|
|
Author: |
Diana West |
Created: |
Friday, October 12, 2007 10:04 PM |
 |
General information Blog |
By Diana West on
Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:43 PM
The extraordinary Tommy Robinson on the Westminster attacks, the problems with Islam, and what to do about them.
|
By Diana West on
Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:22 AM

The following timeline appeared in an "Infobox" in the Los Angeles Times on April 4, 1999.
It is a timeline of what one vector of foreign influence on a presidential election and presidency looks like.
Chung and China
1994
Aug. 2
Chung gives his first $11,000 to the Democratic National Committee at President Clinton's 48th birthday party. He will donate a total of $366,000 to the DNC by the 1996 election.
Dec. 20
Chung squires a Chinese beer maker to meet Clinton at a White House Christmas party, helping to establish Chung's ability to get Chinese access to Clinton. He will make 50 White House visits.
1995
March 11
Chung brings six business associates to the Oval Office for Clinton's weekly radio address.
...
Read More »
|
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:23 AM

Now at The Daily Caller.
Starting in May 2010, the Washington Examiner reported, drawing on emails obtained by Citizens United, "Clinton Foundation staff pushed Hillary Clinton's State Department to approve a meeting between Bill Clinton and a powerful Russian oligarch as her agency lined up investors for a project under his purview."
His name was Viktor Vekselberg of Renova (a Clinton Foundation donor) and the project under his purview was Skolkovo. The following month, Bill Clinton would receive $500,000 for a speech in Moscow from Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin, a Clinton...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Monday, March 20, 2017 5:12 AM

Task: Marking the messaging.
Subjects: Information warfare; hostile foreign influence; subversion; iron-handed suppression of all of the the above by the US government (some of the very subjects discussed throughout American Betrayal*).
1) Pro-Trump Roger Stone is ramping up "McCarthyism" and "Red-baiting" as "fear-mongering" and "mudslinging."
There may be some tiny chance Stone is ignorant about the McCarthy facts; nevertheless, it seems highly unlikely Stone does not know better,...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:38 PM
Had an excellent conversation this a.m. with Alexander Marlow on Breitbart Daily News (not that I realized that I had come up with the headline...) about All Things Swamp.
Here is the write up by John Hayward (audio link, too):
On Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily journalist Diana West, author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character,...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:36 AM
Breitbart News Daily host Alexander Marlow and I kick around some ideas about why Joseph McCarthy still terrifies the Swamp; what the "deep state" really is, and how President Trump can drain and expose it all with an American Truth Commission.
|
By Diana West on
Friday, March 10, 2017 2:57 PM
On with my favorite All-Americas team -- Allan Dos Santos in Brazil and Jeff Nyquist in the USA -- beginning with the bright shiny "wiretapping" the world is chasing even as President Trump is being walled off from key components of his agenda.
|
By Diana West on
Friday, March 10, 2017 9:14 AM
If you're anywhere near Fairbanks, Alaska this Saturday, the newsminer.com (The Voice of Interior Alaska) lists the following event for Saturday, March 11:
Book Discussion Group, “The Death of Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization,” by Diana West, hosted by League of Women Voters of the Tanana Valley Book Discussion Group. 10-11:30 a.m., Noel Wien Library, 1215 Cowles St. Free to attend, open to public.
I wish I could be there to hear the conversation!
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, March 07, 2017 4:49 PM
As noted here, CNN recently "reported" the following:
"Steve Bannon in 2013: Joseph McCarthy was right in crusade against Communist infiltration."
... Bannon made his comments in July 2013 while interviewing conservative pundit Diane [sic] West about her book “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.”
These statements of facts engender hisses, screams, fainting -- but only among media and other fact-proof ideologues. Informed readers will just shake their heads over the hermetically-sealed mindset that kills curiosity and engenders such Pavlovian-prompt reporting.
As in -- excerpted from American Betrayal, p....
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Monday, March 06, 2017 12:14 PM

