy."

George Draffan

 

"Wars should be directed so that the nations on both sides should be further in our debt."

Amschel Mayer Rothschild, 1774

"Retired senior military officers typically line up to cash in on the kleptocratic equivalent of welfare, peddling their "expertise" in return for impressive corporate and Pentagon payouts that supplement their six-figure pensions."

William J. Astore

 

"Nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it."
John Jay in Federalist No 4

 

"Many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, are not signatories to the 1989 United Nations Mercenary Convention banning the use of mercenaries."

www.special-ops.org

 

"For financial or political reasons, Empires have always used external militarized cells and mercenaries to commit unsavoury acts under a flag different than the monarchy, nation-state, or private corporation who was directing them behind the scenes.
Ruthless and unconventional "asymmetric" enemies are nothing new to the United States."

writer Patrick Henningsen

 

"Academi is a most harmless-sounding name, but don't be fooled: The company is actually the infamous Blackwater. The company's history of atrocities runs far and deep.
The name "Academi," which has been in use since 2011, marks the second time the company has attempted to whitewash its name in a "corporate restructuring". Judging by the fact that they have already been forced to admit to at least 17 federal criminal charges and pay millions of dollars in fines, it seems it's just a matter of time before they have to come up with an even less threatening name. Though with their reputation at this point, there probably is no name that could soften their public image."

www.listverse.com

 

"Without war, no government has ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its 'legitimacy', or right to rule its society. The possibility of war provides the sense of external necessity without which no government can long remain in power."

from "Report from Iron Mountain"

 

"The U.S. military has won the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problems as military problems. To fight terrorists Americans have become terrorists. Peace is for the weak. War is for the strong. Hypermasculinity has triumphed over empathy."

Chris Hedges

 

"The private military company (PMC) is the contemporary strand of the mercenary trade, providing logistics, soldiers, military training, and other services. Thus, PMC contractors are civilians (in governmental, international, and civil organizations) authorized to accompany an army to the field; hence, the term civilian contractor. Nevertheless, PMCs may use armed force."

www.special-ops.org

 

"The US intentionally armed and funded terrorists in the Middle East to create a terrorist mercenary army."

Tony Cartalucci

 

"One of the more terrifying private militaries is Executive Outcomes. This South African company has been sighted in most African war zones, where it is said to hold high influence. Executive Outcomes mercenaries have been seen in Sierra Leone, Angola, Uganda, Botswana, Zambia, Ethiopia, Namibia, Lesotho and, of course, South Africa. Although they officially state their only mission is bringing peace, they have been suspected of several shady activities ranging from Sierra Leone-based oil company shenanigans to diamond dealings with the jewel giant De Beers.
The company is notorious for targeting the client country's mineral-rich regions, often regaining and securing control of gold, oil and diamond regions before paying attention to other matters. Some whisper they don't always get around to returning these possessions to the country. Executive Outcomes is said to own gold mines in Uganda, oil drilling facilities in Ethiopia and a variety of other peacetime business ventures in the other countries it has fought for."

www.listverse.com

 

"The military function of the war system serves simply to defend or advance the 'national interest' by means of organized violence. It is often necessary for a national military establishment to create a need for its unique powers... And a healthy military apparatus requires regular 'exercise', by whatever rationale seems expedient, to prevent its atrophy."

from "Report from Iron Mountain"

 

"The Romans called the people who lived outside the Roman Empire barbarians. In the 4th century AD the Roman Army had considerable difficulty in stopping these Barbarians from entering the Roman Empire.
The Romans were forced to increase the size of their army. By the end of the 4th century AD it had grown to 600,000 men.
Emperors were forced to recruit slaves, gladiators and criminals. It was also decided to employ barbarian mercenaries. This created long-term problems as the barbarians did not always remain loyal to their Roman paymasters.
In AD 476, Odoacer, leader of the barbarian mercenaries in the Roman army, overthrew Emperor Romulus Augustulus, and installed himself as King of Italy. The Roman Empire in the west had come to an end."

www.spartacus-educational.com

 

"In 2006, a U.S. congressional report listed a number of private military companies and other enterprises that have signed contracts to carry out anti-narcotics operations and related activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorp was among those contracted by the State Department, while others signed contracts with the Defense Department. Other companies from different countries, including Israel, have also signed contracts with the Colombian Defense Ministry to carry out security or military activities."

www.special-ops.org

 

