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Ever since I was a little child something seemed off about the fact everyone would get hysterical about how I needed to avoid sunlight and always wear sunscreen whenever we had an outdoor activity—so to the best of my ability I just didn’t comply. As I got older, I started to notice that beyond the sun feeling really good, anytime I was in the sun, the veins under my skin that were exposed to the sun would dilate, which I took as a sign the body craved sunlight and wanted it to draw into the circulation. Later still, I learned that sunlight has many remarkable but almost unknown critical functions such as:

1. Many of the primary rhythms in the body (e.g., the circadian rhythm) are regulated by regular sunlight exposure (both on the skin and into the eyes), and we frequently find having patients go outside and expose their face to natural sunlight first thing in the morning is immensely helpful for a variety of conditions (e.g., insomnia and depression).

2. Sunlight drives blood circulation (which is critical for health as when, impaired microcirculation impairs many chronic degenerative conditions). Specifically, when water is exposed to a polar surface and an ambient energy source (particularly infrared light), it will assume a state where it behaves like a liquid crystalline gel and displaces protons, transforming from H2O to a H3O2 (H1.5O) lattice.

In addition to this lattice creating much of the foundational strength and stability for the body (as it is non-compressible, forms a robust barrier and continuously reforms after being sheared apart) it also is able to transform the ambient energy source into something the body can use (in effect functioning as a primitive solar panel). This is because the hydrogen ions being displaced from the water matrix creates an electrical energy gradient (H1.5O– vs. H+) and because the hydrogen ions mutually repel each other, the potential for spontaneous flow.

Experimental setups, in turn, have shown this can easily be harnessed to create a “spontaneous” water flow and many biological systems in turn are structured to use the formation of these H+ ions to drive circulation (e.g., trees that suck water up from the ground). In the case of the human body, mechanistically, the heart cannot provide enough power to drive blood through the circulation (and likewise in many cases blood flow occurs despite the pressure gradient not supporting it), whereas the H+ mechanism allows this circulatory flow to occur, and we frequently observe exposure to sunlight or infrared light (which it some extent is also emitted by one human to another when they are in very close proximity) significantly increases fluid circulation and increases general wellness.
Note: other critical fluid circulations (e.g., interstitial fluid or the lymphatics) also rely upon this mechanism. In turn, I now believe that many skin issues result from the micro-interstitial fluid flow beneath the skin stagnating (e.g., toxins build up in the region or the skin is no longer able to transfer sunlight into the circulation and overheats).

3. A pioneering researcher found biological systems were exquisitely sensitive to light spectrums and that an excess or deficiency of key wavelengths created a wide range of issues (e.g., poor plant growth, impaired fertility, different sex ratios of offspring, greatly increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and cancers, significantly increased aggression and hyperactivity etc.). Since standard glass blocks these wavelengths and most lights do not emit them, in addition to increasing agricultural productivity, he was able to greatly improve people’s health (including cancer patients) by putting them on light “diets.” In this, one of his most interesting discoveries was that the eyes are the primary place light enters the circulation (as the eyes are completely translucent and contain very then blood vessels), and as such, he frequently saw dramatic improvements in chronic illnesses (e.g., chronic arthritis) once he replaced an individuals eye glasses with full spectrum glasses.
Note: based on my experiences with ultraviolet blood irradiation (and studying the properties of hemoglobin), I’ve come to believe that blood conducts light, hence making the small exposure through the eyes quite significant.

4. One of the most effective therapeutic modalities I’ve come across is ultraviolet blood irradiation (UVBI), which works by creating a direct line of blood from a UV light source to the blood stream—something I now believe works because people are not getting enough sunlight for sufficient amounts to enter the blood stream. UVBI (discussed further here) was originally used to treat a wide range of otherwise terminal infectious illnesses (at a time when only the earliest antibiotics existed), then quickly observed to also greatly autoimmune illnesses (e.g., asthma), surgical complications and many complex neurological and circulatory conditions—much of which was due to it greatly increasing circulation and reawakening cells or organs that had shut down.

Note: typically I use UVBI either for someone who just does not feel well (e.g., due to fatigue), someone who is struggling with an acute infection like a flu (as it will often rapidly eliminate them), for a chronic viral condition like EBV or shingles (as it is one of the most effective options for these types of illnesses), to prevent the complications of chemotherapy, or for a myriad of other illnesses (e.g., a variety of autoimmune disorders) when it is not feasible to get a more targeted treatment for the disorder.

Once I became a medical student (at which point I was familiar with the myriad of benefits of sunlight), I was struck by how neurotic dermatologists were about avoiding sunlight—for instance, in addition to hearing every patient I saw there be lectured about the importance of avoiding sunlight, through my classmates, I learned of dermatologists in the northern latitudes (which had low enough sunlight people suffered from seasonal affective disorder) effectively require their students to wear sunscreen and clothing which covered most of their body while indoors. At this point my perspective on the issue changed to “this crusade against the sun is definitely coming from the dermatologists” and “what on earth is wrong with these people?” A few years ago I finally learned the last piece of the puzzle through Robert Yoho MD and hence was inspired to write this entire article.

