Today, we are very pleased to welcome Peter Schiff to discuss America’s dire economic circumstances. For 100+ years, the unconstitutional and immoral Federal Reserve has enabled the U.S. federal government to spend way beyond its means. The U.S. government is racing full steam into a financial crisis that even the Fed may not be able to extricate them from.

Gore Vidal’s The American Presidency

So much of what we were taught of American history in school is pure propaganda.

Listen to the late Gore Vidal, author of many volumes that authoritatively deal with the subjects of American history and specifically the American presidency.

Thomas DiLorenzo’s article, The “Fascist” Ad Hominem As an Act of Projection, was excellent.

In the midst of World War II, the great journalist John T. Flynn’s As We Go Marching analyzed the “good fascism” of Roosevelt’s New Deal, comparing and contrasting it with the “bad fascism” of Hitler and Mussolini:

“The test of fascism is not one’s rage against the Italian and German war lords. The test is — how many of the essential principles of fascism do you accept and to what extent are you prepared to apply those fascist ideas to American social and economic life? When you can put your finger on the men or the groups that urge for America the debt-supported state, the autarkical corporative state, the state bent on the socialization of investment and the bureaucratic government of industry and society, the establishment of the institution of militarism as the great glamorous public-works project of the nation and the institution of imperialism under which it proposes to regulate and rule the world and, along with this, proposes to alter the forms of our government to approach as closely as possible the unrestrained, absolute government — then you will know you have located the authentic fascist.

“But let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that we are dealing by this means with the problem of fascism. Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans, as violently against Hitler and Mussolini as the next one, but who are convinced that the present economic system is washed up and that the present political system in America has outlived its usefulness and who wish to commit this country to the rule of the bureaucratic state; interfering in the affairs of the states and cities; taking part in the management of industry and finance and agriculture; assuming the role of great national banker and investor, borrowing millions every year and spending them on all sorts of projects through which such a government can paralyze opposition and command public support; marshaling great armies and navies at crushing costs to support the industry of war and preparation for war which will become our greatest industry; and adding to all this the most romantic adventures in global planning, regeneration, and domination all to be done under the authority of a powerfully centralized government in which the executive will hold in effect all the powers with Congress reduced to the role of a debating society. There is your fascist. And the sooner America realizes this dreadful fact the sooner it will arm itself to make an end of American fascism masquerading under the guise of the champion of democracy.”

Will no one in the mainstream media call the “Harris/Biden” regime by its rightful name?

Open sourced policies for a better future.

Policies for the People is a public forum where highly informed, experienced and passionate leaders in their fields come together to solve the existential crises facing the country.

This is a joint collaboration effort between the RFK Jr. and Trump forces seeking viable policy alternatives for America’s future.

This is a rare TV interview event between two rival voices of Post-WWII America: attorney Roy Cohn and author Gore Vidal.

Since the program alluded to the subject, it must be pointed out that these gentlemen were notably known as two of the most famous homosexuals in the United States.

They also each had very controversial relationships with CIA “conservative” William F. Buckley Jr. who helped destroy the pro-peace, anti-interventionist Old Right against the foreign/domestic policies of FDR and Harry Truman for the intelligence community.

Roy Cohn was an American lawyer and prosecutor who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy’s investigations of suspected communists in the federal government. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent political fixer in New York City with a variety of clients, ranging from counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of NY to Mafia mouthpiece.

After resigning from McCarthy’s staff, Cohn had a 30-year career as an attorney in New York City. His clients included New York Yankees baseball club owner George Steinbrenner; billionaire oil shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis (who married JFK widow Jaqueline Kennedy); Mafia figures Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, John Gotti and Mario Gigante; Studio 54 nightclub owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager; and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

He also represented and mentored New York City real estate developer and later U.S. President Donald Trump during his early business career.

Cohn was born in the Bronx in New York City and educated at Columbia University. He rose to prominence as a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, where he successfully prosecuted the Rosenbergs, which led to their conviction and execution in 1953.

In 1986, Cohn was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing the client to sign a will amendment leaving him his fortune. He died five weeks later from AIDS-related complications, having vehemently denied that he was HIV-positive.

As to Gore Vidal, see this article below (my first published piece on LewRockwell.com as a guest columnist).

Gore Vidal, American Cicero

Another excellent, concise, and authoritative summary program in the Proven Conspiracies series.

