NSC staffer Rich Higgins wrote the memo below. When he read it, National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster fired him. McMaster should be questioned about this. Did he think he memo was false? Is he part of those trying to subvert Trump’s pro-American agenda? Certainly his many statements denying the Islamic character of Islamic terrorism would suggest so. McMaster must be fired if Trump is going to have any chance of pursuing his agenda.
POTUS & POLITICAL WARFARE
May 2017BACKGROUND. The Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then de legitimize and ultimately remove the President. Possibly confusing these attacks with an elevated interplay of otherwise normal D.C. partisan infighting and adversarial media relations, the White House response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset that it is intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously inadequate to the threat. If action is not taken to re-scope and respond to these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks implosion and subsequent early departure from the White House.
This is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle. It must be recognized on its own terms so that immediate action can be taken. At its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as the non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes. The campaigns operate through narratives.
Because the hard left is aligned with lslamist organizations at local (ANTI FA working with Muslim Brotherhood doing business as MSA and CAIR), national (ACLU and BLM working with CAIR and MPAC) and international levels (OIC working with OSCE and the UN), recognition must given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate at the narrative level as well. In candidate Trump, the opposition saw a threat to the “politically correct” enforcement narratives they’ve meticulously laid in over the past few decades.
In President Trump, they see a latent threat to continue that effort to ruinous effect and their retaliatory response reflects this fear.
INTRODUCTION.
Responding to relentless personal assaults on his character, candidate Trump identified the players and the strategy:
• “The establishment and their media enablers will control over this nation through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.” – President Trump, Oct 2016
Culturally conditioned to limit responses to such attacks as yet another round in the on-going drone from diversity and multicultural malcontents, these broadsides are discounted as political correctness run amuck. However, political correctness is a weapon against reason and critical thinking. This weapon functions as the enforcement mechanism of diversity narratives that seek to implement cultural Marxism.
Candidate Trump’s rhetoric in the campaign not only cut through the Marxist narrative, he did so in ways that were viscerally comprehensible to a voting bloc that then made candidate Trump the president; making that bloc self-aware in the process. President Trump is either the candidate he ran as, or he is nothing.
Recognizing in candidate Trump an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative, those that benefit recognize the threat he poses and seek his destruction. For this cabal, Trump must be destroyed. Far from politics as usual, this is a political warfare effort that seeks the destruction of a sitting president. Since Trump took office, the situation has intensified to crisis level proportions. For those engaged in the effort, especially those from within the “deep state” or permanent government apparatus, this raises clear Title 18 (legal) concerns.
DISCUSSION.
The Opposition. While opposition to President Trump manifests itself through political warfare memes centered on cultural Marxist narratives, this hardly means that opposition is limited to Marxists as conventionally understood. Having become the dominant cultural meme, some benefit from it while others are captured by it; including “deep state” actors, globalists, bankers, lslamists, and establishment Republicans. Through the campaign, candidate Trump tapped into a deep vein of concern among many citizens that America is at risk and is slipping away. Globalists and lslamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed.
Atomization of society must also occur at the individual level; with attacks directed against all levels of group and personal identity. Hence the sexism, racism and xenophobia memes. As a Judea-Christian culture, forced inclusion of post-modern notions of tolerance is designed to induce nihilistic contradictions that reduce all thought, all faith, all loyalties to meaninglessness. Group rights based on sex or ethnicity are a direct assault on the very idea of individual human rights and natural law around which the Constitution was framed. “Transgender acceptance” memes attack at the most basic level by denying a person the right to declare the biological fact of one’s sex. When a population has 2 + 2 = 5 imposed on it, there are many that benefit:
• Mainstream Media – The principle mechanism for implementing narratives.
• The Academy – Academia has served as a principle counter-state node for some time and remains a key conduit for creating future adherents to cultural Marxist narratives and their derivative worldview.
• The Deep State – The successful outcome of cultural Marxism is a bureaucratic state beholden to no one, certainly not the American people. With no rule of law considerations outside those that further deep state power, the deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.
• Global Corporatists & Bankers – Exploitation of populations, unfettered by national protections and notions of personal morality and piety.
• Democratic Leadership – The democratic leadership has been a counter-state enabler that executes, sustains, and protects cultural Marxist programs of action and facilitates the relentless expansion of the deep state.
• Republican Leadership – More afraid of being accused of being called a racist, sexist, homophobe or lslamophobe than of failing to enforce their oaths to “support and defend the Constitution,” the Republican Establishment accepts and enforces cultural Marxist memes within its own sphere of operations. In doing so, knowingly or not, it becomes an agent of that. These “conservatives” become increasingly indistinguishable from their democratic counterparts save that they misrepresent themselves to their constituents. Lacking the discernment to recognize their situation, they will work with globalists, corporatists, and the international financial interests and will likewise service the deep state. These establishment Republicans are the hard left’s designated defeat mechanism in the destruction of the old regime as well as the American ideal. [1] Because candidate Trump publicly exposed them for their duplicitous activities, they are at risk as long as Trump can turn on them and are, therefore, bitter foes. Candidate Trump’s success remains an ongoing existential threat to establishment Republicans.
