Posts Tagged ‘Jonas E. Alexis of Veterans Today’
Mark Dankof: A Conversation With The Tehran Times: U.S. liberal democracy turning into a totalitarian regime reminiscent of the Soviet Union
Tehran Times: What is the U.S. goal of seizing Iranian websites as well as Yemeni and Iraqi ones?
Mark Dankof: It is clear that the United States government has taken the action it has against Press TV and these other outlets because three things have resulted from their broadcasting operations deemed intolerable by American policy makers and their allies in Mainstream Media and the Social Media conglomerates: 1) The exposure of the degree of control of Zionist Neo-Conservatives and the Israeli Lobby over every branch of the American government and media; 2) The exposure of the quagmire of never-ending American military operations in the Middle East that have been an abysmal failure and which are based on a complete pack of lies used to justify the unjustifiable in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine; and 3) The exposure of the existence of informed, articulate dissidents from these reprehensible policies at either end of the political spectrum in both the United States and Europe.
I saw a Russia Today story of June 24th quoting Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, as saying that the United States, held up as a “model of liberal democracy” is rapidly turning into a totalitarian regime reminiscent of the former Soviet Union. I absolutely agree with this. Naryshkin spoke of media monopolies, the development of a domestic police state, and the “irremovability of oligarchic elites.” These elites want a world government they control in its entirety, with global surveillance, military coercion, economic blackmail, control of fiat currency, control of media, and subversion of nation-states and cultures the weapons used to achieve it.
Outlets like Press TV threaten this totalitarian agenda and mindset. This is the reason for the attempts to destroy its outreach.
I agree with what Dr. Ahmad Ali-Akbari told Ekaterina Blinova of Sputnik International on June 23rd when he called Washington’s calls for freedom of speech a “tissue of lies.” Jonas E. Alexis has duly noted this in today’s Veterans Today issue.
Tehran Times: Western powers always try to portray Iran and the resistance axis as anti-freedom. Now they are making propaganda that the Iranian president-elect is a hardliner. How can they justify this paradox while they are banning Iranian media?
Mark Dankof: They can’t plausibly justify the paradox. Actually, if I were an Iranian, I’d have voted for a “hardliner.” No other vote makes any sense whatsoever. Rouhani negotiated with the West in good faith on JCPOA/P5+1. The result was the unilateral American withdrawal from the deal, the imposition of draconian economic sanctions on Iran for abiding by the terms of the agreement, the assassinations of Soleimani and Fakhrizadeh, and the public claiming of responsibility for these crimes by the 45th President of the United States and the Mossad, respectively. The current American Administration is just as owned by the Zionist monolith as the previous one. Is Iran simply going to sit by and allow its own destruction? Of course not. Thankfully Putin stands by as a faithful friend and ally, as he has been with Syria. The recent disappearance of Biden and NATO from a direct confrontation with Russia in the Donbass while using Zelensky as a laughable surrogate tiger in the region underscores that Iranian backbone with Russian back-up in a crisis would demonstrate that in a showdown, Biden would join Zelensky in a standup Comedy Club routine in Kiev. The British HMS Defender flight from the Black Sea region near Crimea is another example of what happens when a bully gets its bluff called in someone else’s neighborhood. Hang tough in Tehran.
Tehran Times: How do American-Zionist media shape the stereotypes in minds of the Western public?
Mark Dankof: The long term strategy has always been to depict the United States and Israel as beacons of light in the midst of jihadic Islamic darkness and repression. This is becoming harder to sustain precisely because outlets like Press TV have daily exposed American and Israeli crimes in Gaza, Palestine, East Jerusalem, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Colombia among others. Even more significantly, the cost of these miserable efforts by the Empire is bankrupting the United States economically and politically, and actually weakening an American military in terms of the latter’s overextension and wasteful spending on wars of occupation and counterinsurgency at the expense of modernization of weapons through research and procurement. As just one example, the Russian development and acquisition of hypersonic missiles has rendered the aircraft carrier-based power projection model of the United States Navy obsolete, at a small fraction of the cost. The balance of political and military forces is shifting against the United States and the West toward Russia and China to the benefit of Iran. This is why the Zio-American rhetorical hysteria toward all three is on the rapid increase. The anti-Press TV actions of the American government, along with Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the like, must be understood in this larger context.
