This guest editorial originally appeared on the author’s Substack, which can be accessed here, and is reproduced with the generous permission of the author.
In light of the current, incredibly tense political situation, Anton wishes to convey to his readers that this, following message should be spread as widely as possible to help defuse the ongoing threat to nuclear war.
June 15, 2025—A half-century ago, the Anglo-American Establishment reversed the policies which had made America rich, powerful, and humane. They usurped the power to make this catastrophic change through the assassinations of the 1960s.
A majority of the American people support the main points on which President Donald Trump twice campaigned for the presidency: end the permanent wars of that Establishment, and restore the productive industry that transatlantic Establishment robbed from America. A majority wants to return to the peaceful progress that built our country.
Before Trump’s second term, those usurpers set in motion a spiraling escalation of war. They lit a fire they hoped the next President could not put out—to force his hand, so that whatever his own real intentions, their “globalism” and forever-wars would not be reversed. With screaming war-hype, U.S. weapons went flying toward potentially uncontrollable violence—Israel versus Iran/Lebanon/Palestine; NATO/EU vs Russia; U.S. versus China.
They also tried to decide the issue by repeated attempts to murder Trump, amid a climate of heightened violence.
In the last two weeks, a double escalation pushed the world closer to nuclear war. The transnational covert services of the usurping Establishment coordinated both attacks: by Ukraine against Russia’s strategic bombers deep inside Russia, and by Israel against Iran’s capital city and military leadership. The Establishment boasted that in the long planning for both of the twin attacks, drones were placed inside the country to be attacked.
Before these attacks, the world saw America’s President seeking deals to move away from conflict with Russia, China and Iran. After the attack on Iran, which has terrified the world, President Trump changed his tone.
FDR, Ike, JFK, and Iran
The United States gained influence as the most successful productive nation. We shaped a better world with our electrical and other inventions, and our insistence on national sovereignty instead of imperialism.
President Franklin Roosevelt proposed (in the 1943 Hurley report) that Iran should be freed from British control of its resources, so that Iran could be the model for a poor country transforming itself to modern conditions. In 1951, Iran’s parliament followed FDR’s lead, voting to nationalize the Iranian oil industry, taking control from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The CIA under Allen Dulles betrayed FDR’s legacy and U.S. interests, joining Britain’s MI-6 in August 1953 to overthrow Iran’s democratic government, that of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, restoring British oil control.
Nevertheless, four months later, President Dwight Eisenhower set a different tone. He told the United Nations:
The United States knows that if the fearful trend of atomic military build-up can be reversed, this greatest of destructive forces can be developed into a great boon, for the benefit of all mankind. The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. The capability, already proved, is here today. Who can doubt that, if the entire body of the world's scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, this capability would rapidly be transformed into universal, efficient and economic usage?
To hasten the day when fear of the atom will begin to disappear from the minds of the people and the governments of the East and West, there are certain steps that can be taken now.
I therefore make the following proposal.
The governments principally involved, to the extent permitted by elementary prudence, should begin now and continue to make joint contributions from their stockpiles of normal uranium and fissionable materials to an international atomic energy agency. We would expect that such an agency would be set up under the aegis of the United Nations.
Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program was instrumental in Iran’s early development of nuclear science.
President John F. Kennedy sought to move the world away from nuclear confrontation, and toward peaceful uses of nuclear energy. JFK made this peace program the urgent mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He proposed that nuclear plants be built throughout the world. It would power industry and desalination to bring limitless fresh water, in joint projects such as between the U.S. and USSR, India and Pakistan, Israel and its Islamic neighbors.
Whatever Donald Trump does, under the gun of the usurping transatlantic Establishment, our country’s economy must be rebuilt and the wars must be shut down. That is the will of our people. That is the way our country can fulfill its founding mission of progress.
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