The Monopolization of Medicine

Throughout my life, I’ve noticed three curious patterns in the medical industry:

•They will promote healthy activities people are unlikely to do (e.g., exercising or smoking cessation).

•They will promote clearly unhealthy activities industries make money from (e.g., eating processed foods or taking a myriad of unsafe and ineffective pharmaceuticals).

•They will attack clearly beneficial activities that are easy to do (e.g., sunlight exposure, eating eggs, consuming raw dairy, or eating butter).

As best as I can gather, much of this is rooted in the scandalous history of the American Medical Association, when in 1899, George H. Simmons, MD took possession of the floundering organization (MDs were going out of business because their treatments were barbaric and didn’t work). He, in turn, started a program to give the AMA seal of approval in return for the manufacturers disclosing their ingredients and agreeing to advertise in a lot of AMA publications (they were not however required to prove their product was safe or effective). This maneuver was successful, and in just ten years, increased their advertising revenues 5-fold, and their physician membership 9-fold.

At the same time this happened, the AMA moved to monopolize the medical industry by doing things such as establishing a general medical education council (which essentially said their method of practicing medicine was the only credible way to practice medicine) which allowed them to then become the national accrediting body for medical schools. This in turn allowed them to end the teaching of many of the competing models of medicine such as homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and to a lesser extent, osteopathy—as states would often not give licenses to graduates of schools with a poor AMA rating.

Likewise, Simmons (along with his successor, Fishbein, who reigned from 1924 to 1950) established a “Propaganda Department” in 1913 to attack all unconventional medical treatments and anyone (MD or not) who practiced them. Fishbein was very good at what he did and could often organize massive media campaigns against anything he elected to deem “quackery” that were heard by millions of Americans (at a time when the country was much smaller).

After Simmons and Fishbein created this monopoly, they were quick to leverage it. This included blackmailing pharmaceutical companies to advertise with them, demanding the rights for a variety of healing treatments to be sold to the AMA, and sending the FDA or FTC after anyone who refused to sell out (which in at least in one case was proved in court since one of Fishbein’s “compatriots” thought what he was doing was wrong and testified against him).

For example, when UVBI was discovered, it rapidly swept through America’s hospitals as it saved many patients who would have otherwise died and was featured throughout the media (e.g., The New York Times and Time Magazine). The AMA then offered to “validate” Knott’s device for $100,000 plus the rights to the therapy, with Knott getting a small sales cut in return. Knott refused and the AMA conducted a study designed to fail and then reported UVBI offered no benefit (despite many of the patients in the study improving) after which hospitals rapidly abandoned the “debunked” practice (whereas UVBI is still used in the hospitals of other countries like Russia due to the phenomenal results it provides for “incurable” illnesses).

Similarly, around this same time, the AMA approached the inventors of many alternative cancer therapies (such as Krebiozen, Hoxey’s remedies and the Koch Catalysts) and pressured them to sign away almost all of the rights for the treatment to the AMA or be blacklisted. In each case, the inventor refused because they wanted it to remain affordable to everyday people (e.g., the AMA had initially used Hoxey’s remedy but massively inflated the cost for it). So, following their refusal, the AMA launched a blitz against the therapy, and then with the help of the FDA, buried it (which was later corroborated by court cases and a 1953 Congressional investigation).

In short, because of the power the AMA wielded, a single fraudulent negative study could immediately erase large bodies of independent research showing otherwise. Because of this, many remarkable medical innovations were successfully erased from history and part of my life’s work and many of the things I use in practice are essentially the therapies Simmons and Fishbein largely succeeded in wiping off the Earth.

Note: to illustrate that this is not just ancient history, consider how viciously and ludicrously the AMA attacked the use of ivermectin to treat COVID (as it was the biggest competitor to the COVID cartel). Likewise, one of the paradigm changing moments for Pierre Kory (which he discusses with Russel Brand here) was that after he testified to the Senate about ivermectin, he was put into a state of shock by the onslaught of media and medical journal campaigns from every direction trying to tank ivermectin and destroy he and his colleagues’ reputations (e.g., they got fired and had their papers which had already passed peer-review retracted). Two weeks into it, he got an email from Professor William B Grant (a vitamin D expert) that said “Dear Dr. Korey, what they’re doing to ivermectin they’ve been doing to vitamin D for decades” and included a 2017 paper detailing the exact playbook industry uses again and again to bury inconvenient science.

Most infamously, Big Tobacco became one of the AMA’s biggest clients, which led to countless ads like this one being published by the AMA which persisted until Fishbein was forced out (at which point he became a highly paid lobbyist for the tobacco industry):

Note: because of how nasty they were, investigators gradually discovered how unscrupulous and sociopathic both Simmons and Fishbein were. Unfortunately, while I know from first-hand experience this was the case (e.g., a friend of mine knew Fishbein’s secretary and she stated that Fishbein was a truly horrible person she regularly saw carry out despicable actions and I likewise knew people who knew the revolutionary healers Fishbein targeted), I was never able to confirm many of the abhorrent allegations against Simmons because the book they all cite as a reference did not provide its sources, while the other books which provide different but congruent allegations are poorly sourced.

