War is the Health of the State

[georgephillip]

One hundred years ago the "war to end all wars" launched in Europe with an ultimate cost of ten million battlefield deaths and another twenty million perishing from war-related hunger and disease.

In 1914 there were voices opposed to industrial-scale killing just as there are today in the Middle East:

"'War is the health of the state,' the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished, patriotism bloomed, class struggle was stilled, and young men died in frightful numbers on the battlefields-often for a hundred yards of land, a line of trenches.

"In the United States, not yet in the war, there was worry about the health of the state.

"Socialism was growing.

"The IWW seemed to be everywhere.

"Class conflict was intense.

"In the summer of 1916, during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, a bomb exploded, killing nine people; two local radicals, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, were arrested and would spend twenty years in prison.

"Shortly after that Senator James Wadsworth of New York suggested compulsory military training for all males to avert the danger that 'these people of ours shall be divided into classes.'

"Rather: 'We must let our young men know that they owe some responsibility to this country.'"

Wadsworth, who served in the 1898 Puerto Rico campaign, meant America's young men owed some responsibility to kill and die for a cause that " no one since that day has been able to show...brought any gain for humanity that would be worth one human life."

War is the health of the state

 

[georgephillip]

Quick learners.
"One day after the English declared war, Henry James wrote to a friend: 'The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness ... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be ... gradually bettering.'

"In the first Battle of the Maine, the British and French succeeded in blocking the German advance on Paris.

"Each side had 500,000 casualties.

"The killing started very fast, and on a large scale.

"In August 1914, a volunteer for the British army had to be 5 feet 8 inches to enlist.

"By October, the requirement was lowered to 5 feet 5 inches.

"That month there were thirty thousand casualties, and then one could be 5 feet 3.

"In the first three months of war, almost the entire original British army was wiped out."
War is the health of the state

 

[georgephillip]

Quick learners.
"One day after the English declared war, Henry James wrote to a friend: 'The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness ... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be ... gradually bettering.'

"In the first Battle of the Maine, the British and French succeeded in blocking the German advance on Paris.

"Each side had 500,000 casualties.

"The killing started very fast, and on a large scale.

"In August 1914, a volunteer for the British army had to be 5 feet 8 inches to enlist.

"By October, the requirement was lowered to 5 feet 5 inches.

"That month there were thirty thousand casualties, and then one could be 5 feet 3.

"In the first three months of war, almost the entire original British army was wiped out."
War is the health of the state

"For three years the battle lines remained virtually stationary in France.

"Each side would push forward, then back, then forward again- for a few yards, a few miles, while the corpses piled up.

"In 1916 the Germans tried to break through at Verdun; the British and French counterattacked along the Seine, moved forward a few miles, and lost 600,000 men.

"One day, the 9th Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry launched an attack- with eight hundred men. Twenty-four hours later, there were eighty-four left."

'Seems a real shame the King wasn't one of the dead, doesn't it?

How did the King's Bankers' prospers from WWI?
Lincoln knew:

"The Greenbacks allowed Lincoln to finance (US Civil) war costs independent of London or New York bankers who were demanding an exorbitantly high interest rate - as high as between 24% and even 36%.

"Lincoln's Greenbacks financed the war and avoided entangling the Union in large war debts to the private bankers, something that made him bitter enemies in London and New York banking circles.
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"The Times of London - in an editorial clearly written on behalf of the City of London bankers -
about President Lincoln's Greenback issuance

"'If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost.

"'It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of civilized governments of the world.

"'The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America.

"'That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.'"

In which case, the US Civil War would have been the War to End All Wars.

American Oligarchy J.P. Morgan Bankers Coup Creates Federal Reserve Morgan s Fed Finances World War I excerpted from the book Gods of Money Wall Street and the Death of the American Century by F. William Engdahl

 

[Contumacious]

One hundred years ago the "war to end all wars" launched in Europe with an ultimate cost of ten million battlefield deaths and another twenty million perishing from war-related hunger and disease.

In 1914 there were voices opposed to industrial-scale killing just as there are today in the Middle East:

"'War is the health of the state,' the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished, patriotism bloomed, class struggle was stilled, and young men died in frightful numbers on the battlefields-often for a hundred yards of land, a line of trenches.

"In the United States, not yet in the war, there was worry about the health of the state.

"Socialism was growing.

"The IWW seemed to be everywhere.

"Class conflict was intense.

"In the summer of 1916, during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, a bomb exploded, killing nine people; two local radicals, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, were arrested and would spend twenty years in prison.

"Shortly after that Senator James Wadsworth of New York suggested compulsory military training for all males to avert the danger that 'these people of ours shall be divided into classes.'

"Rather: 'We must let our young men know that they owe some responsibility to this country.'"

Wadsworth, who served in the 1898 Puerto Rico campaign, meant America's young men owed some responsibility to kill and die for a cause that " no one since that day has been able to show...brought any gain for humanity that would be worth one human life."

War is the health of the state

Yes, indeed it is.

War Is the Health of the State
Becky Akers



“With Congress set to debate taking military action in Syria, the Arab American Association of New York is telling its community to expect increased surveillance of Syrian-Americans and Muslims. … Last week, an Associated Press report further outlined the NYPD’s monitoring of Muslims, including allegedly designating mosques and other organizations as ‘terrorism enterprises’ for the purpose of planting informants.”

Ah, but have no fear. The NYPD’s head cheese, Ray Kelly — yeah, the pervert who not only orders his goons to grope New Yorkers because he doesn’t like the color of their skin but vehemently defends this racist molestation — assures us “that NYPD investigations follow federal rules ‘to the letter.’”

Oh, I’ll bet they do. Indeed, that’s why we have “federal rules”: to circumvent the Constitution.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute tyranny, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government…”

3:53 pm on September 2, 2013 Email Becky Akers

 

[georgephillip]

What can we expect when world economies depend on war and private bankers to fund the lifestyles of the rich and famous?

"It was unrealistic to expect that the Germans should treat the United States as neutral in the war when the U.S. had been shipping great amounts of war materials to Germany's enemies.

"In early 1915, the British liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. She sank in eighteen minutes, and 1,198 people died, including 124 Americans.

"The United States claimed the Lusitania carried an innocent cargo, and therefore the torpedoing was a monstrous German atrocity.

"Actually, the Lusitania was heavily armed: it carried 1,248 cases of 3-inch shells, 4,927 boxes of cartridges (1,000 rounds in each box), and 2,000 more cases of small-arms ammunition.

"Her manifests were falsified to hide this fact, and the British and American governments lied about the cargo."

War is the health of the state

I couldn't open your link, but I think I've found it on the Rockwell site: It seems clear to me if war is the health of the state, then peace is a deadly poison.

It also seems to me there is an obvious, historical connection between vast private fortunes, organised pillage and plunder (war), and control of every government yet invented.

Truth is the first casualty of war
All governments lie
Therefore...?