veteranstoday--2020-03-23--Trump thinks Iran is on its knees…

Trump thinks Iran is on its knees…

But Covid-19 may have given it an unprecedented path to the bomb https : //quincyinst.org/2020/03/22/trump-thinks-iran-is-on-its-knees-but-covid-19-may-have-given-it-an-unprecedented-path-to-the-bomb/ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes the Coronavirus has made Iran ripe for some bombing .
Weakened by both sanctions and the pandemic , a window of opportunity exists to strike it militarily , he reportedly told President Donald Trump .
But paradoxically , the pandemic may also have given Tehran an opportunity it neither desired nor faced earlier on .
Trump ’ s sanctions have already begun to shift Tehran ’ s nuclear calculus .
Now , the global chaos fomented by the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to make a dash for the bomb .
For an administration that claims to practice a foreign policy of restraint , the Trump administration has a shockingly misguided notion of the U.S. national interest .
With Iran , it has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory , as demonstrated by the utter failure of its exit from the 2015 nuclear deal and its economic warfare against the country .
While Iran ’ s economy has been devastated by sanctions , Tehran has not caved to a single one of Washington ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has counter-escalated , seemingly with the intent of making Trump ’ s maximum pressure policy as costly as possible to both the U.S. and its allies .
Even the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani , Iran ’ s most influential military commander , has failed to deter Iran , according to U.S. intelligence .
Pompeo has counseled Trump to take military action in every crisis with Iran since he was confirmed as secretary .
He did so after Iran shot down a US spy drone it said had entered its airspace .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. embassy in Baghdad and he did so last week after two U.S. servicemen were killed after their base came under attack by an Iraqi militia .
Pompeo blamed Iran directly for these attacks , contradicting the Pentagon and intelligence agencies that indicated they did not have evidence that the attacks were in fact ordered by Iran .
Given Pompeo ’ s apparent appetite for war , it is not surprising that he is urging military strikes in the midst of the pandemic .
Iran is one of the countries hardest hit by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was already in a frail state due in part to the government ’ s own mismanagement but also because of the disastrous impact of US sanctions .
Pompeo argues that hitting Iran now will force it to capitulate and beg for talks .
However , in all previous cases , Pompeo and hawks such as John Bolton and Richard Grenell have presented the same logic .
Iran was so weak that just a bit more pressure — through more sanctions or military strikes — would force it to capitulate .
In every case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ met maximum pressure with maximum resistance ; that is , it counter-escalated and brought the U.S. closer to war rather than Iran closer to surrender .
But this time , Pompeo ’ s miscalculation may be even riskier .
True , Iran is in a weak position .
Its economy is tanking , it has failed to contain the pandemic , and its population has all but lost faith in the government ’ s ability to handle these crises .
But while Iran is weakened , it is not without options .
Nor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ position .
In fact , within weeks , Iran may have opportunities it neither possessed nor desired before .
Including a comparatively resistance-free path to a nuclear weapon .
Consider the following .
The Trump administration ’ s response to Covid-19 has been disastrous .
Within weeks , the U.S. will likely face a situation similar to that of Italy ’ s — which has more reported coronavirus deaths than Iran .
But the repercussions of the pandemic might even be worse in the U.S. in the short run than elsewhere because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety net .
The United States allocates 0.19 percent of its GDP on public unemployment spending .
Belgium spends 15 times as much on supporting its unemployed , according to the OECD .
Whether unemployment in the US hits twenty percent , as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has warned , or the GDP contracts twenty-four percent in the second quarter as predicted by Goldman Sachs , the Trump administration ’ s preoccupation with Covid-19 and its enormous economic and social implications , as well as the November elections may leave the U.S. government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with few political incentives — to risk war with Iran .
Hardliners in Iran , who have benefited greatly from Trump ’ s humiliation of Iranian moderates who favored reconciliation with the West , may see this as an unprecedented opportunity to do what the Iranian elite has rejected in the past — exit the Iran nuclear deal , exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) and make a dash for the bomb .
They may calculate that the world ’ s ability to respond militarily will be limited .
Israel might attack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to destroy all of Iran ’ s nuclear facilities on its own .
Nor can it afford a full-scale war with Iran without Washington ’ s backing .
Tehran may also not be deterred by the economic and political response of the international community .
After all , Iran is under far more sanctions now when it has been adhering to a nuclear deal than it was when it was accused of having violated the NPT .
( Tehran has ceased respecting some limits imposed by the JCPOA in response to US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defensible under the agreement , and , as Iranian officials have repeatedly made clear , they are easily reversible if and when sanctions are eased or lifted . )
Even during this pandemic , Trump has imposed more sanctions on Iran and even effectively blocked a $ 5bn IMF loan to help it fight Covid-19 .
There is simply little left the international community can do to punish Iran .
Of course , once the pandemic is over , Iran will likely face a severe backlash if it withdraws from the NPT and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bomb .
But by then , Tehran may have far more leverage compared to today , when it remains within the nuclear deal .
Hopefully , Tehran will not opt for this path .
But had Trump not exited the nuclear deal and waged economic warfare , hardliners in Iran would not have been strengthened , and Covid-19 would likely have had no impact on Iran ’ s nuclear calculus .
Now it may .
Trump may listen to Pompeo and choose to strike Iran preemptively , but that will only further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best way to prevent Iran ’ s hardliners from dashing for the bomb is to undo what caused this crisis in the first place — Trump ’ s economic warfare and his breach of the nuclear deal .
Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute .
He is the author of Losing an Enemy – Obama , Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy .

But Covid-19 may have given it an unprecedented path to the bomb
Trita Parsi
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes the Coronavirus has made Iran ripe for some bombing. Weakened by both sanctions and the pandemic, a window of opportunity exists to strike it militarily, he reportedly told President Donald Trump. But paradoxically, the pandemic may also have given Tehran an opportunity it neither desired nor faced earlier on. Trump’s sanctions have already begun to shift Tehran’s nuclear calculus. Now, the global chaos fomented by the pandemic may have provided it with the opportunity to make a dash for the bomb.
For an administration that claims to practice a foreign policy of restraint, the Trump administration has a shockingly misguided notion of the U.S. national interest. With Iran, it has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, as demonstrated by the utter failure of its exit from the 2015 nuclear deal and its economic warfare against the country. While Iran’s economy has been devastated by sanctions, Tehran has not caved to a single one of Washington’s demands. On the contrary, Tehran has counter-escalated, seemingly with the intent of making Trump’s maximum pressure policy as costly as possible to both the U.S. and its allies. Even the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most influential military commander, has failed to deter Iran, according to U.S. intelligence.
Pompeo has counseled Trump to take military action in every crisis with Iran since he was confirmed as secretary. He did so after Iran shot down a US spy drone it said had entered its airspace. He did so after Iraqi militias stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and he did so last week after two U.S. servicemen were killed after their base came under attack by an Iraqi militia. Pompeo blamed Iran directly for these attacks, contradicting the Pentagon and intelligence agencies that indicated they did not have evidence that the attacks were in fact ordered by Iran.
Given Pompeo’s apparent appetite for war, it is not surprising that he is urging military strikes in the midst of the pandemic. Iran is one of the countries hardest hit by Covid-19, partly because its healthcare sector was already in a frail state due in part to the government’s own mismanagement but also because of the disastrous impact of US sanctions.
Pompeo argues that hitting Iran now will force it to capitulate and beg for talks.
However, in all previous cases, Pompeo and hawks such as John Bolton and Richard Grenell have presented the same logic. Iran was so weak that just a bit more pressure — through more sanctions or military strikes — would force it to capitulate. In every case, the opposite has occurred: Tehran met maximum pressure with maximum resistance; that is, it counter-escalated and brought the U.S. closer to war rather than Iran closer to surrender.
But this time, Pompeo’s miscalculation may be even riskier. True, Iran is in a weak position. Its economy is tanking, it has failed to contain the pandemic, and its population has all but lost faith in the government’s ability to handle these crises.
But while Iran is weakened, it is not without options. Nor is the U.S. necessarily in a strong position. In fact, within weeks, Iran may have opportunities it neither possessed nor desired before. Including a comparatively resistance-free path to a nuclear weapon.
Consider the following. The Trump administration’s response to Covid-19 has been disastrous. Within weeks, the U.S. will likely face a situation similar to that of Italy’s — which has more reported coronavirus deaths than Iran. But the repercussions of the pandemic might even be worse in the U.S. in the short run than elsewhere because of the U.S.’s notoriously weak social safety net. The United States allocates 0.19 percent of its GDP on public unemployment spending. Belgium spends 15 times as much on supporting its unemployed, according to the OECD.
Whether unemployment in the US hits twenty percent, as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has warned, or the GDP contracts twenty-four percent in the second quarter as predicted by Goldman Sachs, the Trump administration’s preoccupation with Covid-19 and its enormous economic and social implications, as well as the November elections may leave the U.S. government with very little bandwidth — and Trump with few political incentives — to risk war with Iran.
Hardliners in Iran, who have benefited greatly from Trump’s humiliation of Iranian moderates who favored reconciliation with the West, may see this as an unprecedented opportunity to do what the Iranian elite has rejected in the past — exit the Iran nuclear deal, exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and make a dash for the bomb. They may calculate that the world’s ability to respond militarily will be limited. Israel might attack, but it is unlikely to be able to destroy all of Iran’s nuclear facilities on its own. Nor can it afford a full-scale war with Iran without Washington’s backing.
Tehran may also not be deterred by the economic and political response of the international community. After all, Iran is under far more sanctions now when it has been adhering to a nuclear deal than it was when it was accused of having violated the NPT. (Tehran has ceased respecting some limits imposed by the JCPOA in response to US sanctions, but these steps are legally defensible under the agreement, and, as Iranian officials have repeatedly made clear, they are easily reversible if and when sanctions are eased or lifted.) Even during this pandemic, Trump has imposed more sanctions on Iran and even effectively blocked a $5bn IMF loan to help it fight Covid-19. There is simply little left the international community can do to punish Iran. Of course, once the pandemic is over, Iran will likely face a severe backlash if it withdraws from the NPT and takes other steps enabling it to build a bomb. But by then, Tehran may have far more leverage compared to today, when it remains within the nuclear deal.
Hopefully, Tehran will not opt for this path. But had Trump not exited the nuclear deal and waged economic warfare, hardliners in Iran would not have been strengthened, and Covid-19 would likely have had no impact on Iran’s nuclear calculus. Now it may.
Trump may listen to Pompeo and choose to strike Iran preemptively, but that will only further incentivize Iran to go nuclear. The best way to prevent Iran’s hardliners from dashing for the bomb is to undo what caused this crisis in the first place — Trump’s economic warfare and his breach of the nuclear deal.
Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute. He is the author of Losing an Enemy – Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy.