Tehran Times: How do you evaluate Raeisi’s victory in the Iranian election? What are its implications for the West?
Mark Dankof: It is a positive development for Iran in that it shows the absolute failure of a Zionist-Neo Conservative foreign policy based on coercion and force, and what is possible when criminals are confronted with resolute resistance. What has been demonstrated by Assad in Syria, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Russian resolve against NATO threats and deployments, is being shown by Iran in this election of a “hardliner” which is presumably defined as anyone who doesn’t lie down for an Israeli-American-Saudi-UK destruction of Iran as a sovereign nation-state.
Tehran Times: Do you think the Biden administration is ready to negotiate with the new Iranian administration?
No, not in good faith. Anthony Blinken, Wendy Sherman, and Victoria Nuland are the Zionist-Jewish trio in charge of Biden’s foreign policy team. The mere fact that Blinken has been insisting on the attachment of conditions to American re-entry into JCPOA illustrates the point. It has not yet dawned on the United States government and its Zionist Media moguls that the failure of Biden to keep his campaign promises on JCPOA guaranteed the subsequent Iranian election results. This result was Iran’s best choice. Sadly, the Soleimani and Fakhrizadeh murders illustrate how little has changed in the American-Iranian relationship since Operation Ajax in 1953. But 1953 is not 2021. The shifting of the balance of power I spoke of earlier in this conversation illustrates this truth. And there is absolutely nothing the American Empire and Israel can do about it, as both continue to move toward disappearance from history in the progression of the 21st century.
Mark Dankof Remembers Samir Massouh
It seems significant that on the very day I am informed of the passing of my friend and teaching mentor, Dr. Samir Massouh of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Trinity International University, I’m preparing for a third discussion of Biblical eschatology on the Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN) later tonight on a show called “In Plain Sight.”
When I consider my activity this week with “The Dankof Report” for ACH coming from London, my recent conversation with Jonas E. Alexis at VT, or my latest work with the Tehran Times, my time as a student of Hebrew and Old Testament with Samir in suburban Chicago seems so very long ago. As a matter of fact, the years have simply flown by. Yet my memories of him decades ago remain as fresh as our occasional on-line exchanges in these last several years on social media during his Herculean battle with esophageal cancer. He has finally lost that battle, paradoxically to experience the ultimate triumph over death and entrance into the Kingdom of God in a world without end, because of his personal knowledge and faith in the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9).
He is greatly missed. I shall see him again.
Mark Dankof Salutes Herman Otten: There Was a Time When Giants Walked the Earth
The Theological Credo of the Lutheran Reformation and Herman Otten of Christian News
My longtime friend in the Confessionally Lutheran Faith and fellow journalist, Herman Otten of Christian News, has gone to be with the Lord Jesus Christ in eternity as of two days ago, April 24th, 2019. Love Him or Hate Him, count me as one always in Herman’s corner in life when we first occasionally began working together over decades. His place in Lutheran history and in the history of cutting edge Alternative Media in a pre-technological/pre-Internet era is absolutely guaranteed, regardless of what one would say about him now. As for his considerable number of enemies, Otten loved publishing their original works of trash with complete glee and sarcastic wit. Two items of hilarity for him in the current media would have been the tragi-comedic posts of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency entitled “A Chicago Space for LGBTQ Jews Becomes a ‘Queer Jeshiva for Everybody’,” and the Russia Today post on Sonalee Rashatwar entitled “‘Fat Sex Therapist’ Compares Fitness to Nazism, Dieting to Rape.” Herman would have noted editorially that Sonalee’s Seminar was delivered at St. Olaf’s “Lutheran” College in Minnesota.
Otten: “We Need a Stick-it-in-His-Ribs Rebuttal. Call San Antonio.”
At the same time, he loved me on the radio and quietly followed my pathway there. Herman likely missed my On-The-Air work this past week. He’s listening now from Above. And making notes. . . . He is probably also viewing the You Tube video of highlights of his life and his family’s ministry to him in his final days of this temporal existence, put together by his son Tim.
Herman Otten Loved This Meme of Israel’s “Christian” Bitch-in-Chief.
