<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Maddie (Books Behind Borders)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where empires write the stories and we read between the lies.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdZH!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fa8a5fe-65cc-460f-8266-176589f9668a_1280x1280.png</url><title>Maddie (Books Behind Borders)</title><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:12:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[WHO IS GETTING RICH OFF THE IRAN WAR?]]></title><description><![CDATA[While ordinary Americans are getting crushed by the rising cost of war, the politicians responsible for funding it are watching their investments soar.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/who-is-getting-rich-off-iran-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/who-is-getting-rich-off-iran-war</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:34:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/222417331/44f7e8f891b8d61e010eca509246989b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Politicians are buying oil, energy, and defense stocks right before wars break out, positioning themselves to profit from the same wars that make life increasingly unbearable for the average American.</p><p>Americans are finally realizing that the politicians who are supposed to represent us don&#8217;t actually work for us and when you look at how our political system operates, it&#8217;s pretty obvious why.</p><h4><strong>We have a political system that allows the very people responsible for making decisions that affect hundreds of millions of Americans to get filthy rich off those same decisions.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kgv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe506f02b-e52b-4f5f-8bd0-016d62e70e08_2038x916.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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And somehow, these same people are allowed to have millions of dollars invested in the exact corporations that benefit from the decisions they&#8217;re making.</p><p><strong>How is that even legal?</strong></p><p>We&#8217;re talking about politicians who have access to information the rest of us would go to prison for possessing, who know which industries are about to receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money, and who can personally profit from the decisions they&#8217;re making with that information.</p><p>How completely insane is that? Shouldn&#8217;t all members of Congress be entirely unbiased?</p><p>If a politician knows that a war is coming, knows that oil prices are about to skyrocket, and knows that defense contractors are about to receive billions in government contracts, why on earth should they be allowed to buy stocks in those companies?</p><p>And if those same politicians personally benefit every time the United States gets dragged into another war, <strong>what financial incentive do they have to ever vote to </strong><em><strong>end</strong></em><strong> one?</strong></p><p>Because while Americans are being told that we need to make sacrifices, pay higher prices, and send billions of our tax dollars overseas to fund another war, the people making those decisions can sit back and watch their investment portfolios grow.</p><p><strong>The American people are paying for these wars </strong><em><strong>twice</strong></em><strong>. Once with our tax dollars, and again every time we go to the gas station or grocery store. Meanwhile, the politicians deciding how long these wars continue have money invested in the companies making billions from them.</strong></p><p>And we&#8217;re supposed to believe that none of this influences their decisions?</p><p>So I started looking into which politicians invested in oil and defense companies before the Iran war, exactly when they bought those stocks, and how much those investments have increased in value since the war began.</p><p><strong>Because I want to know which politicians are voting to keep this war going while they have money invested in the companies profiting from it, and whether they might be using classified information that ordinary Americans don&#8217;t have access to in order to make themselves filthy rich.</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s find out&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>RO KHANNA</h1><p>Ro Khanna loves to preach about being anti-war, but apparently that doesn&#8217;t stop him from investing in the very companies making billions off these wars. Just weeks before the Iran war broke out, he invested in Shell, TotalEnergies, and Palantir.</p><p>Khana purchased these stocks on February 13 when Shell was trading at $78.77 a share. Today, it&#8217;s trading at $104.78. That&#8217;s a 33% increase in just over eight months. So while Americans are getting crushed by rising oil costs, Khana is making a fortune.</p><p>Shell&#8217;s stock is up nearly 39% in the last year and even <a href="https://www.capitoltrades.com/articles/sectors-and-politicians-who-profited-from-the-iran-war-2026-05-11">beat analyst expectations with $6.92 billion in quarterly earnings</a>. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HfYu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1511a25-99d3-4d3c-bdc7-79d6b4934be5_1136x704.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HfYu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1511a25-99d3-4d3c-bdc7-79d6b4934be5_1136x704.png 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>SHELL&#8217;S STOCK TRENDS</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>On February 13, TotalEnergies was trading at $76.79 a share. Today, it&#8217;s trading at $93.76. That&#8217;s a 22% increase in just eight months, and its stock is up nearly 39% over the past year, with its <a href="https://www.capitoltrades.com/articles/sectors-and-politicians-who-profited-from-the-iran-war-2026-05-11">profits jumping by nearly a third</a> to $5.4 billion.</p><p>So while ordinary Americans are getting absolutely demolished by rising energy bills, Khanna is invested in an oil giant whose stock price has been soaring.</p><p>And I&#8217;m supposed to believe there&#8217;s nothing wrong with a politician preaching about ending wars while he has money invested in companies profiting from them? <strong>Why would he want this war to end when he has a financial stake in the companies benefiting from it?</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFqP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff50f7c5e-a574-492f-862a-1bc8f1bb85dc_1370x718.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFqP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff50f7c5e-a574-492f-862a-1bc8f1bb85dc_1370x718.png" width="1370" height="718" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>TOTALENERGIE&#8217;S STOCK TRENDS</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>On February 13, Palantir was trading at $131.41 a share. Today, it&#8217;s trading at $198.73, and its stock is up nearly 19% over the past year. Meanwhile, Khanna has repeatedly raised the alarm about Palantir&#8217;s use of personal data, mass surveillance, and the dystopian potential of unchecked artificial intelligence, yet he&#8217;s making millions off of his investments in Palantir and AI companies.</p><p>So apparently Palantir is dangerous enough for Khanna to warn the American public about, but not dangerous enough to keep out of his investment portfolio. </p><p>Why would I believe a single word that comes out of his mouth? Clearly, he doesn&#8217;t have nearly as much of a problem with Palantir as he wants the American public to believe.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCjw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b35ab1b-e02b-430e-aa1a-009fa3b83f43_1112x714.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCjw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b35ab1b-e02b-430e-aa1a-009fa3b83f43_1112x714.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCjw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b35ab1b-e02b-430e-aa1a-009fa3b83f43_1112x714.png 848w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>PALANTIR&#8217;S STOCK TRENDS</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Since Khanna entered Congress in 2017, his estimated net worth has reportedly increased by $187 <em><strong>MILLION, </strong></em>even though his salary is only $174,000/year. And I&#8217;m sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the privileged information he has access to while sitting on the Armed Services Committee, overseeing the very industries he is invested in.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>JOSH GOTTHEIMER</h1><p>Then there&#8217;s New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, where members receive some of the most sensitive classified defense and intelligence briefings in the country. In other words, he knows definitively when the U.S. will be going to war and somehow he&#8217;s also allowed to trade stocks in companies that stand to make billions from those wars. </p><p>He bought Exxon stock on February 2 and 4, just weeks before the U.S. struck Iran.</p><p>On February 2, Exxon was trading at $138.40 a share and today it&#8217;s trading at $184.54 a share, and its stock is up nearly 47% in the past year. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gD-_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a2a4110-547c-49f6-b899-78fb81a8d4ab_1390x726.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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He bought ExxonMobil just weeks before the Iran war, then voted NO on all 11 resolutions to end it. So he&#8217;s helping fund a war, voting against efforts to end it, and has money invested in the very industry making a fortune from it. <strong>I wonder why he&#8217;s so interested in keeping this war going?</strong></p><p>On January 8, the very day he bought ExxonMobil stock, it was trading at $122.91 a share. Today, it&#8217;s trading at $184.54. <strong>That&#8217;s a 50% increase in less than ten months</strong>, and its stock is up nearly 47% over the past year.</p><p>Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are getting absolutely crushed by rising gas prices and the politicians making decisions about this war have money invested in the companies benefiting from it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QWws!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd6788-433e-415e-b0f1-ce5ce6e956d2_1352x722.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sd1B!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18628bb1-7420-454c-931b-b35a1c41fc0d_1920x1080.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sd1B!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18628bb1-7420-454c-931b-b35a1c41fc0d_1920x1080.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sd1B!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18628bb1-7420-454c-931b-b35a1c41fc0d_1920x1080.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sd1B!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18628bb1-7420-454c-931b-b35a1c41fc0d_1920x1080.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>"Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10.hjc-dems-staff-report-epstein-and-trump.pdf">says new House Judiciary report</a>.</p><p>Report has a new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised her a visa &amp; NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.</p><p>Out of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking operation, 5 of them (Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe) have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein&#8217;s company or direct physical presence:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Beatrice Keul</strong> credibly alleges that Trump violently raped her at a November 1993 pageant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and that Epstein, Trump, and others used this pageant as a &#8220;hunting ground&#8221; to <a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-tower-epstein-files?r=2qn8rw">prey on vulnerable young women and girls</a></p></li><li><p><strong>Stacey Williams</strong>, who offered a detailed and corroborated account of Trump sexually assaulting her in the early 1990s while she was alone with him and Epstein in an office at Trump Tower</p></li><li><p><strong>Jill Harth</strong>, who has also publicly detailed Trump aggressively pursuing and violently sexually assaulting her and another woman in 1994 at a Mar-a-Lago party where Epstein and Trump were the only men present</p></li><li><p><strong>Katie Johnson</strong>, who <a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-epstein-katie-johnson-fbi-file?r=2qn8rw">gave the FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape</a> at the hands of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor</p></li><li><p><strong>Jane Doe</strong>, who offered FBI a graphic account of Trump assaulting her when she was a minor in the mid-1980s in New York by forcibly pushing her head down to his exposed penis.</p></li></ul><p>Beyond these direct allegations of physical assault, three survivors speak of encounters with Trump whose circumstances indicate that he was a participant in Epstein&#8217;s crimes, as shown by how Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to make (or made) these women available for sex.</p><p>Two Epstein survivors, &#8220;Jane&#8221; and &#8220;Kate,&#8221; told the FBI that either Epstein or Maxwell seemingly offered them up to Trump for the purposes of sex or indicated their availability. </p><h4>Jane and Kate were deemed so credible that federal prosecutors called them to testify as government witnesses, subject to probing cross-examination, against Ghislaine Maxwell at her criminal trial.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Lo9G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0700ade1-bf14-43e2-ad6b-bf90bcc8d36e_1458x704.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Lo9G!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0700ade1-bf14-43e2-ad6b-bf90bcc8d36e_1458x704.png 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Excerpt from FBI complaint form regarding the sexual exploitation and rape of Katie Johnson</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Another survivor, Maria Farmer, described how Epstein had to actively prevent Trump from preying on her late at night after Trump confused her with a teenage girl potentially victimized by Epstein.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. 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Trump American Dream Pageant for 16- to 22-year-olds in Atlantic City and New York.</p><p>&#8220;&#8230;Epstein immediately approached her saying &#8216;I&#8217;m Jeffrey, Don&#8217;s best friend.&#8217;<br>Epstein then spent at least 10 minutes talking to Keul, all the time looking over and grinning at Trump&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;You know I can take care of you. We organize many parties with Don.&#8221;</p><p>Interesting. I thought they weren&#8217;t close friends?</p><p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of what she claims happened to her at this Pageant:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Whj-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11da32bd-6e38-4a3c-a538-7813484f8441_1664x1184.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Whj-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11da32bd-6e38-4a3c-a538-7813484f8441_1664x1184.png 424w, 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. 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Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>TRUMP LYING ABOUT NEVER FLYING ON EPSTEIN&#8217;S PLANE</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fg8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63685e0d-2a37-48a0-b252-6c40abff37de_1086x518.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fg8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63685e0d-2a37-48a0-b252-6c40abff37de_1086x518.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fg8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63685e0d-2a37-48a0-b252-6c40abff37de_1086x518.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fg8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63685e0d-2a37-48a0-b252-6c40abff37de_1086x518.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fg8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63685e0d-2a37-48a0-b252-6c40abff37de_1086x518.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fg8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63685e0d-2a37-48a0-b252-6c40abff37de_1086x518.png" width="1086" height="518" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here&#8217;s the flight log records listing Trump as a passenger on Epstein&#8217;s plane:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wns_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe923647c-5832-4ceb-be02-edab9c6336ef_1300x650.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wns_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe923647c-5832-4ceb-be02-edab9c6336ef_1300x650.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wns_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe923647c-5832-4ceb-be02-edab9c6336ef_1300x650.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wns_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe923647c-5832-4ceb-be02-edab9c6336ef_1300x650.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wns_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe923647c-5832-4ceb-be02-edab9c6336ef_1300x650.webp 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wns_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe923647c-5832-4ceb-be02-edab9c6336ef_1300x650.webp" width="1300" height="650" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here&#8217;s a text message from Jeffrey Epstein to former girlfriend Eva Dubin implying that he had incriminating information about Trump. Hmm, I wonder what that could have been?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6w59!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe66c1e3b-f33d-47db-a69d-4f802f0f1947_1042x478.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6w59!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe66c1e3b-f33d-47db-a69d-4f802f0f1947_1042x478.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6w59!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe66c1e3b-f33d-47db-a69d-4f802f0f1947_1042x478.png 848w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Attorney General Blanche claims that neither the DOJ nor the FBI possess sufficient evidence to support further investigations of Epstein&#8217;s accomplices, enablers, and co-conspirators. That is clearly an absurd statement.