06-07-2011, 07:49 PM
From the introduction to the 2002 edition (re-published by TrineDay) of America's Secret Establishment: an introduction to the order of Skull and Bones by Antony C Sutton.
"Wonder why we haven't a "dumbed-down" society? Look no further than the Bonesmen troika who imported the Prussian education system into the US in the 19th century. A political philosophy in direct opposition to the classical liberalism nurtured in 19th century British and American history. In classic liberalism, the State is always subordinate to the individual. In Hegelian Statism, as we have seen in Nazi-ism and Marxism, the State is supreme, and the individual exists only to serve the State. ... In education, the Dewey system was initiated and promoted by Skull and Bones members. Dewey was an ardent Statist, and a believer in the Hegelian idea that the child exists to be trained to serve the state. This requires suppression of individualist tendencies and a careful spoon-feeding of of approved knowledge. This "dumbing down" of American education is not easily apparent unless you've studied in both foreign and domestic US universitiesthen the contrast becomes crystal clear."
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"Pres. George Bush, Junior, a Bonesman, appoints a Monsanto vice president, Dr. Virginia Weldon, as director of FDA, which has the power to block labeling of genetically-engineered foods, and to pass on other corporate control efforts."
[Clarence Thomas, current associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was nominated Bonesman George HW Bush; Thomas once worked as a an attorney for Monsanto.]
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From the 2002 edition (re-published by TrineDay) of America's Secret Establishment: an introduction to the order of Skull and Bones by Anthony C Sutton.
"There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations, are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can NEVER be the result of conspiracy, they can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within nine hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was NOT a conspiracy, regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven, and that the investigation that hardly begun.
Woe be to any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines. Foundation support is not there. Publishers get cold feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent.
Just to ensure the official line dominates, in 1946 the Rockefeller Foundation allotted $139,000 for an official history of World War II. This was to avoid the repeated debunking history books which embarrassed the Establishment after World War I. The reader will be interested up to know that The Order we are about to investigate had great foresight, back in the 1880s, create both the American Historical Association and the American Economic Association (most economists were then mere historians and analysts) under their terms, with their people and their objectives. Andrew Dickson White was a member of The Order and the first president of the American Historical Association..... The revisionist historian has a double burden as well say double task. The double burden is that research likely to question the official historical line will not get financed. The double task is that research must be more than usually careful and precise."
"The Order has either set up or penetrated just about every significant research, policy, and opinion-making organization in the United States, in addition to the church, business, law, government and politics.… The evolution of American society is not, and has not been for a century, a voluntary development reflecting individual opinion, ideas and decisions at the grassroots. On the contrary, the broad direction has been created artificially and stimulated by The Order.
Not all organizations know they have been penetrated or used for another purpose. It's a situation very much as Quigley [Carroll Quigley, professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, in his description of "The Group" in his book The Anglo-American Establishment ]:
"There is… an inner core of independent associates who unquestionably knew that they were members of a group devoted to a common purpose and an outer circle of the larger number on whom the inner circle acted by personal persuasion, patronage distribution and social pressure. It is probable that most members of the outer circle were not conscious that they were being used by a secret society."
Therefore, our hypothesis number two is: "The Order has penetrated or been the dominant influence in sufficient policy, research and opinion making organizations that it determines the basic direction of American society."
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"One observation is that The Order gets the ball rolling in new organizations, i.e., puts in the first president or chairman and the ideas and then, when operations are rolling along, often just fades out of the picture.
Among universities we can cite Cornell University, where Andrew Dickson White (53) was its first president, and Johns Hopkins University, based on the German educational system, where Daniel Coit Gilman (52) was the first president (18751901).
Among academic associations the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society, and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of the order or persons close to the order. These are key associations for the conditioning of society.
This phenomenon of the order as the first on the scene is found especially among foundations, load appears that the order keeps a continuing presence among foundation trustees. It does more than just be first were money is concerned. It stays around to keep an eye on expenditures.… The first president of the Carnegie institution (1902-1905) was Daniel Gillman, but other members of The Order have been on Carnegie boards since the turn-of-the-century. Gilman was on the scene for the founding of the Peabody, Slater, and Russell Sage foundation's. McGeorge Bundy was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979.