The evidence of his personality and journalistic omnipresence is everywhere, ranging from the Lutheran Logia journal which gives him a qualified Thumbs-Up to liberal Matthew Becker of Valparaiso University and Day Star, which gives him an unqualified Thumbs-Down. The latter was finally removed from the clergy roster of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod after a lengthy investigation which would never have occurred had the bureaucracy of that Synod not been hounded by the public exposure of Becker’s views over a very long period of time by–you guessed it–Herman Otten.
Lutheran Pastor Mark Dankof and Reformed Baptist Pastor Dale Crowley, Jr. both named on the Christian News roster of “Soldiers of the Cross.”
An additional 1992 read which underscores his pivotal role as a watchdog of Missouri Synod machinations and Synodical Presidential elections over decades can be accessed as well, courtesy of a Chicago Tribune repost from Victor Volland of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It is entitled, “Lutheran Journalist Plays Role of Spoiler.” This sample is but a microcosm of his role as Editor of Christian News since 1962. Another is the essay of Robert Benne, Director of the Center on Religion and Society at Roanoke College for Richard John Neuhaus’s First Things, entitled “The Trials of American Lutheranism.” While Dr. Benne’s ideological bias is revealed in his fine article, it does illustrate what James Adams, Religion Editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote in his pivotal work, “Preus of Missouri and the Great Civil War” about the role of Herman Otten and Christian News in bringing down John Tietjen and a majority liberal faculty at Concordia Seminary in February of 1974. Adams correctly observed that when historians would chronicle the ugliness of that Civil War over decades, the pivotal role of Otten in making it happen would be forever remembered.
Another brief and poignant remembrance of the great man I have always thought of as the H. L. Mencken of Christian Journalism has just been posted on April 25th by Dr./Pastor Karl Fabriziius of Gottesdienst: The Journal of Lutheran Liturgy. It is entitled “Remembering Herman Otten.” It is yet another reminder of the place of Herman Otten and Christian News in the annals of American Lutheran history.
As far as Richard John Neuhaus and First Things go, Christian News reported the truth: Neuhaus had received $8.5 million dollars in contributions from Jewish Neo-Conservative sources for his long-time service to the State of Israel and Zionist Wars. It wasn’t all about Hagee, Robertson, and Falwell. The Synagogue of Satan had also skillfully covered its bets with a Lutheran turned Roman Catholic, who knew how to keep his printing press going and with great Mainstream Media reviews.
Herman knew too much and was willing to speak and write about what he really thought. People in power feared him, as he could not be compromised or purchased because of his faith and his commitment to a bedrock subscription to the Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions. Because of this, he would be the target of relentless ad hominem attacks and demonization for decades. Each punch thrown his way was met by his shifty footwork and public journalistic counterpunch. He instinctively understood that the world was both a cruel place to an honest man, and not the final stop, but only a fleeting transition for a brief moment to the blessed home in eternity awaiting the Christian believer. What remains forever unfathomable is that he was simultaneously an effective parish pastor over the same period of temporal time, and had the absolute support of wife Grace, his kids, and his grandchildren in everything he was doing at the Lord’s behest. Otten’s personal call to a ministry of Word and Sacrament proclaimed in his pulpit each Sunday was also his personal call to combat on the other 6 days of the week what he saw as an insidious threat to Biblical orthodoxy, culture, and morality via his pen and typewriter. In his “spare” time, he participated for years in triathlons.
Christian News Consultant on Biblical Eschatology Par Excellence.
For a direct encounter with Herman Otten speaking as Herman Otten, try his presentation to the 9th Revisionist Conference published by the Journal of Historical Review. The title is “The Holocaust, Historical Revisionism, and Christians Today.”
Otten to Dankof: “Tell This Andrew Carrington Hitchcock guy in England to Send Me More Stuff!”
Love Him or Hate Him, You Must Deal With Him.
Otten to Dankof: “Are You Keeping Your Bedside Devotions Active Every Night?”
My conversations with the legendary Editor of Christian News over decades all began flooding back to me the day after his passing in New Haven. I’ll relate the last one we had in 2015 that involved an incredibly serious matter involving Yours Truly with the ability to laugh with Herman about it later.