</p><p>Make no mistake: everybody in the files are still actively involved in trafficking and abusing young children and adults. This did not stop with the supposed &#8216;death&#8217; of Jeffrey Epstein. This also certainly isn&#8217;t a Republican issue. Most of the people in power are psychopathic pedophiles. And they all deserve to rot in prison.</p><p>But do you think anything is going to come of this new report? Or did the Democrats only release it just before the midterms as a PR strategy in an effort to make it <em>appear</em> as if they&#8217;re trying to take down Epstein&#8217;s clients?</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;3de1a2d3-4701-4bc2-bef0-80477b8f6371&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;If you appreciate the endless hours I&#8217;ve dedicated to reading and reporting on the Epstein files, and you want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Trump Tower Used As Sex Recruiter Hunting Ground&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:165686828,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Books Behind Borders&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Deconstructing our manufactured reality. 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Because when you&#8217;re a sexual deviant, chances are you&#8217;ve got plenty of things someone could use to blackmail you. And when someone has that kind of dirt on you, you become a whole lot easier to control. Practically everybody on the world stage is either a sexual deviant, a pedophile, or somehow connected to one.</p><p>And yet, knowing all of this, somehow I still manage to be shocked when I come across stories like this. Just when you think you&#8217;ve seen it all, you do a little more digging and discover that the Musk family is somehow even more psychopathic than you originally thought.</p><h3><strong>Elon Musk&#8217;s father, Errol Musk, raised his stepdaughter, Jana, from the time she was just four years old.</strong></h3><h3><strong>He then went on to have TWO CHILDREN WITH HER.</strong></h3><h4>Yes, you read that correctly. Elon Musk&#8217;s father had two children with a girl he helped raise as his own daughter.</h4><p>And this isn&#8217;t some wild conspiracy theory circulating on the internet. Errol Musk openly admitted it himself.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png" width="1456" height="279" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:279,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:128735,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/221953877?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGge!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992bce0-00a5-4458-b194-ab26c01db51d_2230x428.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3188639/completely-normal-errol-musk-dating-his-stepdaughter-jana">SOURCE</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>And the apple doesn&#8217;t fall too far from the tree.</p><p>In 2018, SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, paid a flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against him.</p><p>The woman worked as a member of the cabin crew aboard SpaceX&#8217;s corporate jets. She accused Musk of exposing his penis to her, rubbing her leg without her consent, and then offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage.</p><p>Yes, a horse. Apparently, that was his idea of a proposition.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png" width="1456" height="205" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:205,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:95071,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/221953877?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Mwu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70bb299a-cad1-4e39-86ab-690f57615dc4_2146x302.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flight-attendant-who-accused-elon-musk-of-sexual-misconduct-2022-5">SOURCE</a></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Now, doesn&#8217;t that sound like something you&#8217;d hear from one of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s victims?</p><p>And speaking of Epstein, Elon Musk was quite friendly with him, too.</p><p>Musk&#8217;s name appears nearly 1,500 times in the Epstein files and emails show that Musk and Epstein communicated multiple times about potential visits to Epstein&#8217;s private island.</p><p>In one email to Epstein, Musk wrote:</p><blockquote><p><em>Do you have any parties planned? I&#8217;ve been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose. The invitation is much appreciated, but a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I&#8217;m looking for.</em></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGLl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6fd6696-30b3-4917-9071-d81d274897ae_1624x436.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YGLl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6fd6696-30b3-4917-9071-d81d274897ae_1624x436.png 424w, 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two children with a girl he helped raise from the age of four is a whole different level of disturbing.</p><h4>But seriously, did you know that Elon Musk&#8217;s father had TWO CHILDREN with his own stepdaughter?</h4><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;8a1961e0-cad7-445e-903e-cbd634d93d9d&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. 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allegedly transferred money from these accounts to a warlord, a mercenary, and a hitman, with the transactions totaling more than <strong>$700 million.</strong></p><p>Between this and the Kushner family&#8217;s investments in Israeli military companies, it shows just how corrupt this administration was, is, and continues to be. Jared Kushner is helping oversee &#8220;peace&#8221; talks for Gaza while his company has financial interests in companies tied to Israel&#8217;s military. </p><h4><strong>The man involved in negotiating an end to the genocide in Gaza has financial interests that benefit from the very military operations he&#8217;s supposedly trying to stop.</strong> </h4><p>Nobody elected Jared Kushner. Trump appointed his own son-in-law to a senior White House position despite him having virtually no qualifications for the job and now this same man is deciding the fate of tens of millions in Europe and the Middle East. </p><p>Jared Kushner sounds less like a diplomat and more like a mafia crime boss operating with White House access. 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You know, the super-secret Pentagon project that invented the internet.</p><p>Jeff Bezos has repeatedly credited his grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, as one of the biggest influences in his life. But what most people don&#8217;t know is that his grandfather wasn&#8217;t just some ordinary guy. </p><p>LP Gise worked for the U.S. government in the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the federal agency responsible for America&#8217;s nuclear programs, and in 1958, he helped establish the Advanced Research Projects Agency, now known as DARPA.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9sAo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cbcc52f-233a-4df9-a709-9335b401afc3_620x443.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9sAo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cbcc52f-233a-4df9-a709-9335b401afc3_620x443.jpeg 424w, 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div></figure></div><p>Now, we&#8217;re all familiar with the story of how Bezos supposedly started Amazon in his garage in 1994. Just another brilliant American entrepreneur who started with nothing and built one of the largest corporations in the world.</p><h4><strong>What a beautiful American success story. It truly just makes you believe that maybe one day you can have it all too.</strong></h4><p>It&#8217;s the same story we&#8217;ve been told about Facebook and practically every other technology company that billions of people now use every single day.</p><p>But was Jeff Bezos really just some ordinary guy who happened to build one of the most powerful corporations in the world? Or was he chosen to be the front man of a CIA-front company, just like Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and many others?</p><p>We already know that Facebook was a DARPA program, which you can read more about below, so is it really that much a stretch that Amazon was as well?</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;6073dd2c-65a5-4397-be33-831e49aeba1c&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;FACEBOOK WAS A CREATION OF THE CIA&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:165686828,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Books Behind Borders&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Deconstructing our manufactured reality. Read these forbidden books &#11015;&#65039; 210k on IG&#8212;follow me!&#128071;&#127996;&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f826b5b-9c1a-48d2-ba18-32f41b57d1cd_553x554.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:1000}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-19T18:45:42.968Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/23e07c4c-c528-42b5-bfab-5243bbb56f94_1730x909.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/facebook-was-a-creation-of-the-cia&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:&quot;8fed7a5a-1bbf-4494-926d-853a70413402&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:221050659,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;podcast&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:222,&quot;comment_count&quot;:54,&quot;publication_id&quot;:3596148,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maddie (Books Behind Borders)&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fa8a5fe-65cc-460f-8266-176589f9668a_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>And here&#8217;s something else I find interesting. If you try to obtain LP Gises&#8217; records via the Freedom of Information Act, you&#8217;ll discover that they&#8217;ve all been destroyed. Why?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png" width="1450" height="184" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:184,&quot;width&quot;:1450,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:34239,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/221504954?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zckC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4880ad36-dc39-4bbb-8232-c839974076ca_1450x184.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>A brief recap before we dive into some more interesting CIA connections:</h1><p>Jeff Bezos&#8217; grandfather, the man he credits as one of the biggest influences in his life, helped establish one of the most secretive Pentagon research agencies in existence. He held a senior position at the Atomic Energy Commission during the Apollo Affair, and then his grandson just happens to build one of the largest data collection and storage empires in the world, which now provides cloud infrastructure to the CIA?</p><p><strong>But I&#8217;m supposed to believe this all started in his garage?</strong></p><h1>THE CIA CONNECTION</h1><p>Did you know that Amazon actually makes more money from its data centers than it does from its retail business?</p><p>Amazon doesn&#8217;t just sell products online. It operates massive data centers that power much of what we call the &#8216;cloud,&#8217; essentially providing the infrastructure for the entire internet.</p><p>And here&#8217;s where things get interesting.</p><p>Amazon&#8217;s stock price exploded in 2014, just six months after the company was awarded its first major government contract, and guess who that contract was with? <strong>The CIA.</strong></p><p>That contract opened the door to billions of dollars in government business. Today, agencies like the FBI, NSA, CIA, DOJ, and DOD run largely on Amazon data centers.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HtJn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84416210-5d79-4d82-8882-2b61c2bb48d3_1238x762.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HtJn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84416210-5d79-4d82-8882-2b61c2bb48d3_1238x762.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HtJn!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84416210-5d79-4d82-8882-2b61c2bb48d3_1238x762.png 848w, 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div></figure></div><p>Now, personally, I don&#8217;t understand how this isn&#8217;t considered a massive national security concern. We have a supposed &#8216;private&#8217; corporation storing a significant amount of our government&#8217;s most sensitive intelligence and military secrets and we&#8217;re supposed to believe that&#8217;s perfectly normal?</p><p><strong>Shouldn&#8217;t the United States government have its </strong><em><strong>own</strong></em><strong> data centers instead of handing that responsibility over to a &#8216;private&#8217; corporation?</strong></p><p>But I guess it would make a whole lot more sense if Jeff Bezos was actually a CIA officer, wouldn&#8217;t it?</p><p>Tell me, did you know about the connections the Bezos&#8217; family had with the Apollo Affair and DARPA? Do you believe that Jeff Bezos is just another American success story or do you think the connections that his family had with the Pentagon played a part in the creation of Amazon?</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;4666b600-8af9-419a-b308-35336c9f00b0&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. 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The device had an identification number printed on it, which was traced back to Acuity Brands, the same company that manufactures Target&#8217;s ceiling lights.</p><p>And here&#8217;s where this gets interesting.</p><p><strong>That little black device is a Bluetooth tracker designed to monitor how customers move throughout a store.</strong> Acuity Brands openly advertises this technology to retailers, explaining that the devices can be attached to shopping carts to track customers&#8217; movements, analyze their shopping behavior, and even monitor employees.</p><p>But how exactly are they tracking you?</p><p><strong>THROUGH THE LIGHTS ABOVE YOUR HEAD.</strong></p><p>Target installed Acuity lighting systems equipped with Bluetooth technology in nearly half of its 1,800 stores. The trackers attached to shopping baskets communicate with the Bluetooth-enabled lights overhead, allowing the system to monitor where a basket travels throughout the store.</p><h4>And according to Acuity, this technology works <strong>without you ever downloading an app or </strong><em><strong>agreeing</strong></em><strong> to be tracked.</strong></h4><p>Now, these particular devices supposedly aren&#8217;t extracting information from your phone. They&#8217;re tracking the movement of the basket itself. But when you start looking at Target&#8217;s own privacy policy, you begin to understand just how much information this corporation is collecting about its customers.</p><p>Target openly acknowledges collecting information about your location INSIDE its stores, and its privacy policy allows that information to be connected with your online activity, the websites you visit, the advertisements you&#8217;re shown, and even your email address.</p><p>And that&#8217;s hardly the extent of it.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. 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you.</p><p>And if you think all this surveillance is just about improving your shopping experience, consider what Target has already been caught doing with its app.</p><p>A Minneapolis news station actually caught Target displaying different prices for the <em>exact same products</em> depending on where customers were physically standing. Reporters compared the prices of ten items on Target&#8217;s app while standing in the store&#8217;s parking lot, then checked those same items again after walking inside. The total price jumped by $262 simply because they had entered the store. </p><p>The exact same products, at the exact same store, could cost you hundreds of dollars more simply because of your physical location. And unless you happened to check the prices before walking inside, you might never have known you were being shown a different price.</p><p>And now we&#8217;re discovering technology designed to track your movements down to the shopping basket you&#8217;re carrying.</p><p>We&#8217;ve reached a point where corporations aren&#8217;t satisfied with knowing what you purchase. They want to know where you go, how long you spend looking at something, what catches your attention, what advertisements influence you, and how much money they can extract from you.</p><p>And the most disturbing part is how much of this surveillance is happening without the average person having the slightest idea it&#8217;s even taking place.</p><p>At what point did we collectively agree that buying groceries should involve being monitored, analyzed, and turned into another source of data for corporations to profit from?</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;93e45a93-2d2d-4f90-a0ce-835dd502421c&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Did you know that the CIA funded and created a company called In-Q-Tel, which is known to have funded Facebook, Amazon, Google, Palantir, Apple, and hundreds of other &#8220;secret&#8221; companies?</p><p>In-Q-Tel is the venture capital arm of the CIA. Founded in 1999, its mission is to identify and invest in cutting-edge technologies that can serve U.S. intelligence and national security interests. How many companies exist today that have actually been funded and virtually <em>created</em> by the CIA?</p><p>There are so many rabbit holes I could go down with this company, especially when you start looking into just how many of the technology companies we use every single day have connections to the American intelligence apparatus. But for this article, I want to focus specifically on Facebook, because I think most Americans would be absolutely horrified if they knew the history behind the technology they&#8217;re voluntarily using to document practically every aspect of their lives.</p><h1>FACEBOOK = PENTAGON PROGRAM</h1><p>Before Facebook ever existed, the Pentagon was developing a program called LifeLog through DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Its objective was to create a comprehensive digital database of a person&#8217;s entire existence, recording practically everything they said, touched, read, watched, purchased, and everyone they interacted with, allowing the government to track and analyze their relationships, movements, activities, and behavioral patterns.</p><h4>In other words, <strong>the Pentagon was developing technology capable of documenting practically every aspect of your existence.