Emanuel Pastreich

Independent Candidate for President

The first step that anyone aspiring to the office of president, or for that matter to any government office in this fine nation, must take is to state precisely and unambiguously his or her position on the horrific COVID-19 pandemic, and to respond to needs and the demands of the millions of victims of that holocaust, from coast to coast, and around the world.

It is not acceptable to plead ignorance. It is not acceptable to talk about some mysterious Covid plague that came as mysteriously as it went, or repeat foolish tales of a deadly “gain-of-function” Wuhan military virus. Our people deserve nothing less than the truth, and nothing less than a “no-holds barred” investigation for the truth. Of course we do not have the full truth now, but the work by Sasha Latypova and Debbie Lerman in the Covid Dossier is more than enough to convict, even now.

When I say pandemic, I am speaking about that reign of terror that no one dares to talk about anymore.

Let us be honest, we all know that COVID-19 was not a pandemic in the technical sense. The word “pandemic” cannot be used in good faith to describe the process by which citizens were subject to mass psychological manipulation run by corporations, the intelligence and the military of various nations, and collaborators in journalism and academics. The intention of that operation was to frighten us, to render us helpless and passive, and to destroy local economies and civil society that give us freedom and liberty.

When I speak of victims, I am referring to tens of millions of Americans. I am talking about literally everyone except the super-rich. The super-rich and their minions spent those horrific days island hopping in their private jets-without masks-- while our lives were torn apart, our kids kept away from schools, and our families locked down in our homes.

When I say victims, I am referring to Americans whose businesses were shut down during COVID-19, or who were left unemployed, or radically underemployed, to the point of losing their homes and savings. I am talking about people who could not obtain medical treatment for anything other than Covid, about people who could not meet with their loved ones, often watching them die from a distance. I am talking about those who had no freedom of movement, association, or communication, and I am talking about the radical censorship of scientific writing following rules imposed by a Covid dictatorship run by private intelligence and reporting to global finance. Dr. Fauci is but a footnote in that crime.

Your sufferings will be acknowledged openly and compensation will be given. That compensation will not come from the government; the government’s is your money, based on the tax dollars that you pay, or the money borrowed in your name. It will come rather from the corporations, banks, and billionaires who were behind this.

When I say victims, I am talking about young people whose lives were turned upside down, who were kept from meeting with friends and family, forced to stay at home, and blocked from receiving a normal education and a experiencing a normal childhood—riding bicycles or discovering frogs in the creek. I feel your pain and you must be compensated for this horrific trial.

When I say victims, I am referring to those who were forced to wear masks for no scientific purpose, but only as a form of psychological torture. The suffering you went through, especially young people, must be acknowledged.

When I say victims, I am referring to those who suffered from various illnesses which were mislabeled as Covid, or long Covid, so as to obscure the reality of biological agents employed to make people ill. There never was a “COVID-19” virus.

When I say victims, I am referring to those whose health was destroyed, or who lost their lives, because of the Covid vaccines, those horrific biological weapons that so many were forced to receive in order to stay employed, to be allowed to attend school, or even to meet friends and family.

The Covid psychological operation

A small group of billionaires from around the world, employing international banks, sections of the military and intelligence, and private security firms, launched the effective takeover of the entire world starting in December of 2019.

They pushed a terrifying “horror movie” story in the media that they controlled about a deadly virus that was supposedly out of control and would kill millions, or tens of millions. There was no factual basis for any of this plot.

The terror among the people stirred up by media reports, and by warnings released by governments, all of which were controlled by these forces, left people panicked, confused, passive, and therefore willing to go along with totalitarian policies that illegally restricted their actions and movements.

The Covid war on local economies, small businesses, created mass bankruptcy making multinational corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Meta, and the pseudo-banks that financed them like BlackRock, Vanguard, Black Stone and Goldman Sachs, all powerful. These covid policies created a police state; democracy has never been restored.

The poison COVID “vaccine”

Once the terror had reached its peak, when citizens were frightened by newspaper reports and government declarations into doing what they were told without thinking, policies were rolled out, according to plan, that forced citizens to take multiple doses of a medication mislabeled as a “vaccine,” that was designed to destroy the health of citizens. These vaccines were designed to cause blindness, heart attacks, weakened joints, cancer, and other terrible diseases. Those vaccines were not mistakes. They did exactly what they were designed to do.

Although pharmaceutical companies made fortunes from those vaccines, they were designed primarily to kill, not to make money.

Citizens, their minds numbed by the Covid terror regime and their bodies weakened by the deadly vaccines, were easier to control, in a state near slavery, that was what was required for the next step, the establishment of an all-powerful military dictatorship in the service of global capital.

Who exactly carried out this Covid reign of terror?

Although we will not know the details until all internal documents are declassified and made public, the launch of this psychological operation was carried out by operatives in the military, in intelligence, and especially in private intelligence and consulting firms following the orders given to them by the strategic teams working for investment banks and private equity firms in numerous countries.

Much of the central planning was carried out by intelligence in the United States, Israel, and Great Britain, but there were partners around the world, and most governments were taken over using secret contracts and treaties with intelligence agencies or multinational corporations.

The strategic planning teams who made the initial plans served the interests of a small handful of the superrich from around the world.

Although Israel, Germany, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and the major cities in China implemented the most radical forms of social control using the Covid psychological terror and the forced vaccines, the billionaires behind this plan had no loyalty to any country. The operation cannot be blamed on any specific country and the push to blame countries, or government bureaucrats, especially the “Chinese Communist Party” is a disinformation campaign meant to distract us from the financial and corporate powers behind this attack.

Why did they do it?

Although there were immense profits generated by the lockdowns and restrictions for some, the result was hundreds of billions of dollars in losses for the major corporations. This operation was not about short-term profit. There were two underlying motivations for the strategic teams who advised the superrich.

1) They knew from the studies conducted by consulting firms that the massive increase in the concentration of

wealth over the last 20 years, that is now resulting in a radical class society, would result in organized resistance and that revolution would threaten their rule and could cost them their lives. The experts calculated, using supercomputers, that only a plan to destroy the minds and the bodies of the vast majority of citizens and to render them passive, leaderless, divided, and weak, could save the rich from the upcoming revolts. Their calculations told them that they needed to destroy the economic power of working people, and the middle class, by shutting down the local economy during the pandemic and giving complete economic power to multinational corporations.

2) They knew that destruction of the climate caused by the emissions from the fossil fuels that billionaires force citizens to use, combined with the destruction of the oceans, and of farmland, caused by the extractive economy driven by “growth” and profit which billionaires promote, would result in a planet with a climate so damaged that it will no longer support a large population of humans.

The billionaires know full well the truth that they hide from the public. If we follow the economic system of extraction, exploitation, consumption and growth currently embraced, the earth will no longer support more than one billion people, not 8 billion, within 30 years or less. They do not want to change the economic model that empowers them, to make it more humane and environmentally friendly．The only solution they could think of was to try to kill, by vaccines or starvation, on a massive scale. They thought that the murderous vaccine regime and the dumbing down of citizens would create a population incapable of resistance when they introduced drones and robots to kill everyone off. This was the plan from the start.

Who collaborated with them?

Sadly, the scientific experts and intellectuals who should have stood with working people against the billionaires, instead took secret bribes, and some not so secret bribes, to promote Covid propaganda and endorse the totalitarian lockdowns and the deadly vaccines when they were introduced without any testing. Many professors, doctors, government officials, journalists, lawyers, and other experts betrayed us for their own immediate benefit. They thought no one would ever know what they did. But they did not come up with the plan. The plan was pushed by the bankers, the masters of global finance. who wished to create an absolute global dictatorship.

What must we do now?

We must first have the bravery to recognize the scale of this crime and to speak openly about what really happened to each other. If we allow the truth to be made taboo, then we are doomed. We must organize ourselves into groups, groups that will become the core of future accountable government, groups who demand the truth, but also demand that the money made by corporations, banks, and other financial organizations controlled by the billionaires be confiscated because that money was amassed using terrible crimes. We must demand that the money be returned to the people, and that massive fines be levied on the corporations, banks and private intelligence firms behind this crime against humanity.

The money must come from the corporations and from the billionaires, and not the government. Money paid by the government is our tax money, or it is money printed up that creates inflation for us.

We must demand that all documents, especially the classified or secret agreements between the central government, local government, hospitals, corporations, newspapers and universities with international banks, private intelligence firms, and other representatives of the billionaire class, must be made public and that those involved in these criminal acts must be treated as criminals, no matter how rich they are, no matter what private island they live on. They must have all their assets seized and they must be jailed.

Please do join us and help us to organize:

We need

○Volunteer programs that help the victims of vaccines until we can seize the assets of the criminals to fund these efforts.

○Campaigns that demand the full release of all secret documents from governments, corporations, hospitals, universities, and newspapers.

○Campaigns that demand the seizure of the assets of the companies involved, and those of the billionaires behind them, for redistribution to the victims.

A global movement that goes far beyond the demands for the Epstein files demanding that all the classified information on the Covid campaign be released and all parties, not just bureaucrats, be punished and their assets seized.