• lslamists – Islamists ally with cultural Marxist because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the hard left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Isla mists deploy these narrative to strategically blind and then control US decision makers. This is by design and purposeful. “By their own hands!” has been the declared strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood since 1991. This strategy seeks to divide American society against itself with the forced imposition of Islamist objectives on one half of American society by the other half. Once a society has been effectively atomized, the population will have lost its faith in the old order, detest those who reduced it, and divide along the lines of narrative adherence. This is the intended outcome of hostile information cum political warfare campaigns and today we see their effects on American society.
Complicating the current situation, many close to the president have pushed him off his message when he was candidate Trump thus alienating him from his base thereby isolating him in the process. When President Trump is not candidate Trump, he becomes dangerously exposed. While the base that elected candidate Trump identified with his vision, they are only Trump’s insofar as he holds to the vision that made him president.Political Warfare Attacks – A Primer. As used here, “political warfare” does not concern activities associated with the American political process but rather exclusively refers to political warfare as understood by the Maoist Insurgency model. [2] Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist methodologies employ synchronized violent and non-violent actions that focus on mobilization of individuals and groups to action. This approach envisions the direct use of non-violent operational arts and tactics as elements of combat power. In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power. Functioning as a hostile competing state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the “counter-state” and is primarily focused on the resourcing and mobilization of the counter state or the exhaustion and demobilization of the targeted political movement. Political warfare methods can be implemented at strategic, operational, or tactical levels of operation.
Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They principally operate through narratives. Because the left is aligned with lslamist organizations at local, national and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives.
Cultural Marxism – A Primer. While the attacks on President Trump arise out of political warfare considerations based on non-kinetic lines of effort (as discussed below), they operate in a battle-space prepared, informed and conditioned by cultural Marxist drivers. In practical terms, the political warfare assault on President Trump cannot be separated from the cultural Marxist narratives that drive them. From an operational preparation of the environment perspective, President Trump is operating in a battle-space that reflects the left’s vision.
As used in this discussion, cultural Marxism relates to programs and activities that arise out of Gramsci Marxism, Fabian Socialism and most directly from the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt strategy deconstructs societies through attacks on culture by imposing a dialectic that forces unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of critical theory. The result is induced nihilism, a belief in everything that is actually the belief in nothing.
That post-modern (diversity/multiculturalism) narratives seeks to implement cultural Marxist objectives can be demonstrated by reference to founding Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse’s repurposing of the term tolerance. In a 1965 paper, Marcuse defined tolerance as intolerance; said it can be implemented through undemocratic means to stop chauvinism (xenophobia), racism, discrimination; and should be extended to the left while denied to the right:
• “The realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.”
• “Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.” (8-9)
• “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. As to the scope of this tolerance and intolerance: … it would extend to the stage of action as well as of discussion and propaganda, of deed as well as of word.” (12)
It is through such post-modern constructs that interoperable narratives are established among various left-wing groups as well as between them and Isla mist groups at all levels. For example, from the 2001 Conference of Foreign Ministers at Bamako, Mali, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared its commitment to fight racism and xenophobia and then declared lslamophobia a “contemporary form of racism”:
• In this context, the World Conference urges all states … take all necessary measures to combat hatred, discrimination, intolerance and acts of violence, intimidation and coercion motivated by racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance particularly against Islam
• Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance which display an increasing trend, in their most subtle and contemporary forms, constitute a violation of human rights. 3. Contemporary forms of racism are based on discrimination and disparagement on a cultural, rather than biological basis. In this content, the increasing trend of lslamophobia, as a distinct form of xenophobia in non-Muslim societies is very alarming.
That the OIC made these claims as part of its planned inputs to the United Nation’s “Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” further demonstrates the coordinated and interoperable nature of these narratives at international levels in international forums.
As cultural Marxist narratives intensify, they are to be further operationalized in the form of hate speech narratives. Hate speech narratives are non-random, coordinated, and fully interoperable escalations of cultural Marxist memes. Key international players include the European Union, the UN, and the OSCE, the OIC and the International Muslim Brotherhood. Hate speech memes are structured, coordinated, and implemented through these same international forums. They involve close coordination with media and social media and include the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) narratives. David Shipler’s book Freedom of Speech provides a road map for how hate speech narratives are to be structured, deployed and enforced.
