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<p><time datetime="2025-03-25T19:00:00-04:00">March 25, 2025</time></p>
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<p>On this National Medal of Honor Day, President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance had the distinct privilege of hosting Medal of Honor recipients and their families at the White House. This special event honored the extraordinary courage and distinguished service of these American heroes, who went far beyond the call of duty.</p>
<p>President Trump and Vice President Vance, representing a profoundly thankful nation, expressed their deep gratitude to these remarkable individuals — and solemnly vowed that the United States will forever remember and honor the immense sacrifices they’ve made.</p>
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<p>During talks facilitated by the United States in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Russia agreed to cease maritime attacks and attacks on energy infrastructure, including oil refineries, power plants, hydroelectric dams, and fuel storage facilities, among others.</p>
<p>Russia said they would adhere to the Black Sea agreements in return for the reinstatement of Russian banks within the international financial system.</p>
<p>Additionally, the United States has agreed to lift sanctions on Moscow, particularly those affecting agricultural and fertilizer exports.</p>
<p>Ukrainian President Zelensky confirmed that the agreements would take effect immediately and requested more weapons for Ukraine, as well as the imposition of further sanctions on Russia in the event of any violations.</p>
<p>The ceasefire on energy infrastructure is set to last for 30 days, starting from March 18, with the possibility of a mutual extension. However, the Kremlin stated that if either party violates the terms, the other is not obligated to honor the agreement.</p>
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title: View the Video: Conjuring Banquo&amp;#039;s Ghost
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<p>To steer the present U.S. administration away from self-destruction, we identify American nationalism and its opponent, the continuing Anglo-American imperial establishment, from our deepest history.</p>
<p>Abraham Lincoln organized Universal Progress.</p>
<p>By contrast, to vividly show Teddy in his murderous transatlantic imperial affiliation, we conjure BANQUO'S GHOST from Lincoln's favorite play, Shakespeare's Macbeth.</p>
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Over the past few days in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, diplomats and negotiators from the U.S. have been meeting (separately) with their Russian and Ukrainian counterparts. Today, the White House announced, in a pair of statements, that all three nations are in agreement on several items:The countries have agreed “to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea,” they have agreed to “develop measures for implementing … [the] agreement to ban strikes against energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine,” and they have agreed to “continue working toward achieving a durable and lasting peace.”This significant step forward in resolving the NATO-Russia conflict playing out in Ukraine comes despite efforts to thwart the outbreak of peace. Such efforts include the demands by European Union officials and officials of nations including Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Baltics for massively increased military spending and for “peacekeeping” forces that would prevent peace in the first place. Or consider the state of mind of Ukraine’s acting president, whose taste in art gives a sense of what his inclinations might be. (His favorite painting, hung in his private office, depicts the Kremlin in flames.) The head of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Committee has accused Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, of spreading Russian propaganda and called for him to be fired for making “disgraceful, shocking statements.”By overcoming such obstacles, real progress was made in Riyadh, progress the world should applaud.But Southwest Asia is becoming increasingly dangerous. Although he left arch-warmongers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo out of his new administration, Donald Trump’s seeming fixation on Tehran as an implacable enemy leaves him vulnerable to manipulation by those pushing for an Israeli-U.S. attack on Iran. (The U.S. Threat Assessment compiled this year assesses, again, that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing increasing outrage over his policies, both domestic and with respect to Gaza, hopes for the protection that he believes comes with being a wartime leader—in part to escape the tightening net of corruption charges circling around him. Will a sinking Bibi pull Trump down with him?The contradictions between Trump’s campaign promises and the policies he is actually implementing are causing increasing blowback among his supporters. How does “America First” square with bombing Yemen and supporting Israeli ethnic cleansing? And how hollow now seem the proclamations of free speech in light of Trump’s misnamed Task Force To Combat Anti-Semitism crushing speech and expression critical of Israeli policy, including through deportations ordered on speech grounds, in violation of the First Amendment.And what about the economy? Trump’s tariffs will not cause the economy to bloom, and his scattershot approach to sanctions and potential port fees for Chinese-built vessels threaten trade and cause businesses and countries around the world to reconsider their relationship to the U.S. market and financial system. Meanwhile, his friends and family are promoting their own cryptocurrencies, supposedly as a way of bolstering the dollar. This is not the way forward.What the United States needs is the economic approach of economist and many-time presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.This past weekend, The LaRouche Organization held an event in New York City, where speakers presented a strategic overview of the “American System” of political economy, the real means to foster an economic recovery.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>

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title: Censorship Violates The Rights Of The Speaker And Of The Hearer
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Bmghq8G2bEaLpCXogH2JSg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkInqA2pZA4"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FNkInqA2pZA4%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNkInqA2pZA4&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FNkInqA2pZA4%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/14def02f13bbd618ec32f44bbc71cfc1/href">https://medium.com/media/14def02f13bbd618ec32f44bbc71cfc1/href</a></iframe><p>The Trump administration is targeting another Columbia University student for deportation due to speech crimes against the state of Israel. This time they’re going after a 21 year-old woman who was born in South Korea but has been in the US since age seven and is a legal permanent US resident.</p><p>The New York Times <a href="https://archive.is/tOF6l">reports</a>:</p><blockquote>“The student, Yunseo Chung, is a legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school. The Trump administration is arguing that her presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy agenda of halting the spread of antisemitism.”</blockquote><p>This “foreign policy” narrative is the same as <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/13/mahmoud-khalil-legal-free-speech-deport/">the one being used</a> by the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia; Trump himself <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782">posted on social media</a> that Khalil and his activism are “counter to our national and foreign policy interests.” The legal argument here is that because these activists are obstructing the foreign policy goals of the US government, it’s okay to remove them because they are not citizens.</p><p>What people are missing about Trump’s new policy of deporting pro-Palestine protesters on the grounds that their activism is contrary to US “foreign policy interests” is that it’s not just an attack on the activists’ political speech, it’s also an attack on US citizens’ right to <strong><em>hear</em></strong> criticism of their government’s foreign policy.</p><p>As Frederick Douglass said, “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” Even if you believe people who aren’t US citizens should have no free speech rights and that it’s fine for the US government to deport them for criticizing its actions, you can’t use that same logic to argue that the US government should also have the right to prevent US citizens from hearing those criticisms.</p><p>But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is doing. By making it clear that it is deporting pro-Palestinian activists not for any crime but for obstructing their “foreign policy goals”, they are admitting that they are taking action to stop Americans from hearing criticisms and objections to their own government’s actions in the middle east. It’s tantamount to blocking Americans from reading certain political books or viewing certain political websites because the criticisms of US foreign policy contained therein might contaminate them with wrongthink.</p><p>Governments around the world inflict this sort of censorship all the time, but the United States is supposed to have constitutional restrictions on Washington’s ability to violate people’s freedom to hear dissenting political speech. And until very recently, patriotic conservative Americans tended to pride themselves in those freedoms their country provides. But apparently they’re willing to light the whole thing on fire as long as it advances the interests of the state of Israel.</p><p>Americans who are not fully brainwashed into the cult of Trumpism should be asking themselves if this is the kind of country they want to live in, though. 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<p><span>What’s being called the Signal Leak ought to be a disaster for Team Trump. The best explanation I saw today was provided by the</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2fcgth1lZ8" rel>chat between Max Blumenthal and Judge Napolitano</a> <span>that lasted for 30 minutes—It’s Da Bomb! My Send a Message article was about the initiation of an Aggressive Undeclared War on Yemen, which the Signal Chat was all about how to properly spin it since what was done was the #1 War Crime of all putting Trump in the same league as Biden/Obama/Bush/Clinton/Reagan. Genocide Don now has his own illegal war. Max and the Judge also discussed the very illegal, unconstitutional use of an ancient law to deport innocent Venezuelans without allowing them the public hearing that law says they were entitled to. The underlying motive seems clear to me—to escalate tensions with Venezuela to the point of initiating war. Some peace president, huh? And this is no longer a domestic US thing as Team Trump in a manner somewhat different from Team Biden poses a threat to the entire world.</span></p>
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<p>The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 takes place from March 25 to 28 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province. With the theme "Asia in the Changing World: Towards a Shared Future," this year's event focuses on development, fostering dialogue, exploring innovative formats and valuing tangible outcomes, all aimed at promoting international development and cooperation.<br>Hainan, known for its year-round sunshine and pristine beaches, has much to offer travelers from all over the world. Join us on a tour as we take you to Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou City to meet giant pandas Gong Gong and Shun Shun. Let's see how they spend the day.</p>
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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/President_Trump_at_the_Israel_Museum._Jerusalem_May_23_2017_President_Trump_at_the_Israel_Museum._Jerusalem_May_23_2017_34004542414.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the nationwide anti-genocide student <a title="https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/" href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/">demonstrations</a> that began at Columbia University last year.</span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Ross Glick, the group’s executive director until last month, <a title="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump" rel="noreferrer noopener">noted</a> that he met with a diverse set of influential lawmakers, including Democratic senator John Fetterman and aides to the Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Lankford, and that all supported Betar U.S.’ campaign to rid the country of thousands of “terror supporters.”</span></p>
<p wcount="50" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Shortly after Glick’s trip to Washington, D.C., Trump signed an <a title="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/" rel="noreferrer noopener">executive order</a> titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” that promises “the removal of resident aliens who violate our laws,” to “quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation,” and to “investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.”</span></p>
<p wcount="100" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Trump himself announced that Khalil’s arrest, which made worldwide headlines, was “the first of many to come.” “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump administration will not tolerate it,” he <a title="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote</a> on Truth Social. The 45th and 47th president has also <a title="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-immigration-marxists-communists-ban-2024-d9a377149926457d1b8b182293d9c86e" href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-immigration-marxists-communists-ban-2024-d9a377149926457d1b8b182293d9c86e" rel="noreferrer noopener">stated</a> that he plans to deport “Communists” and “Marxists” from the United States, even those who are citizens. As such, this marks an escalation in government-backed suppression of dissent not seen since the McCarthyist era of the 1940s and 1950s.</span></p>
<p wcount="5" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Carrying Out Terror, Supporting Genocide</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Betar U.S. <a title="https://betarus.org/" href="https://betarus.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">describes</a> itself as a “loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist” movement “dedicated to defending Israel’s legitimacy and strengthening the Jewish connection to the land of Israel.” This <a title="https://betarus.org/about/what-we-do/" href="https://betarus.org/about/what-we-do/" rel="noreferrer noopener">includes</a> “taking action where others won’t” – a rather ominous phrase, considering the aggressive activities of the Jewish organizations it derides as “passive” and weak.</span></p>
<p wcount="85" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Last week, the group appeared to openly attempt to organize an assassination attempt on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. “Join us to give Francesca a [pager emoji] in London on Tuesday,” it posted online, an apparent reference to the <a title="https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-lebanon-assault-hungarian-shell-company-linked-to-deadly-pager-blasts/288315/" href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-lebanon-assault-hungarian-shell-company-linked-to-deadly-pager-blasts/288315/">September pager attack</a> on Lebanon carried out by the Israeli military. The incident killed dozens of people and injured thousands more civilians, and was widely condemned – even by former CIA Director <a title="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/23/headlines/ex_cia_director_israels_deadly_pager_attacks_in_lebanon_was_act_of_terrorism" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/23/headlines/ex_cia_director_israels_deadly_pager_attacks_in_lebanon_was_act_of_terrorism" rel="noreferrer noopener">Leon Panetta</a> – as an act of international terrorism.</span></p>
<p wcount="86" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Last month, Betar U.S. made a similar threat against Jewish-American writer Peter Beinart. After The New York Times published his article criticizing the State of Israel, it put out a <a title="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-02-04/ty-article/.premium/hes-a-traitor-right-wing-group-targets-jewish-american-author-over-israel-criticism/00000194-d1ef-df91-ab95-ffefc1f60000" href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-02-04/ty-article/.premium/hes-a-traitor-right-wing-group-targets-jewish-american-author-over-israel-criticism/00000194-d1ef-df91-ab95-ffefc1f60000" rel="noreferrer noopener">statement</a> reading, “We urge all Jews on the Upper West Side to give Peter Beinart a [three pager emojis]. He is a traitor, a kapo, and we must oppose him.” Thus, Betar not only smeared him as a Nazi collaborator (Kapo) and called for his assassination but also appeared to reveal Beinart’s home location.</span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A similar incident occurred to political scientist Norman Finkelstein. In an effort to intimidate him into silence, a Betar member slipped a pager into his coat pocket, <a title="https://www.instagram.com/onepathnetwork/reel/DFrDNfNy8kT/" href="https://www.instagram.com/onepathnetwork/reel/DFrDNfNy8kT/" rel="noreferrer noopener">filming</a> the incident. After Finkelstein refused to stop speaking out against injustice in the Middle East, last weekend, the group <a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgWRh0ad5YI" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgWRh0ad5YI" rel="noreferrer noopener">attempted</a> to break up his public event in Washington, D.C.</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Perhaps most outrageously, Betar has also publicly placed a bounty on the head of Palestinian-American activist Nerdeen Kiswani, <a title="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1903913477246431517" href="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1903913477246431517" rel="noreferrer noopener">telling</a> her that “You hate America, you hate Jews, and we are here and won’t be silent. $1,800 to anyone who hands that jihadi a beeper,” and later repeating the offer. After worldwide pushback, the organization has deleted its posts calling for political killings of international officials and U.S. citizens.</span></p>
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</figure><p wcount="48" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In addition, Betar has regularly attempted to intimidate or shut down movements or gatherings protesting Israeli crimes. At a student event at UCLA, Betar publicly stated, “We demand police remove these thugs now and if not we will be forced to organize groups of Jews to do so.”</span></p>
<p wcount="52" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In January, it tried to break up a New York City vigil for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl brutally murdered by Israeli forces. Betar members filmed the event, telling attendees they were with ICE and using facial recognition technology to obtain their identities, which would subsequently be used to deport them.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In recent weeks, Betar members have also <a title="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/betar-who-is-far-right-jewish-american-group-blood-gaza" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/betar-who-is-far-right-jewish-american-group-blood-gaza" rel="noreferrer noopener">chanted</a> hate speech outside a Bangladeshi mosque in New York City and <a title="https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/new-york-real-estate-expo-stolen-land-sale-palestine-descends-violence" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/new-york-real-estate-expo-stolen-land-sale-palestine-descends-violence" rel="noreferrer noopener">attacked</a> people who protested the illegal sale of Occupied West Bank land at an auction in Brooklyn.</span></p>
<p wcount="80" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">That Betar is a hate group is barely in question. Even notoriously pro-Israel groups such as the Anti-Defamation League (an organization the FBI once <a title="https://www.mintpressnews.com/adl-data-rise-anti-semitism-doesnt-add-up/286268/" href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/adl-data-rise-anti-semitism-doesnt-add-up/286268/">noted</a> was almost certainly being bankrolled by the Israeli government) have included it in its list of extremist hate organizations. The ADL <a title="https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/betar-usa" href="https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/betar-usa" rel="noreferrer noopener">notes</a> that Betar uses the fascist <a title="https://www.mintpressnews.com/kahanist-extremists-take-power-new-government-israel/282734/" href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/kahanist-extremists-take-power-new-government-israel/282734/">Kahanist</a> slogan, “For every Jew, a .22” (meaning Jews should be armed with .22 rifles) and has indicated it wishes to work with the Proud Boys, a far-right American gang.</span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Betar <a title="https://stljewishlight.org/world-news/zionist-group-betar-us-jews-fight-back/" href="https://stljewishlight.org/world-news/zionist-group-betar-us-jews-fight-back/" rel="noreferrer noopener">frequently</a> revels in violence against civilian populations and calls for genocide against Palestinians. “Fuck your ceasefire!! Turn Gaza to rubble!!” they <a title="https://twitter.com/Betar_USA/status/1892611426390364362" href="https://twitter.com/Betar_USA/status/1892611426390364362" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> last month. “Betar firmly supports the plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza,” they <a title="https://twitter.com/Betar_USA/status/1890209274829369707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1890209274829369707%7Ctwgr%5Efea2a1f530e215622c73191c3e8c62eba5889058%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fali-abunimah%2Fgroup-claiming-credit-mahmoud-khalil-arrest-demanded-blood-gaza-babies" href="https://twitter.com/Betar_USA/status/1890209274829369707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1890209274829369707%7Ctwgr%5Efea2a1f530e215622c73191c3e8c62eba5889058%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fali-abunimah%2Fgroup-claiming-credit-mahmoud-khalil-arrest-demanded-blood-gaza-babies" rel="noreferrer noopener">added</a>. In response to a post detailing the vast numbers of Palestinian babies killed since October 7, 2023, it <a title="https://twitter.com/propvstruth/status/1899551717483806741" href="https://twitter.com/propvstruth/status/1899551717483806741" rel="noreferrer noopener">replied</a>, “Not enough. We demand blood in Gaza!”</span></p>
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<p wcount="95" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Betar traces its origins back over 100 years. The group was founded by early Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky as a far-right paramilitary force, one that explicitly stood against the leftist Jewish groups who dominated at a time when “Jewish” and “socialist” were seen by many as virtually synonymous. Jabotinsky believed that establishing a state in Palestine would require the creation of what he called a “new Jew,” one that would be willing to fight and die for Zionism. To this end, Betar was established as a fighting organization and received generous funding from conservative benefactors.</span></p>
<p wcount="52" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Jabotinsky instructed members to swear an oath to the unborn Israel: “I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.” The creation of such a state, therefore, would require the mass extermination or expulsion of the region’s native inhabitants.</span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Betar’s formal name was Brit Yosef Trumpeldor, named after a Jewish settler who was killed in 1920 in an early firefight with Palestinians over disputed land. It was exactly men like Trumpeldor who Jabotinsky believed were necessary in order to win, in contrast to the majority of European Jews, who he saw as passive and weak.</span></p>
<p wcount="52" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">1920s Europe was a time of rising antisemitism, and despite their inherent anti-Jewish nature, many conservative Jews admired the discipline and organization of fascist paramilitaries such as Hitler’s Brownshirts. Betar was modeled on these groups, with Jabotinsky believing the Zionist project’s success was dependent on the establishment of such organizations.</span></p>
<p wcount="66" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Because of their anti-communist, anti-worker outlook, conservative money flooded into Betar, helping it become one of the largest and most influential Jewish organizations by the 1930s, with membership rising to around 70,000 people. Betar leaders would go on to become key figures in Israeli politics. These included Prime Ministers, Menachem Begin and Yitzchak Shamir, as well as Benzion Netanyahu, the father of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></p>
<p wcount="25" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">While this depiction of Betar as a fascist terrorist group might sound biased or one-sided, much of this information comes directly from the organization itself.</span></p>
<p wcount="12" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">On its official website’s “Our History” section, Betar <a title="https://archive.ph/1l3gA" href="https://archive.ph/1l3gA" rel="noreferrer noopener">writes</a> (emphasis added):</span></p>
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<p wcount="55" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Betar thus became an incubator for the development of right-wing Zionist ideas and its supporters were sometimes referred to as <strong>“Jewish Fascists.</strong>” In Palestine, Betar members facilitated illegal Jewish immigration and were active instigators of disturbances and violence, <strong>frequently bombing Arab civilian areas</strong> in response to attacks and waging guerilla [sic] warfare against the British.”</span></p>
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<p wcount="72" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Thus, the organization does not shy away from the fascism label, and it proudly notes that it “frequently” carried out terror operations against Arab civilians in Palestine. (At some point in the past week, after it began receiving increased scrutiny for its connections to the Trump administration, Betar has removed both the “fascist” moniker and the boast about bombing Arabs, but the original page can still be viewed via the <a title="https://archive.ph/1l3gA" href="https://archive.ph/1l3gA" rel="noreferrer noopener">Internet Archive</a>.</span></p>
<p wcount="101" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Since October 7, 2023, Betar has greatly upped its presence in the United States, thanks to far-right Israeli-American businessman Ronn Torossian and Executive Director Ross Glick. In July 2024, it successfully applied for tax-exempt nonprofit status, meaning it is classified by the government as a charity. “Since our revival in 2024, Betar has made a powerful impact across the U.S. and is just getting started. We are recruiting, developing, and empowering Jews to become unapologetic Zionist leaders—defending Israel on campuses, in communities, and across all platforms,” Betar writes. Yet an <a title="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/group-claiming-credit-mahmoud-khalil-arrest-demanded-blood-gaza-babies" href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/group-claiming-credit-mahmoud-khalil-arrest-demanded-blood-gaza-babies" rel="noreferrer noopener">investigation</a> by The Electronic Intifada suggests that Betar might have been illegally fundraising.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The same report notes that Glick has faced <a title="https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/the-disturbing-story-behind-nycs-revenge-porn-perpetrators/" href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/the-disturbing-story-behind-nycs-revenge-porn-perpetrators/" rel="noreferrer noopener">serious allegations</a> of sex crimes. In 2019, his former girlfriend found nude images of herself posted on her company’s official Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter pages. Glick was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a computer and unlawfully posting the lewd pictures. He pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment, a violation, and paid a fine.</span></p>
<p wcount="99" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Commentators across the political spectrum agree that the Trump administration is pushing the United States in a rightward direction, in the process running roughshod over constitutional protections and guarantees. In doing so, they have found allies in many controversial groups. That such a small and new movement like Betar U.S. already enjoys such influence within the White House has already raised eyebrows. And given Israel’s determination to continue its genocidal campaigns against its neighbors – and Trump’s limitless support for its ally – it appears likely that Betar’s power is expected to grow under the current administration.</span></p>
<p wcount="44" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If this is the case, that is bad news for those who value the right to speak freely and to protest. It is therefore crucial that this group be understood and scrutinized rather than be allowed to operate in the shadows behind closed doors.</span></p>


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<p wcount="10" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">After my fast, I’m not really feeling like anything.</span></p>
<p wcount="23" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It appears I’m completely burned out. I don’t know what that means right now. I assume it won’t last forever.</span></p>
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title: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Affairs, by Jonathan Cook
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<p wcount="33" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em><strong>The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe</strong></em></span></p>
