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If Socialism Is the Problem in Venezuela, More Sanctions Are Not the Solution

Thursday, 21 September 2017 05:31

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, September 20, 2017:

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Overshadowed by his remarks concerning North Korea’s “Rocket Man” and the “worst ever” Iranian nuclear deal, President Donald Trump’s views on Venezuela in his speech at the United Nations on Tuesday were soft-pedalled by the mainstream media.

But they were spot on:

The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet Union to Cuba, Venezuela — wherever socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish, devastation and failure.

Those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems

Trump then added, without being explicit:

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The End for Venezuela Marxist Dictator Nicolas Maduro?

Tuesday, 25 April 2017 05:31

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, April 24, 2017:

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Nicolas Maduro

The last time Venezuelans attempted to free themselves from the communist yoke in 2014, the effort failed. The deaths of dozens and the arrests of hundreds failed to budge the dictator who took over from Hugo Chavez at his death in March 2013: Nicolas Maduro. According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict, there were 9,286 protests in 2014, resulting in little change. Food rationing continued, shortages mounted, inflation accelerated along with unemployment, and large swaths of civilians were reduced to subsisting on two meals a day.

Last week’s protests involving hundreds of thousands of citizens in Caracas have resulted in more than

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Will Federal Intervention Be Required to Quell Chicago’s Increasing Violence?

Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:28

This article was published by the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, December 28, 2016:

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It’s helpful to revisit basic assumptions, one of the primary ones in discussions about local police and violence being offered by Marxists themselves. “Victor,” writing for the Marxist The Internationalists, is very clear: local police must go in order to replace capitalism with communism:

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Exclusive Interview With John Birch Society CEO

Tuesday, 27 December 2016 08:05

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Sign from the John Birch Society advocating US withdrawal from the United Nations

The election of Donald Trump has generated much buzz in the mainstream media over the inaccuracy of the polls, why the American people voted as they did, and of course, what Trump will do as president. The buzz has also included claims that Trump will undo much of what has been done under Obama, that he will imperil our “democracy,” and that “Trumpism” is the latest manifestation of The John Birch Society. The New American magazine recently had the opportunity to sit down with and interview Arthur R. Thompson, the CEO of The John Birch Society, and ask him about this, his thoughts about this past election, and also what lies ahead for the Society in the coming years. Thompson (shown on the right, with interviewer Christopher Gomez) became CEO of The John Birch Society in 2005 and is now in his 11th year.

The New American: How does the election of Donald Trump to the White House affect or change any of the goals of The John Birch Society, as compared to the Obama administration or a Hillary presidency had she won?

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Four More Police Officers Shot Over the Weekend

Tuesday, 22 November 2016 06:29

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, November 21, 2016:

The murders of five Dallas police officers in July were the worst record of police shootings since the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, but since that time violence has continued against police at high rates. Between 11:45 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. Sunday, four law-enforcement officials were shot, one of them dying from his wounds.

The first shooting took place in San Antonio, Texas, when

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Saul, Hillary, and Gun Confiscation

Thursday, 28 July 2016 05:01

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, July 27, 2016:

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Saul Alinsky

Wikipedia softly proclaims Saul Alinsky as the “founder of modern community organizing,” who used his “organizing skills” to “improve the living conditions of poor communities.” Alinsky, however, was more than that. Much more. A closer look (see sources below) reveals a Marxist whose goal was to enable fellow travelers in their attempts to destroy capitalism in the United States and replace it with communism. From his Rules for Radicals, Alinsky states:

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Undercover Video Confirms Hillary’s Strategy to Ban All Firearms

Wednesday, 27 July 2016 04:44

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, July 26, 2016:

The first 57 seconds of James O’Keefe’s latest undercover video interview, of a Clinton delegate from California, confirms what many have long suspected: Hillary Clinton’s real goal of complete and total confiscation of all firearms from every American citizen is being hidden behind benign and persuasive phrases such as “common sense gun control” and “protect our families,” etc.

It also reveals what happens when the “useful idiot” in the video learns that she has been exposed for what she is: a mouthpiece for the movement to disarm America and ultimately turn it into a totalitarian state.

Most importantly it reveals

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Is Rex Tugwell’s Brainchild the Cause of Puerto Rico’s Financial Woes?

