AMERICA ON TRIAL
The Current Existential Crisis
28 April 2025
There is an emerging crisis being concealed by a media obsessed with its commercial success. Unlike the hyperbole daily fed to the public, this crisis is existential in that it is about beliefs and values that have begun to preoccupy Americans, beginning with what is the truth about our government? The question that has come to the surface, is whether or not we still have a Constitutional republic, or has it become an empire of evil ruthlessly pillaging the world, including the people in the U.S.
The American Existential Crisis as a Loss of Transparency and Accountability
That question was at the heart of an internet video published last week which reached more than a billion people around the world within days, if not hours.
Make no mistake, the indictment of America as a failed state is widely agreed around the world, and particularly in those countries which have been ruthlessly exploited by the U.S. political class since the late 19th century. I’ve lived and travelled in many of these countries over the last 65 years, and heard that same narrative, while for many Americans it comes as a shock. Yet, in spite of that argument, for many people around the U.S. is still the “city on a hill” described by former President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, in spite of their doubts about what it has become.
It is beyond doubt, America is now on trial in the world, as this video suggests. In the past, that trial would be obscured in the U.S. by an inability of Americans to find facts about it, which points to an underlying totalitarianism within American society. But over the last twenty years, the world has been networked by an internet where someone half-way around the world more clearly knows American society than do Americans. So, the nature of this present crisis is exactly a crisis of transparency and accountability that has incrementally emerged without recognition within the U.S.
The links between corruption and attacks on whistleblowers
In this brief discussion, I want show the linkage between this breaking existential crisis and the war on whistleblowing. I argue the war is part of the larger attack on free speech, orchestrated to conceal truths that are inconvenient to the political class. This argument is supported by facts about the war on whistleblowing which that came to light ten years ago as a policy and practice of the Obama Administration seeking to shut down information about how our government works in fact.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/barack-obamas-war-free-press
It’s also now apparent that the visible war on whistleblowing that began in the early 2010s existed behind the media curtain at the highest levels of our government much longer.
This interview by Tucker Carlson with former Congressman Curt Weldon is long and detailed, much as it would be if done by an investigator. Beyond the substance of what congressman Weldon offered are several important points that need to be highlighted. These include, Weldon as a witness: a) was in a position to gain inside knowledge, with a depth of experience and skills that give his testimony great weight; b) carefully declined to offer his opinions, but only facts he could confirm on his own knowledge; and c) identified and described specific instances, complete with naming those involved, which offers even more weight because these can be independently substantiated.
All of this qualifies Congressman Weldon as a powerful whistleblower AND witness, because qualified whistleblowers must meet the same tests. In contrast, much of what is offered by media personalities, both in print and now online, do not qualify as either whistleblowers or witnesses, but only as people advancing the interests of their employer and patrons. This follows a well- established pattern of selective reporting for political advantage, as happened during the second Trump impeachment where senior members of Congress, including Senator Charles Grassley, the Chair of the Senate Whistleblower Caucus, claimed to produce a whistleblower as a witness, which as attorneys they knew was a lie because that person couldn’t pass the test set for legal witnesses.
What this tells us is the war on whistleblowers extends members of Congress, who in most cases exploit rather than protect real whistleblowers, and to corporate and now online influencers, who consistently fail to test sources and claims. Instead, what the American public is fed are emotion- driven claims that serve their partisan political and commercial interests, with censors in and out of government obstruct the publication of actual facts, while promoting the perception it’s all about personalities.
If you listen carefully, you’ll find the conversation in this video is emotional, rather than fact-based. Shaping the conversation to obscure the deeper questions about why and how the corruption of the federal government is spreading throughout the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches.
If you do a little internet research, you’ll see how propaganda has been used for more than a century to conceal the dark reality that small, powerful groups control policy, as it did with: the 1917 Creel Commission which manipulated the American people to conceal the interests of the political class promoting U.S. entry into World War I; how Edward Berney’s book, Propaganda, which informed the creation of National Socialist (Nazi) Party in 1930’s Germany, and General Smedley Butler’s 1932 book, War is a Racket, which identified the “military-industrial complex, long before President Eisenhower identified it in 1961. This long, 100-year history is punctuated by the same tactics and strategies we see now, concealing criminal wrongdoing by attacking those reporting facts – whistleblowers, to avoid transparency and prevent accountability.
What do we now know and don’t know?