<p wcount="34" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Sometimes it helps to pare things back to their essentials, especially when complexity is being exploited not to illuminate but to confuse. So here is my short, complete idiot’s guide to world affairs:</span></p>
<p wcount="15" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">There are two reality-based understandings of what we call “world affairs”, or sometimes “foreign news”.</span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">1. The first sees the United States as the beating heart of a highly militarised, global empire – the strongest ever known, with more than 800 military bases around the world. The US has divided the world into, on the one hand, “democracies” and “moderate states” that do its bidding and, on the other, “dictatorships” and “terror regimes” that won’t or can’t submit to its dictates.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The former are allies that reap some of the benefits of belonging to the empire, while the latter are presented as a threat to world peace. They must be constantly intimidated, contained, sanctioned and occasionally attacked.</span></p>
<p wcount="85" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The goal of organising the world this way is the control of global resources, chiefly oil. Western publics thereby enjoy limited privileges that come at the cost of deprivation for those outside the empire. These privileges are intended to keep the US empire’s publics docile and loyal. At the same time, the empire allows members of its elite to amass vast wealth from the exploitation of the world’s resources – wealth so vast that most people are incapable of grasping the extent of it.</span></p>
<p wcount="26" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This worldview is generally consistent with what is termed a leftwing disposition. It sees the existing system as a bad thing that needs to be ended.</span></p>
<p wcount="43" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">2. The second worldview agrees with all of the above, except it thinks this is a the best system possible in the circumstances and must be preserved at all costs. This outlook is generally consistent with what is termed a rightwing, or conservative, disposition.</span></p>
<p wcount="20" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In other words, these two groups see things in largely the same way but respond to the same reality differently.</span></p>
<p wcount="83" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The second group, the conservatives, want to keep the world divided, justifying this to themselves on various grounds they usually refer to as “pragmatism”. In essence, they believe it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and it’s important that we remain the top dog. At some level this outlook rests on a barely concealed racist conceit, often that white or Christian peoples are civilisationally better than other peoples and that, were the world to be organised differently, chaos and barbarism would ensue.</span></p>
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<p wcount="135" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The first group, the left, want to end the division of the world into two camps, “them” and “us”, arguing that this is dangerous. This empire’s logic justifies pumping money that could be spent improving the quality of ordinary people’s lives, and securing the future of the planet, into the arms industries. It reinforces the logic of the West’s war machine that relies on fomenting a permanent climate of fear. In such a febrile political climate, people are easily manipulated into backing wars or the oppression of other, usually brown peoples. The empire’s division of the world rationalises racism, selfishness and violence, and prevents cooperation. It is inherently unsustainable. And in an age of nuclear weapons, it risks driving us into a confrontation that will quickly end life on the planet.</span></p>
<p wcount="70" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Of course, not everyone’s outlook fits into these two categories that see the world as it is. There are also liberals who don’t understand much of this. They live in a world of make-believe, an unreality manufactured for them, both by western politicians dependent on a billionaire donor class and a western media owned by billionaires deeply invested in maintaining a divided world that keeps them fabulously rich.</span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">What we call “politics” is chiefly a pantomime in which the West’s wealth elite work hard to maintain the illusion for liberals that the empire is a force for good, that the suffering of brown people is a necessary short-term sacrifice if history is to continue on its progression towards a perfect capitalist liberal democracy that will benefit everyone, and that in this regard the West’s wars producing even more suffering for brown people are actually “humanitarian”.</span></p>
<p wcount="66" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In simple terms, conservatives support the permanent oppression of brown people because they fear them, rightly understanding they will never agree to their oppression. Liberals, on the other hand, support what they assume is the temporary oppression of brown people because they think that oppression is beneficial: it eventually purges brown people of their defective ideological and cultural habits, leading them to see things our way.</span></p>
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title: Decadence, the Corruption of Status Hierarchies, &amp; Female Hypergamy, by F. Roger Devlin
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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/hypergamy-260x214.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="204" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the comment section responding to my essay “<a title="https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/hooking-up/" href="https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/hooking-up/" rel="noopener">Hooking Up,</a>” I found a reference to an article called “All the Single Ladies” by journalist Rob Henderson. I am grateful—it is a fascinating piece for any observer of the contemporary sexual scene. The gist is that women in the world of higher education are having extreme difficulty finding suitable mates due to their numerical predominance on campuses. Just as my own writings have described, a situation has developed where too many women are chasing too few men. But Henderson’s article will find more favor with many readers since it expresses strong sympathy for the ladies’ predicament—and perhaps not so much for the men. A deflater of female pretentions must swim against a strong current originating in the male protective instinct. Skeptical as my observation of female behavior have made me, however, I do not actually enjoy seeing women lonely and miserable. The coeds described in Henderson’s article have never done me any harm, and I would like to help a few of them understand the situation in which they find themselves. That situation has been a long time in the making, however, and clarifying it will require a somewhat lengthy argument.</span></p>
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<p wcount="151" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Let us begin with a brief summary of the main points Henderson makes in “All the Single Ladies.” He begins by noting that “women, on average, prefer educated men.” Two of the strongest predictors of how many responses a man’s online dating profile receives are years of formal education and income. A controlled experiment holding all other factors constant found that women were 91 percent more likely to hit the “like” button for a man with a master’s degree than a bachelor’s. In that minority of marriages where the wife has enjoyed more formal education than her husband, the husband almost always (93 percent of the time) earns more money. If a man trails a woman in both education and income, his chances of finding acceptance from her approach zero. Men looking for a woman, on the other hand, care far less about either education or real or potential earnings.</span></p>
<p wcount="87" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">From the point of view of economic rationality, a highly credentialed, high-earning woman should have less need of finding those same traits in a husband. But women’s sexual instinct does not obey the principle of economic rationality: the more a woman has achieved herself, the <em>greater</em> the stress she places on finding a mate of higher achievement still. This means, of course, that the dramatic expansion in academic and professional opportunities for women in recent decades has led to proportionately massive female loneliness and sexual frustration.</span></p>
<p wcount="123" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">There are 5.5 million college-educated women between the ages of 22 and 29 in America today vs. only 4.1 million men. That translates into four women for every three men in this dating pool, or an excess of 1.4 million women. The resulting competition for scarce men leads to bad behavior among the men on campus, who find themselves able to pursue short-term relationships and sexual variety. Women at institutions of higher education will often engage in sex with such men simply for the chance to be in their company, but they do not necessarily enjoy it very much. Indeed, in what may sound like a paradox, women actually have <em>more</em> sex rather than less in environments where they outnumber men: it just tends to be lousy sex.</span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">On STEM-heavy campuses like Caltech men still outnumber women and continue to court them by seeking to demonstrate commitment. But such campuses are getting rarer. A girl from heavily female-dominant Sarah Lawrence College is quoted as saying: “One of my friends was dumped by a guy after they’d been hooking up for less than a week. When he broke up with her, the guy actually used the word ‘market’—like the ‘market’ for him was just too good.”</span></p>
<p wcount="108" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This is, of course, the sort of thing that drives the editors at <em>Chronicles</em> into a frenzy. But women press their advantage in the battle of the sexes just as strongly as men wherever conditions permit. It is not a matter of these men being fiends: a whole system of perverse incentives has somehow arisen, and correcting it is going to require more than simply denouncing or punishing men. Indeed, traditional morality placed less emphasis on exhorting men not to accept sex in such situations than on <em>commanding women not to provide it</em>. That Sarah Lawrence coed simply learned the hard way why this used to be done.</span></p>
<p wcount="99" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Feminism is big on campuses where women outnumber men. The men cannot be relied on, so women respond by trying to become “strong and independent,” as the cliché runs: in Henderson’s words, they seek to “reduce their social, economic and political dependence on men.” In societies with an excess of men, on the other hand, the men are more interested in trying to adapt themselves to women. The men are dependable, so women <em>depend on them.</em> The author does note one supposed drawback, however: “women in such societies were more likely to be cast in stereotypical gender roles.”</span></p>
<p wcount="94" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Later in the article, the author broadens his scope from the campus to the wider society. Here there exists no shortage of men: as of 2022, there were 1.048 boys born for every girl in the United States. As parents used to assure their romantically forlorn offspring: “For every girl there is a boy.” Off campus we find plenty of unattached young men; the difficulty is that the frustrated coeds described above would never consider them as possible mates due to their lack of education or earning power. What are these young men doing with themselves?</span></p>
<p wcount="213" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Most are working, of course. But unfortunately, a growing number are unemployed or underemployed: “<a title="https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/09/24/chapter-3-marriage-market-for-all-unmarried-adults/" href="https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/09/24/chapter-3-marriage-market-for-all-unmarried-adults/" rel="noopener">among</a> never-married adults, for every 100 women, there are only 84 employed men. If all employed men were suddenly taken, every sixth woman would be partner-less.” And what do young men who are neither working nor in higher education do with their abundant free time? Mostly, they play video games. To a lesser but still worrisome extent, they view pornography. Average hours worked by men aged 21-30 declined by 12 percent between 2000 and 2015, and leisure increased proportionally. Around 75 percent of this leisure time is accounted for by gaming, which has become very big business. Young men are naturally interested in fighting and sex. Video games give them a risk-free virtual experience of combat, and can even provide a sense of accomplishment as players gradually improve their skills (although the skills are of little value outside the games themselves). And of course, porn offers fake sex. Both provide phony satisfaction of needs men have inherited from our evolutionary past, and so can be highly addictive for men with little else to do. Surveys of self-reported happiness indicate that at least when they are younger, these men are fairly content. As Henderson cautiously notes, however, such substitutes are unlikely to carry them through life.</span></p>
<p wcount="44" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So we have some college men gaining status and gathering harems while many noncollege men must console themselves with fake fighting and fake sex. “All the Single Ladies” closes by making a point I have been hammering away at for nearly twenty years now:</span></p>
<p wcount="41" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In a deregulated market, power laws dominate. At no point in history have all men in a given society been equally desirable. Today, though, the disparity between men is particularly pronounced. And the gap shows no sign of slowing or closing.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The reader of my recent essay “Hooking Up” will see that this description of contemporary sexual dysfunction partially overlaps with my own. The main differences are that I talk about what happens on campus, stressing the hierarchy of attractiveness (which for men <em>includes</em> <em>status</em>), whereas Henderson emphasizes campus sex ratios and the status and behavioral contrasts between men on and off campus.</span></p>
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<p wcount="94" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As I see it, the major flaw in Henderson’s portrait of contemporary sexual mores is his disregard of a drastic equivocation contained in the term “education”—one with a strong bearing on its relation to status, and hence men’s sexual attractiveness. I understand education to refer primarily to three sorts of things: 1) the acquisition of knowledge and skills, 2) the training and sharpening of the mind both for its own sake and for the pursuit of external ends, and 3) the transmission of a cultural patrimony to the rising generation of a specific people.</span></p>
<p wcount="226" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Education involves these goals at all levels, from the primary instruction offered to all normal children to the higher education traditionally provided only to the most promising young adults. The shift in the content of education from the primary to the tertiary level can be explained not only by the natural growth of the human mind as it approaches adulthood but also partly in terms of psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Human beings’ most basic needs are physiological: food, warmth, sleep, and the like. When these have been satisfied, people go on to seek safety, then relations with their fellow human beings, then esteem and a sense of accomplishment. Once they have satisfied all these needs, they can concern themselves with higher yet more nebulous ambitions such as creativity, reaching one’s full potential, or self-actualization. Maslow’s hierarchy runs from needs that are urgent for all men yet concrete and well-defined, to immaterial and vague goals that are not particularly urgent for most of us most of the time. It is often represented as a pyramid, with a broad base gradually narrowing as one moves toward the upper levels. In healthy societies, the very peak of Maslow’s pyramid is so small that it is possible to name many of the men occupying it: names like Goethe, Pascal, Da Vinci, Leibniz, and Mozart.</span></p>
<p wcount="59" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Higher education is an elite enterprise concerned mainly with matters fairly high up Maslow’s pyramid, though the men occupied with it are not normally those at the <em>very</em> top. The character and quality of the higher education a nation provides for its young elites says much about it and is one of the best measures of its advancement.</span></p>
<p wcount="133" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">We inhabitants of the West are living through a late phase of our culture, in a society gone flabby from prolonged prosperity. A leading characteristic of such phases is that Maslow’s pyramid becomes top-heavy: too many people are working on self-realization and not enough are growing turnips. Everyone forgets about the necessities of life to focus on luxuries. This results in an evolutionary mismatch. We are adapted to an environment where most people spend most of their time securing basic needs, and relatively little on creativity and trying to reach their full potential. When large numbers of people naturally suited to growing food and providing security are drafted into the world of higher education instead, strange things start to happen there, and the nature of education itself is inevitably and profoundly altered.</span></p>
<p wcount="80" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">How does this process operate? The philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre once drew a contrast between practices and institutions: practices are forms of human activity that provide social benefits, and institutions are human organizations created to foster, protect, and perpetuate such practices. For example, medicine is a practice which combats illness, thus extending and improving human lives. But medical practice would be unable to flourish for long without being embodied in institutions: primarily hospitals, but also including research laboratories, medical schools, etc.</span></p>
<p wcount="132" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The point at which MacIntyre was driving is that there exist ends or goods proper to practices themselves and ends proper to the institutions established to foster the practices—and these two sets of ends are not identical. They may even conflict. For example, the end pursued by the practice of medicine is the combatting of illness. Hospitals are set up to foster this practice. Yet those in charge of hospitals eventually and almost inevitably start making decisions with a view not so much to the quality of medicine being practiced there as to <em>what is good for the hospital itself</em>. Marble flooring might be installed, e.g., or a public relations campaign staged to increase institutional prestige and attract external funding—but without necessarily contributing anything to the curing of patients.</span></p>
<p wcount="116" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Many examples could be cited of how what is good for institutions may be given priority over the needs of the practices they were established to foster, but the principle aim of institutions considered as such is usually <em>growth</em>. The bigger the hospital becomes, the more people it can employ and the greater the rewards available to them. Examples of absurdly unjustified institutional growth are easy to find. Here is just one: in 1914, fewer than 4400 men administered the Royal British Navy, the largest in the world; by 1967, over 33,000 men were being paid to administer a Navy that had largely ceased to exist. This did nothing for British Naval power, obviously, but it benefited the administrators themselves.</span></p>
<p wcount="142" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Education is obviously an important human practice in the sense intended by MacIntyre. The goods or ends it pursues are mainly the three already stated: the acquisition of knowledge, the improvement of the mind, and the transmission of a cultural patrimony. The great European universities were established during the Middle Ages as places where a few men could cultivate rational debate, be trained in canon law, and study the works of Aristotle. The first scholars often literally did not have a roof to protect them from the rain. Gradually, universities acquired better physical endowments, but for centuries academic life remained the preserve of a small minority. In early America one had to demonstrate mastery of Greek and Latin before being admitted to a college. As late as 1910, only six percent of Americans graduated from <em>secondary</em> school, to say nothing of higher studies.</span></p>
<p wcount="78" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The first seven decades of the twentieth century witnessed reckless, headlong growth in educational institutions. This required drawing in students ever lower down the hierarchy of natural gifts. First attendance and then completion of secondary school became nearly universal. Then, following the Second World War and the GI Bill, tertiary institutions simply exploded. By 1975, 27 percent of men and 22.5 percent of women were earning bachelor’s degrees (up from 7.5 percent and 5 percent respectively on the eve of the war).</span></p>
<p wcount="109" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Enrollment plateaued soon after because a minimum IQ of about 115 was still considered necessary for a young person to derive much benefit from a college education. But even that weak standard has been eroding in recent years. A recent meta-analysis found that while the average American undergraduate in 1960 had an IQ of 120, the figure has now sunk to 102, equal to that of the average white American. There is no longer anything “higher” about higher education. Obviously, instruction has had to shift accordingly. As the late columnist Joe Sobran famously quipped: “In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high schools to teaching Remedial English in college.”</span></p>
<p wcount="116" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Worthwhile learning has been replaced in part by frivolous classes in basket weaving, but often the new substitutes are worse than any frivolity: the students are indoctrinated in pernicious ideological fixations such as antiracism, feminism, post-colonial theory, etc. A powerful factor favoring this shift is precisely the lower intelligence of undergraduates. The ideological courses are far simpler in content that genuine academic study and almost impossible to do badly in unless a student is reckless enough to dispute the ideas presented. Why should a mediocre student risk his grade point average trying to master formal logic, particle physics, or the history of the Protestant Reformation when he can take oppression studies and get an easy “A”?</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The scholarship produced by academics has gone through a similar change. This may have begun in schools of education, where young doctoral candidates have long occupied themselves with such weighty matters as the best way to arrange tables and chairs in an elementary school lunch cafeteria. But the nonsense has spread throughout the humanities and social sciences, and is now threatening STEM education.</span></p>
<p wcount="43" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Evolutionary psychologist Ed Dutton recently did a <a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IopktROdM" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IopktROdM" rel="noopener" data-sanitized-class="mfp-iframe lightbox-added">short video</a> on a completely unremarkable young female academic who just received a doctorate from Cambridge University with a dissertation entitled <em>Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose</em>. According to Dutton, the</span></p>
<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">thesis shows how literature registers the importance of olfactory discourse, the language of smell and the olfactory imagination it creates, in structuring our social world. The broad aim is to offer an intersectional and wide-ranging study of olfactory oppression.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Essentially, what the young lady did was read some feminist novels by Virginia Woolf, note all the passages referring to odors, and then fit them into a ready-made interpretive scheme built around the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy.</span></p>
<p wcount="127" data-sanitized-id="p_1_30" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I have not read her dissertation, so it is just possible I am being unfair—although I doubt it. It hardly matters, however, for I only mention this young woman as a convenient example. Whatever the qualities of her work, most academic dissertations are now every bit as pointless and absurd as what I have just described. This particular thesis achieved notoriety only because the author bragged about her accomplishment online and was met with gales of scorn from the general public. Dutton claims that hers is far from the worst dissertation he has heard about. For comparison he mentions Dr. Desiree Odom’s <em>A Multiple Marginalized Intersectional Black Lesbian Leader: A Critical Feminist Autoethnographic Narrative</em>. In plain English, this woman wrote a doctoral thesis on <em>herself</em>.</span></p>
<p wcount="102" data-sanitized-id="p_1_31" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Some legitimate and worthwhile learning and scholarship still goes on within universities, but it is under threat due to a kind of Gresham’s Law of the intellect whereby bad scholarship drives out good. In sum, the utopian attempt to extend the benefits of higher education to the general public has led to a catastrophic decline in the practice of education itself. And we must bear in mind that the very attempt was only made possible by the unexampled material prosperity of America and other Western nations, i.e., their success at securing the more urgent needs farther down Maslow’s pyramid.</span></p>
<p wcount="13" data-sanitized-id="p_1_32" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>My Response Part Two: The Effect of Corrupt Status Hierarchies on Female Hypergamy</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_33" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I could go on at much greater length denouncing the absurd, grotesque, surreal levels of corruption plaguing Western institutions of higher learning, but I bite my tongue to return to the point from which we set out, <em>viz</em>., Rob Henderson’s article “All the Single Ladies” and its touching portrayal of the loneliness of contemporary women who <em>cannot find sufficiently educated men</em>.</span></p>
<p wcount="120" data-sanitized-id="p_1_34" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">These sound like extraordinary ladies, and quite unlike any I ever knew or dated. Do they find men’s stock of knowledge and ideas insufficient to stimulate their own constantly buzzing intellects? Have male minds not been honed to enough razor sharpness to spot logical fallacies a mile off? Do the lady’s suitors have an insufficient appreciation of the fundamental principles upon which Western Civilization is based? Might an ability to parse Cicero help? How about solving differential equations, or explaining competing theories about why the industrial revolution occurred at the place and time it did? The poor fellows are certainly going to have to bone up before they can hope to become worthy of such exalted female minds!</span></p>
<p wcount="137" data-sanitized-id="p_1_35" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Coming back down to earth, it is obvious Henderson is using the term “education” not in its proper sense—relating to the genuine practice of higher education—but with exclusive reference to contemporary <em>institutions</em> of “education.” And these are scandalously corrupt. The young women are “educated” only in the sense that they have demonstrated proficiency at negotiating a credentialing process that serves to protect a status hierarchy that has lost all mooring to the practice of higher education universities were originally meant to foster and promote. Those best able to rise within such a hierarchy turn out to be idle young women adept at chattering about olfactory oppression. (Competent women scholars obviously exist, but any survey of the contemporary academy would surely reveal that the remaining serious scholars are disproportionately male while the fakes are disproportionately female.)</span></p>
<p wcount="145" data-sanitized-id="p_1_36" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Most of the noncollege young men these women despise—the 84 percent who are employed, in any case—do not engage in such chatter because they are too busy fixing leaks, delivering cargo on time, stringing electrical wire, repairing engines, hurrying to accident sites, putting out fires, preventing dusky barbarians from cutting our throats, bringing life-sustaining foods to market, and generally keeping the world around us running. They are operating competently toward the lower end of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, as most men have had to do throughout history. And they are the only reason Western Civilization has not already collapsed entirely. The travesties of scholarship produced within the contemporary academy, by contrast, never benefit anyone apart from the mandarins who produce them. It is simply <em>obvious</em> that an electrician, carpenter, or auto mechanic is more valuable to the world than an olfactory racism “scholar.”</span></p>
