Trump Loses the Debate
By Cliff Kincaid The big winner of Wednesday night’s debate was North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who has no foreign policy experience. He won the debate on Wednesday night with his answer on war and peace: “What we’ve got going on in Ukraine is an example of when deterrence fail. What is an example there of Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the fact that he green-lighted Putin moving into Ukraine, and then now they see weakness, and when they see weakness, they make a move.” With the observation of Biden greenlighting Putin’s invasion, he got to the heart of the issue. Biden made the invasion possible. He is responsible for Putin’s invasion. He has blood on his hands. On the issue of war and peace, Biden has been a total failure. Now he keeps the no-win war going, costing the lives of many innocent people of Ukraine, and giving former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin the opportunity to contemplate invasions of Poland and other countries in Europe. When Burgum says Biden “green-lighted” Putin’s invasion, he is saying that Biden, the president of the United States, had encouraged the invasion. He did this when he dismissed the possibility of a Russian “incursion” that might not require a U.S. response. Now, a major war is taking place in Europe and Biden says the U.S. is running low on ammunition. While Bergum won the debate with that one observation, billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy lost with his comments on the same subject. He said, “I think that this is disastrous that we’re protecting against an invasion across somebody else’s border when we should use those same military resources to prevent across the invasion of our own southern border here in the United States of America.” Several participants noted that the U.S. is totally capable of doing both things. America under Reagan used to be the leader of the Free World. More than that, however, we need the use of the Defense Production Act to get the nation into a war footing for both Russia and China. We also need to ratchet up our nuclear weapons production to deter a communist nuclear first strike nuclear attack on American soil. “We’re driving Russia further into China’s hands,” said Ramaswamy, ignorant of the geopolitical reality that Russia and China have always been allies. Another loser in the debate was former President Trump, who was not there. He was afraid to take on Fox News and defend his record. His record includes abandoning the presidency when the nation needed hm to stay and fight. I am living near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where a battle took place in the Civil War that took 52,000 lives in just three days. We had a president then who saved and healed the nation. When Trump was faced with a Civil War, he gave up and ran to Mar-a-Lago. Now he’s facing various indictments, which were inevitable when Trump became a private citizen and demonstrated his weakness. By contrast, Lincoln used extraordinary means to keep the nation together. As I wrote in my column, “We Need Another Lincoln,” defenders of the Union held meetings to declare “Death to the Traitors” and identify spies in their midst. Today, traitors are celebrated. Transgender Army traitor Bradley/Chelsea Manning’s 35-year sentence was commuted by President Barack Hussein Obama. In the same vein, Ramaswamy says he would pardon Vladimir Putin’s favorite NSA/CIA analyst, Edward Snowden, who defected to Russia. This guy ought to be running as a left-wing candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries. He says he’s not bought and paid for. But he sounds like a Putinista. Getting back to Trump, he should have had the guts to go to the debate and ask the Fox anchors why their channel paid Dominion Voting Systems $787 million in a defamation settlement. If Trump really thinks he won the 2020 election, let him tell that to the Fox anchors directly. Instead, he ran to “X” with Tucker Carlson. The question from co-moderator Martha MacCallum about UFOs was the worst of the night. She thinks audience members are stupid people. The only thing worse than that was Tucker Carlson’s former shows on the channel, where he debated the matter of cattle mutilations carried out by outer space aliens. Fox fired him. Now he is functioning as Trump’s unpaid adviser, interviewing the former president on “X.” It doesn’t matter who’s up and who’s down, who got views and who didn’t. The issue is war and peace and the survival of the Republic. Trump had his chance to save the Republic and he failed. This former friend of Chris Christie took his advice and nominated Christopher Wray to run the FBI. Enough said. America has to get serious about our predicament. When Burgum nailed Biden for starting a war in Europe, he zeroed in on the target. Lives hang in the balance. Our nation’s fate hangs in the balance. This is not entertainment. This is a reality show in which real people die.
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The Next Phase of Obama’s “Permanent Revolution”
By Cliff Kincaid Back in 2008, Trevor Loudon and I exposed the Marxist roots of Barack Hussein Obama, including his relationship with Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. We released this information before he was elected to his first term. My group America’s Survival then published three books on Obama. Fifteen years later, it is starting to dawn on some people that Obama was indeed a Marxist. Consider Jamie Glazov’s new book, Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America. But the transformation continues. Our book on Obama’s Permanent Revolution explains where all of this is heading. We can see it in the drugs flooding into our communities, some of it exported by China and the Mexican cartels, and some of it homegrown, in the form of “cannabis” sales designed to generate tax dollars and votes. But something “new” is coming down the pike, though I predicted it. Ten years ago I wrote, “Progressives Now Want ‘Psychedelic Medicine,” and events are proceeding at a rapid pace. It won’t be long before you can take LSD and other psychedelic drugs, perhaps under the watchful and approving eye of the government. As I noted in the 2013 article on LSD as “medicine,” a key Obama supporter by the name of Ashawna Hailey was a pioneer in the field of psychedelics, as well as transgenderism. Ashawna Hailey was once a “he.” Shawn Hailey was born a man, but changed his gender to female and his name to Ashawna. Obama was a member of the Choom Gang, a group of heavy pot smokers, and open to experimentation of various kinds. We are witnessing the re-emergence of MK-Ultra, once a secret CIA experiment on humans using LSD, being given the official seal of government approval by liberal elites financed by big money. A Bloomberg reporter examined this movement, which recently met in the International Church of Cannabis in Denver. In Maryland, the new governor, Wes Moore, made most of his fortune through Green Thumb Industries, a marijuana business, and is presiding over legalization of the weed. In the first phase, on a national basis, Big Tobacco is being transformed into Big Marijuana. Consider the report by Reuters news agency that Cronos, the cannabis producer backed by cigarette maker Altria Group, is exploring a sale to Curaleaf Holdings, the largest marijuana company in the world which was initially financed by a Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich. Altria says “the emerging global cannabis sector” is “poised for rapid growth over the next decade.” Smoking cigarettes, of course, causes cancer, suffering and death. My own mother died from lung cancer after smoking for decades. My father smoked for years but then gave up the habit. But marijuana, with some of the same carcinogens, is now given the seal of approval because it generates a “high” acceptable to the liberal elites who want to leave people in a brain-damaged fog capable of being directed into “progressive” causes. Marijuana is already all over the country, in its legal or illegal forms, with the legal market the result of the success of the Russian-financed Curaleaf company, generating profits and taxes for politicians in many states. Meanwhile, we have learned more about how the communist Chinese are funding “illegal” pot operations in America -- in such states as “conservative” Oklahoma. Last year four people were shot and killed at a Chinese-sponsored marijuana growing operation in Oklahoma. The dead were Chinese nationals. So the Russians have cornered the "legal" part while the Chinese go after the "illegal" market. Sadly, in a major embarrassment, some Trump supporters involved in January 6 are turning out to be potheads. After I wrote an article about how the Russian financier Abramovich was behind Curaleaf, I got a response from a Trump supporter who claimed it was no big deal, and that smoking pot is healthy. “Both my step mother and her husband were committed pot heads and grew their own. Marijuana needs to be completely decriminalized…” he said. Marijuana is still illegal under federal law. Equally significant, he referred to a family member who was involved in the January 6 "insurrection" and was also a pothead. This individual was sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge for breaching the U.S. Capitol on January 6. One article referred to this person eventually “going to prison on significantly more serious charges,” after federal investigators executed a search warrant at his home in February 2021 and seized seven firearms, more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Two of the guns were loaded. This led to even more research, finding out that this wasn’t the only marijuana user present at the Capitol on January 6. I found a USA Today article about those arrested that day and discovered several people whose motivation that day was to smoke dope in the U.S. Capitol. One case involved Eduardo Nicolas Alvear Gonzalez, a “Doobie Smoker” and “self-employed social media influencer.” Gonzalez was listed on the “American Gulag” website, as if he were an innocent “political prisoner,” having “live streamed a video of himself inside the Capitol” and “was allegedly smoking marijuana inside the Capitol Rotunda.” One video of that conduct is still available on YouTube. It’s safe to say the charges are more than “alleged” when he pleaded guilty and pictures and video showed him smoking dope. His own sentencing memorandum stated, “The sum total of what he did inside amounted to recording and smoking marijuana in the Rotunda.” When Trump supporters in effect endorse Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” by smoking pot in front of the cameras, you know the legacy of our first Marxist president has had a lasting impact. It remains to be seen whether Obama’s revolution can be stopped in its tracks now that acceptance of mind-altering drugs is affecting Trump supporters who should know better. But if Trump himself wants to change the direction of the country under Obama’s vice-president, he should begin by advising his supporters to give up drugs, go to rehab, and get sober. Only then will we have a fighting chance to survive the communist revolution Obama started.
