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On Friday, Lee claimed, By putting [General] John Kelly in charge, [President] Trump is militarizing the White House [and] putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist.

Outgoing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer condemned the remarks, describing it as wrong and offensive on multiple levels.

Communist magazine Peoples Weekly World reportedly listed Lee as a co-sponsor for a Communist Party USA (CPUSA)event in 1999.

In 2002, Lee also received the endorsement of the CPUSA for her Congressional race, alongside former Rep. Mike Honda. The partys national board wrote in a report:

The priority labor campaigns deserve our support. In addition our work will take us beyond these races to election districts where we have organization and where there are strong pro-labor candidates, African American, Mexican American and Latino candidates such as Rep. Mike Honda and Rep. Barbara Lee.

At a 2003 Peoples Weekly World fundraising luncheon, Each honoree received a special congressional certificate from Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, in whose district the banquet was held.

Following Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castros death last November, Lee said she was very sad for the Cuban people, claiming Castro led a revolution in Cuba that led social improvements for his people, ignoring his legacy of mass murder, totalitarianism, and widespread poverty. Lee used the death of Castro, who she met with eight times throughout her career, toattack then-President Elect Donald Trump.

In February this year, Lee also praised some participantsof the riot at UC Berkeley, which successfully canceled a talk from former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.She wrote in a press release:

Milo Yiannopoulos has made a career of inflaming racist, sexist and nativist sentiments. Berkeley has a proud history of dissent and students were fully within their rights to protest peacefully. I am disappointed by the unacceptable acts of violence by outside agitators which were counterproductive and dangerous.

Lee also accused Donald Trump of trying to bully [students] into silence after he threatened to cut federal funding if students at the university could not respect the first amendment.

President Donald Trump cannot bully our university into silence. Simply put, President Trumps empty threat to cut funding from UC Berkeley is an abuse of power. As a senior member of the education funding subcommittee, I will continue to stand up to President Trumps overreach and defend the rights of our students and faculty.

A prominent member of the Resist movement, Lee alsodevoted an entire town hall meeting in May to the question of whether, and how, President Donald Trump can be removed from office.

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Designated spokesperson for the implementation of Martial Law, Brigadier General Restituto Padilla in a press conference on Friday, May 26 at a hotel in Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

DAVAO CITY, Philippines Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said teaching communism in the country is not bad.

Padilla told reporters during the Mindanao Hour press briefing in Malacaang on Friday that students in colleges learn about communism while books on the subject matter are not prohibited.

Now, it is not bad to teach communism per se because we in college learned about it. We read books about Marxism, Leninism, Socialism, and the like, Padilla said.

He added that learning communism and reading books on the subject matter is part of the liberal education that is being implemented in the Philippines.

But he also clarified that brainwashing of the young minds that is wrong and is not acceptable especially to the government.

But if you target very young minds, vulnerable minds and try to sway them to a certain kind of thinking, that is like brainwashing. Yun po ang mali dito, he pointed out.

Brainwashing of young children, aside from the lack of permits to operate is the reason why President Rodrigo Duterte wanted to get rid of lumad schools, Padilla said.

Sa murang edad, dapat ang binibigay mo na aral sa mga bata ay yung tama. Ano yung mga tama na yun: Fear of God, love of country, love of family, the appreciation of the correct values that you want your citizens to have, he said.

Such correct values, Padilla added, is not being taught in lumad schools.

And these schools are not teaching that. This is an issue that has been going on since before the election. And you know that Im sure of it. It was an issue that was escalated and it was exaggerated by many cause-oriented groups whose minds and line of thinking we cannot fathom because its so evil, Padilla said.

The government, particularly the military, has been accusing lumad schools of being established by the communist-led New Peoples Army, an allegation that has been denied by lumad school administrators and teachers.

In the same press briefing, Presidential Communications Office Assistant Secretary Marie Banaag also confirmed that there are left-leaning lumad schools that do not have the permit to operate as stipulated by the Department of Education.

