The Work of Antony Sutton!

Most Americans have not heard of Dr. Antony Sutton...but he is well known to the quasi-underground readers of revisionist history and
conspiracy theory...

There are others that have written about the same subjects as Sutton...Carrol Quigley(Professor of History at Georgetown University)...Werner Keller...Dr. Emanual Josephson...Gary Allen...Charles Levinson...etc...but none covered the subject in as great a detail and as broad an area and with the documentation that Sutton did...in Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution(Arlington House Publishers) he documents that a small group of Wall Street bankers financed the Bolshevik Revolution...in the 3 volume,Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development(Hoover Institution Press)these same groups actually built the
Soviet economic structure from 1917 to the
present...and it is this work, i believe,(in part) and the work of others documenting this subject that helped bring down the Soviet Union...if they financed the Revolution and built the economic infrastructure...then they controlled it...which is what they are doing today with the billions of dollars they are investing in the Peoples Republic of China...! Control of the economic structure of a country is real power not political power...!

Sutton has written about many other subjects but it is the above mentioned that are amoung the more important works...i believe they are available at...

www.amazon.com... you won't look at International Politics in the same way...again...

woody voinche
marksville, louisiana

The contents of this book will both shock and disgust you. This book shows the costs and negative side of 'engagement' advocated by the American Establishment and their boot-licking cronies in academia and 'think tanks'. Sutton draws upon govenment files, books, newspaper clippings and biographies to support his claims.

He shows that the American government intervened on the behalf of Leon Trotsky, who was detained by Canadian authorities, so he could travel to Russia and agitate for the Reds. Apparently Trotsky might have been German instead of Russian, but in the end I guess we'll never know for sure. Both Trotsky and Lenin were sent into Russia with money and assistance from foreign governments to stir up trouble.

This book also goes into detail on the 1917 American Red Cross mission to Russia which had more bankers than doctors. William Thompson, then a Director of the New York Fed, gave $1 million to the Reds for propaganda purposes. He then brought enough of his Wall Street buddies on board that the Bolsheviks were their guys, to bring the White House over to their side. Wilson's influential advisor at that time was Edward Mandell House, who in Phillip Dru: Administrator stated that he believed in socialism as envisioned by Karl Marx, but with a spiritual leavening. With advisors as such, it was not so difficult.

House also used his influence to get Red agitator Minor, who drew a cartoon showing Wall Street types fawning over Marx in the introduction to the book, off the hook after being arrested by military authorities in France for distributing subversive Bolshevik propaganda. His daddy was a well-to-do person back in Texas, where House came from, who gave good old E.M. House a call to get junior off the hook.

Sutton also showed how many of the businesses that did business with the Reds originated from 120 Broadway. Since the robber barons already ran out all competition in the US, they needed captive foreign markets to satisfy their insatiable greed. They had a boot in all camps, and used their ability to feed, fund, and arm the winning party, in this case the Bolsheviks, to obtain trade concessions. This lot did the same by backing Sun Yat Sen in China, and various governments in Latin America.

Sutton also shows how many of these Wall Street supporters of the Bolsheviks started a group stating their opposition to the socialists. They then told New York Times reporters that they feared a Red revolution in America and that the Reds would sabotage and wreak havoc on our economy even as they were setting up the Ruskcom Bank and conducting business with them. Sutton appropriately described this behavior as totally amoral.

There was one quote from the book that will be forever etched into my mind. This quote was from a business figure working in the American consulate in Russia to a British colleague. It was along the lines as such:
You may have heard that I own 50% of the forests in Siberia and all of the Magnesium deposits in Georgia. Now, of course, this isn't true. But, let's say that it is true. I am an American wolf and you are a British wolf. But, both being intelligent wolves, knowing if we don't join forces this hour and together hunt the German wolf, we will come to naught.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the business mentality. It has always been that way, and with industrialization and our livelihoods increasingly put in the hands of these people, it explains very easily how the man in the street gets screwed. Read this book and take it to heart. These egotistical, greedy SOBs have been running our country into the ground for over a 100 years, and reading this book and sharing it with fellow patriots is the only way to stop these treasonous scumbags!