veteranstoday--2020-03-22--Why Assume There Will Be a 2020 Election?

The upcoming American elections are just around the corner and everyone is wondering if the new president will be named Trump , Biden , Sanders or none of the above .
I can hear the incredulous reader exclaim : Wait , what does “ none of the above ” mean ?
?
It ’ s certainly going to be one of those three , isn ’ t it ?
?
It is often too easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees and in the opinion-packed world of endless talking-head commentaries , every leaf and branch is scrutinized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forget that the entire forest is on fire .
As I ’ ve written extensively here and here and here , the reality is that the western financial system is careening towards a crash much worse than anything the world saw in 1929 , and the deep state trying to manage this wreck from above would love nothing more than to impose a fascist dictatorship onto a frightened population .
The only reason why so much effort has been expended on attempting to paint Trump , Sanders , and Tulsi as “ Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that neither one of the three individuals would make very willing puppets who would play along with a fascist dictatorship in America under those foreseeable crisis conditions .
For all their problems and differences , right-wing neocons and left-wing Malthusian technocrats despise Trump , Sanders , and Tulsi for the crime that they are actual patriotic human beings who genuinely care about their nation .
Unlike technocrats or neocons , actual human beings occupying political office may be inclined to spoil a good crisis in order to pass reforms that actually protect the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the shadow government .
So I ask again : What if the oncoming crisis results in a 2020 choice of “ none of the above ” ?
What if there is no 2020 choice “ offered ” democratically to the American public at all ?
It isn ’ t like this sort of thing has never happened in American history .
In order to best understand this danger and also gain insight into how it might be circumvented , I suggest revisiting the 1932-1934 efforts by the international deep state to impose a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elected government of Franklin Roosevelt with a JP Morgan-funded military coup d ’ état .
1932-1934 was a period of history that saw the world torn down into a deep depression which the people of Europe and America were told by their media , could only be solved by the “ economic miracle solution ” of a new system of governance known as “ fascism ” .
This “ fascist economic solution ” took hold in Europe with the quick rise of Nazism , Franco and Mussolini ’ s Corporatism as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In English Canada , the League for Social Reconstruction was ready to take power in 1932 and French-speaking Canada was quickly embracing the Nazi-inspired political party of Adrien Arcand .
The British governing class , led by the royal family were fully backing Nazism , and Sir Oswald Mosley ’ s British Union of Fascists was rising faster than ever .
All of these movements came in different flavors but were united under a cold utilitarian philosophy of government , a devout love for eugenics ( the racist “ science ” of population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of London/Wall Street money .
In the United States , however , things weren ’ t going as smoothly .
Even though the financial elite of Wall Street had pulled the plug on the system four years earlier , the population had still not been broken sufficiently to accept fascism as the solution which Time magazine told them it was .
Instead , the people voted for one of the few anti-fascist presidential candidates available in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt was elected under the theme of taking the money lenders out of power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion , rejected by the hearts and minds of men .
True they have tried , but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition .
Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money .
Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership , they have resorted to exhortations , pleading tearfully for restored confidence .
They know only the rules of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no vision , and when there is no vision the people perish .
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization .
We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths .
The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values nobler than mere monetary profit.
” During FDR ’ s famous 100 Days , an all-out war was declared on the “ economic royalists ” that had taken over the nation .
Audits and investigations were conducted on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pecora Commission , and the biggest financial houses which had spent billions on fascist parties of Europe were broken up while speculation was reined in under Glass-Steagall .
Meanwhile , a new form of banking was unveiled more in alignment with America ’ s constitutional traditions in the form of productive credit and long term public works which created real jobs and increased the national productive powers of labor .
Many people remain totally ignorant that even before his March 4 , 1933 inauguration , Franklin Roosevelt narrowly avoided an assassination attempt in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bullets and the mayor of Chicago dying of his wounds 3 weeks later .
Within days of the mayor ’ s death , the assassin Giuseppe Zingara was speedily labeled a “ lone gunman ” and executed without any serious investigation into his Freemasonic connections .
This , however , was just a pre-cursor for an even greater battle which Wall Street financiers would launch in order to overthrow the presidency later that year .
This effort would only be stopped by the courageous intervention of a patriotic marine named Smedley Darlington Butler @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of patriotic Quakers , Smedley Butler quickly rose through the ranks of the military becoming the most decorated military figure of U.S. History- a record he holds to this day with multiple medals of honor , an Army distinguished service medal and Marine Corps Bruvet medal ( to name just a few ) .
By the end of the British-orchestrated meat grinder known as WWI , the General had become an activist patriot giving speeches across America in denunciation of the private financiers steering America ’ s war-driven economy .
Speaking to veterans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ I have spent 33 years being a high-class muscle man for Big Business , for Wall Street and the bankers .
In short , I was a racketeer for capitalism… I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 .
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916 .
I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [ Bank ] boys to collect revenue in .
I helped rape half a dozen Central American republics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China , I helped see to it that Standard Oil went it ’ s way unmolested… I had a swell racket .
I was rewarded with honors , medals , and promotions .
I might have given Al Capone a few hints .
The best he could do was operate a racket in three cities .
The Marines operated on three continents… ” In spite of his outspoken criticism of crony capitalism , Wall Street ’ s elite simply presumed all men had their price , and Butler was probably just indignant because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ piece of the pie .
These financiers needed someone like Butler to channel the rage of the striking veterans of WWI across America who had been fighting for the bonus pay promised them years earlier but which didn ’ t exist due to the 1929 collapse .
A force of hundreds of thousands of disgruntled seasoned soldiers was exactly what was needed to overthrow Roosevelt , but leadership was sorely lacking , and General Butler was their man for the job .
He was a war hero who was seen as honest and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perfect .
Under the guiding hand of JP Morgan ’ s Grayson Prevost Murphy , two representatives of the American Legion ( Commander Bill Doyle and bond salesman Gerald MacGuire ) approached Butler in July 1933 for the job of rallying the Legion ’ s veterans and began dropping hints of a larger coup plot .
Butler became suspicious but continued playing along with the plan to see how far this went up the ladder of power ( 1 ) .
Over the course of the next several months , Butler discovered that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John Pierpont Morgan Jr. , the Harrimans , the Melons , Warburgs , Rockefellers , and Duponts were at the heart of the plot .
These men used their agents such as Gerald MacGuire a Morgan-affiliated bond salesman , Democratic Party controllers John W. Davis and Thomas Lamont ( both occupying directorships in the House of Morgan ) , Robert Sterling Clark ( heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune ) , Grayson Prevost Murphy and Harriman Family investment banker Prescott Bush .
All of these characters had become well known “ investors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biggest media platforms including Fortune and Time Magazine ( both of which promoted Mussolini extensively for years ) , and controlled the levers of industry .
Luckily , the 1932-1934 Pecora Commission exposed these forces publicly as the architects of the great depression , making their ability to acquire popular support and sympathy more than a little difficult .
“ Undoubtedly , this small group of highly placed financiers , controlling the very springs of economic activity , holds more real power than any similar group in the U.S.A. ” When the time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by approaching the Special Committee on Un-American Activities ( the McCormack-Dickstein Committee ) which began an investigation on November 20 , 1934 .
Unlike the Committee on Un-American Activities which made its reputation destroying patriotic lives under the communist witch hunt of McCarthyism , this earlier version was aligned to FDR and dedicated solely to identifying Nazi activity in America .
At first skeptical of the general ’ s claims , the committee soon substantiated everything over the course of a month-long investigation and made their findings public to FDR and congress on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of the hearings were the testimonies of journalist Paul Comly French whom Butler recruited to act as the general ’ s intermediary with the bankers .
Butler told the committee that MacGuire stated it “ wouldn ’ t take any constitutional change to authorize another cabinet official , somebody to take over the details of the office—to take them off the President ’ s shoulders ” and that “ we ’ d do with him what Mussolini did to the King of Italy ” .
When French asked MacGuire how the coup @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ We need a fascist government to save the nation from the Communists… It was the plan that Hitler had used in putting all of the unemployed in labor camps or barracks—enforced labor .
That would solve it overnight.
” Although the full transcripts were not made public , Butler did get the message to the population by giving his story to as many journalists as possible and recorded a message to the people in 1935 which should be listened to in full .
The Aftermath of the Exposure This exposure , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earlier failed assassination attempt gave FDR the ammunition he needed to force America ’ s deep state into submission ( at least for a while ) .
As I outlined in my recent paper , FDR ’ s fight to stop a central bankers ’ dictatorship started from the earliest days of his presidency to his dying breath on April 14 , 1945 .
Incredibly , after the sanitized and redacted 1934 report was published , the committee was disbanded ( to be reformed later under a fascist mandate ) , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for years- only officially made public in the 21st century- the contents of which can be found here with censored testimony in red .
The coup plotters lost no time forming a new organization on August 22 , 1934 , called the American Liberty League which spent the next decade sabotaging FDR ’ s New Deal .
This group made every effort to promote an American alliance with Axis powers ( until 1941 ’ s Pearl Harbor attack ) , widely financed eugenics , and after FDR died , acted as the driving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America during the Cold War .
This organization also gave birth to such think tanks as the American Enterprise Association , Heritage Foundation and CATO institute which incrementally made Austrian school economics a part of the American right .
Anyone wishing to understand what created the Frankenstein Monster called “ neo-conservativism ” during the last 60 years would not get very far without understanding the role of the American Liberty League and its hell spawn .
Today , a new systemic meltdown of a $ 1.5 quadrillion derivatives bubble has similarities to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1923 hyperinflation of Weimar .
While the coronavirus may or may not be used to trigger this new blowout , one thing is certain : a new fascist coup should be taken more seriously than ever .
So rather than stressing about who might be on the 2020 ballot , it is wiser to ask the question : Where are the General Butlers today ?
( 1 ) The Legion was a very different beast from the benign organization of old veterans it is known as today , as it was originally founded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was run early on as a fascist machine .
Legion Commander Alvin Owsley made this explicit in 1921 when he said : “ If need be the American Legion is ready to protect the institutions of this country and its ideals , in the same way as the Fascists have treated the destructive forces threatening Italy .
Don ’ t forget that the Fascists are for today ’ s Italy what the American Legion is for the United States .
”

