上海的月亮: CN — LARRY ROMANOFF: 银行家的私人军队

银行家的私人军队 —The Bankers’ Private Army

翻译者：Pearl

Few wars of recent history have been generated by politics or territorial ambitions. Almost all wars launched by the West in the earth’s modern history, including the US Civil War and both World Wars, have been bankers’ wars, incited, instigated and financed by the financial powers of Europe. Anatole France, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, once wrote, “You believe you are dying for the fatherland – you die for some industrialists.” We can be reminded here of General Smedley Butler, and his claims that wars were all about money, about forcibly opening the doors for capitalists and bankers to satiate their greed.

近代史上，很少有战争是由政治或领土野心引发的。在地球近代史上，几乎所有由西方发起的战争，包括美国内战和两次世界大战，都是银行家战争，由欧洲的金融势力煽动、怂恿和资助。诺贝尔奖得主、法国小说家阿纳托尔·法朗士曾写道：“你以为你是在为祖国而死——其实你是在为某些实业家而死。”这里我们想起了斯梅德利·巴特勒将军，他曾声称战争都是为了金钱，是为了强行打开大门，让资本家和银行家满足他们的贪婪。

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“I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. The general public shoulders the bill. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones, Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations. “War was largely a matter of money. Bankers lend money to foreign countries and when they cannot repay the President sends Marines to get it. I know – I’ve been in eleven of these expeditions.”

“我在海军陆战队服役33年，大部分时间都在为大企业、华尔街和银行家们充当高级打手。简而言之，我就是个敲诈勒索者，资本主义的打手。普通民众承担了这笔费用。这笔费用令人触目惊心。新立的墓碑，残缺不全的尸体，破碎的心灵，破碎的家庭。经济不稳定。一代又一代人承受着沉重的税负。”战争主要是钱的问题。银行家把钱借给外国，当他们无法偿还时，总统就会派海军陆战队去讨债。我知道——我参加过11次这样的远征。”

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There is no shortage of examples of Western multinationals committing economic – and human – atrocities just for the sake of more profit. Do we forgive these atrocities because the perpetrators were white, democratic and believe in a free market? Listen to a few voices other than mine, on the topic of US government and corporate criminality. Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist – McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas …” Philip Agee, a former CIA agent, published a book titled CIA Diary, in which he wrote, “American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force.” John Maynard Keynes, perhaps the most influential economist in history, said, “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.

”西方跨国公司为了追求更多利润而犯下经济暴行和人类暴行的例子不胜枚举。我们是否因为肇事者是白人、民主人士且信奉自由市场而宽恕这些暴行？听听除我之外的其他一些声音，他们谈到了美国政府和企业的犯罪行为。托马斯•弗里德曼在《纽约时报》上写道：“没有隐藏的拳头，市场隐藏的手永远不会起作用——没有麦克唐纳道格拉斯，麦当劳就无法蓬勃发展……”前中央情报局特工菲利普•艾吉出版了一本名为《CIA日记》的书，他在书中写道：“美国资本主义建立在剥削穷人的基础上，其根本动机是个人贪婪，没有武力，它根本无法生存。”约翰•梅纳德•凯恩斯，也许是历史上最有影响力的经济学家，曾说：“资本主义是一种非凡的信仰，认为最卑鄙的人出于最卑鄙的动机，会以某种方式为所有人的利益而工作。”

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William Greider wrote:

威廉·格雷德写道：

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior – producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“大型跨国公司不愿面对自身行为在道德和经济上的矛盾——即在低工资的独裁国家生产，然后向高工资的民主国家销售。事实上，全球企业的一个显著特点是，自由市场资本主义为了做生意，是多么轻易地抛开其所谓的价值观。只要市场需求强劲，人类自由的条件对他们来说并不重要。如果说自由缺失带来了什么影响的话，那就是为他们的运营带来了秩序和效率。”

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Richard Barnet, wrote in ‘Intervention and Revolution’: “The United States supports right-wing dictatorships in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East … because these are the rulers who have tied their personal political destiny to the fortunes of the American corporations in their countries … Revolutionary or nationalist leaders have radically different political constituencies and interests. For them creating “a good investment climate” for the United States and developing their own country are fundamentally conflicting goals. Therefore, the United States has a strong economic interest in keeping such men from coming to power or arranging for their removal if they do.

”理查德·巴尼特（Richard Barnet）在《干预与革命》（Intervention and Revolution）一书中写道：“美国支持拉丁美洲、东南亚和中东的右翼独裁政权……因为这些统治者将个人政治命运与美国公司在其国家的利益紧密相连……革命或民族主义领导人的政治选民和利益截然不同。对他们而言，为美国创造‘良好的投资环境’和发展本国经济是根本冲突的目标。因此，美国在经济上有强烈的利益，要阻止这些人掌权，或者在他们掌权后设法将其赶下台。”

From an article in The Third World Traveler: “CEOs of most of the world’s largest corporations daily make decisions that destroy the lives of many other human beings. Only about 1 to 3 percent of us are sociopaths – people who don’t have normal human feelings and can easily go to sleep at night after having done horrific things. And of that 1 percent of sociopaths, there’s probably only a fraction of a percent with a college education. … Thus there is such a shortage of people who can run modern monopolistic, destructive corporations that stockholders have to pay millions to get them to work. And being sociopaths, they gladly take the money without any thought to its social consequences.