Author Anthony Sutton has done a remarkable job of documenting the insidious betrayal of the super wealthy American elite, who literally bankrolled the most brutal communist government of all time. If you have ever wondered why the very wealthy should seem to be sympathetic with communism, herein lies the answer. This is extraordinarily important information, which deserves a wide audience.

Anthony Sutton identifies the Yale senior society, Skull and Bones, as "America's Secret Establishment." Numerous sons of the wealthy and influential, many of whom became wealthy and influential themselves (e.g., both Presidents Bush), have belonged to this secretive fraternity. As the old joke had a professor saying of his student's term paper, it can be said that Sutton's book contains much that is good and much that is original. Unfortunately, much of what is good is not original, and much of what is original is not good.

The best part of Sutton's book is the extensive reprinting of nineteenth-century exposés and criticisms of the Yale senior society, some based on a breaching of its "tomb" by members of "The Order of File and Claw." One of these docuents states that "Bones is a chapter of a corps in a German University... General R------ (Russell), its founder, was in Germany before Senior Year and formed a warm friendship with a leading member of a German society. He brought back with him to college, authority to found a chapter here. Thus was Bones founded."

Based on this, Sutton erects a wild superstructure of conspiracy theory beginning with that perennial bogey, the Bavarian Illuminati. Since this is the first in a series of many conclusions to which he jumps, it is worth some examination. There were (and are) many collegiate corps or societies (Burschenschaften) in Germany. Why must anything connected with Germany necessarily trace back to the short-lived creation of Weishaupt? Would not a reputable historian have investigated the German travels of Gen. Russell, perhaps found which universities he visited, and looked there for the origins of Skull and Bones?

The skull and crossbones is an age-old memento mori and not necessarily connected to the Illuminati at all. Skulls and skeletons were used in the ritualistic hugger-mugger of a number of fraternal orders. A German example was the proto-Rosicrucian Orden der Unzertrennlichen, founded in 1577. According to Christopher McIntosh ("The Rosicrucians"), "[i]n their meetings, a bible, skull, and hour glass stood on a table." From the Unzertrennlichen was conceivably descended (as McIntosh relates) the Gold- und Rosenkreuz, the most politically powerful of the eighteenth-century German secret societies (Wöllner and von Bischoffswerder, its leaders, were chief advisors to Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia, who was himself a member). In both the Unzertrennlichen and the Gold- und Rosenkreuz, the members took "decknamen," also a feature of Skull and Bones ritual. Ritual use of the skull is found in masonic Templarism, which is descended from von Hund's Strikte Observanz. The candidate's lying in a coffin is a familiar masonic theme. It is equally, if not more, likely that the content of Skull and Bones ritual was derived from one of these sources, than from the Illuminati. It is also likelier that the young Russell, a Protestant, spent time at one of the universities in the Protestant part of Germany, like Heidelberg or Göttingen, than at Ingolstadt in Catholic Bavaria, where Weishaupt held forth. These things attract no attention from Sutton, either out of ignorance, or more likely, because they do not press a hot button amongst conspiracy theorists the way any mention of the Illuminati will.

Large sections of Sutton's book deal with things like theories of educational psychology, or the manipulations and misdeeds of international financiers. While these details are interesting in themselves, Sutton's effort to tie all of them back to Skull and Bones, Hegelian philosophy, and Illuminism is unconvincing.

The liberal journalist Ron Rosenbaum has published a number of articles about Skull and Bones, amongst them one containing details, purportedly obtained by sophisticated electronic eavesdropping, of a recent initiation. If true, they reveal nothing more than the sort of crude and prank-like character associated with many college fraternities. In view of this, and also of the public personæ of the country's two most prominent Bonesmen, Bush père et fils, it is hard to imagine that the particular Yalies in question spend much time in rarefied discussion of Hegel's theory of history, or the psychology of Wilhelm Wundt.

