LibertyArchives3's video: Webster Tarpley: The radical deindustrialization of the U S from the 1970s onwards

A great Webster Tarpley video on the mass deindustrialization of the United States, and more generally of the transatlantic world, from the 1970s onwards, and on how the neomalthusian faction of the then emerging environmental movement played a crucial facilitating role in that through the offer of so-called “environmental” and “quality of life” cover narratives for the same. This mass deindustrialization of course produced a dramatic decline in standard of living in the United States. To call the neomalthusians 'environmentalists' is to be nice to them, and to make them a favour they don't deserve, since they're not real environmentalists. They don't care, nor have ever cared a bit about real environmental problems: things such as chemical pollution, nuclear pollution of oceans and atmosphere, the dosing of the atmosphere with aerossolized particles, soil desertification, the genetic contamination of habitats via GMO – etc. They also don't care about the development of new, improved technologies that will actually be clean, creative and more productive. What they do care about is controlling people and imposing underdevelopment and backwardness, the “back to the village” routine. A case in point is the Club of Rome, which is one of the essential organizing centers for the neomalthusian world movement, and whose main lines of work have always been to find ways to prevent the development of the Developing World, to de-develop 1st world economies by the creation of zero-growth, negative-growth -- and to gradually transform the world into a highly corporatized and controlled global economy, on behalf of the high aristocratic houses and the mercantile interests of Old Europe. Read “Mankind at the Turning Point” (1974), “Reshaping the International Order” (1976), “Goals for Mankind” (1977), or “The First Global Revolution” (1991). As Webster points out, the mass desindustrialization of the United States was made possible by the interest rate hikes of Paul Volcker during his time in the Fed. These massively discouraged loans and investments, intensely worsened the economic crisis that was going on back then, and facilitated industrial offshoring. To add to Webster, there of course were also the GATT treaties at the United Nations, and the creation of the institutional framework of the World Trade Organization in the 90s. Year after year your governments went to GATT meetings and to the WTO to agree, by treaty, to the offshoring of whole industrial sectors – and by this they also agreed to finance the expenses of that offshoring, and to subsidize companies for any losses they might incur during the process. This essentially means you, the taxpayers, paid to lose your jobs.