Mark Dankof's America

Mark Dankof and David Duke

Mark Dankof was joined for two hours on November 15th on the Republic Broadcasting Network by Dr. David Duke, author of "Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question."
 
Dr. Duke's web page may be accessed here. Mark also made reference on the air to Philip Giraldi's November 2009 interview with Sibel Edmonds for The American Conservative, and the controversial presence of the radical Zionist group, The Hebron Fund, at an official event at Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets.
 
Dr. Duke's November 7th appearance in Washington, D. C., at the American Free Press-sponsored The First Amendment Festival, has been chronicled by AFP's Mark Anderson.  Click here.
 
The show's MP3 may be accessed below for Internet listeners.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2009
MP3 Files: Hour 1, Hour 2
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Cal State-Fullerton professor, Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote, covers the history and ideology of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) for two hours on Mark Dankof's America on the Republic Broadcasting Network.

Dr. Foote's sites include http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa, http://360.yahoo.com/paulsheldonfoote, http://www.youtube.com/paulsheldonfoote , and http://business.fullerton.edu/accounting/pfoote.

A current Iranian web site which discusses the Muhahedin-e-Khalq is that of the Habilian Association at http://www.habilian.com.

 Mark Dankof's own article on the MeK may be accessed at http://mark1marti2.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/the-mujahedin-e-khalq-the-peril-of-paradox-in-american-middle-east-policy. It is entitled, "The Mujahedin-e-Khalq: The Peril of Paradox in American Middle East Policy."

I wish to inform my readers at Mark Dankof's America,  Al Bawaba, and The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette, of my on-the-record response to an official communication of American Free Press (AFP) editor, Jim Tucker, characterizing AFP correspondent Mark Glenn as one guilty of "Jew-baiting hysteria."

Why not call Mr. Tucker on his nickel at 1-888-699-NEWS and tell him what you think as well?

My letter, and the blathering communication of Mr. Tucker that prompted it, appear as follows:

August 15, 2009

Jim Tucker, Editor
American Free Press
Washington, D. C.
 
Dear Mr. Tucker:
 
Your open letter raises more questions than it answers.  On the one hand, you refer to "our valued correspondent, Mark Glenn." On the other hand, you have accused Mr. Glenn of "Jew-baiting hysteria."  This is Orwellian doublespeak, par excellence.
 
I have regularly read Mr. Glenn's AFP columns in recent years, even as their frequency in publication clearly diminished after Christopher Petherick left AFP and you assumed the role of Editor.  Let me say for the record that his columns are insightful, accurate, and articulate, while hitting the nail on the head in regard to the Israeli Lobby, Israel's actions in Palestine and Gaza, and the Zionist State's role in utilizing the military of the United States as a surrogate military force in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 
 
The utilization of the phrase "Jew-baiting hysteria" is not "subject to wide misunderstanding." It clearly conveys the notion that Mr. Glenn is an irresponsible reporter operating from racial bias, bigotry, and malice.  It is a most serious charge, and one that is patently false.
 
Rather than suggest that your characterization of Mark Glenn's writings for AFP was misunderstood, why not simply admit that your clearly intended description of him and his work for your newspaper was a serious error and one worthy of a public apology?
 
After all, since in your own words, AFP is the only newspaper you know of that "promises--and does--correct every error," why not begin with setting the record straight on a moral, journalistic, and political error on your part so egregious that it begs confession and expiation before the credibility of AFP--and its subscriber list--end up with a one-way ticket to Sheol?
 
And what does your libelous description of Mr. Glenn imply about two of your other correspondents, Victor Thorn and Michael Collins Piper, and their collaboration with Glenn on a new book on the USS Liberty being promoted by your newspaper?  Are they too, flirting with "Jew-baiting hysteria?"
 
Mark Dankof
Mark Dankof's America
San Antonio, Texas

From: jfosterafp@hotmail.com
To: crescentandcross@gmail.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:12:24 +0000

OPEN LETTER TO TUCKER CRITICS

 Dear  Friends,

      I sincerely regret that there has been an unwanted bru-haha because of a misinterpretation of what I said to our valued correspondent, Mark Glenn.

     First of all, Mark has done a lot for AFP; I will be that first to acknowledge that. And the fact is, we do not wish to lose him. I trust that we will continue to run his articles.

     On August 11, I sent a e-mail to Mark which was subject to wide misunderstanding. In that message, I said:

“I carry a lot of 'articles dealing with Israel and Zionism'—check any edition. But you are unable to write this stuff without a lot of Jew-baiting hysteria before getting to the lead. This style is offensive to many readers.” 

As is known by every reader, The American Free Press, and before that, The Spotlight, has never been hesitant about criticizing Israel and political Zionism. In fact, we do so in every issue and will continue to do so. In this endeavor, we have to walk a fine line. On the one hand we frankly criticize when in our judgment criticism is due. On the other hand, we have other subjects to report on, and in everything we do, above all, we must be accurate. In fact, AFP is the only newspaper I know of that promises—and does—correct every error.

