American
Foreign Policy
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President Barack Obama’s instincts are to stay out of the
Middle East but he is up against a powerful alliance of generals and defence
contractors who believe the neo-conservative mantra of “perpetual war for
perpetual peace”. He has got a problem with his foreign policy but Dave Cameron
has no such limitations. The Tory position is absolutely straight forward; the
UK will support America unreservedly even if they attack New Zealand. The UK
has no vestige of an independent foreign policy. No considerations of
commercial advantage or morality are allowed to interfere with our blind
obedience to America. Dave Cameron supported the Americans when they wanted to
intervene in Syria on the side of the Sunni insurgents fighting the Shia regime,
and he supports them in Iraq where they are supporting the Shia regime against
the Sunni insurgents. It’s thanks only to the intransigence of the British
Parliament and the American Congress that we avoided yet another pointless war.
The Americans have no idea what they are doing in the Middle East and we don’t
care so long as we have access to American markets. There was a time when we
were famous for our diplomatic service. We had linguists and historians who were
world experts in their fields and military men who had served with the Arabs
and understood their culture. But those days are long gone; now we take the
lead from America and follow policies designed to serve interests other than
our own.
The Housing Crisis
Londoners are spending forty percent of their income on
rent. Accommodation is cheaper in the outer suburbs but the fares are prohibitive,
so what you save on rent you spend on transport. This situation is aggravated
by uncontrolled immigration and a chronic shortage of social housing. If they
moved to a cheaper part of the country they would run into the problem of
unemployment. London is overcrowded and expensive but there is plenty of work,
especially if you don’t mind working for the minimum wage on zero hours
contracts.
The massive construction boom along the Thames in central
London will deliver thousands of new apartments but few of them will be for
ordinary people. The Battersea Power Station development and the new American Embassy
complex at Nine Elms are impressive projects but they will not solve the
housing shortage.
Successive governments
have failed to make provision for a growing population. They left housing to
the private sector but property developers make more money selling riverside
penthouses to millionaires than affordable housing to Londoners. The Government
should use existing powers to enforce planning regulations and stop speculators
from buying flats and houses simply as an investment.
There is no single answer to the housing problem but
there are several ways to tackle it. Local authorities should be bankrolled by
the central government. Land should be made available by the National Health
Service, the Police, the armed forces, and the Fire Service. There are plenty
of redundant hospitals, police stations, barracks, airfields, and fire stations
that could be used for housing. The Government is helping people to get
mortgages but there is a shortage of available properties. We need a positive
commitment to housing.
We should approach the problem with the determination
of Winston Churchill’s post-war housing minister Harold Macmillan. He built
300,000 houses in 1951 when we were short of money, building materials and
labour. With modern materials and fast-track methods of construction we should
do as well as “Supermac”. He was hated by right wingers for his “winds of
change” speech in Africa and his application to join the European Common Market
but he was only accepting the inevitable.
Harold Macmillan
Critics will ask where the money is coming from but we
are spending millions of pounds on temporary housing. It must be cheaper in the
long run to build flats and houses instead of putting desperate families in bed
and breakfast accommodation. Housing is one of the most pressing problems
facing the UK. We are currently commissioning two giant aircraft carriers and buying squadrons of American aircraft to fly off them. We are also replacing the Trident nuclear missile
system. Our defence chiefs insist that these expensive toys are necessary but
Germany manages to enjoy a high standard of living and a thriving economy
without them. It’s nice to have the latest ships and rockets but it’s
unacceptable that we have a housing shortage seventy years after World War Two.
Alexander
Baron
If you like books, boxing, films, finance, jokes, legal
actions, limericks, pamphlets, plays, short stories, songs and sonnets (but not
dogs) you should visit Alexander Baron’s website at: www.infotextmanuscripts.org
He is a freelance writer and researcher and a regular
speaker at New Right meetings. Most libertarian writers take themselves far too
seriously but he is free of pomposity. Despite health problems he has beaten
the DHSS, the Metropolitan Police and the Searchlight gang in court and
resisted all efforts to shut him up. He is best described by the following
advertisement that he placed in Spearhead in January 1996.
Alexander Baron
Alexander
Baron and the British National Party – A Public Statement
In recent months I have read and heard a great deal of
nonsense about myself and certain of my associates. I am therefore issuing this
public statement to set the record straight.
I am not, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be, a
member of the British National Party. Nor am I a fascist, an anti-Semite,
Jewish, insane, a secret state asset, or in any way connected with Larry
O’Hara.