"There is something peculiarly hypocritical about the occasional condemnation of mercenary activity issued by various British Governments over the past quarter of a century. British governments have always used mercenaries whenever it suit their interests and indeed continue to do so even now. "

Anthony Mockler in his book 'The New Mercenaries"

 

"In February 2002, a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) report about private military companies (PMCs) noted that the demands of the military service from the UN and international civil organizations might mean that it is cheaper to pay PMCs than use soldiers. "

www.special-ops.org

"No war ever fought by the US military has been about freedom. The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.
... Every year, the establishment hijacks Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day - not only to audaciously commemorate the war criminals that send our brothers and sisters off to needlessly die - but to justify decades of bloodshed and militarism while paving the way for decades more.
... People don't join the military to be called heroes, or because they think they're fighting evil incarnate. Most do so because there are no jobs and no hope.
... The next time you hear someone say "Support the Troops", ask what they're doing to make sure there will be no more bloodshed, no more body bags and no more war."

Abby Martin , 2013

 

"Iraq is a money making machine. All you have to do is look around. All the companies that work over here are getting rich."

Jon Coté worked for military contractor Crescent Security

 

"War spending, considered pragmatically, has been a consistently positive factor in the rise of gross national product and of individual productivity... No combination of techniques for controlling employment, production, and consumption has yet been tested that can remotely compare to war in effectiveness. It is, and has been, the essential economic stabilizer of modern societies."

from "Report from Iron Mountain"

 

"Weapons producers make money regardless of whether the Pentagon wins or loses its wars - and making money is their only objective."

Gabriel Kolko

"The relationship between globalization and militarism should be seen as two sides of the same coin. On one side, globalization promotes the conditions that lead to unrest, inequality, conflict, and, ultimately, war. On the other side, globalization fuels the means to wage war by protecting and promoting the military industries needed to produce sophisticated weaponry. This weaponry, in turn, is used or is threatened to be used to protect the investments of transnational corporations and their shareholders."

Steven Staples

 

"Since 1973, 65% of US arms sales have gone to the Middle East."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"


Since 1973, 65% of US arms sales have gone to the Middle East."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

 

"For centuries there has been big money to be made by international bankers in financing governments and kings... Like a business, no government can borrow big money unless that government is willing to surrender to the creditors some of its sovereignty. Certainly, international bankers who have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to governments around the world command considerable influence in the policies of such governments, but the ultimate advantage that the creditor has over a king or a President is that if the ruler gets out of line, the banker can finance his enemy or his rival. Therefore, if you want to stay in the lucrative financing business of kings and governments, it is wise to have an enemy or a rival waiting in the wings to unseat every king, or every President, to whom you lend money. If the king doesn't have an enemy, you have to be able to create one."

Louis Farrakhan, 1995

 

"The war against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

George Orwell

 

"Since World War II, 90 percent of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a third of them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage. They are the nature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They hate us because every day, we are funding and committing crimes against humanity.
The so-called 'War on Terror' is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources for Western nations. This is sending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries. This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, and to most of the world, we are the terrorists.
... Our soldiers don't sacrifice for duty, honor, and country. They sacrifice for Kellogg, Brown, and Root. They don't fight for America-they fight for their lives and their buddies beside them because we put them in a war zone. They're not defending our freedoms-they are laying the foundations for permanent military bases to defend the freedoms of ExxonMobil and British Petroleum. They're not establishing democracy; they're establishing the basis for an economic occupation to continue after the military occupation has ended."

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, in a speech to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, April 27, 2006

 

"The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every state house, and every office of the federal government."

President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address

 

"The America of wealth and privilege is hooked on war, without regular and ever-stronger doses of war it can no longer function properly, that is, yield the desired profits. The President has already pointed his finger at those whose turn will soon come, namely, the "axis of evil" countries: Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, North Korea, and of course that old thorn in the side of America, Cuba. Welcome to the 21st century. Welcome to the brave new era of permanent war."

Jacques R. Pauwels, 2003

 

"What the lobbyists for the military-industrial complex and their allies must do to make the case for a huge peacetime military is to find wars to fight abroad even when they make no sense."

Robert Scheer - The Pornography of Power

 

"War is largely a matter of money. Bankers lend money to foreign countries and when they cannot repay, the President sends Marines to get it."

General Smedley Butler, 1931

 

"Two classes benefit by war - The militarists and the moneylenders... The cause of militarism is never patriotism, it is usually commercialism. The warmongers urging military preparedness in America are Wall Street bankers."

Henry Ford, 1915