Please do join me and my campaign, to make these demands in the most unambiguous, most forceful, and most uncompromising manner possible. As Frederick Douglass taught us.

“This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Emanuel Pastreich

Independent Candidate for President

August 15, 2026

Honorable crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier now floating endlessly in the Arabian Sea, please allow me to speak with you frankly.

I will not waste your time with the false praise that runs down like spoiled honey from the dirty mouths of politicians.

Let us talk about reality. Day in, day out, you are working yourselves to exhaustion, launching and recovering combat aircraft in rapid succession, as part of an unending war. That war brings you nothing but suffering and a tiny ration for dinner of unhealthy-shall we call it “food,” a tiny salary to get you by, to keep people from calling you a prisoner.

But that war is all too profitable for the billionaires, for the parasites who speculate in oil futures that are driven up and then down by the missions you are ordered to support.

You deserve to be spoken to with respect, to be honored with the truth; Nothing more, nothing less. We know about the night and day flight-deck maintenance you are tasked, the lack of basics like toothpaste and soap, the broken toilets and showers, the constant abuse by superiors, and the increasingly dangerous operations you must undertake as the fighter planes try to maneuver between large cracks and gashes in the runway guided by exhausted personnel. We are just waiting for catastrophe.

I know that at least six of you have tried to kill yourselves by jumping from the side of the aircraft carrier, and I know that many stories have not been told at all.

Let us be honest. Most of you joined the navy or the marines because you had no choice. The economy of your neighborhood has been destroyed by multinational corporations that prey upon your families and the only option for you is to join the military which has its hands around your economic neck.

This is a war against Iran, but the people at the top of the chain of command, far, far above the sergeant that you see every day, those special folk who live in big mansions, they do not serve the people, they do not protect you from enemies foreign and domestic. No! they serve the rich, or they are the rich, and this endless deployment of the USS Lincoln that left San Diego last November, leaving you at sea, away from family, away from land, away from anything human, anything edible, until you lose your minds, such a deployment is not just a mistake, it is not just incompetence, it is not just greed—it is more than that. You are subject to a war against you, not just a war on Iran, but one against you and your people, as citizens with rights. They are purposely degrading you every day, treating you like animals because they want everyone to know that if you are not rich, you are nothing.

This shall not stand.

Let us not forget also that although the professional military has been deeply comprised, and it has been made central to the plan for endless war, for endless profit, nevertheless, this destruction of the best of the military, ordinary decent people like yourselves, is no accident--No accident at all.

The military is being stripped of all leadership. Service members are being reduced to a form of slavery. Meanwhile, far away from you, back in the United States, the mercenary forces called ICE, paid big money, they are being empowered to arrest, to lock up, to shoot, anyone that they feel like. They are the front line for a war on Americans, on your families back home.

Meanwhile, the military chain of command above you is being merged with that of Israel, and both are being outsourced to IT and AI monopolies like Oracle and Palantir whose job is to destroy humanity and to promote the rule of the rich.

I feel your pain. I know what you are going through. I will not be silent like the other cowardly politicians who have been taking the cash payments since the 9.11 travesty, since the Covid reign of terror.

We must stop this war against our people, and we must restore a government of the people, for the people, and by the people now. We cannot wait for them to drag us further into world war, into nuclear war.

We cannot wait for them to further degrade the lives of those, like yourselves, in the military, of those in prisons, in concentration camps, in foster homes and hospitals.

This must end, and it must end now! The truth goes marching on.

August 15, 1945

Emanuel Pastreich

As an official candidate for president running as an independent, it is critical that I speak out on the 81^st anniversary of the end of World War Two, and that I demand unconditionally that the economic incentives for banks and corporations, as well as for the political and cultural lackeys that they control, be ended and we the citizens take back our nation and we the people take back our souls.

The are pushing right now all of us further and further into a third world war, which will destroy us all, through a combination of nuclear war, AI-driven psychological warfare powered by data centers, robots and drones now being secretly stockpiled across the country, and the destruction of the climate, the seas and the rivers, the soil and air. This world war, this nightmare, must be stopped.

Sadly, the Second World War, which started with many Americans backing the anti-fascist movement, many going to Spain to fight with the Republicans against the fascists, ended with the United States heading in the wrong direction.

You see, not all Americans were anti-fascist. Ford Motor Company, IBM, Standard Oil and others backed the fascists, worked with them. And now their descendants want to make anti-fascist activism illegal.

World War Two ended with the United States embracing a massive global standing army, and inheriting the bloody imperialist crown of the British Empire. Things took a turn for the worse in the firebombing of Dresden in February, 1945, in the firebombing of Tokyo in March, 1945, and when the United States reached down into the caverns of hell and dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August sixth and ninth respectively.

After that, because the United State was drawn into the imperial sphere of war, making war, the preparation for war, and the sale of weapons the primary stimulus to the economy, we could not find our way back to peace in an economic and cultural sense, as much as individuals longed for peace.

We never went back to a peace-time economy—despite various attempts, and the Korean War put us on a deadly path to Vietnam, and that led to dozens of military conflicts, and the growth of a massive military economy—a cancer on the body politic at the expense of local production, family farms, and self-sufficiency. After that addition to war set in, everything had to be based on global trade for the benefit of corporations.

Now we are being dragged into a third world war, which could be our last. We have moved up one flight in the spiral staircase: this war is different.

In addition to bombs and missiles, we now have massive information and psychological warfare programs coordinated by billionaires around the world. We have domestic false flag attacks on communities meant to disorient and to terrorize, to enforce the code of silence. We have targeted individuals who have no rights, who do not exist for their friends and family, and who are tortured with gang stalking, electromagnetic attacks, and other cruel experiments. We have nano weapons, directed energy weapons, and the use of supercomputers to track and to manipulate everyone over time.

We are in the midst of a new world war that demands that we the people come up with a plan for how we will take back control of our culture and our values, take back control of money and the economy, take back control of policy, of education, and culture from the dark financial empire which has its tentacles wrapped around our bodies and our souls.

We must end this world war, but it is not anywhere near enough to gather on weekends with signs in the park. We must remake our entire economy and culture.

Rachel Maron speaks out about the pressures brought to bear on women on the front line of identity and politics in America

Center for Truth Politics

August 13, 2026

Rachel Maron writes about trust, power, and the systems that decide who gets protected on Substack at This Woman Votes. I spoke with her about coordinated pressure put on women in the manosphere discourse on gender, in the brutal abortion bans and the criminalization of survivors, and in politics. She describes the brutal architecture set up by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society that undergirds what appear to be separate fights.

She remarks, “What I’ve been tracing is closer to an operating system. The same design shows up in the manosphere, in abortion policy, and in how courts treat women who survive violence. Distress and dependency go in one end, and political and economic fuel comes out the other. Women’s bodies and unpaid labor are the feedstock.”

Is it because it is an anti-war film? No, I fear that is a superficial reading.

The film screams out and chills us to the marrow of our bones because it features the Trojan Horse. That act of deceit that undermines the legitimacy of everyone on every side, that sly trick that somehow works but undermines everything, drains everything of legitimacy is what resonates with us

What is the Trojan Horse of our generation?

It is not hard to find.

It is the 9.11 abomination. No, the Trojan Horse is the COVID reign of terror. No, the Trojan Horse that allowed the multinational banks and private equity to take over the nation was the counterfeiting of money by the Federal Reserve that was fed to IT companies and criminal syndicates like Amazon.

No! it was the waves of false flag operations in schools and shopping malls that disoriented and confused us, combined with targeting of individuals and a massive dumbing down psychological warfare operation against citizens that was carried out in the most cold-blooded manner over the last 25 years, culminating in the AI assault on the human mind of everyone by the Billionaires.

https://youtu.be/Mzw2ttJD2qQ?si=07xLnsXo6EzV0PsT

How much longer before AI starts to rewrite all information about you, so much so that you are no longer recognizable, that false information overwhelms the truth?

How much longer before AI makes your bank account, credit card, and cell phone unusable, especially if you violate a minor rule set up by the bank, or because of an error?

How much longer before AI is completely controlled by a privatized Homeland Security and a classified security directive shutting you down can be issued automatically without the need for a human?

How much longer, now that all books have been destroyed and only digital libraries are available on demand, before a hacking incident destroys all information that is accessible for the public?

How much longer before a power shortage shuts down all AI-dependent applications and services and leaves us to die?

I would guess there is an algorithm in place, one that will direct a slow transformation over the next 18 months.

Now that private corporations run everything that is supposed to be government, it will be easy. The process will be just slow enough to keep you from making any emergency moves, but just fast enough to make sure everyone is caught up in the net.

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Emanuel Pastreich for President

August 6, 2028

Speech to Truth Action Project

I am honored that Chuck Fall has invited me to speak with you about the gravest of matters today. Chuck served as treasurer for my run against Cornel West in the Green Party, and now he bravely leads Truth Action Project.

We tried to make truth politics the core issue for the revival of the Green Party, but discovered in the process that such a so-called opposition party was riddled with operatives on contract to private intelligence firms like CASI and Booze Allan Hamilton whose job it is to make sure that no serious political action is ever taken, that the American citizens are marinated in hopeless complaining and despair so that action and truth never cross their minds as an option.