”摘自《第三世界旅行者》的一篇文章：“世界上大多数大公司的首席执行官每天都在做出摧毁许多其他人生命的决定。我们中只有大约1%到3%的人是反社会人格者——这些人没有正常的人类情感，在做了可怕的事情后晚上可以安然入睡。而在那1%的反社会人格者中，可能只有极少数受过大学教育。……因此，能够经营现代垄断性、破坏性企业的人才如此稀缺，以至于股东们不得不花费数百万美元来聘请他们。作为反社会人格者，他们乐于接受这些钱，而不会考虑其社会后果。”

Listen to Edward Herman:

听听爱德华·赫尔曼怎么说：

Global Research Remembers Edward Herman (1925-2017)

全球研究界缅怀爱德华·赫尔曼（1925-2017）

“… the establishment can’t admit [that] it is human rights violations that make … countries attractive to business – so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don’t] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation. Just as the United States trained Latin American military and police in methods of fighting against “populism” in their countries, by this means helping to produce a “favorable climate of investment” by bringing into power National Security States, so a large, well-trained, and ruthless police is needed in the home country as it pushes a right-wing agenda that is contrary to the interests of a vast majority. There is …a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and “develop” them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the “enforcers” of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes.“

……当权者不能承认正是侵犯人权的行为使得……国家对商业具有吸引力——因此，历史必须被篡改，包括否认我们对恐怖政权的支持、否认那些为投资创造有利环境的做法，以及我们破坏那些不符合跨国公司服务标准的民主国家的稳定。正如美国通过培训拉丁美洲的军队和警察在本国打击‘民粹主义’的方法，从而帮助通过扶持国家安全机构来创造‘有利的投资环境’一样，当权者在本国也需要一支庞大、训练有素且冷酷无情的警察队伍，以推动与绝大多数人利益相悖的右翼议程。美国政府、其机构及其跨国公司与第三世界的地方商界和军界集团之间存在……一个巨大的默契阴谋，旨在完全控制这些国家，并以合资企业的形式对其进行‘开发’。美国安全机构精心培养第三世界的军事领导人，让他们成为这种合资伙伴关系的‘执行者’，并适时为他们提供机关枪和审讯颠覆分子的最新方法。美国频繁且热情地支持推翻民主制度，转而支持‘对投资者友好’的政权。 美国一再热情支持推翻民主政权，转而支持“对投资者友好”的政权。“

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The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. The propaganda system allows the U.S. leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment.”

世界银行、国际货币基金组织（IMF）和私人银行在恐怖政权取代民主政府后，一直向其慷慨解囊。多项定量研究表明，美国和IMF/世界银行对各国的援助与其侵犯人权的行为之间存在系统性的正相关关系。宣传体系使美国领导人能够无限制地犯罪，且其行为不当或犯罪行为无人指责；事实上，像亨利·基辛格这样的主要战犯经常出现在电视上，对金融衍生品屠夫的罪行发表评论。由于其权力和全球利益，美国领导人犯罪是理所当然且出于结构性需要。严格适用国际法……将使过去50年的每一位美国总统都受到纽伦堡审判。”

1921 President Coolidge strongly suggests the overthrow of Guatemalan President Carlos Herrera, in the interests of United Fruit. The Guatemalans comply. Source and Source

1921年，为了联合果品公司的利益，柯立芝总统强烈建议推翻危地马拉总统卡洛斯·埃雷拉。危地马拉方面予以配合。来源和来源

As I wrote earlier, the US has often sent its military to invade other nations on the pretext of defending democracy or ‘protecting American interests’, but in reality using the military to defend European capitalism by violently putting down strikes at multinational companies throughout Central and South America as well as in Asia, and including China. I produced a list of US military interventions with official reasons for each item, listing causes like “protecting American interests, suppress civilian general protest strike, battle civilians during anti-US protests, put down anti-American business protests, control anti-American civilians, war against civilians to protect dictator”. US President Coolidge orchestrated the overthrow of Guatemala’s government when it refused to grant yet more concessions to an international group that already controlled most of that nation. All of these and more were purely commercial endeavors, with a small handful of European bankers using the public power of the US military as a private tool to brutally enforce what was effectively slave labor by companies ostensibly American but often owned by these same European bankers.

正如我之前所写，美国经常以捍卫民主或“保护美国利益”为借口，派遣军队入侵其他国家，但实际上，美国军队是在中美洲、南美洲以及亚洲（包括中国）的跨国公司暴力镇压罢工，从而捍卫欧洲资本主义。我列出了美国军事干预的清单，并为每项干预提供了官方理由，如“保护美国利益、镇压平民总罢工、在反美抗议中与平民作战、镇压反美商业抗议、控制反美平民、为保护独裁者而向平民开战”。当危地马拉政府拒绝向已经控制该国大部分地区的国际集团做出更多让步时，美国总统柯立芝策划推翻了危地马拉政府。所有这些以及更多的事件，纯粹是商业行为，一小撮欧洲银行家利用美国军队的公共权力作为私人工具，残酷地强制实施那些实际上是由公司（表面上为美国公司，但往往由这些欧洲银行家所有）实施的奴役劳动。

The spread of neo-liberal capitalism throughout the undeveloped world was – and still is – the greatest organised criminal enterprise in history, a massive assault on humanity by a relative handful of European bankers and their industrialist friends, supported and enforced in the most brutal fashion imaginable by their private army – the US military.

新自由主义资本主义在欠发达国家的传播，过去是、现在仍然是历史上最大的有组织犯罪活动，是相对少数欧洲银行家及其工业家朋友们对人类的大规模攻击，并由他们的私人军队——美国军方以所能想象的最残酷的方式支持和执行。

It was for this reason the US began supplying its 50 or so brutal puppet-dictators with high-grade weapons and civilian suppression training – to save the US military the expense and trouble of repeatedly invading these nations to put down civilian labor protests against the inhumanity of these multinational firms and international bankers. This is one of the primary sources of the wealth of American industry and the European banking families – by using a military to enforce virtual slavery on the working populations of dozens of poor nations. When I wrote earlier that the US cannibalised much of the world, those words were not chosen lightly. The spread of neo-liberal capitalism throughout the undeveloped world was – and still is – the greatest organised criminal enterprise in history, a massive assault on humanity by a relative handful of European bankers and their industrialist friends, supported and enforced in the most brutal fashion imaginable by their private army – the US military.