Battlespace. These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media, and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies and within the foreign policy establishment. They inform the entertainment industry from late night monologues, to situation comedies, to television series memes, to movie themes. The effort required to direct this capacity at President Trump is little more than a programming decision to do so. The cultural Marxist narrative is fully deployed, pervasive, full spectrum and ongoing. Regarding the president, attacks have become a relentless 24/7 effort.
While there is certainly a Marxist agenda and even lslamist motivations that must be seriously addressed in their own right, these motivations alone seem inadequate to explain the scope and magnitude of the effort directed against the president. The economic drivers behind the Marxist and Islamist ideologues are enormously influential and seek to leverage these ideological movements for their own self interests. While beyond the actual scope of this document, the benefactors of these political movements include; Urban Real Estate who depend greatly on immigrant tenants, International Banking who seeks to maintain US debtor status so as to control the application of American power, and elements of the business sector that depend upon immigrant labor or government infrastructure. The overall objective of these economic forces is the forced urbanization of the populace, thereby necessitating a larger, more powerful government. In summary, this is a form of population control by certain business cartels in league with cultural Marxists/corporatists/lslamists who will leverage Islamic terrorism threats to justify the creation of a police state.
Adversary Campaign Plan. Political Warfare has been described as “propaganda in battledress.” [3] The effort directed at President Trump is executed along one overt, as well as two covert, lines of effort:
• The overt line of effort is PUBLICITY. Publicity is the straightforward projection of a case that builds a picture in the audience’s mind designed to garner support. It is facts without context and information the adversary wants the audience to possess that creates an impression and sets conditions. It seeks to establish good will and receptiveness to additional inputs.
• There are two covert lines of effort: PROPOGANDA [sic] and INFILTRATION/SUBVERSION.
o Propaganda is the deliberate direction, even manipulation, of information to secure a definite outcome. It is an attempt to direct the thinking of the recipient, without his conscious collaboration, into predetermined channels that are established in the Publicity line of effort. It is the unwitting conditioning of the recipient by devious methods with an ulterior motive that seeks to move them incrementally over time into greater belief and acceptance of message transmitted in the Publicity line of effort.
o Infiltration and subversion operate internal to the targeted organization in order to inform, target, coordinate, and amplify the effects of the publicity and propaganda. Both operate to gather intelligence, obstruct legitimate courses of action, provide inside information, and leak sensitive information that undermines the leadership and suppresses the morale of friendly elements.
o Infiltration of political and social groups within a target state is done for the purpose of extending counter-state influence and control. The endgame is concealed and may involve illicit activities.
o Subversion undermines or detaches the loyalties of significant political and social groups within the target state and transfers political and/or ideological loyalties to the counter-state. As the counter-state forms, a counter-elite of influential individual and key leaders within the target state will later facilitate the legitimacy and permanency of the new regime.
Political warfare employs both publicity and propaganda. It recognizes no intrinsic virtue in the news but rather envisions it as a mechanism to exploit and build up support. From a political warfare perspective, control of the news cycle is the most potent means of attracting and building up a favorable audience. As it relates to the news cycle, publicity and propaganda can be merged to form a “pseudo-publicity” that is presented as news in furtherance of sustaining pseudo-realities maintained by cultural Marxist memes. Pseudo-publicity treatment of President Trump dominates the news cycle. The current campaign against President Trump operates in the following manner:
The Meta Narrative. Meta narratives seeks [sic] to delegitimize President Trump, his administration, and the vision of America he projected as a candidate. With cultural Marxist memes serving as the backdrop, President Trump is to be relentlessly characterized as unfit through the use of supporting narratives acting to move unwitting populations to belief in the meta narrative. Hence:
• “President Trump is illegitimate”
• “President Trump is corrupt”
• “President Trump is dishonest”
Note that the twitter accounts and mainstream media personalities pushing this narrative have seen their audience numbers rise greatly in the past 6 months. This is a direct result of the supporting and backdrop narratives channeling individuals to this meta-narrative.
Supporting Narratives. Meta-narratives are supported by an ongoing series supporting-narratives that can be swapped out as circumstances warrant. It is important to recognize that these stories do not have to be true, valid or accurate to serve their purpose. Over time, deserved or not, the cumulative effect of these supporting narratives will result in a Trump fatigue. From a political warfare perspective, President Trump’s inability to meet this challenge will cast him as a weak failed leader. The current list of supporting narratives include:
• “Russia hacked the election” – illegitimate
• “Obstruction of Justice” – corrupt
• “Hiding Collusion” – dishonest
• “Putin Puppet” – treasonous
Backdrop Narratives. The backdrop to the meta and supporting narratives are cultural Marxist memes designed to sustain a general sense of loathing of President Trump and the America that elected him. Hence:
• “[meta] President Trump is illegitimate, [supporting] he was elected because of Russian hacking, [backdrop] and besides, he a racist, sexist xenophobe.”
