9/11: The Biggest Con Job Since JFK - By Chuck Baldwin

Two days ago, America marked the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

I want to begin by categorically stating that the commonly accepted 9/11 narrative is the biggest con job and cover-up of a con job since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Almost nothing that we have been told about 9/11 is true.

But the fact is, most Americans—and especially most Christians—are totally unwilling to face the truth about 9/11 and America’s never-ending “War on Terror.” They are unwilling to face the truth, because they know the truth will shatter almost everything they have been taught and believe.

9/11 was a crime; and the criminals who masterminded and carried out this crime are still at large and are committing greater and greater crimes. And, tragically, our own government, news media and churches are (wittingly or unwittingly) aiding and abetting these international criminals.

Back in July of this year, I wrote a column entitled What If Everything We’ve Been Taught Is A Lie? And as we have just marked the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks—and as Donald Trump continues to expand and accelerate America’s “War on Terror”—I believe it is necessary to rehearse the salient points of that column with readers.

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What if everything we’ve been told about 9/11 is a lie? What if it wasn’t 19 Muslim terrorist hijackers that flew those planes into the Twin Towers? What if Muslims had nothing whatsoever to do with the attacks on 9/11? What if everything we’ve been told about the reasons we invaded two sovereign nations (Afghanistan and Iraq) is a lie? What if the 17-year-old, never-ending “War on Terror” in the Middle East is a lie? What if our young soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have given their lives in America’s “War on Terror” died for a lie? What if G.W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have been nothing but controlled toadies for an international criminal cabal that hatched the attacks of 9/11 as nothing more than a means to institute a perpetual “War on Terror” for purposes that have nothing to do with America’s national security?

It is totally amazing to me that the same people who say they don’t believe the mainstream media (MSM) and government (Deep State) versions of current events—which is why they voted for and love Donald Trump—have absolutely no reservations about accepting the official story that the 9/11 attacks were the work of jihadist Muslims and that America’s “War on Terror” is completely legitimate. These “always Trumpers” are dead set in their minds that America is at war with Islam; that Trump’s bombings of Syria are justified because President Assad is an evil, maniacal monster who gasses his own people; and that Trump’s expansion of the wars in Afghanistan and Syria (and maybe Iran) is solely in the interest of America’s national security.

BUT WHAT IF ALL OF IT IS A BIG, FAT LIE?

What if Muslims had nothing to do with 9/11?

What if Bashar al-Assad did not gas his own people? (I strongly encourage everyone to read the interview with Virginia State Senator and former USMC colonel and combat pilot Richard Black, who just returned from visiting Syria and from meeting with President Assad.)

What if America’s “War on Terror” is a completely false, manufactured, made-up deception?

What if America’s military forces are mostly fighting for foreign agendas and not for America’s national security or even our national interests?

What if America’s war in Afghanistan is a fraud?

What if the entire “War on Terror” is a fraud?

G.W. Bush campaigned against foreign interventionism and then turned around and launched America’s phony “War on Terror.” Barack Obama campaigned against the “War on Terror” and then turned around and expanded it during his two terms in office. Donald Trump campaigned against the “War on Terror” and then immediately expanded it beyond what Obama had done. In fact, Trump is on a pace to expand the “War on Terror” beyond both Bush and Obama.

But who cares? Who even notices?

America is engaged in a global “War on Terror.” Just ask ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News, the Washington Post, the New York Timesand the vast majority of America’s pastors and churches. They all tell us the same thing seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Liberals scream against Trump, and conservatives scream against Hillary Clinton; but both sides come together to support America’s never-ending “War on Terror.”

But what if it’s all a lie? What if Obama and Trump, the right and the left, the MSM and the conservative media are all reading from the same script? What if they are all (wittingly or unwittingly) in cahoots in perpetuating the biggest scam in world history? And why is almost everyone afraid to even broach the question?

Left or right, liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, secular or Christian, no one dares to question the official story about the 9/11 attacks or the “War on Terror.” And those who do question it are themselves attacked unmercifully by the right and the left, conservatives and liberals, Christians and secularists, Sean Hannity and Chris Matthews. Why is that? Why is it that FOX News and CNN, Donald Trump and Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Ted Cruz equally promote the same cockamamie story about 9/11 and the “War on Terror?”

Tell me again how Donald Trump is so different from Barack Obama. Tell me again how Ted Cruz is so different from Chuck Schumer. They all continue to perpetuate the lies about 9/11. They all continue to escalate America’s never-ending “War on Terror.” They are all purveyors of a wicked global plan that advances the agenda of war profiteers and nation builders. The left-right, conservative-liberal, Trump-Obama paradigm is one big giant SCAM. At the end of the day, the “War on Terror” goes on, bombs keep falling on people in the Middle East who had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 and the money keeps flowing into the coffers of the international bankers and war merchants.

All of the above is why I am enthusiastically promoting Christopher Bollyn’s new blockbuster book The War on Terror.

Of course, Bollyn is one of the world’s foremost researchers and investigators into the attacks on 9/11. He has written extensively on the subject. But unlike other 9/11 investigators, Bollyn continued to trace the tracks of the attacks on 9/11. And those tracks led him to discover that the 9/11 attacks were NOT “the event” but that they were merely the trigger for “the event.” “What was the event?” you ask. America’s perpetual “War on Terror.”