Readers must be aware that in so doing, we are fighting against the most potent pressure group in this nation of pressure groups. Almost all Americans have been brainwashed to accept the sanctity of Israel and Zionism. They literally believe that Israel is the finger of God Himself on our planet.  Preachers like John Hagee literally worship Israel, making Christianity a sham. (And no newspaper in America has criticized this fraud as strongly or as consistently as AFP.)

The point is that we have to be diplomatic—and all groups and persons in this business of educating Americans must be diplomatic with others—including you, too. It is not easy to tell anyone that they are wrong. I mean the vast majority of Americans who apparently gladly supply over ten billion  dollars yearly in tax money to this parasite state.

AFP will continue—as it has—to frankly discuss Israel, political Zionism and the outrages that accompany this factor, of that readers should be aware. But we will not devote all of our space to this subject nor cease to try to attract new subscribers, because the vitally important nature of this job we have is as important for you as a patriotic American as well as for AFP.

Sincerely,

Jim Tucker, Editor

American Free Press

Mark Dankof on We Hold These Truths radio, August 11th and 18th

     One thing is abundantly clear about American policy in the Middle East–it is based on a series of paradoxical, internally contradictory goals and alliances which typically end in tragic results for friend and foe alike.

     Nowhere is this conundrum clearer than in the present U. S. quandary over the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), or People’s Holy Warriors, as chronicled by Ed Blanche, Beirut correspondent for The Middle East, in that publication’s June 2009 issue.

     As Blanche capably summarizes what is known of the MEK, the organization was formed in Iran in 1965 by leftist students, subsequently adopting a “bizarre ideology that embraced both Islam and Marxism.”   The ideology soon became linked to urban revolutionary guerrilla violence.  In the final years of Pahlavi Iran, the MEK conducted a series of attacks and assassinations on American military and diplomatic personnel, as it sought the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.  

   The MEK joined forces with Khomeini’s revolutionaries in this ultimately successful effort, only to be expelled by the IRI regime itself in Tehran once its usefulness had expired after the Shah’s departure.  The MEK began to conduct guerrilla operations against the Mullahs as they had against the monarchy previously, with considerable success.  But the Mullahs applied a level of retaliatory force the “Islamic-Marxists” could not endure.  They fled to France, and later joined forces with Saddam Hussein against Iran in the 1980-1988 war between the Gulf rivals.

     The shifting paradoxes would continue, as the MEK established a headquarters at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, largely under American and Israeli protection.  The one-time adversaries of both Persian monarchy and its American military and intelligence allies, had now become a tool of the United States and the Europeans against the Islamic theocratic regime they helped to usher in 3 decades ago.

     And the ultimate paradoxes are these:  First, Mr. Bush’s Operation Iraqi Freedom has resulted in the installation of a central government in Baghdad largely sympathetic to the IRI regime in Tehran, and with identical animosity to the MEK’s presence within its borders.  Second, while Ed Blanche notes that it “was the MEK that disclosed the existence of Iran’s nuclear program in August 2002, stunning the U. S. intelligence and military establishments,” he fails to note credible information provided by Barry O’Connell and IPS’s Gareth Porter that the MEK’s role in “disclosing the existence of Iran’s nuclear program,” has been to serve as a clandestine conduit of information on the subject supplied by the Israeli intelligence community.  Hello, Mossad, meet your new allies in the “Islamic-Marxist” network worldwide.

     There you have it.  The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), or People’s Holy Warriors, is an “Islamic-Marxist” terror organization, which assisted in implementing the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979; was subsequently involved in guerrilla warfare operations against the very Iranian Mullahs they helped to bring to power; fought on the side of Saddam Hussein for 8 years in the Iran-Iraq war between 1980-1988; and now, according to Barry O’Connell and Gareth Porter, is working with Jewish neo-conservatives and Israeli intelligence in planting false “intelligence” on Iran’s nuclear program with the American National Security State and Western news media, itching for a confrontation between Tehran and Tel Aviv—even as it now possesses an adversarial role with the very regime in Baghdad installed by Mr. Bush’s War.  Confused?

     You should be.  The global international establishment can’t figure out what its position on the MEK is supposed to be, either.  Hence, according to Blanche, Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate is trying to find the organization a new place to live; the U. S. State Department continues to maintain a place for the MEK on its terrorism blacklist, as does the European Union; American and Jewish neo-conservatives in the defense and intelligence communities of the United States advocate an alliance with the MEK against Tehran; even as Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled in May of 2008 that the MEK “should not be deemed a terrorist organization.”