What if the world’s most powerful intelligence agency was secretly funded by drug money? *Operation X: The CIA’s Secret Drug Trade Exposed* dives into the covert history of how U.S. agencies allegedly used illegal drug trafficking to finance anti-communist operations during the Cold War. From the French Connection to the Iran-Contra Affair, the web of drugs, politics, and covert operations has left a trail of violence and corruption across Latin America and Southeast Asia. Discover the untold stories of CIA-backed drug smuggling and the tragic figures like Enrique “Kiki” Camarena and Barry Seal who paid the ultimate price for uncovering the truth.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan — Book by Peter Dale Scott

This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America’s long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA’s alliances with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and sustain right-wing governments. The pattern has repeated itself in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanistan to name only those countries dealt with in this book. Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America’s government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.

Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Columbia, and Indochina — Book by Peter Dale Scott

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia — Book by Alfred W. McCoy.

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a non-fiction book on heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia, which covers the period from World War II to the Vietnam War. Published in 1972, the book was the product of eighteen months of research and at least one trip to Laos by the principal author, Alfred W. McCoy. McCoy wrote Politics of Heroin while seeking a PhD in Southeast Asian history at Yale University. Cathleen B. Read (a graduate student who spent time in the region during the war) and Leonard P. Adams II are also listed as co-authors. Arguably, Politics of Heroin’s most notable feature was its documentation of CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade. The CIA actively tried to suppress this book, and the rigorous research McCoy undertook to compile and compose its explosive contents. This volume established McCoy as the premier authoritative expert in this area of scholarly research.

McCoy later updated and expanded his research, and published The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin, includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Central America. New chapters detail U.S. involvement in the narcotics trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan before and after the fall of the Taliban, and how U.S. drug policy in Central America and Colombia has increased the global supply of illicit drugs.

(I had an opportunity to discuss his scholarly endeavors with Dr. McCoy several years ago.)

Along with McCoy’s Congressional testimony, this initially controversial thesis gained a degree of mainstream acceptance. The thesis of the book was that most of the world’s heroin was produced in the Golden Triangle. It is transported in the planes, vehicles, and other conveyances supplied by the United States. The profit from the trade has been going into the pockets of some of our best friends in Southeast Asia. The charge concludes with the statement that the traffic is being carried on with the indifference if not the closed-eye compliance of some American officials, and there is no likelihood of its being shut down in the foreseeable future.

In particular, Air America, covertly owned and operated by the CIA, was used to transport the illicit drugs. At the same time, the heroin supply was partially responsible for the perilous state of US Army morale in Vietnam. “By mid 1971 Army medical officers were estimating that about 10 to 15 percent of the lower-ranking enlisted men serving in Vietnam were heroin users.” Having interviewed Maurice Belleux, former head of the French intelligence agency SDECE, McCoy also uncovered parts of the French Connection scheme used by the agency to finance all of its covert operations during the First Indochina War through control of the Indochina drug trade.

The CIA reacted strongly to the book: “…high-ranking officials of the C.I.A have signed letters for publication to a newspaper and a magazine, granted a rare on-the-record interview at the agency’s headquarters in McLean, Va.” (the letters were to the Washington Star and were signed by William E. Colby and Paul C. Velte Jr. the letter to Harper & Row (the book’s publishers) on 5 July by CIA general counsel Lawrence R. Houston asked that they be given the galley proofs so that they could criticize errors and rebut unproven accusations “We believe we could demonstrate to you that a considerable number of Mr. McCoy’s claims about this agency’s alleged involvement are totally false and without foundation, a number are distorted beyond recognition and none is based on convincing evidence.”) and take whatever legal action they felt necessary before the book’s publication.

McCoy eventually overcame his initial reluctance to provide a copy to the CIA who then sent the promised list of criticisms and corrections. Harper & Row felt the material the CIA offered was extremely weak, but that the book was reasonably well sourced. (McCoy conducted “more than 250 interviews, some of them with past and present officials of the CIA He said that top-level South Vietnamese officials, including President Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Tran Van Khiem, were specifically involved.”; a vice president and general counsel of Harper & Row said “We don’t have any doubts about the book at all. We’ve had it reviewed by others and we’re persuaded that the work is amply documented and scholarly.”) and not only published it, but published it two weeks before its scheduled release date.