I am an associate member of the Islamic Party of Britain,
a long time Social Creditor, and a committed Libertarian, although my
commitment to Libertarianism does not extend to gross libels on either myself
or on my friends which lead to ‘anti-fascists’ – be they idealists or hired thugs – assaulting either myself or those with
whom I associate.
My only contribution to politics is my writing: I
research – usually in libraries – then publish my findings. My writings displease
many people, but that is simply because the truth is often ugly, and
unpleasant, and hurts, not because of malice on my part. Certain people seem to
believe that claiming to be anti-fascists, ‘anti-racists’ or Jewish puts them
above all criticism and gives them carte
blanche both to lie with impunity and to ride roughshod over the rest of
mankind. They are wrong.
Some of my publications have been advertised by Spearhead
and sold by the British National Party. As much as I disagree with the BNP’s
politics, I welcome such enlightenment and progressiveness, and would dearly
like to see it extended to a broader political spectrum.
I have also been smeared as a fascist and/or fellow
traveller on account of the above endorsement. People who make such allegations
in print should bear in mind that the free speech they and their fellow
‘anti-fascists’ repeatedly attempt to deny the BNP is a myth. There is such a
thing as free expression, but there is also the law of defamation. Fees for
libel litigation start from around a hundred pounds per hour, as some of the
people reading this advertisement know already. To their cost.
The
Farage Fantasy
Nigel Farage is convinced that the UK would be “better
off out” but if we quit the EU tomorrow we would still be dominated by America.
His dream of an independent Britain is a fantasy in a world of American
hegemony sustained by petro-dollars and backed by military might. They used
economic blackmail to force Britain and France out of Egypt in 1956, and to end
white rule in Rhodesia and South Africa almost forty years later. Europe, including the UK, is controlled by
NATO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Trade Organization. All of
these agencies are American-controlled and access to world markets depends on
our compliance. If we failed to support them we would face economic sanctions,
and if we defied them we would suffer the same fate as Iraq.
Ukip can wave Union Jacks until their arms ache but there
will be no independence while we are tied to America. They claim to take votes
from all parties but at heart they are Tories of the worst sort who would scrap
the National Health Service and decimate public services. The European Union is
an imperfect organization with the potential to develop into an independent
power but an isolated UK would soon discover that under the Pax Americana
independence is an illusion.
A clear majority now want to reform the EU from within but some people have been
seduced by the retro image of Ukip. They relate to the saloon bar culture, the
dated wardrobe and the chauvinist rhetoric but apart from nostalgia Ukip have
got nothing to offer.
We still have an aviation industry thanks to partnership
agreements with Airbus and
Eurofighter but our last commercial airliner, the Vickers VC10, was dumped when
British Airways bought the Boeing 707. The government of the day did not
interfere because of their commitment to the ‘free market’.
Michael Heseltine
resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland helicopter affair when Margaret
Thatcher favoured a takeover by the American company Sikorsky. Fortunately
Westland merged with the Italian company Augusta to continue building helicopters.
The iconic British
confectioner Cadburys was taken over in 2010 by Kraft of America in a deal
financed by the Royal Bank of Scotland which resulted in the loss of thousands
of jobs.
The British drug
manufacturer Astra Zeneca has rejected a $106 billion takeover bid by the
American company Pfizer. But instead of backing Astra Zeneca Dave Cameron was
content to “leave it to the shareholders”.
We have already sold our motor industry to the Japanese and our steel
industry to the Indians; now our pathetic prime minister is prepared to sell
our pharmaceutical industry. This is the same ‘patriot’ who wants to
renegotiate our membership of the EU in order to protect British interests.
There is nothing
wrong with the American people. If America was a normal country, like Canada or
Australia, we would enjoy a good relationship based on our common language and
culture. But America has 900 military bases in 153 countries. Their defence
industry depends on perpetual warfare and their predatory capitalism threatens
the commerce of the world. This situation is bad enough under Barack Obama and
the Democrats but the Republicans would be even worse. The Republican Party is
virtually owned by Sheldon Adelson, a committed Zionist billionaire who has the
power to choose the next president. It’s up to our American compatriots to
reclaim their country. We should scrap NATO, build a strong and united Europe,
sign a non-aggression pact with Russia, and elect a genuinely representative
government.