Wednesday, 03 February 2016 08:02

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, February 3, 2016:

When Columbia law school graduate Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1932 he asked Rexford Guy Tugwell and two other Columbia professors to be his “brain trust.” Although Tugwell could never have been proven to be a member of the Communist Party USA, his fondness for centralized planning and his violent rejection of the free market informed his efforts to develop the New Deal.

He was a pure-bred hard-core collectivist who was enamored with Stalin’s centralization of agriculture in the Soviet Union, saying that

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Happy Anniversary John Birch Society!

Wednesday, 09 December 2015 14:04

This article by Bill Hahn, the Society’s Public Relations Director, appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, December 9, 2015:

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It was 57 years ago at the Indianapolis home of Miss Marguerite Dice when businessman Robert Welch began his marathon two-day lecture that launched The John Birch Society. There were 11 friends and business associates present and they listened intently as the philosopher-historian and great lover of America told them during 17 hours why they should join with him in an organization designed to preserve the American dream. Most agreed on the spot to be the Society’s first members and the organization was born on December 9, 1958.

A child prodigy who had read a nine-volume history of the world at age seven and asked for more, Welch was

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Julian Bond’s Passing Illustrates the Illegitimacy of the Mainstream Media

Friday, 21 August 2015 05:28

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, August 19, 2015:

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Except for the Internet, Julian Bond’s passing would be celebrated by the mainstream media as a life well-lived, full of accomplishment and good deeds in an evil and declining world. Words like “hero,” “friend,” and “champion” would forever be tied to his name and his life. Eulogies from Al Sharpton would remain unchallenged:

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Is Alexis Tsipras Greece’s Pericles?

Tuesday, 14 July 2015 05:52

This article was published by the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, July 13, 2015:

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In making his case that socialism is like a cancer that, if not surgically excised from the body politic, will kill its host, Robert Welch told his audience:

For the whole point is that the Greek civilization was at least many centuries old – that is, many centuries removed from its pioneer days – before Pericles started it on the road to death, at the very height of its glory, through making the government increasingly responsible for its citizens, instead of its citizens being responsible for, and watchdogs over, their government.

Greek’s present Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, sounds awfully like Pericles. He had the audacity to

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The Root Cause of Greece’s Problems: Socialism

Tuesday, 14 July 2015 05:41

This article was published online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, July 13, 2015:

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Alexis Tsipras

Returning to Brussels with an austerity program eerily similar to that just rejected by Greek citizens a week ago, Prime Minister Alex Tsipras hoped to obtain another bailout in exchange for debt forgiveness by the European Central Bank (ECB). Tsipras is desperate: His government must make a $7.8 billion payment to the ECB next Monday, and another $13 billion by the middle of August.

Instead, following marathon sessions lasting into the wee hours, those EU officials upped the ante, passing even more stringent demands before granting Tsipras his lifeline. It told Tsipras, in essence, either to paint or get off the ladder:

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Schumpeter’s Gale Blows Away Colt

Thursday, 18 June 2015 05:40

This article was published by the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, June 17, 2015:

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Schumpeter’s Gale is the “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” Often credited with first developing this first axiom of the free market, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter was merely expanding on Karl Marx’s hopeful prediction that capitalism would eventually destroy itself. Out of the ashes would rise communism.

Marx and Schumpeter were half right:

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Obama’s One-way Street to Cuban “Normalization”

Friday, 10 April 2015 12:36

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, April 10, 2015:

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Raul is on the left, of course.

At the seventh Summit of the Americas being held on Friday and Saturday in Panama City, Panama, President Barack Obama is widely expected to announce Cuba’s removal from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

Nothing has changed in Cuba to merit this move. The island nation remains a major sponsor of terror in the Caribbean and around the world. What has changed is Obama’s determination to give support, aid, and comfort to one of America’s most intransigent communist enemies, lying just 90 miles offshore of Florida.

His determination got legs with the release in December of USAID worker Alan Gross, who was

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China’s Economy Headed for a Hard Landing

Tuesday, 10 February 2015 06:59

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 9, 2015:

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The China bubble is imploding at an accelerating rate and has caught Wall Street economists off guard, according to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

Why they should be surprised is hard to fathom, given the predictions offered for months on end about the ending of the great Chinese economic “miracle.” As recently as three weeks ago, Minxin Pei, professor at Claremont McKenna College and professional observer of the Chinese economy, said, “If the official Chinese data should be believed at all … China’s GDP growth at 7.4% in 2014 … could have been worse.”

