“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” - Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1935)
Butler wasn’t theorizing. He was confessing. And he was just scratching the surface.
THE FINANCIAL ARCHITECTS
Let’s start with Jekyll Island, 1910. Seven men met in secret to draft what would become the Federal Reserve Act. Nelson Aldrich, Henry Davison (JP Morgan), Frank Vanderlip (National City Bank), Paul Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co - Rothschild agents in America), Benjamin Strong (JP Morgan), and representatives from the most powerful banking families in the world. They wrote the legislation in secret. They created a “central bank” that isn’t federal and has no reserves. They gave private bankers the power to create money and charge the government interest on it.
Congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr. warned in 1913: “This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalized.”
He was right.
Congressman Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, went further in 1934: “Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not… they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders.” McFadden tried to impeach the Federal Reserve Board. He died under suspicious circumstances in 1936 after two prior assassination attempts.
THE ROTHSCHILD CONNECTION - WHAT INSIDERS SAID
Mayer Amschel Rothschild allegedly stated: “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” Whether he said these exact words or not, his family certainly operated by this principle.
By the 1800s, the Rothschild banking dynasty had financed both sides of the Napoleonic Wars. Nathan Rothschild famously manipulated the British stock market after Waterloo, knowing the outcome before anyone else. This is documented history.
What’s less discussed: their agents created the Second Bank of the United States. When Andrew Jackson destroyed it, he said on his deathbed that his greatest accomplishment was “I killed the bank.” He knew what it represented.
The Federal Reserve was their third attempt. It succeeded.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, wrote in 1844: “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
THE INDUSTRIAL PERPETUAL WAR MACHINE
Butler detailed his operations: overthrowing governments in Central America for United Fruit Company, securing Haiti for National City Bank, preparing Mexico for American oil interests. He was deployed 33 times. Every single deployment served corporate interests.
But it got worse after him.
Operation Northwoods (1962) - Declassified Joint Chiefs of Staff proposal to stage terrorist attacks on American soil, hijack planes, sink boats filled with Cuban refugees, and blame it all on Castro to justify invasion. The documents are in the National Archives. Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer signed off on it. JFK rejected it. Lemnitzer was removed as Chairman. Some researchers note JFK was dead within a year.
Gulf of Tonkin (1964) - The second attack never happened. Defense Secretary McNamara admitted it decades later. NSA documents declassified in 2005 confirmed it. 58,000 Americans died for a lie. Who profited? Defense contractors. Banks financing the war bonds. The same families that created the Federal Reserve.
Operation Mockingbird - CIA infiltration of American media. The Church Committee confirmed it in 1975. Journalists on CIA payroll. Editors killing stories. The New York Times, CBS, Time Magazine - all compromised. Frank Wisner, CIA official, called it “the mighty Wurlitzer” - play any tune they wanted through the media.
ISRAEL’S DOCUMENTED OPERATIONS AGAINST AMERICA
USS Liberty (June 8, 1967) - Israeli forces attacked this clearly marked US Navy intelligence ship for over an hour in international waters. Torpedoes, napalm, machine gun fire. 34 Americans killed, 171 wounded. Lifeboats shot up as sailors tried to evacuate. Radio jamming on US distress frequencies - which meant they knew it was American.
President Johnson ordered the rescue fleet to turn around while Americans were still dying. He said, “I don’t care if the ship sinks, I will not embarrass our ally.” Survivors were threatened with court-martial if they spoke publicly. The official story? Accident. The declassified NSA documents? They prove Israel knew.
The Lavon Affair(1954) - Israeli intelligence operatives bombed US and British civilian targets in Egypt, planning to blame it on Egyptians and damage US-Egypt relations. It failed when the operatives were caught. Israel denied it for 51 years before finally admitting it in 2005. A declassified false flag operation against American interests.
Apollo Affair (1960s) - 200+ pounds of weapons-grade uranium disappeared from a Pennsylvania nuclear facility with known Israeli connections. FBI investigated the company (NUMEC) and its president Zalman Shapiro’s ties to Israeli intelligence. The investigation was shut down. The material was never recovered. Israel’s nuclear program mysteriously advanced shortly after.
Jonathan Pollard - US Navy intelligence analyst who passed classified information to Israel throughout the 1980s. Some US officials called it among the most damaging espionage cases in American history - compromising intelligence methods, agent identities, and military capabilities. Israel granted him citizenship while he was in US prison and lobbied for decades for his release.
AIPAC’s Influence - The American Israel Public Affairs Committee operates as one of the most powerful lobbying forces in US politics. Former AIPAC director Tom Dine admitted they have influence over Congress. Declassified FBI documents show investigations into whether AIPAC operates as an unregistered foreign agent for Israel. Those investigations were shut down. AIPAC spends tens of millions annually. Politicians who question aid to Israel face massive opposition campaigns in their next election.
THE INSIDERS WHO TOLD THE TRUTH
Victor Ostrovsky - Former Mossad case officer who wrote “By Way of Deception” (1990). He exposed Mossad operations, false flag capabilities, and how they manipulated US intelligence. Israel tried to ban his book. He detailed how Mossad had advance warning of the Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 US Marines in 1983 - and didn’t share it.
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt - Professors who wrote “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” documenting the mechanism of influence. They were called antisemitic for citing publicly available lobbying records and voting patterns.
James Forrestal - First US Secretary of Defense who opposed the creation of Israel and warned about Zionist influence in American policy. He was forced to resign. He died after falling from a hospital window in 1949 under suspicious circumstances. The official story? Suicide. His diaries told a different story about the pressures he faced.
FOLLOW THE PATTERN
World War I - US had no reason to enter. The Lusitania was carrying munitions (declassified). We were manipulated in. Who financed both sides? The same banking families. Who profited? Weapons manufacturers and banks.
World War II - We cut off Japan’s oil, forcing their hand at Pearl Harbor. We had advance intelligence (declassified). FDR wanted a reason to enter the war. Who profited? The military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about in 1961.
Korea. Vietnam. Gulf War (Nayirah testimony was proven false). Afghanistan (based on Bin Laden, who we armed). Iraq (WMDs that didn’t exist). Libya. Syria.
Every. Single. Time. The pattern is identical.
Create the crisis. Control the media narrative. Send Americans to die. Transfer wealth to defense contractors and banks. Repeat.
THE TRUTH THEY DON’T TEACH
We’re not taught that the Federal Reserve is private banks creating money from nothing and charging us interest.
We’re not taught that our foreign policy has been captured by lobbying interests that don’t represent American citizens.
We’re not taught that our military has been used as corporate enforcers since before Butler’s confession.
We’re not taught that our media has been compromised since the 1950s. We’re not taught that declassified documents prove our government has planned false flag attacks on its own citizens.
We’re taught American exceptionalism. We’re taught we’re the good guys. We’re taught our wars are about freedom.
Smedley Butler knew better in 1935.
The declassified documents prove he was right.
The only question left is: How long are we going to keep pretending this isn’t happening?
The information is public. The documents are declassified. The insiders have spoken.
We’ve just been trained not to look.