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"It is not simply a good book about history. It is one of those books which makes history. ... "
-- Vladimir Bukovsky, co-founder of the Soviet dissident movement and author of Judgment in Moscow, and Pavel Stroilov, author of Behind the Desert Storm.
"Diana West is distinguished from almost all political commentators because she seeks less to defend ideas and proposals than to investigate and understand what happens and what has happened. This gives her modest and unpretentious books and articles the status of true scientific inquiry, shifting the debate from the field of liking and disliking to being and non-being."
-- Olavo de Carvalho
If you're looking for something to read, this is the most dazzling, mind-warping book I have read in a long time. It has been criticized by the folks at Front Page, but they don't quite get what Ms. West has set out to do and accomplished. I have a whole library of books on communism, but -- "Witness" excepted -- this may be the best.
-- Jack Cashill, author of Deconstructing Obama: The Lives, Loves and Letters of America's First Postmodern President and First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America
"Every once in a while, something happens that turns a whole structure of preconceived ideas upside down, shattering tales and narratives long taken for granted, destroying prejudice, clearing space for new understanding to grow. Diana West's latest book, American Betrayal, is such an event."
-- Henrik Raeder Clausen, Europe News
West's lesson to Americans: Reality can't be redacted, buried, fabricated, falsified, or omitted. Her book is eloquent proof of it.
-- Edward Cline, Family Security Matters
"I have read it, and agree wholeheartedly."
-- Angelo Codevilla, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Boston Unversity, and fellow of the Claremont Institute.
Enlightening. I give American Betrayal five stars only because it is not possible to give it six.
-- John Dietrich, formerly of the Defense Intelligence Agency and author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy.
After reading American Betrayal and much of the vituperation generated by neoconservative "consensus" historians, I conclude that we cannot ignore what West has demonstrated through evidence and cogent argument.
-- John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
"A brilliantly researched and argued book."
-- Edward Jay Epstein, author of Deception: The Invisible War between the KGB and the CIA, The Annals 0f Unsolved Crime
"This explosive book is a long-needed answer to court histories that continue to obscure key facts about our backstage war with Moscow. Must-reading for serious students of security issues and Cold War deceptions, both foreign and domestic."
-- M. Stanton Evans, author of Stalin's Secret Agents and Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
Her task is ambitious; her sweep of crucial but too-little-known facts of history is impressive; and her arguments are eloquent and witty. ... American Betrayal is one of those books that will change the way many of us see the world.
-- Susan Freis Falknor, Blue Ridge Forum
"American Betrayal is absolutely required reading. Essential. You're sleepwalking without it."
-- Chris Farrell, director of investigations research, Judicial Watch
"Diana West wrote a brilliant book called American Betrayal, which I recommend to everybody ... It is a seminal work that will grow in importance."
-- Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker
"This is a must read for any serious student of history and anyone working to understand the Marxist counter-state in America."
-- John Guandolo, president, Understanding the Threat, former FBI special agent
It is myth, or a series of myths, concerning WW2 that Diana West is aiming to replace with history in 2013’s American Betrayal.
If West’s startling revisionism is anywhere near the historical truth, the book is what Nietzsche wished his writings to be, dynamite.
-- Mark Gullick, British Intelligence
“What Diana West has done is to dynamite her way through several miles of bedrock. On the other side of the tunnel there is a vista of a new past. Of course folks are baffled. Few people have the capacity to take this in. Her book is among the most well documented I have ever read. It is written in an unusual style viewed from the perspective of the historian—but it probably couldn’t have been done any other way.”
-- Lars Hedegaard, historian, journalist, founder, Danish Free Press Society
The polemics against your Betrayal have a familiar smell: The masters of the guild get angry when someone less worthy than they are ventures into the orchard in which only they are privileged to harvest. The harvest the outsider brought in, they ritually burn.
-- Hans Jansen, former professor of Islamic Thought, University of Utrecht
No book has ever frightened me as much as American Betrayal. ... [West] patiently builds a story outlining a network of subversion so bizarrely immense that to write it down will seem too fantastic to anyone without the book’s detailed breadth and depth. It all adds up to a story so disturbing that it has changed my attitude to almost everything I think about how the world actually is. ... By the time you put the book down, you have a very different view of America’s war aims and strategies. The core question is, did the USA follow a strategy that served its own best interests, or Stalin’s? And it’s not that it was Stalin’s that is so compelling, since you knew that had to be the answer, but the evidence in detail that West provides that makes this a book you cannot ignore.
-- Steven Kates, RMIT (Australia) Associate Professor of Economics, Quadrant
"Diana West's new book rewrites WWII and Cold War history not by disclosing secrets, but by illuminating facts that have been hidden in plain sight for decades. Furthermore, she integrates intelligence and political history in ways never done before."
