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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
Sunday, September 29, 2019 4:37 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
On July 24, 2019, all through the day, as Robert Mueller testified before Congress, the elation of President Trump's supporters continued to build. Mueller's dismal performance, start to finish, only underscored the Special Counsel report takeaway of "no collusion." It was time to celebrate, or so it seemed. The Federalist called the event: "A complete disaster for Democrats." Breitbart crowed: "Robert Mueller Testimony Backfires on Democrats as Republicans Move in for the Kill."
My own take, both as a Trump supporter and analyst of...
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By Diana West on
Friday, September 27, 2019 6:34 PM
What a week.
Happily, got to talk over some of the events with Audrey Russo.
Listen here,
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:08 AM

I am wondering if it is possible that President Trump knows full well how high the Swamp is all around him, not just outside his administration but throughout his administration. If so, I am wondering if it is also possible that he believes that if there is any hope of exposing the anti-Trump, anti-American conspiracy still at work against him and the nation, the only accessible proof lies outside normal government channels, maybe outside Washington itself.
That's ridiculous, the automatic reply is. He's the president, isn't he?
All the president has to do is unredact and release the deepest darkest secrets of the Swamp to neutralize its powers: the FISA applications, the Page-Strzok convos, the "lost" Clinton emails (which, of course, are not lost at all but closely held by NSA), and on and on to the Saudi-Bush-9/11 everything, the POW/MIA archives, the whole of the Kennedy assassination files, the works.
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By Diana West on
Thursday, September 19, 2019 4:23 AM

Now at The Epoch Times.
I'm posting the link to my May 15, 2019 Red Thread radio interview with Sean Hannity and Gregg Jarrett (with thanks to Vlad Tepes) because I suddenly realized that this 10-plus minute segment from the beginning of the summer makes a nice bookend to a short passage I find in Andy McCarthy's late-summer release, Ball of Collusion.
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 3:26 AM

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By Diana West on
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 1:48 PM

Now at The American Spectator:
"Why Does the New York Times Have a Race Editor?"
Sitting down to write, I ask myself: Am I being fair? Is it according to Hoyle, kosher, and on the up and up to take aim at such a target, cavorting unaware in the complacency of impervious consensus? After all, this is the A-section of the New York Times, where summer games for social justice warriors don’t end; they just continue on B17. Rebels and scofflaws are not just uninvited; they are not imagined.
And yet here I am on page A2. It has been redesigned since my last, non-virtual visit, the new architecture supporting a self-referential echo chamber of left-wing hang-ups and obsessions. The agitprop may be old news, but the look is different. Like industrial chic, all of...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 11:50 AM

Another nice surprise I find on my return is Jeff Nyquist's review of The Red Thread.
Here it is in full:
Diana West latest book, The Red Thread, teaches us to swim in the details instead of drowning in the lies. Before describing Diana’s details, it is useful to establish the context in which her work appears.
In terms of the “big picture,” an ideological war is taking place throughout society, on every level, across every discipline. In the old Soviet Union they used to say “we live in the era of the transition between capitalism and socialism.” It was also billed as a transition between belief in God and a belief in the power of man.
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By Diana West on
Monday, September 09, 2019 8:12 AM

Returning from several weeks away, I was delighted to find copies of the new Brazilian publication of American Betrayal with a preface by the illustrious author and philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, "one of the primary voices of Brazil's conservative revival," as Jeff Nyquist has written. The books were accompanied by an extremely kind note from the publisher, who writes:
I am sending you two copies of your book American Betrayal translated into Portuguese -- "Traicao Americana: o ataque secreto aos Estados Unidos". I want to...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, September 05, 2019 9:22 AM
Here is a stack of recent interviews, in order of appearance, with Jason Goodman, Audrey Russo and Frank Gaffney, all of them getting at the same crisis from slightly different angles.
Guest-hosting The Intelligence Assessment with Jason Goodman here.
On The Audrey Russo Show here.
On Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney here.
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 6:26 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
There is a sinister war underway, a war of mental conditioning, as a new united front of communists, socialists, and liberals in media and politics attack the American mind and soul as something immoral and hateful—something to be reviled as “racist” in every tweet and every news story, and demonized as “white nationalist” over every airwave, all to a point of reflexive consensus in the public square.
The ravages of history bear witness to the heinous results of eerily similar campaigns of public revilement in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and other totalitarian echo chambers. Should the tens of millions of Americans today and every day lashed as “racists” and “white nationalists”—that is, Republicans, Democrats,...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, August 08, 2019 4:05 AM
 