</strong></h4><p>Now, here&#8217;s where this gets particularly interesting.</p><p>On February 4, 2004, DARPA&#8217;s LifeLog program was reportedly shut down, supposedly bringing an end to the Pentagon&#8217;s attempt to develop this comprehensive system for collecting personal information. People did not want to give the government access to their personal information and photos.</p><p>And would you like to know what else happened on February 4, 2004?</p><h4><strong>MARK ZUCKERBERG &#8220;FOUNDED&#8221; FACEBOOK.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usRO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff66ed2d0-70df-4a56-bd80-5179adaaba5d_1186x313.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!usRO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff66ed2d0-70df-4a56-bd80-5179adaaba5d_1186x313.png 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On the exact same day that the Pentagon&#8217;s LifeLog program was reportedly shut down, a Harvard student just so happened to launch a social networking website that would eventually accomplish practically everything the Pentagon had been trying to achieve.</p><p>And we&#8217;re supposed to believe that&#8217;s just one enormous coincidence?</p><p>Think about what Facebook actually does. It encourages people to upload photographs of themselves and their families, document their relationships, share their locations, discuss their interests, record their activities, and voluntarily provide a continuous stream of personal information that can be used to map their behavior, social connections, movements, and daily habits.</p><h4><strong>Billions of people are now voluntarily feeding Facebook the very information that the Pentagon was trying to collect through LifeLog.</strong></h4><p>The technology has essentially made it possible to build detailed digital profiles of people&#8217;s lives on a scale that would have been unimaginable when DARPA first began developing its program.</p><p>And the most remarkable part is that people willingly participate in it, because instead of being presented as a Pentagon surveillance program, it&#8217;s presented as a harmless social networking website where you can share pictures of your children and keep up with your friends.</p><p>To recap: <br>The Pentagon develops a program designed to document practically every aspect of a person&#8217;s existence, that program is reportedly &#8220;shut down&#8221; on February 4, 2004, and on that exact same day, Facebook is launched and eventually becomes one of the largest personal data collection platforms in human history.</p><p><strong>How could that possibly be a coincidence?</strong></p><p>And while we&#8217;re discussing the rather interesting relationships between Silicon Valley and the American intelligence community, here&#8217;s another one worth mentioning.</p><h4><strong>Guess whose grandfather was the co-founder of DARPA?<br>JEFF BEZOS.</strong></h4><p>And of course Bezos &#8220;founded&#8221; Amazon, which we now know was funded by the CIA (In-Q-Tel).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png" width="1456" height="265" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/efdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:265,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:112798,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/221050659?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xphT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefdff169-7402-4b77-968d-c44c27d31b61_2300x418.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://luxurylaunches.com/celebrities/jeff-bezos-grandfather-helped-build-the-internet-08242025.php">SOURCE</a></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>CIA CONNECTIONS</h1><p>Now, let&#8217;s take a look at some of the people who were responsible for financing Facebook and helping transform it into the enormous corporation it eventually became, because the connections to the American intelligence apparatus certainly don&#8217;t end with LifeLog.</p><p>Facebook&#8217;s first major outside investor and member of its board of directors was Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Palantir, which is a CIA-front company (funded by In-Q-Tel) that focuses on mass surveillance and data harvesting that emerged as a continuation of a DARPA program aimed at predictive policing.</p><p>Another early Facebook investor was <strong>Greylock Partners</strong>, a venture capital firm that participated in a $25 million investment round in Facebook in 2006.</p><p>And would you like to know who one of Greylock&#8217;s longtime partners was?</p><h4><strong>Howard E. Cox, who also served on the board of In-Q-Tel, the CIA&#8217;s venture capital firm.</strong></h4><p>Another interesting connection is Regina Dugan, who was the director of DARPA from 2009-2012, and served as the head of Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Building 8,&#8221; the secretive advanced technology division, from 2016-2018.</p><p>So&#8230;a former director of the same Pentagon agency responsible for developing LifeLog eventually ended up running an experimental technology division at Facebook. Got it.</p><h1>THE CLUES</h1><p>Even the name &#8220;Facebook&#8221; becomes rather interesting when you consider the nature of the surveillance-based technology and what it actually does.</p><p>A &#8220;face&#8221; represents one of the most identifiable forms of human biometric information while a &#8220;book&#8221; can serve as a written record or &#8220;log&#8221; of someone&#8217;s life.</p><p>And what was the Pentagon&#8217;s program called again?</p><p><strong>LifeLog.</strong></p><p>When DARPA reportedly &#8220;shut down&#8221; LifeLog in February 2004, MIT researcher David Karger told <em>Wired</em>:</p><blockquote><p><em>I am sure such research will continue to be funded under some other title&#8230;I can&#8217;t imagine DARPA &#8216;dropping out&#8217; of such a key research area.</em></p></blockquote><p>Well, neither can I. </p><p>Facebook looks like a modern-day rebranding of DARPA&#8217;s LifeLog program, except this time, instead of asking Americans to participate in a government surveillance project, they convinced billions of people to voluntarily document their own lives through a seemingly private technology company.</p><p>Did you know that the CIA has its own venture capital firm and that they have used it to invest in some of the largest companies that exist today?</p><p>How comfortable do you feel using Facebook, META and Amazon now?</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;e41c7735-9472-43c1-bff2-242c4c70f06d&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I saw this tweet and I realized how little knowledge Americans have about the CIA&#8217;s involvement in the destabilization of countries all around the world. </p><p>What I find so fascinating about Americans who complain about immigration is that many of them are also the biggest defenders of the American empire.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J3Pr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5362c6d3-648b-435e-a729-3665e8e8a9ee_1206x324.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J3Pr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5362c6d3-648b-435e-a729-3665e8e8a9ee_1206x324.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J3Pr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5362c6d3-648b-435e-a729-3665e8e8a9ee_1206x324.jpeg 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>They&#8217;ll complain endlessly about immigrants coming into this country, taking American jobs, and using American resources. They&#8217;ll tell these people to go back to whatever &#8220;shithole country&#8221; they came from, without ever stopping to question why so many people are desperate to leave those countries in the first place.</p><h4><strong>And apparently, it has never occurred to them that the American government has spent decades interfering in the governments, economies, and resources of the very countries these people are fleeing.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PKhJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F955d4ced-63e4-441e-9ca1-b83c3c023882_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Trump also asked why the United States can&#8217;t have more immigrants from countries like Norway</strong>. <strong>Well, I&#8217;m sure if the CIA overthrew Norway&#8217;s government, installed a brutal dictator, and helped destabilize the country, we&#8217;d start seeing a whole lot more Norwegian immigrants showing up at our border</strong>. </figcaption></figure></div><p>And here&#8217;s what I find so ridiculous about this entire conversation. Americans will go on and on about how corrupt, impoverished, and dangerous these countries are, but how many of them could tell you a single thing about the history of American involvement in those countries?</p><p>How many Americans even know that over the last 75 years, the CIA has overthrown over 80 foreign governments, supported brutal dictatorships, and protected American corporations that were exploiting the land, labor, and natural resources of countries all over the world?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M6pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce345d16-4b41-4500-85d4-20327a26c9e6_855x583.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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about. And listen, I&#8217;m not coming from a place of judgment here, because to be completely honest with you, I used to think the same way. I had absolutely no idea just how much our own government was responsible for the instability, poverty, and violence in countries all around the world. I certainly wasn&#8217;t taught any of this in school, and it wasn&#8217;t until I started digging into the history of American foreign policy that I began to understand just how much of the story we&#8217;d never been told.</p><p>So for this article, let&#8217;s focus specifically on Latin America, where the United States has overthrown 56 governments.</p><p>If you want a brief overview of these interventions and coups, check out this article:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;4c2eec67-1bbd-4ba6-84c9-48629ff22bbf&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. 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That we&#8217;re overthrowing foreign governments to protect innocent people and liberate them from oppressive regimes.</p><p><strong>But in 1954, the CIA helped overthrow Guatemala&#8217;s democratically elected president to protect the financial interests of an American corporation.</strong></p><p>And what was this corporation so concerned about protecting? Its banana plantations.</p><p>Yes, our government helped overthrow a foreign government over bananas.</p><p>So let&#8217;s get into it.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>STOP BELIEVING THE MEDIA</h1><p>Whenever the United States wants to overthrow a foreign leader, Americans are almost always fed the same story by the media. We&#8217;re told he&#8217;s a communist, that he&#8217;s killing his own people, or that he&#8217;s some enormous threat to our national security. And of course, our government has absolutely no choice but to intervene.</p><p>But what Americans are rarely told is that many of the leaders the CIA has overthrown weren&#8217;t dictators at all. They were democratically elected presidents. And their real offense wasn&#8217;t oppressing their own people. <strong>It was threatening the profits of powerful American corporations.</strong></p><p>So what does our government do? It helps overthrow these leaders and, in many cases, supports brutal dictators who go on to torture and murder the very people we were supposedly trying to &#8220;save.&#8221;</p><p>And Guatemala is a perfect example of exactly what I&#8217;m talking about.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1lS2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad26e853-b7b6-415e-a952-66815bab47ab_830x553.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1lS2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad26e853-b7b6-415e-a952-66815bab47ab_830x553.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>The CIA and other U.S. agencies &#8221;lent direct and indirect support to some illegal state operations.&#8221;</strong> <strong>This encouraged a Guatemalan military government that was committing genocide against the country&#8217;s population</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><h1>THE BACK-STORY</h1><p>In 1899, an American corporation called the United Fruit Company was founded, and over the following decades, it became so powerful in Guatemala that it practically controlled the country&#8217;s economy.</p><p>The company realized Guatemala had the perfect climate for growing bananas so it started buying up massive plantations. But apparently owning all that land wasn&#8217;t enough. They wanted control over practically everything involved in getting those bananas out of the country.</p><p>So United Fruit bribed the Guatemalan government to secure enormous tax breaks, control the railroads, and dominate the ports.</p><h4><strong>The company essentially owned 42% of Guatemala&#8217;s land, while paying almost nothing in taxes.</strong></h4><p>And what were the Guatemalan people getting out of this arrangement?</p><p>Plantation workers were earning 50 cents a day, with virtually no rights, little access to healthcare, and horrific working conditions.</p><p>So you&#8217;ve got an American corporation making an absolute fortune off the backs of Guatemala&#8217;s land and labor, while the people who actually live there are being paid next to nothing.</p><p>Then, in 1951, Guatemala elects a president named Jacobo &#193;rbenz, who decides he wants to do something about this.</p><p>His plan is pretty simple. He wants to take <strong>unused land</strong> owned by these enormous corporations, compensate the owners, and redistribute it to poor Guatemalan farmers.</p><p>But of course, United Fruit could not allow that to happen. So they call up their buddies in the U.S. government and they tell them that Guatemala is going communist. Isn&#8217;t it interesting how often the word &#8220;communist&#8221; comes up whenever a foreign government threatens the profits of American corporations?</p><h4><strong>&#8220;Communist&#8221; is just code for &#8220;They&#8217;re no longer allowing us to exploit their country and steal their resources, so we need to overthrow their government.&#8221;</strong></h4><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>THE CIA OVERTHREW A COUNTRY OVER BANANAS</h1><p>So in 1954, the CIA orchestrates a coup known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27&#233;tat">Operation PBSuccess</a>, and overthrows Guatemala&#8217;s democratically elected president, Jacobo &#193;rbenz, and helps install a military dictator in his place. United Fruit gets to keep its land, and the American corporation&#8217;s profits are protected.</p><p>And what happens to Guatemala? The country descends into a devastating 36-year civil war, during which over <strong>200,000 people are killed.</strong></p><h4>For decades, Guatemalans are subjected to massacres, torture, and political repression, with government forces responsible for the overwhelming majority of the atrocities.</h4><p>Throughout the period of this genocide, the United States <a href="https://espressostalinist.com/genocide/guatemalan-genocide/">continued</a> to provide military support to the Guatemalan government, mainly in the form of arms and equipment. The infamous guerrilla training school, the School of the Americas in Georgia USA, continued to train Guatemalan officers notorious for human rights abuses. The CIA worked with Guatemalan intelligence officers, some of whom were on the CIA payroll despite known human rights violations.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lNkY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7da6651c-ee07-4b4a-b19d-a769293cf547_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lNkY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7da6651c-ee07-4b4a-b19d-a769293cf547_1200x630.jpeg 424w, 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>The army and its paramilitary teams <a href="https://espressostalinist.com/genocide/guatemalan-genocide/">attacked</a> 626 villages</strong>. <strong>The villagers, if they didn&#8217;t escape to become hunted refugees, were brutally murdered</strong>. <strong>Others were forced to watch and sometimes to take part</strong>. <strong>Buildings were vandalized and demolished, and a &#8216;scorched earth&#8217; policy applied: the killers destroyed crops, slaughtered livestock, fouled water supplies, and violated sacred places and cultural symbols</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>So an American corporation wanted to protect its banana plantations, the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected government, and the people of Guatemala were left to suffer the consequences for generations.</p><p>All to protect the interests of an American fruit company.</p><p>And this is just ONE example of what our government has done to countries all around the world.</p><h4>So if you have a problem with how many immigrants are coming into this country, maybe you should start directing some of that anger toward your own government.</h4><p>Because let me ask you something. Would YOU stay in a war-torn country where there&#8217;s a very real possibility that you and your entire family could be killed? Would you willingly raise your children somewhere that their lives are constantly in danger?</p><p>Of course you wouldn&#8217;t. You&#8217;d do whatever it took to protect your family and give your children a chance at a better life. 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wombs of pregnant women were cut open</strong>. <strong>Women were routinely raped while being tortured</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>So instead of blaming immigrants for fleeing their countries, maybe it&#8217;s time Americans started asking why those countries became so dangerous to live in in the first place, and what role our own government played in making them that way.</p><p>Because if you actually want to understand the immigration problem, you need to understand what&#8217;s driving people to leave their homes in the first place.</p><p>Did you know about the CIA-backed coup in Guatemala? Or is this the first time you&#8217;re hearing about it?</p><p>And if you want to learn more about the history of the CIA, including the 80+ coups it&#8217;s orchestrated all throughout the world, you&#8217;ll love my <strong>Forbidden Reading List.</strong> It&#8217;s completely free: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;93383904-7e23-4695-ba7a-6bea610bdc78&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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OR THE CIA DOCTORS WHO EXPERIMENTED ON AMERICAN CITIZENS?]]