Conservative Misconceptions about Marriage, and Why It Matters

The pivotal importance of Fatherhood needs to become increasingly evident, not only for a better understanding of some serious social problems, but also for an adequate knowledge of the real purposes of marriage, which is under attack in West’s political and cultural spheres. This was one of the main statements of Dr. Stephen Baskerville  in a lecture delivered at the Ordo Iuris Conference on “Marriage, its Identity, and Legal Recognition” (Warsaw, 29-30 September 2016).

Dr. Stephen Baskerville, Senior Fellow in Political Science and Human Rights of The Inter-American Institute, is the author of Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family and The New Politics of Sex.

https://www.stephenbaskerville.com/

 

Original Intent — A Documentary Movie About the American Constitution

A James Jaeger film, ORIGINAL INTENT, features Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, G. Edward Griffin, and the Distinguished Senior Fellows at the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought,  Edwin Vieira and Ted Baehr. The term, “original intent” refers to what the Founders meant at the time they wrote the U.S. Constitution, not some “living” interpretation that merely caters to the political whims of the day. Unfortunately, influences, such as Cultural Marxism and Corporate Fascism, have influenced the Democratic and Republican parties so much, the Founders’ original intent has been seriously compromised. As a result, the republic guaranteed by the Constitution has wandered down a road towards insolvency, immorality and totalitarianism. ORIGINAL INTENT explores how this has happened and offers solutions that Americans, no matter what party affiliation, can apply to restore a nation of values, general welfare, and leadership by example.

 

Dr. Judith Reisman: Porn, Addiction, and the Impact on Youth, Women and Families

Dr. Reisman talks about how Alfred Kinsey and Hugh Heffner contributed to the creation of the porn addiction and its devastating impact on minds, souls, families, and society. See the lecture below.

CULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America

A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the “Frankfurt School” –“the long march through the institutions” has infiltrated every corner of Western culture to corrupt traditional Christian values with “political correctness,” another name for “cultural Marxism.”

A James Jaeger Film featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney/Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Institute and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and Christian Film & TV Commission and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Institute.

The ultimate goal of cultural Marxism is to first destroy American free-enterprise capitalism by undermining its economic engine, the Middle Class and this will lead to the destruction of the basic building block of society: the Family Unit.

Politically Incorrect ‘Sexual Politics’ Professor Rouses Fierce Defenders

Press Release

RELATED: Read the lecture by Prof. Stephen Baskerville here.

RELATED: Read the international petition in support of Prof. Stephen Baskerville here.

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Just as an Obama White House report on “sexual assault” is provoking anger at injustice perpetrated against falsely accused men, a letter from eminent historians, political philosophers, constitutional scholars and nearly nine hundred others signers strongly rejects attacks on a professor who boldly drew attention to a related larger crisis which threatens Western society.

Professor Stephen Baskerville’s September lecture, “Politicizing Potiphar’s Wife: The New Ideology” was furiously attacked by homosexual activists and feminists for bringing attention to unconstitutional procedures which empower female accusers who falsely allege rape or “harassment.”

Baskerville’s work is part of rising international outrage that includes prominent women warning that decades of feminist propaganda against men has resulted in men being routinely denied basic legal rights and due process, and often their lives are ruined by unconstitutional imprisonment, impoverishment and loss of their children.

Several organizations circulated a petition affirming the findings of Baskerville, former Fulbright Scholar, Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Institute and Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College. Translated into several languages, it has gathered support on three continents.

Amid growing concern about catastrophic social and economic consequences of fatherless children, Baskerville and other experts, including many women, warn that tens of millions of children and fathers in the United States and other Western “democracies” are cut off from each other by fanatical outlaw judges who operate outside all constitutional and human rights boundaries.

Numerous nationally respected attorneys and constitutional scholars warn of corrupt and tyrannical family court systems nationwide operating for decades in brazen violation of the law, bleeding, in total, billions of dollars annually from their victims, mainly fathers convicted of no crime yet cut off from their children.

“Anyone with experience litigating in the field knows that America’s family-court industry must be swept out from top to bottom with the iron broom of real due process of law,” said renowned constitutional lawyer Dr. Edwin Vieira, who has successfully argued landmark cases before the United States Supreme Court.

“The harm that these systems perpetrate on families, children and parents and on society is incalculable and utterly unacceptable in any country supposedly ruled by constitutional law,” he added in support of Baskerville’s work.

Political crusades purporting to find an epidemic of “campus rape” and sexual “assault” and male battery of women are being strongly challenged by scholars such as Stephen Henrick, Caroline Kitchens,and Christina Hoff Sommers, and by a rising chorus of prominent women in the U.S. and other countries, including author and former emergency room nurse Mary T. Cleary and renowned expert on domestic battery, Erin Pizzey.

Mrs. Pizzey describes feminism as a “hate movement” that “destroys the minds of women and men,” and has conditioned society to see all as men as potential rapists and batterers, and to invert responsibility even when the female partner is clearly the abuser and the husband/father or male partner is suffering extreme abuse.

Character assassination of loving fathers is so devastatingly effective, Baskerville and others have shown, that children are easily taught to fear and hate the very fathers whom they loved and trusted. The process is called “parental alienation.”