What an honor to be with you today to deliver my opening opening speech, the declaration of my candidacy for the 2028 presidential campaign here today. I would not want one more person than those here who are dedicated to the cause.

I do not have to tell you that this is no ordinary election.

We are starting this presidential campaign before the midterm elections for a reason.

This speech comes not a moment too soon.

The American political system is in freefall.

Republican mercenaries are tearing apart the electoral system in preparation for rigged midterms while their Democratic collaborators hold down the victims and truthtellers to make that job easier.

We witness the controlled demolition of government, journalism, education, medicine, law, ethics, and civilization itself.

Endless war for the profit of banks, the commodification of the bodies and minds of citizens, of our water and soil, of our oceans and lakes, of low-orbit space and even the moon is proceeding apace while we are encouraged to throw tomatoes at the idiot president Trump.

Enough!

I condemn, unambiguously, the stealth takeover of our country by private equity and multinational corporations, that is to say by the Epstein class. I call out the 9.11 abomination, denounce the Covid reign of terror and the deadly vaccine regime. I request an end to the counterfeiting by the Federal Reserve and the banks and I demand an end to false-flag operations at shopping malls and schools across our country and the targeting of individuals for experimentation by contractors with security clearances.

When I speak about a second American revolution, I am not using an “off-the-shelf” slogan made up by political consultants, but rather rallying you to action; a clarion call to overturn the corrupt governmental, educational, and financial system, and to revitalize the decadent culture that droops over them all.

This narcissistic culture has crippled our nation. The data masters in the shadows have buried the Constitution in a shallow grave while profit-driven zombies embracing extraction, exploitation, and indulgence as necessary virtues wander our land like a Biblical plague.

Such times that try our souls demand a different candidate, not a favorite of Wall Street, not a darling of the billionaires, but rather someone who marches forward with ordinary working people, not one who follows covert orders from billionaire donors, or Homeland Security directives.

I do not have the money nor the leisure to outsource the hard work to operatives. I am not here to bitch about people who do not fit my identity politics schemata, or to promote “ghost dance” toothless ritual protests.

I stand with you. I am here to learn from you, the decent working people of America.

I will not hesitate to do what is necessary to end the butchery of our nation by parasitic financial interests, or by a flaccid military elite that is loyally licking the hand of its monied master.

I am launching this campaign, not with fundraisers in Manhattan and Beverly Hills for elites who patronize child-trafficking networks, not with rounds of golf with the CEOs of Blackrock and Goldman Sachs, but with town hall meetings like this, completely open to the people, to working people, to people who struggle to educate their children and who scramble to pay the rent.

Believe me, I know what it is like. I have been unemployed since the launch of the Covid reign of terror too, working here and there to make ends meet, but never making enough to support my family.

I never wanted to be one of the elites who flies around in a private plane, or lives on a private island. I do not want to meet them. I want to seize their assets and lock them up for their role in state crimes.

I am, I should be, a perfect mirror of you: struggling to survive in hostile world designed to benefit those who have the most.

Change will not rain down from the heavens. We don’t want any more cardboard messiahs summoned up by the powerful, no more Trojan horses trotted out by the rich.

They have spent billions to dumb us down, to lock up, or banish, those who opposed their ruthless rule. They have scratched out these words from the Declaration of Independence:

“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

We are not cowed by their fake show of power. We are not consumers to be toyed with. We are citizens empowered to govern by our Constitution.

So, I ask you what do the Republicans, and their sidekick, “vestigial twin” Democrats, advocate? What policies do they propose?

“War, war, and more war” is their economic policy, their security policy, their educational policy, and their welfare policy. War against ordinary people abroad with mercenary special forces; war against ordinary people at home with ICE bandits with badges.

War is the only way they can stimulate the moribund economy that they created, the hedge fund Frankensteins and the derivative demons, because they have stripped the nation of all the natural and healthy means of production.

I say,

Tear down those gaudy digital facades, seize those data centers like the Bastille!

We will not serve shadow kings who rule through lobbyists and private intelligence operatives.

Stand with us against the rising tide of barbarism, ignorance, and greed. We will not beg the techno-tyrants and bio-fascists for anything.

Hot tears run down our cheeks when we behold our shattered nation. But we are not discouraged in the least. We demand all the louder the truth and we seek all the more uncompromisingly justice.

Let me share with you the critical elements of my platform

Freedom

Release all secret documents concerning the COVID-19 destruction of the economy, the forced compliance with deadly “vaccines,” and demand full compensation and criminal liability from the multinational banks and corporations who carried out that reign of terror.

Launch international scientific investigations into the 9/11 false flag operation to determine the exact chain of command within the American, Israeli, Saudi, British, and other governments that planned and carried out this crime and demand the confiscation of all assets of the corporations and billionaires around the world who were behind it.

Enforce the 13th Amendment prohibiting slavery so that no workers, citizens or immigrants, will be treated as slaves, that means forced to accept jobs that do not pay a decent wage and grant healthcare and retirement benefits.

End secret governance in the United States and make public all of the unconstitutional programs that determine policy, or give orders to government institutions, corporations, or individuals using classified directives, secret law, non-disclosure agreements, or other opaque and unaccountable means.

Liberty

Defend the right to privacy of all and end the intrusive use of technology by corporations and governments.

Stop corporations from using technology to manipulate citizens and recognize the dangers of the so-called “AI” that has been deployed for ruthless social control. Encourage all citizens to think for themselves scientifically and to avoid dependency on technologies run by the masters behind the screen.

Corporations are not people and do not have the right to lobby or to invoke special privileges. The government must represent the people and each citizen gets only one vote. Millionaires or billionaires are not entitled to any form of special access by lobbying or bribery.

Halt the campaign to dumb us down. We are subject to campaigns by corporations in advertising, entertainment, social media, news, and education meant to induce anti-intellectual sentiments, to inhibit the ability to focus, and to promote shallow thinking. These horrific campaigns undermine civil society, destroy families, and render us passive before the dark forces of techno-fascism.

Defend neuro-rights for all by ending the use of advanced technologies to monitor, manipulate, or alter human cognition without consent or awareness.

Security

Transform the military-intelligence complex into institutions that defend citizens against real threats like the takeover of the economy by global finance, the use of technology to control society using IT and private intelligence firms, the promotion of information and psychological warfare, the use of nano-weapons and directed energy weapons, and the deadly impact of climate change and mindless resource depletion.

Bring the US military home. The United States should have returned to a peacetime economy after the Second World War. The decision to make us the world’s policeman is the cause of the current social and economic decay. The military must be trimmed down, brought home, and focused on real threats, not made-up monsters that justify juicy budgets. The United Nations must be upgraded so that it functions in a transparent manner to promote peace and it is completely independent of multinational financial interests.

Climate change and the collapse of biodiversity, the sixth great extinction, are the overwhelming security threats we face. The response much involve every single aspect of domestic and foreign policy.

Eliminate nuclear weapons from the earth, starting with the United States. The United States is spending trillions of dollars developing new nuclear weapons, and upgrading the thousands it already has. Instead, we should be eliminating all of these dangerous and outdated weapons. The risk of nuclear war that will destroy humanity has reached an unprecedented high that demands action.

Economy

Trade must be ecological and truly free. Most of what we need for sustenance should be manufactured, or grown, at the local level and the money generated thereby should stay there, and not be extracted by multinational banks. Global trade to generate profits for the few, impoverish workers around the world, and destroy our environment, must end.

The takeover of the economy by multinational banks and corporations that pay little or no taxes, that take a cut out of every transaction, and that use immoral tactics to destroy the economy will end. Compensation will be given to the victims of this illegal and immoral global economic takeover.

The creation of money, and the determination of its value, must be undertaken with the authorization of the Congress and must be handled in a transparent and democratic manner. Counterfeiting of money, which is the cause of inflation, by the Federal Reserve, private banks, the Department of Defense, and other institutions, domestic and international, must end.

We must stop using the wasteful and destructive metrics like “growth” and “consumption” to assess the economy and the contributions of our citizens. Taking time off from work to care for a sick parent is a priceless contribution to the economy whereas speculation in hedge funds is crime. We must embrace the principle of the Iroquois nation: “consider the impact of our current actions on the seventh generation after us.”

Farming is essential for an independent and self-sufficient citizenry and a healthy economy. We must end corporate factory farming for profit and restore sustainable family farms. It will be family farming producing healthy organic food, and not AI or semiconductors, that will drive our future economy.

Revolution

Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party, parasitic syndicates in the pay of the rich, are described in the Constitution. Neither has authority in the creation of policy. Policy must be formulated in a transparent manner by a Congress the represents the citizens, with advice from objective subject experts who consider, without bias, the long-term interests of the people.

We will not recognize any election that is not fair. Massive manipulation of local, state, and federal election results by corporations that count votes, the implementation of policies making it impossible for working people, for poor people, to get accurate information or even to get to the polls to vote, and the exclusion of candidates advocating for truth by the corporate media, must end. Every citizen must be guaranteed the right to vote, the right to reliable information, and the right to run for office.