Banaag identified the Alternative Learning Center for Agriculture and Livelihood Development, Inc. in CARAGA Region as one of them and refused to get the permit from the DepED.

There are three main groups of left-oriented indigenous people schools according to the Department of Education. These are the Alternative Learning Center for Agriculture and Livelihood Development, Inc. or the Alcadev; second, the Center for Lumad Advocacy and Services, Inc. or the Clans; and third, the Salugpungan Community Learning Center, she said.

She said CLANS was also given by DepED three months to comply with its requirements.

But the governments claim that lumad schools are operating without permits had already been countered by leaders, teachers, and support groups, as they presented documents from the DepED, particularly on Alternative Learning System and permits from local government units indicating that lumad schools are legally operating in Mindanao.

A day after Dutertes second State of the Nation Address, lumad leaders Jong Monzon, secretary general of PASAKA Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao and Eufemia Cullamat, spokesperson of Lumad group KASALO in CARAGA Region countered the claims of Duterte that lumad schools are being run by the NPAs.

Lumad schools, they emphasized, are established by lumad organizations and parents with the aim of providing education to children, especially in far-flung areas.

Monzon and Cullamat also decried the attacks and military harassments on lumad schools that were stepped up during the declaration of martial law in Mindanao.

They also urged Duterte to listen to the stories of lumad leaders, teachers, and students to comprehend deeply the real situation of lumad communities in Mindanao, as they expressed concern over the plan of the President to destroy their schools.

The President is being fed with wrong information as to the nature and purpose of the lumad schools in Mindanao by his top military advisers, they added. (davaotoday.com)

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Korean War

Freedom is not free is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Korean War started June 25, 1950. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands. Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as part of a U.N. police action, fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean troops, who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the Soviet Union.

Five-star General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander, leading the United Nations Command from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind North Korean lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

Harry S. Truman compared Communism and Democracy in his inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1949: We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. From this faith we will not be moved. Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as a chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think. Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom.

Truman continued: These differences between Communism and Democracy do not concern the United States alone. People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God.

The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx in 1848. Marx had attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with a radical anti-religious group, the Young Hegelians. After being refused a university post because of his extreme views, Karl Marx began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany.

He fled to Paris, then Brussels, and finally to London. Marx founded the International Workingmens Association and the Social Democrat Labor Party. Marxs philosophy influenced Adolph Hitler in starting the Nazi Party, and Vladimir Lenin, in starting the Communist Party.

Karl Marx stated:

Franklin D. Roosevelt explained in his address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1940, that communism is effectively dictatorship: I disliked the regimentation under Communism. I abhorred the indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims. I heartily deprecated the banishment of religion. I, with many of you, hoped that Russia would work out its own problems, and that its government would eventually become a peace-loving, popular government. That hope is today shattered. The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.

Winston S. Churchill gave an address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946, in which he introduced the phrase Iron Curtain to describe the Cold War between Western powers and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Churchill stated: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. To fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention.

Roger Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a 501(c)3 tax-exempt Foundation. In 1935, Roger Baldwin wrote in the Harvard reunion book on the 30th reunion of his class of 1905: I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Roger Baldwin twice visited the Soviet Union, embraced Vietnamese Communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, and wrote a book, Liberty Under the Soviets (1927), in which he stated: I joined. I dont regret being a part of the Communist tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted.

In 1948, the California Senate Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities stated in its report, page 107: The ACLU may be definitely classified as a Communist front or transmission belt organization. At least 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of Communists who come in conflict with the law.

Dwight Eisenhower was quoted in Time magazine, Oct. 13, 1952: The Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights. A group like the Communist conspiracy dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties, cannot be allowed to claim civil liberties as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on subversion of the Government.

In 1950, members of the Communist Party USA formed the Mattachine Society, the nations first homosexual rights organizations, which lobbied to repeal sodomy laws.

