Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org Feb 6, 2026
Recently someone sent me a copy of Walter Brian Cisco’s book, War Crimes Against Southern Civilians. Until I began reading this book, I had regarded Israel’s “defense force” as the ultimate in barbarism. The Israelis justify shooting mothers and babies in the head on the grounds that all Palestinians are terrorists, and that the babies will grow up to be terrorists and that the mothers will have more babies that will grow up to be terrorists, and that is better to kill the mothers and the babies before this happens.
The Israelis acknowledge this, but if gentiles repeat it, they are dismissed as antisemites. So it remains knowledge that we know, but are not permitted to repeat.
Apparently, historians have the same policy toward the war crimes inflicted on Southern civilians by Lincoln’s Union Army that was nothing but an organized gang of plunderers, murderers, and rapists who make the Israeli “Defense Force” look like benevolent Christians.
Until Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederate States of America, war in the civilized Western world was confined to combatants. Lincoln broke the code of civilized warfare and conducted war against the civilian population of the South. The Americans and the British followed this practice in the war against Japan and Germany. The nuclear weapons of today mean that war is total and is conducted against all of humanity. Today we have this situation in which disagreement between the elites of two countries can result in the extermination of humanity.
The documented accounts in Cisco’s book of war against Southern civilians are horrific. In Missouri, for example, the populations of entire counties were forced on the penalty of death to leave their homes, businesses and properties and be relocated in Kansas. It was the precedent for Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine.
In New Orleans, General Benjamin Butler, one of Lincoln’s many incompetent and hate-filled political appointees who had never commanded soldiers, responded to women who complained of the mistreatment of fathers, husbands, sons, and brothers by declaring the women “to be treated as a woman of the town plying her advocation.” Butler’s invitation to his troops to rape southern women astounded the British Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, who condemned it in a speech before the British Parliament.
Just as all Palestinians are terrorists, Southern men in towns under Union Army jurisdiction were shot or hung on the grounds that all Southern men were bushwackers aiding and abetting the Confederacy’s resistance.
When Union soldiers appeared in a Southern town, the town could expect to be totally looted and burnt to the ground. Cisco provides example after example.
When Lincoln’s army appeared on a plantation, the black slave women were mercilessly raped for the failure of slaves to revolt against their masters, thereby supporting the South’s war effort.
Lincoln’s war against the South was a war of hate. Many Union officers and generals were indoctrinated products of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a propaganda publication that demonized the South as a society of slave owners mistreating slaves, as Union soldiers actually did. The hatred generated by Northern abolitionists resulted in the worst war crimes in human history.
Corrupt historians busy at work feathering the official narrative have kept buried the true history of the so-called “Civil War” which was not a civil war, but an invasion of one country by another.
When I was growing up in the South we knew that our ancestors had suffered grievously at the hands of the Yankees, but we were left with monuments, such as statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, that told us we had made a stand against greed-driven aggression from the North. The North intended for the South to pay for its industrialization via the Morrill Tariff, and, therefore, would not allow the South to secede from the Union despite the South’s constitutional right to do so.
But the statues have been taken down, erasing public references to the South’s resistance to invasion.
When the extraordinary war criminal Abraham Lincoln went to war against the Confederacy, he went to war against the American Constitution. It was Lincoln who destroyed the United States that was created by the founding fathers as a union of sovereign states who had under the Constitution most of the governing powers.
As Lincoln repeated over and over and over, his war against the South was a war to make the South pay the tariff necessary to finance the industrialization of the north. Lincoln never said that he went to war to free slaves, at least not during his war. The Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure designed to produce a slave rebellion that would result in Southern troops leaving the front lines and returning to their homes to protect their families. The proclamation only applied to slaves in areas under Southern control. As Lincoln’s Secretary of State noted, the proclamation did not apply to any areas under Union control.
Lincoln’s war against the South anticipated by a century the Israeli Defense Force’s war on Palestinians.
I have always thought that the collapse of American morality occurred in the 20th century, but Cisco’s book makes it clear that American morality collapsed during 1860-1865 and the following decade of Reconstruction during which everything in the South of value was stolen by the North.
The South did not recover from its looting and gratuitous destruction until after World War II.
In view of the unprecedented harm Washington inflicted on Southern people, it is extraordinary that the military of the United States would not exist were it not for the voluntary enlistment of Southern men. These are men who know nothing of their history, or of the torment of their ancestors by the government to which they give their lives. If this is not the total failure of a historical consciousness, what is it?
In 1863 when General Robert E. Lee commander of the Army of Northern Virginia made the first Confederate invasion of Union territory, General Lee addressed his troops:
“The duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own. The commanding general considers that no greater disgrace could befall the army, and through it our whole people, then the perpetration of the barbarous outrages upon the unarmed and defenseless and the wanton destruction of private property that have marked the course of the enemy in our own country. It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited by the atrocities of our enemies, and offending against God, to whom vengeance belongeth.”