></title><description><![CDATA[If we&#8217;re going to publicly execute people, can we at least start with the doctors who drugged Americans without consent?]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/fort-hood-hasan-public-execution</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/fort-hood-hasan-public-execution</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/220459681/46033643f3c94432d6b82f0a82f17201.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I recently came across a clip of JD Vance discussing the potential public execution of U.S. Army psychiatrist, Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood.</p><p>I&#8217;ll drop the 30-second clip below, but let me briefly sum it up for you.</p><p>Vance tells Americans that he believes what Nidal Hasan did was the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.</p><blockquote><p><em>The Army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their most vulnerable and gunned down people where they live. This is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people.</em></p></blockquote><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;818c3a61-a61e-4408-85bc-9a96f6951c66&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>And listen, I don&#8217;t even necessarily disagree with him on this. In fact, I love that we have him on record saying <em>exactly</em> this. </p><p>Because if we can all agree that doctors deliberately harming the very people they&#8217;re supposed to be treating constitutes terrorism, and that any <em>anyone</em> who does this deserves to be put to death, then surely we can also agree that when our very own government does the exact same thing to its <em>own</em> citizens, that should be considered terrorism too, right?</p><p>So really, my only request here is that our government is ideologically consistent when it comes to mass murder.</p><p>If we&#8217;re going to publicly execute Hasan for his crimes, I would just love to know when we can expect the public executions of the military doctors and researchers who experimented on American soldiers and citizens on behalf of the CIA.</p><p>Because apparently, we have a very strong moral objection to doctors harming innocent Americans and I think that&#8217;s wonderful. I&#8217;d just like our government to be held to that same standard.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>And before anyone tries to tell me that our government would never do something like that, allow me to remind you of just a few occasions when it used human beings, including American soldiers, as unwilling test subjects:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Project SHAD</strong>: U.S. military personnel were sprayed with various chemical and biological agents. The sailors were told they were participating in &#8220;protective gear drills.&#8221; Many of these sailors later reported suffering from respiratory illnesses, neurological disorders, and various cancers. </p></li><li><p><strong>MKULTRA</strong>: The CIA administered drugs to mental health patients, U.S. soldiers and other unwitting subjects, without their knowledge or consent. In one case, an American soldier was seeking help for his excruciating migraines. And instead of receiving medical help, Dr. Jolly West, a CIA doctor was subjecting him to intense, experimental drugging. This guy became so out of his mind that he ended up murdering a 3-year-old boy. </p></li><li><p><strong>Operation Sea Spray</strong>: The U.S. Navy sprayed bacteria over the city of San Francisco to study how a biological weapon would spread through a populated area. The government claimed it was harmless. That turned out to be a lie. </p></li><li><p><strong>The Willowbrook Hepatitis Study</strong>: Children with severe disabilities were intentionally infected with hepatitis in an effort to study the progression of the diseased and to test a vaccine. </p></li><li><p><strong>The Plutonium Injection Experiments</strong>: Government researchers wanted to find out how the human body reacted to radioactive materials, so they injected plutonium into patients who they believed were terminally ill, <em>without</em> their consent. Some of these patients weren&#8217;t actually terminally ill.</p></li><li><p><strong>Operation LAC</strong>: The U.S. Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulphide over areas in the U.S. and Canada to see how biological agents would disperse. And, as usual, the public was assured that the substance was harmless, but residents reported an unusual spike in cancer and respiratory deaths in the following decades. </p></li><li><p><strong>Agent Orange</strong>: Beginning in 1961, the U.S. military carried out an 11-year chemical warfare campaign against the people of Vietnam, spraying 19 million gallons and defoliants and herbicides across the countryside. Over 3 million people were poisoned, including U.S. military personnel and it resulted in over a million birth defects.</p></li></ul><p>So, when do you think we can expect to see these public executions? 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Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell lying about WMDs in Iraq at the United Nations</strong>. <strong>This single lie caused the deaths of millions</strong>. <strong>Why do you believe anything these people say when they have showed you over and over again how little regard they have for human life?</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Why should I believe the narrative of WWII from the SAME GOVERNMENT that lied about Vietnam, WMDs in both Iraq and Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Palestine, Covid and Epstein?</p><p>Seriously. I feel that&#8217;s an extremely valid question.</p><p>Our government has lied us into <strong>EVERY WAR for AT LEAST the last 25 years.</strong> Why would the story of WWII be any different?</p><p>And I think the reason so many people are unwilling to even entertain that question has a lot to do with how we&#8217;ve been taught to understand history in the first place.</p><p>Listen, I get it. Nobody wants to believe they&#8217;re the villain in the story. Nobody wants to confront the possibility that their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable suffering upon innocent people around the globe in pursuit of global domination.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s much easier to believe you&#8217;re the good guy</strong>.</p><p>It&#8217;s much easier to tell yourself that your government occasionally makes mistakes, that innocent people sometimes die as an unfortunate consequence of war, but that ultimately, your country is a force for good in the world. That whatever terrible things it might do, it&#8217;s still morally superior to the enemies it tells you to fear.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d5dacf1b-46a2-4112-8350-e6a7189093fa_612x399.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5964a013-395d-43f8-9647-87b368e609d3_770x513.webp&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The U.S. government murdered over 1.5 MILLION Iraqis just from sanctions, including more than 500,000 CHILDREN! When Madeleine Albright was asked whether she thought the deaths of half a million dead Iraqi children was \&quot;worth it,\&quot; she said that yes, it was. &quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8709c38-13e1-4b60-92be-f93b87c1caf7_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>And isn&#8217;t that exactly how we&#8217;ve been taught to understand WWII? That there were good guys and bad guys, that we were the good guys, and that our role in the war was ultimately about saving the world from evil?</p><p>But if you examine that just a little bit deeper, the entire premise doesn&#8217;t make much sense.</p><p>The U.S. allied with the Soviet Union to take down the Third Reich. Do you know who was ruling the Soviet Union at this time?</p><p><strong>The Bolsheviks.</strong></p><p>And the Bolsheviks were way more evil than the Nazis, and it&#8217;s not even close. The Bolsheviks killed over 60 million people. They murdered innocent men, women, and children en masse, at the same time they allied with the U.S. government.</p><p>Which, to me, destroys the entire moral argument of WWII. We allied with a country that murdered 60 million people to take down a government that murdered 6 million?</p><p>On its face, it simply makes no sense. If it was a moral crusade, they would have fought the Soviet Union.</p><p>But Westerners don&#8217;t want to confront this. They don&#8217;t want to ask themselves these questions because doing so would mean acknowledging that the people we&#8217;ve spent our entire lives being taught were the good guys might not have been the good guys at all.</p><p>Now, does that mean the Nazis were good? Absolutely not. You&#8217;ll be hard-pressed to find ANY government that&#8217;s genuinely just or moral. Personally, I&#8217;m of the opinion that they&#8217;re all run by murderous psychopaths, so I&#8217;m certainly not defending the Nazis either.</p><h4><strong>But that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that </strong><em><strong>we</strong></em><strong> are the villains. <br>That we </strong><em><strong>ally</strong></em><strong> with the villains. <br>That </strong><em><strong>we</strong></em><strong> are the terrorists. <br></strong><em><strong>We</strong></em><strong> are the tyrants. <br></strong><em><strong>We</strong></em><strong> are the evil regime.</strong></h4><p>And I think that same refusal to confront how evil our government actually is, is exactly why we continue to believe the same narratives about the wars we&#8217;re fighting today.</p><p>We would rather believe that our soldiers are overseas defending our country, but how many of the people that we are killing are simply defending <em>their</em> country from us?</p><p>We would rather believe that our military is fighting for freedom and democracy, without opening our eyes to how many countries have been destroyed in the name of those very things.</p><p>We don&#8217;t want to admit that every time our government says they&#8217;re &#8220;liberating&#8221; a country, what they really mean is they&#8217;re mass murdering civilians.</p><h4><strong>And we certainly won&#8217;t dare to admit that that&#8217;s exactly what we did to Germany after WWII.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mId5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf5ea25d-fda7-4830-9393-342765a36b48_590x459.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Our country ethnically cleansed more than 12 million innocent Germans at the end of WWII. Half a million of them were murdered for the crime of speaking German. Children were lined up and shot.</p><p>Well over 2 million women and children were raped at the end of the war. Many of them died or killed themselves as a result. Hundreds of thousands of them starved to death.</p><p>It was the largest mass expulsion in human history, and yet you never learned about that in school.</p><p>And who did our government commit these crimes against humanity with?</p><p><strong>The Bolsheviks and the English. You&#8217;d be shocked at how many genocides Great Britain has been responsible for.</strong></p><p>Our government was not the hero in WWII. It has never been the hero in any war in its entire history.</p><p><strong>Everything you learned in school was a lie.</strong></p><p>And considering WWII was such a massive cultural event, and its legacy is still used to this day to psychologically manipulate our country, I think it might be vitally important to understand what really happened.</p><p>Because the Western world has become a depraved dystopia where most people are sleepwalking through life in a propaganda-riddled stupor under an empire fueled by human blood.</p><p><strong>You can either wake up and start living in reality, or remain asleep in the fiction until there is literally nothing left of this country.</strong></p><p>And I believe the first step toward waking up is learning our real history, especially the parts of history that are considered &#8220;off limits,&#8221; because I believe that when people are discouraged from questioning something, it&#8217;s worth asking why. Typically that means there&#8217;s something behind the curtain that they don&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>So I&#8217;m asking a very simple question.</p><h4><strong>If our government has lied to us about every single war in history, why is WWII the </strong><em><strong>one</strong></em><strong> war we&#8217;re not allowed to question?</strong></h4><p>Do you seriously believe that the version they told you is the complete truth? And more importantly, are you brave enough to find out?</p><p>If you&#8217;re not sure where to start, I&#8217;ll link some of my articles below. They&#8217;re completely free to read, and I also highly recommend reading my <strong><a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-forbidden-reading-list?r=2qn8rw">Forbidden Reading List</a></strong>.</p><p><strong>Articles on WWII and the Bolsheviks</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;a88a2ef8-5e23-4ffe-9579-9a4ef8ae4f43&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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Epstein Files: The Government Has Technology That Can Force People To Commit Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think Directed Energy Weapons are just a conspiracy theory? Think again.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/directed-energy-weapons-epstein-files</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/directed-energy-weapons-epstein-files</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:30:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/219914406/ebf0bf4293108dc5ad579a1927b5c22d.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5><em><strong>If you appreciate the endless hours I&#8217;ve dedicated to reading and reporting on the Epstein files and you want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Among the strangest things I&#8217;ve come across in the Epstein files is a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00262811.pdf">document that&#8217;s hundreds of pages long</a>, describing the use of Directed Energy Weapons, mind control technology, and secret human experimentation without people&#8217;s knowledge or consent.</p><p>The first document describes a couple who are the <strong>&#8220;leaders of a prostitution, child molesting and sex trafficking syndicate known as the Ashley Madison network.&#8221;</strong> According to the document, much of the funding for this operation is held in the accounts of wealthy investors and tied up in real estate they&#8217;ve acquired.</p><p>The document claims that many of the properties owned by this network are being <strong>used to house people operating radio transmitters</strong> and that these transmitters send out radio frequency signals capable of interfering with the human central nervous system.</p><p>It also claims that these transmitters can cause people to experience auditory and visual hallucinations and the equipment is supposedly visible from the street in the form of <strong>SATELLITE DISHES.</strong></p><h4>It then says that &#8220;driving people to commit suicide is a common practice with these transmitters.&#8221;</h4><p>Certainly makes you wonder about all of those suspicious deaths and &#8220;suicides&#8221; in connection with Epstein.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div></figure></div><h4>It then says that &#8220;many of the wealthy and well-known people that were associates of Epstein are still involved in the organization.&#8221;</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HNf3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8334f26d-787e-4cf9-bc80-f528a696415c_1414x188.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HNf3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8334f26d-787e-4cf9-bc80-f528a696415c_1414x188.webp 848w, 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>In another document somebody claims that they were targeted by police for <strong>27 YEARS, starting when they were just 16 years old.</strong></p><p>They&#8217;re accusing police of fabricating criminal charges, falsifying witness statements, sexual misconduct, and even plotting to murder them and make it look like a suicide. </p><p>And what&#8217;s especially interesting is that <strong>the document actually names Australia&#8217;s Police Commissioner and senior government officials</strong> as allegedly being involved.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!16o_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b6a34e1-4fcf-4e4c-86be-005c9a25c48d_960x1402.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!16o_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b6a34e1-4fcf-4e4c-86be-005c9a25c48d_960x1402.png 424w, 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They typically attack the entire family with this technology.</strong></p><p>And when you consider just how horrific the details of MKULTRA and the CIA&#8217;s human experimentation programs are, and that&#8217;s only what&#8217;s been made public, imagine what&#8217;s still sitting in classified files that we know absolutely nothing about. If intelligence agencies were willing to go to those lengths decades ago, is it really that hard to believe they could have developed technology capable of making someone literally lose their mind?</p><p>It even makes me wonder whether some of the conditions we see today, where people hear voices or see things that aren&#8217;t actually there, could be connected to government mind-control technology.</p><p>Because I genuinely believe they&#8217;ve had access to technology like this for much longer than they&#8217;re willing to admit.</p><p>But I&#8217;d love to hear what you think. 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This is a real image of children starving during the Holodomor of 1932-33 in a <em>man-made famine</em> under the butcher Stalin and the Judeo-Bolshevik, Lazar Kaganovich.</p><p>These children did not starve because Ukraine suddenly forgot how to grow food. They starved while Stalin&#8217;s government was ripping apart the Ukrainian countryside through forced collectivization, confiscating grain and food from desperate families and brutally punishing people who resisted.</p><h4>An estimated 6 million Ukrainian Orthodox Christians and Muslims died.</h4><h4>Ask yourself: why are you never taught about this in school?</h4><p>The Ukrainians called this holocaust, the &#8220;Holodomor,&#8221; which means a &#8220;Famine-Genocide.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GjdE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F359c9faf-9b36-4936-9a0a-3915fa8a733e_1206x766.