"The education fight—between those who want to provide solid schooling in the three R's and other subjects and those who want to change kids' core beliefs—is culminating."

Excerpted from the February 4, 2019 issue of New American magazine. Reprinted with permission.

There is a silent struggle raging right now upon which the future of America and her liberties depends—literally. At its core, the struggle revolves around who will be responsible for children and their upbringing. Ultimately, there are only two options: parents or government. Right now, government appears to be winning. It is gaining ground with each passing generation, and with each passing day, through the public education system. But if luminaries of the Left get their way, this is only the beginning. The end goal goes far beyond education and touches every aspect of life.

In 2015, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry took the premise of Hilary Clinton's book It Takes a Village, a step further. In a segment about the raising of children as a collective responsibility, she said: "We have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities." The segment called for the rearing of children to be "everybody's responsibility and not just the household's." That same year, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan proposed government boarding schools, saying there are "certain kids we should have 24/7."

The battle over education is about more than just whether children will be properly educated. The very future of the United States as a free and self-governing republic hinges on the outcome of this battle. After all, if the overwhelming majority of children in the coming generations are sufficiently indoctrinated, every struggle between freedom and tyranny will eventually be lost. Every. Single. One.

Taxes will go up. Gun rights will be smashed. Tax-funded abortion will slaughter millions more children. Healthcare will be totally taken over by government. Our nation's independence will give way to globalism. Property rights will be superseded by the establishment's vision of the "common good." Biblical morality will be replaced. Name your issue and realize that, if you stand for faith, family, and freedom, you are going to lose over the long run if totalitarians control the education of children.

And right now, they do. They don't even bother to hide it. That means almost 90 percent of American children are having their minds shaped by those who oppose God, individual freedom, and self-government. And thus, education becomes perhaps the single most imporatant political issue in America today.

The Agenda: Sustainable Socialism
In 1990, amid the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-President George H.W. Bush spoke publicly of what he called a "New World Order." As part of this order, Bush told America that a "credible United Nations" would use its "peacekeeping role" to "fulfill the promise and vision of the UN's founders." First, consider the fact that the UN's founders included Joseph Stalin, one of history's most brutal tyrants, as well as his U.S. agent, convicted Soviet spy (and first UN Secretary-General) Alger Hiss. Then consider that the New World Order would be based on their vision, not the vision of America's Founding Fathers.

Driving God the Creator out of the public schools was crucial to this agenda. The U.S. Declaration of Independence states that inalienable rights come from the Creator, and that government exists to protect these God-given rights. The Founders did not view this as a religious issue, but as a "self-evident truth," as they put it. However, under the guise of "separation of church and state," this self-evident truth was gradually expelled from public schools, along with prayer and the Bible.

Today, all manner of false religion is taught in school—particularly humanism, and increasingly Islam, occultism, paganism, pantheism, atheism, and more. But the self-evident truth of a Creator endowing people with inalienable rights is nowhere to be found. In fact, just mentioning the Creator of the Bible in a classroom can result in lawsuits and sanctions by rogue federal courts. Meanwhile, children are bombarded with propaganda claiming "science" supposedly proves there is no Creator, and that they evolved by chance from apes that came from primordial soup over millions or billions of years. No alternative explanations are allowed.

There are many other weapons being used to bring about the agenda of the New World Order celebrated by Bush, President Bill Clinton, billionaire George Soros, and so many other Deep State insiders. A key example is a UN document created in 1992 known as "UN Agenda 21: A Program of Action." Under the guise of pursuing "sustainable development" to "save the planet," the UN-backed ideology demands fewer people and less freedom. And President Bush signed this "mammoth agreement," as he put it in a public speech, while vowing that America would be "the world's preeminent leader in protecting the global environment." This, too, is inextricably linked to education.

In AGENDA 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet, globalists made their ambitions plain. "AGENDA 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on Earth," the document reads. (Emphasis added.) "Effective execution of AGENDA 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced—a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals.... This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level."

Another key tool is the UN Agenda 2030 "Sustainable Development Goals." Like Agenda 21, the SDGs, as they are known, demand a fundamental transformation of society. The 17 goals include national and international wealth redistribution, government control over production and consumption, climate action, and much more. Agenda 2030 was dubbed a "master plan for humanity" by top UN bosses, and the mass-murdering dictatorship ruling over mainland China bragged that it played a "crucial role" in developing it. One Western leader eerily called it the next "Great Leap Forward." Communist and Islamist dictators worldwide celebrated the plan.

The Tools: Indoctrination as Education
Patriotic Americans who value liberty would never accept a plan that surrenders freedom and sovereignty to the UN—especially when America already has among the cleanest environments and highest living standards anywhere. And so both UN Agenda 21 and 2030 place "education" at the heart of the plot.

The Agenda 2030 document is explicit about the need to indoctrinate children. "Children and young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in the new Goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better world," the agreement explains. (Emphasis added.) In Goal 4, which focuses exclusively on education, the agreement states that by 2030, governments must "ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development." It is not enough for the children just to submit to sustainable development—they must be so indoctrinated that they will promote it. The agreement, signed by Barack Obama, also mandates that children receive "education" on everything from "gender equality" and "sustainable lifestyles" to "global citizenship" and "appreciation for diversity."

Agenda 21 contains similar language in Chapter 36, which focuses on education. "Education is critical for promoting sustainable development," the agreement reads, adding that "environmental and development education needs to be incorporated as an essential part of learning." "Both formal and non-formal education are indispensable to changing people's attitudes," the agreement continues. "It is also critical for achieving environmental and ethical awareness, values and attitudes, skills and behaviour consistent with sustainable development." The scheme also says "environment and development education ... may include spiritual development" and "should be integrated in all disciplines."

Among the tools prepared by the UN for teaching children is a book called "Rescue Mission" Planet Earth —A Children's Edition of Agenda 21. In it, young children are bombarded with "sustainable" propaganda. One page includes an image of storks carrying around babies, and a pagan "god" appearing troubled and bewildered. "The planet groans every time it registers another birth," reads the book, suggesting that babies are somehow bad for the planet and that the gods are upset about people being fruitful and multiplying.

In a 2015 interview with Fox host John Stossel, a classroom full of terrified schoolchildren said they were worried about global warming flooding their town. The children then admitted they were being taught this by their teachers.

Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant. In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, he serves as a foreign correspondent for The New American magazine, a contributor to the Epoch Times, a writer for WND (WorldNetDaily), an education writer for FreedomProject Media, and much more. Alex has authored and co-authored several books, including an exposé of government schools with the renowned Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld called Crimes of the Educators, published by WND Books. It was endorsed by conservative leaders from Phyllis Schlafly to Ron Paul.

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