Volume 82, no. 4 April 2026
When America watched Superman on black-and-white television, “truth, justice, and the American way” was promised with each episode. This was not controversial, and the meaning was generally understood. Truth was objective (no “my truth” and “your truth”), justice meant protecting the weak and the innocent and giving each person his due (regardless of sex, wealth, or “advantaged” vs. “disadvantaged” status).
The American way had brought unprecedented prosperity and freedom. People from all nations came to escape oppression and to find opportunity. Most came with nothing except willingness to work. They were given no entitlements such as free food, housing, medical care, or telephones. Instead, they were offered sensible incentives such as land to cultivate (see p 2). They became proud, grateful, and helpful Americans who waved no foreign flags. Hence they were valued, not loathed or feared as freeloading fraudsters or criminal intruders.
America has by no means been perfect. The moral stain of chattel slavery nearly prevented the 13 colonies from unifying, and later fractured the nation. Prevalent in most civilizations throughout history, slavery was abolished by Western nations, but its legacy remained, as in Jim Crow laws.
America is not immune to human traits of tribalism and xenophobia, and it has historically been wary of foreign treachery. Good Japanese-Americans were interned in World War II, and German-Americans were called “Huns” in World War I. President Woodrow Wilson once admonished: “Any man who carries a hyphen about with him, carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic when he gets ready” (https://tinyurl.com/fvxf5ujt). Many opposed nominating John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, for President because of possible divided loyalty, the Vatican being a foreign state.
What is the American Way? It is not democracy, which our Founders greatly feared. Government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” does not equate to the right to cast an occasional ballot for candidates selected by the political establishment. In early America, as in Athens, the franchise was restricted to people believed qualified to make wise decisions benefiting the whole: men who owned property and could pass a literacy test. Those requirements have been removed as “unfair.” Imprudent or uneducated voters are easily manipulated into voting against the common good and even their own self-interest.
Being called a “democracy” does not make a nation an ally or a respecter of human rights.
The American way is not to “take” resources from foreign nations, bring about “regime change,” “sanction” them and impoverish their people, or coerce them to adopt policies such as abortion to which they object. These are imperial actions. Can the American way survive if the U.S., like the Roman Republic, becomes an empire?
The major parties are no longer singing the national anthem together or celebrating our heritage. The ideological divide has outgrown the old boundaries. On the matter of the foundation on natural or divine law, the American Left has moved from doubting divine law to rejecting it entirely. The Right still claims to uphold its tenets, yet its current interpretation by many right wingers became so altered it would be unrecognizable to previous generations and is questioned by major religious figures.
The Left has hypocritically presented itself as liberal, designating the measured tolerance of a freedom-loving republic, while acting illiberally in the coercive brutal manner of an empire. Joseph Heath writes that the hegemonic ideology in academia derives from John Rawls, who considered pluralism to be a permanent condition of liberal democratic societies, which thus have the central objective of finding principles that can be defended without presupposing correctness. Those claiming to be right and true—such as Americanism or Christianity—are ironically attacked as illiberal (tinyurl.com/2hfsnr8d). In most of academia, other scholars maintain, Woke Supremacy is based upon Cultural Marxism dressed up in the toga of Rawlsianism.
The American System of Trade and Finance
In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton articulated a plan (Report on Manufactures) for the U.S. to shake off its economic dependency on the British Empire. It called for a combination of tariffs and subsidies to incentivize industrialization—to protect industry from foreign competition and to build infrastructure, not to punish uncooperative foreign governments or to pursue social justice. It was not immediately adopted due to opposition by Madison and Jefferson, who favored an agrarian economy.
After the Civil War, the Union used this system to build an industrial giant. It was imitated worldwide, as by Otto von Bismarck (https://tinyurl.com/bde45eph). This pro-growth model allowed the U.S. to leapfrog the British Empire’s stagnant, free-trade colonial model, but as the Cold War ended, the U.S. “unilaterally disarmed,” replacing national interest with globalism.
Hamilton understood that the true wealth of a nation is measured “not by the abundance of the precious metals contained in it, but by the quantity of the productions of its labor and industry.” He believed that the sponsorship and protective shield of a sovereign government was needed (https://tinyurl.com/ajdfbfrx).
The American Way is not radical individualism but a based system of sound government and economics.
Incentives to Early Settlers
The U.S. government assisted immigrants with significant capital assets and structural support that enabled wealth building.
