I began my professorship career in 1975 in Blythe, California with at least 20% Iranian foreign students who chose Palo Verde College for its like environment because it was hot and dry like Iran. I remember well an early classroom conversation with them. They did not hate the Shay of Iran that was then being displaced in 1979, they said by America. I told them that we had nothing to do with it. One student said, “You know, how you say his name, R o c k e f e l l e r, he take over and removed the Shay,” he protested. They seemed so emphatic and in total agreement that America was responsible, I could not argue against them.
The ruling Ayatollah is no more. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core (IRGC) which existed to protect the fanatical Islamic theologic system that most everybody hated except the mullahs, is but a shell of what it once was. Iran has no navy, no air force, virtually no defense. It lost the war in 45 days. The shell of what once was is kept alive almost entirely by other Deep State countries, mostly the U.S. and Europe and their medias, encouraging it to stay alive with fake news for propaganda purposes. And Trump is allowing ships to go in and out of the Strait of Hormuz at his discretion. The people will rise up and throw off the rest as soon as they feel safe in doing so. The Republic of Iran will likely chose to become a Constitutional Republic.
Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under Gerald Ford, just two years before the Iranian Revolution of 1979 under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. He and his brothers John and David were sons of John D. Rockefeller, who at one time virtually controlled America’s and the world’s oil industry. No name in U.S. history was better known than Rockefeller as internationalist or globalists (now known as the Deep State). That the Rockefeller’s would be heavily involved in the politics of Iran, even regime change, of one of the world’s largest oil producing countries is very logical. My Iranian students knew more than I. They hated the Rockefeller name. We had more conversations on this subject. They repeatedly said “Your media lie to you.” Today, 47 years later, we also know this. The Rockefeller’s had been heavily involved in the oil industry in America since 1863 and in the 20th century in Iran and Venezuela. Because of them oil became the largest source of energy for the global economy.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshall Asim Munir, offered to moderate in America’s conflict with Iran to end the almost total destruction of Iran’s military resistance. Amazingly, after over 1,200 hits, the necessities of life: water and electric power plants, bridges (that did not have a military purpose), schools and hospitals and etc. were untouched. Even the oil refineries and oil tanks are still in place which would enable a new government to rebuild quickly—and non-military facilities on the Strait of Hormuz also untouched. Kharg Island houses 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Trump’s strikes were on facilities and the terrorist government—not the people. We were never at war with the Iranian people.
It became readily apparent that there were two forces seeking political power in Iran, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core) consisting of the mullahs likely brought to power with the help of the Deep State in America and the people calling themselves the Republic of Iran. The first viciously retained that power by oppressing the people for 47 years—even slaughtering 32,000 demonstrators last January. America’s and the European Union’s Deep State media side with the mullahs. Clearly the MAGA movement, conservative media: One American News (OAN), NewsMax, mostly Fox, and dozens of podcasters, side with their people.
Trump agreed to hold off further destruction of Iran for two weeks. Why? Because those representing the Republic of Iran requested it and offered a 10 point proposal conceding most of what America wanted. This included never having a nuclear weapon and “gifting” the Strait of Hormuz (already taken) as a sign of how serious they were to ending the conflict. According to Trump, “We have already met and exceeded all military objectives.” The objective was never to destroy Iran only the IRGC powered government American Deep Staters installed in 1979 against the will of the Iranian people. And Trump added “a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.” So why did the cease fire work for only a few hours? It was with the new Republic of Iran—not the IRGC government who would have Iran and its people destroyed rather than concede anything, as would also the American and European Deep State. Trump only needed proof that the new Republic was strong enough to clean out the old guard and stay in power. This could be demonstrated by there opening the Strait of Hormuz. This would never be allowed by any other than the IRGC government. Turns out they weren’t powerful enough yet. The delegation to Pakistan to negotiate further collapsed for now.
Simultaneously Trump hoped that the European Union countries would help protect the Strait as they are its principle users and it is supposed to be international waters. The U.S. receives only 1% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The islands that are in the Strait actually belong to the United Arab Emirates —not Iran. Oil is found largely in four areas of the globe: Russia, Venezuela, Iran and the United States. The United States now controls the oil in three of these areas which essentially means that Europe must purchase their oil from either Russia, whom they tried to provoke to war via Ukraine for at least the last ten years, or the United States whom they recently offended by not letting it use its bases funded, built and manned by America in this war.