“It is a horrific form of child abuse,” said Licensed Clinical Social Worker Michelle Jones of the National Parents Organization.”(There’s) a large body of research validating its existence…adults who attest to having suffered through it as children, and…parents who are currently traumatized, watching helplessly as their relationships with their children are being destroyed…” Jones added. “It is a pathological…pattern which unjustifiably requires children to align with one parent against a formerly loved parent, putting the children in a destructive loyalty bind…usually within the context of a high conflict divorce…” she said.

Clinical psychologist Joan B. Kelly concurs: “Because it’s anti-instinctual to hate and reject a parent, the child must develop an elaborate delusional system consisting of spurious, frivolous, and absurd rationalizations to justify the hatred and rejection. Eventually, the child comes to believe all the absurdity. The double-bind situation of being unable to have, love, and to be loved by both parents can lead to psychosis, Dr. Kelly said.” “(U)sing a child to serve the emotional needs of the alienating parent and doing that parent’s appalling bidding is abuse in itself.” “(H)aving a parent severed from her/his life is a loss…of the most severe kind,” she said.

It is specifically their father whom the overwhelming majority of these children have been denied by mothers using rogue courts, social workers, and complicit family members. Baskerville and other experts have shown the statistically catastrophic damage to the millions of children denied their fathers, supposedly in their own best interests.

Professor Howard S. Schwartz of Oakland University says “The distortions of the truth by the radical feminists of our time will someday be seen as…the greatest intellectual crime of the second half of the 20th Century. Meanwhile, we still live under the aegis of that crime and to call attention to it is an act of great moral courage.”

Baskerville’s work has gained attention in Latin America and Europe,North America by providing a framework to understand the politically and ideologically motivated destruction of fatherhood, children and family. His website is www.StephenBaskerville.net.

(NOTE: Some persons quoted above were not contacted and/or may not have been involved in the letter.)

Read the lecture by Prof. Stephen Baskerville here.

Read the international petition in support of Prof. Stephen Baskerville here.

 

International Petition in Support of the URGENT Work of Professor Stephen Baskerville

This Petition circulated by CitizenGo.org, was voluntarily translated into other languages by supporters and gained support on three continents.  In addition to the notable Signers listed below who responded directly, over nine hundred other persons signed on-line.