Adversaries utilize these interlocking narratives as a defensive political and information warfare screen that silences critics and smears supporters of President Trump. When people in the media question the behavior, actions and decisions of the Trump Administration’s opponents, they are immediately said to be “working for the Russians” or “supporting Russian propaganda.” Individual Americans who support the President are deemed “deplorable” and “racist.”
End State. Attacks on President Trump are not just about destroying him, but also about destroying the vision of America that lead [sic] to his election. Those individuals and groups seeking the destruction of President Trump actually seek to suffocate the vision of America that made him president. Hence, the end state is not just a delegitimized, destabilized, immobilized and possibly destroyed presidency; but also a demoralized movement composed of a large enough bloc to elect a president that subsequently become self-aware of its own disenfranchisement.
CONCLUSION.
The recent turn of events give rise to the observation that the defense of President Trump is the defense of America. In the same way President Lincoln was surrounded by political opposition both inside and outside of his wire, in both overt and covert forms, so too is President Trump. Had Lincoln failed, so too would have the Republic. The administration has been maneuvered into a constant back-pedal by relentless political warfare attacks structured to force him to assume a reactive posture that assures inadequate responses. The president can either drive or be driven by events; it’s time for him to drive them.
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[1] For more information on how influence operations of the former Soviet Union targeted leading conservative groups and individuals in order to bring them into line with cultural Marxist narratives. See Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZhqeLRIMo
[2] This discussion relies on Thomas A. Marks’ treatment of the Maoist model as discussed in Maoist People’s War in Post-Vietnam Asia (Bangkok, Thailand: White Lotus Press, 2007), 1-14. Hereafter “Thomas A. Marks, Maoist People’s War.”
[3] “Political Warfare Executive – The Meaning, Techniques and Methods of Political Warfare,” His Britannic Majesty’s Government, London, 1942, 5.
Julie Hall says
i agree with him and he should not have been fired.
EYESOPEN says
Concur.
Don Foss says
Yep. Agreed.
Emilie Green says
No wonder that McMaster, as Islam’s best friend, couldn’t stand to have this author around.
John Forbes says
Mc Master is the issue & needs to be removed fast !
WorkingClassPost says
One hopes that by sacking him, McMaster has simply highlighted this essay as being of utmost importance.
President Trump must surely read it now and do whatever he can to defend his presidency and thereby, as the author points out, America itself.
revereridesagain says
The best presentation of these issues I have seen in a long time. No wonder he was fired by the traitor — or clueless tool — McMaster. Please forward it to everyone you think might have even the slightest interest in reading it.
Everyone who has not already read the books he recommends please do. Coughlin’s “Catastrophic Failure” is indispensable. The other two are available as pdf online. That’s Sayyid Qutb’s “Milestones” and “Methodology of Dawah Ilallah”. Absolutely essential information. Islam’s allies on the Left as well as the prostrate dhimmis among the Repubs and Conservatives do not want us to know about this.
DJ says
Replace McMaster with Coughlin.
John A. Marre says
A very accurate description of reality. Too much for the political Republican establishment, which sees itself mentioned in the memo.
Kills a few sacred cows. Hits the nail on the head about marxism and Islamism. So McMaster is on the side of the establishment, and not on the side of truth. He must go.
The only thing wrong with it is “The principle mechanism” and a few other minor grammatical errors. No reason for firing.
Voytek Gagalka says
“McMaster must be fired.” Indeed. Will he?
peter hinks says
bang on Barbara.
billybob says
The article was a fascinating read. Though I have previously encountered echos of this dystopian vision many times before, this was the first time I have sat down and read an entire essay on it from end to end.
As I read, it was easy to map onto it many things that I have observed over the past few years. If someone said to me “It looks as if…”, or “It’s like…” and pick any of the observations from the above article, it would be a valid observation. But to put this all together as it is presented is a full-blown, mad gone totally bonkers conspiracy theory. It posits that certain adversaries are working in concert to implement some Cultural Marxist agenda. Who exactly are these “Adversaries”? Going back through the article we can determine exactly who the Enemy is…
the hard left
they
The establishment
those that benefit
this cabal
those from within the “deep state”
The Opposition ([not] limited to Marxists)
Globalists and islamists
Global Corporatists & Bankers
Democratic Leadership
the Republican Establishment
islamists
the left aligned with islamist organizations
The economic drivers behind the Marxist and Islamist ideologues
Urban Real Estate
International Banking
certain business cartels in league with cultural Marxists/corporatists/islamists
We are told that “some benefit from it while others are captured by it; including “deep state” actors, globalists, bankers, islamists, and establishment Republicans”.
