John Birch Society

John Birch’s Body Should Still Be a Mouldering in the Grave

The Trump administration, which is fast becoming a regime, has dusted off some old tracts of the anti-Communist John Birch Society to reignite the far-right’s war against the United Nations, including the World Health Organization (WHO). To paraphrase the old U.S. Civil War song about slavery abolitionist John Brown – whose body was rejoiced as “a mouldering in the grave” – the body of John Birch, for whom the John Birch Society was named, should also be left “a mouldering in the grave.”

John Birch Society foreign policy meets leftist big government in today’s USA

US Army Captain and Christian missionary John Birch was killed by Maoist forces in China shortly after the end of the Second World War.
The anti-communist American right named John Birch the first victim of the ‘war against communism’. To this end, Robert W. Welch Jr. founded an organisation in Captain Birch’s name in 1958, the John Birch Society (JBS).
Captain John Birch

Eustace Mullins called into this 2005 interview with Charles Murray

I was listening to this 3-hour uninterrupted 2005 interview of Dr. Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve, and just near the end, I recognized the late Eustace Mullins calling in! It’s great when you know of certain people, recognizing their voice, and hear them on shows from years ago. Eustace Mullins is known to […]

Right-wing Extremism in the United States

Darren J. Mulloy is an Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University and the author of American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement and The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War. In the following interview, Darren Mulloy speaks about the danger of American extremism, the Christian Right, and right-wing terrorism.
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