<p wcount="145" data-sanitized-id="p_1_37" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Why are women more successful than men at climbing today’s corrupt academic status ladder? In considerable part for the same reason they are better at knitting sweaters: they have a higher tolerance for monotonous, repetitive work of a sedentary kind. To spend his peak physical years culling examples of olfactory racism from the novels of Virginia Woolf and then—worse—to compose a long, formal dissertation on the subject would amount to positive torture for many young men, something I think does our sex credit. I myself had difficulty with restlessness in graduate school, which I dealt with through long walks and other physical exercise. I kept slogging away at the academic task because I was fascinated by big, serious, consequential philosophical ideas. But I could never have done the same for the sake of most of what gets “studied” in the contemporary academy.</span></p>
<p wcount="105" data-sanitized-id="p_1_38" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Dutton mentions the probability that our newly minted olfactory racism scholarette has received public funding. Again, the particular case hardly matters—the point is that most young women in the academy benefit from such funding. This means working men have had a portion of their earnings confiscated to allow her to peruse Virgina Woolf novels and grind out empty verbiage about oppression. It is a crying injustice that should not be tolerated one minute longer. Yet in return for such support, the young lady looks down her snout at the men funding her! They are simply not “educated” enough to be worthy of her consideration.</span></p>
<p wcount="186" data-sanitized-id="p_1_39" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">What explains such women’s limitless faith in the objective validity of academic credentials? In part, their own mediocre intelligence and the limits precisely of their <em>education</em> in the authentic sense. Learning and acquired mental acuity are goods difficult to appreciate except by those who already have them in significant measure themselves. It is hard to judge uphill on education because people by definition <em>cannot know what they do not know</em>. Dull and untrained minds cannot have a proper sense of what they are lacking. All they can judge by is externalities—such as academic credentials. Any fool can <em>see</em> a degree hanging on someone’s wall in a way he cannot so easily see the benefit a gifted mind has derived from, for example, extended immersion in the Latin classics. Hence we find women in the tragicomic situation Henderson describes: lonely and miserable even as they reject legions of men on the basis of meaningless credentials. And we are asked to believe they do so because they <em>value education.</em> I feel myself crashing into the limits of the English language’s capacity for expressing contempt.</span></p>
<p wcount="167" data-sanitized-id="p_1_40" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The relation of the genuine life of the mind to today’s corrupt academy might be illuminated by comparison with the ancient Christian doctrine of the <em>church invisible</em>. Christians believe the church derives from God himself, yet this presents an obvious problem. God is perfect, while the church is made up entirely of imperfect, sinful men (wise theologians admit that <em>ecclesia semper reformanda –</em> “the church is <em>always</em> in need of reform”). The explanation of this apparent paradox is found in the distinction between the <em>church visible</em> and the <em>church invisible</em>. Normally when men refer to the church, they have the everyday, visible church in mind. But this human institution is less important than the true, invisible church responsible for the work of salvation, <em>and whose composition is known to God alone</em>. The invisible church somehow exists within the visible, but is never identical to it. Obviously, the decay of genuine learning within a corrupt academy is analogous to a near-throttling of the invisible church by the visible.</span></p>
<p wcount="101" data-sanitized-id="p_1_41" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If you give an uneducated (in the proper sense) person an educational credential, he—or more to the point, <em>she</em>—will accept it unquestioningly as a proof of her own real accomplishment. Dutton reports that the young olfactory racism expert weathered the storm of public scorn directed at her successfully. He even quotes her as saying, “I’m fine, I’m quite pleased that I’ve upset these basement-dwelling incels.” It does not occur to her that the incels may only <em>be</em> incels because thousands of academic spinsters like herself are ludicrously deluded as to the value of their own attainments.</span></p>
<p wcount="46" data-sanitized-id="p_1_42" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In short, the corruption of our educational institutions has produced a status-mirage that women are unable to see through, one which condemns both themselves and men to childlessness—though not necessarily depriving the women of polygynous sex with men above them in the outward status hierarchy.</span></p>
<p wcount="133" data-sanitized-id="p_1_43" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In addition to the mediocrity of their minds and the modesty of their attainments, women in the academy may have difficulty seeing through the corrupt status hierarchies in which they are enmeshed <em>simply because they are women</em>. As I wrote in a recent essay, the sex generally consists of “impressionable conformists with a powerful need for social approval.” Status hierarchies are produced by men, as Napoleon knew (“Les femmes n’ont pas de rang”). Women rarely consider them critically; they accept them as given, and all their instincts concerning the “attractiveness” of men operate downstream from there. If a society is healthy, its status hierarchy embodies sound values, and female hypergamy functions as a spur to worthwhile male achievement. If a society is sick—we get what we see in Henderson’s article.</span></p>
<p wcount="6" data-sanitized-id="p_1_44" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>A Valuable Historical and Literary Parallel</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="76" data-sanitized-id="p_1_45" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote a wonderful story reflecting how an impressionable female mind functions within a different sick society marked by an equally distorted educational status hierarchy: early Soviet Russia. It is called <em>Nastenka</em>, and can be found in English translation in the collection <em>Apricot Jam</em> (the relevant narrative begins on p. 91). The story presents numerous suggestive analogies with the decadence and corruption of the contemporary West as described in this essay. Let us have a look.</span></p>
<p wcount="102" data-sanitized-id="p_1_46" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Just before the revolution, Nastenka enrolls in “a classical high school, one of the best in Moscow.” It survives unchanged well into the 1920s because at that period the Bolsheviks have more pressing matters than educational policy to worry about. The young heroine becomes fascinated with the imaginative literature of the nineteenth century. “It was an entire, enormous, organic world, more vivid than the reality that flowed around her.” At first, she simply enjoys the direct experience of reading, but gradually her teacher, a cultivated lady who received her education under the old regime, reveals to her the possibility of going deeper:</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_47" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">She learned to look at books in a new way—not just to live with the characters, but to live constantly with the author. How did he regard his characters? Was he the sole master of their lives, or where they independent of them? How did he organize this scene or that, and what words and phrases did he use in doing so?</span></p>
<p wcount="19" data-sanitized-id="p_1_48" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Gradually Nastenka conceives the ambition of sharing her love of literature with the rising generation by becoming a teacher.</span></p>
<p wcount="42" data-sanitized-id="p_1_49" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">At age sixteen, one year before graduation, her family moves and she is thrust into an unfamiliar environment. At her new school “she couldn’t recognize the literature of the past in what was now being laid out before her in lectures.”</span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_50" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Though they did acknowledge, in passing, the musicality of Pushkin’s poetry (but never mentioned the transparent clarity of his perception of the world), they insistently pointed out that he expressed the mindset and ideology of the mid-level landowners during the incipient crisis of Russian feudalism. [The playwright] Ostrovsky reflected the decay of the feudal, serf-owning system and its displacement by developing industrial capitalism.</span></p>
<p wcount="134" data-sanitized-id="p_1_51" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Nastenka pores over the new Soviet literature textbook produced by some communist ideologue named Kogan, where she learns how “all these Onegins and Bolkonskys” (characters in Pushkin and Tolstoy respectively) are our class enemies. She quietly thinks: “That may be so, yet they certainly knew how to love in those days!” But she cannot bring herself to question the overall validity of what she is being taught: “There was no way to maintain a sustained argument against Kogan. He couldn’t have constructed all these many things on utter nonsense. Surely there was a genuine historical and social basis for them? . . . Surely they weren’t built on thin air?” She begins to feel a mixture of confusion and boredom that contrasts sharply with the enthusiasm for literature that initially inspired her choice of career.</span></p>
<p wcount="143" data-sanitized-id="p_1_52" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Her boredom vanishes temporarily when she meets a charismatic young man named Shurik, overflowing with ideas that he expresses with extreme confidence. As we all know, women love confident men: “How did Shurik know all these things? When had he found the time to soak it all up?” The reader quickly perceives—although Nastenka herself never does—the reason for Shurik’s self-assurance. He is a communist militant who follows the party line unswervingly. He knows exactly what he is supposed to say about everything under the sun. Nastenka drinks up his every word, and a romance begins. But soon he is pressing her to consummate the relationship, and something inside her tells her that, at the very least, it is not yet time. Concerning early Soviet manhood in general, she reflects: “None of them could understand the slow, gradual development of feelings.”</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_53" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So Shurik breaks off with her and demonstratively ignores her for the rest of the time they are in class together. Soon he is called to Moscow and a no doubt successful rise within the official status hierarchy of the Soviet literary world. Nastenka is left broken-hearted. The reader understands—as she herself does not—that she has barely avoided a spiritual landmine.</span></p>
<p wcount="60" data-sanitized-id="p_1_54" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Time passes and Nastenka, now addressed at Anastasia Dmitrievna, is put in charge of a class: “At long last, her dream had come true [and] she could pour into [her students’] heads all the things she had preserved from this great and good literature” (as well as “make sure these little boys become decent men, not like the ones today”).</span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_55" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One day she is handed a new literature textbook meant to guide her own teaching. In it a major Soviet author is quoted as stating: “It is entirely natural that workers’ and peasants’ power is crushing its enemies like lice.” She wonders, “How could you possibly present that to the children?” Yet this writer is “a Russian classic, and an authority respected across the globe, so how could your wretched little mind challenge him?”</span></p>
<p wcount="97" data-sanitized-id="p_1_56" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">By this time the Soviet curriculum is tightly controlled. She makes the best of things, teaching “all these production and Five-Year Plan works with the same dedication that she felt to her own sacred cause of literature.” On her own time, however, she organizes an after-school literary circle for a dozen or so of her best students where she “takes them through the best of the nineteenth century, things that weren’t included on the syllabus.” But word gets out and she is ordered to stop. “Enough harping on the classics! It distracts the students from life.”</span></p>
<p wcount="113" data-sanitized-id="p_1_57" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Nastenka’s fate is the tragedy of a promising young female mind stunted due to an inability to trust its own healthy instincts and question what it receives from a corrupt authority. She senses the gulf separating the great literature she learned to love in her youth from the Marxist rubbish she is forced to impart, but never breaks through to clear insight about her situation. Perhaps most fascinatingly, she dimly perceives that this cultural decline bears some relation to the contrast between the men of her own time who insist on getting straight down to business with women and the Onegins and Bolkonskys who “certainly knew how to love in those days.”</span></p>
<p wcount="111" data-sanitized-id="p_1_58" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So in general, as I said, women accept the authorities and status hierarchies that they find in place. This is probably because authority and status are essentially <em>male</em> concerns. <em>Les femmes n’ont pas de rang</em>—women are never going to tear down corrupt hierarchies for us, nor is it reasonable for men to blame them for being as nature made them. Their sexual instincts will function properly again once <em>we</em> have replaced rotten hierarchies with sound ones in better accord with the nature of things and a proper sense of values. When we do, we shall never again have female olfactory racism scholarettes turning up their noses at hardworking men.</span></p>
<p wcount="5" data-sanitized-id="p_1_59" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>What, Then, Must We Do?</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="124" data-sanitized-id="p_1_60" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Some years ago I came across an amusing article about a fire breaking out in an office building. What was amusing was the reaction of the female employees. Firemen, as everyone knows, do not enjoy the very highest status within our society, despite the dangerous and life-saving nature of their work. But every dog has its day, and even firemen come into their own <em>when a fire breaks out</em>. Under such circumstances, there is no time for discussion or persuasion. Everyone who knows what’s good for him must do exactly as the firemen direct, including the corporate CEO. You do not give firemen any backtalk while a fire is raging. For a brief moment, they are at the top of the status hierarchy.</span></p>
<p wcount="72" data-sanitized-id="p_1_61" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, these corporate “career girls” were practically swooning. Once out of the building and in safety, they began marveling to one another how <em>manly</em> those guys were. This was virility the likes of which they had never known. It was the first time in their whole lonely, miserable lives that any man had put them in their place, and they were simply beside themselves. It was better than <em>Love’s Sweet Fury</em>.</span></p>
<p wcount="119" data-sanitized-id="p_1_62" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It would be interesting to know whether any of these women went on the internet afterwards to seek dates with firemen. I doubt it. Most firemen are not terribly “educated,” and often earn less than the ass-sitting female paper-pushers they rescue. Perhaps if women had to spend several post-pubertal years being continually rescued from burning buildings, we could foster a baby-boom. Instead, of course, America’s fire departments are busy replacing firemen with firewomen. (When a large part of Los Angeles recently burned down, it emerged that the three persons in charge of the fire department were all lesbians.) So those rescued women probably went back to their sterile lives as soon as the building reopened. What a pity.</span></p>
<p wcount="87" data-sanitized-id="p_1_63" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So what can we do? It is tempting to say we must raise the status of young men. But the solution to the problem described in Henderson’s article is surely <em>not</em> for policemen, farmers, and plumbers to get post-doctoral fellowships in feminist theory. If we cannot make female hypergamy function correctly once again by raising the status of men, all that remains is . . . to lower that of women. In effect, this is what briefly occurred in that burning office building. And the women just loved it.</span></p>
<p wcount="128" data-sanitized-id="p_1_64" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Feminists, like broken clocks giving the right time twice a day, have described how women under “patriarchy” eroticize and derive pleasure from their own oppression, meaning their exclusion from the male status hierarchy. They are correct. The reader who wishes to observe how women might be made happier once men finally work up the gumption to deprive them of status is advised to watch my favorite Italian movie, <em>Swept Away</em> (1974; avoid Madonna’s 2002 remake). It was made by a woman—and could only have been made by a woman. Meanwhile, clueless male traditionalists offer nothing but laments that women are no longer being placed upon sufficiently high pedestals, unaware that their excessively elevated status is now the principal factor in their loneliness and sexual frustration. Watch the movie!</span></p>
<p wcount="154" data-sanitized-id="p_1_65" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Sex is not simply something that happens in people’s bedrooms. It structures the whole of society. Societies that are badly out of order sexually, as ours is, can expect to experience sexual dysfunction and a potentially catastrophic decline in fertility. Women need men’s love, but to get it they need to respect men. (For men to respect women is also nice, but not as essential—although discussed <em>ad nauseam</em>.) Women have traded love for status, a properly male concern, and they are deeply unhappy. This is because they are not getting the love they need, neither from the men above them in the status hierarchy who can go from hookup to hookup nor, even more obviously, from the lower-status men their inborn instincts virtually compel them to reject. And it does not matter that these men are not actually unworthy of them. For women, all that matters is the outward status hierarchy.</span></p>
<p wcount="93" data-sanitized-id="p_1_66" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Another point to consider: Henderson asks only how the ladies might find worthy men, not how men might find worthy wives. But what would the average academic spinster really have to offer a man who must go out every day and accomplish challenging tasks in the real world? She probably cannot cook, since grad students live on frozen entrees and takeout. Can she clean, decorate, grow a vegetable garden, or do anything else that might make his home a comforting and pleasant place? Assembling snippets from Virginia Woolf just doesn’t cut it.</span></p>
<p wcount="137" data-sanitized-id="p_1_67" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So far I have spoken only of the 84 percent of non-college men who are employed. Henderson himself passes rapidly over this larger group to discuss the 16 percent who are stuck playing video games and watching pornography. Obviously, their long-term happiness and self-respect as well as the good of society demands that some useful work be found for them to perform. Fortunately, there is always valuable work to be done in this world; it is just a matter of suiting the tasks to the men. But this is a complex economic problem I have no special qualifications for addressing. One thing I would not recommend most of these young men do is enroll in college, where they can expect to be demeaned and resented. Leave the campuses to the purple-haired women’s studies majors who organize slut marches.</span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_68" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Proper employment will take care of most of the video game addiction from which these young men suffer. There remains the question of pornography. Being by temperament more analyst than moralist, I have been reluctant to address this question. Moreover, I long assumed that even a fairly mediocre woman could be counted upon to win out over lifeless images in the heart of any normal young man. I am no longer so sure.</span></p>
<p wcount="25" data-sanitized-id="p_1_69" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Let us look at just a few of the advantages pornography enjoys from the point of view of Henderson’s unemployed and underemployed young men:</span></p>
<ul><li>Pornography cannot divorce them and clean out their bank accounts with the armed backing of the state.</li>
<li>While porn cannot give them children, it also cannot take their children away from them. Pornography has never denounced any man to Child Protective Services as an abuser.</li>
<li>Pornography does not despise any man for having failed to earn an academic credential in oppression studies, does not call his masculinity “toxic,” does not condemn him for the natural sexual urges he cannot help: in sum, does not indulge in the endless litany of complaints about men heard from contemporary women.</li>
<li>Porn is cheap. Wives cost a lot of money, especially when they are carrying and nursing babies, whereas making porn requires only a camera and a slut. Not being a capital-intensive industry, the end user can find a nearly limitless ocean of it online for free.</li>
<li>Perhaps not least important, you do not actually have to pay attention to pornography. If forced to choose between keeping either porn or a pretentious female racism “scholar” under my roof, I would unhesitatingly choose the porn since I could always stuff it in a drawer and ignore it—something that cannot be done with a woman.</li>
</ul><p wcount="113" data-sanitized-id="p_1_70" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I can only conclude that these young men are behaving rationally in preferring pornography to the available women. If I were God or possessed a magic wand, I would (after finding them gainful employment) provide these men with sweet, loving, grateful young wives capable of creating homes for them and bearing and rearing decent children. But I am not hiding any stash of such women from anyone. I really do not know where they are to be found. If someone were able to solve this problem, I suspect the plague of pornography would largely take care of itself. Any eventual legislation to outlaw it would provide no more than the <em>coup de grace</em>.</span></p>
<p wcount="15" data-sanitized-id="p_1_71" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em>This article originally appeared at Counter-Currents and is posted here with permission of the author.</em></span></p>


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<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em>Continued from <a title="https://www.amren.com/features/2025/03/race-in-mormon-theology-part-i/" href="https://www.amren.com/features/2025/03/race-in-mormon-theology-part-i/">Part I</a>.</em></span></p>
<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the 1960s, outside pressure and even internal criticism built up against the church. Some universities, such as Stanford, refused to compete with the Mormons’ Brigham Young University until it changed its stance. The church resisted throughout the sixties.</span></p>
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<p wcount="52" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Privately, David O. McKay, who at that time was the successor of Joseph Smith as president of the Church, admitted that he was getting tired of criticism. He said that if he felt that God authorized such a change, he would be willing to implement it, even though he found intermarriage repugnant.</span></p>
<p wcount="48" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">McKay died in 1970, and by the late 1970s, the LDS organization was becoming global. Despite the restrictions on those with “colored blood,” the church saw growth in places such as Africa, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Brazil was a tough case because it had a long history of miscegenation.</span></p>
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<p><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Mormon converts Wynetta Willis Martin Clark (left) and Marilyn Yuille joined the Tabernacle Choir in 1969 and 1970. They were its first black members.</span></p>
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<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Some say the Church gave in to peer pressure and lifted the restriction. The official explanation is that after extended prayer and fasting, Spencer Kimball, then-president of the Church, decided that God gave divine authorization to lift the restriction.</span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">When it was lifted, the Church never apologized for its previous stance, and never denied that the prior restriction on “Negros” was divinely instituted. Many of the Church’s respected theologians still taught that race wasn’t inconsequential; the only difference was that the time had come to let blacks participate in priestly offices.</span></p>
<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The church claimed that the change was similar to the New Testament precedent in Acts, in which, only after the resurrection did Jesus direct his disciples no longer to exclude Gentiles from the gospel but to preach to everyone. During his lifetime, he preached only to Jews. In Matthew 15:24, when a Canaanite woman asks him to heal her daughter, he answers, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”</span></p>
<p wcount="29" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As for Mormons, even after lifting the restrictions on the priesthood, there were warnings against interracial dating or marriage. This was discouraged even as late as the early 2000s.</span></p>
<p wcount="20" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">At present, there is very little official literature or statements on race. What little there is, aligns with conventional views.</span></p>
<p wcount="44" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In 2012, Mitt Romney was the GOP nominee for president against Barack Obama, America’s first black president. Many Christians hold unfavorable views toward Mormons — not because of their past racial views, but for theological reasons. However, the faith’s historical views became an issue.</span></p>
<p wcount="22" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A <em>Washington Post</em> reporter flew to Salt Lake City and went to the BYU campus and <a title="https://universe.byu.edu/2012/02/29/professor-didnt-follow-university-media-policy-when-speaking-with-washington-post/" href="https://universe.byu.edu/2012/02/29/professor-didnt-follow-university-media-policy-when-speaking-with-washington-post/">interviewed</a> religion department Prof. Randy Bott:</span></p>
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<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em>“</em>God has always been discriminatory when it comes to whom he grants the authority of the priesthood,” says Bott, the BYU theologian. He quotes Mormon scripture that states that the Lord gives to people ‘all that he seeth fit.’ Bott compares Blacks with a young child prematurely asking for the keys to her father’s car and explains that, similarly, until 1978, the Lord determined that Blacks were not yet ready for the priesthood.</span></p>
<p wcount="103" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“What is discrimination?” Bott asks. “I think that is keeping something from somebody that would be a benefit for them, right? But what if it wouldn’t have been a benefit to them?” Bott says that the denial of the priesthood to Blacks on Earth — although not in the afterlife — protected them from the lowest rungs of hell reserved for people who abuse their priesthood powers. “You couldn’t fall off the top of the ladder because you weren’t on the top of the ladder. So, in reality, the Blacks not having the priesthood was the greatest blessing God could give them.”</span></p>
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<p wcount="66" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This panicked the Church’s public relations department. It said that while it was true there was a prior temporary restriction on priesthood offices for blacks, the theories and views of the professor did not reflect official doctrine, and that the Church was against all forms of racism. Not long after, Professor Bott announced his retirement and intent to pursue a Church mission with his wife.</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Church then published an <a title="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng">essay</a>, which was part of a wider series dealing with the history of the racial restriction. There was no single author listed; it was a collaboration. Some strongly believed the restriction never had divine origins, while others believed there were divine origins, but that it was merely a matter of political expediency for the Church during a time of racial tension within the nation.</span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It explains the origin, history, and nature of the restriction, but doesn’t address any of the actual canonical scripture passages that deal with it. My own view is that it was a good attempt to phrase things in a vague way so that anyone who read it could interpret it however he wanted.</span></p>
<p wcount="83" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">At the end, the essay lists various assertions, such as dark skin being a divine curse or that mixed-race marriage was a sin, both of which the Church disavowed as not official doctrine. Initially, many progressives saw this as an apology. However, I see it as a well-crafted public relations statement meant to silence critics and pacify progressive members. Despite the disavowal, the Church did not retract any passages of scripture or even repudiate books written by earlier leaders that supported the restrictions.</span></p>