正是出于这个原因，美国开始向其50多个残暴的傀儡独裁者提供高级武器和镇压平民的训练，以节省美国军队反复入侵这些国家以镇压平民劳工抗议这些跨国公司和国际银行家不人道行为的费用和麻烦。这是美国工业和欧洲银行家族财富的主要来源之一——通过使用军队对数十个贫穷国家的劳动人口实施事实上的奴役。我之前写道，美国在蚕食世界的大部分地区，这些话并非轻率之言。新自由主义资本主义在整个不发达世界的传播，过去是、现在仍然是历史上最大的有组织犯罪活动，是相对少数欧洲银行家及其工业家朋友对人类的大规模攻击，并由他们的私人军队——美国军队以可以想象的最残酷的方式支持和执行。

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And in almost every case where the US was involved, American soldiers were just cannon fodder, disposable assets for the money men who used the US army as a private military to clear the stage for their plundering. If you review the list of US interventions in foreign nations during the past 200 years, almost every one follows the pattern we saw in the Chapter on how the US became rich:

几乎在所有涉及美国的案例中，美国士兵都只是炮灰，是那些利用美国军队作为私人军队为其掠夺行为扫清道路的金钱家们可随意支配的资产。如果你回顾过去200年间美国对外干预的清单，几乎每一项都遵循了我们在美国致富一章中看到的模式：

(1) remove a socialist government that is hampering the international bankers and their multinational corporations from looting a nation,

(1) 推翻阻碍国际银行家及其跨国公司掠夺国家的社会主义政府，

(2) install a brutal military dictator,

（2）扶植一个残暴的军事独裁者，

(3) ‘pacify’ the population with massacres and terror, and

（3）通过屠杀和恐怖手段“安抚”民众，以及

(4) take ownership of the infrastructure and plunder the nation’s resources unhindered.

（4）掌控基础设施，肆无忌惮地掠夺国家资源。

None of these 50 or more adventures were about democracy or freedom. All were about money and greed. It needs to be noted that the legendary American ignorance produced by the media, Hollywood, and other propaganda, are all part of a plan executed by the same bankers’ army. If you want to use a nation’s military to execute atrocities for your corporations and banks, you don’t want the people to know because eventually it would turn their stomachs and they would revolt. But if you control the media, the book publishers, and the movies, then you control what people see and read and know, while teaching them what to think. If the bankers do it well, they can massacre tens of millions of innocent civilians in dozens of nations and have the American people believe their government was just “spreading democracy” everywhere. And that is precisely what has happened, and precisely what the American people believe.

这50多起冒险事件中没有一起与民主或自由有关。所有事件都与金钱和贪婪有关。需要指出的是，媒体、好莱坞和其他宣传机构所塑造的美国式无知，都是同一群银行家们执行计划的一部分。如果你想利用一个国家的军队来为你的公司和银行实施暴行，你肯定不希望人民知道，因为最终这会让他们感到恶心并奋起反抗。但是，如果你控制了媒体、图书出版商和电影，那么你就控制了人们看到、读到和知道的内容，同时还能教导他们如何思考。如果银行家们做得足够好，他们可以在几十个国家屠杀数千万无辜平民，并让美国人民相信他们的政府只是在各地“传播民主”。这正是已经发生的事情，也正是美国人民所相信的。

The growing of opium and collecting taxes in India was owned by EIC and its paid officials or after 1837 by the British government itself. But the House of Sassoon’s handled the trading in opium and other goods in India. Thereafter, the House of Jardine and Matheson handled their distribution in China and the House of Inchapes handled the shipping of these goods. House of Openheimers/Rhodes handled the gold and diamond mining business. The American operations were handled by the House of Rockefellers, Seagrams, Sassoons, Japhets, Jardine – Mathesons etc. The Houses of Rothschilds and Warburgs coordinated the banking aspect of this trade.

在印度，鸦片的种植和税收的征收最初由东印度公司及其雇佣官员负责，1837年后则由英国政府亲自接管。然而，印度的鸦片及其他商品贸易却由沙逊家族掌控。随后，怡和洋行负责这些商品在中国的分销，而英恰佩斯公司则负责这些商品的运输。奥本海默/罗兹家族则负责黄金和钻石的开采业务。美国的业务则由洛克菲勒家族、西格拉姆公司、沙逊家族、贾斐斯公司、怡和洋行等掌控。罗斯柴尔德家族和沃伯格家族则负责协调这些贸易的银行业务。来源 /Source

While Britain was at the peak of its international power these same European Jewish banking families used the British military as their private army to subdue and terrorise the populations of weaker nations to pacify them for plundering and, in the case of India, to partition the country as well. It was the British military, steeped in capitalist ideology and acting as goons and thugs that brutalised India for generations on behalf of private enterprises that included the British East India Company which was created by the Rothschilds and was entirely a Jewish organisation. India was never about politics or territory, but about money. It was the same European banking families, Rothschild, Sassoon, Kadoorie, Hardoon, and more, that used the British military as their private army to protect the Rothschilds while forcing Indians to grow opium, the Russells while transporting it to Hong Kong, and the Sassoons while executing their exclusive franchise for sales in China. The Boer wars fought in South Africa were arranged by the Rothschilds and their industrialist friends using the British military to exterminate a population resistant to colonisation, then claim the gold fields and diamond mines for their own. England was used as the bankers’ private army for both world wars, done in the full knowledge that the costs would destroy the UK financially, exterminate the British Empire, and leave Britain an insignificant rump of a country. But by that time, the US military was already much stronger and the bankers already had full effective control of the US government and its politicians and, by extension, its military. Britain was disposable, so the bankers disposed of it and transferred their flag to the US.