The upcoming American elections are just around the corner and everyone is wondering if the new president will be named Trump, Biden, Sanders or none of the above.
I can hear the incredulous reader exclaim: Wait, what does “none of the above” mean?? It’s certainly going to be one of those three, isn’t it??
It is often too easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees and in the opinion-packed world of endless talking-head commentaries, every leaf and branch is scrutinized by professional opinionators so closely that many forget that the entire forest is on fire.
As I’ve written extensively here and here and here, the reality is that the western financial system is careening towards a crash much worse than anything the world saw in 1929, and the deep state trying to manage this wreck from above would love nothing more than to impose a fascist dictatorship onto a frightened population.
Trump, Sanders, and Tulsi: Not Good Fascists
The only reason why so much effort has been expended on attempting to paint Trump, Sanders, and Tulsi as “Russian agents” has been the simple fact that neither one of the three individuals would make very willing puppets who would play along with a fascist dictatorship in America under those foreseeable crisis conditions.
For all their problems and differences, right-wing neocons and left-wing Malthusian technocrats despise Trump, Sanders, and Tulsi for the crime that they are actual patriotic human beings who genuinely care about their nation. Unlike technocrats or neocons, actual human beings occupying political office may be inclined to spoil a good crisis in order to pass reforms that actually protect the people and revoke the power structures of the shadow government.
So I ask again: What if the oncoming crisis results in a 2020 choice of “none of the above”? What if there is no 2020 choice “offered” democratically to the American public at all? It isn’t like this sort of thing has never happened in American history.
In order to best understand this danger and also gain insight into how it might be circumvented, I suggest revisiting the 1932-1934 efforts by the international deep state to impose a fascist dictatorship upon Americans and even overthrow the elected government of Franklin Roosevelt with a JP Morgan-funded military coup d’état.
The Fascist Economic Miracle Solution of 1932
1932-1934 was a period of history that saw the world torn down into a deep depression which the people of Europe and America were told by their media, could only be solved by the “economic miracle solution” of a new system of governance known as “fascism”.
This “fascist economic solution” took hold in Europe with the quick rise of Nazism, Franco and Mussolini’s Corporatism as well as what later became Vichy France. In English Canada, the League for Social Reconstruction was ready to take power in 1932 and French-speaking Canada was quickly embracing the Nazi-inspired political party of Adrien Arcand.
The British governing class, led by the royal family were fully backing Nazism, and Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was rising faster than ever. All of these movements came in different flavors but were united under a cold utilitarian philosophy of government, a devout love for eugenics (the racist “science” of population control) and addiction to the City of London/Wall Street money.
In the United States, however, things weren’t going as smoothly.
The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
Even though the financial elite of Wall Street had pulled the plug on the system four years earlier, the population had still not been broken sufficiently to accept fascism as the solution which Time magazine told them it was. Instead, the people voted for one of the few anti-fascist presidential candidates available in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt was elected under the theme of taking the money lenders out of power and restoring the constitution.
In his March 4, 1933, inaugural address FDR stated:
“Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.
They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish. The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values nobler than mere monetary profit.”
During FDR’s famous 100 Days, an all-out war was declared on the “economic royalists” that had taken over the nation. Audits and investigations were conducted on the banks in the form of the Pecora Commission, and the biggest financial houses which had spent billions on fascist parties of Europe were broken up while speculation was reined in under Glass-Steagall.
Meanwhile, a new form of banking was unveiled more in alignment with America’s constitutional traditions in the form of productive credit and long term public works which created real jobs and increased the national productive powers of labor.
Many people remain totally ignorant that even before his March 4, 1933 inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt narrowly avoided an assassination attempt in Florida which saw 5 people struck by bullets and the mayor of Chicago dying of his wounds 3 weeks later. Within days of the mayor’s death, the assassin Giuseppe Zingara was speedily labeled a “lone gunman” and executed without any serious investigation into his Freemasonic connections. This, however, was just a pre-cursor for an even greater battle which Wall Street financiers would launch in order to overthrow the presidency later that year. This effort would only be stopped by the courageous intervention of a patriotic marine named Smedley Darlington Butler.
Who was General Butler?
Born in 1881 to a family of patriotic Quakers, Smedley Butler quickly rose through the ranks of the military becoming the most decorated military figure of U.S. History- a record he holds to this day with multiple medals of honor, an Army distinguished service medal and Marine Corps Bruvet medal (to name just a few).
By the end of the British-orchestrated meat grinder known as WWI, the General had become an activist patriot giving speeches across America in denunciation of the private financiers steering America’s war-driven economy. Speaking to veterans in August 1933, the general said:
“I have spent 33 years being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism… I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped rape half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street… In China, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went it’s way unmolested… I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotions. I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents…”
In spite of his outspoken criticism of crony capitalism, Wall Street’s elite simply presumed all men had their price, and Butler was probably just indignant because he was never given a big enough piece of the pie.
The Wall Street Putsch is Launched
These financiers needed someone like Butler to channel the rage of the striking veterans of WWI across America who had been fighting for the bonus pay promised them years earlier but which didn’t exist due to the 1929 collapse.
A force of hundreds of thousands of disgruntled seasoned soldiers was exactly what was needed to overthrow Roosevelt, but leadership was sorely lacking, and General Butler was their man for the job. He was a war hero who was seen as honest and loved by the veterans. He was perfect.
Under the guiding hand of JP Morgan’s Grayson Prevost Murphy, two representatives of the American Legion (Commander Bill Doyle and bond salesman Gerald MacGuire) approached Butler in July 1933 for the job of rallying the Legion’s veterans and began dropping hints of a larger coup plot. Butler became suspicious but continued playing along with the plan to see how far this went up the ladder of power (1).
Over the course of the next several months, Butler discovered that America’s financial elite centered around John Pierpont Morgan Jr., the Harrimans, the Melons, Warburgs, Rockefellers, and Duponts were at the heart of the plot.
These men used their agents such as Gerald MacGuire a Morgan-affiliated bond salesman, Democratic Party controllers John W. Davis and Thomas Lamont (both occupying directorships in the House of Morgan), Robert Sterling Clark (heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune), Grayson Prevost Murphy and Harriman Family investment banker Prescott Bush.
All of these characters had become well known “investors” in European fascism, owned the biggest media platforms including Fortune and Time Magazine (both of which promoted Mussolini extensively for years), and controlled the levers of industry.
Luckily, the 1932-1934 Pecora Commission exposed these forces publicly as the architects of the great depression, making their ability to acquire popular support and sympathy more than a little difficult.
Outlining his Committee’s findings Pecora had written publicly:
“Undoubtedly, this small group of highly placed financiers, controlling the very springs of economic activity, holds more real power than any similar group in the U.S.A.”
Butler Blows the Whistle
When the time was right, Butler blew the whistle by approaching the Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the McCormack-Dickstein Committee) which began an investigation on November 20, 1934. Unlike the Committee on Un-American Activities which made its reputation destroying patriotic lives under the communist witch hunt of McCarthyism, this earlier version was aligned to FDR and dedicated solely to identifying Nazi activity in America.
At first skeptical of the general’s claims, the committee soon substantiated everything over the course of a month-long investigation and made their findings public to FDR and congress on December 29, 1934. An invaluable part of the hearings were the testimonies of journalist Paul Comly French whom Butler recruited to act as the general’s intermediary with the bankers.
Butler told the committee that MacGuire stated it “wouldn’t take any constitutional change to authorize another cabinet official, somebody to take over the details of the office—to take them off the President’s shoulders” and that “we’d do with him what Mussolini did to the King of Italy”.
When French asked MacGuire how the coup would help solve unemployment, MacGuire responded: “We need a fascist government to save the nation from the Communists… It was the plan that Hitler had used in putting all of the unemployed in labor camps or barracks—enforced labor. That would solve it overnight.”
Although the full transcripts were not made public, Butler did get the message to the population by giving his story to as many journalists as possible and recorded a message to the people in 1935 which should be listened to in full.
The Aftermath of the Exposure
This exposure, alongside the Pecora Commission findings, and earlier failed assassination attempt gave FDR the ammunition he needed to force America’s deep state into submission (at least for a while). As I outlined in my recent paper, FDR’s fight to stop a central bankers’ dictatorship started from the earliest days of his presidency to his dying breath on April 14, 1945.
Incredibly, after the sanitized and redacted 1934 report was published, the committee was disbanded (to be reformed later under a fascist mandate), and the thousands of pages of transcripts were buried for years- only officially made public in the 21st century- the contents of which can be found here with censored testimony in red.
The coup plotters lost no time forming a new organization on August 22, 1934, called the American Liberty League which spent the next decade sabotaging FDR’s New Deal. This group made every effort to promote an American alliance with Axis powers (until 1941’s Pearl Harbor attack), widely financed eugenics, and after FDR died, acted as the driving force behind the McCarthyite police state in America during the Cold War.
This organization also gave birth to such think tanks as the American Enterprise Association, Heritage Foundation and CATO institute which incrementally made Austrian school economics a part of the American right. Anyone wishing to understand what created the Frankenstein Monster called “neo-conservativism” during the last 60 years would not get very far without understanding the role of the American Liberty League and its hell spawn.
Today, a new systemic meltdown of a $1.5 quadrillion derivatives bubble has similarities to the 1929 crash and other similarities to the 1923 hyperinflation of Weimar. While the coronavirus may or may not be used to trigger this new blowout, one thing is certain: a new fascist coup should be taken more seriously than ever.
So rather than stressing about who might be on the 2020 ballot, it is wiser to ask the question: Where are the General Butlers today?
Footnote
(1) The Legion was a very different beast from the benign organization of old veterans it is known as today, as it was originally founded with Wall Street capital in 1919 and was run early on as a fascist machine. Legion Commander Alvin Owsley made this explicit in 1921 when he said: “If need be the American Legion is ready to protect the institutions of this country and its ideals, in the same way as the Fascists have treated the destructive forces threatening Italy. Don’t forget that the Fascists are for today’s Italy what the American Legion is for the United States.”