What I would like to know is how do all these diverse groups coordinate their actions? Where do they all meet and how often? How is the organization structured and financed? Who is in control of this nefarious subversive group? How does one apply for membership? Are there dividends paid out to members? …and finally, how did they bring down the World Trade Centre?
See what I mean? When you pick it apart, it is, thankfully, just another wild conspiracy theory from the Truthers, the kind of thing that you might find on InfoWars. No wonder this cuck was fired!
WorkingClassPost says
I don’t think he’s talking about a formal conspiracy of the sort you mention, bit rather a cultural conspiracy of like minded subversives, where each aid and abet the other in their common cause.
This common aim for some is to make money, for others, to enforce their various ideologies, but all of them require control of us, and an end to a free and educated populous that would surely oppose their ambitions.
You ask ‘Where do they meet and how often?’
Well the business men meet in boardrooms as scheduled, and the islamists meet in mosks every Friday and more often when required.
The left meet on college campuses and all meet online.
The media meet in fancy restaurants and beside elegant swimming pools attended by those they would enslave.
Get wise, grasshopper, ’twas ever the same.
gravenimage says
Agreed, WorkingClassPost.
Mark Swan says
I agree gravenimage and WorkingClassPost.
No it is not just nut jobs that see the human potential for tyranny, or the cohesive properties of its formation.
One thing that this man did manage to convey, here—they are not mad about President Trump—they are mad about the many millions of Americans who are fed-up with the establishment.
What he offered was a memo—does he have substantial evidence—let him have an audience.
Frank Anderson says
WCP, I’d like to add the comments of the judge in the case of US v Gary Greenough concerning conspiracy. An illegal conspiracy does not require a “sit-down” and a written contract of details:
“It is well established that
[t]]he elements of a conspiracy . . . are: (1) an agreement between two or more persons, (2) an unlawful purpose, and (3) an overt act committed by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy . . . . The existence of the conspiracy can be proved by inference evidence . . . . Direct evidence of an agreement to join a criminal conspiracy is rare, so a defendant’s assent can be inferred from acts furthering the conspiracy’s purpose. The government is not required to prove that each alleged conspirator knew all the details of the conspiracy; it is enough to establish that a defendant knew the essentials of the conspiracy . . . that the defendant intended to join or associate himself with the objective of the conspiracy . . . even if he did not join it until after its inception, and even if he played only a minor role in the total scheme United States v Gary Greenough, 609 F.Supp 1090,1093-1094 (S.D. Ala 1985).”
People who perform their professional duty to exercise independent professional judgment and write what they see as the truth do not last in corrupt environments. In private corporations the death penalty of permanent unemployment is usually imposed with the aid and comfort of future potential employers, because they also are afraid of people who tell the truth. I think a possible difference is that this firing was by a United States government official pretending to act in the scope and line of his legal authority. I wonder if Constitutional “free speech” arguments could apply here where they do not apply in corporate settings?
I think the inescapable conclusion to me is that McMaster is corrupt, for whatever reason or motivation, and that those who shield him may be corrupt whether because of ignorance, willful blindness, or collaboration in the activities to lead western civilization to doom. I think it is necessary to always observe the actions of people who try to lead us. Blind obedience has led to such great leaders as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, . . . Honor and trust should not be permanently awarded to anyone: It must be earned every day and every challenge.
David F Barnard says
This memo should be published and widely read. Firing it’s author is repression of the truth even beyond the days of British occupation in Boston & colonial America.
gravenimage says
READ the memo on globalism and Islamic infiltration that led McMaster to fire its author from NSC
…………………….
Good for Rich Higgins. I hope the miscarriage of justice he suffered is made right. I hope McMaster is finally kicked to the curb.
MasQueNada says
First of all, thank you for giving us a chance to read this important memo, unfiltered by the mainstream media. I largely agree, however, with one important caveat.
Among antisemites—the people who like to put ((( ))) around names of Jews—it is considered gospel that Jews are the main culprits in the rot of the West. Less directly, blame is placed on the “Frankfurt School” of sociology since (German) people with Jewish or part-Jewish background figured prominently in it.
Author of the memo references Herbert Marcuse, who was indeed a verbal rabble-rouser and revolutionary, whose precepts in the unlikely event they had been followed would have turned the U.S. into a larger version of Pol Pot’s Cambodia. However, in Germany, where after all the “Frankfurt School” originated and whence it returned after World War II, the two main figures are considered Horkheimer and Adorno, both atheistic materialists. Horkheimer was a Jew, Adorno Jewish only on father’s side and brought up Catholic.