As a result, Mr. Bollyn published his findings that the attacks on 9/11 were NOT perpetrated by Muslim extremists but by a very powerful and sophisticated cabal of criminals who spent decades planning the strikes. Bollyn’s research names, places and dates and exposes the truth behind not just 9/11 (many have done that) but behind America’s “War on Terror” that resulted from the attacks on 9/11.

IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH TO COME OUT!

And Christopher Bollyn’s investigative research brings out the truth like nothing I’ve read to date. His research connects the dots and destroys the myths.

Mr. Bollyn’s research is published in a book entitled (full title): The War On Terror: The Plot To Rule The Middle East. I mean it when I say that if enough people read this book, it could change the course of history and save our republic.

This is written on the book’s back cover:

The government and media have misled us about 9/11 in order to compel public opinion to support the War on Terror.

Why have we gone along with it? Do we accept endless war as normal? Are we numb to the suffering caused by our military interventions?

No. We have simply been propagandized into submission. We have been deceived into thinking that the War on Terror is a good thing, a valiant struggle against terrorists who intend to attack us as we were on 9/11.

Behind the War on Terror is a strategic plan crafted decades in advance to redraw the map of the Middle East. 9/11 was a false-flag operation blamed on Muslims in order to start the military operations for that strategic plan. Recognizing the origin of the plan is crucial to understanding the deception that has changed our world.

Folks, 9/11 was a deception. The “War on Terror” is a deception. The phony left-right paradigm is a deception. FOX News is as much a deception as CNN. America has been in the throes of a giant deception since September 11, 2001. And this deception is being perpetrated by Republicans and Democrats and conservatives and liberals alike.

I do not know Christopher Bollyn personally. I’ve never met him. But I thank God he had the intellectual honesty and moral courage to write this book. I urge readers to get this explosive new book. If you don’t read any other book this year, read Mr. Bollyn’s investigative masterpiece The War On Terror: The Plot To Rule The Middle East.

Again, I am enthusiastically recommending this book to my readers, and I make no apologies for doing so. The truth contained in this research MUST get out, and I am determined to do all I can to help make that possible.

I am confident that after you read this book, you will want to buy copies for your friends and relatives. The book is under 200 pages long and is not difficult reading. However, the facts and details Bollyn covers are profound and powerful.

Frankly, Bollyn’s book made so many things make sense for me. His book dovetails and tracks with much of my research on other topics. Truly, his book helped me get a much fuller understanding of the “big picture.”

What if everything we’ve been told about 9/11 and the “War on Terror” is a lie? Well, Bollyn’s book proves that indeed it is.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin.

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Christian War Fever - By Chuck Baldwin

Some time ago, Laurence Vance published a compilation of excerpts from the famed British Baptist pastor, Charles Spurgeon, on the subject of the proper Christian attitude regarding war and peace. These sermon excerpts are as germane to Americans today as they were to the citizens of Great Britain in the mid to late 1800’s when Spurgeon delivered them.

I tried to warn listeners of my radio talk show on how then President George W. Bush was turning Christian people throughout the United States into warmongers. Because Bush claimed to be a born-again Christian and had successfully garnered the support of so many conservative evangelical Christians, he was able to shift the entire spiritual paradigm of the country. But that’s what wolves in sheep’s clothing do. Phony Christians do more destruction than overt unbelievers. Phony conservatives do more destruction than overt liberals.

Ever since the two administrations of G.W. Bush, America’s conservative Christians have become infected with a serious malady; it’s what Vance correctly calls “war fever.” And the evangelical church in America is eaten up with it. And now that we have another Republican warmonger in the White House, war fever has reached epidemic proportions among evangelical Christians.

The United States and its coalition allies have killed tens of thousands (a very conservative number) of innocent men, women, and children in its so-called war on terror. The doctrine of American hegemony (not to mention the globalist/Zionist doctrine of “Greater Israel”) has turned the Middle East into a giant killing field. Through perpetual bombings, drone attacks, missile attacks, etc., President Trump has killed more innocent civilians in the first five months of his presidency than ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Iran, Syria, Russia, China, and North Korea combined. And that fact does not take into account the billions of dollars in U.S. weapons sales to terrorist states such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey that account for thousands of additional deaths. Barack Obama and G.W. Bush did the same thing, of course. Trump is merely carrying on the same international crimes of empire as did the two presidents that preceded him.  

And just who are the biggest cheerleaders for war? You guessed it: evangelical Christians.

When Donald Trump unjustly, unconstitutionally, illegally, and immorally ordered the bombing of Syria for what was clearly a false flag chemical attack in that country, evangelical Christian leaders immediately jumped in to provide spiritual cover for Trump. And this they will continue to do for the next four years.

See this analysis by a Marine Corps colonel and veteran combat pilot on how U.S. government reports of Assad using chemical weapons against his own people in order to justify the U.S. missile attack against Syria were totally FAKE:

Senator Black: CIA Lies Getting Harder To Believe

But in the eyes of the so-called Religious Right, ANY war a Republican president sends the U.S. military into is a just war–no matter how unjust the war really is. Evangelical Christian pastors are unabashed apologists for war. It is safe to say that a majority of conservative Christians have become rabid warmongers. They cheer for war; they promote war; they glorify war; they worship those who wage war; and they enthusiastically vote for neocons like Lindsey Graham and John McCain because of their support for war.