Biden On the Beach, Trump in the Dock
By Cliff Kincaid I just attended a meeting of my local conservative club in Frederick, Maryland, and quickly realized why Joe Biden can be found in a lounge chair on the beach. Conservatives are demoralized and confused. They are out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans. They don’t understand the big picture. My question to the assembled candidates, running for local congressional and Senate seats, concerned why they were not talking about the illegal drugs flooding our communities. (Marijuana is still illegal on the federal level). In Maryland, Governor Wes Moore is presiding over legalization of marijuana, as if the problem in the cities is that we need more and better pot. He made half his fortune as a board member of a marijuana company. But no candidate mentioned him. In effect, the state government is a drug pusher. Its happening in dozens of states. So-called “adult” sales of the drug to those 21 years and older were endorsed by the local Chamber of Commerce. Politicians are happy because they are taxing sales of the drug and getting money for their social programs, including for mental health problems caused by the drugs they endorse. At the end of the forum, a leader of the club grabbed the podium to rant about aid to Ukraine, calling it an anti-Semitic country. He was unaware the president of Ukraine is Jewish. He said China was the bigger threat and that Taiwan was in danger of falling to the communists. He seemed to believe American soldiers ought to fight and die against China. In Ukraine, the people are fighting for themselves. They are asking for weapons to defend themselves. He was unaware of the geopolitical reality that Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion is one reason why China has had second thoughts about invading Taiwan. Russia was supposed to take the country in a few days. It is inspiring how free people can resist the communists in places like Ukraine and Taiwan. These are free people who deserve our support. In the same way, we owe our freedom to the American revolutionaries who were assisted by the French. But “freedom” is a word that few conservatives understand anymore. Some think freedom means smoking and selling dope. They let legalization happen in the “Free State” of Maryland. So crime will get worse. So will homelessness and mental health problems. The schools will suffer as well. When I asked the local leader of the Conservative Cub of Frederick, Maryland, whether he had heard any criticism of legal dope in Maryland, he answered in the negative. That’s sad, considering the studies linking dope to mental health problems, brain damage, and violence. Conservatives are on the defensive and distracted by the Trump indictments. If you watch the “conservative” news channels, this is all they can talk about. On Tuesday morning, Newsmax repeatedly aired comments by the Georgia prosecutor babbling about the latest indictment. It’s probably the same on Fox. We hear them talk endlessly about the four indictments. What a waste of air time. Trump has billions and can take care of himself. There is really nothing ordinary people can do about this lawfare. The only beneficiaries are the lawyers and Trump’s campaign coffers. Web sites such as Gateway Pundit ware also taking advantage of the brouhaha, running ads for a TRUMP 2024 “SAVE AMERICA” automatic knife. One question put to the local candidates was whether they favor the border wall. The issue is what to do about the illegal aliens flooding the cities. Who has a realistic plan to identify and deport them? None of them offered one. I admire these candidates for taking a stand and running for office. But we must be realistic about their chances, when their hero, Trump, has emerged as a major target and distraction. The Republicans are divided in Maryland and the conservatives are lost. Newsmax, the supposed alternative to Fox, is now offering “special coverage” of the latest Trump indictment. Instead of talking endlessly about Hunter’s Biden’s drug problem and his “laptop from hell,” conservatives should focus on the real-life consequences of drugs in our communities. One person came up to me after the conservative club meeting and told me how drugs had devastated her family. Yes, some of the problem is the fentanyl coming across the border, courtesy of the Chinese and the Mexican cartels. But many of the drug dealers are in the major cities and much of the dope is being homegrown. Nobody seems concerned about that. Instead, the local paper, the Frederick News-Post, published a special “Weed Issue” glamorizing the drug and advertising the “best stoner flicks of the past century.” Other stories concerned the “best munchies in Frederick,” when someone gets high, and a “pothead playlist” of songs. Getting back to Trump, who brought on many of his legal problems himself, consider the prosecutor turned “Special Counsel” David Weiss in the Hunter Biden case. Trump nominated him after he was recommended by Democrats. FBI Director Christopher Wray was also nominated by Trump. Now Trump says that if he is just given another chance, he will truly “drain the swamp.” Should conservatives believe him this time? Or should conservatives try someone else like Florida Governor DeSantis, with a proven track record of changing government? Frederick’s local conservative club needs a real debate on these issues. Conservatives on the national stage must get beyond the constant hand-wringing on Trump’s behalf. He is a big boy with big bucks and high-powered lawyers and can take care of himself. I am more concerned by the United Nations affiliation of the other Special Counsel, Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump after serving as an international lawyer at an illegitimate U.N. International Criminal Court (ICC). This so-called tribunal could bring charges against American taxpayers over slavery, demanding trillions of dollars in reparations. The real “criminal enterprise” in this case is the United Nations, financed by American tax dollars, and the story is how it has targeted a former president and our nation through a global legal process that is eroding our national sovereignty. Let’s start talking about the obvious solution, which is a Republican House of Representatives that defunds Jack Smith and the United Nations. This is the only power available to Speaker Kevin McCarthy. My friends, let’s ignore the gibberish and get real about solutions to actual problems.
