Behind the Headlines with Paul Dragu

Paul Dragu

Award-winning journalist, writer, and commie state refugee Paul Dragu looks beyond the news headlines as they're presented. behindtheheadlines.substack.com

  1. Will Americanism pick up where Trumpism stopped?

    FEB 26

    Will Americanism pick up where Trumpism stopped?

    I remember the excitement and optimism coursing through conservatize America when Donald Trump arrived on the political scene. It was refreshing to hear a presidential candidate acknowledge that the Establishment power structure was made up of war-loving liars who intentionally inundated American cities with third world migrants. People loved how Trump outplayed the media at their own game. They loved that he said out loud what we’d all been thinking for a long time. They loved him— because he loved America. Trump made people believe real change was possible. Trumpism came on the scene at the same time I was entering journalism. I had a first row seat to the excitement, hysteria, and derangement—to a historic movement. I covered the rallies as Trump mania took over any town the president touched down in. I proofed piles of mainstream reports by propagandists going apoplectic over everything the former real estate tycoon did and said. They attacked him day after day. But like weak fighters swinging into the air, they could never land anything substantial. It didn’t matter what they said, because Trump tapped into a movement, a constituency tired of wars, third world migrants, and lying politicians. He had their back—and he was going to save America. Things were changing. We were on the verge of true transformation in this country. Until we weren’t. After one year into Trump’s second term, it’s become clear that, in many ways, Trump has become like the neoconservatives he defeated early in his political career. Like cockroaches, they survived years of fumigating and are now crawling all over the White House, including into the president’s ear. Meanwhile, under the shrinking MAGA tent, another movement is brewing. Unlike Trumpism, this movement is dedicated to principles that our government was supposed to adhere to all along. It’s a little less flashy but much heavier on substance. And its emerging leader is a nerdy MIT graduate who has displayed more backbone than every veteran in Congress. Is America ready for an political movement that wants smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and no more wars without congressional approval? Listen to my analysis in the video above… Read my magazine articles Trumpism vs. Americanism: Will Massie Prevail in 2026? Massie’s Campaign HQ Launch Draws Large, Excited Crowd Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at freeromo@protonmail.com Get full access to Behind the Headlines at behindtheheadlines.substack.com/subscribe

    32 min
  2. Are we the bad guys?

    FEB 20

    Are we the bad guys?

    Trump supporters did not vote for war with Iran. They didn’t vote for any military action against Iran—or any other country. In fact, Trump ran on the promise that he would be different from the warmongering neocons. He would be a president of peace. That means “no new wars.” Remember that? No new wars. Soooo …. why then are we about to go to war with Iran? Apparently, the Iranians will obtain a nuclear weapon if we don’t do something. That’s odd. Didn’t President Trump tell us last summer that the US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities obliterated their nuclear program? Obliterated. Didn’t he insist that it set their nuclear program back “decades”? Not months. Not years. Decades. It hasn’t even been a year. These are not serious people. This is another reminder that the patients are running the asylum. If the Epstein emails have proven anything, it’s that the elite class is every bit as incompetent and sociopathic as it appears. Yet it’s this same class of people who have designated themselves global arbiters, deciding who can have dangerous weapons and who can’t, who can partake in the global economy and who can’t, who deserves to be struck with the lethal hammer of American might and who doesn’t. It’s time for the American people to seriously think about whether the decent character of the general population is reflected in our government’s actions around the world. Read my magazine articles Diplomacy or Deception? U.S. Builds Firepower While Iran Fortifies Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at freeromo@protonmail.com Get full access to Behind the Headlines at behindtheheadlines.substack.com/subscribe

    41 min
  3. Are there demons in AI? And have we already lost control?

    FEB 19

    Are there demons in AI? And have we already lost control?

    In 1919, a man named Rudolf Steiner delivered a lecture titled “The Ahrimanic Deception.” Ahriman refers to an ancient demon Steiner predicted would manifest “in all things physical — especially human technologies.” Steiner predicted this would happen sometimes around, well … now. In 2014, tech guru Elon Musk warned that AI technology was a conduit for demonic activity. He said: “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Doesn’t work out.” In 2023, thousands of tech experts signed a letter in support of a pause on the training of powerful AI systems. That same year, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” quit his job at Google and said there was a 20-percent chance that AI would wipe out humanity completely. In 2025, Congress held hearings during which devastated parents testified how AI chatbots convinced their children to kill themselves. And, over the last few weeks, AI researchers have been quitting and broadcasting ominous warnings such as, “the world is in peril.” Even the pope is issuing warnings about this technology. Something is happening. It’s been happening for years. And it obviously doesn’t appear to be good. Stories of AIs saying crazy and evil things continuously emerge. And we should consider how much worse it is. When it comes to technology, what the public knows is usually behind by years. It’s time to consider that just as evil spiritual beings are capable of inhabiting humans and animals, as the Bible says, they’re likely capable of possessing machines. Watch the video for more on this … If you enjoy my video or find some value in it, feel free to share it with others Read my magazine articles The World in Peril? Leading Figures Issue AI Warning as Devilish Pattern Emerges AI: The Globalists’ Tool for World Government AI Chatbots Are Telling Children to Commit Suicide Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at freeromo@protonmail.com Get full access to Behind the Headlines at behindtheheadlines.substack.com/subscribe

    20 min
  4. Embrace your European heritage: Marco gently scolds European elites over suicidal policies.

    FEB 16

    Embrace your European heritage: Marco gently scolds European elites over suicidal policies.

    Unlike the brutal scolding Vice President JD Vance delivered to the European elites gathered at the Munich Security Conference last year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was much nicer to the old world elite. Instead of chiding them for becoming the tyrants their ancestors fought, he gently encouraged them to embrace and restore their great heritage. Rubio said America planned to revive its rich European-rooted culture and that it would be beneficial for the Europeans to do the same. He also reassured them that America still sees Western Europe as the parent civilization that it is. He used the word “intertwined” to describe the strong bond between the two continents. Rubio’s speech touched on a topic that Western elites have tried to ban us from discussing: the greatness of Western Civilization. While every other culture is allowed to be proud, as they should be, European cultures have been browbeaten into shutting up and accepting destruction. There is a reason the Insiders have targeted the West for destruction. Simply put, our values are incompatible with that of the totalitarian global technocracy they want to impose on the world. Check out my video for more on why Western Civ values are a bulwark against tyranny and what God says about real diversity. Read my articles You can read my magazine articles HERE Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at freeromo@protonmail.com Get full access to Behind the Headlines at behindtheheadlines.substack.com/subscribe

    24 min

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Award-winning journalist, writer, and commie state refugee Paul Dragu looks beyond the news headlines as they're presented. behindtheheadlines.substack.com