Showing posts with label neoconservatism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neoconservatism. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

An Empire Launched by U.S. Socialists

 

An Empire Launched by U.S. Socialists

By Julio Severo

World War 2 was beginning, and for patriotic and conservative reasons Republicans did not want any involvement of their nation with foreign problems, but President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Democratic Party were desperate to involve the United States in this bloody war.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Josef Stalin

Republicans thought that the United States should mind its own national problems and let other nations mind their own problems. And there are authors who think that the Pearl Harbor attack was allowed by Roosevelt to “force” the U.S. to enter the war. It worked. Republican conservatives did exactly what socialist Roosevelt wanted.

Yet, Roosevelt was looking not only at the war, but also at ways to use it to advance his personal project of a global organization ruling the world — the United Nations.

Roosevelt was a socialist very different from the socialists in the modern Democratic Party. His neocon speeches had plenty of words of patriotism, God, prayer, etc. He seemed much more conservative than modern Republican conservatives, even though his conservatism was purely strategic. But his dream of a United Nations was fulfilled — with bloody dictatorships like the Soviet Union and China getting permanent seats, by the courtesy of the United States.

In his book “New World Order The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies,” author William T. Still said,

“Support for both secret societies and Marxism has run in FDR’s family. His ancestor, Clinton B. Roosevelt, a New York assemblyman, was a noted American Socialist, He authored The Science of Government Founded on Natural Law where he outlined his plan for setting up a world government.”

Still showed that in his book, Clinton B. Roosevelt said,

“There is no God of justice to order things aright on earth; if there be a God, he is a malicious and revengeful being, who created us for misery.”

Still said that “Roosevelt’s Lend Lease policy of the early 1940s” to help Soviets face Nazis “rebuilt the Soviet war machine into the dominant force.”

So the first significant intervention of the U.S. neocon empire in the great world war helped the communist empire — the Soviet Union. And whenever the U.S. neocon empire makes its military interventions, it strengthens socialism and Islam.

As a socialist project from Roosevelt’s neocon mind, the United Nations has also been fundamental for the expansion of socialism and Islam.

Even though modern conservatives have no difficulty to see the United Nations as socialist, many of them, perhaps influenced by neocons, have a very hard time to see that the role of an empire that the United States plays today was consecrated and “patriotized” by Roosevelt in World War 2.

The socialist dream of Roosevelt created the United Nations and gave the United States his calling of an empire. Today, the United States has over 800 military bases around the world. Not to call it an empire is to deny reality itself.

It is a contradiction and shame that a nation with thousands of soldiers in other nations is unable to protect its own borders, which are open to drug and human traffickers.

So Roosevelt forced the U.S. to enter a bloody war that Republican and patriotic conservatives did not want to enter.

He created a global organization to defend human rights granting permanent seats to bloody dictatorships that systematically violated these rights.

And he took the U.S. from its patriotic and national realm to put it into the orbit of an empire.

Today, forgetting their past patriotic feelings, many Republicans have joined the neocon camps and if a modern Roosevelt wanted to enter any war, Republicans would enthusiastically help him without any need of a Pearl Harbor. Patriotism was defeated by neoconservatism.

The socialist United Nations owes gratitude to socialist Roosevelt.

The neocon America owes gratitude to socialist Roosevelt.

If America is today an empire with over 800 military bases around the world, she owes gratitude to U.S. socialists.

It is not only conservatives who get confused by the socialist and conservative nature of modern America. Socialists around the world usually accuse the United States of being a capitalist empire without noticing that America’s role of an empire is a tragedy created by socialists themselves.

So when Republican conservatives embellish their speeches with plenty of words of patriotism, God and prayer to excuse military interventionism and wars in other nations they are not doing anything that a shrewd Democrat could not do. Roosevelt is just an example.

America fulfilling a neocon and imperialistic mission of military interventions and endless wars just shows that Roosevelt and socialism put the ideological nature of America in an utter state of moral and spiritual confusion.

Portuguese version of this article: Um Império Lançado por Socialistas dos EUA

Source: Last Days Watchman

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The Transcendent Power of Neoconservatism in the U.S. Media and among Left-Wingers and Right-Wingers

What Is Neoconservatism? Who are the Neocons?

