ANALYSIS – BOOM! – The landmark Supreme Court decision against racial and sex discrimination by schools and universities (under the guise of ‘affirmative action’) will also impact corporate ‘diversity’ programs based on the same flawed, discriminatory ideas. In what has become a major legal development in a growing wave of anti-wokeness, corporations will soon have to reconsider all their – likely illegal – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. While pushed by the increasingly leftist establishment, most of these woke programs have been illegal under U.S. state and federal laws, which explicitly prohibit discrimination by race and gender. But until…
Author: Paul Crespo
Paul Crespo
Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for office, taught political science, wrote for a major newspaper and had his own radio show. Paul has also been a defense contractor with the Pentagon. He brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty — at home and from abroad.
FRIDAY PDB – Wokeness at Pentagon entails pushing politicalized agendas, discriminatory ‘diversity’ programs, as well as taxpayer funded abortion services, and radical sexual agendas, including transgenderism. No wonder no one wants to join. BUT WOKE INSANITY EXISTS IN UK, TOO – RAF diversity targets discriminated against white men. Initiatives to increase the numbers of women and people from ethnic minorities in the Royal Air Force (RAF) led to unlawful discrimination against white males, report finds. MEANWHILE, THE SUPREME COURT DROPPED THE BALL HERE – Service academies exempt from Supreme Court ruling against discriminatory affirmative action. “The potentially distinct interests” of service academies…
ANALYSIS – It appears that Vladimir Putin is cleaning house at the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD). The armed rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary group has now become a pretext for a purge in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) cited a prominent Russian military blogger (‘milblogger’) as saying that the mutiny has instigated “large-scale purges” among the Russian armed forces command and that the MoD was currently undergoing a “crash test” for loyalty. ISW also reported, citing the milblogger, that the Federal Guard Service (FSO), which provides security for…
ANALYSIS – Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, reportedly run by (or through) Russian military intelligence (GRU), has played a pivotal role in Moscow’s efforts to expand its global sphere of influence, but its future is uncertain following the recent mutiny by Wagner’s leader. (RELATED: After Russia’s Brief Military Revolt, Are Putin’s Generals Still Vulnerable?) For years now, Wagner Group has worked as a paramilitary security force for autocratic regimes across the Middle East and Africa, and, more recently, it has encroached into Latin America and the Caribbean. The Wall Street Journal, though, reported that Vladimir Putin is moving to ‘Seize Control of Wagner’s…
THURSDAY PDB – With the recent military revolt in Russia, some ask – can it happen in China? The answer – much less likely. Unlike Russia today, China still maintains its communist system of control. And it has been reinforced under Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exerts tight control over its military forces. The People’s Liberation Army is the party’s army and not a national army. Whatever Yevgeny Prigozhin was plotting in Russia last week — mutiny, insurrection, civil war — this level of military insurrection would never have been possible in China. China’s military set-up is designed…
WEDNESDAY PDB – UFOs have landed on Earth. And we have their tech. At least it appears that way to senior lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Congress doubles down on explosive claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs. Asked June 26 about allegations of secret UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made several stunning statements. In an exclusive interview, Rubio said that multiple individuals with “very high clearances and high positions within our government” “have come forward to share” “first-hand” UFO-related claims “beyond the realm of what [the Senate Intelligence Committee] has ever…
ANALYSIS – A woman holding a controversial sign claims she was physically assaulted by a crowd in New York City. And it was all caught on cellphone video. K. Yang, said the incident occurred Sunday in Washington Square Park during a New York City parade. Yang was carrying a sign in the crowd defending biological woman. The sign also noted terms for women fight used by the transgender rights movement, which have since gone mainstream. The sign compared these names with descriptors like mother, girl and female. In her tweet Yang said “I was just kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed by dozens…
ANALYSIS – It was an exceptional event this past weekend, even with all the prior posturing by the Wagner Group founder and the recent chaos in Russia’s border region. It was the first armed uprising since the 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. But as suddenly as it was launched, it was over. Altogether it lasted less than 24 hours. And it wasn’t so much a coup against Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, as an attack on his ineffective military leaders. The rebellion featured bitter rivalries between Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner mercenary group, and…
ANALYSIS – For those conservatives who say that Republicans are weak or ineffective, take note of all the actions this GOP-led House has taken so far. And with only the slimmest of majorities. The latest effort targets a distasteful anti-Christian group that focuses on influencing Pentagon policy. While operating under the misleading name of the ‘Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), this advocacy group is anything but an organization for religious freedom. Its real mission is to attack and remove any Christian influences from our entire military. In February, for example, the MRFF convinced Merchant Marine Academy leaders to move a…
TUESDAY PDB – The race for strategic partners in the Western Pacific has been heating up for a while between the U.S. and China. The most recent point of competition is Vietnam, where both the U.S. and China fought wars in the past 50 years. US aircraft carrier makes Vietnam port call. The USS Ronald Reagan, along with the guided missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Robert Smalls, arrived in Da Nang on Sunday for the visit. China offers closer military cooperation with Vietnam. China is willing to work with Vietnam to strengthen high-level communication and cooperation between their militaries, China’s…