Their writings are typically Germanic and boring, impossible to summarize in a single paragraph. If they’d had a motto, it would be “question everything”. I can see why some believe this hyper-critical attitude towards established society had a corrosive effect, and they are not wrong. However, (1) in no way did this advance the cause of “the Jews” nor was it ever designed to do so and (2) the magnitude of their influence is exaggerated.
Note, also, that Adorno and Horkheimer themselves quickly turned into the “establishment” from the perspective of the student firebrands who rampaged through the universities during the second half of the 1960s. As a matter of fact, Adorno himself called the cops (“PIGS!!!”) when student disruptors would not leave his lecture hall, earning him their perpetual enmity.
Let me close with this tidbit. Professor Bassam Tibi moved from Syria to Germany in 1961. He studied with both Horkheimer and Adorno. In the 1980s and 1990s, Tibi put forward the idea of a “Euro-Islam” shorn of its jihadist impulse and compatible with European civilization. He has since abandoned that idea—Islam is unfixable. Today, he is one of the fiercest critics of chancellor Merkel’s insane decision to throw open the borders to uncontrolled Muslim mass immigration. Tibi often cites his academic teachers Horkheimer and Adorno and credits them for having fostered his independence of thought and his courage to speak up for what is right.
carpediadem says
Great comment.
Robeaver says
Wow. Thinking about his examples is frightening. Political correctness is an everyday event, -in both macro and micro scales.
Police state : go thru airport security since 911. Watch sharia patrols and use of “community police” in the UK. (u tube) watch satan being blamed.
Give 85 K for hijab removal. Watch for no go zones of Islam in cities the world over.
He may have a point.
Lydia says
It’s like a chess game of “you’re fired!”
Baucent says
The irony is this memo may now have more influence now than if its the author had simply been ignored by McMaster.
Tom says
The author should be commended for his factual insight into the politics of cultural marxism and the current attempts at a Coup of the Presidency.
American patriots must march on Washington and demand that elected members of both houses stand up and be counted, for your President, your Constitution and your very Republic is under attack.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I read the whole thing. I understood, on the whole, what he was trying to communicate and I agree with most of it.
However, I have to say it: he is either writing in some kind of inscrutable style (an insider bureaucrat-speak?) or he is close to being illiterate…
Lars says
What a stinking rotten McMaster plan!
Linda Goudsmit says
Rich Higgins’ extraordinary memo identifies the Leftist/Islamist axis and its coordinated efforts to bring down President Trump. What is not identified are the globalist underpinnings of the alliance. Globalism is the existential enemy of national sovereignty and so it supports the Leftists and the Islamists who both seek to destroy America, American democracy, and America-first President Donald Trump. The globalist elite support the Leftist/Islamist axis and the chaos they create in a strategic effort to ultimately impose their own version of one-world government. The Leftists and Islamists are just too arrogant to understand that they are being used as useful idiots to establish the overwhelming social chaos that is required for the globalists to internationalize the police force and impose their own dystopian one-world order. I would like to add to Mr. Higgins’ extraordinary insights.
Walks Like a Globalist, Talks Like a Globalist, Thinks Like a Globalist: McMaster is a Globalist by Linda Goudsmit 8.9.17
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British think tank specializing in international affairs. Founded in 1958 with a focus on nuclear deterrence and arms control IISS has expanded its presence and worldwide influence with offices in Washington, Singapore, and Bahrain. IISS advertises itself on its website claiming “IISS experts deliver impartial, rigorous analysis. They are drawn from all over the world, and include established world-class strategists, as well as the brightest young analysts. The institute’s corporate advisory arm offers strategic advice and political-risk analysis to commercial and government clients.” WOW!
The current stated mission of IISS is to promote global peace and security and maintain civilized international relations. Sounds great but there is a serious credibility problem – IISS is a globalist think tank. IISS claims to be non-partisan and independent of government and other bodies but its primary funding sources are the royal family of Bahrain, globalist organizations like Soros’ Open Society Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, and multinational globalist corporations that require US clearance and licenses to sell American products to foreign governments. Of particular interest are donor companies involved in aeronautics like Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Raytheon International. Globalism is only non-partisan and independent to a globalist.
Being partisan or biased at this moment in history is not a matter of being a democrat or a republican. It is a matter of being a globalist or being an advocate of national sovereignty. It is the difference between Obama’s internationalism and President Trump’s America-first patriotism. American voters had a choice in 2016 to pledge allegiance to the United States of America or to pledge allegiance to the world. They chose America.
President Donald Trump campaigned on an America-first commitment. He promised to protect American sovereignty and reject Obama’s leftist internationalism, collectivism, and globalism. Globalist swamp creature John McCain recommended H.R. McMaster to be head of the National Security Council. Why? Because McMaster is a globalist who continues to support the Iran deal that only benefits Iran and the globalists. The NSC is charged with advising the president on national security issues and foreign policy. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) where McMaster served for eleven years (2006-2017) is a strategic network advancing globalism that is philosophically opposed to the American patriotism and America-first commitments of President Trump.
