Imperial doctrine for elite decision-makers
We start to see in the evidence above the level of genocidal grand theft that the US has conducted within and then beyond its borders, either directly or through its favoured Client Dictators. Below is a list of the pronouncements that have led directly to these policies.
They are not trumpeted as loudly as the avowed determination to spread freedom and democracy. Instead they are the guiding principles, echoed in the reality of the events that follow them.
The following are not the usual pronouncements for public consumption. They are in fact quite the opposite. They are the instructions and the guiding principles that the elites of U.S. power give to themselves. Feel the difference.
1823 – The Monroe Doctrine – “The integrity of other American nations is an incident, not an end”.
1904 – The Roosevelt Corollary – The US as the international Police power in the interests of civilisation.
1918 – The Committee on Public Information, the first major Government agency, discovered that “one of the best means of controlling news was flooding news channels with “facts or what amounted to official information”, e.g. from 1979 in Nicaragua issue accusations (whether proof exists or not) of “drug running, genocide, subverting their neighbours, international terrorism”.
1920 – Walter Lipmann devises the term “Manufacture of Consent” for the change in the order of Power. Citizens cannot be massacred for disagreeing, (as before), now they must be made to consent to the brutalities of their country’s leaders.
1928 – Edward Bernays – the father of PR – “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society … it is the intelligent minorities that need to make use of propaganda continuously and systematically”.
1941 – Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms – freedom of speech and worship, and freedom from want and fear. The fifth freedom is to rob and exploit as the policy successes of the record show.
1945 – Henry Stimson, U.S. State Secretary of War, on the subject of Latin America, “I think it’s not asking too much to have our little region over here which never has bothered anybody”
1945 – Council on Foreign Relations (the Private Sector) – post World War 2 planning – advise the State on “The Grand Area” – The Third World defined as “to fulfil its major function as a source of raw materials and a market to the western industrial societies”.
1947 – Truman Doctrine – supporting “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”.
1947 – Dean Acheson – convincing Congress to support the Truman Doctrine and crush the anti-fascist resistance in Greece… “Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the East. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France already threatened by the strongest domestic communist parties in Western Europe.”
Any country that attempts to secure its own resources for its own people, and thereby resists incursions by US Corporations, appears fit for the label communist or terrorist and therefore deserves forceful and murderous repression through US-sponsored partners until the correct order, one that is more advantageous to US Corporations, is restored.
1947 – Lyndon Johnson to Greek Ambassador warning of the unpopularity of dividing Cyprus between Greece and Turkey… “Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant, Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea…if your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitution, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last very long”
1948 – George Kennan, Head of State Department Policy and Planning Staff… “We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. Our real task … is to … maintain this position of disparity … we should cease to talk about vague and … unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation.”
1963 – US Agency for International Development (USAID) report – “the ultimate target is the human mind. It may be “changed”, it may be rendered impotent for expression or it may be extinguished, but it still remains the critical target.”