We must support education for everyone, that means education that teaches citizens how to think for themselves in a scientific manner, promotes self-reliance, and emphasizes moral judgement and ethical behavior. Citizens should be taught how to grow their own food, how to generate their own energy, how to make clothes and furniture and establish independent communities.

Investigative journalism aimed at educating the people about the critical issues in our society cannot be produced by newspapers and broadcast networks dependent on advertising—or controlled by corporations. Sources of information for citizens like newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting must be run as transparent and accountable cooperatives devoted to scientific truth and moral decency.

The current crisis is a spiritual one. While we slept, our nation drifted into decadence and narcissism. We mistook the surface appearances of temporary prosperity for the depths of human wisdom and morality.

Modesty, frugality, and integrity have vanished from our vocabularies, replaced by a poisonous culture of the spectacle.

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Emanuel Pastreich for President

2028

Speech at Truth Action Project

I am honored that Chuck Fall has invited me to speak with you about the gravest of matters today. Chuck served as treasurer for my run against Cornel West in the Green Party, and he now bravely leads Truth Action Project.

We tried to make truth politics the core issue for the revival of the Green Party, but discovered in the process that such a so-called opposition party was riddled with operatives on contract to private intelligence firms like CASI and Booze Allan Hamilton whose job it is to make sure that no serious political action is ever taken, that the American citizens are marinated in hopeless complaining and despair so that action and truth never cross their minds as an option.

What an honor to be with you today to deliver my opening opening speech, the declaration of my candidacy for the 2028 presidential campaign here today. I would not want one more person than those here who are dedicated to the cause.

I do not have to tell you that this is no ordinary election.

We are starting this presidential campaign before the midterm elections for a reason.

This speech comes not a moment too soon.

The American political system is in freefall.

Republican mercenaries are tearing apart the electoral system in preparation for rigged midterms while their Democratic collaborators hold down the victims and truthtellers to make that job easier.

We witness the controlled demolition of government, journalism, education, medicine, law, ethics, and civilization itself.

Endless war for the profit of banks, the commodification of the bodies and minds of citizens, of our water and soil, of our oceans and lakes, of low-orbit space and even the moon is proceeding apace while we are encouraged to throw tomatoes at the idiot president Trump.

Enough!

I condemn, unambiguously, the stealth takeover of our country by private equity and multinational corporations, that is to say by the Epstein class. I call out the 9.11 abomination, denounce the Covid reign of terror and the deadly vaccine regime. I request an end to the counterfeiting by the Federal Reserve and the banks and I demand an end to false-flag operations at shopping malls and schools across our country and the targeting of individuals for experimentation by contractors with security clearances.

When I speak about a second American revolution, I am not using an “off-the-shelf” slogan made up by political consultants, but rather rallying you to action; a clarion call to overturn the corrupt governmental, educational, and financial system, and to revitalize the decadent culture that droops over them all.

This narcissistic culture has crippled our nation. The data masters in the shadows have buried the Constitution in a shallow grave while profit-driven zombies embracing extraction, exploitation, and indulgence as necessary virtues wander our land like a Biblical plague.

Such times that try our souls demand a different candidate, not a favorite of Wall Street, not a darling of the billionaires, but rather someone who marches forward with ordinary working people, not one who follows covert orders from billionaire donors, or Homeland Security directives.

I do not have the money nor the leisure to outsource the hard work to operatives. I am not here to bitch about people who do not fit my identity politics schemata, or to promote “ghost dance” toothless ritual protests.

I stand with you. I am here to learn from you, the decent working people of America.

I will not hesitate to do what is necessary to end the butchery of our nation by parasitic financial interests, or by a flaccid military elite that is loyally licking the hand of its monied master.

I am launching this campaign, not with fundraisers in Manhattan and Beverly Hills for elites who patronize child-trafficking networks, not with rounds of golf with the CEOs of Blackrock and Goldman Sachs, but with town hall meetings like this, completely open to the people, to working people, to people who struggle to educate their children and who scramble to pay the rent.

Believe me, I know what it is like. I have been unemployed since the launch of the Covid reign of terror too, working here and there to make ends meet, but never making enough to support my family.

I never wanted to be one of the elites who flies around in a private plane, or lives on a private island. I do not want to meet them. I want to seize their assets and lock them up for their role in state crimes.

I am, I should be, a perfect mirror of you: struggling to survive in hostile world designed to benefit those who have the most.

Change will not rain down from the heavens. We don’t want any more cardboard messiahs summoned up by the powerful, no more Trojan horses trotted out by the rich.

They have spent billions to dumb us down, to lock up, or banish, those who opposed their ruthless rule. They have scratched out these words from the Declaration of Independence:

“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

We are not cowed by their fake show of power. We are not consumers to be toyed with. We are citizens empowered to govern by our Constitution.

So, I ask you what do the Republicans, and their sidekick, “vestigial twin” Democrats, advocate? What policies do they propose?

“War, war, and more war” is their economic policy, their security policy, their educational policy, and their welfare policy. War against ordinary people abroad with mercenary special forces; war against ordinary people at home with ICE bandits with badges.

War is the only way they can stimulate the moribund economy that they created, the hedge fund Frankensteins and the derivative demons, because they have stripped the nation of all the natural and healthy means of production.

I say,

Tear down those gaudy digital facades, seize those data centers like the Bastille!

We will not serve shadow kings who rule through lobbyists and private intelligence operatives.

Stand with us against the rising tide of barbarism, ignorance, and greed. We will not beg the techno-tyrants and bio-fascists for anything.

Hot tears run down our cheeks when we behold our shattered nation. But we are not discouraged in the least. We demand all the louder the truth and we seek all the more uncompromisingly justice.

Let me share with you the critical elements of my platform:

Freedom

Release all secret documents concerning the COVID-19 destruction of the economy, the forced compliance with deadly “vaccines,” and demand full compensation and criminal liability from the multinational banks and corporations who carried out that reign of terror.

Launch international scientific investigations into the 9/11 false flag operation to determine the exact chain of command within the American, Israeli, Saudi, British, and other governments that planned and carried out this crime and demand the confiscation of all assets of the corporations and billionaires around the world who were behind it.

Enforce the 13th Amendment prohibiting slavery so that no workers, citizens or immigrants, will be treated as slaves, that means forced to accept jobs that do not pay a decent wage and grant healthcare and retirement benefits.

End secret governance in the United States and make public all of the unconstitutional programs that determine policy, or give orders to government institutions, corporations, or individuals using classified directives, secret law, non-disclosure agreements, or other opaque and unaccountable means.

Liberty

Defend the right to privacy of all and end the intrusive use of technology by corporations and governments.

Stop corporations from using technology to manipulate citizens and recognize the dangers of the so-called “AI” that has been deployed for ruthless social control. Encourage all citizens to think for themselves scientifically and to avoid dependency on technologies run by the masters behind the screen.

Corporations are not people and do not have the right to lobby or to invoke special privileges. The government must represent the people and each citizen gets only one vote. Millionaires or billionaires are not entitled to any form of special access by lobbying or bribery.

Halt the campaign to dumb us down. We are subject to campaigns by corporations in advertising, entertainment, social media, news, and education meant to induce anti-intellectual sentiments, to inhibit the ability to focus, and to promote shallow thinking. These horrific campaigns undermine civil society, destroy families, and render us passive before the dark forces of techno-fascism.

Defend neuro-rights for all by ending the use of advanced technologies to monitor, manipulate, or alter human cognition without consent or awareness.

Security

Transform the military-intelligence complex into institutions that defend citizens against real threats like the takeover of the economy by global finance, the use of technology to control society using IT and private intelligence firms, the promotion of information and psychological warfare, the use of nano-weapons and directed energy weapons, and the deadly impact of climate change and mindless resource depletion.

Bring the US military home. The United States should have returned to a peacetime economy after the Second World War. The decision to make us the world’s policeman is the cause of the current social and economic decay. The military must be trimmed down, brought home, and focused on real threats, not made-up monsters that justify juicy budgets. The United Nations must be upgraded so that it functions in a transparent manner to promote peace and it is completely independent of multinational financial interests.

Climate change and the collapse of biodiversity, the sixth great extinction, are the overwhelming security threats we face. The response much involve every single aspect of domestic and foreign policy.

Eliminate nuclear weapons from the earth, starting with the United States. The United States is spending trillions of dollars developing new nuclear weapons, and upgrading the thousands it already has. Instead, we should be eliminating all of these dangerous and outdated weapons. The risk of nuclear war that will destroy humanity has reached an unprecedented high that demands action.

Economy

Trade must be ecological and truly free. Most of what we need for sustenance should be manufactured, or grown, at the local level and the money generated thereby should stay there, and not be extracted by multinational banks. Global trade to generate profits for the few, impoverish workers around the world, and destroy our environment, must end.

The takeover of the economy by multinational banks and corporations that pay little or no taxes, that take a cut out of every transaction, and that use immoral tactics to destroy the economy will end. Compensation will be given to the victims of this illegal and immoral global economic takeover.

The creation of money, and the determination of its value, must be undertaken with the authorization of the Congress and must be handled in a transparent and democratic manner. Counterfeiting of money, which is the cause of inflation, by the Federal Reserve, private banks, the Department of Defense, and other institutions, domestic and international, must end.