Iran was involved in and did help fund the Hamas Massacre Oct. 7th, 2023 of over 1,200 unprovoked Israeli children, women and men and the taking and holding of 250 hostages. There were also dozens of rapes. Indeed the mullahs did have blood on their hands.
European Union countries refused to support America’s refusing to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon and insisting the Strait return to international waters status. Their countries have no oil. Trump closed the Strait pending his removal of underwater mines placed there by the IRGC government. This accomplished, he reopened the Strait without fear of Iranian retaliation or resistance and all counties soon will be free to use it as once was. Venezuelan oil is now available on the free market and Iranian oil under the Republic of Iran soon will be as well.
The biggest win of all is that these Deep State countries, who once controlled the supply of oil world-wide, even in America with their bans on drilling, now have no oil outside America and Russia. Trump is gradually forcing The European Union who are just now, this week, arguing that they should have a role in opening the Strait of Hormuz—essentially the argument Trump was trying to get them to take before the war with Iran. Presently empty oil ships are racing to the Gulf Coast of Texas to fill up. The United States became the world’s emergency gas station.
Trump has cleared the Strait and controls it without meaningful resistance from London, China or the world’s Deep State and is returning Iran to what it was before America’s intervention in 1979. When Iran is ready its people through their Republic of Iran are set to finish the deal and govern themselves with free elections. Its an optimistic view but at least now possible because of Trump. My students, if still alive, are very happy. Hated Rockefeller has been removed.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #868.
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I was a young college professor when on November 4, 1979 America suffered its most humiliating moment in U.S. history. Sixty-Six Americans were taken hostage by radical Islamists terrorists and paraded about blindfolded and 52 of these their lives threatened every day for 444 days in what is now known as The US Embassy Hostage Crises of 1979. Every night Iran’s humiliation of America led the news. President Jimmy Carter, appeared to be the most helpless and inept president. No nation feared him or any other Democrat leader since. Hostages were finally released just minutes before Ronald Reagan took the oath of office, because they knew he would come after them. Since that day these terrorists, their children and grandchildren terrorists have chanted “Death to America.” Iran’s 47 year long war against America just ended with the annihilation of the former radical Islamists government.
Iran has had an ongoing multiple millennial declaration of war against the Israeli race and more recently Americans primarily because they oppose the annihilation of the Jews. Radical Islamist have wanted a nuclear bomb and have made it known they intend to use it against both. They were within days of having and using it. No one questions their intent but only one president has made certain they never will. In 24 days he removed that threat and their radicalized leadership and has given the Iranian people a chance to experience freedom if they chose it.
Iran never faced accountability and every U.S president since has “tip toed” around Iran helping to maintain their aura of invincibility. Another Islamic act of terrorism against America followed in 1983 when 241 U.S soldiers where blown up in a marine barracks in Lebanon. Other attacks continued mostly on shipping vessels thereafter. Iran became the largest state sponsor of terrorism country. More recently, Iran’s role in backing Hamas was on display which carried out the brutal Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel killing more than a thousand civilians and taking dozens of Americans along with Israeli hostages. In January of this year reports indicate that the ruling mullahs in Iran even slaughtered over 32,000 of their own people demonstrating against them.
Centered in this drama was Iran getting a nuclear bomb. President Obama’s 2018 Iran Deal is alleged to have made that possible years before anticipated. Critics (including Israeli PM Netanyahu, Trump, and analysts from Heritage, Brookings, and the Institute for Science and International Security) argued the deal did not eliminate Iran’s nuclear infrastructure or ambitions—it legitimized and preserved them with a built-in expiration date. This created what opponents called a “patient pathway” to the bomb: Iran could wait out restrictions, retain know-how and facilities, then sprint to weapons-grade material (potentially in weeks) while staying compliant until the clocks ran out. This was precisely what happened. Obama made Iran a nuclear “threshold state” endangering the world.
Iran remained compliant initially but began breaching in 2019 (exceeding stockpile/enrichment limits). By 2024–2025, Iran enriched to 60% (near weapons-grade), amassed enough 60% material for several bombs if further processed, and installed advanced centrifuges. Breakout time dropped to 1 week or less. The deal’s sunsets became largely moot as violations mounted. Negotiations to revive a deal have repeatedly failed. Trump had no choice but to insist Iran return to the table and make a new deal voiding Obama’s 2018 Iran “patient pathway” Iran Deal. THERE MUST BE NO PATHWAY FOR IRAN HAVING A NUCLEAR WEAPON. In April 2025 he gave Iran “a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal!!’” They still refused!
