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Dwight David Eisenhower is often cited by liberals as the man who warned us about the military-industrial complex when he was president. What he was actually saying on behalf of eastern finance capitalism at the time was that the deficit spending on massive military operations was undermining the stability of the dollar, and the ability of US imperialism to challenge its junior partners, i.e. the stability of the dollar, compared with the mark, franc, yen, and pound sterling was undermined by total dependence on military production.

So what did he do to counter these massive military interventions with huge forces? With Secretary of State John Foster Dulles he staged a terror operation, a putsch, in Iran which removed the government of Mossadegh, elected in 1952 and which had nationalized the oil, and they imposed the Shah of Iran. The Mossad and CIA set up a terror apparatus in the form of a torture operation in which hundreds of thousands disappeared and were tortured to death and held incommunicado in prisons for decades.

A similar thing happened in Guatemala in 1954 under Eisenhower/Dulles. They overthrew the Arbenz government with none other than E. Howard Hunt (of Watergate fame) at the helm of that operation. And guess where its headquarters were? 544 Camp Street in New Orleans, the same address which subsequently would be the headquarters of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, a dummy organization of the CIA, out of which the organizing of the Kennedy execution was prepared. It was that exact address, as established by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, of Lee Harvey Oswald's fake Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a one-person operation. As Oswald, the CIA operative, was being prepared as the patsy for the JFK assassination, he was being portrayed as a Fidel supporter.

Getting the picture yet of how capitalism works, the schemes, the plots? 9/11 was no conspiracy, it was simply business as usual for the rulers. It is not a question of management by conspiracy, but rather the ruling class has to operate in conspiratorial fashion. So, Eisenhower's opposition to the military-industrial complex was conjoined to counterrevolution on the cheap: terror squads, coup d'etats, assassinations, and putsches, the same formula the Kennedy brothers used in Laos with the Phoenix program of the Green Berets. Counterposing that to massive military intervention with hundreds of thousands of troops that a wing of pentagon favors but which jeopardizes the stability of the dollar, this debate is about the means of survival by way of maintaining the imperium. There is nothing out there for the rest of us.

This is a crisis of capitalism addicted to permanent war, a facade of public relations types bought and paid for, a millionaires' club that fronts for a concentrated structure of power. If we do not grasp this, or provide a strategy for struggle based upon the essential recognition of the nature of our society, we will but perpetuate its rule, and prevent ourselves from reaching out to our own constituency.

This has been condensed from 070918 Six Years After 9/11: Where Do We Go From Here? available for download from http://takingaimradio.com/shows/audio.html