CIA Covert Actions & Drug Trafficking — Alfred W. McCoy article

How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower: America’s Opium War in Afghanistan — Alfred W. McCoy article

Opium and the Politics of Gangsterism in Nationalist China, 1927-1945 — Jonathan Marshall article

Cooking the Books: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the China Lobby and Cold War Propaganda, 1950-1962 — Jonathan Marshall article

The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism, by Henrik Kruger

Danish investigative author Henrik Krüger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a colorful past, and wound up writing a book—originally published in 1980—that spans all continents and names names all the way up to Richard Nixon. The Nixon administration and CIA wanted to eliminate the old French Connection and replace it with heroin from the Golden Triangle, partly in order to help finance operations in Southeast Asia. The book delves into the relationships between French and U.S. intelligence services and organized crime probing into the netherworld of narcotics, espionage, and international terrorism. It uncovers the alliances between the Mafia, right-wing extremists, neo-fascist OAS and SAC veterans in France, and Miami-based Cuban exiles. It lifts the veil on the global networks of parafascist terrorists who so frequently plot and murder with impunity, thanks to their relationships and services to the intelligence agencies of the so-called “free world.” In short, this updated edition tells a story which our own media have systematically failed to tell.

The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs, by Douglas Valentine

The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully and extensively documented, the book is based largely on interviews with former FBN agents, and in this respect The Strength of the Wolf represents a new chapter in American history, one that introduces a cast of fabulous characters.

Douglas Valentine tells how the FBN’s premier case-making agents penetrated the arcane world of international drug trafficking and, by uncovering the Establishment’s ties to organized crime, brought about their own demise. As the book reveals in startling detail, the CIA and FBI were often protecting the FBN’s major targets in the Mafia and the French Corsican underworld. The CIA and its Nationalist Chinese allies were found to be the largest drug-trafficking syndicate in the world, but for political and national security reasons, the FBN was prevented from investigating this overarching conspiracy.

Another excellent, concise, and authoritative summary program of the Proven Conspiracies series.

CIA Animal Programs: Top 10 Bizarre Espionage Projects dives into the fascinating world of Cold War intelligence, where animals were more than just pets—they were spies! From robotic fish to cyborg beetles and even cats with microphones, the CIA pushed the boundaries of creativity in the name of espionage. Discover the wild and unusual tactics used to gather intelligence, including dolphins trained for naval missions, pigeons equipped with cameras, and the infamous Acoustic Kitty. Join us as we uncover the secrets of these incredible CIA animal programs and how they shaped the future of surveillance technology.

Another excellent, concise, and authoritative summary program in the Proven Conspiracies series.

Weather Manipulation: Secrets Behind Government Projects Exposed reveals the hidden world of how governments have tried to control the weather. From Operation Popeye’s cloud seeding in the Vietnam War to the mysterious HAARP program in Alaska, these projects have sparked controversy and ethical debates. Uncover the role of investigative journalist Jack Anderson in exposing these Cold War secrets and learn about the science behind weather manipulation. Can we really control nature, or are we opening a Pandora’s box that should never be touched?

(One of my most memorable experiences in college was a lecture appearance by Jack Anderson relating to his fascinating, legendary career experiences in journalism, particularly to the planned (but thankfully averted) assassination attempt upon his life by crazed Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy.)

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When most people think of dystopian visions of the future, they think of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Both excellent choices. Some readers have other volumes they would propose instead. But for myself there are two outstanding books that each singularly stand out alone: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints. I have frequently discussed this later brilliant prophetic novel here at LRC.

But here is a very good introduction and overview of it, stressing its continuing prophetic relevance to dramatic and destructive catastrophic events in the contemporary world. The original novel, written in 1973, even had a delusional leftist South American Pope.

It is unquestionably the most powerful novel I have ever read. Insidious egalitarianism, destructive welfarism, aggressive multiculturalism, cultural Marxism, Third World invasions by the wretched of the earth, militaristic imperialism posing as humanitarian liberation, and mindless parousiatic atheism in the name of a hallowed pluralism.

Daily, relentlessly each and every day, on social media and our TV screens, we see this horrific story unfold at the southern US border, in our crime-ridden jungle-like cities of squalor and hopelessness, throughout the European continent’s serious decline into unimaginable barbarism, unrelenting warfare and invasive treachery and subversion.

Dr Sam White had been a General Practitioner in the United Kingdom for over a decade when the COVID-19 debacle was launched in 2020.

He refused to participate in rituals – such as face masking – and soon he was reported to the medical “authorities” for which he eventually had to give up his medical license.