veteranstoday--2020-03-22--Syria: Medical and Civil Protocols for CV 19 Treatment (Vital Pharmacology Treatment Guidelines)

For medical and security professionals only Corona virus 19 is a reality and dealing with it is not a difficult thing and it is the least dangerous virus that threatens human health… • Closed borders and the use of deadly force Corona 19 is a reality in our country , Syria , and therefore we must abide by all the rules of prevention very seriously in order to save ourselves , our loved ones , and our brothers in citizenship .
The relevant authorities must close all legal and illegal crossings with Lebanon and the armed areas in the provinces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any son of a prostitute and his groups , because the issue is proven In these regions and in Lebanon , anyone who tries to help or smuggle anyone from there into the country returning from all countries is permitted to be executed by the Syria .
Entry through the official crossings requires risk assessment and possible quarantine .
All entering should be questioned as to knowledge of potential illegal incursions , particularly from Lebanon or Jordan .
Every effort must be made to limit any cause of fear or panic through competent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a reality and dealing with it is not a difficult thing and it is the least dangerous virus that threatens human health , but the fact that its spread is fast and its history there is no vaccine or a special drug for its treatment that complicates matters for the elderly and diabetics and chronic respiratory diseases and smokers especially the hookah .
The Russians and the Chinese will not leave Syria if the number of infections remains high .
This is information and they will provide the technical , pharmaceutical and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran , Serbia , Greece and Italy .
What is used to date in the most important specialized centers is the anti-malaria chloroquine and blackfinil and only under medical supervision because it may affect the retina and the anti-virus remedies and was used to treat SARS and as a result of that pneumococcus may affect the respiratory system if infected with the virus they became using azithromycin and after the Chinese medical centers informed us about its effectiveness against the virus .
Although it is an antibiotic from the group of macrolides , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ added , because the pathological anatomy of many of the people in Han ( China ) showed lung infections with fungi and pneumococcus in addition to Corona virus 19 .
It is very important to give immunoglobulins in high doses to those who have weak immune systems to help them fight disease The important thing is to have awareness , patience , lack of fear , and national and moral responsibility … .
to be of assistance to each other , whatever type of assistance we provide and this is faith and these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health and wellness

Closed borders and the use of deadly force
Treatment protocols
Corona 19 is a reality in our country, Syria, and therefore we must abide by all the rules of prevention very seriously in order to save ourselves, our loved ones, and our brothers in citizenship.
The relevant authorities must close all legal and illegal crossings with Lebanon and the armed areas in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo without exception for any son of a prostitute and his groups, because the issue is proven In these regions and in Lebanon, anyone who tries to help or smuggle anyone from there into the country returning from all countries is permitted to be executed by the Syria.
Entry through the official crossings requires risk assessment and possible quarantine. All entering should be questioned as to knowledge of potential illegal incursions, particularly from Lebanon or Jordan.
Every effort must be made to limit any cause of fear or panic through competent and forceful action.
Corona virus 19 is a reality and dealing with it is not a difficult thing and it is the least dangerous virus that threatens human health, but the fact that its spread is fast and its history there is no vaccine or a special drug for its treatment that complicates matters for the elderly and diabetics and chronic respiratory diseases and smokers especially the hookah.
The Russians and the Chinese will not leave Syria if the number of infections remains high.
This is information and they will provide the technical, pharmaceutical and human assistance as they have done with Iran, Serbia, Greece and Italy.
What is used to date in the most important specialized centers is the anti-malaria chloroquine and blackfinil and only under medical supervision because it may affect the retina and the anti-virus remedies and was used to treat SARS and as a result of that pneumococcus may affect the respiratory system if infected with the virus they became using azithromycin and after the Chinese medical centers informed us about its effectiveness against the virus.
Although it is an antibiotic from the group of macrolides, as well as sometimes antifungals must be added, because the pathological anatomy of many of the people in Han (China) showed lung infections with fungi and pneumococcus in addition to Corona virus 19.
It is very important to give immunoglobulins in high doses to those who have weak immune systems to help them fight disease
The important thing is to have awareness, patience, lack of fear, and national and moral responsibility …. to be of assistance to each other, whatever type of assistance we provide and this is faith and these are ethics.
With my wishes for health and wellness
Dr. Bassam Habib Barakat, PhD, in Arthritis and Rheumatology
كورونا ١٩ أمرا واقعا في وطننا سورية ولذلك يجب علينا الإلتزام بجميع قواعد الوقاية بمنتهى الجدية إنقاذا لأنفسنا ولأحبتنا وأخوتنا بالمواطنة.. ويجب على السلطات المعنية إغلاق جميع المعابر الشرعية وغير الشرعية مع لبنان ومناطق المسلحين في محافظتي ادلب وحلب ودون استثناء لأي ابن عاهره ومجموعاته لأن الموض مثبت في هذه المناطق وفي لبنان ويجب إعدام كل من يحاول مساعدة أو تهريب أي شخص من هناك إلى داخل القطر العوده من جميع الدول مسموحه للسوريين ولكن عبر المعابر الرسمية ويجب علينا الإبلاغ عن أية حالة نعرف انها دخلت بطريقة غير نظامية….. لا داعي للهلع والخوف لأنه ينقص المناعة
فيروس كورونا ١٩ حقيقة والتعامل معه ليس امرا صعبا وهو اقل الفيروسلت خطرا على صحة الإنسان ولكن كون انتشاره سريع ولتاريخه لايوجد لقاح أو دواء خاص لعلاجه يعقد الأمور عند المسنيين ومرضى السكري والأمراض التنفسية المزمنة والمدخنين وخاصة النرجيلة الروس والصينين لن يتركوا سورية في حال تزايد عدد الأصابات اطمأنوا وهذه معلومات وسيقدمون المساعدات التقنية والدوائية والبشرية المتوفرة لديهم كما فعلوا مع ايران وصربيا واليونان وايطاليا.
ما يستخدم حتى تاريخه في أهم المراكز المتخصصة هو مضادي الملاريا الكلوروكين والبلاكفينيل وفقط تحت اشراف طبي لانه قد يؤثر على شبكية العين ومضاد الفيروس الريمديسفير واستخدم لعلاج السارس ونتيجة لأن المكورات الرئوية قد تصيب الجهاز التنفسي المصاب بالفيروس اصبحوا يستخدون الأزيترومايسين وبعد المراكز الطبية تحدثت عن فعاليته ضد الفيروس مع أنه مضاد حيوي من مجموعة المايكروليد وكذلك احيانا يجب إضافة مضادات الفطريات لان التشريح المرضي للعديد من المصابين في وههان بينت أصابات الرئة بالفطريات والمكورات الرئوية أضافة لفيروس الكورونا ١٩… باعتقادي من المفيد جدا إعطاء الغلوبينات المناعية بجرعات عالية لمن لديهم ضعف بالجهاز المناعي لمساعدتهم على مقاومة المرض
المهم أن نتحلى بالوعي والصبر وعدم الخوف وبالمسؤلية الوطنية والاخلاقية…. ان نكون عونا لبعضنا البعض مهما كان نوع المساعدة التي نقدمها وهذا هو الإيمان وهذه هي الأخلاق.
مع تمنياتي لكم بالصحة والعافية
د بسام حبيب بركات دكتوراه دولة بأمراض المفاصل والروماتيزم