(For background see International Press Release here).
Released May 12, 2014

To: The Trustees, Chancellor, President, Provost, Faculty and Students of Patrick Henry College
1.  We write in support of the College’s recent presentation of Professor Stephen Baskerville’s address, “Politicizing Potiphar’s Wife: The New Ideology,” at the annual Faith and Reason Lecture.  His analysis of the threats to civilization, religious freedom, the rule of law, parents’ rights and the Natural Human Family is indispensable and is affirmed by many of the most profound observers of the modern age, as well as their predecessors all the way back to ancient times.  We regard the resulting outrage and indignation on the part of activists for militant feminism, homosexualism and/or other social agendas that threaten our society and the Natural Human Familyas an indication of the power of this message — a desirable and necessary achievement for which the College and Professor Baskerville are to be congratulated.
We resolutely add that any institution of intellectual, academic and moral integrity ought to be extremely proud to have Professor Baskerville as a senior and especially respected and influential member of its staff.  Attacks against his academic and intellectual integrity and the gravitas of his work must be rejected for what they are: disinformation and character assassination arising from desperation, and an all-too-familiar mixture of ignorance and dishonesty.
Clearly, had this address been of anything other than the highest quality it would have garnered nothing more than a snicker here and there.
Professor Baskerville’s work is of the greatest strategic importance and immediate urgency and has earned him the great intellectual and personal respect of countless serious and learned persons.  He is one of the rare guiding lights of today’s “conservatism” and in the vast wasteland of higher education.  In fact, his work has been given only a small fraction of the attention that it must receive.
We hope it is not lost on you — in particular those responsible for charting the future of the College — that the advancement of Professor Baskerville’s work is absolutely necessary to the survival of Patrick Henry College itself in any recognizable and desirable form and to the restoration and defense fundamental parental rights, religious freedom, and freedom to home school.  As Professor Baskerville’s work has established, the political and “legal” foundation for the de facto eradication of parental rights has been laid in most “advanced” countries in the Western World, primarily by four decades of sweeping and unopposed violations of the legal rights of fathers, always under color of law.
Now he adds to his previous groundbreaking work, his vital analysis of the strategic connections between the interests that have achieved the now very advanced destruction of fatherhood in the “advanced world” and seemingly distinct interest groups who agitate for absolute preeminence of “homosexual rights,” abortion and government control of the moral and intellectual formation of all children.
2.  We therefore urge those entrusted with charting the future of Patrick Henry College to make an even greater commitment and investment in the kind of work by which Professor Baskerville has distinguished himself in the eyes of a growing international audience.
Specifically, we urge Patrick Henry College to consider hosting an annual international conference dealing ambitiously and fearlessly with the issues to which Professor Baskerville has devoted much of his professional life, and which have not been taken up with anything like adequate commitment by like-minded leaders and institutions.  In fact, there is a near total silence about monumental matters to which Professor Baskerville and a small number of other influential persons have committed themselves with impressive perseverance.
Patrick Henry College has an historic opportunity to fill this gaping void, and no doubt Professor Baskerville’s reputation and unique understanding of the interconnectedness of numerous major issues can be the basis for attracting the most exceptional participants in such an endeavor as we propose.
Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum, attorney, author
Dr. Ted Baehr, Founder, Publisher, MovieGuide® ( www.movieguide.org), author, Chairman, Christian Film & Television Commission
Dr. Judith Reisman, Ph.D., author, Visiting Professor of Law, Liberty University School of Law
Dr. Alan L. Keyes, Former U.S. Ambassador to UN Economic and Social Council, Fmr. Asst. Sec. of State for International Organization Affairs
Steve Baldwin, former Executive Director, Council for National Policy, former Minority Whip of the California Assembly, author
Prof. Paul Gottfried, historian, author, political philosopher, Adjunct Scholar, Ludwig von Mises Institute, former Guggenheim Fellow
Dr. Jacob Roginsky, Founder, A Matter of Justice, a national legal reform coalition (and a Department of Defense scientist)
Dr. Charles E. Corry, President, Equal Justice Foundation, scientist (listed among the 200 most famous earth scientists in history)
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Esq., constitutional scholar, author, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law, The Inter-American Institute
Mike McManus, President, Marriage Savers
Dr. Herb Titus, constitutional scholar, author, former Provost, former Dean of Law and Public Policy, Regent University
Prof. Olavo de Carvalho (Brazil and U.S.), President, Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government and Social Thought
Kerry Morgan, Esq., constitutional attorney, former Attorney Adviser, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Linda Harvey, President, Mission America
Stephen M. Crampton, Esq., Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Liberty Counsel
David Usher, President, Center for Marriage Policy
Steven D. Curtis, former Chairman, Republican Party of Colorado, former V.P. American Right To Life, Founder, Life Commercials.com
Dr. Ahmed ElTassa, (Brazil) Philosopher, Distinguished Senior Fellow, the Inter-American Institute
Dr. Randy Brinson, President, Redeem the Vote
Peter LaBarbera. President, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH.org)
Prof. Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky, (Brazil) President of Brazilian Humanitarians in Action
Suzanne Venker, author: The War on Men, The Flipside of Feminism,7 Myths of Working Mothers, TV guest commentator, www.SuzanneVenker.com   www.WomenForMen.org
Jeffrey R. Nyquist, columnist FinancialSense.com, Fellow, Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government and Social Thought
Michael Heath, veteran pro-family leader,Former President, Maine Civic League, Currently Director, Helping Hands Ministry
Prof. Túlio Alcântara Valente, (Brazil) psychologist, professor, military officer (Captain, Brazilian Army)
Prof. Reginaldo Fanchin, (Brazil) former professor of constitutional law, attorney,
Prof. Bryce Christensen, Ph.D. Southern Utah University
Col. Alfonso Plazas Vega (Ret.) (Colombia) Professor of History, Senior Fellow in Political and Human Rights Leadership, Inter-American Institute
Jim Clymer, Esq., former Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee, Attorney
E. Ray Moore, Chaplain, (Lt. Col.) USAR Ret. President, Frontline Ministries & Exodus Mandate, Ex. Producer, IndoctriNation film
Diane Gramley, President, American Family Association of Pennsylvania
Dr. Gregory Thompson, Founder. America Asleep kNOw More, Fellowship and Association of Christian Teachers, State Director, Exodus Mandate. Author: “Forbidden Secrets”, “Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy” and “Where Are Our Shepherds?”
Cristiano Lúcio de Souza, (Portugal and Canada) writer, Academy of Letters and Arts of Portugal
Roger Aun. (Brazil) attorney
Dr. Luiz Campassi Jr., Federal Council of Medicine of Brazil and Catholic University of São, Paulo Faculty of Medicine
Deisson Cassiano Diedrich, (Brazil) President, Mechanical Engineering Academic Center, West Parana State University
Amy Contrada, author, Associate Fellow in the Study of Propaganda and Cultural Revolution, Inter-American Institute
John Benko, radio host, Deeper Truth program,
Brian Carney, Esq.national litigation consultant, attorney
Ray Neary, M Ed, M.A. Director, Pro-Life Massachusetts
Tom Blumer, columnist, MediaMatters.com, PajamasMedia.com, proprietor BizzyBlog.com
John Haskins, Fellow for the Public Understanding of Law, Propaganda and Cultural Revolution, Inter-American Institute
Donald Hartly, co-host Deeper Truth Radio
Julio Severo, (Latin America) Pro-family, parent’s rights, pro-life leader/activist/writer in Latin America (JulioSevero.com)
Greg Sabine, pro-family activist (representative, National Parents Organization)
John Wahl, political campaign consultant, former Media Director, Judge Roy Moore for Governor campaign
Rev. Bruce D. Curtis, MA, M.Div. (former radio host, Truth and Freedom)
Rev. Michael Carl, pastor and journalist
Rev. Dr. David M. Berman, pastor, author and public speaker

 

(For background see International Press Release here).

Read Prof. Baskerville’s lecture Politicizing Potiphar’s Wife: The New Ideology

The History of Political Correctness: a Documentary Movie

The origins of “political correctness” or “cultural Marxism” can be found in the early parts of the 20th century from the Frankfurt School, which was the headquarters for the Communists scheming in Germany. Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm were all there. “The role of the Frankfurt School is creating the victim groups that constitutes the politically correct coalition.” Made by the Free Congress Foundation and narrated by William Lind.

Know the History of the São Paulo Forum, the Most Powerful Political Organization in Latin America.