I went on with Sam Sorbo this week (listen below) to walk through the Left's new psy op in progress against President Trump and the American people who support him and his agenda to reinstate America as a nation-state before migratory invasions and other hallmarks of globalism wholly subsume it.
In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, the Left has launched a new and especially vicious offensive, climbing over the dead and wounded to enage in a massive bait-and-switch propaganda campaign. Before the facts are even known about these crimes -- and despite the facts that are known about these crimes -- the Left is in full-despicability-mode, recklessly and unforgiveably blaming President Trump for the violence while -- Diabolical Plot...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, August 07, 2019 4:05 AM

I was happy to pick up The Red Thread this week with Marc Bernier, radio host and director of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's President's Speaker Series. Marc actually launched American Betrayal back in 2013 with my debut appearance at the President's Speaker Series to discuss the book. To the newly newsy point, Marc also interviewed Ellen Ratner and...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, August 06, 2019 4:05 AM

Note to Party Line Disseminators:
Comrades:
In the new, Pavlovian "propaganda climate" that has finally been achieved, not by position papers of our lame Party Line Candidates, but by an anti-immigrant manifesto linked to the El Paso massacre, and, yes, successfully exploited by Party Line Disseminators across the MSM, it is crucial to our mission to replace #MAGA with "white nationalism" and Trump with any of the Party Line Candidates, however pathetic, to maintain the Party Line at all costs and at all times.
Thus, the New York Times is to be severely chastised. NYT, fight on to become worthy again of your prized Duranty Pulitzer!
Party-Line Dissemintaors on Twitter, your contributions to the glorious anti-America cause are noted. Keep up the good work, especially in suppressing the manifesto's overlap...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, August 01, 2019 4:50 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
Writing about the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising in today's Wall Street Journal, Bard history professor Sean McMeekin makes the point that the "heroic yet doomed" battle against Nazi occupation is "almost forgotten in the West."
He asks:
Why, then, is this shattering episode in European history almost forgotten in the West? Perhaps because the battle for Warsaw does not have a happy ending. Germany’s eventual defeat did not mark the liberation of Poles but the beginning of another brutal occupation by the Communists. This unsettles the narrative of World...
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By Diana West on
Friday, July 26, 2019 3:50 AM

Many thanks to Stefan Molyneux for inviting me on his show (watch below) to walk through the epic failure at this week's Mueller hearings on the part of the GOP to nail to the wall the fraudulent basis for the entire Mueller investigation -- for that matter, the fraudulent basis of the entire Trump-Russia deception. I am talking about the Big Lie that Russia hacked the election to help make Donald Trump president. After Robert Mueller's testimonies, this delegitimizing Big Lie stands unquestioned because no GOP member dared to overturn the foundational rock of the anti-Trump conspiracy by asking: Why did the FBI fail to investigate the DNC server that the DNC claimed was attacked by Russia in the summer...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, July 25, 2019 3:12 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
I am certainly no stranger to the far end of a limb, but this time, I am really out there. I watched the Mueller hearings and despaired. I saw the Original Sin of Trump Russia -- "Russia hacked the DNC," shaped by time and messaging into "Russian interference in 2016 on behalf on Donald Trump" -- enter the record, accepted and even regurgitated by the GOP.
But Mueller gave a foggy performance! He never even read his own report! Impeachment is dead! The response by the estimable Mollie Hemingway typifies conservative satisfaction.

