Imperium USA Quotes

“Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria,” Jake Sullivan, foreign policy advisor to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, famously wrote to his boss via email on February 12, 2012. The US public was unaware of this.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“The war against Syria was “one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the CIA,” the New York Times revealed. The CIA invested more than $1 billion in Operation Timber Sycamore, “one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency’s program arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“President Barack Obama, who unjustly received the Nobel Peace Prize, was directly involved in the illegal attack on Syria. Once again, the “divide and conquer” strategy was employed. The CIA trained and armed President Assad’s opponents, even though the UN ban on the use of force strictly prohibits arming militant groups in foreign countries. “We know they sent in the CIA to overthrow Assad,” revealed US economist Jeffrey Sachs, who teaches at Columbia University.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“It was the Soviet Union under Stalin that defeated Adolf Hitler, not the United States, which only intervened once Hitler was in retreat.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“To this day, many US Americans, as well as many Europeans, are unaware of the fact that Roosevelt was not surprised by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and that he had even provoked it by imposing the oil embargo.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the US since the days of Andrew Jackson,” President Roosevelt wrote in a confidential letter to US diplomat Edward Mandell House in 1933. Of course, this statement was not made public.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“The hamburger was renamed the “liberty steak” and sauerkraut became “liberty cabbage.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“Intense propaganda and constant repetition kept the population on course for war.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“The referendum he demanded was not held, since people in the USA are never allowed to vote on the commencement of a war.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“To this day, the Federal Reserve Act allows the Fed to create money and lend it to the US government at interest. “When necessary, the Federal Reserve prints dollar bills like the company Hakle prints toilet paper,” Walter Wittmann, who taught economics at the University of Fribourg, once commented dryly in Switzerland. In being able to raise or lower interest rates, the Fed controls the course of the economy. This enormous privilege of the Fed has been criticized over and over because the member banks of the Federal Reserve System and their owners are private companies that have gained enormous power through this privilege of being able to create money, thus controlling the money supply.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“The president asserted with conviction that the United States had a divine mandate to expand in order to demonstrate the way of life of a free and godly society to the rest of the world.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“Hearst knew that in war propaganda, it is not crucial whether something is true or not. What matters is that it is constantly repeated and communicated to the population through many media outlets.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“Corporations declare more than $2.6 billion in lobbying expenditures each year. “For every dollar that unions and public interest groups spend, large corporations and their associations now spend $34.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“However, there is nothing left of the American dream. Social mobility in the US today is far lower than it is in Europe. Anyone born into a poor family in the US is very likely to remain poor, and can only watch the story of going from rags to riches in movie theaters or on Netflix.”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire

“Former president Donald Trump also claims to be a billionaire. Forbes estimated his fortune at over $3 billion and ranked him as the 259th richest US citizen. Trump, in turn, saw this as an insult and claimed that his fortune was more than twice that amount.17”
― Daniele Ganser, USA: The Ruthless Empire