Anton Chaitkin: 'America's Fight for Universal Progress'

250 years ago today, on August 18, 1775, Paul Revere and his fellow messengers of the Committee of Correspondence successfully alarmed and mobilized thousands of Massachusetts patriots and their associated militias to thwart the British Army's attempted arrest of John Hancock and Sam Adams in Lexington, and the seizure of militia munition stores in Concord. The following day, April 19th, saw what has become known as "the shot heard 'round the world" beginning the American Revolution.

The successful outcome of our Revolution, and the subsequent building of the American Republic established the proof of principle which, in the words of John Quincy Adams, "...demolished at a stroke the lawfulness of all governments founded upon conquest. It swept away all the rubbish of accumulated centuries of servitude." Over the past decades, that actual tradition of the United States of playing a critical global role in combating colonial exploitation and federalism has been so undermined and erased by a corrupt Anglo-American establishment that few Americans today even know anything about it!

This Friday, I will be joined by renowned historian Anton Chaitkin who has just released the second volume of his two-volume work "Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress" for a fascinating discussion of how we can now return our nation to that noble mission.