In 1920, Theodore Marburg founded the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, Marburg was only the president. The first chairman was member William Howard Taft (78). The society was the forerunner of the League to Enforce the Peace, which developed into the League of Nations concept and ultimately into the United Nations.
In United Nations we find, for example, that Archibald McLeish (15) was the brains behind the prostitution of the UNESCO organization.
We find the same first on the scene phenomenon in "think tanks."....
There has been a significant penetration into communications.
Some examples:
Henry Luce of Time-Life is in The Order.
So is William Buckley (50) of National Review, and
Alfred Cowles (13), president of Cowle's Communications, Des Moines Register, Minneapolis Star
and Emmett Bates (32) of Litton Educational Systems, plus
Richard Eli Danielson (07) of Atlantic Monthly
Russell Wheeler Davenport (23), Fortune
John Chipman Farrar (18), Farrar, Strauss, the publishers.
The most prestigious award in journalism is a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Over 300 were granted from 1937 to 1968. The first director of the Neiman Fund was member Archibald McLeish.
… A dozen members can be linked to the Federal Reserve, but one appointment is noteworthy, Pierre Jay (92), whose only claim to fame in 1913 was to run a private school and be an obscure vice president of Manhattan Bank yet he became first chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, the really significant Federal Reserve bank. [The White House, politics and government] is the area where The Order has made headway, with names like Taft, Bush, Stimpson, Chafee, Leavitt, Whitney, Bundy and so on. It would take a separate volume to cover this story and in Memorandum Nine we describe just one example, the Bundy operation."
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On pages 34 and 35:
"In the Hegelian system conflict is essential. Furthermore, for Hegel and systems based on Hegel, the State is absolute. The State requires complete obedience from the individual citizen and individual does not exist for himself in these so-called organic systems but only to perform a role in the operation of the state. He finds freedom only in obedience to the state. There is no freedom in Hitler's Germany, there is no freedom for the individual under Marxism, neither will there be in the New World Order. And if it sounds like George Orwell's 1984it is.
In brief, the State is supreme and conflict is used to bring about the ideal society. Individuals find freedom in obedience to the rulers.
So who or what is the State? Obviously it's a self-appointed elite. It is interesting that Fichte, who develop these ideas before Hegel, was a Freemason, almost certainly Illuminati, and certainly was promoted by the Illuminati. Furthermore, the Illuminati principle is that the end justifies the means, a principle that Quigley scores as immoral and used by both The Group and The Order, is rooted in Hegel.… This, then, is a vital part of our explanation of The Order. When it's co-founder, William Russell, was in Germany in 18311832, there was no way he could have avoided Hegelian theory and discussion. It was the talk of the campus. It swept intellectual Germany like a Pac-Man craze. Most Americans haven't heard of it. And those who have don't want to hear anymore about it. Why? Because his assumptions are completely at variance with our sense of individual freedom and Constitutional guarantees. Most of us believe the state exists to serve the individual, not vice versa.
The Order believes the opposite to most of us. That is crucial to understanding what they are about. So any discussion between left and right, while essential to promote change, is never allowed to develop into a discussion along the lines of Jeffersonian democracy, i.e., the best government is least government. The discussion and the funding is always towards more state power, use of state power and away from individual rights. So it doesn't matter from the viewpoint of the order whether it turned left, right, Democratic, Republican, secular or religiousso long as the discussion is kept within the framework of the state and the power of the state.
This is the common feature between this seemingly dissimilar positions taken by membersthey have a higher common objective in which clash of ideas is essential. So long as rights of the individual are not introduced into the discussion, the clash of ideas generates the conflict necessary for change.
As the objective is also global control, an emphasis is placed on global thinking, i.e., internationalism. This is done through world organizations and world law. The great contribution of the Taft's to The Order was in the world court and world lawto the internationalist aspect of the New World Order."