Indeed, it probably was.

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Economic Forecasting is a Dangerous Business

Tuesday, 10 February 2015 06:48

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, February 9, 2015:

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Nearly everyone has an opinion about forecasting and its dangers. Some, like Yogi Berra, will tell you, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Others, like John Kenneth Galbraith, will say, “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” Still others will warn about setting either the exact event, or its timing. Do either one, they say, but not both.

Apparently the forecasters enlisted by the Wall Street Journal last week to give their best estimates of growth in China weren’t listening, or didn’t care. Or perhaps they believe in Keynesian miracles alongside those of the Tooth Fairy.

Nevertheless, when asked about import and export growth in China for the month of January, they missed reality by a country mile. The Journal tallied up the results and their seers and prognosticators concluded that

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“Saint” Mandela? Not so fast!

Saturday, 07 December 2013 07:58

Wednesday, 03 July 2013

Written by Bill Jasper

President Barack Obama has compared him to George Washington. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews heralded him as “perhaps the world’s greatest hero.”

The Las Vegas Guardian Express dispensed with the “perhaps,” declaring in headline: “Nelson Mandela World’s Greatest Hero.”

Others have christened him “the greatest man of the 20th century.” Many revere him as “the savior” of South Africa. School children worldwide read books, write essays and sing songs about him, and watch movies extolling his virtues and heroic accomplishments.

As we write, the 94-year-old Mandela has been hovering near death for days, the subject of hourly news updates and the beneficiary of tearful prayer vigils worldwide. With the announcement of his death, the eulogies will

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The economy isn’t like a pizza, Mr. O.

Monday, 31 December 2012 15:00

P. J. O’Rourke has a way with words. The author of 17 books including the one he’s perhaps most famous for, “Don’t Vote! – It Just Encourages the Bastards“, he has enough backbone to

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George McGovern Wins Plaudits from a Conservative

Wednesday, 24 October 2012 11:27

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Cal Thomas has been a fixture in the conservative landscape for years. A prolific writer and an activist, he was vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985 and then wrote a book, Blinded by Might, explaining its failure to transform society through political action.

In preparation for an article I wrote for The New American on George McGovern, I found something entirely distasteful about him that no amount of gloss from Thomas can hide. Thomas said:

I will remember him for something other than his politics. George McGovern was a friend.

After his Senate re-election defeat in 1980, McGovern and I debated on college campuses and in other venues. These debates were always civil because McGovern was a gentleman. After one debate at Butler University in Indianapolis, a fellow conservative invited me to dinner.

“Thank you,” I said, “but George and I have dinner plans.”

“How can you eat with a man like that?” he said with an equal mix of surprise and disgust.

“Easy,” I said. “He’s a friend of mine.”

Here’s what I learned about McGovern that Thomas ignored (he must have known about it as well): McGovern was a fellow at

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Obama Honors Cesar Chavez, Naturally

Saturday, 13 October 2012 09:36

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CNN reported that President Obama has dedicated a monument to Cesar Chavez:

Describing it as a “day that has been a long time coming,” President Barack Obama made modern history Monday by announcing the creation of a monument to honor the late labor and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez…

The president spoke at a ceremony in Keene, California, on land known as Nuestra Senora Reina de la Paz, where, from the 1970s until the early ’90s, Chavez lived and led his farm worker movement.

Decades ago, Obama said, when Chavez began his farm worker movement, “no one seemed to care about the invisible farm workers who picked the nation’s food — bent down in the beating sun, living in poverty, cheated by growers, abandoned in old age, unable to demand even the most basic rights.”

“Cesar cared,” the president said. “In his own peaceful and eloquent way he made other people care too.” Chavez’s organized labor marches and other protests, including a boycott of table grapes, led to “some of the first farm worker contracts in history,” Obama said. “Let us honor his memory, but most importantly let us live up to his example.”

Obama wasn’t alone in singing Chavez’ praises. Joining the chorus was Ken Salazar, Obama’s Secretary of the Interior and former Senator and State’s Attorney General from Colorado. Salazar called Chavez “one of the heroes of the 20th Century.”

Of course he would. Let’s look for a quick moment at Chavez’ background, courtesy of

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