Trump’s response had to be Operation Midnight Hammer June 21, 2025, and was. Stealths flew from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri directly East over the Atlantic for 18 hours completing a 25 minute drop, then home again. But it wasn’t a total success as first thought, it left significant stockpiles of high grade uranium intact which Iran since has refused to surrender.
Tulsi Gabbard recently testified, in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, that although we had decimated Iran’s ability to develop nuclear fuel, “we had not destroyed the fuel they already had.” CIA Director John Ratcliff testified under oath at the same hearing that “Iran was developing a nuclear weapon prior to Operation Midnight Hammer,” last June 2025, and “was committed to continuing development before Epic Fury” this year. He continued, “Iran possesses at least 440 KG of uranium enrichment to weapons – grade 60% – which doesn’t have a civilian use. The only use for that would be the development of nuclear weapons (X22 Report, Ep. 3864b, March 19, 2026, 25:08 and 52:46). Thus Iran still had fuel for a nuclear weapon which necessitated Trump’s recent February 28th attack on Iran.
In 1979 sixty-six Americans were taken hostage by radical Islamist terrorists and paraded about blindfolded and 52 of these their lives threatened every day for 444 days in what is now known as The US Embassy Hostage Crises of 1979. Every night Iran’s humiliation of America led the news. President Jimmy Carter, appeared to be the most helpless and inept president. These and other acts of terrorism dominated the news in Islamic centers of population making Iran the leading sponsor of terrorism. Justice sometimes is slow but it usually comes.
Everyone knows Iran’s first use of an atomic bomb will be unleashed on Jerusalem and that the radical Islamic mullahs will unleash it as a matter of Islamic faith. Radical Islamic mullahs cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon or rule a country that has one. This necessitates the non religious fanatic population to rise to power and keep that power. This is very possible in a country where 32,000 opposition leaders were executed by their own government just last January. The people do NOT love their mullahs and were video taped dancing in the streets, which is against the law in Iran, upon the news that governing mullah’s were known to have been killed by the bombs.
Trump is presently using back channels to insure that happens and insists he is making some progress. So much so that he recently reported, “I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”
All U.S. presidents were weak against Iran since 1979. Trump took the invincible Iran out in just 24 days and blew them off the map. Their leadership gone, their navy, air force and defense nearly dead. Finally they have been made to account for their actions both to America and Israel. And the Iranian people will continue to dance in the streets as they embrace freedom. This is why 89% of MAGA approve of Trump’s bringing justice to the mullahs of Iran (Ep. 3863b, March 18, 2026, 41:04). It was long overdue.
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November 21, 2025, was predicted 60 years ago. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced H. Con. Res. 58, titled “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism.” The resolution “condemned socialism in all its forms, citing historical examples of socialist policies leading to authoritarianism, famine, mass murder, and economic collapse in places like the Soviet Union under Lenin/Stalin, China under Mao, Cuba under Castro, and Venezuela under Maduro” where collectively well over 100 million people lost their lives. It explicitly stated that Congress “denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States,” while affirming that socialist policies are incompatible with America’s founding principles.” Historically socialism was by far the most violent form of government in world history (“Death by Socialism,” By Harold Pease, Ph. D., LibertyUnderFire. org, Aug. 20, 2019).
The Bill of Rights as a list of rights coming from God that citizens are born with, that no government can take from them, is not defended by socialists or communists. Liberty is not guaranteed by either. You belong to the state. Both descend into tyranny for those who disagree.
The measure denouncing socialism passed but 98 Democrats voted no (against the resolution) 2 Democrats voted present, 27 Democrats did not vote. In other words, 127 Dems Congressmen did not condemn socialism nor did 20 Republicans, one third of all members of the House. These need to be removed in the nearest election as unfit for public office in a free society.
One book stands out more than any other predicting what has happened to the two nations most responsible for the birth of liberty world wide—England and America—that they in turn would be conquered by a secret combination designed to undermine the great work of our Founding Fathers, the Constitution and the Republic they created. The Book, Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. 1884–1966, (Western Islands) by Rose L. Martin presents an anti-socialist critique tracing the influence of the largely secret British Fabian Society on the spread of socialist ideas and policies in both Great Britain and the United States. The work correctly frames Fabianism as an insidious, gradualist strategy for achieving socialism without violent revolution— likened to the slow, patient advance of a turtle (or “Fabian turtle”) rather than the abrupt upheaval of Marxist communism.