Who Controls WHO?

No , it ’ s not a typing error !
‘ Who controls whom ?
’ is a question for another occasion .
Who controls the World Health Organisation is the more immediate question .
To understand that you have to understand the UN itself , since WHO is a UN agency .
It should come as no surprise that a German spy , Alger Hiss , was instrumental in the WHO ’ s creation .
The German DVD still controls the UN and its agencies .
Since the Coronavirus crisis broke the WHO has shamefully covered up China ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this deadly bio-weapon .
It has shredded its credibility in the process .
CDC in the States and the Cabinet Office in the UK have also put their credibility on the line .
It should come as no surprise to find that the WHO is headed by a former Ethiopian foreign minister .
Ethiopia has one of the most authoritarian and repressive regimes in Africa , responsible for a large number of human rights abuses .
Ideal for heading up a dodgy UN agency !
Absurdly , Alger Hiss was accused of being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a dubious character if ever there was one .
Hiss was a spy alright , but for the Abwehr , not the GRU .
It was no accident that he ended up chairing the UN Charter Convention .
Like the equally useless League before it , the UN was the creation of German intelligence .
One of the key German aims was the dismantling of the British , French and Dutch colonial empires and their handover to German or Chinese assets .
The loss of human life that process involved was a secondary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explain in Spyhunter , our community partner Oberleutnant Kurt Waldheim wasn ’ t made Secretary-General of the UN in ignorance of the fact that he was an Austrian war criminal and former German intelligence officer , but because of it .
They do due diligence on candidates for Secretary-General , you know !
The DVD ’ s Marshal Tito knew what he was doing when he promoted Waldheim ’ s candidacy .
Tito didn ’ t tool around in a Benz 600 Pullman for nothing .
He was no more a communist than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if it comes to that .
Supported by the Cabinet Office , the British government ’ s chief scientific adviser , Sir Patrick Vallance , came up with crazy idea of developing ‘ herd immunity ’ by allowing more than half the UK population to catch Covid-19 !
One American immunologist thought that this was satire and who can blame him .
Herd immunity is normally brought about by vaccines .
I intend no offense to Sir Patrick , and he will take none , I am sure , when I say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the government ’ s senior science adviser is a half-crazed global warming nutter .
WHO have been covering up China ’ s role in developing Covid-19 from the very beginning .
I ’ m not buying the Chinese allegation , supported by some of my esteemed colleagues , that the US military bought the virus from America to China via the US delegation at the World Military Games in Wuhan .
The games were over by October 27th , whereas the virus did not start circulating in Wuhan until mid to late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be contagious , via the ingenious mechanism of having patients asymptomatic for about 14 days , but not all patients are initially asymptomatic .
How would Fort Detrick know whether they were going to be asymptomatic or not ?
Furthermore the games started on October 18th and competitors would have arrived a day or two before then , if only to get over jet-lag , and would have traveled for a day or two before that .
The timeline is very tight .
The ‘ Americans did it ’ theory has two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US has no history at all of aggressive use of bio-weapons ( you are the Good Guys after all ! )
and even if Fort Detrick , or the CIA , or the Administration went nutty and decided to try and destroy the Chinese economy with a bio-weapon such is the scale of Correa/COREA Group penetration of US intelligence the op would have been blown before the first bug left the laboratory .
The US , by the way , has never done well at the World Military Games .
The Wuhan games @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t topped the medal table once .
Since you guys gave up horse cavalry some time ago , sadly , it ’ s easy to see why you didn ’ t do so well in the equestrian events , for example , where entries using Abrams tanks were not permitted .
I ’ m not much impressed either by arguments that all five sub-variants have been found in the US .
Given that the disease was imported into the US from China , Iran , Italy and elsewhere we would expect to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The same probably goes for other countries with close links to China such as poor old Italy , which is paying a big price for cosying up to Peking .
No , this is definitely a Chinese , not an American , bug .
If it could cook it would use a wok .
I bet it likes soy sauce !
I can quite see why calling it the ‘ Chinese Virus ’ could see innocent Chinese take-away owners being beaten up from Seattle to Swansea , but I see no reason why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Wuhan Flu ” .
That ’ s where it was developed and that ’ s where the Level 4 containment failure took place .
It would be more accurate than calling Spanish Flu the Spanish Flu , when it was developed in Germany and could fairly have been called ‘ Hun Flu ’ .
It appears to have been developed in the Disease Engineering Technical Research Center of the Wuhan Institute of Virology , in a program partly funded during the Obama Administration via USAID .
Two US researchers , one connected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the moniker “ harvard2the bighouse ” , have identified Chinese virologist Zhengli Shi as the team leader on Covid-19 .
Virologist Xing-Yi Ge is also named as a member of the team .
Zoonotic , in other words animal to human , transfer from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market can safely be ruled out .
Covid-19 , like MERS ( targeted at Saudi Arabia ) , SARS and HIV before it , is a bio-weapon , indeed it shares a number of genomic segments with HIV , particularly in its spike-protein gene @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as part of its war against the gay community .
SARS and MERS appear to have been developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
I suspect that WHO has known the sordid truth from the beginning .
Indeed it would be interesting to speculate when the WHO first found out about Covid-19 .
Was it way back in November ?
Did they sit on it whilst the virus circulated to Iran , Italy and elsewhere ?
Why are they sitting on a proven cure and for how long have they known about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a spike in pneumonia deaths in the UK in December .
I suspect that there were similar spikes in Italy and Spain and that these were undiagnosed Coronavirus deaths .
Why was no warning issued to the British , Spanish or Italian governments ?
This was a huge intelligence failure .
Covid-19 was circulating in the West from around the end of November/early December and neither CIA nor MI6 picked it up .
The Taiwanese seem to have been much better informed , indeed if reporting that they had a vaccine ready for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I think it is – it suggests that Taipei were aware of , and concerned by , the Chinese Coronavirus program for many months .
That ’ s right – as Mike Harris reported on these pages on Wednesday a French researcher in Marseilles , Professor Raoult , has successfully treated Covid-19 patients with Chloroquine .
The White House monitor VeteransToday.com and swiftly announced trials with both Chloroquine and its derivative Hydroxychloroquine .
I understand that there has already been a successful American trial .
The trade name of the drug used in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both the Chinese and South Korean governments are aware of the effectiveness of Chloroquine in treating Covid-19 .
Patients recover much more quickly and cease to be contagious .
It ’ s not a miracle cure and it doesn ’ t work overnight , but as long as it works , who cares ?
Chloroquine and its derivatives will not work with those who suffer from G6PD deficiency , but this is an inherited condition and easily tested for .
Moreover it occurs most frequently in Africa , the continent least at risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think that using ‘ pandemic ’ at this stage is just scare-mongering . )
It can also interact with other medications , but it ’ s been around since 1934 and doesn ’ t normally lead to severe side-effects .
Of course there will need to be further tests , but President Trump is absolutely right to push the FDA into moving smartly .
This is a proven drug , out of patent , which has been shown to work against Covid-19 in small-scale trials .
It ’ s quickly and easily manufactured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trials now and if they work go straight to recommending its use for Covid-19 patients with no G6PD deficiency .
I have already passed this recommendation to a senior civil servant in the UK Department of Health .
I would respectfully advise both the British and American governments to remove the power of decision-making from unelected officials to elected ministers .
Emergency legislation should empower the Secretary of State in the UK and the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the US to approve both treatments and vaccines for Covid-19 .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ light carriers in World War II .
In early 1942 the US Navy found itself seriously short of aircraft carriers .
Against the advice of the Bureau of Ships ( BuShips ) President Roosevelt ordered the conversion of the Cleveland class light cruisers Amsterdam ( CL59 ) , Tallahassee ( CL61 ) , New Haven ( CL76 ) , Huntington ( CL77 ) , Dayton ( CL78 ) , Wilmington ( CL79 ) , Fargo ( CL85 ) , Buffalo ( CLCL99 ) and Newark ( CL100 ) into light aircraft carriers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cleveland class , being cruisers , had a fairly narrow beam , which seriously restricted the hangar and flight deck width .
The funnel trunking solution was far from elegant and the amount of top hamper on the new carriers affected stability .
As carriers they were not particularly successful and one , USS Princeton ( CVL23 ) , sadly was lost .
However President Roosevelt was undoubtedly right to overrule the Navy .
The best was the enemy of the good .
New hull-up construction would have taken far too long – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carriers were too small and slow for fleet work and the other alternative – using British carriers – was strongly opposed by the German agent Admiral King .
In the event , as CNO , King was able to restrict the operations of the one armored fleet carrier , HMS Victorious , that we were able to spare .
( She arrived at Pearl in March 1943 but did not see much action . )
Moreover , as the President , a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy understood , the Clevelands were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problems , indeed they were very tender in service .
Whilst their armament ( 12 6 ” guns and 12 5 ” ) was powerful , their protection was weak .
There ’ s no time for a perfect solution .
We need therapies and vaccines now .
It ’ s a question of balance – do the risks of using the drugs without extended testing outweigh the risks of depriving people of access to them ?
Which course of action saves the most lives in the long run ?
I stand by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I don ’ t think that we ’ ll see more than 50,000 dead worldwide , despite the spike in Italy .
There are three major problems with the data , it seems to me .
Firstly there has been insufficient testing , so we don ’ t really have accurate figures for those infected .
The South Korean numbers are probably about right , but I ’ m not so sure about the Spanish or Italian numbers .
Covid-19 has been circulating in Italy probably since the end of November/early December and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being in the Schengen danger zone .
Secondly there appears to be a problem with false positives , which may explain the number of people testing positive who are asymptomatic .
I ’ ve seen a figure of 80 % , which I think is way too high , but there does appear to be an issue with test reliability .
Thirdly not all deaths put down as ‘ Coronavirus ’ may in fact be down to the virus , that is to say we may have people with other pathologies dying with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I am doubtful that all the dead are being autopsied , for example .
It ’ s early days but I think that the 1 – 2.5 % range I suggested in my last column is about right .
Remember that the virus was released accidentally , that is to say it is doubtful that it was fully developed .
It doesn ’ t appear to thrive outdoors or in temperatures above 4 deg .
C , that is to say we should see a reduction in the infection rate as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
I am aware that the research by Tang et al has been challenged , notably by MacLean et al at the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research .
However I respectfully agree with the Tang group in China , that is to say I think there are two major strains , Covid-19a and Covid-19b , with the latter being rather less lethal .
The virus is unstable and appears to be mutating rapidly , which again may be a reflection of its incomplete state of development .
I would expect countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Iran , to have been infected with the earlier , more deadly , strain .
That would explain the higher death rates there .
A comparison of the death rates between Italy and Germany is instructive , for example .
Further research in this area is vital .
Medical personnel need to know what they are dealing with .
Both main versions appear to be airborne , another sign of weaponisation .
As with Ebola , which was also weaponised , we risk losing courageous doctors and nurses because they have not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transmission .
Amidst the doom and gloom being generated by the media , who seem to think that the world is coming to end ( it isn ’ t , although communist rule in China may be ) , there was one piece of good news this week .
Michel Barnier , the EU ’ s chief negotiator , tested positive for Coronavirus .
All men and women of goodwill in England hope that he will die horribly , sorry , wish him a speedy recovery .
The UK/EU negotiations have effectively collapsed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interested in a free trade deal and want freedom of movement , ECJ supervision and a whole load of other nonsense .
There is no point in extending the transition period , which would be political suicide for Boris Johnson anyway .
It should be a no-deal scenario come January , thankfully .
Best Coronavirus joke so far My award for the best Coronavirus joke to date is the one which says that a friend in Peking has advised not to bother about getting Covid-19 , as Covid-20 Pro will be coming out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overtaken the bullying allegations against our able Home Secretary , Priti Patel .
Since they all come from civil servants opposed to her sensible policies there ’ s no need to take them particularly seriously , with respect .
Interestingly , my own case may come into play here .
Sir Philip Rutnam , who very properly resigned as Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , was in charge when the application from my solicitors for a Royal Pardon was diverted away from Sajid Javed , the then Home Secretary , in June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to suppress then with respect he was guilty of misconduct .
It is a basic rule of unfair dismissal proceedings that an employer may rely upon misconduct which comes to light after the dismissal .
I am available to give evidence if required !
My application by the way has been transferred to the Ministry of Justice miscarriage of justice team , who shouldn ’ t be having anything to do with it , since MoJ officials were involved in the jury-tampering at Southwark Crown Court and the blackmailing of judges , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whilst the British judicial system may have become an international laughing stock , no offense intended , at least one legal system is still working !
The four surviving adult ‘ Nirbhaya ’ rapists were very properly hanged in New Delhi on Thursday .
This was despite an increasingly surreal series of last-minute legal challenges .
One of the murderers said that he should not be hanged because his wife had commenced divorce proceedings , seemingly unaware that executing the husband is one way of saving the valuable time of the family courts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it has been done at last .
I see that the concerns I expressed in my last column about Joe Biden ’ s mental health are shared by some in his own party .
He got into an extraordinary row with one voter over gun control , forgetting the correct designation of the excellent Colt AR-15 assault rifle in the process .
Maybe he was thinking of former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ’ s approach to electioneering .
( John famously punched a voter in North Wales during the 2001 General Election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his vote . )
The Democrats may be able to hide the problem until Joe wins the primaries , which he ’ s bound to do unless he strokes out , no offense intended , but what ’ s going to happen in the rough and tumble of a general election ?
Senator Sanders is obviously considering running as an independent .
I don ’ t think that he will , but it ’ s odd that he hasn ’ t suspended his campaign already , given that he ’ s not got @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the second round .
Maybe he knows more about Joe ’ s health than I do !
This week marks the 53rd anniversary of the German decision to run the Torrey Canyon supertanker aground off the Silly Isles in 1967 , causing huge environmental devastation .
The Royal Navy eventually had to bomb her .
There was nothing ‘ accidental ’ about it .
The tanker hit a known hazard in broad daylight after somebody switched the autopilot on , preventing a course correction which would have saved her .
The course itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questions are who on board was working for the Germans .
Among the legal cases which WHO ( from which we and you guys should withdraw ) and the Chinese have torpedoed thanks to their suppression of news about the containment failure in Wuhan in November has been the Julian Assange extradition .
Even cases at the corrupt Southwark Crown Court , no offense intended , are being adjourned due to Coronavirus .
I suspect that High Court cases will follow .
I hold no brief for Julian Assange .
I reached out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never received the courtesy of a reply .
However I am suspicious of the DoJ ’ s motives in seeking his extradition .
My view is that he possesses some information , possibly about the murder of Seth Rich , which might embarrass Joe Biden come November , assuming that he lasts that long ( no offense intended ) .
DoJ are backing Biden , of course .
In practice the extradition arrangements between the UK and the US collapsed after the State Department ( or , if you prefer , the Deep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anne Sacoolas .
I doubt that Julian Assange would have been extradited in any event .
Stay healthy everybody and don ’ t let the Chinese bug bite !