Dwight Eisenhower stated Feb. 25, 1953: Almost 100 percent of Americans would like to stamp out all traces of Communism in our country. I went to Columbia University as its president and I insisted on one thing. If we had a known Communist in our faculty and he could not be discharged I was automatically discharged. I personally would not be a party to an organization where there was a known card-carrying Communist in such a responsible position as teaching our young.

President Harry S. Truman spoke at the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1951: Without a firm moral foundation, freedom degenerates quickly into selfishness and license. Unless men exercise their freedom in a just and honest way, within moral restraints, a free society can degenerate into anarchy. Then there will be freedom only for the rapacious and those who are stronger and more unscrupulous than the rank and file of the people. The international Communist movement is based on a fierce and terrible fanaticism. It denies the existence of God and, wherever it can, it stamps out the worship of God. Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism. Our faith shows us the way to create a society where man can find his greatest happiness under God. Surely, we can follow that faith with the same devotion and determination the Communists give to their godless creed.

Every day our newspapers tell us about the fighting in Korea. Our men there are making heroic sacrifices. They are fighting and suffering in an effort to prevent the tide of aggression from sweeping across the world. Our young men are offering their lives for us in the hills of Korea and yet too many of us are chiefly concerned over whether or not we can buy a television set next week. This is a failure to understand the moral principles upon which our Nation is founded.

In Lessons of History (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968), Will and Ariel Durant wrote: The greatest question of our time is not Communism versus individualism, not even East versus West; it is whether man can live without God.

Conrad Hilton, founder of the hotel chain, stated in a prayer breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, following addresses by Congressmen, Senators, and Vice President Nixon: It took a war to put prayer at the center of the lives of our fighting men. It took a war, and the frightening evil of Communism, to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing that man can do or not as he wishes. Prayer is a part of mans personality, without which he limps. Men grope in darkness unless they believe that God, in His kindness, is willing to lift the shadows if we ask Him in prayer.

Truman stated while lighting the National Christmas Tree, Dec. 24, 1952: Shepherds, in a field, heard angels singing: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. We turn to the old, old story of how God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. '

Truman continued: Tonight, our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the chance of peace in the world. And as we go about our business of trying to achieve peace in the world, let us remember always to try to act and live in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His heart no hate and no malice nothing but love for all mankind. We should try as nearly as we can to follow His example. We believe that all men are truly the children of God. As we pray for our loved ones far from home as we pray for our men and women in Korea, and all our service men and women wherever they are let us also pray for our enemies. Let us pray that the spirit of God shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands.

Truman concluded: Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and fairer place.

General Douglas MacArthur warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, Dec. 12, 1951, stating: History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Dwight Eisenhower was quoted in the Religious Herald, Virginia, Jan. 25, 1952: What is our battle against Communism if it is not a fight between anti-God and a belief in the Almighty? Communists have to eliminate God from their system. When God comes, Communism has to go.

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At the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated: It is necessary that we earnestly seek out and uproot any traces of Communism.

First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower stated in a conversation at the Doud home regarding their son John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, who was serving in Korea: He has a mission to fulfill and God will see to it that nothing will happen to him till he fulfills it.

Eisenhower addressed Congress, Feb. 2, 1953: The calculated pressures of aggressive Communism have forced us to live in a world of turmoil. No single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations threatened by Communist aggression from without and subversion within. I must make special mention of the war in Korea. This war is, for Americans, the most painful phase of Communist aggression throughout the world.

Fighting in Korea was halted July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice at Panmunjom.

On Dec. 24, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated at the lighting of the national Christmas tree: The world still stands divided in two antagonistic parts. Prayer places freedom and communism in opposition one to the other. The Communist can find no reserve of strength in prayer because his doctrine of materialism and statism denies the dignity of man and consequently the existence of God. But in America religious faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an indispensable part of that faith. The founders of this, our country, came first to these shores in search of freedom to live beyond the yoke of tyranny.