当英国处于其国际影响力的巅峰时期，正是这些欧洲犹太银行家族利用英国军队作为他们的私人军队，征服并恐吓弱小国家的民众，以安抚他们以便掠夺。在印度，他们甚至瓜分国家。正是这些深受资本主义意识形态影响、充当打手和暴徒的英国军队，代表包括罗斯柴尔德家族创建的英国东印度公司在内的私营企业，对印度进行了数代人的残酷压迫。印度从来不是关于政治或领土，而是关于金钱。正是这些欧洲银行家族，如罗斯柴尔德、沙逊、嘉道理、哈同等，利用英国军队作为他们的私人军队，保护罗斯柴尔德家族的利益，同时强迫印度人种植鸦片，由罗素家族负责运输至香港，而沙逊家族则负责在中国执行其独家销售特许权。在南非进行的布尔战争是由罗斯柴尔德家族及其工业家朋友们策划的，他们利用英国军队消灭抵抗殖民化的民众，然后声称金矿和钻石矿为自己的财产。在两次世界大战中，英国被用作银行家的私人军队，他们深知此举会摧毁英国的财政，灭绝大英帝国，使英国沦为一个无足轻重的残余国家。但到那时，美国军队已经强大得多，银行家们已经完全有效地控制了美国政府及其政客，进而控制了其军队。英国是可以抛弃的，于是银行家们抛弃了它，将旗帜转移到了美国。

When Britain was permitted to collapse after its two self-destructive world wars, the bankers transferred their military allegiance to the US and since then it has been the American military doing most of the dirty work to permit their international ravaging. Today, much of this work of conquering the world for the bankers is being transferred to NATO, at least in the European theater. I have referred briefly to the European government being essentially a proto-fascist dictatorship with the actual control and decision-making power residing in dark rooms several levels above both national and European elected representatives, in fact and deed accountable to nobody but themselves. NATO is being co-opted as their private military, one reason aspirants to European membership must first surrender their militaries to NATO which is, like the European rulers themselves, a supra-national criminal body accountable to nobody.

当英国在两次自我毁灭的世界大战后被允许崩溃时，银行家们将其军事效忠转移到了美国，自那以后，美国军方承担了大部分肮脏的工作，以允许他们在国际上肆虐。如今，为银行家们征服世界的大部分工作正被转移到北约，至少在欧洲战区是这样。我曾简要提到，欧洲政府本质上是一个原始法西斯独裁政权，真正的控制和决策权掌握在国家和欧洲民选代表之上的几层黑暗房间里，他们实际上和事实上只对自己负责。北约正被吸纳为他们的私人军队，这也是为什么想加入欧洲联盟的国家必须首先将其军队交给北约的原因之一，北约就像欧洲统治者本身一样，是一个超国家的犯罪机构，不对任何人负责。

It should be noted that we generally attribute much of the financial and political chaos in the world to the actions of the United States, but in at least one sense that is unfair. It is true the US exercises its unbalanced military, political and financial power to wreak havoc in the world that tends inevitably to benefit only the top 1% but, while these actions may have been unilateral at some point in America’s dark history, today this combined power is directed by that same 1%, by what we have called “the deep state” or “the hidden government”, in other words the power behind the throne. As with Britain in the past, the US today is being used as a tool, its State Department, its military, the CIA and NSA, the dollar and the increasing weaponisation of finance all being arrows in the quiver of this small group of powerful people.

值得注意的是，我们通常将世界上大部分的金融和政治混乱归咎于美国的行动，但这至少在某种意义上是不公平的。诚然，美国利用其不平衡的军事、政治和金融力量在世界上制造混乱，而这种混乱往往不可避免地只让最富有的1%的人受益，尽管在美国黑暗历史的某些时刻，这些行动可能是单方面的，但如今，这种综合力量是由同样的1%的人所掌控的，即我们所说的“深层国家派系”或“隐形政府”，换言之，就是幕后权力。与过去的英国一样，今天的美国也被用作一种工具，其国务院、军队、中央情报局和国家安全局、美元以及日益武器化的金融，都是这一小撮有权势的人手中的箭矢。

To see the truth of this, we need only think. Most of the actions during the past decades taken (and still being taken today) by the US FED, the policies of the State Department, the incessant wars, revolutions and national destabilisations, were in no way beneficial to either the US as a nation or to the American people. In fact, quite the contrary, since the US bore most of the expense and almost all of the battlefield casualties. But they were very beneficial indeed to those few behind the scenes who vacuumed up astonishing amounts of wealth from each event, which would include the many US depressions, the invasions of countries like Iraq and Libya, the destruction of the Ukraine, and so much more. No ordinary American benefitted in any way from these atrocities, but a small handful of people, the same international kleptocrats in every case, profited in the trillions of dollars. In furthering the propaganda campaign, Hollywood proudly introduced movies of these devastating “wars of liberation” by proclaiming a totally fictitious American heroism, claiming they provided “unmistakable evidence that our country would fight against aggression and all the aggressors that challenged the rights of free men”.

要了解这一事实的真相，我们只需稍作思考。过去几十年（至今仍在继续）美国联邦储备系统（FED）采取的大多数行动、国务院的政策、连绵不断的战争、革命和国家动荡，对美国这个国家或美国人民而言，绝非有利。事实上，恰恰相反，因为美国承担了大部分费用和几乎全部的战场伤亡。然而，对于那些幕后操纵者而言，这些事件确实带来了巨大的利益，他们从每一场事件中攫取了惊人的财富，这些事件包括美国的多次萧条、对伊拉克和利比亚等国的入侵、对乌克兰的破坏等等。普通美国人在这些暴行中毫无受益，但一小撮人，即那些每次事件中都相同的国际窃国者，却获利数万亿美元。为了推进宣传攻势，好莱坞自豪地推出了这些毁灭性的“解放战争”电影，宣扬完全虚构的美国英雄主义，声称这些电影提供了“确凿证据，证明我们的国家会抵抗侵略，抵抗所有挑战自由人权利的侵略者”。

If we look at America’s most recent wars – Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and those that almost were – Syria and Iran, what do we see? Except for their oil and strategic locations, none of those countries were of any consequence to Americans, nor to their government. None of those countries were any threat to the US, nor did any of them do anything to anybody that would justify the military invasions and destruction they experienced. None of those countries were related to 9-11, nor were they related to “terrorism” in any way, at least not prior to the American government’s involvement. Consider Jugoslavia, a peaceful federation that was quietly sitting in a small corner of the world, minding its own business and not doing anything to anyone. So what happened? The story is not complicated. The international bankers wanted Serbia destroyed and the Yugoslav Federation dismantled, a travesty justified to an ignorant and gullible public by yet another vast tapestry of lies and with the US government paying the cost and the US military suffering the Western war casualties. Jugoslavia was certainly not a threat to the US in any sense, nor was it an enemy, and neither the US as a nation, US corporations, or the American people benefitted in any way from the mass destruction and slaughter. In this equation, the US was irrelevant except as a tool. This was entirely a bankers’ war.