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Just like they deny all of their numerous crimes against humanity. And we are watching the same fight over that word play out right now in Gaza. We are watching the death and destruction in 4K, right in front of our faces, while the Israeli government vehemently denies that what it is doing constitutes genocide.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ug7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b410bb-97ef-4358-9747-dd9c98c169b2_1000x667.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ug7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b410bb-97ef-4358-9747-dd9c98c169b2_1000x667.webp 424w, 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>2026: Palestine. Apparently, this is not a genocide</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><h1>A MAN-MADE GENOCIDE</h1><p>Stalin&#8217;s single most horrific campaign was the organized mass starvation of 1932-1933, when he weaponized hunger to crush peasant resistance to the forced collectivization of agriculture. Soviet military units swept through villages, confiscating grain and food, stripping people of the very things keeping them alive and condemning entire families to slowly starve to death.</p><p>And here is what makes this particularly sick: <strong>the people being starved were the farmers and villagers who produced the food.</strong> The very people growing the grain and working the land were forced to watch the food they produced be taken from them while their own families went hungry.</p><blockquote><p><em>In the case of the Holodomor, this was the first genocide that was methodically planned out and perpetrated by depriving the very people who were producers of food of their nourishment (for survival). What is especially horrific is that the withholding of food was used as a weapon of genocide and that it was done in a region of the world known as the &#8216;breadbasket of Europe&#8217;.</em></p><p>-Prof. Andrea Graziosi, University of Naples</p></blockquote><p>The primary <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor">victims</a> of the Holodomor, literally meaning &#8220;death inflicted by starvation,&#8221; were rural farmers and villagers, who made up roughly 80 percent of Ukraine&#8217;s population in the 1930s.</p><p>This is perhaps the only case in history of a purely man-made famine.</p><p><strong>This was starvation being used as a weapon.</strong> Food existed. The government took it. People resisted. They were punished. Millions died.</p><p>The horror of the Holodomor is that simple.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>THE JUDEO-BOLSHEVIKS WHO PLOTTED THE UKRAINIAN HOLOCAUST</h1><p><strong>1)</strong> <strong>Lazar Kaganovich:</strong> Stalin&#8217;s political figurehead of the Central Committee. In 1928, Kaganovich led the implementation in the Ukraine of Stalin&#8217;s first <em>Five-Year Plan</em>.</p><p><strong>~</strong> The aim of Stalin&#8217;s first <em>Five-Year Plan</em> in the Ukraine was to destroy family farms through starvation making the peasants &#8220;landless&#8221; and thereby introducing &#8220;collectivization&#8221; by which the Ukrainian peasants were forced to become employees of the state. This forced-famine reached its crises point in 1932.</p><p><strong>2)</strong> <strong>Genrikh Yagoda:</strong> Founder of the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police). Assisted in the first <em>Five-Year Plan</em> of starving Ukrainian peasants.</p><p><strong>3)</strong> <strong>Nikolai Yezhov:</strong> Appointed by Yagoda as Head of the NKVD. Assisted in the first <em>Five-Year Plan</em> of starving Ukrainian peasants. Yezhov took on a &#8220;Russian&#8221; name like most Judeo-Bolsheviks. His wife was an active Jew.</p><p>These Judeo-Bolsheviks seized livestock, crops, grain, and farm instruments from the Ukrainian peasants. Any Ukrainian citizen who resisted them was shot. Desperate Ukrainian clergy and peasants ate anything to survive: bugs, grass, and leather shoes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L-5L!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc15129b0-27e6-4990-8d42-f0e1039cbb1c_900x570.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L-5L!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc15129b0-27e6-4990-8d42-f0e1039cbb1c_900x570.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L-5L!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc15129b0-27e6-4990-8d42-f0e1039cbb1c_900x570.webp 848w, 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The NKVD was the</strong> <strong>secret police who carried out mass torture, starvation and executions</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Judeo-Bolsheviks were the chief architects of the Ukrainian <em>forced-famine </em>which eliminated Ukrainian clergy and 6 million Ukrainian Orthodox Christians.</p><p>Anybody who claims the Holodomor was not perpetrated by Jews is ~15% correct and about ~85% wrong.</p><p><a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/jewish-involvement-in-bolshevik-revolution">85% of Bolshevik leaders were Jewish</a>.<br>92% of the Gulag commanders were Jewish.<br>50% of the NKVD Generals were Jewish.</p><p>The mass murder of at least 60 million orthodox Christians and Muslims in the USSR was committed by a majority Jewish government.</p><h4>The Bolsheviks killed over 60 million people and you never once heard about it in school. Why?</h4><p>Because the people who committed these crimes against humanity (Zionists) are now in control of our education system. For example, Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-18-fi-251-story.html">owner</a> of one of the largest textbook publishers in the United States (Macmillan and McGraw-Hill).</p><h4>Which begs the question: how many other genocides, holocausts and the mass murder of civilians have been left out of our history books?</h4><h1>THE ADL DOWNPLAYS THE HOLODOMOR</h1><p>Abe Foxman, who headed the ADL for nearly three decades and became one of Israel&#8217;s most prominent defenders in the United States, met with Ukrainian officials and issued a remarkable warning: <strong>do not compare the Holodomor to the Holocaust.</strong></p><blockquote><p><em>But one thing that you need to be sensitive about is not to link it (the Holodomor) with the Holocaust. Be careful that it is not linked as your genocide and our genocide, because that would be counter productive.</em></p><p>-Abe Foxman</p></blockquote><p>Counterproductive to what, exactly? That is the obvious question. Why would recognizing the suffering and death of millions of Ukrainians somehow become &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; to Israel?</p><p>Quite an admission because Foxman&#8217;s warning makes one thing particularly clear: <strong>Israel views the Holocaust as political in nature.</strong></p><p>If you haven&#8217;t <strong><a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/satanic-origins-of-the-adl">read my expos&#233; on the ADL</a></strong> yet, please do. 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The attacks against me have ramped up considerably and there are now people openly trying to mass report my work and contacting Substack in an effort to have my entire account deleted.</p><p>I knew when I started writing about this that people were going to come after me. Disagreeing with me is fine. I actually welcome a healthy debate. Tell me I&#8217;m wrong. Challenge my sources. Make your argument.</p><p>But trying to get my account deleted because you don&#8217;t like what I&#8217;m writing? Trying to make sure I&#8217;m not allowed to write at all?</p><p>That&#8217;s absolutely crazy.</p><p>Since when did disagreeing with somebody mean they shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to speak? Whatever happened to the First Amendment?</p><p>So I&#8217;m asking you for a favor. If you value the work I&#8217;m doing here, please help me make sure it reaches more people. 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This is one of the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-couple-21-children-surrogate-babies-custody/">craziest stories involving surrogacy</a> I&#8217;ve ever heard and it&#8217;s exactly why so many people have serious concerns about it.</p><p>So back in 2024, a 26-year-old woman named Kayla decides to become a surrogate to make some extra money. She signs up through a surrogacy agency, which ends up matching her with a couple named Sylvia and Guojun.</p><p>Guojun is 66 years old, and Sylvia is 39.</p><p>According to what Kayla was told, the two already had a child together and wanted another, but they were unable to conceive naturally. So Kayla agrees to carry their baby, gets pregnant, and at first, she has no reason to suspect anything unusual about the arrangement.</p><p>But as the pregnancy progresses, things start happening that make Kayla question what she&#8217;s gotten herself involved in.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PnFY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62802bd2-b5c4-4556-94d6-aaf790acc3e6_1800x1013.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PnFY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62802bd2-b5c4-4556-94d6-aaf790acc3e6_1800x1013.webp 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Now, one of the first things Kayla starts noticing is how little contact she actually has with this couple.</p><p>She&#8217;s carrying their baby, attending all of her prenatal appointments, and regularly sending them updates about the pregnancy. But Sylvia and Guojun never show up to any of her appointments and they barely even bother checking in with her.</p><p>They seem to have almost no interest in what&#8217;s happening with the pregnancy.</p><p>And that&#8217;s incredibly strange, because this is supposedly their child. They&#8217;re paying another woman tens of thousands of dollars to carry their baby, and they can&#8217;t even be bothered to show up to a doctor&#8217;s appointment or occasionally check in to see how things are going?</p><p>And we&#8217;re talking about a substantial amount of money here. Some of the surrogates reportedly received payments of $70,000 and $45,000, with additional pregnancy-related expenses covered on top of that.</p><p>Well, while all of this is happening, Kayla has been sharing her surrogacy experience on TikTok. And eventually, she starts receiving messages from other women who recognize the couple she&#8217;s talking about.</p><p>These women tell Kayla that they believe they&#8217;re also carrying babies for Sylvia and Guojun.</p><p>And it&#8217;s not just one or two women reaching out to her. We&#8217;re talking about SIX other women who believe they&#8217;ve all been hired to carry children for the same couple.</p><p>So these women start looking into the couple a little more closely and they discover that Sylvia and Guojun actually founded the very surrogacy agency that had arranged these pregnancies.</p><p>But what Kayla had no idea about was that the couple was already under an investigation after a two-month-old baby had been hospitalized with a severe head injury.</p><p>At the time, Sylvia and Guojun were living in a multimillion-dollar mansion in Arcadia, California. And when investigators arrived at the property, they discovered something far more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdhY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f1d7578-6b36-4727-b83e-bc79fe065a69_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdhY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f1d7578-6b36-4727-b83e-bc79fe065a69_1200x675.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>A view of the home of Sylvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan in Arcadia, just outside of Los Angeles</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Inside this mansion, police discovered more than FIFTEEN babies and young children, most of them under the age of three.</strong></p><p>There were cribs scattered throughout the house, toddlers wandering around, and so many babies and small children that there weren&#8217;t even enough adults there to properly look after them.</p><h1>THE INVESTIGATION</h1><p>Sylvia and Guojun were recently arrested so this case is still unfolding, but here&#8217;s what we know so far.</p><p>Nearly all of the children found inside their mansion were born through surrogacy and some were reportedly conceived using Guojun&#8217;s sperm and donor eggs.</p><p>The couple operated their own surrogacy agency and allegedly recruited women from across the United States without ever disclosing that they were having children on such an extraordinary scale.</p><p>In May 2025, a two-month-old infant was hospitalized with a serious head injury and bleeding in the brain, which ultimately triggered an investigation.</p><p>According to Arcadia Police Captain Kollin Cieadlo:</p><blockquote><p><em>His trauma was consistent with either a traffic accident or the child being shaken and/or dropped, but there was no car accident.</em></p></blockquote><h4>When police investigated the home, they discovered 15 children living inside the mansion, with another six children located elsewhere.</h4><p>And when investigators started reviewing surveillance footage from inside the house, they allegedly discovered something even more disturbing.</p><p>The footage appeared to show nannies physically abusing these children while the couple monitored the cameras.</p><p>Authorities also described extremely strict routines and rooms inside the mansion that were being used as what they called &#8220;learning centers.&#8221;</p><p>All 21 children were eventually placed in protective custody while authorities investigated allegations of child abuse and neglect.</p><p>Then, on October 6, 2026, Sylvia and Guojun were both arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit child abuse and witness intimidation.</p><p>Prosecutors are now alleging that the couple not only knew about the abuse happening inside their home, but in some cases actually encouraged it.</p><p>Both Sylvia and Guojun have denied the allegations and the case is still under investigation.</p><h2><strong>ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLENCE AND ABUSE</strong></h2><p>Now, here&#8217;s where we get into some of the other disturbing details that have come out about this couple.</p><p>According to police records, officers responded to at least THREE DOZEN calls involving this mansion in less than four years.</p><p>These calls included noise complaints about verbal altercations, an anonymous report of suspected child abuse in 2024, and even a claim that $400,000 worth of wine had been stolen from their 17,000-square-foot estate.</p><p>In one incident back in 2022, someone reportedly showed up at the mansion trying to collect payment for work they had done and claimed they were confronted by someone holding a weapon that looked &#8220;like a machine gun.&#8221;</p><p>But some of the most disturbing evidence investigators uncovered came from surveillance footage recorded inside the home itself.</p><p>In one video obtained by police, eight small children, all with closely cropped hair, can be seen sitting in what looks like a classroom. In one image, a child appears to have been placed on a table and spanked by someone described as a &#8220;teacher/nanny,&#8221; who was one of at least six staff members working inside the home.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uD8m!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4967e53-6837-459b-809d-6882adaff408_1208x701.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uD8m!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4967e53-6837-459b-809d-6882adaff408_1208x701.png 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Image of teacher/nanny spanking the child in front of the other children</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>In another image, a child who appears to be a toddler is seen doing what police describe as &#8220;squats.&#8221;</p><p>And in the background of that same room, a baby sitting in a high chair appears to be struck in the face by another &#8220;teacher/nanny.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R5GH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5217f8cb-4acc-475a-96f7-8ee138cf0f65_1162x678.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R5GH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5217f8cb-4acc-475a-96f7-8ee138cf0f65_1162x678.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R5GH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5217f8cb-4acc-475a-96f7-8ee138cf0f65_1162x678.png 848w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Image of an additional teacher/nanny hitting another child in the face</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>There have also been allegations that this was actually a child trafficking operation.</p><p>This story has left me with far more questions than answers and there are a few things I really want to know.</p><ul><li><p>Where exactly did all their money come from?</p></li><li><p>If this couple was already under investigation and facing allegations of severe child abuse, how were they still allowed to operate a surrogacy agency and continue hiring women to carry babies for them?</p></li><li><p>Who were the clients using this agency and how many were there? More importantly, has anyone followed up on the children born through these arrangements to make sure they&#8217;re safe?</p></li></ul><p>And those are just some of the questions I have about this case. I&#8217;m curious what questions you have after hearing all of this, because there is still so much that needs to be explained.</p><p>This case is still unfolding and I&#8217;ll continue following it and sharing updates as more information comes out.</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9da48984-4e16-4600-8114-2fcee1c9ec83&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>In what universe would girls wander into SEWAGE tunnels of their own accord?</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Seventy-one Orthodox Jewish girls, aged 12&#8211;14, were found in an underground tunnel in Nyack, New York.</p><p>And the explanation for how they ended up there makes absolutely no sense to me.</p><p>This is the &#8220;official&#8221; story: So apparently, these girls attend an ultra-Orthodox school in New York and they were on a field trip to a park when they supposedly decided to wander into an underground drainage system, walking about half a mile through dark tunnels.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mMJk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bca4354-ca94-4591-8caa-3b133232d239_1422x556.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mMJk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bca4354-ca94-4591-8caa-3b133232d239_1422x556.