Behind the Headlines with Paul Dragu

We are barely more than a year into the new Trump administration, and talk of getting the other party in to fix this mess is stirring.

This happens every time. People vote the other party in to fix the mess of the last party, then the other party takes over, fixes nothing, and the people, forgetting what happened just a couple years ago, can’t wait to get the other guys back in. Rinse and repeat.

This is the madness of the two-party con—a scam that’s at least more than half a century old.

The illusion that the Republican and Democrat parties have legitimately different agendas and ideologies is designed with two major goals in mind. First, it’s a sophisticated method of fooling the people into thinking they’re freer than they are. Secondly, it’s designed to keep from disrupting the Insider’s core policies.

The major parties are essentially controlled by the same forces: many of the same donors, the same unelected government officials, the same rogue intel elements, and the same banking dynasties.

If you’re paying attention, you’ve noticed that there are at least three major trends that never change, no matter who’s in office. First, the wars keep drumming on. Secondly, the debt keeps piling up. And thirdly, the government keeps expanding at the expense of our individual liberties.

The trick is for the parties to have just enough differences to sell the con. Sometimes, they’ll manufacture something totally ridiculous to create contrast. Think something wild, maybe a campaign where one side tries to convince everyone that men can get pregnant.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t some legitimate differences. Clearly , Trump’s border policies are far better than Biden’s. Our second amendment rights are safer when Republicans are in charge.

But we’re still heading in the same direction no matter who’s at the wheel: national collapse and world government.

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Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

Is the Justice Department actually interested in delivering justice against the people who created the most tyrannical period in American history?

If I were a betting man, I’d hold on to most of my chips. Nevertheless, it’s encouraging to see that David Morens, a former advisor to the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), King Anthony Fauci, is charged with conspiring against the United States.

According to the government, Morens engaged in all sorts of chicanery. He used his influential position to generate taxpayer funding for a company that was financing gain-of-function experiments in China. He was also at the center of the propaganda operation designed to crush all talk of the virus coming out of a lab. He submitted propaganda papers advocating the bat theory to prestigious medical journals, even though the NIAID’s parent agency was already looking at information suggesting the Wuhan Institute of Virology released the virus responsible for the Covid-19 “pandemic.” And on top of it all, he’s accused of taking kickbacks for all this skullduggery.

The charges against Morens reminds us of why it’s so dangerous to allow the government to become big and powerful. Because it allows deeply amoral people to wield enormous power over our lives—power they shouldn’t have.

All this comes down to one major takeaway: the federal government should be as small and weak as possible, especially in today’s political climate of profoundly corrupt and sociopathic individuals. America’s leadership class is rotten to its core. And one of the most effective ways to minimize its destructive influence is to give these people as little power as possible.

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Is it a coincidence that many of the scientists who’ve been killed or disappeared were working on various disclosure agendas? As the great philosopher-turned-baseball legend, Yogi Berra, once said, “That’s too coincidental to be a coincidence.”

The FBI is floating the theory that the deaths and disappearances of several top-tier scientists, people who were conducting sensitive and secret research linked to national security, may have been the victims of a foreign operation. They’re either lying or admitting gross incompetence. The FBI is the country’s top law enforcement agency, an entity with unlimited resources and a vast surveillance and spying network. Yet it took them four years to spot a pattern that a 16-year-old working the drive-thru at McDonalds noticed while browsing his phone during the afternoon calm?

Moreover, it looks like the FBI launched its investigation because of public pressure. Yet this has been happening for about four years, with several of the scientists being eliminated in 2025.

Something else is probably happening here, considering what some of these people were trying to accomplish regarding public disclosure.

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I don’t remember ever taking seat belt laws seriously. That’s because I don’t believe the official justification for them. If my state government was generally interested in protecting me, it would use its limited resources to tackle issues that truly harm or endanger me and my family. The police use seat belt laws primarily to add revenue and pad their quota numbers.

I recently got a ticket for not wearing my seat belt. I haven’t been ticketed exclusively for that in more than a decade (I probably haven’t worn a seat belt in just as long). I didn’t know there were any cops out there still doing that.

In this case, a state trooper was camping out in the gravel parking lot of a demolished building. I was pulling into church to drop my kid off for a youth event. I was going about 20 miles an hour on a two-lane road with stoplights. I live two miles away. I posed no danger to anyone.