![]() The U.N. Lawyer Prosecuting Trump UPDATE: President Trump says: I just found out that Crooked Joe’s weaponized Department of InJustice obtained a search warrant to secretly gain access to my Twitter account and my private data. The deranged and vengeful Biden-appointed prosecutor also DEMANDED that Twitter keep it a SECRET for 6 months.And when Twitter at first did not comply by handing over my private data, they were FINED $350,000 – by a judge appointed by Barack Obama. This is the Deep State – a giant, interconnected network of corruption that abuses its power to crush dissent and attack its opposition. As I’ve said before, when you begin to drain the swamp, you expose the monstrous entities that had been lurking at the bottom. What else will we find out has been taking place behind closed doors to infringe upon my rights and interfere in the 2024 election? By Cliff Kincaid Before he was assigned to “get Trump,” Special Counsel Jack Smith conducted investigations and supervised “war crime prosecutions” at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. But the United States never ratified the ICC treaty. On what basis, therefore, did he work on that global tribunal? He began his career under Barack Hussein Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, leading the Department of Justice “Public Integrity Section,” and his controversial record of “overzealous investigations and prosecutions” has been subjected to scrutiny by the America First Policy Institute. But what the “conservative” critique has missed is his work as a globalist at an illegitimate international court that the United States Senate, in charge of treaties, has never endorsed. Smith has been photographed in his global garb, wearing black and purple robes, contemplating crimes such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This is where power really went to his head, as evident in the prosecutions he is now bringing against former President Trump. One charge, if we are to believe the media, is that Trump mishandled some documents in his possession dealing with nuclear issues. He was entitled to those under the Presidential Records Act. Yet it’s the Biden Administration which revealed one of the nation’s most highly classified secrets -- the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. Such a disclosure works only to the benefit of America’s enemies, such as China and Russia, who keep their nuclear information a state secret. The Trump administration had denied the release of that information about the U.S. arsenal. Smith is a left-wing lawyer who wants to prosecute Trump and handicap his defense team with “evidence” kept secret from the American people. He says this is necessary because of the need for “grand jury secrecy.” It’s a violation of the First Amendment but is typical of how international lawyers treat our country and our rights with disdain. The latest example of his power grab is that he used a secret warrant to get access to Trump’s Twitter account. Faced with the “lawfare” antics of this lawyer from a global kangaroo court, Trump’s lawyers have no choice but to put Smith on trial for violating the U.S. Constitution. And the Congress has no alternative but to defund Smith’s illegitimate and illegal quest to put the former president in prison. What if this kangaroo court in the U.S. gets copied on a global level? What if the United Nations were to prosecute a future President Trump or another Republican president in the name of demanding trillions of dollars in reparations for slavery? That is in fact the direction the United Nations is heading, for its so-called “UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent” claims that American taxpayers owe black people reparations for a history of “racial terrorism.” Radical black activists cite the First World Tribunal on Reparations for African People held in Brooklyn, New York in 1982, where a panel of judges ruled that the U.S. owed $4.1 trillion in reparations to African people. Rep. Cori Bush says the figure has risen to $14 trillion. Paul Robeson, the black singer whose fatal flaws included membership in the Moscow-funded Communist Party, love for Soviet mass murderer Joseph Stalin, and support for the Hitler-Stalin Pact that paved the way for World War II, submitted a “We Charge Genocide” petition to the United Nations in 1951. It was promoted by the communist-front Civil Rights Congress and has been called the “Black Lives Matter” campaign of its day. We can anticipate an international lawyer like Jack Smith bringing these charges against the U.S. in the future through a global tribunal. If that doesn’t work, the international lawyers are also considering suing U.S. corporations and the U.S. Government for “environmental reparations,” based on the exploitation of natural resources and their alleged impact on “climate change.” In my 1995 book, Global Bondage: The U.N. Plan to Rule the World, I went into detail about U.N. plans for an International Criminal Court that could prosecute American citizens. Jack Smith represents the latest aspect of this campaign. Once they “convict” Trump on dubious grounds, they will try to put him on trial internationally and send him to The Hague. My group America’s Survival, Inc. was the first national organization to warn of global taxes and the International Criminal Court, holding news conferences on these matters at the National Press Club and on Capitol Hill. Responding to public concern, on June 11, 2020, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 13928, declaring as “illegitimate” the proclaimed “jurisdiction” of the ICC over personnel of the United States. But on April 2, 2021, the Biden administration revoked the Executive Order. In effect, Trump was imposing sanctions in the form of visa/travel restrictions and asset freezes targeting International Criminal Court officials as well as other persons that contribute to the Court’s illegal investigations against the United States and its allies. But with Biden on the side of the ICC, one left-wing organization said that Trump administration officials could now be prosecuted for “contempt” for international law before the ICC. That organization, which calls itself “Just Security,” had two interesting people on its advisory board: Avril Haines, who served as Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama and is now Biden’s Director of National Intelligence, and Jake Sullivan, who served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, as well as deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is now Biden’s national security advisor. Not surprisingly, the organization is supported by the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations. Back in 1998, I was joined by Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus in opposition to the ICC. Howard, a well-known conservative leader, made several important points:
I agreed with Howard Phillips when he said that the Biblical foundations of our Constitution and the protections it provides to our rights should not be sacrificed to promote an anti-Christian New World Order with an International Criminal Court enforcing “laws” enacted by the United Nations. The ICC treaty was NOT ratified, but Biden went ahead anyway, appointing Beth Van Schaack as the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, launching what she called “a sorely needed reset of the U.S. relationship with the ICC,” and saying the U.S. Government will “continue rebuilding the U.S.-ICC relationship and put it on a more durable path…” Her bio also includes work for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. It turns out that she also she served as Executive Editor for Just Security, the same organization pushing a charge of “contempt” against Trump on a global basis. As the “lawfare” against Trump proceeds, we can anticipate an International Criminal Tribunal targeting the United States, focusing on President Trump or any Republican president. One charge could be “contempt” of international law over the ICC, followed by charges of “racial terrorism” against America itself. Defunding the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith is one easy way for the House Republicans to stop these schemes.
WE CAN’T BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!