Bottom line: I almost had to legitimately shoot a man to death beating a woman in my apartment complex parking lot in San Antonio on Columbus Day that year. My account of this may be accessed here. I told my long-time friend about the details you may now read about.
I was explaining to the good Pastor and Editor about my choice of firearm, the particular load in the magazine and chamber, and the Combat Handgunning technique of the Defensive Two-Tap to the upper torso (“Bang, Bang” best enacted with a semi-automatic and two lightning squeezes of the trigger, not jerking). I did so only because he was asking all the questions about the particulars. Herman then spoke of a theoretical headline only Otten could come up with instantly for Page One had I actually been forced to use the weapon: “Christian News Exclusive: Dankof’s Defensive Two-Tap and Walther’s ‘Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel.'”
For those who follow me now on Press TV/Iran, National Bugle Radio on RBN, Duke on Rense Radio Live, the American Free Press, Don Wassall’s Nationalist Times, Russia Insider, Russia Faith, Russia News Now, the Andrew Carrington Hitchcock Show in the UK, Al Ansaar Radio, CII International Radio of Johannesburg/Durban, Culture Wars, Dankof with Jonas E. Alexis of Veterans Today, BATR/SARTRE, and countless other places in the last two decades, history will reveal that I was originally elevated to my level of visibility in the last 19 years by two things. One was my run for the U. S. Senate in 2000 in Delaware against William Roth and Tom Carper as the nominated delegate of the Constitution Party. Even more importantly, my foray into Alternative Media for the Old Right was launched by my book review for Herman Otten and Christian News that made it into the 9-11 Commemorative Issue only days after September 11th, 2001. The book reviewed was Gordon Thomas’s Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. Mr. Thomas himself contacted me from Ireland after seeing it. That would have been impossible in a pre-Internet age.
The Post 9-11 launch of Mark Dankof into Alt Right Action was because of Herman Otten of Christian News on September 17th, 2001. The Fallout from that Book Review continues to this day.
I had occasionally contributed to Christian News since the late 1980s, but the Thomas book review published after 9-11 changed the course of my life. I could never have foreseen any of this, but on occasion Herman published a handful of items under my byline that bear special reiteration: My memorial to the great Pastor Dale Crowley, Jr. was one of them. My interview with Howard Phillips for Christian News was subsequently run by World Net Daily in its entirety. My Page One interview with Dr. James Montgomery Boice is no longer online anywhere, but Christian News Encyclopedia will have it. My tribute to my academic advisor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Dr. Harold O. J. Brown, was another Otten editorial publish that also made it into wider evangelical circles that found him too tough on the Bad Guys in their midst otherwise. I am informed that the TEDS faculty actually posted the Christian News original in the faculty lounge after the Brown death for a period of days. I found this amusing: The implication was that Dankof had written a terrific tribute to Joe Brown, but having Trinity students encountering both Dankof and Herman Otten in print with reference to the seminary was a potentially inflammatory risk. For the record: Harold O. J. Brown loved Christian News. He read every issue. I made sure he made it when he preceded Pastor Otten in the Kingdom of God.
These lovable Protestant Evangelicals could not quite handle the Otten style of sardonic-to-the-point-of-inflicted anguish humor always brandished when absolutely warranted. A classic example of this was the “prophetic vision” of Montanist Charismatic Guru Jamie Buckingham in the late 1980s. It related to Buckingham’s direct unmediated message from the Holy Spirit to the former that Jamie would receive a Supernatural Healing and Deliverance to Claim and Proclaim from the sad case of cancer affliction he had encountered. Charisma magazine and other Montanist outlets were playing it up big at the time and using it to sell other Charismatic Montanists on the idea of simply naming and claiming their physical deliverance from dreaded disases and suffering by clinging to Jamie’s received revelation. Only Herman Otten had the guts at the time to publish the dangers to Christians of accepting such transparent and heretical nonsense at face value from these self-anointed Evangelical Superstars.
The Flag of Israel-First Evangelicals, Capitol Hill, the ADL, the SPLC, Aryeh Tuchman of J-Hate, Joe Biden, and LGBTQ. Herman Otten was their Eternal Adversary.
