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Freedom is the Cure

How can patriotic Americans make their country freer and more sovereign? In this podcast, John Birch Society's Paul Dragu and guests discuss the issues that threaten liberty and prosperity and their correlative liberty-oriented solutions. The John Birch Society has been warning of incoming collectivist tyranny for decades. Since 1958, the JBS has published a treasure trove of material detailing who and what are working to destroy the U.S. Even adversaries recognize the JBS as an influential heavyweight, one having dubbed the organization as the “intellectual seed bank of the right.” JBS works to reduce the size of government and inspire more personal responsibility. Paul Dragu is the communications director for The John Birch Society, an award-winning investigative journalist, and the collaborative writer of “Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty and Purpose.” Having spent the first half of his childhood in communist Romania, Paul is passionate about warning fellow Americans about the dangers of collectivism.
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Shrink Federal Government by 80% with Constitutionalism

December 20, 2021 Episode

If our politicians were to consult the U.S. Constitution before every vote, we estimate that 80% of the federal government would not exist. In this episode, Christian Gomez and Peter Rykowski of the John Birch Society’s research department join Paul to discuss unconstitutional federal departments, how American society gradually moved toward a paternalistic government, and how patriots can reverse this trend. This episode’s featured action tool includes the Congressional Scorecard and Freedom Index, both created to help voters hold members of Congress accountable to the country’s fundamental governing documents.

Resources & Citations

Enforce the Constitution with the Freedom Index

Find out which elected officials are obeying the Constitution with the Congressional Scorecard

Use the Federal Elections Commission Database to research who donates to each Congressman

Read When Will We Hold Them to Their Oath?

Watch The Constitution Is the Solution

Read about the unstoppable movement to save America

Join the most effective patriot organization working to restore liberty

The Unstoppable Movement to Restore America

December 13, 2021 Episode

Donald Trump is no longer in the White House, but the America First movement is anything but defeated. In this episode, Paul and Dennis Behreandt, publisher of The New American magazine, discuss the strength of the America First movement, its influence on the presidency of Donald Trump, and why it’s poised to defeat the enemies that threaten to destroy the country.

Resources & Citations

Get Trumpworld, a new collector’s edition bookazine about the movement that got Trump elected and is poised to restore America.

Know the truth. Read The New American.

Join the freedom fight. Apply for membership in The John Birch Society, which has been exposing and fighting the Deep State for 62 years.

Read Paul’s book, mentioned during the conversation, a true story about a young man who defected from communist Romania in search of freedom.

Omicron is Coming! Fear Propaganda, Past and Present 

December 1, 2021 Episode

A new terrifying thing is upon us, the Omicron Covid-19 variant. The media landscape is full of headlines that exude fear about a new variant of which little is known about. In this episode, Paul talks with commentator Daniel Natal about how the government has previously used fear to control the public, and how COVID fear-hysteria is preventing the public from thinking rationally.

Resources & Citations

Watch Daniel’s video

Read Fauci Says Americans Need to “Do Anything and Everything” Against Omicron. South African Doctors Say Variant Is “Mild”

Tune out the propaganda news and tune in to true news

Get in touch with a JBS coordinator and learn how you can join the freedom fight

Get a copy of the recently released Trumpworld collector’s edition that documents the unstoppable movement to save America

Link to Paul’s book, mentioned by Daniel

Infrastructure My Asphalt!

November 23, 2021 Episode

Joe Biden recently signed a $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill. But how much of it actually goes to infrastructure and how much of it to leftist pet projects? Paul and the JBS research team discuss the bill’s non-infrastructure provisions; the more expensive and socialist “Build Back Better” bill Congress is mulling over; and what concerned Americans can do to push back at the federal, state, and local levels.  

Resources & Citations

Read Congress Enacts $1.2 Trillion “Infrastructure” Bill With Radical Provisions

Read Embarrassing Predictions Haunt the Global-Warming Industry

Watch “Build Back Better” Bill Will BURY America

Take action

Stop Agenda 2030 : The John Birch Society

Stop Fake “Infrastructure” Bill: H.R. 5376, the “Build Back Better Act”

Join the JBS in the fight for liberty

“The Government is Now Lawless”: Explosive Interview with mRNA Scientist Robert Malone

November 16, 2021 Episode

Dr. Robert Malone is a scientist who pioneered mRNA technology, the kind used in COVID-19 vaccines.  He recently gave an explosive interview to Veronika Kyrylenko of The New American magazine. He talked about problems with the vaccine program, the massive corruption in the CDC and FDA, and why he believes the U.S. government is “now lawless.” In this podcast, Paul plays the provocative interview with Dr. Malone.