By Karen McKay A persistent strain of isolationism in the American psyche goes back to the founding of the country. Proponents generally cite George Washington in his farewell address to the nation, claiming that he warned against “entangling alliances.” He didn’t actually quite say that. Most of his address was introspective about his life of service, warnings about encroachment by one of the three branches of government into another, and fervent warnings against political parties. As for alliances, he said that the United States must faithfully keep her existing treaties with Great Britain and Spain. But in the future, the old statesman said, the U.S. should enter into treaties with caution and the realization that no alliance can be permanent. As Churchill would say more than a century later, there are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests. Washington, speaking of Europe’s constant warring, pointed to the oceans that protect our hemisphere from spillover of Europe’s bloodletting: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel... Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?...Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Those distances soon began to shrink. President Thomas Jefferson, who did not want a standing military at all, built a navy and sent it halfway around the world to crush the Barbary pirates preying on American merchantmen on the high seas. James Monroe, our fifth president, sent the US Navy to blockade Africa and catch slavers. The African Slave Trade Patrol, comprised of American warships and cutters, continued until 1861, when it was called home for service in the Civil War. Isolationism, however, still coursed through the bloodstream of America. With the War to End All Wars raging in Europe, Woodrow Wilson campaigned on the slogan “He kept us out of war.” Not even the sinking of the Lusitania brought the US into the war. Then the Zimmerman Telegram was intercepted by US intelligence--the Germans were offering Texas, Arizona and New Mexico to Mexico if it would join the war on Germany’s side. Two million Americans shipped out to European shores, and another two million were on the way when the war ended. One hundred thousand American troops did not come home—killed in combat or by disease (the Spanish flu was as deadly as enemy bombs, bayonets and bullets.) World War One was ended by exhaustion and an armistice, not by a decisive victory. Inevitably, it resumed as World War Two in less than two decades. Again, America stayed out of it until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, followed immediately by Germany’s declaring war on the United States. This time the war ended in total victory by the Allies and unconditional surrender by Germany and Japan. Despite wars breaking out continually in some corner of the world ever since--two of them, Korea and Vietnam, fought by American soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen—isolationists still clamored for America to withdraw into its fortress at home. Politicians, editorial writers and writers of letters to the editor, demonstrators, academics, PTA moms, clergy, actors, Liberals, Libertarians, Conservatives and atheists loudly or plaintively declare that “We can’t be the world’s policeman!” OK, so who would you rather have as the world’s policeman? Because somebody will be. You might not like it, but it will always be as it always has been the guy with the biggest army—the guy strong enough to lay down the law. Nature abhors a vacuum; the absence of world order means world chaos. The Assyrians, Egyptians, Byzantines, Romans, Incas, Ottomans, British, Mayans, Manchus, Mongols, Mughals and other powers kept their world’s order at one time or another. Look them up. They weren’t nice cops. All practiced slavery, many practiced human sacrifice, they controlled their subjects with brutality. Their ships of state floated on seas of blood. No such thing as rights or civil liberties. There’s always another wannabe King of the Hill watching, an equal or rising power on the edges of the ruling empire, waiting for the top cop’s sword to grow dull. The United States of America has held that position, Policeman of the World, since the end of the Second World War. We didn’t choose the job, didn’t seek it, we were just the strongest of those left standing in the free world when the war ended. Before the smoke even cleared, our erstwhile ally Stalin was already moving to seize an empire, reneging on promises to liberate the countries his army occupied in the course of defeating Nazi Germany, liquidating, imprisoning or relocating millions who stood in his way. For America’s European allies, the war was a Pyrrhic victory—financially exhausted, they watched their empires collapse. The Soviet Union, which had been kept alive and in the war by American largess—food, war machines, materiel, fuel--now trained, sponsored, and encouraged Communist revolutionaries in the former colonies to seize power and/or lead liberation movements. By default, the United States of America became the leader of the free world and top cop in the West. Although President Harry Truman allowed an unmanaged military demobilization after V-J Day that would prove catastrophic in five years, America still had the strongest economy in the world at the end of the war. Europe lay in ruins with millions of their citizens interred in mass graves. Our homeland was virtually untouched, our farms and ranches were producing bountifully, and our industry quickly demilitarized to again produce consumer goods. Now America is abdicating its leadership role. Our culture is degenerating, our military power hollowing out, the shadow of a Dark Age looms. A new Axis of Evil--China-Russia-Iran-North Korea--is muscling up and watching us like a pack of jackals measuring a tiring buffalo. No great civilization ever fell to outside force until it was thoroughly rotted within, and we are doing it to ourselves just as the Romans, Athenians, and other once-great world powers did to themselves. Consider the alternatives. Look at the cultures of those who seek right now to replace America as Policeman of the World. China? Russia? Iran? Do you like what you see? Is that what we want for our grandchildren? If it’s not, we’d better get a grip on ourselves and renew the United States of America as founded: faithful to a Constitution based on Judeo-Christian principles and values, a country and people morally and fiscally sound. If we accept that we, America, must continue to be the World’s Policeman simply because there is no one else in the free world capable of doing it, then we have got to resume leadership in the world: moral leadership, economic leadership, educational leadership, and most of all, military leadership. We have got to project power. Our armed forces have to be so strong and so ready to fight that nobody will want to mess with us and everybody will want to be on our side. Our people have to be self-reliant, resourceful, hard-working and moral. God must be returned to the public square, back in the schools, back in civil discourse. Our country must be self-sufficient, energy and food independent. We must be unapologetic about our power and wealth, while stretching out a helping hand to those genuinely in need. Our borders must be secure; legal immigration must be based on merit and our national interests, with allowance for genuine refugees. Not least, as President Washington said in his farewell to the nation, “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ?... Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” Si vis pacem, para bellum (if you want peace, prepare for war.) The Fourth Century Roman Flavius Vegetius Renatus, observing with dismay the decline of the Roman legion, was not the first nor the last in history to express the axiom of “peace through strength.” The Father of our Country warned about “throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear” as a result of “unavoidable wars.” Nothing else justifies going into debt. America must cultivate peace but remember that “timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it.” Benjamin Franklin would say that is the stitch that saves nine. So what’s our security situation today? Staggering debt that will crush our grandchildren’s grandcildren. Disrepected by both ally and enemy. A Woke Department of Defense obsessed with “DEI” (letters better arranged as “DIE) and CRT, with promoting and paying for “transgenderism,” with “Pride” celebrations, with eradicating “white supremacism” in the ranks, with kicking out of service anyone who refused to take the experimental COVID shots. Not only do we have too few ships, we don’t have the sailors to man them; too few combat aircraft and too few pilots to fly them; too few artillery pieces and too few operators to fire them. Our Strategic Oil Reserve has been wasted for political ends. We are dependant on our enemies for strategic materiel and almost everything else our military and civlian population need. Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are building massive sea, air and land forces—and they are jerking us around on and over the Seven Seas, staking out the Arctic, infiltrating the American homeland and Europe. They are at war with us—the shooting just hasn’t started yet. Weakness is a provocaton, and our enemies see us as weak. If we would have peace, we had better get on a war footing NOW. Ohterwise, as Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, “War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage." If we would keep peace, we must wear that Policeman of the World badge. As Thucydides said, The strong do what they can. The weak do what they must. ![]() Evil in the White House By Cliff Kincaid The same week I saw the powerful Sound of Freedom movie about child sex trafficking, I got an email from a pro-Russian activist promoting a Scott Ritter video trashing Ukraine President Zelensky. What the sender did not know is that Ritter, a former Marine and U.N. weapons inspector, is a convicted sex offender. This omission is strange, dangerously so. Sound of Freedom lives up to the advance publicity, documenting “the true story of former government agent Tim Ballard who quit his job to rescue a little girl from sex traffickers in the Colombian jungle.” Ballard saved 123 people, 55 of which were children, from one mission alone. Ballard, played in the film by Jim Caviezel, now runs Operation Underground Railroad, to continue the fight to rescue children from sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. But the Ritter case is one more example of how the problem reaches deep into American society. Ritter, recently interviewed by RFK Jr. about Russia’s war on Ukraine, was convicted of sex crimes in 2011 after exposing himself on a web camera while chatting with an undercover detective who identified himself as a 15-year-old girl. In a shocking development, Tucker Carlson, formerly of Fox News, launched a new show and interviewed Andrew Tate, a so-called social media influencer who is presented as a role model for young men but has been accused of human trafficking and rape. Tate denies the charges and has sued his accusers. The case of Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, has also been linked to human trafficking. Representative James Comer says one Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) at the Treasury Department “connects Hunter Biden and his business associates to international human trafficking, among other illegal activities,” involving foreign and American prostitutes. Comer and other Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform allege Biden violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Hunter Biden’s lawyers have denied the charges and says their client is not associated with a human trafficking ring. The Sound of Freedom only goes so far, in that it focuses on child trafficking networks in Latin America when the movie concedes at the end that pedophiles in the United States are the biggest customers. Jeffrey Epstein’s deepest and darkest secret was that he was a practicing homosexual and that his entourage of young girls provided a cover story that actually made him seem “respectable” to the movers and shakers in New York and Washington, D.C. On Thursday, in Washington, D.C., a group of conservatives are putting pressure on the Roman Catholic Church in America to stop facilitating illegal immigration and child trafficking. Sheena Rodriguez, President/Founder of the Alliance for a Safe Texas, will speak on illegal immigration and child trafficking at a news conference at the National Press Club. "Since January 2021, there have been over 356,000 UACs (unaccompanied minors) encountered at the southern border, a majority of which have been released into the U.S….” notes Rodriguez. “The Biden administration has admitted they do not keep track of their whereabouts when they are released into the U.S. With the use of taxpayer dollars, tens of thousands of children are simply missing.” Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Services whistleblower who testified before Congress, said she discovered that children entering the U.S. “are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in home country, smuggled to the US border,” and then delivered to a “sponsor,” some of whom are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations. The Roman Catholic Church had a role -- and still has a major role -- in facilitating the foreign invasion of the U.S. Indeed, in the face of declining membership, new immigrants arriving in the United States, including many Catholics from Latin America, provide new members and priests. Catholic Charities is among the NGO's which facilitate the migration of illegal aliens into the interior of the country. While one focus of the Thursday news conference is cutting off government contracts to the Catholic Church which facilitate illegal immigration, an equally serious problem is the failure by men of God and their employees to protect children in their care. Director Amy Berg exposed the cover-up of pedophilia in the Catholic Church in her 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary, “Deliver Us from Evil.” To put it bluntly, the Catholic Church bureaucracy in the United States has surrendered to the forces of Cultural Marxism. The Cultural Marxism in the Catholic Church is one focus of the Thursday news conference, as participants intend to highlight the bishops’ “politicking for the Democratic/communist agenda.” The Archbishop of Washington, Wilton Gregory, has decided that Joe Biden is a Catholic in good standing and deserves Holy communion. Wilton Gregory’s predecessor, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, resigned from his leadership of the archdiocese in 2018 after he was accused of covering up sexual abuse. His predecessor as archbishop of Washington was the disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic leader ever to be removed for sexually abusing a minor. As a prosecutor and Attorney General in California, Vice-President Kamala Harris refused to take on sexual abuse by priests. As she began her presidential run, Harris announced that she supported the decriminalization of “sex work” – prostitution. One of the main forces behind this movement is the Soros-funded “Sexual Health and Rights Project,” which pushes special “rights” for prostitutes. The church under Pope Francis has its own playbook, with Cardinal Peter Turkson -- a close adviser to Francis -- telling “Axios on HBO” the Catholic Church “plans to be increasingly active on climate, refugees and racial equity.” In other words, change the subject. Hence, at the Thursday event, Trevor Loudon will speak on the man-made climate change hoax. With the Sound of Freedom projecting over $85 million total cumulative box office revenue through Sunday, with a strong $27 million box office draw in the second weekend of the film's domestic release, it is clear that much more work needs to be done. The film notes that the United States is the largest consumer of child sex in the world but it is also true that the U.S. is the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs. Today, the U.S. has become a narco-state, with George Soros having provided $300 million to weaken or dismantle laws against illegal drugs. “We see trafficking of illegal drugs and human trafficking often happen together,” notes the Drug Enforcement Administration. In fact, the failure to stop human trafficking may be directly related to the demoralizing impact of drugs as a sabotage weapon waged by our enemies, blinding the American people to the reality of evil in our midst. Clearly, Hunter’s sexual activities, including fathering an illegitimate child with a stripper, was related to his heavy drug use, including cocaine. Now, with the failure by the Secret Service to reveal who brought cocaine into the White House, the situation has become more dangerous. On July 12, the agency disclosed, “the Secret Service received the FBI’s laboratory results, which did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons. Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals,” defined as the “hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered.” Thus, the Secret Service's investigation was “closed due to a lack of physical evidence.” It is apparent the investigation was closed because the agency did not want to identify the obvious culprit or his enabler.
