US ARMY Colonel (Retired) and diplomat Ann Wright calls them all out!

MM Comment:

One of the most persistent objections when presenting the overwhelming evidence that viruses do not exist or cause a particular disease is for someone to immediately ask the following question, expecting to shut the conversation down completely;

Well then, What Causes (It)?

Please watch at least the first 9 minutes this video, HERE.

You will love the examples he gives to make this crystal clear.

Highly Recommended 

For a deeper dive into the scholarship please also read these resources, HERE and HERE.

Thanks to MT for alerting us to this video segment.

For the essential, fundamental explication and examination of this serious cultural problem, turn to Thomas Sowell’s brilliant essay, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, below.

My cover story article in the current issue of The New American.  The issue includes a promotion of the Mises Institute’s new documentary on the Fed, “Playing With Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve” which has 716,000 views on YouTube as of today, less than six months from its release.

With Robert Breedlove.  

Christine Grady, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the wife of Anthony Fauci, was fired during the restructuring at the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

I don’t think she will miss the high salary she earned. The Faucis are worth an estimated $11.5 million.

And sixteen other fascinating speakers at our Revisionist History of War conference in Auburn, Alabama, May 15-17, 2025.  Here’s a short clip of Col. Macgregor.

. . . on April 26 at the Arizona Biltmore for our Mises Circle on the topic of “Our Enemy: The Bureaucracy.”  I will discuss some of the key insights about the evils of government bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, while Tom Woods and Dr. Malone will discuss their dealings with the covid bureaucrats along with their books Psywar: Enforcing the New World Order, and Tom’s Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.

The registration fee is $120 and $100 for Mises Institute members and includes a catered lunch.  See you in Phoenix!

In this revealing follow-up to their deep dive into the life of Mark Lane, Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley continue exploring the many chapters of one of the most controversial, fearless, and complex figures in 20th-century American legal and political history.

Mark Lane is best known for Rush to Judgment, his groundbreaking book that publicly challenged the Warren Commission’s conclusions about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But Lane’s career extended far beyond the pages of that explosive work. He repeatedly inserted himself into some of the most charged and politically radioactive moments of the last century — and often stood where few others dared.

In this episode, Groubert and Hunley uncover Lane’s lesser-known relationships and legal battles. His defense of James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., raised eyebrows nationwide. Was Lane seeking justice, publicity, or uncovering something deeper in the official narrative? The questions continue decades later.

The story expands into his controversial ties to Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. Lane represented the group in the lead-up to the Jonestown massacre — a relationship that has haunted his legacy. What was Lane thinking? What did he know?

But the contradictions don’t stop there. Lane’s work defending James Joseph Richardson — a poor Black man falsely imprisoned for the poisoning deaths of his own children — speaks to a radically different chapter in his career. Lane’s involvement helped lead to Richardson’s release after more than 20 years behind bars, a major vindication in one of the most egregious wrongful convictions in American history.

Mark Lane also put himself on the line at the Wounded Knee standoff in 1973, siding with the American Indian Movement during a tense 71-day siege against federal forces. Lane’s advocacy on behalf of Native Americans highlighted his consistent — if controversial — willingness to challenge federal power on behalf of the disenfranchised.

And then there’s the personal. Lane shared a home with actress and activist Jane Fonda during a time when both were lightning rods for political outrage. He also maintained a surprising connection to Paul McCartney — adding yet another unexpected layer to a life that defies easy definition.

From celebrity connections to courtroom crusades, armed standoffs to assassinations, Mark Lane’s story is not easily summed up — and that’s exactly why it matters. Join Groubert and Hunley as they trace the wide-ranging impact of a man who repeatedly collided with power, challenged the establishment, and never stopped pushing for his version of the truth.

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March 30 2025 By Kelvyn Alp, https://nzloyal.com/

The notion that viruses are the primary cause of many diseases has been a cornerstone of modern medicine for over a century.

However, a growing body of research suggests that this paradigm may be fundamentally flawed.

Dr. Mark Bailey’s seminal paper, “A Farewell to Virology,” (2022) and the work of Dr. Sam Bailey, Dr. Andrew Kaufman, and Dr. Tom Cowan, have collectively challenged the conventional wisdom on viruses and vaccines.