Conservative Babylon in “Persecuted”: Hybrid Televangelist Framed by Pagan Neocon, and the Free Speech or Patriotic or Equality “Gospel” Replacing the Gospel of Jesus Christ

God Is Good to Israel: How Providence Hindered Franklin Roosevelt from Hindering the Birth of the Modern State of Israel

Mike Pompeo: Chinese Communism is “the Central Threat of Our Times”

Manifest Destiny in the Bible? America Is Modern Babylon, Said David Wilkerson

Monday, October 22, 2018

When a Televangelist Cares More about Weapons Deals than Human Lives for the Sake of Neoconservatism


When a Televangelist Cares More about Weapons Deals than Human Lives for the Sake of Neoconservatism

By Julio Severo
Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson said the U.S. should not risk “$100 billion worth of arms sales” with Saudi Arabia after the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate in Turkey, saying that America has more important things — like jobs and coffers benefited by arms deals — to focus on.
Pat Robertson
He appeared on its flagship television show The 700 Club on October 15, 2018, to caution American evangelicals against allowing the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia to deteriorate over Khashoggi’s killing.
“For those who are screaming blood for the Saudis — look, these people are key allies,” Robertson said. While he called the faith of the Wahabists — the hardline Islamist sect to which the Saudi Royal Family belongs — “obnoxious,” he urged viewers to remember that “we’ve got an arms deal that everybody wanted a piece of…it’ll be a lot of jobs, a lot of money come to our coffers. It’s not something you want to blow up willy-nilly.”
“You’ve got one journalist — who knows? Was it an interrogation? Was he assassinated? Were there rogue elements? Who did it?...You’ve got $100 billion worth of arms sales...we cannot alienate our biggest player in the Middle East.”
I first knew The 700 Club in the late 1970s in Brazil and when Robertson’s name came, the first idea was evangelism and conservatism. I could never believe that someday his name would be connected to defense of arms deals and the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia.
Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and longtime critic of the Saudi Royal Family, was a permanent resident of the United States, where he moved after determining that it was unsafe to remain in Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi spent the past year as a columnist for the Washington Post, where he regularly published incendiary articles critical of Saudi Arabia and its leadership.
Yet, if the killing of a dissident journalist is not so important as the U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia, what about 9/11? Of the 19  Islamic terrorists in this attack, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, according to the CIA. In 2015, one of the 9/11 terrorists, Zacarias Moussaoui, claimed several members of the Saudi royal family had been listed as al-Qaeda donors in the database he worked on under orders of Osama bin Laden, CNN reports.
Even CBN of Robertson, in a 2015 report titled “Saudi Arabia’s Role in Spreading Islamic Terrorism,” recognized, albeit timidly, that Saudi Arabia spreads terrorism. The kind of Islam that the Saudis spread is Sunni Islam, which is the most violent form of Islam against Christians.
In a 2014 article titled “Saudi royal family will not allow Obama to save Christians in Iraq,” Religious Freedom Coalition director William J. Murray said,
“The United States has been the ‘puppet’ military of the Saudi royal family, attacking and isolating Shia nations such as Syria. The Shia majority state of Syria, which protects religious minorities, is a target of the United States only because the Saudi royals are giving the orders, not the American people.”
According to Murray, under Obama, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia trained ISIS terrorists to attack Syria.
In a 2018 WND report titled “Russia and the Sunni Muslim threat,” Murray said,
“Currently the Sunni Muslim propaganda machine is everywhere inside the Washington, D.C. beltway. Money from the rich Gulf states, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, floods the media and spreads political influence. Public remembrance of the Sunni Muslim attacks that have killed scores of Americans over the last decade or so has vanished, and even the 9/11 attack is hardly mentioned. The almost daily beheadings in Saudi Arabia are forgiven. Our leaders looked away as torture chambers were set up in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the Saudi capital this year. The slaughter going on in Yemen by Saudi Arabian-backed forces is hardly mentioned. In the Washington area the Saudi Academy, which is a Sunni Muslim school for the children of diplomats from Muslim nations, teaches democracy is an apostate religion that must be destroyed. It also teaches Jews are descendants of apes and pigs and that women are the property of men. One former valedictorian was convicted after leaving the school of joining Al Qaida and plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush. Another graduate was arrested while attempting to board an airliner with a large concealed butcher knife. The school is 100 percent funded by the Saudi Arabian government. No American officials complain about the hatred being taught at the Saudi Academy.”
According to John Perkins, in his 2004 book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” Saudi Arabia has a very special relationship with the U.S. since mid-1970s. He said,
“The evidence was indisputable: Saudi Arabia, America’s longtime ally and the world’s largest oil producer, had somehow become, as a senior Treasury Department official put it, ‘the epicenter’ of terrorist financing… Saudi largess encouraged U.S. officials to look the other way, some veteran intelligence officers say. Billions of dollars in contracts, grants, and salaries have gone to a broad range of former U.S. officials who had dealt with the Saudis: ambassadors, CIA station chiefs, even cabinet secretaries…”