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The main arguments for seat belt laws are paternalistic in nature. The person most likely to be harmed is the person who decides not to wear his seat belt. The government has no business forcing me to do what it thinks is best for my well-being. While the police is right to enforce laws that foster civil order, laws that punish those who harm others, it has no business dictating what’s best for me. That’s unAmerican. It’s also paternalistic, which is dangerous. The people who pushed the Covid jab on the country used the paternalistic excuse to fool the public into taking it. As we have now learned, it turned out the Covid jab wasn’t so good for us.

What makes this entire ordeal worse is: the state is using its limited policing resources in a completely useless fashion while my community has issues that local law enforcement can really use help addressing.

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Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

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An unusually high number of American soldiers oppose the war in Iran on moral grounds. Nonprofits that speak to soldiers such as the Center on Conscience & War reported a 1,000% increase in conscientious objector calls since the US launched its joint war against Iran.

For many service members, the American strike on the Minab school was the “breaking point.” Others said they began to feel uneasy last year when the military began blowing boats out of the ocean without legitimate assurances that the people in them were drug traffickers.

A benevolent government is obligated to carry out PEACE, JUSTICE, and TRUTH. America’s leadership is failing in all three metrics.

The poor condition of the country reflects that failure.

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NO PEACE Since World War II, America has been at war more than any other country. And since the 2000s, it been at war more than it hasn’t. And while a reasonable excuse can be made for the Cold War years, there are no legitimate moral excuses for the foreign meddling we’ve engaged in since the 1990s. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US was the only superpower left, with no legitimate threats to challenge us. Yet we spent decades intervening in the Middle East, harassing and bombing third-world countries, all of it under false pretenses.

US intervention in the Middle East hasn’t made the region more peaceful, stable, prosperous, or even freer. It has destabilized it and planted seeds of intra-generational animosity toward the US. If the point was to stamp out Islamic extremism, America achieved exactly the opposite.

There is a war in the region right now—and it was started by the US at the behest of Israel. The war has killed piles of civilians, soldiers, and it has injured untold numbers of people. It has caused infrastructure damage that will take decades to repair. And there’s no telling how many extremist jihadi groups it will inspire. There’s also no way to know how much hatred it has inspired against Christians and Jesus Christ, since America professes to be a Christian nation.

A peaceful nation is not at war as often as America has been. It does not bomb nations as casually as the US does. It does not stir as much intense hate toward it as America has.

Constant warring has also drained trillions of dollars in American taxpayer money, which has piled on debt for generations to come. That is not just.

NO JUSTICE A government that loads its people up with debt that will eventually trigger some sort of economic crisis is an unjust government.

A government that spends a great deal of its limited energy and resources on foreign entanglements while carrying out domestic policies that make its people poorer, dumber, and sicker is an unjust one.

A government that sends is soldiers off to fight and die for a foreign nation is an unjust one.

So is one that protects pedophiles and satan worshippers.

The lack of transparency and accountability toward the Epstein Files alone proves that this government is not interested in justice. They’re illegally withholding millions of files. Given what we’ve learned from the released documents, the hidden ones are probably so disturbing that it could lead to worldwide unrest.

The Epstein files show that powerful people live outside the law. The “Justice” Department’s refusal to hold anyone else accountable shows that someone else is in charge, people who are not only disinterested in justice, but people who are outright predators.

NO TRUTH And for these people, as for our leadership class, DECEPTION is the rule.

They lie about everything all the time.

They lied about why they sent Americans to die in the Middle East—again.

They lied that the Covid shot was “safe and effective.”

They lied about their stupid 6-foot rule.

They lied that tissue face masks had power to curb the spread of a microbial disease.

They lied about the reason they suppressed nuclear power for decades.

They lied about climate change.

They conceal the truth about the poisonous food on our grocery shelves.

They lie about everything all the time.

And sitting by and doing next to nothing is America’s evangelical leadership class.

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Americans are some of the sickest people on the planet. This reminds me of the well-known saying, the point of the system is what it does.