When Lee surrendered his starving and barefoot army that the Confederacy could no longer provision, Union general Philip Sheridan wanted to massacre the surrendering soldiers and had to be admonished by Union general Grant. As soon as the Confederacy was conquered, the Republican government in Washington sent the Union war criminals Sheridan and Tecumseh Sherman to destroy the Plains Indians. The buffalo herds were destroyed in order to deprive the Indians of food, and the Republicans used germ warfare against the starving Indians. Strange, isn’t it, that historians can be so utterly corrupt to claim the Union fought a war in behalf of blacks, and as soon it was over, turned to the destruction of another people of color.
A Union soldier from Illinois wrote home that the Union soldiers had so abused the Southern blacks that “many of them have learned to hate the Yankees as much as our Southern brethren do. The army is becoming awfully depraved. How the home folks will ever be able to live with them after the war, is, I think, something of a question. If we don’t degenerate into a nation of thieves, it will not be for lack of the example set by the Union army.”
The only civilization that existed in North America in the 19th century was in the South, and the evil war criminal Abraham Lincoln destroyed it.
And the monument to Lincoln has not been taken down.
170 year ago happened this War in USA with Abraham Lincoln.
It is not really combarable to the GAZA slaughtering.
Wikipedia writtes :
Abraham Lincoln[b] (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
1) If You Think Our Rulers Do Bad Things In Secret, Wait Til You See What They Do Out In The Open
They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world.
Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World’s Richest Israeli
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-keeps-admitting-that-he-is
2) They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world.
They’re openly targeting civilian populations with siege warfare in Iran and Cuba in full view of the entire world.
They openly kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation in full view of the entire world.
They deliberately provoked a horrific and dangerous proxy war in Ukraine in full view of the entire world.
They spent years actively backing Saudi Arabia’s monstrous genocidal atrocities in Yemen in full view of the entire world
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/02/09/if-you-think-our-rulers-do-bad-things-in-secret-wait-til-you-see-what-they-do-out-in-the-open/
We always knew that the yankees were always savage to the South. Just look at the burning of Atlanta as one example. After the “war” they then rampaged through the South similar to the way the “all-lies” did to Germany and all of Eastern Europe in 1944/45.The yankees to this day are still hated for their crimes by the people of the South.
” Today we have this situation in which disagreement between the elites of two countries can result in the extermination of humanity.” — So let me see, the “elites” ( read SATT ) can exterminate all of humanity and yet they will survive???? What a load of…. Ha Ha Ha . “Nuclear” weapons — nightmares for children Ha Ha Ha.
Illuminating, thank you.
And then came the obvious inside job mass murder and mass mind f*ck terror of 9/11 and the inside job full-spectrum terror operation of the Convid-19(84) plandemic, which made the Civil War look like child’s play.
“The military of the United States would not exist were it not for the voluntary enlistment of Southern men” …. no, the military of the rabid and criminally insane Jewnited States would not exist without the voluntary enlistment of the dangerously stupid and frothing psychopaths.
“The only civilization that existed in North America in the 19th century was in the South” Really? The four British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec confederated into the country of Canada in 1867. Partly on the real possibility of American invasion right after the American “civil” war. The possibility was so strong, Britain sent 15,000 troops to Canada in 1866. However, the taking down of Confederate statues was a real crime, that should be made right.
Ape Lincoln was a Commie assrag
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Wikipedia is not exactly an unbiased source of Civil War info or any historical info. What it doesn’t say is as important as its heavy misinterpretations of the facts it does refer to.
“Saving the Union” was a fake justification for the war. The US would have remained without the South as part of it. What the North wanted to save was their income stream from the South. When the South wouldn’t pay up, they shot it up and burned it down.
Oligarchs the world over have always seized other people’s land and killed anybody who objected. Then they send in their own to manage it. The post-Civil War govt sent in blacks, thinking they’d be obedient to their new, Northern masters. But then, as now, DEI was a total failure because they aren’t just like us, after all.
So, the North replaced those of them who were in politicized positions with its own whites, whom it sent South. It began ignoring the blacks who, without jobs or free housing, food and clothing, were worse off than ever.
The blacks had been slowly learning to fend for themselves in honest, productive ways when the Civil Rights movement came along to support them at the whole country’s expense. DEI was again instituted to replace whites and disrupt civil life. Only this time, it is DEI that includes foreigners brought in intentionally by the oligarchs not only to destroy the entire US, but to destroy Western civilization.