The Benefits of Sunlight

One of the oldest “proven” (but un-patentable) therapies in medicine was having people bathe in sunlight (e.g., it was one of the few things that actually had success in treating the 1918 influenza, prior to antibiotics it was one of the most effective treatments for treating tuberculosis and it was also widely used for a variety of other diseases). In turn, since it is safe, effective, and freely available, it stands to reason that unscrupulous individuals who wanted to monopolize the practice of medicine would want to cut off the public’s access to it.

Note: the success of sunbathing was the original inspiration for ultraviolet blood irradiation.

Because of how successful the war against sunlight has been many people are unaware of its benefits. For example:

1. Sunlight is critical for mental health. This is most well appreciated with depression (e.g., seasonal affective disorder) but in reality the effects are far more broad reaching (e.g., unnatural light exposure destroys your circadian rhythm).

Note: I really got this point during my medical internship, where after a long period of night shifts under fluorescent lights, noticed I was becoming clinically depressed (which has never otherwise happened to me and led to a co-resident I was close to offering to prescribe antidepressants). I decided to do an experiment (I do this a lot—e.g., I try to never recommend treatments to patients I haven’t already tried on myself) and stuck with it for a few more days, then went home and bathed under a full spectrum bulb, at which point I almost instantly felt better. I feel my story is particularly important for healthcare workers since many people in the system are forced to spend long periods of their under artificial light and their mental health (e.g., empathy) suffers greatly from it. For example, consider this study of Chinese operating room nurses which found their mental health was significantly worse than the general population and that this decline was correlated to their lack of sunlight exposure.

2. A large epidemiological study found women with higher solar UVB exposure had only half the incidence of breast cancer as those with lower solar exposure and that men with higher residential solar exposure had only half the incidence of fatal prostate cancer.
Note: a 50% reduction in either of these cancers greatly exceeds what any of the approaches we use to treat or prevent them have accomplished.

3. A 20 year prospective study evaluated 29,518 women in Southern Sweden where average women from each age bracket with no significant health issues were randomly selected, essentially making it one of the best possible epidemiologic studies that could be done. It found that women who were sun avoidant compared to those who had regular exposure to sunlight were:

• Overall 60% more likely to die, being roughly 50% more likely to die than the moderate exposure group and roughly 130% more likely to die than the group with high sun exposure.
Note: to be clear, there are very few interventions in medicine that do anything close to this.

•The largest gain was seen in the risk of dying from heart disease, while the second gain was seen in the risk of all causes of death besides heart disease and cancer (“other”), and the third largest gain was seen in deaths from cancer.
Note: the investigators concluded the smaller benefit in reduced cancer deaths was in part an artifact of the subjects living longer and hence succumbing to a type of cancer that would have only affected them later in life.

• The largest benefit was seen in smokers, to the point non-smokers who avoided the sun had the same risk of dying as smokers who got sunlight.
Note: I believe this and the cardiovascular benefits are in large part due to sunlight catalyzing the synthesis of nitric oxide (which is essential for healthy blood vessels) and sulfates (which coat cells like the endothelium) and in conjunction with infrared (or sunlight) are what create the liquid crystalline water that is essential for the protection and function of the cardiovascular system).

So given all of this, I would say that you need a really good justification to avoid sun exposure.

Skin Cancer

According to the American Academy of Dermatology:

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. Current estimates are that one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. It is estimated that approximately 9,500 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with skin cancer every day.

Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, the two most common forms of skin cancer, are highly treatable if detected early and treated properly.

Because exposure to UV light is the most preventable risk factor for all skin cancers, the American Academy of Dermatology encourages everyone to stay out of indoor tanning beds and protect their skin outdoors by seeking shade, wearing protective clothing — including a long-sleeved shirt, pants, a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses with UV protection — and applying a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher to all skin not covered by clothing.

Likewise according to the Skin Cancer Foundation:

More than 2 people die of skin cancer in the U.S. every hour.

That’s sounds pretty scary. Let’s now break down exactly what that means.

Note: fortunately, there is much more awareness of the vast benefits of vitamin D now (which comes from sunlight exposure). However, since many of the sun’s benefits come from things besides creating vitamin D (e.g., consider the benefits of light I cited at the start of the article), the current position dermatology is beginning to pivot to (that you can substitute “unsafe” sunlight exposure with vitamin D) is not advice I can at all support.

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Many were cheering when HHS Secretary Rober Kennedy Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, and FDA Director Marty Makary, provided a brief video statement announcing that the CDC will no longer be recommending COVID shots for healthy children and healthy pregnant women. Hmmm….so this means that they are still recommending mRNA bioweapon injections to everybody 18 and older and to sick people of all ages. Those of us not suffering from Stockholm Syndrome or cognitive dissonance, responded with multiple expletives…

This action was about as minimal as could possibly be done. It was an embarrassment. It was a disgrace. It was unacceptable. This is not 2021. This is 2025.

