22-07-2013, 09:16 PM
Phil Dragoo Wrote:Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, is a complement to Gibson's Battling, illustrating the use of CIA, Green Berets, financial and diplomatic pressure, regime change, assassination, and pacification of recalcitrant tribes to expedite the extraction and exploitation of the Hemisphere's resources to the profit of the few at the expense of the continued lament of the many.
Yes, absolutely. Gibson writes of how the globalists basically wanted resource-rich Third-World countries not to develop independent economies, but simply increase exports (to/via them). The financial arm-twisting was done by the World Bank and IMF. Gibson doesn't spend a lot of time on the other (covert/military) aspect of neo-colonial domination, but it's implicit in what he writes.
Quote:It wasn't merely that Kennedy was an obstacle to steel magnates or oil barons; it was that he desired loans be made absent the customary military codicils, that the quality of life be raised for all, though plenty deprived the profits of the scarcity merchants as a glut of diamonds or gold--or oil.
A big point made by Gibson is that JFK envisaged economic cooperation between nations (states), while Wall Street insisted on private contractual agreements between corporations and the holders of resources.
Quote:Kennedy was the only American president of the Century of the Fed to elevate the interests of all peoples to those of the American people.
That is perhaps the most "dangerous" proposition which could be maintained about JFK's short term in office. It is the biggest elephant in the room.