<p wcount="42" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">On June 1, 2018, the Church marked the 40th anniversary of the lifting of the restriction, in something called the “Be One Celebration.” The Church recruited black members from congregations throughout the world to sing, reenact stories of black converts, and celebrate black heritage.</span></p>
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<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Dallin H. Oaks, who is part of a presiding quorum in the Church known as the First Presidency, was the keynote speaker. Many expected a formal public apology, but in a move of surprising boldness, he <a title="https://www.thechurchnews.com/2018/6/2/23221509/president-oaks-full-remarks-from-the-lds-churchs-be-one-celebration/" href="https://www.thechurchnews.com/2018/6/2/23221509/president-oaks-full-remarks-from-the-lds-churchs-be-one-celebration/">reaffirmed that the restriction was from God</a>, but that sometimes we don’t understand all His reasons. He concluded by saying, essentially, let’s just let the past be the past. Critics thought he betrayed the entire celebration.</span></p>
<p wcount="103" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Each year, the Church publishes a curriculum to be taught in Sunday School and at home, with passages from the <em>Book of Mormon</em> to be studied each Sunday. It was probably just bad luck, but in February 2020 — “Black History Month” — Mormons were to study the verses about Indians being cursed with dark skin as a way to separate them from whites. It included a quote from a prior Church president explaining that dark skin was a mark set upon the ancestors of the Indians but also explained that Indians who joined the Church were no longer cursed and no longer separated from God.</span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Many members felt this was a major step backward and were worried this would resurrect old prejudices. The public relations department issued another statement that the Church was not racist and rewrote the curriculum. The new version included a vague statement that “the nature of the mark [on Indians] is not fully understood.”</span></p>
<p wcount="90" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Many progressive Church members began to argue that dark skin was not meant to be taken literally but was an ancient idiom referring to spiritual darkness. That same year, Gary E. Stevenson, a member of the presiding quorum, was invited to attend a Salt Lake NAACP breakfast, where he <a title="https://www.ksl.com/article/46706963/we-are-all-part-of-the-same-divine-family-elder-stevenson-tells-salt-lake-naacp" href="https://www.ksl.com/article/46706963/we-are-all-part-of-the-same-divine-family-elder-stevenson-tells-salt-lake-naacp">said</a> the published manual was an unfortunate error and that he was <a title="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/01/18/error-printed-lds-church/" href="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/01/18/error-printed-lds-church/">sorry</a> for the sadness it apparently caused. Later in 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the Church made vague statements about the need for civility and tolerance across racial lines.</span></p>
<p wcount="47" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Mormons are said to dominate Utah, but there may be only 45 to 50 percent who are real believers. Media and many state-run universities are bastions of progressivism, and combat the Church’s stance on “sexual minorities,” which is often compared to what it used to say about blacks.</span></p>
<p wcount="17" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In 2020, a statue of Brigham Young on the BYU campus was defaced with “racist” in red paint.</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Church made a partnership with the NAACP and pledged five million dollars for scholarships and humanitarian assistance. Traditional conservative members were perplexed, not so much because of race, but because the NAACP backs progressive causes that are antithetical to Mormon doctrines. Conservatives don’t like LGBT ideology, abortion rights, new ideas of sex roles, and sympathy for what many Mormons consider socialism.</span></p>
<p wcount="46" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As part of the partnership, the Church rolled out the red carpet for NAACP leaders, even flying some of them to Ghana to show them the new LDS missionary training facilities. The Church took pictures of NAACP bigwigs touring the facility and Mormon places of worship.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">According to someone who worked for the church, it didn’t get the praise it hoped for. In LDS artwork, Jesus, angels, and God are often depicted as white men. NAACP representatives didn’t like that.</span></p>
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<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The <em>Salt Lake Tribune</em> interviewed members of the NAACP to get their impression of the collaboration. Needless to say, the Church had not done nearly enough. Will Colom, special counsel to the NAACP <a title="https://exponentii.org/blog/an-open-letter-to-the-lds-church-addressing-our-history-of-structural-and-cultural-violence/#sdendnote1sym" href="https://exponentii.org/blog/an-open-letter-to-the-lds-church-addressing-our-history-of-structural-and-cultural-violence/#sdendnote1sym">said he was</a>:</span></p>
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<p wcount="37" data-sanitized-id="p_1_31" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">He said there seemed to be no willingness on the part of the Church to do anything material, and he looked forward “to their deeds matching their words.” “It’s time now for more than sweet talk.”</span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_32" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Even within the Church, there seems to be a big divide on how to approach racially inconvenient teachings. Many progressives argue that the racial teachings were <a title="https://scripturecentral.org/knowhy/what-is-the-skin-of-blackness-in-the-book-of-mormon" href="https://scripturecentral.org/knowhy/what-is-the-skin-of-blackness-in-the-book-of-mormon">never divinely sanctioned</a> but were “false traditions” that sprang from the racially charged environment of the time. They want the Church to adopt social justice and anti-racism.</span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_33" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Black members are especially vocal, but some Hispanic and Indian members also object to the idea that they inherited certain physical distinctions from their ancestors. The Church of Latter-day Saints is going through growing pains as it tries to make its faith more globally palatable, and critics will not be satisfied by anything less than a full retraction of key passages.</span></p>
<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_34" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Interestingly, the Church released a <a title="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/race-and-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints?lang=eng" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/race-and-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints?lang=eng">new publication</a> last week regarding its stance on race, included in the “Topics and Questions” section. It’s clear that much of the content was drawn from previous publications and statements on the matter — particularly the 2013 Gospel Topics essay. The new publication mirrors much of the earlier messaging, offering clarification on the history behind the racial restrictions in the Church, while adding a few details that were previously not mentioned.</span></p>
<p wcount="93" data-sanitized-id="p_1_35" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The same talking points are reiterated: that racism is wrong and incompatible with the teachings of the Church, and that all humans are equal in God’s eyes. However, this publication goes a few steps further by emphasizing that “our differences bring beautiful variety to our lives.” It includes a section titled “Are Church Members or Leaders Racist?” though it avoids a direct yes or no answer. Instead, it repeats that racism is unacceptable and encourages individuals who say or do anything racially insensitive to pray for forgiveness and strive to be better.</span></p>
<p wcount="70" data-sanitized-id="p_1_36" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Notably, a new section claims that the Church does not discourage interracial marriage, stating that people in interracial marriages often find happiness and fulfillment in their religious pursuits. However, the idea that it’s not discouraged contradicts a quote in a <a title="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/34822_AaronicPriesthood3/ap3-31-choosing-an-eternal-companion_34.pdf" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/34822_AaronicPriesthood3/ap3-31-choosing-an-eternal-companion_34.pdf">youth manual</a> available on the Church’s website. Former Church President Spencer W. Kimbal said, “We recommend that people marry those who are of the same racial background generally . . . .”</span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_37" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The new publication also makes a point to denounce white supremacy, stating that those who promote white supremacist or “white culture” ideologies are not in harmony with the teachings of the Church. It attempts to soften some of the racially charged passages in the Book of Mormon, asserting that such scriptures have no bearing on people with dark skin today, and that these verses should never be used to justify discrimination or prejudice.</span></p>
<p wcount="88" data-sanitized-id="p_1_38" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The publication reiterates that even though Jesus is depicted as white in LDS art, it would be a mistake to argue “that Jesus was ‘white’ according to a modern understanding of race.” In the Book of Mormon, however, we read that “in the city of Nazareth I beheld a virgin [Mary], and she was exceedingly fair and white.” (1 Nephi 11:13). Moreover, according to LDS theology, Jesus’ father was not Middle Eastern but God the Father, who in various LDS accounts is described as white skinned and even blue eyed.</span></p>
<p wcount="86" data-sanitized-id="p_1_39" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As someone who has watched the Church grapple with its racial history for several decades now, this latest publication feels like more of the same: delicately worded, carefully constructed statements designed to shift blame and soften the rhetoric of the past. With no disrespect to the organization or its members, I think the most accurate term to describe this approach is <em>gaslighting</em>. Some Mormons I know personally have felt these PR attempts are almost offensive; they assume readers are either stupid or oblivious to the facts.</span></p>
<p wcount="100" data-sanitized-id="p_1_40" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Though the racial restriction has been lifted, that alone isn’t enough for many non-white members and progressives. I don’t believe the Church will fully apologize for its past or retract the scriptures that supported it. We’ve seen a similar pattern with polygamy: While the Church discontinued it in the 1890s, it never admitted it was wrong or removed the scriptural justifications. More than a century later, those teachings still cause distress, especially for women, and remain part of Church doctrine. Without apologizing or censuring scripture, the tension around race will remain, just as it has with polygamy.</span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_41" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A few years ago, I visited the Utah town of St. George — founded and still dominated by Mormons. I visited the Deseret Book Store, part of a chain owned by the Church, which sells official literature. I found children’s books about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, along with books by black Mormons about their struggles for “racial justice.” But in the theology section, I found the <a title="https://rsc.byu.edu/book-mormon-second-nephi-doctrinal-structure/lamanite-mark" href="https://rsc.byu.edu/book-mormon-second-nephi-doctrinal-structure/lamanite-mark">traditional racial teachings</a> and doctrines.</span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_42" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I recently asked a mid- to high-level church official about this. He said the traditional views were actually unchanged — the racial passages were literal, and the past racial practices were divinely sanctioned. The difference, he said, is that the Church is trying to reduce criticism while also trying to make its non-white members feel welcome. Race is real, he said, but it will not hinder a person’s hope for salvation or God’s love for him.</span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_43" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This is probably a good summary. Race is just a component of Mormonism, so the church will fall short of the hopes of race realists or white advocates. The church believes its role is to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus: “Take the gospel to all nations.” It will probably not take firm action against white consciousness, but it will also not endorse it.</span></p>


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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/shutterstock_609705812.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="111" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">HOPE Not Hate (HNH) are a British organization monitoring and reporting on what is described in the UK as the “far Right”. They are the British equivalent of America’s Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and fulfil a similar function, that of unofficial government adviser. That may well change for the SPLC under President Trump, but HNH are quite safe with the Starmer government in Britain as they are on-message. For the left, since they have created a totally dysfunctional society, it can only be about hope — the ever-elusive goal of a multi-ethnic utopia that is just around the corner if we could only destroy and de-legitimize White people’s interests.</span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In fact, they could be said to produce a large part of the message. HNH produce an annual report entitled <em>State of Hate</em> (<em>SoH</em>), and <a title="https://hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hate-2025/" href="https://hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hate-2025/">the 2025 edition has just been published.</a> With an 11-strong production team and solid funding, <em>SoH</em> is lavish and exhaustively researched. It can be downloaded, but is also available in glossy magazine form. It might make a nice coffee-table ornament, an office I’m sure it will perform in parts of north London.</span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As a serious journalistic source, should you happen to be writing about the British far Right, <em>SoH</em> is first-rate. But all it really is in essence is an almanac with a very disapproving tone. The allegations are largely petty indiscretions, the “problematic rhetoric” is very often just facts unpalatable to the Left, and simply appending the phrase “far-Right” to anyone of whom you disapprove is an ideological parlour-game Orwell exposed in 1946 in <em>Politics and the English Language</em>.</span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Also, when people whine about “rhetoric”, it’s likely that they have never read Aristotle’s <em>ars rhetorica</em> in their intellectually sheltered lives, this being too classical and therefore too White for them. But these midwits are more powerful than one might think, and are taken extremely seriously by those who fund them. Then again, so are many writers of fiction.</span></p>
<p wcount="112" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Like the SPLC in the US, HNH are not officially the government’s advisers, and Starmer would rather keep things as they are. That way, HNH are deniable should they do anything too crass, which they almost did last summer. At the height of the rioting following the attack in Southport in which three young girls were butchered, HNH CEO Nick Lowles <a title="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/05/nick-lowles-hope-not-hate-apologise-tweet-acid-attack/" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/05/nick-lowles-hope-not-hate-apologise-tweet-acid-attack/">posted on X</a> that a Muslima had had acid thrown in her face. This was simply untrue and, viewed in context, with a number of volatile situations in progress and armed Muslims taking to the streets, incredibly irresponsible. HNH were fortunate that no charges were pressed. Fortunate, or something else.</span></p>
<p wcount="71" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Their status as a NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) notwithstanding, HNH seem to derive a fair portion of their funding directly from governmental sources—as <a title="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-doge-us-funded-ngos-may-be-biggest-scam-ever-elon-musks-big-charge-7830007" href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-doge-us-funded-ngos-may-be-biggest-scam-ever-elon-musks-big-charge-7830007">DOGE is finding out in the U.S.</a> The London Mayor’s Office, under the long reign of Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan, gave money to HNH in 2019, and under the previous supposedly conservative government, HNH sent paid advisers to the Home Office to lecture its staff about extremism.</span></p>
<p wcount="158" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But <em>SoH</em> is its central pillar, and it is worth remembering that all of the various characters who appear in the 140 pages of the report have one thing in common, in the opinion of HNH; they hate. They are “haters”. Hatred is their natural habitat. Hating, of course, is what children do. “I <em>hate</em> you, Mummy!” It is also what ethnic adversaries do, and perhaps ethnicity is the greatest driver of genuine hatred, rather than that confected by HNH. In <em>SoH</em>, of course, the word “hatred” and its cognates are just stage props in a production as theatrical as it is ideological. The word “hate” itself is carefully manipulated by HNH, although hatred is an emotion understood by all. One thinks of the Messerschmitt busts which show hatred and other disagreeable emotions. <a title="https://www.google.com/search?q=messerschmitt+statues+hate&amp;sca_esv=38d05e23988e767d&amp;udm=2&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=633&amp;sxsrf=AHTn8zos02LrUkyZzC4PGgkrXPmOZR28YA%3A1741446778338&amp;ei=el7MZ_OwFLKNwbkP-d6euQs&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjz1fjk4vqLAxWyRjABHXmvJ7cQ4dUDCBQ&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=messerschmitt+statues+hate&amp;gs_lp=EgNpbWciGm1lc3NlcnNjaG1pdHQgc3RhdHVlcyBoYXRlSOATUP0EWJcPcAF4AJABAJgBnQOgAYgJqgEJMC4yLjIuMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAICoAKsAcICBBAAGB6YAwCIBgGSBwMxLjGgB4EC&amp;sclient=img" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=messerschmitt+statues+hate&amp;sca_esv=38d05e23988e767d&amp;udm=2&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=633&amp;sxsrf=AHTn8zos02LrUkyZzC4PGgkrXPmOZR28YA%3A1741446778338&amp;ei=el7MZ_OwFLKNwbkP-d6euQs&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjz1fjk4vqLAxWyRjABHXmvJ7cQ4dUDCBQ&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=messerschmitt+statues+hate&amp;gs_lp=EgNpbWciGm1lc3NlcnNjaG1pdHQgc3RhdHVlcyBoYXRlSOATUP0EWJcPcAF4AJABAJgBnQOgAYgJqgEJMC4yLjIuMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAICoAKsAcICBBAAGB6YAwCIBgGSBwMxLjGgB4EC&amp;sclient=img">This is how HOPE Not Hate wish us to be pictured</a> in the mind’s eye of the great British public. So, let the hatred begin.</span></p>
<p wcount="43" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The report’s cover features two of HNH’s <em>bêtes noires,</em> Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson, the leader of the rapidly rising Reform UK, and effectively a political prisoner respectively. As always, they both have large sections of <em>SoH</em> dedicated to them.</span></p>
<p wcount="94" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Robinson having been in prison for some time, there is not much to report on him (absent the fact that the deep state is trying to kill him in jail, which HNH are unlikely to mention). Thus, being something of a veteran of these reports, I detect a fair bit of cut-and-paste in the production of <em>SoH 2025</em>. But, as noted, it is exhaustive, and the updates maintain the illusion of what I called the “Pepper’s Ghost” of the British far Right, <a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/04/19/peppers-ghost-looking-for-the-british-far-right/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/04/19/peppers-ghost-looking-for-the-british-far-right/">here at <em>The Occidental Observer</em></a> three years ago. Not much has changed.</span></p>
<p wcount="9" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">HNH’s mission statement accompanies a request for donations:</span></p>
<p wcount="6" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“We take on and defeat nazis.</span></p>
<p wcount="16" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Will you step up with a donation to ensure we can keep fighting the far right?”</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This is an old advertising technique as well as more evidence of the little-league neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) which infects every ward of the Leftist sanitorium. Association, verbal or typographical, is a device the Left use consistently, and they like to link certain familiar images in the minds of their followers. Nazis, far-Right, fascists, radical Right; these smear-phrases must be kept in circulation, melding and conflating into one single meaning.</span></p>
<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As the report progresses, certain phrases recur. Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer whose crime sparked last year’s riots in England, is mentioned three times in the first 12 pages of <em>SoH,</em> each time with a variation on this theme:</span></p>
<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“We are also seeing rising numbers of young men who through ideologically fluid means — picking elements of different and even contradictory ideologies — are drawn together through a desire to commit extreme violence. The Southport killer fitted this mould…” (p. 6)</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Decoded, this means that Rudakubana’s being a Muslim was, if anything, a very minor and insignificant factor in his murdering three small girls. The way HNH work is by association, whether it exists or not.</span></p>
<p wcount="23" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Because of this methodological need to make links in a chain, HNH particularly like structure. This is from Lowles’ editorial introduction to <em>SoH:</em></span></p>
<p wcount="38" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>[The Southport riots]</strong> <strong>were primarily a product of the ‘post-organisational’ far right. Most of the disturbances were planned organically, often by local people unaligned to any formal organisation, but who were plugged into decentralised far-right networks online. (p. 12).</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="101" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Unless cretinism is either a condition you actually suffer from, or the hobby it seems to be for many on the Left, this is nonsense on stilts. What does, what <em>can,</em> “post-organizational” actually mean? What are “decentralized far-Right networks”? If those of us on the political Right don’t know it yet, much of our battle takes place on the terrain of language, and the <em>ex cathedra</em> terminology of Critical Race Theory has allowed the Left to exercise their apparent right to use language as though it were malleable and has meaning only as subject to the requirements of the user.</span></p>
<p wcount="17" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">HNH have their own lexicon, and it is every bit as semantically fluid as one would expect:</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>We use the term ‘trigger events’ to describe incidents that generate large-scale reactions. These reactions spread beyond the individuals involved in the event to those in the in-group attacking the out-group: what some social psychologists call ‘vicarious retribution’. In the case of anti-migrant hatred, trigger events are most commonly crimes committed or alleged to have been committed by people of migrant backgrounds. (p. 84).</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="46" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Southport killings are thus reduced to the status of a simple causative formula rather than the massacre of White girls by a second-generation immigrant. Language is once again co-opted in order to smear perfectly understandable reactions to horrors which are becoming increasingly commonplace across Europe.</span></p>
<p wcount="30" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Language is also key to the self-damning of its “far-Right” users, although the bar is set low enough to challenge the doughtiest limbo-dancer, and is not confined to political pariahs:</span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>But crucially, this [language] is not only confined to Reform or Conservative politicians. Although far less common and extreme, Labour have at times dipped their toes in this rhetoric. In 2007 Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a ‘British jobs for British workers’ policy, which many viewed as nativist and contrary to anti-discrimination laws. (p. 24).</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="48" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As for the cast of this stage-play, hell is empty and all the devils are here. Farage and Reform UK, Elon Musk (despite not being British), Andrew Tate, GB News, Patriotic Alternative; the gang’s all here. But there are some new faces in this hall of shame.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One of the high-profile media <em>arrivistes</em> in this year’s <em>SoH</em> is Professor Matt Goodwin. He is a Jewish professional statistician with an academic background, articulate and forthright, and has found himself a target for HNH:</span></p>
<p wcount="31" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>He [Matt Goodwin]… emphasised that the Cardiff-born murderer [Rudakubana] was ‘the son of immigrants from Rwanda’, in a clear attempt to frame the horrifying attack as a result of immigration. (p. 46).</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="27" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The attacks <em>were</em> a result of immigration, literally and <em>de facto,</em> but HNH are not going to let facts stand in the way of a good story.</span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Goodwin merits four pages and has, it seems, been “radicalized”, another word which has been requisitioned and genetically modified by HNH. The word is immediately associated with Islamic terrorism, and HNH know this perfectly well. Thus, an equivalence is set up between a mild-mannered academic and a screaming jihadi with machete or backpack-bomb.</span></p>
<p wcount="51" data-sanitized-id="p_1_30" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">HNH are not entirely politically illiterate, and make the occasional astute observation. The endorsement made by Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon of Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rallies in London (successful, well attended, and entirely peaceful so far, and with another planned for September) has something of an internal problem:</span></p>
<p wcount="47" data-sanitized-id="p_1_31" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>While Bannon and Loomer’s presence will undoubtedly excite Lennon’s [Robinson’s real name] supporters, one person who will not be impressed is Elon Musk. Bannon and Loomer have nothing but contempt for the billionaire and have been leading the MAGA campaign against his influence. (p. 43).</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="21" data-sanitized-id="p_1_32" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Musk has previously helped fund Robinson’s legal team, and HNH have correctly pointed out a potential cause of future conflict.</span></p>
<p wcount="48" data-sanitized-id="p_1_33" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the quaintly named “Rogues Gallery” section of <em>SoH,</em> we see all 23 White human oddities convicted last year for terrorist offences. Many of these miscreants were jailed, at least partly, for offences concerning terrorist literature. This is another flexible category, despite being defined in <a title="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/contents" href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/contents">the UK Terrorism Act 2006:</a></span></p>
<p wcount="51" data-sanitized-id="p_1_34" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Section 2 makes it an offence to distribute a terrorist publication with the intention of encouraging acts of terrorism. A terrorist publication is one which could be useful to a person in the commission or preparation of acts of terror, and the maximum sentence in respect of this offence is 15 years’ imprisonment.</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="19" data-sanitized-id="p_1_35" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">These “terrorist publications” could be <em>The Anarchist’s Cookbook</em> (and often is), or it could be <em>The Turner Diaries</em>.</span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_36" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It is a racing certainty that, should you be White and in possession of proscribed literature, you will go to jail. But UK Counter Terrorism Police <a title="https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/terrorism-related-arrests-hit-a-five-year-high/" href="https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/terrorism-related-arrests-hit-a-five-year-high/">arrested 248 people</a> under terrorism laws last year, including those involved in three “late stage” attacks. Who were the other 225 not mentioned in HNH’s report? From <em>SoH:</em></span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_37" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>The offences of those who were arrested range from suspicion of possessing a firearm, to those who have allegedly shared terrorist material online, and to those who were thought to be preparing acts of terrorism. (p. 68).</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="40" data-sanitized-id="p_1_38" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The faces in the Rogues Gallery speak of snake-eye genes and sub-85 IQs, but HNH are determined that these dropouts be seen as representing the vanguard of a wave of terror which could break over the righteous at any moment.</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_39" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Race science is also in HNH’s crosshairs, and Edward Dutton — of this parish — makes an appearance, something which is becoming a badge of honor for those questioning the narrative, like a duelling scar at an old German public school. HNH only recognize state-endorsed science.</span></p>