A Narco-Nation of Potheads, Courtesy of George Soros
By Cliff Kincaid| January 19th, 2020 By Cliff Kincaid Billionaire George Soros was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Inside Philanthropy magazine for his “…fight for academic freedom in Central Europe, and his resistance to the rising tide of authoritarianism worldwide.” The former is a reference to gender studies programs and the latter concerns his ongoing campaign to undermine existing governments, causing chaos that makes more money for hedge fund currency manipulators and short-sellers like himself. In the United States, he is best known for almost single-handedly creating a narco-nation through legalization of marijuana, causing human suffering and environmental devastation on a scale most people do not yet comprehend. With the nation focused on the opioid danger, and President Trump accusing China of pumping fentanyl into the veins of American victims through Mexico, the marijuana problem has gotten less attention. Indeed, liberal politicians and prosecutors, some of them getting Soros money, are treating the dope as a harmless substance and even a money-maker for local and state governments. For one of the most sensational examples of a notorious pothead, consider Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who became a convicted killer and then killed himself in prison. The subject of a new Netflix series, “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,”he was a chronic marijuana user throughout college and his NFL career who experienced brain damage from the drug. The case proves a direct link between marijuana, mental illness, and violence. In California, legal dope was supposed to displace illegal dope. But illicit cannabis cultivation sites are proliferating, offering a cheaper product than the government-approved variety. The Siskiyou County (California) Board of Supervisors voted on a new Declaration of Local Emergency that refers to illegal growers being responsible for “hundreds of pervasive fire hazards, insecticides, pesticides, rodenticides, fertilizers, trash, and unsanitary conditions which severely impact health, safety and quality of life for countless county residents…” It’s in Barack Hussein Obama’s state of Illinois that we see some of the recent damage being done. Illinois last year became the first state to legalize the marijuana business through legislation rather than by referendum and placing excise and sales taxes on the “product.” We can already see the predictable result — marijuana-related emergency room visits are on the rise.The local ABC-TV station in Chicago quotes doctors as saying the most common symptoms of the new potheads in Illinois are restlessness, heart palpitations and anxiety, but that “In some cases we are seeing full on psychosis, agitation, hallucinations.” Incredibly, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton was one of the first in line to purchase the dope. She bought clementine-flavored marijuana edible gummies and paid with cash.The scene was captured by CNN as she was pictured among hundreds of early-morning customers at a Chicago marijuana dispensary. She probably went to the front of the line, but some people waited hours in order to buy their “recreational marijuana” and get “high.” David E. Smith of the Illinois Family Institute comments, “Not only have lawmakers failed to do their due diligence before passing this marijuana law, but they also failed to heed the compelling research that indicates how regular use of marijuana affects young people, including an increased risk of psychiatric illnesses and a permanent loss of IQ points.” In fact, this is the plan – dumb people down so they ruin their lives and then have to be dependent on the state for the rest of their lives. The potheads are fast becoming an important new constituency for the socialist-minded. Before they actually navigate their way to the polls, they can relieve their pain by employing another “hemp” product – CBD or cannabidiol. CBD is being hawked all over, even on the Rush Limbaugh show, and is being advertised as a treatment for “muscle soreness” and “everyday discomfort.” But many complaints have been filed with the FDA over the false medical claims made about CBD. Dr. Kenneth Finn comments, “These products are everywhere, but there is little scientific evidence to support the hype that surrounds them.” He says unregulated CBD products hitting the market might be contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, insecticides, molds, E. coli, or fungus. Official dope distribution is supposed to fill a financial gap. In Illinois, the sixth-biggest state, by population, Politico reporter Theodoric Meyer reports that it has seen its credit rating cut to near-junk status in the decade since the financial crisis. “Its bonds are now considered as risky as those of Russia and Romania,” he notes. “Its pension system is in worse shape than that of almost any other state.” Writers Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner note that the population of Illinois dropped by 100,000 people between 2010 and 2018 and few of the state’s counties have been spared. “That means that 93 of the state’s 102 counties have shrunk since 2010,” they note. Adam Schuster, Director of Budget and Tax Research at the group, Illinois Policy, reports that 36 percent of the money the state allocates to education will be diverted away from teachers and students to meet required pension payments for retirees. Former Illinois pension chief Marc Levine is quoted as saying a federal bailout may be required, making this a matter affecting all taxpayers, not just the saps remaining in Illinois. The “progressive” politicians have virtually bankrupted the state, forcing thousands to flee, and have turned to the cruel exploitation of potheads as a sure-fire money-maker to stave off the final countdown to fiscal oblivion. But legalized dope means more wards of the state who need government help. Now this is going national. “Once a politically dangerous subject,” notes Trevor Hughes of USA Today, “legal marijuana has become something of a de facto platform plank for the 2020 Democratic candidates: All support either legalizing or decriminalizing its use, and the differences lie in how far the candidates are willing to take it.” Since 22.2 million people have used marijuana in the past month, this is fertile ground for votes. In a bid for votes, candidate Pete Buttigieg actually toured a “cannabis dispensary” in Las Vegas while commenting that he smoked dope a “handful of times a long time ago.” President Trump, on the other hand, can just say no. He lost his brother to alcoholism and should consider speaking out against the Soros-funded marijuana craze before more lives are ruined and lost. His Surgeon General, Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams, is already speaking out about the health risks of marijuana use. He needs the backing of his president. Roger Morgan, author of Soros: The Drug Lord. Pricking the Bubble of American Supremacy,notes the elevated levels of mental illness, addiction, suicides, traffic deaths and the unseen mental and physical defects to babies and future generations from the use of marijuana and other mind-altering drugs. He adds, “America can never be great again if a major percentage of its young people are brain damaged, mentally ill, addicted or dead.” ![]() America’s Marijuana Army By Cliff Kincaid It is entertaining to watch Republicans getting facetime by sniffing around the Hunter Biden scandal. But even if Hunter is finally sent to prison, which is unlikely, the Democrats continue to expand their ranks of voters with endless handouts, including promises of cheap dope. In Maryland, the latest state to legalize dope, “There’s more than 4 million eligible [marijuana] consumers versus 168,000 medical patients,” said Will Tilburg of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission. The means another potential 4 million Democrat voters legally enjoying the “Soma” of the Brave New World since the state legalized the drug on July 1. That may not have much political significance in Maryland, already a heavily Democratic state. But with 22 percent of Americans currently using marijuana, that means millions more across the country are potential votes for the political party willing to give them special access to cheap dope through state-licensed “dispensaries.” A leader in this effort for Republicans is Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has now proposed that the U.S. military recruit potheads to the ranks. His rationale is that the Pentagon is failing to recruit enough people for its all-volunteer military and so it needs to lower its standards even further. A critic of our “woke” military, Gaetz now wants new soldiers suffering from the “purple haze” they went through on the civilian side. Suddenly, one of Trump’s strongest defenders in Congress is getting rave reviews from the stoners in the liberal media, as his website is full of news clips praising his “forward” thinking. Fortunately, most conservatives and Republicans oppose the drug pushers on moral and legal grounds, noting that marijuana is still illegal on the federal level and that its use has been linked to mental illness and violence. Hence, the publication Politico has run an article documenting how the push for legal dope faces “hostile ground in red states.” In Maryland, the power of the pot lobby is such that the state’s Catholic Conference, representing more than one million Catholics, took no official position on legalizing dope. Instead, it said simply, “We implore all Catholics and people of good will to think critically about the consequences of legalizing recreational marijuana in Maryland.” The consequences can be seen in any number of violent incidents, such as the Parkland, Florida mass murder that Rep. Gaetz, being from Florida, should know something about. After having a chance to clean out his system of mind-altering drugs and now thinking straight, convicted killer Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people in 2018 and blamed heavy marijuana use for the “demons” in his brain. Yet, on Capitol Hill, Rep. Gaetz urges Republicans to vote for potheads in the military. In this case, President Biden may hold the line, refusing to rase the white flag of surrender. More so than most, President Biden understands that illegal drug use has wreaked havoc on his own family members. Indeed, after President Biden took office, the Daily Beast reported that “dozens of young White House staffers” were suspended, asked to resign, or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use. It would be wise for Republicans to expand their sniffing around the cocaine scandal in the White House to investigate how illegal drugs of all kinds, including marijuana, are rotting the country from the inside out. As legalization was being implemented in Maryland under Governor Wes Moore, a former executive of a marijuana company, a Baltimore inner city resident said, “We’ve already got too much of that stuff!” Pot-friendly Baltimore is already a bloodbath of violence. It’s doubtful that the government-sanctioned pot can undercut the prices of the illegal weed. But politicians in states like Maryland figure it is worth a try, in order to generate tax revenue and campaign donations for Democrats who made it legal. It’s a cynical political strategy designed to create more voters dependent on the government for what sustains them. It was legalized in a referendum. In South Carolina, where marijuana is illegal, a man was sentenced to life in prison on June 22 after using a semi-automatic rifle to kill a mail carrier who failed to deliver his pot from California, where it’s legal. He fired about 20 times into the back of her mail truck. Then he stole her vehicle, searching for the package intended for him. Both the perpetrator and victim, 64-year-old Irene Pressley, were black. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has emphasized that marijuana users are still barred from buying guns even in states where pot is legal. Marijuana users are jeopardizing their own job prospects, especially federal jobs that require security clearances. Since marijuana is still illegal under federal law, employees who test for marijuana at private companies can be terminated. Yet, Maryland State Delegates Karen Simpson and Ken Kerr, as well as Debbie Streeton, Manager of Member Services for the Chamber of Commerce, helped stage a ribbon cutting at the Curaleaf store in Frederick County, Maryland, on July 1 when “adult use” sales began. But now, on the federal level, Rep. Gaetz comes to the rescue, inviting potheads to join the military and get armed at taxpayer expense. Getting them security clearances is the next logical step. Gaetz favors decriminalization on the federal level. Meanwhile, a national security issue has emerged, as officials in Connecticut and Massachusetts are investigating marijuana business Curaleaf for alleged undisclosed financial ties to Russian billionaire oligarch and Vladimir Putin ally Roman Abramovich. Media outlets such as Bloomberg confirmed that Curaleaf received hundreds of millions of dollars in financing from Abramovich during its early years. One article was headlined, “How Putin’s ally Roman Abramovich bankrolled America’s largest marijuana company.” Were these ties disclosed to Maryland and Frederick County officials? In Russia, however, as we saw in the WNBA case of American Brittney Griner, sentenced to nine years in prison for marijuana possession, the authorities take a different approach. Griner, whose defense was that she had a “medical marijuana” card, was later exchanged for a Russian arms dealer. Curaleaf currently has 152 dispensaries operating in 19 U.S. states. Perhaps one is coming to an Army base near you. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org The Supreme Court Won't Save Us
By Cliff Kincaid On July 4, in Philadelphia, communists are planning a rally, “America Is Nothing To Celebrate.” The sponsor, a Maoist group by the name of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), is in the middle of a $100,000.00 fundraising drive and reports that about three-quarters of that amount has come in so far. The fundraising is conducted through YouTube videos. Donations are accepted through PayPal and credit card. By contrast, my America’s Survival anti-communist videos were totally banned by YouTube. That was a total of 500 videos eliminated from public viewing. On March 18, in Lafayette Square across from the White House, I took pictures of more than one thousand communists, socialists and fellow travelers. The RCP was among them. Similar Communist rallies were held in more than one dozen other cities. Speaking to the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference, President Trump said, “Using federal law, section 212 (f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, I will order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists. Those who come to join our country must love our country. We don’t want them if they want to destroy our country…. So, we’re going to be keeping foreign Christian-hating communists, socialists, and Marxists out of America. We’re keeping them out of America.” A writer for the Communist Party newspaper admitted that Trump said, accurately, that the law already “prohibits the entry of communists” into the U.S. Federal immigration law does indeed say that any immigrant “…who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist…party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.” But they are already here. Trump understands this, asking, “But my question is, what are we going to do with the ones that are already here, that grew up here?” The communist writer reported that the packed auditorium erupted with screaming chants of “Deport them! Deport them!” A law intended to jail subversives, the Communist Control Act, is on the books but no longer enforced by the Biden Justice Department. Look it up: 50 U.S. Code § 841. As president, Trump never enforced it either. My organization is facing an unprecedented assault on its financial viability and existence, but communist groups are free to operate without any oversight by federal law enforcement agencies and they enjoy financial support from Big Tech and major American corporations, which make their platforms possible and censor mine. Sadly, most of the communists I observed at that March 18 rally were young people. They are products of our educational system. They were trained to be communists in college and then Biden tried to accommodate them by cancelling their student loans. Other communist groups, such as the Party for Socialism & Liberation, turn out in the streets for various causes, such as demanding “justice” for Jordan Neely, the career criminal who threatened the lives of people on the New York City subway and then died in the arms of the former Marine, Daniel Penny, after he tried to restrain him. Penny has been charged with manslaughter. In America today, the communists and criminals are given the advantage. Those who want law and order and seek to preserve the American way of life are persecuted. The communist groups at the March 18 rally claimed to be peaceful but some pledge allegiance to Moscow, Beijing, North Korea and Cuba. These groups are the potential breeding ground for people like Lee Harvey Oswald, who murdered President Kennedy and was associated with the “Fair Play for Cuba” committee and the Socialist Workers Party. Like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, RCP chairman Bob Avakian is a white communist who came out of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the group that laid siege to college campuses before turning into the terrorist Weather Underground. Declassified intelligence documents show that Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin traveled to the old Soviet Union. Her father, Leonard Boudin, was a member of the Communist Party and registered Cuban agent. Other members of the group underwent guerrilla warfare training in Cuba. Referred to by his followers as “Chairman Bob,” Avakian is devoted to “the struggle for a communist world” and wrote a memoir, From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist. One of his big fans is Princeton University’s Cornel West, who has declared, “Bob Avakian is a long-distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism, and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth.” West is honorary chair of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). You may have noticed that Cornel West is running for president and has become a Fox News star. I have counted 6 different references or appearances by West on Fox News this year. West uses the channel to spew socialist propaganda and make Biden look like a moderate. This works to Biden’s benefit. At our June 27, 2011, conference, “Traitors, Spies and Terrorists: America's Internal Security Crisis,” we documented how congressional liberals abolished congressional committees investigating internal security and un-American activities. FBI directors such as James Comey and Robert S. Mueller were incapable of or unwilling to effectively investigating communist networks in America. But the video of that conference was deleted by YouTube. The RCP book shop known as Revolution Books in New York City hosted a party and celebration for a 91-page book called Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. A used book sale included regular communist literature, as well as Bernie Sanders’ book, Our Revolution. Sanders went on his honeymoon to the former USSR and was a supporter of the communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. He was a collaborator with the U.S. Peace Council -- a Communist Party front -- against the Reagan military build-up. He worked with the Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chavez to distribute Venezuelan oil in the U.S. My group, America’s Survival, Inc., has a proven track record of exposing the communists. We released evidence proving that President Barack Hussein Obama was raised and influenced by a black communist, Frank Marshall Davis. Upon my request, the FBI released a 600-page file on Davis’s communist affiliations, revealing that he had been under surveillance for 19 years and may have committed espionage against the United States. We held a Washington news conference to release it to the media. But liberal reporters ignored what we had uncovered. They accused us of “red-baiting.” The video of that news conference has also been deleted by YouTube. In the same manner, the media ignore communist groups marching under their noses in Washington, D.C. If the media had taken our information seriously and Congress had investigated Obama’s communist connections, we might have been spared 8 years of the Obama presidency and more than two years of Joe Biden’s presidency. Going back in time, when I interviewed former FBI agent Max Noel, who handled the Weather Underground and Unabomber cases, I remember that he told me the Bureau used to investigate candidates for federal employment -- but not federal office -- by analyzing Character, Associates, Reputation, and Loyalty to the United States. The first letters in those words make up the acronym CARL. Noel said Barack Hussein Obama could not have been elected president if he had been subjected to the CARL test. We are paying the price. Today, while President Trump is suffering under a “gag order,” as a result of the legal terrorism unleashed against him, Obama is spouting off, with his latest comments on the threat to “democracy” and the need to save the illegal aliens. His “Permanent Revolution” has made the America of 1776 into a distant memory no longer taught or even celebrated. Until we understand and address this communist revolution in our midst, America cannot be saved. It’s going to take more than a flag hanging in our front yards. And don't expect the Supreme Court to save us, either. It is up to us.
