A half century ago, the Anglo-American establishment reversed the policies that had made America rich, powerful, and humane. They seized the power to enact this catastrophic change through the political assassinations of the 1960s.
A majority of Americans support the core issues Donald Trump emphasized in both of his presidential campaigns: end the permanent wars of that establishment and restore the productive industry that the transatlantic elite robbed from America. A majority wants to return to the peaceful progress that built our country.
Before Trump’s second term, the usurpers set in motion a spiraling escalation of war. They lit a fire they hoped the next president couldn’t extinguish—to force his hand so that, whatever his own real intentions, their “globalism” and forever wars would not be reversed. Amid deafening war hysteria, U.S. weapons surged toward potentially uncontrollable violence—Israel versus Iran/Lebanon/Palestine; NATO/EU vs. Russia; and the U.S. versus China.
They also tried to resolve the matter on their own terms with several attempts to assassinate Trump amid a climate of escalating violence.
In the last two weeks, a double escalation pushed the world closer to nuclear war. The transnational covert services of the usurping establishment coordinated both attacks: by Ukraine against Russia’s strategic bombers deep inside Russia, and by Israel against Iran’s capital city and military leadership. The establishment boasted that, during the long planning phases of both attacks, drones had been planted inside the target nations.
Before these attacks, the world saw America’s president seeking deals to move away from conflict with Russia, China, and Iran. After the attack on Iran, which has terrified the world, President Trump changed his tone.
The United States gained influence as the most successful and productive nation. We shaped a better world with our inventions—especially in electricity—and our insistence on national sovereignty instead of imperialism.
President Franklin Roosevelt proposed in the 1943 Hurley report that Iran should be freed from British control of its resources so that Iran could be the model for a poor country transforming itself into a modern nation. In 1951, Iran’s parliament followed FDR’s lead, voting to nationalize the Iranian oil industry, taking control from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The CIA under Allen Dulles betrayed FDR’s legacy and U.S. interests, joining Britain’s MI-6 in August 1953 to overthrow Iran’s democratic government, restoring British oil control.
Nevertheless, four months later, President Dwight Eisenhower set a different tone. In a historic address to the United Nations, he said:
The United States knows that if the fearful trend of atomic military build-up can be reversed, this greatest of destructive forces can be developed into a great boon for the benefit of all mankind. The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. The capability, already proven, is here today. If the entire body of the world’s scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, this capability could quickly be transformed into a universal, efficient, and economical energy source.
“To hasten the day when fear of the atom will begin to disappear from the minds of the people and the governments of the East and West, there are certain steps that can be taken now.
“I therefore make the following proposal.
“The governments principally involved, to the extent permitted by elementary prudence, should begin now and continue to make joint contributions from their stockpiles of normal uranium and fissionable materials to an international atomic energy agency. We would expect that such an agency would be set up under the aegis of the United Nations.
Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program was instrumental in Iran’s early development of nuclear science.
President John F. Kennedy sought to shift the world away from nuclear confrontation and toward peaceful uses of nuclear energy, making this vision the core mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He proposed that nuclear plants be built throughout the world. It would power industry and desalination to bring limitless fresh water in joint projects such as those between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., India and Pakistan, and Israel and its Islamic neighbors.
Whatever Donald Trump does under pressure from the usurping transatlantic establishment, our country’s economy must be rebuilt, and the wars must be shut down. That is the will of our people. That is the way our country can fulfill its founding mission of progress.
Anton Chaitkin, author of Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume II—1830s to 1890s.