The book’s central thesis is that a small group of elite, “polite revolutionaries”—intellectuals who operated under the guise of moderate reform, social welfare, and human progress—deliberately, methodically undermined traditional institutions, particularly the British Empire, and extended their influence across the Atlantic to reshape American society. Martin argues this “high road” to socialism proved more effective than overt communism because it infiltrated education, media, government, and political parties stealthily, avoiding direct confrontation while advancing collectivist goals.
Part I: Great Britain – The Origins and Impact. The first section focuses on the Fabian Society’s founding in London in 1884 by key figures such as Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Graham Wallas, and others. Martin describes their motto—”Make Haste Slowly” (festina lente)—as emblematic of a calculated, evolutionary approach to socialism. Unlike revolutionary Marxists, Fabians advocated “permeation”: infiltrating existing institutions (especially the Liberal Party initially, then the emerging Labour Party) to enact incremental reforms that would eventually lead to state control over the economy and society. Chapters detail how Fabians “sowed the wind” through intellectual networks, influential writings (e.g., the Webbs’ works on municipal socialism and poor law reform), and strategic alliances. Martin portrays them as “dangerous” due to their elitism, deceptive moderation, and success in placing members in high positions—editors, academics, politicians, and civil servants. She highlights their role in shaping the British Labour Party, which she sees as a Fabian vehicle.
This Book told us 60 years ago where we are today and how we go here!
The narrative covers the interwar period, where Fabians allegedly engaged in “sedition” by supporting policies that weakened imperial strength, including diplomatic recognition of Bolshevik Russia (engineered by Fabian Arthur Henderson as Foreign Secretary in 1929). Martin laments the postwar “dirge for an empire,” arguing that Fabian influence contributed to decolonization, economic decline, and the welfare state’s expansion under Labour governments (e.g., post-1945 Attlee administration). She views World War II and its aftermath as a “trial by ordeal” that accelerated socialist trends, with Fabians positioning themselves for global influence (“Tomorrow, the World?”).
Part II: The United States – The Fabian “Turtle” Crosses the Atlantic. The second half shifts to America, contending that Fabian ideas migrated via intellectual exchanges, British émigrés, American progressives influenced by Fabian thought, and organizations mirroring Fabian tactics. Martin claims early permeation occurred through academics, journalists, and reformers who adopted gradualist socialism as liberalism or progressivism.
Key arguments include:Fabians “put the silk hat on socialism” by making it respectable among elites. Influential professors and intellectuals carried ideas to U.S. universities and policy circles.The New Deal era under Franklin D. Roosevelt marked a major advance, with “the professor” (possibly alluding to figures like Rexford Tugwell or others seen as Fabian-influenced) going to Washington to implement centralized planning. “Perfect friendship” and “left hands across the sea” refer to transatlantic networks linking British Fabians with American counterparts in government, media (e.g., ties to publications like The New Republic), and diplomacy. Postwar developments showed continuity: “the more it changes, the more it remains the same,” with Fabian-style policies advancing through regional planning, urban redevelopment, agricultural collectivization trends, and welfare expansion.
Martin warned that by the 1960s, these influences had created a “freeway” (faster-paced modern equivalent of the old turtle trail) for socialism in America, carried out by executive agents, diplomats, and planners who reorganized society along collectivist lines while maintaining capitalist appearances. After millions of deaths from the philosophy one would think the intellectuals would have long since forsaken the philosophy and NOT embraced it on both continents, but they did!!!
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Every major study of the 2020 Presidential Election shows it was rigged, was influenced by Dominion or Smartmatic voting machines, these originating from Venezuela, and was used world wide in elections during Nicholas Maduro’s reign. Maduro is the common denominator for it all. This is likely the main reason Trump went after Venezuela and had Maduro kidnapped. He is the star witness. He witnessed all of it.
Maduro photos after his kidnaping show him smilng, friendly and conversant with his captures—certainly atypical for someone living through the death of dozens around him in the assault on his home and the kidnapping also of his wife. Hand and finger gestures appear intentional, one with a peace sign, two with thumbs up (as shown above) and a third can’t be identified with common meaning. One has to wonder if he objected to his kidnapping. He looks almost freed. Perhaps his real captors were the Deep State, the cartels and his Cuban guards. Very strange.
