Tag: US Features

Navy Veteran, 66, Lives an ‘American Horror Story’ Since His Arrest on Jan. 6 Seditious-Conspiracy Charge

“Abba, Father! Please don’t let them murder my wife!” After more than two decades in the U.S. Navy and assignments around the world, Thomas E. Caldwell thought he knew the meaning of horror. That all changed in the predawn hours of Jan. 19, 2021. Minutes after being jostled awake, Caldwell found himself outside in the…


PATCON Explored: Records Provide Glimpse of FBI Right-Wing Infiltration Ops

The FBI code-named it Patriot Conspiracy (PATCON): a 1990s-era right-wing infiltration operation so secret its details remain largely unknown. First revealed in heavily redacted records in 2007, PATCON entailed three undercover FBI agents operating a front group called the Veterans Aryan Movement (VAM). Posing as racist militiamen who robbed banks to fund domestic terrorism, the…


New Records Provide Glimpse of FBI Right-Wing Infiltration Ops

The FBI code-named it Patriot Conspiracy (PATCON): a 1990s-era right-wing infiltration operation so secret its details remain largely unknown. First revealed in heavily redacted records in 2007, PATCON entailed three undercover FBI agents operating a front group called the Veterans Aryan Movement (VAM). Posing as racist militiamen who robbed banks to fund domestic terrorism, the…


SEC Rule Would Mandate That Companies Disclose Climate-Related Information, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released proposed rules Monday for publicly traded companies that would compel those firms to disclose a range of climate-related information to shareholders. Described in a 500-plus-page document, that information includes financially material climate-related risks as well as estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which were described by the…


Independent Journalism Is Solution to Media War on Religions and Censorship: Independent Media

Four independent news organizations described how they counter suppression of information, war on religions, and censorship on social media platforms at a panel discussion held at the 2022 National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention. Mainstream media omit certain stories that they do not want people to know about, said Phil Boyce, senior vice president for Spoken…


Immigration-Driven Population Growth Claiming Vast Swaths of Open Space: Report

A new report from NumbersUSA has revealed that 17,800 square miles of open space in the U.S. was claimed by development between 2002 and 2017. That area is about as large as Connecticut and Maryland put together. “The rate of sprawl in this century has slowed down fairly substantially from what it was in the…


‘The People of China Deserve Better’

“The Chinese communists game the system,” Rep. Chris Smith said. “People are afraid to stand up to them.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses human rights and China with Smith, a representative of New Jersey’s 4th district. For the past four decades, Smith has been one of Congress’s most vocal…


Jan. 6 Oath Keeper Charged With Seditious Conspiracy Says He Was ‘Helping Get Law Enforcement Out of the Building’

According to an indictment filed by the FBI, Roberto Minuta has been charged with seditious conspiracy for his presence at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. Minuta says he was there as part of “a protective detail” that wound up “helping get law enforcement out of the building.” In the Feb. 24, 2021, complaint,…


Eastern European Community’s Contribution to Ohio Gains Senate Recognition

Ohio’s Eastern European Community is gaining traction to be more recognized as a key player in the state’s past, present, and future. A bill that was co-sponsored by Sen. Kenny Yuko (D) of Ohio’s 25th District in the state’s northeast was passed by a 32-1 vote in the Senate on March 3, and helped pave…


People Are Seeing Through Holes in Woke Ideology: Critical Theory Expert

Wokal Distance, an expert in postmodernism and critical theory and a visiting fellow at the Center for Renewing America, believes that woke ideology will destroy itself because it is not grounded in truth, but rather seeks power. The man who posts explanatory threads on social media under the pseudonym Wokal Distance sat down for an interview with Jan Jekeilek, host of…