如果我们审视美国最近的几场战争——阿富汗、伊拉克和利比亚，以及那些几乎成为战争对象的国家——叙利亚和伊朗，我们会看到什么？除了石油和战略位置，这些国家对美国及其政府而言都不足为道。这些国家对美国没有任何威胁，也没有对任何人做过任何足以证明其遭受军事入侵和破坏合理的事情。这些国家与9·11事件无关，也与“恐怖主义”没有任何关联，至少在美国政府介入之前是这样。以南斯拉夫为例，这个和平的联邦静静地坐落在世界的一个小角落，自给自足，不对任何人做任何事。那么发生了什么？故事并不复杂。国际银行家们希望塞尔维亚被摧毁，南斯拉夫联邦被解体，他们用另一幅巨大的谎言织锦向无知且易受欺骗的公众证明其正当性，而美国政府为此买单，美国军队承受着西方战争的伤亡。南斯拉夫对美国而言绝非任何意义上的威胁，也不是敌人，无论是作为一个国家、美国公司还是美国人民，都没有从这场大规模破坏和屠杀中受益。在这个等式中，美国除了作为工具之外别无他用。这完全是一场银行家的战争。

With Iraq and Libya, the international Jewish bankers, the same people who own the FED and who control the White House and US Congress from behind the scenes, wanted the wars to obtain control of the oil and to further entrench Israel as the supreme military power in the Middle East. Of course, bankers have no military and, while they can and do cause financial calamities, that wasn’t sufficient; they wanted the kind of total control available only through military invasion and occupation, and through the subsequent total destruction of local militaries, governments, and social and political frameworks, the perpetual income disparity we read about earlier, and the removal of any future hope of defending themselves and expelling their new masters. As was done with both World War I and World War II, the secret government approached the real government, beginning with the White House, with a proposition to invade and destroy those countries and turn their assets over to the bankers and their corporations. The US government was of course willing, but had no money for such expensive adventures. Nevertheless, the solution was at hand: borrow the money from these same bankers. Of course, if the government doesn’t have the money today, it still won’t have it after the wars are over, but governments have an unlimited power to tax, and so can raise the money. Of course, it won’t tax the elites or their corporations, but rather the people. The US military didn’t actually want to fight any of those wars and told two Presidents – Bush and Obama – they were crazy, but with the puppet-masters’ almost absolute control of the White House and Congress and, through them, the military, they successfully forced the wars. The President eagerly enough committed the government to the debt and the military to the wars.

在伊拉克和利比亚战争中，国际犹太银行家——正是那些拥有美联储、在幕后控制白宫和美国国会的人——希望通过战争获得对石油的控制权，并进一步巩固以色列作为中东最高军事强国的地位。当然，银行家们没有军队，虽然他们能够并且确实引发了金融灾难，但这还不够；他们想要的是那种只有通过军事入侵和占领才能获得的完全控制权，以及随后对当地军队、政府、社会和政治框架的彻底摧毁，即我们之前读到的那种持续的收入差距，以及消除任何未来自卫和驱逐新主人的希望。正如第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战所做的那样，秘密政府从白宫开始，向真正的政府提出入侵和摧毁这些国家，并将这些国家的资产转交给银行家及其公司的提议。美国政府当然愿意，但没有资金进行如此昂贵的冒险。然而，解决方案就在眼前：向这些银行家借钱。当然，如果政府今天没有钱，战争结束后也不会有，但政府有无限的征税权力，因此可以筹集资金。当然，他们不会向精英阶层或其公司征税，而是向人民征税。美国军方实际上并不想参与任何这些战争，并告诉两位总统——布什和奥巴马——他们疯了，但由于傀儡大师们几乎完全控制了白宫和国会，并通过他们控制了军队，他们成功地发动了战争。总统急切地让政府承担债务，让军队参与战争。

Importantly, and contrary to the propaganda in the newspapers, the US and the bankers didn’t lose those wars; they achieved everything they wanted – almost unlimited trillions of additional wealth for the bankers and the utter destruction of two countries (and their leaders) that Israel didn’t happen to like. And what were the benefits to the American people? None, whatsoever. The people were irrelevant, as was the overall good of the country. Those wars were not about improving lives of the American people, they were not about making the world safe for democracy, they were not about 9-11 and they were certainly not about terrorism. Following the same pattern that has existed for more than 200 years, a small group of powerful European bankers used the US military as a tool, as a personal army, to further their own financial and political ambitions. Think of the hijacking of Hawaii. If Americans bother to ask themselves how they as a nation are better off for those wars, for the destruction of those countries, the millions of deaths and the staggering human and financial cost, the only possible answer is silence. With neo-liberal capitalism, wars are ‘privatised’ in the same manner as all else: privatise the profits and socialise the losses.