<p wcount="92" data-sanitized-id="p_1_40" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If HNH’s portrait of the British far Right is in any way accurate, then what a diverse bunch they are. Odinists rub shoulders with <em>Conservative Woman</em> magazine <em>.</em> Bubbly feminist Posie Parker mingles with the skinheads of Blood &amp; Honour (who haven’t actually existed for some time, although no one seems to have told HNH). Affable, elderly YouTuber Simon Webb, of the channel <em>History Debunked</em>, shares the limelight with the UVF. That’s right. This extraordinary document actually finishes its inventory of far-Right organizations with the Ulster Volunteer Force. Strange times.</span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_41" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I can’t recommend <em>SoH 2025</em> highly enough, and for two reasons. Firstly, and as noted, it is an exhaustive inventory of anyone in the UK even vaguely to the right of Mao Zedong. If you want new pen-pals on the British political Right, this is effectively one of those old-fashioned telephone directories. I shall certainly be contacting some of the groups who have merited inclusion since <em>SoH 2024,</em> with a view to interviews. Thank you for the contact list, HNH.</span></p>
<p wcount="152" data-sanitized-id="p_1_42" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Secondly, this document is an extraordinary snapshot — like one of those MSI brain-scans — of the pathology of the British Left and, by extension, all Westerners of that persuasion. I hope that those readers who actually know a fair bit about psychology will forgive me, but I can’t resist a bit of a layman’s prognosis. I think Lowles and most of his crew (although I would bet not all) know perfectly well that <em>SoH 2025</em> is a Potemkin Village. The frontage is impressively and meticulously decorated, but there is nothing behind it. Lowles is a snake-oil salesman, a used-car dealer who understands the importance to profit of counterfeit parts and the necessity of occasionally filing the number off an engine-block. HNH is a laboratory in which is produced controlled cognitive dissonance. It is also, to use a term taken up by those who understand the mechanics of the race industry, a grift.</span></p>
<p wcount="144" data-sanitized-id="p_1_43" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The best grift I ever saw was 40 years ago on Guy Fawkes’ Night (aka Bonfire Night) at a crowded railway station in England. It was traditional when I was a boy to make a dummy of Guido Fawkes, the man who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, and often wryly known as “the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions”. Boys would stuff old shirts and Dad’s work trousers with rags, make a <em>papier maché</em> head, and toddle off to the town centre to cry “Penny for the Guy!” in the hope that passers-by would throw them a few coppers for their artistic efforts. The boys at this bustling Brighton station full of commuters returning home from work in London were doing just that, but when they asked me for money, I asked them something which was troubling me:</span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_44" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“Where’s the Guy?”</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_45" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">They looked at me with feral distrust and sloped off to ply their trade elsewhere. There was, of course, no Guy, but people still gave them money without bothering to seek out the famous effigy. This is a perfect metaphor for HNH and <em>SoH.</em> It is also (to me) a nice irony that the website doing much to expose HNH’s troubles is the <a title="https://order-order.com/2025/03/06/cash-strapped-hope-not-hate-resorts-to-temporary-staff-contracts-as-donations-dwindle/" href="https://order-order.com/2025/03/06/cash-strapped-hope-not-hate-resorts-to-temporary-staff-contracts-as-donations-dwindle/">notorious Westminster insider Guido Fawkes.</a></span></p>
<p wcount="160" data-sanitized-id="p_1_46" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As a source of juvenile revenue, a penny for the Guy has rather dried up now, as Bonfire Night is one of several celebrations smothered by the British version of the deep state (far too many White people enjoy, or used to enjoy, the fireworks and celebrations). But HNH are also seeing a bit of a dip in their revenue stream. Their last financial report shows that they took in £417,000 last year, compared with £715,000 the previous year, and over £1 million the year before that. It will be of interest to see the next figure in the wake of the forensic accounting President Trump’s Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) is carrying out, and we perhaps discover that some of USAID’s money was finding its way across the Atlantic. In terms of HNH’s status as an employer, in place of their previous long-term contracts for employees and interns, they are increasingly offering contractual terms as short as four months.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_47" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So, another year, another <em>SoH</em> report. But how long can HNH and Nick Lowles maintain the illusion? And, if the grift is done, who will save us from the imaginary monsters of the British far Right?</span></p>


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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/themes/unzSite/IMAGES/unz_large_logo.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="97" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has dominated discussion around Trump’s policies and ambitions to the extent of semantic satiation. Liberals and leftists often use fascism as a blanket term for anything right-wing politicians represent and Republicans equally use “communism” to denote Democratic or left-wing politics. Jason Stanley, author, American philosopher and Yale professor, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of <em>The Chris Hedges Report</em> to give proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administration’s second term could really mean the completion of the American fascist state.</span></p>
<p wcount="104" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One key element in the spread of fascism is the attack on a central pillar of democracy: education. Stanley explores the recent assault on crucial parts of the American education system, including critical race theory, Black history and now the sanctity of free speech. Legislation pushing for the suppression of these segments is expected, Stanley explains, since “it creates a fake version of the past and it tells students that you’re the greatest country in history and your leaders are the greatest people in history. It’s exactly what Hitler in Mein Kampf said the education system of the Third Reich should be.”</span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Stanley also illustrates the various ways in which fascist regimes attempt to psychologically manipulate the public into being subservient and by eliminating any reference to historic self-determination. “An education system should give people the sense that they have agency to change history,” Stanley tells Hedges. “And if you want to impose patriotic education, you want to impose the kind of education that fits into an authoritarian system, you want to remove agency from people.”</span></p>
<p wcount="37" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The bleakness of the near future is hard to avoid, Stanley warns. He likens the deportation and hunting down of pro-Palestinian student protestors to the stripping of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson’s passports:</span></p>
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<p wcount="1" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Producer:</strong></span></p>
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<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="106" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Totalitarian regimes seek absolute control over the institutions that reproduce ideas, especially the media and education. Narratives that challenge the myths used to legitimize absolute power—in our case historical facts that blemish the sanctity of white male supremacy, capitalism and Christian fundamentalism—are erased. There is to be no shared reality. There are to be no other legitimate perspectives. History is to be static. It is not to be open to reinterpretation or investigation. It is to be calcified into myth to buttress a ruling ideology and the reigning political and social hierarchy. Any other paradigm of power and social interaction is tantamount to treason.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“One of the most significant threats that a class hierarchy can face is a universally accessible and excellent public school system,” writes Jason Stanley in <em><a title="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Erasing-History/Jason-Stanley/9781668056912" href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Erasing-History/Jason-Stanley/9781668056912">Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future</a></em>:</span></p>
<p wcount="144" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The political philosophy that feels this threat most acutely—and that unites hostility toward public education with support for class hierarchy—is a certain form of rightwing libertarianism, an ideology that sees free markets as the wellspring of human freedom. These kinds of libertarians oppose government regulation and virtually all forms of public goods, including public education. The political goal of this version of libertarian ideology is to dismantle public goods. The dismantling of public education is backed by oligarchs and business elites alike, who see in democracy a threat to their power, and in the taxes required for public goods a threat to their wealth. Public schools are the foundational democratic public good. It is therefore perfectly logical that those who are opposed to democracy, including fascist and fascist-leaning movements, would join forces with right-wing libertarians in undermining the institution of public education.</span></p>
<p wcount="96" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The right-wing attacks on programs such as critical race theory or <a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion">DEI</a>, as Stanley points out in his book, “intentionally distort these programs to create the impression that those whose perspectives are finally included—like Black Americans, for instance—are receiving some sort of illicit benefit or unfair advantage. And so they target Black Americans who have risen to positions of power and influence and seek to delegitimize them as undeserving. The ultimate goal is to justify a takeover of the institutions, transforming them into weapons in the war against the very idea of multi-racial democracy.”</span></p>
<p wcount="107" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Joining me to discuss his books Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them is Professor Jason Stanley. Professor Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Let’s begin with the piece you had in The Guardian, where you quite specifically talk about, like Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin and how all of these things, well that’s already pretty much been dismantled by the Supreme Court, how all of these things are being dismantled and why.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="103" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So first of all, Title VI isn’t being dismantled, it’s being weaponized, it’s being reversed and weaponized. And the way it’s being weaponized is it’s being directed to fight supposed anti-white discrimination. So this regime is following Viktor Orbán and focused on Christians, saying Christians were the most persecuted group in the world. Now this regime is saying whites are the most persecuted group in the world. Of course, Trump signed an executive order giving special status to Afrikaners who supposedly were under threat when actually Afrikaners own, whites own much of the land in South Africa.</span></p>
<p wcount="99" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So this idea that white people are under threat, they’re using Title VI to push this and basically what they’re going to do is they’re gonna say any, you know, Black people in positions of power that came at the cost of supposedly more competent white Americans, which leans into racist stereotypes baked in to the American past. And then most concerningly for me as a Jewish American is they are using us, Jewish Americans, they’re like nakedly using us as an excuse to take down the most Jewish institution in American life, the university.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="28" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, they’ve also, while you’re right, they’ve weaponized it, but they’ve also stripped the protections that it once gave to vulnerable and marginalized people.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_30" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, conceptually, so Title VI is intended to help traditionally marginalized, traditionally oppressed people. But the idea now, what this group wants to say is there are no power differentials anymore. And so the really oppressed people are the majority group, the dominant group. This gets to my book, <em>How Fascism Works</em>, where I have a chapter called “Victimhood”. Fascism always relies on portraying the dominant group as victims.</span></p>
<p wcount="70" data-sanitized-id="p_1_31" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The idea that white Americans are somehow being victimized in the university by sort of critical race theorists. I mean, my department of philosophy at Yale hired our first Black tenured professor last year. He started in fall 2024. So, I mean, the level of absurdity, factual absurdity, beggars belief. But that’s the idea is to make white people feel like they’re victimized. And so you erase the history.</span></p>
<p wcount="76" data-sanitized-id="p_1_32" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So you erase the fact that black people were marginalized in America. You make it illegal to talk about the continuing marginalization by the after effects of housing segregation, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, et cetera, the current effects, make it illegal to talk about those things. And then you say, okay, look at how white people and Asians are discriminated against. So it all comes, but I think there’s also an element of retribution here.</span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_33" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Title VI was used against segregated Southern schools and racism in the school districts in the South, and now they’re flipping it and they’re saying, to the glee of many of their supporters, they’re saying, no, the real racism is directed against whites and it’s done by these universities.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_34" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="66" data-sanitized-id="p_1_35" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">We’ll go into your book, but when I covered the war in Yugoslavia, I watched Slobodan Milošević use exactly that tactic of telling the Serbs who controlled what was left of Yugoslavia that they were the victims in a famous speech in Kosovo, “I will not let them beat you, I will not let them beat you.” But it’s exactly the same phenomena.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_36" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_37" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, victimhood is, what you do is, and this is sort of a mixture of the books now, is you say in the past, we were the great ones, we created the culture, and we’re now being punished for that. We’re being punished for our greatness. And we’re an existential threat. So it goes together with the great replacement theory narratives.</span></p>
<p wcount="60" data-sanitized-id="p_1_38" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And then what they’re gonna do is they’re saying the schools and universities by representing accurate history are a challenge to this myth. And in fact, the history itself, if you read what the Department of Education is saying, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that just teaching Black history accurately would be a Title VI violation.</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_39" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In other words, just teaching, say, redlining and mortgage, the history of our mortgage laws that resulted in segregated cities today, it looks like that would be the same as a white professor continuously calling all of their Black students with the worst racial slur.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_40" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="32" data-sanitized-id="p_1_41" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So let’s open with your book, <em>Erasing History</em>. I mean, I think the book does a very good job of explaining why they’re making war on the universities. You say,</span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_42" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“Authoritarian regimes often find history profoundly threatening. At every opportunity these regimes find ways of erasing or concealing history in order to consolidate their power. Why is this? Why does history do that? What does history do that is so disruptive of authoritarian goals? Perhaps most importantly, it provides multiple perspectives of the past.”</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_43" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This is really the underlying, you would argue, the underlying goal of what’s happened. It has nothing to do with antisemitism. It has nothing to do with DEI or critical race theory or anything else. These become the tactics for something far more nefarious.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_44" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_45" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, I mean, the department, Linda McMahon in her letter about the final mission of the Department of Education says it’s gonna be to impose patriotic education. Patriotic education being a kind of, you know, flat, one-dimensional story of the greatness of the nation. It’s just, of course, just picture in your mind an authoritarian country and the education system in an authoritarian country. It’s just telling students to love their country.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_46" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="8" data-sanitized-id="p_1_47" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, it’s mythic. It’s not true.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_48" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_49" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Right, it creates a fake version of the past and it tells students that you’re the greatest country in history and your leaders are the greatest people in history. It’s exactly what Hitler in Mein Kampf said the education system of the Third Reich should be. I talk about that at length. Hitler talks a lot about education in Mein Kampf.</span></p>
<p wcount="67" data-sanitized-id="p_1_50" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So the fuel for fascist movements is this feeling of resentment by the dominant group. And so what you wanna do is you wanna create fear and resentment among the dominant group. So they keep supporting you and they think you’re going to protect them. So you represent another perspective, the perspective of marginalized groups as, somehow an attack on the identity of the dominant group.</span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_51" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You say, like, AfD [Alternative for Germany] in Germany, you know, they wanna say, one of their platforms, Björn Höcke’s platform, one of the leaders, is to remove the monument to the murdered Jews of Europe from Berlin. Because the idea is all that history is there to make the dominant group feel shame. Which it’s not, it’s there just to remind people, let’s not do this again.</span></p>
<p wcount="82" data-sanitized-id="p_1_52" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But it is powerful for a non-Jewish German to see the <a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein">Stolperstein</a>, to see the monuments that very recently have been placed on German streets. And it does generate powerful feelings. And what they’re trying to do is leverage those powerful feelings into fear and resentment. When Musk said to the AfD, the most extreme far-right party in Europe, that other far-right parties won’t work with, when Musk said the German tribes were great, he didn’t mean German Jews.</span></p>
<p wcount="82" data-sanitized-id="p_1_53" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">He meant he was feeding into a myth of Aryanism, of Aryan supremacy, and he was feeding into the AfD line that German soldiers in World War I and World War II were in fact heroes. So this idea that, so what you try to do is you erase the history and then you represent the dominant group as great. And then you represent history itself, the actual history as a threat, as some sort of nefarious threat to destroy the nation.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_54" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_55" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And that is fundamental to what’s happening in places like Columbia [University], because you’re pushing out all sorts of people who challenge the dominant narrative. Of course, the primary group that’s targeted now are people who challenge the Zionist narrative. But that’s not exclusive. They’re hardly interested in stopping with Zionism.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_56" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_57" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">No, I think this attack on the universities is antisemitic because the universities, first of all, it’s placing us American Jews at the center of things. So the American university system is the greatest university system in the world. And they’re using American Jews as the excuse to dismantle. So it’s never good to be used politically like that and it’s billions and billions of dollars in federal funding.</span></p>
<p wcount="72" data-sanitized-id="p_1_58" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So, of course, who are the leftist protesters and critical intellectuals among the students and faculty? Well, one group of them are obviously Jews. They’re using antisemitic stereotypes of the university as filled with these dangerous leftist radicals. Those are antisemitic stereotypes and they’re using those to say we have to protect the Jews against it. Antisemitism just means leftism for them. They’re just saying the left is antisemitic.</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_59" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But what this does is it sets Jewish people up. It sets Jewish people up. It feeds into the antisemitic stereotypes that Jews control the institutions. So it’s hard for me not to see this, ironically and paradoxically, as an attack on American Jews.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_60" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="7" data-sanitized-id="p_1_61" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, philosemitism is as insidious as antisemitism.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_62" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="17" data-sanitized-id="p_1_63" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, but this isn’t philosemitism even then because we’re on both sides of this issue.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_64" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="11" data-sanitized-id="p_1_65" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, that’s true, but within the narrative, I’m saying.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_66" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="49" data-sanitized-id="p_1_67" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Within the narrative, absolutely, within the narrative, yes, exactly. And then of course, the mainstream media has been preparing the ground, has been dupes for fascism, has been preparing the ground for the attacks on universities since 2015, since the Kochs started this right-wing attack on universities for free speech.</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_68" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So the editorial pages of the New York Times were concerned, trolling about leftists on campus, repeatedly feeding into the propaganda that free speech was threatened by leftists on campus. And then suddenly last year was like, okay, there’s too much free speech because criticism of Israel. So, but the mainstream media did all that. They did all that work for authoritarianism.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_69" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="68" data-sanitized-id="p_1_70" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, that’s an important point, which you make. You write the nations, you’re writing about Germany. So Weimar Germany had a robust culture, robust university system, and it very, as you note in the book, very swiftly disintegrated. You write the nation’s self-understanding of its history and identity preserved through its schools and its culture was proven to be far less protective than many believed.</span></p>
<p wcount="42" data-sanitized-id="p_1_71" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">That very swift disintegration, which was also true, by the way, in the former Yugoslavia, Brotherhood and Unity and [Josip Broz] Tito and all this kind of stuff. It really crumbled with frightening rapidity, and that, I think, was very important warning.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_72" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_73" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Absolutely, for some reason the schools, taking over the schools with patriotic education, with just blather about how great the nation is, has a very dramatic and very quick effect for some reason. The Nazi takeover of the schools had an immediate drastic effect on non-Jewish German attitudes towards Jews, the majority German attitudes towards Jews.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_74" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Germany became very rapidly much more antisemitic than, for example, France, which as we all know, I mean, as you should know, was the antisemitic country for a long time there. So now there’s a concerning point about Weimar and National Socialism, the National Socialist regime that superseded it, which is that the textbooks in Weimar Germany were already very nationalist.</span></p>
<p wcount="88" data-sanitized-id="p_1_75" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">They already spent a lot of time talking about the greatness of the German nation. So the Nazis didn’t need to do much. They already had a basis of a case in the textbooks that Germany was the greatest country in history, et cetera, et cetera. Look at our education system. Our education system, at least the one I was raised in, also said the United States is the greatest country in history. It also said the United States is the natural heir to Greece and Rome.</span></p>
<p wcount="55" data-sanitized-id="p_1_76" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It said the things that were exceptionalist narratives about the country that you had to accept. And so that really prepares the way for a fascist story that this is the greatest nation in history. We deserve, that’s why we have so much power. We deserve to crush others because we are the best.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_77" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_78" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You have an interesting, we’ll come to it later, an interesting point about the misuse of classics, which I studied. But just to make this final point on that issue, you said that authoritarians, the reason they create these patriotic mythic narratives is to leave students with the impression that the status quo has never been and cannot be challenged.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_79" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_80" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, so this is what folks like, philosophy of education through the 20th century, folks from [John] Dewey, the less radical version, to [Paulo] Freire, emphasize that education should be about agency. So an education system should give people the sense that they have agency to change history. And if you want to impose patriotic education, you want to impose the kind of education that fits into an authoritarian system, you want to remove agency from people.</span></p>
<p wcount="81" data-sanitized-id="p_1_81" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You want to excise the references to social movements for positive change. You want to make people feel that it’s all great leaders from the dominant group. It’s great men who do everything. And you’re just a passive observer to history. So this is, when you teach philosophy of education, like I do, I teach the philosophy of education course at Yale, you know, progressive education is all about giving citizens in a democracy a sense of agency.</span></p>