A limited hangout is a tactic used in intelligence, politics, or media to manage information by revealing partial truths while withholding critical or damaging details. It’s like letting out just enough of the story to satisfy curiosity or defuse scrutiny, without exposing the full extent of a scandal or operation. The term comes from espionage, popularized by former CIA officer Victor Marchetti, who described it as a “gimmick” where clandestine professionals admit some truth when their cover is blown, but omit key facts to prevent deeper investigation. The public, intrigued by the partial disclosure, often doesn’t dig further.

A modified limited hangout goes further, mixing truth with misinformation or altered details to obscure the bigger picture.

Was the statement by Kennedy, Bhattacharya, and Makary, a variation of a limited hangout?

President Trump and Secretary Kennedy have been getting intense scrutiny for appointing globalist, transhumanists, and pro mRNA bioweapon appointees. As already stated, the action taken was about as minimal as could possibly be taken.

Was the purpose to look like they are working hard to stop the shots and protect people?

Was the purpose to appear to be fighting and to get loyalists to cheer this as if it were a big victory to diffuse criticism?

Some high profile influencers will defend this action, largely because they either don’t want to admit they were wrong and have been played, or simply because they do not want to lose access. Having access to high profile politicians is a plus.

The loyalist will cheer, but they will stop cheering once they see the rest of us calling BS. I predict this strategy of trying to blunt the energy that is bubbling up will fail. It will fail simply because most people that you know will have a shortened lifespan because of these shots. It will fail because people you know and love will continue to get sick and die due to complications from these shots.

The COVID 19 mRNA nanoparticle injections are associated with neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, metabolic disorders, chronic fatigue, chronic inflammation, and death, to name a few of the issues. The COVID mRNA shots are associated with a 1236% increase in cardiac arrest deaths, 112,000% increase in brain strokes when compared to the flu shots, reduced birth rates, increased infant mortality, increased mortality overall, and a 37% reduction in lifespans. Extrapolated over the course of a lifetime this would be a 29 year reduction in lifespans. This means that children getting these shots will be lucky to live into their 50s. The continued immune system failure or Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS) will continue to contribute to cancers and the other disorders and diseases.

There is an attempt to normalize all of this. There is an attempt to get you to accept that it is normal for so many people to suffer chronic illnesses and exotic diseases. There is an attempt to normalize turbo cancers. There is an attempt to normalize autoimmune diseases and neurological diseases. There is an attempt to normalize young people having heart problems. There is an attempt to normalize increased infant mortality and decreased birth rates.

Enough is enough! There must be justice.

ALL mRNA injections and products must be halted immediately. They violate 18 USC 175 CH 10 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. President Trump must issue an Executive Order immediately stopping all mRNA injections and products. This is his clear duty as President of the United States.

How do I know that the mRNA injections violate 18 USC 175 CH 10 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS?

I have an affidavit under penalty of perjury from the law professor that wrote the law! At my request, Dr. Francis Boyle provided affidavit for my cases. Dr. Boyle actually publicly stated that COVID injection was a bioweapon as early as the fall of 2020 before it was even available.

We are in the midst of a massive depopulation campaign. Reducing birthrates and shortening lifespans makes that apparent.

I honestly don’t know if Secretary Kennedy’s CDC statement is a limited hangout. Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn. It was weak, feeble, and feckless. Not impressed, not enough. Tired of the excuses and claims that there is some delicate process to be followed not to upset the apple cart.

Think back to when they locked us down and caged us like animals. They didn’t worry about offending anybody. They terrorized you into compliance. It took all of a minute to lock us down, it shouldn’t take more than ten seconds to sign an Executive Order stopping the distribution of mRNA biological weapons in America.

We have them on the run. It is long past time that people that voted for Trump put maximum pressure on his administration to stop the biowarfare campaign against Americans. One way to put pressure on them is to help get my bill introduced in more states. I have a version of the ‘Sansone mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act’ adapted to all 50 states’ laws.

You can’t be America First and look the other way while biological warfare is carried out against Americans.

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The title of today’s column is the same as the title of my homily last Sunday, May 25, 2025. On this day, my wife and I—along with our local Liberty Fellowship family—commemorated the 50th anniversary of my ordination into the ministry. My message was a brief reflection of what I have seen and experienced in the last half-century. This column will be the same.

I began last Sunday’s message with my boyhood, but I’ll begin this column from the time I was 27 years old (four years into the ministry) and had accepted a leadership position in the newly formed Moral Majority.

The Moral Majority

At the personal invitation of Dr. Jerry Falwell, I was the Executive Director of the Florida Moral Majority from 1979 – 1989. During my years with the Moral Majority, I met most of the leaders of the Religious Right. I couldn’t count the number of meetings I attended in Washington, D.C. I had personal audiences with President Ronald Reagan and then Vice President George H.W. Bush—and met Pat Buchanan for the first time. He later came and spoke at our church in Florida to a packed-out auditorium.