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mMJk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bca4354-ca94-4591-8caa-3b133232d239_1422x556.png 848w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That&#8217;s the story we&#8217;re being told. But I have quite a few questions.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Where were the teachers or chaperones?</strong> Since this was a school-sanctioned field trip, who was supervising these children? And if there were chaperones, which I haven&#8217;t been able to find any mention of, why would they allow 71 girls to wander through an underground drainage tunnel?</p></li><li><p><strong>Why hasn&#8217;t the school made a formal statement about this?</strong> At least, I haven&#8217;t been able to find one.</p></li><li><p><strong>The mayor claimed the girls were simply curious about the drainage tunnel.</strong> Since when are 12-year-old girls so fascinated by sewage that 71 of them decide to go exploring underground?</p></li><li><p><strong>Why do none of them appear dirty or disheveled?</strong> They supposedly just walked half a mile through an underground tunnel, yet in the images I&#8217;ve seen, they appear remarkably clean.</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Some of the students after emerging from the sewer system. Why are they so clean?</strong></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>And in case that wasn&#8217;t strange enough, I also came across a report claiming that eight men were seen entering a manhole a few miles from where the girls were discovered. </p><p>But can we go back to the number of girls for a second? Seventy-one.</p><p>Do you know how hard it is to get 70 children to agree on anything? You can barely get a group of kids to agree on something fun and we&#8217;re supposed to believe that 71 girls all agreed to walk half a mile through a dark drainage tunnel?</p><p>I mean, it just doesn&#8217;t make sense to me.</p><h4>Clearly, the story we&#8217;ve been told is a fabrication. <br>Nothing about it passes the sniff test. </h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oTZL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61aca273-4e55-4b51-9e30-c6d475cce414_1350x608.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oTZL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61aca273-4e55-4b51-9e30-c6d475cce414_1350x608.png 424w, 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Clearly, there were no chaperones looking after these children, because you don&#8217;t lose 71 children all at the same time. So was this even a field trip in the first place? And if it wasn&#8217;t, why were 71 young girls all together? Were they trying to escape from something or somebody?</h4><h4><strong>Were they being trafficked?</strong></h4><h1>TUNNELS IN BROOKLYN</h1><p>This isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve heard about secret underground tunnels in New York City.</p><p>In 2023, bloodstained mattresses and children&#8217;s items were pulled from secret tunnels beneath a synagogue belonging to Chabad-Lubavitch in New York City.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oIoE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0d778f1-061d-43b7-9b2c-c80f50826064_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Javier Milei, the president of Argentina and Benjamin Netanyahu are <a href="https://agendamalvinas.com.ar/en/noticia/milei-netanyahu-una-familia-que-busca-la-desaparicion-de-palestina-y-entregar-patagonia-a-los-judios">first cousins</a>. Javier&#8217;s father is Norberto Horacio Mileikowsky, who is the brother of Benjamin&#8217;s father, Benzion Mileikowsky. That means both Javier and Benjamin share the exact same grandfather: Nathan Mileikowsky, born on August 15, 1879, in Belarus.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!69nh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8409b3f7-e856-4899-9384-ac27ecfa853f_982x512.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!69nh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8409b3f7-e856-4899-9384-ac27ecfa853f_982x512.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!69nh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8409b3f7-e856-4899-9384-ac27ecfa853f_982x512.png 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One son went to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania. The other son went down to Argentina.</p><p>Both of them were born with the last name Mileikowsky. Javier just chopped off the end of it: <em>Milei</em>-kowsky became Milei. And Benjamin, who wanted to cosplay as a Jew for reasons we all know too well, changed his name to Netanyahu.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png" width="1200" height="630" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:630,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1148527,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/219332472?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oZ82!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F145e3977-55d7-4791-b4c7-0d6ef7bb8952_1200x630.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Top: Netanyahu and his father. Bottom: Javier and his father. It&#8217;s alleged that the men on the left are brothers, making Benjamin and Javier first cousins</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>It&#8217;s been an open secret for a long time that Javier Milei is an Israeli creation, planted in Argentina to serve their interests. And you don&#8217;t even have to dig deep to see it, the proof is sitting right out in the open&#8230;</p><p>Just look at what happened on the sidelines of the <a href="https://www.bnaibrith.org/honors-argentine-president-with-gold-medal/">80th United Nations General Assembly in New York</a>. B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith gave its Presidential Gold Medal, their highest honor, to President Javier Milei. And standing right there beside him was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was the very first time a sitting head of state received that award alongside another head of government.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UVic!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fda570e-4b94-4c4b-a99c-713de3f5df92_2560x1707.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UVic!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fda570e-4b94-4c4b-a99c-713de3f5df92_2560x1707.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UVic!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fda570e-4b94-4c4b-a99c-713de3f5df92_2560x1707.jpeg 848w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.bnaibrith.org/honors-argentine-president-with-gold-medal/">SOURCE</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>In case you don&#8217;t know who B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith is, let me break it down for you.</p><p>The Anti-Defamation League, the ADL, was created by B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith. B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith is a Freemasonic society exclusively for Jewish people. The ADL basically acts as the PR attack dog for B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith. This is the exact same network that was implicated in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and today they are the ones who try to cancel and destroy anyone who dares to speak out against the genocidal state of Israel.</p><p>So knowing that, am I surprised that Javier Mileikowsky was handed the B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith Presidential Gold Medal? Not for a second.</p><p>For more information on the ADL and B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith check out this article:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;2f3659e6-73ef-48c7-a07d-6b95bf91834a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>ARGENTINA AND THE NAZIS</h1><p>Now, let&#8217;s look at the sheer irony here: <strong>ARGENTINA AND THE NAZIS.</strong></p><p>Argentina was one of the biggest safe havens for members of the Third Reich after World War II. We know Josef Mengele, the infamous &#8220;Angel of Death,&#8221; escaped there, along with countless others.</p><p>But what if Josef Mengele wasn&#8217;t the biggest Nazi to escape to Argentina? What if Hitler himself managed to get out of Germany? And what if the United States actually helped him do it?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png" width="1456" height="765" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:765,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1966706,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/219332472?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt9s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35cc0804-a5df-4dbd-91b2-5af316a87e24_1731x909.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8216;Angel of Death&#8217; Josef Mengele</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>And before you write this off as some crazy conspiracy theory, let&#8217;s talk about the supposed &#8220;irrefutable evidence&#8221; we were given to prove Hitler committed suicide.</p><p>One of the pieces of physical evidence was a skull fragment with a bullet hole, supposedly recovered from the bunker where Hitler &#8220;died&#8221; and believed to belong to him.</p><h4>Except there was one pretty big problem with that story. When researchers tested the skull fragment, they found that it actually belonged to a woman.</h4><p>And according to declassified intelligence files, American Army officials <em>never</em> located Hitler&#8217;s body and there is no evidence that Hitler died in that bunker in Berlin.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AdSo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1044672-4296-4d9e-9cf5-8de256a05577_1163x364.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AdSo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1044672-4296-4d9e-9cf5-8de256a05577_1163x364.png 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Q4e!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95af624b-cbd2-4b6b-a850-e1dc991c4d95_1178x714.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Q4e!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95af624b-cbd2-4b6b-a850-e1dc991c4d95_1178x714.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Q4e!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95af624b-cbd2-4b6b-a850-e1dc991c4d95_1178x714.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Q4e!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95af624b-cbd2-4b6b-a850-e1dc991c4d95_1178x714.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>The skull fragment they claimed belonged to Hitler</strong>&#8230;</figcaption></figure></div><p>Now, we already know Operation Paperclip existed. The United States made deals with former members of the Third Reich, smuggled them into the country, handed them brand-new identities, and installed them inside our military, intelligence agencies and NASA.</p><p>So is it REALLY that much of a stretch to question whether they could have helped Hitler escape, too? </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png" width="942" height="181" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:181,&quot;width&quot;:942,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:26318,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/219332472?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yewz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8be9b4-8cb1-4f2d-882e-243ae4a8f0d0_942x181.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hitler-escaped-germany-and-lived-in-paraguay-until-his-death-in-1971_uk_5786109ce4b08078d6e78435">SOURCE</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>This is how the story goes: Hitler allegedly escaped through a secret tunnel in Berlin, flew by helicopter to Spain, traveled to the Canary Islands, and boarded a U-boat straight to Argentina.</p><p>He then spent an entire decade living in Argentina before crossing into Paraguay, where he lived under the direct protection of President Alfredo Stroessner, who was of German descent.</p><p>Hitler died in Paraguay on February 3, 1971.</p><p>The wealthy families who hid and protected him for decades organized his funeral. He was buried in an underground bunker that today sits beneath an upscale hotel in the city of Asunci&#243;n. In 1973, that bunker entrance was permanently sealed, with around forty people attending the final ceremony to say goodbye.</p><p>One of the men who <a href="https://www-ultimahora-com.translate.goog/brasileno-confirma-que-asistio-al-sepelio-hitler-paraguay-n773861?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp">reportedly</a> attended that ceremony was a Brazilian military officer named Fernando Nogueira de Araujo, who later confirmed to a newspaper that he had been there. According to his account, he attended the secret ceremony in Paraguay in 1973, where Hitler was allegedly buried beneath what is now a luxury hotel, nearly thirty years after the world was told he had died in Berlin in 1945.</p><p>So, we already know that countless members of the Third Reich escaped to Argentina, and there&#8217;s even the possibility that Hitler himself ended up there. And considering everything we just went over about Javier Milei and Benjamin Netanyahu, I find it pretty interesting that Milei comes from Argentina, a country that also happens to have an extremely close relationship with Israel.</p><p>But I&#8217;d love to hear from you, especially if you&#8217;re from Argentina or Paraguay. What have you heard about these theories? Is this something people actually talk about over there? Let me know in the comments.</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;5d35fd75-0bd1-447b-ad2b-a29cd24283a1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>America has done more to spread terrorism around the world than Islam ever has.</p><p>Let&#8217;s actually look at the reality of what our government has done since 9/11. The United States has bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. Millions of lives have been lost across the wars that followed and tens of millions more people have been displaced, traumatized, or had their entire lives destroyed.</p><p>Yet nobody calls that terrorism.</p><p>But when a single Muslim commits a crime, somehow the entire religion of Islam is blamed for it.</p><p>When the U.S. wipes out entire villages, blows up children, and slaughters entire families in the name of &#8220;freedom,&#8221; we don&#8217;t call it terrorism. We sanitize it with language like &#8220;collateral damage&#8221; and move on like those human beings somehow mattered less because they were born on the other side of the world.</p><h4>If what happened on 9/11 was terrorism, when two buildings were destroyed and 3,000 people lost their lives, then what is Gaza?</h4><h4>134,000 buildings destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people dead. Entire families wiped out. A million people displaced.</h4><h4>Seriously, what do you call that?</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png" width="1456" height="765" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:765,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3188544,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/219297127?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yn4-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F456e309b-19a9-4a63-b1a3-b6c27801fdea_1731x909.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Our government lied us into the war in Iraq. They told us Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and used that claim to sell the American public a war that devastated an entire country. A million Iraqis lost their lives. Thousands of Americans died, tens of thousands more were wounded, and countless others came home traumatized by what they saw, what they did, and what they lived through. Most of them will never be the same again.</p><p>And after all of that, who was held accountable?</p><p>Nobody.</p><p>Seriously, how psychopathic do you have to be to launch an entire war on the back of a lie, knowing exactly what is going to happen because of it? Knowing families are going to be ripped apart, children are going to be killed, cities are going to be destroyed, and even your own citizens are going to be sent halfway across the world to suffer and die because of it?</p><p>We have allowed the government and the media to brainwash us into believing that terrorism is defined by <em>who</em> commits the violence instead of the violence itself.</p><p>If a Muslim kills innocent Americans, nobody hesitates to call it terrorism. But if our own government drops a bomb that kills innocent people, destroys their homes, kills their children, and leaves their country in ruins, suddenly we have a hundred different words for it. It&#8217;s a military operation. It&#8217;s national security. It&#8217;s collateral damage. Anything but terrorism.</p><p>According to the DOJ, this is the definition of terrorism:</p><blockquote><p><em>The use of force or violence against people, property, or infrastructure to intimidate or coerce a government or civilian population to achieve political, religious, or social goals.</em></p></blockquote><p>By that definition, the United States government is the greatest purveyor of terrorism in the world. </p><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</strong></em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>But maybe appealing to people&#8217;s humanity just isn&#8217;t enough anymore. Maybe hearing about another dead family or another child pulled out of the rubble somewhere thousands of miles away isn&#8217;t going to wake you up. Maybe it&#8217;s happened so many times that you&#8217;ve become numb to it. And honestly, it&#8217;s almost like that&#8217;s the entire point. Expose you to so much death, so much destruction, so many innocent people being killed that eventually you stop reacting to it altogether.</p><p>So if innocent people being slaughtered on the other side of the world isn&#8217;t enough to make you care, forget about them for a second.</p><p>Think about yourself.</p><p>I think we can all agree that anybody who can bomb children and then go home and sleep at night has no conscience. You have to be a psychopath to knowingly blow children apart and feel nothing.</p><p>So we&#8217;re no longer just talking about a government run by pedophiles. We&#8217;re talking about <em>psychopathic</em> pedophiles with one of the most powerful militaries and intelligence apparatuses on the planet at their disposal.</p><p>And these are the people you trust to decide who gets called a &#8220;terrorist.&#8221;</p><p>Because once they put that word next to somebody&#8217;s name, look at what suddenly becomes acceptable. They can bomb their house. They can kill their family. They can lock them away indefinitely. They can strip away their rights. And millions of Americans won&#8217;t even ask what that person actually did because they already heard the magic word: terrorist.