<p wcount="85" data-sanitized-id="p_1_82" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Authoritarian education is all about removing that sense of agency, erasing the history of social movements. Most recently, they’re going, they’re focusing on erasing Black Lives Matter as if it never happened. So Florida, you can’t mention the text, it’s being excised from textbooks, even under recent events. So this is obviously… in China, you can’t talk about the Tiananmen Square protests. So this move to excise agency, it’s a move to access agency because democracy is about agency.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_83" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_84" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, it also, all of the openings within society, Howard Zinn makes this point, you know, <em>People’s History of the United States</em>, is that it’s achieved by movements, but in this mythic version, it’s a gift from benevolent leaders. It’s a gift from [Franklin D.] Roosevelt. It’s a gift from [Abraham] Lincoln. It’s even a gift from [Richard] Nixon.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_85" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="80" data-sanitized-id="p_1_86" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">That’s a great man narrative that I was referring to. And Zinn, of course, you know, <em>People’s History</em> is this great, you know, critique of that, a history from below that’s had an enormous impact. And as a result, Trump actually singled out Howard Zinn’s book in 2020 or 2021, whenever he gave the Patriotic Education Executive Order, I believe, I think it was an executive order, he denounced Howard Zinn’s propaganda. Because of course he did.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_87" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_88" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You write,</span></p>
<p wcount="88" data-sanitized-id="p_1_89" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“History is the study of not just people and events, but also the practices, structures, and institutions that shape them. Without accounting for these forces, history is rendered flat and malleable, ideal for manipulation by fascist politics. When fascists attempt to rewrite history, they sometimes claim that they are erasing only theories and interpretations of history, which they claim to be biased, rather than underlying historical events, but they know well that their interventions result in the erasure of events themselves as well as the patterns they form.”</span></p>
<p wcount="22" data-sanitized-id="p_1_90" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">That attack on bias, I mean, of course, the irony is that the attackers could not be more biased, but it works.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_91" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="50" data-sanitized-id="p_1_92" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, it works. Yeah. I mean, it works even though it’s flagrantly absurd because they themselves are saying, we want to replace supposed bias and indoctrination by patriotic education. What the hell is patriotic education just means indoctrination to love your country? So, it’s literally, it’s nonsensical.</span></p>
<p wcount="68" data-sanitized-id="p_1_93" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Also, they’re bringing in Christian nationalism and they’re representing Christianity as the unbiased position. So, you know, I mean, obviously this is your territory, but one of your territories, but representing Christian nationalism and patriotism and sort of deep patriotism lessons as non-biased, unbiased and actually looking at the history saying like, these are the social movements that happened, this is why you have the weekend.</span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_94" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This they’re representing as indoctrination. It goes further than that because if you closely read the Dear Colleagues letter of, I believe, February 10th or February 14th, were directed to universities about Title VI, it really looks like even teaching basic facts about Black history, such as the way banks were designed to discriminate against Black borrowers, the lending system, or school segregation. It looks like that is going to count as school on student harassment.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_95" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_96" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I want to talk about this when I wrote my book on the Christian right and I’m a Divinity School graduate, I swiftly found them to be selective literalists. They pick out, you know, what works to the ideology and erase the rest. But that also happens, you write, in the creation of, you write about Hungary’s 2020 National Core Curriculum, how they will erase Hungary’s only Nobel Prize winner for literature, Imre Kertész. You write,</span></p>
<p wcount="17" data-sanitized-id="p_1_97" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“Surrendering a national point of pride to erase the contributions of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.”</span></p>
<p wcount="89" data-sanitized-id="p_1_98" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I mean, there becomes this, in the creation of these curriculums, there are huge distortions, including the elevation of mediocrities. Boy, Stalin did this to the 10th degree. The elevation of mediocrities and the erasure of people, you know, such as the Nobel Prize winner for Hungary, who should be held up as these great national writers or thinkers. So talk a little bit about how in the creation of a national curriculum, they jettison what perhaps you and I would call the best and elevate the most mediocre.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_99" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_100" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You’re really making an important point, Chris. It’s actually, it’s putatively representing the nation as great, they are eliminating everything that’s great about the nation. So this is why I regard fascism, this fascist takeover we’re seeing in the United States as an attack on my country. It’s an attack on the greatness of America. It’s an attack, our greatness is these social movements that push us towards multiracial democracy.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_101" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Our greatness is the project of improving on democratic ideals of freedom and equality. And they’re erasing this, they’re attacking our university system. Our university system, I think other than the NBA, it’s the only institution, the only thing in American society that is universally and unqualifiedly recognized in an unqualified way recognized as the greatest thing America does.</span></p>
<p wcount="46" data-sanitized-id="p_1_102" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So in the name of American greatness, they are attacking institutions that everyone in the world sends their kids to if they can get in and if they can afford it. You know, everywhere in the world, the remotest towns, they’ve heard of Yale University.</span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_103" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Now, go and ask them about a French university. Maybe they’ve heard of the Sorbonne, but they’ve heard of many American universities. So in the name of American greatness, they’re attacking the greatest universities. So similarly, in the name of American greatness, they’re doing the same thing to Toni Morrison as Hungary did to Imre Kertész.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_104" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="16" data-sanitized-id="p_1_105" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Whose books are banned. In that list of banned books. Toni Morrison’s on the list.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_106" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_107" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">…is targeted unbelievably harshly. She might be the most targeted major author. I think she is the most targeted major author. I mean, [Governor of Virginia Glenn] Youngkin ran on the <em>Beloved</em> bill to ban <em>Beloved</em>, her book, <em>Beloved</em>. She won the Nobel Prize. She’s one of the most important and influential and I would say greatest Americans of the last 50 years.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_108" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="23" data-sanitized-id="p_1_109" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, she also saw what’s coming. You quote her in the commencement address at Howard, and she kind of laid it out.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_110" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_111" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">She laid it out, which is again, why you have to ban [it]. They target just like Orbán targeted gender studies. Whatever they target is actually a tell because whatever they target are the conceptual resources you need to see what’s going on. So they target gender studies cause it tells you about appeals to patriarchy and the manosphere.</span></p>
<p wcount="35" data-sanitized-id="p_1_112" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">They want to defend rigid gender roles and natalism. It draws in the Christian conservatives and then it also draws in non-Christian manosphere types who think the woman’s proper role is in the home.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_113" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_114" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, you write an education system as the foundation upon which a political culture is built. That’s why they have to destroy it, along with the media, anything that reproduces ideas. And let’s be clear, fascist totalitarian regimes, they drive out their most important intellectuals, those people who are able to interpret and explain reality. You can start with [German-American philosopher] Paul Tillich, [German novelist and short story writer] Thomas Mann, scientists.</span></p>
<p wcount="42" data-sanitized-id="p_1_115" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Stalin had to get rid of the “Jewish science” and create, what was it, some kind of fake physics, I can’t remember. But what they do is they actually, they decapitate their intellectual and artistic elite, which is what’s happening.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_116" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_117" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, so a very important point from the history of elites is that you have to disaggregate the elites. There’s the financial elites and there’s the cultural elites. And fascism always marshals the financial and business elites, the oligarchs, the wealthy concerns against the cultural elite. And what we’re seeing in the United States is teachers, federal workers, and professors being vilified, the culture elite. These are not the financial elite.</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_118" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The vast majority of professors are teaching constantly, making 60K a year, struggling. This is about being sent far away from the places they want to live or have grown up in because that’s where a job may be. These are not people living great, teachers, school teachers. These are the people being vilified by the fascists and painted as the elite.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_119" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="17" data-sanitized-id="p_1_120" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And the point you make, and this is in your second chapter, “Colonizing the Mind,” you said,</span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_121" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“When one group erases the history of another, the latter becomes significantly more vulnerable to domination and conquest. One of the clearest examples of this is the practice of modern colonialism. It is much easier for colonial power to justify taking land when that land can be represented as lacking a history. When a group of people is represented as having no history, they are being denied any valid claim to the present.”</span></p>
<p wcount="9" data-sanitized-id="p_1_122" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One thinks of, of course, the Palestinians and Zionism.</span></p>
<p wcount="26" data-sanitized-id="p_1_123" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“Colonialism is an ideal case, perhaps the clearest, for understanding how and why the erasure of history is central to the exercise of power and domination.”</span></p>
<p wcount="6" data-sanitized-id="p_1_124" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And that’s precisely the goal.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_125" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_126" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, so the idea, with colonialism you say those people aren’t using their land correctly. They’re not managing it correctly. They’re not getting out of it what you should get out of it. They’re incompetent administrators of their land. They can’t self-govern. So they need us to move in and use the land correctly and do things for them.</span></p>
<p wcount="104" data-sanitized-id="p_1_127" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This is what happened in Michigan with the Emergency Manager Act. So this is what is happening now and when they’re trying to disempower Black politicians, for example, they’re trying to say that cities run by the political opposition are dysfunctional and so they need to be taken over. You say you justify taking over the property of other people by saying that you have their best interests in mind, you’re going to manage their affairs for them because they’re incompetent. And I don’t need to go into how much that tactic is being used by this regime today.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_128" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="12" data-sanitized-id="p_1_129" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, and then your kids drink water, they’re poisoned by lead.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_130" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="59" data-sanitized-id="p_1_131" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, so what happened in Flint, Michigan, what happened in Michigan is that the Emergency Manager Act said, okay, all of these Black majority cities or cities with large Black populations, they’re incompetently run, so we’re gonna send an emergency manager in to make decisions for them and get rid of the city council and the mayor.</span></p>
<p wcount="40" data-sanitized-id="p_1_132" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And what results is poisoning 6,000 children with toxic waste in Flint, Michigan for a year because the emergency manager was making these strange deals on using the financial, mortgaging essentially, the city of Flint for tens of millions of dollars.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_133" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="30" data-sanitized-id="p_1_134" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, they pumped the water out of the river. And then, of course, the car manufacturers complained because it was corroding the metal. This is the water people were drinking.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_135" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="91" data-sanitized-id="p_1_136" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Right, but what we have to look at is why in the first place did they pay for this new pipeline? And this is something that I wrote a big paper about in 2016. So the excuse they gave was the water prices were much higher in Flint than in say Ann Arbor. But why were the water prices so high? It made no sense. So it looked like that, so they were raising the water prices. So it was like hundred over well over a hundred dollars a month for water.</span></p>
<p wcount="60" data-sanitized-id="p_1_137" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So they said, this pipeline will ease the water, will make the water prices lower. None of it made any sense. It looked like it was all corruption. So they said these administrators of cities, these of Black majority cities were corrupt and they replaced them by emergency managers who just used the cities and municipalities as a bank machine.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_138" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="33" data-sanitized-id="p_1_139" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Five major themes of fascist education: National greatness, national purity, national innocence, strict gender roles, vilification of the left. We’ve touched on that, but strict gender roles, why is that so important?</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_140" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="86" data-sanitized-id="p_1_141" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, it’s something, so first of all, you get, you tell the dominant group that they’re under existential threat of being replaced by people who are not in the dominant group. So Madison Grant’s 1916 book, <em>The Passing of the Great Race</em>, sort of lays out great replacement theory. Hitler reads that in prison, and it has an enormous effect on him. So Hitler says, it’s actually, I won’t go into the weird details of the conspiracy theory that Hitler bought into.</span></p>
<p wcount="93" data-sanitized-id="p_1_142" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But the idea was he thought that, you know, the liberals, the Marxists were backed by global Jews, by the global Jewish conspiracy to bring in non-whites into the country and overwhelm the Aryan population. So if you’re a white supremacist, you want the women of the dominant group to be having babies. So, the Nazis weren’t, it wasn’t in Germany at least as opposed to Romania, it wasn’t a Christian movement, but they got huge buy-in from the Christian right, from the old right, because they were natalists.</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_143" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">They were saying women should be in the home having babies. So, because you have to reproduce the dominant race. So the big key when you have real, something that really looks like Nazism is great replacement theory. If you’re facing a political party that’s saying the big threat is non-white immigration, you’re really dealing with Nazism. So that’s the foundation, is great replacement theory.</span></p>
<p wcount="49" data-sanitized-id="p_1_144" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And great replacement theory is gonna have women having lots of babies, the women of the dominant group. And that’s gonna draw in the social conservatives. It’s gonna be a win-win. So, and that’s a very powerful coalition, white supremacists plus Christian conservatives. Hard to beat.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_145" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="84" data-sanitized-id="p_1_146" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I want to talk about two points you make in the book. One of them might be from another book, I forgot. You have far-right European parties led by women. This would have not happened under traditional fascism, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Marine Le Pen [in France]. And the other point you make that I thought was really interesting, made me think, was you were talking about Hannah Arendt, and you talked about that patriarchy was vital to fascism, but not vital to communism.</span></p>
<p wcount="49" data-sanitized-id="p_1_147" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I thought that was really interesting. I mean, you did have Uncle Joe [Stalin]. I mean, you know, it was a patriarchal system, although you’re right that women could achieve positions they couldn’t under fascism. Anyway, I just wondered if you could talk about those two points.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_148" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="76" data-sanitized-id="p_1_149" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, two different points. Let’s start with the first point about Western Europe’s fascist, some of their fascist leaders being women. And it’s very unique. We don’t have that in Eastern Europe. It’s inconceivable that Russia would be ruled by a woman, that Russian fascism would have the face of a woman. It’s hard to imagine in the United States, though not impossible. I mean, Phyllis Schlafly was far-right, obviously.</span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_150" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But the thing about Western Europe is that the scapegoat is different. The scapegoat is not Black Americans. The scapegoat is not Marxists. Well, I mean, it’s still, they’re attacking the left, but the scapegoat is Muslim immigration. The scapegoats are Muslims. So pink washing is a central move in Western European politics and feminism washing.</span></p>
<p wcount="57" data-sanitized-id="p_1_151" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So what you do, so scapegoating is the core of this far right system. You say, you unify different groups. You unify different groups who might be otherwise at each other’s throat like white supremacists and Latinos or white supremacists and Black men by having a scapegoat like trans women that they can both hate on.</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_152" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And the scapegoat in Western Europe is Muslims. And what you say is that they threaten women’s equality and LGBTQ equality. So that I think is the clearest explanation of why in that very local area of Western Europe, you have fascist women leaders.</span></p>
<p wcount="85" data-sanitized-id="p_1_153" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Now, and some of them are, and Meloni of course is anti-LGBTQ and pro-natalist so she has these traditional gender role views. So the second question is about communist systems. Now I agree with you about Stalin. I think, you know, Stalinism looks a lot like fascism except with politicide rather than genocide, mass killing of political opponents. I mean, obviously the Nazis did that too. But the Nazis were focused on an ideology of racial supremacy, whereas communist ideology is not about racial supremacy.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_154" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="25" data-sanitized-id="p_1_155" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I just want to interject that the Nazis would kill the whole families and the Stalinists did not. They sent the kids to orphanages, but…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_156" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="59" data-sanitized-id="p_1_157" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Genocide, yeah. Genocide, you’re absolutely right. The killing of the entire families, the women and children as well. Great point, Chris. So politicide has a different form than genocide. In the genocide convention, the Soviet Union fought against the politicide being counted as genocide, of course. But I do think that that difference aside, Stalin became a dictator.</span></p>
<p wcount="51" data-sanitized-id="p_1_158" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You know, he mass killed people, and he gradually took on the role of a fascist dictator. Not fascist, but the ideology of communism is equality, whereas the ideology of fascism is inequality. The ideology of fascism is some people are greater than others, people are fundamentally slotted into different roles.</span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_159" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The ideology of communism is, you know, we’re all fundamentally politically equal. So women have just as much of a right to occupy positions of power. So you have this clear ideological difference where communism is, and then there are these studies like the studies of East Germany that East German women had more orgasms than West German women that has been repeatedly confirmed.</span></p>
<p wcount="18" data-sanitized-id="p_1_160" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But Stalin’s Russia sort of descends into harsh, anti-feminist, patriarchal, I mean, maybe it’s like that…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_161" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_162" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And antisemitic as well.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_163" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="71" data-sanitized-id="p_1_164" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, but there’s no mass, it’s not like the doctor’s plot, whatever, it’s not, I mean, obviously, But antisemitic as well because there’s a book called by the Berkeley political theorist, I believe, called <em>The Fascist Dimension of Radical Politics</em>, that’s not quite the title, but he argues that all of these systems like Maoism and Stalinism descend into some version of fascism in practice.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_165" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="47" data-sanitized-id="p_1_166" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You make a really interesting point. You said some of the leading politicians decrying institutions of higher education as factories of leftist indoctrination are often among those who have benefited the most from them. That’s most of the people around Trump, including Trump. All of them.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_167" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_168" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">All of them, right? I mean, maybe not all of them, Ted Cruz, all these people, Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. DeSantis went to Yale and Harvard. [Josh] Hawley went to Stanford and Yale. Tom Cotton went to Harvard. And that’s the thing, these are not dumb guys. These are very smart…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_169" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="19" data-sanitized-id="p_1_170" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I don’t know, come on, I’ve been at some of those schools. They might be dumb guys.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_171" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_172" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Oh no, right, absolutely might be. Ted Cruz was like a national debate, like one of the top debaters in the country. These are people who are, this is, it’s important to see because these are people who are down intellectually with authoritarianism. They’re not dupes being tricked. They know the election of 2020 wasn’t stolen.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_173" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="42" data-sanitized-id="p_1_174" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, well, I had a great mentor at Harvard, James Luther Adams, who was at the University of Heidelberg in ‘35 and ‘36, and he went to the lectures where [Martin] Heidegger began the lectures with the Nazi salute. I mean, a leading intellectual.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_175" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_176" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">You’re right. So what [Carl] Schmitt and Heidegger represented in German history, in Nazi history, where they were the first world famous intellectuals to declare for the Nazi party. And that becomes very important, it becomes like in the first Trump term, people were like, well, they don’t have intellectuals, so they’re not fascists, they’re not—now they have intellectuals, they certainly have, they have Adrian Vermeule at Harvard.</span></p>
<p wcount="67" data-sanitized-id="p_1_177" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Now they’re developing a cadre of far-right intellectuals. And then the production all these figures like DeSantis; they would be nowhere without Harvard and Yale, right? So these institutions have given us all the people attacking these institutions and I don’t think their kids are gonna go to Hillsdale College. For some reason I think their kids are gonna go to Harvard, Yale and Princeton.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_178" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="5" data-sanitized-id="p_1_179" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So what’s that about?</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_180" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="150" data-sanitized-id="p_1_181" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, I think it’s a bit of a puzzle. I there are different theories of it. I mean, these are the institutions that produce power. And so we should expect the powerful people, whoever they are, to come from these institutions. These are the institutions where the networks of power are and patronage. So that’s gonna be true of the far right and the authoritarians, just as much as it’s gonna be true of Obama, of the liberal Democrats or the Democrats. So attacking these institutions, there’s a longstanding—these institutions have made themselves vulnerable to attack by their elitism, certainly. So there’s resentment you can use. And then I think they, as Christopher Rufo, the far-right propaganda, the propagandist of the new right says, they want to take the institutions over because they are powerful. So they want to have power over these institutions.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_182" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="18" data-sanitized-id="p_1_183" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But haven’t these institutions like Columbia pretty much acquiesced to everything that’s been asked of them.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_184" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="10" data-sanitized-id="p_1_185" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, Colombia is an international embarrassment for its acquiescence, right?</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_186" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="30" data-sanitized-id="p_1_187" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, but all of these, Yale, Princeton, they’ve all shut down the encampment. I mean, they’ve ended free speech on college [campuses]. They’ve all guilty of this.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_188" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="59" data-sanitized-id="p_1_189" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">All of them. Yeah, They’ve all acquiesced in the trap. But the mainstream media is hugely at fault. The Opinion page of the New York Times. And that’s why, you know, it’s the mainstream media who has betrayed democracy because they have attacked, they have viciously attacked for years and years the other institutions of democracy.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_190" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_191" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, that’s right.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_192" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_193" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And then like, why should I defend the media when they just, they’ve been just dupes for fascism? And so I think it’s been very hard because you have the opinion page of the New York Times saying, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are run by communist agitators. So what are you supposed to do? And the university is a fundamentally conservative institution.</span></p>
