I had wanted to write a blog post on the sudden fall of Syria, but since even my Syrian friends remain uncertain about what really happened there, I am holding off.
In January of this year (2024), I published a blog post entitled My Strange Encounters with Some of the John Birch Society Leadership over 39 Years. In that article, I noted, among other things, that my 1988 book The Shadows of Power, almost undoubtedly the Society’s best-selling book and top recruiting tool for about 25 years, with printings of as many as 25,000 copies at once, was suddenly “deep-sixed”—overpriced to the point that a new copy on Amazon was selling at around $50, and when I had ordered a few author copies from the Society (JBS) itself, it took about seven weeks before they became available.
In late 2023, I was contacted by several leading members of the Society, who said that when asked why my book had been made virtually unbuyable, a top JBS executive replied that he had been informed by one of the Society’s best recruiters, in a phone call, that I was an “antisemite.” The charge was absurd; not only am I half-Jewish, but the recruiter—a friend of mind—subsequently told me he had never made such a call—that, in fact, he had never called this executive ever, to discuss anything.
But, for me, the last straw came when the Society’s flagship journal, The New American, digitally deleted my name from every article I had written for the magazine, attributing them to other authors (this has now been rectified). That “crossed the red line” for me, and I decided to speak up.
However, I’m delighted to report that a number of positive changes have since occurred at the JBS. While there will undoubtedly be diverse opinions within the Society about these changes, I can report that the executive who labeled me an “antisemite” has been removed, along with some other figures.
The Society’s new CEO is Wayne Morrow, a veteran Bircher, and a friend of mine for several years. He is very well-informed on the issues confronting today’s America. His wife is also a friend, a retired RN (like me) who has long fought against the COVID PSYOP, and has worked closely with fine individuals such as Alex Newman and Dr. Lee Merritt.
Along with some new personnel will be policy changes. Although JBS founder Robert Welch frequently asserted that a “conspiracy” was running the U.S. government, as did his immediate successor, Larry McDonald, in recent years JBS publications have tended to downplay “conspiracy,” preferring to focus on less controversial issues; e.g., “defending the Constitution.” This, I am told, is going to change. JBS publications will again emphasize that a conspiracy essentially controls the U.S. government, and that the Society will begin to more aggressively expose the diverse challenges which that conspiracy presents to the American people, such as the agendas of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum. A large number of other positive reforms have begun. I have even heard the motto voiced, “Make the Birch Society Great Again.”
This is good news, because the Society possesses something many patriots lack: a nationwide, established network of chapters that can be quickly mobilized for action.
In keeping with this, I’m told, the Society will begin republishing some of its classic books that the previous leadership had allowed to fall out of print—including The Shadows of Power. Not only will it be offered again at a reasonable price, but I have been asked to write an update for a new edition.
While I am delighted by this proposition, it also presents personal challenges. When I wrote the original Shadows, I was focused on two heads of the hydra—world government (globalism) and communism. It was easy enough to explain World Wars I and II in these terms without delving into the hydra’s third head: Zionism, even though the Balfour declaration (1917) and establishment of the political state of Israel (1948) were integral to both wars.
My neglect of Zionism in The Shadows of Power wasn’t due to avoiding it. I was simply unaware of its highly malevolent history. In 1988, there was no Internet and no search engines to access information instantly. I was on a learning curve.
The signature events of President George W. Bush’s administration were 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These affairs cannot be explained by simply following the pattern of elucidation used in The Shadows of Power. They had nothing to do with advancing communism or world government, except in the remotest sense. These events were Zionist in character (although the less informed, unaware of the nature of false flags, will still view them uncritically through the “official story” of Islamic terrorism and the response to it).
Many occurrences since 1988 have demonstrated that the New World Order’s agenda goes far beyond the boundaries of world government and socialism advocated by the Council on Foreign Relations, then led by the Rockefellers and their immediate allies. COVID would be an infamous example.
It has been reasonably suggested that, if I am to merely update The Shadows of Power, I should keep it simple, stay the course, and not go all over the map. I agree with that. On the other hand, an update cannot ignore the most significant developments to strike this generation.
As the bodies of tens of thousands of innocent victims pile up in Gaza, more and more conservatives have begun to recognize, scrutinize and condemn Zionism, not only for what it is doing now, but in the past as well—like the brutal, deliberate 1967 attack on the USS Liberty. The growing number of conservative critics of Zionism includes such luminaries as G. Edward Griffin, Pastor Chuck Baldwin, and Candace Owens.
In my January 2024 article, I noted a great irony: In the Birch Society, you could criticize the U.S. government all you wanted, yet you were forbidden to criticize a foreign government—Israel’s. Such a policy cannot be construed as patriotic. The JBS has always remained silent on the subject of Zionism. Will they finally, as others have done, break out of this irrational mold?
For an update of The Shadows of Power, I am willing to restrain my criticism of Zionism, conscious of the fact that—unlike all my other books—I am not the publisher, and have a certain responsibility to operate within the publisher’s parameters. However, there are also limits to that restraint—integrity demands it. The blood of tens of thousands of murdered and maimed children in Gaza cries out to God, and concerns about being labeled “antisemitic” cannot remotely outweigh, in significance, that of genocide.
The boundaries of what I can say about Zionism in an update to Shadows have not yet been spelled out to me. My intention is certainly not to make Zionism the update’s chief focus, but if I was not permitted to say anything at all, it wouldn’t be worth my time and effort.
That said, I highly commend the Society for the very welcome changes it is making, which I believe will make it a more effective force for patriotism than it has been for many years.
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