Terrible Lies/
Terrible Truths
Essays on the American and Israeli perpetual war Plutocracies
American Phoenix
Fiat Lux
By John F Scanlon Volume I
2017 Edition 2017 09 21
Table of Contents
1.1 The Oded Yinon Plan 1982 10
2 The War on Terror is a Lie 12
(1) Stopping Terror with Justice 14
(6) The One Percent Doctrine 15
The Killing of Osama bin Laden 25
2.2 Senate Committee’s 11/30/2009 Report on Tora Bora 26
2.4 Terrorism: The 03/10/1945 Bombing of Tokyo 29
The Atomic Bomb was not needed to end WWII 31
3 Intentional Dysfunction in the Occupation of Iraq 32
3.1 Iraq War’s WMD weapons of mass deception 2003 42
3.2 ISIS came out of the Iraq War 45
5 Motivation for the attack on the USS Liberty 61
7 Gun Control – A Bigger Picture 73
Addendum: State and Local Corruption 82
8 Machiavelli on Corruption 86
9.1 Solutions – Pivot to Diplomacy 88
9.1.1 2008 Georgia Russia War 97
9.2 Solutions – IRV Majority Rule Democracy 2003 99
9.3 Summary of Solutions 2012 102
Supplement – Political Zionism 104
Sources and Footnotes with Excerpts 110
The Gruenwald/Kastner Trial 119
Eichmann’s “Blood for Cargo” Proposal 120
The Horthy Offer 07/18/1944 125
An Open Letter to America’s war plutocrats 127
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Author: John F Scanlon San Diego CA jfscanloniii@aol.com
Terrible Lies/ Terrible Truths
Essays on the American and Israeli perpetual war Plutocracies
The following are recurring themes in these papers. The American and Israeli people are free and have influence, but we do not control our countries. Our dysfunction is not due to incompetence, it’s intentional. Our war plutocrats are the primary beneficiaries of our militarism, and these war plutocrats are the existential threat to our democracies, not foreign states and terrorists.
War plutocrats are the flesh and blood persons who own and operate our defense industries and other large corporations that benefit from war.
The following should be made widely known to the American public. If you read nothing else, read the few pages covering these referenced topics and check their sources and footnotes:
(Ch. 2). The body of the paper is just one and a half pages. I recommend the second page, Footnote (1), if you are not familiar with the modern history of America’s involvement in the Muslim world.
An unclassified, underreported but significant point on our economy:
2016 Total domestic, nonfinancial debt to GDP was 253.5%.
Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/ See the 09/21/2017 release pages 7 and 9.
2009 to 2016, GDP grew 29.2%, but debt grew 31.3%.
Now is the time. We may have begun a long war to destroy the Islamic State while offering no viable alternative. Fed tapering has ended. 09/2017 The Islamic State will soon lose its geographic holdings, but the war on terror will continue, and we still offer no viable alternative. 09/2017 The Fed has reinvested all its bond portfolio redemptions/ principal payments since tapering ended in 2014 and now plans to very slowly reduce its trillions in long term bond holdings beginning in October 2017.
Reading Guide
These essays were written as stand-alone pieces and may be read as such. Given the independence of each piece there is redundancy which is less than optimal but will allow you to move more quickly through later reading. I did not originally intend to write a book but eventually discerned in these pieces a logical progression in a whole work. Your background may preempt the need to follow this progression.
There are tangential pieces that I hope you will not find distracting but rather of interest. Some of the Footnotes and Addendums could stand alone as separate essays. You may find some of them of interest all by themselves. All the articles are dated. Significant new material was added in red and/or italics after the date of origin.
Titles of the chapters/ articles do not always clearly indicate the body of the work.
Chapter 2 The War on Terror is a Lie. – includes in Footnote (1) the actions America has taken in the Muslim world that created the hatred and terrorism against us. Footnotes 6, 7, and 8 are excerpts from three books including one by the CIA station chief in charge at Tora Bora and one by the head of Delta Force at Tora Bora. An essay/addendum was added later which postulates a relationship between the first publication of this article on 10/20/2009 and the 11/30/2009 report on Tora Bora by the majority staff of the Senate foreign relations committee.
Chapter 4 Religion Serves Politics - condemns the religious defense of the war on terror, concludes the Book of Joshua was uninspired, and includes an addendum that reconciles the Bible timeline, the Jewish timeline, and the historical timeline. If you’re a Bible student you should find this essay/addendum of interest even if you thoroughly disagree with the rest of the paper.
Chapter 6 Great Recessions II - includes a review of basic economics theory, economic history in the S&L crisis and the great recession, reasons to predict another great recession, and a critique of the Fed.
Chapter 7 Gun Control: A bigger picture – may be the heart of this eBook. It advances the theory that we are a sick society made sick by our unwillingness to face terrible truths. It reviews the history of those truths. We have been an aggressor nation since before our inception. It advances the case against our war plutocrats. It makes the case for gun control in cutting our military, intelligence, and security spending in half, back to year 2000 spending. The gun control we need most is the defunding of possible, future American aggression.
It also supports some traditional gun control as long as that control does not eliminate effective weapons in the hands of citizens. We are capable of self-governance and self-defense. And, we may need these weapons to make things right.
Chapter 9, Section 1 Pivot to Diplomacy – It recommends foreign policy positions to replace our current, corrupt dollar diplomacy with a values based diplomacy, attempts to clarify issues, and recommends actions to be taken regarding the Islamic State, Israel/ Palestine, Eastern Ukraine, and China.
We have fought against evil, but we have arguably fought for even greater evil in the continuing war, chaos, and corruption we left behind in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Libya…
We will stop losing wars when we stop fighting unjust wars. Stop 2014 11 15
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