Resources

Watch the interview at The New American

Get active and help to stop COVID madness with JBS legislative alerts

Join thousands of other freedom-fighting patriots in the battle to restore America

White House Journalist Discusses Vax Bullying & Media Propaganda

November 10, 2021 Episode

What is it like to be a Christian journalist in a sea of leftist reporters at a White House led by aspiring authoritarians? In this episode, Paul interviews Dr. Anthony Harper, a White House correspondent who works for InterMountain Christian newspaper. Dr. Harper discusses the antagonistic treatment toward unvaccinated Americans, the legacy media’s propaganda approach to news, and why he believes the Biden administration is anti-Semitic.

Resources & Citations

Read the best of uncensored news and analysis @ The New American.

Push back against the Biden administration’s COVID tyranny

Join the JBS in the fight for tyranny

Guerrilla Journalism with Project Veritas

October 20, 2021 Episode

For more than a decade, the guerrilla journalism of Project Veritas has exposed a mountain of corruption committed by people in some of the most powerful government and private institutions. In this episode, Paul discusses with Mario Balaban of Project Veritas why they use undercover journalism tactics, examples of major media lies, and some of Veritas’ hardest-hitting stories. Mario also gives listeners a sneak peek into upcoming Veritas stories.

Resources & Action Items

Protect loved ones from media propaganda. Tell them about The New American magazine

Read what major media is not reporting: Covid Lies – The New American

Join thousands of patriots in the battle to restore liberty

The Left Revives Segregation in America

October 13, 2021 Episode

Segregation is making a comeback in America, and individualism is the cure. In this episode, Paul discusses with Christian Gomez and Peter Rykowski how the Left and its collectivist agenda are behind segregation in academia and society under the guise of multiculturalism and COVID safety, emphasizing the need for pro-liberty education and organization.

Resources & Citations

Read California Scheming: Newsom Mandates “Vaccines” for 12-year-old Students, but NOT Their Teachers

Read Rep. Thomas Massie Fights Biden’s Vax Mandates and Disastrous Foreign Policy

Learn more about Save Our Children from Public Schools

Learn more about The Constitution is the Solution

Check out Freedom Project Academy

Don’t reinvent the wheel. Join the JBS in the fight to restore America

Is Decertification Warranted in Arizona? Election Expert Weights In

October 6, 2021 Episode

Despite major media’s deceptive victory dance, the Maricopa County, Arizona, ballot audit of the 2020 presidential election revealed serious irregularities that dwarf Biden’s margin of victory. In this episode, Paul discusses with election expert Kurt Hyde the three-part audit report and why he believes decertification is warranted.

Resources & Citations

Read Arizona Audit Reports Excessive Voter Fraud: Calls Mount for Decertification

Read Restoring Election Integrity – The New American

Get involved in restoring election integrity

https://jbs.org/membership/Join other patriots in the battle to restore America

Skyrocketing Gun Sales, 2A Enemies & Well-Regulated Militias

September 29, 2021 Episode

Guns are selling like hotcakes as Americans of all demographics realize the police can’t always protect you. In this episode, Paul and Zoe Warren, host of 2A for Today, discuss who’s buying guns and why, the enemies of the Second Amendment, and the idea of creating well-trained and legal community militias.

Resources & Citations

Watch 2A for Today

Read Latest Survey Reveals Women Now Nearly Half of all New Gun Buyers

Read the 2021 National Firearms Survey

Take Action: Stop Tyrannical UN Gun Control Treaty

The Silver Linings of COVID Mania

September 22, 2021 Episode

COVID mania is the illogical and hysteric reaction the world has taken to a treatable disease with a very low mortality rate. Could anything good result from it? In this episode, Paul, Wayne Morrow and Peter Rykowski discuss how COVID mania highlighted three issues that existed before 2020 —  overpowerful bureaucrats, election integrity, and public-school indoctrination — and how improvements have already begun.

Resources & Citations

Learn about and get involved in Restoring Election Integrity

You can also book a virtual or in-person presentation on election integrity

Learn more about the harms of public schools

You can also book a virtual or in-person presentation on the crisis in contemporary education.