I travelled with Jerry on his jet on multiple trips (I didn’t know then that the jet was a gift from the State of Israel). I traveled with him overseas on two separate occasions; he featured me in his National Liberty Journal; I had a guest appearance on his national television program, the Old Time Gospel Hour; I spoke at the school, and Jerry spoke at my church several times.

I say all of that to simply let all of you know my background.

Most of the grassroots pastors in the Moral Majority were good, decent, honest men who truly wanted to do what was right for God and country. I later discovered, however, that some of the national leadership—and I’m not here pointing the finger at Jerry—seemed to have visions of political power and financial reward.

Remember, I was only 27 when I began this journey.

I remember a press conference with the Religious Right’s national leaders in Washington, D.C., in which a reporter asked the men on stage, “What is it that you really want?”

When I heard the question, I thought to myself, “What a perfect question. What a great opportunity to give the nation a truncated but descriptive summary of what we were all about.”

I was shocked when I heard one of the men (not Jerry Falwell) say, “All we want is a seat at the table.”

The answer stunned me. I remember thinking to myself, “What? All of this effort, expense, energy—blood sweat and tears—was so some of us could have a seat at the king’s table?” I later discovered that that was exactly what some of them seemed to want.

I can honestly say that much good came about due to the work of the Moral Majority, especially at many State and local levels—and even at the national level to some degree.

However, the ultimate (and persisting) result of those years was not so good. I’m talking about the political marriage between evangelical Christians and the Republican Party. To this day, that marriage remains intact.

Throughout America, evangelical pastors and Christians will turn their backs on spiritual friendships, courageous, truth-telling pastors (pastor-friends), spiritually minded family members or anyone else in deference to a Republican politician—especially a Republican president. And it doesn’t matter one whit how immoral, unethical or unconstitutional the conduct or public policies which that president promotes might be.

That was the forbidden fruit that grew out of the Moral Majority tree.

The other thing that happened was a theological marriage between evangelical Christians and the Zionist State of Israel. To be sure, the relationship between the two had been in an extended engagement period since 1948, and the two began sleeping together after the Six Day War in 1967. But the organized efforts of the Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, Religious Right, etc., produced an overt, unbreakable bond between evangelicals and the Zionist State of Israel.

At another D.C. press conference I attended, a reporter asked Jerry specifically, “Are you a Zionist?”

That was the first time that I heard the word “Zionist.” I was totally ignorant of what it was. But amazingly (looking back), I remember distinctly thinking that Jerry’s answer would be, “No.” Even though I had never heard the term and knew nothing about it, the instinctive answer within my heart was that this was something bad. No sooner had the thought entered my mind than I heard Jerry reply with an emphatic, “Yes.”

Being as young as I was, I simply assumed that my instincts were wrong. After all, Jerry was my mentor and was much older and more knowledgeable than I, so I dismissed my internal inhibitions. I’m SO thankful that the Holy Spirit would later awaken my soul to the truth of Biblical Israel and Christ’s New Covenant and to the wickedness of Talmudism, Chabadism, Kabbalism and Zionism.

Today, of course, Christian Zionism is a deeply entrenched major doctrine within most evangelical churches. Most evangelicals would as soon deny the deity of Jesus Christ as to deny that Zionist Israel is a resurrected Old Testament Israel, essential to the Second Coming.

But the overall purpose of the Moral Majority was to bring goodness back to America after the eight years of the debauched administrations of Bill Clinton. By the way, much of the turmoil, trouble and travesty in which the U.S. is now embroiled in the Middle East had their roots in Clinton’s two terms in the White House.

But my point is that during the Moral Majority years, evangelical pastors by and large stood for goodness. They professed and propounded good government and good behavior in our elected representatives.

The G.W. Bush years

By the time G.W. Bush was elected, I had been hosting my nationally syndicated radio talk show, Chuck Baldwin Live, for seven years. That radio talk show opened doors of opportunity for me throughout the country, including my friendship with Dr. Ron Paul and his endorsement of my presidential campaign with the Constitution Party in 2008.

It’s funny how history keeps repeating itself. The evangelical friends who praised me for publicly speaking out about the unconstitutional conduct of Bill Clinton called me every dirty name in the book when I spoke out about the unconstitutional conduct of Bush. And they still call me every dirty name in the book when I speak out about the unconstitutional conduct of Trump.

But I digress.

What started as a desire for basic human goodness during the Reagan years morphed into a desire for religious supremacy during the G.W. Bush years.

Evangelicals cheered and applauded as Bush declared war on Muslims and as he ejected the Constitution from the White House and shoved the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the Military Commission Act, etc., down the throats of the American people.

In 2003, evangelicals were completely clueless that Bush’s wars in the Middle East were in reality Israel’s wars. And when Trump takes us to war with Iran, it will again be Israel’s war.

To demonstrate how controlled these politicians in D.C. are: Donald Trump is sending financial and military aid to the same al-Qaeda/ISIS Muslim terrorists that G.W. Bush sent thousands of U.S. soldiers to their deaths fighting. And isn’t it strange how these ISIS Muslim terrorists never attack Israel?