Believe it or not, CNN has done something no other media have done. They actually found a connection between American Betrayal and Steve Bannon.
Not that this is hard to do. There is a massive queue of stories about American Betrayal at Breitbart under Bannon's helmsmanship.
These include:
1) A “breaking history” series in five parts that I wrote for Bannon/Breitbart, drawing from American Betrayal's discoveries.
2) Numerous pieces covering American Betrayal, the controversy (i.e., the disinformation...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Sunday, March 05, 2017 6:58 AM
Dear X ---
Are you watching what is going on over here?
So, Trump, just to review a couple of items, plans to expand the grossly deteriorated US nuclear arsenal and restore sovereign US powers that were about to expire completely in a morass of world (i.e., anti-democratic elites) governance — and his overall plans for an American restoration include, of course, restoring US manufacturing.
That, we are supposed to believe, made Trump the clear “choice” of V. Putin and all of his strategists — NOT the Clinton machine, which, just to review one item, enriched itself mightily while advancing Russia’s military/intelligence/cyber capabilities in the Obama/Clinton-Putin creation of “Russia’s Silicon Valley” — Skolkovo. So...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, March 03, 2017 8:31 AM

The AP reports:
MOSCOW -- Russia on Friday decried the uproar in the United States over Attorney General Jeff Sessions' meetings with the Russian ambassador as a replay of McCarthyism, voicing regret over the lack of any substantive dialogue with Washington....
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov argued that contacts with officials and lawmakers are part of any ambassador's duties. He added that the pressure on Sessions "strongly resembles a witch hunt or the times of McCarthyism, which we thought were long over in the United States as a civilized country."
Repeat after me: "The times of McCarthyism" netted scores of American KGB agents and agents of inflluence covertly embedded in the US government...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, March 03, 2017 7:37 AM

The two best pieces I have seen this week on the Trump adminstration and Russia are Walter Russell Meade's "Trump Isn't Sounding Like a Russian Mole," which opens with a salient point that I wholeheartedly agree with: Donald Trump plans to revamp and expand the US' nuclear arsenal. "Someone someone who was safely in Vladimir Putin’s pocket wouldn’t run around saying things like this."
It goes on from there, and Meade offers Trump-watchers the signal tip-off to watch for that will tell us Trump has gone Russian: If "his foreign policy [starts] looking much more like Barack Obama's."
The second piece by Jeff Nyquist is a mind-expanding excursion called: "Golitsyn's Methodology and the Trump Administration."
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, March 03, 2017 6:43 AM

Thanks to Peter Schweizer, we have a foundational base of information about Skolkovo, "Russia's Silicon Valley," but there is so much more to learn about this dangerous, time-bomb of a legacy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. That foundational base of information is his report, "From Russia, With Money: Hillary Clinton, The Russian Reset, and Cronyism."
But there is something much worse than the cronyism that Schweizer shows us. Knowingly or unknowingly, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton presided over the modernization and advance of Russian military, including nuclear, and intelligence capabilities. They did this through their "reset" with Russian which included massive technology transfers from the US and wider West through the establishment of the...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, March 03, 2017 4:18 AM

It'll be gone soon.
|
By Diana West on
Monday, February 27, 2017 5:17 PM

Now at The Daily Caller
Former FBI special agent John Guandolo has written a strong and sobering essay at his website, UnderstandingTheThreat, called "Unfit for Duty." It argues that two senior Trump administration officials, HR McMaster and Sebastian Gorka, are "catastrophically wrong" in their assessment of Islam as publicly stated and that this is "leading America down a disastrous road towards defeat."
I agree. However, the problem is much, much larger than that.
It is true that the statements (excerpted below) of both men serve to sever the logical, in fact, blatant connections between Islam and what I will call Hot Jihad (terrorism, war) and Cold Jihad (the imposition of Islamic law and customs through migration into Western democracies, also Hot Jihad). Both are components of the age-old design of Islamic conquest. With regard to Sebastian Gorka, a friend and strong supporter of American Betrayal back in the day, it grieves me to have to say so, but I have to say so.
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Monday, February 27, 2017 4:54 AM