</p><p>Now ask yourself why you&#8217;re so confident that will always happen to somebody else.</p><p>Why are you so sure that label will always be attached to some guy living in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yemen and never somebody living down the street from you? </p><p>Because we&#8217;re already watching the language of terrorism get turned inward and used against Americans.</p><h3>They&#8217;ll label you an eco-terrorist if you go against big oil. They&#8217;ll call you a terrorist sympathizer if you oppose genocide. They&#8217;ll call you a domestic terrorist if you stand against masked men kidnapping your neighbors.</h3><p>And once you&#8217;ve accepted that simply calling somebody a terrorist gives the government permission to destroy that person&#8217;s life, you&#8217;ve also handed the government the power to decide who gets to be called one.</p><p>That should scare the shit out of every American.</p><p>Because after watching our government bomb children, wipe out families, destroy homes, and leave people on the other side of the world with absolutely nothing, I genuinely do not understand why anybody thinks there is some magical moral line they would never cross here.</p><p>People who freely bomb children in other countries do not magically grow a conscience just because you live in their country.</p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;643236c0-af2d-4d06-a1cd-12e14b853d7c&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Barack Obama turned Libya from the country with the highest standard of living in Africa into a war-torn failed state. Yet, the establishment still paints him as a saint. It is time we set the record straight on what his &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; interventions actually achieved.</p><p>Many assume that because I criticize Trump, I must be a Democrat. Nothing could be further from the truth. All presidents are cut from the same cloth: they are evil, vile, mass-murdering war criminals. I do not vote for any of them.</p><h1>LIBYA UNDER GADDAFI:</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tOYA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde35bce3-8615-4060-b0c8-ffa76483cac3_1730x909.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tOYA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde35bce3-8615-4060-b0c8-ffa76483cac3_1730x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tOYA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde35bce3-8615-4060-b0c8-ffa76483cac3_1730x909.png 848w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Gaddafi and Obama</strong></figcaption></figure></div><ul><li><p><strong>Infrastructure:</strong> Free healthcare, education, and electricity.</p></li><li><p><strong>Quality of Life:</strong> Virtually no homelessness or illiteracy.</p></li><li><p><strong>Social Investment:</strong> Newlyweds received $50,000; loans were interest-free.</p></li><li><p><strong>National Wealth:</strong> Citizens received a direct percentage of all oil sales.</p></li><li><p><strong>Engineering:</strong> Built Africa&#8217;s largest irrigation project, turning the desert into fertile farmland.</p></li></ul><h1><strong>LIBYA AFTER U.S. INTERVENTION:</strong></h1><ul><li><p><strong>Human Trafficking:</strong> Open slave markets, literally.</p></li><li><p><strong>Anarchy:</strong> Perpetual civil war.</p></li><li><p><strong>Destabilization:</strong> Extreme violence and the displacement of millions.</p></li><li><p><strong>Global Crisis:</strong> Refugees flooding Europe in a humanitarian disaster.</p></li></ul><p>In 2009, Gaddafi proposed a gold-backed &#8220;Gold Dinar&#8221; for African oil trade. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya, sodomized and murdered Gaddafi, and left behind open slave auctions. America&#8217;s first Black president effectively brought back Black slavery in Libya by arming the terrorists who now auction off women and children.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>Why Did The U.S. Do It?</h1><p>Gaddafi turned Libya into the richest, most prosperous nation on the continent, but his ambitions did not stop at his own borders. He had a vision for the entire continent: a unified &#8220;United States of Africa.&#8221;</p><p>Under a fully nationalized oil program, Libya was one of the largest oil suppliers to Europe. Gaddafi took complete sovereign control over his nation&#8217;s abundant natural resources and used that wealth to build schools, hospitals, and infrastructure, directly challenging the &#8220;legitimacy&#8221; of western monopolies. Even worse for Wall Street and London, he urged other African heads of state to do the exact same thing: nationalize their resources and break free from centuries of Western financial exploitation.</p><p>Then he made the move that signed his death warrant.</p><p>The U.S. dollar is the &#8220;world currency&#8221; because the U.S. forces the rest of the planet to use it to buy and sell oil. If you want to trade, you have to play by our rules and hold our dollars. It&#8217;s the ultimate protection racket. It&#8217;s how the government prints money to pay for its wars and how it ruins other countries with sanctions whenever they don&#8217;t do what they&#8217;re told.</p><p>Gaddafi was getting ready to launch a gold-backed African currency to compete with the dollar and the Euro. If he succeeded, the U.S. would have lost its biggest weapon. Washington couldn&#8217;t let that happen.</p><p>So, they used the standard playbook: they started a massive propaganda campaign. They plastered Gaddafi&#8217;s face all over the news, called him a psycho and told the world that the Libyan people were &#8220;dying for freedom&#8221; and needed our help.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!beGP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86ef4d10-d058-4efe-991f-255742a24679_1112x502.avif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!beGP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86ef4d10-d058-4efe-991f-255742a24679_1112x502.avif 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Africans who are kept in detention centers have fallen victim to human traffickers and are being bought and sold publicly</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s crazy that people still fall for this. The government doesn&#8217;t care about &#8220;human rights&#8221; in Libya, they don&#8217;t even care about the people in their own backyard. We have our own vets living under bridges, families losing everything just to pay a hospital bill, and millions of kids going hungry in the richest nation on earth. The idea that we bombed Libya to &#8220;help&#8221; them is a sick joke. We did it to protect our own wallet and keep the dollar on top.</p><p>NATO finished the job by helping the rebels topple the government and murder Gaddafi.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UOmj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e622f53-a301-48eb-9c4e-1db284bc0470_1250x833.avif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UOmj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e622f53-a301-48eb-9c4e-1db284bc0470_1250x833.avif 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" 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Libya went from the most stable country in Africa to a lawless wreck with record inflation and violent crime. It wasn&#8217;t a humanitarian mission; it was a hit job. They destroyed a sovereign nation, handed it to terrorists, and walked away while human beings started being sold on the auction block. That&#8217;s the real legacy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton&#8217;s foreign policy.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>Obama&#8217;s Track Record</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62zP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F530bb906-d0cf-44a6-ad06-ad66ad22d90d_1731x909.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62zP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F530bb906-d0cf-44a6-ad06-ad66ad22d90d_1731x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62zP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F530bb906-d0cf-44a6-ad06-ad66ad22d90d_1731x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62zP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F530bb906-d0cf-44a6-ad06-ad66ad22d90d_1731x909.png 1272w, 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In his final year alone, he bombed 7 countries and dropped 26,171 bombs.</p></li><li><p><strong>Regime Change:</strong> Waged non-stop war and supported violent coups across Latin America.</p></li><li><p><strong>War Crimes:</strong> Bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital and turned a wedding in Yemen into a funeral.</p></li><li><p><strong>Foreign Funding:</strong> Between 2009 and 2016, he sent Israel $20 billion, and before leaving office, promised them another $30 billion over the next 30 years.</p></li><li><p><strong>Corporate Welfare:</strong> Bailed out Wall Street and handed the bill to the taxpayers.</p></li><li><p><strong>Aided In Genocide:</strong> Facilitated Israel&#8217;s bombardment of Gaza on multiple occasions.</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Turning the most prosperous nation in Africa into a graveyard for the sake of globalist dominance is pure unadulterated evil.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;55e371d0-486b-49c4-9f4c-4f49d54d765a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Every living U.S. president should be immediately tried at The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump.</p><p><strong>Which other presidents are still celebrated by the American public who were actually nothing more than murderous war criminals?</strong></p><p><strong>Relevant reading</strong>:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;49252d79-e939-4159-a240-819ba6c3e70b&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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casual acquaintance of Epstein. He was a neighbor, a co-investor, and a trusted business partner.</p><p>Lutnick, the man who <strong><a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-epstein-connection-to-911">miraculously walked away from the 9/11 attacks</a></strong> with a massive insurance payout, spent years lying to the public. He claimed he had severed ties with Epstein decades ago and denied ever stepping foot on that godforsaken island. It was a total fabrication. Then, earlier this year, Lutnick acknowledged that he had, in fact, visited Epstein&#8217;s island.</p><p>When Lutnick voluntarily appeared before the House Oversight Committee on May 6, he repeated the story he had been telling for years: that Epstein invited him and his wife to his New York home in 2005, showed them his massage table, and made a comment about the kinds of massages he enjoyed.</p><p>Lutnick claimed the comment was so &#8220;off-putting&#8221; that he and his wife immediately left. He said he told her afterward that he wanted nothing more to do with Epstein.</p><p>Except he did. He continued interacting with Epstein and he went to Epstein&#8217;s island with his wife and children.</p><p>Trump, of course, hired Lutnick as his commerce secretary where he made billions for his company by insider trading on the tariff discounts. Billions paid for by all of us through higher prices.</p><h2>Below are just a few snippets from the Epstein Files concerning Howard Lutnick.</h2><p>Here is an email between Epstein&#8217;s assistant, Lesley Groff, and Howard Lutnick coordinating a get-together in St. Thomas:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rv6p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1440977-6086-40a6-ac3e-4af3df87d917_1958x1330.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rv6p!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1440977-6086-40a6-ac3e-4af3df87d917_1958x1330.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rv6p!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1440977-6086-40a6-ac3e-4af3df87d917_1958x1330.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rv6p!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1440977-6086-40a6-ac3e-4af3df87d917_1958x1330.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rv6p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1440977-6086-40a6-ac3e-4af3df87d917_1958x1330.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rv6p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1440977-6086-40a6-ac3e-4af3df87d917_1958x1330.png" width="1456" height="989" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Lutnick and Epstein on Epstein&#8217;s island</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Here is an FBI complaint containing allegations involving Lutnick, money laundering, and Ponzi schemes:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jeHB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2a95045-96fe-4ce8-962e-7efce30c6732_1626x664.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9nw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf7d972f-0157-4557-ab01-e7cc3a934663_1594x1370.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9nw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf7d972f-0157-4557-ab01-e7cc3a934663_1594x1370.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9nw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf7d972f-0157-4557-ab01-e7cc3a934663_1594x1370.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9nw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf7d972f-0157-4557-ab01-e7cc3a934663_1594x1370.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Here is Groff confirming a meeting between Lutnick and Epstein:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png" width="1056" height="470" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:470,&quot;width&quot;:1056,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:144236,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/218799469?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0_Mp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5da6c5d6-b135-4207-9cf2-486348262a9e_1056x470.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here they are coordinating another meeting on Epstein&#8217;s island:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png" width="1456" height="306" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:306,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:116266,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/218799469?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QsoR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec196b58-076e-424c-aa6d-ed69080cb19a_1464x308.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div></figure></div><p>And yet another meeting confirmation:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png" width="934" height="278" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:278,&quot;width&quot;:934,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:83763,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/218799469?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zd1U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0affaf8e-46dd-4298-9407-1c46b923c9b8_934x278.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And another confirmed meeting on Epstein&#8217;s island:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e-i5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791f4a8c-f1ba-459f-a9b6-e5c8b22a5998_1630x850.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And these are only six examples.</p><p>Howard Lutnick&#8217;s name appears <strong>244 times in the Epstein Files.</strong> What you&#8217;ve seen here is barely a fraction of the documented recor <strong>and we still haven&#8217;t even seen all of the files.</strong></p><p>What do you think was really going on between Lutnick and Epstein? 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We like to tell ourselves that the monsters who experiment on human beings, run secret torture dens, and assassinate their own citizens exist only in foreign dictatorships.</p><p>The story of Frank Olson destroys that fantasy completely.</p><p>If you ask the average person today about the darkest chapters in American intelligence, you might hear about MK-ULTRA or secret mind-control experiments. But almost nobody knows the name of the man whose death nearly brought that entire apparatus down: Dr. Frank Olson.</p><p>In November 1953, Olson plunged thirteen stories through a hotel window in Manhattan. For decades, the government told the public that he lost his mind on a bad acid trip and killed himself. It was a complete and manufactured lie.</p><p>Frank Olson did not commit suicide. He was murdered by the CIA because his conscience finally woke up and the people running our national security apparatus decided that an honest scientist who knew too much was too dangerous to let live.</p><h1><strong>Fort Detrick and the New Era of Warfare</strong></h1><p>To understand why Frank Olson was killed, you have to look at what he built. In 1943, the U.S. Army established Camp Detrick (later Fort Detrick) in Frederick, Maryland, as the headquarters for America&#8217;s secret biological weapons program. Olson was one of the first civilian scientists recruited to the facility.</p><p>Olson was brilliant, patriotic, and trusted with the nation&#8217;s highest clearances. Working in the Special Operations Division, he developed aerosols, toxic delivery systems, and weaponized pathogens, including anthrax. But as World War II ended and the Cold War began, the character of Olson&#8217;s work shifted from defending the nation against foreign aggression to something far more sinister: mind control and systematic subversion of human autonomy.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yyxd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6e5c65a-82a0-4463-8c6a-fc81b8a9dda3_2278x1006.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yyxd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6e5c65a-82a0-4463-8c6a-fc81b8a9dda3_2278x1006.png 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Fort Detrick: the CIA&#8217;s Base for Mind Control Experiments</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Under Operation Paperclip, the military and the newly formed CIA began scouring defeated Germany. They were not looking to bring war criminals to justice; they were shopping for talent.</p><p>Case in point: Kurt Blome. The deputy Reich health leader who had overseen medical experiments on prisoners in Dachau. He was indicted at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. But instead of letting him hang, American intelligence officers stepped in, pulled strings behind closed doors, and got him acquitted. Why? Because the Pentagon wanted his research on bioweapons and nerve agents. Within a few short years of Nuremberg, this former Nazi official was sitting on the U.S. government payroll as a paid military consultant.