We must stop using the wasteful and destructive metrics like “growth” and “consumption” to assess the economy and the contributions of our citizens. Taking time off from work to care for a sick parent is a priceless contribution to the economy whereas speculation in hedge funds is crime. We must embrace the principle of the Iroquois nation: “consider the impact of our current actions on the seventh generation after us.”

Farming is essential for an independent and self-sufficient citizenry and a healthy economy. We must end corporate factory farming for profit and restore sustainable family farms. It will be family farming producing healthy organic food, and not AI or semiconductors, that will drive our future economy.

Revolution

Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party, parasitic syndicates in the pay of the rich, are described in the Constitution. Neither has authority in the creation of policy. Policy must be formulated in a transparent manner by a Congress the represents the citizens, with advice from objective subject experts who consider, without bias, the long-term interests of the people.

We will not recognize any election that is not fair. Massive manipulation of local, state, and federal election results by corporations that count votes, the implementation of policies making it impossible for working people, for poor people, to get accurate information or even to get to the polls to vote, and the exclusion of candidates advocating for truth by the corporate media, must end. Every citizen must be guaranteed the right to vote, the right to reliable information, and the right to run for office.

We must support education for everyone, that means education that teaches citizens how to think for themselves in a scientific manner, promotes self-reliance, and emphasizes moral judgement and ethical behavior. Citizens should be taught how to grow their own food, how to generate their own energy, how to make clothes and furniture and establish independent communities.

Investigative journalism aimed at educating the people about the critical issues in our society cannot be produced by newspapers and broadcast networks dependent on advertising—or controlled by corporations. Sources of information for citizens like newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting must be run as transparent and accountable cooperatives devoted to scientific truth and moral decency.

The current crisis is a spiritual one. While we slept, our nation drifted into decadence and narcissism. We mistook the surface appearances of temporary prosperity for the depths of human wisdom and morality.

Modesty, frugality, and integrity have vanished from our vocabularies, replaced by a poisonous culture of the spectacle.

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Emanuel Pastreich

Declaration of Candidacy for President

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

5 PM Pacific Time; 8 PM Eastern Time

TAP Talk will host Emanuel Pastreich, TAP Partner at Center for Truth Politics, and independent candidate for President, 2028.

Register here

https://truthactionproject.org/events-calendar/

Truth Action Project is honored to host the formal launch of Emanuel Pastreich’s 2028 campaign for president (pastreich2028.com). Emanuel is the only candidate committed to a robust truth agenda who has officially registered as an independent and presented a comprehensive platform and powerful vision for America. He did so at a moment when most politicians are hiding in the shadows hoping that they will not offend their hidden masters.

The political system is in free-fall. We witness the controlled demolition of not only government, but also of journalism, education, law, the means of production and distribution, and of civilization itself.

Republican mercenaries are tearing the institutions for elections apart before the midterms while Democratic collaborators are pinning down all resistance to make the job easier.

Emanuel spoke out against the stealth takeover of the nation by private equity and multinational corporations--the Epstein class, when he ran as an independent in 2020. He condemned the 9.11 abomination, the Covid reign of terror and the deadly vaccine regime, the counterfeiting by the Federal Reserve, and the waves low-intensity false-flags operations and the targeting of individuals for experimentation by contractors for Homeland Security.

Emanuel then ran as one of two candidates in the Green Party for the 2024 nomination, but when he refused to compromise on the facts, he was blocked out of the media by even those who promote themselves as truth-tellers.

This time, however, the situation is different. People are listening to his untarnished message. When Emanuel promises a second American revolution, it is not a slogan made up by a political consultant, but a condemnation of the narcissism and corruption that has buried the Constitution in a shallow grave, an insult that promotes the extraction, exploitation, and narcissism of a parasite economy.

Join us to ask Emanuel directly about his vision for America and his strategy for winning the presidency in 2028.

At Tuesday TAP Talks, we aim to create a digital clearing in society for frank and honest and civil discourse dedicated to truth and accountability and justice for state crimes against democracy. We welcome Emanuel’s commitment to the same goals.

Access zoom through our events page:

https://truthactionproject.org/events-calendar/

pastreich2028.com

The Truth Action Project initially began as the 9/11 Truth Action Project and remains firmly committed to supporting the efforts of the 9/11 truth movement.

Thank you for following the work TAP is doing to build a platform of unity, amplify the voices of the truth community, and uncover the realities that matter.

Your support and patience mean the world to us as we prepare for the next round of TAP Talks—a series designed to highlight and advance the critical work of the truth movement.

As we look to expand our efforts and grow this vital network, we ask for your support. Please consider donating to TAP or volunteering with us to help strengthen our operations. Your contributions directly fuel the mission to empower the truth community and drive meaningful change. Together, we can pull back the veil and illuminate the truth.

Chuck Fall, TAP President

Emanuel Pastreich

Declaration of Candidacy for President

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

5 PM Pacific Time; 8 PM Eastern Time

TAP Talk will host Emanuel Pastreich, TAP Partner at Center for Truth Politics, and independent candidate for President, 2028.

Register here

https://truthactionproject.org/events-calendar/

Truth Action Project is honored to host the formal launch of Emanuel Pastreich’s 2028 campaign for president (pastreich2028.com). Emanuel is the only candidate committed to a robust truth agenda who has officially registered as an independent and presented a comprehensive platform and powerful vision for America. He did so at a moment when most politicians are hiding in the shadows hoping that they will not offend their hidden masters.

The political system is in free-fall. We witness the controlled demolition of not only government, but also of journalism, education, law, the means of production and distribution, and of civilization itself.

Republican mercenaries are tearing the institutions for elections apart before the midterms while Democratic collaborators are pinning down all resistance to make the job easier.

Emanuel spoke out against the stealth takeover of the nation by private equity and multinational corporations--the Epstein class, when he ran as an independent in 2020. He condemned the 9.11 abomination, the Covid reign of terror and the deadly vaccine regime, the counterfeiting by the Federal Reserve, and the waves low-intensity false-flags operations and the targeting of individuals for experimentation by contractors for Homeland Security.

Emanuel then ran as one of two candidates in the Green Party for the 2024 nomination, but when he refused to compromise on the facts, he was blocked out of the media by even those who promote themselves as truth-tellers.

This time, however, the situation is different. People are listening to his untarnished message. When Emanuel promises a second American revolution, it is not a slogan made up by a political consultant, but a condemnation of the narcissism and corruption that has buried the Constitution in a shallow grave, an insult that promotes the extraction, exploitation, and narcissism of a parasite economy.

Join us to ask Emanuel directly about his vision for America and his strategy for winning the presidency in 2028.

At Tuesday TAP Talks, we aim to create a digital clearing in society for frank and honest and civil discourse dedicated to truth and accountability and justice for state crimes against democracy. We welcome Emanuel’s commitment to the same goals.

Access zoom through our events page:

https://truthactionproject.org/events-calendar/

pastreich2028.com

The Truth Action Project initially began as the 9/11 Truth Action Project and remains firmly committed to supporting the efforts of the 9/11 truth movement.

Thank you for following the work TAP is doing to build a platform of unity, amplify the voices of the truth community, and uncover the realities that matter.

Your support and patience mean the world to us as we prepare for the next round of TAP Talks—a series designed to highlight and advance the critical work of the truth movement.

As we look to expand our efforts and grow this vital network, we ask for your support. Please consider donating to TAP or volunteering with us to help strengthen our operations. Your contributions directly fuel the mission to empower the truth community and drive meaningful change. Together, we can pull back the veil and illuminate the truth.

Chuck Fall, TAP President

The New Face of Progressive Politics in Japan

Can a mother dreaming of peace for children lead the most progressive political party in Japan?

Foreign Policy in Focus

Emanuel Pastreich

July 27, 2026

The debate over who will replace the recently retired founder of the Japanese progressive party Reiwa Shinsengumi Yamamoto Taro has brought a previously low-key citizen activist Ishii Reiko to the forefront in Japanese politics. Ishii Reiko, a woman who rose to prominence through hard work at the local level in Mitaka City (Metropolitan Tokyo) became one of the three finalists for head of Reiwa.

The other two candidates, Yamamoto Joji (who has served three terms in the House of Representatives and was a well-connected political journalist previously) and Sakaguchi Naoto (who has run repeatedly in various parties) are both products of elite Waseda University. They are considered possible successors to Yamamoto primarily on the basis of their prominence in the media.

Ishii, who is 20 years younger than them, has focused like a laser on concrete local issues. She rarely appears in the mainstream media. Unlike Yamamoto and Sakaguchi, she has no Wikipedia entry in Japanese or English, and she does not seek out attention.

Ishii delivers effective speeches in front of the Mitaka subway station, while keeping her three young children under control, at times with help from her husband. This skill is not valued much in Japanese politics, but for those who notice, it gives her substantial legitimacy.

A New Party Rises, Falls, and…Rises?

The progressive party Reiwa Shinsengumi came into being in April 2019 under the leadership of Yamamoto Taro. It set itself apart from the neo-liberal agenda of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Democratic Party, and also stood in contrast to the bureaucratic inflexibility of the Japanese Communist Party. Reiwa unambiguously denounced the consumption tax and condemned the health risks posed by the Fukushima nuclear power accident. It also forcefully opposed the militarization of Japan under the administration of Abe Shinzo, which used opaque administrative structures to tie the Japanese government to the American military.