For Christian conservatives to talk about the bloodthirstiness of Muslims is laughable. Islamist jihadists don’t hold a candle to the sheer numbers of innocent people who have been killed (and are daily being killed) by the American empire. At the same time, conservative Christian pastors constantly trumpet more and more war, more and more killing. These pastors would do well to familiarize themselves with the “Gospel of peace” (Romans 10:15; Ephesians 6:15) as proclaimed by the “Prince of Preachers,” Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

Laurence Vance introduces Charles Spurgeon this way:

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) was an English Baptist minister who served as pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London from 1861 until his death. But Spurgeon was no ordinary minister. He was a pastor, a preacher, a teacher, an author, an editor, and the overseer of a pastor’s college, a Christian literature society, and an orphanage. He is still widely revered today among Baptists (and others as well) as one of the greatest Baptist ministers in history.

Spurgeon preached his first sermon as a teenager and, in 1854, was called to the pastorate of the historic New Park Street Church, Southwark, London. During his thirty-eight-year tenure, the church increased from 232 to over 5,000. [And remember, this was in a day when the only attraction to the church was the preaching of God’s Word: no rock music; no smoke; no colored lights; no espresso machines; no twenty-minute sermonettes, etc.] During the remodeling of the Park Street chapel to house the growing congregation, Spurgeon preached at the 5,000-seat Exeter Hall, a public auditorium. But because the remodeled chapel was still too small to accommodate the crowds, the church began construction of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, which sat 5,500 and had standing room for 500 more. In the interim, Spurgeon preached to thousands at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall. He was truly one of the most popular preachers in history. When he died in 1892, 60,000 people filed past his casket in the Tabernacle.

Spurgeon lives today through his sermons. From 1855 until his death, his Sunday morning sermons were published weekly. By 1865, Spurgeon’s sermons were selling 25,000 copies every week. They would eventually be translated into more than twenty languages. The sermons were then collected in one volume and reissued at the end of each year in book form. After Spurgeon’s death, the series continued until 1917 using his Sunday evening sermons. The six volumes of the New Park Street Pulpit (1855–1860) and the fifty-seven volumes of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (1861–1917) contain 3,561 sermons, 25 million words, and fill 41,500 pages. Many of these volumes are available online, and most are in print.

Unlike some Baptist preachers today who shamelessly serve as spokesmen or apologists for [war], Spurgeon was not the least bit excited about war and war fever.

Vance quotes Spurgeon:

“Long have I held that war is an enormous crime.”

“So combustible are the materials of which this great world is made, that I am ever apprehensive of war. I do not account it wonderful that one nation should strive against another, I account if far more wonderful that they are not all at arms. Whence come wars and fightings? Come they not from your lusts?”

“Sin is the mother of wars.”

“It is astonishing how distance blunts the keen edge of anything that is disagreeable. War is at all times a most fearful scourge. The thought of slain bodies and of murdered men must always harrow up the soul; but because we hear of these things in the distance, there are few Englishmen who can truly enter into their horrors. If we should hear the booming of cannon on the deep which girdles this island; if we should see at our doors the marks of carnage and bloodshed; then should we more thoroughly appreciate what war means. But distance take away the horror, and we therefore speak of war with too much levity, and even read of it with an interest not sufficiently linked with pain.”

“He is the God of peace, for he is the restorer of it; though wars have broken out through sin. He is the preserver of peace. Whenever I see peace in the world, I ascribe it to God, and if it is continued, I shall always believe it is because God interferes to prevent war.”

“The church, we affirm, can neither be preserved nor can its interests be promoted by human armies. We have all thought otherwise in our time, and have foolishly said when a fresh territory was annexed to our empire, ‘Ah! what a providence that England has annexed Oude’–or taken to itself some other territory–‘Now a door is opened for the Gospel. A Christian power will necessarily encourage Christianity, and seeing that a Christian power is at the head of the Government, it will be likely that the natives will be induced to search into the authenticity of our revelation, and so great results will follow. Who can tell but that, at the point of the British bayonet, the Gospel will be carried, and that, by the edge of the true sword of valiant men, Christ’s Gospel will be proclaimed?’ I have said so myself; and now I know I am a fool for my pains, and that Christ’s church hath been also miserably befooled; for this I will assert, and prove too, that the progress of the arms of a Christian nation is not the progress of Christianity, and that the spread of our empire, so far from being advantageous to the Gospel, I will hold, and this day proclaim, hath been hostile to it.”

“Did you ever hear of a nation under British rule being converted to God? Mr. Moffat and our great friend Dr. Livingstone have been laboring in Africa with great success, and many have been converted. Did you ever hear of Kaffir tribes protected by England, ever being converted? It is only a people that have been left to themselves, and preached to by men as men, that have been brought to God. For my part, I conceive, that when an enterprise begins in martyrdom, it is none the less likely to succeed, but when conquerors begin to preach the gospel to those they have conquered, it will not succeed, God will teach us that it is not by might. All swords that have ever flashed from scabbards have not aided Christ a single grain. Mahommedans’ religion might be sustained by scimitars, but Christians’ religion must be sustained by love. The great crime of war can never promote the religion of peace. The battle, and the garment rolled in blood, are not a fitting prelude to “peace on earth, goodwill to men.” And I do firmly hold, that the slaughter of men, that bayonets, and swords, and guns, have never yet been, and never can be, promoters of the gospel. The gospel will proceed without them, but never through them.”