It is interesting to contrast Skull and Bones, which Sutton attempts to portray as a devious and destructive conspiracy, with the Cambridge Apostles, a society which produced two documented traitors (Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt). Richard Deacon's book on the Apostles is a much more successful indictment of that society than Sutton's is of Skull and Bones. But even more tellingly, Deacon describes a group of men who were thoroughgoingly intellectual, and thus capable of being corrupted by ideas that were bad. One does not sense that Bonesmen are particularly interested in any ideas, nor that intellectuality is high on the list of criteria for selection of members (this is in some ways a comment on the difference between British and American universities!). If the conspiratorial, and indeed criminal or treasonable behavior alleged by Sutton has taken placer amongst members of Skull and Bones, it is more likely so merely because social élites naturally move mostly in their own restricted circles. Sutton's book appeals to the long-standing egalitarian distaste for élites that has been a feature of American society since the days when Aedanus Burke objected to the Society of the Cincinnati, or that sanctimonious old hypocrite John Quincy Adams lent his name to the Anti-masonic movement. So what else is new?

Skull And Bones:The secret society imported from Germany. People like George Bush and his son George W. Bush were members of this Yale elitist club. When questioned on their membership they either wont comment (senior Bush) or they chuckle and question whether it is still in existence. Why don't they want to address this club? Could they be hiding something? They were in fact members! Read the book and you will know the secrets these and other men would prefer you not know!

If you like reading about American history, this book will be a page turner for you. What surprised me the most about this book is the evidence that Sutton displays to back up his facts. I recomend this book to anyone who is interested in history.

Sutton makes that case that several Wall Street firms were deeply involved in financing the rise to power of the National Socialist German Workers Party (i.e., the Nazis) in pre-World War II Germany. Sutton shows that first, Wall Street financed the German cartels in the 1920's, second, that Wall Street indirectly financed Hitler and the Nazi Party, prior to their rise in power in Germany, third, that Wall Street firms profited from the build-up to war and the war itself, even after the U.S. got involved, and finally, that U.S. firms worked to cover up their complicity after the war.

This book is the third in a trilogy. The two other books chronicle Wall Street's involvement in the rise of FDR and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. The anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies of businessmen like Henry Ford is no secret, so it's surprising that this subject gets so little play. Given modern leftist thought on big business, one would think that they would leap at the chance to link Wall Street to the Nazis. The reason they don't is no doubt due to Sutton's larger effort at showing that Wall Street supported "corporate socialism" not only in Germany, but in Russia and the U.S. as well. Since leftists still idealize FDR and the brutal regime that arose to become the U.S.S.R., they probably prefer to forget about the businessmen who connect them all. Sutton himself is no anti-business left-winger, instead he is a conservative concerned with the actions of an "unelected power elite", controlling events/governments/societies behind the scenes, to the detriment of freedom everywhere.

It makes for rather dry reading, but Sutton goes into extensive details about the persons, funds and timelines that show the deep connection between certain American Big Businesses and the Nazis. Why would Big Business embrace such a horrid political movement? Although Sutton does not go into details about motivation, there is a good case to be made that many businesses were not fond of the untrammeled free market and instead yearned for the security of government guaranteed profits, regardless of the expense to others in terms of loss of freedom. These businesses saw themselves as the contractors running the government machinery of what was thought to be the inevitable march to socialism. Sutton doesn't mention it, but many in the early twentieth century thought that some form of socialism was unavoidable, and that it was a choice between that and corporate domination through monopoly. Thus these businesses saw themselves as merely working towards what was almost pre-destined to happen, and ensuring that they would be the ones running the show and reaping the benefit.

The book turns a bit conspiratorial in the end. Sutton invokes the Kennedy Assassination, the Korean War and Vietnam War and the Council on Foreign Relations all in an attempt to suggest that we are being ruled by an unelected power elite, bent on societal domination at all costs, in the name of profit. There's no need to invoke conspiracy, though. The selfish acts of business men, tempted by access to the levers of power, is as good an explanation as any.

The case that Sutton makes is compelling. If his evidence is able to withstand scrutiny, it's hard to come to any other conclusion than that Big Business was willing to deal with the worst of the worst in order to profit via the coercive powers of government.

This book demonstrates how "American" multinational corporations, who entered into cartel agreements with I.G. Farben, German General Electric, and a few other firms allowed the Nazis to greatly increase the ability of Germany to wage war. Without many of the processes developed by American firms being given to the Germans, there is NO WAY that the Nazis could have fought as long as as hard as they did.

Many Wall Street firms floated the loans to the German firms, allowing them to build their cartels which would later cost Americans and their allies many billions of dollars and millions of lives. The fact that there were Americans, some of them Jews like the Warburgs, on the Board of Directors of these same cartels that formed the Nazi war machine is mentioned. Sutton asks the obvious question. Why weren't the American members of these firms brought up on war crime charges like their German colleagues? I guess the obvious answer is that their American counterparts had influence in the conquering governments.

