Have read many posts for many years of the Great Escobar and one thing most clear is that he is a writer well-read and thoroughly-steeped in history and research.

Imagine my surpirse when posts a note that (among other things) indicates this Escobar piece might have been better researched!

So, Esco, most respectfully, I request you have a look at the article by one of the very first for-real- awake-Americans, Mr. Dave McGowan, may his memory be blessed:

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/

What @o-yag notes was written about in detail by Mr. McGowan in 2008 ; it is well-researched and meaningful. Starting with the fact it was the Lizard King’s very own papa who was THE man in the middle of the sham that was the Tonkin Gulf incident.

McGowan’s work is worthy of anyone’s reading who attempts to make sense out of the Deep State miasma in which we all labor–he was among the very first to begin to bring into focus disparate parts of the picture. His work deserves credit as it makes Dave McGowan one of the very first canaries in the coal mine to tell us that what Eisenhower warned most clearly about in his farwell address–was already happening only a few years later:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” (As many times as I read this, or hear this in Ike’s own words, it is still hard for me to fathom that a man so connected to absolute power through the military AND the executive branch would warn of the dangerous path ahead, and be willing to speak it out-loud.)

Thanks are due Dave’s daughter and others who have kept the torch burning in Dave’s memory and to make his writings available on the net, including his observation of other American icons that put him decidedly before his time, as documented at the overall site:

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/

Anyone who followed rock music in the mid 60’s through the 70’s will especially enjoy the light Dave shines on the Laurel Canyon music scene of the time, where we find the subjects of this exercise, USN Admiral George Morrison and his enigmatic and iconic son Jim, at centerstage.

That someone as connected as Mr. Escobar writes about Jim Morrison in such vivid detail without mentioning the family connection to one of the seminal event of the decade (behind only JFK’s murder) tells me Pepe simply didn’t know.

Not incidental in McGowan’s chapters appear dozens of details about many of the counterculture’s leading lights of the time, who, according to Dave McGowan, turns out were sons and daughters of many parents and families from deep inside the MIC. Certainly a coincidence!

Although I do not align with all noted by , I am grateful for his post that caused me to remember Dave McGowan’s writings and to mosts happily re-discover their availability online.

Am looking forward to a sequel to this article should Mr. Escobar decide to continue his research.

This isn’t a difficult choice for America to make.

Free trade is a very good thing, just listen to Ludwig von Mises:

“History is a struggle between two principles, the peaceful principle, which advances the development of trade, and the militarist-imperialist principle, which interprets human society, not as a friendly division of labour but as the forcible repression of some of its members by others.” Socialism, p. 268

The horrid numbers are approximations but still tell the story: Germany lost 7 million souls and the (former) USSR lost 25 million in WW II.

And this is a bad thing that the Russians and Germans are trading peacefully?