Across the pond at the Times Literary Supplement, in an essay called "Steve Bannon, Heir to Plato" -- and to the think, the New York Times' exegesis was only called "What Does Steve Bannon Want?" -- the Lenin thang appeared again, as a sharp-eyed reader informed me, in the following line.
This juncture is probably how Bannon, who once compared himself to Lenin, views the 2016 elections.
Oh, what the heck -- I decided to tweet my little story to the writer, Nicholas Barrett.
Here is how our conversation went:

...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Sunday, February 26, 2017 7:42 AM

Something that should be common knowledge in evaluating the Ron Radosh claim that Steve Bannon said to him, "I am a Leninist" (which Bannon denies) at David Horowitz's November 2013 book party is that Radosh was exposed as a prevaricator and a fraud at Breitbart News in the fall of 2013 under the helmsmanship of Steve Bannon.
For example, I did it here -- but that was nothing next to the highly enjoyable evisceration Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov performed on Radosh and David Horowitz's Frontpage Magazine both here.
It's just something to bear in mind on evaluating sources. The...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Saturday, February 25, 2017 4:24 AM
The main reason Donald Trump, one month into his presidency, is surely the most embattled president in US history is not only because he campaigned on an agenda which, if executed, will destroy the corrupt and elitist ancien regime, but also because it will expose it.
It's that simple. The opportunity -- the threat -- is unprecedented and in all probability unique. Only someone as giant as Trump could even attempt to expose it, or "drain the swamp."
I received a very nice email this month from a 65-year-old man who was just finishing American Betrayal and, as he put it, "seeing the world with very new eyes."
He wrote:
With Trump's Swamp-Drainer persona riding high, American Betrayal rightly now finds itself at the center of the universe of American discourse, it seems. It might be described as a map of the swamp, even.
A map of the swamp -- I like that.
American Betrayal is...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, February 24, 2017 4:43 AM
During a "listening session" yesterday on domestic and international human trafficking, President Trump announced that "solving the human trafficking epidemic is a priority" for the Trump administration."
I want to make it clear today that my administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of human trafficking. ... It's getting worse and it's happening in the United States in addition to the rest of the world, but it's happening in the United States, which is terrible.
It's a very, very terrible problem. It's not talked about enough. People don't know enough about it. And we're going to talk about it, and we're going to bring it out into the open and hopefully we're going to do a great deal to help prevent some of the horrific -- really horrific -- crimes that are taking place.
And I can see -- I really can say, in this country, people don't realize how bad it is in this country, but in this country and all over the world.
It is certainly...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:52 AM

As not everybody knows because most people have no time for such fluff, The Washington Post has unveiled a motto: "Democracy dies in the darkness."
I used to write for a newspaper with a motto -- the late, lamented Dispatch International. Ours was from Thomas Jefferson: “Freedom of the press cannot be limited without being lost. In 2013, Lars Hedegaard, editor in chief, was very nearly was assassinated by a Danish Muslim (who later disappeared into ISIS) for doing his job as a journalist and commentator regarding the limitations Islam and the establishment (I don't how to say "swamp" in Danish) seek to impose on free speech and other matters.
I will still take Thomas Jefferson over a misremembered line from Star Trek 14, but note of the delusional aspect. In the Post's fever dream, it, the Post, is this sleek light-sword slicing the galactic darkness where democracy...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 6:53 AM

From Reuters
A Dutch secret service agent who was part of the team responsible for protecting Geert Wilders, the frontrunner in next month's election, has been suspended on suspicion of leaking details to a criminal organization, the secret service said on Wednesday.
Wilders, who campaigns on an anti-Islam platform that includes closing mosques and banning immigration from Muslim countries that has led to the protection, condemned the alleged breach, saying he cannot function without adequate security.
Dutch newspapers De Telegraaf and NRC Handelsblad and the country's national broadcaster NOS identified the suspect as an experienced officer in his mid-30s, using his first name and last initial.
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 5:24 AM