“While, however, we shall anxiously watch the contest, it will be quite as well if we mingle in it ourselves. Not that this nation of England should touch it; God forbid. If tyrants fight, let them fight; let free men stand aloof. Why should England have aught to do with all the coming battles? As God has cut us off from Europe by a boisterous sea, so let us be kept apart from all the broils and turmoils into which tyrants and their slaves may fall.”

“The Church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an army; yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace; its object is the establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite point to the spirit of the gospel.”

“War is to our minds the most difficult thing to sanctify to God. The genius of the Christian religion is altogether contrary to everything like strife of any kind, much more to the deadly clash of arms. . . . Now I say again, I am no apologist for war, from my soul I loathe it, and I do not understand the position of a Christian man as a warrior, but still I greatly rejoice that there are to be found at this present day in the ranks many of those who fear God and adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour.”

“For if there be anything which this book [the Bible] denounces and counts the hugest of all crimes, it is the crime of war.”

“What, then, is to be done? Shall we unite with the clamorous patriots of the hour and sacrifice peace to political selfishness? Or shall we in silence maintain our own views, and despair of their ever being received by our own countrymen? There is no need to take either course: let us believe in our principles, and wait till the present mania comes to an end. We would persuade all lovers of peace to labour perseveringly to spread the spirit of love and gentleness, which is indeed the spirit of Christ, and to give a practical bearing to what else may become mere theory. The fight-spirit must be battled with in all its forms, and the genius of gentleness must be cultivated. Cruelty to animals, the lust for destroying living things, the desire for revenge, the indulgence of anger–all these we must war against by manifesting and inculcating pity, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and goodness in the fear of the Lord. Children must be trained with meekness and not with passion, and our dealings with our fellow-men must manifest our readiness to suffer wrong rather than to inflict it upon others. Nor is this all: the truth as to war must be more and more insisted on: the loss of time, labour, treasure, and life must be shown, and the satanic crimes to which it leads must be laid bare. It is the sum of all villainies, and ought to be stripped of its flaunting colours, and to have its bloody horrors revealed; its music should be hushed, that men may hear the moans and groans, the cries and shrieks of dying men and ravished women. War brings out the devil in man, wakes up the hellish legion within his fallen nature, and binds his better faculties hand and foot. Its natural tendency is to hurl nations back into barbarism, and retard the growth of everything good and holy. When undertaken from a dire necessity, as the last resource of an oppressed people, it may become heroic, and its after results may compensate for its immediate evils; but war wantonly undertaken, for self-interest, ambition, or wounded pride is evil, only evil, and that continually. It ought not to be smiled upon as a brilliant spectacle, nor talked of with a light heart; it is a fitter theme for tears and intercessions. To see a soldier a Christian is a joy; to see a Christian a soldier is another matter.”

“Many of our bravest soldiers are on the side of peace, and in the present crisis have spoken out more boldly on the right side than we might reasonably have expected of them. This must be duly acknowledged and taken into account, and we must speak accordingly.”

See Vance’s column here:

Charles Spurgeon On Christian War Fever

When is the last time you heard words such as these coming from the pulpits of today’s evangelical churches? And when Vance quoted Spurgeon saying, “Many of our bravest soldiers are on the side of peace,” I thought of the words of King David. He said, “I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.” (Psalms 120:7 KJV) I know that feeling very well.

I am also reminded of the words of Major General Smedley Butler (USMC). General Butler wrote a book entitled “War Is A Racket.” This book is a classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book’s sensational title. When “War is a Racket” was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time–including receiving TWO Congressional Medals of Honor. He had lead several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America, as well as in Europe during the First World War. Despite his success and his heroic status, however, Butler came away from these experiences with a deeply troubled view of both the purpose and the results of war. I consider General Butler’s book “War Is A Racket” to be MUST READING.

The spirit of war will never be extinguished from our country until it is first extinguished from our churches. A sizeable percentage of all of the evangelical/fundamentalist churches in America today are splits and splinters off of other churches. Christians will fight at the drop of hat. They will split a church at the drop of a hat. They are filled with the spirit of war.

But Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” (Matthew 5:9) As long as God’s people continue to abandon the spirit of peace and embrace the spirit of war, we will never be able to sing “God Bless America” without abject hypocrisy, knowing that God will never bless those who are not peacemakers.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin.

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There’s Only One Party in DC - By Chuck Baldwin

When will the American people catch on to the fact that we do not have two political parties in Washington, D.C.? As I have said repeatedly—and as experience continues to verify—there is just ONE party in Washington: the War Party.

No matter which party controls the White House or Congress, the War Party runs things. Warmongering neocons in the GOP and warmongering neolibs in the Democrat Party control Washington, D.C. Oh, they might fuss and feud with each other over domestic and social issues (abortion, homosexuality, welfare, immigration, tort reform, etc.), but they are joined at the hip on the one issue that matters most to them: the Warfare State. Yes, these domestic issues are very important—except to the War Party. Members of the War Party can be pro-life or “pro-choice”; pro-gun control or pro-Second Amendment; pro-homosexual “marriage” or pro-traditional marriage; pro-illegal immigration or pro-legal immigration; pro-welfare expansion or anti-welfare expansion; pro-laws protecting defendants or pro-laws empowering prosecutors; but everyone in the War Party is united in their support of perpetual war.