In comparing the US North in the Civil War to Israeli genocide PGT overlooks the fact that Lincoln and the North were not out to exterminate the Southern population and reoccupy all of their lands with their own kind. In the typical yellow journalism of our day PGT draws on faulty and anecdotal parallels, certainly not in keeping with the morality of the past or even of today. In the past when many of the war crimes did occur there was only shame and not the blatancy we see with the the Israeli intention to replace the Palestinians. No doubt, with the US “free enterprise” Masonic spirit arising from the US Constitution, great liberties were undoubtedly taken by various crude and barbarous people in uniform, and perhaps more by the North than the South.
The difference between what the Jews are doing in the Middle East, and what the Americans did to the native people, or the North in some cases did to the South, or what the Nazis did to the Jews and others deemed unwanted, was that those with Christian principles in those nations knew that such barbarism was pure evil. When Lincoln opened up the West during the Civil War and knowing at the time there was no willingness for integration, he said that there were only two alternatives: one was to exterminate the natives the other was “the more Christian alternative” which was to put them on reservations. He chose the later and said why.
Even though it is hard to treat people with racial differences or fundamental differences in beliefs from our own with any sense of real equality, at least that ethic has been taught and kept alive by the Gospels, such that when the light of day exposes such atrocities most of us still know them to be grave evils. Those principles unfortunately are missing from the Jewish faith which has an exceedingly narrow neighbor principle, at least from everything I have seen.
One of my ancestors fought and was wounded for and in the Union army, and in his own words, “fighting to free the slaves …”. I have a copy of his diary, most of it as mundane as it gets, but NOWHERE does he mention ANY atrocity, on either side, maybe because it was written as he recovered from his wound. Maybe history IS written by the victors. But like James Adams said, “there’s so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us”.
Lincoln’s Union Army was more evil than the Israeli Defense Force? Sounds too much like justification, but that’s just me…
Lincoln’s war against the South was a war of hate.
Dunno about that, (wasn’t there, never read the book either) so I’ll just go with, “fighting to free the slaves” and from that, his father did something that I thought was really cool, he hired a black man to work his son’s farm while he recovered…
The so-called Civil War was definitely not about fighting to free the slaves. Lincoln said as much himself. His primary concern was retaining the land and resources of the southern states (i.e., “preserving the Union”). He was a Federalist, so usurpation of state sovereignty by the federal government was likely a primary motivation too. The freeing of slaves, only in the states that were in “rebellion” mind you, was a means to this end, not the point. It’s made for good propaganda since then, however, because making war on a large segment of your own population just doesn’t look so good otherwise.
And he was willing to achieve the preservation of the “Union” at any cost. And the greatest cost insofar as today’s world is concerned was the breaking of all constraints on the powers of the federal government. This has led directly to the present situation in which the executive branch is making itself a dictatorship and is even disregarding the internal checks and balances that are supposed to exist within the federal government. So Lincoln put us on the road that led to the creation of the income tax, the creation of the Federal Reserve, WWI, WWII, a plethora of undeclared wars since WWII, and so on, right down to the outrageous and odious on-going offences of Trump, including the likely attacks on Iran that are entirely unconstitutional, and the build-up of Naval resources off its coast.
Lincoln might have been far more generous to the south than the “Radical Republicans” were…they wanted to “punish” the south. So they had a motivation to aid in his assassination. So did the British Empire/Rothschild gangsters.
@dwd
Yes, you are somewhat correct, yet the end RESULT, most of the ‘free’ world IS NOT enslaved! Call it all in ALL, like Cayce used to say, we are what we are BECAUSE of what we have been.
Abe Lincoln :
Abraham Lincoln the Jew https://forward.com/opinion/166698/abraham-lincoln-the-jew/
The Hebrew Lineage Of President Abraham Lincoln https://web.archive.org/web/20160813093352/https://moorishamericannationalrepublic.com/news/the-hebrew-lineage-of-president-abraham-lincoln/
Was Abraham Lincoln America’s First Gay President? https://allthatsinteresting.com/was-abraham-lincoln-gay
Hessian soldiers in Civil War ? “But perhaps the greatest evil was a private enlistment company, headquartered in Boston, set up to bring immigrants from Europe to serve in the Union army.”
http://circa1865.org/category/l-incolns-hessians/
War is Hell … and Satanists feel right at home in any blood sacrifice !
Some blacks travelled north, in search of these ‘greener pastures’ only to be thrown into concentration camps where they perished.
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My only question is why does everyone always act like palestinian muslims are always victims? Every where else islam goes it murders it’s way, in europe when theyre stabbing knives in baby carriages or driving a truck thru a school playground there’s no mercy for civillians there. To say that israelis are acting like a unilateral evil, I think if I was next to people who acted like savages i’d probably be dragged down to their level too, and Islam has 1400 years of that, it didn’t start 90 years ago with israel. I’ll agree that made it worse and so have many things since then but islam didnt have 1300 years of peace and only recent war, it had 1400 years of barbarism towards everyone not conquered by them except a handful of people like the mongols who put them in their place.
Just explain this part to me.