Not deterred, in early 2021 he became popular on Social Media exposing the Vaccine Scam and turned into an evidence-based “Anti-Vaxxer.”

In his journey, Dr White has woken up to the widespread perversions of the pharmaceutical industry and controlling Medical Mafia.

Dr Sam Bailey interviews this unshakable and authentic physician who continues to show what must be done to end the systemic corruption we’re facing today.

Watch this great interview HERE. (60 minutes but if you only have a few minutes you’ll be tremendously rewarded)

What the U.S. government should tell the parents of American soldiers who are killed in the impending war with Iran.

By the way, the Jeffrey Epstein “guest list” has never been revealed because it was always a Mossad blackmailing operation and is still being used as “insurance” against any U.S. congressional intransigence about funding Israel’s imperialistic wars.

Face masks are worse than a bad joke.

They protect no one from disease.

Worse, they are dangerous for children and their development. 

A new study, HERE, outlines the dangers.

Here’s a summary:

“Negative effects on communication and components of speech and language.”

“Ability to learn and comprehend.”

“Emotional and trust development, physical discomfort, and reduction in time and intensity of exercise.”

Once you’ve taken a look at this excellent research study please go to Mike Stone‘s historic overview, HERE, on what science really has to say.

Recently, Robert F. Kennedy stepped down from the 2024 Presidential race and openly endorsed the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump. A few weeks after this decision, he stopped by the RWP set to talk about the importance of his faith in the face of opposition. I was so proud and honored to interview him, not only as an advocate for his work but also as a mother of three.

Of course Commie-La has not called on any of the marines at bases in the Carolinas, or the National Guard, to help the people in North Carolina who are still dying from being stranded in mountain towns.  This is red-state America that mostly votes Republican.  Letting these “deplorable” people suffer and die so that there are fewer Republican votes in November is “all upside for Kamala.”

It was a short strike, but it gave Americans a taste of what restraint of trade looks like, and how consumers and businesses respond to it. This should be kept in mind if Trump’s imposes tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on Americans (not China, or anyone else). Tariffs also restrain trade and drive up prices, while handing more of our earnings to DC. Don’t they take enough from us?

TrueMedia, an AI watchdog partnered with Microsoft, claims to be a non-partisan outfit that informs the public and policymakers about the proliferation of AI deepfakes designed to mislead voters during elections. In a glowing New York Times profile earlier this year presenting him as a foremost expert on the topic, University of Washington professor Oren Etzioni warned that AI could unleash a “tsunami of misinformation” during elections.

Recent events suggest that claims about neutral, non-partisan expertise on “misinformation” should be approached with caution. As FFO exposed in an extensive report published in 2022, the ostensibly neutral election integrity partnership, created at the behest of DHS, played a pivotal role in ensuring the suppression of legitimate political discourse up to and around the 2020 election, with millions of posts throttled as a result of the EIP’s activities.

What’s more, the partnership’s activities were overwhelmingly partisan in its impact: every single social media account identified as a “repeat misinformation spreader” by EIP was associated with the political right.

Microsoft Backed AI ‘Deepfake’ Watchdog Includes Election Integrity Partnership Alumni

Hundreds of national security officials, ex-Cabinet members, Gold Star families endorse Trump.

Trump endorsed by 400 foreign policy, national security officials from previous GOP administrations, by Chris Pandolfo

Dear Dictator Zelenskyy:

Now that we, the American taxpayers, have given you and your fellow shadowy Ukrainian oligarchs hundreds of billions of dollars, our “media” are calling you our “ally.”  Since alliances are assumed to be two-way streets I’m writing to ask a small favor in return for all those billions.  You have probably heard that a hurricane recently destroyed hundreds of homes, 200 dead Americans have been discovered in the aftermath so far, entire towns in North Carolina have been totally destroyed, some will never recover, and golfer John Daly alone lost three houses in Florida.

So, Mr. Dictator Zelenskyy, I’m asking if you could return a million or two to help out the poor people in North Carolina, parts of Georgia, and Florida.  Our Department of Fatherland Security (I’m sure you have one as well, being a dictatorship and all) says it has no money for them, having spent billions placing tens of millions of Third World peasants and parasites (aka Undocumented Democrat Voters) on welfare.  We are also facing an impending crime problem.  Our government reports that among the Third World peasants and parasites the Brandon administration has imported and given federal IDs and drivers licenses so that they can vote in the upcoming election are some 13,000 convicted murderers and 20,000 convicted rapists.  These of course are people that their own countries were all too happy to get rid of.  As a dictatorial “strongman” I’m sure you support the police, so I’m asking if you could possibly send us another million or two for some of our police departments.

