LibertyArchives3's video: Webster Tarpley: Prince Edward organizer of World War I

In this video, Webster talks about the fact that prince Edward, who was Prince Regent and the actual ruler under Queen Victoria, and who later became King Edward VII, was the main organizer of World War I and, as such, the demiurge for the historical catastrophes that stemmed directly out of World War I: the rise of fascism, nazism and communism in Europe, World War II, and a Europe divided between West and East, providing context for a Cold War. At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, Prince Edward was the leader of the British oligarchy, the highly-organized collection of transnational oligarchical interests and mercantile dynasties, generally of Anglo-Venetian, Dutch and Prussian extraction, that have as their operational headquarters the City of London – the financial center of London, and the then heart of the British Empire. As the leader of this oligarchy, one of Edward's main concerns was to affirm mercantile geopolitics, and preserve the mercantile ordering of world affairs that had been fostered by this oligarchy. In essence, this was one where vast mercantile corporations and financial interests dominated over a world economy that was essentially based on maritime and oceanic trade, and where development was mainly limited to commercial cities and ports in the coastal areas of continents, while the interiors of the continental landmasses were mostly kept underdeveloped, ignorant and poor, sources of low wage labor, and cheap extractive resources. This ordering of world affairs was by then, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, being threatened by evolutions (political, economic, cultural) across Europe and Asia, pointing in the direction of trans-Eurasian cooperation for peaceful economic development and trade. By then, the future seemed to hold in store cooperation and trade arrangements spanning France, Germany and Russia, and then expanding across southeastern Europe to the Middle East, and from there across the Asian interior to China. This would have created progress and development across an otherwise underdeveloped Eurasian continental landmass, and it would have allowed for the rise of developed, independent nation-states, cooperating with each other for mutual development. The then projected Paris to Berlin to Baghdad railroad epitomized the civilizational evolution in this direction at that time. In all this, the Germany/Russia connection was especially important. Were Germany and Russia to cooperate, Europe and Asia would then be linked through the flow of trade and people. However, were they to become rivals, all expectations of trans-Eurasian understanding would immediately come crashing down. It was this progress towards trans-Eurasian understanding that prince Edward set out to sabotage. A first step in this direction was the creation of a divide between France and Germany, through the 1903 Entente. Yet, the real prize was what was achieved just a few years later, the creation of geopolitical rivalry between Russia and Germany, with the inauguration of the Triple Entente. And this of course set the essential stage for World War I – one of the most destructive wars ever, in human terms as in civilizational terms. This video is an excerpt of a classic Webster Tarpley interview on the Alex Jones Show. Webster's website is http://tarpley.net/ and the website for The Alex Jones Show is, of course, http://www.infowars.com/