</p><p>That was not an isolated incident. That was standard operating procedure for an intelligence apparatus that believed it was completely above the law.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. 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In the early 1950s, he made multiple trips to Europe, specifically to Camp King, a clandestine military intelligence base near Oberursel, Germany.</p><p>Camp King was not an ordinary military base. It was a secret interrogation site where American officers worked side-by-side with former Nazi intelligence personnel. Together, under an operation code-named &#8220;Artichoke,&#8221; they ran human experiments that completely shredded the Geneva Convention and any basic human morality.</p><p>The goal was simple and grotesque: find out if you could break the human mind and force confessions using cocktails of heavy narcotics, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and extreme physical violence. </p><p>Olson watched men beaten, injected with experimental compounds, and tortured to the point of death.</p><p><em>For more information on Project Artichoke check out this article:</em> </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;91f29f08-3b0e-4103-85b1-34962818cbf2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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Unfettered by constitutional limits or moral boundaries, the Agency was conducting illegal human experiments at home, overthrowing sovereign nations abroad (such as the 1953 coup in Iran), and building global black sites.</p><p>During the Korean War, serious allegations surfaced that the United States had deployed biological weapons against North Korean and Chinese forces. Given his leadership post at Fort Detrick, Olson would have known the exact capabilities of those programs.</p><p>In August 1953, Olson travelled once more to Europe, visiting Berlin. He saw more brutal interrogations involving chemical torture. For Olson, a family man who had viewed his career as legitimate national defense, the line had been utterly crossed.</p><p>When he returned home to Frederick, Olson&#8217;s demeanor had changed. He confided to a close colleague and friend at Fort Detrick, Norman Cournoyer, that he was utterly disgusted by what he had seen. He could no longer stomach the CIA&#8217;s methods and he made it clear that he intended to leave the biological weapons program and walk away.</p><p>To the men running the CIA, a top-level bioweapons scientist with a crisis of conscience was not just an employee resigning. He was a catastrophic national security liability.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1><strong>The Ambush at Deep Creek Lake</strong></h1><p>In mid-November 1953, Olson was invited to a retreat at Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland. The gathering brought together scientists from Detrick and CIA operatives from the Agency&#8217;s Technical Services Staff, run by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, a truly evil and despicable human being.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dDb8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F051b845d-0d74-4c62-a083-a78d582e47da_889x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dDb8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F051b845d-0d74-4c62-a083-a78d582e47da_889x800.jpeg 424w, 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At the retreat, he was handed a drink secretly laced with LSD. Once the drug took hold, he was subjected to an interrogation using brutal Artichoke techniques, which was probably an extremely unpleasant experience, to say the least.</p><h1><strong>Room 1018A: The Midnight Execution</strong></h1><p>A week later, Olson was staying in Room 1018A at the Hotel Statler in New York City under the supervision of CIA chemist Richard Lashbrook.</p><p>The manager of the hotel, Armand Pastore, heard a loud thump outside and rushed out to find Olson dying on the pavement, having fallen from the 13th floor. Pastore later discovered that a phone call had been placed from Room 1018A to a number on Long Island immediately after the fall. The caller said only: &#8220;Olson&#8217;s gone.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqXH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f55c4eb-9073-4c0a-91d9-3ddf4e6f609e_722x948.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqXH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f55c4eb-9073-4c0a-91d9-3ddf4e6f609e_722x948.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqXH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f55c4eb-9073-4c0a-91d9-3ddf4e6f609e_722x948.png 848w, 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However, an autopsy conducted forty years later on his exhumed body told a completely different story. Forensic pathologists found a blunt-force injury to the skull that occurred before the fall and there was no evidence of any cuts or scratches on his body from broken glass.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1><strong>The Rockefeller Commission and the White House Cover-Up</strong></h1><p>The cover-up held for twenty-two years. In 1975, the Rockefeller Commission, established by President Gerald Ford to investigate widespread domestic abuses and surveillance by the CIA, revealed that an unnamed government scientist had died in 1953 after being secretly dosed with LSD. Journalists quickly connected the dots to Frank Olson.</p><p>The revelation caused a national firestorm. The Ford administration moved aggressively into damage-control mode. President Ford held an unprecedented personal meeting with Alice Olson and her children in the Oval Office to apologize on behalf of the government. CIA Director William Colby hosted the family for lunch at Langley, handing over declassified files, and Congress quickly pushed through a $750,000 settlement to silence further legal action.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EvKZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0450dea-ff20-4287-95ed-c570dd1c8a88_1672x990.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EvKZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0450dea-ff20-4287-95ed-c570dd1c8a88_1672x990.png 424w, 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Top administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Dick Cheney, were deeply worried that a lawsuit would force the government into court. In one memo, Cheney warned that a legal fight would force the administration to reveal top-secret operations, noting that &#8220;any settlement or judgment reached thereafter could be perceived as money paid to cover up the activities of the CIA.&#8221;</p><p>The government paid the money not out of remorse, but to prevent the public from ever learning what Olson knew.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. 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In 1994, after his mother died, Eric made the decision to exhume his father&#8217;s body from its Maryland grave.</p><p>A team of independent forensic pathologists, led by Dr. James Starrs of George Washington University, performed a comprehensive modern autopsy. What they discovered fundamentally erased the suicide narrative:</p><ul><li><p><strong>No Glass Cuts:</strong> Although Olson had allegedly dived headfirst through a heavy windowpane, there was not a single cut, glass shard, or laceration anywhere on his face, neck, or body. A human body crashing through plate glass at speed is inevitably lacerated. Olson&#8217;s skin was completely unmarked by glass.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Skull Fracture:</strong> Starrs found a massive, blunt-force contusion on the front of Olson&#8217;s skull, directly above his left eye. Forensic modeling proved that this blow was delivered <em>before</em> the fall. It was not the result of striking the concrete pavement thirteen floors below, which had crushed the opposite side of his body.</p></li></ul><p>The physical evidence pointed to an inescapable conclusion: Frank Olson had been knocked unconscious with a blow to the head inside Room 1018A and his limp body was then hoisted up and pushed through the window.</p><p>Coincidentally, this exact method of execution matches instructions found in an unredacted 1953 CIA manual on assassination techniques declassified years later:</p><p><em>&#8220;The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface... It will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject first, then drop him over.&#8221;</em></p><p>I&#8217;m curious, had you heard the tragic story of Frank Olson before reading this?</p><p>And beyond that, what other stories of government corruption or CIA activities have made you look at the agency and our country in an entirely different light? 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Eisenhower converted open fields along the Rhine into the <em>Rheinwiesenlager</em> (Rhine Meadow Camps). To circumvent international legal protections, Eisenhower stripped Wehrmacht personnel who had surrendered of their lawful status, classifying them as &#8220;Disarmed Enemy Forces&#8221; (DEF) rather than Prisoners of War. With that single administrative maneuver, the United States tossed aside its obligations under the 1929 Geneva Convention.</p><p>Roughly one million men were crowded into barbed-wire enclosures without barracks, tents, latrines, or medical facilities. Prisoners slept in mud burrows dug with their mess kits or bare hands. Rations frequently collapsed below 1,000 calories per day, and in many enclosures, men went days without water or food. Meanwhile, trainloads of International Red Cross relief supplies sitting on rail sidings in Switzerland and France were deliberately turned away at the German border under orders from Eisenhower&#8217;s headquarters.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> Typhus, dysentery, and hypothermia tore through the open pens. Camp rosters and burial records were systematically destroyed or withheld, leaving the full body count buried under official postwar silence before the open pens were largely dismantled in the autumn of 1945 and the surviving men were moved into forced labor pools.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lrov!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36d4a5e3-7e05-4cb6-ac5b-2383e642fe64_1536x864.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lrov!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36d4a5e3-7e05-4cb6-ac5b-2383e642fe64_1536x864.png 424w, 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If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1>THE GENOCIDE OF GERMANS</h1><p>The Rhine camps were only the opening chapter of a wider catastrophe enforced by the victorious powers:</p><ul><li><p><strong>The Expellees:</strong> Roughly 16 million ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly women, children, and the elderly, were driven from their ancestral homelands in Silesia, Pomerania, East Prussia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia into the ruins of postwar Germany under predatory, lethal conditions. Millions perished on the roads and in transit camps from violence, typhus, and exposure.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Prisoners:</strong> Hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers withheld from repatriation and transferred into foreign labor pipelines across Europe and the Soviet Union.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Residents:</strong> The surviving civilian population inside the occupied zones were subjected to systematic deindustrialization, looted infrastructure, and engineered shortages of basic food and coal.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p></li></ul><h4>Given the extraordinary harsh conditions imposed upon them by the Allies (the British, French, Soviets, and Americans), at least 9.3 million and possibly as many as 13.7 million Germans had, by 1950, needlessly died as a result.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>German soldiers are held like animals in Rhine meadow camps behind barbed wire</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><h4>Through deliberate starvation, forced marches, exposure, and untreated disease, millions of these people slowly starved to death in front of the victors&#8217; eyes every day for years.</h4><p>More Germans perished after the formal surrender than died in battle, air raids, and concentration camps combined during the entirety of the Second World War. Yet these deaths have never been honestly reported by either the Allies or the German government.</p><blockquote><p><em>This is many more Germans than died in battle, air raids and concentration camps during the war. Millions of these people slowly starved to death in front of the victors&#8217; eyes every day for years. These deaths have never been honestly reported by either the Allies or the German government.</em><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. If you value my work, your support makes it possible for me to keep doing it. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe.</em></h5><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Starvation By Design: The Plan To Break The German People</strong></h1><p>The millions of German civilians who starved after the war did not die because of bad luck or poor weather. They died because of a deliberate plan drawn up by top officials in the United States government.</p><p>During the war, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. pushed a plan to completely strip Germany of its factories, mines, and technology, turning the entire country into one giant, backward farming territory. Most history books claim the U.S. rejected the Morgenthau Plan.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a></p><p>This is a lie. Its main ideas were secretly baked straight into the official military orders handed to General Dwight D. Eisenhower.</p><p>That order (Directive JCS 1067) told Eisenhower and the U.S. Army that they were strictly forbidden from doing anything to rebuild the German economy or help its people get back on their feet. The military had explicit orders not to raise living standards. 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The U.S. military shut down factories, shipped valuable machinery out of the country as war loot, and strictly banned food from being imported.</p><p>When private groups like the Red Cross and American church charities tried to step in and send food packages to keep women and children alive, the American military command stopped them. They banned CARE packages from entering Germany until long after the worst damage was already done. During the freezing winter of 1946 to 1947, German cities were filled with walking skeletons. Old people froze to death in their apartments, children dug through trash heaps for stray lumps of coal, and mothers had to sell their wedding rings to get a handful of rotten potatoes. Eisenhower and the Allied command knew the math: if you shut off the heat and choke off the food, the weakest people will die off by the millions.</p><div><hr></div><h5><em>I keep my news, investigations, and analysis free and accessible to everyone. 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The Geneva Convention is a set of international laws designed to protect prisoners of war from being abused, starved, or worked to death. But Eisenhower dodged those laws simply by calling German soldiers &#8220;Disarmed Enemy Forces&#8221; instead of prisoners of war. With that single stroke of a pen, the protections vanished.</p><p>At the big wartime meetings, the Allied leaders agreed that Germany would pay for the war not just in cash, but in human bodies. The result was a massive, government-run slave trade.</p><p>Instead of letting surrendered German soldiers go home to their families to plant crops and fix shattered homes, the Americans packed them onto cattle cars and shipped them off to do hard labor. The U.S. handed hundreds of thousands of these starving, sick men over to the French, who forced them to clear live minefields with their bare hands, dig canals, and work deep underground in coal mines. Countless men died of exhaustion, disease, and cave-ins.</p><p>The British took their share of forced workers while the Soviet Union took millions more. In Russia, German prisoners were dragged into the frozen Gulag camps for years, treated like cattle, and worked until they dropped dead. Many did not make it home until the 1950s. Hundreds of thousands never came back at all.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38d36848-a7a7-4f0e-b7e8-6159320fec5a_467x298.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e6228ccc-1234-491a-87b0-193b3cbff8f0_477x293.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Two dead Germans in a meadow.&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/014c0c52-213b-44ee-80ff-95d0d2d64e0f_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>By stealing an entire generation of working-age men, the Allies did two things at once: they got free, brutal labor to rebuild their own countries, and they made sure Germany could not recover. Back home, German mothers and young women were left all alone to clear mountains of shattered brick and concrete with their bare hands just to earn tiny rations to keep their babies alive.</p><p>This was not justice. It was a cold, organized campaign to drain the life out of an entire population long after the fighting was done. The victors got away with it because they controlled the news, locked away the documents, and wrote the history books to make themselves look like the good guys.</p><p>The Allied atrocities (Rhine Meadow Camps, <a href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/mass-rape-of-german-women-wwii">mass rapes</a>, forced starvation, expulsions that killed at least 12 millions ethnic Germans) would have shattered the carefully-cultivated moral high ground claimed by the victors. Publishing those facts would have undermined the Nuremberg show-trial narrative and made it harder to extract reparations. 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M. <em>Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War</em>. Yale University Press, 2012.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Blair, Eric. &#8220;A Hidden Holocaust&#8212;Revealed: <em>Crimes and Mercies</em>, by James Bacque.&#8221; Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). January 1, 1996.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>The text of the directive is a public record. The link between this directive and the "pastoralization" of Germany is documented in Michael Beschloss&#8217;s <em>The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941&#8211;1945</em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2002).</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>