Ukip is a
reactionary party that will probably steal enough Tory votes to put the Labour
Party in power and avoid a referendum on Europe. Their ‘free market’ policies
tie us to America, and their immigration policy discriminates against Poles and
other Europeans but encourages Afro-Asians. We don’t know the rest of their policies
because they have torn up their old manifesto and promised to publish a new one for the 2015 general
election. But from statements made by their candidates we know some of their
ideas. These include a flat rate income tax that would hit low wage earners;
charging for visits to the doctor, and throwing out all legislation from
Brussels, including employment rights. Some of them have even fantasized about
deporting foreigners, allowing smoking in pubs and restaurants, and putting
women “back in the kitchen where they belong”; a raft of right wing policies
that would drag us back to the fifties. To Ukip they were the “good old days”
but most of us remember rationing, shortages, austerity, and an entirely undeserved
respect for authority; the conditions that prompted Andrew Fountaine to make
the following speech.
Andrew Fountaine: National Front
Movement 1952
In the seven
lean years since the War, they said we won; we have drifted from crisis to
crisis. If it isn't a dollar scare, then it's a panic call for rearmament in
the face of the Russian menace. The politicians still talk as if this is some
sort of accident, something that just couldn't be avoided. Thinking people
though are beginning to see through the bluff. They realise that the Butlers
and Gaitskell’s cannot really stop the rot. They cannot cope with the situation
for which their own party leaders are directly responsible. It has gone beyond
the balancing of budgets and the juggling of economic theories. Instead of
arguing about what they talk of doing, it will pay us better to consider what
Churchill and Attlee between them have actually done.
The Facts of
the crisis are clear enough. Before the war we managed to exist by the import /
export system. Not that the system was entirely satisfactory... nevertheless it
worked, largely because of "invisible exports," that is to say, the
money which our investments abroad brought in. We had vast overseas
possessions, which of course, guaranteed the security and prosperity of these
islands, if only we cared to develop them properly. Today the cry is
"Export or Die!" Frankly it looks as though we're in danger of dying.
Why? Because every source of wealth is going, whether our foreign investments
or our overseas possessions. Poor and weakened we are crowded on to an island
which just cannot produce enough food for us. On the one side we are threatened
by the armed might of Bolshevik Russia, while on the other we are in danger of
complete enslavement to the financiers of Wall Street.
Who Was
Responsible? We know that the villain of the piece was Roosevelt, who was not,
apparently, the kind benefactor of the British people he would have us believe.
This man was determined not merely to defeat the common enemy, but also to get
rid of the British Empire. Thus, although Roosevelt was not prepared to enter
the war at the beginning, he allowed us to fight on alone, and during that
period we had to sell our foreign investments at knockdown prices to buy
munitions from America, so we could hold the fort until America was ready to
come to our assistance.
FD Roosevelt
The Lend-Lease
agreement was likewise no generosity, for it contained a clause designed to
cripple our export trade all over the world, and it stopped dead the minute
America had gained its victory. Roosevelt's greatest political triumph was the
destruction of Europe at Yalta, when he literally placed Russia in its present
position by allowing the Russian Hordes to get to Berlin, Prague and Vienna,
when the Allies could easily have got there first. His advisers were all
pro-Soviet and many of them remain in office in America to this day. Yet
Roosevelt's successors, Truman and Eisenhower, now expect the Europe which
their system destroyed to help them in their quarrel with the Russian
Imperialism which their system brought into being.
Never forget
that the closest collaborator of Roosevelt during the war was the Prime Minister
who must be held responsible for unnecessarily allowing this country to fall
under American economic domination -- the man of Yalta, Winston Churchill.
Labour's Record
was no better than that of the coalition Government when it came to
surrendering British interests and truckling to the Americans. They began by
destroying two hundred years of endeavour in India by handing it over to
independence and fanatical self-massacre. They wrote off years of heroic jungle
fighting by plunging Burma into anarchy. They started the same cowardly,
simpering process of "freezing" the African colonies. They accepted
Marshall's generous gift of surplus American production and, when Roosevelt's
successor had handed China on a plate to the Communists, they supported the
phoney war in Korea. Meanwhile they had sent top-secret aeroplane engines to
Russia...... One of the last acts of this pitiful administration was to
surrender our oil supplies at the instigation of the American government. The
man we must hold responsible for that was Clement Attlee.
Is there a way
out? Yes, there is, but it's a way out that's hard and it can only be faced by
men and women who are brave enough and determined enough to win through.
Clearly, the only salvation for our country lies in getting back on our feet -
and that means running our own affairs. It's no use sitting back and letting a
set of discredited mountebanks continue to mess up your lives and those of your
children. It's even worse to let yourself be drugged by propaganda and think
the Americans will save us, when we can thank Roosevelt and Co for the mess we
are in.
Our country is
capable of great things - we have an immense industrial capacity, we still have
a large empire which is as rich potentially as America and Russia put together.
What is more important, we have some of the best inventors, designers,
engineers and craftsmen.