Sutton also shows how ITT(International Telephone and Telegraph), G.E., Ford, and Standard Oil had no problem supplying both sides of the war. International financiers, of course, had no problem floating loans to both sides either. I guess that this should come as no surprise. Businessmen are motivated by profits first and patriotism second, if at all.

This book is yet another demonstration of what Carroll Quigley meant by the close-knit ramifications of international financial capitalism. For critics of foreign aid and other such pracitces, here is another example of how it can come back to haunt the citizens of the lending country, while the elites laugh their way to the bank.

Written about George I, this angry polemic is more pamphlet than book, and though hard on rhetoric it is short on credibility. In fact, unfounded accusations seem to be about all it has to offer, along with a healthy dose of right wing paranoia. The author makes much of poppy's membership in the Skull And Bones fraternity, which may in fact be a secret satanic cabal bent on world domination, but is probably just a college drinking club. It also includes the expected references to the tri-lateral commission, the council on foreign affairs, the UN, The Rockefellers, and other radical right boogies (although no mention is made of black helicopters). A previous owner of my copy felt the need to underline Rockefeller's name and note the dread word 'liberal' in the margin, this is the audience that Sutton is going for. The fact that he relies on Bo Gritz as a source does not exactly lend him credibility. For those unfamiliar, Gritz is a radical gun nut and anti-Semite with militia connections who is famous for his efforts to find Vietnam MIAs and to expose the Jewish world conspiracy. The author also spends a lot of time trying to establish that poppy, in addition to being an internationalist (read: TRAITOR) is a wimp. Sutton's baseless accusations of drug use and infidelity would be amusing if they were less poorly presented, but they come off as simply mean spirited. I give the author some credit for mentioning Prescott Bush's Nazi connections but this is not exactly designed as a serious work, the book is not even compelling to fanatic Bush haters like, well, me. Should have been written in all caps.

It was a good inspireing book. right up there with all of americas other fanous authers!

This was written in 1988 and is about the George H.W. Bush who was president from 1989-1992, not the Bush who is currently president. It is worth reading in retrospect, especially now that a Bush is again in the White House. Some good information which most people don't know can be found here. Even though they hadn't happened yet, this is a good primer on why such events of the Bush administration as the Panama invasion and the Gulf war were bound to happen. After reading this one can see why those things happened during the Bush administration. Most significantly, the author, Antony Sutton, is by no means a liberal or left-wing critic of Bush. He is a conservative. This book gives a good overview of how Bush was solidly a man of the establishment, and conservatives had just as much reason to dislike his policies as liberals did. Given many of the policies Bush pursued when in office, this book turned out to be prophetic, and I'll bet Antony Sutton was saying "I told you so!" by 1992.

This book is very detailed. So much so that it is easy to get lost in the facts. However, the detail is needed to support the subject.

Mr. Sutton leaves the reader very angry with the "powers to be" for sacrificing the lives of so many in WWII for the sake of money. The reader discovers most of the horrors of this war could have been avoided.

He makes the danger of the Council of Foreign Relations more real.

This is a must read for everyone, especially if you are a believer in the Constitution of the U.S.

Be sure to read Appendix A.

Jerry

This book relies heavily on rhetoric, question begging, circumstantial evidence and conjecture. It argues from a conclusion - namely that there is some grand Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) / Trilateral Commission (TC) conspiracy/plot; and then seeks to make the data confirm to that foregone conclusion.

The book certainly puts forth an interest theory; and I give the author credit for the imaginative ways he makes the data seemingly correlate with his hypothesis. But one is reminded of the old adage - figures don't lie, but liars figure. And that correlation does not imply causation.

I'm not suggesting that the author is necessarily lying. But I do think he combined and presented circumstantial evidence in ways that only beg the question about a CFR/TC conspiracy. If I were a juror, I would have to vote to acquit due to a lack of any real hard evidence.

If you already have your mind made up about a CFR/TC conspiracy, this book will tell you what you want to hear. If your mind is not already made up, I doubt very much that this book will persuade you to agree with the author's presuppositions.