Reiwa Shinsengumi offered a fresh approach to progressive politics, but it relied heavily on Yamamoto’s fame as an actor and his remarkable skill as a speaker. Community organizing and local political issues remained a weakness. Yamamoto was an articulate defender of the poor, a proponent for the peace constitution, and a prominent doubter about nuclear power, but the party’s fortunes depended on his personal charisma. He challenged the elites, but he came from the world of entertainment stars living comfortable lives. The reality is that he was not accessible at events and he was not up late at night at operational committee meetings.

The result was a disaster for progressives, and especially Reiwa, in last April’s election for House of Representatives. Its total seats went from nine to one.

Part of the problem was that Reiwa’s key issue, opposition to the consumption tax that unfairly burdened working people, was taken up by other parties, and even the Liberal Democratic Party started talking about eliminating the consumption tax for essential foods.

Moreover, Yamamoto unexpectedly resigned in January from the House of Councilors due to ill health, yet stayed on as party leader. The party, in the rush before the snap election, relied on Yamamoto’s reputation and his articulate speeches, but he was not capable of joining candidates on location. Reiwa was able to put forward only 18 candidates. Most districts did not even have a Reiwa candidate on the ballot.

Although the former military officer turned politician Isezaki Kenji remains a prominent Reiwa power in the House of Councilors because of his expertise in international relations, the party no longer is perceived as the brave opposition to the neo-liberal policies of the LDP. Instead, a new crop of populist conservative groups like Sanseito, Ishin, and the Japanese Conservative Party emerged to serve as opposition to the LDP, but from the right—a familiar trend in many countries around the world.

The marginalization of Reiwa and the Japanese Communist Party allowed for Japanese alignment with the Trump administration to a dangerous degree. The LDP has made plans for a radical revision of the constitution, perhaps by a popular vote, that would open the doors for a powerful military. The restrictions on exports of weapons were thrown off, and the Diet committed to a massive increase in military spending (13 percent in 2025). Talk about Japanese nuclear weapons moved from the margins to center stage.

The Ishii Approach

Ishii Reiko, if elected, would be a very different head of the party than Yamamoto. A soft-spoken and empathetic politician, she is known for how much time she takes to listen to citizens and to formulate concrete plans in committee to solve immediate problems for the community. She is there for people every day at her office.

Ishii fought to preserve the local astronomical observatory to give children a chance to learn about science. She led a group that demanded that the city inspect tap water for the presence of dangerous “forever chemicals” (PFAS) that were leaking out from the U.S. military base at Yokota. She was unique in speaking out repeatedly about the unapproved removal of trees as a result of pro-business development plans, stressing that trees belong to citizens and that tree canopies protect citizens from the hot sun and create a healthy ecosystem.

Because Ishii started her career assisting the elderly suffering from dementia at a nursing home, and then worked for a pharmaceutical company, she is deeply aware of the burden for working people of expensive and ineffective medical treatment.

Another unique political approach is her focus on children’s rights. Paradoxically, she is a politician who is most concerned with those who cannot vote. In many cases she tries to see the world not from the standpoint of parents concerned about their children, but from the eyes of children. Her own hardships as a child growing up in an unstable family led her to see things from the child’s perspective.

Ishii battled bureaucracy to help one elementary school student who was unable to attend school for five months due to bureaucratic mistakes. She went as far as to propose that students be allowed to record their conversations with teachers and education officials so that they would have evidence to support their positions in the case of disagreement. She repeatedly refers to article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to support her proposed reforms to protect children subject to abuse or neglect.

That includes speaking out about the dangers of relying on smart phones and tablets for small children, suggesting that these devices can be a form of abuse. She keeps her children away from processed foods and sweets, and fights to make sure that the food served at schools is nutritious. She made a point of insisting that the alternative school for dropouts also supplies nutritious meals.

Her fight to obtain a housing allowance for workers in Mitaka City Hall—so that they can afford to live in the neighborhood they serve despite the small salary they receive—is symbolic of her politics. She felt that people who worked in government should be part of the community. Such an issue has no appeal as a vote-getter in elections or as a fundraising ploy.

Above all, what sets Ishii apart from just about any politician in Japan is her focus on the Gaza genocide in Gaza. She is out there, her hair tinted with two narrow bands of pink, giving speeches for busy neighbors about what is being done to children in Palestine．

She explains:

I have experience working as a medical worker caring for the aged and I learned about the terrible sufferings our people experienced in the Second World War. Now, here we are facing the real possibility of war again. That sense of crisis drives my politics. We cannot allow a war to take place under any circumstances.

It was this political sincerity, even if not dramatic, that propelled Ishii Reiko to prominence precisely because she has gone against the common sense of Japanese politics.

子供たちの平和を願う母親が、日本で最も進歩的な政党を率いることができるだろうか？　

NOTE

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Some Japanese are vaguely aware of the genocide being carried out against the Palestinians. However, Japanese are completely unaware of the manner in which urban spaces, especially in Tokyo, are being transformed into highly restrictive and prison-like environments by employing the know-how and technology that was developed by Israel in Gaza over the last ten years. The transformation of Tokyo, which is similar to what is being done in Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, and other cities, is part of a plan to slowly train citizens without their consent to be obedient, to grow accustomed to living in a highly regulated environment, and conforming to orders from opaque sources of authority in an increasingly totalitarian technocratic society run by multinational corporations.

The transformation of Tokyo is profound. Citizens have been dumbed down by the Covid reign of terror; their understanding of society is simplistic and their attitude passive and impulsive, inclined to pursue immediately desired objects for consumption like food, sex, exciting experiences, fashion. Citizens have no choice but to watch videos on the train, television broadcasts at home, advertisements on the internet, movies and soap operas that glorify thoughtless consumption, promote narcissistic behavior and short-term thrills. It seems that if one does not have an enormous home, an automobile, and has the leisure to engage in wasteful activities, then one is not normal.

This indulgent culture was not created by the people, but imposed by multinational corporations as part of a strategy to create a self-indulgent population that is incapable of focusing, or understanding complex issues, let alone effectively organizing so as to advocate for change. Commuters riding trains are forced to watch advertisements and broadcasts that promote a banal and narcissistic consumption lifestyle, and make the rich an object of envy while completely ignoring the suffering of working people. These advertisements, especially those forced on commuters by the new Train TV, are not for the purpose of selling a product. These foolish and childish advertisements are meant to modify thinking and behavior and create a passive population that cannot resist the increasing fascistic governments serving the ultra-wealthy.

A slow-motion (months and years) transformation of the urban environment is being carried out right now in Tokyo that restricts freedom of movement. The daily experience of the citizen, which defines how he or she sees his or her role in society, is being made narrower, made that of the passive prisoner who can only move within narrowly defined paths.

Since the Covid operation started, citizens are forced to walk following narrow paths determined in advance, in buildings, in the subway, and on sidewalks. They must listen to recorded messages giving orders to turn right or turn left, and also not to do anything that will inconvenience others. The vast majority of people do not even notice the radical transformation of Tokyo’s urban environment. But being subject to constant recorded orders telling you want to do, and not to do, is a classic strategy for modifying behavior and restricting thinking for the population as a whole.

This transformation is accompanied by the replacement of government with rule by private security firms and public-private partnerships under which basic infrastructure is administered in an opaque and unaccountable manner.

Privatized surveillance systems that record in detail the actions of every person, and do so over time so as to allow for the tracking of shifts in mood and behavior, are everywhere and there is no way to know where that information goes or who is feeding it into supercomputers for detailed analysis of how to modify the behavior of each citizen.

What is happening in Tokyo

The transformation of urban spaces in Tokyo into competitive and relentless environments with no benches to rest on, no public restrooms, and no water fountains or other facilities is planned. Every single aspect of human experience becomes a product that must be paid for. But it is not just a matter of forcing people to buy bottle waters, or stop at a café to have a conversation. The entire process encourages narcissistic behavior and rewards a superficial understanding of current events. The citizen is made a consumer. Where once were family-owned stores are now convenience stores, coffee shops, and supermarket that are part of chains and owned by multinational investors.

The reduction in freedom sped up considerably during the Covid reign of terror when multinational intelligence teams, often dispatched from the United States and Israel, took over decision making in local government around the world. The trauma of the senseless Covid restrictions and lockdowns was meant to modify behavior to create a population fearful to discuss any difficult topic and incapable of opposition or of creating networks.

Let us take a look of concrete examples of the transformation of the urban landscape of Tokyo.

Across the city mysterious and pointless construction projects have suddenly sprung up that go on forever and that, in many cases, do not have any clear purpose. When asked, guards often do not know what the point of the barriers and walls are. These barriers are not related to improvements in infrastructure, but rather experiments in behavior modification meant to create a confused, rushed, and disoriented population.

The most extreme experiments in behavior modification can be found in Shibuya Station and Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.

