Fatal Friendship: First Phase: From World War I to II

Rising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign property-were merely modernized.

The First World War became the first major global business venture, making allies dependent. After the war, US corporations invested in Western Europe. Mussolini was showered with loans. US corporations supplied Franco and equipped the German Wehrmacht for a war against Russia.

The US-led new central bank in Switzerland laundered Nazi looted gold. The persecution of the Jews was suppressed. With the dropping of two atomic bombs on civilian populations, new wars against new enemies began-in systematic violation of international law.

Werner Rügemer, born 1941, Dr. phil., publicist and interventionist philosopher. Since the 1980s, he has published on the political and moral decline of US society, the extreme contrast between rich and poor, the interconnections between the military, intelligence agencies, and high-tech industries, and on environmental destruction and health damages for migrant workers earning poverty-level wages.