With very few exceptions, conducting war on the world is sacrosanct to both Republicans and Democrats. Nothing, and I mean nothing, unites and inspires the neocons and neolibs like perpetual war. And nothing puts more money in the coffers of neocons and neolibs like perpetual war.

Last week in this column I reminded people:

Presidents Bush, Obama, and now Trump have dropped nearly 200,000 bombs and missiles on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Trump’s rate of bombing eclipses both Bush and Obama; and Trump is on a pace to drop over 100,000 bombs and missiles on Middle Eastern countries during his first term of office—which would equal the number of bombs and missiles dropped by Obama during his entire eight-year presidency.

Now, stop and think, folks. The U.S. has dropped 200,000 bombs (the number is probably greater than that by now) on seven Middle Eastern countries—each country comparable in size to the states of Alaska, Texas, California, and Washington State. Try and imagine seven states in the U.S. having 200,000 bombs dropped on them. Think of the death and destruction that we Americans are supporting with our tax dollars. How many innocent people are killed with each bomb and missile? Conservative estimates calculate that hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been killed (and how many more wounded and maimed?) in America’s phony “war on terror.”

Furthermore, ISIS is all but expunged. But it wasn’t U.S. bombs, missiles, or troops that destroyed ISIS. The truth is, the U.S., Great Britain, Israel, and Saudi Arabia CREATED ISIS and gave them cover and support for as long as they could. The same is true for al-Qaeda and the Taliban. No, the U.S. didn’t destroy ISIS; Russia did. These terrorist organizations are nothing but contrivances of the War Party in Washington, D.C., to give the American people a boogeyman to fight so the War Party can keep feeding the military/industrial/surveillance/Police State complex—and themselves, of course. Oh, and don’t forget about the petrodollar/Sunni Muslim connection either.

The U.S./Israel/Saudi Arabia alliance fully intended to have destroyed the Assad regime in Syria and to have brought that recalcitrant nation into the globalist/New World Order/Federal Reserve financial kingdom by now. But, alas, Vladimir Putin spoiled that plan by sending the Russian military to destroy the U.S./Israel/Saudi Arabia-backed ISIS terrorists and save Assad’s Syria. Of course, Syria is the stepping stone to Iran—another Shia Muslim country that refuses to surrender to the central bankers at the Federal Reserve.

Let me briefly digress with this food for thought: When G.W. Bush launched his invasion against Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003, there were seven countries that did not have a Rothschild central bank: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, and Iran. After the 2003 invasions, the Rothschild central bank swallowed Afghanistan and Iraq. Between 2003 and 2011, and after constant U.S. wars of aggression in the name of the “war on terror,” the Rothschild central bank took over Libya and Sudan. That leaves just three countries without a Rothschild central bank: Iran, North Korea, and Cuba. But I’m sure it’s a coincidence that Iran and North Korea are currently being targeted by the West’s “war on terror,” right? Now back to the main point.

The War Party that controlled G.H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Barack Obama—and that now controls Donald Trump—has decided to use Afghanistan to keep the boogeyman alive in the Middle East. Trump just sent an additional 4,000 troops (that we know about) to that beleaguered country. That brings the total number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to over 15,000 (again, that we know about). And, of course, Trump continues to demonize Iran, so the War Party and its Zionist allies will always make sure that there is a boogeyman in the Middle East that we should worry about.

But with ISIS almost extinct, the War Party must manufacture more boogeymen to fight. Enter Africa.

“The Pentagon is calling for an increase in the US military footprint in Africa, where there are over 6,000 troops currently stationed. This as a top general confirms the four US soldiers killed in Niger were ambushed by an Islamic State-affiliate.” [They have yet to determine what to call the new boogeyman in Africa, hence they are called “an Islamic State-affiliate.”]

“While there is no direct combat mission for US troops in Niger, debate in Congress is heating up over whether to update or replace the 9/11-era authorization for use of military force, as the presence of US troops across West Africa gains widespread media coverage.”

“The US has more than 6,000 troops stationed in about 53 of the 54 African countries. Most of them, approximately 4,000, are located at Camp Lemonnier in the east African country of Djibouti.”

“[Senator Lindsey] Graham supports sticking with the original Authorization for Use of Military Force, which passed three days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and sent troops to Afghanistan and then Iraq.

“A close ally of Graham’s, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), is calling for more debate on the issue and has supported the idea of a new authorization. Last week, McCain, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, threatened to subpoena the White House for information regarding the attacks in Niger, claiming he had been told ‘very little.’

“Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, has clashed with both Graham and McCain over war policy. He attacked Graham on Twitter on Monday as a ‘warmonger’ who should have known about US troops in Niger.”

Paul tweeted, “You know you are in too many wars in too many places when even warmonger Lindsay Graham can’t keep track anymore.”

“On Friday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had meetings with both McCain and Graham and told them about the situation in the region. After the meeting, Graham told reporters that Mattis said the war on terrorism is ‘morphing.’

“‘You’re going to see more actions in Africa, not less; you’re going to see more aggression by the United States toward our enemies, not less; you’re going to have decisions being made not in the White House but out in the field,’Graham said.”