Watch the Constitution is the Solution series

Capitalism’s Ties to Wokeism, Climate Activism, and Communism

September 8, 2021 Episode

Do the world’s largest asset fund managers wield their enormous power to push leftwing causes and Marxist values onto the world? In this episode, Paul talks with Dennis Behreandt, a research expert who’s working on a book that touches on how the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, invests in totalitarian regimes like China, influences culture and government policy, and works to bring about the goals of Agenda 2030.

Resources and Citations

Watch Big Business Wing of Deep State Threatens Humanity – The New American

Read “China Joe” Biden & Wall St. Globalists Continue War on U.S. Coal While Aiding China’s Coal Spree

Read CEO Letter | BlackRock

Learn more about The John Birch Society

Get involved in the fight to restore and preserve America

Further Reading

Read BlackRock’s choice: Investment fiduciary or political activist? | TheHill

Read Fed Hires BlackRock to Help Calm Markets. Its ETF Business Wins Big. – WSJ

Read BlackRock Closes In on the Once Unthinkable, $10 Trillion in Assets – WSJ

Building a Freedom-focused Parallel Economy; Conversation with Gab CEO Andrew Torba

September 1, 2021 Episode

What should be done about the Big Tech overlords who deploy their speech Gestapo against those who violate the rules of approved speech? In this episode, Paul talks with Andrew Torba, who founded the social media platform Gab as an answer for people seeking a speech platform free from the censorship leveled by the epidemiologists and election “experts” at Facebook, Google, and YouTube. Andrew discusses the globalist culture of Silicon Valley, how his company barreled through a number of obstacles intended to shut Gab down, why it’s important for patriotic Americans to stand together, and his intention to help erect a parallel, liberty-minded economy.  

Resources and Citations

Read Lawsuit Accuses White House and Facebook of Teaming Up to Censor Americans

Read YouTube CEO Wins “Free Expression Award

Read Microsoft Has Big Plans to Control Everything You Use

Read Covid Lies from The New American

Read Save Our Children from The New American

Join the JBS in the mission to restore and preserve liberty

Learn more about Gab

Agenda 2030: Globalist Plan for Worldwide Totalitarianism | Freedom is the Cure

August 25, 2021 Episode

The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 is a globalist plan that aims to exploit fears and concerns about the environment and other global issues to take control over every aspect of your life. In this episode, Art Thompson, an expert on Agenda 2030 and the global Conspiracy, discusses with Paul his latest book on the topic and what concerned citizens can do to stop this diabolical plan.

Resources & Citations

Read Art’s book: The UN’s Agenda 2030: Marxist Stealth Plan for World Government

Read in The New American: UN Agenda 2030: A Recipe for Global Socialism

Download and read Agenda 2030 for yourself

Read Paul’s book, Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty and Purpose.

Get involved: Stop Agenda 2030

Get involved: GET US OUT! OF THE UN

Join JBS in the fight for liberty and national sovereignty

Learn about ICLEI

What Happened at Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium and What Now? | Freedom is the Cure

August 17, 2021 Episode

In this episode, Paul talks to Annalisa Pesek, a reporter with The New American magazine who attended Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium in South Dakota. Pesek discusses her interviews with cybersecurity experts and what became of the absolute proof that many were waiting for. Make sure to tune in to the end, as Paul wraps it up with some extra information about the 2020 election and discusses what concerned Americans can do to restore election integrity.

Resources and Citations

Watch Annalisa Pesek’s interview with network security expert Bill Alderson

More from The New American magazine

Get involved with the JBS’ Restore Election Integrity action project

Read the Restore Election Integrity TNA issue

Join the JBS in the fight for liberty

Further Reading

Fascist, Marxist Threats to America | Freedom is the Cure

August 11, 2021 Episode

While Americans accuse those on opposite sides of the political spectrum of ushering in Communism or Fascism, the country continues its march toward overt tyranny. In this episode, Paul discusses with special guest Christian Gomez, as well as Wayne Morrow and Peter Rykowski, the differences and similarities between Fascism and Marxism, how both ideologies are destroying America, and what Americans need to do to stop it.

