America First: From Wall Street to the Military Industrial Complex [Part Two]

   

Expose The Enemy

 

Published on Aug 25, 2022

This presentation pieces together key connections of the America First Committee.Key historical events and historical figures are presented in a historical context never before understood.

The video shows how the America First Committee was known for being the foremost isolationist pressure group against US entry into WW2.
After the second World War, the Cold War era began. Although there was plenty of conflicts during the Cold War era there was nothing on the scale of the Second World War. With the US as the world's superpower new opportunities arose from this advantageous position
What we see from the remaining key figures from the America First Committee is a transformation into the private American Security Council - a full on powerful lobbying group for the military industrial complex. Their isolationist attitudes in regards to fighting against fascism were replaced with a hawkish anti-communism in regards to domestic and foreign policy.

The hyping up of the threat of communism and nuclear war created new lobbying opportunities for the military defense spending budget. The setting for a more global approach to defense was created, not only with the vast expansion of military bases around the world, a bilateral military aid, the Mutual Security Act and the development of NATO related partnerships to name a few.

With financial support from such companies as Sears, the ASC collected extensive files on people suspected of having communist sympathies, going “so far as attempting to obtain Joe McCarthy’s files after his demise in order to pick up where the censured senator had left off. In other words, they desired a hard-line anti-communist approach to domestic and foreign policy regardless of the reality of the communist threat to the United States. This would be the Military Industrial Complex's meal ticket and they ate like kings.

The ASC's lobbying for an invasion for Cuba and Sears' being nationalized without compensation in Cuba led to the Bay of Pigs invasion which was a failure. The fall out from that event and decisions that JFK made as a result contributed to his assassination.

Information regarding Edith Rosenwald Stern's connection to key figures involving the fallout from the assassination is also covered.

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