Whenever serious crimes against humanity have been committed, the United States has in one way or another acted as a grey eminence behind the scenes, inciting and pulling the strings. When the United States goes to war, a certain pattern is followed. The other party is made to shoot first, or is at least accused of doing so. In this way, the American people are won over in support of an unfair war.
On 15 February 1898, President William McKinley's navy committed treason, when it blew up its own ship, The Maine, in Havana harbour to create a pretext for war with Spain. After this conflict the United States was able to dominate the Western Hemisphere and take control of many islands in the Pacific.
During the First World War, President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and his close associate Edward M. House wanted to lure German submarines into bombing the Lusitania, which was officially a passenger ship but carried three thousand tons of ammunition aimed for the British. Transporting ammunition to a country at war under cover of carrying civilian passengers was illegal. The New York Tribune had published the following satire on 19 June 1913: "An official of the Cunard Steamship Line today confirmed to the Tribune's correspondent that the fast ship Lusitania has been equipped with highly efficient naval guns." Lusitania was registered as an auxiliary destroyer by the British Navy. The German government issued warnings in all New York newspapers that anyone crossing the Atlantic on the Lusitania did so at his own risk, since the ship was carrying ammunition.
The British Admiralty, in a secret memorandum of 10 February 1915, gave instructions on how to camouflage a ship carrying ammunition, making it look like a cargo ship.
Commander Joseph Kenworth of the British Navy intelligence admitted: "It was a deliberate move to send The Lusitania, at very low speed and without escort, into an area known to harbour a submarine."
The German submarine U-20 sank the Lusitania with three torpedoes 12 km outside the south-east coast of Ireland near Kinsale on 7 May 1915, at 2.10 p.m. Two torpedoes hit her amidships, and shortly after a third hit her in the bow. The ship sank in 18 minutes. 1198 people on board (124 of them Americans) were killed. 708 people
were rescued. The historian Colin Simpson claims in his book "Lusitania" that her cargo lists had been forged.
After the re-election of President Woodrow Wilson had been secured, the Federal Reserve System initiated a propaganda campaign in favour of the "inevitable war". A well-directed "documentary" was screened, showing passengers from the Lusitania being rescued. With
the help of this faked film, hatred against the Germans was stirred up. President Wilson concealed all the evidence of the Lusitania's secret mission.
Wilson, fully utilized the sinking of the Lusitania, letting Congress declare war on Germany on 6 April 1917. He gained the support of the American people through a brazen lie - that this was "the war to end all wars".
In the 1950s, the British government bombed the area where Lusitania had gone down at a depth of 95 metres to destroy all evidence, in case any independent historian might begin to doubt the official information and undertake a search.
The bringing about of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 followed the same pattern. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) headed by Bernard Baruch was contemplating a plan of provocation, which was to lead to a Japanese attack on the United States. Roosevelt's Secretary of Defense, Harry Stimson, wrote in his diary: "We stand before the difficult question of which acts of diplomacy would ensure Japan to take the blame and the first step."
On 25 July 1941, Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States, decided on a trade embargo, refused Japan access to the Panama Canal and assisted China in its war against Japan. This was revealed by George Morgenstern in his book "Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War" (Costa Mesa, 1991). In July 1941, Roosevelt also blocked all oil deliveries to Japan. The American blockade was an outright declaration of war (Eric D. Butler, "The Red Pattern of World Conquest", Melbourne, 1985, p. 52).