Dictator Zelenskyy, in my country a lot or our billionaires donate to all kinds of charities and other good causes.  They call it “giving back.”  In short, I am asking you to join your fellow billionaires and give back some of the stolen funds (aka “tax revenue”) that belong to American taxpayers anyway.

One more thing.  I saw that you and an entourage of American defense contractors campaigned for Kamala Harris at a Pennsylvania bomb factory recently.  It’s too bad you outlawed elections and opposition parties in your country.  Kamala Harris and all the Democrat party oligarchs (Soros, Gates, the Hollywood crowd, Goldman Sachs, Obama, etc.) must be disappointed that they will never be able to return the favor.

By the way, why do you spell your name with a second “y” at the end?

Your Ally,

Tom DiLorenzo

Everything You Need to Know about the Government’s Mass Censorship Campaign

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A federal judge just dismissed the Trump “documents” case that was based on the massive FBI raid on President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago where FBI agents were given the permission to shoot to kill if necessary by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  The judge said that Garland’s appointment of a private Left-wing, Democrat party hack lawyer as prosecutor shortly after Trump announced he was running again was unconstitutional since there was no senate confirmation or any kind of congressional supervision.  It was basically the Demo-Bolshevik party prosecuting their chief political opponent in a kangaroo court farce.

CBS debate moderators pummeled for ‘obnoxious’ fact-checking of Vance: ‘A terrible look’
Critics took aim at Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell after they muted Vance’s microphone
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News

The major definitive conclusion from this series of 2024 election debates is that the legacy regime media should never in the future be allowed or designated to host these debates. Their egregious, slanted bias cannot be restrained. Any purported or alleged neutrality is a vicious unsupported myth.

This overriding fact rests on the long-established, fully documented, detailed analysis concerning decades of deferential subservience of these media elites to their covert partnership first established in the late 1940s with the intelligence community program of Operation Mockingbird.

. . . must be confronted and stopped” says Jeffrey Sachs.  Netanyahoo has become the Jewish Hitler, hellbent on murdering every last Palestinian, women and children and babies included (and more), aided and abetted by the U.S. Congress and the Brandon administration and their giddy neocon cheerleaders and pundits.  Pretending to be able to read the mind of God, Netanyahoo “justifies” all the mass murder as supposedly God’s will.

Last evening I first viewed the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate with Senator J. D. Vance (R-OH) and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) via the simulcast CBS on C-SPAN because I wanted as much an objective, unfiltered presentation/experience as possible.

I then later watched the debate a second time with commentary and analysis by the wonderful duo at VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com, David Freiheit and Robert Barnes.

Not only is Robert Barnes a master litigator and top-notch attorney but one of the most in depth, articulate, well read and street-smart experienced political analysts in the nation. Whether it involves the institutionalized criminal machine cartels of the Democrats and Republicans or the deep state, he is a true polymath reminiscent of Murray N. Rothbard in his power elite analysis of Realpolitik.

The highlight of the evening was Robert’s brilliant assessment of J. D. Vance’s masterful performance – how he knew his specific target audience of undecided voters, young women (millennials/zoomers), and how he carefully and repeatedly crafted his cognitive and emotive answers/responses directed to the psychological template or temperament of this crucial electoral sub-group. Pure Myers/Briggs or David Keirsey.

Vance’s constant alluding to his humble working-class background of rural Appalachian poverty and deprivation, reared by his staunchly defiant grandmother who sacrificed so that he might succeed, helped cement this emotional image in the minds of the targeted viewing audience.

Walz directed and framed his rote/trite answers to please the Democrats’ party base, donors, previously captured supporters, and the legacy regime media, and not the undecided voters. (Abortion, climate change, gun laws, Trump’s threat to “democracy,” ad nauseum)

Demographic polling data analysis of these remaining undecided voters has demonstrated they are focused on the existential issues of the failing economy and the agonizing inability to live day to day on reduced incomes, the insecure, destructive consequences of the wide-open border and the tsunami of illegals, and the ever-growing threat and futility of never-ending wars overseas and domestic crime fueled by those previously mentioned catastrophic economic factors and the illegal migrant crisis.

Begin at 2:16: 00 for Barnes’ above commentary