<p wcount="32" data-sanitized-id="p_1_194" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So you also have many people inside the university. Most professors are these sort of anti-woke white dudes. And they too are easily swayed by the presence of non-white dudes in academia.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_195" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="44" data-sanitized-id="p_1_196" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, let’s also be clear, having worked at the New York Times 15 years, that you could hold a reunion, a pretty sizable reunion, for all of these Ivy League colleges on the floor of the newsroom. They also come out of these institutions.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_197" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="97" data-sanitized-id="p_1_198" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Right. Yeah, so it’s weird. I don’t exactly solve this, I don’t think I solve this mystery in the book of why all of these Harvard and Yale and Princeton grads are the ones who are devising these attacks on the very institutions they came from, which in no way resemble what you would see from the newspapers. For instance, it took months for the New York Times to acknowledge that one of the largest identity groups in the protests were Jewish students. So they’re just using antisemitism just means for them leftism.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_199" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="47" data-sanitized-id="p_1_200" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, but these institutions were created to perpetuate the plutocracy. They all acquiesced during the Red Scare. They couldn’t get rid of people fast enough. I don’t think they’ve changed. I think that they are adapting to their current role to perpetuate this plutocracy.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_201" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="129" data-sanitized-id="p_1_202" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, but we can, there are still—I’m at Yale and I think there’s a large number, there’s clear faculty resistance at Yale to the attacks on universities. And now finally, what we’re seeing in universities is we’re seeing conservative professors—and now when I say conservative, I don’t mean Trump supporting professors, there are very few. And that is used by the right as an attack against the university, but that’s absurd because the physics and math department have very few Trump supporters. Chemistry has very few Trump supporters. Engineering has very few Trump supporters. You’re going to have to have affirmative action for Trump supporters to get any kind of, to get to 20% Trump support in any science. So…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_203" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="49" data-sanitized-id="p_1_204" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But you’re at a multi-billion dollar private, with endowment, institution. People at state universities that depend on state funding, they don’t have that kind of protection. So you’re in an elite position. Most other universities are far more easily purged because they’re far more vulnerable.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_205" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="23" data-sanitized-id="p_1_206" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Look at what happened. Look at the AAUP [American Association of University Professors] report on Florida’s universities. The level of terror that…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_207" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="9" data-sanitized-id="p_1_208" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, there it’s in your book. Hillsdale College…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_209" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="10" data-sanitized-id="p_1_210" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Hillsdale’s in Michigan, but they have a lot of…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_211" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="13" data-sanitized-id="p_1_212" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah, but they took over that university in Florida you wrote about. Right.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_213" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_214" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">New College of Florida. Yeah, New College of Florida being an elite, private, state college, not private, an elite liberal arts state college that, you know, I know plenty of professors who went to New College and they’re utterly destroying it. What they mean by classical education seems to be like just…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_215" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_216" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Well, that’s a point of your book. Yeah. I mean, the way classical and I had someone who studied classics, the way they use classical education to essentially just or, you know, misappropriate it or reform it to buttress white supremacy, “the sanctity of Western civilization”. I just, before we go on, want to talk about propaganda from your second book, you write,</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_217" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“Fascist movements have been draining swamps for generations, publicizing false charges of corruption. While engaging in corrupt practices is typical of fascist politics and anti-corruption campaigns are frequently at the heart of fascist political movements, fascist politicians characteristically decry corruption in the state they seek to take over, which is bizarre given that fascist politicians themselves are invariably vastly more corrupt than those they seek to supplant or defeat.”</span></p>
<p wcount="8" data-sanitized-id="p_1_218" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Boy, that’s the Trump administration right there.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_219" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="6" data-sanitized-id="p_1_220" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And it’s Putin in Russia.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_221" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_222" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And Putin, of course.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_223" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="81" data-sanitized-id="p_1_224" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So it’s just, you know, everything is projection. Everything they say is projection. So, you know, we’ve been talking about education. “Oh, they’re indoctrinating. We’re going to cure this with Christianity and patriotic education.” It’s all projection all the time. The corruption stuff is like just a chief example. Corruption here just means the wrong people are in power. It’s not corrupt when we do it, and then we can do it however we want.</span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_225" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And we can do whatever we want and enrich ourselves because that’s what’s happening. The billionaires class is just enriching itself, giving itself massive tax cuts for, you know, and throwing like, you know, some anti-trans bones to their supporters. So, that’s the kind of naked corruption we’re seeing and naked incompetence.</span></p>
<p wcount="88" data-sanitized-id="p_1_226" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It’s done by people who are saying they are doing the corruption and incompetence because the people they’re firing were incompetent and corrupt. It’s surreal. So, you know, the rule of law they’re saying is corrupt. So they’re gonna replace it by—look at what Trump just said to the Justice Department. We’re going to get rid of the weaponization of the Justice Department and the political bias by replacing it with pure naked, you know, explicit political bias for the regime.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_227" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="44" data-sanitized-id="p_1_228" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">We won’t go into conspiracy theories because I just want to ask you where are we on that road to fascism? How far have we gone down? How much is our experience replicating what took place in other fascist societies, Italy, Germany, etc.?</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_229" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="9" data-sanitized-id="p_1_230" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And let’s look at India today and Russia.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_231" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="6" data-sanitized-id="p_1_232" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">India today, India, Turkey, Hungary, Russia.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_233" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_234" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Right. So the zone of freedom is shrinking in the world. The free world, always a vexed concept because the degree to which capitalism is a kind of freedom, I think we’re seeing, it’s not. It threatens democratic freedoms. But the democratically free world or the world where people are still progressing, democracy is a practice, it’s something you do, so the places where that practice is at the center of ideals and values are shrinking.</span></p>
<p wcount="91" data-sanitized-id="p_1_235" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Canada maybe is an example of a place whose democracy has been buttressed and lifted up by the shrinking because it’s like a refuge now. So we’re pretty far along. We’re unfortunately even further along when you see, for example, the universities behaving the way they are, where university presidents are saying, we’re gonna keep our heads down so we’re not targeted, meaning the other universities are gonna be targeted instead. When all universities and all people who work in universities should be defending their workplace.</span></p>
<p wcount="67" data-sanitized-id="p_1_236" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This is why unions are so important. At Yale, Republican professors and Democratic professors, people with very different political ideologies, now see they’re all in this together and defending the institution. I’m seeing that cross-political, cross-group class consciousness arise in the universities where people are like, well, okay, you I have very different political views, but they are really trying to take down the institution.</span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_237" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">They’re not just going for gender studies, they’re going for the whole ball, ball of wax. And then we have the media betray, acting like it’s immune and spraying machine gun fire at the other democratic institutions, the education system. So we have all the targets, we have the targets fighting each other and amongst each other. So we need solidarity.</span></p>
<p wcount="89" data-sanitized-id="p_1_238" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">We’re not at the point where Russia is, where journalists are being thrown out of windows. We are, however, at the point where they’re illegally arresting people for their speech. If they can arrest Khalil in Colombia, they can arrest any of us because they can’t arrest him legally. So we’re pretty, you know, they’re targeting, they’re starting with green cards, people with green cards. They’re gonna move to protesters and professors who, students and professors who just shared the pro-Palestinian cause.</span></p>
<p wcount="95" data-sanitized-id="p_1_239" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">We’re already using pro-Palestinian as a slur. So they’re targeting political opponents with this excuse and using Jewish Americans as an excuse to do this, which is horrifying to me, and dangerous for American Jews. So we’re pretty far along when they start arresting people, arresting protesters for their speech, arresting anti-war protesters. And note that Trump, whenever he talks about this, he says, or often he’ll say, we’re going to attack, defund universities that allow illegal protests. He’s just saying protests. There’s not gonna be any protesting.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_240" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="40" data-sanitized-id="p_1_241" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yeah. And the McCarran [Internal Security] Act, which was used, was ostensibly used to arrest Khalil, written in 1952 by a vicious antisemite, was used to strip the passports of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois. I mean, if…</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_242" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="50" data-sanitized-id="p_1_243" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I was gonna mention that. I was gonna mention Robeson and Du Bois. Two of the greatest Americans in the last 150 years. Du Bois being one of the most important intellectuals in the world. Yeah, so they can go after anyone. Columbia fired Katherine Franke, a very distinguished law professor.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_244" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="3" data-sanitized-id="p_1_245" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">She’s great.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_246" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Jason Stanley</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="67" data-sanitized-id="p_1_247" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And Katherine Franke is academic royalty. Her father, you know, Timothy Snyder and I taught the Franke seminar. That’s her father who funded all of these seminars and all of these humanities institutes all over the country. And they find, and she’s distinguished, like for me, we academics care about how many books you have, how many citations you have, the effects of your scholarship.</span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_248" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So we really, you know, they’ve been going, the right-wing media has been targeting professors recently since 2011. You know, you have these organizations like Campus Reform, these different right-wing newspapers. But you know, what is really alarming is when they start targeting people like Katherine Franke who have highly cited work, who run centers and prestigious universities.</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_249" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">That’s what happened with Du Bois and Robeson. Like if they can take down those people, they can take down anyone. And so that is clearly the next phase. Clearly the next phase is like stripping the passports of people they don’t like. You know, every authoritarian country does that. We’ve done it and I expect that to come, unfortunately.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_250" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Chris Hedges</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="42" data-sanitized-id="p_1_251" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Thank you, that was Jason Stanley on his two books, <em>Erasing History</em> and <em>How Fascism Works</em>. I would like to thank Diego [Ramos], Sofia [Menemenlis], Max [Jones] and Thomas [Hedges], who produced the show. You can find me at <a title="http://chrishedges.substack.com/" href="http://chrishedges.substack.com/">ChrisHedges.Substack.com</a>.</span></p>


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<p>Les pétromonarchies du Golfe sont passées du protectorat britannique  au protectorat américain, sans le moindre sas de compression. C’est leur premier titre de gloire de sorte que les rois du pétrole se vivent comme les rois du Monde du fait </p></div></div>…</article>

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« Un secret entre la Reine et moi » : des révélations étonnantes au sujet du plus récent portrait de la reine Elizabeth II

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138455
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<p>James Howard Kunstler Discusses the Termination of the Democrats’ despotic Grift State</p>
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138465
title: The reason not to have small women as police officers
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title: The Biden Regime Was Copying South Africa’s Persecution of White People
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<p>The Biden Regime Was was copying South Africa’s Persecution of White People</p>
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<p>Wikipedia provides an endless list of Jews who dominate the US judiciary</p>
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<p>A Jewish judge rules that illegal aliens have the right to appeal presidential decisions in US courts</p>
<p>Since according to the judge you don’t have to be an American to be protected by the US Constitution and to have access to US Courts, why can’t Putin appeal in the judge’s court the US sanctions placed without Russia’s consent on Russia?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why can’t Yemen appeal being bombed when there is no declaration of war?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And so on.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/24/boasberg-allows-tren-de-aragua-migrants-appeal-alien-enemies-deportations/">https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/24/boasberg-allows-tren-de-aragua-migrants-appeal-alien-enemies-deportations/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138472
title: Putin dealt with the American Deep State Before Trump did
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<p>Putin dealt with the American Deep State Before Trump did</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250326/president-putin-25-years-of-resisting-the-us-deep-state-and-european-globalists--1121687870.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250326/president-putin-25-years-of-resisting-the-us-deep-state-and-european-globalists–1121687870.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/26/putin-dealt-with-the-american-deep-state-before-trump-did/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138467
title: Putin Again Deceived by Negotiations
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<p>Putin Again Deceived by Negotiations</p>
<p>He never learns.</p>
<p>Ukraine Continues UAV Attacks on Civilian Energy Infrastructure Amid Russia-US Negotiations</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250325/ukraine-continues-uav-attacks-on-civilian-energy-infrastructure-amid-russia-us-negotiations-1121687030.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250325/ukraine-continues-uav-attacks-on-civilian-energy-infrastructure-amid-russia-us-negotiations-1121687030.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe288d2af-505f-4e8f-99f9-3cf9a702859a_2448x1382.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe288d2af-505f-4e8f-99f9-3cf9a702859a_2448x1382.png" width="1456" height="822" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e288d2af-505f-4e8f-99f9-3cf9a702859a_2448x1382.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":822,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5959842,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe288d2af-505f-4e8f-99f9-3cf9a702859a_2448x1382.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It is time to revisit that topic now that President Donald Trump has declassified the Crossfire Hurricane files, and that’s a good thing, because MSM and alternative media completely missed the key motive for the attack on Trump the first time around.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F307a3717-c0a3-4924-90d5-98717f3d3565_1478x846.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F307a3717-c0a3-4924-90d5-98717f3d3565_1478x846.png" width="1456" height="833" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/307a3717-c0a3-4924-90d5-98717f3d3565_1478x846.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":833,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2559927,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F307a3717-c0a3-4924-90d5-98717f3d3565_1478x846.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>You miss a lot when you miss the motive of the conspirators of a crime like Crossfire Hurricane.  Crossfire Hurricane was conducted by conspirators of the Iran Nuclear Deal, which provided colossal cash infusion kickbacks to Hillary Clinton to run for President in 2016.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F012001cd-9873-4e5a-bec5-6ba6817c7972_2626x1676.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F012001cd-9873-4e5a-bec5-6ba6817c7972_2626x1676.png" width="1456" height="929" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/012001cd-9873-4e5a-bec5-6ba6817c7972_2626x1676.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":929,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5831349,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F012001cd-9873-4e5a-bec5-6ba6817c7972_2626x1676.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I made a video called “Crossfire Rollover” about the possible directions a Trump investigation into Crossfire Hurricane could take, with Devon Archer's and Former FBI Head Christopher Wray's pardons and possible DOJ witness cooperation.</p><p>https://rumble.com/v6r7igi-crossfire-rollover-trump-fires-back-at-treasonous-fbi-conspirators.html</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d0cd61-8de7-41cf-8dd1-d23468790b42_1454x838.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d0cd61-8de7-41cf-8dd1-d23468790b42_1454x838.png" width="1454" height="838" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/49d0cd61-8de7-41cf-8dd1-d23468790b42_1454x838.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":838,"width":1454,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2517352,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d0cd61-8de7-41cf-8dd1-d23468790b42_1454x838.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If you remember, the DNC negotiated three $150 Billion payments for itself in the Iran Nuclear Deal, and Trump canceled two of them when he became President.  That’s $300 billion's worth of reasons why Peter Strzok would want to take out Trump.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61171700-f0f6-4e14-9920-77ef53967063_1454x838.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61171700-f0f6-4e14-9920-77ef53967063_1454x838.png" width="1454" height="838" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/61171700-f0f6-4e14-9920-77ef53967063_1454x838.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":838,"width":1454,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2550631,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61171700-f0f6-4e14-9920-77ef53967063_1454x838.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Everyone forgets that Peter Strzok grew up in Iran speaking Farsi.  Lisa Page had a Farsi-speaking mother.  Peter Strzok's father was a CIA Agent in Iran and Africa, and very close to the Shah of Iran.  Strzok’s father was very involved in the Iranian nuclear program before the fall of the Shah of Iran, working under the commercial cover of Bell Helicopter in Isfahan.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cd002be-8218-496f-ae8c-d004a4dca362_1758x1374.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cd002be-8218-496f-ae8c-d004a4dca362_1758x1374.png" width="1456" height="1138" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5cd002be-8218-496f-ae8c-d004a4dca362_1758x1374.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1138,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1797917,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cd002be-8218-496f-ae8c-d004a4dca362_1758x1374.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the operation, Mike Flynn, named Crossfire Razor, was a partner with Bijian Kian, who single-handedly negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F412e5fee-e1e5-4b56-ba80-340f761617e0_1386x916.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F412e5fee-e1e5-4b56-ba80-340f761617e0_1386x916.png" width="1386" height="916" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/412e5fee-e1e5-4b56-ba80-340f761617e0_1386x916.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":916,"width":1386,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2364113,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F412e5fee-e1e5-4b56-ba80-340f761617e0_1386x916.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Iran Nuclear Deal key negotiators Bijiian Kian and General Michael Flynn formed Flynn Intel Group in 2014 to save the Deal from congressional opposition.</em></p><p>Rarely in journalism do you get such rich metadata where the key FBI informant is partners with the man who negotiated the Iran nuclear deal.  Flynn was also involved in a nuclear deal called the Middle East Marshall Plan to placate the Sunni kingdoms with nuclear reactors for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and UAE.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F140cebe9-bb23-4419-a207-49eb733dbc26_2010x1766.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F140cebe9-bb23-4419-a207-49eb733dbc26_2010x1766.png" width="1456" height="1279" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/140cebe9-bb23-4419-a207-49eb733dbc26_2010x1766.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1279,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2117386,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F140cebe9-bb23-4419-a207-49eb733dbc26_2010x1766.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-pushed-saudi-nuclear-power-plan-report-says</p><p>The nuclear deal with the Iranians and the Saudis was done with ACU Strategic Partners, which included Mike Flynn, Blackberry texting partner at Trump’s Inauguration, Alex Copson.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36db01dc-ae47-462c-a2b6-a83d8c07f54b_1334x1606.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36db01dc-ae47-462c-a2b6-a83d8c07f54b_1334x1606.png" width="1334" height="1606" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/36db01dc-ae47-462c-a2b6-a83d8c07f54b_1334x1606.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1606,"width":1334,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1848827,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36db01dc-ae47-462c-a2b6-a83d8c07f54b_1334x1606.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://georgewebb.substack.com/publish/post/159908329</p><p>The deal was also brokered by IP3, a company that included Peter Strzok's uncle, General James Cartwright, as well as a cast of retired generals getting CIA consulting paychecks and even Robert McFarlane from Iran/Contra.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0255a16c-b8c0-4645-a7e5-63211f2f647a_2090x1732.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0255a16c-b8c0-4645-a7e5-63211f2f647a_2090x1732.png" width="1456" height="1207" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0255a16c-b8c0-4645-a7e5-63211f2f647a_2090x1732.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1207,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":635947,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0255a16c-b8c0-4645-a7e5-63211f2f647a_2090x1732.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP3_International</p><p>The Iran Nuclear Deal metadata bonanza didn’t stop there.  George Papadopoulos, Crossfire Typhoon in the Crossfire Hurricane group of Trump infiltrates, was the Arabic-speaking translator for Energy Secretary Moniz for the Middle East Marshall Plan done in 2015.  Papadopoulos also pushed the East-Med Pipeline on behalf of Israel in his dealings with the Greek and Turkish governments in Cyprus.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd29cd60a-88c9-4d9f-896e-9578cbaf3c48_2196x1428.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd29cd60a-88c9-4d9f-896e-9578cbaf3c48_2196x1428.png" width="1456" height="947" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d29cd60a-88c9-4d9f-896e-9578cbaf3c48_2196x1428.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":947,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3869404,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd29cd60a-88c9-4d9f-896e-9578cbaf3c48_2196x1428.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But wait, there’s more metadata!  Carter Page, Crossfire Dragonslayer in the Crossfire takedown scheme, was the Russian interpreter for Igor Sechin for the Iran Nuclear Deal.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F264be561-b2de-41d6-b93d-aef9982f311c_1858x1450.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F264be561-b2de-41d6-b93d-aef9982f311c_1858x1450.png" width="1456" height="1136" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/264be561-b2de-41d6-b93d-aef9982f311c_1858x1450.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1136,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1528626,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F264be561-b2de-41d6-b93d-aef9982f311c_1858x1450.