-- Jeffrey Norwitz, former professor of counterterrorism, Naval War College
[American Betrayal is] the most important anti-Communist book of our time ... a book that can open people's eyes to the historical roots of our present malaise ... full of insights, factual corroboration, and psychological nuance.
-- J.R. Nyquist, author, Origins of the Fourth World War
Although I know [Christopher] Andrew well, and have met [Oleg] Gordievsky twice, I now doubt their characterization of Hopkins -- also embraced by Radosh and the scholarly community. I now support West's conclusions after rereading KGB: The Inside Story account 23 years later [relevant passages cited in American Betrayal]. It does not ring true that Hopkins was an innocent dupe dedicated solely to defeating the Nazis. Hopkins comes over in history as crafty, secretive and no one's fool, hardly the personality traits of a naïve fellow traveler. And his fingerprints are on the large majority of pro-Soviet policies implemented by the Roosevelt administration. West deserves respect for cutting through the dross that obscures the evidence about Hopkins, and for screaming from the rooftops that the U.S. was the victim of a successful Soviet intelligence operation.
-- Bernie Reeves, founder of The Raleigh Spy Conference, American Thinker
Diana West’s American Betrayal — a remarkable, novel-like work of sorely needed historical re-analysis — is punctuated by the Cassandra-like quality of “multi-temporal” awareness. ... But West, although passionate and direct, is able to convey her profoundly disturbing, multi-temporal narrative with cool brilliance, conjoining meticulous research, innovative assessment, evocative prose, and wit.
-- Andrew G. Bostom, PJ Media
Do not be dissuaded by the controversy that has erupted around this book which, if you insist on complete accuracy, would be characterized as a disinformation campaign.
-- Jed Babbin, The American Spectator
In American Betrayal, Ms. West's well-established reputation for attacking "sacred cows" remains intact. The resulting beneficiaries are the readers, especially those who can deal with the truth.
-- Wes Vernon, Renew America
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 6:28 AM
When I was a syndicated columnist, various editors urged me to write a few seasonal "evergreens" that might be published when I wanted to take a break. I never pulled it off -- there was always something brand new to write about. I realize now that the following 2015 essay about Hiroshima really fits the bill.
The version below was originally updated for 2016. I am running it again today, old chestnut-style, in the wake of the release of "Oppenheimer" (about which I will soon have more to say); and also in reply to a piece of fake-narrative-enforcement published today by the Time magazine mockingbirds, who have trotted out Evan Thomas (or vice versa) to deny the FACT that Japan tried repeatedly to surrender to the United States long before the A-bomb was dropped, tested, or even fully developed.
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By Diana West on
Thursday, July 20, 2023 10:19 AM
In just five minutes, Emma-Jo Morris of Breitbart News lays waste to the dictatorship of the intelligence agencies, code- named the United States of the America.
Of course (I say "of course," but it is not obvious), laser-focusing now on Biden family corruption, which is also Biden family treason, and the supression of the evidence before the 2020 election has an odd and pernicious effect: It creates an illusion that Joe Biden was actually elected. "If only the laptop story had gotten out to the American people, Biden would never have been elected" is this pernicious subtext. However, laptop-evidence or no laptop-evidence, Trump was elected, and the greater crime -- the theft of the presidential election from the American people -- is not being investigated by the Weaponization Committee. Nor are the DOJ crimes against the Americans, now political prisoners, who protested that theft at the Capitol on January 6.
Impeachment, the most obvioius remedy for Biden (for Wray, for Garland,...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, July 20, 2023 6:42 AM
The Vermont Daily Chronicle has published a thoughtful op-ed on the catastrophic Vermont rains by 2022 state senate candidate Paul Bean, who raises excellent questions and offers tragically plausible answers.
It's titled: How did this storm happen? Don't rule out weather modification.
Some excerpts:
Here in Vermont we are experiencing historic catastrophic flooding, even worse than Tropical Storm Irene. The question MUST be asked: how did this happen?
We all know the rain has been unusually frequent this summer causing the ground to be completely saturated before this even began. But how, in less than 24 hours did the state of Vermont get an entire summer’s worth of Rain? How could we have a random, out-of-the-blue unnamed Storm that is worse than Irene? Some are saying “it’s climate change.” Perhaps it is…
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By Diana West on
Monday, July 17, 2023 6:46 AM
About those Blackhawks "training" in Post Mills, Vermont?
Matt Bracken writes in:
One other aspect of this type of "helicopter training mission" is that it often involves the cooption of the local police and city/county officials.
The local police chief and mayor go on lots of "Hooyah!" joy-rides over their town and county. Any local/regional SWAT teams get "cross-trained" by Delta, SEALs, etc. Lots of federal largesse is spread around. Money for the town to buy its own helicopter is offered, new SWAT gear, surplus armored vehicles, etc etc.