So even Americans know about the indisputable Saudi role in the international Islamic terrorism. In fact, Perkins travelled to Saudi Arabia in the early 1970s as a U.S. operative and he knows the facts behind the scenes.
Now, for the sake of the U.S. arms deal with a nation that spreads terrorism, a televangelist is looking the other way because if the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia deteriorates, as Robertson recognized, thousands of Americans will lose their jobs in the military industrial complex, and billions of Saudi dollars will not come to the U.S. coffers.
Thousands of U.S. Christians have jobs in the military industrial complex. If the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia deteriorates, they lose their jobs. If it does not deteriorate, Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world lose their lives as a consequence of the Sunni terrorism of Saudi Arabia heavily armed by the U.S.
It is very obvious that non-Christian Americans have sold their souls to the devil, in Saudi form, for the sake of bloody money. Have now even loved televangelists followed suit?
Islam from Saudi Arabia, not Iran, has killed more Christians in the Middle East than any other ideology. Even so, the U.S. has protected Saudi Arabia, not its Christian victims. Trump has badly failed in his promise to help Christians persecuted by Muslims. Instead of receiving in the United States thousands and thousands of persecuted Christians (often victims of Saudi and U.S. interventionism), the Trump administration has received in the first 6 months of 2018 just 21 persecuted Christians, vastly less than Obama. Yet, he has not failed in his broad support and protection of the Saudi dictators.
For Saudi oil’s sake, the U.S. is willing to sacrifice thousands of lives of Christian victims of Sunni Islam. And a loved televangelist approves it.
For Saudi oil’s sake, the U.S. is not willing to punish Saudi Arabia for the thousands of lives of Americans destroyed on 9/11.
What is the explanation for Pat Robertson to use his The 700 Club to encourage his evangelical audience to tolerate Saudi crimes?
Robertson praised the approach of Trump, who has publicly cast doubt on the Saudi crimes, comparing them to left-wing accusations against conservatives.
To justify Saudi crimes, both Trump and Robertson are looking the other way and comparing the Saudis to conservatives!
According to Vox,
“Robertson’s stance is in keeping with his wider, full-throated support for President Trump’s policies over the past few years. Since Trump’s inauguration, the Christian Broadcasting Network has become a de facto propaganda channel for the administration, running programs that, for example, suggest that Donald Trump was chosen by God to become president. In return, Robertson has frequently been granted rare access for sit-down interviews with Trump, during which he typically throws Trump softball questions.”
For the sake of bloody money, Trump is not imposing necessary sanctions on Saudi Arabia. Fearful of losing “friendship,” Robertson is not being a prophetic voice against the U.S.-Saudi bloody deal.
To support Trump in everything is a dangerous undertaking. Christians support King David in everything he gave a good example. But even he, who was a man after the heart of God, was not perfect. He adulterated with Bathsheba and had her husband killed.
If Christians would support David in everything, they would eventually support also adultery and murder, just because David did it.
If Christians cannot support David’s sins, why is televangelist Pat Robertson justifying Saudi crimes for the sake of Trump?
Even liberal Canada has condemned Saudi Arabia over human rights abuses. If liberal Canada can do it, why cannot the U.S. do it? Why cannot Robertson and other U.S. evangelicals do it?
Robertson has with Trump the same relationship that Nathan the Prophet had with King David. Robertson always have positive messages to Trump. Nathan had always positive messages to David.
Yet, when David sinned, Nathan was sent by God to give him a non-positive message. Has not Robertson been attentive to God’s voice to do for Trump the same thing Nathan did for David?
A relationship is only friendship when both parts are free and sincere to approve and disapprove the good and bad acts of one another. When the message is always positive, there is not real friendship, but only opportunism.
The flatterer flatters everything the flattered individual does right and wrong. A true Christian approves and praises everything that needs to be approved and reproves everything that needs to be disapproved.
If places were changed and Nathan were today before Trump, he would bring to Trump from God a disapproving message about Saudi Arabia, Trump’s appointment of homosexual activists and much more.
What would Robertson do about David’s adultery and his order to murder Bathsheba’s husband?
The U.S. has given no protection to Middle East Christians, but the military protection the U.S. has given to Saudi Arabia, whose Sunni Islam is a great killer of Christians, is a big offense against Christians in Middle East.
Kings and presidents need from Christians not only a sweet and positive voice. They need also a prophetic voice, which is not always positive.
May God raise U.S. evangelicals to be the necessary prophetic Nathan that Trump needs.
With information from NewsMax and Vox.
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Foreign Policy Magazine Charges that Brazilian Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s Propaganda Campaign Taken Straight from Nazi Playbook