     Oh, yes.  One other thing.  Even as Israeli intelligence and the Pentagon pursue an anti-Tehran alliance with the MEK, Tehran, according to Blanche, offered the United States in December of 2003 several senior Al Qaeda operatives in exchange for MEK commanders under U. S. control at Camp Ashraf.  The U. S. could have had Saif Al Adel and Mahfouz Ould Walid (Abu Hafs the Mauritanian), even as it avenged the deaths of murdered American personnel from the days of Pahlavi Iran in the 1970s.

     Why was there no deal?

     Better ask the Mossad, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Kenneth R. Timmerman, and the Project for the New American Century crowd.

     Isn’t paradox wonderful?

Mark Dankof:  The American Right's Rubber Ball Pops Up Again 

by Leila Fathi for Janbakhtegan

(Los Angeles/July 17th--Janbakhtegan)

     I will always remember my first trip to San Antonio, chiefly for the sights of the Alamo, the Tower of the Americas, and the Riverwalk.
 
     And not incidentally, for the assigned purpose of my just completed 3-day journalistic sojourn to the Alamo City from the City of the Angels:  to encounter The Rubber Ball of the American Right, Mark Dankof, and to gather his latest thoughts on our world and his.

     He picked me up at San Antonio International Airport on time and without a hitch, recognizing me immediately only on the basis of an electronically transmitted photo sent from Los Angeles the day before. Other than a slightly-receding hairline and a touch of gray on the sideburns, he looked exactly as he did in photographs taken of him by my parents 35 years ago, in their home in north Tehran.  The athletic build of three and a half decades previous had been kept reasonably well preserved. My first glimpse of him was a poignant time-warp.  I was not alive when his friendship with my late father and mother first crossed the national and cultural divide, a decade before I was even conceived. 
 
     Dankof was grudgingly tagged some years ago by the late Jack Kemp as The Rubber Ball of the American Right, for the simple reason that pressing down on him at any moment in time, in any place, always seemed to result in his popping up somewhere else, and usually when least expected by his adversaries.
 
     Kemp, as the erstwhile Pollyanna of the American neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party of William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan, was especially infuriated with The Rubber Ball when the latter was running as a Constitution Party insurgent in the U. S. Senate race in Delaware in 2000, with the specific goal of displacing Kemp's old pal, William Roth, from the latter's seat in the world's most deliberative and prestigious legislative body.  Several late night phone calls that year from Kemp to Dankof's apartment on the Delaware/Pennsylvania border, the content of which has yet to be publicly revealed, failed to dissuade the latter from keeping Mr. Roth in the Texas expatriate's crosshairs.

      In the final analysis, it was Mark Dankof over Kemp-Roth, much to the amusement of the Northeast regional and Delaware State press corps at the time.  Despite being tagged by one Delaware State news daily as the "The Texas Gun Lobby's Minister Plenipotentiary in the Delaware U. S. Senate race," and with no money in either federal matching funds or private contributions, the former Seattle/King County 36th Legislative District Chairman of the Republican Party garnered the combined vote totals of the Reform and Constitution Party Presidential candidates for Delaware in 2000. 

     Even more importantly, his fabled talk-show host glibness and occasional acidity in forensic debate encounters (now showcased with the populist Republic Broadcasting Network outside of Austin),  skewered Roth repeatedly around The First State, as Dankof and eventual winner Thomas Carper made ongoing mutual hay over Mr. Roth's repeated refusal to join any debate format where the Constitution Party insurgent was present. 
 
     "If I was to really toot my own horn," the now 54 year old Lutheran pastor opined, "I'd have to say that the most important statistic of that race wasn't the 1,041 votes I actually got in the election.  It was the 11 point swing in the polling service numbers in the last 10 days of the election, from Roth to Carper, where I had the real impact.  My radio debate appearances were credited with being a part of that.  I admit I'm proud of what I accomplished that year, ridding the American conservative movement of one of its biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the electorate. But then, there are so many more of them to be rid of."
 
     Life has now changed considerably for Mark Dankof at the end of the 21st century's first decade.  He returned to San Antonio in 2006 after a prolonged stint at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia for post-graduate work, chiefly to get medical care for a seriously-ill wife, and to care for a dying father.  The latter, an American Air Force Colonel who once served as Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's director of logistics for the Imperial Iranian Air Force, passed away this May 20th.  His military honors funeral at Randolph Air Force Base was June 5th.
 
     As for The Rubber Ball of the American Right, his priorities have been refocused since his father's death two months ago.  Aside from a once a week appearance on Mark Dankof's America for the Republic Broadcasting Network, and a rare op-ed piece for brass-knuckled print outlets like the American Free Press and the Proud Political Junkie's Gazette, public visibility as a political activist for the paleo-conservative, America First sector of the American political spectrum has noticeably waned. He has resumed his pulpit ministry calling with San Antonio's Immanuel Lutheran Church, and is occasionally spotted in local hospitals visiting the sick, or in especially grim missions of calling on the U. S. Military's wounded at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC).  His lips noticeably tighten; the jaw suddenly tenses, when these latter pastoral visitations are mentioned.
 