And how ironic that the Republican Donald Trump is using the Republican G.W. Bush’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to declare war on the First Amendment freedom of speech to anyone who simply criticizes Israel and its genocide in Gaza either audibly or in print.

To make matters worse, the head of DHS, Kristi Noem, is so constitutionally illiterate that she doesn’t even know what Habeas Corpus is. Judge Nap played Noem’s comments before a U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing recently.

New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan asked Noem: “So, Secretary Noem, what is Habeas Corpus?”

Secretary Noem replied, “Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.”

The good senator had to then school the DHS secretary on the true meaning of Habeas Corpus, that it is the constitutional (Article.1. Section.9. Clause.2.) requirement that law enforcement must present the prisoner and evidence of wrongdoing before a judge to justify the prisoner’s continued incarceration.

Watch Kristi Noem make a fool of herself on national television. These are the kinds of imbeciles that Trump has appointed to protect the freedoms of the American people.

And here is a short video of Kristi Noem visiting the “Wailing Wall” in Jerusalem as a prelude to meeting with her boss Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the Muslim world, Shias and Sunnis fight each other for not being Muslim enough. In essence, that is what the Religious Right did during the Bush years: They wanted to make their brand of religion the law of the land at the expense of a constitutional government that protects the rights of ALL men, regardless of religion.

And each president since 2008—including Donald Trump—has continued the same Neocon/Zionist foreign policies of GW Bush.

To be sure, Obama and Biden didn’t share the right-wing religious fervor of Bush. But one needs to understand that Bush’s emphasis on right-wing religion was but a ruse to sell the Neocon/Zionist war agenda abroad and the attacks against the Fourth Amendment at home to evangelical Christians. And it worked!

Today, evangelicals are at least 80% pro-Zionist and pro-police state. Oh, they would take umbrage with the term “police state,” but that’s exactly what’s taking place under Donald  Trump. When he and Attorney General Pam Bondi talk about stamping out antisemitism, they are talking about eviscerating the most fundamental right of a free society: the freedom of speech. And evangelicals either sit in silent indifference or enthusiastically support banishing public criticism of Israel and its grotesque genocide in Gaza.

What they don’t seem to realize is that once you start censoring speech about one subject, the door is open to censor speech about any subject.

The Moral Meltdown

Those same evangelicals who worked so feverishly during the 80s and 90s to bring basic human goodness to America now support the destruction of innocent men women and children—including Christian men, women and children—in Gaza and the Middle East.

They condone Israel’s mass murders; they excuse Israel’s mass starvations; they justify Israel’s genocide; and they facilitate Israel’s ethnic cleansing.

The laws of basic human goodness, the laws of humanity and the laws of fairness and equality have been jettisoned from the conscience of evangelical Christians. All in the name of Israel; in the name of the Bible; in the name of Christianity; in the name of God.

The entire world recognizes the utter depravity of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Almost everyone in the United States recognizes the utter depravity of Israel’s genocide in Gaza—except a Republican president, congressmen and senators from both parties inside the Beltway and evangelicals.

Those same evangelicals who so strongly supported constitutional government during the days of the Moral Majority are now totally silent or actually endorse government abridgment of our constitutionally protected liberties (particularly the freedom of speech) and support America’s direct involvement in and partnership with Israel’s genocidal mass murders.

Over the past 50 years, I’ve watched evangelical Christians take America from the Moral Majority to a Moral Meltdown.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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In his book Nation, State and Economy, published in 1919, Ludwig von Mises wrote of how nineteenth-century imperialist powers often preceded their wars of “conquest, subjugation, and extermination” with the dehumanization of their victims through massive propaganda campaigns which then continued during the wars and beyond. He noted that German, British, and American imperialist powers had waged wars against what they called “the lower races” — people who are supposedly “not ready for self government and never will be.” Mises highlighted British imperialism in India and the Congo and American imperialism against “the Asiatic peoples” of the Philippines and elsewhere.

The U.S. government’s twenty-five year war of genocide (1865-1890) against the Plains Indians should be added to this list. General William Tecumseh Sherman was the commanding general of this “war” for the duration. (How ironic that his parents included an Indian name, Tecumseh, when they named him). “The Indians give a fair illustration of the fate of the negroes if they are released from control of the whites,” said Sherman as quoted by biographer Michael Fellman in Citizen Sherman. Sherman, wrote Fellman, called for “a racial cleansing of the land” by killing off as many Indians as possible. “All the Indians will have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers,” said Lincoln’s favorite general. Fellman notes that Sherman gave his subordinate, fellow Civil War “hero” General Phil Sheridan, “prior authorization to slaughter as many women and children as well as men” when attacking Indian villages. It would be too time consuming to distinguish between them, said Sherman.

When the Filipinos finally separated from the Spanish empire the U.S. government engulfed them into the American empire by killing at least 200,000 of them (as many as a million according to some historians) during the 1899 Philippine Insurrection. In his biography of Teddy Roosevelt entitled Bully Boy, Jim Powell wrote of how Roosevelt “justified” the mass murder of Filipinos by calling them “Chinese half breeds, savages, barbarians, a wild and ignorant people.” A “lower race,” in other words.

