A Tragic Century of Murderous Death, Untold Destruction, and the Squandering of the Lives of Millions — And Who Was Responsible
May 31, 2026
After American intervention in World War I In 1916, Woodrow Wilson first articulated his flawed vision for the League of Nations as an international organization designed to facilitate a decisive contrast to America’s traditional non-interventionist or “isolationist groups, ”
For over a murderous century we have lived with the horrendous consequences of these disastrous polices of the professional managerial elites, and their tyranny of the bulk of the American populace which fiercely opposed U.S. participation and intervention in these futile global wars and confrontations.
The deliberate shift in US foreign policy from a largely noninterventionist stance to global interventionism has been exhaustively scrutinized. Major books have thoroughly documented the immense human, material, and strategic costs of these efforts, mapping the consequences both in authoritative academic texts and powerful revisionist analyses.
Authoritative Academic & Mainstream Analyses: These accounts provide meticulous, data-driven overviews of US strategy and the heavy costs incurred in blood and treasure.
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes: Written by a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert, this book meticulously calculates the staggering long-term financial costs of the Iraq War, including medical care for veterans and macroeconomic impacts.
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam: A seminal institutional history that examines the hubris and foreign policy miscalculations that led the United States into the devastating quagmire of the Vietnam War
The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy by Stephen M. Walt: A prominent international relations scholar critically examines the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, detailing how continuous crusading for global hegemony has repeatedly conflated idealistic ambitions with strategic blunders.
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner: A highly researched institutional history of the Central Intelligence Agency that chronicles decades of covert operations and regime-change strategies, detailing the tactical failures and blowback of these endeavors.
Revisionist & Alternative Analyses: These works often challenge the official justifications for intervention, focusing heavily on the moral cost, systemic overthrow of sovereign states, and the economic drivers behind US imperial overreach.
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum: A foundational revisionist text that chronicles overt and covert American military and intelligence interventions across the globe, explicitly tallying the impact on democratically elected governments and the localized human casualties.
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer: This work provides a narrative history of more than a century of American regime-change operations, arguing that these interventions consistently subverted democratic processes and yielded long-term instability.
The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home by William D. Hartung: A critical look at the military-industrial complex, documenting how focused interventionist strategies financially benefit defense contractors at the expense of domestic stability and human life.
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich: A prominent critic and military veteran dissects the militarization of US foreign policy, exposing the futility of utilizing force to reshape the world and the domestic decay it causes.
Following World War I, northeastern seaboard establishment elites, notably through the Council on Foreign Relations, successfully transitioned American foreign policy from traditional “isolationism” to liberal internationalism. By promoting free trade, collective security, and active global engagement, these groups laid the ideological foundation for the postwar world order and global U.S. hegemony.
The Role of Interventionist Groups (Post-WWI to Present)
Establishment Consensus: Formed in 1921 by New York financiers, academics, and lawyers, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) bridged the gap between Wall Street, Washington, and academia. They cultivated a foreign policy consensus favoring U.S. leadership in global institutions, beginning with early attempts to support the League of Nations.
Post-WWII Institutionalization: Elites from these northeastern banking and legal circles (such as the Rockefeller and Carnegie networks) drafted the blueprints for the United Nations, the World Bank, and the IMF. They viewed deep engagement, backed by military predominance, as essential to preserving capitalist democracies and preventing global conflicts.
The Modern Era: Today, the CFR and allied think tanks operate as the sustained core of this internationalist corporate perspective, continuing to shape foreign policy through policy reports and the publication of Foreign Affairs.
Covert British Intelligence Operations: (Lead-up to WWII)
Recognizing that Britain could not defeat Nazi Germany without American resources and manpower, Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched spymaster William Stephenson to New York in 1940 to establish British Security Co-ordination (BSC).Operating out of Rockefeller Center with the tacit approval of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the BSC engaged in covert operations to turn American public opinion toward intervention.
Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–44 by Thomas E. Mahl is a historical work exploring how British intelligence agencies covertly manipulated American politics. The book details efforts to weaken U.S. isolationism, push America into World War II, and align U.S. policy with British interests.
Propaganda & Disinformation: BSC operatives fed pro-British and anti-Axis stories to sympathetic American journalists, publishers, and radio broadcasters.
Undermining “Isolationism:” They actively infiltrated and sabotaged the hugely popular America First Committee through wiretaps, forged documents, and smear campaigns designed to make “isolationists” appear sympathetic to Nazi Germany.
Intelligence Sharing: The BSC worked closely with William J. Donovan—who would later head the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the precursor to the CIA)—effectively laying the groundwork for the enduring U.S.-UK intelligence “special relationship”. This historical shift impacted later conflicts, in particular the role of these networks during the Cold War containment policies.
For decades and decades, I have extensively, rigorously and exhaustively documented how the establishment’s intelligence apparat has covertly manipulated and callously reshaped America’s political spectrum against nonintervention and an “American First” foreign policy stance.
It has been one of my principal intellectual focuses of my life.
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