Their research posits that viruses do not exist as disease-causing entities, but rather as misidentified cellular components and other biological phenomena.

This idea is not new and builds on the pioneering work of former virologist Dr. Stefan Lanka and The Perth Group.

However, it has gained significant traction in recent years, largely because of the COVID-19 scamdemic.

The implications of this theory are profound, and they raise a crucial question: if viruses do not exist as claimed, what are we vaccinating against?

The vaccine schedules that govern our lives are based on the assumption that viruses are real and pose a significant threat to public health.

However, if this assumption is incorrect, then the justification for vaccines crumbles.

Are we simply creating a future dependent clientele for pharmaceutical companies?

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE HERE

I note that House Republicans have approved a $4.5 trillion tax cut plan, offset by $2 trillion in spending cuts. They are also seeking to raise the debt ceiling.

Tariffs are very risky business. They’re like playing with fire. We run into the same unsolvable problem that we have with The Fed. They don’t know what interest rates should be. It’s all arbitrary. In the same way, the president doesn’t know what the price of cars, or lumber, or any other product should be. While the president is not literally price-fixing like the Fed, he is arbitrarily interfering with market prices and trade. Our inescapable problem in America is the overwhelming size of government, spending, debt and empire. All of these variables are still going in the wrong direction.

Great interview last night with Musk and members of the DOGE team. A good mix of concrete examples (40% of calls to Social Security customer service are crooks trying to reset electronic deposits from the intended recipient to the crook) with a steady return to the overall goal of cutting waste and fraud.

The $1B target of first year cost savings is too low IMHO. DOGE has yet to start with Defense. Social Security is just getting started. We will see.

Everything Musk and his team has found reflects my experience in working with government IT systems. My work for one of “Beltway Bandits” consulting firms to respond to an RFP for fixing Air Force financial systems matches what Musk and his team describe. Hundreds of legacy financial systems (most of which can barely communicate with each other) and no ability to conduct a financial audit, let alone pass one.  Many IT people in the Air Force were very aware of flaws and limitations on the systems, but just had to live with it. That is no longer the case.

Musk is correct to give credit to Trump for pushing this effort to combat waste and fraud. To me, his best comment was that when fraud is exposed, the fraudsters are the loudest ones to shout in outrage and complain.

Fox News segment on Baier interview Musk and DOGE team.

We are in a culture war. Tax payer financed institutions are being used to amplify the culture war. I completely agree with Trump’s approach. If you want the federal dollars, then you will drop the DEI nonsense.

It was in the news yesterday that a DEI inspired private foundation just closed shop. The DEI types running it had stolen donor money, bankrupting the foundation. There is no reason to allow such behavior in taxpayer financed institutions. And no reason to allow your own money to support such behavior.

Link to New York Post article on Trump cutting federal funds to Smithsonian over DEI.

Four U.S. soldiers recently died during a training exercise in Lithuania. Many Americans want to know how this could have happened. A better question is simply this: What are U.S. troops doing in Lithuania? How many Americans even know where Lithuania is?

MM Comment:

Today I’ve two very connected offerings:

1. Understanding the Mechanics of Silver Price Suppression

When I worked in the Futures Industry I worked extensively in the Gold and Silver Markets…and I knew things were “Unusual” there – to put it mildly.

I could easily see that Gold & Silver were UNIQUE in that the Future’s Price WOULD DETERMINE the Physical Price instead of FOLLOWING the Physical Price.

I knew this was backwards.

Unlike other Physical Commodities, like Corn for example, where the condition of Physical Corn in the fields price WOULD DETERMINE the Futures Price – with Precious Metals it was the OTHER WAY AROUND.

With Precious Metals the Futures price quoted on the COMEX Futures Exchange WOULD DETERMINE what price an ounce of Gold and/or Silver would cost to the retail customer.

This made it obvious to me 30 years ago how UNIQUELY Manipulated Gold and Silver prices were – and unfortunately still are – today.

However, this may be coming to an end. Why now? 

First, today it’s harder and harder to hide in the shadows…Thank Goodness! 

Second, there are forces in motion today that could end this manipulation – finally!

So, first, please read this article HERE which I believe is the single best explanation I’ve ever read of How & Why this manipulation of Gold and Silver is done and has been done for decades.

I encourage everyone interested in this topic to read and, in fact, study this article.