What was McMaster’s role in helping Obama impose the worst deal for America of all times?
McMaster was a consulting senior fellow of the globalist think tank advising American politicians toward globalism during Obama’s two terms. A think tank financed by multinational corporations seeking to sell their products to Iran cannot offer unbiased non-partisan security analysis when advising American politicians on whether selling American products to Iran is in our national interest. The conflict of interest is staggering. IISS was the middleman for the sale. The IISS endorsement of Obama’s infamous Iran deal downplayed the obvious dangers inherent in the deal and the corporate boon it was for the IISS globalist sponsors.
Is McMaster an ideologue committed to globalism? Did IISS compensate McMaster? Did the globalist financiers supporting IISS compensate McMaster? Is McMaster compensated by globalist institutions and globalists like Soros who are seeking an unrestricted worldwide market for their products using a “non-partisan independent” think tank to disguise their intentions?
Obama’s infamous nuclear deal lifted crippling economic sanctions against Iran and allowed American multinational corporations to trade internationally with Iran. In return the US was supposed to receive a more moderate Iran and a de-escalation of the Iranian nuclear program. Obama promised his nuclear deal would prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon or pursuing its nuclear program in secret because Iran had committed to “extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection.” REALLY?? Any student of history knows that Iran remains on the list of state sponsors of terrorism because Iran does not abide by agreements! Iran has escalated its nuclear program with the 150 billion dollar cash bonus it received from liar-in-chief Barack Obama. The globalist corporations are making billions of dollars in trade with Iran. The swamp creatures slithered home with their payoffs. The American people got nothing – they are not safer or richer. Why?
Because globalism does not benefit the people and because Barack Obama is an unapologetic globalist.
The biggest problem Obama had in making the infamous Iran deal was getting past the objective reality that his deal was empowering the greatest sponsor of terrorism in the world by promoting a trade agreement that was enriching his globalist benefactors in industry. In order to sell the Iran deal Obama had to sell subjective reality to America. To dupe the American public Ben Rhodes and the Obama White House deliberately fed false information to their adoring media echo chamber that mislead the American people about the Iran deal in twenty-four hour news cycles. Ben Rhodes actually bragged about the gullible young adoring journalists who repeated everything they were told without fact checking.
The good news is that the global trading permitted by the Iran deal requires renewal. If President Trump says no to the renewal then trade between Iran and the six participating countries will be shut down. There are billions of dollars at stake. Multinational corporations, multinational banks, the telecommunications industry, and the multinational oil and gas industries are all big winners from Obama’s globalist giveaway agreement. The most interesting industry affected, however, is the airline industry including airline manufacturing. Iran is not buying jets to shuttle passengers around the middle east anymore than Iran is expanding its nuclear program for non-military purposes. The possibilities of Iran moving men and equipment around the globe in American made jets is chilling.
H.R. McMaster was hired to help implement President Trump’s America-first agenda not to renew Obama’s anti-American trade agreements including the Iran deal.
President Trump cannot implement his America first policies with globalist McMaster as his national security adviser. McMaster continues to purge anti-globalist staffers who are critical of Obama and protects Obama’s remaining globalist staffers. McMaster fired NSC staffer Rich Higgins for his extraordinary memo that exposed the sinister political warfare against President Trump. McMaster allowed Obama loyalist Susan Rice to retain her national security clearance for highly sensitive and classified information after she participated in the unmasking scheme against Trump. Incredibly, McMaster defended Rice saying it was part of her job description. McMaster blocked Ayaan Hirsi Ali from speaking to the NSC. Ms Ali has far more authority on the subject of radical Islam and the existential dangers of sharia law than the globalist think tank informing McMaster. President Trump was very clear in identifying radical Islamic terrorism as an existential threat to America. Instead McMaster pursues Obama’s censorship policy and will not allow those words to be spoken. Why?
H.R. McMaster walks like a globalist, talks like a globalist, and thinks like a globalist. H.R. McMaster is a globalist.
If McMaster were simply a consultant offered an opposing perspective it would be beneficial – but he is a decision-maker advancing Obama’s globalism instead of President Trump’s America-first patriotism. Globalism is diametrically opposed to any nation’s sovereignty because ultimately it sees the world as one. Subjective reality romanticizes globalism in the lyrics of John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” Objective reality recognizes globalism as the new world order – the despotic binary socio-political structure of masters and slaves. The end game of globalism is one-world government that divides the world into the very few ruling elite and the enslaved population who serve them. There are no Leftists, Islamists, social justice warriors, protestors of any kind – they have all been eliminated – there are only globalist elite masters and their slaves. Globalism is a return to medieval feudalism worldwide.