Now at The American Spectator
Today, Trump White House official Sebastian Gorka is "profiled" -- targeted in a scope, is more like it -- in the Washington Post, which, of course, is owned by Jeff Bezos, as most people seem to know, and whose Amazon Web Services, most people don't seem to know, has developed a $600 million computing cloud for the CIA that serves the 17 agencies making up the "intelligence community."
I just thought I'd throw that interlocking syngergy out there. By comparison, Bezos bought the whole Post for $250 million, which makes does make it a cheap rag. Naturally, its tone is cheap, too.
I mean, seriously, Post:
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Monday, February 20, 2017 11:02 AM

Now at The Daily Caller
Brave new world without boundaries gets one: Milo has been disinvited from C-PAC after interview clips of him supporting "consenting" sexual relations between adolescents and adults surfaced, as they say.
The question was not about Milo's right to free speech.
The question was whether it was proper for the leading, conservative, movement venue to choose to elevate someone who openly and quite volubly supports pedophilia (notwithstanding Milo's post-puberty stipulation). Such relations with youngsters are still a felony crime, thank goodness; also an abomination to some considerable number of conservatives and, I expect, liberals, too.
If C-PAC made its decision on the merits, I imagine it came down to a matter of how capacious the meat/potatoes, Solid Joe and decent conservative mainstream is, or ought to be -- and whether the hedonism that passes under the flag of "edgy" is really where its C-PAC helmsmen want that mainstream to flow.
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Monday, February 20, 2017 7:58 AM

From Left (above) to Right (below), Washington elites reveal that they what they really oppose is the democratic system that duly and constitutionally elected Donald Trump president of the United States.

|
By Diana West on
Sunday, February 19, 2017 10:10 AM
 
Behold Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon by Nadev Kandar for Time magazine.
Then, behold Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett by Nadev Kandar for the New York Times Magazine.
That's right. It's the same photographer at "work" -- political work, though, not photojournalism. Indeed, what a difference a photographer's raw politics makes. Every trick in the lighting and processing book is on display here. Bannon gets the Lucifer lights; Jarrett gets a Debbie Reynolds glow.
And not just Jarrett, by the way. Using similar photographic wiles, Kandar created a rather massive "Inauguration Gallery" of "Obama's...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Sunday, February 19, 2017 9:26 AM
Desk Drawer 2 is here
So I watched.
Here's where my ears pricked up:
"By 1973 I was in a state of kind of shell shock and sitting on the sidelines..."
Now, there's another gewgaw for the desk drawer ....
In 1973, the man was deep into his Black Panther period, which ended with the murder of Betty van Patter, whose body would be found in January 1975, causing Horowitz finally to notice, so he claims, that the Panthers were violent actors. This is not exactly "sitting on the sidelines."
Still ahead of him also in 1973 was his June 1974 essay in...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Saturday, February 18, 2017 6:40 AM
It is rare and reviving sight in Washington, DC. to see honor and duty and moral clarity drive a political measure.
I refer to House Resolution 21, recently introduced by the truly honorable Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) and explained in the video below to call upon the US military to correct the great and terrible wrong it perpetrated on brave and loyal US Marines who came under enemy attack in Afghanistan one day in March nearly ten years ago.
On that day, Marines met an enemy attack with appropriate force and survived. It was the attacks by their own commanders in the aftermath that opened wounds that have not yet healed. For the men of Fox Company and their families, these wounds continue to cause professional and personal setbacks and suffering. Rep. Jones' resolution asks that the military publicly acknowledge the fact that these Marines acted appropriately and without fault in order to restore the reputations stolen from them by irresponsible military commanders, even to this day.
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Thursday, February 16, 2017 5:02 AM
At a "photo op" on March 26, 2012, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev were finishing a private exchange about NATO missile defense.
According to the Washington Post's source -- "an ABC News producer, who said she viewed a recording of the discussion made by a Russian camera crew" (now in Siberia?) -- the exchange began before the familiar clip of tape above.
Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space.” Obama was apparently referring to then-outgoing prime minister/incoming Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you . . .”
Obama: "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."
Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."
The POTUS had just assured the Russian leadership that Obama's election season posturing was nothing more than that;...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:41 AM
In the most nasty way, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" has announced that Kellyanne Conway, a top advisor to President Trump, will not appear on the show again because, co-host Mika Brzezinski said, "she's not credible anymore,"
And so, MSNBC follows CNN into this new and, frankly, terrifying realm of news control pioneered by news controllers -- media figures who have eschewed all pretense at news gathering on behalf of the public for 1) the role of judge and jury on what constitutes "credible" and 2) news censor when it comes to the what the public is permitted to see and hear from the Trump administration.
How did this all get going? Last week, it was CNN damning...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Saturday, February 11, 2017 10:30 AM