Foreign Policy Magazine Charges that Brazilian Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s Propaganda Campaign Taken Straight from Nazi Playbook

By Julio Severo
In a report titled “Jair Bolsonaro’s Model Isn’t Berlusconi. It’s Goebbels,” Foreign Policy, a U.S. magazine based in Washington D.C., said, “The far-right Brazilian leader isn’t just another conservative populist. His propaganda campaign has taken a page straight from the Nazi playbook.”
Jair Bolsonaro
“He wants criminals to be summarily shot rather than face trial. He presents indigenous people as ‘parasites’ and also advocates for discriminatory, eugenically devised forms of birth control. Bolsonaro has warned about the danger posed by refugees from Haiti, Africa, and the Middle East, calling them ‘the scum of humanity,’” said Foreign Policy, which added, “In these and other statements, Bolsonaro’s vocabulary recalls the rhetoric behind Nazi policies of persecution and victimization.”
In fact, the term “Nazi” appears astoundingly 34 times in the Foreign Policy report on Bolsonaro. Foreign Policy said,
In Brazil and elsewhere, right-wing populists are increasingly acting as the Nazis did and, at the same time, disavowing this Nazi legacy or even blaming the left for it. For post-fascist members of the alt-right, acting like a Nazi and accusing your adversary of being so is not a contradiction at all. Indeed, the idea of a leftist Nazism is a political myth that draws directly on the methods of Nazi propaganda.
According to Brazilian right-wingers and Holocaust deniers, it is the left that threatens to revive Nazism. This is, of course, a falsehood that comes straight out of the Nazi playbook. Fascists always deny what they are and ascribe their own features and their own totalitarian politics to their enemies.
While Hitler accused Judaism of being the power behind the United States and Russia and said Jews wanted to start a war and exterminate Germans, it was he who started World War II and exterminated the European Jews. Fascists have always replaced reality with ideological fantasies. This is why Bolsonaro presents the left’s leaders as latter-day emulators of Hitler when in fact he is the only candidate close to the Führer in style and substance.
What the report did not explain is how Bolsonaro can be a Nazi if he is the only candidate who promised to move the Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem, while the other candidates promised better relations with Palestinians, who have attacked the Jews just as the Nazis did. Does being pro-Israel mean to be a Nazi? If so, Bolsonaro fits the accusation. I do too.
The report was written by the Jewish author Federico Finchelstein, who has published books on fascism, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Jewish history.
I disagree with Mr. Finchelstein’s radical view. What is the ideological nature of Foreign Policy Magazine to publish such radical report?
Probably neocon. Neocons just love to lambast, blast and attack Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Foreign Policy has, not incidentally, several reports treating Putin just as it treated Bolsonaro.
In its report “Putin Wants God (or at Least the Church) on His Side,” Foreign Policy said, “In recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has embraced aspects of this Christian imperial ideology, demanding that state officials read some of the religious philosophers who came into their own in the twilight days of the Russian Empire.”
Foreign Policy added, “Russia’s new championing of so-called traditional values, such as homophobia and opposition to feminism and secularism, has received a powerful boost from the Orthodox Church—and from far-right fellow travelers in the West.”
In its report against Bolsonaro, Foreign Policy argued that he also has such traditional values, such as homophobia and opposition to feminism and secularism.
As all neocons do, Foreign Policy repeatedly complains about Trump’s attempts to befriend Putin and Russia as necessary allies against Islamic terror.
Foreign Policy’s criticism, using a Jewish author, of Bolsonaro is unwarranted. If Bolsonaro is as radical as pundits in Foreign Policy in Washington D.C. portray him, what are his enemies? Fernando Haddad, who is facing Bolsonaro in the Brazilian election, is a member of the Workers’ Party, a socialist party that has ruined Brazil. Former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, a star in the Workers’ Party, is serving a long jail term for corruption.
Haddad and his socialist companions seek the promotion of abortion, socialism and homosexuality. In fact, Haddad is the author of the infamous “gay kit,” a material to homosexualize school-children.
Foreign Policy said in its anti-Bolsonaro report, “Bolsonaro, who is also known as the Brazilian Trump, is currently being advised by Steve Bannon in his campaign.”
Bannon is a traditional Catholic with a deep interest in mysticism and esotericism, especially in an obscure French esotericist named René Guénon — an anti-Marxist sorcerer. In sum, Bannon is an adherent of New Age.