Below is a rough timeline for the history of the São Paulo Forum and the many articles and lectures Olavo de Carvalho has made available to the Brazilian and American public, blowing the whistle about the plans of the organization that was created by Fidel Castro and former Brazilian President Lula to gradually turn Latin America into a socialist bloc.

For more than 15 years, Olavo de Carvalho, philosopher, journalist, and President of the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought single-handedly fought a battle to warn Brazilian and the international public about the plans and activities of the São Paulo Forum, an organization which gathers together politicians, presidents and congressmen,  intellectuals, political parties, and criminal organizations from more than 22 countries in Latin American and the Caribbean and whose goals include, in the words of Fidel Castro, “bringing the United States to its knees.”

 

Timeline

1989

January

During a meeting, which took place on January 8, 1989, Castro and leaders of the Brazilian Workers’ Party decided that if Luiz Inácio Lula da SIlva did not win the Brazilian presidential elections at the end of the year, they would establish an international organization to spearhead and coordinate the whole Latin American left and bring the United States to its knees, which was Castro’s life purpose, as he himself had stated many times. Knowing in advance about the fall of the Soviet Union, Castro foresaw that the future of the Communist revolution in Latin America would depend on unifying all left-wing parties, movements, legal and criminal organizations, and establish a supranational union on the continent, something that Hugo Chável would later name Union of Latin American Socialist Republics (in Spanish, URSAL).

December

The Chilean MIR (Movement of Revolutionary Left) kidnaps millionaire Brazilian businessman Abilio Diniz, keeps him prisoner for 6 days in a small room dug in the bottom of a well, and asks for a ransom of $30 million to fund its revolutionary activities against the Pinochet government.

In the first democratic elections in Brazil after 30 years of military dictatorship, the Workers’ Party emerges as a powerful political organization. However, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, its presidential candidate, lost in his first attempt to win the presidency, running against a somewhat unknown politician named Fernando Collor de Mello.

In the next year, both the Wokers’ Party, Lula, and the Chilean Mir will be dicussing strategies for the Latin American left at the first meeting of an organization which will be known as the São Paulo Forum.

Founders

1990

July

Convened by the Brazilian Workers’ Party in the month of July, the São Paulo Forum is founded and presided over by Fidel Castro and former Brazilian president (but then defeated presidential candidate and leader of the Workers’ Party) Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, with the avowedly purpose, in Castro’s words, of “reconquering in Latin America the empire that has been lost in Eastern Europe.” The first meeting took place in the city of São Paulo—hence the name of the organization—and gathered together representatives of 42 leftist political organizations, parties, and movements from all throughout Latin America. Among its members are:

National Liberation Army (Colombia)

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

Alternative Democratic Pole in Colombia

Workers’ Party (Brazil)

Cuban Communist Party

MIR (Chile)

Broad Front (Uruguay)

Socialist Party (Chile)

United Left of Peru

Free Bolivia Movement

Socialist Movement of Bolivia

Ecuadorian Socialist Party

Fifth Republic Movement of Venezuela (now the United Socialist Party of Venezuela)

Party of Democratic Revolution (Mexico)

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Nicaragua)

Guatemalan National Revolution Unit

Democratic Revolutionary Party of Panama

Lavalas Movement (Haiti)

In a document named “São Paulo Declaration,” the members of the Forum stated their goals, summarized their internal debates, and expressed their intention to “seek to advance agreed-upon proposals for taking unified action in the anti-imperialist and popular struggle.” From its inception the “Forum,” more than simply discussing issues and exchanging information, intends to plan, organize, and take action. Some paragraphs later, after proclaiming its rejection of a new form adopted by the old American imperialism, the members of the São Paulo Forum state that they seek to establish, “in contrast with the proposed integration under imperialist domination, the foundations of a new concept of unity and continental integration.”

Click here to read an English translation of the “São Paulo Declaration.”

 

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June

The second meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Mexico City, from June 12th to 15th, assembling 68 participants from 22 countries from all over Latin America. The meeting is convened by Mexico’s Party of Democratic Revolution and also is attended by 12 political parties and organizations from Europe, Canada, and the United States.

The SPF reaffirms its commitment to fight “American imperialism” and “neo-liberal economic policies” in a public statement called “Mexico Declaration” and expresses that it considers as it primary “duty of solidarity” “the defense of the sovereignty of Cuba and the making of efforts to thwart the plans of the American imperialist power against the Cuban Revolution.”

1992

OrtegaLula1July

The third meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Managua, Nicaragua, by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). 61 left-wing political parties and movements from 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries and 60 guest organizations from North American, Europe, Africa, and Asia participate in the meetings of the umbrella organization.

 

 

 


1993

July

The fourth meeting of the São Paulo Forum takes place in Havana. The spearhead of the Communist revolution in Latin America has grown in number in the period of one year. Now counting with 112 member organizations, the 1993 Forum’s meeting is attended by 25 guest organizations from Latin American and 44 others coming from North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In its final declaration, the members of the São Paulo Forum renew their “condenation of the imoral and imperialist economic blockade agaisnt Cuba and make a committment to take serious political actions conducive to its lifting.”

 

1994

October

Lula, president and founder of the São Paulo Forum, is the Workers’ Party presidential candidate for the second time, running against Fernando Henrique Cardoso, of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Cardoso received 44% of the votes against Lula’s 22%.