The Deep State media treated these as conspiracies. I have said for many years a conspiracy theory that lasts more than five years is no longer a conspiracy nor likely a theory —this, assuming a free press. Still, today it is very difficult to get the other side, or sides. Everything is normally opposite what is given in their presses or computer domains, which comprise at least 85% of what is published—largely because they have the means and organization to publish.
We also know that Venezuela was the Deep State’s capital of South America and played a major role in the invasion of the United States. Biden even requested Maduro empty his gangs, prisons and insane asylums into the U.S. Thus technically Venezuela invaded the United States first. When a reporter asked Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, “Would you welcome a US military intervention in Venezuela?” She responded, “Venezuela has been invaded. We have the Russian agents. We have the Iranian agents. We have terrorists groups such as Hezbollah, [and] Hamas operating freely in accordance with the regime.” After telling us how invaded they already were, Machado added, “We will turn Venezuela into the energy, technological, and democracy hub of the Americas. We will host all of you in a bright, democratic, and free country, and it’s going to be soon” (X22 Report, hear after not cited, Ep. 3793b, Dec. 11, 2025, 41:50).
There is no question Venezuela and Maduro had become a strategic impairment for the U.S. It had become a Latin American crossroads for all USA principle enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hesbollah, Iran and Communist China. All of which challenged the sacrosanct 203 year-old Monroe Doctrine that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is potentially a hostile act against the United States. Even Communist China imported at least 24,000 military-aged men in nine months during the invasion, traveling from China to Venezuela to Columbia then through seven Central American countries finally into the United States (“China is Invading America Without Firing a Shot. Biden Lets Them!!, LibertyUnderFire.org, Jan. 3, 2023). Venezuela was central to the invasion.
President Biden’s $25 million reward for bringing in Nicholas Maduro.
Both Deep State presidents Obama and Biden said they viewed Maduro as a national threat. In 2015 Obama “issued an executive order declaring Venezuela’s president a national security threat and the government a narco terrorist organization.” The Trump administration (first term) escalated actions against Maduro using Obama’s 2015 Executive Order as a foundation, adding Trump’s 2020 indictment of him. In addition he placed a $15 million bounty on him. President Biden expounded sanctions on him in 2022 and increased the then $15 million bounty on Maduro to $25 million in 2022. “25 million for anyone who can deliver Maduro to America.” He knew no one would. Both Russia and China supported Maduro’s injecting America with drugs (Ep. 3811b, Jan. 5, 2026, 17:23). Trump executed the order of Obama and Biden. He used what they put in place to actually bring Maduro to the United States, just what his predecessors started.
We know because under Barack Obama, “Nicholas Maduro’s nephews were arrested with nearly 2000 pounds of cocaine and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.” Despite Maduro’s facing an active US arrest warrant, that Biden increased by $10 million over narcotics charges, “Joe Biden commuted their sentences using his pardon power” (“Biden Freed Maduro’s Narco nephews After Obama Jailed them” AMUSE Jan. 5, 2026). Remember Biden’s son Hunter used and stored cocaine in the White House.
One of the many questions emerging from Operation Absolute Resolve is why Maduro guardians were foreigners not Venezuelans —32 Communist Cubans. It is supposed that he did not trust his own countrymen to protect him as he was so hated, or someone wished to keep an eye on him. Several mysterious photos of him arriving in New York have him extending both thumbs and grinning or making what appears to be other “glad finger” gestures. His wife appeared notably dismayed. Why did we bring her unless, he requested it? Deep State sources suggest these gestures are AI generated but they do not share why they “know” this and these are the same sources that have been wrong on everything else. Most sources, that show the pictures, say nothing but have been previously reliable.
Nicholas Maduro is not the first dictator kidnapped by the U.S government. In Dec. 1989 President George Herbert Walker Bush kidnapped the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega—also for importing drugs into the U.S. He was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison in Georgia. He was release from prison 2007 then extradited to France where he served another 7 years for money laundering then to Panama for human rights violations. He died in 2017 at the age of 83.
We know Maduro was hated by most Venezuelans. We know he was controlled by the cartels and the Deep State. We know Trump and Maduro had prior communications— even two days before the raid. Since I have taught current events long before President George Herbert Walker Bush kidnapped the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega—also for importing drugs into the U.S.—and he was convicted and served his sentence in Georgia, let me share a wild hunch. It follows: What if Maduro came to hate the Deep State and no longer supported what they were doing in and to Venezuela? What if he feared both sides would kill him, his people or the cartels?