Introduction: Michael Shrimpton’s articles are always fascinating and never mainstream for VT. Thus, to his article, we are adding the video exposing the Director of the WHO as a Deep State operative who has done everything possible to make COVID19 a successful pandemic. Watch the video and you will learn why.
VT research differs from Shrimpton’s assumptions on the origin of CV19 but he is supplying us with his usual fascinating read. We never discount his work, Michael has well established credentials.g
VT: No, it’s not a typing error! ‘Who controls whom?’ is a question for another occasion. Who controls the World Health Organisation is the more immediate question. To understand that you have to understand the UN itself, since WHO is a UN agency. It should come as no surprise that a German spy, Alger Hiss, was instrumental in the WHO’s creation. The German DVD still controls the UN and its agencies.
Since the Coronavirus crisis broke the WHO has shamefully covered up China’s role in creating and accidentally releasing this deadly bio-weapon. It has shredded its credibility in the process. CDC in the States and the Cabinet Office in the UK have also put their credibility on the line.
It should come as no surprise to find that the WHO is headed by a former Ethiopian foreign minister. Ethiopia has one of the most authoritarian and repressive regimes in Africa, responsible for a large number of human rights abuses. Ideal for heading up a dodgy UN agency!
Absurdly, Alger Hiss was accused of being a Soviet agent by Whittaker Chambers, a dubious character if ever there was one. Hiss was a spy alright, but for the Abwehr, not the GRU. It was no accident that he ended up chairing the UN Charter Convention. Like the equally useless League before it, the UN was the creation of German intelligence. One of the key German aims was the dismantling of the British, French and Dutch colonial empires and their handover to German or Chinese assets. The loss of human life that process involved was a secondary consideration, of course.
As I explain in Spyhunter, our community partner Oberleutnant Kurt Waldheim wasn’t made Secretary-General of the UN in ignorance of the fact that he was an Austrian war criminal and former German intelligence officer, but because of it. They do due diligence on candidates for Secretary-General, you know! The DVD’s Marshal Tito knew what he was doing when he promoted Waldheim’s candidacy.
Tito didn’t tool around in a Benz 600 Pullman for nothing. He was no more a communist than Alger Hiss of course, or Lenin, if it comes to that.
Supported by the Cabinet Office, the British government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, came up with crazy idea of developing ‘herd immunity’ by allowing more than half the UK population to catch Covid-19! One American immunologist thought that this was satire and who can blame him. Herd immunity is normally brought about by vaccines. I intend no offense to Sir Patrick, and he will take none, I am sure, when I say that it is somewhat disheartening to discover that the government’s senior science adviser is a half-crazed global warming nutter.
WHO’s role in the cover-up
WHO have been covering up China’s role in developing Covid-19 from the very beginning. I’m not buying the Chinese allegation, supported by some of my esteemed colleagues, that the US military bought the virus from America to China via the US delegation at the World Military Games in Wuhan. The games were over by October 27th, whereas the virus did not start circulating in Wuhan until mid to late November.
Granted the virus is designed to be contagious, via the ingenious mechanism of having patients asymptomatic for about 14 days, but not all patients are initially asymptomatic. How would Fort Detrick know whether they were going to be asymptomatic or not? Furthermore the games started on October 18th and competitors would have arrived a day or two before then, if only to get over jet-lag, and would have traveled for a day or two before that. The timeline is very tight.
The ‘Americans did it’ theory has two more fundamental drawbacks, however: the US has no history at all of aggressive use of bio-weapons (you are the Good Guys after all!) and even if Fort Detrick, or the CIA, or the Administration went nutty and decided to try and destroy the Chinese economy with a bio-weapon such is the scale of Correa/COREA Group penetration of US intelligence the op would have been blown before the first bug left the laboratory.
The US, by the way, has never done well at the World Military Games. The Wuhan games were the 7th and the US hasn’t topped the medal table once. Since you guys gave up horse cavalry some time ago, sadly, it’s easy to see why you didn’t do so well in the equestrian events, for example, where entries using Abrams tanks were not permitted.
I’m not much impressed either by arguments that all five sub-variants have been found in the US. Given that the disease was imported into the US from China, Iran, Italy and elsewhere we would expect to find each variant in the States. The same probably goes for other countries with close links to China such as poor old Italy, which is paying a big price for cosying up to Peking.
No, this is definitely a Chinese, not an American, bug. If it could cook it would use a wok. I bet it likes soy sauce! I can quite see why calling it the ‘Chinese Virus’ could see innocent Chinese take-away owners being beaten up from Seattle to Swansea, but I see no reason why we couldn’t call it the “Wuhan Flu”. That’s where it was developed and that’s where the Level 4 containment failure took place. It would be more accurate than calling Spanish Flu the Spanish Flu, when it was developed in Germany and could fairly have been called ‘Hun Flu’.
It appears to have been developed in the Disease Engineering Technical Research Center of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in a program partly funded during the Obama Administration via USAID. Two US researchers, one connected to those nice people the NSA, under the moniker “harvard2the bighouse”, have identified Chinese virologist Zhengli Shi as the team leader on Covid-19. Virologist Xing-Yi Ge is also named as a member of the team.
Zoonotic, in other words animal to human, transfer from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market can safely be ruled out. Covid-19, like MERS (targeted at Saudi Arabia), SARS and HIV before it, is a bio-weapon, indeed it shares a number of genomic segments with HIV, particularly in its spike-protein gene. HIV was developed by the DVD as part of its war against the gay community. SARS and MERS appear to have been developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I suspect that WHO has known the sordid truth from the beginning. Indeed it would be interesting to speculate when the WHO first found out about Covid-19. Was it way back in November? Did they sit on it whilst the virus circulated to Iran, Italy and elsewhere? Why are they sitting on a proven cure and for how long have they known about Chloroquine? I am hearing whispers of a spike in pneumonia deaths in the UK in December. I suspect that there were similar spikes in Italy and Spain and that these were undiagnosed Coronavirus deaths. Why was no warning issued to the British, Spanish or Italian governments?
This was a huge intelligence failure. Covid-19 was circulating in the West from around the end of November/early December and neither CIA nor MI6 picked it up. The Taiwanese seem to have been much better informed, indeed if reporting that they had a vaccine ready for trials in January is accurate – and I think it is – it suggests that Taipei were aware of, and concerned by, the Chinese Coronavirus program for many months.
The Cure
That’s right – as Mike Harris reported on these pages on Wednesday a French researcher in Marseilles, Professor Raoult, has successfully treated Covid-19 patients with Chloroquine. The White House monitor VeteransToday.com and swiftly announced trials with both Chloroquine and its derivative Hydroxychloroquine. I understand that there has already been a successful American trial. The trade name of the drug used in Marseilles is Plaquenil.
It appears that both the Chinese and South Korean governments are aware of the effectiveness of Chloroquine in treating Covid-19. Patients recover much more quickly and cease to be contagious. It’s not a miracle cure and it doesn’t work overnight, but as long as it works, who cares?
Chloroquine and its derivatives will not work with those who suffer from G6PD deficiency, but this is an inherited condition and easily tested for. Moreover it occurs most frequently in Africa, the continent least at risk in the Covid-19 epidemic. (I think that using ‘pandemic’ at this stage is just scare-mongering.) It can also interact with other medications, but it’s been around since 1934 and doesn’t normally lead to severe side-effects.
Of course there will need to be further tests, but President Trump is absolutely right to push the FDA into moving smartly. This is a proven drug, out of patent, which has been shown to work against Covid-19 in small-scale trials. It’s quickly and easily manufactured. We need to move to large-scale trials now and if they work go straight to recommending its use for Covid-19 patients with no G6PD deficiency. I have already passed this recommendation to a senior civil servant in the UK Department of Health.
I would respectfully advise both the British and American governments to remove the power of decision-making from unelected officials to elected ministers. Emergency legislation should empower the Secretary of State in the UK and the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the US to approve both treatments and vaccines for Covid-19.