Globalism walks like tyranny. Globalism talks like tyranny. Globalism is tyranny. Globalism is a clear and present danger to American democracy and American sovereignty.
Mr President it is time to tell H.R. McMaster – YOU’RE FIRED!
billybob says
I agree – McMaster has go to go. That was a very erudite piece. I especially liked this…
“Subjective reality romanticizes globalism in the lyrics of John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” Objective reality recognizes globalism as the new world order – the despotic binary socio-political structure of masters and slaves.”
Mark Swan says
Linda Goudsmit, thank you for taking some time to write what you have here.
“Globalism is diametrically opposed to any nation’s sovereignty because ultimately it sees the world as one.”
Yes, I do agree—and would add—
By far the greatest threat to this organized effort is America and the way Americans think,
these elites do not feel most people should have any say.
Mark Swan says
http://www.globalistagenda.org/who.htm
Mark Swan says
Here is just a piece of a report—the rest can be read using the link below this.
Presented to the Board of Trustees of
The Conservative Caucus Foundation
October, 1997
“There are those who would very much like to see the attributes of U.S. nationhood fade away. It is not just the power of the United States that they fear; what they fear is the set of ideas that still makes the United States the most powerful nation on earth. For the ideas of America are a sign of contradiction to the way the rest of the world operates.
The power of these ideas to inspire people all over the globe creates an ongoing challenge to those who think the world should be organized on very different principles
Some people confuse material prosperity with freedom. They think that governments can assign a share of material prosperity to everyone, providing that the freedom to worship, think, and act is curtailed for the common good. They do not understand that prosperity and invention arise out of spiritual and intellectual freedom. They want to impose limits and barriers. They want to isolate human beings as individuals not connected to traditional social units, such as families, neighborhoods, and churches. In place of families, they think of collectives, planning and rules set by experts. They start with the notion of redistribution, not expansion.
It is not surprising that the re-distribution-ists identify the spirit of America as the most dangerous threat in the world to their outlook.
If the United States remains an independent leader, then the global collective of nations would be in mortal danger. That global collective is the United Nations. “
by
Dr. James P. Lucier, Sr.
Board Member, The Conservative Caucus, Inc.
and Former Minority Staff Director,
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
http://www.conservativeusa.net/UN100ways.htm
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve always hated that stupid song. It is not about love and peace–it is about having no values you care about enough to either live or die for them. *Ugh*.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely gravenimage, I agree.
Politicianaphobia says
+1
moeped says
What a brilliant and comprehensive memo by a true Patriot.
jerome henen says
Truth is the new hate speech – Pamela Geller.
UNCLE VLADDI says
CRIME is NOT some sort of DIVERSELY OPPOSITE EQUAL to law, nor one which we should TOLERATE until it kills us, in order to avoid risking being labelled hatefully bigoted racists. That’s extortive slander and leads as always directly to our enslavement by all these globalist gangster criminals, be they “leftists” &/or “muslims.” Suicidal masochism is NOT a virtue at all, much less the highest one, contrary to Christianity.
To all those endorsing the Stockholm Syndrome’s “Politically Correct” (i.e: factually incorrect; lying) stance of GOING ALONG (with criminal lies) TO GET ALONG (with all the other lying criminals) we say: “STFU!”
UNCLE VLADDI says
He accurately notes the official Marxist strategy behind the suicidally masochistic hypocrisy in action today.
Our tolerance of law is derided as intolerance of crime, while the criminal left’s intolerance of law is called tolerance.
tgusa says
If mcmaster is fired he has a future as a team leader within the googlag echo chamber.
Joe says
If McMaster represents the military complex all muslims are his perfect ally. Because they both want endless wars.
Maybe Trump is playing them both. Let them have their wars, but keep the rest safe. Only time will tell.
Frank Anderson says
Joe, I do not think there will be “innocent bystanders” who will be safe. The war that is going on now, and has been for 1400 years, is all around us and spares nobody. I hope your thought that the US military favors Islamic teachings, as Nazi Germany did during and AFTER WWII, is in error. Our military is under oath to support, protect and defend the United States Constitution, not, as in the case of Nazi Germany, a particular person. Also the US has adopted the Treaty of London (1945), which established the United Nations. Under Article 6 Clause 2, The Supremacy Clause, that treaty is part of federal law, which overrides any state law to the contrary. Particularly, the London Treaty removed (abrogated) the defense of “superior orders”, meaning that every individual, military or not cannot rely on being ordered to commit an illegal act as a defense to a criminal charge. See, e.g. Howard v. United States, 711 F.2d 729 (5th Cir. 1983). Of course imagine the consequences of withdrawing from the treaty and following the paths of many countries into dictatorship. UGLY.