***I’ve also always believed that there were limits to this manipulation and therefore strongly recommend reading the next article below as well.

We may very well be on the cusp of the historic moment when Manipulated Gold and Silver prices come to an end.

Then we’ll see what the Free Market has to say about these prices. Please read on.***

2. An Excellent Analysis of Silver Right Now

The author, my good friend Sean Ring, is a former International Banker and Financial Educator who writes a daily column and a weekly column, both of which I highly recommend. 

This superb article will help you understand China’s recent movements in the Metals Markets and why they may help cause the decades of Price Manipulation in the Precious Metals to come to an end – and perhaps soon.

If you’re interested in Gold and/or Silver I consider these two articles very important reading.

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Two Excellent Cinema Classics Which Explore Poet Rudyard Kipling’s Relationship with British Imperialism and Freemasonry. The Films are Based on Famous Works by Kipling and Feature Actors Portraying Him.

The Man Who Would be King
https://m.ok.ru/video/1104943647412
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer

The film’s director John Huston was the son of actor Walter Huston who portrayed arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes in the 1936 epic Rhodes of Africa.

Kipling, known as the “Poet of the Empire,” was a close admirer and friend of Cecil Rhodes, a prominent figure in the British Empire and founder of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarship. Both were noted Freemasons. Kipling served as a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Gunga Din
https://tubitv.com/movies/100021232/gunga-din
Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr,.Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, and Joan Fontaine

Helped by their valiant water carrier, three British soldiers face off against a Thuggee religious cult on a dangerous mission in 1880s India.

Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire’s frontiers. The empire’s most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain’s shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.

The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group’s claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood’s role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.

The history of the welfare state is the history of the state’s savage war of aggrandizement and seizure of authority against civil society.

Whether in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in Scandinavia, or in the United States, the coercive state systematically destroyed the “voluntary sector” of civil society and those intermediary institutions that protected the individual from the direct contact and control by the state [much as the Church did for nearly all of the previous two millennia].

Within the short space of two or three decades the protective sphere covered by workingmen’s social and other fraternal duties had been stripped to nothing more than drinking associations, with all other matters taken over by the state apparatus. Henceforth, the workingman and much of the middle class reported directly to the bureaucracy of the state’s intrusive regime.

Everything they did was in some way or another regulated, regimented and overseen by the state.

The dire effects of this calculated collectivism was malevolence not benevolence, aggression not altruism, genocide not generosity. Highly recommended as a beginning scholarly examination of this topic is the online Mises Institute article by economist/historian Murray N. Rothbard, Origins of the Welfare State in America.

1. The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared, by E. P. Hennock

Hennock examines the array of independent and only loosely connected Friendly Society health and unemployment [social insurance] regime throughout Britain & Wales. He sees that this motley ‘organization’ of free & voluntary organizations that dealt amazingly well with the delivery of social, medical, or burial services should have been ‘rationalized,’ centralized, & brought under state control.

2. British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance 1880-1914, by E. P. Hennock

The title pretty much sums up the contents of this very informative and useful study. The flow of ideas and policies from Germany to England are as important as the slightly later flow of those ideas and policies (as modified by the Brits) from the UK to America. This book also serves, in part, as a foundation and as an introduction to Hennock’s later book, above.

3. No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945, by Roger E. Backhouse

This is an extraordinary collection; all of the essays are extremely good and helpful towards understanding the first principles and the initial foundation of the welfare state in the UK.

4. Citizen, State, and Social Welfare in Britain 1830-1990, by Geoffrey B. A. M. Finlayson

The state in the UK systematically destroyed the ‘voluntary sector’ and the intermediary institutions that protected the individual from the direct contact and control by the state. Within two or three decades the sphere covered by workingmen’ social and other fraternal duties had been stripped to nothing more than drinking associations.

5. The British Political Tradition: The Rise of Collectivism, by W. H. Greenleaf

This volume establishes the central theme that the most important feature of British political life since the nineteenth century has been the extension of the role of government at all levels. Part of an outstanding three part series.

6. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (Oxford Handbooks), by Francis G. Castles

Described as the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state, consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world’s leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of the modern welfare state. Divided into eight sections, it opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state.

7. The Welfare State Reader, by Christopher Pierson

The Welfare State Reader has rapidly established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research.