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Sechin was the head of the largest oil company in Russia, and the former head of the Intelligence, charged with brokering off old nuclear warheads from the Soviet area.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37a3baba-3b8c-4c19-a658-36c0a9ad0434_1010x778.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37a3baba-3b8c-4c19-a658-36c0a9ad0434_1010x778.jpeg" width="1010" height="778" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/37a3baba-3b8c-4c19-a658-36c0a9ad0434_1010x778.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":778,"width":1010,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":250883,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37a3baba-3b8c-4c19-a658-36c0a9ad0434_1010x778.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For the piece d’ Resistance, Christopher Steele was the key MI6 agent who bought old Soviet stocks of Russian nerve gas, including Novichok, from Sechin.  MI6 is still using this old Soviet Novichok to this day to try to set up death to look like Russian foul play.  Steele was also involved in the nuclear negotiations of the Iran Nuclear deal as a go-between, ex-MI6 head, Richard Dearlove.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9cb3ff-747b-405f-9575-763d0b74ea71_1234x637.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9cb3ff-747b-405f-9575-763d0b74ea71_1234x637.jpeg" width="1234" height="637" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a9cb3ff-747b-405f-9575-763d0b74ea71_1234x637.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":637,"width":1234,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":211020,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a9cb3ff-747b-405f-9575-763d0b74ea71_1234x637.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Finally, there is Paul Manafort, Crossfire Fling.  Manafort was the CIA interface to Russian near orgies at Russian Ambassador Kislyak’s residences in Washington, DC and at the Russian Retreats in New York’s Long Island and on the Chesapeake Bay.  These Russian near orgies included Russian temptresses Anna Chapman and later Maria Butina.  Again, compromises were being run on Senators voting against the Iran Nuclear Deal.  </p><p>Crossfire Hurricane is a tangled mess if you don’t understand the key motive of covering up the Iran Nuclear Deal that funded the Presidential Campaign of Hillary Clinton and topped off DNC coffers. Once you know the motive of Crossfire Hurricane and the “Why”, everything is very simple.  Everybody, literally everybody, was involved in the Iran Nuclear Deal.</p><p>Crossfire Hurricane Part 05<a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2005/viewPublished">https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2005/viewPublished</a>: Jul 11th 2023Crossfire Hurricane Part 05[Download] Crossfire Hurricane Part 04<a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2004/viewPublished">https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2004/viewPublished</a>: Jun 13th 2023Crossfire Hurricane Part 04[Download] Crossfire Hurricane Part 03<a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2003/viewPublished">https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2003/viewPublished</a>: Jun 13th 2023Crossfire Hurricane Part 03[Download] Crossfire Hurricane Part 02<a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2002/viewPublished">https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2002/viewPublished</a>: Mar 20th 2023Crossfire Hurricane Part 02[Download] Crossfire Hurricane Part 01<a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2001/viewPublished">https://vault.fbi.gov/crossfire-hurricane-part-01/Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Part%2001/viewPublished</a>: Feb 7th 2023Crossfire Hurricane Part 01[Download]</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>Crossfire Hurricane began as a CIA coverup operation for the Iran Nuclear Deal before the ink was dry n 2015.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f0269a1-1ce1-44e3-bcbe-e9200f3f6cdc_1320x748.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f0269a1-1ce1-44e3-bcbe-e9200f3f6cdc_1320x748.jpeg" width="1320" height="748" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3f0269a1-1ce1-44e3-bcbe-e9200f3f6cdc_1320x748.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":748,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":715670,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159908329?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f0269a1-1ce1-44e3-bcbe-e9200f3f6cdc_1320x748.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Mike Flynn’s partner at Flynn Intel Group, Bijian Kian, negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal.  Flynn was brought in as a proxy to overcome Congressional opposition to the Iran Nuclear Deal.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1009604a-2edc-4ea0-85ae-393973e73ab7_1320x818.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1009604a-2edc-4ea0-85ae-393973e73ab7_1320x818.jpeg" width="1320" height="818" 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title: Mainland slams Lai for depriving Taiwan people of rights, freedom
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<p>A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday slammed the Taiwan authorities led by Lai Ching-te for depriving Taiwan people of their fundamental rights and freedom.</p>
<p>Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, made the remarks at a regular press conference in response to two people from the Taiwan region being investigated for posting statements like "I am Chinese" and "I love China" on social media platforms.</p>
<p>Chen said this is yet another one of Lai's evil acts engaging in "green terror" and creating a "chilling effect."</p>
<p>The Taiwan authorities led by Lai have frequently threatened, intimidated and retaliated in an attempt to restrict the freedom of thought and speech of Taiwan compatriots, which allows the world to see the hypocrisy of the so-called democracy it touts, Chen said.</p>
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title: Sudanese army takes control of Khartoum airport, other strategic sites
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<p>The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said Wednesday it has taken control of the Khartoum International Airport, held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since mid-April 2023, as well as other strategic sites in the capital.</p>
<p>"We have taken control of Khartoum International Airport," SAF operations commander in Khartoum Mohamed Abdul-Rahman Al-Belawi said, according to Al-Jazeera.</p>
<p>"Ground units of the Sudanese army have successfully taken control of Khartoum International Airport and fully secured it," a military source told Xinhua News Agency on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, SAF spokesman Nabil Abdalla said in a statement that SAF forces "have seized control of the militia camp Taiba Al-Hasanab in Jabal Awliya city, which is the militia's main camp and its last stronghold in Khartoum."</p>
<p>The RSF's remaining presence consists of scattered "small pockets," which will be eliminated soon, he added.</p>
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<p>In a separate statement on Wednesday, Abdalla said the SAF has also made progress in areas east of Khartoum, and seized control of the first infantry brigade headquarters in the Al-Bagair area on the border between the Khartoum and Gezira states.</p>
<p>The SAF and supporting forces have inflicted heavy losses on the RSF in both equipment and personnel, he said.</p>
<p>Furthermore, video footage shared by army soldiers on social media showed army units deployed along Al-Siteen Street, a key road connecting the eastern, southern, and central parts of Khartoum.</p>
<p>Sudan has been embroiled in a conflict between the SAF and RSF since mid-April 2023.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the RSF announced that it had taken control of the Al-Malha area, which holds strategic significance due to its control over vital trade routes between Sudan and Libya, and which serves as a key crossroads leading to the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan.</p>
<p>A day later, the SAF said it had regained control of the presidential palace in central Khartoum.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the SAF released a map for the first time outlining its areas of control and RSF-held territory amid ongoing fighting between the two sides.</p>
<p>The map marked green areas under full SAF control, including Northern, River Nile, Red Sea, Kassala, Gedaref, Blue Nile, Gezira, and Sinnar states. RSF-controlled areas, including West, South, and East Darfur, were marked in red.</p>
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<p>The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said Wednesday it has taken control of the Khartoum International Airport, held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since mid-April 2023, as well as other strategic sites in the capital.</p>
<p>"We have taken control of Khartoum International Airport," SAF operations commander in Khartoum Mohamed Abdul-Rahman Al-Belawi said, according to Al-Jazeera.</p>
<p>"Ground units of the Sudanese army have successfully taken control of Khartoum International Airport and fully secured it," a military source told Xinhua News Agency on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, SAF spokesman Nabil Abdalla said in a statement that SAF forces "have seized control of the militia camp Taiba Al-Hasanab in Jabal Awliya city, which is the militia's main camp and its last stronghold in Khartoum."</p>
<p>The RSF's remaining presence consists of scattered "small pockets," which will be eliminated soon, he added.</p>
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<p>In a separate statement on Wednesday, Abdalla said the SAF has also made progress in areas east of Khartoum, and seized control of the first infantry brigade headquarters in the Al-Bagair area on the border between the Khartoum and Gezira states.</p>
<p>The SAF and supporting forces have inflicted heavy losses on the RSF in both equipment and personnel, he said.</p>
<p>Furthermore, video footage shared by army soldiers on social media showed army units deployed along Al-Siteen Street, a key road connecting the eastern, southern, and central parts of Khartoum.</p>
<p>Sudan has been embroiled in a conflict between the SAF and RSF since mid-April 2023.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the RSF announced that it had taken control of the Al-Malha area, which holds strategic significance due to its control over vital trade routes between Sudan and Libya, and which serves as a key crossroads leading to the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan.</p>
<p>A day later, the SAF said it had regained control of the presidential palace in central Khartoum.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the SAF released a map for the first time outlining its areas of control and RSF-held territory amid ongoing fighting between the two sides.</p>
<p>The map marked green areas under full SAF control, including Northern, River Nile, Red Sea, Kassala, Gedaref, Blue Nile, Gezira, and Sinnar states. RSF-controlled areas, including West, South, and East Darfur, were marked in red.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: Suggestions made by Chinese lawmakers move toward implementation
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<p>The closing meeting of the third session of the 14th National People's Congress is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 11, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>A total of 9,160 suggestions made by national lawmakers have been distributed to 211 organizations to be processed, according to a meeting on handling the suggestions held in Beijing on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The suggestions were submitted by deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, during the third session of the 14th NPC held earlier this month.</p>
<p>An analysis of the deputies' suggestions shows that the top three areas of focus were "science, education, health, and sports," "development planning and comprehensive economy-related matters," and "social and public affairs," accounting for nearly half of all suggestions.</p>
<p>Li Hongzhong, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, urging the organizations to process each of the suggestions with high quality and efficiency.</p>
<p>In the past year, significant progress and achievements have been made in handling suggestions from deputies. With joint efforts from various parties, all 9,235 suggestions submitted by deputies during the second session of the 14th NPC have been processed and responded to, with deputies generally satisfied with the outcomes.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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<p>During the Boao Forum for Asia, CGTN's Lily Lyu interviewed Pakistan's Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, covering topics from the Hainan Free Trade Port to China’s global economic engagement and the role of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.</p>
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<p>Compatriots across the Taiwan Straits attend an event honoring China's legendary ancestor Huangdi in Zhengzhou City, central China's Henan Province, April 22, 2023. /VCG</p>
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<p>Compatriots across the Taiwan Straits will attend events honoring China's legendary ancestor Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor, on the Chinese mainland during the upcoming Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, a spokesperson from the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Chen Binhua, the spokesperson, said the commemorative ceremonies and related cultural activities will be held in Shaanxi and Henan provinces.</p>
<p>The Yellow Emperor is recognized as the cultural ancestor of the Chinese nation, with his mausoleum serving as a spiritual symbol of Chinese civilization.</p>
<p>Chen said the joint ceremonies by compatriots across the Taiwan Straits boast a long tradition, which plays a significant role in preserving Chinese cultural heritage and strengthening Taiwan compatriots' sense of national identity, belonging and pride.</p>
<p>Noting that the Xiamen section of the Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge has entered a new construction phase, Chen said that constructing the bridge is a shared aspiration and urgent desire among residents on both sides.</p>
<p>He added that the Chinese mainland has always prioritized the well-being of people in Kinmen and has implemented multiple measures to benefit them in recent years, including a cross-Strait water supply project.</p>
<p>Since it began transferring water through the project in 2018, Fujian Province has provided over 40 million tonnes of water for Kinmen, effectively resolving the island's long-standing water shortage issues, according to the spokesperson.</p>
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title: Online platform for reporting &amp;#039;Taiwan independence&amp;#039; gets 323 emails
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<p>As of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, a total of 323 reporting emails have been received by the online platform <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-26/Online-platform-to-report-Taiwan-independence-activities-launched-1C3mo5dTjWM/p.html">launched</a> by the Chinese mainland earlier on Wednesday for the public to report acts by those advocating "Taiwan independence" and their accomplices persecuting Taiwan compatriots, a mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Among those reported are certain Taiwan political figures, organization sponsors and internet influencers advocating "Taiwan independence," said Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.</p>
<p>Their egregious activities, such as suppression of the opposition party through baseless charges, intimidation to dissolve organizations in support of China's reunification and blatant infringement on the legitimate rights and interests of mainland-born spouses residing in Taiwan, are exposed in the emails, he said.</p>
<p>Chen said relevant authorities of the mainland will take facts as the basis and the law as the criterion, and hold the perpetrators and accomplices of "Taiwan independence" activities accountable.</p>
<p>(With input from Xinhua)</p>
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title: CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
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<p dir="ltr"><span><strong><span>“We must push back” —  Retired Army Colonel</span> <span>Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.</span></strong></span> <span><span data-sanitized-id="more-126118"></span></span></p>
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<p><strong><span>By <span><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/ann-wright/">Ann Wright</a></span></span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><span><strong><img decoding="async" src="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-13-at-5.31.23-PM-100x100.png" alt width="100" height="100" data-sanitized-class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-95766">Y</strong></span>esterday, in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Sen. Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>During the hearing CODEPINK activist <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIuWndybyXs" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DYIuWndybyXs&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1743086055944000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0NSIunrzvCYh8KVrM7tiy0">Tighe Barry stood up following the presentation</a> of the Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard’s lengthy statement about global threats to US national security and yelled “Stop Funding Israel,’ since neither Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton and Vice Chair Mark Warner had mentioned Israel in their opening statement nor  had Gabbard mentioned the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza in her statement either.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>As Capitol police were taking Barry out of the hearing room, in the horrific style of the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, Cotton maliciously said that Barry was a “CODEPINK lunatic that was funded by the Communist party of China.”  Cotton then said if anyone had something to say, to do so.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Refusing to buckle or be intimidated by Cotton’s lies about the funding of CODEPINK, I stood up and yelled, “I’m a retired Army Colonel and former diplomat. I work with CODEPINK and it is not funded by Communist China.”  I too was hauled out of the hearing room by Capitol police and arrested.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>After I was taken out of the hearing room, Cotton libelously continued his McCarty lie: “The fact that Communist China funds CODEPINK which interrupts a hearing about Israel illustrates Director Gabbard’s point that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are working together in greater concert than they ever had before.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Cotton does not appreciate the responsibility he has in his one-month-old elevation to the chair of the Senate’s intelligence committee.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Cotton does not seem to care that his untruthful statements in a U.S. congressional hearing aired around the world can have immediate and dangerous consequences for those he lies about, their friends and family. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>In today’s polarized political environment we know that the words of senior leaders can rile supporters into frenzies as we saw on Jan. 6, 2021, with President Donald Trump’s loyal supporters injuring many Capitol police and destroying parts of the nation’s Capitol building in their attempt to stop the presidential election proceedings.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>CODEPINK members have been challenging in the U.S. Congress the war policies of five presidential administrations, beginning in 2001 with the George W. Bush administration’s wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, long before Cotton was elected as a U.S. senator in 2014.  We have been in the U.S. Senate offices and halls twice as long as he has. We have nonviolently protested the war policies of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and now Trump again.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>After getting out of the Capitol Hill police station, a CODEPINK delegation went to Cotton’s office in the Russell Senate Office building and made a complaint to this office staff.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>We are also submitting a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee for the untrue and libelous statements Senator Cotton made in the hearing.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The abduction and deportation of international students who joined protests against U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, the scathing treatment of visitors who have wanted to enter our country and now the McCarthy intimidating tactics used by Cotton in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing of telling lies about individuals and organizations that challenge U.S. government politics, particularly its complicity in the Israeli genocide of Gaza must be called out and pushed back.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>And we must push back against U.S. senators who actually receive funding from front groups for other countries.  Cotton has received $1,197,989 from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to advocate for the genocidal policies of the State of Israel.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span>Ann Wright served 29 years in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel.  She was a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in US embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia.  She resigned from the U.S. government 22 years ago in March 2003 in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq.  She is a member of CODEPINK, Veterans For Peace, Women Cross DMZ and many other peace groups.  She is the co-author of <em>Dissent: Voices of Conscience</em>.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><em>Views expressed in this article and may or may not reflect those of </em><strong>Consortium News.</strong></span></p>

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<p><strong>The Trump administration has paused applications submitted by refugees and asylum seekers</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has put Green Card applications filed by immigrants granted refugee or asylum status on hold, CBS has reported. The decision is related to two executive orders signed by Trump earlier this year.</p>
<p>The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reportedly instructed officials to suspend requests for legal permanent residency, leaving refugees and asylum seekers into <em>“legal limbo.”</em> It’s unclear when the processing would resume.</p>
<p>In a statement to CBS, the DHS cited a <em>“temporary pause on finalizing certain Adjustment of Status applications pending the completion of additional screening and vetting to identify potential fraud, public safety, or national security concerns, in alignment”</em> with Trump’s executive actions.</p>
<p>Specifically, the move is tied to Executive Orders aimed at protecting the US from <em>“foreign terrorists”</em> and other threats.</p>

            
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<p>Earlier this month, the DHS instructed more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—who entered under former President Joe Biden’s parole program—to leave the country within 30 days or face deportation.</p>
<p>President Trump also announced a new immigration program known as the <em>“Gold Card,”</em> which would provide a path to US residency and citizenship for a $5 million payment. He described the initiative as a way to attract high-net-worth immigrants who would contribute to the economy.</p>
<p><em>“They’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people,”</em> he said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the proposal would replace the existing EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, which he called <em>“full of nonsense, make-believe and fraud.”</em></p>
<p>Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has signed multiple executive orders rolling back Biden-era immigration measures and introducing tougher immigration controls. They include enhancing vetting for visa applicants, limiting birthright citizenship, directing the armed forces to guard the southern border, and erecting additional barriers.</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="h-details" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Summary</h2>
<p>Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is cheaper to produce and easier to smuggle across borders, fueling the illicit opioid epidemic in the United States with devastating consequences. In 2023 alone, illicit opioids, primarily fentanyl, cost Americans an estimated $2.7 trillion (in December 2024 dollars), equivalent to 9.7 percent of GDP. Of this total cost, 41 percent ($1.1 trillion) is attributed to deaths, 49 percent ($1.34 trillion) to lost quality of life, and 10 percent ($277 billion) to other costs such as healthcare, reduced labor productivity, and crime-related expenses. Alarmingly, 93 percent of opioid deaths are caused by powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which typically originate in China and are trafficked through Mexico.</p>
<p>This number dwarfs even pessimistic estimates of the effects of tariffs, like that of Goldman Sachs, who estimated losses of <a href="https://publishing.gs.com/content/research/en/reports/2025/02/02/01f5b969-d377-4bb2-a6f8-57969353ada8.pdf">0.4 percent of GDP</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/full-cost-opioid-crisis-2-5-trillion-four-years/">CEA previously studied this issue</a> and came up with a smaller number. The primary reasons are because it did not include the cost of reduced quality of life and because the number of deaths in 2015 was 33,000.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Details</h2>
<p>Our cost estimates are based on a <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8091480/">2017 CDC study</a> which we have updated to account for inflation and the sharp rise in opioid deaths and opioid use disorder (OUD) since then. According to the DEA, an estimated <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2024/20240515.htm">74,702 Americans died</a> in 2023, a staggering 1.6 times more than in 2017. Additionally, the number of Americans living with OUD increased by 2.7 times to <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt47095/National%20Report/National%20Report/2023-nsduh-annual-national.pdf">5.7 million</a> during the same period. We have adjusted the calculations to reflect current prices as well as the alarming rise in opioid addiction and deaths. We scale up the loss of life estimates based on the increase in fatalities, while we scale up the other estimates to reflect the increase in the prevalence of those living with OUD. The breakdown of the cost estimates, all expressed in December 2024 dollars, is as follows:</p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>Loss of life:</strong> $1.11 trillion. This estimate is calculated by multiplying the number of lives lost (74,702) by the value of statistical life in the United States and then adding productivity and healthcare costs that arise due to opioid fatalities. We inflation adjusted the $10.1 million value of a statistical life number provided by <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8091480/">NIH (2017)</a> to 2025 dollars ($13.0 million per life). The value of a loss of life is based on market and survey based evidence on what amount of money people are willing to forgo to change the probability of death. For example, many estimates rely on the value of life implied by the increase in wages required for people to take jobs with higher mortality risk.</li>
<li><strong>Loss of quality of life:</strong> $1.34 trillion. This estimate is the product of three factors. First is a survey-based measure for the loss in quality of life for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) compared to those in full health. The measure shows that life with OUD has about 60 percent (0.626) of the quality of life of those in full health. Second is a measure of how much Americans value a year of life in full health. Adjusted for inflation, this value is estimated at $624,410 per person per year. Together these values imply that the lost quality of life costs $234,478 per year for each person living with OUD. We then multiply this value by the prevalence of OUD, estimated to be 5.7 million in 2023.</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare system:</strong> $107 billion. This estimate represents <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27623005/">the additional annual costs incurred</a> by the healthcare system for treating individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) relative to the average annual costs of treating those without OUD. This amounts to $19,000 additional dollars per year per person with OUD. These costs were primarily borne by private insurers, Medicaid, and hospitals providing uncompensated care. Ultimately, these costs are passed on to all Americans through higher insurance premiums, taxes, and healthcare expenses.</li>
<li><strong>Loss of labor force productivity:</strong> $107 billion. This estimate is calculated by multiplying the number of productive work hours lost due to opioid-related deaths, OUD, and incarceration by the average hourly total compensation (wages and benefits) for American workers.</li>
<li><strong>Crime-related:</strong> $63 billion. This figure represents the sum of costs incurred for additional police protection, judicial activities, correctional facilities, and property loss resulting from opioid-related crime.</li>
</ul><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion</h2>
<p>The enormous economic cost of the illicit opioid epidemic to Americans, estimated at $2.7 trillion in 2023 alone, underscores the urgent need to control the flow of lethal drugs pouring in from foreign countries. The human suffering and financial burden inflicted by this epidemic are unsustainable.</p>

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