The conquest and subjugation of Hawaii occurred in the early 1890s when the U.S. government sent soldiers to Hawaii who literally held the Hawaiian king at bayonet point and forced him to sign a new constitution that disenfranchised all Asians as “an inferior race” and empowered wealthy American land owners like James Dole, who then founded the Dole Fruit Company. Hawaii was formally annexed in 1898. In a well-received 1895 speech in Boston, the eugenicist President Teddy Roosevelt bloviated that “I feel it was a crime against the white race that we did not annex Hawaii three years ago.”

This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted this nineteenth-century demonization and war of extermination against what they consider to be another “lesser race,” the Palestinians. A May 21, 2025 headline in the French publication Le Monde declares that “In Israel, rhetoric dehumanizing Palestinians and calls for eradicating Gaza have become commonplace.”

The dehumanization of Palestinians by “government ministers, lawmakers, military experts, and public figures,” writes journalist Luc Bronner in Le Monde, has been used “to justify the mass killing of Palestinians civilians, especially women and children, the destruction of entire cities, the concentration of more than two million people in conditions deemed unlivable by international organizations, incitement to forced emigration, and the blockade of food and humanitarian aid to the point of famine.” More than 53,000 Palestinians have been killed, “a majority of them women and children,” and “over 60% of buildings have been destroyed.”

All of this was supported by Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defense minister, who called all Palestinians “human animals.” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gushed that in a few months “Gaza will be totally destroyed.” Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has been calling for the dropping of nuclear bombs on Gaza and destroying the remaining food sources there because all the Palestinians “need to starve.”

Nissim Vaturi, the charming president of the Knesset has called for a genocidal war that would “wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth.” Major General Giora Eiland also called Palestinians “human animals” and called for making Gaza “unlivable” while denouncing all the women of Gaza as “mothers, sisters, or wives of Hamas murderers.” A recent article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (May 20) wrote that “Starving Gazan babies aren’t a problem as long as there are no photos of them” that others around the world can see.

In short, the twenty-first century Holocaust that is occurring in Gaza has its roots in the ways of war of mid-to-late nineteenth-century American imperialism. It is being “justified” by a modern-day version of Teddy Roosevelt-style eugenicist “lower race” theory, with the implication that the promulgators of this theory must then think of themselves as some kind of master race.

Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

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The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.

The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit earlier this week in Malaysia – with 17 Global South nations at the table – was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.

Malaysian Prime Minister and current ASEAN chair Anwar Ibrahim summed it all up: “From the ancient Silk Road to the vibrant maritime networks of Southeast Asia to modern trade corridors, our peoples have long connected through commerce, culture, and the sharing of ideas.”

That inspires a lot of reflection. Let’s try a first, succint approach matching East and West – and what divides them – guided by an extraordinary study, La Mediterranee Asiatique: XVI-XXI Siecle, by CNRS research director Francois Gipouloux, also a specialist in the Chinese economy.

The European tradition is far from monolithic – and it’s only part of the picture – when it comes to global perceptions about political philosophy and the conception of the State. There are stark differences even when referred to Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.

The heart of the matter used to be the land/sea opposition. For Carl Schmitt, land/sea relates to friend/enemy – the matrix of politics – providing a key interpretation of world history, yet one among many.

It’s on “continental” Europe – to borrow the Anglo terminology –, mostly in France and Prussia, and not in England, that the Hobbesian concept of the State materialized. Britain became a world power thanks to its navy and trade, eschewing the characteristic institutions of the state such as a written constitution and a legislative codification of law.

Anglo-Saxon international law in fact voided the continental conception of the State and also war. According to Schmitt, it developed its own concepts of “war” and “enemy” out of maritime and trade conflicts which did not make a distinction between combatants and non-combatants (when it comes to its lasting legacy, think “the war on terror”).

My war is Just, because I said so

The opposition then solidified between the right to wage war on land – war is “just” if it happens between sovereign states, via regular armies, and sparing civilians – and waging war on sea, which does not imply a state-to-state relation. What mattered was attacking the trade and the economy of the enemy. And methods of total war were directed against either combatants or non-combatants.

That led to a new Western concept of “Just War” and international law: when the enemy is turned into a criminal, juridical and moral equality between belligerents is shattered. That’s the perverse logic behind psycho-pathological genocidals legitimizing the destruction of Palestine.

These differences in the formulation of law came out of two different conceptions of space: closed, overland – featuring sovereign states, territorially delimitated – and open, over the seas – a unique space, unlimited, free of every state control, where primacy is about securing communication links. The British did not think about space in terms of territory, but of routes of communication, just like the Portuguese and the Dutch before them.

Schmitt identifies in the State an entity linked to land and territory. So, as startling as it seems, it’s Behemoth, the terrestrial animal of the Old Testament, and not the marine monster Leviathan that should have been chosen by Hobbes as a symbol of the State.