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In the summer of 1944, the Nazi occupation of Poland was nearing the end of its fifth year. More than one in five Poles had been killed, enslaved, or shipped off to concentration camps. The country was being incrementally destroyed to make way for Adolf Hitlers vision of a greater German Reich. Still, hundreds of thousands of Poles continued to fight.

By August, the Soviet Red Army had managed to drive German forces off of Russian territory and take parts of Poland. Vast amounts of American and British aid, including trucks, food, and raw materials, enabled the Soviets to deploy and supply vast numbers of tanks, planes, and guns.

With an Allied victory no longer in doubt, Polands Armia Krajowa (Home Army) saw what it considered its best chance for success: an uprising in the Polish capital of Warsaw, timed to coincide with the arrival of the oncoming Soviet offensive.

Just days before, on July 25, Radio Moscow had called for every Polish homestead to become a stronghold in the struggle against the invaders. On July 29, Soviet tanks reached the outskirts of Warsaw and began engaging the German armoreddivisions there.

Starting on Aug. 1, tens of thousands of Home Army members, armed with captured German weaponry and supplies provided by the Western airlifts, seized control over Warsaw and attempted to establish radio contact with the Soviets.

Soldiers of the Polish Home Army ride a captured German Panther tank on Aug. 2 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. (Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski/Public Domain)

But no help was forthcoming. For reasons that to this day remain classified by the Kremlin, the Soviet offensive stopped on the outskirts of Warsaw. A nearby Soviet airbase remained unused, while Western airdrops were limited to faraway locations in Italy.

Without heavy weapons or outside support, the Polish resistance stood no chance against even the weakened German occupation force. Warsaw was razed and up to 200,000 civilians died, the majority of them executed by the Nazis after the battle.

Soviet forces only restarted their offensive in January 1945, and the war ended that May.

For the major Alliednationsthe United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Union among themWorld War II was a clear victory. Six years of aggressive conquest and mass murder by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were put to an end, and the Axis powers unconditionally surrendered.

But for Poland and other nations in Eastern Europe, the end of Nazi occupation and genocide broughttotalitarian Soviet rule. The democratic Western allies had gone to war in 1939 because Germany had invaded Poland, yet at the wars end, they were unwilling to intervene when the Soviets established a puppet regime there.

Western officials and media often failed to criticize their Soviet ally or consider dictator Josef Stalins goals rationally. The vast provision of aid to the Red Army, for instance, might well have been the boost needed for the Soviet regime to subjugate Eastern Europe in the postwar period.

We might have wasted less money and material than we did, said U.S. diplomat George Kennan in a 1951 letter. We might have arrived in the centre of Europe slightly sooner and less encumbered with obligations to our Soviet ally. The postwar line of division between East and West might have lain somewhat farther east than it is today, and that would certainly be a relief to everyone concerned.

A U.S.-produced 2-ton Studebaker truck, here pictured in Soviet service in Berlin in May 1945. Thousands of vehicles sent to the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program aided Stalin in his conquest of Eastern Europe. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 204-018 / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

The Soviet communist regime and its Polish communist allies certainly benefited from the destruction of the organized resistance loyal to the prewar Polish government. Soviet propaganda downplayed the achievements of the Home Army and labeled them as reactionaries.

George Orwell, the disillusioned British communist who authored Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, expressed his disgust with the general inclination among journalists to sympathize with the Soviet attitude on the Warsaw Uprising.

One was left with the general impression that the Poles deserved to have their bottoms smacked for doing what all the Allied wirelesses had been urging them to do for years past, Orwell wrote in September 1944.

Dont imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet regime, or any other regime, and then suddenly return to mental decency.

Meanwhile, participation in World War II on the side of the Allies seemed to absolve Stalin of his treacherous prewar actionsthe Soviet Union had originally been an ally of Germany, and in fact had aided Hitler in the 1939 invasion of Poland that began the war in the first place. Only in 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, did the communist superpower switch sides.

Unsurprisingly, Moscow resumed the oppressive and murderous policies toward its Polish satellite state that the communist leadership had indulged in from 1939 to 1941.