Shibuya Station is the sight of constant construction projects meant to disrupt and confuse pedestrians. Citizens are forced to walk along narrow, confined pathways, bounded by barriers on all sides. Broadcasts tell the citizen what to do, and what not to do so that there is no way to walk in a natural manner. One cannot simply walk out of the exit of the station and find the sidewalk. One must wander through tunnels, confronted with products to buy, endlessly.

The simple process of crossing the street is made impossible. Once on gets off the train, one is confronted with “Shibuya Scramble” a maze of pathways, with exact footsteps drawn on the floor to force conformity. One must walk along confusing, and often blocked, overpasses to get anywhere. The purpose of the endless construction projects around Shibuya Station is opaque and literally no one knows who ordered them or how they are being paid for.

This barrier in front of an escalator is typical of the prison-like separations being put up in train stations, and public buildings, that serve only a negative psychological purpose.

This plastic barrier was erected at a critical transfer spot in Shibuya and it makes it impossible to even slightly alter one’s path. Such rigid and repressive control of the movements of citizens did not exist in Tokyo before the Covid reign of terror.

Shinjuku Station employs similar techniques.

The South Exit at Shinjuku Station features floor to ceiling LED displays with constantly shifting images which serve to disorient and confuse citizens, creating in people, from infancy, a dependency on instantaneous stimulation that makes deeper thought nearly impossible.

The West exit of Shinjuku Station offers an endless maze designed to confuse and discourage. It takes at least 20 minutes of wandering along various tunnels to see the light of day.　

Creating barriers along streets is a major part of this psychological operation to slowly make the city into a prison. The process of creating high metal barriers along roads that make it impossible to cross the street, or get on or off an automobile, except at occasional special locations, takes place over a period of months, or even years. One can only imagine that if there was some disaster, thousands would die as a result of these artificial barriers.

The process starts with the placement of plastic cones, or plastic posts, which appear to be temporary—there is, however, no good reason for placing such plastic barriers.

Over time, the plastic cones are connected by plastic chains, and then replaced with plastic posts, and then with anchored metal posts.

The posts have chains placed on top, and then they are replaced by metal fences that block all movement. You can see from this image that a large area of public space is needlessly blocked off by the fence to demonstrate the power of these hidden forces.

Barriers are being put up in other places as well. Just look at these intimidating ropes set up for those waiting to use the ATM machines. For the citizen who does not think deeply about the shifts, this barrier seems natural, but it would have been unthinkable five years ago.

Public spaces like this park near Shinjuku Station have their entrances blocked with barriers that make entry difficult. These barriers have symbols that suggest they are there to prevent smoking and skateboarding, but it is clear that their only purpose is to make the citizen feel uncomfortable.

Israel’s invisible role

The plans to slowly transform the city of Tokyo into a highly regulated and restricted open-air prison is not the work of a few individuals, or even of a few companies and government offices. The process of transformation is so slow that citizens cannot comprehend how their lives change as they walk through an increasingly hostile and barren urban landscape like mindless zombies every day. This devious plan cannot be enacted by local thugs. It requires a sophisticated understanding of human psychology that only a professional would have.

This plan demands elaborate central planning and a sophisticated understanding of human psychology. It must employ advanced techniques for behavior modification that require information on masses of citizens taken from surveillance cameras of hundreds of thousands of people over weeks and months, and processed in sophisticated fusion centers.

Who is the primary player planning and carrying out this radical transformation of the city of Tokyo ?

The critical contracts giving authority to determine sensitive aspects of urban planning such as the modification of sidewalks and pedestrian crossings so as to modify behavior are on cannot be entirely secret from everyone because of the immense scale, and the unnatural priorities given. The dirty work is outsourced to subcontractors and those contracts are subject to non-disclosure agreements, or even classified as secret by the government in some cases.

The plans for highly controlled urban environments run by corporations in an opaque and unaccountable manner are being implemented around the world in a similar manner. At the top sit private equity firms that propose strategies developed by consulting firms working on secret (classified) projects often funded by banks or directly by billionaires. Those private equity firms hire private intelligence firms who follow the plans made up by the consulting firms. Private intelligence infiltrates local government, worms its way into key ministries of the central government, construction firms, and even non-profit organizations so as to set up a separate chain of command for decision-making that is completely secret, and that cannot be disclosed to anyone. When it comes to issues, that secret chain of command overrides the decision making of elected officials, bureaucrats, or working-level corporate managers.

Many people in government, in corporations, and in the police and other government security agencies in Japan, are fully aware that, just as was the case with Covid 19, there a secret decision-making chain of command. Most people do not, however, understand how the sum of various odd policy decisions serves to transform Tokyo as into an open-air prison. Nor could they grasp how classified psychological operations were carried out to create a passive population during Covid reign of terror.

Most likely, American-based private intelligence firms, hidden inside of American corporations and government agencies, or in consulting firms like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, or Bain and Company are the ones officially giving orders to Japanese companies and local government using classified directives, and non-disclosure agreements, that make it impossible to trace the chain of command.

At the same time, private intelligence firms, which may include Booze Allen Hamilton, CASI, MITRE, or even Palantir and Oracle, draft secret contracts for consulting (a working-level chain of command) with the Japanese government and Japanese corporations that cannot be made public.

Behind those American firms lurk Israeli firms. Much of the dirty work of bribing, intimidating, or otherwise coercing people in government and corporations to go along with these secret orders is outsourced to ruthless Israeli private security and intelligence firms like Torq, Elbit Systems, Black Cube, and NSO (many of which are spin-offs from Mossad). They have mastered techniques for social control to a degree that Americans, Chinese and Germans have not.

Private Israeli intelligence is able to employ the most ruthless methods for political control without most people even noticing a change. These Israeli firms market their sophisticated methods for political and social control to clients around the world: governments, corporations, and organized crime.

Israel’s attacks on Palestinians were not just racist hatred. That alone could not explain the slow and methodical manner of the destruction of the Palestinian people over years. Those attacks on neighborhoods were an opportunity to perfect the technologies, the techniques, and the policies that allow for the slow-motion modification of urban spaces, the method of turning a neighborhood into a prison without the occupants grasping the nature of the operation.

Israel developed these strategies and technologies over the last forty years in its wars on the marginalized and undesired Palestinians but also in the social programming that as to brainwashed and sedated the Israelis. The Palestinians have been reduced to beggars with no rights or property and the Israelis have been transformed into narcissistic fanatics who watch genocide with indifference, or even with enthusiasm.

The Palestinian lands, most recently Gaza and the West Bank were slowly transformed into open-air prisons, and then into extermination camps, using sophisticated systems for isolating, discouraging, and impoverishing communities to such an extreme that are incapable of resisting in an organized manner.

Gaza-fication

First low barriers were erected in Palestinian neighborhoods for “security.” Slowly those barriers became permanent concrete walls. The walls were extended through neighborhoods until the only way to move from one neighborhood to another was through a few checkpoints.

The walls were lined barbwire, then machine guns were installed. The IDF started programs of harassment and abuse against citizens. Israel deployed surveillance cameras and every citizen was entered into a massive facial recognition database for constant tracking.

Palestinians are forced to move through checkpoints with biometric readers in order to get to work, or go anywhere.

(For more details, see “How Israel uses facial-recognition systems in Gaza and beyond”).

After years of harassment, isolation and impoverishment, the time came to kill Palestinians with drones and bombings. The IDF did not track and kill Palestinians because they were racists (although they were), but to develop the know-how and the technology necessary for reducing any self-sufficient community to one that is highly controlled. Israel dragged out the obliteration of Gaza over months and years so that the firms conducting the project could maximize the amount of data produced and develop logarithms which can run social control, repression, and genocide operations with greater efficiency.

The surveillance technology, the psychological operations, and the interrogation and detention strategies, including rape and torture, form a package for how to create a totalitarian society.

Antony Loewenstein’s book The Palestine Laboratory explains in detail how the technologies for bombing and strafing, tracking and surveillance have been developed by Israel in Palestine so that knowhow can be sold to corporations, police, intelligence and the military, around the world. Often the buyers of these products are countries that present themselves as opposed to Israel.

Gaza-fication is carried out through a slow transformation of the physical environment combined with periodical traumatic experiences and low-intensity humiliations that degrade the capacity of the population to engage in any form of meaningful resistance.

Intellectuals (doctors, professors, politicians and civil servants, journalists and writers) were targeted for elimination. Everyone was assigned a number, tracked with cameras. All information was integrated using supercomputer. People were degraded or injured by various attacks. Some were tracked down and killed in traumatic and public ways so as to make all resistance seem futile.

Tokyo as Gaza

The citizens of Tokyo have not been subject to violence and sexual assault like the citizens of Gaza. No killer drones are employed to kill people in their homes. But the technology and techniques for creating a hostile environment in slow motion can be seen everywhere in Tokyo today. Tokyo, like Shanghai, Beijing and Osaka, is on track to be Gaza-fied. Moreover, the recent push for a new centralized intelligence agency in Japan run together with operatives from the United States and Israel (in the form of the private intelligence firms listed above) suggests that more explicit repression of citizens following the Gaza model could be coming. Probably the date for that escalation has already been determined by a supercomputer.