 

1995

Olavo de Carvalho meets José Carlos Graça Wagner, an attorney from the city of São Paulo, who was the first man to research, document, and analyze the activities of the São Paulo Forum.

May

The fifth meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Montevideo, Uruguay, gathering 65 delegations from Latin America, North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. As 1993 and 1994 were general election years in many of the countries in Latin America, and as many of the members of the São Paulo Forum participated in the elections in their respective countries, a critical assessment of the various electoral processes is one of the main topics of the fifth meeting.  To the Forum’s members, the 1993 and 1994 elections manifested “the best overall results that left-wing parties have obtained so far,” for “the political parties that are part of the São Paulo Forum have elected 300 Congressmen, 60 Senators, several governors, hundreds of mayors, thousands of city council members, totalling 25% of the electorate of their countries.”

Hugo Chávez, then recently released from jail for his attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government, travels to Montevideo to join the São Paulo Forum as a member.

 

1996

July

The sixth meeting of the São Paulo Forum takes place in San Salvador.

 

1997

July

The seventh meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Brazilian Landless Movement (in Portuguese, MST) and the Workers’ Party were defined as arms of a single body, pursuing the revolution.

 

1998

November

The eighth meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Mexico City.

Lula, president and founder of the São Paulo Forum, is the Workers’ Party presidential candidate for the third time.

 

2000

February

The ninth meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Managua, Nicaragua.

 

2001

May

HiddenFaceStar

Olavo de Carvalho first publicly mentions the São Paulo Forum in a foreword he wrote for A Face Oculta da Estrela: Retrocesso, Falsidade e Ilusões (The Hidden Face of the Star: Retrocess, Insincerity, and Illusions), a book by Adolpho João de Paula Coelho. In his foreword, titled “Making Essential Information Available Again,” after explaining what Antonio Gramsci’s strategy for cultural revolution is and how it has been successfully applied in Brazil, Carvalho points out that the goals of that strategy have been so well accomplished that, “today, it is in the assuredness, in the pompous and arrogant ease with which people who do not know anything about the subject assure us that Communism is a thing of the past while slavishly repeating Communist slogans (being unaware that they are Communist slogans) that lies the best guarantee that the plans announced by Fidel Castro at the São Paulo Forum will be conducted with the foolish complicity of millions of quiet and self-satisfied fools.”

Recolocando em circulação informações essenciais (Foreword to a book, May 15)

Making Essential Information Available Again

 

 

 

August

In an article titled “What crime?,” Olavo de Carvalho discusses the cultural and political reasons behind an attempt by a group of journalists and public prosecutors to block an investigation being conducted by the Brazilian Army into the connections between Brazilian left-wing movements and the FARC. According to Mr. de Carvalho, “If this [attempt] is not an act of revolutionary disinformation, in the best KGB style, then at least this is a substantial support that is offered, with prodigious unconsciousness and levity, to Fidel Castro’s plan of “reconquering in Latin America what was lost in Eastern Europe.” The “cultural revolution,” without encountering the the slightest resistance, has easily duped public opinion (after having numbed it for 40 years). So much so that the public now seem to take the allegations against the investigation at face value, without even wondering whether the crime under investigation is not a million times more serious than mere words, however offensive, found in an investigator’s report.”

Qual é o crime? (Jornal da Tarde, August 30)

What crime?

 

September

José Carlos Graça Wagner is interviewed by Diario Las Americas, a Miami newspaper, on the 2nd of September. Published on the first page, and titled “Nueva Guerra Fria en el continente dentro del marco del Foro de São Paulo” (A New Cold War in the Continent within the Framework of the São Paulo Forum), the interviewed brought explosive information about the plans of the São Paulo Forum for Latin America and the so-called Princeton Pact, an agreement between the São Paulo Forum and the Inter-American Dialogue, a United States based think tank, in which both organizations decided to work together on a number of common goals for the Latin American left, among which were (a) the transformation of guerrillas into regular political parties, (b) the weakening of the military of the various Latin American countries, and (c) the crippling of the Catholic Church through Liberation Theology, since it was foreseeable that the Church would strongly oppose abortion rights and gay marriage.

 

December

The tenth meeting of the São Paulo Forum takes place in Havana and gathers together 518 representatives of left-wing movements and parties from 81 countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, North American, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Middle East. In a declariation issued at the end of the meeting, the members of the organization state that Cuba is a setting of “a high symbolic value, because of what that country represents for the left of the continent, because of its dignity, as an example of resistance and because of its steadfast commitment to the principles that guide the Forum.”

 

On December 5, The Orlando Sentinel publishes a brief story (“Leftists Open Havana Meeting”) about the 2001 meeting of the São Paulo Forum in Havana. The note says that “hundreds of left-wing politicians and activists from across Latin America began a four-day meeting in Havana on Tuesday in a bid to unite their efforts against U.S. and capitalist influence around the world. Cuban President Fidel Castro joined 400 delegates at the opening of the 10th meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum.”

Leftists Open Havana Meeting

 

Also in the same month, the Minuteman Institute for National Defense Studies publishes a “strategic warning” about the São Paulo Forum in which it is stated that:  “The member organizations of the Sao Paulo Forum include several that are on the U.S. State Department’s list of active terrorist groups, including the Colombian FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Colombiana) and ELN (Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional); the Peruvian MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) and the Chilean MIR. In addition to the groups listed below, Granma Internacional, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, is reporting the attendance of Zuhair Dhaif, head of the Latin America Division of the Iraqi Baathist Party, and an unnamed Libyan representative at the Tenth Session of the Sao Paulo Forum in Havana.”