     The Rubber Ball succumbed to the temptation to editorialize on the impact of the wars:

     "I don't talk about this stuff when visiting wounded kids or consoling families, but the Iraq-Afghanistan war of counterinsurgency in Central Asia illustrates how screwed up the American Right really is.  We've killed thousands of people, put our own kids in a couple of unwinnable wars under false pretenses, and are in the process of running up a tab of at least 3 trillion dollars for a debacle that has no perceivable end--and all for the Israeli lobby, the banks, and the energy consortiums, the very folks who own the American political process and its institutions.  The Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize the place.  You can have Kemp, John Hagee, John McCain, and all the rest.  I'll take Washington and Jefferson, thank you."
 
     Driving around San Antonio for 3 straight days with him is a surreal experience, quite unlike any other in my brief career in political journalism.  In any given day, he pops up at Gold's Gym in the wee hours for treadmill, weight machine, and swimming pool; spins by his own congregational office at Immanuel Lutheran Church in a changing neighborhood on the Alamo City's Southside; responds to a sudden emergency hospital crisis involving virtually anyone in any part of town; checks up on his wife's rehabilitation sessions through the University of Texas hospital system; descends upon several of the city's major bookstore outlets to snap up his usual panoply of newspapers, magazines, and news journals for instant digestion; returns 10 phone calls made daily to his published cell phone number in any 3 hour segment of time; and diverts to Bracken Gun Range on the city's Northside to join his network of gun enthusiasts in possession of the most amazing array of weaponry I have ever seen displayed in one place at one time.

     The gun range encounter brought me into contact for the first time with an American subculture unimaginable in my native Iran.  Dankof introduced me to some of the regular denizens who inhabit his area of the armed camp. Many were decked out in camouflage gear, hunting boots, cowboy hats, and shooting glasses.  They all knew him by first name, and gathered eagerly around his table to talk shop, and to learn the identity of his unusual female companion for the afternoon session of controlled gunfire. Logos from various military and gun organizations adorned their gym bags and rifle cases. Range tables were stocked with revolvers, semi-automatic handguns, high powered rifles with long-range optical scopes, shotguns, boxes of ammunition, headphones for hearing protection, and even infrared technology for night vision shooting.

     "My father taught me how to use a gun many years ago," he explained.  "We never went hunting, only to the ranges for regular target practice.  He and I would compete with each other with the Model 1911 Colt .45 auto, and the Winchester Model 94 in .30-.30 [John Wayne's lever action rifle in the Western movies].  It's a fact that I never outshot him once.  When we lived in Iran decades ago, he was still beating me at racquetball, when I was 20 and he was 55.  I still feel his presence out here when I come to practice."

     The conversation between volleys of piercing gun blasts turned naturally to The Rubber Ball's younger days in my homeland.  "I really loved Iran," he remembered with more than a trace of wistfulness.  "It was my plan to return there after college, to learn the language, and to travel as extensively within the country as possible.  The Revolution changed all of that in a heartbeat."

     Topics Iranian would continue in my final night in San Antonio, at a steakhouse called Wildgrass.  The Pastor [known jokingly as "Father" by his circle of friends at Bracken Range] insisted on paying the bill. "You came here from Los Angeles to talk to me," he cautioned.  "And your parents did more for me in Iran years ago than can ever be recounted.  One can't return to the past in life, but I'm often taken back to those days when my mind wanders.  It was a different time, a different age, a different place."

     This led me to the critical question I had been destined to ask Mark Dankof since arriving in the Alamo City.  As you see things now, what continues to give you meaning and to guide your destiny ?

     The Rubber Ball of the American Right paused.  He gathered his thoughts as he smiled, then engaged my question.

     "I've given up on changing the course of America through the electoral process," he opines.  "I think the United States is in the final stages of its past role as a world empire.  I've largely shifted into regaining my focus and emphasis on the things of God, and things that edify me, as opposed to dwelling on things that are simply destructive.  You know how it is."

What are those things?

     He paused once more.  "Other than prayer, Scripture reading, and helping people who need it, my goal is to finish my post-graduate thesis and theological German exam, to learn some Persian through the Pimsleur Language Program, and to complete 3 books in the next 2 months."

The books in question?

"The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History, by Dr. E. Michael Jones; Iran/Persia:  Ancient and Modern (Odyssey Books and Guides); and The Life and Times of the Shah by Gholam Reza Afkhami."

Any parting advice to my readers?

     "Get your priorities straight.  Spend your time on things that matter.  Dump the things that don't.  It's that simple."

Any prediction on what will, or should happen in Iran?