The Homestead Act of 1862: Citizens (or immigrants intending to become citizens) could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land and after improving it could eventually obtain a deed. About 270 million acres (about 10% of the total area of the U.S.) were distributed. The act attracted massive numbers from Germany, Scandinavia, and Ireland, who were often recruited by railroad companies and state land offices.
The Headright System (colonial era–1700s): In Virginia and Maryland, a legal grant of land (usually 50 acres) was given to settlers who paid for their own passage, and those who paid for the passage of others (including indentured servants) received additional land for every “head” they brought over.
Land Bounties for Military Service: Lacking cash to pay its soldiers after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government issued Land Bounty Warrants. Many immigrants joined the military to gain citizenship and these land warrants. The Scrip Warrant Act of 1850 and others expanded this, allowing veterans or their heirs to claim public lands, providing a massive transfer of government-owned assets into private hands.
Subsidized Railroads: The government gave nearly 180 million acres to railroad companies. The railroads then sold this land to immigrants at very low prices and on credit, often providing free transport to those willing to settle and farm.
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts (1862): The government gave states land to fund “Land-Grant Universities,” which provided free or low-cost agricultural and mechanical education to the children of settlers, a major form of social mobility.
The Architecture for the Digital World Brain
The framework for restructuring global governance under a public-private partnership, discussed in Jacob Nordangård’s book The Digital World Brain and the Pact for the Future, is developed in the UN’s 2021 report Our Common Agenda. A “new social contract” ties each individual’s obligations to planetary boundaries defined by an unelected scientific council. Digital identity for every person on earth is connected to monitoring infrastructure. Institutional connections run across the political spectrum, and what looks like opposition may be accelerating the dissolution of the old order in ways that serve the same technocratic endpoint.
We have steadily progressed from the 1938 “World Brain” of H.G. Wells. Will we soon be assimilated into the Star Trek Borg?
Nordangård considers the plan to rescue us from the “climate disaster” caused by adding to the 16 parts per million of human-generated CO2 in the atmosphere. This would require digitizing, monitoring, and tokenizing essentially everything, and subjecting it to compliance enforcement overseen by “Planetary Stewards.” He asks the obvious question: How much energy will the Digital World Brain itself consume (https://tinyurl.com/2hfpksvy)?See AAPS News, December 2025.
We must not assume that “resistance is futile.”
“America! America!/ God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,/ Thy liberty in law!”
America the Beautiful, 1911 version
The Development of Central Banking
The Hamiltonian First National Bank of the U.S. (http://tinyurl.com/yty4xwv6) has been called “a chapter in the history of central banking.” It acted as government’s fiscal agent and issued paper money (banknotes), but it was 80% funded by private investors and also operated as a commercial bank. By design, it was strictly prohibited from monetizing government debt to bail out financial speculators. Instead, it directed sovereign credit exclusively into physical production, instead of hoarding capital for speculative usury.
Hamilton’s designs did not perfectly withstand the forces of a turbulent market, but the bank did establish credit worthiness domestically and internationally (tinyurl.com/bp7wjx9v). Speculative bubbles occurred, and Hamilton had to intervene to calm the markets (https://tinyurl.com/4pe4badn).
Democratic Republicans argued that the Bank was unconstitutional, and Congress allowed its 20-year charter to expire by a single vote. The Second National Bank of the U.S. (1816-1836) stabilized the currency following the severe inflation and financial chaos of the War of 1812. It was killed by hard-money populist Andrew Jackson. For 80 years, the U.S. had only state-chartered banks. National banks were chartered after 1863, and the Federal Reserve, a central bank, was created in 1913.
The term “central bank” is a misnomer. It does not serve primarily as a money depository and a money lender, which is prone to all economic risks. According to its official definition, it is an institution responsible for issuing and managing the currency of a country, implementing monetary policy, controlling the money supply, and overseeing the economy.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are a key feature of a global technocracy that would replace democratic oversight with a dystopian regime of algorithmic governance. About 98% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is now represented by nations actively exploring, piloting, or deploying CBDCs. The transition from “analog” cash to “algorithmic“ digital money is already a real operational imperative. (Note that while your bank’s assets are digital entries, not pieces of paper, they represent numbers only—they are not programmable.)
A major concern is the potential for such systems to be used as tools of social engineering and political control, like the Chinese social-credit system, e.g., to suppress “illiberal” ideas. Safeguards present initially could be changed later. Unlike the EU, the U.S. has been enacting protective legislation. For a discussion of CBDC, relevant legislation, and ways to protect yourself, see Information Heals (https://tinyurl.com/3shj77tw).