“Speaking to reporters Monday, General Dunford echoed Graham’s statement, describing US troops stationed around the world as a ‘part of a global strategy.’”

(Sources: RT.com and the Washington Post)

Here we go.

Secretary of Defense Mattis says the war on terrorism is “morphing.” First it was the Taliban and al-Qaeda, then it was ISIS, now it is “morphing” into another boogeyman—in Africa it looks like.

And even as I write this column, news broke that “[t]he Trump administration is paving the way for lethal strikes against terrorists in Niger as the U.S. military pushes forward with a plan to arm the Reaper drones that fly over that country, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.”

Here is the report:

U.S. Now Moving Toward Armed Drones, Lethal Force In Niger

Yep! It looks like the War Party’s war in Africa has already begun.  

By the end of the year, Congress will have to vote to approve—and the President will have to sign—another warmongering authorization bill in order to keep expanding the Iraq and Afghanistan crusades around the globe. You can bet your bottom dollar that the warmonger Donald Trump will strongly support the bill and the Republican Congress (joined by most Democrats) will pass the bill and, of course, Trump will sign it. Count on it. Senator Rand Paul and a few others will oppose the bill, but the War Party will NOT be denied. Just watch.

Did you notice Senator Lindsey Graham’s words? He said, “You’re going to see more aggression by the United States.” In other words, these military actions are NOT defensive in nature; they are offensive. He also said, “You’re going to have decisions being made not in the White House but out in the field.” That means there will be no government oversight of what field commanders decide to do. Please remember that we are not formally at war with ANYBODY. Graham is so full of bluster about America’s warmongering that he doesn’t even try to couch his war rhetoric with any kind of moral or constitutional justification.

Did you catch General Dunford’s words? He said that sending U.S. troops around the world is “part of a global strategy.” Indeed. That’s because the War Party in Washington, D.C., does the bidding of the globalists.

And, again, Secretary of Defense Mattis said the war on terrorism is “morphing.” Morphing is a nice word for expanding.

It doesn’t matter to a tinker’s dam what the American people get stirred up about; as long as the War Party is allowed to keep fomenting war around the world, the globalists are happy.

Then, of course, North Korea is sitting out there as a potential trigger for the granddaddy prize of them all: nuclear war. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts reports that the Russian and Chinese governments are convinced that the War Party in Washington, D.C., is planning a nuclear attack against them.

See Dr. Robert’s report here:

Washington Plans To Nuke Russia And China

Of course, I’m sure that most readers are aware that Donald Trump has instructed the Air Force to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert. This hasn’t been done since 1991. So, Dr. Roberts might be right.

See the report here:

EXCLUSIVE: US Preparing To Put Nuclear Bombers Back On 24-Hour Alert

It is more than interesting that Russia and China are in the process of trying to divorce themselves from the Rothschild central bank and return to a gold-backed economic system (does America even have any gold left in Fort Knox?). So, the war rhetoric against those two countries coming out of the White House and Pentagon just happens to coincide with Russia’s and China’s intention to kick out the Rothschild bank, right? But I again digress.

From the day that Donald Trump entered the presidential race, my biggest concern has been that the globalists would use him to take America into nuclear war. This concern has grown exponentially since Trump has assumed office.

The problem is: hardly anyone even bothers to notice. The American people on the left and right are so enamored by all of the distractions that the War Party creates for them that no one is looking at the real end game: perpetual war and even nuclear war.

Christians and conservatives are all worked up over Antifa and Muslim terror networks in America’s heartland (which are virtually all FBI false flag sting operations); and liberals and secularists are all worked up over Christians trying to put them under a theocracy (which is a nonexistent absurdity) and some college professor or student saying something positive about Robert E. Lee; and neither side sees that what the globalists are really doing is using perpetual war to both enrich themselves and destroy our liberties.

Whether Chuck Schumer’s Democrats or Lindsey Graham’s Republicans control Congress or Democrat presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama or Republican presidents G.W. Bush or Donald Trump control the White House, the War Party marches on.

Will the American people ever catch on—I mean before a nuclear bomb falls on them?

P.S. I strongly encourage readers to get my DVD “Biblical And Natural Law Principles Regarding War.”

In this DVD, I explain the Biblical and Natural Law principles of both just and unjust war. Several Biblical passages are used to demonstrate the principles of Just War, including examples from the lives of Abram, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and David. Unjust wars of the Bible are also referenced and discussed.

I also cite important principles of Natural Law as written in Emer de Vattel's monumental work "The Law Of Nations" (published in 1758). This book along with John Locke's "Two Treatises Of Government" (published in 1689) were the two works that most influenced the writing of America's Declaration of Independence and federal constitution.

Nations that recklessly ignore God's immutable laws regarding Just War are destined to incur the judgment of God. America will NOT be the exception to this rule.

Sadder still is the way that a majority of America's pastors and preachers seem to have no cognizance of God's Natural and Scriptural laws regarding Just War and, therefore, are often the country's biggest cheerleaders for unjust wars.

Find the DVD “Biblical And Natural Law Principles Regarding War” here:

Biblical And Natural Law Principles Regarding War

P.P.S. I also strongly urge readers to get the book “War is A Racket” by Major General Smedley Butler (USMC).