Strategic Warning: São Paulo Forum


2002

July

On the 22nd, The Weekly Standard publishes “Brazil’s Nut,” an article by Dr. Constantine C. Menges in which he discusses Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s ties with Castro and Latin American terrorrist organizations and the significance fo the American national security of his likely victory in the October 2002 presidential election. Among other things, Dr. Menges states that “Da Silva’s Workers’ Party has a history of extreme leftism and anti-market policies. Though da Silva has tried to moderate his image, this is clearly an electoral deception. The Workers’ Party’s candidate said recently, “our objectives continue to be the same, but the methods, the manner in which we reach that goal, have changed.” We can believe that the Workers’ Party will be consistent in its anti-market, anti-American ideology and purposes.”

Brazil’s Nut (The Weekly Standard, July 22, 2002)

 

August

On August 2, 2002, Dr. Constantine C. Menges a senior foreign policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and one of the architects of Ronald Reagan’s effort to defeat the Soviet Union, publishes an article about the São Paulo Forum in The Washington Times. In his piece “Blocking a New Axis of Evil,” Dr. Menges says that the then Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da SIlva “makes no secret of his sympathies. He has been an ally of Mr. Castro for more than 25 years. With Mr. Castro’s support, Mr.da Silva founded the Sao Paulo Forum in 1990 as an annual meeting of communist and other radical terrorist and political organizations from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. This has been used to coordinate and plan terrorist and political activities around the world and against the United States. The last meeting was held in Havana, Cuba in December 2001. It involved terrorists from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, and sharply condemned the Bush administration and its actions against international terrorism.”

Blocking a New Axis of Evil

 

September

In an article titled “Harvest Time,” Olavo de Carvalho comments on the fact that nobody among the Brazilian political analysts and commentators has established any connection between the activities of the São Paulo Forum and the coming Brazilian presidential elections, in which all four main candidates share the same leftist ideology. Nobody but Liberation Theologian Leonardo Boff who, being full of high hopes for a future Communist Brazil, praises the new political reality of the nation by saying that with the coming election: “The time for the Brazilian revolution has arrived. The sowing has already been done. Now it is harvest time.”

A hora da colheita (“Harvest Time,” O Globo, September 7)

Harvest Time

Terrorisms and Globalisms (Zero Hora, September 8, 2002)

 

Dr. Constantine C. Menges sends a letter to Olavo de Carvalho in which he agrees with the Brazilian philosopher’s analysis of the São Paulo Forum.

Letter from Constantine C. Menges to Olavo de Carvalho (September 19)

 

October

On October 3, 2002, The Washington Times publishes an article about the São Paulo Forum by Deroy Murdock, a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. “Brewing in Brazil” is an interview with Dr. Constantine C. Menges in which Dr. Menges discusses the likely victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections, his appetite for atomic bombs, his support of terrorism, his admiration for Hugo Chávez, and, last but not least, his role in the São Paulo Forum.

Brewing in Brazil

 

On the 15th, Lowell Phillips, a free-lance writer, political commentator, and associate editor of Toogood Reports, publishes an article in which he expresses his concerns about the likely victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential run-off elections in Brazil. A Cuban-Venezuelan-Brazilian Axis could pose threats to American national security, especially through the São Paulo Forum: “There is likely a considerable Cuban intelligence effort ongoing to see to it that Luiz Inacio da Silva does indeed become the next president of Brazil. Da Silva’s links to the Cuban dictator are well established. Along with Castro, he helped to create the Forum of Sao Paulo, which gathers representatives from communist, terrorist, and other revolutionary organizations annually to develop strategies against the United States and methods of securing power in their respective countries. Meetings draw emissaries from all points on the globe of varying philosophies, joined by their common hostility towards the U.S., and have included delegates from Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Party.” And he adds: “The growth of the Cuban-Venezuelan-Brazilian Axis could create massive problems for the U.S. That axis armed with nuclear weapons would radically alter the global power structure. A Castro-led, Marxist-inspired Latin America with a credible nuclear deterrence, allied with Communist China, Middle Eastern terror organizations and their sponsors, along with South American narco-terrorists would constitute a greater danger to the United States than the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War. The recklessness of the players, the wildly divergent objectives and the historic instability of the region would be a volatile mix.”

Marxist-Inspired Cuban-Venezuelan-Brazilian Axis Could Create Massive Problems for U.S. (Toogoodreports.com, October 15, 2002)

 

Olavo de Carvalho publishes the following articles on the Brazilian press:

Entrevista com o meu vizinho (“Interview With My Neighbor,” Zero Hora, October 6)

Qualquer coisa e o Sr. Summa (“Anything and Mr. Summa,” O Globo, October 19)

A vitória do partido único (“The Victory of the Single Party,” Jornal da Tarde, October 21)

 

On October 27, the Workers’ Party candidate and co-founder of the São Paulo Forum,  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wins the run-off and is elected president of Brazil for the first time.