     "What will happen may prove entirely different from what should happen there.  Keeping in mind that virtually no one cares what I think on the subject, I'd say that the first step to recovery of that country would be the elimination of any form of Islamic theocracy, which is no better or worse, of course, than any other ill-fated theocratic scheme for government on planet Earth.  Second, the nation needs to return to some type of secular constitutional republic, in conjunction with a well defined return role for Persian monarchy, going back 2,500 years to King Cyrus and the ancient Zoroastrian idea of the divine farr.  Third, the country needs to maintain its autonomy and unity, avoid any descent into sectarian and regional tribalisms, and maintain an openness to commerce and trade with outside powers while keeping foreign interventionism and intrigue at bay.  That includes the American, British, and Israeli varieties, along with the Russian, Chinese, and Arab brands as well."

Who do you consider the Persians that have stood out most as influences in your own life?

     "I consider your Shahbanou, Farah Pahlavi, the most dignified and effective female political role model and head of state in any country of the world, period.  I know of no American or European lady who quite matches her.  In the scholarly realm, I'd say Fatema Soudivar Farmanfarmian, Dr. Kaveh Farrokh [Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War], and Dilip Hiro have given me the most guidance on your country, as a non-specialist seeking to learn more.  And when it comes to political activism and human rights for Iran, Shirin Neshat of Sarbazan and Janbakhtegan is at the top of the list.  I say that for two reasons.  First, she has managed to survive for 30 years after losing both her father [General Ali Neshat, Commander of the Shah's Immortals, the Imperial Guard] and her country at the same time.  Second, she harkens back to a time when people in activism were there because of ideas and ideals, not money and power.  If Iran is ever recovered in my lifetime, Ms. Neshat will have a place in the highest stratum of the pantheon of the giants that history will say had the greatest role to play in the most dramatic counter-revolution of all time."

     I said farewell to The Rubber Ball of the American Right yesterday, July 16th, before transiting through airport security at San Antonio International for a return Southwest flight to Los Angeles.  Once through security, I glanced back.  He was still there, ready to wave goodbye before I disappeared through the mass of humanity bound for distant destinations through the arched, blue, cloudless firmament of the south Texas skies.

     Dozens of Iranian expatriates of the Pahlavi era still count him as their friend, even as he somehow seems a stranger and sojourner in his own land, in these days of a changing American political and cultural landscape. 

     I now understand why.

     Philip Giraldi’s post on Iran for the American Conservative Defense Council, is laced with wisdom.

     Perhaps the most significant portion of the piece is his reminder of how laughable it is that any of the candidates in the June 12 Iranian elections are depicted as reformers or advocates of anything approaching Western concepts of law, jurisprudence, democracy, human rights, or freedom of expression.

     Ahmadinejad, of course, is the subject of absolute demonization in mainstream Western media. Yet his opponents include Mir Hossein Mousavi, historically an IRI hardliner, whose credentials include the beginning of Iran’s nuclear program, an assist in the founding of Hezbollah, and a possible role in directing the attack on the US Marines at the US Embassy in Beirut in the early 1980s. Giraldi states that Mousavi is "heir to the corrupt Iran of the post-revolutionary period when the country was looted by the senior clerics cooperating with the business class, the bazaaris." Mousavi’s money man is The Shark, former Majlis speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rasfanjani, the international poster-boy for IRI corruption and intrigue, whose role on the Guardians Council, the Assembly of Experts, and the Expediency Council, has been one of suppressing any freedom of speech or truly independent elections in Iran for decades.

     The Iranian people fare no better with the other main rivals in the June 12^th election, "reformist cleric" [the ultimate oxymoron used with a straight face in the June 25^th Wall Street Journal] Mehdi Karroubi; and former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards military force, Mohsen Rezaie. These men all have one thing in common. They are clearly crooks and thugs.

     The basic problem in Iran is not any of the personalities involved in the current electoral controversy. The core issue is the doctrine of velayat-e-faqeh, or "guardianship of the jurist", which holds that in an Islamic state, a scholar of Islamic law, anointed by God, must exercise absolute authority over elected officials and the entirety of government. As pointed out in the June 26^th edition of the Wall Street Journal, the theocratic theology of velayat-e-faqeh was formulated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in a 1970 tome authored in the Iraqi city of Najaf, the traditional center of Shiite learning. It has plagued Iran since 1979.

     The core task for the Iranian people is to rid themselves of velayat-e-faqeh, even as the world needs a simultaneous disenfranchisement of the Temple Mount kooks in Israel, and the Armageddon-oriented sickos in America’s Christian Right, who believe that promotion of the apocalyptic visions of Avigdor Lieberman is a necessary precursor to a desired Third World War which subsequently paves the way for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The lesson in each of these instances is the same: theocracy is a dangerous concept, especially in the nuclear age. It does not matter whether it comes in Islamic, Jewish/Zionist, or Christian guises. It is inherently demonic, regardless of the package wrapping. Its endgame is repression, destruction, and death on a global scale.