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The Bundy operation is covered on pages 47 through page 52 in Sutton's ASE. The history of the Bundy family is presented in some detail and notes Harvey Hollister Bundy, special assistant to the Secretary of War Stimson in 1909, William Putney Bundy (39) in the CIA and as an editor of Foreign Affairs, and McGeorge Bundy (40) a government and foundation official. Page 48 contains a snapshot of his curriculum vitae which placed him at the heart of Cold War foreign affairs; page 49 includes a side trip to the role of his law firm in the McCarthy Senate hearings on subversion, notes its contribution to the Alger Hiss defense fund, its role in the George McGovern presidential campaign, and more. In 1960, Bundy, "while still at CIA, became staff director for the newly formed Presidential Commission on National Goals; quotes from the report of this commission appear on page 50 and are "almost pure Hegelianism:
a) "a role of government is to stimulate changes of attitude";
"in the 1960s every American is summoned to extraordinary personal responsibility, sustained effort, and sacrifice";
c) "the American citizen in the years ahead ought to devote a larger portion of his time and energy directly to the solution of the nation's problems… many ways are open for citizens to participate in the attainment of national goals."
Now the basic set of rules governing our societies the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. There is nothing in these constitutional documents to support any of these demands. What the demands imply is that an American citizen has a duty to advance the will of the state…"
The actionable turnkey element inherent in Skull and Bones and other secret societies is the preferential treatment accorded to members by members. In McGeorge Bundy's case, after graduating from Yale and joining The Order in 1940, Bundy spent a while at Harvard and then joined the U.S. Army "as a private". Within 12 months Bundy had rocketed to captain and staff officer working on operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) and operation overlord (the invasion of Normandy). If there is one job in this world that requires experience, it must be a staff planning officer for him to be his operation. Only experience can make the calculations of timing and logistics for personnel and supplies come out right. And men's lives depend on this experience. Can a 23-year-old, with no military experience, undertake planning for amphibious operations? The answer is obviously no even if his father (The Order) is in the Pentagon as an aid to the Secretary of War (The Order).… [After the war] Bundy became consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration, although he presumably knew no more about economics than amphibious landing, then foreign policy analyst for presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, then analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations. By 1949, Bundy was invited to Harvard University and in four years (1953) was made Dean of the faculty of arts and sciences.… In 1966, McGeorge Bundy was appointed president of the Ford Foundation, a post he retained until 1979. While at Ford, Bundy brought in as vice president in charge of education research division, another member of The OrderHarold Howe II.
Howe's qualifications, apart from a Yale undergraduate degree, can be described in Howe's own words:
"… In the old scheme of things I would not have qualifications to be a professorI have no PhD degree, no scholarly research publications to my credit. I once applied to the Yale graduate school but was turned down as academically unpromising."
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"… It is extraordinary how newspaper editors, columnists, TV and radio commentators, and publishers either lack insight to see beyond the superficial or are scared witless to do so. Even worse, the educated public, the 30-40,000,000 degree holders, lets these opinion molders get away with it.
Outright censorship has not been too effective. There have certainly been a campaign to suppress revisionist interpretations of history. Witness Harry Elmer Barnes in "the struggle against the historical blackout":
"It may be said, with great restraint, that, never since the Dark and Middle Ages, have there been so many powerful forces organized and alerted against the assertion and acceptance of historical truth as are active today to prevent the facts about the responsibilities of the second world war and its results from being a generally accessible to the American public. Even the great Rockefeller Foundation frankly admits (Annual Reportt, 1946, page 188) the subsidizing of a core of the historians to anticipate and frustrate the development of any NeoRevisionism in our time. And the only difference between the foundation and several others is that it it has been more candid and forthright about its politics.…
More effective than outright censorship is use of the left-right political spectrum to neutralize unwelcome facts and ideas or just condition citizens to think along certain lines.
The "left" leaning segment of the press can always be relied upon to automatically assault ideas and information from the "right" and vice versa. In fact, media outlets have been artificially set up for just this purpose: both Nation and New Republic on the "left" were financed by Willard Straight, using Payne Whitney (The Order) funds. On the "right", National Review published by William Buckley (The order) runs a perpetual deficit, presumably made up by Buckley.
Neither the independent right nor the independent left sees the trap. They are so busy firing at each other they've mostly forgotten the behind-the-scenes. And The Order smugly claims control of the "moderate" center. A neat game, and it's worked like a charm....."