In the development of the West, three institutional forms – equally viable – were in competition: Leagues of Cities – like the Hanseatic Legue; City-States – especially in Italy; and the Nation-State, especially in France.

Few across the West may remember that the Hanseatic League and the powerful Italian city-states, for at least two centuries, were viable alternatives to the territorial state. Two top researchers, Douglass North and Robert Paul Thomas, in The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, argue that the modern state was imposed on Western Europe because it was the best equipped to fulfill two key tasks: to efficiently guarantee property rights and the physical security of people and goods.

If we go back to Europe in the 14th century, before the Renaissance, there were at least a thousand states, of all sizes. That means no concentration of power – and some sort of creative competition in store. There was a reasonable amount of choice for those who wanted to find better places to exercise their freedom.

We had for instance Germany, with its three main actors constituted as the Emperor, the nobility and cities; Italy, with its main actors as the Papacy, the Emperor and cities. And France with its three main actors as the King, nobility and cities. In each case, different alliances proliferated.

In Germany, the Emperor allied with the nobility against the cities. In Italy, nobility was urbanized, and cities profited from endless squabbles. In France, nobility was very suspicious of the bourgeoisie, and the King allied himself with the cities against nobility. England chose a completely different path. Even before France, the Brits created a centralized state, but under a quite original political set up.

Asia and the Mandala State

Asia is a completely different story. Here we cannot use the terminology of “state” to designate the political constructions of Southeast Asia before decolonization. In Southeast Asia, the borders were arbitrary between the tribe, so-called “primitive” political formations (from a Western perspective) and the State.

Springing up from political concepts prevailing in India, Islam and the West, states showed up in the Insulindia (maritime Southeast Asia) archipelago, for instance, as courtly bureaucracies, based on a network of complex alliances. Whatever the degree of institutionalization, the distinction between The King, The Vassal and The Bandit was tenuous at best.

Vietnamese researcher Nguyen The-Anh has remarked how “political fragmentation is generally the preliminary conclusion of the first Europeans who made contact with Southeast Asia. Marco Polo saw in the north of Sumatra ‘eight kingdoms and eight crowned Kings…each kingdom possesses its own language.”

China, on the other hand, featured a unitary state imposing – via a quite efficient administration – social order over a vast territory. There was no competition against the centralized state issuing from a landed aristocracy; no urban bourgeoisie; and no military contesting the imperial order, as in Europe. That’s the major difference between China and the West.

Thomas Aquinas decreed that if the power of the king belongs to a multitude, it’s not unjust that the king is deposed or sees his power restrained by this very own multitude if he turns into a tyrant and abuses royal power.

This distinction is completely alien to the Chinese tradition. What happened over the past century or so in China is that the peculiar configuration – and competition – between local actors and central power led to what could be defined as an unstructured empire, whose force comes from its shape-shifting borders and the diffused character of transnational networks.

In a global economy, this gives China an exceptional projection capacity. When borders become fuzzy, and the link between the state and individuals is fuzzy, the unstructured character of this Empire allows the Asian periphery of China to develop in an arc from Japan and the DPRK to Singapore and Indonesia. This is exactly the subtext of some of the key discussions in Kuala Lumpur at the ASEAN-China-GCC summit. Jeffrey Sachs totally got the picture beforehand.

Now, the opposition between a system of international relations deemed “backwards” and irrational in Asia and modern and rational – because based on realpolitik – in the West is over. Cultural factors now shape reality in Asia as well as in the West about the conception of the state and international relations.

China is finally self-assured enough to start disengaging from the current, Western-dominated system of international relations – because it has the means to do so.

The Chinese concept of harmony in international relations used to be linked to the proclamation of a natural order of which China would be the guarantor. But now we are a long way away from the 18th century, when the international environment of the China of 18 provinces was constituted by Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Chinese Turkestan, Tibet, Burma, Annam, the Ryuku archipelago and Japan. The Qin dynasty was keen to reassert its suzerainty on the political and cultural domains, assuring the protection of China by managing a belt of favorably disposed states.

Today a self-assured China sees a new system of international relations directly linked to a Belt and Road network of geoeconomic opportunities for all. That underlies the relationship between China and ASEAN, GCC, CELAC, Central Asia and the whole of Africa.

Welcome to the archipelagic world

The world has surpassed the “overland” or “maritime” dilemma, beyond Mackinder and Mahan. The world is now best defined, as Gipouloux coined it, as archipelagic (italics mine), linking urban nebulas of different sizes and vocations.

Globalization accelerated the transformation of a terrestrial world into an archipelagic world. New technologies, economic and financial pressure, disinformation on a mass scale – China is navigating all these rocks in shallow straits in the quest to solidify itself as a global power.

All that implies the progressive, thalassocratic advance of China: a flexible and tolerant Empire (“community of shared destiny for mankind”), a rich confederation with a capacity for global influence supported by polymorphic communities – the “bamboo internet” of the Chinese diaspora.

This is what was on display in Kuala Lumpur – and will continue to evolve via an array of multilateral organizations. Mandala at work, Chinese-style.

The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

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