     What then, is the alternative to velayat-e-faqeh? Clearly the doctrine’s demise must be accompanied by the elimination of the Guardians Council, Expediency Council, Assembly of Experts, and other IRI institutions designed to maintain economic and political power in the hands of the mullahs, enshrouded in the evil illusion that God has spoken through these institutions and the men who cynically wield the sword through them. No serious political reform in Iran is possible aside from this step as the foundation for anything that subsequently transpires.

     But beyond this critical move, what will then follow?

     No one presently knows, including this commentator. But my own preliminary proposal for the Iranian people would involve the re-establishment of two institutions–the 2,500 year old Persian monarchy, and a truly secular, independent Majlis operating free of theocratic restraints.

     This proposal has several critical caveats attached. Pahlavi must be able to seriously convince his people and the world, that a revived monarchy can be compatibilized with a legitimate parliamentary system reflecting mass popular will in clean elections. The wielding of absolutist monarchial power as a viable substitute for velayat-e-faqeh, is a notion to be deemed dead-on-arrival. Can he convince the domestic Iranian electorate and expatriate communities? It remains to be seen.

     The final caveat is even more critical. Iranians across the political spectrum, including the monarchists, must diametrically oppose any Israeli and/or American neo-conservative military intervention and intelligence intrigue in Iran, advocated by a dangerous element in the Western media and a Jewish-dominated American Congress.

     On this latter score, the documented Israeli PAC money funding American politicians, and chronicled by Hugh Galford in the May/June Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), suggests that millions of Americans would be well served to worry about the legitimacy and independence of their own government, and its severance from a foreign lobby more than happy to use corrupt amounts of cash, media manipulation, and provable espionage, to further policies designed to destroy what was once the old American Republic.

Mark Dankof (San Antonio)

Dr. Jerome Corsi and Mark Dankof will be the guests of Sarbazan's Shirin Neshat on the Los Angeles-based Ariamehr TV show.
 
The telecast will air live on Sunday, June 21st, on the GLWiz.com  Internet television network.  The broadcast time is 11 am to 1 pm Pacific/1 pm to 3 pm Central/2 pm to 4 pm Eastern time.
 
Dr. Corsi has an earned Ph. D. from Harvard University, is a correspondent with World Net Daily, and has authored the best seller Atomic Iran.  Mark Dankof is the host of Mark Dankof's America on the Republic Broadcasting Network, and is an occasional guest contributor to the American Free Press.  A past activist in the Republican Party, Mr. Dankof was the Constitution Party's candidate in the U. S. Senate race in Delaware in 2000.  His father, the late Colonel Karl E. Dankof (USAF-ret.), was a director of logistics for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's Imperial Iranian Air Force in the 1970s.

Michael Collins Piper, Mark Dankof, and Mark Glenn at the No More Wars for Israel Conference/Oct 2007/Atomic Ballroom/Orange County, California

Craig Bodeker, producer of the DVD film, "A Conversation About Race," for New Century Productions, LLC, is the featured guest on the Mark Dankof's America show on the Republic Broadcasting Network on March 22nd.  Listen live from 7-9 am Central time, or later on the Republic Broadcasting Network archives.

Bodeker's web site features information on the film, sample clips of the production posted on You Tube, and reviews of the effort from such notables as Dr. Greg Johnson of The Occidental Quarterly; Mark Farrell; Dr. Frederick Toben; John Ingrahm of the National Policy Institute; Stephen Webster of American Renaissance; and Ross Kaminski of Denver Post Blogs.

     The Great Messiah has been inaugurated this January 20^th, in the midst of a sea of media fawning tainted with millennial overtones. One thing is absolutely sure: being Anyone but George W. Bush will take you a long way in terms of public relations and international good will. That part of the celebratory spirit in the Nation’s Capital today is entirely legitimate. Here in San Antonio, I will have an inaugural Hacker-Pschorr Weiss Bier with my colleagues at the Beethoven Maennerchor, to toast Mr. Bush’s long awaited return to Crawford. One trusts he will do no further harm to the Republic from that location.

     But there will be no toasting what will most certainly follow. One year from now, the Pink and Black Rainbow Coalition will awaken to the sober fact that the Second Advent did not materialize on January 20^th, 2009 in Babylon-By-The- Potomac. That constituency, and Mr. Obama himself, will be struggling to tread water in the Lake of Fire.