It is imperative to maintain holdings in old-fashioned “analog” assets including cash. Physical currency remains a “contingency solution” during power outages or digital failures.
AAPS Calendar
Sep 24-26, 2026. 83rd Annual Meeting, Alpharetta, GA
Progressivism Is Unamerican, Says Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking at the University of Austin on April 15, called progressivism an “existential threat” to America. President Woodrow Wilson said it was imported from Bismarck’s state-centric Germany.
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence…. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from the government,” Thomas explained. “Wilson lamented that we do too much by vote and too little by expert rule.”
Progressives like Wilson argued that America needed to leave behind the principles of the founding and catch up with the more advanced and sophisticated system of relatively unimpeded state power, as in Europe. Thomas noted the tens of millions of deaths resulting from progressive principles.
Thomas urged listeners to celebrate the Declaration of Independence. “It is the most important act of American history, the foundation of our Constitution, and as Lincoln said, the sheet anchor of our Republic” (https://tinyurl.com/mtn3zpt2).
Above Democracy
Geopolitics is immensely complex. War, its most disastrous feature, is hell and has more circles than Dante described. At the ground level we can clearly view death and destruction. At the national level, one can observe oil disputes, issues of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, regional power struggles, and the role of world leaders. Is there a top level of architecture that is beyond the reach of democratic decision-making? Some, such as former Wall Street insider Catherine Austin Fitts, claim to see this in central banking (https://tinyurl.com/5hxjxw4b).
Fitts observes that central banks in the countries that Wesley Clark said needed to be brought down in five years (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran) were not on board with the “prevailing banking system.” Iran, she states, represents “leakage in the system.” It is at least a thorn.
Waging war depends on sovereign debt, so international financial institutions benefit from wars, no matter which side wins.
While it might not be the Wizard of Oz that Fitts suggests is at the top of the war’s structure, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is a key part of the envisioned technocracy. BIS was established in Basel, Switzerland, in 1930. Its staff enjoy diplomatic immunity. Its assets cannot be seized. Its premises are beyond Swiss legal jurisdiction. The BIS describes itself as “a bank for central banks.” Scholar Carroll Quigley wrote:
The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences (Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966).
The infrastructure for transition from analog debt control to digital programmable money is being built now (https://tinyurl.com/3shj77tw). It can be justified to the public by invoking “protection from fraud,” carbon compliance, nuclear weapon threats, terrorism, a new pandemic, or endless other pretexts. The framework matters because it determines whether resistance is possible, and if so, what kind.
ACIP Gets New Charter
After U.S. District Court Brian Murphy of Boston ruled that Secretary Kennedy had unlawfully reconstituted the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and voided its decisions, in AAP v. Kennedy (https://tinyurl.com/2m3xcu7w), the CDC issued a new charter changing its purpose. The charter removes the strict vaccine expertise requirements and expands the mandate to include vaccine safety surveillance and adverse event review. Qualifications were widened to include biostatistics, toxicology, immunology, family medicine, and nursing.
AAPS has been appointed as a liaison member (see
(https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/acip-charter.pdf).
The government did not appeal Judge Murphy’s order. Attorney Rick Jaffe, however, filed a motion to stay (https://tinyurl.com/2s4er9jd). The hope is to get the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether a U.S. District Court has the authority ro evaluate the qualifications of presidential appointees to a federal advisory committee and decide, based on its own view, that some appointees are not sufficiently expert to serve.
AAP Sued under RICO
On Jan 21, the Children’s Health Defense filed a sweeping Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, alleging systemic fraud, collusion with pharmaceutical giants, and deliberate misinformation campaigns to mislead parents about vaccine safety (https://tinyurl.com/2s3e9x9j). A separate but parallel lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., by Dr. Paul Thomas, Dr. Kenneth Stoller, and the Stand for Health Freedom accuses the CDC of engineering a coercive, unscientific national vaccine policy that ignores 25 years of safety warnings (tinyurl.com/mr2p5ysw).
The AAP is also accused of systematic suppression of scientists, studies, and doctors contradicting their message, and of profiting from vaccines through insurance incentives, bonuses, and “pay-for-performance” schemes.
Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that the vaccine schedule has never been cumulatively tested for safety; forcing AAP to publish corrections on its website and Red Book; and treble damages for economic harms (https://tinyurl.com/yruv74a3).