Pages 53-54, Sutton's ASE
"Wonder why we haven't a "dumbed-down" society? Look no further than the Bonesmen troika who imported the Prussian education system into the US in the 19th century. A political philosophy in direct opposition to the classical liberalism nurtured in 19th century British and American history. In classic liberalism, the State is always subordinate to the individual. In Hegelian Statism, as we have seen in Nazi-ism and Marxism, the State is supreme, and the individual exists only to serve the State. ... In education, the Dewey system was initiated and promoted by Skull and Bones members. Dewey was an ardent Statist, and a believer in the Hegelian idea that the child exists to be trained to serve the state. This requires suppression of individualist tendencies and a careful spoon-feeding of of approved knowledge. This "dumbing down" of American education is not easily apparent unless you've studied in both foreign and domestic US universitiesthen the contrast becomes crystal clear."
****
"Pres. George Bush, Junior, a Bonesman, appoints a Monsanto vice president, Dr. Virginia Weldon, as director of FDA, which has the power to block labeling of genetically-engineered foods, and to pass on other corporate control efforts."
[Clarence Thomas, current associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was nominated Bonesman George HW Bush; Thomas once worked as a an attorney for Monsanto.]
****
From the 2002 edition (re-published by TrineDay) of America's Secret Establishment: an introduction to the order of Skull and Bones by Anthony C Sutton.
"There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations, are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can NEVER be the result of conspiracy, they can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within nine hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was NOT a conspiracy, regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven, and that the investigation that hardly begun.
Woe be to any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines. Foundation support is not there. Publishers get cold feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent.
Just to ensure the official line dominates, in 1946 the Rockefeller Foundation allotted $139,000 for an official history of World War II. This was to avoid the repeated debunking history books which embarrassed the Establishment after World War I. The reader will be interested up to know that The Order we are about to investigate had great foresight, back in the 1880s, create both the American Historical Association and the American Economic Association (most economists were then mere historians and analysts) under their terms, with their people and their objectives. Andrew Dickson White was a member of The Order and the first president of the American Historical Association..... The revisionist historian has a double burden as well say double task. The double burden is that research likely to question the official historical line will not get financed. The double task is that research must be more than usually careful and precise."
"The Order has either set up or penetrated just about every significant research, policy, and opinion-making organization in the United States, in addition to the church, business, law, government and politics.… The evolution of American society is not, and has not been for a century, a voluntary development reflecting individual opinion, ideas and decisions at the grassroots. On the contrary, the broad direction has been created artificially and stimulated by The Order.
Not all organizations know they have been penetrated or used for another purpose. It's a situation very much as Quigley [Carroll Quigley, professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, in his description of "The Group" in his book The Anglo-American Establishment ]:
"There is… an inner core of independent associates who unquestionably knew that they were members of a group devoted to a common purpose and an outer circle of the larger number on whom the inner circle acted by personal persuasion, patronage distribution and social pressure. It is probable that most members of the outer circle were not conscious that they were being used by a secret society."
Therefore, our hypothesis number two is: "The Order has penetrated or been the dominant influence in sufficient policy, research and opinion making organizations that it determines the basic direction of American society."
--
"One observation is that The Order gets the ball rolling in new organizations, i.e., puts in the first president or chairman and the ideas and then, when operations are rolling along, often just fades out of the picture.
Among universities we can cite Cornell University, where Andrew Dickson White (53) was its first president, and Johns Hopkins University, based on the German educational system, where Daniel Coit Gilman (52) was the first president (18751901).
Among academic associations the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society, and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of the order or persons close to the order. These are key associations for the conditioning of society.
This phenomenon of the order as the first on the scene is found especially among foundations, load appears that the order keeps a continuing presence among foundation trustees. It does more than just be first were money is concerned. It stays around to keep an eye on expenditures.… The first president of the Carnegie institution (1902-1905) was Daniel Gillman, but other members of The Order have been on Carnegie boards since the turn-of-the-century. Gilman was on the scene for the founding of the Peabody, Slater, and Russell Sage foundation's. McGeorge Bundy was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979.
