Bombing Iran is the ultimate testament to how the Global Political Elite (GPE) relies on American naivety to sustain its ongoing propaganda campaign. Today, I want to point out this propaganda-driven naivety, shared by almost all Americans, blinds them to the incredibly high costs that an attack on Iran would impose on them—and virtually everyone else on Earth. Only a tiny remaining subset of the global population will benefit from this, and they are the very instigators of this conflict in global human relations.

As unpopular as pattern recognition is these days, I can’t help but spot one threaded all throughout political discourse, that’s almost as common as it is damaging. Commentators—pro and amateur alike—“deliberate” to the point of screaming, coming to blows, ending friendships, dismissing entire demographics as potential friends, becoming estranged from family members, and so on.

It was the Morgans and Rockefellers of Wall Street who turned to government to cage their banking competition, especially the growing challenge from non-national banks in the South and West, and came up with a plan for a central bank. It was the big bankers who took the lead in creating a system that would protect them from the hazards of bank counterfeiting and make them a monopoly issuer of bank notes. After the Act became law, it was Morgan bankers who occupied the seats of power in the new system, particularly at the Fed’s New York branch where Benjamin Strong—president of J. P.

Editor’s note: this article is a selection from Chapter 16 of Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America: “Resurrecting the American System: The Growth of Imperialism.” 

The recent migratory crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta shows no signs of lessening and international public opinion appears to be divided on this subject: from the outrage at Spain still possessing colonies in Africa and calls for sympathy towards the innocent migrants, to the looming threat of a Moroccan invasion. For the sake of intellectual honesty, it behooves addressing some of those claims and shed some light on the most contentious issues.

The United Nations has been trying for years to pin the moral blame for global slavery exclusively on European nations. The UN has conveniently forgotten that Arab and African countries traded slaves for centuries before Europeans got involved in the Trans-Atlantic trade. They are egged on in this hypocritical endeavor by the “antiracist” lobby in Europe who would love nothing better than for their countries to be denounced as morally culpable for historic crimes.

This US midterms ushered in a sweeping rejection of the Republican Party, with exit polls demonstrating passionate voter anger towards issues including affordability, foreign policy, and general political corruption. While many of these issues reflect self-inflicted damage from the administration, it is notable that voter anger ran so deep that it successfully flipped not only federal seats but entire statewide governments not directly connected to issues such as the Iran War.