Another post for the desk drawer. (Here is Desk drawer 1).
On p. 193 of Radical Son, Horowitz mentions an article he wrote about a Moscow/Peking land dispute, which, I find, appeared in Ramparts in June 1969 (key word: Ussuri ). The Black Panther magazine wrote something else on the topic, inspiring Horowitz to go over to the Panther offices, which he had never before visited -- due, he tell us, to his "aversion to the Panthers' violent dogmatism."
Remember: As he has often written, Horowitz didn't "discover" the violent activities of the Black Panthers until after the 1974 murder of Betty Van Patten.
The author of the Pather magazine article...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, February 10, 2017 3:26 AM

Now at The Daily Caller.
After 15 years of war, billions and billions of dollars in fighting and training, more money than the US spent on the Marshall Plan on nation-building, over 2,000 combat deaths including scores by very our "Afghan allies," tens of thousands of injuries, including many grievous "dismounted complex blast injuries," another US general has come before the Senate Armed Services Committee to ask for more.
I refer to Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., who told the committee this week that the war in Afghanistan, where he commands over 13,000 international troops, 8,400 of...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, February 07, 2017 9:09 AM

"Declassification," U.S. government-style. This document is 71 years old.
--
Probably more than anything else, “Drain the swamp” was the slogan of the Deplorables in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Candidate Trump introduced the phrase to describe his ethics program in mid-October, but it quickly came to sum up, part battle-cry, part prayer, the anti-Establishment fervor that would carry him to the White House on November 8.
There is more to “draining the swamp” than pulling the plug on today’s Washington Establishment. There is a vast historical swamp that President Trump must drain also; that murky place where generations of government secrets stay hidden, whether still classified, or declassified but still "redacted" (censored). While the Washington Establishment may draw staying power from keeping its secrets secret, these...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, February 07, 2017 4:52 AM

Dear American Betrayal War Veterans,
The following email exchange offers a rare glimpse into the mental processes. It shows, first, how effective a whispering/disinformation campaign can be short of evidence; then, how devastating evidence can be to a whispering/disappearance campaign.
Note turning point: "I will order Diana's book."
Thanks to both anonymous interlocutors for permission to print their conversation. Special thanks to RRRR for having an open mind.
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 5:40 PM
RRRR
FYI attached link by...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Sunday, February 05, 2017 9:36 AM
Steven Gern, a 10 year Marine veteran, was working somewhere in Iraq when President Trump issued his executive order on immigration and refugees, pausing entry into the US from seven Islamic countries including Iraq for a whopping 90 days.
In a video posted last week to his Facebook page (viewed an incredble 41 million times!), Gern discussed the effect of the EO on "the local population" according to his own Iraqi colleagues. When Gern asked what would happen to him if he, as an American, now went out into town, they told him the locals would "snatch me up and kill me within an hour," probably behead him, and upload the video of the bloodletting to the Internet. Gern underscores the fact that this is not ISIS talking, not Iranian militias, not al Qaeda -- this is what other Iraqis say is the probable reaction of the local Iraqi people.
Although shocking for people used to Islam-is-peace apologetics, this...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Saturday, February 04, 2017 6:15 AM