General Butler's book is a classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When "War is a Racket" was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American serviceman in U.S. history, including receiving two Congressional Medals of Honor.

Find General Smedley Butler’s provocative book “War Is A Racket” here:

War Is A Racket

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The West Is Destroying Itself - By Chuck Baldwin

 America and Western Europe seem obsessed with the fear of Russia. Never mind that the combined military might of the U.S. and NATO literally dwarfs that of Russia, the West behaves as if Russia is about to conquer the world.

No doubt, Russia is one of the world’s superpowers in terms of nuclear missiles; but if nuclear war is what frightens the West, why are they threatening Russia by surrounding the country with military bases and hypersonic missiles? Why is NATO inciting Russia by violating agreements to NOT encroach on Russia’s borders? Why do the U.S. and NATO conduct military war games on Russia’s doorsteps? One could get the idea that the West is trying to goad Russia into nuclear war.

With the U.S. surrounding Russia with bases and missiles, we have not forgotten that Russia is only 55 miles from Alaska, have we?

America and Western Europe should be much more concerned about what they are doing to themselves than what Russia might do to them, because the West is destroying itself.

As the famous cartoon strip character Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Daniel Webster said it this way:

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

The Biblical Natural Law principles of Liberty and constitutionalism were thrown out of Washington, D.C., at the end of World War II. (Some would argue that Abraham Lincoln decimated those principles in 1861.)

While the West is fixated on taking revenge against Russia over Ukraine, they don’t even seem to notice that they are putting the noose around their own necks.

With all the puppeteers controlling political leaders these days, it’s difficult to determine the individual intelligence of these leaders. It does appear, however, that the intelligence of Russia’s Putin dwarfs that of France’s Macron, Poland’s Duda, Britain’s Johnson, Germany’s Scholz—and especially that of the imbecile residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

For example, Putin’s decision to tie the Russian ruble to gold was pure genius. (Could the gold-backed ruble replace the petrodollar? It’s not far-fetched.) 

Of all of the moronic decisions former U.S. President Richard Nixon made, his decision to take America off the gold standard was his most moronic decision—from a constitutional, limited government and Liberty perspective, that is. Big Government politicians, Big Bankers and the military-industrial complex loved it. 

Tying the ruble to gold is an economic game changer—especially considering all of the economic sanctions placed against Russia by the West. Let me put it this way: It’s going to be a VERY COLD winter for Western Europe.

From TheCradle.co:

Cue to the coming catastrophic economic consequences felt by Europeans in their daily life (but not by the wealthiest five percent): inflation devouring salaries and savings; next winter energy bills packing a mean punch; products disappearing from supermarkets; holiday bookings almost frozen. France’s Le Petit Roi Emmanuel Macron – perhaps facing a nasty electoral surprise – has even announced: “food stamps like in WWII are possible.”

We have Germany facing the returning ghost of Weimar hyperinflation. BlackRock President Rob Kapito said, in Texas, “for the first time, this generation is going to go into a store and not be able to get what they want.” African farmers are unable to afford fertilizer at all this year, reducing agricultural production by an amount capable of feeding 100 million people.

Russia, so far, was selling 155 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe each year. The EU rhetorically promises to get rid of it by 2027, and reduce supply by the end of 2022 by 100 billion cubic meters. Gromov asked “how,” and remarked, “any expert has no answer. Most of Russia’s natural gas is shipped over pipelines. This cannot simply be replaced by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).”

The risible European answer has been “start saving,” as in “prepare to be worse off” and “reduce the temperature in households.” Gromov noted how, in Russia, “22 to 25 degrees in winter is the norm. Europe is promoting 16 degrees as ‘healthy’, and wearing sweaters at night.”

The EU won’t be able to get the gas it needs from Norway or Algeria (which is privileging domestic consumption). Azerbaijan would be able to provide at best 10 billion cubic meters a year, but “that will take 2 or 3 years” to happen.

Gromov stressed how “there’s no surplus in the market today for US and Qatar LNG,” and how prices for Asian customers are always higher. The bottom line is that “by the end of 2022, Europe won’t be able to significantly reduce” what it buys from Russia: “they might cut by 50 billion cubic meters, maximum.” And prices in the spot market will be higher – at least $1,300 per cubic meter.

I’m reading economists who are saying that Europe’s sanctimonious sanctions against Russia could result in the collapse of NATO and the European Union. Putin may have already figured that out.

As for the U.S., the sanctions against Russia—and Russia’s counter sanctions against us—are helping to fuel an already depressed economy caused by the phony Covid pandemic. America is already experiencing the highest inflation rates in decades—and it’s only going to get worse. And all of the signs point to the bottom falling out of the stock market.

By allowing neocon and neolib warmongers to control both major parties in Washington, D.C., the American people have forged their own chains. By heeding the lies and falsehoods of professional propagandists in the mainstream media, the American people have forged their own chains. And by giving their hearts over to establishment, statist pastors and churches, the American people have forged their own chains.

On rare occasions, the media will even admit that, in order to promote the war agenda, the American people will be lied to. 

NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously titled “In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn’t rock solid”. 

The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out “intelligence” about Russia’s plans in Ukraine that is “low-confidence” or “based more on analysis than hard evidence”, or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin.

It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the world: U.S. officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden later said it publicly. But three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions.