Victims of COVID vaccines

Demand justice and compensation

The Covid psychological operation

A small group of billionaires from around the world, employing international banks, sections of the military and intelligence, and private security firms, launched an effective takeover of the entire world starting in December of 2019. They pushed a terrifying horror movie story in the media that they controlled about a deadly virus that was out of control and that would kill millions. The terror among the people created by the media reports, and by the warnings released by governments, all of which were controlled by these forces, made people panicked, confused, passive, and therefore willing to go along with policies that illegally restricted their actions and movement, and forced small businesses into bankruptcy so as to make multinational corporations like Amazon or Meta, and the banks that supported them, all powerful. These covid policies created a police state in Japan; democracy has never been restored. Although some people were killed using bioweapons during the covid reign of terror so as to make the operation look convincing, there was no covid virus.

The poison COVID vaccine

Once terror reached its peak, and most citizens were doing what they were told by newspapers and government without thinking deeply, policies were enacted that forced citizens to take multiple doses of a vaccine that was designed to destroy the health of citizens. These vaccines were designed to cause blindness, heart attacks, weakened joints, cancer, and other terrible diseases. These vaccines were not mistakes. They did exactly what they were designed to do. Citizens had their minds weakened by the Covid terror regime and their bodies weakened by the deadly vaccines so that they would be easy to control and could be reduced to state near slavery.

Who did these things?

These actions were carried out following the orders given by the strategic teams working for investment banks and private equity firms, and parts of the military and intelligence in numerous countries, including Japan. Those strategic planning teams served the interests of a small handful of the superrich around the world. Although Israel, Germany, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Philippes, and major cities in China implemented the most radical forms of social control using the Covid psychological terror and the forced vaccines, the billionaires behind this plan have no loyalty to any country.

Why did they do it?

1) They knew from the studies conducted by consulting firms that the massive increase in the concentration of wealth over the last 20 years, which is speeding up, would result in organized resistance to the rule of the billionaires and they calculated using supercomputers that only a plan to destroy the minds and the bodies of the vast majority of citizens could save them from the upcoming revolts. They also needed to destroy the economic power of working people, and the middle class, by shutting down small businesses during the pandemic.

2) They knew also that destruction of the climate by the emissions from the fossil fuels that billionaires force us to use to drive this economy (and bring the billionaires immense profits), combined with the destruction of the oceans and the destruction of farmland caused by the extractive economy driven by “growth” and profit that billionaires promote, would create a planet with a climate so damaged that it can no longer support more than one billion, or less people (not 8 billion) within a 30 years. They could not change their economic model to be more humane and environmentally friendly, so they tried to kill on a massive scale. They thought that the murderous vaccine regime, plus the creation of a dumbed down and sick population who would not be able to resist them when they introduced drones and robots.

Who collaborated with them?

Sadly, the scientific experts and intellectuals who should have stood with working people against the billionaires, instead took secret bribes, and some not secret bribes, to promote the covid propaganda and approve the deadly vaccines when they were introduced without any testing or scientific evidence. A large number of professors, doctors, government officials, journalists, lawyers, and other experts betrayed working people for their own immediate benefit. They thought no one would ever know what they did.

What must we do now?

We must first have the bravery to recognize the scale of this crime and to speak openly about what really happened with each other. If we allow the truth to be taboo, we are doomed. We must organize ourselves into groups who demand the truth, but who also who demand that the money made by corporations, banks, and other financial instruments of the billionaires must be confiscated because that money was created using terrible crimes. We must demand that the money be returned to the people, with massive fines for the crimes. The money must come from the corporations and from the billionaires, and not the government. Money from the government is our tax money, or it is money printed up that creates inflation for us.

We must demand that all documents, especially the classified or secret agreements between the central government, local government, hospitals, corporations, newspapers and universities with international banks, private intelligence firms, and other representatives of the billionaire class, must be made public and that those involved in these criminal acts must be treated as criminals, no matter how rich they are, no matter what private island they live on. They must have all their assets seized and they must be jailed.

Please do join us and help us to organize:

○Volunteer programs to help the victims of vaccines

○Campaigns to demand the full release of all secret documents from governments, corporations, hospitals, universities and newspapers.

○Campaigns to demand the seizure of the assets of the companies involved, and that of the billionaires behind them, for redistribution to the victims.

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“No? Come to think of it, I cannot remember that movie either.”

July 14, 2026

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La Liberté guidant le peuple

Eugène Delacroix

Today is Le quatorze Juillet, better known as the Bastille Day. That is the day that the revolutionaries stormed the notorious prison the Bastille, setting off the French Revolution.

The Bastille was the equivalent of an ICE camp, or perhaps CECOT, the 57-acre prison in El Salvator where ICE has sent so many innocent people to be tortured, to rot away.

The Bastille

CECOT

We have not seen such a storming of these concentration camps, or data centers, as of yet. But perhaps that day is not too far away.

Here is Edith Piaf’s remarkable performance.

EDITH PIAF

LA MARSEILLAISE

Allons enfants de la Patrie,

Le jour de gloire est arrivé !

Contre nous de la tyrannie

L’étendard sanglant est levé,

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes

Mugir ces féroces soldats ?

Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras

Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !

Aux armes, citoyens,

Formez vos bataillons,

Marchons, marchons !

Qu’un sang impur

Abreuve nos sillons !

(Press TV, July 11, 2026)

The Trump administration released on July 4^th an extensive report entitled “Saving America’s Story” that attacks the National Museum of American History, and by extension the entire Smithsonian Institution, claiming that the president should be entitled to determine the themes covered and the interpretations offered for the entirety of American history. The role of the Smithsonian Institution in promoting science, history, and the humanities in the United States since its founding in 1846 is coming to a brutal end.

Just as the SAVE America Act will end the vote for the majority of Americans permanently, so also Saving America’s Story will give a handful of billionaires who fund Christian nationalist churches the means to reshape American culture in their own dark (Thielian) image. It will take decades, or centuries, to recover from such a blow unless those with bravery and vision take action now.

The proposal demands the elimination of all exhibitions describing the struggles for democracy and basic rights in the United States, the role of unions, not to mention the resistance to the genocide launched against the native peoples, and against the peoples of Africa using the horrific institution of slavery.

All that is good in America will be Christian (in a narrow definition), European, and white.

This report is the equivalent to the attack on Harvard University last year. It is intended to take advantage of the much-weakened intellectual community in the United States, who have not even started to plan for militant responses to this takeover, so as to seize control of the definition of America and American culture in an absolute and permanent manner. The report “Saving America’s Story” can be downloaded here.

See the introduction to “Saving America’s Story”

presented at WSWS.

Please see my campaign speech:

“Creating a sacred unity of peoples, cultures and nature for the Americas”

Which includes this passage:

“Memory and history are critical. They are more critical than money because if people remember what existed before, then they will value the past.

If there is no memory, there will be no political will. No political will means no money.

First, before we talk about anything else, we must tell the painful tale of how native cultures were destroyed, recognizing that we are talking about that potential for evil that rests within all of us. There is no border between North and South America when it comes to those past sins, or to current sins.

One possible first step is to establish two new Holocaust museums in Washington, D.C.

A Holocaust museum stands on the Mall in Washington, D.C., that faithfully records the horrific killing of Jews in Europe in the 1940s. It is a source of information of tremendous value to us as we strive to understand the nature of evil. I recommend that you take your children to the Holocaust museum.

Yet, we must remember that the Holocaust documented at that museum happened in Europe, not in the Americas.

There were, however, two terrible holocausts that took place in North and South America, two holocausts that cry out from the grave for a fit and proper memorial on the Mall. My administration will fight tooth and nail to build both Holocaust museums.

The first Holocaust museum will be dedicated to the memory of the hundreds of millions of native peoples in the Americas who were slaughtered, or left to die of starvation, or of disease, in the brutal process of colonization and development that took place over four long and cruel centuries.

We need a Holocaust museum that documents the history of the peoples of the Americas, and records their cultures and their arts. We need this museum so that all of our children learn about that tragedy, about what humans are capable of doing in their blindness.

We need another Holocaust museum on the Mall.

We need a Holocaust museum that documents the sufferings and the losses of the tens of millions captured in Africa and shipped to the Americas for slave labor over 400 years. Many millions of men, women and children died on the slave ships; millions more were worked to death, or grew old and died miserably in slavery. Their cultures, their families and their very souls were trampled into the mud. All schoolchildren should visit this Holocaust museum as well and learn what was lost, what was affirmed, and what hope remains for the United States if we look back on our past with honesty.

Because these two memorials will make no distinction between North and South America, they will draw the attention of Americans to the common sufferings and the common tragedies of the Americas. The term “American” itself will expand to include both North and South and the artificial divisions created will start to fade away.

Part of that healing process must involve the introduction of the best of the cultures, the medicines, the spiritual practices, the clothing and designs, the architecture and the history of indigenous nations into all aspects of contemporary American society. Our fashions should draw on the patterns of the Navahos and the Incas, our hospitals should use the herbs employed by the Hopi and the Cari, and the legends of all the original nations should be integrated into our contemporary dramas, movies and songs.

Only then will their true value be made manifest. Only then will their living spirit, after being buried for centuries, be brought back to life, be rekindled for a new age.”