重要的是，与报纸上的宣传相反，美国和银行家们并没有输掉那些战争；他们实现了自己想要的一切——为银行家们带来了几乎无限的上万亿额外财富，并彻底摧毁了两个以色列不喜欢的国家（及其领导人）。那么美国人民从中得到了什么好处呢？什么都没有。人民变得无关紧要，国家的整体利益也是如此。那些战争与改善美国人民的生活无关，与为世界民主带来安全无关，与9·11事件无关，当然也与恐怖主义无关。遵循200多年来一直存在的模式，一小群强大的欧洲银行家利用美国军队作为工具，作为私人军队，来推进他们自己的金融和政治野心。想想夏威夷被劫持的事件吧。如果美国人愿意自问，对于那些战争、对于那些国家的毁灭、对于数百万人的死亡以及惊人的人力和财力损失，作为一个国家，他们是否因此变得更好，那么唯一可能的答案就是沉默。在新自由资本主义制度下，战争与其他所有事物一样被“私有化”：利润私有化，损失社会化。

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

“我凭良心无法支持伊朗正在进行的战争，”肯特写道。“伊朗并未对我国构成迫在眉睫的威胁，很明显，我们之所以发动这场战争，是因为受到了以色列及其强大的美国游说团体的压力。”来源/Source

The recent wars cost the US an estimated $6 trillion that will have to be repaid by the citizens of the world’s most ignorant democracy. That amounts to about $20,000 for every individual man, woman and child in America, or about $50,000 per household, but Americans no longer have that kind of money and have no hope of accumulating it. Taxes have already been reduced to almost nothing for the members of the secret government, their corporations and their friends, and will not be increased. And, with only part-time and low-wage jobs, the people cannot support increased taxes. But the money must be repaid, and repaid from taxes, and this is already being done in a major way. Collected taxes are being re-allocated, away from necessary social services like healthcare and education, and toward war debt repayment and new military adventures.

最近的战争估计让美国损失了6万亿美元，这笔钱将不得不由世界上最无知的民主国家的公民来偿还。这相当于美国每个男女老少约2万美元，或每个家庭约5万美元，但美国人不再拥有那么多钱，也没有希望积累到那么多钱。对于秘密政府成员、他们的公司以及他们的朋友来说，税收已经降到了几乎为零，而且不会增加。而且，由于只有兼职和低薪工作，人们无法承受增税。但是，这些钱必须偿还，而且必须用税收来偿还，而这已经在很大程度上得到了实现。征收的税款正在被重新分配，从医疗和教育等必要的社会服务中抽走，用于偿还战争债务和新的军事冒险。

The US government will raise $100 billion by killing Medicare and any hope of a national health-care plan, is now raising the retirement age to 70 and reducing government pensions, cutting $20 billion from the food stamp program and billions more from unemployment benefits. It is now eliminating tens of billions from education, drastically cutting funds for primary and secondary education and for universities as well, forcing them to cut teachers and increase tuition fees to support themselves. It is reducing all social services, from public libraries to public transport, and has abandoned even the pretense of repairing an aging infrastructure of disintegrating highways, bridges, dams, railways and airports, that is crumbling after 60 years of neglect. And, to ensure the public doesn’t get too wise too quickly, the US is every year creating new ways to misrepresent its economic statistics, using false numbers to help everyone believe the 2008 recession ended and that hundreds of thousands of new jobs are being created monthly, and that soon everything will be better. In particular, the administration tells unconscionable lies about the inflation rate to hide the vast underpayment of Social Security benefits, and continue to levy this huge additional and unseen tax to steal hundreds of billions from the people.

美国政府将通过取消医疗保险和任何国家医疗保健计划的希望来筹集1000亿美元，目前正在将退休年龄提高到70岁，并减少政府养老金，从食品券计划中削减200亿美元，从失业救济金中再削减数十亿美元。它现在正在削减教育领域的数百亿美元支出，大幅削减中小学教育和大学教育的资金，迫使它们裁减教师并提高学费以维持运营。它正在减少从公共图书馆到公共交通的所有社会服务，甚至放弃了修复老旧基础设施的借口，这些基础设施包括正在解体的公路、桥梁、水坝、铁路和机场，它们在60年的疏于维护后已经摇摇欲坠。而且，为了确保公众不会太快变得聪明，美国每年都在创造新的方式来歪曲其经济统计数据，利用虚假数字来帮助所有人相信2008年的经济衰退已经结束，每月都在创造数十万个新工作岗位，并且很快一切都会变得更好。特别是，政府在通货膨胀率上撒下不合情理的谎言，以掩盖社会保障福利金的巨额支付不足，并继续征收这笔巨额且看不见的额外税款，从人民手中窃取数千亿美元。

And who wins? The bankers, the secret government, and their corporate elite. They are already looting Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya of trillions in oil and other revenue and they will collect their $6 trillion with interest from American citizens. And that’s more or less the whole story. One day the American people may eventually wake up and discover what has really happened, and will want revenge for the financial and social war that their own (secret) government has launched against them. But by that time, it will be too late because the government is already prepared. That’s why the US government built its 800 internment camps staffed and ready with armed guards, and that’s why Homeland Security bought its 3 billion bullets. And who lost? Everybody except the bankers and their weapons manufacturers, the victimised nations being the greatest losers but who have already been erased from the public mind with no understanding among the world’s peoples of the bitter and tragic state of these nations today, thanks to the total control of the world’s media that rests in these same hands.

那么，谁赢了？银行家、秘密政府及其企业精英。他们已经在阿富汗、伊拉克和利比亚掠夺了数万亿美元的石油和其他收入，他们还将从美国公民那里收取6万亿美元的本息。这差不多就是全部的故事。有一天，美国人民或许会最终觉醒，发现真正发生的事情，并会想要报复他们自己的（秘密）政府对他们发起的金融和社会战争。但到那时，一切都已经太晚了，因为政府已经做好了准备。这就是为什么美国政府建造了800个配备武装警卫的拘留营，以及国土安全部购买了30亿颗子弹。那么，谁输了？除了银行家和他们的武器制造商，所有人都输了。受害国家是最大的输家，但由于世界媒体完全掌握在这些人的手中，世界各国人民对这些国家今天悲惨的境遇一无所知，这些受害国家已经被公众遗忘。