I rubbed my eyes, tried to smile, but it didn't work. I still felt snookered and betrayed...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 9:42 AM

It is 2:17 pm ET and I have watched Robert Mueller testify for many hours before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees up to this moment. I now despair of any single Republican pulling the pin on the anti-Trump conspiracy. That is, no Republican has been willing to ask the basic, elemental Russia-gate question: Why should We, the People rely on a redacted, draft report by Crowdstrike, a DNC contractor with a spotty record, co-founded by a Mueller protege named Shawn Henry, for the sensational finding that Russia hacked the DNC? Such a finding has serious political and national security implications, as we all well and wearily know. Acording to Crowdstrike -- but not according to FBI investigators or any other government or independent investigators -- Russia "hacked" the DNC, and, the story goes, gave the "stolen" emails to Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, thus "interfering" with the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
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By Diana West on
Sunday, July 21, 2019 9:59 AM

On this 75th anniversary of the assassination attempt against Hitler led by Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (above), it is appropriate to ask the question: Why didn't the US government support the anti-Nazi German resistance? The answer, which is shocking, lies in Chapter Ten of American Betrayal, which opens with an epigraph from Gen. Wedemayer: "The irony of it all is that the Soviet empire is largely one of our own creation."
Here are the first pages:
I can hear the carping: But the USSR was our ally against Hitler.
No. The USSR was not our ally. It was our secret master-manipulator. We were secretly master-manipulated, not into defeating the Nazis, who, but for the de facto Soviet occupation of Washington, I now am persuaded could have been eliminated in 1943, but rather into decimating, obliterating, Germany, Soviet Russia’s natural barrier against expansion into its European empire. Japan, very much too, for that matter, in the East.
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 5:13 AM
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By Diana West on
Monday, July 15, 2019 5:36 AM
If ever there was a sick society, it is Britain. Eaten from the inside first by Marxism, which collapsed its faith, families and traditions, the nation was then beset by massive Islamic immigration, which introduced new predators into the decaying socialist ecosystem, some of whom would target the weak, English girls, in new and horrific ways. These young girls, who, in this already broken society, always seemed to be on the loose in their high streets and mean streets, became sexual prey in a hideous hunting process we would learn, in horror, was called "grooming." Mainly Muslim "grooming" gangs were pedophile rape gangs, prostitution gangs, drug gangs, umma-imported-mafias of sexual degredation and violence, preying on the English communities in which these immigrants now lived. Is this the "multicultural" design Tony...
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By Diana West on
Friday, July 05, 2019 8:57 AM

This is the opening installment in an occasional series.
I begin this review of Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity by Vladimir Bukovsky with a confession: I despair of doing justice to this monumental work.
Why? Judgment in Moscow is not a book only. Its very release is a historic event. Its top-secret contents were never supposed to see light of day. Its author is one of the great heroes who ever walked the earth. Such extraordinary attributes call for special treatment; however, that’s not even the end of the book’s special challenges. There is also the perplexing fact that the magnitude of this publication will not be readily evident to most “younger” readers...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, July 03, 2019 7:21 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
We have arrived at a point in U.S. history that even our Founders, in their nearly infinite wisdom, may not have foreseen.
Regarding Election 2020, we are faced with the grave question of whether enough Americans remain in the 50 states to go to the polls to affirm the continued existence of the United States of America by voting for Donald Trump.
If the answer is no, if Americans are outnumbered and even surrounded by those animated by an openly anti-America agenda promoted by the Democratic Party, 2020 could be a terrible turning-point of no return.
This tells me it’s here: that pedal-to-the-metal moment, over a century in the making, when our potential survival as a nation-state really does seem to hang in the...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 8:22 AM

From War Diaries 1939-1945 by Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, p. 487.
The date is November 30, 1943. The event is an evening banquet at the Tehran Conference of FDR, Churchill and Stalin.
Alanbrooke writes:
It was a wonderful evening, full of the most witty speeches on the part of Winston, President and Stalin. On one occasion, when Winston was referring to political tendencies in England he said the whole political world was now a matter of tints and that England could be said to have now quite a pink look. Without a moment's hesitation, Stalin snapped back "a sign of good health!" The President finished up by returning to the tint theme and said that the effect of this war would be to blend all those multitudinous tints, shades and colours into one rainbow where their individuality would be lost in the whole, and that this whole represented the emblem of...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 3:18 AM
Call this a placeholder.
He said:
I replied:

More here and here, also here.
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By Diana West on
Friday, June 14, 2019 1:09 PM

Finally got the chance for nice, long chat with author, speaker, radio host and, it turns out, fellow Yalie Eric Metaxas. We agreed things were pretty insane at Old Eli even back then.
Listen here.
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By Diana West on
Monday, June 10, 2019 3:04 AM

Now at Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ
They echo, layer, circle, and never get anywhere but The Point That Must Be Absorbed, the Lesson for One and All, the Single, Numbing Injection of Anti-Knowledge that poisons any logical understanding of anything.
I have been watching AG Barr performing this repetition of the Big Le about "Russian interference" in the 2016 fo a while now. It is predicated, at best, on unvetted analysis put forward by the DNC (via its contractor Crowdstrike, co-founded by a Mueller FBI protege and a Soviet-Russian immigrant) which begins by claiming Russia...
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By Diana West on
Saturday, June 08, 2019 3:58 AM

The late Arkansas Sen. Linda Collins-Smith speaking at a 2017 news conference announcing a new law to be signed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson requiring 60,000 state-licensed truckers to complete training in spotting human trafficking.
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Two Republican state senators and two New York City Policemen died violently within 72 hours this week.
1. On June 4, former Arkansas Senator Linda Collins-Smith, 57, was found dead outside her home, her body unrecognizable on discovery. Police are now investigating her death as a homicide. On June 5, the county prosecutor announced that the circuit judge sealed the documents and statements obtained by police.
2. On June 5, Deputy Chief Steven Silks, 62, weeks away from retirement, was found in an unmarked police car with a gunshot wound to the head. News reports reported indicate it seemed self-inflicted.
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By Diana West on
Friday, June 07, 2019 2:07 PM
There is something so timely about this 2013 interview with Erick Stakelbeck, an excellent interviewer, that I decided to repost it. The topic is my then-new book American Betrayal, but the conversation is all about the introduction of socialism and subversion into the US government, which soon flourished as "the Swamp."
This is exactly what the anti-Americans don't the Americans ever to figure out.
Thanks to Vlad Tepes for the video.
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By Diana West on
Friday, June 07, 2019 10:31 AM

Coming soon!
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By Diana West on
Saturday, June 01, 2019 4:21 AM

Now at Richard Viguerie's Conservative HQ
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A lot of buzz around AG William Barr's CBS interview.
Below are a few excerpts, starting with Barr's alarming-in-his-casual-way comments about Mueller's start-to-finish dishonest statement this week. I refer to the Special Counsel's mud-slinging exit-call to Congress to impeach President Trump for non-charges related not to the hoax of Russian collusion with Trump -- Mueller's report took that off the table -- but rather related to the hoax of Russian "intereference" in Trump's election. In both cases, Russia's alleged role is unproven, and controverting evidence exists that strongly...
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By Diana West on
Monday, May 27, 2019 5:04 AM
On with The Tara Show out of Greenville, SC, doing The Red Thread in ten minutes -- and then ten minutes more.
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By Diana West on
Sunday, May 26, 2019 3:39 AM

Ever since I delved into the darkest corners of our past and came up with American Betrayal, this season of national holidays and observances, including VE-Day on May 8 (but really May 7), Memorial Day, D-Day, for my own family, the day in July my dad was wounded at the Battle of St Lo, and the anniversary of Hiroshima...
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By Diana West on
Friday, May 24, 2019 5:57 AM

The following chronology, extracted from American Betrayal, helps explain why I hate this time of year, when saluting and celebrating drown out so much ... American betrayal. It originally appeared as the final installment in a five-part series at Breitbart News based on some of the "breaking history" not long after the book's release.
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On March 3, 1945, under prodding from both the senior US military commander and US ambassador in Moscow, FDR cabled Stalin to request “urgently” that provisions be made for ten American rescue crews to move in and out of Soviet-captured territories to evacuate liberated American prisoners or war, many of whom required medical attention. With uncharacteristic...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, May 23, 2019 1:03 PM