A naval parallel would be the Independence class light carriers in World War II. In early 1942 the US Navy found itself seriously short of aircraft carriers. Against the advice of the Bureau of Ships (BuShips) President Roosevelt ordered the conversion of the Cleveland class light cruisers Amsterdam (CL59), Tallahassee (CL61), New Haven (CL76), Huntington (CL77), Dayton (CL78), Wilmington (CL79), Fargo (CL85), Buffalo (CL99) and Newark (CL100) into light aircraft carriers.
BuShips had some good points. The Cleveland class, being cruisers, had a fairly narrow beam, which seriously restricted the hangar and flight deck width. The funnel trunking solution was far from elegant and the amount of top hamper on the new carriers affected stability. As carriers they were not particularly successful and one, USS Princeton (CVL23), sadly was lost.
However President Roosevelt was undoubtedly right to overrule the Navy. The best was the enemy of the good. New hull-up construction would have taken far too long – the Navy needed carriers now. Jeep carriers were too small and slow for fleet work and the other alternative – using British carriers – was strongly opposed by the German agent Admiral King.
In the event, as CNO, King was able to restrict the operations of the one armored fleet carrier, HMS Victorious, that we were able to spare. (She arrived at Pearl in March 1943 but did not see much action.) Moreover, as the President, a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy understood, the Clevelands were a compromise design, with serious stability problems, indeed they were very tender in service. Whilst their armament (12 6” guns and 12 5”) was powerful, their protection was weak.
There’s no time for a perfect solution. We need therapies and vaccines now. It’s a question of balance – do the risks of using the drugs without extended testing outweigh the risks of depriving people of access to them? Which course of action saves the most lives in the long run?
The fatality rate
I stand by the figures in my last column. I don’t think that we’ll see more than 50,000 dead worldwide, despite the spike in Italy. There are three major problems with the data, it seems to me. Firstly there has been insufficient testing, so we don’t really have accurate figures for those infected. The South Korean numbers are probably about right, but I’m not so sure about the Spanish or Italian numbers. Covid-19 has been circulating in Italy probably since the end of November/early December and in Spain since mid-December, both countries being in the Schengen danger zone.
Secondly there appears to be a problem with false positives, which may explain the number of people testing positive who are asymptomatic. I’ve seen a figure of 80%, which I think is way too high, but there does appear to be an issue with test reliability.
Thirdly not all deaths put down as ‘Coronavirus’ may in fact be down to the virus, that is to say we may have people with other pathologies dying with Covid-19, rather than because of it. I am doubtful that all the dead are being autopsied, for example.
It’s early days but I think that the 1 – 2.5% range I suggested in my last column is about right. Remember that the virus was released accidentally, that is to say it is doubtful that it was fully developed. It doesn’t appear to thrive outdoors or in temperatures above 4 deg. C, that is to say we should see a reduction in the infection rate as the weather warms up.
How many versions?
I am aware that the research by Tang et al has been challenged, notably by MacLean et al at the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. However I respectfully agree with the Tang group in China, that is to say I think there are two major strains, Covid-19a and Covid-19b, with the latter being rather less lethal. The virus is unstable and appears to be mutating rapidly, which again may be a reflection of its incomplete state of development.
I would expect countries close to China, such as Italy and Iran, to have been infected with the earlier, more deadly, strain. That would explain the higher death rates there. A comparison of the death rates between Italy and Germany is instructive, for example. Further research in this area is vital. Medical personnel need to know what they are dealing with.
Both main versions appear to be airborne, another sign of weaponisation. As with Ebola, which was also weaponised, we risk losing courageous doctors and nurses because they have not been warned to take precautions against airborne transmission.
It’s an ill wind …
Amidst the doom and gloom being generated by the media, who seem to think that the world is coming to end (it isn’t, although communist rule in China may be), there was one piece of good news this week. Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, tested positive for Coronavirus. All men and women of goodwill in England hope that he will die horribly, sorry, wish him a speedy recovery.
The UK/EU negotiations have effectively collapsed anyway. The EU aren’t interested in a free trade deal and want freedom of movement, ECJ supervision and a whole load of other nonsense. There is no point in extending the transition period, which would be political suicide for Boris Johnson anyway. It should be a no-deal scenario come January, thankfully.
Best Coronavirus joke so far
My award for the best Coronavirus joke to date is the one which says that a friend in Peking has advised not to bother about getting Covid-19, as Covid-20 Pro will be coming out in September.
Priti Patel
The Coronavirus crisis has overtaken the bullying allegations against our able Home Secretary, Priti Patel. Since they all come from civil servants opposed to her sensible policies there’s no need to take them particularly seriously, with respect.
Interestingly, my own case may come into play here. Sir Philip Rutnam, who very properly resigned as Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, was in charge when the application from my solicitors for a Royal Pardon was diverted away from Sajid Javed, the then Home Secretary, in June 2018. If Sir Philip gave the order to suppress then with respect he was guilty of misconduct.
It is a basic rule of unfair dismissal proceedings that an employer may rely upon misconduct which comes to light after the dismissal. I am available to give evidence if required! My application by the way has been transferred to the Ministry of Justice miscarriage of justice team, who shouldn’t be having anything to do with it, since MoJ officials were involved in the jury-tampering at Southwark Crown Court and the blackmailing of judges, no names, no pack drill.
Indian executions
Whilst the British judicial system may have become an international laughing stock, no offense intended, at least one legal system is still working! The four surviving adult ‘Nirbhaya’ rapists were very properly hanged in New Delhi on Thursday.
This was despite an increasingly surreal series of last-minute legal challenges. One of the murderers said that he should not be hanged because his wife had commenced divorce proceedings, seemingly unaware that executing the husband is one way of saving the valuable time of the family courts. Justice has been delayed, but it has been done at last.
Joe Biden
I see that the concerns I expressed in my last column about Joe Biden’s mental health are shared by some in his own party. He got into an extraordinary row with one voter over gun control, forgetting the correct designation of the excellent Colt AR-15 assault rifle in the process. Maybe he was thinking of former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s approach to electioneering. (John famously punched a voter in North Wales during the 2001 General Election campaign. He didn’t get his vote.)
The Democrats may be able to hide the problem until Joe wins the primaries, which he’s bound to do unless he strokes out, no offense intended, but what’s going to happen in the rough and tumble of a general election?
Senator Sanders is obviously considering running as an independent. I don’t think that he will, but it’s odd that he hasn’t suspended his campaign already, given that he’s not got anywhere near the numbers to get into the second round. Maybe he knows more about Joe’s health than I do!
SS Torrey Canyon
This week marks the 53rd anniversary of the German decision to run the Torrey Canyon supertanker aground off the Silly Isles in 1967, causing huge environmental devastation. The Royal Navy eventually had to bomb her.
There was nothing ‘accidental’ about it. The tanker hit a known hazard in broad daylight after somebody switched the autopilot on, preventing a course correction which would have saved her. The course itself was a dangerous nonsense. The only questions are who on board was working for the Germans.
Assange Extradition
Among the legal cases which WHO (from which we and you guys should withdraw) and the Chinese have torpedoed thanks to their suppression of news about the containment failure in Wuhan in November has been the Julian Assange extradition. Even cases at the corrupt Southwark Crown Court, no offense intended, are being adjourned due to Coronavirus. I suspect that High Court cases will follow.
I hold no brief for Julian Assange. I reached out to his lawyer some while ago and never received the courtesy of a reply. However I am suspicious of the DoJ’s motives in seeking his extradition. My view is that he possesses some information, possibly about the murder of Seth Rich, which might embarrass Joe Biden come November, assuming that he lasts that long (no offense intended). DoJ are backing Biden, of course.
In practice the extradition arrangements between the UK and the US collapsed after the State Department (or, if you prefer, the Deep State Department!) refused to extradite Anne Sacoolas. I doubt that Julian Assange would have been extradited in any event.
Stay healthy everybody and don’t let the Chinese bug bite!