Even though U.S. President Trump had Bannon once as one of his advisers, eventually Trump expelled him as an opportunist and betrayer, and he developed a deep hostility toward him, especially after Bannon collaborated in the anti-Trump book “Fire and Fury,” by left-wing writer Michael Wolff.
Today, Trump wants nothing to do with Bannon. So why does Bolsonaro want?
Even though the accusations from Foreign Policy against Bolsonaro were exaggerated, there are actually extremist individuals among his followers. These extremists have been already denounced by his candidate to vice-president. These extremists advocate the bizarre idea that the crimes of the Inquisition against Jews and Protestants are lies and myths, and that actually the Inquisition was a tribunal of mercy.
If Foreign Policy had directed its criticism just to such Inquisition advocates, I would have understood, because Finchelstein as a Jews has every right to condemn what the Inquisition did to the Jews. But Foreign Policy did not attack them. It attacked Bolsonaro.
Even though Bolsonaro has not advocated such bizarre idea, he has nonetheless recommended its most prominent advocate in Brazil, Olavo de Carvalho, who by the way is also, like Bannon, an old adherent and promoter of René Guénon. Carvalho translated into Portuguese one of Guénon’s books, he is the author of several occultist books and the author of many comments against evangelicals, including the infamous declaration: “Evangelical churches have done more harm to Brazil than the entire left.”
I do not know if Bolsonaro is going to do to these two “Catholic” adherents of Guénon what Trump did to Bannon: Expelling.
Yet, Bolsonaro’s victory is not dependent on them. As recognized even by the U.S. Big Media, the greatest chance for Catholic Bolsonaro to win Brazil’s presidency are evangelicals.
Because Brazil is the largest Catholic nation in the world, with 60 percent Brazilians identifying themselves as Catholic, Bolsonaro should be their candidate and have a very easy victory. But Brazilian Catholicism is plagued by Liberation Theology. So it is left to a minority of Brazilian evangelicals, who are overwhelmingly Pentecostal and charismatic, to advocate conservative values.
Bolsonaro is certainly not the best man evangelicals would like to represent them in the Brazilian presidency. But with a socialist candidate ready to persecute them and promote abortion, socialism and homosexuality, no other option is left to evangelicals.
So evangelicals are the best chance for Bolsanaro, whom they chose because of a plain lack of option. I have myself chosen him, for his promises to legalize homeschooling (traditionally criminalized in Brazil) and repeal gun control laws in a Brazil whose Catholic culture has always been anti-gun in the hands of common people. The Catholic culture is so strong that both Bolsonaro and his socialist opponent are Catholic.
It is a very good sign that neocons in Washington D.C. are opposed to Bolsonaro. But it is a very bad sign that he is being advised by adherents of Guénon. And one of them, Carvalho, is so neocon and anti-Russia as Foreign Policy is.
Foreign Policy is just a neocon fakenews media from Washington D.C. It has become a laughingstock because of a Jewish report that does not attack the pro-Inquisition fervor among extremist Catholic right-wingers in Brazil, but labels as a “Nazi” a candidate who promised to move the Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem. After all, how “Nazi” is such move?
What is Bolsonaro going to do to dispel the preposterous accusations that he is a “Nazi”? Is he going to get soft on abortion, socialism and homosexuality? Or is he using these controversial issues just to draw the powerful conservative evangelical vote?
There is something that Foreign Policy did not mention. Nazism was immersed in occultism — what evangelicals call New Age. In this sense, there is some “Nazi” stuff among Bolsonaro’s followers, the same way there were the same problem in Trump’s circle. Yet, Trump solved this problem by removing the esotericist and surrounding himself with evangelical and charismatic preachers as his advisers.
If Bolsonaro is intelligent, he will not expel or get soft on conservative stances against abortion, socialism and homosexuality to please the FakeNews Media. He will expel exactly what Trump expelled: opportunists and betrayers.
What I can say is that if Foreign Policy and Federico Finchelstein know Bolsonaro closer without their neocon bias, they will definitely condemn not him, but his adherents who advocate the Inquisition. Those they will deservedly call Nazi, because both the Inquisition and Nazism persecuted, tortured and killed Jews. And they will praise Bolsonaro’s pro-Israel stances, including his promise of moving the Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem. There is nothing more Jewish, and nothing less Nazi, than this.
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