Jamie Buckingham sadly died 3 years later. Christian News published the news story on his passing and obituary, alongside what Charisma had published some 36 months before on his Supernatural Healing of Deliverance to Claim and Proclaim message courtesy of the Holy Spirit’s person-to-person call that Buckingham asked everyone to believe actually transpired. There was no editorial comment from Herman Otten.
Otten Answers the ADL Chief On The Line: “Don’t Like Dankof’s Last Op-Ed? His Dog is More Well Read Than You Are, You Jerk.”
Message: Only Christian News will remind people of the entire context of this sad story. Christian News isn’t making light of a man’s illness, suffering, and death. But false teaching and a heretical Montanism being passed off as Biblical doctrine and praxis has to be held accountable to the truth. Buckingham was a heretic. Everybody else is tap-dancing around this. We Won’t. We Never Will.
Mark Dankof’s Graduation from Valparaiso University, the Alma Mater of Grace Otten and the Adversary of Herman Otten.
Pastor Herman Otten lives today with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That was and is his message to you. I loved him in life. I love him now. I and all believers will yet encounter Herman and his manual typewriter, printing press, subscriber snail mail list, and Enemies Now in the Lake of Fire List in the Kingdom of God (Romans 10:9).
Requiescat In Pace, Thou Who Hast Been Faithful Unto Death (Revelation 2:10).
Luther’s Reformation in Christian News on the 500th Anniversary.
The Family Second Only to God Priorities of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Otten
The Journalistic Credo of Herman Otten of Christian News
South Front: Mark Dankof with Jonas E. Alexis on VT and Patrick Slattery on RBN Radio
Mark Dankof at KABB-FOX 29 in San Antonio.
The world renowned South Front outlet has posted two items jointly. The first is the Jonas E. Alexis interview with Mark Dankof for Veterans Today, entitled “Vladimir Putin to Erdogan: You Ain’t Worth My Time Anymore.”
The second is the Dr. Patrick Slattery one-hour radio interview with Mark Dankof on the Republic Broadcasting Network on Hillary Clinton as the Best Prospect for World War III with Russia.
Click here.
Mark Dankof and Jonas Alexis: Vladimir Putin to Zakaria: So You Want to Debate Me Intellectually?
Mark Dankof: Vladimir Putin’s Russia is the Best Opponent of the New World Order.
Mark Dankof on Jonas E. Alexis: One of the Sharpest Minds and Pens Extant in the War Against the New World Order
“Putin may well be the finest asset extant at present in confounding the New World Order and continuing its exposure for the benefit of the previously deluded and deceived. His intellectual precision and political shrewdness gives hope not simply to the Russian people, but to nationalists everywhere who seek their own liberation from this insidious menace.”
Mark Dankof on Vladimir Putin
Mark Dankof on Vladimir Putin: The Man of the Hour in Confounding the New World Order
Mark Dankof and Jonas Alexis for Veterans Today in observations entitled, “Vladimir Putin to Fareed Zakaria: So You Want to Debate Me Intellectually?“
The Closing of the Zionist Mind:Jonas Alexis Interviews former U. S. Senate Candidate Mark Dankof for Veterans Today
Jonas E. Alexis of Veterans Today interviewed radio broadcaster, TV commentator, Lutheran clergyman, and former 3rd Party U. S. Senate candidate Mark Dankof on the Closing of the Zionist Mind and the threat it poses both to fair discourse in the American media and the very survivability of the First Amendment itself.
The interview references the broadside attack on the latter by Katie Zavadski of The Daily Beast last December, and contains multiple links to articles of interest. Click here.
Katie Zavadski of The Daily Beast, owned by Jane Harman, agent for Israeli interests who has been investigated on several occasions by the FBI and the NSA for espionage on behalf of the Zionist State.
The Zionist Alliance with the Frankfurt School and the LGBT Agenda: Destroying the Christian West, Russia, and the Islamic World With Cancer.
The Frankfurt School’s Institute for Social Research: Jewish financed subversion and destruction of Western Civilization and Christianity via Sexual Perversion, Abortion, the Destruction of the Family, and the Deification of the State.
The Samson Option: The Zionist State’s Endgame for the Middle East and the World?
John on Patmos Pens The Apocalypse: Exiled Because of Resistance to the Emperor Worship Cultus of Domitian (A. D. 81-96).
Mark Dankof's Catacomb 