Joe Cortina: The Jews themselves have poured over 75 tons of this radioactive death on the tiny 138 Square Mile Prison we know as Gaza. That’s enough to kill 50 million people. Gaza has 1.5 million people. Source

乔·科尔蒂纳：犹太人自己已经向我们所知的加沙地带这片狭小的138平方英里土地倾倒了超过75吨的这种放射性致命物质。这足以杀死5000万人。而加沙地带的人口仅有150万。来源

There is one last item requiring mention, one which I have never seen raised anywhere – the real cost of these wars. With war casualties, the US media cleverly report (and understate) only American deaths, conveniently ignoring the far greater number of casualties realised by the victims of these wars. For Vietnam, we are told the US lost about 50,000 soldiers but few are aware that Vietnam (and Laos, and Cambodia) lost in total about 5 million lives plus countless millions of other casualties. For Iraq, we are told of 5,000 American deaths but the media ignore the more than one million Iraqi deaths and the many more millions of injuries and amputations, to say nothing of the 500,000 infants Madeleine Albright killed. In both cases, the vast numbers of tragic victims of Agent Orange, napalm and depleted uranium, are entirely ignored. Also ignored is the fact that the US lost only military personnel while the casualties in the victim countries were almost entirely civilian, at least two-thirds being women and children, a fact deliberately suppressed. Massive civilian deaths are necessary to properly “pacify” a population, a deliberate practice the US has followed for more than 200 years. Think of the Philippines and Indonesia.

还有最后一点需要提及，这一点我从未在任何地方看到有人提起——那就是这些战争的实际代价。在报道战争伤亡情况时，美国媒体巧妙地只报道（并轻描淡写）美国人的死亡人数，却故意忽略了这些战争受害者所遭受的更大规模的伤亡。就越南而言，我们被告知美国损失了约5万名士兵，但很少有人知道越南（以及老挝和柬埔寨）总共损失了约500万人的生命，以及无数其他伤亡人员。就伊拉克而言，我们被告知美国有5000人死亡，但媒体却忽略了超过100万伊拉克人的死亡，以及更多数百万人的受伤和截肢，更不用说被马德琳·奥尔布赖特杀害的50万名婴儿了。在这两起事件中，橙剂、凝固汽油弹和贫化铀造成的无数悲剧受害者完全被忽略了。同样被忽略的是这样一个事实：美国只损失了军事人员，而受害国的伤亡人员几乎全部是平民，其中至少三分之二是妇女和儿童，而这一事实却被故意隐瞒了。为了“安抚”一个国家的人口，大规模的平民死亡是必要的，这是美国200多年来一直遵循的一种蓄意做法。想想菲律宾和印度尼西亚吧。

The secret government and the media do the same with the financial cost. We know these wars will cost the US perhaps $6 trillion in total, but nobody mentions the financial cost to the victim countries. Iraq, for one, has been literally totally destroyed. It has no military capability of any kind and virtually the entire basic infrastructure of the nation lies in ruins. There is very little that works in that country today, and the cost of rebuilding that infrastructure would be in the trillions of dollars – if Iraq were permitted to rebuild, which it will not be. Afghanistan is a sea of rubble, and Libya, Serbia and the Balkans are hardly better. Libya in particular has degenerated from a fine and rich little country, the most advanced in Africa, to an anarchic failed state that has had all its valuable oil, gold, and other assets confiscated by these same people. Vietnam required 50 years and trillions of dollars for reconstruction, and is still a mess. In these adventures, the US attacked virtually defenseless countries with its incomparably superior military might and rendered them to utter ruin, causing many trillions of dollars of physical destruction as well as uncounted millions of civilian casualties. But on these points the Western media are silent, and for good reason: the mass killing of non-military civilians and the physical destruction of civilian assets were not accidental nor were they ‘collateral damage’. They were the plan.

秘密政府和媒体在财务成本上也采取了同样的做法。我们知道，这些战争可能总共会让美国损失6万亿美元，但没有人提及受害国的财务损失。以伊拉克为例，它几乎被彻底摧毁。伊拉克没有任何军事能力，该国几乎所有的基础设施都已化为废墟。如今，该国几乎没有任何能正常运转的东西，而重建这些基础设施的成本将达到数万亿美元——如果允许伊拉克重建的话，但这是不可能的。阿富汗成了一片瓦砾场，而利比亚、塞尔维亚和巴尔干半岛国家的情况也差不多。特别是利比亚，从一个富裕且繁荣的小国——非洲最发达的国家——沦落为一个无政府、失败的国度，其所有宝贵的石油、黄金和其他资产都被这些人没收。越南的重建耗时50年，耗资数万亿美元，至今仍是一团糟。在这些冒险行动中，美国凭借其无与伦比的军事力量，袭击了几乎毫无防备的国家，将它们彻底摧毁，造成了数万亿美元的物质破坏以及数不清的平民伤亡。但在这些问题上，西方媒体保持沉默，这是有充分理由的：大规模杀害非军事平民和破坏民用资产既非偶然，也非“附带损害”。这是计划的一部分。

This march to global tyranny appears almost unstoppable.

这场走向全球暴政的进程似乎势不可挡。

When we dig beneath the superficialities of American and Western democracies, we discover the same rot permeating everywhere. Politicians, non-elected officials, bankers and other vampires, industrialists, so-called “financiers”, owners of hedge funds and their friends all profiting handsomely from the destructions of war and finance. The list of these names is not large. Weak countries are forced into the privatisation of their most valuable assets and resources, always at fire-sale prices, thus imposing an inescapable destitution on the entire undeveloped world whose populations are little more than disposable irritants in the quest for money. The stories are all similar; bankers and their industrialists smell profit in a nation, and begin by using the IMF and World Bank to plunder these small nations of their resources and infrastructure. On occasions when the financial destruction fails, the US, being controlled by these same people, uses its military power to force open the doors and clear away all obstacles to unhindered plundering, most often at enormous human cost.This march to global tyranny appears almost unstoppable.