Tens of thousands of patriotic Polish soldiers and officers, especially those who had lived in Great Britain, hastened to rebuild their country. Rather than giving these men a heros welcome, the communist government subjected them to persecution, including show trials, torture, and execution.

Warsaw, now the capital of the communist Polish Peoples Republic, also became the namesake of the Warsaw Pact, a Soviet-controlled military alliance that, throughout the Cold War, placed the resources and territory of Eastern Europe at Moscows disposal.

The real history and memory of the Polish resistance in World War IIthat Poland was one of the few occupied nations to produce no major traitors or collaborators; that Polish operatives secured valuable intelligence or destroyed Nazi infrastructure in daring missions; that pilots of the Polish government-in-exile matched and exceeded their Western comrades in the aircould only enter public discourse in the 1980s, when cracks started to appear in the communists control.

The Solidarity movement, fueled by inextinguishable patriotism and the perseverance of the traditional Catholic faith, pitted millions of ordinary Poles against the foreign-backed regime that preached Marxism and atheism. By 1989, 45 years after the Poles had tried to retake their capital from the Nazis, the Soviets relented. On June 4, general elections were held, and the communist authorities left office in 1990.

Hundreds of people demonstrate in the streets of Warsaw during a May Day rally organised by Trade Union Solidarity on May 01, 1989. (DRUSZCZ WOJTEIC/AFP/Getty Images)

The Polish experience, from the closing months of World War II to 1989, holds continued relevance for those living in the worlds surviving communist regimes. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have participated in a movement to renounce the Communist Party and its affiliated youth organizations. Impoverished North Korea, which has preserved a Stalinist program of absolute social control and military aggression, stands increasingly isolated.

In a speech delivered on July 6 in Warsaw, President Donald Trump tapped into this experience, praising the Poles for standing up to their regimes totalitarian ideology.

Referring to a pivotal 1979 sermon by Pope John Paul II, Trump said: A million Polish people did not ask for wealth. They did not ask for privilege. Instead, 1million Poles sang three simple words: We Want God.'

Communism is estimated to have killed at least 100 million people, yet its crimes have not been fully compiled and its ideology still persists. The Epoch Times seeks to expose the history and beliefs of this movement, which has been a source of tyranny and destruction since it emerged. Read the whole series atept.ms/DeadEndCom

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Indigenous tribes have responded to Philippines President Rodrigo Dutertes threat to bomb their schools because he believes theyre teaching subversion and communism.

Duterte made the threats against the native, non-muslim, Lumad people from the southern island of Mindinao.

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Get out of there, Im telling the Lumads now. Ill have those bombed, including your structures, he said in a press conference on Monday, according to AP.

I will use the armed forces, the Philippines Air Force. Ill really have those bombed... because you are operating illegally and you are teaching the children to rebel against government.

The comments came after the breakdown of peace negotiations between the government and the Communist New Peoples Army (NPA).

The NPA has been waging an insurgency in the Philippines for nearly 50 years and the government believes its using tribal areas in the countryside as its base of operations.

The president's statements hurt us because he does not seem to value our lives, a Lumad spokesperson told Philippine news outlet ABS-CBN.

Indigenous leaders refuted Duterte's allegations that they harbor communist rebels and said that the claims go back to the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

US-based Human Rights Watch condemned the comments and called on Duterte to publicly retract them. They also implored the president to sign a Safe Schools Declaration to protect schools and universities from attacks during war.

Mindanao is currently under martial law due to an uprising by militants linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the city of Marawi.

Lumad groups staged a demonstration in Philippines capital Manila on Monday to call for an end to martial law on the island.

Duterte issued the threat at a press conference following his State of the Nation Address on Monday. During that speech he vowed to continue his war on drugs.

The fight against illegal drugs will continue because that is the root cause of so much evil and so much suffering. [Drugs] weakens the social fabric and deters foreign investment from pouring in, he said.

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