Tip of the Month. Malpractice judgments have been increasing since COVID due to distrust by the public in the medical system, and an increase in mega-verdicts in other fields. Between 2022 and 2024, the average of the highest 50 medical malpractice jury verdicts increased by 70%, reaching $56 million. Fault no longer seems to matter in many cases. The Democrat governor of New Mexico just signed into law HB 99, which limits punitive damage awards to $1 million against independent physicians, $6 million for community hospitals, and $15 million for large hospital systems, and requires the higher standard of “clear and convincing” evidentiary proof for such an award. New Mexico faces a physician shortage worse than the national average; only 24% of the Univ. of New Mexico-trained physicians remain to practice there.
Correspondence
Shall We Forget? What we are witnessing here is like a tragic hit-and-run accident that the legacy media covered up, ignored, and said, “What accident?” It’s like a speeding 18 wheeler (driven by the Biden administration) that crushed a little Kia and drove on. The more distance and time, the more they hope people will forget what occurred. During COVID-19, patients died, and physicians calling attention to the disastrous response or successfully treating patients were accused of spreading misinformation and punished. Dr. Matthew Memoli, who led the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases clinical studies unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2021, was threatened with delicensure when he declined the vaccine (Epoch Times 4/14/26). What about physicians who were not top government employees who did lose their careers?
What retaliation?
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, NY
No Signature, No Care. April is the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom’s HIPAA Awareness Month. Follow social media postings at #HIPAAharms. We are sharing patients’ stories about how this policy affects their everyday care. Our inaugural article on HIPAA is on our recently launched substack, “23 Years Without Medical Privacy in America” (tinyurl.com/bdz4vaa7).
Twila Brase, R.N., P.H.N., St. Paul, MN
Easter 1789. Days before his inauguration as the nation’s first President, George Washington knelt at Easter services in Christ Church. He wrote on resurrection themes and believed in the power of divine providence to raise what the world had counted dead. His General Orders frequently referenced God. He ordered chaplains into the field and issued stern orders against profanity and conduct unbecoming of men fighting for a righteous cause. In 1778, he wrote: “The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, U.S. Army, Ret.
Right vs. Wrong. The Great Subtraction of the 20th century has undermined the common sense of reality and left men ignorant of the nature of being. There is a natural order. There is a natural justice that can be derived from the truth. The truth is the closest possible correspondence in description to what is there in reality.
Systems of State Religion are devoted to destroying reality and replacing it with their own definitions. They seek to destroy their enemies by demonizing them to permission their destruction.
Evil is destructive. This is a simple guide to what is not Right.
Frank Wright, https://tinyurl.com/e9kxbjpe
Central Bank, 1800. Napoleon understood that wars cost money and central banks exist to finance them without the messy business of asking taxpayers directly. The Banque de France, established in 1800, gave Bonaparte a printing press disguised as monetary policy. Bonaparte’s wars consumed roughly 2.5 billion francs between 1803-1815. French citizens paid for Austerlitz, Jena, and Waterloo through debased currency, not knowing they funded each cannonball and cavalry charge through their shrinking wages and savings. Every central bank since has followed Napoleon’s playbook. The Federal Reserve financed Wilson’s war, Nixon’s Vietnam spending spree, Bush’s Iraq adventure. The technology changes, but the scam remains identical: steal purchasing power gradually, fund government expansion continuously, and convince the public that monetary policy serves their interests rather than the state’s.
Handre, https://tinyurl.com/3sftdsfm
The Fed’s Mandate in Plain English. Maximum Employment: Make sure as many people as possible must keep earning taxable income as long as possible. Stable Prices: Make sure the cost of living and assets never decreases so the tax base continually grows Moderate Long Term Interest Rates: Make sure long term interest rates stay lower than they would be naturally so the government can borrow near or below the rate of inflation. Growth: “Maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the economy’s long run potential to increase production” and increase the money supply at a similar pace to economic growth. Summary: The Fed exists to maximize tax revenue and borrowing capability for the U.S. government.
Joseph Brown, https://tinyurl.com/m3n82fsv
The Pope and Health as a Right. In remarks to the Pontifical Academy for Life (https://tinyurl.com/48ny44w9), Pope Leo seemed to say that “health” (a state of complete well-being) is a universal right: “Understood in terms of public action, One health calls for the integration of health considerations into all policies (transportation, housing, agriculture, employment, education, and so on), since questions of health touch upon every aspect of life.” It also involves ecological factors and all forms of life and “global bioethics.” So, who has the duty to prevent or cure your sickness? How do we punish him for failure? Is the answer to print more money to provide more “free” stuff?
William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/ymsb7yrj