We were not
intended to work like slaves, scrounging for dollars to keep body and soul
together. Our children were not intended to be cannon fodder in some future war
between America and Russia, with which we and the other countries of Western
Europe have little or nothing in common. Our fathers didn't place their
reliance on a discredited, mongrelised United Nations Organisation, and they
would expect us to live as they lived - proud, free, energetic and resolute.
But to do all
this we must act as an organised movement, for the voices of individuals are
soon drowned by the clamour of the parties, the actions of isolated enthusiasts
come to nothing in a world of confusion, doubts and anxieties. Something new is
needed, all are agreed, but the new party must rise above the artificial
divisions of today and appeal directly to the nation as a whole. National unity
is the key to National rebirth. This is The Only Way to preserve the traditions
of the past and to make sure of the welfare and security of our people in the
future.... it means a hard, tough struggle against heavy odds, but it means at
last that we shall once again be living not as slaves, but as free men and
women in our country with our future in our hands.
The Meaning of an Enemy
Andrew Fountaine
Andrew
Fountaine (1918-1997) was a staunch defender of Britain and Europe. He fought
for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War and served as a naval Lieutenant
Commander in the Pacific during WW2. He was president of the original BNP and
formed the short-lived NF Constitutional Movement. His masterly denunciation of
Winston Churchill ‘The Meaning of an Enemy’ was serialized in Combat magazine
from 1960 to 1965. It is now available from Ostara Publications at £7.45 plus
p&p. www.ostarapublication.com
Personal
Opinions
Parliamentary democracy fails to deliver representative
government because it has been hijacked by big business and perverted by the
party system. But freedom of speech is a basic human right. People are entitled
to their opinions and should be able to express them.
Opinions range from Anarchism to Zionism. Some people
deny the Holocaust because they have convinced themselves that it never
happened. Others blame all the troubles of the world on a great conspiracy of
Jews, Freemasons, Bilderbergers, and all the usual suspects. The British
Israelites maintain that we are the true Jews, and amateur anthropologists
discern one’s ethnicity from sepia tinted photographs in old and unreadable
books.
Some of these people are undoubtedly mad but most of them
are simply deluded. Conspiracy theory is a type of religion – it provides
answers to questions and it cannot be disproved because it’s a matter of faith.
There is no point in arguing with a conspiracy theorist; as one of them said to
me: “I don’t have to prove it – I know that it’s true”.
In the European parliamentary election Ukip commanded 27%
of the votes cast, or 9% of the electorate. They were delighted when the
financial crisis of 2008 hit Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus
because they used the single currency; but they ignored the desperate plight of
Iceland, the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and
Ukraine because they still had their own currencies. Six years later most of
Europe is returning to stability and the dire warnings of the doom mongers have
come to nothing. But none of this matters to the Euro-sceptics who believe their own propaganda..
The human capacity for self-deception is paramount. When
British troops of the 6th Airborne Division liberated Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp at the end of the war they found 38,500 sick, starving and
dying people. British soldiers had no reason to exaggerate but their testimony
is rejected by the Holocaust deniers who refuse to believe that the Third Reich
committed any atrocities. It’s all a matter of faith.
We are witnessing the decline of the nation state and the
emergence of largely self-sufficient geopolitical blocs. The European Union and
the Russian Federation are prototypes and similar arrangements are emerging in
North America and East Asia. This development will not be stopped
by angry old men shouting slogans. Ukip and their nationalist cousins
throughout Europe are dinosaurs having their last thrash about in the swamp of
history. But they are entitled to their opinions just like the rest of us. The law must protect society from psychopaths
and terrorists but reasonable opinions should be tolerated.
Colin Jordan
Colin Jordan was foolish to dress up as a storm trooper
in the days of the National Socialist Movement. Some of his members have blamed this indescretion on their youth but CJ was thirty nine in 1962, which is old enough to know
better. He remained an unrepentant National Socialist until the day he died in
2009. He defended the infamous Night of the Long Knives and propagated the myth
of the Nazi superman but he despised petty nationalism and understood
the power of plutocracy and the futility of electioneering. His article “Party
Time Has Ended” should be read by anyone trying to influence events by the
ballot box. Public opinion can be influenced by propaganda but the
Establishment would never allow a genuinely revolutionary party to flourish.
They crushed Mosley’s movement in 1940 and they would not hesitate to do it
again. Ukip are only tolerated because they are a harmless bunch of disaffected
Tories. It’s still possible to educate the public, and we have a duty to do so,
but let us not deceive ourselves about ‘democracy’. Colin Jordan’s article is
posted on: http://www.skrewdriver.net/party.html
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