Like a broken record or agit prop artist, Radosh is again hawking his "fake news" story about Steve Bannon at the Daily Beast.
First, according to Radosh, Bannon announced to Radosh in early 2014 that he, Steve Bannon, was a "Leninist" and, in response to Radosh's discussion of a pair of February 2014 columns by Thomas Sowell, he (Bannon), wanted to destroy National Review and the Weekly Standard.
After I wrote that this (stupid) conversation was probably not possible because the party in question all but certainly took place in November 2013 (thus Bannon could not be having this conversation with Radosh about February 2014 Sowell columns), and that the discussion, as Bannon told me not long afterward,...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Wednesday, February 01, 2017 10:54 AM

Now at The American Spectator
The 2016 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Sen. Tim Kaine, said the following this week in an interview:
We are so excited that the American public is energized to speak out against the abuses of this administration. ...
What we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box, and now there's the momentum to be able to do this.
Fight in the streets?
This is something new and alarming in American politics: a US senator...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:38 AM
 
From the editorial page of the Washington Post; from Twitter
I keep thinking I have come to the ultimate distillation of our political times -- and then there is another.
But surely nothing (?) will exceed this perfect pairing of contempt, this intersection of the Left and the Right in loathing for the 63 million citizens of this country who won 31 states for Donald Trump, making him the 45th President of the United States.
Here, for all to see, is the pulsing hatred of the "elites" -- coarse and crude though they be -- not only for The People, but for regular people, who,...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Monday, January 30, 2017 5:41 AM

Now at The American Spectator
President Trump's executive action on immigration is a terrific shock to international socialism, whose sinews, including "free" trade, mass immigration/open borders, Globalism First, have come to undergird the American Way. In such a Marxian system, borders, the nation-state, America First, are not just anathema, they are "reactionary" relics, and effectively defunct. Or supposed to be.
In other words, no president is ever supposed to not only say but act on the following:
In order to protect Americans, the United States must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Sunday, January 29, 2017 10:48 AM

The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the communists, and end up with yourself.
-- Vladimir Bukovsky, Judgement at Moscow, Chapter 1
In 2009, Vladimir Bukovsky delivered a striking speech setting forth his ideas about why it was the West did not win the Cold War. These same ideas served as stepping stones in my own excursions in American Betrayal.
Among them, Bukovsky, a co-founder of the Soviet dissident movement incarcerated for many years in USSR labor camps, prisons and psychiatric hospitals, discussed the crucial failure of the West to render judgment on the evils of the Soviet system on its dissolution in 1991.
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:41 AM

Read about the four (4) members of the Rosenberg Ring who went to high school where and while Philip Horowitz taught here.
---
I don't really know what to do with this stuff as it pops up, except to post it, kind of like an open desk drawer.
So, to that end, and in brief, two items.
I was watching David Horowitz on with Tucker Carlson, who introduced him by saying some such: "David Horowitz is someone who knows about Russians. HIs parents were ardent Commnuists who left the Party after learning of Stalin's atrocities."
This is, to be sure, how Horowitz makes it out, writing in Radical Son that on reading about Krushchev's famous speech about some...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, January 27, 2017 8:28 AM

So much to talk about -- with a quartet of my favorite hosts!
On Update Brazil with Jeff Nyquist here
On REELtalk with Audrey Russo here
On Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney here
On Gilmore & Guests with John Gilmore here
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:45 PM
 
I.
Behold the Washington Post Style section of January 3, 2017.
All but the trimmings of Page One and Two belong to a woman named Amanda Kleinman, who, we are told, is the leading victim of the headline's "Troll Patrol" -- online harassment resulting from that "viral fake news conspiracy theory" known as "Pizzagate."
What is "Pizzagate?" Whatever it is, it is either not on the media menu (a la Breitbart); or it is served up by news organs such as the Washington Post as a complete nothing -- the original scoop of "fake news" as cooked up by "the Internet" beginning with the John Podesta Wikileaked emails that include possibly unusual, possibly coded references to "pizza," also something called "Spirit Cooking."
For example, in one of the stranger "pizza" exchanges, a realtor on Martha's Vineyard writes to Democrat moneybags Susan and Herbert Sandler (the latter, per Wikileaks, a patron of Podesta) to let them know that some items were forgotten in a rental, including "a square cloth handkerchief (white with black) that was left on the kitchen island." Do they want it back?
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:26 AM