What if he chose to leverage what he knew to turn states’ evidence? He could bid for a nice prison with his wife, that may be why she came. He knows Trump is not Deep State. He knows Trump is destroying the Deep State worldwide. What he knows is of high value in doing just that. He trusts Trump. There is no safe place in Venezuela in or out of prison. He could sing like a bird, and if I am right, he will. He could testify against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, how the machines from his country installed them both and the part they and George Soros played in financing the invasion, even how Biden virtually begged him to send his gangs and criminals to the US. All of it! Is this why his first message in the U.S. was to hold both thumbs up? May be.
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All three of the above know that the Deep State is real, is embedded to some extent in every country, seeks to destroy liberty wherever it exists, and to eventually control the planet. Zelenskyy was installed into office by it. Trump was opposed by it more than any other and was the first elected president, besides John F. Kennedy, to openly stand against it at all odds—even risking life in prison or assassination. Putin’s 22 year reign too was threatened by it. In a color revolution the Deep State assimilated Ukraine located next door to Russia, constructed 13 bio labs therein on its Russian border, each capable of releasing, by accident or intent, a killer pandemic on the Russian population, and threatened making Ukraine a NATO member thereby placing a formerly hostile military organization directly on Russia’s border. Putin is an enemy of the Deep State as much as Trump. We have the right people dealing with Deep State Ukraine. Both Trump and Putin know the real enemy to the world and can’t be misdirected, bribed, or intimidated from removing it’s grip on the world.
Trump is criticized for not dumping more billions into the Ukraine conflict—a war that would never have begun had Trump been recognized as the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election. A war that would never have begun had the Obama administration not fostered a color revolution in Ukraine bringing the Deep State into power in that country in 2014—it became an American Deep State country. A war that would never have begun had Ukraine not allowed the construction of 13 bio-labs on the border of Russia threatening them with the potential of a killer pandemic. LibertyUnderfire.org has published much on stories dealing with Ukraine.
The Deep State still controls the news in the United States, so on any given issue the reader, is not likely to get more than half the news on any subjects they are sensitive to. Here are some stories they portray very differently. It’s not Russia that is derailing the peace talks in Ukraine. The EU, NATO, and Ukraine are countering everything in Trump’s Peace Plan. They want to keep Russia as the enemy and “boogie man” forever. They want World War III to obliterate their crimes. Left to themselves without U.S. weapons and EU or NATO involvement they have no chance of winning—actually they lost years ago. If Ukraine, EU, NATO really wanted peace they would have come to the table long ago. Instead, their actions demonstrate they want world war (X22 Report, not cited hereafter, Ep. 3780b, Nov. 23, 2025, 2:30).
Zelenskyy has 30,000 political prisoners locked up. No elections either. He’s a king a dictator. (Ep. 3788b, Dec. 3, 45:56). He has the support of only about 20% of the people. The past Fall 100,000 Ukrainian military-aged men fled. They know they are fodder in a war they can not win. Meanwhile, “NATO allies pledge over $1 Billion for purchase of US arms for Ukraine,” (By Martin Fornusek, THE KYIV INDEPENDENT, Dec. 3, 2025). They do not want a real peace plan (Ep. 3789b, Dec. 4, 2025, 37:36). They are building for war.
Ukraine has become the aggressor in that war continuing missiles drone attacks hundreds of miles into Russia. Deep State news outlets cover only Russian attacks on Ukraine not Ukraine attacks provoking Russian retaliatory strikes. Russian President Putin says, “Europe’s only goal is to prevent US President Trump from achieving peace through negotiations” (Ep. 3787b, Dec. 2, 31:48). Even the Nord Stream pipeline explosions was to bring Russia to war some say with Biden approval. Putin does not want war and is trying NOT to let the EU provoke him to one.
Meanwhile the European Union is becoming decidedly more tyrannical. Press and speech freedoms have been removed in the United Kingdom and EU. “The British government decided to smuggle 40 K Afghans into the country. Neither the media nor members of Parliament were allowed to ever report, they were being gagged, much less report on the government decision to bring tens of thousands of Islamic migrants secretly into the country at a cost of $9 billion.” It was called “Operation Rubific.” (Ep, 3791b, Dec. 8,2025, 27:25). They succeeded!
The European Union, a merger of 27 formerly independent countries, created by the Maastricht Treaty, came into effect on November 1, 1993. It opened its borders to Islamic countries who consequently poured in without vetting. Crime escalated, “At LEAST 400,000 children, women and men have been killed or raped by non-– European migrants and refugees since 2010. It’s a genocide of ethnic Europeans, sponsored by the EU and those who support it.” Elon Musk, who posted this information, adds, “when does it become a genocide?” X (Daily Romania, Ep, 3791b, Dec. 8,2025, 31:49).
