RWB 57 Anton Chaitkin: WHO WE ARE, America's Fight for Universal Progress

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57 Anton Chaitkin: WHO WE ARE, America's Fight for Universal Progress

Anton Chaitkin is a historian and investigative journalist whose new book is Volume II of WHO WE ARE: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy. Volume II covers the 1830s to the 1890s, celebrating the people and policies that took us from no manufacturing and no transportation into being the most prosperous and advanced nation on earth.

We defied the rules of empire, which are the same rules imposed on the world today by the European Union, NATO, by the Anglo-American elite.

The world envisioned by our Founders, and by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, was one of sovereign nations filled with people exercising their God-given right to improve their conditions, to raise their standard of living, and who wanted the same for all people in every nation.

Which was the opposite of the empire, which seeks to dominate and exploit other nations.

The people ruling our country since the murder of John F. Kennedy have deindustrialized our country. They deindustrialized much of Western Europe. They stripped Germany, turning the people, the ruling strata, into fools, to take down their own industry. We went to China to get cheap labor and closed down our own industry. We are induced to be fools by the imperial clique called globalists.

We can and must learn who we were so we can be that again, a people dedicated to our own progress and wellbeing and to the progress and wellbeing of every nation on earth.

Anton also writes at AntonChaitkin.Substack.com about the fight between the pro-humans and the empire.

We recorded this on Saturday, April 19, 2025, the 250th anniversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord, the start of the American Revolution.

Our fight for self-government inspired the world; the idea that we had the right to sovereignty and to progress, to improve our condition, to raise our standard of living.

These ideas especially two monarchical empires, France and Spain, who helped us in our struggle against Britain. Russia under Empress Catherine the Great also helped us by creating the League of Armed Neutrality in 1780, to continue trade with us in the face of British menace.

Anton describes the battle between the patriots and the Tories during our Revolution. The Tories were loyal to the British Empire; they were Anglo-Saxon white people who didn’t want any colored people anywhere to get the idea that they had rights given to them by God. (Southern aristocrats, wealthy by way of slavery, epitomized the empire’s economics and predations. -Bruce)

Families in New England and Virginia became wealthy by trading in slaves, then, with the British, in the opium trade to China. These Tories became the “Establishment” in New England, and in New York they became Wall Street. They became the aggressive slave-owners who tried to break up the country in the Civil War.

From our founding to the end of the 19th Century, we developed a powerful scientific, agricultural, and technologically advanced industry. We became the world leader in the progress of our living standards and in our mastery of technology.

How did we do that? With a system of protectionism with high tariffs to protect and foster the growth of our new industries, like steel and other industries; to protect us from cheap products that would overwhelm us, particularly from England, because they had a monopoly on manufacturing.

The British didn’t want any other country to have manufacturing. That is the basis of Britain’s so-called free trade. They would dominate and exploit other nations and prevent them from industrializing and raising their standard of living.

The United States, on the other hand, said, “We have the right to protect our own people, to make our own laws that will be for the benefit of our people.”

We talked to other countries about these things, and they copied our idea of sovereignty and admired our commitment not to meddle in other countries’ affairs. Every country, we felt, has the absolute right to sovereignty.

We encouraged the Russians, and the Germans, and the Japanese, and China to pursue industry. We helped them with engineering when they wanted that. One of our engineers in Colorado, William J. Palmer, built the national railroads of Mexico. He was an anti-imperialist. He was fighting the pro-imperialist financiers of Boston and the empire in London, who tried to capture Mexico and make it a slave nation, just like our Southern slave owners tried to capture Mexico in the foul and dirty war that Abraham Lincoln denounced when he was in Congress in the 1840s.

By the 1880s we helped Germany adopt a system of protectionism and in other ways to become a great power. We wanted them to rise as a power. We weren’t worried that they would be our rival. We were not an empire. We weren’t concerned that some countries were royal empires. We knew that our economic prosperity and our help would get them thinking about our Constitution and about freedom and that they would want those kinds of things, too.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the 20th Century during World War II, detested communism and the British Empire. But he allied with the Soviet Union and England against Hitler. (That war could have been prevented had American and British financiers not put Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo into power.) FDR said, when this war is done, let’s not go back to France ruling Vietnam. Let’s not go back to Britain ruling India. Let’s have freedom in the world. Let’s have progress and let’s work together as free nations.

Same in the middle east. “The Arab nations and Palestine,” he specified, “must have industrial, scientific progress to get them out of poverty.”

That’s how we can influence other countries today, not by telling lies about them again and again as we’ve done for the last 60 years in the wars that we’ve done with the British.

We are that idea of self-government (hence the title of Anton’s book, WHO WE ARE), that idea of progress and industry and science, that out-stretched hand of friendship, wanting to work in partnership and cooperation with the rest of the world.

The latest one was John F. Kennedy, cooperating with other countries for nuclear power plants that would desalinate water, as well as with the space program. He wanted that to be a joint project with the Soviets. He was anti-communist. But the important thing is working with the people of these other countries in a cooperative way as we develop our country and take care of our own business.

It is a revelation to many today to hear that we were once dedicated to national sovereignty and the progress of all people, not just ourselves.

The character of our Eastern Establishment today is the traitorous faction, the British underground, who worked to take the United States back for the empire. [It seems they have succeeded. -Bruce]

This is the side that has always been the aggressive war-makers in our country. In the South, they made the war against Mexico in the 1840s. Then they made war against the United States, the Civil War. The same people. The same gang.

Black empowerment after the Civil War was undermined by these same people, the British faction based in Boston and New York, the free trade faction. The horrible treatment of native Americans and black slaves is a tragedy and shame yet to be fully addressed and atoned for.

Nationalism and imperialism were the two sides of the American Revolution, wrestling to steer the fate of the nation then and now.

Nationalism, Bruce imagines – to want development and prosperity for other nations as well as for ourselves – is the only thing that could make us a Christian nation, fulfilling the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Imperialism is for free trade, as they call it, which means that no country is allowed to protect their own people. It is the globalization that took over our country decades ago, a betrayal of the American Revolution, a betrayal of the rights of man and the rights of national sovereignty, the rights of peace, progress, and prosperity for all.

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Amazon.com: Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s: 9798697023570: Chaitkin, Anton: Books

Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume II - 1830s to 1890s: Chaitkin, Anton, Chaitkin, Anton: 9798314482810: Amazon.com: Books

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