当我们深入挖掘美国和西方民主的表象之下，就会发现同样的腐朽无处不在。政客、非民选官员、银行家和其他吸血鬼、实业家、所谓的“金融家”、对冲基金所有者及其朋友，都从战争和金融的破坏中获利丰厚。这些人的名单并不长。弱国被迫以极低的价格将其最宝贵的资产和资源私有化，从而给整个不发达国家带来了无法摆脱的贫困，这些国家的人民在追求金钱的过程中，几乎只是被当作可以随意利用的刺激因素。这些故事都很相似；银行家和实业家嗅到一个国家有利可图，便开始利用国际货币基金组织和世界银行掠夺这些小国的资源和基础设施。当金融破坏失败时，受这些同一群人控制的美国会动用其军事力量强行打开大门，清除一切障碍，以便肆无忌惮地掠夺，而这样做往往要付出巨大的人命代价。这种走向全球暴政的进程似乎势不可挡。

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Canada’s Globe and Mail ran an article in late 2015 revealing that not only did hundreds of Canadian soldiers die in Afghanistan so that the bankers who control Unocal could have their pipeline, but that scores of these soldiers were committing suicide after their return home. The same happens in the US, with returning young soldiers killing themselves by the tens of thousands. Why do soldiers do that? Because they cannot live with the things they have done to other humans, or the things they have seen done to other humans, all of whom were innocent civilians. Because even with the knowledge that their atrocities had made the world safe for bankers, they still couldn’t live with the images of a mother crying over a bloody mass that no longer resembled her child, or of small children gathered around a mother whose entrails were hanging out everywhere. They killed themselves from a realisation that they had been manipulated by psychopaths into moral depravities which could not be undone, and that their actions were not to defend their country but to help someone make money. For the Americans especially, the recruiting was based on a high moral pretext of freedom and democracy and protecting the world from terrorism, but then the soldiers understood they had been sent to butcher innocent families only to protect banking profits and that, rather than being honored for their actions, they were discarded with contempt.

加麻大的《环球邮报》在2015年底发表了一篇文章，揭露了数百名加麻大士兵不仅在阿富汗丧生，以便让控制优尼科（Unocal）的银行家们能够拥有他们的输油管道，而且这些士兵中有数十人在回国后自杀。美国的情况也是如此，成千上万的年轻士兵回国后自杀。士兵们为什么要这样做？因为他们无法忍受自己对其他人所做的一切，也无法忍受他们目睹其他人所遭受的一切，而这些人都是无辜的平民。因为即使他们知道自己的暴行让世界对银行家来说变得安全，他们仍然无法忍受一位母亲因一个不再像她孩子的血腥残骸而哭泣的画面，或者一群小孩子围在一个内脏四溅的母亲身边的画面。他们自杀是因为意识到自己被精神病患者操纵，陷入了无法挽回的道德堕落，他们的行为不是为了保卫国家，而是为了帮助某人赚钱。尤其是对美国人来说，征兵是以自由、民主和保护世界免受恐怖主义的高尚道德理由为基础的，但士兵们后来明白，他们被派去屠杀无辜的家庭，只是为了保护银行的利润，而且他们的行为并没有因为他们的行动而受到尊重，反而被轻蔑地抛弃。

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Democracy is not about government or voting. It is not about freedoms or human rights. It is about money, about a small group of very powerful people with effective control of the world’s largest military, plundering the world’s weak nations and massacring their people, all from their greed and lust for power. There is no morality here, nor even a pretense of morality. As American writer John Kaminski said so accurately, American and British history are very much Jewish history as well, and are not about the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Independence, but much more about the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of nations by the Western “business” model. The pretty tales about democracy are bedtime stories for children, for the weak and simple-minded, for the ignorant and uneducated to feel good to be an American. Or a Canadian, Australian or Brit. It is both pathetic and painful to watch the people in Hong Kong, and some in Mainland China too, lapping up the fantasy tales about the warmth and freedom of Western democracy when they are actually supporting the world’s greatest criminal enterprise. There is nothing pretty about Western democracy and there is nothing clean or moral about international affairs, and the sooner the Chinese people realise and accept that, the better for their country. It’s time to grow up.

民主与政府或投票无关。它与自由或人权也无关。它关乎金钱，关乎一小撮掌握着巨大权力、实际控制着世界最大军队的势力，他们出于贪婪和对权力的渴望，掠夺世界上的弱小国家并屠杀其人民。这里没有道德，甚至连道德的假象都没有。正如美国作家约翰·卡明斯基所精辟指出的，美国和英国的历史在很大程度上也是犹太人的历史，其核心并非《大宪章》或《独立宣言》，而是对原住民的种族灭绝，以及西方“商业”模式对各国的奴役。那些关于民主的动人故事，不过是给儿童、弱者、头脑简单者、无知者和未受教育者听的睡前故事，旨在让他们因身为美国人而感到自豪。或者说，作为加拿大人、澳大利亚人或英国人。看着香港民众，以及中国大陆的一些人，沉醉于关于西方民主的温暖与自由的幻想故事中，而实际上他们却在支持着世界上最大的犯罪集团，这既可悲又令人痛心。西方民主毫无美好可言，国际事务中也毫无纯洁或道德可言，中国人民越早意识到并接受这一点，对他们的国家就越有利。是时候成熟起来了。

Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 34 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chap. 2 — Dealing with Demons).

罗曼诺夫先生的作品已被翻译成34种语言，其文章被发布在30多个国家的150多个外文新闻和政治网站上，以及150多个英文平台上。拉里·罗曼诺夫（Larry Romanoff）是一位退休的管理顾问和商人。他曾在国际咨询公司担任高级管理职位，并拥有一家国际进出口企业。他曾担任上海复旦大学的客座教授，为高级EMBA课程讲授国际事务案例研究。罗曼诺夫先生现居上海。他是辛西娅·麦金尼（Cynthia McKinney）新选集《当中国打喷嚏》（第2章——与恶魔打交道）的特约作者之一。

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