It’s one of a string of examples of the Biden administration’s breaking with recent precedent by deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has done so even when the intelligence wasn’t rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance.

So they lied. They may hold that they lied for a noble reason, but they lied. They knowingly circulated information they had no reason to believe was true, and that lie was amplified by all the most influential media outlets in the western world. 

On the empire’s claim last week that Putin is being misled by his advisors because they are afraid of telling him the truth, NBC reports that this assessment “wasn’t conclusive — based more on analysis than hard evidence.”

This NBC report confirms rumors we’ve been hearing for months. Professional war slut Max Boot said via The Council on Foreign Relations think tank in February that the Biden administration had ushered in “a new era of info ops” with intelligence releases designed not to tell the truth but to influence Putin’s decisions. Former MI6 chief John Sawers told The Atlantic Council think tank in February that the Biden administration’s “intelligence” releases were based more on a general vibe than actual intelligence, and were designed to manipulate rather than to inform. (Source)

And just as happened with the phony Covid narrative, I just received word from my webmasters that Google is beginning to censor information that is NOT anti-Russia. We can expect the other social media giants to quickly follow suit. This should tell us everything we need to know about the veracity of the Ukraine narrative. 

Speaking of which, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts did a good job this week summarizing the phony Ukraine narrative:

It is necessary to understand that there has been no Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops are operating only in eastern and southern Ukraine. The troops served the purpose of preventing a large Ukrainian army, now encircled and trapped, from conquering the two Donbass Russian republics recently recognized by Russia after an eight-year delay. The other task assigned to the Russian troops is to exterminate the neo-Nazi Azov militia that has committed atrocities against the Donbass Russians. The process has gone slowly, because the fighting is mainly in Donbass, which is populated by Russians, and the Kremlin wants to rescue the people, not kill them.

Russia has no need or intent to invade Poland, Romania, the Baltics, Finland, Sweden. Missile bases in these countries can be eliminated with precision weapons from a great distance. Russia sent troops into Ukraine in order to liberate Donbass from Azov attack and occupation and to prevent the invasion of Donbass by a 100,000 Ukrainian army.

I urge readers to read this in-depth analysis of the Ukraine situation that augments Dr. Roberts’ brief analysis above and is written by former NATO intelligence officer, former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries Jacques Baud. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations as an expert on the rule of law and security institutions.

PLEASE READ HIS REPORT. 

Furthermore, I urge readers to watch this 2-minute video of Former CIA Operations Director John Stockwell on how the government manipulates the news media.

Here is a transcript of that video:

John Stockwell, Former CIA Operations Director

Stockwell: There are other functions, however, some of them more legitimate than others. One is to run secret wars. Another thing is to disseminate propaganda to influence people’s minds. And this is a major function of the CIA. And unfortunately, of course, it overlaps into the gathering of information. You have contact with a journalist, you will give him true stories, you’ll get information from him. You’ll also give him false stories. You also work on their human vulnerabilities to recruit them, in a classic sense, make them your agent, so that you can control what they do, so you don’t have to set them up sort of, you know, by putting one over on them, so you can say, “Here, plant this one next Tuesday.”

Interviewer: Can you do this with responsible reporters?

Stockwell: Yes. The Church Committee brought it out in 1975, and then Woodward and Bernstein put an article in Rolling Stone a couple of years later. Four hundred journalists cooperating with the CIA, including some of the biggest names in the business, to consciously introduce the stories into the press.

Interviewer: Give me a concrete example of how you use the press this way.

Stockwell: Well, for example, in my war, the Angola War that I helped to manage, one third of my staff was propaganda. I had propagandists all over the world, principally in London, Kinshasa and Zambia. We would take stories, which we would write, and put them in the Zambia Times and then pull them out and send them to a journalist on our payroll in Europe, but his cover story, you see, would be that he’d gotten them from his stringer in Lusaka who had gotten them from the Zambia Times. But after that point, the journalists Reuters and AFP, the management was not witting of it. Now our contact man in Europe was, and we pumped just dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. But we didn’t know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure, raw, false propaganda to create an illusion of communists, you know, eating babies for breakfast.

Stockwell is also quoted as saying:

It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms.

The so-called “defense” corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States. They are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves.

The major function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people from knowing what the nation’s leaders are doing.

The United States is cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World.

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn.

A final quote from Daniel Webster sums it up:

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

As I said, the West is destroying itself.

P.S. This is the second announcement that we have just released my latest message DVD in my prophecy series. The title of the message is: Why Ezekiel’s Gog And Magog Prophecy Is NOT Identifying Russia.

Most evangelicals are supporting the Deep State’s puppet government of Ukraine because they believe that Russia is the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s Gog and Magog prophecy. It isn’t! 

This message is a detailed explanation of Ezekiel’s Gog and Magog prophecy found in chapters 38 and 39. I use supporting Scriptures to show very clearly who and what Gog and Magog represent: And, again, it’s NOT Russia! 

I also explain how the myth that Gog and Magog represent Russia—expounded by the vast majority of evangelicals—originated.

And I also expose the devilish purposes that are accomplished by the way today’s Scofield Futurists sensationalize prophecy—by outlandishly applying prophetic Scripture to whatever news headlines happen to be prominent at the moment—at the cost of sound New Covenant doctrine.

Reprinted with permission from 

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