     One need not look any farther than the appointment of Rahm Israel Immanuel as the Chief of Staff to the incoming 44^th President of the United States, to see the bigger picture. Dr. E. Michael Jones, author of the new book, "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History," informs us in the December 2008 edition of Culture Wars, in an essay entitled, "Meet the New Boss: The Catholic Vote and the Logic of Empire", of the implications of the Immanuel appointment. As Jones lays it out, a Presidential Chief of Staff who served in the Israeli Army, whose father was a key member of Menachem Begin’s Irgun in its terrorist heyday in the 1940s, and who has been the leading recipient in the Congress of PAC money from the most tainted elements of the financial services industry on Wall Street, is hardly a harbinger of an impending change in American public policy directed from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

     Immanuel will hold the keys to the entrance into the West Wing of the White House. You know who will continue to have Oval Office access in this fraudulent, unfolding scenario. Welcome, International Central Bankers. Welcome, Zionist agents of the criminal regime in Tel Aviv. The mass murder being currently directed against Palestinians in Gaza has as its managing strategists the same folks targeting middle class Americans for extinction as well, only the latter constituency has not yet deduced who is behind its inexorable economic and cultural demise, even as its remaining money continues to be conscripted to finance the continuation of the physical elimination of the former.

     On the other hand, Rahm Israel Immanuel is perhaps the quintessential harbinger of change, if you define the word, as I do, as a guaranteed multiplication of all of the darkest trends that threaten to destroy the United States as a nation-state, a free Republic, and a major player in the international arena.

     All the unmistakable signs are there: the continued death of an American manufacturing economy which lost 3 million jobs in the Bush years alone; the first of a series of trillion dollar budget deficits in 2009; the continuation of unwinnable wars of colonialism and counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan that Mr. Stieglitz of the World Bank calculates will cost 3 trillion dollars at the unseen end of the tunnel; a prime-the-pump response to economic catastrophe that involves both the $750 billion bank bailout and Mr. Obama’s $800 billion in "stimulus"; an ongoing reliance upon foreign international borrowing and the printing of fiat money by the Fed to finance this smoke-and-mirrors game; the continued Balkanization of the United States courtesy of 20 million illegal aliens; and further cultural and moral malignancy metastasis, courtesy of the Jewish-dominated gay, abortion, and Hollywood constituencies presently infatuated with the Man from Kenya and Cook County.

     Ex-KGB analyst and Russian foreign ministry instructor, Igor Panarin, has painted his own prophetic picture of coming "change" in America by the year 2010, in an article posted recently in the Wall Street Journal. He predicts the coming breakup of the United States into four sectors, each dominated by a foreign power. Panarin’s thesis involves the same moral, political, and military analysis of the United States that I have proffered as an American paleoconservative. Even more ominously, the suggestion that 2010 is the year of prophetic fulfillment suggests that the good Russian professor has been reading Daniel’s account of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, or the Judean prophet’s proclamation of the end of Belshazzar’s reign and the Babylonian Empire.

     My prediction: some version of Igor Panarin’s portrait is about to be painted, and very soon.

     One additional prediction: Obama will follow Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s game plan to a tee. There will be frantic pump priming. The pump priming will ultimately fail, as it did between 1932 and 1940. The endgame will be global war. Robert Stinnis’s Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor is most instructive regarding the duplicitous machinations of America’s 32^nd President, with the original documents of the period to corroborate his analysis, courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act. Some version of this strategy will be repristinated now. The 44^th President of the United States will be the new front man to sell a new generation of suckers on the idea, with the real perpetrators staying in the background once again. Who are they? Charles Lindbergh’s 1941 speech in Des Moines, Iowa identified them 67 years ago. His speech also identifies them in 2009.

     The tripwire may well be the holocaust perpetrated by Israel and backed officially by the United States, in Gaza, as chronicled in Philip Giraldi’s "Pure Propaganda From the Papers of Record." Whether in Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan, the game plan involves linking Iran to a false-flag incident in any or all of these locations, or in the United States itself. That will be followed by a fanning of the flames of Western public sentiment for an attack on Iran, courtesy of a Zionist-dominated American media. The entire tragedy will be wrapped in Old Glory. The Stars and Stripes will conceal the Seal of the House of Rothschild’s imprimatur and presence.

     But Mr. Obama’s public tome, entitled "The Audacity of Hope," underscores the underlying theme of today’s Inaugural Address to the infatuated, that hope is justified and positive change an inevitability. Sure it is. Welcome, P. T. Barnum.

     Let me reiterate to the presently infatuated: the national direction of the United States of America underscores temporal hopelessness; the real handlers of Barack Obama underscore the inevitability of change that is merely an exponential multiplication of the demonic trends that have brought this country--and the world--to the edge of the abyss. The clock is ticking.

     And as for any semblance of positive change coming out of Babylon-By-The-Potomac, let me suggest a real foundational beginning for America’s 44^th President of the United States and the presently Zionist Occupied Territory known as the Congress of the United States.

     That foundational beginning involves the articulation of a new Declaration of Independence for the people of the United States–from the Israeli Lobby. The actual enactment of the principles of this Declaration involves the following:

1. An immediate cessation of American foreign aid to Israel, all $10 billion a year, and the termination of the $30 billion in new American military aid to Israel already appropriated for the next decade.