If there is one category of experts we should never trust above all others, it’s the gatekeepers to our food and “medicine” system. This is the network that told us the Covid jab is safe and effective. This is the system that tells us spraying toxic chemicals designed to kill organisms on our food doesn’t harm humans. It’s the system that lied for decades about the harmful effects of fluoride. It’s a system that doles out pills to people by the buckets—pills instead of instructions for clean living, healthy eating, and sufficient rest. This is a system that recalls hundreds of drugs and food products every year.

This is a system intentionally designed to harm us. You must understand this.

The battle over raw milk is a microcosmic glimpse in this larger war on our health. For many decades, Americans have been brainwashed to believe that natural milk, right out of the cow and with all its nutritional glory, is harmful. The fact that so many people believe this is another reminder of the power of American propaganda. There is nothing like it. No other group of people have been as successfully brainwashed to believe as much nonsense as Americans.

Evidence shows that milk pasteurization actually depletes milk of vitamins and other nutrients. Just as evidence shows that spraying deadly chemicals on our food harms us.

Is it an accident that raw milk is heavily regulated and hard to find? Of course not. That’s intentional. Just like it’s difficult to find affordable healthy food in grocery store.

All this is part of a larger agenda.

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The president may be coming to his senses. Maybe.

Or—or!—maybe he just says he wants to end the Iran war to cool the frenzied oil markets. Hopefully, however, he really does want to end the war. Hopefully, what he said during his press conference on Monday is true. The faster we leave Iran, the better.

As usual with these Middle Eastern sand traps, the American people have gained absolutely nothing. Worse, also as usual, we’ve lost a great deal. This war has cost us nearly $1 billion a day, which is quite significant given that the country is $39 trillion in debt. It has depleted our munitions. Also, it has killed least eight Americans. I’m sure those numbers will get worse. The injury tally is much—much!—worse. The latest number says 140 Americans have been injured. And for what?

It turns out Iran’s new leader is the younger, equally radical son of the elder Khamenei. Moreover, the people of Iran have not risen up and taken over their government. Word is they refuse to do the bidding of the American empire. And, by the looks of it, Trump is giving up on an uprising. He said he’s open to ending the operation without regime chance.

No regime change.

No popular uprising.

But it gets worse.

There’s no telling how many new radicals this unprovoked war will create. But it will nonetheless.

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I’m crushed. I had more faith in “conservatives.” I thought they had principles, that they were more than partisan automaton. It turns out I was wrong.

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Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

Bill Gates is in damage control mode, another causality of the Epstein Files release. This week, he owned up to his extramarital philandering when he addressed Gates Foundation staff. But his version of what happened is a little different from the version that was coursing through the news ecosystem. Yes, he had affairs with Russian females, but it wasn’t prostitutes.

Given his sociopathic pattern, there’s no telling if he’s telling the truth.

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Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

I remember the excitement and optimism coursing through conservatize America when Donald Trump arrived on the political scene. It was refreshing to hear a presidential candidate acknowledge that the Establishment power structure was made up of war-loving liars who intentionally inundated American cities with third world migrants. People loved how Trump outplayed the media at their own game. They loved that he said out loud what we’d all been thinking for a long time. They loved him— because he loved America.

Trump made people believe real change was possible.

Trumpism came on the scene at the same time I was entering journalism. I had a first row seat to the excitement, hysteria, and derangement—to a historic movement. I covered the rallies as Trump mania took over any town the president touched down in. I proofed piles of mainstream reports by propagandists going apoplectic over everything the former real estate tycoon did and said. They attacked him day after day. But like weak fighters swinging into the air, they could never land anything substantial. It didn’t matter what they said, because Trump tapped into a movement, a constituency tired of wars, third world migrants, and lying politicians. He had their back—and he was going to save America.

Things were changing. We were on the verge of true transformation in this country.

Until we weren’t.

After one year into Trump’s second term, it’s become clear that, in many ways, Trump has become like the neoconservatives he defeated early in his political career. Like cockroaches, they survived years of fumigating and are now crawling all over the White House, including into the president’s ear.

Meanwhile, under the shrinking MAGA tent, another movement is brewing. Unlike Trumpism, this movement is dedicated to principles that our government was supposed to adhere to all along. It’s a little less flashy but much heavier on substance. And its emerging leader is a nerdy MIT graduate who has displayed more backbone than every veteran in Congress.

Is America ready for an political movement that wants smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and no more wars without congressional approval?

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Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]