In 1920, Theodore Marburg founded the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, Marburg was only the president. The first chairman was member William Howard Taft (78). The society was the forerunner of the League to Enforce the Peace, which developed into the League of Nations concept and ultimately into the United Nations.
In United Nations we find, for example, that Archibald McLeish (15) was the brains behind the prostitution of the UNESCO organization.
We find the same first on the scene phenomenon in "think tanks."....
There has been a significant penetration into communications.
Some examples:
Henry Luce of Time-Life is in The Order.
So is William Buckley (50) of National Review, and
Alfred Cowles (13), president of Cowle's Communications, Des Moines Register, Minneapolis Star
and Emmett Bates (32) of Litton Educational Systems, plus
Richard Eli Danielson (07) of Atlantic Monthly
Russell Wheeler Davenport (23), Fortune
John Chipman Farrar (18), Farrar, Strauss, the publishers.
The most prestigious award in journalism is a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Over 300 were granted from 1937 to 1968. The first director of the Neiman Fund was member Archibald McLeish.
… A dozen members can be linked to the Federal Reserve, but one appointment is noteworthy, Pierre Jay (92), whose only claim to fame in 1913 was to run a private school and be an obscure vice president of Manhattan Bank yet he became first chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, the really significant Federal Reserve bank. [The White House, politics and government] is the area where The Order has made headway, with names like Taft, Bush, Stimpson, Chafee, Leavitt, Whitney, Bundy and so on. It would take a separate volume to cover this story and in Memorandum Nine we describe just one example, the Bundy operation."
***
On pages 34 and 35:
"In the Hegelian system conflict is essential. Furthermore, for Hegel and systems based on Hegel, the State is absolute. The State requires complete obedience from the individual citizen and individual does not exist for himself in these so-called organic systems but only to perform a role in the operation of the state. He finds freedom only in obedience to the state. There is no freedom in Hitler's Germany, there is no freedom for the individual under Marxism, neither will there be in the New World Order. And if it sounds like George Orwell's 1984it is.
In brief, the State is supreme and conflict is used to bring about the ideal society. Individuals find freedom in obedience to the rulers.
So who or what is the State? Obviously it's a self-appointed elite. It is interesting that Fichte, who develop these ideas before Hegel, was a Freemason, almost certainly Illuminati, and certainly was promoted by the Illuminati. Furthermore, the Illuminati principle is that the end justifies the means, a principle that Quigley scores as immoral and used by both The Group and The Order, is rooted in Hegel.… This, then, is a vital part of our explanation of The Order. When it's co-founder, William Russell, was in Germany in 18311832, there was no way he could have avoided Hegelian theory and discussion. It was the talk of the campus. It swept intellectual Germany like a Pac-Man craze. Most Americans haven't heard of it. And those who have don't want to hear anymore about it. Why? Because his assumptions are completely at variance with our sense of individual freedom and Constitutional guarantees. Most of us believe the state exists to serve the individual, not vice versa.
The Order believes the opposite to most of us. That is crucial to understanding what they are about. So any discussion between left and right, while essential to promote change, is never allowed to develop into a discussion along the lines of Jeffersonian democracy, i.e., the best government is least government. The discussion and the funding is always towards more state power, use of state power and away from individual rights. So it doesn't matter from the viewpoint of the order whether it turned left, right, Democratic, Republican, secular or religiousso long as the discussion is kept within the framework of the state and the power of the state.
This is the common feature between this seemingly dissimilar positions taken by membersthey have a higher common objective in which clash of ideas is essential. So long as rights of the individual are not introduced into the discussion, the clash of ideas generates the conflict necessary for change.
As the objective is also global control, an emphasis is placed on global thinking, i.e., internationalism. This is done through world organizations and world law. The great contribution of the Taft's to The Order was in the world court and world lawto the internationalist aspect of the New World Order."