 

Alencastro1

Luiz Felipe Alencastro, columnist of the prestigious Brazilian magazine Veja and professor of Brazilian History at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, participates in a pannel discussion, along with Kenneth R. Maxwell, Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Inter-American Studies and CFR’s Director Latin of America Studies, on the topic of “Brazil: Political and Economic Challenges Facing the President-elect and the Implications for U.S. Policy in Latin America” held at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washignton, DC, on October 30, 2002. Answering a question posed by a member of the audience about the relations between the Brazilian Workers’ Party and the São Paulo Forum, Professor Alencastro says:  “We never heard about this Foro de São Paulo in Brazil. We don’t know about it, and it’s crazy how that thing grow up and became, that’s one journalist known as a guy very conservative from extreme right, who writes in a weekly in Rio, who started with that thing. We never heard about that.” Maxwell, on the other hand, does acknowledge the existence of the São Paulo Forum: “Of course, that there is a forum, I mean, and there was a meeting in Havana late last year, where, I think, Lula went and Castro was and so on. And there have been these connections. The part of the extreme, but the landless workers movement has enormous connections internationally on the left.”

 

November

Olavo de Carvalho publishes more articles on the São Paulo Forum on three different Brazilian newspapers:

Lula e lulas (“The Many Faces of Mr. Lula,”O Globo, November 2)

O excelentíssimo (“His Excellency,” Zero Hora, November 3)

Escolha temível (“Fearful Choice,” O Globo,November 15)

Resumo da encrenca (“Summary of Our Trouble,” Folha de São Paulo, November 18)

Mentiras concisas (“Concise Lies,” O Globo, November 23)

 

December

The eleventh meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in Antigua, Guatemala.

 

Olavo de Carvalho publishes one article about the Forum in the newspaper O Globo:

Metamorfoses ambulantes (“Walking Metamorphoses,” O Globo, December 9)

 

2003

March

Os minutos finais de um justo (“The Last Minutes of a Just Man,” O Globo, March 8)

 

April

Transparent Roofs (Folha de São Paulo, April 28)

 

June

Quem pode contra isso? (“Who Can Take this On?,” O Globo, June 23)

 

August

Honra temível (“Fearful Honor,” O Globo, August 30)

 

2004

February

The Minuteman Institute for National Defense Studies publishes another “strategic warning” written by Dr. Constantine C. Menges. “Strategic Warning: Brazil” is the complete paper out of which  “Brazil’s Nut,” an artilcle Dr. Menges wrote for The Weekly Standard in July 2002, originated.

A Strategic Warning: Brazil

 

Olavo de Carvalho’s article:

Simbiose Obscena (“Obscene Symbiosis,” O Globo, February 7)

 

March

Mundo paralelo (“Parallel World,” O Globo, March 5)

 

May

Falsas Omissões (“False Omissions,” O Globo, May 1)

 

July

Desinformação colossal (“Colossal Disinformation,” Zero Hora, July 11)

Desculpe, Dr. Menges (“I Apologize for My Fellow Brazilians, Mr. Menges,” O Globo, July 2004)

 

November

Nada é o que é (“Nothing Is What It Is,” Zero Hora, November 14)

Repetindo o aviso (“Repeating a Warning,” Zero Hora, November 28)

 

2005

February

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, o sábio da Veja (“Luiz Felipe Alencastro, the Sage of Veja Magazine,” February 2005)

 

March

Recado ao general (“Message to an Army General,”O Globo, March 19)

 

July

The twelfth meeting of the São Paulo Forum is held in São Paulo, Brazil.

 

August

Obviedades temíveis (“Dreadful Obvieties,” Diário do Comércio, August 1)

 

September

Aí vem tudo de novo (“Here Comes Everything Again,” Zero Hora, September 4)

Brazilian Left: From Victory to Defeat to Victory Again (A brief presentation delivered at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington D.C., September 15)

President Lula, guilty by confession (Diário do Comércio, September 26)

Apelo público (“A Public Appeal,” September)

 

November

São Paulo Forum: The Backbone of Communism and Terrorism Spread in Latin America (Aleksander Boyd Interviews Olavo de Carvalho, VCrisis, November 21)

 

2006

February

Neocommunist Rise: The São Paulo Forum and the Strategical Unity of the Latin-American Left (Presentation delivered at the Intelligence Summit 2006,Arlington, VA, February 17 to 20)

 

April

Um negócio quase honesto (“An Almost Honest Business,” April 13)

 

May

O dever que nos espera (“The Duty Awaiting Us,” Diário do Comércio, May 15)

Brazil: The Usual and Not-So-Usual Suspects (FrontPageMagazine, May 22)

 

June

Por trás da subversão (“Behind Subversion,” Diário do Comércio, June 5)

Apelo urgente aos leitores brasileiros (“An Urgent Appeal to my Brazilian Readers,” June 2006)

 

October

De quem é a festa? (“Whose Party This Is?,” Diário do Comércio, October 5)

A prova cabal da mentira (“Final Proof of the Lie About the São Paulo Forum,” Diário do Comércio, October 16)

Voto consciente (“Responsible Voting,” censored by Zero Hora, October 29)

Sem novidades, exceto as piores (“No News Except the Very Worst,” Diário do Comércio, October 30)

 

2007

January

O Brasil de Bento XVI (“Brazil, According to Benedict the XVI,”Jornal do Brasil, January 11)

O Foro de São Paulo, versão anestésica (“The São Paulo Forum, an Anesthitic Version,” Diário do Comércio, January 15)

