Jim Macgregor - Prolonging the Agony: How The International Bankers and their Political Partners Deliberately Extended WWI

Prolonging the Agony

How The Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by
Three-and-a-Half Years.

Jim Macgregor

&

Gerry Docherty

Prolonging The Agony: How The Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI By Three-And-A-Half Years.

Copyright 2017, 2018 Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty

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Macgregor, Jim and Docherty, Gerry.

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1. World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes. 2. World War, 1914-1918. 3. Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. I. Macgregor, Jim and Docherty, Gerry. II. Title

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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

Smedley Butler, Congressional Medal of Honour, 1914 and 1919;
Distinguished Service Medal 1919,
Major General United States Marine Corps.

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest ... I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

Captain Seigfried Sassoon, War Hero Poet
in an open letter to his commanding officer
on 6 July 1917.

W e are not the first to openly challenge the official propaganda and lies which were translated by the victors in 1918 into accepted history, the history we have been force-fed in school. For this reason we have to begin our acknowledgements by stressing the debt we owe to writers and historians who challenged the official accounts and provided some of the evidence which helped us unpick the web of deceit woven around the First World War.

Our original publisher at Mainstream, Edinburgh, then headed by the redoubtable Bill Campbell, backed us without question and offered the invaluable advice that we should split our research findings into two parts, with the first, Hidden History, The Secret Origins of The First World War , focusing on the causes of the war and debunking the myth that Germany was to blame. By the time this second part, Prolonging the Agony , was completed, Mainstream had been taken over by Random House. Bill Campbells enthusiasm was replaced with studied indifference, despite the clear success of Hidden History , translated as it is into German and, shortly, French and Swedish.

There were moments in the early days when it would have been easier to walk away from the project; when it seemed that few wanted to know what had really happened. That these dark moments were completely dispelled is due to the positive reaction to both the book and our blog. The enthusiasm and encouragement from across the globe took us by surprise, and fuelled our determination to expose the truth. Our American publisher at TrineDay, Kris Millegan was absolute in his commitment to getting that truth out. Also in the U.S. our immensely knowledgeable colleague, Peter Hof, stood by our side and made many valuable contributions. Tom Cahill, the American photo-journalist and activist in the US Veterans Against War movement, has championed our work from the start. Mees Baaijen, the Dutch philosopher and writer living in Cost Rica has also frequently added thoughtful considerations and pointers as our work progressed.

In Australia, Greg Maybury, writer and host of the brilliant blog, Pox Americana , gave invaluable advice and promotion, while David Jones and his team at New Dawn journal have published our Gallipoli investigations and much else. Another Aussie writer, James ONeil, has been ever helpful as has his name-sake (though no relation), Hugh ONeil from New Zealand. We enjoyed the company of both these fine men when they engaged in engrossing discussions with us during trips to Scotland.

Over the last four years German academics, historians, and others have supported our work. None more so than Professor Hans Fenske at the University of Freiburg who contributed important pieces to our series of blogs. Wolfgang Effenberger, author of many fine books, co-edited Sie Wollten den Krieg with Jim Macgregor, and has given us unstinting support. Our German publishers at Kopp Verlag, headed by Jochen Kopp himself, have been endlessly helpful in advancing and developing our message. Indeed the sheer enthusiasm and dedication of his staff at Rottenburg am Neckar, including Jochen Thum, Sasha Renniger, Ute Kopp and Mathias Schultz is deeply impressive. Guenter Jaschke has also given us great assistance in providing and translating Austro-Hungarian and German political and military documents into English.

Another impressive European investigator, Hugo Leuders from Beyond the 1914-1918 Centenary in Brussels, has made important contributions to our research in Belgium and supplied new evidence which supports our investigations into Edith Cavell and Belgian Relief. Hugo is a sharp analyst whose advice we continually appreciate.

The contemporary Irish historian and researcher, Dr. Patrick Walsh, who has written extensively on Irish History and the First World War, has supported our work and added his insight on a number of occasions as has Richard K. Moore, the American writer and political analyst living in Wexford.

Pat Mills, the British writer famous for the immensely popular Charleys War , invited us once again to the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In addition to lectures in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland, we have had enthusiastic audiences in Namur, Brussels, Dublin and London. Each time we have been supported by local academics and authors, and would again thank, Hugo Leuders, (Brussels) Nick Kollerstrom, (London) and Anthony Coughlan, (Dublin)

The international nature of our new contacts and associates may be gleaned through the wide-ranging comments and advice from which we have benefitted. These include Mujahid Kamran, professor of physics and former vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, the widely read author and scientist, and Michel Chossudovsky, Professor Emeritus the University of Ottawa, who has supported us and published our work in Global Research. Contacts from Sweden include Peter Graftstrom and Bjorn Eklund; from France, Pierre Maze of Nouvelle Terre and locally, Patrick Scott Hogg, Dr. John ODowd, Richard Edwards and, importantly, our IT mastermind, Sally Blewitt.