What we now know, thanks to a multitude of whistleblowers and the reaction of the political class to their whistleblowing, is that the war on whistleblowers is continuing. It’s now beyond doubt there is a collaboration between federal agencies, private sector interests, and corporate managed technology to censor public knowledge and discussion about facts that matter to transparency and accountability. That is confirmed daily by the inability to access information on the internet that challenges politically preferred narratives, such as: the history and conduct of the war in Ukraine, the present genocide by Zionist leadership in Isreal, the factual internal and external policies of the Chinese government, and the overwhelming evidence produced by thousands of private-sector and federal whistleblowers of the systemic corruption of the American government.
Thanks to the video by our Chinese blogger, we also now know this knowledge was/is available to billions of people outside the U.S. Only a small minority of Americans physically travel outside the U.S., and most of those who do helicopter in and out as tourists never actually encountering the people around them. There are more than 100,000 American expats now living abroad, and once you adopt residence and begin to interact with locals, you begin to question what you think you know. If you stay long enough, you will begin to appreciate both the knowledge and values of locals, and how the isolation of Americans from the world has distorted their understanding of it. This is very dangerous when the accumulated power of the American government has and is being used to exploit other people, to steal from, injure and kill tens of millions of them as “collateral damage” in the American political and economic elite’s pursuit of wealth and power.
The reality that 90% of the world sees what this Chinese blogger argued lies at the heart of the existential crisis America faces. The remarkable accuracy of his facts and analysis should alert all Americans to their existential crisis and motive their demand that this crisis be cured by a thorough investigation into the facts that it raises. But that is not happening, even with a change of political leadership in the U.S. Instead, the public discussion remains captive of manufactured political narratives, and a tightening of internal government censorship is now underway.
For example, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is celebrating an anticipated return of up to $250-300 billion dollars from their efforts to eliminate waste in the federal government. That’s a lot of money and everyone should applaud this accomplishment. But that recovery would be less than 01% of the trillions of dollars that have disappeared into the bottomless pit of our federal bureaucracy, if the bureaucracy allows it to happen. The rest of the missing cash can be recovered only by prosecuting the corrupt bureaucrats and the members of the political class that profited from the scams they created. In turn, that will require criminal prosecutions supported by the evidence federal and private-sector whistleblowers have, some of which is already in their hands.
Accomplishing those DOGE goals, thus requires a plan for transparency and accountability that appears to be missing. Why? Does that reflect incompetence, internal politics resisting transparency and accountability, or creeping corruption within the Trump administration that is protecting corrupt members of the political class?
A Long View of the Crisis and Corruption
Returning to the allegations offered by our Chinese friend in the first video, they reflect a long view of the present existential crisis and its connection to the corruption of America. The corruption has a very long history, punctuated by repeated failed efforts to address it. What that tells us is if the U.S. is to survive this crisis of corruption, those seeking restoration of our Constitutional Republic must understand how the crisis evolved historically, and how that evolution was facilitated by fateful choices.
I’ll reserve the specifics for future examination, but the big picture points to two principal choices involving: how education in America was used to shape the politics of America to encourage and then promote corruption; and how the increasing concentration of power in a centralized federal bureaucracy opened the door to those who sought to control that power. These two processes merged in the early 20th century to produce an Imperial politics that needed scientific-industrial and military industrial complexes that served to enhance their control of the American federal government.
The people of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are not our enemies. Nor are the people of any other country our enemies. But they have all been subject in different ways to the abuse of power by the American imperial political elite. Over the last 80 years, these people have slowly been climbing out of this unequal relationship with the American government and are well along with creating a new international economic and political system that reflects a mutuality of economic and political respect. That great historical transformation has progressed to a point where America is just another country that can no longer thrive on the exploitation of either other people or the American people themselves.
That ultimately is the nature of this existential American crisis: who and what are we as an economic and political system. The technological engines are revving up and change is not only in the wind but is beginning to penetrate into all of human society. This both offers great promise for the resolution of historical challenges to our health, safety, and financial security, but also great threats to that same health, safety and financial security if the pattern of capture by corrupt political and economic elites continues. That pattern can be broken only through practices of transparency and accountability, not just words, and a recognition that our Constitutional Republic created a template for popular governance, making it our country and our choice how to restore the country to us.
Respectfully,
Dr. Darrell L. Whitman, for
Whistleblowers United