veteranstoday--2020-03-22--Speaking Truth to Empire:  How China Defeated Corona Virus

Host Dan Yaseen welcomes China Rising author Jeff J .
Brown to discuss how China defeated the Corona Virus and how western capitalism has failed the world Jeff J .
Brown is the author of 44 Days ( 2013 ) and Doctor WriteRead ’ s Treasure Trove to Great English ( 2015 ) .
In 2016 Punto Press released China Rising , Capitalist Roads , Socialist Destinations – The Truth behind Asia ’ s Enigmatic Colossus ; and BIG Red Book on China ( 2020 ) .
Jeff is a contributing editor with the Greanville Post , Dispatch from Beijing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and is a Global Opinion Leader at 21st Century .
He also writes a column for The Saker , called the Moscow-Beijing Express .
Jeff writes , interviews and podcasts on his own program , China Rising Radio Sinoland , which is also available on YouTube , Stitcher Radio , iTunes , Ivoox and RUvid .
Guests have included Ramsey Clark , James Bradley , Moti Nissani , Godfree Roberts , Hiroyuki Hamada , The Saker and many others .
In China , he has been a speaker at TEDx , the Bookworm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hutong , as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774 , with former BBC journalist , Bruce Connolly .
He has guest lectured at Beijing Academy of Social Sciences ( BASS ) , as well as in various international schools and universities .
He has been a guest on radio and television programs , like Press TV , The Daily Coin , Truth Jihad , Wall St. for Main St. , KFCF FM88.1 and Crush the Street .
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it on a family farm , and graduated from Oklahoma State University .
He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University , to seek his fortune , which whet his appetite for traveling the globe .
This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa , the Middle East , China and Europe for the next 21 years .
All the while , he mastered Portuguese , Arabic , French and Mandarin , while traveling to over 85 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for nine years , whereupon he moved back to China in 2010 .
Jeff is a dual national French-American , being a member of the Communist Party of France ( PCF ) and the International Workers of the World ( IWW ) .
Jeff can be reached at China Rising Radio Sinoland , [ email protected ] , Facebook , Twitter , Wechat ( Jeff_Brown-44_Days ) and Whatsapp : +86-13823544196 .

Host Dan Yaseen welcomes China Rising author Jeff J. Brown to discuss how China defeated the Corona Virus and how western capitalism has failed the world
Jeff J. Brown is the author of 44 Days (2013) and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). In 2016 Punto Press released China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations – The Truth behind Asia’s Enigmatic Colossus; and BIG Red Book on China (2020). Jeff is a contributing editor with the Greanville Post, Dispatch from Beijing. where he keeps a column, and is a Global Opinion Leader at 21st Century. He also writes a column for The Saker, called the Moscow-Beijing Express. Jeff writes, interviews and podcasts on his own program, China Rising Radio Sinoland, which is also available on YouTube, Stitcher Radio, iTunes, Ivoox and RUvid. Guests have included Ramsey Clark, James Bradley, Moti Nissani, Godfree Roberts, Hiroyuki Hamada, The Saker and many others.
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm and Capital M Literary Festivals, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at Beijing Academy of Social Sciences (BASS), as well as in various international schools and universities. He has been a guest on radio and television programs, like Press TV, The Daily Coin, Truth Jihad, Wall St. for Main St., KFCF FM88.1 and Crush the Street.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, much of it on a family farm, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe.
This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries.
He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. Jeff is a dual national French-American, being a member of the Communist Party of France (PCF) and the International Workers of the World (IWW).
Jeff can be reached at China Rising Radio Sinoland, jeff@brownlanglois.com, Facebook, Twitter, Wechat (Jeff_Brown-44_Days) and Whatsapp: +86-13823544196.