The Police Chief or his more willing henchmen are often offered various courses at FLE training facilities such as Quantico VA or Brunswick GA. These are major career enhancements. Some will even...
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By Diana West on
Monday, July 17, 2023 2:39 AM
Woke up to another white-out morning in Vermont (no sun, white bank of fog) in this gruesome summer of 2023 and found the following item in the local listserv:
2. Airport Activity
From: Post Mills Airport
The US Army will be conducting brief training exercises at Post Mills Airport on Tuesday July 18 and Thursday July 20. They will be flying in and briefly landing 4 Blackhawk helicopters at the far end of the runway. This will occur around 11 AM on Tuesday and 11 PM on Thursday. Please do not be alarmed by the noise or the armed men (their weapons are NOT loaded) you might see at the doors of the aircraft. For the night landing they will be using night vision, so PLEASE no lights!
Any questions email ...
Thanks!
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Thanks? Do not be alarmed? The United States military has vast bases throughout the country and around the world...
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By Diana West on
Sunday, July 16, 2023 1:12 AM
Update from The Chilling Effect:
Not only are there phantom defamation charges in Malone v. Breggin et al ("et al" being Ginger Breggin and Dr. Jane Ruby), now there is a phantom reconcilation meeting.
In a very weird turn of events, Dr. Paul Alexander, heretofore erupting all over Substack as a fearsome critic of Malone and his "chilling effect" lawsuit, recently posted a statement on his Substack under the following header:
Malone, Breggin, McCullough update meeting: we held a high level sensitive meeting last night with players (doctors & scientists) from Malone's camp & TWC's camp
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By Diana West on
Thursday, July 13, 2023 10:36 AM
Before I came across the story I am posting below, I wrote the following:
Here's what I think is going on in Vermont and other areas of rural areas of New England. I think we are victims of a weather engineering program targeting the small farm and other remnants of self-sufficient American life as they exist here to this day. Don't think that's possible? Take a look at Operation Popeye, the US military rain-making program deployed to intensify and extend the monsoon season during the Vietnan War. Remember, too. that dictatorships always make war on agriculture, usually killing millions of people, as a means to control independent citizens, as in Stalin's Ukraine, in Mao's China, also in FDR's New Deal. I think it is perfectly possible (or even likely) that the illegitimate regime in Washington, which hates Americans, is already deploying weather warfare, the perfect crime,...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, July 13, 2023 4:40 AM
Just watch this clip. Here's another one or two. Then call your US representative. Tell him, you know he's only there as a prop, that's fine. Tell him, you know he's a secret member of a uniparty, that the...
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By Diana West on
Monday, July 10, 2023 5:24 PM
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By Diana West on
Sunday, July 09, 2023 2:09 PM
I hope you had a chance to watch my interview with Elsa Scheider during her Truth Summit. The interviews are behind a paywall now, but, hey, if you pop for the series, you get 21 fascinating interviews for the price and when you think about the untold hours of work on everyone's part it's probably a bargain. But still. Anyway, it was a great series of interviews -- and here, for free, is where many of us rejoined as a panel to take stock.
As a coda, I thought I'd post this comment on my interview with Elsa. It's now ten years after the publication of American Betrayal, and I appreciate the commenter's frankness, which shows how disinformation work and tells me why it was that Frontpage turned down Bukovsky's essay about American Betrayal. Thanks again to Elsa for her committment to the truth...
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By Diana West on
Sunday, July 09, 2023 7:48 AM
Here's one from the pre-9/11 vaults, one of my first columns about foreign affairs.
It was May 4, 2001, and extremely alarming prohibitions on political debate in the UK had caught my eye. This was just the beginning, of course. And note that the shocking prohibition on debating asylum issues -- and even more shocking penalties for breaking it -- would only be strengthened by the post-9/11 vogue for sharia law.
Twenty-two years ago I wrote:
There is something very squeamish-making in the news coming out of England these days—not about foot and mouth disease and little lost lambs, but about foot in mouth disease and little lost Tories.
The offending subject is multi-culturalism, but not as the term is most commonly used to describe the inclusion of non-Western works for study as a method of redressing assorted social injustices. In this British political...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, July 04, 2023 4:48 AM
On July 6, 2023, it will be two years and seven months since the overthrow of the newly re-elected President Trump was rubber-stamped by a traitor US Congress, and patriotic dissent became a felony. On this Independence Day, we are ruled by traitors and cokeheads (now in the White House), installed by unknown but much-speculated-upon forces. I am guessing these forces are connected to the Chinese and Ukranian and Russian and other names on the millions of dollars of checks made out to Biden family entities.
Where I am, under geoengineered skies, it is too wet and rainy to fly the flag, and it's not looking good for fireworks tonight. That seems about right to me. I don't know about you, but it doesn't feel to me like a time...
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By Diana West on
Saturday, July 01, 2023 3:49 AM
Illustration via @WildcatTreb67
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