***
The Bundy operation is covered on pages 47 through page 52 in Sutton's ASE. The history of the Bundy family is presented in some detail and notes Harvey Hollister Bundy, special assistant to the Secretary of War Stimson in 1909, William Putney Bundy (39) in the CIA and as an editor of Foreign Affairs, and McGeorge Bundy (40) a government and foundation official. Page 48 contains a snapshot of his curriculum vitae which placed him at the heart of Cold War foreign affairs; page 49 includes a side trip to the role of his law firm in the McCarthy Senate hearings on subversion, notes its contribution to the Alger Hiss defense fund, its role in the George McGovern presidential campaign, and more. In 1960, Bundy, "while still at CIA, became staff director for the newly formed Presidential Commission on National Goals; quotes from the report of this commission appear on page 50 and are "almost pure Hegelianism:
a) "a role of government is to stimulate changes of attitude";
"in the 1960s every American is summoned to extraordinary personal responsibility, sustained effort, and sacrifice";
c) "the American citizen in the years ahead ought to devote a larger portion of his time and energy directly to the solution of the nation's problems… many ways are open for citizens to participate in the attainment of national goals."
Now the basic set of rules governing our societies the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. There is nothing in these constitutional documents to support any of these demands. What the demands imply is that an American citizen has a duty to advance the will of the state…"
The actionable turnkey element inherent in Skull and Bones and other secret societies is the preferential treatment accorded to members by members. In McGeorge Bundy's case, after graduating from Yale and joining The Order in 1940, Bundy spent a while at Harvard and then joined the U.S. Army "as a private". Within 12 months Bundy had rocketed to captain and staff officer working on operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) and operation overlord (the invasion of Normandy). If there is one job in this world that requires experience, it must be a staff planning officer for him to be his operation. Only experience can make the calculations of timing and logistics for personnel and supplies come out right. And men's lives depend on this experience. Can a 23-year-old, with no military experience, undertake planning for amphibious operations? The answer is obviously no even if his father (The Order) is in the Pentagon as an aid to the Secretary of War (The Order).… [After the war] Bundy became consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration, although he presumably knew no more about economics than amphibious landing, then foreign policy analyst for presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, then analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations. By 1949, Bundy was invited to Harvard University and in four years (1953) was made Dean of the faculty of arts and sciences.… In 1966, McGeorge Bundy was appointed president of the Ford Foundation, a post he retained until 1979. While at Ford, Bundy brought in as vice president in charge of education research division, another member of The OrderHarold Howe II.
Howe's qualifications, apart from a Yale undergraduate degree, can be described in Howe's own words:
"… In the old scheme of things I would not have qualifications to be a professorI have no PhD degree, no scholarly research publications to my credit. I once applied to the Yale graduate school but was turned down as academically unpromising."
**
"… It is extraordinary how newspaper editors, columnists, TV and radio commentators, and publishers either lack insight to see beyond the superficial or are scared witless to do so. Even worse, the educated public, the 30-40,000,000 degree holders, lets these opinion molders get away with it.
Outright censorship has not been too effective. There have certainly been a campaign to suppress revisionist interpretations of history. Witness Harry Elmer Barnes in "the struggle against the historical blackout":
"It may be said, with great restraint, that, never since the Dark and Middle Ages, have there been so many powerful forces organized and alerted against the assertion and acceptance of historical truth as are active today to prevent the facts about the responsibilities of the second world war and its results from being a generally accessible to the American public. Even the great Rockefeller Foundation frankly admits (Annual Reportt, 1946, page 188) the subsidizing of a core of the historians to anticipate and frustrate the development of any NeoRevisionism in our time. And the only difference between the foundation and several others is that it it has been more candid and forthright about its politics.…
More effective than outright censorship is use of the left-right political spectrum to neutralize unwelcome facts and ideas or just condition citizens to think along certain lines.
The "left" leaning segment of the press can always be relied upon to automatically assault ideas and information from the "right" and vice versa. In fact, media outlets have been artificially set up for just this purpose: both Nation and New Republic on the "left" were financed by Willard Straight, using Payne Whitney (The Order) funds. On the "right", National Review published by William Buckley (The order) runs a perpetual deficit, presumably made up by Buckley.
Neither the independent right nor the independent left sees the trap. They are so busy firing at each other they've mostly forgotten the behind-the-scenes. And The Order smugly claims control of the "moderate" center. A neat game, and it's worked like a charm....."
Pages 53-54, Sutton's ASE
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"