Hungry, a EU member, refused to assimilate and was “fined half a billion for not letting migrants in, for not following the EU’s migration rules and the meters are still running, at about 1 million a day.” A member country makes a decision the EU doesn’t like and suddenly unelected judges are draining their national budget. “This is what happens when a union turns into a rule by law machine.” An unelected body is now flexing their muscles saying to every single country in the EU, ‘You do not have sovereignty. You must do exactly what you are told or else.’” (Mario Nawfal, Daily Romania, Ep, 3791b, Dec. 8, 2025, 33:25).
With the EU’s decree Hungry’s Prime Minister Victor Orban responded, “With today’s decision, Brussels is attempting to force Hungry to pay even more or take immigrants in. This is unacceptable. Hungry already spends enough to protect the unions exterior border. We will not take a single migrant in, and we will not pay for other migrants. Hungry will not implement the measures of the migrant past.” (Mario Nawfal, Ep. 3792b, Dec. 9, 27:05).
Trump is criticized for not supporting NATO, created after World War II to confront the Soviet Union and communist expansion, but this was when the West was still modeling the republic form of government—the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights—very different from the authoritarian forms of government emerging in the present. We united then under the banner of liberty, today we are asked to support tyranny as expressed by the EU and Zelenskyy and NATO their tool to protect tyranny. Why should Trump feel compelled now to protect tyranny?
Meanwhile in true Deep State modus operandi NATO [the new aggressors] call for defense [aggression] against Russia, NATO’s Mark Rutte “warns allies they are Russia’s next target, [thus] must step up defense efforts to prevent a war waged by Russia, that could be ‘on the scale of war, our grandparents and great grandparents endured’” (France 224’s Dave Keating Reports, 11/12//2025, Ep. 3794b, Dec. 12, 37:44).
Trump realizing that NATO, the EU, and Ukraine — all Deep State organizations or governments—hell-bent to force World War III on the world to cover their crimes released his own warning to them, “If everybody keeps playing games like this, you’ll end up in a Third World War” (Ep. 3794b, Dec. 12, 38:07). Trump remains for peace.
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The term “Deep State” describes the network of unelected U.S. government officials, intelligence agencies (e.g., CIA), and entrenched bureaucrats who operate behind the scenes to influence or undermine policy, particularly today under Donald Trump, but many decades old under other names. In relation to Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro’s regime is portrayed as a Deep State proxy or “asset” enabling threats to U.S. interests. U.S. conservatives (e.g., MAGA) frame Venezuela as a hub for narco-terrorism, cartels, and foreign adversaries like Iran and China. Human sex trafficking long known but with children horrifyingly becoming common. Knowledge of it is largely blocked by what has been dubbed the “Worldwide Pedophile Pervert Mafia.”
The rightful winner of the July 28, 2025 Venezuelan presidential election with estimated 67% of the vote was Maria Corina Machdo. Long-termed dictator, Nicolas Maduro, with 30% refused to relinquish power. She was briefly arrested by him then released. The Free World stands with her. She “thanked the citizens who took to the streets to claim our victory on July 28th and to OWN IT!” She also was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but feared being present to receive it. She has mostly been in hiding for her life since her victory.
Venezuela under Maduro is a “Deep State asset” from the Obama era, allegedly offshoring U.S. secrets, enabling election fraud technology via Smartmatic, created in Venezuela, to be used in several countries and in 2020 in U.S. elections installing Joe Biden. Ex-CIA Gary Berntsen and defector Hugo Carvajal (narco-trafficking guilty plea, June 2025) pushed election fraud by Smartmatic from Venezuela to Trump. Then Gen. Michael Flynn warned of Deep State false flags to drag the U.S. into ‘Vietnam 2.0’ thus urged regime change to curb China’s hemispheric influence (e.g., via Cuban/Mexican proxies)” (Infowars, Dec.2025). Regime change through an honest and verifiable election (not that of 2024 lost by Maduro who reinstalled himself anyway), is seen as essential to dismantle this network, aligning with “America First” goals like border security and countering foreign influence.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Maduro’s regime an “illegitimate transshipment organization” for cocaine (9% of U.S. supply) and a base for the Cartel de los Soles (designated as a foreign terrorist organization, FTO, on November 24, 2025). Strikes target Tren de Aragua gang drug vessels in international waters, heading for the United States, linked to Maduro, amid a refugee crisis (8 million plus people displaced). Critics like ex-intel asset Patrick Byrne claim Venezuela’s attack on the U.S. includes narco-trafficking and election meddling (Fox News Marco Rubio interview, December 3, 2025).