Resources & Citations

Watch Preserving Medical Freedom | JBS News Analysis

Watch Overview of America

Read Sen. Cramer: Make States Mandating Vaccine Passports Mandate Voter ID

Get the Constitutional Principles Booklet Set

Get involved: The Problem with Public Education

Get involved: Stop New York Vaccine Mandate and Passport Schemes

Get involved: Stop California Vaccine Mandate and Passport Schemes

Learn more Homeschooling in Communist China on the Rise Despite Ban

Learn more New York Knicks Requiring Vaccination to Attend Second Round Playoff Games

Learn more CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated

Learn more An American asks why homeschooling is illegal in Germany

From Forced Vaccinations to Digital IDs to Agenda 2030 | Freedom is the Cure

August 4, 2021 Episode

Dennis Behreandt, researcher and publisher of The New American magazine, joins Paul to discuss an eerily prophetic article he wrote in May 2020 in which he warned that mandatory vaccines would be pushed as part of a larger effort to implement universal digital IDs. Part of the plan would include conditioning people to embrace the idea that mandatory vaccines held the keys to societal participation. Dennis names the people and organizations that have been working to bring about this massive societal change. He and Paul also talk about what regular Americans can do to derail these plans.

Resources & Citations

Read Read Forced Vaccines and Digital IDs

Read Lockdown Madness

Read The UN’s Agenda 2030: Marxist Stealth Plan for World Goverment

Read Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes

Get Involved:

Stop a Constitutional Convention

Join the JBS

Learn more:

Global Vaccine Action Plan

Agenda 2030

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Omidyar Network

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

ID2020: Digital Identity Alliance

Digital ID Wallet

Rockefeller Foundation Funds Nazi Eugenics

Setting the Record Straight about The John Birch Society | Freedom is the Cure

July 21, 2021 Episode

Paul, Alex Newman and Wayne Morrow discuss common lies and propaganda talking points regarding the JBS, how the decades-long smear campaign against the Society started, and more importantly, the truth about the effective pro-America activist organization and why it’s been a favorite target of leftists and neocons.

Resources and Citations

Learn more about The John Birch Society

Get involved in the fight for freedom

Read Using Truth to Fight Globalist Lies About The John Birch Society

Read Celebrating The John Birch Society’s Epic Journey

Read WaPo Tries to Link anti-Totalitarian John Birch Society to Totalitarian Nazis

Read Propaganda Mill CNN Lies About John Birch Society — and America’s Socialist Transformation

Biological Warfare and the Vaccine Conspiracy | Freedom Is the Cure

July 14, 2021 Episode

Dr. Lee Merritt, a former military doctor who studied biological warfare, discusses the scary and steep rise in health issues, and even death, which she attributes to COVID-19 vaccines. In her interview with Paul, Dr. Merritt also explains why she suspects that the vaccine, and the upcoming deadline to mandate vaccination in the military, may indicate a sinister plan in play. Listeners will also learn what actions they can take to help defeat the COVID tyranny and even the disease.

Resources & Citations

• Read COVID-19 Vaccines: A “Cure” Worse Than the Disease?
• Find out more about Dr. Lee Merritt
Early treatment with hydroxychloroquine: a country-based analysis
• CDC – About The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
COVID Vaccine Data

Public Schools Are Destroying America | Freedom Is the Cure

June 30, 2021 Episode

Alex Newman joins Paul, Wayne and Peter to discuss how public schools are indoctrinating young minds with socialist and amoral beliefs and dumbing them down academically. Furthermore, decades of anti-American curricula have contributed to today’s rising national demoralization. The group also discuss schooling alternatives for parents who want to pull their children out of public schools but don’t know where to start.

Resources & Citations

The New American magazine’s Save Our Children and Rescuing Our Children issues

Learn more about Public School Alternatives

Learn More about Joining The John Birch Society

Check out the abysmal Nation’s Report Card

Does the Deep State Exist? What Does it Want? | Freedom is the Cure

May 24, 2021 Episode

In this first episode of Freedom is the Cure, Paul Dragu discusses with Wayne Morrow and Peter Rykowski evidence of the Deep State, what it is, what it wants, and how 2020 opened the eyes of many Americans to its existence and insidious thirst for domination.

Resources & Citations

Read In The Shadows Of The Deep State by Art Thompson

Read Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes by Alex Newman

Read The Shadows of Power by James Perloff

Read None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen

Get Involved

Join the JBS in the battle for freedom

Stay informed with The New American