8. The Servile State, by Hilaire Belloc

Belloc famously predicted the rise of the ‘Servile State,’ along the lines adopted by Parliament as the Welfare State.

9. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age, by Daniel T. Rodgers

While this is a sweeping and substantial study of how the ideas that ultimately created the social welfare state were transferred back and forth between England and the United States, it is an ultimately flawed analysis.

10. Before Beveridge – Welfare Before the Welfare State, (Choice in Welfare 47) by David A. Green

These are three works by David A. Greene (items #10, 11 and 12) which must read together in order to get a properly balanced account of the heyday of the mutual society system of social and medical insurance on the one hand, and on the other hand, the complete strangulation of civil society by the British state.

11. Reinventing Civil Society: Rediscovery of Welfare without Politics (Choice in Welfare), by David G. Green 12. Mutual Aid or Welfare State?: Australia’s Friendly Societies, by David G. Green 13. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, by David T. Beito

Just as David Green’s studies above are mainly about the UK, Beito’s study is about the similar story in America. This is a deep and meticulous scholarly study of America’s mutual aid societies and all of the social insurance sorts of personal distresses and misfortunes that often afflicted the workingman and the middle classes [i.e., civil society].

14. Imperialism and social reform: English social-imperial thought 1895-1914, by Bernard Semmel (Studies in society [5]), by Bernard Semmel

The spawning of the welfare state and the warfare state went hand in hand. In particular note the pivotal role of the Fabian Society and race imperialist Viscount Alfred Milner, the force behind Cecil Rhodes’s Round Table movement to consolidate the British Empire (see Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope, and The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden).

15. Fabianism and the Empire A Manifesto by the Fabian Society, by Bernard Shaw

Fabian socialists such as George Bernard Shaw supported both the welfare and warfare state as essential to the survival of the British Empire. It was called “Social Imperialism. Shaw was a prominent eugenicist and imperialist.

16. The British Socialist Ill-Fare State; an Examination of Its Political, Social, Moral, and Economic Consequences, by Cecil Palmer

Palmer details how the Fabian-led British socialists of the Labor Party were destroying Great Britain.

17. The Higher Circles, by G. William Domhoff

Domhoff details the origins of the welfare-warfare state from Otto von Bismarck to Richard T. Ely to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

18. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, by Robert Higgs

Higgs charts the accelerated growth and development of the welfare-warfare state in war and peace during the 20th century.

19. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 10th Anniversary Edition by Charles A Murray

Murray relentlessly destroys the empirical and ideological basis of the modern welfare state

20. The Welfare State We’re in, by James Bartholomew

This is by far the best book on England’s welfare state. It describes how the welfare system operates, day to day, how it punishes both the young and the elderly just for trying to get ahead, or just trying to keep one’s head above water.

21. Welfare As We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State, by Charles Noble

22. Is the Welfare State Justified? by Daniel Shapiro

In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy – egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism – should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions.

23. Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State, by Sheldon Richman

Richman further details the origins of the welfare state in Bismarck’s Prussia and antebellum Civil War pensions in America.

24. A Life of One’s Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State, by David Kelley

The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to support it today.

25. From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America, by Walter I. Trattner

26. From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order, by Marc Allen Eisner

Eisner further outlines the tremendous impact and rationale World War I ‘war collectivism’ played in ushering in FDR’s New Deal welfare state. (see Murray N. Rothbard’s two pivotal essays, ‘War Collectivism in World War I,’ and ‘World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals.’ Both available online.)

27. Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, by Theodore Dalrymple

Dalrymple’s key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives.

28. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, by Frances Fox Piven

Marshaling a vast array of research, Piven and Cloward persuasively demonstrate how public relief has been used to avert civil chaos during economic downturns and to exert pressure on the work force during periods of stability.

29. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah Goldberg

Critics such as David Gordon have pointed out its factual flaws in interpretation but Goldberg gets 90% of it brilliantly correct. Not a scholarly treatise but a fast-paced polemic showing the common ideological roots of American progressivism and European fascism, a legacy continuing with today’s welfare-warfare state.

30. As We Go Marching, by John T. Flynn

Flynn’s brilliant expose of the fascist origins of FDR’s New Deal, and its close ideological relationship to Mussolini’s and Hitler’s regimes.

31. Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939, by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Schivelbusch dares compare the collectivist ideology and pragmatic public policy applications of Roosevelt’s New Deal, Mussolini’s Corporate State, and Hitler’s National Socialist Third Reich. Excellent companion volume to Flynn’s As We Go Marching above.

32. Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State, by Götz Aly

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history’s greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale – and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs – Hitler literally ‘bought’ his people’s consent.

33. The Third Reich: A New History, by Michael Burleigh

Excellent in documenting the social welfare component of National Socialist Germany under Hitler.

34. The New Totalitarians, by Roland Huntford

Huntsford dissects the fascist model of the social welfare state of Sweden.

35. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, Expanded Edition, by Edwin Black

Eugenics was not new in the Progressive Era, but acquired impetus with the advent of a more expansive government. Expansion of state coercion meant that it became possible to have not only eugenic thought, but also eugenic practice. Millions of ‘the unfit’ were targeted for sterilization and elimination. Weimar and National Socialist Germany looked to the US as a model.

36. Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of the People’s Pottage, by Garet Garrett

Garrett’s classic expose’ of the destructive nature of the welfare-warfare state under presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

37. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents – The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2), by F. A. Hayek

Originally published in 1944, this book was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

38. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, by David A. Stockman

A searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state – especially the Federal Reserve – has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts.

39. Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse, by Thomas E. Woods

America is on the brink of financial collapse. Decades of political overpromising and underfunding have created a wave of debt that could swamp our already feeble economy. And the politicians’ favorite tricks – raising taxes, borrowing from foreign governments, and printing more money – will only make it worse. Only one thing might save us: Roll back the government.

40. The Progressive Era, by Murray N. Rothbard

And I saved the best authoritative book for last.

“Rothbard’s posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. It will soon be the must read study of this dreadful time in our past.”— From the Foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, “The current relationship between the modern state and the economy has its roots in the Progressive Era.”— From the Introduction by Patrick Newman. “Progressivism brought the triumph of institutionalized racism, the disfranchising of blacks in the South, the cutting off of immigration, the building up of trade unions by the federal government into a tripartite big government, big business, big unions alliance, the glorifying of military virtues and conscription, and a drive for American expansion abroad. In short, the Progressive Era ushered the modern American politico-economic system into being.”— From the Preface by Murray N. Rothbard.

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson
Obituary for my father.

Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet.

He was born February 10, 1941 at Massachusetts General Hospital to a 15-year-old Swedish-speaking girl and placed in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, where he developed rickets from malnutrition. His legs were bent for the rest of his life. After years in foster homes, he was placed with the Carlson family in Norwood, Mass. His adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12 and he stopped attending school regularly. At 17, he was jailed for car theft, thrown out of high school for the second time, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.

In 1962, in search of adventure, he drove to California. He spent a year as a merchant seaman on the SS Washington Bear, transporting cargo to ports in the Orient, and then became a reporter. Over the next decade, he was a copy boy at the LA Times, a wire service reporter for UPI and an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News, covering the upheaval of the period. He knew virtually every compelling figure of the time, including Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Eric Hoffer, Jerry Garcia, as well as Mafia leaders and members of the Manson Family. In 1965, he was badly injured reporting from the Watts riots in Los Angeles.

By 1975, he was married with two small boys, when his wife departed for Europe and didn’t return. He threw himself into raising his boys, whom he often brought with him on reporting trips. At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and unchanging nature of people. He was a free thinker and a compulsive book reader, including at red lights. He left a library of thousands of books, most dog-eared and filled with marginalia. His reading and life experiences convinced him that God is real. He had an outlaw spirit tempered by decency.

In 1979, he married the love of his life, Patricia Swanson. They were together for 44 years, all of them happy. She died sixteen months before he did and he mourned her every day.

In 1985, he moved to Washington to work for the Reagan Administration. He spent five years as the director of the Voice of America, and then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and later ran a division of King World television.

The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues. He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and whomever runs Somaliland. He was a fundamentally nonjudgmental person who was impossible to shock, and he described them all with amused affection.

He spoke to his sons every day and had lunch with them once a week for thirty years at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always prefaced by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs.

Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He was the toughest human being anyone in his family ever knew, and also the kindest and most loyal. RIP.

America’s Untold Stories – Who is Dick Carlson?