Rubio stated Venezuela is the “anchor” for Iran’s IRGC and Hezbollah now operating from inside Venezuela, and serves as a foothold for our adversaries (Iran, China, Russia) enabling their terrorism, drone manufacturing, and financial networks to add to the Venezuela arsenal.. This ties to broader Deep State fears of Obama-era deals “offshoring” threats.
As of December 9, 2025, tensions peak with U.S. naval buildup (e.g., USS Gerald R. Ford in Caribbean) and “Southern Spear” targeting narco-infrastructure. Rubio, a board member of the International Republican Institute leads this as a “Monroe Doctrine” blow against global threats. Trump allies like General Flynn advocate forcing Maduro’s flight for free elections. MAGA voices view Venezuela as a Deep State “cancer” requiring excision by its own people, not by the CIA as per pre Trump. American ships in the harbor are to encourage Maduro, who lost his recent election, to leave, the Venezuelans to insist he does, and the U.S. to demonstrate that we have the strength to eliminate his cartels at will. Trump wants the cartels afraid of us.
One other point needs emphasized. Narco boats lack any evidence of fishing. They also routinely lack a flag. “A vessel in international waters is required, under UNCOLS, to sail under the flag of a specific nation. If it doesn’t, it is legally considered a stateless vessel. A stateless vessel has no right of protection, normally afforded to ships under a national flag…including immunity from interference by others states (UNCLOS Articles 92, 94, 110 and customary Maritime law). A state may stop, board, search, seize or disable a stateless vessel under UNCLOS Article 110…. War crimes require an armed conflict.” There is none. You cannot commit a war crime outside an armed conflict.
This boat and it’s drug contents was vaporized in international waters off the coast of Venezuela on its way to America. Now its cocaine contents will not kill any of our youth. Blowing up theses vessels and poison contents make its street value much higher thus fewer persons will be able to purchase reducing the number poisoned by it. Narco boats routinely lack a flag which is required. “War crimes require an armed conflict between nations.” There is none. Lethal force is lawful “when a vessel …attempts to flee, poses a threat, or engages in an illicit activity such as piracy, or narcotic trafficking. Trump has not violated international law or maritime practice.
Also, “Even lethal force is lawful when a vessel refuses lawful boarding, attempts to flee, poses a threat or engages in an illicit activity such as piracy, or narcotic trafficking…. Sinking a stateless vessel is not prohibited by UNCLUS…. Many states routinely do this to drug smuggling vessels without it ever being treated as a war crime….” (X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3791b, Dec. 8, 2025, 36:19). Flagless boats sunk in international waters outside Venezuela, by order of Trump, are not Venezuelan boats, they are stateless boats. Trump has not violated international law or maritime practice.
Ex-Maduro Intelligence Chief, turned whistleblower, says Maduro exported gangs into the United States during the Biden’s border collapse, “and has run two decades of espionage against America.” Hugo ‘Elpollo’ Carvajal “warns that Maduro’s regime is not a government, but a transnational criminal cartel. He reveals Trend de Agua operatives were sent into the US during Biden’s border breakdown. He says the regime treats narcotics as a strategic weapon against Americans and insists Trump was correct to confront Maduro.” (AMUSE, Ep. 3789b, Dec. 4, 2025, 24:36). Moreover, he “exposed that the CIA allegedly out sources it’s election, rigging software and voting machines [Smartmatic] to multiple countries, including the US, from Venezuela” (The SCIF, Ep. 3789b, Dec. 4, 2025, 25:33).
Intel tells us Venezuela is run by the drug cartels, not really Maduro. Rumor has it that Maduro may yet turn states evidence by“releasing PROOF that Biden asked the Venezuelan government to ship Trend de Aragua drug gangs into the United States” (Tik Tok, Ep. 3787b, Dec. 2, 2025, 24:36). If that comes forth, Biden may have to stand trial for treason. It’s conceivable, but a very long shot, that Maduro may authorize Trump to bomb Venezuelan cartel’s. And certainly, if asked, we will oblige and, with permission, it would not be attacking Venezuela—still not likely!
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #850
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