Inquiring minds want to know.
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By Diana West on
Thursday, May 23, 2019 10:10 AM
John Walker Lindh is out. Sgt John Hatley remains in.
With Memorial Day coming up it seems appropriate to note that there are times, many, many times, when this government betrays its most loyal sons.
More about Sgt. Hatley and his case here. His lawyer's petition for commutation here.
Free John Hatley. Pardon the Leavenworth Ten.
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By Diana West on
Monday, May 20, 2019 11:02 AM
Before anyone starts tut-tutting about the disappearance of political freedom in England, consider, except for the accents, that these testimonies in this video could be coming from many Trump voters.
#VoteTommy #Trump2020
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 5:44 AM

Yesterday afternoon (May 14), I went on Sean Hannity's radio show yesterday afternoon to talk about The Red Thread.
Here is the link to the show. My segment with Sean and Gregg Jarrett begins at around 35 minutes in.
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By Diana West on
Monday, May 13, 2019 5:17 AM
Doris Day died today at age 97. Here she is, effervescent, in her first movie, "Romance on the High Seas" with Jack Carson and Oscar Levant. RIP.
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By Diana West on
Sunday, May 12, 2019 8:46 AM
Brilliant! Hat tip Vlad Tepes. As Vlad says, four of the most awesome minutes of TV of all time -- starring Rasmus Paluan, with support from the unbelievable faces (masks) of his political competitors (including the Prime Minister at the other end of the stage), all of them dazed, frozen, perplexed to hear the truth broadcast to Denmark in prime time.
Will it make a difference? At least the air is clear.
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, May 07, 2019 7:00 AM

Was just listening to Byron York’s interview with George Papadop.
https://ricochet.com/series/byron-york-show/
About 20 minutes in Papadop mentions meeting Mifsud in Italy.
We know that while Mifsud was supposedly “out of sight” last year, he was living in Link Campus, a Roman university "with ties to Western intelligence.” (Rep. Devin Nunes recently said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo that the FBI sponsored training actvities these almost every year.)
Maybe Mifsud wasn’t really out of sight.
Then I remembered an item in The Red Thread about...
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By Diana West on
Monday, May 06, 2019 6:48 AM

The answer may be July 24, 2016. That was when Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, appearing on CNN, publicly debuted the "Russians helping Donald Trump" Big Lie to explain away and neutralize the publication at Wikileaks of thousands of embarassing DNC emails, especially about the party's official diss of Bernie Sanders' primary campaign. (Earlier iterations of "Putin Hates Hillary" welcome at deathofthegrownup@verizon.net.) This Big Lie depended on more mythology -- namely, that the DNC emails came to public attention through a Russian "hack," not an internal "leak" -- the assessment not of the FBI, but rather another Democratic partisan, the DNC contractor, Crowdstrike.

This quickly morphed into "Putin hates Hillary."
Politico,...
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By Diana West on
Monday, May 06, 2019 3:52 AM

Two bloodcurdling stories of strange and terrible note:
From MEMRI, we receive news of an "Ummah Day" children's musical celebration. How nice! Except that it's an "Ummah Day" children's musical celebration of jihad terror by a troupe of putatively American kids, as uploaded to the to the Facebook page of the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia. That's Philadelphia, PA, USA, not Ramallah or Beirut.
Sing-along with Muhammed includes such hits as "Glorious steeds call us and lead us [to] the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The blood of martyrs protects us... Take us, oh ships... until we reach our shores and crush the treacherous ones... Flow, oh rivers of martyrs!" and the like. One girl read a poem praising martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Palestine, and she asked: "Will [Jerusalem] be a hotbed for cowards?" Another read: "We will defend [Palestine] with...
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By Diana West on
Friday, May 03, 2019 4:33 AM