Lição repetida (“A Repeated Lesson,” Jornal do Brasil, January 18)

 

February

A palavra das Farc (“The Word of the FARC,” February 14)

 

March

Salvando o comunismo (“Saving Communism,” Inconfidência, March 2)

Cartas de um terráqueo ao planeta Brasil (“Letters From an Earthling to Planet Brazil,”March 20)

 

July

Top-top e fuc-fuc (July 23)

 

September

A maior trama criminosa de todos os tempos (“The Greatest Criminal Plot of All times,”Digesto Econômico, September)

Towards a Diagnosis of Latin America (Notes for a Lecture Delivered at the America’s Future Foundation, September 12)

Sem desculpa (“No Excuses,”Diário do Comércio, September 13)

O perigo sou eu (“I Am a Danger,” Diário do Comércio, September 24)

 

October

Aprendendo com Peña Esclusa (“Learning From Peña Esclusa,” Diário do Comércio, October 22)

 

December

Sonsice obrigatória (“Mandatory Stupidity,”Diário do Comércio, December 6)

Saindo do armário (“Coming Out of the Closet,”Jornal do Brasil, December 13)

O revolucionário aburguesado (“The Bourgeousified Revolutionary,” Diário do Comércio, December 13)

2008

January

Chega de discussão (“Enough Arguing Already,” Diário do Comércio, January 16)

Digitais do Foro de São Paulo (“The São Paulo Forum’s Fingerprints,” Diário do Comércio, January 28)

Gillez, ou: A solução do enigma (GIlles or the Solution of an Enigma,” Diário do Comércio, January 29)

A força do segredo (“The Power of Secrecy,”Jornal do Brasil, January 31)

 

February

Boicotando um herói nacional (Diário do Comércio, February 14)

 

March

Agora é tarde (“It Is Too Late Now,” Jornal do Brasil, March 6)

Colaboracionistas (“Collaborationists,”Jornal do Brasil, March 13)

 

May

The fourteenth meeting of the São Paulo Forum takes place in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Read the final declaration of the fourteenth meeting.

 

Confusão e erro (“Confusion and Error,” Diário do Comércio, May 9)

Os homens certos no lugar certo (“The Right Men in the Right Places,”Inconfidência, May 19)

 

June

Doméstica apaixonada (Jornal do Brasil, June 5)

Uma nova fachada do Foro de São Paulo (“The São Paulo Forum’s New Façade,” Diário do Comércio, June 9)

“Os” Intelectuais e seu modelo (” ‘The’ Intellectuals and Their Role Model,” Jornal do Brasil, June 26)

 

July

Ofício proibido (Jornal do Brasil, July 17)

 

August

Falando às pedras (“Speaking to Stones,” Diário do Comércio, August 1)

Por favor, me expliquem (“Please, Explain This to Me,”Jornal do Brasil, August 7)

 

October

Fora da lei (“An Outlaw,” Diário do Comércio, October 23)

 

2009

March

Da mentira à impostura (“From Lying to Imposture,” March 26)

 

July

O deserto dos gringos (“The Desert of the Gringos,” Digesto Econômico, July)

A OEA, órgão do Foro de São Paulo (Diário do Comércio, July 20)

 

August

Apostando contra o tempo (Diário do Comércio, August 21)

 

October

Olavo de Carvalho Explains Lula and the São Paulo Forum (Aleksander Boyd interviews Olavo de Carvalho, VCrisis, October 22)

 

2010

March

Alex Newman interviews Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America (New American, March 15)

 

July

O passado no presente (Diário do Comércio, July 12)

Bandidos e poltrões (Diário do Comércio, July 23)

 

August

Rabo à mostra (Diário do Comércio,August 2010)

 

November

Grande Descoberta (Diário do Comércio, November 1)

 

December

Os barões (Diário do Comércio, December 1)

 

2011

January

Ato de Rotina (Diário do Comércio, January 7)

 

April

Lição de diplomacia (“A Lesson in DIplomacy,” Diário do Comércio, April 26)

 

May

Leftists Across Latin America Gather for São Paulo Forum Congress in Nicaragua (Christian Science Monitor, May 11).

 

June

A raposa e o tigre (“The Fox and the Tiger,” Diário do Comércio, June 13)

August

Perguntas proibidas (“Forbidden Questions,” Diário do Comércio, August 8)

Frivolidade Criminosa (“Criminal Frivolity,” Diário do Comércio, August 25)

 

2012

April

Saudades do jornalismo (“How I Miss Journalism,” Diário do Comércio, April 23)

 

May

Demolindo Otávio de Ramalho (Mídia Sem Máscara, May 4)

South American Union Seeks Regional Law Enforcement (Alex Newman, The New American, May 7)

 

October

Depois do mensalão (Diário do Comércio,October 17)

O maior dos perigos (“The Greatest Danger of All,” Diário do Comércio, October 24)

O óbvio esotérico (“The Esoteric Obvious,” Diário do Comércio, October 31)

 

November

Regra geral (“General Rule,” November 3, 2012)

 

Decemebr

Quem eram os ratos? (“Who Were the Rats?,” Diário do Comércio, December 6)

O preço do colaboracionismo (“The Price of Collaborationism,” Diário do Comércio, December 17)

 

2013

Duas notas (“Two Notes,” Diário do Comércio, January 8)