2. An immediate demand of the government of Israel that it publicly apologize for its deliberate, premeditated attack on the USS Liberty on June 8^th, 1967, along with an insistence that Israel pay reparations to the survivors, as well as to the families of the dead.

3. An immediate dictation of terms to Israel for the legitimate establishment of a Palestinian state in the region, accompanied by apologies to the government of that new entity by both Israel and the United States for crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinians since 1947-48. The United States government would make a good faith gesture of yet-to-be-determined financial reparations to the Palestinians, accompanying the formal diplomatic apology.

4. The immediate termination of all Israeli espionage operations and networks in the United States. This forced termination of Tel Aviv’s spy network within America’s borders, would be reinforced by the public execution of Jonathan Pollard for treason, and honest trials for AIPAC’s Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on the identical charge. An honest trial for the latter two would clearly involve the disqualification of Zionist stooge, Judge Thomas Ellis of Alexandria, Virginia, as presider over the case, and the subsequent appointment of a new venue. Ben-Ami Kadish would face a treason trial in the United States. Upon legitimate trial and secured conviction, Rosen, Weissman, and Kadish would join Pollard in receiving the death penalty, only after being allowed to receive the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith (ADL), of course.

5. The immediate declaration of AIPAC and ADL as the representatives of a foreign government. If the Rosen, Weissman, and Kadish inquiries produce further evidence of AIPAC/ADL inspired espionage operations against the people and government of the United States, diplomatic relations with Israel would be severed, followed by the outlawing of the operation of AIPAC and ADL in the United States in perpetuity. Check out the recent article by Philip Giraldi, entitled "Israel’s ‘Get out of Jail Free’ Card"as a recent synopsis and primer.

6. The immediate return of monetary policy to the Congress of the United States, and the elimination of the Federal Reserve Board. Fractional reserve banking would be terminated, largely along the lines suggested by Dr. Ellen Brown.

7. The immediate termination of American participation in globalist trade treaties and entities, like NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the FTAA, the World Bank, the IMF, Permanent MFN for Communist China, the Import-Export Bank, ad infinitum.

8. The immediate enactment of policies to resurrect American manufacturing industries, accompanied by the abolishment of the Federal Income Tax, the repeal of the 16^th Amendment, and a return to "excises, imposts, and duties" as a means of raising revenues for the legitimate operations of the American government. My old friend, Howard Phillips, tells the tale-of-the-tape here.

9. The immediate trial, conviction, and imprisonment of every member of the financial services industry in America who has stolen the innocent blind, including Bernard Madoff. Who really profited by the Madoff heist? Check out the real story, courtesy of Christopher Bollyn. And as for how to punish the bad guys, America needs to take a hint from Vladimir Putin of Russia.

     M. Raphael Johnson’s essay on Putin in the September/October 2007 Barnes Review underscores what the Western media is concealing from the people of the United States: that the oligarchs who have stolen the former Soviet Union blind since Yeltsin’s "privatization" of the Soviet economy, are almost exclusively Russian Jews with strong ties to the government of Israel and its Mossad intelligence organization. These names include Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Friedman, Boris Berezovsky, Yuri Shelfer, and the infamous Mikhail Khodorkovsky of YUKOS oil fame. Khodorkovsky’s "Open Russian Institute," a lobbying organization tied to the oligarchs, has Lord Rothschild of the UK and the peripatetic Henry Kissinger, as board members. Get the picture?

     In the case of Bernard Madoff, maybe there is reason for more than a grain of hope. Let’s face it: A guy who cheats weasels like Hadassah, the pro-abortion cheerleading section of the American Jewish Congress; Marc Rich; Sheldon Adelson; Elie Wiesel; Stephen Spielberg; and Mort Zuckerman out of a few billion, isn’t all bad. Bradley Burston of Haaretz sure sees the irony. And the ADL is panicked that the rest of us might figure it all out.

     A final suggestion to my fellow populist America First conservatives is in order. With ADL-sponsored "hate crimes" legislation, draconian gun control measures, and the curtailment of First Amendment freedom of expression on the World Wide Web just around the corner for us, maybe a stint abroad in exile is in the cards. Call my Republic Broadcasting Network radio show at 1-800-313-9443 when I air live on Sunday mornings, with your suggestions on destinations. You and I may well have to pack our bags. And soon.

Mark Dankof's guest on the Republic Broadcasting Network on January 18th was Marti Oakley of The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette.  Marti discussed the globalist implications of the National Animal Registration Act (NAIS) with reference to her essay at that site.  Mark Dankof opened the show with reference to Paul Craig Roberts's Counterpunch essay, "The Humiliation of America". and the Doubletree Hotel's decision in Washington, D. C. to cancel a public homosexual sex orgy scheduled in the Nation's Capital in celebration of the election of Barack Obama.  
 
Access the show at the Republic Broadcasting Network archives.