Yesterday, Facebook and Instagram "banned" Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones for being "dangerous."
Loomer, Milo, Watson and Jones are all superstar supporters of Donald Trump. Their ideas, stunts, messages and personalities are of great interest to multitudes of Americans. That's what's "dangerous" about them.
“Read Orwell,” Yiannopoulos texted the Washington Post. “You’re next."
Milo's point is well taken but the Washington Post is unlikely to be next because the Washington Post is not "dangerous." We, the People, who are "dangerous" to the Deep State are next, and that especially includes all Trump supporters and even Trump himself.
In an account of the "banning" (the concept is as backward as the technology is cutting-edge) at Loomer's website (still not...
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By Diana West on
Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:32 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo writes:
I asked Isikoff whether he thought the Russia reporting had gone overboard. ‘I think it’s fair to say that all of us should have approached this, in retrospect, with more skepticism, particularly when we didn’t know where it was coming from,’ he said. ‘We knew that Steele compiled it, but that Steele did not hear these allegations himself. Somebody else heard them from others and then passed them along. That’s third hand stuff, which is not usually the kind you want for publishing.’
“All of us?” “We?” Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff may find comfort in the herd; however, the fact is, he led it. It was Isikoff who published the first news story based on this “third hand stuff” from the so-called...
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By Diana West on
Friday, April 19, 2019 7:20 AM

Now at The Epoch Times
Hesitant about working my way through the Mueller report, I found myself gratified to hear Rep. Devin Nunes’s assessment of the thing.
According to Nunes, there is only one item of relevance in the entire 450-page document. While it is an item of significance, it confirms something many have long suspected.
Nunes explained that on page 11 there is a veiled disclosure to the effect that the “scope memo,” the directive Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Special Counsel Robert Mueller in August 2017, included “the Steele dossier,...
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By Diana West on
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:11 PM

Even as fires raged and consumed Notre Dame uncontrollably before the crying eyes of the world, the narrative was being carefully constructed in its newsrooms. Had to be an accident, most likely. Just one of those things, probably. Renovation work was going on, dontcha know. There must have been a spark in the attic and, whoosh, Notre Dame was aflame.
Maybe that is exactly what happened! However, there was something doubly nightmarish about watching not one, but two Fox anchors (Shephard Smith, Neil Cavuto) prevent guests from discussing a spate of recent attacks, including arson, on Catholic churches in France lest some logical discussion of the possibility that we were looking at an epic attack of anti-Catholic or anti-Christian arson might ensue -- and you know where that goes. Given what we have all been through as veterans of the jihad, lo, these nearly 18 years,...
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By Diana West on
Friday, April 12, 2019 7:14 AM

A condensed version of this essay is published at The Epoch Times.
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This is not a review of Victor Hanson's book, The Case for Trump. Rather, it is a passing comment on the treatment of "America First" in Hanson's case for Trump.
In discussing Trump's counter-revolutionary (my term) "America First" vision, Hanson writes:

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By Diana West on
Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:45 PM

Some years ago, Pavel Stroilov was able to "liberate" between 50,000 and 100,000 pages of top secret Communist Party documents from the Gorbachev Foundation, some of which he put to good use in his book Behind the Desert Storm, some of which Vladimir Bukovsky has put to good use in his forthcoming book Judgment in Moscow.
After Julian Assange was seized today in London, I asked Pavel, who lives in the UK, for his thoughts.
He emailed me the following.
I think...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, April 11, 2019 6:45 AM

On October 2, 2016, around the tenth anniversary of Julian Assange's remarkable online publishing venture Wikileaks, source of ten million authentic, notably government documents known as "secrets" to us mere citizens, I posted a compilation of writings on same under the headline, "Wikileaks at Ten Years: Populism's Lucky Break."
Today, the government of the president with the populist appeal, the president whose own election was powered in some huge part by public outrage over Wikileaks' revelations of corruption and hypocrisy in the Democrat Party and the Hillary Clinton Campaign (revelations pro-DNC, pro-Clinton media failed to uncover), has seized Assange to be tried in the US on a single count of Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion...
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