History… The Last Will of Cecil Rhodes and the Anglo-American Establishment

“Tonight, on History… So it Doesn’t Repeat: We feature a research discussion led by Brett Veinotte, digging into the relevant, substantial, and credible evidence of an agenda of the New World Order. We’ll discover how to organize and assemble the puzzle, one piece at a time, revealing the big picture; and what we can do about it. Learning’s the Answer. What’s the Question? It’s all coming up, on History… So it Doesn’t Repeat!”

The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden, by Carrol Quigley

Tragedy and Hope: A History of Our World in Our Time, by Carrol Quigley

Union Now, by Clarence K. Streit

The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes

“The Special Relationship” (book list)

The Importance of the Congressional Investigations of Tax Exempt Foundations: Hearings – Reece Committee – 1953

Powerful Norman Dodd Interview Concerning the Reece Committee Report on Tax Exempt Foundations; Who Was Norman Dodd and Why What He Had To Say Is Vitally Important?

Rhodes of Africa
The 1937 film starring Walter Huston. It is the story of Cecil John Rhodes and the founding of Rhodesia.

Cecil Rhodes, by Apollon Davidson
A Marxist interpretation of the life and legacy of Cecil John Rhodes

Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire’s frontiers. The empire’s most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain’s shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.

The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group’s claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood’s role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism, by Philip J. Stern

“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about empire.” ―William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

“Remarkable…The richness of detail and evidence that Stern…brings to his subject is [new]―as is the lucidity with which he organizes his material over six long chapters that stretch from the mid-16th century almost to the present.” ―Linda Colley, Financial Times

“[A] commanding history of British corporate imperialism.” ―Michael Ledger-Lomas, London Review of Books

Across four centuries and multiple continents, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan―a legal fiction with very real power.

Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, colonialism’s legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago.

Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, by Niall Ferguson

A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as “a rattling good tale” (Wall Street Journal) and “popular history at its best” (Washington Post)

The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government — all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain’s economy, population and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.

Displaying the originality and rigor that have made Niall Ferguson one of the world’s foremost historians, Empire is a dazzling tour de force — a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, by Niall Ferguson

The instant New York Times bestseller.

A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we’re living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.

“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times

“Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book…In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind. Do it.” —The Wall Street Journal

“The Square and the Tower, in addition to being provocative history, may prove to be a bellwether work of the Internet Age.” —Christian Science Monitor

“Most history is hierarchical: it’s about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that’s simply because hierarchies create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks-leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the personal computer in the role of the printing press. Those looking forward to a utopia of interconnected ‘netizens’ may therefore be disappointed. For networks are prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld.”–

America’s Untold Stories
With Eric Hunley and Mark Groubert

Mark Lane Exposed the Truth About JFK’s Assassination

Join Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley in this captivating episode of America’s Untold Stories as they delve into the life and legacy of Mark Lane, the bold attorney and author of Rush to Judgment. As the first major public figure to openly challenge the Warren Commission’s conclusions, Lane helped spark decades of debate over the JFK assassination and became a lightning rod for controversy.

In this compelling deep dive, Groubert and Hunley explore who Mark Lane truly was — beyond the courtroom and beyond the pages of his famous book. Through behind-the-scenes stories, legal insights, and historical context, the episode unpacks Lane’s motivations, legal battles, personal convictions, and the cultural storm he helped ignite.

What you’ll learn in this episode:
• Why Lane wrote Rush to Judgment and how it shifted the public narrative on JFK
• Lane’s early influences and how they shaped his pursuit of justice
• The controversies that surrounded Lane’s career, from civil rights activism to high-profile clients
• The enduring impact of Lane’s work on government accountability and modern skepticism

Whether you’re a JFK researcher, legal enthusiast, or just curious about the roots of American distrust in official narratives — this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Thanks JJ.

At Hillsdale’s Constitution Day Celebration, Mike Benz explores the history and evolution of the intelligence state in the United States, detailing its origins, the establishment of covert operations, and the implications of political warfare.

Mike discusses key documents and events that shaped the intelligence community, including the CIA’s role in foreign elections and the transition from hard power to soft power in American foreign policy. The conversation also highlights the ongoing influence of the intelligence state in contemporary politics and its relationship with populism.