Now at The Daily Caller:
--
From inner sanctum to inner sanctum, this is the conversation that has been buzzing around the District of Columbia:
So, the Deplorables won an election and sent their man to Washington. Well, now, he's on our turf and plays by our rules.
Yeah!
So goes the collective thinking of "Washington," that shining co-op on a hill, where average men and women of above-average ambition and self-esteem have flim-flammed their way through the ballot box, climbed the think tank ladder, or honed the corporate sound-byte to come together in a promised land of uniparty perks and and special kind of firepower, suit-and-tied workers dedicated to preserving that same liberal world order foisted on the American people so very long...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Saturday, January 21, 2017 3:57 AM

Still rubbing my eyes, to be honest.
On listening to President Trump's Inaugural address, I could not have been more pleased than to have heard, loud and clear, the theme of "America First." This is the revolutionary underpinning of the Trump movement, a re-ordering of the liberal "world order" that the Bushes and Clintons and Obamas on the stage yesterday represented, vanquished, in a transfer of power unlike any other in memory.
The People have just repudiated these policies; however, they remain the framework and orientation for politics and media establishments in America and elsewhere. This is precisely why it was so significant that Trump reiterated the America First theme. The brand new president eschewed the dangerously doctrinaire platitudes of "universalism" and "democracy building" of all modern Inaugural addresses (forgoing passing plaudits from Washington elites) not only because it really seems he doesn't believe them, but because he also seems to understand that his power derives directly from the 63 million Americans who voted for him. If he checks out on them and "goes Washington," they check out on him, and he's done. It's a match made-in-America heaven.
...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 7:12 AM

A constant need, an occasional series --
When Sen. Joseph McCarthy died, shockingly, at the age of 48, he, his aides and his committee had identified at least fifty Soviet agents, ideological communists and Fifth Amendment pleaders, dedicated to the overthrow of our constitutional system, and loyal/sympathetic to Stalin, Mao and a new wave of genocidal dictators. (Indeed, here are two more.)
It was the late M. Stanton Evans, America's greatest McCarthy expert, author of Blacklisted by History,...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Friday, January 06, 2017 5:49 AM

Now at The Daily Caller.
"Russian hacking" is the Left/Never-Trumpers' explanation for Donald Trump's election.
In their furrowed-brow-telling, they have recently discovered something called "Russian interference" and "Russian influence." Don't ask where so many of them have been all of our lives, because they've spent about the past century telling us there was no such thing.
That was then. Today, they insist that this newfound "Russian interference" and "Russian influence" secretly drove nearly 63 million American deplorables to reach for that GOP lever again and again to vote for Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton.
Let me squeeze in a little historical context. The late, great Sen. Joseph McCarthy himself was not wont to make such sweeping, conspiratorial...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 8:42 AM

Ever wonder why the UN is a perennial force for Evil and the anti-American way?
It was the brainchild of Soviet agents.
No kidding. So much of our history has been stolen from us that I doubt even those currently and publicly bristling at the UN's latest depredations against Israel (still holding the front line of the Western front) from Donald Trump to Charles Krauthammer, have any knowledge of this elementary fact. Nonetheless, the hidden/forgotten/suppressed record...
Read More »
|
By Diana West on
Thursday, December 22, 2016 4:27 AM

In our weekly radio chat, Frank Gaffney and I discuss two recent posts: "Somersaulting in Synchronism" and "X-Mas for Truth-Seekers," which is about the recent Arpaio Cold Case Posse presser on the Obama birth certificate.
These topics make an apt duo, both being about the lengths to which free people go to enslave themselves to Party and/or party discipline: in the former case, the press and political class puling out the stops to undermine Trump; in the latter, the press and political class...
Read More »
|
|
|
|
|