![]() Another Obama Poised to Replace Biden By Cliff Kincaid The smoke and haze you see over the state of Maryland may not be from the forest fires in Canada. So-called “recreational marijuana” becomes legal in Maryland on Saturday. This is occurring under what Democrats are calling “another Obama,” a black advocate of marijuana legalization by the name of Wes Moore, the new Maryland governor and a former marijuana company executive. On July 1, Maryland becomes the 25th state or U.S. territory in the country to legalize marijuana. Moore is such a prominent figure in the Democratic Party that he is raising money for other Democrats, such as Jon Tester, the Democratic senator from Montana. This fundraising prowess means that Moore, not Michelle Obama, may be standing by to replace Joe Biden in 2024. Whatever happens, Moore is clearly being groomed for the national stage. DeForest Rathbone, Chairman of the Maryland-based National Institute of Citizen Anti-drug Policy (NICAP), predicts the future: “To think that every adult stoner in Maryland will now be able to possess about 100 joints of unlimited strength pot without fear of arrest, should strike terror in the hearts of all public officials who are responsible of public health and safety-- as parents may hold them personally responsible for any drug-related harm to their loved ones.” Looking at what legalization has accomplished in such states as Colorado, he predicts “increasing crime, addiction, suicides, overdose deaths, traffic fatalities, carjackings, vicious assaults, shootings, homelessness, and terror within schools, stores, communities, and on public transportation.” Cases involving marijuana and violence are common. Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland Florida mass shooter who pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people in 2018, told police about extensive marijuana use and “demons” in his mind. In Maine, a young man who was kicked out of his grandmother’s house because he wouldn’t stop smoking dope randomly killed a couple in front of their two little kids. The pothead, described in the media as an “aspiring rap artist,” was a career criminal with arrests going back to 2018 and convictions for assault, criminal threatening and terrorizing. “Maine’s own survey indicates that 41% of Maine adults use marijuana and half of those use daily, which would make that number about 200,000,” out of a state population of 1.1 million adults, reports David Packhem, Executive Director of Students Empowered to End Dependency. On May 24, 2022, Salvador Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers and wounded seventeen others at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Earlier that day, the perpetrator shot his grandmother in the face, severely wounding her. He said he hated his mother and grandmother who restricted his marijuana use. President Trump spoke at a meeting of the National Rifle Association and stated that marijuana could be a root cause of much of the gun violence in the United States and that genetically engineered or high potency marijuana could be a cause of psychotic breaks. In Maryland, in anticipation of legalization, experts and educators are making a prediction that more young people will get hooked on the drug. The marijuana industry remains illegal at the federal level and it has become a national security issue, arising out of concern that foreigners such as Putin's ally Roman Abramovich bankrolled America’s largest marijuana company, Curaleaf. In a case so big that the Department of Justice was forced to respond, two Chinese nationals were charged with operating a “large scale marijuana grow operation.” For his part, Moore has ties to Green Thumb Industries, one of the largest cannabis companies in the world. He joined Green Thumb’s board of directors in 2018 and served on the audit and compensation committee until March 11, 2022. Calling Moore “a compelling choice” for governor in Maryland, the Washington Post endorsed him, saying he “staked out the aspirational high ground as a liberal intent on tackling high crime, unaffordable housing, child poverty, and the racial wealth and opportunity gaps.” The paper ignored his views on expanding the ranks of potheads. Since Moore has the power to appoint members of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, which regulates the state’s cannabis industry, his financial ties to the marijuana industry represent a potential conflict of interest. The local NBC station reported that a blind trust for his assets includes nearly $1.2 million in shares of stock in a cannabis company -- or about 46% of his assets outlined in the trust. The outlet explained, “The governor's $1.17 million worth of stock in Green Thumb Industries, which does business in Maryland, is by far the most eye-catching in the portfolio.” Eye-catching indeed. The marijuana money is listed in his financial form as a “health care” stock. NBC reported, “Moore, a Democrat who worked as an investment banker, declared before he was elected that he would create the blind trust swiftly and transparently to avoid potential conflicts of interest while in office. The trust legally removes him from controlling the assets while he is governor.” This sounds like he is full of honesty and integrity. But the public knows the marijuana industry made him rich. Green Thumb founder and Chief Executive Officer Ben Kovler asserted that Moore had made “many contributions to Green Thumb,” including providing an “invaluable perspective and leadership,” as well as “his dedication to our mission and his dedication to equity in the industry and social justice.” Whatever that means, it amounts to $1.17 million. The Washington Post mentioned this figure, raising no questions about how he “earned” it. Moving forward, Moore pledges to “prioritize equitable access to this emerging industry,” including future rounds of funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities for “cannabis-related programs.” Some observers say marijuana has become the Soma of the “Brave New World,” in order to keep the people distracted and from using critical thinking to solve the real problems facing America. Marijuana “is damaging the undeveloped brains of our youth,” notes Packhem, and he quotes Dr. Liza Little, a clinical psychologist and Director of Counseling Services at the University of Southern Maine, as saying, “we are seeing a tsunami of students in mental health crisis ranging from anxiety and depression to suicidal ideation and an increase in cannabis use. One of the other things we’re seeing over the last two years is this smaller group of students who are showing signs of what we call cannabis induced psychosis.” Yet, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi even suggested marijuana was a medical response to COVID-19, saying, “This is a therapy that has proven successful...” Communists and terrorists see it differently. Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn had said, “We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground.” Now, in Maryland as well, the stoners can be openly organized into an army that can serve political purposes and elect more people like Wes Moore to office. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.uasurvival.org |