re John Pilger and Ray McGovern, linked on RFI

Dan Cooper @ 11:10 pm Feb 24, regarding John Pilger's conversation with Ray McGovern, and the use of the forbidden word, fascism.

Pilger wrote this:

"Fascism is a difficult word, because it comes with an iconography that touches the Nazi nerve and is abused as propaganda against America’s official enemies and to promote the West’s foreign adventures with a moral vocabulary written in the struggle against Hitler. And yet fascism and imperialism are twins. In the aftermath of world war two, those in the imperial states who had made respectable the racial and cultural superiority of “western civilisation”, found that Hitler and fascism had claimed the same, employing strikingly similar methods. Thereafter, the very notion of American imperialism was swept from the textbooks and popular culture of an imperial nation forged on the genocidal conquest of its native people. And a war on social justice and democracy became “US foreign policy”.

McGovern -- and Pilger -- are heroes, no doubt about it. And Pilger recites the Hitler narrative as we have all been trained to understand it.

But look again.
1. As John Dower explains in "Cultures of War," the US and Great Britain engaged a policy and acts that deliberately strove to terrorize the civilian populations of Germany and Japan. Tens of thousands of innocent German civilians, and civilian infrastructure, in Dresden was destroyed by British and US aerial bombardment. The goal was to demoralize the civilian population. In Japan, over 60 cities were destroyed by aerial bombardment that was so carefully planned that mock-ups of typical workers houses were built and destroyed to test the size and type of aerial attack necessary to destroy CIVILIANS and civilian infrastructure.

The tactic, "Shock and Awe," is standard operational procedure, on the shelf of the Department of Defense. US forces deployed Shock and Awe over Baghdad in 2003, and Israel used Shock and Awe to destroy Lebanon and Gaza.

The US did not learn these tactics from Hitler.

2. Pilger wrote that "In the aftermath of world war two, those in the imperial states who had made respectable the racial and cultural superiority of “western civilisation”, found that Hitler and fascism had claimed the same, employing strikingly similar methods.


It would be helpful for Mr. Pilger to check the facts and parallel chronologies of the arrival in late-19th century Germany of wealthy Jewish financiers, who rode the tide of German unification after the Franco-Prussian war, and who, by one means and another that closely resemble 'predatory capitalism' whiplashed the German economy, destroying the lives and futures of tens of thousands of middle class Germans, while establishing the Jewish financiers and their merchant cohort in splendor in Berlin. Those financiers initiated a huge wealth gap, that Germans suffered under for 50 years. Eventually, Hitler came to the fore to lead Germans in resistance to the Jewish-led control over Germany's corporate and government spheres. We KNOW that Jews dominated the German economy because when Samuel Untermyer declared "Judaism's war on Germany," he was convinced the economic strangulation imposed on Germany would succeed because, in his words, "